MUSICAL COURIER
April 27, 1922
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Floyd Jennings, tenor, and Ed Werner, baritone, while Joseph Ragan is organist. The numbers included Stevenson’s “Behold, Thou Shalt Call a Nation” and “Christ in Flanders” (Stephens).	P. G.
Gegna an “All Season” Cellist
Following close upon the announcement that Max Gegna was engaged as soloist for the present spring tour of the Russian Symphony Orchestra comes the news that this cello virtuoso has contracted for still another concert tour of ten weeks, beginning the latter part of June. His list of recital appearances so far this season embraces forty-three
MAX GEGNA, cellist.
cities throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Mississippi and Virginia.
The cities in which Mr. Gegna will be starred on the Russian Symphony Orchestra’s tour are Wilmington, Columbia, S. C.; Tuscaloosa, Meridian, Columbus, Hampton, Norfolk, Rock3r Mount and Selma, Ala. He returns to New York on May 18.
Opening this season early in October and playing without any intervals of rest of more than a few days, and continuing to concertize until September, is a notable tesimony of his wide popularity. Gegna may truthfully be termed an “all-season cellist.”
Benefit Performance of “La Boheme”
A special performance of Puccini’s “La Bohême” will be given at the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday evening, May 6, under the auspices of the High Twelve Club of New York, which is the well known business club of over 5,000 Masons, with its own building situated at 33 Cortlandt street, New York City.
This performance takes the form of a gala Masonic night at the Opera House, along similar lines of the Masonic Opera Festival held last year during the first week of May. The proceeds will be donated to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Hospital.
The cast of the performance of “La Bohême” will be headed by the ever popular Frances Alda, and will include Mario Chamlee, Leon Rothier, Grace Anthony, Millo Picco. The conductor will be Giuseppe Bamboschek.
Marione-Springer Nuptials
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Mathers Barnes have announced the marriage of their daughter, Edna Marione, to Thomas Grant Springer, at Rock Ridge Hall, Wellesley Hills, Boston, Mass., on Easter Sunday. Mme. Marione is president of the New York State Federation and has appeared publicly as a singer. Mr. Stringer is the well known author and dramatic critic. Following a short honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Springer will return to New York for the State Convention on May 1, after which they will go to the Maine woods, remaining there until October 1. After that date they will be at home at 20 West Fifty-seventh street.
Stinson-Rybner Engagement
Not a musical, but a matrimonial engagement is that of Dagmar DeC. Rybner, the pianist and composer, only daughter of Professor Rybner, formerly of Columbia University. She has had important appearances as solo-pianist at the Metropolitan Opera House Sunday evening concerts, at Columbia University, etc., and her songs, too, have some vogue. Her fiance is Joseph Whitla Stinson, attorney, with degrees also in architecture and engineering, member of the Metropolitan Club, etc. The wedding day is not yet fixed.
Kathryn Meisle Sings in Brooklyn
On April 21 Kathryn Meisle, the contralto, made her first Brooklyn appearance as soloist with the Bremervoerder Mannerchor at the Academy of Music. Assisted by Evelyn Phelan, pianist, Miss Meisle sang with much success the “Una voce poco fa” aria from “The Barber of Seville” and a group of songs among which was the late Charles T. Griffes’ “By a Lonely Forest Pathway” and “Love Went a-Riding,” by Frank Bridge. Miss Meisle also sang several encores.
the principal arias being sung by Mrs. Buron Carlton, soprano; George McNulty, tenor, and Charles Chalmors, baritone.
One of the most interesting concerts of the season was that of Efrem Zimbalist and Alma Gluck.
The Emory University Glee Club made its final local appearance at Agnes Scott College, on March 28. The season has been one of the most successful in this organization's history, the club having visited twenty of the larger cities in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, covering more than 3,000 miles. Forty men under the direction of Dr. Malcolm H. Dewey compose the glee and mandolin clubs.
The Atlanta Music Club’s program on March 29, at Egleston Hall, was one of the best of the season, and while the attendance was not so large as at some previous recitals, this lack was made up by appreciative interest. Mrs. Benjamin Elsas was chairman of the program, which included her own offering of “Shadowings” (Harold Vincent Milligan) ; Annabelle Wood’s rendition of “The Lake at Evening” (Charles Griffes) ; “American Polonaise” (John Alden Carpenter) ; “Life” (Pearl Curran) ; “Retreat” (Frank La Forge) and “There Is no Death” (Geoffrey O’Hara), offered by Willie Shields, and “The Greatest Miracle of All” (Guion), sung by Mrs. Bartow Smith. The accompanists were Eda Bartholomew and Ethel Beyer.
One of the most delightful of pupils’ recitals of the season was given by Anna Mae Farmer at Phillips and Crew Recital Hall, March 24. Among the more ambitious numbers offered were the “Triumphal March” from “Aida” by Francis De Vitte and Fay Hatcher, and Chaminade’s “Air de Ballet,” played by Bertha Gibson and “Procession of the Leprechauns” (C. Becket Williams), played by Allie Goodwin. A novelty was the appearance of six-year-old Laura Thompson, who, after only one month of study, played “The Chase” (Hannah Smith) admirably. The other pupils who took part in the recital were Margaret Castles, Elizabeth Patterson, Allie Stone, Inez Pergantis, Aleen Dry, Evelyn Baron, Dorothy Price, Hannah Baron, Mary Louise Parham, Kathleen Callis, Dorothy Wood.
The radio-phone concert idea has taken Atlanta by storm. One of the first to be broadcasted from Atlanta was given by the Atlanta Journal, WSB, which was heard as far north as Vincennes, Ind., according to a letter received by that paper. On March 27 the Yaarab Chanters, Atlanta’s noted vocalists (who have been selected from among sixty-nine Shrine musical organizations to open the imperial council, A. A. N. N. M. S., next June in San Francisco), were the features of the Journal’s concert. Some fine numbers were on the program, including “Invictus,” sung by Frank Cun-dell, and "Yaarab Melody,” sung by the chanters. The personnel of this organization includes Director Frank A. Cundell; piano accompanists, Joseph Ragan, R. P. Tinkham and C. F. Von Gunten; first tenors, C. J. Aldred, C. V. Callaway, Paul Crutchfield, F. A. Cundell, C. S. Durham, T. A. Martin, R. G. Satterwhite and C. W. Wall; baritones, R. M. Abernathy, W. W. Bateman, W. N. Bearden, Charles Chalmers, J. T. Hoffman, R. P. Tinkham, Carl F. Von Gunten; Second tenors, P. L. Blackshear, C. S. Buford, G. W. Grant, C. F. Hoke, W. F. Ison, Joseph Ragan, I. M. Bame and C. L. Withers; Bass, G. R. Beck, E. T. Booth, F. W. Burr, W. J. Hubbard, C. V. Logan, J. H. Mullin, W. E. Quillian, J R. Walraven, LeRoy Webb and W. R. Wilson.
On April 2, a concert offered by Enrico Leide, director, and the Howard Theater Orchestra, received much praise. Among the numbers were “The Rosary,” cello solo, by Enrico Leide; Gounod’s “Serenade,” played by Perry Bremer, one of the finest cornetists in the south; Tschai-kowsky’s “Andante,” played by Charles Gesser, concert master of the orchestra, and Handel’s beautiful "Largo,” by the entire forty-piece orchestra.
A radio-phone concert of sacred songs was presented by the North Avenue Presbyterian Church choir, under the auspices of the Atlanta Journal. The choir is composed of Margaret Battle, soprano; Bertha Sims Kimmel, contralto;
ATLANTA SHIFTS OPERA
PROGRAMS TO SUIT STARS
Other Notes of Interest
Atlanta, Ga., April 1.—Announcement has just been made by the Music Festival Association of several changes in tire program for Grand Opera Week, April 24 to 29. “The Love of the Three Kings,” with Lucrezia Bori, and “The “Oracle” have been changed to Saturday night, and the twin-bill, “The Secret of Suzanne” and “Pagliacci,” will be sung Thursday afternoon.
Another change, this time of personnel, is in deference to the expressed wishes of many opera-lovers, that Louis Hasselman would conduct one or more operas here. The management announces that Mr. Hasselman will take the place of !Mr. Bamboschek in conducting “Carmen” and "Faust.” The sad death of Laurenti necessitates a recasting of his roles in three of the operas—Morales in “Carmen,” Manfredo in “The Love of ■the Three Kings" and Valentine in “Faust.” It is not yet known who will take his place.
The series of operalogues sponsored both by the Woman’s Club (which are given each Tuesday at the Howard Theater) and by the Joseph Habersham Chapter, D. A. R., at Cable Hall, are doing splendid service in familiarizing all with the operas to be heard. The D. A. R. program for March 28 was “Loreley,” and the singers were Margaret Baker Battle and Clifford Durham, while Edith Bartholomew, pianist, and Mrs. Benjamin Elsas, reader, completed the program. The next of this series will be “The Oracle, new to Atlantians, interpreted by Wilford Watters, baritone; John Hoffman, basso (who leaves soon to make his home in New York, after several years’ study in Cincinnati) ; Elizabeth Andrews, soprano; Annabelle Wood, accompanist, and Mrs. Ulric Atkinson, reader.
When this same opera was read at the Howard, Tuesday morning, April 4, under the auspices of the Woman’s Club, Mrs. Earl Sherwood Jackson read it in Chinese costume,
EDGAR
FOWLSTON
Basso Cantante
Engaged to sing the Christ part in
“St. Matthew Passion”
With
New York Oratorio Society May 4th
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