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Musical Courier 1928-06-21: Vol 96 Iss 25, 1928
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1Music Notes From Coast to Coast
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4at St. Christopher's-by-the-River at Gates Mill, gave a pupils' piano recital in the parlors of Plymouth Church, in Shaker Heights.
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7Connersville, Ind. The Stillman Kelley Male Chorus, under E. Dwight Johnston, gave the closing concert of the Stillman Kelley Music Club.
8W. E. Tallentire, violinist of Indianapolis, played a program at the First Methodist Church, accompanied by Mildred Trusler Lucas.
9National Music Week was celebrated here by the holding of the Annual May Music Festival, which consisted of five concerts by musical organizations of the city and the music department of the public schools.
10Caroline Gould, contralto, sang at the annual commencement in the High School Auditorium.
11The Stillman Kelley Male Chorus gave concerts in Muncie and Indianapolis recently.
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14Corinth, Miss. Rata Présent appeared in the Corinth Auditorium recently before a large and appreciative audience. She played a varied program of piano music and was so well received that it was necessary to respond with many encores.
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17Kalamazoo, Mich. Verdi's Aida was chosen this year as the opera given by the music department of the Western State Teachers' College. In May, 1927, Martha was produced with so much success that it was decided to make the production of an opera a part of the annual spring festival in Kalamazoo. Harper C. Maybee, conductor, H. Glenn Henderson, assistant conductor, and George Amos, conductor of the Teachers' College orchestra, combined their efforts in preparing for the presentation. The choruses directed by Mr. Maybee, were students of the Teachers' College music department. They sang with true musical feeling, showing the results of excellent training. A ballet directed by Edith Mullen added to the stage pictures and atmosphere. The principals in the cast were John Ross Reed as the king of Egypt, Kathryn Browne as Amneris, Ernest Davis as Radames, Emily Roosevelt, as Aida, Raymond Koch as Amonasro, Ivar Steschenko as Ramis the High Priest, Milo Pomeroy as the messenger, and the role of priestess was taken by Mildred Wotring.
19In voices and acting these artists gave a truly enjoyable performance. Costumes and scenery, provided by the Festival Opera Company, afforded a satisfactory setting to the opera, which was staged in the Central High School Auditorium.
20M. J. R.
22Medford, Ore. The Oregon Music Teachers' Association and Federation of Music Clubs held their annual convention here. Among the important points touched upon was the strengthening of the code of ethics whereby pupils shall not be presented in recital by newly acquired teachers without these teachers giving credit publicly to the former instructor. Another matter discussed was the standardization of teaching. New officers were elected.
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25Mills College, Cal. Two concerts were given by the Department of Music of Mills College recently. The first was the presentation of original compositions by students in theory of music, presenting the works of Alice Frisbee, Ferne Millington, Ruth Hoskins, Gladys Geenzler, Alice Schafer, Anita Wright, Harriett Holman and Ruth Hunt. The second concert presented pupils from the department. The participants were: Dorothy Ann Clark, Edwa Dorsey, Jean Williamson, Eleanor Campbell, Gladys Ruus, Ruth Hunt, Alene Dickson and Marjorie Moss.
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28New Bedford, Mass. A studio recital was given by Aldemard P. Langlois and his pupils, assisted by Louetta Berube, dramatic soprano; William Martin, baritone; Lorenzo Desjardin, violinist; Mrs. Aldemard P. Langlois, soprano, and Hugh Desautels, violinist. Piano pupils taking part were Louis Fauteux, Dorothy Eclair, Fred King, Alcide and Cecile St. Aubin, Lillian Francis, Alphonse Cadieux, Anatole Saulnier, Florian Desautels, Anthony Furtado, Camamire Bartkiewicz and William St. Germain.
29The Treble Clef Club held annual guest night at the New Bedford Woman's Club. The program included trio numbers by Frances Deming, violinist, Anna Herman, cellist, and Louise Stevens, pianist; soprano solos by Ellen Hjelm Andrew, accompanied by Anna Pearson; piano solos by Olga Spiret; contralto solos by Hilda Duckworth Mitron, accompanied by Anne A. Griffiths; violin numbers by Helen Gamble, accompanied by Lena Arden; piano solos by Anne Airey Griffiths; string quartet numbers by Frances Deming and Helen Gamble, violins; Lena Arden, viola, and Anna Herman, cello.
30An evening of music at the Pilgrim Church included J. MacLeen Johnston in solos, assisted by the following local artists: Ethel Ashley, pianist; Agnes W. Barney, soprano; Edith Porter, reader, and Irma Groham, soprano.
31The Burleigh Club, a chorus of negro singers, held its tenth annual concert, with Clarence Cameron White, violinist and composer, as guest artist. The chorus has been developed and led by Addie R. Covell, who has been instrumental for years in the musical growth of the city. Beside the beautiful playing of Mr. White, a notable feature of the evening was the singing of George W. Timber, a member of the chorus.
32Lomelino Silva, Portuguese operatic tenor, appeared in concert at the High School Auditorium, assisted by Josef Furtiuele, concert pianist and composer. Mr. Silva's fine voice was enthusiastically applauded by a capacity audience.
33The First Girls' Glee Club and the Boys' Glee Club of the New Bedford High School sang at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club.
34Clinton H. White, local tenor, gave a song recital at the Unitarian Chapel, assisted by Marjorie Posselt, violinist of Boston and Helen Ponthan, accompanist. Mr. White's voice is particularly warm and smooth, and his engaging personality lends much to his performance. Miss Posselt is an arresting artist, playing with a fire and verve.
35Muriel Halprin gave an informal violin recital at the Gambrel studio showing much talent.
36The British Day Society observed National Music Week with a concert in the auditorium of the High School, with Clifford Morris, pianist; Jack Whalen, tenor; Harry Gardner, Percy Lees, John Flanagan, Thomas Whittaker, Ethel Harrison, Jessie Margeson, Annie Jermaine and John Gould acquitting themselves well on the program.
37Two local musicians—Beatrice Braun, pianist, and Clari-bel Burgess, contralto—combined to give a recital at the North Christian Church. Miss Braun's delicate touch found itself most at home in the rippling measures of Debussy and Glinka-Balakirew. The rich bell-like tones of Miss Burgess' lower register were particularly lovely in O Rest in the Lord.
38Rev. George Maguire, Irish priest and tenor, sang for the benefit of the advancement of music in Ireland in Duff's large hall, accompanied by J. Menzies Vanzandt.
39Sixty of the pupils of Samuel and Anne Airey Griffiths, teachers of violin, viola, clarinet, pianoforte and harmony, gave a recital in the auditorium of the North Baptist Church.
40A Music Festival was given by the pupils of Friends Academy, under the direction of John K. Zorian. A large audience witnessed the carefully developed program of songs and dances in colorful and appropriate costumes. The songs were given with fine tonal quality and sense of rhythm and were supplemented by "orchestral" selections by a group of tots with triangles, cymbals, etc.
41The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra held its third complimentary concert under the baton of Clarence W. Arey in the auditorium of the High School, assisted by Mercedes Pitta, concert pianist, and Sydney Cornell, tenor. Requested to repeat La Fete De Seville, Tavan-Marchetti's Spanish suite, the orchestra performed it with pleasant cognizance of its rhythmic, melodic grace. Miss Pitta's group was exquisitely done. Mr. Cornell is one of the most popular of local tenors and sang well.
42The Philharmonic Juvenile Symphonie, Junior Symphony and High School orchestras, together with a High School ensemble and a Brass Ensemble, demonstrated the splendid work carried on in the public schools under the guidance of Clarence W. Arey and his assistant, Kenneth L. Park, in a concert held in the High School auditorium. The Junior Symphony and the High School orchestras hold enviable reputations for fine work.
43Clovis Fecteau, local baritone, gave a farewell concert assisted by L'Union Chorale of St. Anthony's Church. By request, he and Mrs. Ulric Collette repeated a duet from La Traviata which they sang with success at a former joint recital. His groups revealed not only approaching perfection of technic but a richness and fluidity of voice. He was accompanied by Frances O. Weeks. The chorus of sixty-five mixed voices was a credit to the conductor, Eugène Marchesault, and the church organist, Wilfred Bernard.
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46Portland, Ore. Genevieve Shankland, soprano, gave a successful recital in the Little Theater, singing in English, Italian, German, Russian, French and Spanish. Andre Kostelanetz was at the piano. Ruth Creed, of the Nero Musical Bureau, had charge of the program.
47Ruth Creed tendered a reception to Lazar S. Samoiloff, New York vocal pedagogue, and his accompanist, Andre Kostalanetz. One of the enjoyable features of the evening was the singing of Toya Sasabe, soprano, and John Uppman, baritone. Mr. Samoiloff is conducting a large Portland class. This is his third season here.
48Recitals have been given by the piano pupils of Flora Gray, Susie Michael and Mordaunt A. Goodnough.
49J. R. O.
51San Francisco, Cal. One of the chief events of recent date was the concert of the Minetti Symphony Orchestra directed by its founder, Giulio Minetti, in Scottish Rite Auditorium. The orchestra, consisting mostly of semi-professional musicians, confirmed the favorable impression created at its previous concerts—that it is a well disciplined organization that has become an interesting and permanent part in the city's musical activities. Giulio Minetti, fine, learned, sympathetic musician that he is, prepared a tastefully arranged program which opened with Dvorak's New World Symphony, at the conclusion of which the large audience accorded him a long series of enthusiastic and highly merited recalls. The overture to Massenet's Phedre was the other purely orchestral number. Anna Young, soprano, sang a group of miscellaneous songs in the first half of the program and later, appearing in the costume sent her from Italy by Leone Singaglia, sang the four Piedmontese Folk Songs he arranged. Mrs. Young is an artist who charms her audience with her beauty and delightful personality almost as much as she does with her pretty, light soprano voice which has been schooled according to the best methods. Her diction is pure and understandable in all tongues and her sense of style is never at fault and varies according to the sense of the song. She was accompanied at the piano by that exceedingly fine musician, Margo Hughes. Mafalda Guaraldi, violinist, pupil of Mr. Minetti, played Vieuxtemps's Ballade and Polonaise with a warmth and breadth of tone, a sweeping bow and splendid technical assurance. Saint-Saëns' piano concerto in C minor was rendered by Alice Redwith Miller with lovely tone, with seeming unconsciousness of its severe technical demands, with grace, vigor and enthusiasm.
52Edward Harris, composer, pianist and accompanist, has joined San Francisco's artistic colony. In addition, Mr. Harris is a pedagogue and critic of distinction. He is now serving the San Francisco Bulletin in the capacity of music
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