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April 27, 1922
nished an hour of music from Brahms, Chopin and his own compositions.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, “The Mikado,” was given two performances by the students of the Alameda High School March 18. All the roles were cleverly acted and the singing was good. The 100 piece orchestra was under the direction of W. I. Stratton. Hazel B. Hunter directed the singing. Richard Heinz was stage manager.
The Scotch violinist, Maurice Levell, rendered several solos recently at the Twenty-third Street Baptist Church at the regular evening service.
An afternoon of oratorio music was enjoyed by the music history section of the Adelphia Club, Alameda. The life and oratorios of Mendelssohn were reviewed by Mrs. El-bridge Gerry Smith. Selections were sung by Mrs. W. H. Sellender, soprano; Mrs. Gwyn Tebault, contralto; John Nicolson, baritone; Dixon Ervine, tenor; Mrs. John Hol-lingshead, Mrs. Wallace Meracle, duets; Mrs. T. A. Dunlop, Mrs. William Costello, Mrs. Tebault, trios.
Dorothy Talbot, coloratura soprano, was recently the assisting artist to Laura Griffing in her initial appearance^ as a violinist before a San Francisco audience. The recital was given at the St. Francis Hotel.
Members of the artist class at the Oakland Conservatory of Music, Florencia Esquerra and Luna Reyes, pianist and violinist, gave a program of much versatility a short time ago.
A violin program was given by Robert Rourke at the Hotel Oakland. Those who played were Margaret Cornell, Maurice Levell, Mildred Mitzman, Dean Donaldson, Bernard Hillagan, Hazel B. Hunter, Armine Martin, Mor-raine Buzan, Grace Reinle.
Pupils of Eva Garcia were heard in recital March 4 at Palm Court Hall, Piedmont.
Katherine Coolidge, soprano, and Luther Marchant, baritone, were presented in a pleasing and artistic song recital at the Hotel Oakland, by Zannette W. Potter, March 7. They made a favorable impression by their excellent work.
The regular monthly organ recital at Mills College, under the direction of William W. Carruth, instructor in organ at the college, was given March 7, when he was assisted by Emil Huske, French horn soloist.
At Ebell Hall, on March 7, a concert was given under the auspices of the Alameda County Music Teachers’ Association. Those taking part were Marie Milliette, soprano; Eva Gruninger Atkinson, contralto, with Edgar Thorpe at the piano; Marian Nicholson, violinist, accompanied by Helen Rust, and Edwin Carlberg pianist.
Miss Austin, a New York violinist visiting here, was presented at the Americus Talent Club February 24. Also appearing were Irving Krick, boy pianist; M. Rowe, cellist; Marjorie Stebbins and Helen Goodfellow (little girl pianists), and Rosalie Harrison.
The London Follies, with Harry Tate and a bevy of beautiful English chorus girls, gave a four nights’ show at the Municipal Auditorium Theater, commencing February 27.
Mme. M. Collaway-Byron, soprano, was heard recently at the Municipal Auditorium Theater in a recital for the Home for Aged Colored People.
Alexander McCurdy, Jr., aged sixteen, pupil of Wallace A. Sabin, gave an organ recital at the Trinity Episcopal Church. He was assisted by Ruth Waterman Anderson, contralto.
Seventy-five guests enjoyed the recital given March 17 at the Henshaw Building by pupils of the American Conservatory of Music. The opening number was given by twelve instrumentalists, all under twelve years of age, and a closing ensemble was played by fifteen students in the intermediate grades.
A program of social and musical activities is being planned for the fourth annual convention of the California Federation of Music Clubs, to be held in San Francisco, April 30 to May 3, inclusive, with the San Francisco Musical Club and the San Francisco Music Teachers’ Association as hosts.
A program of miscellaneous numbers by members of the Etude Club was given March 13, when Alma Berglund Winchester, soprano, was chairman of the day.
Jackie Stuart, violinist, and Harold Metcalf, pianist, each eight years old, were presented recently by Gertrude Sutter Altman in concert at the home of John L. Metcalf.
Helen Valentine presented her thirteen year old pupil, Blanche Louise Rochau, in a piano recital a couple of weeks ago.
A musicale by the Rubini Club, composed of pupils of Ruth Bird Nickel, took place on March 11 at Ebell Hall, when a miscellaneous program was rendered, including vocal and instrumental numbers.	E. A. T.
SPOKANE ACCLAIMS GALLI-CURCI
Spokane, Wash., March 25—The Galli-Curci concert was a great success. She sang to a capacity house at the State Armory. Over three thousand people were present to hear the famous prima donna, who was at her best. She introduced her own cadenzas with great ease and beauty, winning tremendous applause, especially in “Lo, Here the Gentle Lark,” and that favorite old air, “II Bacio,” by Arditi, written especially as an exhibition song for the once famous Patti. The rippling trills and wonderful staccati brought down the house. In the second group she again delighted her audience with rapid Spanish and French airs, in which her command of the legato was also plainly discernible. She ended her program by singing a portion of the “Mad Scene” from “Lucia,” with flute obligato by M. Berenguer, who also assisted in two of the other solos. His work in conjunction with Mme. Galli-Curci’s singing was enjoyed by the audience, and his solos were well rendered. At the piano, Homer Samuels accompanied in his usual splendid manner.	D. B. K.
Sacramento Notes
Sacramento, Cal., March 20—The Saturday Club presented the contralto, Sophie Braslau, to members at the Clunie Theater, Friday evening. It was one of the finest occasions experienced in many a day. Seldom do we hear such a voice and such artistry. The accompanist was Ethel Cave-Cole, a pianist of fine ability.	A. W. O.
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OAKLAND HEARS SOPHIE BRASLAU IN A DELIGHTFUL CONCERT
Mills College Pageant—Music Teachers’ Announcements— Notes
Oakland, Cal., March 25.—A memorable program, interpreted by a memorable voice, brought joy and enthusiasm to the crowded audience at the Municipal Opera House, March 13, when Sophie Braslau, contralto of the Metropolitan Opera, filled the bill for the sixth event of the Artists’ Concert Series, under the management of Miss Z. W. Potter and auspices of the Music Section of the Oakland Teachers’ Association. Many of the songs were heard in Oakland for the first time, others were already favorites; but Miss Braslau had the art, the heart and the personality requisite to make of her recital one of the most brilliant of the present season. Ethel Cave-Cole, at the piano, accompanied with a sympathetic effectiveness and style of unusual charm.
Mills College Pageant Artistic and Financial Triumph.
Capacity houses saw the two presentations of the benefit performance, “A Dream of Fair Women,” _ staged recently at the Municipal Opera House for the Mills College one million-dollar endowment fund. Talented groups of dancers, under the general direction of Ruth St. Denis, were features of the program. The solo dances of the great artist herself elicited rounds of applause. The pageant took the form of three consecutive showings of the development of the social side of women’s life from Early Egyptian days, through Greek and Roman, and in the third episode from Elizabethan times up to the modern. The final act was a procession and grouping upon the stage of several hundred students of Mills College in the various costumes (or gowns) of their activities. Particular tribute was given to the dancing of Lucile Cavanaugh Leimert, who danced an old-fashioned gavotte with Dr. Mitchell as partner. Numbers by the Wednesday Morning Choral were effectively introduced under Mrs. Newton A. Koser, Paul Steindorff conducting.
Music Teachers’ Announcements.
The piano section of the Alameda County Music Teachers’ Association met on March 5, when Cantor Reuben R. Rinder, of Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, addressed the meeting. His topic was “An Historical Presentation of the Development of Jewish Music from the Earliest Biblical Times to the Present Day,” with vocal and instrumental illustrations. Grace Becker, cello, and Mrs. Del Valle, accompanist, were heard in solos. March 5 a meeting of the student section was arranged by the Misses Simpson and McDonald. March 12 the violin section met at the studio of Signor de Grassi, who gave violin selections. March 14 the harmony section met at Alice Egger’s studio; Albert Elkus addressed the meeting. March 20 the organ and vocal sections combined programs at the First Congregational Church; William W. Carruth played a program of organ numbers, and H. B. Pasmore gave a talk on Hawaiian Music.” March 26 the piano section met at the studio of Grace Jones, who read a paper entitled “The Psychology of the Talented Child”; Miss Wellendorf played a group of modern piano solos, and Virginia Graham sang a group of songs.
Oakland Schools’ Music Director Busy in South.
Glenn Woods, director of Music in the Oakland schools, who was “loaned” to the State Board of Education for a survey of the schools of the state with reference to their attention to music, is spending the first weeks of his in-vestigation in the south. He was first in San Diego, then in Imperial Valley, and more recently in and about Los Angeles. From there he expects to work steadily north-ward, occupying about four months in his task.
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Catherine Urner, assisted by Mildred Turner, pianist, and W. G. Corlett, flutist, gave a concert recently at Mills College, under the auspices of the Mills College Music Club. The program was open to the public. Miss Urner is a member of the faculty of the vocal music department, and her own compositions were featured on the program.
Formerly of this city, Estelle Reed has returned to the home of her mother after new triumphs in the south as premier danseuse. For the past four years she has been associated with Theodore Kosloff, the Russian ballet master, in the capacity of premier character dancer. Among the many Kosloff productions in which Miss Reed starred was the widely known and enormously successful ballet, ‘ Le-ginska.”
The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day by a musical and literary program took place on March 15, when the following took part in the program: Supervisor_JohnT. Mullins, address; Leonard Hickson, cornet; Lillian McCarthy, hornpipe; Dennis Sheerin, Irish songs; Constantino Branko, accordeon; Mrs. E. J. Brown, vocal; Robert Robertson, specialties; Marion Smith, fancy dancing; Metropolitan Quartet songs; John Taffoli, accordeon; Alice Rappold, specialties; soldiers’ song, by the audience; oration, Hon. Frank M. Silva.
After an absence of one year, during which time he enjoyed a needed vacation, Leon Kowalski, veteran musical director of the Oakland Orpheum, returned to that theater last Sunday with a new orchestra. He succeeded Claude M Sweeten, who, with his musicians, was transferred to the new Junior Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. With the opening of the Oakland Orpheum, fifteen years ago, Kowalski was appointed to the position of musical director. He is a talented musician and a leader of unusual ability and distinction.
The first drama forum of the Little Theater Club of Oakland was held recently at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium. Dr. C. Aronovici, of the extension department of the Uni-versity of California, spoke on “The Little Theater and Its Purposes,” etc. Sergei Mihailov, Russian pianist, fur-
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