February 9, 1922
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MUSICAL COURIER
CAST OP SIXTY STUDENTS FROM ITHACA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, who successfully presented, under the direction of R. H. Richards, the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, ״The Mikado,” at the Lyceum Theater, Ithaca, N. Y., January 26 and 27.
with fine success (the Musical Courier published a flattering notice from a local paper at that time), and more recently giving a studio musicale, which was attended by prominent musical and society people of San Francisco.
Quoting the San Francisco Bulletin of recent date: “Miss Beardsley, who came from Nèw York not long ago, has made a success here with her music and has become popular socially. She has arranged a series of Lenten musicales to take place at the Maitland Theater. They will be given in the morning, will be small, and in the nature of private entertainments.”
NEW YORK CONCERTS
Thursday, February 9
Philharmonic Orchestra, evening...............Carnegie	Hall
Amy Grant, opera recital, morning.............Aeolian Hall
Ashley Pettis, piano recital, evening.........Aeolian Hall
Chicago, String Quartet, afternoon................Town	Hall
Paul Reimers, song recital, evening...........Town Hall
Friday, February 10
Philharmonic Orchestra, afternoon.............Carnegie	Hall
Don Fuchs, song recital, evening..............Carnegie	Hall
Joseph Schwarz, song recital, evening.........Aeolian Hall ^
Saturday, February 11
Josef Hofmann, piano recital, afternoon.......Carnegie	Hall
Percy Grainger, piano recital, afternoon.......Aeolian	Hall
Felian Garzia, piano recital, evening..........Aeolian	Hall
Sunday, February 12
Philharmonic Orchestra, afternoon.............Carnegie	Hall
Symphony Society of New York, afternoon.. .Aeolian	Hall
William Bachaus, piano recital, afternoon.........Town	Hall
Emil S. Eyer, song recital, evening...............Town	Hall
Galli-Curci, song recital, afternoon.___Met. Opera House
John McCormack, song recital, evening.........Hippodrome
Monday, February 13
Jascha Heifetz, violin recital, afternoon.....Carnegie	Hall
Paulist Choir, evening........................Carnegie	Hall
Beethoven Association, evening.................Aeolian	Hall
Helen Leveson, song recital, evening..............Town	Hall
Tuesday, February 14
Rachmaninoff, piano recital, evening..........Carnegie	Hall
Serge Prokofieff, piano recital, afternoon.....Aeolian	Hall
Ethel Hayden, song recital, evening............Aeolian	Hall
Philharmonic Orchestra, evening.........Met Opera House
Wednesday, February 15
Joseph Borissoff, violin recital, afternoon___Carnegie Hall
Bronislaw Huberman, violin recital, evening.. Carnegie Hall Margherita Valdi, song recital, afternoon.....Aeolian Hall
Inga Julievna Her Own Manager
Inga Julievna, Norwegian soprano, has decided to handle her own bookings for the balance of the season and therefore no longer is under the management of the J. H. Albert Musical Bureau. All inquiries should hereafter be addressed to Mme. Julievna’s secretary, Cathrine B. McGirr, 252 West Ninety-first street, New York.
ITHACA CONSERVATORY’S ANNUAL MID-WEEK EVENTS
THE BEST IN THE INSTITUTION’S LONG HISTORY
Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota sororities entertained at afternoon tea dances.	L. E. M.
Constance Beardsley in California
Constance Beardsley, pianist, is wintering in the land of sunshine, California. Her activity in the Motor Corps of America during the war will be recalled. The accom-
CONSTANCE BEARDSLEY, pianist, and her studio.
panying picture gives an idea of the entrance to her unique studio in San Francisco, as well as of the bright young pianist _ herself. She is very active there, having played the Grieg concerto with the Heller orchestra, November 6,
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1922—Two hundred pupils of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Associated Schools are receiving congratulations on the success of the annual mid-week events, which have just been concluded. It is said that the mid-week was the most successful since the Conservatory was founded in 1892.
Opening the eventful week’s program was the annual concert of the Conservatory orchestra, under the personal direction of Prof. Paul Stoeving, the organization scoring a well merited triumph and reflecting the, high standard to which Professor Stoeving has brought the orchestra. The soloists were Margaret Gerberich, soprano; Theresa Ellis, pianist, and Frances Ella Yontz, violinist, the last named being a graduate of the Leipsic Conservatory of Music and winner of the Otokar Sevcik master-scholarship at the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. On short notice she played the concerto in one movement for violin and orchestra, arranged by Professor Stoeving, and her rendition was one of the most brilliant accomplishments on the program.
Professor Sevcik was delighted with Professor Stoeving’s composition, saying: “It is wonderful, thoroughly violinistic, and warm hearted music, and ought to be heard in New York.”
The appreciative audience expressed enthusiastic approval of the orchestral program, declaring the organization to be the best that has represented the Ithaca Conservatory in many years.
Sharing honors with the music pupils was the presentation of “Little Women,” from Louisa M. Alcott’s well known book, by pupils, of the Williams School of Expression and Dramatic Art. They gave two splendid performances at the Lyceum Theater, the cast including George C. Williams, John Craig, Irene Nicholas, Evalina Lockwood, Laura Hinkley, Alice Neuman, Julia Vail, Ethel Wellington, Raymond Smith, Lester Sisson, LeRoy Hart and Dorothy Mae Newkirk. The play was directed by Thomas J. Kelly.
As the third mid-week event the pupils of the Ithaca School of Physical Education gave an interesting exhibition of athletic training, a resume of the first term of school work of the new school, under the direction of Dr. Albert H. Sharpe and his assistant, Elsie Hugger.
The concluding feature of an epochal week in the school history was the excellent performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, “The Mikado,” given twice at the Lyceum Theater, under the direction of R. H. Richards, head of the school’s department of public school music. There was a cast of sixty pupils in the revival which was splendidly sung, well costumed and delightfully staged. The part of Nanki-Poo was sung by Dr. Carl Howe, tenor; Poo-Bah, by Philip Oberg, who sang the role on short notice and scored a triumph with his brilliant work; Pish-Tush, by George Scott, and other roles, well sung, as follows: Ko-Ko, Everett Crawford; the Mikado, Harry Gretton; Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo, by Margaret Gerberich, Alice Brewer and Eleanor Dodd; attendant, Lester Sisson, and the role of Katisha, which was splendidly done by Katherine Hassler, contralto. There was a harmonious chorus of fifty pupils, who took the parts of Japanese school girls and nobles. Mr. Richards received numerous congratulations on the successful production. During the week the Mu Phi
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