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February 2, 1922
It is also planned to hold recitals each Tuesday and Thursday night.
T. Arthur Smith presented Paul Kochanski, violinist, at the National Theater.
At the New Year’s reception at the Albert W. Harned studios, Ruth Judson Steinz, Mildred De Hart and Olive Swann sang groups of interesting songs.	J.
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operatic career upon the advice of the late Oscar Hammer-stein. After seven years of determined study she was engaged by Gatti-Casazza for the Metropolitan Opera Company, making her debut on December 14, 1918, in the world première of Puccini’s “Suor Angelica.” According to the dailies, her debut as the novice in this opera was entirely successful. “La Reine Fiammette” is the name of another opera in which Miss Beale has won praise for herself at the Metropolitan.
Miss Beale has toured in concert extensively with Giovanni Martinelli, and everywhere has met with the appreciation of large audiences. Upon the occasion of her appearance in Spokane, Wash., the Daily Chronicle of that city stated that she is a truly coloratura soprano with a voice of wonderful range. “She is a beautiful human flute, a sunbeam in song,” is another splendid press encomium received by Miss Beale.
WASHINGTON NOTES
Washington, D. C., January 2, 1922.—The first Opera Ball, for the benefit of the Washington Opera Company, was a brilliant affair at the New Willard on December 16. It was given under the auspices of Edouard Albion, who is the director of the opera company.
Following the Cabinet dinner at the White House there was a very enjoyable program of song for which Mary Jordan and Katherine Dayton gave the numbers, with Anne Tindale and Lee Cronican at the piano.
On December 18, at St. Margaret’s Church, Horatio Parker’s cantata, “The Dream of Mary,” was impressively sung by the choir of the church, with Sydney Thompson, of New York, as the soloist.
At the eighteenth annual rendition of Handel’s “Messiah,” Grace Kerns, Frieda Klink, Fred Patton and Judson House, well known artists, sang with a chorus of 3S0 voices, conducted by Sydney Lioyd Wrightson.
The Rubinstein Club gave a luncheon at the Ebbit Hotel. Songs were rendered by members of the club.
Under the direction of Katie Wilson-Greene a brilliant costume recital was given for the benefit of the Belleau Wood Memorial, at the New Williard, by Lucrezia Bori, ably assisted by Miss Sassoli, harpist. Mme. Bori sang delightfully. The Spanish group was especially interesting.
Fortune Gallo’s San Carlo Opera Company completed a successful week of opera. There is a brilliant cast of singers this year.
At the Arts Club on January 1 Mme. Hugli, of Switzerland, and Mme. Lemaire de Marzee d’Hermalle entertained with several songs. Starting with Sunday night, January 8, the club inaugurated a number of Sunday evening recitals.
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Haydn Program at Brick Church.
Organ, vocal and cello works were given at the January 20 Friday Noon Hour of Music at the Brick Church, Dr. Clarence Dickinson organist and choirmaster, his assisting artists being Donna Easley, soprano, and Arthur Wilde, cellist. Miss Easley, soprano, who has been heard in her own recitals at Aeolian Hall, sang “The Mermaid’s Song,” “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair,” and, altogether delightfully “With Verdure Clad.” Mr. Wilde played an air and variations, music full of brightness, and the serenade. Organ numbers included a slow movement from the symphony in D, the “clock movement,” from the fourth symphony, and the two final movements from the “Military Symphony.” All this music was heard by an audience which filled the edifice and remained to the end.
January 27 a Handel program was given, these artists assisting: Mildred Dilling, harpist; Lambert Murphy, tenor, and Alfred Troemel, violinist.
A Grieg program will be given at the Friday Noon Hour of Music at the Brick Church February 3, by Clarence Dickinson, with Harriet Youngs, soprano, and Max Gegna, cellist.
Ziegler Institute Eighth Musicale.
Hady Spielter, pianist, and Arthur Herschman, baritone, gave the eighth musicale at Ziegler Institute, January 17. Miss Spielter played works by her father, the well known composer, Herman Spielter, also Chopin and Liszt. Mr. Herschman sang works by classic and modern composers, and Julia Fox was accompanist. The audience was very appreciative and both artists had to give encores.
American Composers’ Organ Works Played.
Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin, continuing his Wednesday and Sunday afternoon four o’clock organ recitals at City College, has on his programs works by American composers, or composers living or who have lived in America, including the following names up to February 19: Felix Borowski (Chicago Musical College), Edward MacDowell, Mel-chiorre Mauro-Cottone (New York), Edwin H. Lemare (Portland, Me.) Pietro A. Yon (New York), H. T. Burleigh, Eugene Thayer, Rutherford Kingsley, Homer N. Bartlett, Frances McCollin (Philadelphia) Joseph Bonnet, R. S. Stoughton (Worcester, Mass.) and James R. Gillette.
February 15 at four o’clock a Wagner program will be given when excerpts will be played from the following operas: “Tannhäuser,” “Lohengrin,” “Tristan and Isolde,” “The Master Singers,” “Parsifal,” “The Twilight of the Gods” and “The Valkyries.”
Five Cushing Organ Recitals.
A series of free organ recitals is being given_ by John Cushing, Monday evenings at 8:30 o’clock, beginning January 30, at Calvary Episcopal Church, 4th avenue and 21st street. On January 30, Felian Garzia, pianist played the Schumann concerto with organ accompaniment; February 6, John Cushing, organist, will render the entire program; February 13, Miss Cooke, pianist, will play the Rubinstein concerto; February 20, Aurelio Giorni, pianist, will give a Chopin concerto; February 27, Mr. Garzia will play the Tschaikowsky concerto. Everybody is welcome and doors open at one o’clock.
Bloom Sings “Messiah” at Newburgh.
“The honors of the evening went to Beatrice Bloom of New York, who sang the soprano solos in ‘The Messiah.’ ” So says the Newburgh Daily News of January 9 with reference to a performance of the oratorio at Trinity. Methodist Church, a choir of one hundred voices being under the leadership of John W. Nichols, tenor, who also sang solos. Alice Mertins, alto, and Andrea Sarto, bass, assisted.
Kitty Beale Scores in Opera and Concert
Kitty Beale, the charming coloratura soprano shown in the accompanying photograph, began her studies for an
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