January 26, 1922
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soprano, who has just arrived in Los Angeles from Xeir York to fill a series of engagements in most of the principal California cities. On her trip West she stopped at Phoenix, Ariz., and accoiding to press reports teas very successful. Miss Carelli is featuring at all her concerts “Naples Must Sing Forevermore.’' the netc Neapolitan song by G. -If. Curd, written as a tribute to the memory of Caruso, which is of great appeal. (Photo by H. Tarr.)
Society), introduced Gladys St. John, coloratura soprano, who has been winning much praise in musical circles here this winter. The ־ “Caro Nome” aira from “Rigoletto” served to show her splendid technic, and she gave excellent interpretations of “Robin, Robin, Sing Me a Song,” Spross ; a pastoral from “Rosalinda,” Veracinni; and John Prindle Scott’s “The Winds in the South.” She was accompanied by Edna Horton.
Levitzki’s Waltz Popular in Australia
When Mischa Levitzki, after his New Zealand tour, returned to Sydney for a final farewell (his twelfth appearance there since June), his audience was given an opportunity to make up its own program from numbers which he had played at his earlier recitals, or numbers which it wished to hear him interpret. A plebiscite vote was taken by J. & N. Tait, the Australian managers, and the result was highly interesting. In all, 254 requests were made and the result would seem to indicate that Beethoven and Chopin were the favorite composers, since each received over seventy votes. In point of the popularity of a single number, Levitzki’s own waltz in A major led all the rest with twenty votes. Beethoven’s “Appassionata” sonata was a close second with seventeen, and third place was given to the Schulz-Evler transcription of the “Blue Danube” waltz with a total of fourteen. The most popular Chopin number was the polonaise in A flat. The program as finally arranged, with every number on it by request, was as follows: Organ toccata and fugue, D minor, Bach-Taussig; gavotte, Gluck-Brahms; “Sonata Appassionata.” Beethoven; “The Erlking,” Schubert-Liszt; -Träumerei.” Schumann; andante and rondo capriccioso, Mendelssohn; the nocturne in F sharp, etude in G flat (“Butterfly”) and scherzo in C sharp minor, Chopin; valse in A major and valse de concert. Levitzki; “Troika en Traineaux.” Tschaikowsky, and “Blue Danube” arabesques, Schulz-Evler. The encores played were waltz in G flat, harp etude and “Black Keys” etude by Chopin; “La Jongleuse,” Moszkowski; “La Campanella,” Paganini-Liszt, and sixth Liszt Hungarian rhapsody. Mr. Levitzki’s own waltz has been published by Nicholson’s, of Sydney, and during the first week that it was off the press over 2.000 copies were sold.
Lashanska Wins Success in Topeka
Topeka. Kans.. January 10. 1922.—It was a large and enthusiastic crowd that greeted Hulda Lashanska at her song recital here, January 9, in the third number of the Topeka Concert series, of which Henry J. Dotterweich is manager, and which are held at the City Auditorium. Mme. Lashanska’s recital is different from that of the average artist. She gave her listeners exactly one hour of music and wasted no time with rests. She did not give many encores. but proceeded with her program as announced. The audience was more than pleased with her rendition and was delighted and highly entertained. Mme. Lashanska is an attractive woman, seems young as a school girl, dresses well, and is “easy to look at.” Her soprano voice shades into the contralto at times.	C. E. H.
Two Dates in One Day for Lutheran Choir
The St Olaf Lutheran Choir is scoring a tremendous success on tour. Manager M. H. Hanson has received so many requests for concerts by this organization that he has had to do some very close booking. For instance, on the afternoon of January 28 the choir will sing in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in order to insure reaching Canton, Ohio, in time for the evening engagement it was necessary to charter a special train.
Stanbury in Joint Recitals with Willeke
Douglas Stanbury', one of the most interesting of the younger baritones, will be heard in joint recital with Willem Willeke, cellist, at Hamilton, Ont., on February' 16, and in recital at Belleville, Ont., on February' 20.
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Fishers,” "Manon” (Massenet), “La Juive” and “Eugen Onegin,” which, by the way, will be rendered in the original language.	.
Mr. Dobkin will again be assisted at the piano by Jacques Wolfe, a young American pianist and composer, who is a graduate״ of the Institute of Musical Art. In his praise of the masterly manner in which Mr. Wolfe rendered the accompaniments to difficult Russian songs, the tenor expressed the hope that the critics would not let him pass quite so unnoticed as they did at the former recital.
Although Mr. Dobkin enjoys singing in concert, he says that critics and his close friends consider that opera is his field, and therefore he hopes some time before long to be able to have such an opportunity in America. At present he is doing a limited amount of teaching along with Ins singing in public, simply because he has become interested in several voices. ]Mr. Dobkin saj's teaching is difficult for him because he cannot bring himself to time it as so many teachers are doing nowadays. If he is working with a pupil he does not want to stop at the end of fifteen minutes or half an hour, but continues as long as need be. And the onlv way he feels a pupil can progress rapidly is by taking a'lesson daily. Mr. Dobkin's time is more or less limited by his own work, so he says he does not wish to devote any more time just y'et to that branch of art.
Apropos of teaching, Mr. Dobkin recalled to mind a well-known singer who had recently likened singing to an automobile, saying the voice was the motor, the breatmng the gasoline, and with these one could go ahead. Of course, this singer added, according to Mr. Dobkin, that there were good and bad motors. In replying to this singer’s argument. Mr. Dobkin says merely: “I have a good motor— a Pierce-Arrow—and yet not knowing how to drive, I can’t run the car. It’s the same with singing; if one has no control of the vocal chords one can’t even express a few words properly in singing.”
The tenor himself has studied with the best teachers, having worked for five years in Milan with Augusto Brogi. one of the greatest artists from Tamagno to Cotlongi Mr. Dobkin’s operatic debut was effected at the Teatro Rossini. Venice, after which he appeared'in Genoa.
Eastman School Buildings Nearly Completed
The coming few' weeks will witness practically all of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester in use, affording almost doubled facilities for instruction. When the school was opened in September only the third and fourth floors were ready. Teachers and students cheerfully accommodated themselves to untow'ard conditions with the realization that what was available w'as much better than had been expected. The most w־as made of Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations, when the workers were undisturbed and there w'as no necessity for a minimum of noise lest studio routine be disturbed. The nights were utilized, too. so that there might be a minimum of delay in completing the building, and now the end is in sight and in a short time the first and second floors will be in use. Indeed the Siblev Musical Library' is already housed in its spacious home on the first floor, occupying the rear wing, and the library is functioning, too, since a considerable number of its patrons have found their way to it, and the student bodv of the school is beginning to realize the great asset afforded by this excellent selection of musical literature.
Kilbourn Hall wall be rapidly completed as soon as the organ is installed in the organ chamber. This great instrument is nearing shipping conditions at the Skinner factory. It wall not be necessary' to delay' the finishing work on the hall itself once the organ is set in place, and it will be a race between the w'orkers who put the finishing touches on Kilbourn Hall and the organ men who adjust the mechanics of the organ. As soon as a definite date can be determined for the opening of Kilbourn Hall to the public, announcement will be made of the concert schedule which is being prepared by Ali Klingenberg. the director of the Eastman School. That Kilbourn Hall will be in constant use is assured by the fact that Joseph Bonnet is to conduct his master classes in organ therein. Mr. Bonnet arrives in Rochester ready for his wrork at the Eastman School on February 6. the opening day' of the second semester.
Gladys St. John Sings at Eclectic Club
The Eclectic Club, Mrs. Albert Canfield Page president, presented an interesting program at the Waldorf-Astoria. Wednesday morning, January' 11. Mrs. Charles G. Brax-mar, chairman of music (also president of the Bel Canto
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Dobkin Wins Success in Concert and Opera
Prior to his recital at Aeolian Hall on December 23, when he was most favorably received by the press and public. Dmitri Dobkin, the Russian tenor, had appeared here a short time before as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. And even before then he had gained
DMITRI DOBKIN, Russian tenor.
success in Canada, Italy', Russia and Scandinavia, both in opera and concert. However, despite this fact, Mr. Dob-kin expresses himself as being especially happy over the manner in which he w'as received in New York. As a result of this success he is planning to give a second recital in February, when he will confine himself to a program of more lyric w'orks, rather than mostly Russian, as previously. Featured on this program will be operatic arias from “Pearl
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