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Musical Courier 1927-06-16: Vol 94 Iss 24, 1927
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1SAN ANTONIO, TEX.
3SAN ANTONIO, TEX.—Mrs. Fred Jones, soprano; Mrs. Guy Simpson, contralto; Charles Stone, tenor, and Warren Hull, baritone, with Walter Dunham at the piano, were presented in concert for the benefit of the Home Neighborly Service. All the numbers were given with their customary fine musicianship and artistry. The first part of the program consisted of solos and duets, and for the second part Nora's Holiday (H. Lane Wilson) and a cycle of old English melodies were offered.
5The eighth annual Follies of the Tuesday Musical Club, Mrs. Eli Hertzberg, president, were given with Catherine Clarke, chairman. Many novel and original ideas were introduced. Numbers were presented in vaudeville form.
7The San Antonio College of Music, John M. Steinfeldt, founder and president, recently held a series of recitals by pupils from the piano classes of Mr. Steinfeldt, Cecile Steinfeldt Satterfield, and Lottie Brinkman, and from the classes of Silvestre Revueltas in violin. All were greatly enjoyed.
9Haydn's Creation was presented by the choir of Laurel Heights Methodist Church with the following as soloists: Louise Hillje, soprano; Frank Springer, and Ralph Soule, tenors, and Francis de Burgos, baritone. David L. Ormesher directed and Roy R. Repass was at the organ.
11The March program of the San Antonio Musical Club, Mrs. Lewis Krams Beck, president, consisted of a one-act play, Desert Smoke (Dwight L. Clarke); a group of songs by Jane Alden, soprano, and several numbers by members of the Junior Department.
13Maria Ascarra, well known dramatic star, recently presented an unusual and most interesting program entitled, Humanized and Modernized Shakespearian Women. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Henry VIII, and Macbeth were presented.
15Helen O'Phlant Bates and Ethyl Neal Matthews presented pupils from their classes in piano and dramatic art respectively.
17Cara Franklin arranged an interesting program following the regular meeting of the Tuesday Musical Club, Mrs. Eli Hertzberg, president. The participants were: Claude Bonam, fourteen-year-old soprano, with John Denning, thirteen-year-old violinist, playing an obligato, and Mrs. A. M. Fischer at the piano; Frederick King, organist; Carlos Gutzeit, Roy R. Repass, pianists; James Lauterdale, baritone; Major Leigh C. Fairbanks, baritone, and Captain C. F. Snell at the piano. Hugh McAmis, municipal organist, gave a talk on the development of the organ, and there was a mixed chorus, directed by David L. Ormesher, with Lucy Banks at the piano.
19Virginia Majewski, violinist; Mrs. Fred Jones, soprano; Charles Stone, tenor; and Ethyl Neal Matthews, reader, with Grace Miller and Walter Dunham accompanists, were presented in concert for the benefit of the social welfare work of the Alamo Post of the American Legion Auxiliary.
21Dorothy Borchers recently returned from a concert tour with Josephine Lucchese, for whom she was accompanist. Miss Borchers is an artist-pupil of John M. Steinfeldt, president of the San Antonio College of Music. While on tour she played a number of his compositions.
23The Tuesday Musical Club, Mrs. Eli Hertzberg, president, presented a program of violin ensemble music with Mrs. T. M. Wheat as chairman. The program consisted of Capriccio (Hermann), Trio in G major (Haydn), Duet for two violins (Spohr), and Symphonie Concertante (Maurer). The participants were Virginia Majewski, Mrs. T. M. Wheat, Walker Hancock, and John M. Steinfeldt, Jr., violinists; Gertrude Miller, cellist, and Grace Miller and Catherine Clarke, pianists.
25John M. Steinfeldt, composer-pianist, and Silvestre Revueltas, violinist, with Cecile Steinfeldt Satterfield at the piano, appeared in a morning musciale. Mr. Steinfeldt played with his customary fine musicianship, splendid interpretative insight, and clear-cut technic Beethoven's sonata, Op. 27, No. 2, Chopin's sonata, Op. 58 in B minor, and shorter numbers by Liszt, Steinfeldt, Debussy and Dohnanyi. Mr. Revueltas' numbers were by Beethoven, Chausson, Pugnani-Kreisler, Francoeur-Kreisler and Kreisler, all of which were given in a firm, resonant tone, and with excellent technic. Each artist responded with encores. Mrs. Satterfield gave her customary fine support at the piano. one of two readings
26John M. Steinfeldt, composer-pianist, and Silvestre Revueltas, violinist, with Cecile Steinfeldt Satterfield at the piano, appeared in a morning musicale. Mr. Steinfeldt played with his customary fine musicianship, splendid interpretative insight, and clear-cut technic Beethoven's sonata, Op. 27, No. 2, Chopin's sonata, Op. 58 in B minor, and shorter numbers by Liszt, Steinfeldt, Debussy and Dohnanyi. Mr. Revueltas' numbers were by Beethoven, Chausson, Pugnani-Kreisler, Francoeur-Kreisler and Kreisler, all of which were given in a firm, resonant tone, and with excellent technic. Each artist responded with encores. Mrs. Satterfield gave her customary fine support at the piano. one of two readings
28The Tuesday Musical Octet (violins), with Mrs. Edward Sachs, pianist, as leader, appeared in annual recital, assisted by Mrs. Guy Simpson, contralto; Mrs. Fred Jones, soprano; Charles Stone, tenor; Warren Hull, baritone, and Maria Ascarra, reader. The numbers given by the Octet with fine tonal balance, and excellent ensemble work were the Largo from the New World Symphony (Dvorak), Rosary (Nevin), Toy Soldiers' March (Kreisler), Passe Pied (Gillet), Famous Waltz (Brahms), Dall' Oriente (Labate), and Song of Spring (Bruch). Mrs. A. M. Fischer assisted at the organ for some of the numbers. All gave artistic renditions. The octet played all accompaniments in a highly satisfactory manner.
30The San Antonio Musical Club, Mrs. Lewis Krams Beck, president, presented the annual Army Night, with the participants from the Army. Mrs. P. J. R. Kiehl was chairman. Those appearing were: Mrs. E. J. Rehmer, soprano; Mrs. Rexford Shores, pianist; Mrs. H. H. George, soprano; Mrs. T. Sapia-Bosch, violinist; Major L. C. Fairbanks, baritone; Virginia Majewski, violinist; Mrs. V. Reed, soprano, and Captain H. P. Calmes, cornetist. The accompanists were Mrs. Rexford Shores, Mrs. Ralph Glass, A. Blanco, Captain C. F. Snell, and Grace Miller.
32Jean Gros' Marionettes were presented as the eighth and last attraction this season of the Mildred Gates Series. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was presented for the matinee performance to an enthusiastic and delighted audience of children and adults, and in the evening Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, rearranged for marionette use with incidental music by Mendelssohn. Preceding each performance Mr. Gros explained something of the working of a puppet and at the close of the evening performance the curtains were dropped to the floor and the arrangement of the platform and the manipulation of a marionette was explained, making the performances doubly interesting.
34The Baylor College Choral Club of Belton, Texas, Jettie J. Denmark, director, appeared in an interesting program recently.
36Walter Dunham, organist of the Scottish Rite Cathedral, presented an interesting program. Compositions played were by Mascagni, Russell, Hollins, Bairstow, Rachmaninoff and Sibelius, all of which were played with Mr. Dunham's customary artistry.
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40Charles A. Sink Elected President University School of Music
42Charles A. Sink was elected president of the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Mich., at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors, June 4. Mr. Sink succeeds Doctor F. W. Kelsey, who was president from 1889 until his death on May 14.
44Mr. Sink graduated from the University of Michigan in 1904, and immediately thereafter was elected secretary and business manager of the University School of Music, which also maintains the Ann Arbor concerts and May Festivals.
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48CHARLES A. SINK
50During these years he has developed the work of the school and of the concert activities to such an extent that both have acquired national and international reputations. The School of Music maintains a faculty of over thirty musical experts, and has an enrollment of about seven hundred, the major portion of whom are advanced professional students, coming from practically every state in the union and from many foreign countries. Its graduates and former students are found throughout the musical world filling important positions as teachers, performers, critics, and composers. In the concert field, Mr. Sink, through the medium of the Choral Union and May Festival concerts, has brought to Ann Arbor many of the world's greatest artists and organizations. The May Festivals have given Ann Arbor an outstanding artistic reputation.
52Mr. Sink has supplemented his musical activities by extensive public service for many years. He served on the local Board of Education for twelve years as member and president, and also served as president of the State Association of School Board Members and Superintendents. He is at present serving his fourth term in the Michigan Legislature, four years in the House of Representatives and four years in the Senate, during all of which time he has been chairman of the important Committee on Education in the respective houses. Under his chairmanship Michigan has passed many progressive educational laws, which have attracted the favorable comment of educators throughout the country. Mr. Sink thus has had a wealth of constructive experience, not only in the field of musical management, but also in the general field of education. All of these resources he brings to the new position to which he has been elected.
54Sokoloff Engaged for Five Years More
56Nikolai Sokoloff, under whose direction during the last nine years the Cleveland Orchestra has been developed to its present and recognized status among the major symphony organizations of America, is to occupy the conductor's desk in the Lake Erie City for another six years. One year of this period represents the unexpired term of the conductor's present contract, which carries him through the tenth season of the Cleveland Orchestra next year; the other five years represent a new contract which Mr. Sokoloff signed before leaving for San Francisco, where he is to conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in the opening concerts to be given during the summer season by the San Mateo Philharmonic Society.
58The announcement, made on the eve of Mr. Sokoloff's departure for the West, by John L. Severance, president of the Musical Arts Association, which supports the Cleveland Orchestra, is of more than passing interest in national as well as local musical circles because of the great number of changes that are going on among the major orchestras of the country.
60In his formal announcement of Mr. Sokoloff's new contract, Mr. Severance said: "At the close of this, the Cleveland Orchestra's most successful season, the executive committee was unanimous in its desire to adhere to its present policy, to maintain the high character of the orchestra which has been developed under Mr. Sokoloff's leadership and to assure its permanency by securing Mr. Sokoloff's services for a longer period."
62In the season just closed, Mr. Sokoloff took the Cleveland Orchestra out of the United States for the first time, playing in Havana, Cuba, with so great success that the organization has been re-engaged to play there next season. Concerts were also given for the first time in Florida, and these, too, will be repeated next year. The Clevelanders have the distinction of being the only American organization to leave the country for a concert season last year.
64The Cleveland Orchestra during its 1926-1927 season played 125 concerts, the largest number in its history. Instead of ending its year with the close of regular symphony season, fifty-five of the members are to remain in Cleveland to give a summer series of popular and symphony concerts in the municipal parks, beginning June 28. These concerts will be under the auspices of the City of Cleveland, with City Manager W. R. Hopkins as honorary chairman, and Victor Sincere as active chairman. A citizens' committee of 100 is being organized to aid in promoting interest in Cleveland's first summer concert series, which will be conducted by Rudolph Ringwall, assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra.
66In his development of the organization Mr. Sokoloff has given especial attention to young people, introducing in his first season Children's Concerts, which have been increasingly popular both at home and on tour. He has also aided in the establishment of school orchestras.
68Mr. Sokoloff is known throughout the country as the friend of the American composer, giving many performances of American works, and frequently inviting composers to occupy his desk, presenting their own works. He has presented Ernest Schelling's fantasy, A Victory Ball, twenty times, and Douglas Moore's Pageant of P. T. Barnum fourteen times.
70Cooke Pupils in Well-Chosen Program
72On May 31, at Faraway Farms, the beautiful Haverford estate of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Warden, a musicale was given by pupils of Edgar M. Cooke, Philadelphia voice teacher. The program, in itself well-chosen, was notably interesting because of the wide variety of voices heard, nor could any one type of voice be pointed out as evidencing superior training to the others—a significant fact when one considers the number of voice teachers who are noted for the successful sopranos they turn out, or tenors or baritones, as the case may be. Should not the capable teacher understand and train equally well all types of voice? The work from the Cooke studio offers a strongly affirmative answer.
74Those taking part in the program were: sopranos—(coloratura) Jane Birkhead, (lyric) Mrs. Joseph Pew, Jr., and Roberta Pew, (dramatic) Honore Bailey; contraltos—Alice Davis, Wynema McKinley; tenor—Paul Fink; baritone—Dr. George Warren, Jr.; bass—Malcolm Atterbury. Virginia Snyder, accompanist for Mr. Cooke, was at the piano.
76Mme. Colombati Entertains
78Virginia Colombati entertained with a musical tea on April 30, honoring Mrs. Cesare Antolini, pianist of Florence, Italy. The Misses Fanny Wolfson, Alma Dormagen and Sara Davison assisted Mme. Colombati in giving a very enjoyable musical program. Chev. C. De Lanciottti was the able accompanist. Among the callers during the afternoon were Mrs. Emilio Axerio, Mrs. Bollato, Mrs. San Vincenzo, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. I. Jagenburg, Mrs. C. Roversi, Mrs. H. Gould, Mrs. A. Pewtress, Mrs. C. N. Manfred, Lucy Revello, Vera Nette, and others. one of two readings
79Virginia Colombati entertained with a musical tea on April 30, honoring Mrs. Cesare Antolini, pianist of Florence, Italy. The Misses Fanny Wolfson, Alma Dormagen and Sara Davison assisted Mme. Colombati in giving a very enjoyable musical program. Chev. C. De Lanciotti was the able accompanist. Among the callers during the afternoon were Mrs. Emilio Axerio, Mrs. Bollato, Mrs. San Vincenzo, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. I. Jagenburg, Mrs. C. Roversi, Mrs. H. Gould, Mrs. A. Pewtress, Mrs. C. N. Manfred, Lucy Revello, Vera Nette, and others. one of two readings
81Gottfried Galston Arrives to Teach
83J. P. Blake of St. Louis, president of the Art Publication Society, publishers of the Progressive Series of Piano Lessons, spent two weeks in New York during which time he welcomed Gottfried Galston, German pianist, who has just arrived to become a member of the Progressive Series Teachers College faculty in St. Louis. On his way west Mr. Blake was joined by Leopold Godowsky, pianist and editor of the Progressive Series of Piano Lessons. Together they motored through Canada, stopping in Chicago and St. Louis.
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