MUSICAL COURIER
30
March 23, 1922
Alfred Mirovitch in California
Alfred Mirovitch, the Russian pianist-composer, is at present in California filling a dozen engagements during the month of March. So profound an impression did Mr. Mirovitch make on the Coast during his first visit last December that he was immediately re-engaged for appearances this spring. Among the engagements is that of soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, with Rothwell conducting.
Kittay at Mail Concert
On Sunday evening, March 19, Theodore Kittay, tenor, who recently gave his first New York recital at Aeolian Hall, was scheduled to sing at the Evening Mail concert.
William Juliber to Give Recital
On March 30, William Juliber, pianist, will give a recital at Aeolian Hall. A well chosen program will be presented.
Obituarx
William Alfred White
William Alfred White, director of music in the Denver Public Schools since 1919, died March 7 of pneumonia. He was born in Baltimore, March 9, 1876, and received his early education in the schools of that city. Later he became a student at Columbia University and after that took a course in music at the New England Conservatory.
Mr. White started his career as music teacher in the public schools of Raleigh, N. C. He also was in charge of music at the North Carolina Agriculture and Mechanical College. Following this he was director of music at Northwestern University and also professor of music in Syracuse University, New York.
In 1913 Mr. White was appointed supervisor of music in the Des Moines public schools and held that position until
1918	when he entered the war as a secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and served overseas as a musical instructor and director of soldier entertainments. He went to Denver in
1919	and distinguished himself by inaugurating a high school music festival, given yearly at the Municipal Auditorium. He organized and instructed orchestras in the various city high schools and worked out a plan whereby students are now given credit toward graduation through their musical attainments.
Mr. White was recognized as a musician and composer of remarkable ability. He was a compiler and editor of many collections of songs.
Marie Seymour Bissell
Marie Seymour Bissell, prominent in New York and Hartford musical circles, passed away March 10 at her home in Hartford. Miss Bissell had a notable career. Her voice was a pure soprano of great range and power and she was soloist in Hartford churches. She came to New York and studied with Agramonte, Henrietta Beebe and other noted teachers. Her first engagement was at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. She then went to the Broadway Tabernacle, remaining there twenty years, when she resigned in order to give her time to teaching.
Hans Häusermann
Zurich, March 1.—Hans Häusermann, musical director, died in Zürich on February 28 of an apoplectic fit. The musical life of Zürich will feel this loss intensely. Häusermann was born at Aargau in 1868. About twenty-five years ago he founded a private choral society, which has greatly developed since, and for many years he was a teacher at the Zürich Conservatory. The entire press expresses deep regreat over the loss of this musician.	G. T.
Georg Anthes
Budapest, March 1.—Georg Anthes, the stage. manager of the Royal Opera and a noted master of singing at the Royal School of Music in Budapest, died after a short illness at the age of fifty-nine. The Hungarian musical world has lost in him one of its most prominent figures. He was buried in a special “grave of honor” furnished by the municipality.	' Z. K.
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Bernardine Grattan Gives Recital
Bernardine Grattan, coloratura soprano, gave a recital at Miss C. E. Mason’s school, “The Castle,” Tarrytown- on-Hudson, on March 10, assisted by Emil J. Polak at the piano. Miss Grattan proved herself to be an artist of high merit, possessing beauty of voice, an eminently smooth and well founded technical equipment, and a sterling musicianship which showed itself in the fine taste and artistic verity of her interpretations. The Tarrytown Daily News says in part: “Miss Grattan had an enthusiastically appreciative audience. Her winsome personality, her gracious manner, and above all her sweet, clear, flexible voice, under perfect control, made an irresistible combination. The program was very varied. Perhaps the most popular number was Verdi’s exquisite ‘Caro Nome,’ from ‘Rigoletto.’ Many in the audience had heard Galli-Curci’s rendition of that beautiful song, and there was an awed hush in the room when this young singer—hardly more than a schoolgirl—gave the famous runs and trills with such ease and sweetness and triumphant success.” The program in full follows:
With Verdure Clad............................................Haydn
Oh Had I Jubel’s Lyre.......................................Handel
Caro Nome (From Rigoletto)...................................Verdi
The First Primrose...........................................Grieg
From Monte Pincio..........................................  Grieg
Songs My Mother Taught	Me..............................Dvorak
The Rose Complained..........................................Franz
Dedication ...............................................Schumann
Piano Solos:
Nocturne ...................................................Chopin
Etude De Concert.............................................Friml
Hymn to the Sun God.........................................Troyer
By the Waters of Minnetonka..............................Lieurance
Under the Greenwood Tree.............................Buzzi Peccia
Tus Ojitos .................................................Huarte
Seven encores were sung and Cadman’s “In the Land of the Sky-Blue Water” given by request.
Ruth Kemper Active
Ruth Kemper, the violinist, has been filling a number of concert engagements recently. February 26 she played the Wieniawski polonaise in A with the Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra, Joseph Knecht, conductor.. Miss Kemper teaches one day each week at the Brooklyn Music School Settlement, and on March 1 a program was presented by members of the faculty and she was one of the artists to appear. The following evening the violinist gave a recital with Yvonne de Tréville, soprano, at the Horace Mann Auditorium of Columbia University.
Beddoe Pupil Sings with Orchestra
The fourth orchestra concert under the direction of Pier A. Tirindelli at the Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Thursday, February 23, was the second appearance this season of a Beddoe pupil. Lucy De Young, a lovely young contralto, sang the famous Tschaikowsky aria, “Farewell Ye Forests” from “Jeanne d’Arc,” revealing a voice of great possibilities, splendidly trained. It is a contralto of more than ordinary power, warm and sympathetic in quality. Miss De Young was given an enthusiastic reception and congratulated by Signor Tirindelli on her artistic work.
Huë Succeeds Saint-Saëns at Academy •
Paris, March 7.—Georges Huë has been elected to the Academie des Beaux-Arts to fill the place left vacant by the late Camille Saint-Saëns. Huë is sixty-four years of age. He won the Prix de Rome in 1879. His latest work, “Dans l’Ombre de la Cathédrale,” the libretto of which is drawn from the novel of Blasco Ibanez, was produced at the Opera Comique a few weeks ago.	T. B.
Florence Macbeth Buys Estate
The purchase has just been completed by Florence Macbeth, the Chicago coloratura soprano, of a large estate in Kittson County, Minnesota. When asked if she was going in for real estate deals as did her famous predecessor, Christine Nilsson, Miss Macbeth replied in the negative, stating that that particular estate was bought for sentimental reasons, the same having been in the possession of her family many years.
Frank E. Marsh Director at Alabama College
Frank E. Marsh, Jr., director of the Acadia Conservatory of Music, Wolfville, N. S., has been appointed director of music at the Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women, Montevallo, Ala. He will assume his duties June 7, with the beginning of the summer session.
Titta Ruffo Farewell at the Hippodrome
R. E. Johnston has arranged with Charles Dillingham for the Hippodrome on Sunday evening, April 2, for the farewell appearance here of Titta Ruffo. A gala performance is being prepared which also includes GraZietta Pareto, the Spanish soprano.
Lazzari Booked for Springfield Festival
Carolina Lazzari, concert and operatic contralto', has been booked for two engagements at the Springfield Festival this coming May.
Thorner Going to Europe
William Thorner, maker of singers, is going to spend the coming summer in Italy, sailing from New York about June ■IS. He will take with him a number of the most promising voices from his studio for the purpose of introducing them into opera there. Mr. Thorner lived and taught in Italy for a number of years and his connections there with the operatic world are of the best. It has been a rare season when one of Mr. Thorner’s pupils did not leave the studio either to step into the Metropolitan or Chicago opera companies. The most conspicuous instance of this is that of Mme. Galli-Curci, whose engagement with the Chicago Opera, the stepping stone to fame in her case, was arranged by Mr. Thorner alone. Rosa Ponselle, who sprang into prominence overnight at the Metropolitan, making a debut that will long be remembered with Caruso in “La Forza del Destino,” is another who thanks Mr. Thorner for her operatic career; and Yvonne D’Arle, who joined the company this season and was particularly liked as Kupava in “Snegourotchka,” is also a Thorner product. (Incidentally Miss D’Arle is engaged for half a dozen concerts in London this spring with Titta Ruffo.) His first outstanding success was with Anna Fitziu, who has sung opera in practically all the leading houses of the world, and in the concert field Estelle Liebling is a prominent artist who was trained by him. Mr. Thorner will be accompanied by his wife and their little daughter. Rosalinda, and will remain in Italy all summer.
Dudley Buck Purchases Five-Story House
Dudley Buck has just purchased a five-story dwelling house at 471 West End avenue, with an electric elevator, and will not only open studios there about September 1,
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