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Musical Courier 1928-05-10: Vol 96 Iss 19, 1928
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1Artists Everywhere
3Paul Althouse has been engaged by the Rotary International for a gala concert in Minneapolis, Minn., on June 19. Prior to this appearance, two important spring festivals, one in Spartanburg, S. C., and one in Ann Arbor, Mich., will claim the tenor's attention.
5Katherine Bacon has been engaged for the Worcester, Mass., Festival in October. Her recent Schubert recitals in New York attracted much attention.
7Frederic Baer was soloist recently with the Woman's Choral Club of Hackensack, N. J. The Republican stated: "The prominent young baritone, who has been soloist with the finest orchestras in America, added to the program the charm of a voice which will undoubtedly find its place on the operatic stage, if its owner so chooses. In the aria by Apolloni, the power of his voice sent the thrills coursing through one's body. When he sang Flower in the Crannied Wall by Dickinson, the soft richness of his voice radiated a feeling of warmth and friendliness. Baer's great voice added a certain majesty to the presentation of Nevin's Land of Heart's Desire which is indescribable."
9Mme. Bell-Ranske's plans for the education of children are endorsed by Mrs. George Samuels, president of the Bronx Social Service Exchange.
11Charles N. Boyd directed the program of choral music which was given recently in Upper Hall, Soldiers Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pa. Elsie Breese Mitchell was the accompanist and Constance Eberhart the assisting artist.
13Martha Braarud, New York vocal pedagogue, recently presented one of her artist pupils, Edythe Browning, in recital at her New York studio. She gave an interesting program of operatic arias and songs.
15George Brandt, tenor, appeared on the program presented by the Society of American Women Composers, April 22, at Steinway Hall. He sang the prologue to the Bells of Circumstance (Branscombe) with vigor and finesse, and was heard again in the finale, accompanied by a small orchestra.
17Edward S. Breck, formerly musical director of station WOR, is the newly appointed organist and director at the Morrow Memorial M. E. Church, Maplewood, N. J. He long has been a prominent New Jersey organist, and was conductor of the Greenville Choral Society, leader of the Jersey City Community Chorus, and president of the Musicians' Club.
19Carrie Bridewell, contralto, left for Europe on April 20 to sing in England and on the continent.
21Horace Britt, cellist, has returned from a tour to the Pacific Coast, which included two appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and a recital in that city. According to the San Francisco Call and Post, Mr. Britt was "welcomed like a hero, a hero of many musical triumphs in this country and abroad." Mr. Britt will spend the summer in Woodstock, N. Y., where he will hold classes and give individual instruction. Next season he will concertize in this country the first half of the season and will sail in February for an extensive tour in Spain.
23Maria Cellai and Abdo Urban won the Zilpha May Barnes vocal scholarships, entitling them to a year's free tuition.
25Julia Seargeant Chase gave an Easter Musicale on April 12, singing songs principally by American composers. Mrs. Elmer Miller, contralto, Senor DeCastillo, violinist, and Louis C. Woodruff, accompanist, assisted.
27Shura Cherkassky, sixteen-year-old pianist, pupil of Josef Hofmann, will sail from San Francisco early in June for his first big tour. He has been booked by E. J. Gravestock, Australian impresario, for a series of concerts in Australia and New Zealand. He will return to the United States in January.
29Edyth May Clover was piano soloist at the meeting of the National Society of Patriotic Women, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. She played numbers by Chopin and Liszt.
31Richard Crooks will be heard at the Keene, N. H., Music Festival on May 24 and 25, in concert and in a performance of Faust. This is his fourth music festival during May, the others being Reading, Pa., Spartanburg, S. C., and Evanston, Ill.
33Yelly d'Aranyi, Hungarian violinist, has been booked for many re-engagements upon her return to the United States next winter. One of them is an appearance at Wellesley, Mass., on February 28, when she will give a joint recital with Myra Hess, English pianist.
35Clarence Dickinson and the choir of the Brick Presbyterian Church gave The Creation on April 29. The soloists were Corleen Wells, Rose Bryant, Charles Stratton and Alexander Kisselburgh.
37Jeannette Durno will be available for summer coaching in her Chicago studio until August 1. Pianists and teachers of piano who wish to enroll for a six or ten weeks' course should make early application, as only a limited number of students can be accommodated.
39Amy Ellerman, contralto, has been re-engaged for a recital in Dover, N. J., on May 23. Recent bookings have included appearances with the Metropolitan Glee Club, New York, and the Southampton, L. I., Choral Society, L. Emory Terry, conductor. On the latter occasion (April 20) the contralto appeared in company with Irma DeBaun, soprano; Calvin Coxe, tenor, and Walter Preston, bass, in a successful performance of Frederic H. Cowan's Rose Maiden. On May 11, Miss Ellerman will be soloist at a concert in Brooklyn, by the Flatbush Choral Club, Herbert S. Sammond, conductor.
41Georges Enesco, Rumanian violinist and composer, will return early in February for his second American tour. He will open his season in New York on February 4 with a concert given under the auspices of the Schola Cantorum. He has been booked for appearances with the Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis orchestras. Mr. Enesco is now touring in Europe.
43Gitla Erstinn, soprano, recently visited Richmond, Va., her former home. Miss Erstinn has filled numerous engagements this season. She has appeared in successful recitals in New York, and has also sung in opera several times.
45Lynnwood Farnam gave organ recitals on April 19 in Toronto, Canada, and on April 23 in Chambersburg, Pa.
47The Fiqué Musical Institute gave its 170th musicale on April 17. Piano and vocal numbers made up an interesting program. The participants were Ruth Sattler, Gertrude Olsen, May Etts, Mary Pendlebury, Rita Farrell, Hilda Fage, Esther Swayer, Ruth Swayer, Olga Schumacher, Kenneth Forbes, Kathryn Swatridge and Barbara Echels. Katherine Noack Fiqué was at the piano. one of two readings
48The Figue Musical Institute gave its 170th musicale on April 17. Piano and vocal numbers made up an interesting program. The participants were Ruth Sattler, Gertrude Olsen, May Etts, Mary Pendlebury, Rita Farrell, Hilda Fage, Esther Swayer, Ruth Swayer, Olga Schumacher, Kenneth Forbes, Kathryn Swatridge and Barbara Echels. Katherine Noack Figue was at the piano. one of two readings
50The Fraternal Association of Musicians provided a program at Birkhard Hall, New York, recently. Miguel Castellanos, president of the association, played numbers by Liszt, Chopin, and his own transcription of Delibes' Sylvia; Helen Thomas, soprano, sang two groups of songs, and Luella Lindsay presented violin selections. The accompanists were Clara A. Korn and Mrs. Russell Anderson.
52Leila Troland Gardner is visiting Milan and other important European cities. She will return to this country in July. Chevalier Adolphe Bossi has dedicated his latest composition to her.
54Dan Gridley was the tenor soloist for Dubois' Seven Last Words of Christ, given in the Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Tex., on April 6. "Gridley," said the San Antonio Express, "showed himself the possessor of one of the finest tenor voices heard here in some time, and in music particularly grateful to the tessitura of his voice gave an unforgettable account of several beautiful passages, both vocally and musically. The climax of the oratorio was reached in the sixth Word with the tenor solo of Father, Into Thy Hands I Command My Soul, exquisitely sung by Gridley to a fine accompaniment."
56Barre Hill's recent engagements have included appearances in Chicago, April 6, 16, and 19; Milwaukee, April 26; Coldwater, Mich., May 1, and Bryan, O., May 2. He is booked for a concert in Appleton, Wis., May 13; Valparaiso, Ind., 17; Rogers Park, Ill., 18, and Chicago, 20.
58Helen Howison, soprano, appeared recently in concert in Washington, D. C., in a program of compositions by Mary Howe, composer-pianist. Miss Howison was heard in a group of songs with string accompaniment, played by the Lenox String Quartet. Another recent appearance in Washington for Miss Howison was a joint recital with Myron Whitney, when each sang a group of songs and also presented a duet from Massenet's Thais.
60Ernest Hutcheson, Guy Maier and Lee Patison, the three-piano combination which made several successful appearances this season, have been booked for Kansas City in early December, in the Fritschy Series. Mr. Hutcheson will follow this concert with two appearances with the Minneapolis Orchestra on December 13 and 14.
62Katharine Ives, pianist, who recently gave a successful New York recital, played a group of Chopin and other composers for the Woman's Club of Rutherford, N. J., on April 2, again displaying brilliancy of technic and warmth of tone. She was heartily received.
64Alton Jones, pianist, appeared in recital at Princeton, N. J., and in New York on the artists' series at the Institute of Musical Art of the Juilliard School of Music. Later in the season Mr. Jones will give two recitals at Columbia University.
66Sylvia Lent again will appear in the series of musicales which Harold Henry gives each summer in the rustic setting of the Yellow Barn at Bennington, Vt.
68Wassili Leps, conductor, composer and pedagogue, gives a lecture-recital every Friday on Understanding Music, over station WJAR.
70Otto Luening was invited to conduct two performances of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Gallo Theater during the New York season of the American National Opera Company. Mr. Luening, who is at present executive director of the opera department at the Eastman School, was connected with the former Rochester Opera Company, having conducted for them in Rochester and on tour.
72Mary Miller Mount was accompanist for a musicale given recently in Philadelphia by Edith Stotesbury Hutchinson, mezzo soprano, and Jeno de Donath, violinist.
74National Association of Organists is celebrating Music Week by giving programs daily at 2:30 o'clock at the Wana-maker Auditorium, New York. A special feature is the exclusive presentation of the Viennese motion picture, Beethoven, accompanied by special music given by 100 musicians. On May 12 the program will be under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Neidlinger. Their St. Cecilia Choir of forty voices take part, and organ and piano duets for which the Neidlingers have made a name for themselves also will be heard.
76Alice Paton has been engaged as soprano soloist in the vocal quartet of the First Congregational Church in Montclair, N. J., one of the largest of the local churches. Mark Andrews is the organist, and Miss Paton was selected from a large number of applicants. She will combine her new positions with concert activities.
78Gina Pinnera appeared as soloist with the Community Chorus of the Oranges, in East Orange, N. J.
80Don Regas, Argentine tenor of the Pennsylvania Grand Opera Company, and Alvera Washington, soprano, gave a program at the City Club, Philadelphia. Two pupils
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84PHYLIS KRAEUTER, cellist, at Virginia Beach, Va., with the president of the Cradock Music Club, before which organization she recently gave a recital.
86ADELAIDE GESCHEIDT
87Founder of Normal Natural Voice Development Scientific and Practical
88Important Engagements
89Spring and Summer 1928
90For Her
91Artist Exponents:
92OPERA—
93Cincinnati ………………..Fred Patton
94LIGHT OPERA—
95Brooklyn …………………Mary Hopple
96Foster Miller
97FESTIVALS—
98Halifax, N. S. …………….Frederic Baer
99Truro, N. S. ………………Mary Craig
100Wolfville, N. S. ……………Judson House
101Harrisburg, Pa. ……………..Frederic Baer
102Westchester, N. Y. ………….Fred Patton
103Athens, Ga. ………………..Judson House
104CHORAL SOCIETIES—
105Schubert Club, Schenectady, N. Y. ……..Charles Stratton
106Octave Club, Norristown, Pa. ……..Frederic Baer
107Polyphonic Choir, Pittsburgh. Frank Cuthbert
108Oratorio Society, Bridgeport …….Fred Patton
109Westfield Glee Club, Westfield, N. J. ….Mary Craig
110Musical Art Society, E. Orange, N. J. ….Irene Williams
111Choral Club, New Brunswick, N. J. ….Ann Cornwell Starke
112Unity Chorus, Glen Ridge, N. J. …….Llewellyn Roberts
113St. Rose Choral Society, Albany …….Fred Patton
114Mary Craig
115Music Club, New Rochelle, N. Y. ….Mary Hopple
116Lyric Club, Newark, N. J. ……….Llewellyn Roberts
117Women's Choral Club, Arlington, N. J. ….Llewellyn Roberts
118Roxborough Male Chorus, Roxborough, Pa. ….Frederic Baer
119Chanson Chorale, N. Y. C. ……….Frederic Baer one of two readings
120Chanson Chorale, N. Y. C. …….Frederic Baer one of two readings
121Choral Society, Reading, Pa. …….Fred Patton
122Choral Society, Nyack, N. Y. …….Judson House
123Choral Society, Norwalk, Conn. Judson House
124Mendelssohn Club, Albany, N. Y. Judson House
125Community Chorus, Orange, N. J. …….Fred Patton
126Frederic Baer
127—Auditions by Appointment—
128STUDIOS: 15 WEST 74TH STREET,
129NEW YORK CITY
130Telephone: Trafalgar 3398
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