MUSICAL COURIER
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January 19, 1922
Christmas festivities were held December 26 in the High School auditorium, owing to rain. Five hundred school children sang carols around a huge tree, under the direction of Victorine Hartley, while Sergt. Charles A. Becker led a saxophone chorus of sixty musicians.	E. A. T.
SAiN DIEGO HAPPENINGS
San Diego, Cal., December 28, 1921.—The first artist concert of the ־Amphion Club course on November 16 introduced Mabel Garrison to a large and appreciative audience. The program was a conventional one but Miss Garrison’s charming personality and art endeared her to her listeners. The high water mark artistically was reached in the group of Spanish and French songs, but the audience reserved its most spontaneous applause for the folk songs. Miss Garrison was ably assisted at the piano by George Siemonn.
Under the auspices of the University Extension Bureau a delightful evening of chamber music was given by the I hilharmonic quartet of Los Angeles. The artists play as one, with a balance and unanimity that is almost flawless.
A revival of “The Bohemian Girl,” presented by a local company under the direction of B. Roscoe Shryock, recently played to a large house at the Spreckels theater.
Two Russian artists, Mishel Piastro, violinist, and Alfred Mirovitch, pianist, came to us for the second concert of the Amphion series and were welcomed by a capacity house. Mr. Piastro is a violin virtuoso who has all the technical resources of the instrument at his command, with that finish that we expect from an exponent of the Auer school. His own arrangement of Grieg’s “Lonely Wanderer” was a lovely cameo of tone, and Wieniawski’s redoubtable “Russian Carnival” was quite a hair-raising performance. The beautiful piano playing of Alfred Mirovitch was very enthusiastically received. His reading of the B flat minor Chopin sonata, though not altogether the traditional one, was interesting and poetic. A Chopin mazurka was exquisitely played, and the crispness and brilliancy of the three closing numbers were delightful. Both artists were liberally encored.
We are on tiptoe for the first concert of our new Philharmonic Society presenting the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Walter H. Rothwell conducting. The writer has been informed that San Diego’s response has been• splendid and that success is assured. San Diego is certainly on the map these days.
Numerous Dates for Ellis Clark Hammann
Ellis Clark Hammann, the distinguished pianist and accompanist of Philadelphia, filled the following engagements from October 5 to December 1, and as the list speaks for itself no further comment is necessary: October 5, accompanist for Horatio Connell; October 16, joint recital with Mae Ebrey Hotz, soprano, and Hans Kindler, cellist; October 24, musicale at the Manufacturers’ Club; November 3, concert by the Rich-Kindler-Hammann trio in Witherspoon Hall; November S, musicale; November 10, joint recital with Mae Ebrey Hotz at York; November 14, accompanist for Hans Kindler at Lancaster; November IS, Rich-Kind-ler-Hammann trio at Philadelphia Matinee Musical Club; November 16, joint recital with Michel Penha at the Philo-musian Club; November 17, accompanist for Mary Merk-lee at her song recital at Witherspoon Hall; November 21, accompanist for Hans Kindler and John Barclay at Acorn Club; November 27, Chamber Music Association; November 28, Manufacturers’ Club; December 7, soloist with Orpheus Club; December 12, accompanist for Sascha Jacob-inoff, violinist, at the Academy of Music Foyer; December 13, accompanist for Hans Kindler, Hotel Astor, New York; December 14, Orpheus Club, Haverford; December IS, accompanist for Nichola Douty, Horatio Connell and Mae Ebrey Hotz at the Baptist Temple; December 16, accompanist for Hans Kindler, Biltmore Morning Musicale, New York; December 19, accompanist for Hans Kindler, Thursday Morning Musicale, Bellevue-Stratford; December 31, Rich-Kindler-Hammann trio.
Elizabeth Schaup Busy
Elizabeth Schaup, soprano, who for several years was soloist at the Munn Avenue Church, East Orange, N. J . and also of the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn, finds her time very much occupied this season. Her studios are in Carnegie Hall, New York.
Mrs. Schaup recently returned from an extensive European trip, visiting Naples, Milan, Venice, Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo, Turin, Lucerne and Paris. _ She found a large class awaiting her return, among which she reports a number of excellent voices which she is preparing for church and operatic work.
Middleton Records Are Big Sellers
Arthur Middleton, the baritone who spends from October to May touring in concert from one end of the country to the other, has his name on the roll of honor of a big New York phonograph house as one of the “six best sellers.” The selection that attracts customers most, as the records show, is Mr. Middleton’s record of the “Largo al Factotum,” from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,” although the “Bedouin Love Song” and “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep" are close seconds.
,A Return Engagement for “Beggar’s Opera”
A spectacularly successful week played during November in Los Angeles sent “The Beggar’s Opera” back for a return engagement in December. According to the Los Angeles Daily Times, “Familiarity does not always breed contempt : sometimes the better you know a thing, the better you like it, and ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ is one of these things.”
tione.” You could use Albert Elkus’ “Overture to a Greek Tragedy” and get him to compose incidental numbers. Then there is Gluck’s “Orfeo” with its marvelous score.
. . . Why not give the “Elijah” in dramatic form as David Bispham did? Break new ground. Californians are pioneers. Why not be pioneers in art? . . . There are Helenic possibilities in this Golden State. . . . Where else in the country is there a tier of outdoor theaters like that of California? The University of California should direct the movement, feed it with material, lend a hand to help the young dramatists and composers of the West.’ ”
Notes.
The Etude Club gave its annual Christmas concert December 12, with the following members contributing the program: Alma Berglund Winchester, Mrs. Hermione Sproule, Mrs. George Davis, Mrs. Herbert Avery, Mrs. W. W. Bliss.
A second musical tea was given by Eileen Murphy at her studio recently at which a group of pupils was presented.
Elizabeth Simpson presented her gifted young pupil, Helen Roberta MacGregor, pianist, recently at a recital at the former’s studio. Miss MacGregor received warmest praise from Wager Swayne when she played for him prior to his departure from San Francisco. Mrs. John N. Burroughs, mezzo soprano, assisted in a delightful program.
Gustave Walther, Belgian violinist, and Mile. Feront, accompanist, gave a special guest program recently at the Piano Club. Every available corner of the hall was crowded.
Choosing Norwegian and Swedish songs of her ancestors in which to make her debut in Berkeley musical circles, Elaine Kinell, lyric soprano, was presented recently in an informal recital by Mrs. Gilbert Moyle at her studio in the Masonic Temple.
Elaborate holiday programs of hymns, college songs and other selections were played by Chimes Master Henry Saf-ford King on the Campanile Chimes at the University of California.
A resumption of the popular recitals by the Carusi Sextet, formerly playing as a quintet, took place recently at the Tamalcraft Clubhouse. The artists were Jascha Fidler, violin, concertmaster; Leonid Berladsky, violin; A. S. Gesensway, viola; Mischa Ter, cello; R. A. Dickinson, bass; Mme. Carusi, piano.
Mendozetta Fuller Biers, coloratura soprano, has announced a series of dramatic soirees, the first program containing numbers by Chadwick and Frederick Maurer and Italian airs for soprano and modern ballads.
The piano section of the Alameda County Music Teachers’ Association held its December meeting at the studio of Elizabeth Simpson. Mrs. W. B. Walton led the round table discussion upon the subject, “Famous Modern Teachers.” The musical program was contributed by Aurelia Frezee, Mildred Hackett, Virginia Graham and others.
Transferred from Victory Square, where outdoor celebrations of other years have taken place, Berkeley's municipal
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Musical Association to its members, and after the usual nervous tensions preceding Christmas festivities, Mme. Destinn’s beautiful voice and personality roused an almost drowsy audience of two thousand into a welcoming burst of greeting when she at last appeared upon the platform, smiling, to sing the opening Handel number. After this, four groups of songs were listened to with marked favor, Mme. Destinn’s beautiful voice being fully equal to all demands made upon it. George Lepeyre, pianist, was an efficient and delightful accompanist.
Hume Wants State University to Rival Bayreuth.
A far reaching interview with Prof. Samuel J. Hume, director of the Greek Theater activities, by Redfern Mason, music critic of the San Francisco Examiner, appeared recently, the main thoughts of which are here reproduced: “ . . . Mr. Hume’s idea is to make the Hearst Greek Theater over at Berkeley mean to California what Bayreuth in its great days meant to Europe. He wants to see the world’s best drama given there with the world’s best music. ‘How much would it cost?’ ‘Ten thousand dollars a year.’ Do you mean to say that, with an income of $10,000, you could transform the Greek Theater from its present picturesque inutility to a state of high cultural efficiency?’ ‘I do, and what is more, I assert that the $10,000 would recoup itself, if not entirely, at least in great part. As matters now stand, we want to do great things; we want to make use of the artistic material in which California is so rich; but we cannot do. it because we cannot expend the money which is a necessary part of any undertaking.’ ‘Is }•our idea merely to import great attractions or to build them out of local material?’ ‘I want to develop the talent which is latent in the students of the university. It means the fostering of dramatic and musical ability. One of the first things to do would be to train a chorus. In place of a glee club singing pitiful tunes for social amusement I would have our young people imitate those young fellows at Harvard who went over to Europe and showed people there how to sing Balestrina.’ ‘And given your chorus of several hundred fine young voices, what then?’ ‘Then we should ask Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra to join forces with us.’ ‘And what would you do?’ ‘Why not “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with the Mendelssohn music, or the “Merry Wives,” with Nicolai’s music use¿ incidentally?’ . . . ‘I’d suggest the“An-
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