February 9, 19 22 SAN CARLO OPERA APPEARS IN OMAHA “Tales of Hoffmann” and “Aida” Given—Virginia Rea and Elias Breeskin in Joint Recital Omaha, Neb:, January 10, 1922,—The San Carlo Grand Opera Company played a one day’s engagement here, January 2, producing the “Tales of Hoffmann” in the afternoon and “Aida” in the evening. The local public was very cordial in its reception of the San Carlo forces, praising the general excellence of the performances, and giving high tribute of appreciation to the merits of the individual artists. Ernesto Knoch conducted both performances. Virginia Rea and Elias Breeskin in Recital. On the afternoon of January 9, a joint recital was given at the Brandee’s Theater by Virginia Rea, coloratura soprano, and Elias Breeskin, violinist. Miss Rea’s numbers included the waltz song from “Romeo and Juliet,” Bishop’s “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark,” the “Norwegian Echo Song,” and a number of shorter songs, notable among which were Pergolese’s “Nina,” “L’Heure Exquise,” by Hahn, and “Solveig’s Song” by Grieg. Miss Rea disclosed^ a light but agreeable voice, very fluent and accurate in florid passages, and capable of effective use in flowing melody as well. Mr. Breeskin was heard in Wieniawski’s favorite D minor concerto, the same composer’s “Souvenir de Moscow,” and shorter numbers by Kriesler, Sarasate and others. Mr. Breeskin’s virile, straightforward style, his expressive tone and well developed technic, brought him applause and numerous recalls. Indeed, the artist was impelled to add three extra numbers after one group. Joseph Bonime furnished the piano accompaniments. Notes. Adelyn Wood and Dorothy Morton appeared in a two-pjano recital before the Omaha Society of Fine Arts recently. These two young women have specialized in two-piano playing for a number of years and have achieved an enviable ensemble. James S. Colvin presented his pupil, Helen Gerin, in a piano recital at the First Central Congregational Church recently. Henrietta Rees, musical editor of the Omaha Bee, left last week for an extended tour of Egypt and other Mediterranean countries. Emily Cleve presented Samuel Carmell in a violin recital last month. J. P. D. Alice Moncrieff Active Alice Moncrieff, American contralto, was presented by the Missouri Club at the Congress of States dinner, at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, on January 12. She sang the State song, “Missouri,” by Julie Stevens Bacon, and “Answer,” by Alfred Robyn, tenor, who was at the piano. Miss Moncrieff displayed a beautiful voice and was enthusiastically received. She is being booked for a southern tour, one of the principal concerts being at Chatam, Va., where she will be the feature artist at the Episcopal Institute on February 13. February 6 she was the soloist for the Woman’s Club of Caldwell, N. J. Miss Moncrieff’s activities are not confined alone to the states, as she is being booked for a spring tour in Nova Scotia with Marion Armstrong, the Scotch-Canadian soprano. Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest Here March 4 The University Glee Club of New York City is sponsoring the Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest to be held at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening, March 4. The University Glee Club will sing a group of songs and join with the contestants in the singing of Kremser’s “Prayer of Thanksgiving,” with four hundred male voices. The clubs entering will be from Amherst, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, New York University, Pennsylvania State, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. MUSICAL COURIER tween Buffalo and Rochester, and this was her first public appearance here. She is an artist of experience, having studied binder the great Marcel Tourneur, and was at one time a member of the Salzedo Harp Ensemble. She played theme and variations by Tourneur, a ballade by Zabel, a French folk song and Faure’s “Song without Words,” closing with Hasselman’s “Priere.” The .assisting artist was Mildred Davis Lewis, contralto of Rochester, who has come into prominence. She sang “My Heart Is Weary” from Goring Thomas’ “Nadeschda,” a group of songs, and the Bach-Gounod “Ave Maria,” the last with Miss Johnson playing a harp accompaniment. The approach of the first term’s close of the Eastman School of Music finds a completeness of organization and a progress in musical development that has surprised even the officers and teachers of the school. The student body has acquired a definite college spirit, which is finding expression in organizations and activities of a sort common to educational institutions, and has even started some sentiment in favor of athletics. Two months age the Students’ Association was formed with 120 members, the entire number of four-year course students at the school, special students not belonging. A meeting is held once a month in the assembly room, while a musical program is presented by students and usually by one member of the faculty.. These concerts are followed by dancing. Another feature is “The Note Book,” a weekly publication managed entirely by the students. This began as a simple folder, then grew a little until it reached the size of eight pages. Plans are well under way for the formation of a glee club and a choral club. They hope to present cantatas and oratorios under direction of Oscar Gareissen, teacher of voice and conductor of the Festival Chorus. ..... The work of construction on the school is rapidly nearing competition and it is expected that Kilbourn Hall, which will be the spacious public auditorium and also the home of the great organ that is being installed, will be in readiness before the new semester is far advanced. Joseph Bonnet will be the instructor of organ at the school. His coming is regarded as a matter of great musical importance_ to Rochester in view of his place among the world’s organists and because his work as teacher will necessarily mean that he will be heard frequently in public. As the great organ is in Kilbourn Hall, it is expected that much of his work of instruction will be in the nature of recitals to which the public will be invited. Director Alf Klingenberg of the school is preparing an elaborate program to celebrate the opening of Kilbourn Hall, the date for which cannot yet be definitely fixed. Notes. Three members of the Chromatic Club of Buffalo came to Rochester on December 20 for a recital in return for one given in Buffalo by three members of the Rochester Tuesday Musicale. They were Lillian Hawley Gearhart, pianist; Ruth Van Leuven, soprano, and Ethyol McMullen, accompanist. On December 21 George MacNab, Florence Alexander, Roslyn Weisberg and Ruth Northrup, all pupils of Raymond Wilson in piano, gave a recital in the Eastman School that indicated a notable advancement in technic and artistic in-sight. The Calvin College Quartet of Grand Rapids, Mich., gave a concert in the Christian Reformed Church on December 22. The Columbia University Glee and Mandolin Clubs gave a concert in the ballroom of the Hotel Seneca before a fashionable audience on the evening of January 2. H. W. S. 66 NEW SIDE-LIGHTS ADDED TO EASTMAN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Danise a Master of Intricacies Giuseppe Danise, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is also a clever mechanic. His greatest delight, i׳---- -r----, r . r • . -_____״״״:*.״ in his few moments between performances and rehearsals, to appreciate the better class 0 1 , .... ־ . , .' js to master the intricacies of some piece of machinery. Only an idealist nke Mr. Mannes w g y g Recently he- gave a mimeograph operator a merry half- Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert The fourth concert of the season given by David Mannes and his excellent orchestra was given before another record-breaking audience in the large auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Saturday evening, January 28. Mr. Mannes has trained his orchestra in rhythmic precision and tonal balance to a high point of perfection, which is the more surprising because of the fact that it has only been in existence a very short time. It is a pleasure to see a conductor put his entire heart and soul into his work as does Mr. Mannes. One rarely encounters such sincerity. His reading of Tschaikowsky’s symphony No 6 (“Pathétique”) embodied musicianship, fire and pathos. He is doing a noble work in educating the masses In: Addition to Music, Students Show Interest in Social and Athletic Affairs—Josef Hofmann’s Program— St. Olaf Choir Delights Rochester, N. Y., January 21, 1922,—Two notable musical events marked the week of January 16 in Rochester, recitals both by Josef Hofmann and Fritz Kreisler, in Convention Hall. The former appeared in the James E. Furlong series and the latter in the Ellis series, of which Arthur M. See is local manager, and both artists were greeted by capacity audiences. Hofmann, who appeared on January 1/, came here immediately following his first recital of the season m New York City, and his program included some of the numbers that he played in Carnegie Hall, including a Chopm group and Tschaikowsky’s A major valse, Sternbergs Etude de Concert״ in C minor, **Birds з/t Dawn by Fannie Dillon, and Liszt’s “Don Juan” fantasy. Demands for encores followed, each group. ; : Coates and the New York Symphony. The first important concert of the new year, in Convention Hall, brought the New York Symphony Orchestra, with Albert Coates as guest conductor, on January 9, and with Mabel Garrison as soloist. For Mr. Coates^ there was. an effusive greeting. This was the orchestras second appearance of the season, with J. E. buriong series. There was some disappointment because the orchestra departed from the original plan of playing a Brahms concerto and substituted the Rimsky-Korsa-koff symphonic suite, “Scheherazade,” as more appropriate to the holiday season. The consensus of opinion however, seemed to regard this substitution with considerable satisfaction. The orchestra gave one of the most brilliant performances of the “Scheherazade that has ever been heard here. Miss Garrison won hearty applause with her beautiful singing of the “Non Paventar aria from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute, and Una Voce Poco Fa” from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville. The St. Olaf Choir. One of the most delightful concerts of its kind in years was given by the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir, on January 11 in Convention Hall. The perfection of 1this .ms«mble w ith difficult sacred music dating back to the Middle Ages, its remarkable adherence to pitch and tempo without any accompaniment and its abso ute obedience to the will of the conductor, F. Melius Christiansen, amazed the audience which showed its appreciation. The concert was given under direction of Lutheran churches of Rochester and was heard by an audience of good size, notwithstanding that a blizzard was raging. At the Eastman School. The third recital in the series at Nazareth Academy, bv members of the faculty of the Eastman School of MusTc was given on January 16 by Raymond Wilson, p-anist, and Mrs. Rae Potter Roberts, contralto. Mr. Wilson came to Rochester last autumn from Syracuse, where he had been piano instructor _ and assistant super-visor of music in Syracuse University. He is an experienced and skillful recitalist. He played a Chopin gfoup, a Beethoven sonata and “The Lark” by Glinka-Balakireff an impromptu by Faure, and an etude m form of a waltz bv Saint-Saëns Mrs. Roberts, who is one of the best known Of Rochester contraltos, sang “My Heart at Thy Sweet1 Voice” (“Samson and Delilah”) and a group of S°The Tuesday Musicale presented on the evening of January 6 the Flonzaley Quartet m its first appearance here in many years. The Baptist Temple held a good sized audience and the quartet delighted as it always has. Two extra numbers were played-the “Nocturne’ from Boro-dine’s second or D major quartet and a Rimsky-Korsakoff arrangement ot a Ukranian folk song. . . • Another new addition to Rochester s musical population through the faculty of the Eastman school is Lucile Johnson teacher of harp, who appeared in recital on December 28 the first of a series under the direction of St Monica s Church for the benefit of residents of the Southwest section of the city. Miss Johnson has been alternating be- hour with a series of questions on the operation of his instrument. Mr. Danise’s early legal training makes him an expert cross-examiner. Macmillen with Cleveland Symphony Following a recital in Baltimore on March 17, Francis Macmillen, who is now on a southern tour, will appear as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, under Nikolai Sokoloff, at Cleveland on March 23 and 25. Mr. Macmillen will play the Goldmark concerto. EARLE LAROS **The Pianist with a Message'* Educational Recitals Address: ,MISS JEAN WISWELL. 437 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. time to so worthy a cause. The program in its entirety comprised : Overture, William Tell.............................. Rossini Symphony No. 6 Pathétique........................Tschaikowsky Symphonic Poem, The Wheel of Omphale...............Saint-Saëns (In memoriam. The composer died December 16, 1921) Theme and variations from the quartet in A major....Beethoven Sounds of the Forest from Siegfried...................Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde The second series of orchestral concerts conducted by David Mannes will be given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday evenings, March 4, 11, 18 and 25. Rosalie Miller to Sing in Opera Abroad Rosalie Miller is to sing this month at the Royal Theater in Liege, Belgium, under the baton of Henri Cassadesus. She will probably sing in “Faust” (Marguerite) and “Thais.” sTTmmY^s corner New Ballads-thests.״gabl־m>