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Musical Courier 1927-06-16: Vol 94 Iss 24, 1927
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1June 16, 1927
3Opera Season at Starlight Amusement Park
4Capt. E. W. Whitwell, general manager of Starlight Amusement Park, has announced his plans for the forthcoming season of grand opera to be held at the stadium there. The artists who have been engaged are as follows:
6sopranos—Ruth Coleman, Sara Davison, Alma Dormagen, Betty Gottlieb, Elizabeth Grobel, Mae Harris, Ira Hyde, Gladys Mathew, Gertrude Owen, Josephine Palermo, Isobel Stone and Clementine Vasti; contraltos—Martha Melis, Elizabeth Hoeppl, Grace Yeager; tenors—Alfonso Attanasio, Paolo Calvini, Ronald Gossano, Vincent Carelli, Graziano Lauro, Salvatore Sciarretti, F. Tommasini; baritones—Giuseppe Mauro, Joseph Orlando, G. Calamandrei; bassos—Martin Horodas, M. Palazzi. The musical directors are: Salvatore Avitabile, Ugo Barducci, C. Bonsignore and G. Simsoni. The stage director is Paul Cremonesi.
8The season will open on July 6 with Aida, the schedule being: July 13, Traviata; 20, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; 27, Il Trovatore; August 3, Rigoletto; 10, Faust; 17, Martha; 24, Othello; 31, La Juive, and September 7, Carmen. The object of these performances is to give young artists a chance to gain experience. Every Tuesday afternoon at Starlight Amusement Park auditions are held. The performances are free to the public.
10Carolyn Beeson Fry Pupils' Contest Winners
11At the solo contests held on April 30 at the Mt. Vernon High School under the auspices of the Westchester County Choral Society, five pupils of Carolyn Beeson Fry won awards. Mildred Payne, of White Plains, won the contest for dramatic soprano and also the super-prize awarded to the vocalist winning the most points. Miss Payne was the soloist on May 5, the first evening of the Westchester County Competition Festival, Albert Stoessel, director. Olga Samaroff, in commenting on the program in the New York Evening Post of May 6, stated that "Miss Payne sang three songs, among them Der Schmied of Brahms, with intelligence, taste and a charming voice of excellent range and power." Henry Ebeling, also of White Plains, was the winner of first place among tenors, and James T. Moir, of Mt. Vernon, was winner of baritone first place. Stanley Humewell, of White Plains, won second place among baritones, and Norman Gerhard, of Scarsdale, won second place among basses.
13Another pupil of Mrs. Fry's, Luis Alberto Sanchez, South American tenor, has been fulfilling many successful engagements in and about New York City since his return from the southern continent three months ago. He sang Faust with the White Plains Choral Society at its May Music Festival, and has sung for the Kiwanis Club several times and at the Broadway Temple. He has been engaged by the Redpath Bureau for one of its touring companies this summer.
15In addition to having many pupils who have won contests, Mrs. Fry also has been successful in having choral societies under her direction carry off honors. On May 5, at the contests of the Westchester County Choral Society Competition Festival, Albert Stoessel, director, the White Plains Choral Society, of which Mrs. Fry is the director, won second place in a contest for choral groups of over seventy-five, and her Westchester Mixed Choir won second place in the contest for mixed choirs. May 6, in the contest for men's choruses, women's choruses and boy choirs, The Contemporary Singers of White Plains, under Mrs. Fry's direction, were awarded first place for women's choruses, and the Westchester Men's Choir, of which Mrs. Fry also is the director, won second place in the contest for men's choruses.
17Miss Harris Conducts and Sings
18As has already been announced, the Woman's Choral Club of Hackensack, N. J., won the state prize for singing recently and thereby secured the privilege of singing at the Convention of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs at Atlantic City. The club sang Salutation, Over Blooming Lands of Heather, Go Ask of the High Stars Gleaming, and Birthday, in the auditorium of the Chelsea, and was greeted with an ovation. A local paper says that "the spontaneous outburst of applause which followed each number proclaimed the effect of the work of the chorus upon that great audience. Three numbers were given without the music to look at. These especially made a profound impression. High praise and sincere compliments were showered upon the chorus itself and its wonderful effects, produced under the inspiring leadership of Anna Graham Harris. . . . The program committee of the convention was most anxious to hear Miss Harris sing, although she had taken no music, and had previously declined. But when she learned that an expected soloist had failed to come, Miss Harris most generously consented to give a group of songs. The result was a genuine ovation to her. The delighted audience listened enraptured to Ah! Love But a Day, Ma Lil' Batteau, There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden, and Annie Laurie. Miss Harris had proved that not only was she a conductor of rare ability, but that she also possessed a contralto voice of rich tones and sympathetic quality, combined with charming personality."
20Florence Wessell Artist Heard
21Elsa Lehman, charming and talented young Southerner, gave an unusual recital of Negro spirituals and personality songs of the South at the little Triangle Theater in Greenwich Village on May 31. Miss Lehman, in addition to a rich, pleasing voice of wide range, possesses a fine sense of the drama, which enabled her to give a colorful and amusing impression of the psychology of the Negro as expressed through her songs. Her program included several well known songs such as Heaven's Heav'n, Wade in de Water, Run Mary Run, Lil' Black Rose, and others not so familiar but equally typical, such as Lazin' Along, You'll Get Heaps of Lickin's, and Nothin' But Love. Not the least interesting part of the evening's entertainment were Miss Lehman's short curtain address explaining the text and spirit of the songs which helped to make her renditions vivid and realistic. Edward McArthur, at the piano, was all that a good accompanist should be, alert and unobtrusive. His solid musicianship was also demonstrated in two solo groups in which he played MacDowell's Novelette, Godowsky's Alt Wein, Chopin's Waltz in C sharp minor, and Mendelssohn's rondo capriccioso. Miss Lehman's recital was sponsored by Kathleen Kirkwood, whose reputation in the musical world is well established. one of two readings
22Elsa Lehman, charming and talented young Southerner, gave an unusual recital of Negro spirituals and personality songs of the South at the little Triangle Theater in Greenwich Village on May 31. Miss Lehman, in addition to a rich, pleasing voice of wide range, possesses a fine sense of the drama, which enabled her to give a colorful and amusing impression of the psychology of the Negro as expressed through her songs. Her program included several well known songs such as Heaven Heav'n, Wade in de Water, Run Mary Run, Lil' Black Rose, and others not so familiar but equally typical, such as Lazin' Along, You'll Get Heaps of Lickin's, and Nothin' But Love. Not the least interesting part of the evening's entertainment were Miss Lehman's short curtain address explaining the text and spirit of the songs which helped to make her renditions vivid and realistic. Edward McArthur, at the piano, was all that a good accompanist should be, alert and unobtrusive. His solid musicianship was also demonstrated in two solo groups in which he played MacDowell's Novelette, Godowsky's Alt Wein, Chopin's Waltz in C sharp minor, and Mendelssohn's rondo capriccioso. Miss Lehman's recital was sponsored by Kathleen Kirkwood, whose reputation in the musical world is well established. one of two readings
24Junger Maennerchor Sings at Willow Grove
25Under the auspices of the Philadelphia Music League, the first of five music festivals took place recently at Willow Grove, at which time the Junger Maennerchor (one hundred voices) gave a program under the direction of Charles H. Martin. The selections offered were interesting and well sung by the chorus. The soloists were Frederick George, baritone, and William Ringle, tenor, both of whom were so well received that it was necessary to give encores.
27MUSICAL COURIER
29Southern Bookings
31Oct. 17 – Nov. 8
32MAY BARRON—Contralto
34Nov. 10 – Nov. 19
35HENRY CLANCY—Tenor
37Feb. 27 – March 6
38HANS BARTH—Pianist
40other bookings en route
41open dates, terms, etc.
42on application
44Exclusive Direction
45WALTER ANDERSON, INC.
465 Columbus Circle
47New York
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