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Musical Courier 1928-08-09: Vol 97 Iss 6, 1928
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1MUSICAL COURIER
3Music Notes From Coast to Coast
4(Continued from page 25)
6with Director and Mme. Ricou of France in regard to the appearance in Los Angeles of the Opera Comique Company of Paris.
8The conference took place at the home of Pietro Cimini and was attended by Andres De Segurola, Gaetano Merola, Armand Agnini, M. Didot, French Consul, Father Tonello, and a newspaper group. B. L. H.
10Norwich, N. Y. Chautauqua brought the usual six days of varied entertainment, embracing concerts, lectures and two plays. Patronage was fair, compared to last year. The Dumond Concert Company opened with a monotonous Stephen Foster sketch, in costume; the music is too thin to make up an entire program. The Liszt Ensemble was vastly more interesting, the novelty of the cymbalom (Hungarian National instrument), played by Klara Balassa, and Irma Ferenczy (soprano), with four more young women, forming a string quartet, being duly appreciated. Of the latter, Florence Rosheger, violinist, was excellent. The Russian Cathedral Quartet, four male voices, genuine Russians, sang splendidly, with a mixture of sentiment and Russian peasant-humor; their colorful national costumes made a hit. Walter Willhnganz, violinist, and Blanche Barbot, pianist, gave an instrumental prelude of decided merit, also furnishing the incidental music to Romeo and Juliet, which was presented by a very capable cast. The Filipino Collegians, per contra, were likewise "too thin" for an entire program; twanging of ukuleles of all sizes soon becomes monotonous. The final entertainment was the comedy, Tommy, presented by an excellent cast.
12Manager Ford, at the cool and comfortable Colonial Theater, continues presenting delightful entertainments, the moving pictures consisting of leading metropolitan successes. His organist this year is Amy Hodges, who came from Buffalo, and is a very experienced, able player. F. W. R.
14Portland, Ore. A large number of local musicians assembled at the Congress Hotel to greet Louis Victor Saar, composer-pianist, who has a master class here. Mark Daniels, baritone, sang a number of Mr. Saar's works. Mr. Saar, who furnished the accompaniments, also played several solos. Martha B. Reynolds has charge of Mr. Saar's local programs.
16Daniel L. Philippi, St. Louis organist, gave an interesting recital in the Public Auditorium. He appeared under the auspices of the Oregon Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Carl Denton, dean. J. R. O.
18San Antonio, Tex. Warren Hull, baritone, well known resident musician who has recently returned from study in New York, was the assisting artist for one of the municipal organ recitals given by Walter Dunham, organist. Mr. Hull's numbers included selections from Tannhäuser (Wagner) and a group of negro spirituals, all of which were splendidly sung.
20Wilhelmina Mosel, pianist, was presented in recital at Our Lady of the Lake College. She was assisted by Charlotte Stenseth, violinist, and Werner Lenert, soprano.
22In the recent contest of the San Antonio Composers' Club (John M. Steinfeldt, dean), prizes were awarded as follows: "Mrs. Fred Wallace (first prize of $300.00), Sonata in A minor, for violin and piano; John M. Steinfeldt (second prize of $200.00), Homage to MacDowell, for piano; and Frederick King (third prize of $100.00), To Helen, for voice. At a recent program by the Composers' Club these compositions were given by the following, respectively: Daniel Perez, violinist, with the composer at the piano; John M. Steinfeldt; and Mrs. Roy Lowe, mezzo-soprano, with the composer at the piano, in addition to other numbers by Hugh McAmis, Louise D. Fischer, Alice Mayfield, L. A. Mackay-Cantell, Helen Oliphant Bates, and Carl Schwabe. The vocal numbers were given by Ora Witte, soprano, with Colin Locke, clarinet obligato; Mrs. Fred Jones, soprano; male octet, with C. A. Lundein, incidental soloist; Mrs. Chester Kilpatrick, soprano, and the San Fernando Cathedral Choir, with Mrs. Hoyer at the piano; and St. Mary's Church Choir, singing a capella. S. W.
24San Francisco, Cal. Once again music lovers responded to the "Call of the Open" by making their weekly pilgrimage down the peninsula to the lovely Woodland Theater in Hillsborough, where the Philharmonic Society of San Mateo County (of which Mrs. George N. Armsby is chairman of the Music Committee) is sponsoring a series of symphony concerts. Mr. Molinari, conductor, offered several novelties, the first being his own transcription of Geminiani's Andante Cantabile for strings and organ. The string section of the orchestra had another splendid opportunity for self-expression, which it took decided advantage of; the tone was a unit with an onward sweep, rich in quality and finely modulated. Zealous and inspired, too, was the performance of Brahms' Second Symphony, wherein both orchestra and its leader rose to great heights of interpretative beauty. Two short but delightful numbers were then introduced—the prelude to Moussorgsky's Chovantchina and Mr. Molinari's transcription for full orchestra of Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse. The Debussy opus made a particular impression. The work, besides being neatly scored, is rich in colorful effects and imbued with an atmosphere that is almost tropical.
26Respighi's I Pini Di Roma, wherein Mr. Molinari's emotionalism, warmth, romance and Latin temperament were given full sway, was a fitting climax to the brilliant program. It disclosed the conductor as an authority on the music of his country, his reading of the fascinating score being authentic as well as eloquent. As for its execution, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra left nothing to be desired, Vladimir Drucker's trumpet passages off-stage being particularly well played, perfect in pitch, and with a resonant, mellow tone.
28Another trip to Europe for Yehudi Menuhin, eleven-year-old genius of the violin, is a possibility in the near future. Yehudi has received invitations to appear as soloist with
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