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Musical Courier 1928-03-01: Vol 96 Iss 9, 1928
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1March 1, 1928
3also offer scholarships in his opera class, one each to five different voices—soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass.
5Luella Feiertag, artist pupil of the vocal department, and winner in the contest of the Society of American Musicians, appeared as soloist in the popular concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on February 23.
7Kenneth Cutler, organ pupil of the Conservatory, has accepted the position of solo organist at the Parthenon Theatre, Hammond, Ind.
9The Walton Pyre School of Dramatic Art and Expression presents acts from plays and dramatic sketches every Thursday evening in Kimball Hall. Misses Powers, Haft, Miller and Schloss, and Messrs. Brown, Forbes, Downs and Berndt appeared on February 16 in the poetic one act play, The Falcon, by Tennyson. In Honor Bound by Sydney Grundy will be given on March 1.
11Leona Hess and Alice Jefferson, former pupils of Heniot Levy, are teaching, respectively, at Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kans., and at the State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans.
13ORCHESTRA PROGRAMS STRAUSS' DON QUIXOTE
14No soloist was featured on the orchestra's February 24 and 25 program, but Strauss' Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character affords much solo opportunity for the first cello and first viola—in this case, Alfred Wallenstein and Clarence Evans. The Variations—a humorous, fantastic and droll account of the adventures of Don Quixote—was made to glow under Conductor Stock's skillful reading, which reflected the mood of the number and displayed the resourcefulness of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Another highlight was Stock's concert arrangement of the Love scene of the second act and the Introduction and Love Death from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. The arrangement is eloquence itself and the orchestra's performance matchless. It was a dramatic climax to a program that had many stirring moments. Included in these was Ernest Schelling's A Victory Ball, a symphonic gem, played con amore. This splendid program began with the Weber Abu Hassan Overture, one of the briefest overtures on record.
16HANNA BUTLER ACTIVITIES
17A concert of more than ordinary interest was given at the Romany Club on February 19, by Hanna Butler, soprano, and the Hanna Butler Quartet. Mme. Butler sang a group by Curran, Aubert, Canal, Paladilhe, and Strauss in her usual inimitable manner, delighting the large gathering on hand. The quartet, which is made up of four Hanna Butler trained singers, includes Grace Raymond, soprano; Ruth Heizer, contralto; Terry Rivett, tenor, and Kenneth Dunnick, baritone. Their two groups met with the full approval of the listeners.
19J. C.
21Transatlantic Travelers
22(Ship News by the Special Musical Courier Quarantine Reporter)
24NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 27.—Mark Hambourg arrived this week on board the White Star liner Olympic on his first visit to these shores since 1915. First the war prevented him from continuing his annual tours here, and then he was kept so busy in Europe that he let things take the easiest course, he said, and stayed there. But coming up the bay past the old familiar Statue of Liberty he was more thrilled, he declared, than for a long time, and now he intends to change his schedule and make a few tours of the United States and look up old friends.
26On this trip Hambourg will go direct to Canada for a tour of twelve concerts and then hurry back to England. In recent seasons, he stated, he has been touring all over, including concerts in Africa, South America and Australia. He was scheduled for a short tour to Australia to "fill in" before the spring season in Europe, but at the last minute he changed his plans and decided to spend this time in Canada.
28Even though he will play no concerts in the United States this visit he hoped that he will be heard here over the radio from Montreal. He has written some new music for the piano, he said, but only for his own use. His last tour in Europe included seven recitals in England and France, with the final recital at Nice two evenings before sailing. He will make close connections with the ship on his return from Canada and then is scheduled for 120 concerts in Europe with but little spare time in between. After that, however, and this may be the last of this year, he will arrange that return visit here—his first "since the war."
30Mme. Marguerite Schuling-Hoexter returned aboard the Olympic from concerts and opera in France and England and a season of studying in Berlin. For a student Berlin at the present moment is not the ideal place that some persons claim, she insisted. Living is high, and clothes cost as much as in New York, if not more. The expenses for an unknown artist to come before the public begin with a more or less standard charge of $400 which includes the rent of a hall, pay of an accompanist, and two very small notices in the newspaper.
32"Admission fees are low," she said, "so after this $400 comes out there is little left for the artist, unless, of course, the artist is fairly well known."
34And the demands of the operas throughout Germany and Austria are severe, she found. A soprano, according to her statement, is required to have a repertory of twenty-five parts, and an alto twenty parts.
36On the other hand the teaching given students in Berlin is of a high order because the teachers demand near perfection. And the present trend in staging operas in Berlin and Vienna, she said, is to spare no pains nor money in making them gorgeous affairs.
38Max Darewski, who sailed for London and Paris for the Christmas holidays, hurried in aboard the Olympic to write and arrange scores for several Fox films. The work of composing and fitting music to "talking movies" is opening up a brand new field of endeavor for composers, he declared. The only film for which a completed score has been made, he said, is Wings, and there will be a great many films to write music for within a very short time. Each film requires a score of from 500 to 600 pages. In England he found a new unbreakable phonograph record which, he believed, is the equal in tone of the best breakable records.
40Richard Rodgers, who wrote the scores for Connecticut Yankee, Peggy Ann, the Girl Friend, etc., was aboard the Olympic with his father and mother, returning from a trip to Africa "looking for ideas."
42He and his partners, Herbert Fields, who writes the books of their musical shows, and Larry Hart, who writes the lyrics, are planning to open a new production on Broadway this month. In Africa he saw plenty of Arabs and deserts, and in England, France and Italy plenty of picturesque people and queer towns, so altogether he believes he has all the material he and his partners will need for several shows.
44Margaret Robinson, Helen Nagy and Maurice Cooke were also Olympic passengers.
46Burt Kalmar, who wrote The Five O'Clock Girl, and his wife and young son were among the passengers aboard the White Star liner Adriatic returning after a cruise voyage to the Mediterranean. Sigmund Romberg and Mrs. Romberg returned this week from a cruise of twenty-seven days aboard the Hamburg-American liner Reliance to ports in the West Indies.
48Franciszek Zachara, pianist and composer, and professor at the Academy of Music, Katowice, Silesia, arrived on board the George Washington of the United States Lines for his first American tour. Most recently, he said, he has been playing concerts in Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Warsaw, and his managers planned to keep him in Europe this season but he "decided to change their minds."
50He will be here on tour for three or four months, he said, or longer if possible. He brought credentials from the Minister of Music of Poland as an authorized "propagandist" for Poland, which means, he stated, that while here he will do his part to build up greater friendship between the United States and Poland. The Polish government is encouraging artists to come to America and wants American artists to visit Poland, all as part of this good-will propaganda, he argued.
52A large party of members of the Opera Comique, of Paris, after concluding their season in Canada with a final week in Quebec, arrived in New York just in time to sail for home in the French liner De Grasse.
54Included in the party were: Lefebre Delamerie, director, who was in charge of the party; Renee Kerpt, Ariette Simon, Auguste Thaene, Gerard Bodart, Suzanne Pettit, Jean Tiberty, Robert Salles, Fernande Feyral, A. P. Bridges, Ed Paranti, Lucien Du Bois, John Schwartz and Jean Hirigaran.
56No definite announcement was made regarding plans for next year, but several of the company stated that they expect to try another season in New York. One reason for belief that the Opera Comique will be a success here, financially as well as artistically, is because it has been so successful in Montreal this season.
58C. C. R.
60Jerritz's Spring Concert Dates
61Maria Jeritza is fulfilling a short concert tour which opened in Boston at Symphony Hall. She appeared on February 25 in Charlotte, N. C.; 28, in Richmond, Va. Other dates are: March 3, New Haven, Conn.; 5, Baltimore, Md.; and March 7, Washington, D. C. Mme. Jeritza will sail on March 9 for European engagements. She returns in September for her first appearance in opera on the Pacific coast.
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