March 9 , 1922
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Woman s College, ill a manner which won such enthusiastic ap-plause as to recall the pianist time and again.
Mr. Hughes demonstrated a dazzling dexterity in the rhythms of a Czerny etude in B flat, following with a decided contrast in the noetic delicacy of his touch in the melody from “Orfeo” by Gluck. To round out the exposition of his technic he closed the first group with the “Perpetuum Mobile” by Weber, playing as an encore the ballet music from Schubert’s “Rosamunde.” The second group was made up entirely of Chopin compositions, all of which he interpreted in a lucid style.
Music of a more modern nature was found in the third group, particularly in the mood pictures by Fannie Dillon, “The Desert” and “Birds at Dawn,” but it was the David Guion arrangement of
EDWIN HUGHES,
Pianist.
the old reel, “Turkey in the Straw,” which won the most applause and caused the pianist to repeat the number.
To the prolonged applause which greeted Liszt’s “Sonetto del I etrarca, No. 104, and Mr. Hughes’s own “Concert Paraphrase on the Wiener Blut’ Waltz of Strauss” at the end of the program, the pianist responded with Homer Grunn’s “Zuni Indian Rain Dance” and a Chopin waltz.—Lynchburg, Va., News, February 14,
Edwin Hughes, the noted American pianist, played an interesting program in a delightful way to a very enthusiastic audience at the Lucy Cobb Institute, Thursday evening. Mr. Hughes has a clear, brilliant touch and his interpretations were excellent. He delves into the piano literature and brings forth selections that are not often played. His interpretation of a Czerny etude was inspiring, and the “Rain Dance,” by Homer Grunn, was so delightful that it had to be repeated. His rhythm is especially attractive, and was charming in the Chopin mazurkas and his own arrangement of the Strauss “Wiener Blut” waltz. The entire program was interesting and splendidly rendered.—Athens, Ga., Herald, February 19, 1922.
NEW YORK CONCERTS
Thursday, March 9
Symphony Society of New York, afternoon. .Carnegie Hall
Philharmonic Orchestra, evening ..............Carnegie	Hall
Amy Grant, opera recital, morning..............Aeolian	Hall
Theodore Kittay, song recital, evening.........Aeolian	Hall
Els Butler, song recital, evening.................Town	Hall
Friday, March 10
Philharmonic Orchestra, afternoon ............Carnegie	Hall
Symphony Society of New York, evening_________Carnegie	Hall
Ethyl Hayden, song recital, afternoon..........Aeolian	Hall
Rosing, song recital, evening .................Aeolian	Hall
Victor Golibart, song recital, afternoon..........Town	Hall
Saturday, March 11
Maria Ivogun, song recital, afternoon.........Carnegie	Hall
Pietro Yon, organ recital, afternoon...........Aeolian	Hall
Maurice Dambois, cello recital, evening........Aeolian	Hall
David Mannes’ Orchestra,.evening,
Metropolitan Museum of Art Sunday March 12
Philharmonic Orchestra, afternoon.............Carnegie	Hall
Symphony Society of New York, afternoon.. .Aeolian Hall
Society of the Friends of Music, afternoon......Town	Hall
Hortense Nielson, evening ........................Town	Hall
Robert Murray, song recital, evening............Hippodrome
Frederic Warren Ballad Concert, evening..Selwyn Theater Monday, March 13
Manfred Malkin, piano recital, evening........Carnegie	Hall
Beethoven Association, evening ................Aeolian	Hall
Margaret Nikolaric, piano recital, afternoon____Town	Hall
Tuesday, March 14 Philharmonic Orchestra, evening,
Metropolitan Opera House
Philadelphia Orchestra, evening...............Carnegie	Hall
Louis Dornay, song recital, afternoon..........Aeolian	Hall
Jerome Rappaport, piano recital, evening.......Aeolian	Hall
Wednesday, March 15
Morton Harris, song recital, evening............Town Hall
Thursday, March 16
Boston Symphony Orchestra, evening............Carnegie	Hall
Max and Sergei Kotlarsky. evening..............Aeolian	Hall
People's Chorus of New York, evening..............Town	Hall
Macmillen to Play in Baltimore
brands Macmillen will give a recital at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore on March 17.
aunt who brought him up, and his two daughters, Ariane, sixteen years old and Marina, ten years old. The children are both gifted, the younger already shows remarkable talent for drawing. The entire family except the grandmother has had typhus. The family had permission to go to Belgium, but the mother is too ill to be moved.
The Soviet Government have been allowing them the academic pavok (ration), which is better than the ordinary allowance, but insufficient to sustain the family. Only the sickroom is heated, the Scriabins having lately received a small ration of wood from the Government. Mrs. Scriabin wants it known that the Soviet Government has done much for her and her family, that they were freely supplied with the best medical attention Russia affords; but they have been ill so long, are so enfeebled and in such distress _ that she would be glad to receive assistance from her husband’s friends in America. She tells me her husband loved the American public and he felt that nowhere did his work meet with greater understanding.
The Soviet Government allows the family to live in the Scriabin home, which friends have organized into a museum and which contains his work room, his piano and many portraits painted by the famous Pasternack.
Miss Goldman suggests that contributions for the Scriabin family might be sent through the Lithuanian Consul, Yourgias Baltrou-chaitis, Ministre Resident de -------—----;-----------:----- la Mission Lithuaine, Moscow. Russia, who will acknowledge them and personally convey them to Mrs. Scriabin.
Edwin Hughes in the South
Echoes of the exceptional success of Edwin Hughes’ recent southern tour, which took him to Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, may be found in the following press reviews:
Edwin Hughes, American pianist, appeared before a splendid audience of representative music lovers last night. This was the tlurd and last of the course of concerts given by the Bristol Artists’ Club. It must be said that the course this year has been a glorious one from start to finish. Too much cannot be said of the intelligent nearing that the Bristol public has given the superb artists who have been here this year.
i	draHaticTv a,rtistic and refined playing has seldom been
heard than Mr. Hughes gave us last night. The program chosen by the pianist gave him opportunity to display his many superior qualities. Mr. Hughes has a clean cut, precise, brilliant technic, and the true bravura dash of the virtuoso. He also has a sweet, sing-mg, and again a full, virile tone, into which he puts all kinds of shades and colors, all of which makes him a thoroughly satisfying artist. As an interpreter Mr. Hughes is soul-stirring, for he can be po;tic, dramatic or romantic at will. The fantasie of Chopin, a tremendous tone poem, was given a wonderful performance by Mr. Hughes, which alone stamped him as one of the great ones of his profession.
Mention should also be made of the pianist’s own transcription jFe Strauss “Wiener Blut” waltz, which was played in a most brilliant fashion. Another of the many especially praiseworthy features of his playing is his use of the pedal. He pedals with his head and heart, thereby making the pedal the soul of the piano. In fact he is the scholar in everything he does, and the occasion of his recital stands out as one of the high-water marks of Bristol’s musical doings.
Mr. Hughes was recalled many times after each group, and generously added three encores, besides repeating one of the program numbers.—Bristol, Tenn., Herald Courier, February 16, 1922.
A program of piano music which ranged from a Gluck-Sgambati an• to a concert arrangement of “Turkey in the Straw” was played by Edwm Hughes, who appeared last night at the Randolph-Macon
White Photo HERMA MENTH AT THE CAPITOL THEATER.
Showing the great Capitol Theater all ablaze with lights when Henna Menth, pianist, nas soloist there for twenty-eight performances with the Capitol Orchestra of seventy-five
Z™uaTthry J' VT■ d!rectlnil■ MT Menth’s selections went the first and fourth move-aunts of the b flat Liszt concerto, bo tremendous was her success that it is reported the __________________artist will hare a return engagement soon.
Scriabin’s Widow in Need
A letter received in New \ork from Emma Goldman—
Wi JVV1 be recalleci> is an aunt of David Hochstein the splend;d young American violinist who gave his life for his country in the World War—tells of the unfortunate condition of the family of the famous Russian composer, the late Alexander Scriabin. Here is an extract from Miss Goldman’s letter:
The family now consists of five people. Mrs. Scriabin the widow of the composer, her mother, eighty years old; Scriabin’s
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