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Musical Courier 1927-06-16: Vol 94 Iss 24, 1927
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1TOLEDO, OHIO
3TOLEDO, OHIO.—Music lovers filled the Rivoli Theater to its capacity to greet Luella Melius in her first appearance before a Toledo audience. The occasion was the last concert of the season in the Rivoli City series under the direction of Grace E. Denton. The program included Care Selve, Handel; Charmante Oiseau, from La Perle du Bresil, David; Pastorella, Schubert; Des Kindes Gebet, Max Roger; aria, The Shadow Song, from Dinorah, Meyerbeer; Le Rossignol et La Rose, Saint-Saens; Fiocca La Neve, Cimara; Waltz Song, from Mercille, Gounod; Wings of Night, Winter Watts; The Lamplighter, Manning; Me Company Along, Hageman, and the aria, La Capinera, arranged by Benedict. Flute accompaniment to two of the numbers was played by Russell Mason, who also played one solo. Accompaniments by Hubert Johnson at the piano were efficiently rendered. Sincere applause greeted an announcement made by Grace Denton to the effect that the series will be continued at the Rivoli next season.
5The Toledo Piano Teachers' Association presented the brilliant pianist, Guionar Novae, in recital at Scott Auditorium. The Brazilian virtuoso had not been heard in Toledo previously and her coming evoked much interest. The appearance proved to be memorable, fine artistry being attested to by appreciative applause. In the program were Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, a Chopin group including a nocturne, mazurka and the Sonata in B flat minor, op. 35. En Auto by Poulenc, Strauss' Serenade and a lyric, The Little White Mule, by Ibert also were played.
7Ernestine Schumann-Heink was given a fitting ovation at her farewell jubilee concert at the Coliseum. The program, arranged largely in response to requests, held such favorites as Danny Boy, Kerry Dance and Taps. The singing of The Erl King, Schubert, impressed hearers as it has never failed to do. Arias from Samson and Delilah and Mignon, were sung and LaForge's Before the Crucifix, Trees (the musical setting of Kilmer's poem), and By the Waters of Minnetonka, Lieurance. Florence Hardeman, violinist, was the assisting artist. Stewart Wille also accompanied both soloists. The Schumann-Heink concert closed the Famous Artists series managed by Bradford Mills. Making allowance for season subscriptions, proceeds of the concert were turned toward augmentation of the fund being accumulated for aid of Disabled American Veterans.
9Elizabeth Davies of Toledo and Ethel Hauser of Buffalo, N. Y., pupils of Guy Maier at Ann Arbor, Mich., made their first local appearance in a two-piano recital in Scott Auditorium. The occasion was a delightful one. The chosen program included solo numbers by each of the young pianist, Miss Hauser playing five Chopin preludes and his Etude, op. 25, No. 11. Miss Davis played The White Peacock, Griffes, and The Erl King, Schubert-Liszt. Ensemble numbers included Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens; Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn; Valse, Arensky; Carnival of Animals, Saint-Saens; Beautiful Blue Danube waltz, Strauss-Chasins; Six love waltzes, Brahms-Maier, and Etude in G flat, Chopin-Maier. The arrangement of the last number is by Mr. Maier and dedicated to Miss Hauser and Miss Davies. The recital was under the direction of Grace E. Denton.
11The Adolph Bolm Ballet appeared in the Auditorium Theater, under the direction of Grace E. Denton. Appearing with Mr. Bolm were Ruth Page, premiere danseuse of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Vera Mirova, oriental dancer; Paul Du Pont and company. Leon Benditsky competently directed the small orchestra which furnished accompaniment for the dancers.
13The Mozart Choir, under the direction of Prof. J. Charles Kunz, presented Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Coliseum. Soloists were Mrs. H. A. Houston, soprano; Clarence R. Ball, tenor; Norma Schelling Emnett, contralto, and Lawrence G. Neuhause, baritone. David L. Stewart was concertmaster of the orchestra, and Celeste Soccie the accompanist. In addition to the principal work, the choir sang two selections from the Beethoven Mass in C. The Mozart Choir, now in its sixth season, reflects for that period activity of the Toledo Council of Catholic Women, of which Mrs. George N. Fell is president.
15The Eurydice Club's second concert of its thirty-sixth season was heard at the Coliseum. Harry Farbman, young American violinist, was presented as the soloist of the evening, and his appearance, the first in Toledo, proved a veritable triumph. Among his numbers were Mendelssohn's concerto in E minor; Nocturne in D major, Chopin-Wilhelmj; Guitarre, Moskowski-Saraste; Ave Maria, Schubert-Wilhelmj; Serenade Espagnole, Chaminate-Kreisler; Hebrew Melody, Achron, and Russian Carnival, Wieniawski. Margaret Engler played excellent accompaniments for Mr. Farbman. Numbers by the club included Golden Slumbers, dedicated to it by Louis Victor Saar, Flower Maidens' Chorus from Wagner's Parsifal; Entrance of the Gods in Walhalla, from the same composer's Rheingold; Oranges and Lemons and The Frog and the Crow, two Old English tunes arranged by Donovan; It Was a Lover an His Lass, Dunn, and Babylon, by Clokey. Harold Harder was accompanist for the club.
17The Toledo Choral Society, under the direction of Mary Willing Megley, gave a brilliant performance of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's dramatic cantata, The Atonement, at the Coliseum. The chorus of more than three hundred voices was accompanied by members of the Cleveland Orchestra. Soloists were Harrington Van Hoesen of New York, formerly of Toledo, and the following local artists: Reginald Morris, tenor; Maude Ellis Lackens, soprano; Beulah Ruth Trautwein, contralto, and Helen Lease Sloan, mezzo-soprano.
19The Coliseum was packed to its capacity for the children's concert given by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Shepherd. The program included Prelud to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Wagner; Allegro Moderato from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony; Ballet Suite from Cephale et Procris, Gretry-Mott; In the Village from Caucasian Sketches, Ippolitoff; Song of India from Sadko, Rimsky-Korsakoff; Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens, and Triumphal March from Sigurd Jorsalfar, Grieg. The children, nearly three thousand of them, made familiar notable artists before him. But Edward Johnson has a beautiful voice and is a tremendous artist. He has it all: voice, schooling, brains, musicianship, the artist instinct and the artist power to convey and express, to appeal and move, to stimulate and to thrill." one of two readings
20The Coliseum was packed to its capacity for the children's concert given by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Shepherd. The program included Prelud to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Wagner; Allegro Moderato from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony; Ballet Suite from Cephale et Procris, Gretry-Mott; In the Village from Caucasian Sketches, Ippolitoff; Song of India from Sadko, Rimsky-Korsakoff; Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens, and Triumphal March from Sigurd Jorsalfar, Grieg. The children, nearly three thousand of them, made familiar note of the artists before him. But Edward Johnson has a beautiful voice and is a tremendous artist. He has it all: voice, schooling, brains, musicianship, the artist instinct and the artist power to convey and express, to appeal and move, to stimulate and to thrill." one of two readings
22Commencement at Ithaca Conservatory
24The thirty-first annual commencement of the Ithaca Conservatory and Affiliated Schools took place on May 30 in the Conservatory Little Theater, at which time degrees and diplomas were granted to one hundred and seven students, the largest graduating class in the history of the institution.
26The commencement exercises were short and impressive and marked the close of a series of recitals, concerts and entertainments which covered a period of three months and culminated in a week of senior festivities. Dean A. R. Mann, of the Agricultural College, Cornell University, delivered the address after which Musical Director W. Grant Egbert presented medals won in recent contests and President George C. Williams presented the degrees and diplomas. The music was conducted by Albert Edmund Brown, dean of the Institution of Public School Music, and Professor George Daland presided at the piano.
28Following an established custom, the faculty selected one student in the senior class from each school who had stood foremost during his course of study in scholarship, loyalty and leadership as the Honor Student from that school. Then from among these an Institutional Honor Student was elected.
30Anne J. Zeigler, from Johnson City, N. Y., a graduate in violin, was elected Honor Student from the Conservatory of Music and also Institutional Honor Student. Catherine Miller, Lebanon, Pa., who received a Bachelor of Music Degree, was elected Honor Student from the Institution of Public School Music. Lester Bascom, Claremont, N. H., was the Honor Student from the Conway Band School and James P. Kavanagh, Tower City, Pa., who was granted a Bachelor of Oral English degree and also was the president of his class, received the honor in the Expression School. In Physical Education, Mabel Varna, Mineral Point, Pa., received this honor and was also granted a Bachelor of Physical Education degree.
32The following students from the graduating class and also from the junior class received medals won in recent contests held by this Institution: Mary Louise Masten, '28, and Margaret Jacobs, '27, in piano; Margaret Daum, '28, and Esther Corcoran, '28, in voice; Anne Zeigler, '27, and Olga Rita Barina, '28, in violin; Jane Riley, '27, and Mabel Varna, '27, in physical education, and James Kavanagh, '27, and Dorothy Hunter, '28, in expression.
34Tollefson Violin and Piano Pupils Give Recital
36A violin and piano recital was given on May 26 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by the junior students of Carl and Augusta Tollefson, assisted by the senior students in duets, quartets and ensemble pieces. This was the second annual recital.
38A good showing was made by these younger students at this recital, in which the results of good training were apparent. The rendition of two violin numbers, Air for the G String (Bach) and Obertas Mazurka (Wieniawski) by Rubin Schumann, was especially noteworthy for such a young student. These two numbers were played very musically, with a nice, clear tone and received great applause from the audience. Edmund Severn's Song Celestial was the closing number, which was played by twenty violins, accompanied by the piano and organ. Those who participated in the program were, in the order of their appearance: Edythe Margolies, Sylvia Altman, Edith Goldfarb, Henry Bukowski, Erma Kucker, Martha Riskoff, Jack Atherton, Nathalie Preus, Robert Cooney, Albert Goepper, Alfred Hokstad, Roslyn Levine, Charles Cook, Florence Levine, Marion Wolonitz, Adele Leiman, Florence Bunin, Helen Eder, Pauline Berman, Vera Schwartz, Laura Seigal, Bertha Michelson, Frank Dellisola, Edith Markowitz, Rubin Schumann, Eleanor Sherman, Rose Pomeranz, Randolph P. Hanson, Louis Arias, August Balestino, Robert Bickett, Henry Child, Harold Davidson, Axel Dingwall, Jacob Ellman, Herbert Fiss, Thomas Griffio, John Gallagher, Eric Lebom, William Lundell, Benjamin Quarino, Samuel Stochek and George Essex.
40Warren Pupils Entertain
42Mme. Olga Warren was "at home" at her charming studio, 370 Central Park West, on May 29, and instead of singing herself for a large number of prominent guests, Rhea Leddy and William J. Flusk, both brilliant pupils of Frederic Warren, rendered an interesting program of songs and duets.
44"May Peterson, soprano, gave one of her too rare recitals at Aeolian Hall. There is charm in her voice and style in her art."
46The New York Evening World said the above about May Peterson, soprano, formerly Opera Comique and Metropolitan Opera Company.
48Management: HAENSEL & JONES
49Steinway Hall, 113 West 57th St., New York
50Mason & Hamlin Piano Used
51Aeolian-Vocalion Records
53Jewel Bethany Hughes Presents Gifted Pupils
55On May 22, Jewel Bethany Hughes presented two exceptional young pianists, Lillian Harris and Vivian Rivkin, in an exacting program ranging from Bach to Rachmaninoff. These young musicians, who are fifteen and fourteen years of age respectively, exhibited a musical grasp of their numbers and a technical proficiency quite out of the ordinary. Miss Harris presented compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann and modern composers, all with clarity and excellent musical feeling, and was heartily applauded by an enthusiastic audience. To Miss Rivkin praise is due for her fine interpretation of the difficult and seldom played sonata, op. 53, in D major, of Schubert. She followed this with a well-played performance of the Bach French Suite, No. 5 in G major, and her other numbers included compositions by MacDowell, Leschetizky and Moszkowski.
57The recital closed a series of students' musicales given during the past month by Mrs. Hughes, who will be away from New York for several weeks prior to the opening of Edwin Hughes' Summer Master Class of June 27.
59Johnson "a Towering American Tenor"
61"Richmond's too-limited season of music came to an end when Edward Johnson brought it to a glowing and climatic close," said the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Va., on May 10. "Before a huge audience the towering American tenor of the Metropolitan sang last night as no tenor has sung here within this memory. He sang certainly as no man or woman has sung here this season, and there were three
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