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MUSICAL COURIER
I SEE THAT
John McCormack is rapidly recovering from a septic sore throat.
The summer concerts at the Stadium will begin on July 6.
Glazounoff, famous Russian composer, is coming to this country next January for a four months’ tour.
Leopold Godowsky will give his farewell concert at Carnegie Hall on May 3.
Edgar Hawley Platt died suddenly of heart failure on April 12.
Cecil Arden had editorial mention in the two leading newspapers of Memphis, Tenn., when she ap׳peared there as soloist with the Memphis Symphony.
The New York School of Music and Arts will give a six weeks’ summer course, with ten weeks optional.
The Society of the Friends of Music has decided to reduce the number of its concerts from ten to six.
Alexander Gunn, pianist, is in Europe, where he will play and study until September 1.
Ernest Schelling will be. soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra on a fortnight’s tour in December.
Ruth St. Denis will make a brief Southern tour before sailing for England on May 2.
Suzanne Keener was an outstanding success as Gilda at last Sunday’s Metropolitan Opera House concert.
Nine ballets and thirty divertissements form the repertory of Pavlowa and her Ballet Russe for their farewell week at the Metropolitan.
Mischa Levitzki is already booked for eleven orchestral concerts next season.
Felix Salmond will return to America next season for another tour.
A wide variety of subjects is offered for the summer session at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.
The Zoellner String Quartet gave its first radio concert in St. Louis on March 25.
A new opera house has been built at the Royal College of Music, London.
Paul Althouse has renewed his contract with the Metropolitan Opera House.
Myra Hess, English pianist, says that her trip to America has been a great and happy experience.
Alexander Siloti will spend the summer in Antwerp.
Giuseppe Agostini recently celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary on the operatic stage.
The Westminster Presbyterian Choir of Dayton, Ohio, will make a tour next season under M. H. Hanson’s direction.
Mascagni’s “II Piccolo Marat” was given its Dresden premiere a short time ago.
Samuel Gardner will be married on April 26 to Stella Field Barnard.
The Warren Ballad Concerts will be given next season at Carnegie Hall instead of at the Selwyn Theater.
The Wisconsin Co-operative Managers’ Association was . formed on April 14.
This year’s Berkshire Chamber Music prize went to a Hungarian, Leo Weiner of Budapest.
The Montreal Grand Opera Company is the name of a new organization giving opera in Montreal.
Toscha Seidel has arrived in Sydney and is ready for his tour of New Zealand and Australia.
A farewell reception was given for Elly Ney at the Ampico Studios.
Blair Fairchild, the American composer, was scheduled to sail from France on April IS.
Lazar S. Samoiloff cannot accept any more pupils until after June 2.
Dr. Hamlin E. Cogswell, director of music in the public schools of the District of Columbia, is dead.
Magdeleine Brard, the French pianist, will return to America in October for another concert tour.
Lynnwood Farnam gave an organ recital in Reading, Pa., March 30.
San Francisco has abolished the vocational tax on music teachers.
A new opera company has been organized in New York under the direction of Dillon Shallard.
The Philharmonic Society of New York is eighty years old, and two anniversary concerts are to be given for the benefit of the orchestra players.
A farewell reception was tendered to Farrar by the American singers of the Metropolitan Opera.
Max Ivotlarsky, pianist, was married to Aida Dolinsky, also a pianist, the day after his New York recital.
Lynnwood Farnam gave an organ recital in Reading, Pa., March 30.
Sam Rzejersky, the chess wonder, is a vocal pupil of Platon Brounoff.
Free tickets for the concerts by the Goldman Concert Band are now ready for distribution.
Otokar Sevcik is to be a permanent member of the faculty of Bush Conservatory.
Emma and Ina Thursby are spending six weeks in Florida on the Indian River.
Ulysses Lappas will sing for the Greek colonies in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Montreal, before sailing for Europe in May.
Pottsville,־ Pa., has organized its first music club.
Elizabeth Murphy, artist pupil of Francis Rogers, has been engaged as soprano soloist at the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, Conn.
Reuben Davies has cancelled his spring tour with Schumann Heink, owing to illness.
The Texas Interscholastic Music Contest will take place April 29 at Baylor College, Belton, Tex.
The Irish Regiment Band of Toronto will tour the United States next fall.	G. N.
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tion and singing. Mr. Watkins is to have an important part on the program arranged for the opening of the $1,500,000 Junior High School of Bethlehem.
G. F. W.
South Berwick, N. S., March 28.—Among the interesting programs of the season was that presented by Harriet Emily Gourley, one of Canada’s most talented musicians. The program opened with a group of piano numbers by Hartmann, Rendano and Schubert. Miss Gourley then gave a group of Scotch-English classics, which included such old favorites as “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” “Flow Gently, Sweet Afton,” “Robin Adair” and “Annie Laurie.” Her final group included numbers of Sears-Sullivan, Verdi, Lady Carew, Kiallmark and Effie Canning.	B. S.
Stamford, Conn., March 18.—Theresa Hoyt,_ soprano, and Berrian Shutes, pianist, were the artists in a joint recital at the Hillside Auditorium, Norwalk, Conn., Friday evening. Miss Hoyt is a lyric soprano of unusually pure tonal qualities combined with rare musical intelligence. There is a warmth in her tones, a birdlike sweetness in the upper register, and she sings with a dignity of style that captivates her hearers. Among her numbers was the “Louise” aria, “Depuis le Jour,” which she gave with dramatic effect and the purest of diction. Mr. Shutes’ playing delighted his audience. His performance has strength, smoothness, elegance. It brings out the remotest shadings of meaning with perfect precision and delicacy. He is a musician of rare attainments, both technically and temperamentally, who knows what he wishes to say and says it clearly. His sense of rhythm is perfect. He gave numbers by Brahms, Liszt, Chopin and composers of the modern Russian School. Both artists were warmly applauded by a well filled house and both responded with encores.	W. J. C.
St. Louis, Mo.—(See letter on another page.)
Toledo, Ohio, March 20.—Vasa Prihoda, violinist, ’appeared in recital under the auspices of the Civic Music League. His brilliant technic, fine tone and absence of
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mannerisms pleased his audience. Otto Eisen, accompanist, also played a group of solos.
The Toledo Pianoforte Teachers’ Association presented Guy Maier in a program for young people. He succeeded in making his numbers vitally interesting by his fine playing and clever explanatory remarks. In the four-hand marches by Schubert, Franklin Nold assisted.
Alberto Salvi, harpist, and Victor Gomez, cellist, appeared in joint recital at the Coliseum on the Sunday afternoon series of the Civic Music League. Salvi is truly one of the great harpists who can hold his audience through the entire program. Gomez played two groups of solos, of which Popper’s Hungarian fantasy was probably the best liked.
The Orpheus Club gave the final concert of the season at the Coliseum on March 1. Margaret Matzenauer was the assisting artist. She opened her part of the program with a group of songs by Handel and Mozart and an aria from Meyerbeer’s “Huguenots.” A group of Brahms, Schumann and three French songs followed, closing with La Forge’s “Expectancy,” a Mexican folk song arranged by La Forge, and the “Seguidilla” from “Carmen.” The club did exceptionally fine work in Spross’ “A Song of Steel,” Andrews’ “The Banks of Allan Water,” and Protheroe’s “The Night of a Star.” Walter Eugene Ryder is the director and Harold J. Harder the able accompanist of the club.
The final number of the Teachers’ Course brought Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini in recital to Keith’s Theater. Both artists were warmly received and responded graciously to the insistent demand for encores.
The Toledo Symphony Orchestra gave the fourth concert of the series on March 8, at the Scott High auditorium. The symphony was Haydn’s No. 103. The program opened with Goldmark’s “Sakuntala” overture. Other numbers were concert dances by Weber and selections by Beethoven, Dvorak, Ponchielli and Saint-Saëns. The work of the orchestra shows decided improvement, and the interest of the public is considerably greater as shown by the larger attendance. Herbert Davies, baritone, sang a group of songs. Lewis H. Clement conducted.
Mary Preston Beavan, soprano, appeared in recital with the Musical Arts Club of Columbus. The entire program was made up of compositions by Samuel Richard Gaines. Mrs. Beavan is the soloist at the Collingwood Avenue Pres-
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form, when Amy Murray at Colonial Hall gave a recital of songs of the Hebrides, to the music of the ancient harp.
The excellent quartet of All Souls’ Church—Mrs. George H. Spalding, soprano; Mrs. Nano Gallagher Leahey, contralto ; James B. Neel, tenor, and Albert E. Brown, baritone and director, with Helen C. Taylor as organist—has been re-engaged for the next church year.
At the first Baptist Church the quartet will include Anna Roth Large, soprano; Eva L. Stokes, alto; Albert O. Guerin, tenor, and Warren T. Reid, bass and director. Wilfred Kershaw continues as organist.
The First Congregational Church will retain as soloists Caroline Hooker, soprano; Harry Hopkins, tenor, and Andrew A. McCarthy, baritone, and will add to the number Hazell Tuthill, a recent comer here, whose fine contralto voice has been much admired. Leona Gale remains as organist.
Etta Bradley, soprano, and Ben Redden, tenor, both of Boston, gave a joint recital in Colonial Hall, the first in a series under the Dixey Concert Direction.
Some of the most beautiful of the old Irish melodies were played and sung at a concert in the Opera House Sunday evening, under the direction of Ella Reilly Toye.
The teachers’ organization is to give Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever popular opera, “Pinafore,” early in April, under the direction of Frederick O. Blunt.	S. R. F.
Mexico, Mo., March 23.—Inasmuch as the two programs given by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at Hardin College on March 20 were the first symphony concerts heard here, they attracted large and enthusiastic audiences. Indeed, at the evening performance the auditorium was crowded to the doors. Works by Rossini, Schubert, Grieg, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Frey, Tschaikowsky, Thomas, Dvorak, Lalo and Wagner were given splendid interpretations under the skilled baton of Rudolph Ganz.
Miami, Fla.—(See letter on another page.)
Missoula, Mont., March 20.—March 20 Esther Pearson, a soprano, of Chicago, appeared before a crowded house of music lovers in a song recital. Miss Pearson’s artistry was unfolded all through the course of the program and she made a lasting impression. She also had a charming and winning personality which delighted her audience. In the last part of the program she sang in memory of the late Christine Nilsson, being dressed in costume and singing Mme. Nilsson’s favorite songs, including a great number of Swedish folk songs. She was accompanied by Mrs. I. Swango, of this city, a very able accompanist.	B. G.
Natchez, Miss., March 24.—Natchez feels that it is now on the map, musically speaking, for this season much has been accomplished along_ that line. One of the most enjoyable events was the recital which Cecil Fanning gave. There was clamorous appreciation and enthusiastic praise on the part of his delighted audience. His return appearance will be eagerly welcomed.	M. V.
Ogden, Utah, March 21.—Utah has the reputation of having furnished to the world quite her full quota of excellent musicians, singers and actors. The latest find is Pauline Wright, seventeen years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parley T. Wright, well known residents of Ogden. Music circles of Ogden are much stirred by the discovery of this prospective prima donna. Miss Wright’s voice is said to be truly exceptional in its range, for she sings with ease and clarity from F below middle C to F above high C, three full octaves. She is a pupil of Mrs. Joseph C. Gustaveson, an Ogden teacher of music, who says that when she discovered the young woman’s range, in connection with an unusual aptness for the study of music, she was astounded, and is impressed with the conviction that a few_years_ o'f hard study, together with careful attention to scientific voice building and development, will make Miss Wright a singer of note. Recently Miss Wright sang at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City and there proved her ability to vocalize in three full octaves. She sang scales, runs and cadenzas easily and without any forcing of her range. Her high tones are clear and pure and her lower register is distinctly of mezzo quality. Miss Wright will be graduated this year from Weber Academy, where she ranks well among the best students of her class.	L. G. D.
Omaha, Neb.—(See letter on another page.)
Portland, Ore.—(See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Regina, Sask., Can., March 17.—To successfully teach the art of piano playing to children of ages from nine to twelve years and to have them exhibit such exceptional talent as those of the class conducted by Miss Dolmage at the Regina Conservatory of Music, is- no easily^ accomplished task. Among the students worthy of special mention were Leonard Brown, Katherine McKenzie, Wilfrid Deeth, Peggie Parsons, Clarence Williams, Helen Reed, Teddie Avison, Sheilla Middleton, Eleanor Dyer, Elsie Sta-pleford, Doris Franks, Louise Manan and Dorothy Orchard.
Hawaiian music is not as frequently heard_ in Regina as might be imagined, the reason possibly being because there are so few artists who play it correctly here. Among those who do is Hugo Reddish, •who delighted a large music loving audience with his fine interpretation of it on a recent Sunday evening concert at the Allen Theater. Musical numbers were also contributed by H. Adams’ Orchestra, M. Curtin, Marie Baker and Nora Wright.
R. B.
Rochester, N. Y.—(See letter on another page.) ,
Sacramento, Cal—(See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
San Francisco, Cal. — (See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Scranton, Pa., March 20.—John T. Watkins of this city is to be one of the faculty of the state of Pennsylvania Summer School of Music, to be held at State Normal School, West Chester, June 30 to August 11. He is to have charge of the seniors’ choral class, song interpreta-
Compositions by
JANIE A. PATTERSON
“A Ballad of Trees and the Master,” sacred song, The Willis Music Company.
“Cradle Song,” The Willis Music Company.
“Mecklenburg March,” Luckhardt & Beider.
“The Sweetest Flower That Blows,” song with violin or cello obU* gato, Luckhardt & Beider.