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ested audience. Henri Czaplinski, a fine Polish violinist, has taken the first violin desk in place of Jan Hambourg, who is now in France. Boris Hambourg is still the cellist, and Albert Guerrero, as in the last three years, the pianist. A notable rendition of Schubert’s trio, op. 100, was the chief number. Beethoven's “Kreutzer” sonata followed, and both the pianist and violinist had plenty of opportunity for their finished art. Both played with genuine distinction. Mr. Czaplinski further delighted his hearers with a brilliant performance of Paganini’s concerto in D major. Eva Galloway gave splendid support in the accompaniment.
Rachmaninoff Fills Hall Rachmaninoff was here a week ago, and the great audience more than filled the huge Massey Hall, many being unable to gain admittance. Norman Withrow, the genial manager of Massey Hall, to whom we are indebted for the gifted Russian’s appearance, was delighted with the response of the Toronto public.
Harvey Robb’s Orchestra
In the City Temple services on Sunday evenings, the brilliant young pianist and conductor, Harvey Robb, conducts an orchestra of fifty-three players, which he has organized, and last Sunday, among other things, he gave a praiseworthy performance of Tschaikowsky’s “1812” overture.
Hofmann Enchants Audience.
Josef Hofmann’s postponed recital took place on February 13, and the eminent pianist never played better. His performances reveal the finest qualities, notably finish and refined phrasing. The large audience was enchanted and wanted more and still more.
Toronto Operatic Chorus Gives “Aida”
Verdi’s “Aida” was recently produced in oratorio form by the Toronto Operatic Chorus, under the direction of J. A. Carbon¡, who had carefully rehearsed the choruses and everything pertaining to its production, and it was presented before a large and appreciative audience in Massey Hall. The soloists were Rhadames, Redferne Hollingshead; Aida, Winnifred Lugrin-Fakey; Amneris, Louise Rickark; High Priestess, Isabel Jenkinson; Amonasro, Joseph O’Mera^; Ramphis.W. R. Curry; the King, I. Levine; Messenger, Harry Lightbown. Reginald Stewart furnished the orchestra. Sig. Carbon¡ disclosed a fine grasp of the music, and the combined effects obtained, more than justified its production even without action and scenery.
Marie Strong gave “An Evening with Edward Grieg.” Songs were sung by two or three of her artistic pupils, who showed the excellence of their training.
The cause of music has been greatly strengthened in Toronto by a series of concerts financed by the Toronto Daily Star, which are being given once a week in the outlying districts more or less remote from centers like Massey Hall. Augustus Bridle, an enthusiastic journalist and critic, conducts these, and the admirable way in which he impresses certain musical effects on the large audiences by talks and lantern slides, the vocal element in the audiences either singing or counting to the meter and rhythm of tunes he plays, is stimulating and entertaining. The. latter part of the program is given by the best local soloists, both vocal and instrumental, and the admission is free.	W. O. F.
Club, at Mt. Vernon for the Westchester Women’s Club, and at Flushing for the Orpheus Club, this last being a reengagement.
Althouse Pleases Walla Walla
Walla Walla, Wash., January 28, 1922.—On January 23, in the High School here, Paul Althouse, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, assisted by Rudolph Gruen, pianist, made his appearance in a concert that was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience. Mr. Althouse was in excellent voice and gave much pleasure. His program follows:	“Enfant si j’etais roi” (Cui), “Le sais-tu” (Mas-
senet), “Un doux lien” (Delbrück), “Le Chevalier Belle-Etoile” (Holmes), “Celeste Aida” from “Aida” (Verdi), “The Phantom Ships” (Rudolph Gruen), “All In a Lily-White Gown” (Easthope Martin), “A Page’s Road Song” (Ivor Novello), “The Blind Ploughman” (Robert Clarke), “Take All of Me” (Samoan song cycle by William Stickles), “The Brown Eyes of My Dushka” (Russian love song by Hermann Lohr), “Someone Worth While” (Ward-Stephens) and “The Great Awakening’” (Walter Kramer). Mr. Gruen played Chopin’s B flat minor scherzo, Mosz-kowski’s “Spanish Caprice” and Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsody ,No. 6.	S. K.
Ithaca Conservatory Grants Many Scholarships
The Ithaca Conservatory of Music is doing a good deal for scholarship students. Each year a Master Scholarship, including the regular graduation course of instruction free of charge, as well as board and room, is granted. Last year it was given by the famous violinist, Jan Kubelik, and was won by Grisha Monasevitch, of Philadelphia. This scholarship is valued at $600 per term or $1,200 per year.
In addition ten full scholarships, providing for the regular graduation course of instruction, including both private and class lessons, but not for board and room, are also given. These scholarships are valued at $175 per term or $350 per year. Forty-two partial scholarships are also granted.
Krebs at Dr. Curry Memorial Service
The late Samuel Silas Curry, founder of the Boston School of Expression, who died at Christmas, 1921, was an admirer of S._ Walter Krebs’ muse and frequently asked him to play his piano composition, “A Dirge.” At a memorial service held at Columbia University, February 16, Mr. Krebs played this composition. On the program were some notable names, such as Franklin H. Sargent, president of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; Edwin Markham, Prof. George A. Coe, with Ronald Allan at the organ.
Seydel Plays at Commonwealth Country Club
On January 22 Irma Seydel, the violinist, was heard at the Commonwealth Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and her fine technic and expressive readings of various selections won her many new admirers. February 5 Adeline Packard and Ruth Stickney played a two-violin arrangement of Miss Seydel’s “Hebrew Melody” at the same club. This composition originally was a song with violin obligato.
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Jeanne Gordon Scores Success as Soloist—Hambourg Concert Society’s Chamber Music Series—Toronto Operatic Chorus Presents “Aida”—Hofmann Loudly Acclaimed
Toronto, Can., February 16, 1922.—An interested audience attended the musicale in Jenkins Art Galleries arranged by the well known singing teacher for her pupils, Mrs. Roger Priestman and Mrs. Gordon Balfour. Mrs. Priestman’s voice is a soprano of rich, tender quality and of extended range. She sang Mozart’s beautiful aria, “L’amero, saro costante,” in which she showed her well trained and flexible voice to advantage, as also in Pecchia’s vocal arrangement of a Chopin waltz. Mrs. Balfour sang with grace some French and English songs and “One Fine Day” from “Madame Butterfly”; her voice is a mezzo of excellent range, which she uses with intelligence and freedom, also good phrasing and refined style.
Annual Concert of the National Chorus The annual concert of the National Chorus, given in Massey Hall on January 31, was a distinctive event, as, apart from the excellent singing of the chorus under the able direction of Dr. Ham, it marked the first appearance in the city of the Canadian singer, Jeanne Gordon, now of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York. At this concerj she made her debut under the baton of Dr. Ham, who was her sole teacher in voice production when she attended Hab-ergal College, a celebrated school for girls here. She has a contralto voice of beauty, also magnetism and temperament, united with a lovely personality. Indeed, when she came on the stage her audience, an unusually large one on this occasion, was sympathetically won before she sang at all. A wealth of expression is at all times at her command, and her singing of Verdi’s “Masked Ball” and Bem-berg’s “La Mort de Jeanne d’Arc” disclosed many excellent qualities. She was enthusiastically received, and gave several encores with naive charm and unaffected simplicity. Miss Gordon is a native of Wallaceburg, Ont., where her father, the late D. A. Gordon, represented East Kent for upwards of ten years in the House of Commons.
The chorus was in splendid form. The different sections of the noted choir were excellent in quality and tone body. One of the most effective offerings was Coleridge Taylor’s choral rhapsody, “Sea Drift,” a composition of telling beauty, which the choir sang with a thrilling degree of expressiveness. Two early madrigals, Dowland’s “Awake Sweet Love” and Morley’s “Now Is the Month of Maying,” and Hugh Robertson’s “Outgoing of the Fisherman’s Boats” were marked by elegance and brilliancy, the latter work being extremely impressive. The society is in a flourishing state of musical and financial health.
Hambourg Concert Society Begins Series The Hambourg Concert Society, now over ten years old, has certainly helped in no small way to develop a love for the best in chamber music, and the opening concert of a series was given on February 4 to a large and highly inter-
Blanche Da Costa a Well Trained Singer
Blanche Da Costa, soprano, filled a reengagement when she appeared on February 15 as soloist with the Orpheus Club of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. According to the Evening Star of that city, “As a distinct contrast to the full harmony and volume of the male chorus numbers, the wonderfully clear bell-like voice of Miss Da Costa captivated the audience from her first group of songs, well chosen and admirably suited to her voice.” The same paper further stated
BLANCHE DA COSTA, Soprano.
that Miss Da Costa charms not only with her lovely, well cultivated and sparkling voice, but with her gracious stage presence, most pleasing personality and expression made all of her songs a true joy to the listener and a revelation of dramatic gifts to the observer. The Evening Star also referred to her exceptional range and the purity of her high notes. In reviewing this concert the Poughkeepsie Eagle-News said that Miss Da Costa is not only a marvelously well-trained singer and one whose breath control and placing of notes is a joy to watch, but she sings with such expression as to make even a little encore nursery rhyme, in which the sad ending of Humpty Dumpty’s career is. described in detail, a thing to feel real sorrow over.■
Among other recent successful engagements filled by Miss Da Costa were appearances at Bronxville for the Chaminade
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