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Musical Courier 1928-03-01: Vol 96 Iss 9, 1928
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1Music Notes from Coast to Coast
3Hackensack, N. J. The city's most distinguished citizens turned out en masse at the State Street School Auditorium to hear Lawrence Tibbett in song recital for the benefit of the Woman's Club of Hackensack, of which Mrs. Robert J. Boyd is president and Mrs. James T. Griffith the concert chairman. Mr. Tibbett was warmly received upon his first appearance and sang the Caro mio Ben in his true legato style. The Schumann group showed to splendid advantage his perfect mastery of the Lieder. In Ich grolle nicht such beautiful resonance, in the high register, is seldom heard in baritones, and, in Pagliacci, the basso quality was equally satisfying. LaForge's Before the Crucifix made a strong appeal to the audience as did also In the Silent Night by Rachmaninoff. The singer has a great sense of humor which was well exhibited in several numbers, among the most pleasing being Moussorgsky's Song of the Flea. Encores were generously given after each number and at the close the singer was accorded an ovation, to which he responded with the Tannhauser Evening Star. Stewart Wille's accompaniments were artistic interpretations and his solo numbers much enjoyed. He chose compositions where artistry rather than volume of tone was demanded, which was a delightful relief from the customary incessant pounding when most accompanists play solos. A. H. W.
5Louisville, Ky. The first concert of the 1927-28 season of the Louisville Chorus, F. A. Cowles director, took place in the new Columbia Auditorium, under auspicious circumstances. The soloist was Mac Hill Bartlett, soprano, and Ellen Lawrence Gardner was the accompanist. The Louisville Chorus, emanating from the former Louisville Woman's Chorus, is in its second year and is comprised of 115 mixed voices, including as soloists Mmes. Mae Hill Bartlett, William Davenport, Raymond Peterson, Karl Surmann, Ursuli Fanelli, Katherine Goodman, and Messrs. Reginald Billin, Karl Surmann, Paul Kelly, George Holmes and Joseph Eisinhais. The chorus has an associate membership of more than five hundred, and is indorsed by the Wednesday Morning Musical Club, the Louisville Board of Trade, and the Retail Merchants' Association. The program rendered was of exceptional merit, and was well balanced.
7The younger woman's Musical Club, a branch of the Wednesday Morning Musical Club, sponsored a program at the Woman's Club Auditorium.
9The Music Study Club met at the residence of Mrs. J. M. Fuhrman. The second Morning Concert of the Wednesday Morning Musical Club was presented at the Woman's Club Auditorium. Two of the city's leading artists were soloists: Ersilla Fanelli, soprano, and Dwight Anderson, pianist.
11Morris Perefmuter and Myer Green gave an artistic recital at the Assembly Hall of the Louisville Conservatory of Music.
13F. A. Cowles directed the program at a memorial service given in memory of Thurston Ballano, in the Community House of the Ballard School at Florence Heights. The speakers were Bishop Woodcock, Arthur Allen, Peter Lee Atherton and Floyd Smith.
15The Music Room of Mrs. J. B. Speed was the scene of the presentation of a program rendered by members of the Music Study Club.
17The Saturday Afternoon Musical Club (junior branch of the Wednesday Morning Musical Club) rendered a creditable program at the Woman's Club Auditorium.
19The music committee of the Y. M. H. A., composed of Morris Simon (chairman), Mrs. Harry Bloom, Mrs. J. M. Fuhrman and Jay W. Fay, the latter director of the Louisville Public School Music, has inaugurated the Educational Concert Series, consisting of seven lectures on the Origin and Development of Music, by J. W. Fay, illustrated by the Y. M. H. A. Little Symphony, of which Mrs. Fay is director. The program will deal with the various types of music—The Classical, The Romantic and The Modern—each school to be represented by various speakers. Mrs. Fay will handle the four subjects under Music Development; the other speakers will be E. A. Jonas, Theodore Grof, and Alma Steedman.
21The following members of the Sigma Nu chapter of the Sigma Alpha Iota Fraternity, of the L. C. M., participated in the last of the 1927 Vesper services of the Y. W. C. A.: Julia Stricklen, Evelyn Maser Shrader, voice; Martha Frances Brantley, reader; Helen Avery, voice; Virginia Hadfield, violin; Gertrude De Mass and Lucile Darden, piano.
23The Marmein Dancers appeared for the first time in Louisville recently. Of especial interest were the decorative and pantomime dances representing India, China, Egypt, and other Oriental countries. The dances were to the music of Schubert, Ravel, Franck, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Brahms, Mozart, and others.
25The initial appearance of the Russian Symphonic Choir, under the baton of Basile Kibalchick, was held at the Woman's Club Auditorium. The audience was large, and responsive to the work of the perfectly trained choristers. The soloists included Mlle. E. Stetzinko, contralto; Karlevitch, tenor; Slepuhchin, baritone; Mamanoff, tenor, and Mme. Shilkevitch, soprano.
27Intense interest was felt in the reappearance of our own Ruth Breton in one of her rare violin programs, at the Collegiate School Auditorium under the auspices of the Louisville Collegiate School Artist Series. The Breton recital was the third of this series, of the other two, Ossip Gabrilowitsch gave the first, and Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist, the second. The appearance of Ruth Breton in Louisville, her home city, bespeaks a capacity house. She was assisted by Walter Golde, accompanist.
29San Francisco, Cal. A rather small, reticent-appearing man who might be judged to be in his early fifties, hurried on the stage of the Curran Theater and without any preliminary bother took up the baton to direct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra—such was the first impression of Maurice Ravel. His coming to San Francisco created no end of interest and enthusiasm among music lovers. Lisa Roma, soprano, who has been assisting Mr. Ravel in all his concerts throughout this country, sang the solo passages in his Scheherazade work with notable finish as well as with beauty of voice and a sure command of style.
31The local chapter of Pro Musica presented Mr. Ravel in a program of his own compositions in the Italian Room of the Hotel St. Francis, assisted by Miss Roma, and Mishel Piaistro, violinist and concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Needless to state, Mr. Ravel was enthusiastically acclaimed by a large audience of representative musicians and art lovers.
33The Municipal Fathers of San Francisco have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which the musical public is supporting the series of concerts which they are sponsoring. The Municipal Symphony Concerts given in the Exposition Auditorium by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alfred Hertz, with a distinguished artist as soloist, are in every sense of the word popular. The very fact that each concert of the series is attended by between eight and ten thousand persons is sufficient proof that music lovers appreciate what the Mayor and Board of Supervisors are doing in behalf of the community. They have given the masses the very best in music, and what is more they have kept the price of admission within the reach of all. At the first concert in the New Year, Mr. Hertz opened the program with the Rienzi Overture. Following this number came Beniamino Gigli who offered as his first selection the lovely Cavatina from Faust. Later in the evening he sang Rudolph's Narrative from La Boheme, and Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci. Never has Mr. Gigli appeared here in better form. His glorious voice resounded in all its splendor, warmth and nobility.
35Mr. Hertz gave his usual poetic and individual reading of Respighi's Pines of Rome and it was played with great beauty of tone by the orchestra. The other purely orchestral contribution was Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice, which was brilliantly played. There is no denying that Hertz can get a tonal quality and gradations of volume, whether pianissimo or fortissimo, from the orchestra that no other conductor who has appeared with the organization can obtain.
37Following his appearance with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Beniamino Gigli gave his own recital in the Auditorium, this being the sixth attraction of Selby C. Oppenheimer's Concert Series. From the opening number, an aria from Verdi's La Forza del Destino, until the closing, the audience was held spellbound, demanding encores after each number which the tenor generously gave. Mr. Gigli was assisted by Frieda Williams, soprano, and Miquel Sandoval, pianist. Thanks to Selby C. Oppenheimer, who had printed on the program a special request for people to kindly refrain from rushing to the stage at the conclusion of the concert, one heard Gigli's final numbers in comfort and peace.
39Mrs. Hugo Mansfeldt presented four talented pianists—Letitia Ford, Mrs. Frank Beatty, Dorothy Horstmann and Joseph Mossman—in a recital at the Mansfeldt Studios.
41Two piano numbers played by Mrs. Robert MacGrath and Eva Deutsch were featured at the last concert of the Pacific Musical Society. Vocal numbers were given by Elsa Behlow Trautner, soprano, accompanied by Violet Fenster Blagg, and Douglas Beatie, baritone, with Mrs. David Hirschler at the piano. Mrs. Frank B. Wilson is president of the Pacific Musical Society, the chairman of the music committee being Grace Campbell.
43Rose Florence, mezzo-soprano of distinction and excellent pedagogue, will extend her teaching activities to Palo Alto. She has taken a studio in this charming college town and will teach there two days a week. Many of Mme. Florence's pupils are appearing in public and making excellent impressions. She has every reason to feel gratified with the results she is achieving with her scholars. C. H. A.
45"She has a lyric soprano voice of great natural beauty. Her singing is musical and pleasing."
47The Boston Globe said the above about May Peterson, soprano, formerly Opera Comique and Metropolitan Opera Company.
49Management: HAENSEL & JONES
50Steinway Hall, 113 West 57th St., New York
51Mason & Hamlin Piano Used Aeolian-Vocalion Records
53No more artistic performance of chamber music has ever been given in Louisville than that by Harold Bauer and Jacques Thibaud, piano and violin ensemble, at the Columbia auditorium, under the auspices of the Thomas D. Cline Greater Louisville Concert Series. Harold Bauer has long been a prime favorite here, but it was Thibaud's first appearance in Louisville, and needless to say he was thoroughly enjoyed. George D. Lausnay, pianist, proved of admirable assistance to the violinist in his solo numbers. Mr. Cline, Louisville's residential impresario, is to be congratulated upon the inauguration of the Greater Louisville Concert Series. The project, opening this season with Marion Talley, followed with Mario Chamlee, tenor, and Ruth Miller, soprano. It has proven financially and artistically successful.
55A brilliant assemblage of music lovers greeted Fraser Gange, baritone, at the Woman's Club Auditorium. The singer gave a German group with faultless diction and interpretation. This was followed by two English groups, each superbly treated. In conclusion, Josephine Magill's Duna was included in the last group, which brought forth spontaneous encores, the singer responding with two old Scotch songs and Mandalay. Tommio Prewitt Williams proved an able accompanist.
57Seldom has there been a concert here of more unusual merit than that of the Russian violinist, Lea Luboschutz, at the Woman's Club Auditorium. Her stage presence is as charming as her playing. She drew her bow with authority, and brought forth a tone that was beautiful. The vast assemblage applauded repeatedly with a fervor unmistakable and genuine. She was accompanied by Harry Kaufmann at the piano. M. P. H.
59BENNO MOISEIWITSCH, Pianist
60Next American Tour Commences January, 1929
61Management: Richard Copley, 10 E. 43rd St., New York City
62Ampico Records
64ANNE ROSELLE
65THE ELSHUCO TRIO OF NEW YORK
66"For a decade this tiny orchestra has spread abroad the message of beautiful music, interpreted with that sincere devotion which spells success to the artists, and delight to the auditors."—New York American, February 26, 1927.
67The Elshuco Trio uses the Steinway piano and records for the Brunswick Co.
69SOPRANO FOR SEASON 1928
70Engaged Dresden Opera, Berlin Opera, Vienna Opera, Budapest Opera and many other leading opera houses in Europe.
72KROLL-WILLEKE-GIORNI
73"In the Beethoven Trio in E flat, their transparent tonal ensemble made the classic a living voice of harmonious beauty, winning the audience's warm tribute."
74—New York Times, January 29, 1927.
75Management: Emma Jeannette Brazier, 100 West 80th St., New York, N. Y.
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