April 13, 1922
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dreamed of. Plans are already undej־ way for the season of 1922-23.
John McCormack opened the present season in October with his usual assisting artists, Donald McBeath, violinist, and Edwin Schneider at the piano. Frances Alda appeared in November with Gutia Casini, cellist, as assisting artist, and Theodore Flint as accompanist. December brought a great combination in Charles Hackett, Renato Zanelli and Grace Wagner, the accompanists being Lester Hodges and Sol Alberti. The Paulist Choir, under Father Finn, was another attraction of this holiday season. January brought Vasa Prihoda and Anna Fitziu. The regular Hunt concert course was brought to a close in February with a concert by Virginia Rea. assisted by Robert Stringfield, flutist, and George Vause, accompanist. Otto Eisen was accompanist for Prihoda and Fitziu. Outside the course Sousa and his band appeared March 16.
Mr. Hunt will present Riccardo Stracciari on May 1, with Marguerite Ringo and Mrs. Collingwood Tucker as assisting artists. John Charles Thomas, who spent his boyhood here, will give a concert April 6.
The attractions of the Hunt concert course are given at the Maryland Theater, an auditorium that has won commendation from all artists as of unusually desirable acoustic properties.
Two local bands—the Municipal, with Gerard Everstine as director, and the other under the leadership of Frank De Luca—have presented excellent programs, several of symphonic tendencies.
The Music and Arts Club members offered a sacred concert March 26 at Center Street M. E. Church for the benefit of the Associated Charities.	P. M.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—(See letter on another page.)
Elkhart, Ind., March 22.—On February 28 a fine program of miscellaneous character was given by members of the Matinee Musicale at their regular meeting, held at the home of Kayte Compton. Alene Webster, soprano, had charge of the program and gave a group of interesting songs. Teresa Shields also sang a beautiful group. Mrs. Harvey Crawford and Mrs. George Manning gave an ensemble at two pianos, and Ernice Zimmerman offered a group for violin.
The regular meeting of the Matinee Musicale was held on March 14 at the Y. W. C. A. The program was entirely of Mendelssohn and Schubert numbers. Florence Wiegner, who had charge of the .program, read interesting sketches of these composers and played a piano number by each. Ethel Crawford and Helen Zimmerman, pianists; Bessie Hogue Smith, soprano, and Harvey Crawford, tenor, contributed well selected groups from the composers represented.
The second concert in the series of three artists’ recitals, under the auspices of the Matinee Musical, occurred March 17 at Trinity Methodist Church. Arthur Kraft, of Chicago, delighted the audience with his pure, mellow and yet powerful voice. Sylvia Bargman, pianist, also of Chicago, was not a stranger to Elkhart, as she had appeared before the Matinee Musicale a year ago and once as accompanist for (Continued on page 48)
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Belton, Tex., March 19.—Efrem Zimbalist appeared at Baylor College, March 17, under the auspices of the Belton Music Club.
T. S. Lovette, dean of music at Baylor College, presented the following senior students in recital on March 16: Lida Sproul, Missouri; Florence Toy. Louisiana; Louise Major, Ethel Fisher, Velma Lamar, Amy Sellman, lone Steele. Gladys Hillyer and Myra De Witt, of Texas. The vocal department was represented by Velma Strickland, of Oklahoma; Mary Jane Rhea, of Maryland, and Lois Duren. of Texas.
- The Baylor College Choral Club has just completed a successful tour of Texas. This organization, which is now in its seventh year, has a state-wide reputation. It was organized by T. S. Lovette, who personal)}׳ conducted it for three years. Allie Coleman Pierce, vocal instructor on the Baylor College faculty, is the present director. The soloists were Mrs. Pierce, soprano; Lois McCall, violinist; Zelma Brown and Erna Priebish, artist pupils of Dean Lovette, pianist and accompanist respectively. Mabel Moore was the reader. One of the most interesting events on this trip was a visitation of the Ku Klux Klan, during a concert in Beaumont, when six members in full regalia marched down to the stage, and presented the young ladies with a crisp $100 bill. They also received a huge floral offering from the Ku Klux at Orange, Tex. E. W.
Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page.)
Brookhaven, Miss., March 23. — This season has brought to Brookhaven some excellent musical treats. In November Leopold Godowsky gave a magnificent concert, and on January 5 Florence Macbeth charmed with her beautiful voice and unaffected manner, the third number being Riccardo Martin and the Russian Symphony Orchestra.
Hazle Barge, graduate pupil of Elizabeth McVoy, directress of music at Whitworth College, gave an excellent piano recital on March 10. Fine things are predicted for this young girl.	E. M. V.
Charleston, S. C., March 15.—On March 5 the Charleston Musical Society gave another Concert Intime. This, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, ends the third season. The society has cause for gratification in the success of this enterprise, begun with high aspiration and carried on by hard work and enthusiasm. The work both of the talented amateurs and that of the great artists has given inestimable pleasure to Charleston's music lovers, and the concerts have become a feature of the winter season. Theodore Koster, who has studied piano in New York for a short time, but who is mainly self taught, is already an artist to be considered. He is doing professional work in an orchestra and teaching and gives his services for the benefit of the society as well. This young man has a touch of velvet smoothness, a good singing tone and plays with taste and intelligence. Mr. Koster played, with his brother, John Koster, the difficult sonata by Brahms—the G major No. 1. This work, so rarely heard, is a tax to the virtuoso, and both violinist and pianist conquered the difficulties and gave the beautiful composition with a serious appreciation and facility. A mixed chorus, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. William Loeke, sang intelligently the works of Mendelssohn, Handel and Haydn. Another artistic feature of the program was the performance of Maud Gibbon, cellist, who plaj'ed the “Melodie” of Charpentier and the “Chants Russes” of Lalo, responding to enthusiastic recalls with a “Lullaby” by Gertrude Ross. Miss Gibbon plays with a love for and understanding of her instrument. Those who know Maud Gibbon only as an active worker in the Charleston Musical Society, wonder when she practises. They do not know that she studied for years with Leo Schulz and Elsa Ruegger. She is a musician first and a business woman only for the good of the society.
Frail and delicate of build, yet with an amazing finger strength and excellent musical feeling, little Jean Howe, the gifted pupil of Hester Finger, gave her second recital of the season a few evenings ago in the Musical Art Club room. Bach’s “Valse” and “Bouree” from the first sonata No. 5, “Toccata,” by Paradis, sonata in C minor (op. 13) of Beethoven, “Cuckoo” (Daquin), Mendelssohn's “Spring Song.” “Poupee Valsante,” by Poldini and the “Butterfly,” by Lavalee made up the program which she played entirely from memory. The toccata she took at an amazingly rapid tempo, but gave each phrase with clarity and splendid tone coloring. If forced to more of an outdoor life and not permitted to overtax her mental and physical resources, this little ladv should be heard from in the future.
M. W. G.
Chicago, 111.—(See letter on another page.)
Columbia, Mo., March 23.׳—Music lovers here enjoyed the two programs presented on March 21 by the St. Louis Svmphony Orchestra, Rudolph Ganz conductor. At the matinee, Mishel Gusikoff. violinist, played the “Meditation” from “Thais.” and H. Max Steindel, cellist, gave “The Swan,” of Saint-Saëns. The first movement from Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony, the overture to “William Tell,” two selections from the “Peer Gynt” suite of Grieg, the “Marche Slave” by Tschaikowsky. and the Hungarian dance No. 5 in G minor by Brahms, made up the remainder of the program.
In the evening the program opened with the overture to Weber’s, “Der Freischütz,” and included the Tschaikowsky symphony in E minor, the prelude to Debussy s, “The Afternoon of a Faun,” symphonic poem No. 3, “Les Preludes” of Liszt, and finally the “Spanish Symphony” for violin and orchestra of Lalo, the violin part being played by Mr. Gusikoff. Great enthusiasm marked the reception of both programs, the evening-performance being given to a capacity audience.	B. S.
Cumberland, Md., March 21.—For a city of 30,000. Cumberland, Md., has just had a concert season that would do credit to many of much larger population. In fact, under the direction and through the initiative of J. William Hunt, metropolitan advantages are offered to the people of western Maryland that several years ago were scarcely
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