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Sachs, leader. At the piano Mrs. Van Ness was the accompanist for the soloists.
The fourth organ recital in the Lenten series at St. Mark’s Church was given March 23 with Frederick King as soloist. These recitals are drawing large audiences and due credit must be given Oscar J. Fox, organist of the church, and his choir, for having sponsored them.
Harvey Hindermyer, tenor, and the Dann Trio (Rosalynd Davis, violinist; Felice Dann, cornetist, and Blanche Dann, pianist), Edison artists, appeared in recital March 27 under the auspices of the Evening News. Mr. Hindermyer has a voice of flowing lyric quality, good breath control, splendid interpretation and pleasing personality, and his enunciation was a delight. He sang numbers by Rubinstein, Bostelmann, Flotow, Bartlett, O’Hara, Russell, Broadwood; Haile, Burleigh and Rimsky-Korsakoff, and a ballad in which his record for the Edison re-creation was compared. _ Encores were necessary for each group. The Dann Trio played numbers by Schubert, Tschaikowsky, Martini, MacDowell, Raff and Brahms, and “Love Song” (Nevin) in connection
her initial appearance before the public with well deserved success, and Claiborne Brister, tenor. The concert was given before a crowded house.	P. S.
Portland, Me.—(See letter on another page.)
San Antonio, Tex., April 5.—The San Antonio Musical Club, Mrs. Lewis Krams Beck, president, entertained with a luncheon March 20 in honor of Lois Farnsworth, soprano, who has just returned from study in New York. After a short visit here she will leave for Italy to continue her work. Musical numbers at the luncheon were given by Mrs. Robert Carter and Mrs. Eugene Staffel; Miss Farnsworth also contributed a group. Mrs. Nat Goldsmith accompanied both Mrs. Carter and Miss Farnsworth.
The Tuesday Musical Club gave a program at the Central Christian Church for the regular meeting March 21, with Mrs. E. C. Van Ness in charge. Those who contributed were Mrs. L. L. Marks, soprano; Edward McKenzie, baritone; L. W. Dyer, cornetist; Mrs. Van Ness, organist, and the Tuesday Musical Octet (eight violins), Mrs. Edward
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WILLEM WILLEKE
Violoncello Virtuoso, assisting
at BLUE HILL, MAINE
from July 1st to August 31st, 1922
A Building has been erected, especially designed, containing Social Meeting and Recital Rooms for Ensemble playing, also a Music Library and a Hall for Concerts and Lectures for the accommodation of students.-
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Their program was diversified. “A Valse,” by Rachmaninoff, proved a favorite with the audience. Each artist is a pianist of marked capability and they play well together. A large number of young music students were enabled to hear the concert by reason of a special reduction in price for their benefit.
The Fort Wayne Lutheran Choral Society gave a special song service April 6 in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, under the auspices of the city Walther League, assisted by Herman Hahn, organist. Three chorales from Bach’s “Passion According to St. Matthew” were rendered. On the program were several numbers from Handel’s “Messiah.” The solo parts and recitatives were carried by Anna Lange, alto; Selma Rodenbeck, soprano, and Herman Kaade.
The Sigma Beta Musical Society, a new organization, gave a concert April 7 at the Elks’ Auditorium. The program included piano solos by Harry Swift, who played a Rubinstein valse; Helen Kettler, “Romance” (Sibelius) and “Alla Mazurka” (Nimerowsky) ; Mary Van Auken, “Un Sospiro” (Liszt) ; Ruth Lane-May, “Polonaise” (Chopin), and Marguerite Hitzeman, “Fantasy” (Chopin). Misses Kettler and Hitzeman played a two piano_ arrangement of “Finlandia,” by Sibelius. Helen Braun, violinist, gave the “Pierrot Serenade” (June), and vocal numbers were rendered by Flora Peters and Willa Lower.
The thirteenth annual musicale by students of the Fort Wayne Bible Training School was heard April II at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Prof. C. A. Gerber, musical director, conducted the choruses. Other numbers were a piano solo by R. Hieber and a song by a male quartet composed of C. Gerig, K. Klopfenstein, C. Birkey and S. Witmer.
The Mandolin Orchestra' of the European School of Music gave a concert at the Third Presbyterian Church. W. Richard Barr is director. The program was varied, offering both light and classical numbers. Edna Buuck was heard in guitar solos.
Hugh Porter, organist, was heard in recital March 29 at Wayne Street M. E. Church, of which his father is pastor. Mr. Porter started to play the pipe organ at the age of fourteen, and soon thereafter became a member of the American Guild of Organists. He is now a member of the faculty at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Schubert and Mendelssohn were the older composers represented on his program. Elgar’s military march, “Pomp and Circumstance,” was a stirring number. Leroy Hamp, tenor, also of Chicago, assisted with song groups, accompanied by Leah Cohen-Malay.
The European School of Music recently purchased the site and building formerly owned and occupied by the Fort Wayne Art School, and will remodel the same for its permanent home. It has augmented its present faculty by three, engaging Emilie Bouillet, who has successfully taught violin here for a number of years; for the piano department, Carl Bilby, a pupil of Oliver Willard Pierce, Indianapolis, and of Godowsky’s master class held in Chicago last summer and E. J. Gatwood, who has had wide training and experience, and is at present assistant supervisor of music in the public schools.
A music contest was arranged recently for the seven grammar grades of the local schools. A list of twenty-five compositions was prepared by a committee working under the direction of the state board of education for the contests in the schools of Indiana. The contest took place in the auditorium of the high school, and included selections from Verdi, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven, Handel, Wagner, Chopin, Rossini, Dvorak, and other famous composers.	E. W. H.
Lewiston, Me.—(See letter on another page.)
Los Angeles, Cal.—(See “Music on the Pacific Slope.”)
Lindsborg, Kan.—(See letter on another page.)
Miami, Fla., April 7.׳—Under the direction of Mme. Vilona-Hall, the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra gave its fourth annual concert recently. The program opened with the grand march from “Tannhäuser” and included works by Schumann, Liszt, Delibes, Rossini and Victor Herbert. The soloists were Edward Boles, who gave Ovide Musin’s “Mazurka de Concert”; Dan Shroeder, who played Kreis-ler’s “Liebesfreud”; Adelaide Sterling Clark, who gave an aria from “Samson and Delilah,” and Mme. Hall herself who played the nocturne in E flat (Chopin-Sarasate) and mazurka of Zarzycki. The audience included the musical elite of Miami, among whom was Mana-Zucca, who is most enthusiastic over the work accomplished, declaring “that the city of Miami should extend a vote of thanks to Mme. Vilona-Hall, for the magnificent work of this or-
Members of the Philharmonic Orchestra are Louise Tarboux, Juva Rumbaugh, Dan Shroeder, Grace Rum-baugh, Bob Voigt, Grace Winters, Edward Boles, Sidney Segall Ruth Zion, Louise Morton, Thelma Peterson, Howard McClave, Frances Rambo, Florence Higgins, Jennie Nubeck, Janince McLendon, Audrey Hall, Annette Ullendorff, Dorothy Marsh, Fred Plikansky Margaret Radell, Harriet McCreely, Junior Cooper, Theodore Gala-tis Mrs. Thomas, Jacob Zion, Charlie Sims, Henry Simonite, Mildred Noble, Kenneth Berry Montgomery Atwater, Mildred Henacker, Alice Davis, Clyde Ferrara, Wathen Somers, Marian Creager, John Moore Evelyn Wilson, Elmer Berguend, Clarence Gunn, Pearl Labelle, Maxine Flener and Bernard Dupont.
Milledgeville, Ga., April 13,—Tuesday evening Juanita Sumer ford gave an excellent piano recital at Georgia Normal and Industrial College, assisted by Mrs. Longmo, soprano. The young graduate’s program was a fine one, ranging from Beethoven’s sonata qp. 26 to Bach s prelude XXI and ending with Haydn s Gipsy Rondo. P. G.
New Orleans, La.—(See letter on another page.)
Petersburg, Va., April 5.—An attractive recital was given in the Washington Street M. E. Church on March §3 when the pupils of Joseph Whittemore gave a program of sacred music accompanied by Paul Saumer at the orSatI• Mr. Whittemore sang a number also and Mr. Saumer played three selections on the organ. The pupils who participated were Vivian Boyd, Effie Neaves, Anna Mae King, Josephine Smith, Hugh Alley, John Patterson and Sam Nunnally.
Virginia Lee Bowman Hall was presented in recital at St Joseph’s Hall April 3 by Forest Dabney Carr, of Richmond. Assisting were Marie Bowman, soprano, who made