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MUSICAL COURIER
Philomela Glee Club Well Received
The concert hall of the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, was filled to capacity on May 8, the occasion being the spring concert by the Philomela Ladies’ Glee Club, Etta Hamilton Morris, conductor. This organization, which was founded several years ago, has gained a standing among music lovers as one of the most efficient ladies’ choruses in the metropolis, solely due to the indefatigable efforts of its capable and untiring conductor.
The choruses rendered revealed sincerity, precision of attack, beautiful tone coloring as well as intelligence, and comprised:	“To the Spirit of Music,” Percy Rector Ste-
phens; “May Day Carol,” arranged by Deems Taylor; “A Spring Symphony” (with incidental soprano solo by Mathilda Durr Lindsay), Florence Golson; “The Kiss Waltz” (by request), Arditi-Marzo; “To a Wild Rose” (by request), MacDowell-Ambrose; “The Big Brown Bear” Mana-Zucca; “The Walnut Tree,” Schumann-Saar; “Narcissus,” Nevin-Martel (the last two with violin obligato played by Ruth Taylor MacDowell), and “The Omnipotence,” by Schubert.
Mario Chamlee sang “Care Selve,” Handel; “Che gelida manina,” from “La Boheme,” Puccini; two Brahms songs “In Summer Fields” and “Serenade”; “Parted,” Tosti; “Mamma mia,” Nutile; “Santa Lucia,” folk song; “Cor’n-grato,” Carbillo^ and “L’alba separa dalla Luce,” Tosti. His beautiful voice won for him an ovation, which necessitated adding five encores before the audience ceased its vociferous applause.
Daisy Krey, contralto (a pupil of Mrs. Morris), made a decidedly favorable impression with her artistic singing of “The Blind Plowman,” Causby-Clarke; “An Evenino■ Song,” Gilberte, and “Daybreak,” Mabel Daniels. She also aroused enthusiasm among her audience and gave an added number.
Henry Hotz and Mae Ebrey Hotz in Concert
Under the direction of Henry Hotz an exceptionally fine concert was given in Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia on the evening of May 9 by the Choral Club of the Business Women’s Christian League, assisted by Mae Ebrey Hotz soprano, and the Philadelphia Quartet. ' The choral is composed of about fifty members and the singers made a very attractive picture seated in five rows. Mr. Hotz is an admirable conductor, and he has his forces well under control. These singers have fresh young voices, there is a fine tonal balance, and their shading is excellent. Mrs. Hotz is an exceedingly popular soprano in Philadelphia, and needless to say added another link to her long list of successes in that city. Mrs. Hotz possesses a lovely voice which she handles in a truly artistic manner. The Philadelphia Quartet gave a good account of itself in numbers by Dvorak and Tschaikowsky.
Second Season of Reed Miller’s Summer School
Nevada Van der Veer and Reed Miller have announced the second season of their Summer Vocal School, Bolton Landing, Lake George, N. Y., which has long been known as one of the most beautiful summer resorts in America. It is their aim to combine summer voice study with an ideal vacation in inspiring surroundings, and the first season (1921) met with such success that this year it will be repeated on a larger scale. Reed Miller’s long career, singing in oratorio, concert and recital, combined with his constant study, has equipped him to impart the fundamental and the finer points of the technic of singing to pupils in a most advantageous way, and Nevada Van der Veer, too, through her wide experience as a professional singer and love of the teaching art, is well equipped to aid the serious young artist.
Gay MacLaren Booked for Washington
The City Club of Washington (D. C.) advertises Miss MacLaren’s date of May 25 as “Washington’s biggest dramatic event of the year.”
GEORGE REIMHERR
May 25, 1922
singer with admirable accompaniments. The recital will be repeated shortly in Mariana, Fla., where Mrs. Le Massena has a large following. Both Mme. Kaufmann and her talented pupil recently participated in radio broadcasting from the Newark, N. J., station, the former in a song recital and the latter in the title part of her husband’s operetta “Pandora.”
Philharmonic Announcements
Willem Mengelberg, the Philharmonic guest conductor, will sail for Holland on May 20 on the Ryndam, to return ^ to the Philharmonic for the first concert in the society’s Metropolitan Opera House series on January 30 of next year. The Philharmonic’s eighty-first season will open with the Thursday evening performance on October 26, under Stransky.
Henry Hadley, the associate conductor of the Philharmonic, will conduct the orchestra at the Stadium concerts during the summer, sharing the series with Mr. Van Hoog-straaten. During the summer Mr. Hadley expects to spend a large part of the time, when he is not conducting in rehearsals and concerts, to the examination of American manuscripts. The Philharmonic Society hopes to be able to offer a considerable number of works by native com-
“Her voice is deliciously fresh and pure and she has virtues of technique that few singers possess. ”
The Amarillo (Texas) Daily Tribune said the above about May Peterson, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
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posers in its next season in increase over former seasons, through the stimulating effect of its offer to program works of merit submitted.
The Philharmonic prospectus for the eighty-first season will be issued shortly and will present the society’s concert schedule and the names of the assisting artists who will appear with the orchestra during the season. Although no advance announcements have been published, subscription renewals for the coming season have already been received in large numbers. The subscribers to the Philharmonic concerts in the past ten years have varied little except in addition to their numbers, and some seat locations have remained in the same families for over fifty years.
New subscriptions and renewals are accepted at the Philharmonic office at Carnegie Hall for the Brooklyn Academy and Metropolitan Opera House series as well as for those at Carnegie Hall. Information may also be obtained at the same place concerning the activities of the Advisory Board and its special work for the society in the educational field, and concerning membership in the Philharmonic Society.
Sinigalliano to Summer at Long Branch
A. Sinigalliano, violin pedagogue, who has established a large following in New York City and Newark, N. J., will teach at Long Branch, N. J., from June 15 to September 1.
Music Festival at the Y. M. H. A.
On May 6, at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue, the music department of the Y. M. H. A. of Washington Heights, Hebrew Educational Society and the Ninety-second Street Y. M. H. A. co-operated in one of the greatest musical endeavors in the history of the association.
The program was under the supervision of A. W. Binder, musical director of the Ninety-second Street Y. M. H. A., who is well known as a composer and conductor. The Hebrew Educational Society was represented by David Lieberman, who played an original sonata in three movements, which showed fluency and balance of ideas. Rosa-belle Wolf and Isadore Alexander represented the piano and violin departments respectively.
A splendid male quartet from the Washington Heights Y. M. H. A., consisting of Messrs. Sulzer, Sapirstein, Rosenblum and Traum, contributed four enjoyable numbers.
The success of the evening was achieved, however, by the Choral Society of the Ninety-second Street Y. M. H. A., a splendid organization of young men and women who have devoted themselves in the last five years to the study and development of choral music. They sang with fine balance of tone and splendid nuance “Fear Not, O Israel, by Spiker, and a group of Yiddish folk songs which were repeatedly encored.
Next in importance was the Children’s Opera Company, which sang with purely childish style and tone several excerpts from Roeckel’s “William Tell.” The Symphony Club of the Ninety-second Street Y. M. H. A. contributed the first movement of the “Pastorale” symphony, by Beethoven • three excerpts from the “Nut Cracker Suite,” by Tschaikowsky, and the bacchanale from “Samson and Delilah.”
The last three named organizations were under the able leadership of A. W. Binder. In the audience were many of the directors of the institution, including Hon. Joseph Levenson, state secretary of the Motion Picture Censorship Board. In a very brief but eloquent address he lauded the splendid work which Mr. Binder is doing, and pointed out that he is probably the only one in this country who is doin״ such artistic work in an institution of this kind.
Phillip Gordon Plays for Radio
On May 5, Phillip Gordon, pianist, and Penelope Davies mezzo-soprano, gave a joint concert at Jerusalem Temple, New Orleans, La., which was picked up from where it was being given and sent broadcast to radio fans through the Times-Picayune’s radio telephone station. That paper in referring to Mr. Gordon’s playing said: “As for Mr Gordon his technic was adequate for a varied and difficult program! and he was especially effective in his interpretation of Liszt, to the study of whom he has apparently given much time. Mr. Gordon was at his technical best in the rendition of the Paganini-Liszt La Campanella,” which he played as an encore number with fire and brilliance. His mastery of the piano was well exemplified in the earlier numbers. They were played with technical excellence, but the manner of interpretation was in contrast with the personality and enthusiasm which poured forth later through the Liszt numbers. ^ Other dailies were equally favorably to the young artist’s playing.
Kaufmann Pupil Wins Success
Mrs. C. E. LeMassena, coloratura soprano, wife of the composer and writer, and a pupil of Minna Kaufmann, gave a recital in her home town, Dothan, Ala., on May 5. presenting a program of Italian, French and American songs and arias. Her piece de resistance was the “Ah, fors e lui” and “Sempre Libera,” from “La Traviata.” She also sang “Voi che sapete,” from “Figaro;” “L’Eté,” by Cha'minade;
villanelle,” by Dell’ Acqua; “Novelle Chanson,” by Le Masqua; “Yesterday and Today,” by Spross, etc. An appreciative audience of friends and musicians greeted the artist, who as a young girl was prominent in musical circles. The recital was given under the auspices of the Dothan Harmony Club, of which Mrs. Le Massena is an honorary member. Mrs, W. S. Wilson, composer and pianist, supported the
REIMHERR
TENOR
Scores Success in Innovation Program of Heart Songs and Ballads
Leaving aside novelties and ‘heavy’ music he presented a pro-giamme of what he called ‘heartsongs.’ The experiment proved to be a popular success, for Mr. Reimherr is an expert at interpreting this sort of song. Very beautiful was his voice in its softer ranges. Mr. Reimherr is a very careful and a very expressive singer.”—N. Y. Telegram.
Mr•. Reimherr is an established artist and his programme had ״Linuiiln# apP?T b,e,cau®e •of,the Presence on it of favorite songs ^York World wilCh	£eimiierr knows how to interpret.”—■New
His vigorous voice and sincere unaffected singing gave pleasure in a variety of songs by many composers.”—N. Y. Globe.
“An innovation in programme making was made last night by George Reimherr at the National Theater when he sang popular ballads and heartsongs. It was distinctly an achievement for a tenor to present an entirely lyric programme and to keep it from any hint of monotony. His is a tenor voice of unusually pleasing appealing quality, and Mr. Reimherr brought imagination, a varied style and individuality to every number.”—N Y Evenina Mail.
“This was Mr. Reimherr’«-third recital appearance of the seas'™ and like his others was redolent of interest and refinement Mr Reimherr gave this programme all that it so much deserved of style and good voice. —N. Y. Sun.
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