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the spacious auditorium of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club. The artists were Clayton Johnson, dean of the Conservatory of Music of Puget Sound College; Mrs. Percy James Starke, soprano, and Henri Klingenfeld, violinist. Mr. Johnson played with brilliancy. Mrs. Starke charmed her audience with the quality of her singing. Marked applause greeted Henri Klingenfeld, whose playing is artistic. It is of interest to know that his violin is a Washington product, having been made by a Washington man, and consists of native white cedar, and Mr. Klingenfeld prefers it to his other finer violins. Accompanying were Beatrice McHaney and May Ella Cook.
The St. Cecelia Club tea was largely attended and introduced Agnes Neilsen Skartvedt, contralto whose voice of warm, rich tone quite captured her audience. Her songs were two arias and a group of Norwegian lyrics, in which the charm of her voice was greatest. The second tea of the St. Cecelia Club presented Mrs. James Eyre MacPherson, soprano, who is singing again after two years’ special study. Her voice, brilliant and clear, has new pianissimo effects which are lovely. She was accompanied by Pauline Endres. Janet Chalmers, a pianist of reputation and a pupil of Paul Pierre McNeeley, was heard in several numbers and showed marked progress in her art.
Expression of the best music, in a choral sense, is usually expected of the Orpheus Club by music lovers, and the auditorium of the First Christian Church was filled. This popular male chorus, under the direction of John M. Sprague and assisted by Jane Burns Albert, of Portland, Ore., again won the admiration of Tacoma music patrons. Mrs. Albert’s clear lyric soprano voice gave distinct pleasure. Irene Hampton accompanied.
The Christmas Song and Story Hour for Children was enthusiastically attended. The tenor and bass voices were explained. Mrs. George Duncan pointed out the difference between them. Charles H. Shons, tenor, and Edwin Cook, bass, presented solo and duet numbers with Mrs. E. L. Davis at the piano. Robert Flack gave piano selections. Mrs. Frederick W. Hoyt, of Puyallup, was story teller of the day.
The University of Washington Glee Club of thirty-two men sang at the Stadium High School December 27. Dean Irving M. Glen is director. This glee club is fast acquiring a reputation as being one of the best singing aggregations that has represented the university in years. The violin sextet made a decided hit and had to be repeated.
The large chorus choir of the First Presbyterian Church did not give “The Messiah” this year, as has been the custom, but gave a modern cantata entitled “The Morn of Glory,” by F. W. Peace. It abounds in beautiful choruses as well as solo numbers, and the choir under the direction of J. W. Bixel quite excelled its former performances, B. F. Welty at the organ and Ethel Smith, pianist. Mrs. Donald D. Dilts, soprano; Mrs. W. J. Craig, contralto;
were the eager listeners gathered to the middle of the stage in the big overflow that took up every foot of space. Zim-balist is the same artist who first charmed us, and his own arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s “Coq d’ Or” was very interesting, scholarly, broad and full of tonal beauty. Mme. Gluck charmed with her magnetic personality, together with a graceful presence. Both artists were generous with encores, and were delightfully responsive to the enthusiasm of the immense audience.
The announcement of a prize of one hundred dollars to be given by L. E. Behymer, the impresario, for the best lyrics for a state song, brought thirteen poems. The best was from the pen of a northern writer, Mary Lenox. Mr. Behymer is also offering an additional hundred dollars for a musical setting for the words. If only one of our southland writers would be a successful contestant we would have a truly representative state song.
Mrs. Cecil Frankel, who is head of the extension department of the National Federation of Music Clubs, will leave this month for a tour of the United States. She will visit all the principal cities and speak before numerous music clubs. Mrs. Frankel will be the principal speaker at important conferences to be held in New York, Detroit, Chicago and Boston.
Frieda Peycke, composer of musical readings, has had a full schedule during this month, singing her compositions at the Alhambra, Corona, Culver City, and before many clubs here in Los Angeles.	J. W.
TACOMA NEWS NOTES
Tacoma, Wash., January 17, 1922.—An enthusiastic audience of civilians, soldiers and officers of Camp Lewis greeted our beloved Schumann-Heink. The Tacoma Theater was packed to the doors and many were turned away. Even the Stadium seating capacity would have been taxed as always when Mother Schumann, as she calls herself to us, appears.
John Philip Sousa, of whom nothing but praises may be sung, was received here at two performances with thunderous applause.
Two “Fortnightly Concerts” of the Ladies’ Musical Club have been given. The first included vocal numbers by Justine Shannon Black, contralto, whose voice of pleasing quality was heard to great advantage in her chosen numbers. Mrs. Sherman L. Jonas was the pianist for the afternoon and displayed a quality of depth and technic. A beautiful song cycle, “Pagoda of Flowers,” by Amy Woodford Finden, was a fitting climax. Mrs. Neal McEachern, soprano; Mrs. Lincoln Gault, contralto; Frank S. Baker, tenor; Hiram Tuttle, baritone, composed the quartet of singers, accompanied by May Ella Cook and introduced by Mrs. George Duncan, reader. Mrs. Gault’s rich contralto voice was especially suited to the score and she sang with understanding. The second concert was a matinee program given in
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Reception Is Tendered Miura—Parlow with Orchestra— Gluck and Zimbalist Draw—Woman Wins Prize for Best Lyric for California State Song
Los Angeles, Cal., January 25, 1922.—With several new stars and as many well known favorites, the San Carlo Opera Company offered opera lovers many attractions during its stay here. Graceful and lovely, both in voice and appearance, Anna Fitziu again charmed as she did last season, and the opening opera gave this artist an opportunity to gain fresh laurels as Tosca. Mario Valle, another favorite, renewed his position in the estimation of the public, and Agostini won much applause, as did also Cervi and Biasi. The tiny Japanese prima donna, Tamaki Miura, gave her wonderfully realistic performance of “Madame Butterfly.” The new singers were Bianca Saroya, soprano, who was heard in “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “La Forza del Destino; Sofia Charlebois, soprano, who sang in “Pag-liacci”; Nina Frascani, mezzo soprano, who sang the title role in “Carmen”; Josephine Lucchese, coloratura, in “Tales of Hoffman” and as Micaela in “Carmen,” and Anita Kli-nova, who appeared in a number of operas. The men were notably Joseph Royer, baritone; Romeo Bascacci, tenor, and Gaetano Tommasini, tenor, who gave excellent account of themselves. Mr. Behymer and Fortune Gallo earned a sincere tribute of gratitude for the excellence of the singers and the pleasurable performances.
Tamaki Miura, a great favorite, was honored at a large reception given at the Bryson Apartments, where friends and members of the Wa Wan Club and all the notables of the Japanese, colony assembled to pay their respects to the diminutive soprano. Mme. Miura enjoyed the program presented by well known artists for her entertainment and was all graciousness.
A woman violinist is not often heard as a symphony soloist. Kathleen Parlow was a great attraction, not only to the violinists of the city, but also to the musical people in general, and a fine audience greeted her at both the afternoon and evening concerts. Miss Parlow played the Mendelssohn concerto in E minor, displaying a full and vigorous tonal quality and a clean cut technic. Her musi-cianly interpretation and the sympathetic orchestral support aroused enthusiasm and she was recalled numberless times. Glazounoff’s fourth symphony, in E flat, was rendered by the orchestra here for the first time and won great praise. The prelude to “Die Meistersinger” was also superbly played under Mr. Rothwell’s enthusiastic direction.
Packing the Auditorium as only a McCormack or a Schumann-Heink audience can fill it, Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist had barely “standing room” for themselves, so closely
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