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Special Music Week Programs (April 30 to May 6) Not Listed in This Department
Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28
Pavlowa, evening ...............Metropolitan Opera House
Saturday, April 29
Samson and D’Antalffy, afternoon ............Aeolian Hall
The Porta Povitch Ballet, evening............Aeolian Hall
Pavlowa, evening ...............Metropolitan Opera House
American Music Guild ..................MacDowell Gallery
Sunday, April 30
Florence Stern, violin recital, evening......Carnegie Hall
Louis J. Cornn’s Junior Orchestra, afternoon. .Aeolian Hall
Alexis Kudisch Ensemble, evening ............Town Hall
Philharmonic Orchestra, evening.Metropolitan Opera House George Reimherr, song recital, evening.. .Nathonal Theater
Monday, May 1
Alice Nielsen, song recital, evening.........Aeolian Hall
Tuesday, May 2
Gigli, song recital, evening ................Carnegie Hall
Amy Grant, opera recital, afternoon..........Aeolian Hall
Wednesday, May 3
Leopold Godowsky, piano recital, evening... .Carnegie Hall Thursday, May 4
Calve, song recital, evening ................Carnegie Hall
Radio Concerts for Herma Menth
Herma Menth, the popular pianist, will play at the Fort Worth Radio Station on May 1. May 12 she is booked to appear in Newark, N. J., at a Westinghouse radio concert, which will be broadcasted to 10,000 receiving stations.
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ENGAGED AS SOLOIST FOR SPRING TOUR WITH THE RUSSIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APRIL 27 TO MAY 15
CONCERTS AND JOINT RECITALS FOR 1922-1923
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“Altogether a fine artist.”—N. Y. World.
New York
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evening, May 2. Mr. Gigli will be assisted by Bessye Rosenthal, lyric coloratura soprano. The program will consist of operatic selections and groups of English and Italian songs.
Campanari to Teach in Cincinnati
The management of the College of Music of Cincinnati announces that Giuseppe Campanari, distinguished baritone and voice teacher, will again come to Cincinnati this summer as guest teacher in the summer course to be given at that institution. Mr. Campanari has a host of well known students who are now prominent on the concert and operatic stages. Last year, when he inaugurated these special classes in Cincinnati, he attracted a steadily widening clientele and for the coming summer already a large number of reservations have been made.
The College of Music of Cincinnati will begin its summer course on Monday, June 19, and continue it for six weeks, ending July 29. All the departments of the noted institution will be open during the summer. Among the comparative newcomers will be a brilliant pianist who recently came from Vienna and who has been added to the regular faculty of the College of Music. She is Use Huebner, a medal graduate of the Staats Akademie in Vienna. She is also a protégée of Leschetizky and an exponent of his theories. She has played considerably in concert and had the rare distinction among the younger generation of playing the Grieg concerto under the composer’s own direction in Prague. It was one of her very first public appearances, as it proved to be one of the last of Grieg’s public appearances. Miss Huebner has already established herself as a pianist of rare attainments, musical thoroughness and modern pedagogic ideas in the short time she has been in Cincinnati. In addition to her private work she will also teach the repertory classes.
A six weeks’ course in public school music will also be one of the features, under the direction of Walter H. Aiken, who is head of the music department in the public schools of Cincinnati. This course will be an intensive one and will be so arranged that students who follow it for four consecutive summers will be granted a certificate upon examination. The certificates of the College of Music of Cincinnati carry with them a State pf Ohio certificate without further examination.
Among the other regular members of the faculty who will teach throughout the summer will be Sidney C. Durst, head of the theory and composition department, who will also teach organ ; Frederick J. Hoffmann, Mary Venable, Hazel McHenry Franklin, Irene Carter and Ann Meale in the piano department ; William Morgan Knox among the violin teachers; Walter Heermann, teaching the cello, and B. W. Foley, Giacinto Gorno, Hans Schroeder and Edna Weiler Paulsen among the teachers of voice.
The College of Music of Cincinnati has had the most prosperous year in a long time and contemplates some important additions for next year.
A New York Recital for Alice Nielsen
Alice Nielsen, soprano, who during the past few seasons has been devoting her time to concert work, will be heard in recital in New York, Monday evening, May 1, at Aeolian Hall. Her appearance, coming at the beginning of Music Week, will be one of the outstanding events of this special musical celebration. Miss Nielsen’s program will include numbers from the classic and the romantic German and Italian composers, and others drawn from the best song literature of the French, Scandinavian, Russian and English schools.
Mr. and ]VIrs. Thomas J8.mcs Kelly
Closing Fifth Season with Cincinnati Conservatory of Music as Teachers of Artistic Singing. ::	::

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Cincinnati
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Arthur Rubinstein Under Engles’ Management
The announcement of the return to this country next season of Arthur Rubinstein, the young Polish marvel of the pianoforte, under the business direction of George Engles, will be of importance to local concert managers.
Mr. Rubinstein, like Josef Hofmann, began his career as a child prodigy, first visiting this country some fifteen years ago. Returning in the fullness of his maturity a dozen years later he was hailed variously as a genius of the piano world, a giant and a poet, a marvel of the keyboard and a doer of mighty pianistic deeds.
As a child Rubinstein expressed himself musically even before he could speak. He would imitate street cries and melodies, picking out the tunes on the piano with an accuracy that was uncanny in one of such tender years. From his earliest experiments in music he has exhibited that extraordinary spiritual insight that has since become one of the unexplained characteristics of this young phenomenon’s playing.
Comparing him with Hofmann, Herman Devries, the Chicago critic, declared that his playing was a colossal, solid, profound, technical, physical and musical education of his famous contemporary plus the impetuosity, the dash and daring assurance of his own Polish temperament and the vein of poesy that adds such complex charm to his ־splendid gift.
Rubinstein is reputed to have at his finger-tips the entire literature of the piano, classic and modern. Philip Hale,
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the Boston critic, has written of him that while his technical ability is conspicuous it is not ostentatious and serves the composer gladly. Karleton Hackett adds that this astonishing virtuoso gets into the heart of music and makes it fairly electrifying. Edward C. Moore dubbed him an enthusiast of the keyboard, and declaring him to be a personality as well as a personage, said that he had produced the biggest tone of the season.
Speaking of the poetic conceptions underneath the impressionistic pictures painted by Rubinstein, Max Smith, music critic of the New York American, says that this master interpreter grasps and carries them palpably to the ear. W. J. Henderson, in the New York Sun, describes his technic as prodigious, and H. E. Ivrehbiel, the critic of the New York Tribune, speaks of his lightning speed and marvelous elasticity. Summing up, the late James Gibbons Huneker said that Arthur Rubinstein possesses undeniably quality sufficient to equip half a dozen pianists.
Mr. Engles says that Arthur Rubinstein will sail for■ New York in the early fall and will be available for bookings from October to January.
Nashville’s First Music Week
Nashville (Tenn.) is celebrating its first music week (April 22 to April 29). Nearly seventy-five events were organized by the Nashville Music League to take place during the week. The league is very proud of this accomplishment, for it was done entirely by that organization “without asking anyone for a dollar.” In addition to this special feature the city schools and churches, the county schools, every civic organization, all social clubs, as well as the music clubs are featuring music. In a letter to Elizabeth F. Price, president of the league, Felix Z. Wilson, Mayor of Nashville, promised the co-operation of the city. Mr. Wilson said in part:	“It pleases me to inform your splendid or-
ganization that it shall please the city government to cooperate with you in every way toward making music week in Nashville the success it should and ought to be. . . . If in any other matter the city can co-operate, do not hesitate to let me know.”
Chamlee to Sing for President Harding
Mario Chamlee, the young American tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has received a personal invitation to sing before President Harding at the White House on April 29. This will be the second time that Mr. Chamlee has sung before a President of the United States, as when a soldier of the 77th Division he was the chief soloist at a concert given in Paris during the Peace Conference in honor of President Wilson. On that occasion President Wilson asked that the then Private Chamlee be presented to him, and personally congratulated him on his singing.
Dux Heard in Emporia
Clair Dux gave an interesting program in Emporia, Kan., on April 13. Among her selections were arias from Mozart, Bizet and Verdi, a group of old English songs, some Schubert numbers, and two charming songs by Hageman.
Gigli in Concert Debut
Gigli, Metropolitan Opera tenor, will make his first public concert appearance in New York at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday