March 30, 1922
MUSICAL COURIER
cert in Jersey City, N. J., on March 13. This was the first public appearance of this new organization and many other dates are pending for the spring. The quartet is under the management of Annie Friedberg.
Martinelli Sings to 18,000
There was a most unusual concert at the huge armory of the Eighth Coast Artillery in the Bronx on Sunday evening, March 26. Here at the concert assembled what was probably the largest indoor concert audience ever under one roof in New York. It was given under the auspices of the American Legion Posts of the entire Bronx County, and the artist chosen was Giovanni Martinelli, the Metropolitan tenor. Approximately 18,000 people had assembled on the great floor and balconies to hear the splendid artist, who was in superb voice. His ringing tones had no difficulty in filling the great auditorium and there was a tremendous demonstration after each, of the arias which he sang, including “Celeste Aida,” from “Aida;” “O Paradiso,” from “L’Africana“Cielo e Mare,” from “La Gioconda,” and “La Donna e Mobile.” from “Rigoletto.” Mme. Olga Carrara, dramatic soprano, was the assisting artist. She sang “Voi Lo Sapete,” from “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and “Ritorno Vincitor,” from “Aida.” Mme. Carrara’s success was hardly second to that of Mr. Martinelli. Ellen Dalossy: also sang one number.
The accompaniments for all the arias were furnished by the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, with Giuseppe Bam-boschek conducting, and besides the accompaniments the orchestra gave most satisfactory performances of Tschai-kowsky’s “1812” overture, Chabrier’s “Rhapsodie Espagnol” and Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours,” ending with Sousa’s rousing “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Before the concert the 228th Field Artillery musicians had entertained the assembling crowd with a program of band music from 6:15 to 8:15. It was an impressive evening, one that will not soon be forgotten either by the artists or those who heard them.
Ethelynde Smith Uses White-Smith Songs
Among the songs programmed by Ethelynde Smith on her recent Coast to Coast concert tour were four published by the White-Smith Music Publishing Company, “Spring Song of the Robin Woman,” Cadman; “Spinning-Wheel Song,” Fay Foster; “The Bagpipe Man,” Howard D. McKinney, and “The Open Road,” Gertrude Ross.
Hans Hess’ March Dates
A few of the dates booked for Hans Hess, cellist, f >r the month of March were as follows: March 19, Davenport, la.; 20, Waterloo, la.; 21, Rock Island, 111., and 22, Muscatine, la.
Obituari
Edgar Fischer
Sacramento, Cal.. March 20, 1922.—Edgar Fischer, head of the Fischer School of Music at Walla Walla, Wash., died March 18. Mr. Fischer came to this country from the Royal High School in Berlin, where Joachim had awarded him the gold medal for his excellent violin playing, and connected himself with the Whitman College Conservatory at Walla Walla. He was a profound worshipper at the shrine of Bach and Beethoven. The great classics were his religion. Those whose lot it was to come under his influence counted themselves fortunate indeed, and hundreds all over the country have been pointed to the higher ideals in music by this genial and lovable man.
Mr. Fischer was a lover of the out-of-doors and spent a great deal of his spare time riding horseback in the country around Walla Walla. Sixteen years ago Mr. Fischer and his wife, Alice Reynolds Fischer, established the Fischer School of Music. Mrs. Fischer is left to mourn the loss of her husband—a loss which is not alone hers, but also one which will be felt by a host of friends and admirers throughout the Northwest.	A. W. O.
Carl Otto Langley
Carl Otto Langley, cellist and composer, died Thursday, March 16, at his home, 42 West Ninety-fourth street. He was a native of Frankfort, Germany, seventy years old and a resident of this country more than thirty years.
He toured Europe as a concert cellist in 1885, came to America four years later and made a tour. Afterward he established a conservatory here and wrote a book of instruction on musical instruments.
Since 1909 he has been connected with the music publishing-house of G. Schirmer and was the arranger of over 100 orchestrations. Funeral services were held at the Campbell Funeral Church, Broadway and Sixty-sixth street.
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Recently the Zoellners had the disagreeable experience of having their home in Los Angeles burglarized. Among the loss was a beautiful antique scarf-pin belonging to Joseph Zoellner, Jr., and given to him by his friend, Mahmoud Khan, Persian Minister to Belgium. Antoinette Zoellner had a highly prized diamond brooch, a gift to Miss Zoellner from the Duchess de Vendome, stolen.
Haydn Owens Successful as Pianist, Accompanist and Conductor
A musician of wide and varied experience, Haydn Owens of Chicago has won his spurs as pianist, accompanist and conductor. Mr. Owens, who comes from a musical family, started his musical education at a very early age under the guidance of his parents and later under some of the most prominent instructors of this country and Europe, the best known of whom are Glenn Dillard Gunn and Rudolph Ganz, with whom he studied piano; Richard Hageman, accompanying, and while in Paris he studied conducting, orchestration and opera with Isadore Phillip, piano, and Albert Wolf, chief d’orchestra of the Opera Comique. Thus Mr. Owens is a throughly well equipped musician, who has won success in the triple capacity of pianist, accompanist and conductor, and has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and France with success. As a pianist and accompanist he has shared programs with many prominent operatic and concert artists, among them being Riccardo Martin, Theo Karle, Evan Williams, Graham Marr and the Boston Opera Company, winning the praise of public and press alike. Conducting was an early issue
HAYDN OWENS, pianist, accompanist and conductor.
with this gifted musician, as he began when he was thirteen years of age, taking part in a large Welsh choral competition, which he won and later captured numerous prizes in choral competitions all over the United States, the most notable being at the Exposition in San Francisco.
As conductor of the Haydn Choral Society of Chicago, Mr. Owens has received much praise from the critics for his efficiency, Karleton Hackeit recently stating in the Chicago Evening Post that “Mr. Owens is an excellent conductor” and that “he understood the music and held his forces well together.” Also Herman Devries, commenting upon the recent performance of Pierne’s “Children’s Crusade,” conducted by Mr. Owens, stated in the Chicago Evening American that “its beauties were ably brought forth by Mr. Owens with the assistance of sixty members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a group of able soloists” and that “the orchestra was Mr. Owens’ respectful servant, and together they contrived beautiful and sustained support to the singers and a most sympathetic treatment of the score.”
Dorothy Jardon Aids Jewish Drive
At the gala vaudeville show that was given, beginning at mid-night, at the Palace Theater on Saturday last, as a benefit for the Jewish Drive, one of the most interesting features was Dorothy Jardon, former Chicago Opera soprano, who swept the packed house completely off its feet by her beautiful rendition of “Eili, Eili.” Miss Jardon has always had a lovely voice but never has the writer heard her to better advantage than on the other night. Instead of responding to an encore, the stunning looking singer introduced to the audience Cynthia Teal, the talented and attractive young daughter of the late Ben Teal, w'ho was for so many years the international producer for the late Charles Frohman productions. Miss Teal makes a favorable impression for she is very good to look upon and is the possessor of a soprano voice of sweet, clear quality which she uses well. She sang two songs, one of them George Gartlan’s “Lilac Tree,” which “went big” with her audience. Others on the all-star bill were A1 Jolson, the Dolly Sisters, Frisco, Belle Baker, Ed Wynn, Miss Juliet and many others.
Dates for Maurice Dambois
Maurice Dambois, the cellist, recently met with his usual success when he appeared in concert in Terre Haute, Ind., March 16, and Memphis, Tenn., March 20. Some of his recent and future dates are:	New Orleans, La., March
23; Washington, D. C., March 30; Philadelphia, Pa., April 4; New York (Aeolian Hall recital), April 8, and Englewood, N. J., April 10.
A New Quartet
Goldina de Wolf Lewis, soprano; Nejra Riegger, contralto; Charles Hatcher, tenor, and Lionel Storr, bass baritone, appeared in quartet and solo numbers at a con-
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J. Fletcher Shera Elected President of Music Students’ League
At the first formal organization meeting of the new Music Students’ League held last Sunday afternoon, March 26, at the Art Center, 65 East Fifty-sixth street, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. Fletcher Shera, president; Dr. Edward A. Noble, first vice-president; Thelma Spear (student), second vice-president; Mrs. Helen Fountain, treasurer; Florence Mendelssohn (student), secretary; Marion Johnson (student), recording secretary. A constitution and by-laws were formulated and accepted and it was announced that the association had consummated its record of incorporation at Albany under the laws of the State of New York. It was decided to have four classes of membership, namely: active, associated, honorary, and junior, the active membership consisting of music students over the age of sixteen, the associate members being those interested in music and in the welfare of music students, the honorary members to be elected to the advisory board and board of directors, and the junior members to be music students under the age of sixteen and to be exempt from dues. Amidst great enthusiasm Mr. Shera announced that the Musicians’ Club of New York had offered the use of its club rooms at 173 Madison avenue to the younger organization as a temporary headquarters and also would make such changes in its own by-laws as to enable the students to obtain other advantages through association with the senior body. It was decided at last Sunday’s meeting of the Music Students' League to have committees on membership, business arrangements, musical and other programs, the social welfare of students, publicity, etc. There were about three hundred persons present last Sunday and a still larger number is expected to be at the next meeting next Sunday afternoon, April 2, at the Art Center. Following the business proceedings at the March 26 meeting, Marie Tiffany, the soprano, gave a delightful little impromptu recital of songs, accompanied in a most artistic fashion by Margot Hughes. Miss Tiffany’s skillfully used voice and splendid interpreta-tive art found a quick response from the unusually discriminative body of listeners and she was rewarded with resounding applause and forced to sing several encores, especially after her group of Chinese lyrics set to modern music by Scott, Carpenter, Bantock and Crist.
Zoellner Quartet Now on Spring Tour
On March 13, in Roanoke, Va., the Zoellner Quartet gave the first concert of a spring tour which calls for forty-six appearances. A few of the cities to hear the Zoellners are
Concerning the Pianist
LOUIS GRUENBERG
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR^ BOSTON, FEBRUARY 25, 1922
MUSIC
Louis Gruenberg as Musical Cervantes
. NEW YORK, Feb, 20 (Special Corre-:]
I spohdence)—Louis Gruenberg played :/
!, for the first time in public two sets of / piano pieces, entitled “Polychrome,” at A /the first concert of the,•. International J \ Composers Guild, given in ׳־the Green-. ; '
I wicb Village Theater on Sunday even-; j ing¡ He showed himetlf an able write־', / of i/arrative and descriptive music and I ¡ an admirable interpreter of it. People,;/ j wfih .are interested, in ; present-dtiy arA 1 tistic movements could hardly do" bet-'
,¡ ter than ,to. invite him to exhibit niá״ !,'studies-at their -club meetings, espe- !•
, cially if they could secure him in / association with performers who have 1 a message of a contrasting sort to ,
I impart. If all '- his works are like 1 ‘‘Polychrome,” listeners might find
! them leaning a little too strongljl in the direction ot the descriptive and ,
| not: enough in that of; the medita-;(
!Jive, to answer for an entire program, :j / Mr. Gruenberg- may-be described'as j /one of the musical humorists of the l j ti rílen, one of those who are doing by;[ ;sounds' what writers, of ethnical ro-!mafices did in other centuries by means (of words. In the first of his sets of A , :/Polychrome” pieces, bearing sudKü j ¡;sub-titles as “Knight of the Blackj / Pool,” “Lady with ־the Damask Mari-'I tie/’ “Gosslpers” and “Hagglers,” he seems to make an attempt at depicting the chivalric; while ■in the second set, including such. numbers as “Mexican Quarters at HI : Paso,” A “Dance of the־ Vagabonds” and “Mar-//
-ket Place,” he. seems to try his hand ; at the picaresque;
He evidently endeavors to be, then, something like a melodic and har-mohie Cervantes and a contrapuntal:
JVid rhythmic Le Sage. And whether >- he'succeeds or . not, will doubtless be / determined within the next five years.
There will he opoprtunjty for pianists ¡ to take timo from their Beethoven and!
| Chbpin to ;test his “Polychrome’•' /:pieces, inasmuch as they aré án-l:nwtnced .£sJa-£S«ggs; of publication..(
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