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1״״Ify Gcar5len continues as general director.
Mrs William Schupp, mother of Lada, died on January 20
Jeritza has a four year contract with the Metropolitan Opera to sing fifty performances each season.
Maurice Dambois played with many orchestras during his recent tour in Furope.
Bronislaw Huberman will give his third New York recital at Carnegie Hall on February 15.
Harold Henry’s recent Paris piano־ recital was a decided success.
Leopold Godowsky will make a tour of the Orient next season.
The pupils of Lazar S. Samoiloff gave him a surprise birthday party on January 12.
Many millions in jewels and furs were displayed at the
T, reopening of La Scaia Opera on December 26.
the coming few weeks will witness practically all of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester in use.
Alexander Sklarevski, Russian pianist, will soon return to the Orient for a second tour.
Jean Barondess has gone to Italy to fill operatic enga״e-
Mme. Calve will sing for the Rubinstein Club on the afternoon of February 18.
Nevada Van der Veer presented Frieda Hempel with a statuette of Jenny Lind.
Vladimir Dubinsky is not only a cellist, but also a philosopher and a linguist.
Johanna Bayerlee will celebrate her career in America with a Jubilee Reception on January 27.
The Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, has secured Mary Potter as contralto soloist.
An A. K. Virgil Memorial Fund has been promulgated
Umberto Sorrentino recently won success in Los Angeles and Portland.
Jeanne Laval sang for 10,000 people in Indianapolis.
May Mukle gave a recital in Hawaii.
Kitty Beale will sing with the Metropolitan Sextet in Washington on January 29.
Hans Hess, the cellist, believes that “jazz” is due to prohibition.
Jeanne de Mare is giving a series of talks on modern French music.
An audience of 2,000 heard Charlotte Peege when she sang • recently in Milwaukee.
The next meeting of the Music Teachers’ National Association will be held in New York.
in addition to_ her performances with the Chicago Opera Claire Dux is booked for many concerts.
Virginia Rea is to make a tour of Texas
Percy Grainger is playing to sold out houses.
Fred Patton celebrated his third anniversary in the concert held on January 18.
Max Gegna, cellist, has returned to New York from a tour which began last October.
The first English translation of the Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence has just been issued by Boni & Liveright
Augusta Cottlow will play the MacDowell “Tragica” sonata at her New York recital on January 27.
Adelina Patti Noar is specializing in presenting songs bv Mozart.	J
H. Godfrey Turner has returned from abroad.
Grace Kerns “registers” well for radiophone concerts.
The St. Olaf Choir scored an unqualified success in con-cert at the Metropolitan on January 17.
The receipts for the Sousa Band concerts in California were exceedingly large.
Dicie Howell will represent North Carolina at the biennial . meeting of the Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Jeritza will sing in concert under the direction of F. C Coppicus.
Emil Telmanyi will be m America for the 1922-23 season.
Florence Macbeth dedicated the new auditorium at the Louisiana State College at Pineville, La.
Joseph Bonnet will give his first organ recital in New York in three years on January 31.
The New York String Quartet is now under the management of the International Concert Direction.
A Music League has been formed in Philadelphia.'
Charles Hackett is in great demand in Europe.
The New Haven Grand Opera Society has been launched successfully.
The Musicians’ Club will dine Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coates at Delmonico’s on February 9.
Royalties each year from Caruso records are said to amount to not less than $250,000.
Milan Lusk played at the Vesper Service in Town Hall on January 15.
Tamaki Miura’s fine singing moved Charlie Chaplin to tears.
It costs less to stage an opera in Paris than in America.
Lazare Saminsky gave a lecture on “The Snow Maiden” at the Ambassador on January 17.
Hans Kindler filled twenty-four engagements from the beginning of the season up to January 1.
Marguerite Sylva will give a series of matinee song recitals in New York.
Jerome Swinford will make two appearances in Providence, R. I., on February 7 and 8.
The Flonzaley Quartet received a unique Christmas gift from Charles Sanford Skilton.
The Gallerie Intime is gaining in favor with those who wish to give intimate recitals or exhibitions.
John McCormack is head of the Caruso Memorial Foundation.
Rimsky-Korsakoff’s “The Snow Maiden” was well received when it was produced for the first time at the Metropolitan last Monday evening.
The Chicago Opera opened its New York season on January 23 with “Samson et Dalila.”
Howard H. Hanson, the first Juilliard scholar of music in the American Academy of Rome; is en route for Europe.
Arthur Nikisch died suddenly in Leipsic.
Vasa Prihoda has returned from a successful tour of Southern cities.	- ־	G. N,
MUSICAL COURIER
January 26,1922
*ey were obliged to give many encores. Adamo Didur, Metropohtan Opera basso, was the guest of honor.
the next concert of the Bel Canto Musical Society will take place Saturday afternoon, February 11, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, when Erwin Nyiregyhazi, the Hungarian pianist, as well as other artists will appear.
Folk Songs of Many Peoples
The Judson Quartet (Helen C. Kiesel, soprano; Helen S. Farnum, contralto; Claude A. Schell, tenor, and Harold V. Jones, basso) assisted by Franz Listemann, cellist, gave a concert of Folk Songs of Many Peoples,” at the Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square, on January 20. All were in appropriate costumes, Miss Kiesel representing Czecho-Slovakia ; Miss Farnum, Finland; Mr. Schell Russia, Mr. Jones, Poland, and Ida Hirst-Gifford (director and at piano), representing the Baltic States.
Folk Songs of Many Peoples,” compiled and edited by Florence Hudson Botsford and published by the Women’s Press of the National Board, W. Y. C. A., New York City from which most of the program was taken, was created ior the purpose of building a fund for the education of foreign born girls in America, and the net sales of this book are devoted to that purpose. The program consisted of songs of Esthoma, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Kussia and Czecho-Slovakia ; Welsh, Irish, Scotch and Indian songs, and negro spirituals.
There were solos by members of the quartet, each revealing a pleasing and well trained voice ; duets and quartets with good tone blending. They invested the songs with color and atmosphere Franz Listemann played several groups of cello solos and was recalled for encores. In fact, all numbers on the program were heartily applauded bv thé
Plans for Salzburg Festival
Salzburg, December 27, I92l.—The Salzburg “Festspiel-hausgemeinde, in charge of the annual Salzburg Festival has just announced an ambitions program for the summer of 1922. There are to be three performances each of Mozart s Don Juan” and “Cosi fan tutte” by the Vienna Staatsoper, conducted by Richard Strauss, who will also lead a work of his own, the choice being between an open air performance of “Ariadne auf Naxos,” with the original Vienna^ cast, including Mme. Jeritza, and the Strauss suite, Der Bürger als Edelmann,” which, as everyone knows, is a tabloid version of the music which in the original reading of Ariadne auf Naxos” formed a melodramatic prelude to that opera. Further the Vienna Staatsoper will present Mozart’s one-act opera, “Bastien und Bastienne,” which is to be played in conjunction with a performance of the V ienna ballet, while the Philharmonic Orchestra will give three symphony concerts. Of dramatic offerings there will be״ presentations of Calderon’s “Das grosse Melt-theater,” adapted by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and staged by Professor Reinhardt.	p. B.
New Classes Started at Ithaca Conservatory
Ithaca, N. Y., January 10, 1922,—The new term of instruction in the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and associated schools will begin January 26, so it is announced. There will be a number of new classes started in the various departments of instruction in these several schools and this will make it possible for new students to begin their work as readily as if they were starting with the fall term.
Following the next, or spring term, there will be a summer school session comprising ten weeks of instruction. Thus a new student registering in the classes beginning on January 26, and electing to enroll in the summer school session, may complete the freshman year by the opening of the fall term, when he or she will be duly classified as a sophomore.
There is a very large registration of new students for this new term.	l. E. M.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts Gives Play
The first play to be given in the series presented during the thirty-eighth year by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Empire Theater Dramatic School was that of January 13, at the Lyceum Theater, New York, when “Kitty Mackay,” comedy by Cushing, held the stage. The name part was played by Lulu Mae Hubbard, this young woman showing exceptional ability, with a clear, well modulated voice and distinct enunciation. The role of Martha Duncan was very cleverly played by Martha Madison, with the right grasp of the comedy spirit, and further special mention is due Agnes Grant, Gerald Lundegard and Kenneth Daigneau. Others in the cast were Jerry Isaacs Alfred Alexandre, William H. Van, Acille Angline, Elaine Polak, Janet Short and Dorothy Haines.
Mozarteum Obliged to Close
Salzburg (Austria), January 1, 1922.—'The Mozarteum at Salzburg, one of Austria’s leading musical institutions, of whose financial difficulties the Musical Courier has reported recently, has now been forced to discharge the entire staff from July 1, this year. The half salaries which were paid to the staff for January exhausted the funds of the institution, which is now facing extinction unless it gets help from outside. What this loss means to Austria can be seen from the fact that this, the second largest conservatory in the country, had over 900 students upon its register, and contains one of the most interesting collections of Mozartiana as well as two fine concert halls. Every summer Lilli Lehmann has been teaching a master class in singing here.	ç s.
Agnes Seaberg Weds
Agnes Seaberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Hugo Seaberg of Ratone, N. M., prominent in musical circles, was married to Richard M. de Lambert, of the Diplomatic Service, on January 8, at the home of Dr. Irene Andersen. After the ceremony tea was served at the Plaza Hotel, and Ada Tyrone entertained the gathering in her well known pleasing way.
DENVER MUSIC NOTES
Sousa’s Band Attracts Thousands.
The Municipal Auditorium was crowded to its capacity on the evening of December 3 and the afternoon of December 4 when Sousa, famous and popular bandmaster, gave two brilliant programs to the delight of his hearers, ihe soloists, John Dolan, cornetist; Mary Baker, soprano; Florence Hardeman, violinist, and George Carey, xylophonist, acquitted themselves with great credit. The concerts were given under the local management of A. M. Ober-felder.
Heifetz’s Program.
On the evening of December 8 Robert Slack again presented Jascha Heifetz to his large clientele and the brilliant young virtuoso offered an excellent program in fine style. This performance of the Bruch G minor concerto was an inspired and thoroughly satisfying one. The Nar-dini concerto in E minor, a group of Wagner, Brahms and Kreisler numbers and a tarantelle of Sarasate completed the program except for several encores. Samuel Chotzinoff gave ideal support in the accompaniments.
Garrison and Bachaus.
Mabel Garrison, soprano, and Wilhelm Bachaus, pianist, appeared in joint recital at the Auditorium December 14 as an attraction in the Slack Series, Miss Garrison is a singer whose personality is as charming as her voice. Exquisite taste and refinement mark all she does. Mr. Bachaus rightly deserved the ovation he received. He is a master technician and tosses off difficulties as lightly as though they did not exist. His pedaling was of special interest and helped to produce many unusual effects. ״George Siemonn was the sympathetic accompanist for Miss Garrison, playing all the numbers from memory.
Notes.
A unique entertainment was given December 15 at the Woman s Club by the Italy-America Society, when a delightful play, fashioned by Harriet Karcher from the libretto of “Madame Butterfly,” was presented. Incidental music was furnished by Alice Slaughter, soprano, and a string trio under the direction of Nicolo de Sciose.
The MacDowell Club held a meeting the same evening at the home of Mrs. W. W. Winne. The program was presented by Mrs. Sidney Osborne, Esther Gumaer and Jennie Colbert, pianists, and Mrs. Ruehge, soprano.
Edith Louise Jones gave a studio recital December 17 at the Fine Arts Building. Eighteen students participated m the program.
Gladys Conrad, violin teacher in the Denver Conservatory of Music, gave a Christmas recital December 16, the program including orchestra, instrumental trio, violin and vocal numbers and a fairy dance by twelve little girls. Assisting Miss Conrad was Mrs. W. H. Franty, soprano.
The Denver String Quartet, under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society, on December 17, at the home of M'r• and Mrs. Henry Swan, gave Tschaiko wsky’s quartet, No. 1, op. 11, and Schubert’s quintet, op. 163.
A recital of exceptional interest because of the extreme youth and remarkable talent of the performers was that given by Tommy Herbert, violinist; Mary Elizabeth Hanson, pianist, and Mattie Lou Thomas, dancer, at the Lewis Childrens Theater, December 17. Tommy, a pupil of Josephine Trott, is only five years old, but plays with the authority and poise of one much older. His execution is clean and his tone as broad as a half-size violin can be made to produce. The interesting phase of his playing, however, is its zest and spirit. This is also true of the excellent piano work of eight-year-old Mary Elizabeth, who is a pupil of Helen _ Hanson. An intellectual charm pervades her work that is unusual in so young a child. The clever dancing of Mattie Lou, who is from the Alfrey Co lege of Expression, rounded out the program delightfully. Bach, Mozart, Oehmler, Huber, Sartorio and Am-brosio were among the composers represented. J. T.
Haywood Guest at Wilder School, Burlington
On January 9 and 10, Frederick H. Haywood gave thirty-six private lessons at the Wilder School of Music, and on Monday evening, after concluding nine hours of private teaching, he gave a demonstration lecture on his Voice Culture^ Course, under title of “Universal Song,” before the music supervisors and teachers of Vermont at the High School auditorium. Mr. Haywood talked on “Voice Culture, a Specific Subject for High School Students,” and then demonstrated the first three lessons of Volume 1 of “Universal Song” with a class of girls, supplied from the High School glee club of Burlington by Beryl Harrington supervisor of music. After this class of girls, which had received no previous voice culture lessons, a group of young ladies who had been trained in the work by George H Wilder, demonstrated the remainder of the twenty lessons in Volume 1. Many of the city teachers were present, as well as supervisors and private teachers from Burlington and the neighboring towns.
On January 10, after concluding another nine hours of private lessons, a lecture on volume 2 of “Universal Song” was given at the Wilder school for his advanced students and teachers. The exercises were demonstrated by Mrs. Irene Wilder, who has been a resident student at the Haywood institute since last October and who is preparing to make her debut in concert in the fall of 1922.
Sylva and iSelinskys with Bel Canto Society
The Bel Canto Musical Society, Mrs. Charles G. Brax-mar president and Lazar S. Samoiloff founder and musical director, gave the third afternoon of music and dance at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on January 14. This society, organized for the purpose of helping poor but talented music-students to acquire good musical training has grown very rapidly, and is constantly receiving application for membership from people who wish to help in the good work.
The program of January 14 was extremely interesting Marguerite Sylva, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera, gave several scenes from “Carmen” in costume; scoring a decided success with her interpretation. Margarita and Max Selinsky, violinist, played some unusual music for two violins, some of their numbers having been especially arranged for and dedicated to them. Both are violinists of exceptional merit, whose ensemble work is so beautiful that