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Musical Courier 1927-05-05: Vol 94 Iss 18, 1927
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1ACROSS THE COUNTRY
3Boston, Mass. (See letter on another page.)
4Berkeley, Cal.—A Beethoven Centennial program was given at the Twentieth Century Clubhouse by Rosalind Borowski, pianist; Antonio de Grassi, violinist, and William Dehe, cellist. The concert included the Beethoven C minor trio, A major sonata for cello and piano, and the Kreutzer sonata for violin and piano. The audience was large and enthusiastic.
6Two April programs were presented by the Berkeley Piano Club at its clubhouse. The first, a German-English program, featured songs by Mrs. Horace Lansing, a violin sonata of Handel by Natalie Bigelow, accompanied by Claire McClure, and a piano group of Brahms numbers by Mrs. L. A. McClure. The second was the evening guest program. Those assisting were Seta Stewart, pianist; Mrs. Herbert Avery, violinist; and Miriam Sellander, soprano. Alda Astori, pianist; Margaret Dix Nicol, dancer; and Arthur Gundersen, violinist, gave a joint recital at the Twentieth Century Clubhouse. The program was a varied and most interesting one, including numbers by Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Bruch and Kreisler.
8R. L.
10Buffalo, N. Y. (See letter on another page.)
11Chicago, Ill. (See letter on another page.)
12Erie, Pa.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Le Sueur entertained with a tea musicale at their home. A program was given by pupils from the vocal and elocution classes of Mr. and Mrs. Le Sueur, assisted by Leo Miller, pianist.
14The Tuesday Morning Music Club presented Mrs. Charles Leslie, Erie contralto, and Harriet Curtis, cellist, at its annual spring recital. Miss Curtis is a student of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Following the recital the members of the club and friends were guests of Mrs. D. G. Curtis at a luncheon at the Woman's Club.
16The Interscholastic Symphony Orchestra, W. S. Owen, director, gave another successful concert at the Academy High School Auditorium.
18The Cleveland Orchestra gave its second Erie concert of the season. The orchestral numbers were Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Voices of the Forest by Wagner, and Tchaikovsky's March Slav. Alice Sloan, well known Erie teacher, was the soloist, playing the Grieg concerto in A minor. The entire program met with the unqualified approval of the audience, which manifested its opinion in no uncertain way. S. Gwendolyn Leo, of the Leo Concert Course, had charge of the concert.
20G. S.
22Greensboro, N. C.—James Westley White, baritone, has had a busy season and is much in demand for next season when he is to be heard in several engagements in the South. In December Mr. White was heard in Columbia, S. C., and in January both in Boston and New York. He was one of the soloists at the meeting of Federated Music Clubs of the South held in High Point, N. C., and will be heard at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S. C., as soloist in a production of Haydn's Creation. Mr. White will be heard in Winston-Salem, N. C., Greensboro, N. C., and in Greenville, S. C., in his own recitals this month.
24G. C.
26Lindsborg, Kans. (See letter on another page.)
27Los Angeles, Cal. (See Music on Pacific Slope.)
28San Francisco, Cal. (See Music on Pacific Slope.)
29St. Louis, Mo. (See letter on another page.)
30Washington, D. C. (See letter on another page.)
31Wichita, Kans.—Wichita High School won first place in the Arkansas Valley contest for high schools held here recently. The contest featured individual meets in vocal and instrumental solos (violin and piano), girls' and boys' quartets, glee clubs, mixed choruses and orchestras. More than 800 high school students entered the contest. Raymond Hunt, instructor of instrumental music at Wichita High School, managed the affair. The judges were Dean D. M. Swarthout, of Kansas University; Ida C. Baum, of the Emporia State Teachers' College, Emporia, Kansas; Paul T. Utt, of the Normal College in Warrensburg, Mo.; John C. Kendell, of Denver, and Frank Hladky, of Stillwater, Okla.
33The Singing Quakers, composed of the musical organizations of Friends University, with seventy student musicians, gave a successful concert in the Friends Auditorium to a sold-out house. The Singing Quakers are under the direction of Prof. Roy Campbell. Duff E. Middleton directs the university orchestra, and Margaret Joy is the pianist. All three are with the Friends University School of Music. The concert consisted of choruses, an overture by the orchestra, numbers by the Quakers' Men's Quartet, the Quakers' Girls' Quartet, the men's and girls' glee clubs and musical novelties. The Singing Quakers have filled a number of concert engagements in towns of southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma.
35Mrs. Abigail Dowden Eaton, who has recently returned from study with Frantz Pochowsky in New York, made a favorable impression at her appearance before the Saturday Afternoon Musical Club. Mrs. Eaton's lovely soprano voice was used to good advantage in several groups of songs from the German and English, and one operatic aria, L'Insana Parola, from Verdi's Aida. Mrs. Lucille Kells Briggs was her accompanist. Dorothy Finley, pianist, was the assisting artist.
37The Junior Musical Club featured a program of piano music in song and string transcription, and the Wichita Musical Club had a program of Spanish music at its current meeting.
39C. E. S.
41Macbeth for Ravinia Opera
42Florence Macbeth, Chicago Opera coloratura soprano, after being absent for several seasons in the east, made her first concert appearance at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, April 25, under the auspices of the Philomela Society. Immediately following her concert engagements in the east, Miss Macbeth will appear with the Ravinia Opera throughout the summer months, and will then sail to fill operatic engagements in England, France and Germany.
44Alexander Kahn Returns to Paris
45Alexander Kahn returned last Saturday to Paris on the steamship France, after a stay of two weeks in New York.
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