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MUSICAL COURIER
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TITO SCHIFA
TENOR—Chicago Opera Company
Available Concert and Festivals SEASON 1922-23
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NEW YORK CONCERTS
Thursday, March 30
Philharmonic Orchestra, evening .............Carnegie Hall
Ernesto Berumen, piano recital, afternoon....Aeolian Hall
William Juliber, piano recital, evening .....Aeolian Hall
Lucilla de Vescovi, song recital, evening....Town Hall
Friday, March 31
Philharmonic Orchestra, afternoon.......... .Carnegie Hall
Helen Teschner Tas, violin recital, evening--Aeolian Hall
Emma Roberts, song recital, evening .........Town Hall
Ruth Draper, character sketches, afternoon. .Selwyn Theater . Saturday, April 1
Tarasova, costume recital, evening ..........Carnegie Hall
Sunday, April 2
Reinald Werrenrath, song recital, afternoon. .Carnegie Hall Walter Damrosch, lecture recital, afternoon.. .Aeolian Hall
Nina Koshetz, song recital, afternoon..........Town Hall
Louis A. Rozsa, song recital,־ evening.......Town Hall
Ruth Draper, character sketches, evening...Selwyn Theater
Ruffo and Pareto, song recital, evening......:.Hippodrome .
Monday, April 3
Boris Levenson and assisting artist, evening.. .Aeolian Hall Tuesday, April 4
Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, evening.........Carnegie	Hall
Anna Lubelsky, violin recital, evening.........Aeolian	Hall
Angelo Raggini, song recital, evening.............Town	Hall
Ruth Draper, character sketches, afternoon.. Selwyn Theater Philharmonic Orchestra, evening.Metropolitan Opera House Wednesday, April 5
Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, evening..... .Carnegie Hall
Phoebe Crosby, song recital, afternoon.......Aeolian Hall
Thursday, April 6
Amy Grant, opera recital, morning..............Aeolian	Hall
Church and Carson, song recital, evening.......Aeolian	Hall.
Seydel Soloist with Allentown Orchestra
On February 21, Irma Seydel, violinist, was soloist with the Allentown Orchestra, Lloyd A. Moll, conductor, playing the Saint-Saëns B minor concerto, which she played no less than five times with the Boston Symphony under Dr. Karl Muck. The engagement in Allentown marked Miss Seydel’s twenty-fifth appearance with orchestra.
Voice Education
BY
ELEANOR McLELLAN
“Maker of Singers”
Answers the following questions:
What is your vocal limitation?
Are your high notes better than your low ones or vice versa?
Is your range two octaves and a half or is it only one or less ?
Are you hoarse or fatigued after singing?
Have you nodules (growths on the vocal chords) or have you ever suffered from them ?	.
Have: your vocal chords ever been paralyzed, scraped or cut?
Are you subject to singers’ or speakers’ colds?
Have you shortness of breath when singing a phrase ?
Is your tone breathy ?
Have you a tremolo?.
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parchment, attired in his or her best, makes more or less graceful bows, and so “Commencement” (of real work) for them has begun.
The list of members of the graduating class to whom were presented diplomas by President Sargent follows :
Dortha Angove, Oil City, Pa. ; Alfred Alexandre, East San Diego, Cal. ; Acille Angline, Norfolk, Va. ; Alice Mae Buchanan, Tacoma, Wash.; Thomas Broderick, New York City; Kenneth Daigneau, Austin, Minn.; Sara Agnes Farrar, Bainbridge, Ga. ; Claudia Edwards Frank, New York City; Lois Franklin, New York City; Agnes Grant, Andover, Mass.; Jean Green, New York City; Dorothy Haines, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Beatrice Hendrikson, New York City;
DORIS KEANE,
the star of “The Czarina,” who was one of the two guests of honor at the American Academy graduation exercises.
Irene Homer, New York City; Lulu Mae Hubbard, San Antonio, Texas; J. Andrew Johnson, Bellows Falls, Vt. ; Allen C. Jenkins, New York City; Edwin H. Kasper, Rox-bury, Mass.; Gerald Lundegard, Chicago, 111. ; Martha Madison, New York City; Mary Emma Moultrie, Los Angeles, Cal.; John Moore, Punxsutawney, Pa.; Joseph Mclnnery, Iowa City, la.; John McGovern, Providence, R I..; Maurice McRae, Louisville, Ky. ; John Osterstock, Easton, Pa.; Virginia Odiorne, Bangor, Me. ; Elaine Polak, New York City ; Janet Short, New York City; Diane Seamon, New York City; Charles Tazewell, Des Moines, Iowa; William H. Van, New York City; Ernest Woodward, Cambridge, Mass.; Consuelo Wonders, Philadelphia, Pa.
Tiffany and Stanbury in Lynchburg
Maris Tiffany, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Douglas Stanbury, baritone, gave the final concert of the series inaugurated this year by the Woman’s Club of Lynchburg, Va., on March 24. The other artists on the course were Claire Dux, Leopold Godowsky, Francis Macmillen and Tino Pattiera.
Frederick Southwick Re-engaged
Frederick Southwick, baritone, has been re-engaged for the fourth year as soloist at the High Street Presbyterian Church of Newark, one of the oldest in New Jersey, and is noted as much for its artistic musical standard as it is for being one of the most perfect examples of Gothic architecture.
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Joseph Press in Demand
Joseph Press, Russian cellist, now touring this country, has been engaged for a series of concerts in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The New York engagement is to take place in the Hippodrome on April 23.
Schofield Pays Tribute to McLellan
Edgar Schofield, one of the many prominent artists now before the public, credits Eleanor McLellan, “the maker of singers,” with the development of his vocal technic.
March 30, 1922
CINCINNATI IS FAVORABLY
IMPRESSED WITH FRIEDMAN’S FIRST LOCAL PIANO RECITAL
Maurice Dambois on Program with Friedman—Yolanda Mero with Cincinnati Symphony
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 8, 1922—Ignaz Friedman, the Polish pianist, and Maurice Dambois, the Belgian cellist, appeared at Emery Auditorium on the evening of March 1 in joint recital. The recital was one of the big events in local musical circles, and a fine reception was accorded them. Mr. Friedman, who had not been heard here before, created a remarkable impression by his performance. His genius is such as to command attention immediately, and his art is of the highest type. The recital opened with “Les Preludes,” a symphonic poem, by Liszt, it being given in the original arrangement for two pianos. One part was played by the artist, the other by the Duo-Art reproducing piano, played by him. This was followed^ by the Saint-Saëns concerto for cello and orchestra, which was played by Mr. Dambois, the reproducer playing the orchestral part. Other numbers included three numbers by Mr. Friedman and the sonata, op. 32 (Saint-Saëns), by Messrs. Friedman and Dambois. The performers responded with encores after persistent applause. Mr. Dambois has appeared here before as soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and his playing is of the highest type.
Yolanda Mero with Cincinnati Symphony.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Ysaye, was heard in the eleventh concert of the season on March 3 and 4 at Emery Auditorium. The first number on this appealing program was the “Othello^ overture by Dvorak. The seventh symphony, m C major, by Schubert, was the outstanding number. This ever delightful and tuneful symphony was played with notable finesse. The appearance at these concerts of Mme. Yolanda Mero, the noted pianist as soloist, was ample to awaken uncommon interest. She played the Liszt concerto No. 2, in A major, in which she gave a demonstration of her fine skill. “The Y outh of Hercules,” by Saint-Saëns, a symphonic poem, was played as the closing number. As a mark of respect to the memory of Harry G. Kopp, who died suddenly February 21, the last movement from Tschaikowsky s Pathetique symphony was played. He was a member of the orchestra for twenty-five years.
Ilse Huebner on College of Music Faculty.
Use Huebner, pianist, has been added to the piano faculty of the College of Music. She is a well known teacher, performer and composer, and was formerly on the faculty of the Vienna State Academy. In addition to that position, she was also a private instructor to many of the families of the aristocracy of Vienna. Miss Huebner will soon appear in a piano recital, and will also present some of her songs in public for the first time in this country.
The fifth of the series of organ recitals being given by Charles Heinroth, under the auspices of the College of Music, was heard at the East High School auditorium recently. He also lectured in the Odeon on the “Romanticism of Music.”
Marguerite Melville Liszniewska, of the faculty of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, recently returned from a concert appearance at the Blackstone Theater, Chicago. She was given a reception by a number of former conservatory students while in Chicago.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra left on March 6 for a week’s trip to a number of cities in various parts of the country.	_
A musicale was given for Willis Chapter, F. and A. M., at the Hyde Park Masonic Hall, March 6, by the Hotel Gibson Orchestra.
A recital was given on March 1 at the Y. W. C. A. by pupils of Grace Mader Mack.
Luther Richman, baritone and choral leader from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, directed the University
Girls’ Glee Club concert on March 3.
Marjorie Squires, young contralto, who is well known in Cincinnati, will appear with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a number of cities.
Pupils of William Morgan Knox, Emil Heermann, Ann Meale and others, of the College of Music faculty, were recently heard in a recital in the Odeon.
Pupils of Marguerite Melville Liszniewska, of the Conservatory of Music faculty, were heard in a recital on March 4.
A concert was given in the Odeon on February 27 by the Beta Pi Omega Sorority of the College of Music, the following taking.part: Walter Heermann, Romeo and Giacinto Gorno, Estelle B. Whitney and Emma Beiser Scully.
A special musical concert was given on March 5 at the First Protestant St. John’s Church. There was a choir of thirty voices, with string quartet and organ accompaniment. John A. Hoffmann is choirmaster.	W. W.
American Academy Graduation Exercises
Graduation exercises of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Franklin Sargent president, were held in the Lvceum Theater, New York, March 20. There were thirty-five graduates from all parts of the country, as will be noted in the list which follows. _ President Sargent occupied the chair as usual, with Doris Keane (of “The Czar-ina”) at his right, and George Gaul (of “Back to Methuselah”) at his left. Mr. Sargent gave a brief preliminary talk, then introduced Miss Keane, who, herself a graduate of the American Academy, once sat there in similar surroundings some years ago. The same was the case with Mr. Gaul, and both actors were doubtless _ then seen and observed by the present writer but with no inkling of their future prominence. Miss Keane gave from her large and varied experiences, talking in an altogether informal and delightful manner. She laid stress on not looking and acting “shop,” but was herself attired in a hat which quite hid her eyes and in Russian boots which exhibited pinkiness of some sort above them, thus neutralizing what she said. Mr. Gaul was splendid in his talk, full of combined humor and wisdom, easy, effective pit will be remembered:	The scene of
these doings is always interesting, for the graduates are seated on the stage at right and left, President Sargent and honor guests in the center and the faculty in the rear. As each name is read the graduate comes forth to receive the