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Musical Courier 1927-11-17: Vol 95 Iss 20, 1927
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1November 17, 1927
3in the Middle West, is a composition of Mme. Bartusek's and the dancer thereof was a diligent student at the College studio throughout the entire run of the play.
5During the past week eight of the professional dancers from the studio have been engaged for vaudeville: Gladys Deering appeared at the Eagle Club of Milwaukee and the Fish Fan's Club of Chicago on a program in honor of Mayor Thompson and Chief Hughes. Dorothy Kozelka and Muriel Diehm danced successfully for the Shalimar Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Mme. Bartusek appeared personally with four of her artist students, Helena Stráková, Sonia Svoboda, Florence Anderson and Gladys Deering in a program of Czech and Slovak Songs and Dances before the Bryn Mawr Women's Club. Mme. Bartusek prefaced this program with an informal talk on forms of Czech and Slovak Folk Song and dance.
7SPALDING AND NEW MUSIC AT ORCHESTRA'S FIFTH CONCERT
9Three first performances and Albert Spalding as soloist offered interest aplenty for one program, which in this case was the fifth of the Chicago Symphony's regular Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, on November 11 and 12. With a beautifully poetic rendition of Respighi's Autumnal Poem for violin and orchestra (one of the new compositions presented), Albert Spalding took a high place in the favor of the audience. Spalding is a fine artist and a better interpreter of the new Respighi music would be difficult to find. Seldom has a first performance been received so wholeheartedly and with such enthusiasm as was the Respighi number. For this there were two reasons: Spalding's magnificent rendition and the beautiful music itself, which flows with graceful, suave melody. Spalding revealed his artistic skill once again in the Spohr Gesang-scene Concerto, after the intermission.
11Other new works included John Powell's overture, In Old Virginia, and Miaskowski's seventh symphony. Powell's overture is typical of this American composer, who has brought together Negro songs and old Southern melodies and fitted them into a stirring and attractive overture. Dark, solemn music, depicting drab, rebellious Russia, Miaskowski's symphony is characteristically Russian. It is particularly interesting in that it brings forth a musical personality to be reckoned with. All this new music and the love scene from Strauss' Feuersnot received illuminative treatment from Conductor Stock and his body of musicians.
13DURNO STUDIO RECITAL
15At the first studio recital of this season Jeanette Durno pupils who appeared in solos were Franklyn Schneider, Louise Hoffman, Hilda Eppstein and Olga Sandor. The assisting artists were Sara Schatz, violinist, and Lois Bichl, cellist, who played Beethoven's E flat major trio, and Cadman's Thunderbird suite, with Miss Sandor at the piano. Ensemble playing is made an important feature of these studio recitals. Beginning November 14 recitals are being given regularly every fortnight throughout the season.
17AMERICAN CONSERVATORY NOTES
19Leone Kruse, the young American soprano who made a most successful debut with the Chicago Civic Opera Company in the leading roles of Elizabeth in Tannhäuser and Desdemona in Otello, was for many years a student of Karleton Hackett of the American Conservatory; later on Miss Kruse did additional work in New York and Germany. Howard Preston, who also appeared in Tannhäuser, is a former student of Karleton Hackett.
21Ethel Hansen, organ pupil of the Conservatory, has recently been appointed solo organist for Balaban & Katz' Tivoli and Uptown Theaters.
23Mrs. B. W. White, another organ pupil, has recently been appointed solo feature organist at Crane Theater, Carthage, Mo.
25Hulda Blank, soprano, will sing a group of songs for the Rogers Park Tuesday morning Musical Club on December 20. Miss Blank has been engaged for the quartet at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and she has recently appeared in recitals in Oak Park, Joliet and at the Teacher's Institute in Kankakee.
27Artist pupils of Heniot Levy, Karleton Hackett and Frank Van Dusen gave the recital of November 5.
29BUSY ARTHUR BURTON PUPIL
31Frederick Newell Wood, tenor from Arthur Burton's studio, will sing the Creation in Dubuque, Ia., on November 22, and on November 29 he will give a recital for the Genola Club, in Chicago.
33WALTER SPRY'S STUDENTS HEARD
35Some advanced piano students of Walter Spry gave an informal musicale at the Columbia School of Music last Saturday afternoon. An outstanding feature of the program was the playing of young Howard Feiges. As assisting artist, Florence Holcomb, violinist, lent considerable interest to the program.
37The Spry Scolari, an organization of Mr. Spry's pupils, offer two partial scholarships (half price) to the most talented students who apply before November 25. Communication may be sent to Mr. Spry at the Columbia School of Music.
39JEANNETTE COX.
41MUSICAL WANDERERS
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45last spring and specialized in resting for eight months. She found time for concerts in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, however, just before sailing for home. She wasn't quite decided whether she will sing this year in opera or musical comedy.
47Titta Ruffo was another distinguished Leviathan passenger, returning for his Metropolitan season after almost a year abroad. Like his shipmates he never felt better in his life. He had one of the biggest thrills of his career in Zurich, he said, when the audience of 8,000 stood and cheered after one of his performances, and an equally big thrill when he was cheered by a Berlin audience. His European itinerary included two performances of Tosca at the Opera Comique, performances at the Nationale, Paris, and concerts in Deauville, Paris, Berlin and Zurich.
49Rachael Bodenstien, pianist, after a six weeks visit home in Warsaw, returned for vaudeville, opening at the Palace, New York. Alfred Desmond, Welsh tenor, and Thomas Phillips, Welsh organist, arrived for first visits here. Ivy Schilling returned from six weeks in London, headed for Hollywood with intentions of deserting musical comedy for pictures.
51The Leviathan also brought Adele Verne, pianist, and Jena Lawrence, and Fanny Ward, younger than ever and ready for a song and dance vaudeville act.
53Mary Garden came home on the Aquitania. The biggest thing in music abroad, she said, is the way the French are putting into the French language the "beautiful, colorful American musical comedies."
55"Of course you cannot translate music, or the ideas behind a musical production, from one language to another," she said, "but it is wonderful to see and hear the bright new American shows in the old world capitals. Soon America will be loved for its modern music as the old countries are loved for the old classics."
57Miss Garden spent the summer at her villa at Monte Carlo and went swimming twice a day, diving right off her back porch into the ocean. She, too, declared herself ready for "lots of hard work," beginning with a concert in New York, some radio engagements, some Victor records, then the Chicago Opera and long tour. She brought home two new songs by Rachmaninoff to sing this year. She found time during her vacation to create the principal role in Resurrection at the Opera Comique, sing Pelleas and Melisande, and a few things like that.
59The White Star liner Homeric brought in Janet Velie, prima donna, home after a six weeks trip, her longest vacation in ten years. After witnessing the way American singers are welcomed in England, she wants to change her headquarters to London.
61Fernand Francell, French tenor, Tatiana de Sanzgowitch, pianist, and A. Menuhin, boy violinist, arrived on the French liner Rochambeau.
63Tilly Losch, premiere dancer of the Vienna Opera, and Stefan Hoch, who collaborates with Max Reinhardt in staging Reinhardt productions in Europe, arrived on the Hamburg-American liner New York for the opening of the short repertory season of Reinhardt productions, including "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Century Theatre. Heinz Herald, manager for Reinhardt, was expected to be on board but missed the boat. The demand all over the world is for more music with big dramatic productions, Hoch said.
65Mrs. Carl Friedberg and Mrs. Carl Flesch arrived on the New York to attend the joint recital of their husbands at Carnegie Hall on December 17th. Mrs. Friedberg has recovered from a slight operation to her throat this summer and will sing this winter, she said. Add Prohaska arrived for her first visit and a concert tour here.
67Emil Herrmann, (the violin dealer) arrived on the New York with 45 old violins in his luggage. Three Stradivarius instruments were the Hammer, dated 1707 and valued at $32,000; the May Jacquet, 1714, valued at $38,000, and a third by the same maker, but with no special name, dated 1688 and valued at $25,000. Another violin in the collection was the Venus, made by F. B. Guadagnini in 1741 and valued at $12,000.
69Eighteen Albertina Rasche girls from the Ziegfeld Follies and Rio Rita sailed on the De Grasse. Albertina Rasche and her husband, Dimitri Tiomkin, sailed on the return trip of the Leviathan.
71C. C. R.
73Leginska's Interesting Activities
75Ethel Leginska is doing many interesting things these days. She recently conducted two concerts at the Century Theater, New York, where she was warmly received. October 20 she conducted Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opero Company in Boston, the press receiving her work most enthusiastically, particularly The Transcript. On October 29, she also conducted Cavalleria Rusticana with the same company. This is, as far as is known, the first time a woman has conducted opera.
77On November 2, Leginska conducted a symphonic program for the Columbia Broadcasting Company and on November 4 the Boston Women's Symphony in their first concert of the season at Brockton, Mass. The Women's Symphony of Chicago, of which Leginska is the permanent conductor, has announced six concerts at the Goodman Theater, Chicago. She will also conduct the St. Louis Symphony as guest on February 12.
79SAN CARLO OPERA
81Tina Paggi as Gilda, with her clear and high soprano voice; Thomas Alcaide, Portuguese guest tenor, who has a light but distinctly operatic voice, as The Duke; and Emilio Ghirardini, a Rigoletto who knows his role, were the leading lights in Rigoletto on November 8. Of course, the famous quartet and the popular Donne e Mobile were vociferously acclaimed by the large attendance.
83A capacity audience attended the performance of Madame Butterfly on November 9, when two artists new to New York made their operatic debuts here. They were Hizi Koyke, Japanese soprano, in the title role, and Giuseppe Barsotti, an Italian tenor, in the role of Pinkerton; both newcomers proved assets to the Gallo forces. Others in principal roles were Mario Valle (Sharpless) and Bernice Schalker (Suzuki). Peroni conducted.
85Myrna Sharlow, in the role of Marguerite, was the outstanding figure in the San Carlo offering of Faust, on November 10. Miss Sharlow's voice is a fine, flexible instrument which she employs to good effect. Her histrionic ability is ample and her whole performance was well in keeping with the role assigned to her. Her singing of the famous Death and Resurrection was especially noteworthy. She was supported by a cast including Franco Tafuro, Andrea Mongelli, Emilio Ghirardini, Bernice Schalker, Luigi de Cesare and Beatrice Altieri. Carlo Peroni conducted.
87La Traviata was billed for November 11. Violetta was sung by Tina Paggi in a commendable manner, her innate dramatic ability proving an effective foundation for her excellent vocal work. Franco Tafuro as Alfredo Germont, Mario Valle as Giorgio Germont and Conductor Carlo Peroni were, each of them, most satisfactory. Frances Morosini made a pleasing Flora, and Beatrice Altieri as Annina, Francesco Curci as Gastone, Luigi de Cesare as Baron Douphol, and Natale Cervi as Doctor Grenvil all did their part in making the performance an enjoyable one.
89An unusually fine performance of Martha entertained the Saturday matinee audience with Tina Paggi, a welcome Lady Harriet for the charm of her singing and the very beautiful rendition of The Last Rose of Summer; Bernice Schalker, the Nancy, and Giuseppe Barsotti, a newcomer with a good voice, as the Lionel.
91The first week of performances was concluded on Saturday evening with the perennially popular Aida.
93Engagements Now Booking
95FIRST NEW YORK RECITAL
96November 22 Tuesday Evening
97Steinway Hall
99Assisted by
100NORA HELMS, Soprano
101SALLIE POSSELL, Flutiste
102(ROBERT GAYLER at the Piano)
104Recital Management: Arthur Judson
105113 West 57th Street, New York City
106Wurlitzer Harp Steinway Piano
108MARY B R U B A K E R Harpist
110NIRVANA
111Prize Winning Song of Texas Composers
112written by
113RADIE BRITAIN
114published by
115OTTO HALBRIETER
116(Munich, Germany)
117On sale in America and Canada at principal music stores
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