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servatory of Music, and the sixth annual high school musical contest, in which more than 500 pupils participated. In the high school contest were representatives from Springfield, Joplin, Carthage, Webb City, Aurora, Lebanon, Willow Springs, Ozark, Eldorado Springs, Neosho, Carterville, Bolivar, Houston, Monett and Nevada. In the musical contest a silver loving cup was presented to the school ranking highest in each of the following classes: mixed chorus, large (won by Joplin) ; girls’ glee club (won by Springfield), small orchestra (Houston), large orchestra (Joplin), girls’ quartet (Springfield), girls’ double quartet (Springfield), boys’ glee club (Joplin), mixed quartet (Springfield), memory contest (Willow Springs). A gold medal was presented to individual winners as follows: memory contest, Hazel Slusser, Willow Springs; boys’ vocal solo, John Fulbright, Lebanon; girls’ vocal solo, Ruth Dayton, Aurora; violin solo, Bertram Stern, Joplin.; piano solo, Susan Wallace, Carthage; accompanist, Susan Wallace, Carthage. A memory contest was added this year as a feature of the music festival. A medal was given to the high school pupil recognizing the greatest number of musical compositions (played on a reproducing machine), and their composers. Each high school was permitted to select a team of five students; the team making the highest score for its school was presented a silver loving cup. The contest was pronounced the best ever held, both from the point of view of entries and the class of music used by the contestants. Many of the numbers for high school pupils were exceptionally difficult, and several were rendered excellently. The judges of the contest were Theresa Finn, director of music in the Soldan High School, St. Louis, and Henry Tovey, dean of the music school of the University of Arkansas. The Southwest Missouri Community Chorus, composed of choruses and glee clubs from the State Teachers’ College and the various participating high schools, sang “The Building of the Ship” (Lahee), directed by Prof. Clayton P. Kinsey with Mrs. Clayton P. Kinsey at the piano; the accompanying orchestra was directed by Prof. Sidney F.Meyers and the soloists by Agnes Dade Cowan, all of the instructional staff of the State Teachers’ College Conservatory of Music. The assisting soloists were Mrs. W. W. James, Robert James and Lee Adams, all of Springfield. John McCormack sang for the first time to a Springfield audience of music lovers, and was enthusiastically and appreciatively received by the throng of admirers. He was called back time after time for encores, which included such favorite numbers as “Mother Machree” and “Dear Old Pal of Mine.” Thunderous applause followed each number of his Irish folk song group. McCormack was ably assisted by Donald McBeath, violinist, and Edwin Schneider, pianist. The phenomenal success of the third annual music festival has resulted already in extensive plans for a greater event next year.
The Southwest Missouri State Teachers’ College enlarged its recital program this year. In addition to John McCormack, the recital course for this school year includes Francis Alda, soprano, with Cassini, cellist; Carolina Lazzari, contralto; Ignace Friedman, pianist; the Tony Sarg Marionettes (for two performances), and Erika Morini, violinist.
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Vancouver, B. C., February 16, 1922.—The present musical season has been suffering for the lack of a proper auditorium and, so far, Harold Bauer has been the only pianist that has come to the city. However, his recital in Wesley Church on January 31 was a success of such magnitude that, to a large extent, it compensated music lovers for the recent dearth of exponents of pianistic art. Piano students and teachers were given an exhibition of technic that commanded admiration, while the emotional appeal and expressive warmth of Mr. Bauer’s interpretations so carried his audience away that cries of “Bravo” followed some of his most appealing numbers. Some of his most popular successes were Beethoven’s “Appassionata” sonata, Bach’s “Partita in B flat” and Ravel’s “Fountains.”
Dame Clara Butt is one of the few singers who have such a hold on the affections of the west, that the announcement of an engagement creates positive excitement. Mr. Rumford noticed in a Honolulu paper that the recital in Vancouver was to be held at eleven p. m. and remarked, “What a strange mistake!” Unfortunately it was not due to a printer’s error, but to the fact that it was necessary to secure the Capitol Theater after the regular program. In spite of such a difficulty, late suburban cars and ferries were arranged for, and the demand for seats for the recital of February 7 was so overwhelming that a second booking was secured for February 10. Capacity audiences that capitulated to the singer’s charm and applauded every number to the echo greeted the famous contralto. Kennedy Rumford, baritone, and M. Melsa, violinist, came in for a share of the honors. Dame Clara Butt and Mr. Rumford were guests of honor at dinners given by various musical, patriotic, and social organizations.
The Vancouver Operatic Society presented Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” at the Avenue Theater on four days, beginning February 8. J. C. Welch was the musical director and R. C. Reed the stage director. Principals were Jessie Adam, Agnes Laughlin, William Jaques, J. C. Wallace, Frank Hoole and David Sharpe. This was the ninth successful production of the society.
Lydia Lypkowska, soprano, and Alexander Sklarevski, pianist, were guests at the Hotel Vancouver for a few days prior to leaving on the “Empress of Asia” for the Orient.
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Waterbury, Conn., February 11, 1922.—January 23, the Waterbury Choral Club, under the direction of Isaac B. Clark, gave its first winter concert, assisted by the Little Symphony Orchestra of George Barrere, New York. The program included Parker’s “King Gorm, the Grim,” Rachmaninoff’s “Laud Ye the Name of the Lord,” four of Cad-man’s Indian songs arranged for female voices; the “Pilgrims’ Chorus” from Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” for male voices, and “The Fairies” by Henry K. Hadley. The work of the club was very highly commended. For the spring concert the club will sing “The Light of Asia,” by Dudley Buck, which was sung by the Harmonic Society here on April 27, 1891.
On January 26, the fourth concert of the Prentzel subscription series was given by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, with Nicolai Sokoloff conductor, and Louis Edlin, violinist, as soloist. There was a very large audience.
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class in recital, February 19. These class recitals at the San Antonio College of Music, of which Mr. Steinfeldt is the _ director, are being greeted by large and enthusiastic audiences. Those who appeared on this program were as follows: Sarah Schulman, Laurabella Kroeger, Mrs. Walter Faust, Mercedes Arnold, Mallory Page Warren, Velma Knight, Bluma Rappoport, Vessie Garcia, Jean Kayton, Evelyn Lepnard, and Alberta Scott.	S. W.
Sandusky, Ohio, February 20, 1922.—Singing in the high school auditorium under the auspices of the Music Club, Florence Macbeth, of the Chicago Opera Association, proved a great delight to an audience which taxed the auditorium’s capacity last Monday. Her program was well selected and varied enough to suit the taste of every one present. From the Old English numbers beginning with Handel’s “What’s Sweeter Than a New Blown Rose?” to the brilliant polonaise aria from “Mignon,” Miss Macbeth displayed a versatility not common, but most essential to success in the recital field. Her technic, her trills and runs in the aria were most enjoyable for their exactness and finish, but it was in the quaint Old English songs and the French ones that all the beauty of voice and charm of the singer found sway. Encores were very numerous and graciously given. George Roberts proved of real assistance in his accompaniments and group of solo numbers. He is to be regarded as one of the most promising of the younger school.	״B. G.
Seattle, Wash.— (See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Sioux City, Iowa, February 28, 1922.—The months of January and February have brought out much local talent in musical events, but little from outside. Charlotte Peege and her company, consisting of Philip Sevasta, harpist, and Florence Brinkman, pianist, gave two concerts on January 16 and 17. Miss Peege pleased the audience very well with her solos, and Miss Brinkman and Mr. Sevasta were wholly satisfactory. The concerts were well attended.
Florence Kinnaird, soprano; Raymond Girvin, violinist, and Joseph Brinkman, pianist, gave a concert on February 14 under the auspices of the Woman’s Club. The artists were well received by the small audience.
The annual performance of the High School Opera Club was Henry Hadley’s “Fire Prince,” and the production was altogether the best ever given by this organization. Arthur Poister, director of music at the high school, trained the singers and conducted the two performances. Considering that all the members of the company, including the principals, chorus and orchestra, were drawn from students of the high school, a remarkably high standard was reached.
The Monahan Post Band of the American Legion gave its second annual concert on February 14. The band is but two years• old, and the members are all members of the legion. The director, Harry Johnson, had the benefit of study at the bandmasters’ school in France under eminent teachers, and has accomplished a great deal in the development of the Post Band. Many of its members have learned their instruments in this two years, and at the convention last year at Kansas City, it won third place. The concert was a genuine surprise to all who heard them. Among numbers deserving special mention were Rossini’s “William Tell” overture, “Danse Orientale” by Lubonirsky, and King’s “Princess of India.” Mr. Johnson is also director of the Shrine Band.
The Morningside College and Community Orchestra, directed by George E. Hubbard, gave its first concert on February 17. The program included numbers from Bizet’s “L’Arlesienne,” and Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.” James Reistrup played Liszt’s E flat piano concerto.
Two organ recitals were given on February 12 and 19 by Olive Fleetwood and Albert Morgan at the First Baptist Church. Mr. Morgan gave organ numbers; Mrs. Fleet-wood, both organ and vocal numbers, and Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood sang the duet, “Gentle Consort,” from “The Creation.” The recitals were well attended. A trio recital was given on Sunday afternoon, February 19, at Grace Church by Opal Bullard, piano; M. W. Baldwin, cello, and George Hubbard, violin.
The first concert by the Abu Bekr Temple Shrine Band on March 2 was a brilliant success from every point of view. The band is composed almost entirely of amateur performers, there being sixty-six pieces, under the direction of Harry Johnson. The soloists were Wilfred Beach, soprano; Carl Norrbom, bass, and Hazel Ruth Templeman, harpist. A capacity audience was present.	O. A. M.
Spartanburg, S. C., February 23, 1922.—John Philip Sousa and his band played before more than four thousand citizens here on Washington’s birthday, in two concerts given in the magnificent music hall of Converse College. This auditorium, which has echoed the applause given noted artists for years, was never more resonant with appreciation than the afternoon and night of February 22, when Sousa’s Band rendered a program consisting largely of popular music. Sousa showed all the fire of enthusiasm which has made him for more than a quarter of a century one of the most notable band leaders in the world. D. S.
Spartanburg, S. C., March 4, 1922.—Modest of manner, charming in personality, and in her usual good voice, Anna Case appeared before an appreciative audience here the evening of March 3 at Converse College auditorium in a popular program. The weather was about the meanest brand that has ever hit Spartanburg, but despite that fact there was a good attendance. “The Sacred Fire,” “The Night Wind,” and her own composition, “Longing,” were among the best numbers on the program, from point of rendition and appreciation. Miss Case appeared here under the auspices of Converse College and the Woman’s Music Club.	D. S.
Springfield, Mo., January 25, 1922.—Featured by an appearance of John McCormack in a public concert on January 19, the third annual Southwest Missouri Music Festival, held on January 19, 20, and 21, was pronounced by all lovers of music of this section an exceptional success. The festival is one of the biggest annual events on the calendar of the Southwest Missouri State Teachers’ College, under whose auspices it is held. As usual, the festival consisted of three events—John McCormack, who opened the three-day program with a recital in Convention Hall; the Southwest Missouri Community Chorus, on January 20, directed by Prof. Clayton P. Kinsey, head of the State College Con-