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Musical Courier 1927-06-16: Vol 94 Iss 24, 1927
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1June 16, 1927
2MUSICAL COURIER
4ACROSS THE COUNTRY
5(Continued from page 37)
7Perry, Homer Moore, Carl Geisser, Kathryn Harvey and Mabel M. Snavely. The Friday Morning Musicals was active in arranging programs for hospitals and charitable institutions throughout the city as well as giving a delightful program for the general public in the city auditorium.
9Music Week reached its climax in the Music Memory Contest under the efficient direction of Ruth Cazier, music supervisor. Gorrie School won first place among the grammar schools, making a phenomenal record of seventeen perfect scores from a team of eighteen. Woodrow Wilson made first place among the Junior high schools. There were seventy-nine perfect scores, which entitle the winners to a perfect score pin, sponsored by the Parent Teachers' Association of this city. The schools have shown rapid growth in musical development, both as to interest and actual attainment. The high school and all junior high schools are well established with orchestras and glee clubs. The first state music contest for high schools was held in this city, with 6000 children participating, representing twenty-four high schools from as many towns. The results of this contest were as follows: (Piano) First—Alice Powers, Largo; second—tie between Martha Hillhouse, Clearwater, and Edward Reumer, Lakeland; (Violin) first—Alice Bescow, Jacksonville; second Edward Babizian, Miami; (girl's vocal) first—Jeanette Houghton, Daytona Beach; second—Bess Hampton, Plant City; (boy's vocal) first—John Kramer, Bradenton; second—Tedrick Barnes, Winter Haven; (girl's glee club) first—Lakeland; second—tie between St. Augustine and Plant City; (girl's junior chorus) first—Sarasota, second—Lakeland; (senior orchestra) first—Jacksonville; second—Lakeland; (Junior Orchestra) first—Daytona Beach; second—Plant City; (boy's glee club, one entry) Orlando; (Oboe) Donald Thompson (one entry); (clarinet) Willie Pearl Wilson, Jacksonville (one entry).
11Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist, has provoked much interest from discriminating musicians in his several appearances made recently in this city, playing his own compositions. His charming melodies and fascinating rhythms, together with the fleecy lightness of his touch and keyboard artifice make his playing inimitably appealing. Appearing on the same program was the celebrated Cuban singer, Conchita Banuls de Alvarez, who was bewitching in her feature songs, charming alike to the eye and to the ear. Miguel de Grandy, tenor, captivated his audience in several Cuban songs.
13Trenton, N. J.—A musical under the auspices of The Trenton Business and Professional Women's Club at Y. M. C. A. Auditorium, May 9, was a very successful affair. Vocal, piano, organ and flute solos, string quartet and monologues, all this provided a very interesting evening. Florence Turner-Maley, of New York, pronounced it "a most successful affair."
15Tri-Cities, Ill.—The composer, Charles Fonteyn Manney, seemed to be a favorite, several choirs using his cantata, The Resurrection and another his anthem, Awake, Thou That Sleepest.
17The debut recital of Florence Kreuger, soprano and pupil of Charlotte Anderson-Warren, was well attended and much enjoyed by a host of admiring friends. The soprano's girlish simplicity and ease of manner were pleasing to behold, to say nothing of the clear, vibrant voice which she used charmingly. Her clean cut enunciation was a delight, something in which many a young singer is sadly deficient. As the singer proceeded with song after song, one was convinced she had worked long and hard and showed promise of a brilliant future.
19Adeline Lake of Moline, Ill., an ambitious musician and enterprising teacher, presented a group of her pupils in recital, assisted by Lucille Ehlers, violinist.
21Rudolph Reuter, lecture-pianist of Chicago, used as his subject in the seventh lecture in the series of ten The Modern French School, devoting the entire evening to two composers, Debussy and Ravel. Opening with a sketch of the lives of the two men, he gave illustrative passages from their works. He played entirely Debussy's Arabesque No. 1, Night in Granada, and the Dance of the Elves. Of Ravel's works he gave Sontine, Playing of the Waters, and Death of the Royal Child.
23An enjoyable musical event of the season was a piano recital given by William Hughes, young Hawaiian pianist now studying in Chicago, who won a four-year scholarship fostered by the Honolulu Music Club. Mr. Hughes is a pianist just out of his teens and shows promise of doing wonderful things in the future. He has recently returned from a tour with Arthur Krait, tenor, and will work with him through the summer.
25Beethoven was the subject for the eighth lecture recital given by Rudolph Reuter of Chicago, who in his sketch of the great composer explained the reason for his greatness and his wide scope of composition. He played portions of op. 2, No. 2, the scherzo from op. 2, No. 3, some parts of concertos, the middle movement of the C major concerto and the Rondo Caprice, known as the Rage Over the Lost Penny. The first and final movements of the Waldstein sonata concluded the program.
27The Rock Island Music Club in its annual spring evening program presented the cantata, I Hear America Singing, by Harvey B. Gaul, noted composer and musical director of Pittsburgh, Pa. This was presented by a chorus of club members assisted by male voices, under the direction of Dr. Otto H. Bostrom, director of the Tri-City a Capella Choir. Cecil Vogelbaugh was the soloist and the accompanist for the two pianos were Mrs. Eugene Youngbert and Mrs. A. R. Wallin.
29Waterville, Me.—Margaret Abbott of New York, contralto, and Abbott Smith, organist, of Rochester, New York, gave a concert here at the Congregational Church. Miss Abbott had not been heard here for eight years, but so favorable was the impression that she made at that time that her return was in the nature of a triumph. She has been a student at Florence with Vincenzo Vanini for several years, continuing after his death with his daughter. Among her selections were Handel's Ah, Mio Cor, Scarlatti's Ah, s'estinto ancor mi vuoi, and Mendelssohn's But the Lord Is Mindful of His Own. Mr. Smith, who is a former Waterville man, has a finished technique and an intellectual mode of expression.
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33Wichita, Kans.—The appearance of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Henri Verbrugghen, conductor, in two splendid concerts was Wichita's contribution to National Music Week. The Wichita appearances of the orchestra were managed by C. M. Casey and Ruth Evelyn Brown, supervisor of music in Wichita public schools. The matinee concert was given before an audience of more than 4,000 school children. Previous to the concert, all music classes in the public schools under Miss Brown's direction had studied the selections to be played, the instruments of the orchestra and fundamental facts about its organization, so that at the concert the children understood the music which was being performed. It was stated by the orchestra's manager, Arthur J. Gaines, that this Wichita matinee concert had the largest audience of well behaved children of all the places where the orchestra has appeared. Some of the matinee selections were: Nutcracker Suite, by Tchaikowsky; overture to Hansel and Gretel, by Humperdinck; Valse Triste, from the drama Kuolena, by Sibelius, and Meditation from Thais by Massenet, with E. Joseph Shadwick as the violinist. At the evening concert the piece de resistance was the fifth symphony by Beethoven. Other numbers included overture to The Barber of Seville by Rossini, Adagio for strings from Divertimento by Mozart, and Caprice Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakoff. Bernard Ferguson, baritone, was the soloist for the evening. He sang Dei Drei Wanderer by Hermann, and Toreador song from Carmen by Bizet. Both orchestra and soloist were enthusiastically received. The fifth symphony, however, got the most thunderous applause of any number given. one of two readings
34Wichita, Kans.—The appearance of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Henri Verbrugghen, conductor, in two splendid concerts was Wichita's contribution to National Music Week. The Wichita appearances of the orchestra were managed by C. M. Casey and Ruth Evelyn Brown, supervisor of music in Wichita public schools. The matinee concert was given before an audience of more than 4,000 school children. Previous to the concert, all music classes in the public schools under Miss Brown's direction had studied the selections to be played, the instruments of the orchestra and fundamental facts about its organization, so that at the concert the children understood the music which was being performed. It was stated by the orchestra's manager, Arthur J. Gaines, that this Wichita matinee concert had the largest audience of well behaved children of all the places where the orchestra has appeared. Some of the matinee selections were: Nutcracker Suite, by Tchaikovsky; overture to Hansel and Gretel, by Humperdinck; Valse Triste, from the drama Kuolena, by Sibelius, and Meditation from Thais by Massenet, with E. Joseph Shadwick as the violinist. At the evening concert the piece de resistance was the fifth symphony by Beethoven. Other numbers included overture to The Barber of Seville by Rossini, Adagio for strings from Divertimento by Mozart, and Caprice Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakoff. Bernard Ferguson, baritone, was the soloist for the evening. He sang Dei Drei Wanderer by Hermann, and Toreador song from Carmen by Bizet. Both orchestra and soloist were enthusiastically received. The fifth symphony, however, got the most thunderous applause of any number given. one of two readings
36The Saturday Afternoon Musical Club enjoyed the singing of its club chorus at the last program of this season. Under the direction of Roy Campbell, the chorus sang two groups of English songs. At the program the other artists were Wava Bachmann, soprano, and a trio composed of Mrs. George Mauss, violinist, Otto L. Fischer, pianist, and George Tack, flutist. The trio played suite op. 16 by Goossens in its three parts, Impromptu Serenade, and Divertissement.
38Susie Ballinger Newman, head of the piano department at Friends University, School of Music, was one of the official accompanists at the Biennial Convention of the Federated Music Clubs, in Chicago.
40The boys' and girls' glee clubs of Wichita University presented a concert at the Wichita High School Auditorium, under the direction of Dean Thurlow Lieurance.
42Assisting artists were: Abigail Dowden Eaton, soprano; Mary Bowling, pianist; Thethis Pittman, baritone; and George Tack, flutist. A piano quartet, composed of Miss Bowling, Edith Weed, Edna Nichel and Mildred Dunsworth, also played. Their number was the Andante movement of the New World Symphony by Dvorak. Otto L. Fischer is the director of the piano quartet. C. E. S. one of two readings
43Assisting artists were: Abigail Dowden Eaton, soprano; Mary Bowling, pianist; Thethis Pittman, baritone; and George Tack, flutist. A piano quartet, composed of Miss Bowling, Edith Weed, Edna Nichel and Mildred Dunsworth, also played. Their number was the Andante movement of the New World Symphony by Dvorak. Otto L. Fischer is the director of the piano quartet. one of two readings
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