March 2, 1922
MME. KATHRYN MEISTE,
contralto, has ־been singing “Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses” during her present concert tour. On February 3 it was featured in her recital program in St. Joseph, Mo., where she was soloist for the “Star Series.” She has also included it for her recital on May 20 at the Ann Arbor festival. Another evidence of the great popularity of this ballad from the house of T. B. Harms, Inc.
Another Delightful Gowen Musicale
Mr. and Mrs. William Cowen (Mrs. Sada Cowen) are well known among musicians for the delightful musicales they frequently hold in their home, when they present young artists of unusual talent as well as artists of established reputation. On Sunday evening, February 26, the Norfleet Trio, Sue Harvard, soprano, and Herman Was-sermann, all exceptionally gifted American artists, were heard at the Cowen home in an intimate recital. The Norfleet Trio is composed of two sisters and a brother—Helen, Catherine and Leeper Norfleet—playing piano, violin and cello respectively. They gave a spirited and beautiful performance of the Schubert trio in B flat. The individual members show excellent technic, and their appreciation of ensemble work is admirable. The tonal work, the interpretation and musical insight speak well for the training of these young artists. Later they played “The Little Shepherd,” from Debussy’s “The Children’s Corner,” with simplicity and lovely tone coloring, and Grainger’s “Molly on the Shore” was given with excellent rhythm, accent and spontaneity. This trio has been selected by Mrs. Hall, national chairman of the junior department of the Federation of Music Clubs, for a tour throughout the country in a series of concerts.
Sue Harvard,_ who is known as an intelligent and satisfying soprano, impressed all with her truly artistic singing and charm of personality. Her first group of songs included an aria from Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro”; an old^ Italian pastoral by Veruccini; “Separazioni,” by Sgam-bati; an Old English air, “Shepherd, Thy Demeanor Vary,” and “Hallelujah,” by Hummel. The last two songs illustrated very aptly Miss Harvard’s versatility. The Old English air revealed a soprano voice of delicate beauty and remarkable flexibility, while the “Hallelujah” disclosed volume and power and a breadth of style, the tone quality in both instances being beautiful. Regardless of the type of song, or the technical demands, there is such complete control of the vocal organs that she is able to give herself over entirely to interpretation, and in her interpretations there is always sincerity, intelligence and sympathy. Her second group consisted of “A des Oiseaux,” Hue; “Bauer-lein,” Taubert; “Gute Nacht,” Reiman; “Song of the Bride,” Rimsky-Korsakoff, and “The Answer,” Terry. The “Song of the Bride” was very expressively sung (unaccompanied), with finely spun tones and a depth of feeling. Miss Harvard was excellently accompanied by Ethel Watson Usher.
Herman Wassermann added to the enjoyment of the program by playing a group of piano solos—two by Go-dowsky (with whom he studied), one by Rachmaninoff, and one of his .own compositions. He has a fine tone quality, splendid technic and poetic feeling.
D’Alvarez to Visit Havana
Marguerite D’Alvarez has been engaged by the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical for three recitals in the National Theater, Havana, Cuba, in February, 1923. She has also been reengaged by T. Arthur Smith, Inc., for “The Ten Star Series” in Washington, D. C., for February S next.
To Augusta Gottlow
An Acrostic
A spirit fair illumines with a grace Untold each lovely, noble lineament Given her by faithful nature; here are blent Unstudied, sweet repose of form and face, Sympathy and sprightliness—each giving place To each, when all her glowing thought is bent,
A soul to waken from that instrument.
Chosen by her in which to evoke in space,
On dream foundations, edifices most rare
That tower toward Heaven and teach the vibrant air
To echo back to magic of her power
Life’s passions, hopes and joys, till in an hour ,
Of rapture she has led us up the height
Where her unfettered spirit dwells 'in light.
MUSICAL COURIER
Lydia Lindgren is recovering from a severe attack of influenza.
Emma Thursby’s Friday afternoon musical receptions are over for this season.
Harry Samuels will go abroad with Sevcik for further study at the Prague Conservatory.
The New York Symphony Orchestra gave a dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler.
Mina Dolores will give a song recital in Philadelphia on March 16.
Albert Coates made his final appearance of the season on February 26 at the New York Symphony concerts.
Edwin Franko Goldman has dedicated his “Caruso March” to the late tenor.
Muzio will have the title role in “Loreley” when it is produced at the Metropolitan on Saturday.
A great Handel festival is planned for the coming spring at Halle, the composer’s birthplace.
Hans Hess will hold summer classes in Chicago in the art of cello playing.
Leo Berdichevsky, accompanist and coach, is opening a studio in New York.
The Winnipeg Male Voice Choir will begin its first American tour on March 10.
Clara Novello Davies believes that vocalizing is unnecessary in the study of voice.
Three symphony orchestras appeared on one program at Carnegie Hall last Monday evening.
David Samuels has opened a new musical bureau in New York.
Florence Macbeth, coloratura soprano, is on tour filling sixty concert engagements.
Beginning May 1, Amy Ellerman will be contralto soloist at the First Presbyterian Church.
The Women’s Symphony Orchestra, of Philadelphia, gave a successful concert in Chester, February 14.
May Mukle, cellist, who recently completed another American tour, has returned to England.
Marguerite D’Alvarez will sing in Havana, Cuba, in February, 1923.
Fred Patton was re-engaged for the third time within a year by the Community Chorus of the Oranges, N. J.
Alfred Mirovitch will make twelve appearances on the Coast this month.
The King of Italy recently signed a decree naming David Mannes Knight of the Crown of Italy.
Clara Butts Vancouver concert began at 11 o’clock at night and was given before a capacity audience.
A new film as well as a song (Vanderpool) has been based on Hutchinson’s novel, “If Winter Comes.” G. N.
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I SEE THAT
Richard Strauss collected $4,000 while in America for the Mozart Festivals in Salzburg.
In May of this year Budapest will have a music festival devoted principally to modern compositions.
Kathryn Meisle is booked for three song recitals in Canada.
The Friedrich Theater (formerly the Court Theater, in Dessau, Germany) has been destroyed by fire.
Magdeleine Du Carp, the French pianist, sailed for Europe on February 11.
The Caruso American Memorial Foundation has been approved as an incorporated body by Justice Bijur.
Muratore was given an ovation last Thursday evening when he sang with the Chicago Opera for the first time since his illness.
Dukas, Ravel and Pierne, French composers, have been elected members of the Royal Academy of Stockholm.
Heinrich Reinhardt, Viennese light opera composer, died recently.
Leipsic and Berlin are seriously worried over the question of Nikisch’s successor.
Sara Stein, artist pupil of Giuseppe Boghetti, will be heard in recital in Philadelphia March 8.
It is rumored that Richard Strauss will be the director of a new conservatory in Vienna.
The International Tours, Inc., has signed Raisa and Rimini for thirty concerts in 1923 in Australia.
Giovanni Verga, the author of the story on which Mascagni’s “Cavalleria” is based, is dead.
Augusta Cottlow has left on her third tour for this season.
“Pagliacci” in a condensed version was acted as a pantomime in Berlin.
Emilio A. Roxas has been complimented by Sevcik as an excellent accompanist.
The Chicago Opera gave twenty-four operas during its stay in New York.
Walter Damrosch has returned from an eight weeks’ trip to Europe.
Jeanne Laval’s recent concert appearance in Detroit resulted in a re-engagement.
On May 1 John Campbell will start his fourteenth year as tenor soloist at the Marble Collegiate Church.
Dr. Dickinson has concluded his historical Bach concerts at Union Theological Seminary.
The Letz Quartet was metamorphosed into a quintet, then a sextet, at its last New York concert.
Yeatman Grifflth Artist
Scores Sensational Success^ 1 'hrough-o_ut^ the Country
Re-nigaged^ for Ne Xt Season
HAZEL HUNTINGTON Prima Donna Coloratura Soprano
HAZEL HUNTINGTON, who has toured the country this season as Prima Donna in Wade Hinshaw’s production of Mozart’s “Impresario,”
Hinshaw for the entire season of 1922-1923.
has been engaged by Mr.
Yeatman Griffith has been Miss Huntington’s sole Master for the past five seasons and her success has been remarkable. The press has been unanimous in its praise as shown by the following notices:
“Miss Huntington has a beautiful and correctly trained voice, and her difficult part demanded the utmost. Her highest notes were reached with ease, and delivered with a rounded flowing smoothness that was a joy to hear. Her trills and cadenzas were lovely, and the middle register of her voice was equally satisfying.”
voice of bird-like quality and does the most difficult pyrotechniques
“Miss Huntington has of vocalism with ease.”
“Her cadenzas were delightful; her voice is one of genuine melody, sweet and true.”
“Miss Huntington has quite as beautiful a voice as has ever been heard here. Her high singing was little less than marvelous. Her cadenzas were as perfect as the trills of a lark. Every note was full and round and meanful.”
“Miss Hazel Huntington as Dorothea Uhlic captivated her audience with the first tones of her rich voice. Such technic, such ease with which the florid passages were rendered surpassed the best that has been done in New Bern in a decade.”
“Miss Huntington won the hearts of all at once, both by her clever acting and her beautiful voice, which she used with consummate art. There is only one way to sing correctly, though often attained by different paths. She has acquired it. Her notes are silvery in their roundness and sweetness, and an intelligent union of low resonance with the higher register, so often not understood, was a delight to her hearers. The embellishments so characteristic of Mozart were charmingly given.”
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