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MUSICAL COURIER
May 11, 1922
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McCORMACK OFF FOR ENGLAND
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On Tuesday, May 2, John McCormack and his family sailed from New York on the Aquitania. They will he gone all summer, spending most of the time at a beautiful country estate, Stone in Wold, Devonshire where Mr. McCormack will rest and take things easy, recovering the strength that his severe illness robbed him of.’ The ■photograph above shows, left to right: Mrs. McCormack; Gwen, their daughter; Mr. McCormack, and Cyril, their son. It imll be seen that Mr. McCormack made rapid improvement in the week that elapsed between the time of his first venture out of the house after his illness (shown in last week’s Musical Couriee) and the sailing date. It is good news
that the McCormack voice was in no way affected.
Alice Louise Mertens is meeting with success with her lec-ture_ recitals on music in the Orient by Oriental and Occidental composers.
At the recent session of the Eastern Music Supervisors’ Conference it was voted to affiliate with the National Music Supervisors’ Conference.
Atlanta’s twelfth season of opera by the Metropolitan Opera Company closed on April 29.
Jacques Gordon, violinist, is soon to marry Ruth Jacob-stein, a lawyer.
The New York vocal studios of Theodore Van Yorx will remain open all summer.
The transcontinental tour of the Goldman Concert Band has been postponed.
Suzanne Keener was^ given an ovation when she sang at the Newark Festival last Friday evening.
The Kriens Symphony Club and the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra will appear at Carnegie Hall, May 20.
The eighth annual session of the summer school of church music will be held at Wellesley, Mass., June 26 to July 6.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Clara Clemens sailed for Europe on April 30.
The “Guide du Concert,” Paris, announces the publication of a new work entitled “Camille Saint-Saëns, His Life and His Works.”
The Chicago Opera Association will not be known as the Chicago^ Civic Opera Association next season.
Leon Sametini will hold a master class this summer at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts, Kansas City.
The Boston Symphony “Pop” concerts have begun successfully in the Flub City.
Three Americans and two foreigners are among the artists engaged for leading roles at the Metropolitan next season.
Max Liebling sailed for Europe on May 3.
Alice Nielsen began her stage career when she was eight years old.
Max Rabinoff will manage an American tour of the Ukra-nian Chorus next season.	Q N.
Florence Stern in Recital
Florence Stern, a talented young violinist from California, who came to New York about four years ago and has been studying with Leopold Auer and Victor Kuzdo, made her first public appearance in New York at Carnegie Hall, Sunday evening, April 30. Though but fourteen years old, Florence has a very extended repertory, and the program presented on this occasion offered stern tests to which she proved herself equal. The sonata and concerto were played without score. Besides a facile left hand finger technic and_ a flexible bow arm, this little artist possesses true musical insight, a fine feeling for nuances and rhythm and an appealingly sweet tone. She performs easily and naturally, without mannerisms. She has poise and assurance, and more maturity and experience, with further study added to her natural gifts, should place her in the front ranks of violinists. Her audience was large and extremely enthusiastic, and at the close of the printed program encores were added until the lights were turned out and the audience was forced to leave.
Emanuel Balaban gave sympathetic accompaniments.
Her program follows:
........J. S. Bach
. . . P. Tschaikowsky
....Brahms-Joachim
. . Schubert-Remenyi , ...arr. by Sarasate Mendelssohn-Achron ....H. Wieniawski
Sonata (E major) No. 6.
Concerto ...............
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Sérénade ...............
Caprice Basque..........
On Wings of Song..........
Scherzo-Tarantelle .....
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The Turin opera season closed with a novelty, Lualdi’s “La Figlia del Re.”
New York will be the first city to hear Novaes on her return to America next year.
César Thomson, the veteran Belgian violinist, is still active.
Dr. Ethel Smyth is England’s most distinguished woman composer.
John Steel says that vaudeville is for the American public. what subsidized opera is for the public of Europe.
Claire Dux sang in Emporia, Kan., for an audience of 1,500 musicians.
William S. Brady will conduct a master class at the Ameri-_ can Conservatory, Chicago, this summer.
Daisy Jean is a soprano as well as cellist.
Giuseppe Danise will make his Chicago operatic debut at Ravinia Park this summer.
Laura E. Morrill’s summer vocal classes begin June 1 and end August 1.
It is rumored that Harold F. McCormick will marry Ganna Walska after she receives her divorce decree.
Erna Pielke, artist pupil of Samuel Margolis, scored a success with the Montreal Opera Company.
Hallett Gilberte has been wintering in Pasadena, Cal.
The Verdi Club’s annual breakfast was a delightful affair, attended by over 200 guests.
The Philadelphia Operatic Society gave a creditable performance of “Carmen” on April 24.
Leon Du Parc’s playing of the organ for motion pictures is “a revelation and an inspiration.”
Cecil Fanning will give four recitals in London, May 23 and 25 and June 13 and 15.
Carrie Louise Dunning, after spending some time in Egypt, Monte Carlo, Paris, etc., is en route for America.
Isadora Duncan was married last week to Serge Esenin, Russian “imagist” poet, twenty-seven years old.
Edna Moreland, soprano, has filled many engagements at clubs this month.
The Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs held a four-day convention in Philadelphia, beginning April 17.
Livio Mannucci, Italian cellist, will assist Marguerite d’Alvarez on her Australian tour.
Guy Maier, and Lee Pattison sailed for Honolulu on the first Jap of their Australian tour on May 10.
The Wendling Quartet of Stuttgart will give the first and fifth programs at the Berkshire Festival.
Commencement day of the Guilmant Organ School in New York is announced for May 29.
John Warren Erb will begin his summer class at Bolton’s Landing, Lake George, on August 1.
Cedar Rapids held its eleventh annual music festival on April 20 and 21.
Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers sailed for their London season on May 3.
Alberto Salvi has given recitals in one hundred cities since last October.
Reinald Werrenrath scored his usual success when he appeared in recital in Rochester, April 22.
Margaret Romaine and Ina Bourskaya now are under the management of S. Hurok.
The Columbia Graphophone Company has just issued three records by Harriet Ayer Seymour under the title of “Easy Lessons in Melody and Harmony.”
Franchetti’s “Glauco” had its world première at the San Carlo in Naples on April 8.