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Marguerite G. Davidson gave a piano pupils’ recital in the music room of the Robert L. Loud Company, March 14, Ruth R. Pettit, contralto, and Edward Reitz, violinist, assisting in the program.
One of the most enjoyable pupils’ recitals of recent date was that given by Alfred Jury, presenting his pupil, Ruth R. Pettit, contralto, in the Chapel of Asbury-Delaware Methodist Church. Marguerite Davison contributed several piano solos.
Charlotte Heller, pianist, and former pupil of Otto Hager, leaves for Europe in May and will study in Vienna.
One of Henry. Dunman’s former vocal pupils, Richard Siebold, will be one of the vocal instructors at the New York University summer school this season.
It is with regret we learn that Floy Little Bartlett, song writer, is to leave Buffalo this spring to make her home in Chicago. Mrs. Bartlett’s gift is a unique one, and in her interpretations of her songs for children she gives an unusually enjoyable performance.
The orchestra, girls’ glee club and boys’ glee club of Hutchinson High School, assisted by Helen Miller, soprano, gave a concert in the school auditorium last week.
John Meldrum, pianist, was heard in a very successful recital in Aeolian Hall, New York City, last month, filling an engagement in Troy later.
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Robertson presented Mrs. Whiting Williams, violinist, of Cleveland, to their guests in a recital given in their home recently, Mrs. Robinson supplying musicianly support at the piano. .
Mrs. John Eckels’ violin choir gave a program at Hutchinson High School, March 20, a violin solo being played by Charles Stokes.
Dorothy Hobbie, contralto, who is spending several months in New York studying with Sergei Klibansky, has been engaged as substitute for a month at the Washington Heights Baptist Church, of New York, and at the Hillside Presbyterian Church, of Orange, N. J.
Edna Zahm and Emily Linner (Meyer-Spire pupils) have returned from a month’s study with Edmund J. Myer, of New York.
Lorenzo Pace, a pupil of Miss E. B. Raymond, has gone , to New York for a course of study with Lazar Samolioff, who speaks in highest terms of praise of Miss Raymond’s teaching.
Westminster Presbyterian Church is to be congratulated upon securing the services of William Benbow as organist and choir director, beginning May 1. Mr. Benbow’s popularity is well established throughout the city.
Irene Pellette-Studt and Philip Catalano will fill the positions of soprano and tenor in Westminster choir.
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Phillip Gordon Heard by Thousands
Within two weeks time Phillip Gordon has been enjoyed by some 80,000 people. The week of March 12, he appeared in Detroit at the Capitol Theater before 60,000 people, playing the Saint-Saëns G minor concerto with orchestra, Liszt’s etude transcendent and “Rigoletto” paraphrase, Verdi-Liszt; “La Campanella,” Paganini-Liszt; polonaise A flat, Chopin; “Marche Militaire,” Schubert-Tausig; rondo capriccioso, Mendelssohn. Mr. Gordon was received with much enthusiasm and his playing was so applauded by these large audiences that he was asked to remain an extra week. Owing to his well booked tour it was impossible for him to comply.
The week of March 20, Mr. Gordon appeared at the New Grand Theater, Hazleton, Pa., before some 20,000 people, and was received with the same enthusiastic applause, A . feature of these concerts was his direct playing in comparison with his own personal recordings for the Ampico. Mr Gordon recently spent a week visiting his mother and left a day or two ago on an extensive tour which includes Cincinnati and other points.
Macbeth Delights Music Lovers
San Francisco, Cal., March 27.—The third of the concerts directed by the Board of Supervisors provided Florence Macbeth, coloratura soprano of the Chicago Opera Association, as the attraction, which drew a large audience to the Exposition Auditorium last Monday. Assisting the artist, who roused her hearers to great enthusiasm by the brilliance of her singing, were the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco, under the guiding hand of Louis Per-singer ; Elias Hecht, who delighted the audience by excellent flute obligatos for Miss Macbeth’s arias, and George Roberts, the versatile composer-pianist. Uda Waldrop, organist, excelled in some charming solos on the fine municipal organ.	B. K.
paniment of string orchestra. The large audience recalled conductor, soloist and orchestra times without number.
Benefit Concert for German Children.
A number of the German singers of Buffalo combined in a large chorus under the direction of Eduard Lang, giving a concert in Elmwood Music Hall for the benefit of the German child feeding campaign carried on by the Quakers. Pearl Schaaf, soprano; Gretchen Schaefer, contralto; Carl Siekmann, organist, and Kathryn Schaaf, accompanist, were the assisting artists. There were speeches by Rev. George Sellinger and Rev. H. H. Lohans, and a substantial sum was realized.
Schilsky String Quartet’s First Concert.'
The Schilsky String Quartet gave its first and second public recitals, February 27 and March 13, in Twentieth Century Club colonial ballroom, under the local management of the Musical Institute. A, good sized, ,audience qf musicians and music lovers showed, its approval of the splendid achievement׳ of this new organization in well deserved applause. The quartets presented were Beethoven C minor, Dvorak C major, Schubert D minor, an andante grazioso (Haydn), and the Brahms quartet in G minor for violin, viola, cello and piano, the piano part admirably played by Augusta Yelin, a former pupil of Otto Hager.
The third free municipal organ concert under the auspices of the Department of׳ Parks and Public Buildings was given in Elmwood Music Hall, Sunday afternoon, March 12, by Laurence H. Montague, organist and choir director of the North Presbyterian Church, with Martha Rippel, harp-
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ist, and Albert J, Erisman, tenor; Irwin S. Binder, city organist, acted as accompanist. The hall, was well filled by a large and appreciative audifence which expressed its approval of the well selected program excellently given by the participants. The second concert was participated in by Dewitt C. Garretson, organist and choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral; Richard R. Miller, tenor, and Delia M. Chapman, contralto, with Irwin Binder at the
Saturday afternoon, March 18, in Twentieth Century Hall, the Chromatic Club presented to a delighted audience five ladies, local favorites—Agnes Preston Storck, soprano, and a string quartet composed of Florence Hammond West-cott (first violin) and Katherine, Frances and Dorothea Park-Lewis (second violin, viola and cello, respectively). They played their several numbers with excellent ensemble, and accompanied Mrs. Storck’s songs. The arrangements for string quartet of the Haydn songs were made by Mrs. Park-LewiS; those of the Handel songs by Herman Schultz. Mrs. Storck’s lovely voice and excellent interpretations made of these songs a real joy. The English text wgs the work of Thekla Adam. Enthusiastic applause greeted singer and players and they were frequently recalled, presenting a charming picture in their vari-colored gowns.
Robert Imandt, French violinist, with Margaret Colton (organist at St. Joseph’s Cathedral) at the piano, gave an enjoyable recital at the Twentieth Century Club, March 10.
Helen Garret Menning filled her second engagement of the season at the Country Club, March 12. She recently spent two weeks in New York, where she did some record-
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Cincinnati and New York Symphony Orchestras Give Programs—Schilsky String Quartet’s First Concert Pleases—Notes
Buffalo, N. Y., March 23, 1922.—Erika Morini was the young artist violinist presenting the program for the fifth concert in the Mai Davis Smith’s subscription series February 23 in Elmwood Music Hall. Her full, warm tone, brilliant style and abundant technic in the Mendelssohn E minor concerto aroused the large audience to great enthusiasm, which deepened as the program proceeded until she was obliged to add five extras. Some of the most satisfying pf her program numbers were the Rimsky-Korsakoff "Hindoo Song,” the Schubert-Wilhelmj “Ave Maria,” Moszkowski’s “Guitarre” and the Wieniawski “Waltz Caprice,” all given with brilliance and beauty of tone. Emanual Balaban at the piano contributed sympathetic support.
Ernest Hutcheson with Chromatic Clue.
The artist recital of the Chromatic Club was given in Twentieth Century Hall, March 4, by Ernest Hutcheson, pianist-teacher of New York City. Although never having appeared in Buffalo before, he was not a stranger, as many of our local talented pianists are among his pupils, and he met with a well merited cordial reception from a representative musical audience. A seldom heard and beautiful Liszt B minor sonata and the Bach-D’Albert prelude and fugue in D established Mr. Hutcheson’s pianism as of unusual high order of merit; the Chopin group following enthused his hearers, repetitions being demanded, while his own׳ compositions and arrangements of the scherzo from !Mendelssohn’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and ׳ “Ride pf the Valkyries” (Wagner) displayed his virtuosity and warmth of temperament. He added to these the “Spinning Song” from “The Flying Dutchman,” Wagner-Liszt. This !recital was one of the outstanding features of the season. The. attention of the members of the Chromatic Club was palled by the president, Evelyn Choate, to the new motto heading the program, a bit from the Bach chromatic fantasy¿ in honor of the club’s approach to its twenty-fifth anniversary,
Cincinnati Symphony Visits Buffalo.
: The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under the commanding leadership of Eugene Ysaye, with Emma Calvé, former operatic artist, closed the Mai Davis Smith subscription series favorably in Elmwood Music Hall, March 7. The martial overture, “Patrie,” Bizet; “Rhenish” symphony, Schumann; “To the Stars,” Duparc; the “Lohengrin” prelude and the overture to “The Mastersingers;” Wagner, were all beautifully given by this orchestra that has come into its rightful place as one of the foremost organizations of the country under Mr. Ysaye’s conductor-ship, who, by the way, conducts without a score. The incomparable dramatic interpreter, Calvé, was given an ovation upon her appearance, and she conquered anew in her rare art and vocal beauty, as evidenced in all her numbers, especially in the “Carmen” “Habanera” and “O Ma Lyre Immortelle,” from “Sapho” (Gounod). Two French folk songs, “Chant du Pays” and “Le Roi Renaud,” were encqres. The arias were accompanied by the orchestra and the songs by Flora Wills at the piano.
In the afternoon the orchestra gave a short concert for young people, who filled the large hall and vigorously applauded the various Offerings under Modest Alloo’s leadership. These educational concerts for young people are of untold value and worthy of liberal patronage.
Siloti and New York Symphony.
The last concert of the George Engles series (of which Mai Davis Smith is local representative) was given in Elmwood Music Hall, March 14, by the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor, with Alexander Siloti, pianist, as soloist—a concert that will ever Stand out as a red-letter event of the season, a great orchestral and pianistic performance. The symphony—the Dvorák “New World”—an adagio by Lekeu, and Roumanian rhapsody, Enesco, were the superbly played orchestral offerings. In Siloti (a pupil of Liszt and uncle of Rachmaninoff) was found a colossal artist, one of the greatest pianists-of the 'present day. His presentation of Liszt’s “Dance of Death” and variations of the “Dies Irae,” with orchestra, was nothing less than astounding, A great contrast .was . his, second number, the Bach concerto in D major, with George Barrere, flutist, and Gustav Tinlot, violinist, and accom-
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