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will shortly become an integral part of a national association of concert directions, which is now being organized.
l	L.	K.
Berlin s Twenty-Fifth Concert Hall.
Berlin, March 7.—A new concert hall, the twenty-fifth in number, called the August-Förster Saal, has just had a successful opening, Frederick Lamond, the pianist, being the godfather. The hall accommodates 260 people, is pleasantly lit, has good acoustics, and everybody is pleased excepting the poor critics, for whom the new hall means more work and discomfort, especially as it lies in an out of the way quarter.	L.	K.
Mascagni's Son Married.
Naples, March 2,—One of Mascagni’s sons has just been married here, the Minister of Fine Arts being a witness to the ceremony. Mascagni will shortly go to Rome to conduct there his “II Piccolo Marat,” “Lodoletta” and “Iris.” ״	E.	N.
Copenhagen Bric-a-Brac.
Copenhagen, March !.—“Nips,” a new ballet by the young Danish composer, Hans Agersnap, has had its premiere at the Royal Theater. Another new ballet, “Lak-schmih, by	Ludolf Nielsen, is scheduled for early	performance.	p	q
Chicago Musical College—and Opera
In the last decade Chicago has loomed large upon the operatic horizon. The achievements of the Chicago Opera Association have been the principal factor in making the city one of the great operatic centers of the world, but long before the local company began its activities in the Audi-tonum the Chicago Musical College had been working in the direction of operatic training and production. In order to give its students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the regular repertory, most of the productions of dramatic compositions were those with which the public were familiar. On occasions, however, the school of opera in the institution stepped aside from the beaten track and offered the public one of the works which seldom or never are heard. An instance of this was the representation of Beethoven’s “Fi-deho,” which was given in the Auditorium a׳ number of years ago.
In recent seasons Edoardo Sacerdote has been one of the most active workers in the field of operatic education in the Chicago Musical College. The list of works which he has staged at the Ziegfeld Theater, with students in the cast, is a long one. Since the object of the school of opera is to prepare its students to confront managers with their od-eratic accomplishments all ready for presentation to the pub-lie, it has followed that Mr. Sacerdote has presented his stu-dents m such compositions as “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “La Boheme, Carmen, “La Traviata” and other masterpieces as familiar. That this has been a really practical method has been proved by the large number of students from the college who have been engaged by the great opera houses m America.
, The performance of two acts of “Die Walküre” in Ziegfeld Theater will give the pupils of Mr. Sacerdote another angle of the operatic game. Most aspirants to the theater have to learn their Wagner when they already have elbowed their way to the footlights by means of the French or Italian classics. At the Chicago Musical College they do not have to wait so long.
PARIS
Soloists Announced for Bach Festival
Bethlehem, Pa., March 29, 1922,—Dr. J. Fred Wolle director of the Bach Choir, has announced the soloists for the Bach Festival to be given at Lehigh University on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27. There are to be nine well-known American artists assisting the choir, which was founded nearly a quarter of a century ago here by Dr Wolle. A large section of the Philadelphia Orchestra wili ״!?“ s"PPly tfae instrumental accompaniments and for the St. Matthew Passion” music on the first day there will be a chorus of about fifty children. On the second day the great Mass in B minor will be sung, as it has been at all previous festivals here.
For the two Friday sessions, the soloists will be Mildred bass, soprano; Mabel Beddoe, contralto; Nicholas Douty tenor; Fred Patton, baritone, and Charles Trowbridg¿ littmann, bass. Mr. Douty has the unique distinction of having sung at all the previous festivals of the Bethlehem chorus since it began its work in 1900. At the Friday sessions he will sing the difficult role of the Evangelist. In took this part on only a day’s notice and gave a notable performance. All of the other Friday soloists have been heard here at a number of former festivals except Mr Patton.
The artists for the Mass on May 27 will be Henri Scott, bass, who was heard here some years ago; Merle Alcock’ contralto; Emily Stokes Hagar, soprano, and George Meader, tenor. Indications are that there will be a capacity attendance at the festival.
Pianists Prepared for Piblie Appearances
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Conductor Reichwein Leaving Vienna.
Vienna, March IS.—Leopold Reichwein, who has been directing the choral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musik-treunde, alternately with Wilhelm Furtwängler, will leave his post at the end of the current season and go to Ham-burg His successor here has not been appointed yet. Reichwein has written several comic operas, successfully produced at Vienna.	p g
Saint-Saëns Bequeathes MSS. to Conservatoire.
Paris, March 16.—It has just become known that the late Camille Saint-Saëns has left all his musical manuscripts, including those still in the hands of his publishers, to the library of the Paris Conservatory. His bust, by Paul Dubois, and his portrait, by Benjamin Constant, are bequeathed to the Louvre. Saint-Saëns’ collection of books, including the illustrated copy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” which was presented to him by the Italian colony in Buenos Aires, was left to the public library at Dieppe, the principal city of his native department.	׳p. B.
Big Swedish Song Festival for 1923.
Stockholm, March 20.—In connection with the great Jubilee Exposition in Goteborg in 1923 it has been planned to hold a song festival, in which 8000 singers from all parts of Sweden will participate. A new Choral hall is to be built for the occasion. It is probable that other music festivals, for orchestral and other compositons, will be given in con-junction with the exposition. This summer (1922), however, there will be no musical events of any kind in Sweden, and all the organizations will be priming themselves for the big year.	h. G.
Nielsen’s New Quartet Acclaimed.
Hamburg, March 8.—The Copenhagen Quartet has brought out here an extraordinarily impressive quartet by Carl Nielsen, the Danish composer. The work proved to be one of the strongest items of modern literature. A. S.
Pizzetti and Malipiero in Debate.
Rome, March 5— Ildebrando Pizzetti and Francesco Malipiero, Italy’s leading modern composers, are at grips over the alleged conservatism and backwardness of the Italian conservatories. Malipiero is for reform, while Pizzetti is quite satisfied with the institutions as they are. D. P.
Göteborg Dismisses Its Conductors.
Stockholm, March 10.—Considerable attention was aroused in musical circles here by the fact that the management of the Gothenburg Orchestral Union has not reengaged its two conductors, Dr. Stenhammar and Prof. Michael Press, for 1922-23. Stenhammar explained in an interview that he intends to drop conductorship for the future and devote the rest of his career to composition and his pianistic work, but admitted that he was astonished at the dismissal of his colleague. Prof. Press is a brother of Joseph Press, the cellist, now in America.	H. G.
Karlsruhe Hears a "Scandalous” Opera.
Karlsruhe, February 10.—“Liebesmacht,” a three-act opera by Alfred Lorentz, has recently had its première at the Landestheater of Karlsruhe under the baton of the composer. The success was considerable and, according to local critics, was due to the excellent execution of the work as well as the able efforts of the composer to raise the “scandalous” libretto to a higher level by means of his music. This libretto, furnished by Rudolph Lothar, author of the story of d’Albert’s “Tiefland,” deals with the troubles of a banker’s daughter who deviates from the right path, succeeds in finding a father for the illegitimate result of her “deviations,” keeps him banished from her bedroom, but finally, in a transport of remorse, shows the door to her lover and accepts her husband in his stead. Here again, as in some other recent German operatic works, the moving picture seems to encroach upon the higher regions of art.
L. K.
New Museum of Musical Historics for Vienna. Vienna, March 4.—Richard Strauss, Gerhart Hauptman, Max Reinhardt and others are the members of a new “Society of Musical and Theatrical History,” which will produce model performances of rarely heard musical and theatrical masterpieces. The ultimate aim of the society is the foundation here of a permanent museum of musical and theatrical art which is to comprise the innumerable art treasures formerly owned by. the Hapsburg dynasty.
P. B.
No Reverence for Mozart.
Vienna, March 3,—The house in which Mozart died, in Rauhensteingasse, Vienna, was visited by thieves who stole parts of the bronze memorial tablet, valued at 500,000 crowns.	p	g
No Strauss Conservatory for Vienna.
Vienna February 27,—In a letter to the Vienna Mittags-zeitung Richard Strauss denies the report that he intends to head a conservatory to be erected here with American tunas. He states that he had been approached with such a plan, which he rejected from the very beginning.
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Il Cavalliero della Rosa” at Rome.
Rome, February 28,—Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier” is to have a first performance in Rome on •March 2. Fritz Reiner has been chosen as the	conductor.	D.	P
Monument to Dr. Riemann Dedicated.
Leipsic, March 3.—A _ monument to Hugo Rieman, the great German musicologist who died over a year ago was consecrated at the South Cemetery here a few days' ago. Contributions for the monument fund had come from all parts of Germany, as well as from America, England, Prance,	Switzerland,	Denmark, Norway and Czecho-
Slovakla•	Dr. M. U.
German Concert Managers Organize.
Berlin, March 1—The larger concert managements of Berlin have formed the Association of Berlin Concert Directions, with Erich Sachs as the president. The associa-tion is to act as the representative body in all questions of principle arising between artists and various authorities. It
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to him. Elman played divinely, and tremendous applause followed every number and often broke out in the middle ü	aÎ*־er some especially beautifully played phrase.
Each s Partita,” the Goldmark concerto, Chausson’s
Poeme, Etude Mélodique” by Rhode-Elman, “Dans le Bois of Paganini-Vogrich, “Le Coq d’Or” of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and “Souvenir de Moscou” by Wieniawski, made up his program.
Messager on Le Figaro.
SjHce.M. Coty, the millionaire scent manufacturer, succeeded in purchasing the controlling interest in the Baris newspaper, Le Figaro, there have been several important changes in the editorial staff. Among these is the appointment of André Messager, the composer and conductor, as music editor and critic. Messager is well known in America as the conductor of the Orchestra of the Paris Conservatory that toured the United States three years ago.
Theodore Bauer.
Elly Ney in Final New York Recital
Elly Ney will give her final New York recital at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening, April 11. Her program will consist of some ballads, intermezzos, a waltz, a rhapsodie, and a romanz of Brahms; D major sonata of Schubert; F minor fantasie of Chopin, and “Etudes Symphoniques” of Schumann.
Ivogun in Farewell
Maria Ivogun will give her third and last song recital of the present season at Carnegie Hall on the afternoon of Easter Sunday, April 16. She will open her program with an aria from Mozart’s “Entführung aus dem Serail,” and will sing songs of Robert Franz, Loewe and Grieg.
Cecil Arden to Sing at East Orange
Cecil Arden, together with the Hungarian pianist, Nyire-gyhazi, and Annie Louise Davidt harpist, will give the last concert of the series of the Woman’s Club of East Orange on April 27.
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