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Musical Courier 1928-07-26: Vol 97 Iss 4, 1928
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1July 26, 1928
3Recent Publications
5Reviews
6(G. Schirmer, Inc., New York)
8Children's Suite for Piano, by Hugo Riesenfeld.—
9The Suite consists of four pieces, Bobby Plays Horsey, Bobby Bumps His Knee, Bobby Takes His First Dancing Lesson, Bobby Plays Soldier, and all four are, strangely enough, dedicated to Janet. Evidently Janet is supposed to be interested in the doings of Bobby. Any child might well be interested in this amusing and capricious juvenile fun. These pieces are not at all the sort of things one usually expects in elementary studies for the piano. Mr. Riesenfeld uses chromatics freely and consecutive fifths and other devices of modernism that every child knows, but that are as yet unseen, unheard of and undreamed of by many a piano teacher. It would be a liberal education to some of the reactionary piano teachers to see and to study and digest thoroughly Riesenfeld's pieces. If they could open a new school to the youth of America, the youth that is forced against its will to take piano lessons, those piano lessons would not be quite so cordially detested as they sometimes are today.
11The Stranger, A sacred song by R. Huntington Woodman.—According to the title page, the words of this song are by one John Amner, who was born or died in 1615. It is a curious little poem, with an original idea which the reviewer will not give away—let those who are curious get the song and discover for themselves how curious and interesting the conception is. As for the music, it is a finely wrought piece of writing, partly contrapuntal. The manner is chromatic and at times pathetic but at the same time forceful. It is a song that will arouse interest.
13She Powders Her Nose, A recitation with piano accompaniment by Paul Th. Miersch.—The poem is by Edgar A. Guest and begins "A woman is queer, there's no doubt about that," and what follows may easily be imagined. And if one wonders why music should be set to such foolishness, one has only to look at the humor of this music to see that it justifies itself.
15Over the Hills and Home Again, A Wayfarer's Song by Oley Speaks.—Oley Speaks, famous for several other songs, has the idiom of the high-class comic opera or operetta, and is apparently able to turn on the spigot of inspiration at will and pour out one tune after another. This new work of his is, as the name implies, a vagabond song, and it has a rollicking rhythm that one would expect from such verses. It may not rival Speaks' best sellers, but it will certainly be popular.
17Two Whimsical Poems by T. Sebastian Matthews.—
18To the curious poems by Anna Bridging and Kathryn Worth the composer has made pleasing little songs. They are entitled Waiting in the Blue and The Lady Who Is Springtime. They would demand exceedingly good singing to make them effective.
20(The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., Boston)
22Suite for Organ by Ralph E. Clewell.—Although it is printed in Schmidt's Educational Series this music is by no means simple and has none of the dry character of a study. There are five parts in the suite, Overture, Menuet, Aria, Gavotte and Finale, and they are all of them effective and sometimes brilliant. The Overture, an allegro in flashing, rapid sixteenth notes, is an excellent opening for the whole. The Menuet is in antique style and very graceful and sedate. It is followed by an Aria which proves Mr. Clewell to be a melodist of genuine endowment; it is a curiously effective piece of writing which should provide organists with a welcome offertory number. The fourth number in the suite, a Gavotte, is again in antique style and reminds one somewhat of Mozart. The Finale is a Passacaglia beginning with a broad adagio introduction and leading to variations upon a theme played first upon the pedals and afterwards by the upper and middle voices in turn.
24Genet Compositions Programmed
25Marianne Genet, American composer, and member of the League of American Pen Women, recently was guest of the Connecticut branch of that organization at Greenwich, when a luncheon was given at the home of Mrs. William R. Stumpf in honor of Bonnie Bush, newly elected president of the League. Following the luncheon, a reception and musicale were held at the home of Mrs. Leonard Martin, at which time three of Miss Genet's songs—Lotus Blossom, My Love Is a Blossom and A Canton Boat Woman—were sung by Regina Kahl, with the composer at the piano. This program was broadcast the same evening from station WRNY, New York.
27During the past season Miss Genet's compositions were widely programmed by the League of American Pen Women. In Philadelphia they were sung by Mrs. Edward K. Millar, mezzo-soprano. In Washington they were presented twice, once by Mme. Charles Cahier at a reception given Olga Samaroff, and again, this time by Elvina Rowe, at a musicale given by Dorothy DeMuth Watson during the biennial meeting of the League. During this meeting a desert drama, The Simoom, with poem by Grace Thompson-Seton and music by Marianne Genet, was given its premiere performance by Reese R. Reese, baritone of Pittsburgh, and was most enthusiastically received.
29A new composition by Mrs. Seton and Miss Genet, called Chinese Silhouettes, and containing pictures of old and new China and also settings to Egyptian and East Indian lore, will be presented during the coming season.
31Class Lessons at Mannes School
32An innovation at the David Mannes Music School for next year is the addition of a number of class lessons in the instrumental department for advanced players. These will be conducted for groups of three or four pupils by members of the Artists' and Teachers' faculty, among them the pianists Katherine Bacon, Howard Brockway, Simeon Rumschisky, Frank Sheridan, Esther Streicher; the violinists Mario Corti, Scipione Guidi, David Mannes, Paul Stassevitch; and the cellist, Lieff Rosanoff. The plan of class lessons, used so widely in Europe, is introduced into the Mannes School next year as an experiment in conjunction with the School's established program of individual instrumental and vocal lessons. With this development, special rates can be granted to students taking the class lessons, and the advantages of the school which, under the directorship of Mr. and Mrs. Mannes, has an exceptionally vital scope, further extended.
34Olszewska Coming to America in November
35Maria Olszewska, contralto, is one of the well known European artists, who will come to America this autumn. Preceded by eulogies pronounced by leading American and British critics who had seen her at Covent Garden, at the Munich Festival, or at the Berlin and Vienna operas, Mme. Olszewska has finally so arranged her European contracts that she will be here from November to the middle of February. She will divide her time between a concert tour and guest appearances with the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Her husband, the baritone, Emil Schipper, will accompany her, and they will make a number of joint appearances. Mme. Olszewska opens her year I am dividing my vacation between Austria and Bavaria. Half the time I shall be in the Salzkammergut, half the time on the Starnbergersee. It is there that I have spent the most blissful days of my married life. There my husband and I are together. Nothing disturbs or separates us. No guest performances, no new roles to study—vacation, vacation for three long months! It is so glorious to drive through the mountains; today we are in Salzburg, tomorrow in Nurnburg. And when, with new strength I begin another season, I remember gratefully that for nine months of the year I belong to my career and the world—and then commences another holiday!"
37Szigeti's Playing "a Revelation"
38Joseph Szigeti is now in Russia, his eighth tour since 1924. In addition to a series of concerts in Leningrad and Moscow, he is playing in Baku and Tiflis from where he wrote: "We had unforgettable experiences—a drive of nine hours through scenery surpassing anything in Switzerland, visits to Persian mosques, carpet weavers, Armenians and Tartars, strange market places, etc., . . . and extraordinary audiences."
40As a result of his appearance with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Szigeti has been booked for the following engagements for next season: October 15, London Symphony Orchestra; 19, Belfast Philharmonic; 20, Dublin Royal Society; 23, Liverpool Philharmonic; 24, Cambridge Chamber Music Society; December 6, Manchester Halle Concerts; 8, London Nine O'Clock Concerts; 10, Edinburgh Scottish Orchestra; 11, Glasgow Scottish Orchestra; March 26, Gerald Cooper's subscription concerts at Queen's Hall, London; 28, London National Symphony Concerts (B. C.). Mr. Szigeti's fourth American tour opens on January 8, 1929. He leaves for Europe immediately after his Carnegie Hall recital on March 4. returning to Paris, he will probably repeat the cycle of three programs which he gave to crowded houses this spring in Berlin.
42The following notice from the British magazine, The Strad, indicates the English reaction to Mr. Szigeti's playing: "For some years I have watched carefully the career of Joseph Szigeti, and it was a delight to hear him come into his own when he played the Beethoven concerto at Queen's Hall the other evening. I have heard the concerto played by almost every artist of note during the past forty years but never have I heard it given with such vitality and with such remarkable technic as when Szigeti played it. Joachim may have played it with more dignity but what is dignity compared with that palpitating vitality which Szigeti gave us. His playing was a revelation. Fine tone in every part of the register, clean technic, wonderful feats of bowing and tone-production, and that sheer deviltry and abandon which one loves in a concert artist. And the cadenza? I have never heard the like. I doubt whether Kreisler himself would have made a bigger effect with this work. The finale, which is dry as dust in the hands of many violinists, was a joy under Szigeti's wizardry; no wonder the concert was held up for nearly ten minutes with the applause which followed. Some time ago a well known critic asked who were the three greatest violinists, and hazarded the opinion that Kreisler headed the list. It is now possible to mention Szigeti who by all right of tone, technic, and fine musicianship, comes an easy second."
44Gray-Lhevinne at Winona
45On July 6, Gray-Lhevinne, violinist, drew a large audience to Winona Lake assembly auditorium for an enjoyable recital.
47Gray-Lhevinne was brought as a special feature to that city by James Heaton, who on other occasions has presented Kreisler, Heifetz, McCormack, Galli-Curci, Elman, Talley, Spalding and Schumann-Heink. Gray-Lhevinne's success was so marked on July 6 that she has been asked to return to Winona.
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