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April 27, 1922
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New York Singing Teachers’ Concert
The Boone Studios in Carnegie Hall were filled to capacity by an interested audience of professional musicians on Tuesday evening, April 11, the occasion being a concert given by the New York Singing Teachers’ Association, at which songs by four American composers were presented, each composer playing the piano accompaniments to his or her own songs, which were rendered by singers of their own choice, thereby insuring interpretations as the respective composers desired.
The program opened with a group of songs by Dwight Fiske—"The Bird,” “Night-time, Day-time,” “Open, Open,” “Sleep,” “Mary and I” and “Shadow March”—delightfully interpreted by Dorothy Fox, soprano.
Fay Foster’s group—comprising “Dusk in June,” “My Menagerie,” “Sleep, Little Child. Go to Sleep,” “Secret Languages” and “When Lovers Part”—was rendered with sincerity, dramatic fervor and warmth by Pauline Jennings, soprano. Miss Foster preceded each of her numbers with a few appropriate remarks.
Mabel Wood Hill, who, like Miss Foster, gave descriptions of her songs, presented “Ebb Tide,” “Snow in the Hills,” “Alone,” 'Old English Lullaby” and “The Gull.” She had the assistance of Lotta Madden, soprano, who sang charmingly and infused much warmth into her work.
The closing group was by Elliott Schenk and comprised “A Parting,” “The Deep Sea Pearl,” “Panfilo’s Song,” “I Turn My Eyes, Oh Love, To Thee,” “Love Song of the Nightingale” and “Over the Sea to Skye.” Lionel Storr, bass baritone, interpreted these songs masterfully and gained for himself sincere applause.
After the conclusion of the program, George E. Shea, president of the New York Singing Teachers’ Association, thanked the composers and assisting artists for the treat offered.
Warren Ballad Concerts at Carnegie
Frederick Warren, organizer and director of the Frederick Warren Ballad Concerts, which have been a feature of the concert season in New York for the past three years, announces that their success calls for a larger auditorium and that next winter they will move to Carnegie Hall. The series will consist of six concerts on Saturday evenings, beginning November 4 and ending April 14, with a possibility of some extra matinee concerts. As heretofore, Mr. Warren will enlist the servicas of only the best artists, and the programs are to be made up exclusively of numbers in English.
Six Engagements in Two Weeks for Bryars
Mildred Bryars, contralto, who recently returned from filling engagements in Kansas and paying a brief visit to her home in St. Louis, has a busy spring ahead. April 22 she sang at Flushing with the glee club and on April 25 with the Choral Society at Lowell. April 29 she will appear at the Allentown Festival; May 3, at Rutgers College; 5, at Providence, R. I., with the glee club, and 6, at the Newark Festival. Miss Bryars is also engaged to sing with the New York Symphony Orchestra at Chautauqua next August.
Herbert C. Peabody. Eight well known local singers participated, with Mabel E. Sheddon at the piano.
Neighboring cities and towns have been enjoying various musical events of interest during the season now drawing to a close, the musical spirit of Fitchburg being reflected to a considerable extent throughout the section. In the adjoining city of Leominster, the Men’s League of the Pilgrim Congregational Church has presented a fine series of concerts by Boston artists, which closed on February 15 with a concert by the Pilgrim Male Quartet; the monthly Sunday evening vesper services at the First Unitarian Church have brought many well known Boston and Worcester artists to the city; The Thursday Musical Club presented Anne Roselle, soprano, and Maurice Dambois, cellist, both of New York, in a joint recital at City Hall on January 20., The Employes’ Benefit Association of the Viscoloid Company offered an unusually successful Sunday afternoon concert on March 19 when Arthur Brooke’s Symphony Players, including fourteen members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, rendered a fine program, assisted by Edith Weye, mezzo contralto, and Kathryn Perkins, harpist.
The Community Chorus of Ashburnham made its initial appearance in Fairbanks Hall in that town on February 25, under the direction of Mrs. Harold White. The program was miscellaneous, closing with the cantata, “The Building of the Ship.” The soloists were Beulah Garside of Athol, soprano; Olive Thatcher of Athol, contralto; Harold White of Ashburnham, tenor; Carrol Balcom. of Athol, baritone, and Lucia Hutchins of Fitchburg, reader. Daisy Sawtelle of Ashburnham was the accompanist.
C. C. M.
Marie Stapleton Murray Sings in Danbury
Marie Stapleton Murray sang the soprano role of the oratorio “Elijah” when it was given by the Community Chorus at Danbury, Conn., Sunday afternoon, April 2. She was one of the visiting artists from New York, and was enthusiastically greeted by the large audience, her charming stage presence and sympathetic treatment of the role immediately winning favor with her hearers. She was first heard in a selection from Costa’s “Eli,” “I Will Extol Thee.” The Danbury Evening News commented thus the following day: “Mrs. Murray’s singing is marked with a great deal of style and finish. Her notes are clear and round and of a beautiful lyric quality.”
Margel Gluck Receiving Many Dates
The Betty Tillotson Concert Bureau is having unusual success with the young artist, Margel Gluck, violinist, who is now under her management. Miss Gluck recently returned from Europe after many years of study and concertizing on the continent and in England. Miss Gluck enjoyed a long concert tour as the assisting artist to Louisa Tetra-zinni, and for two years she was soloist with John Philip Sousa on his tour throughout the United States and England. Miss Gluck has been booked for a concert tour in Canada for the early fall.
FITCHBURG’S UNIVERSITY
EXTENSION CONCERTS ENJOYED
Other Items of Interest
Fitchburg, Mass., April 15.—The local course of the state department of University Extension in “Appreciation of Music” has attracted so large an average attendance that it has been decided to extend the series of meetings and lessons from the usual course of six weeks to ten weeks, the class meeting in Chamber of Commerce Hall on Tuesday afternoons. The enrollment is slightly over 100 and the attendance at the four lessons already given has been perfect. Henry L. Gideon of Boston is the instructor. The supplementary series of four additional meetings will open on April 11.
Addie (Kathans) Geveland, wife of E. E. Cleveland and a well known teacher of mandolin and banjo in Fitchburg for the past thirty years, died at her home in this city on March 21, after a long illness.
Herbert C. Peabody Presents Lenten Organ Recitals.
In accordance with his annual custom, Herbert C. Peabody, organist and chorister at Christ Episcopal Church, is presenting a series of Lenten organ recitals at the church on Friday afternoons during Lent which are being attended and enjoyed by large congregations. Solos and quartets by local vocalists add to the pleasures of each service. Those who have already appeared as assisting artists are Dorothy Parks and Edith Congram Dole, sopranos; Florence M. Hersom and Mrs. Leroy Tucker, contraltos; Henry J. Clancy, tenor, and Herman S. Cushing, baritone.
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The Neptune. Singing Society, a large group of Swedish speaking musicians from Gardner, Mass., assisted by Elsa Nordstrom of Worcester, violinist; Helen Quigley of Gardner, soprano, with Olivia Johnson, also of Gardner, pianist, gave a concert at the Swedish Lutheran Church, on the evening of March 17, which was enjoyed by a large audience, including many music lovers in addition to the people and friends of the local church. Miss Nordstrom proved an unusually talented young violinist. The program also included a duet by Rudolph Enstrom and Edwin Lind, of the club.
The weekly rehearsals of the Fitchburg Choral Society have been made more than ordinarily interesting this season through the use of a double quartet from the chorus in preparing certain sections of the choral works to be presented at the coming festival. This group of singers includes Alice Wellington Lyon and Katharine Smith Fales, sopranos; Mrs. Leroy Tucker and Mrs. Arthur Sanderson, contraltos; Henry J. Clancy and Arthur M. Ferson, tenors; and Herman S. Cushing and John H. Longden, basses.
At the meeting of the Fitchburg Woman’s Club on March 15, the music department presented a program comprising excerpts from the choral works to be presented at the coming Fitchburg Music Festival, accompanied by papers explaining the several works, written and read by
ISIDORE BRAGGIOTTI
The Florentine Vocal Authority
In response to an insistent demand, Mr. Braggiotti has decided to remain in this country for the present and will continue to divide his time between his New York and Boston studios.
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