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thusiasm shown by the 'public for this artistic event encourages the hope of a great success for its organizers.
Color and Music.
Barcelona is open to all novelties, however daring or strange. True, the idea to which the French critic, Carol Berard, introduced us in his lecture on chromophony is not exactly a novelty because there already exist treatises on it of a scientific character. But to us the thing still seems strange, notwithstanding the eloquence displayed in its explanation by the secretary of the Union Sindicale des Compositeurs Français. In short, he said that musical vibrations agree exactly with the vibrations of color, and that every tone has a corresponding degree in the color scale, conclusive proofs having been given of this. It was a pity that he would not enlighten his discourse with practical instances, but we suppose that our composers, though they are struggling for fame, are yet to be convinced that this is the way to earn it.	Tomas De Clinuet.
Girls’ Glee Club in Concert
The Girls’ Glee Club of Pratt Institute, Leroy Tebbs director, assisted by Edna Hax, monologist; John Everett Sarles, baritone (a pupil of Mr. Tebbs), Kyle M. Dunkel, accompanist, and the Men’s Glee Club, gave a concert in the auditorium on May S.
Cecil Arden’s Post-Season Dates
Cecil Arden, having completed her engagement at the Spartanburg Festival, was heard next in Scranton, Pa., on May 21. On June 5 she will sing at Bayonne, N. J., this making her eleventh appearance to her credit in that State this season.
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Capitalization $125,000 Head Office: Sydney, Australia
Organized solely for the purpose of bringing artists of international reputation to Australasia.
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contained the well known art song, “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise,” Seitz, and the second group featured “Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses,” Openshaw. During the past year there have not appeared two more popular concert numbers than these, published by Chappell-Harms, Inc., and T. B. Harms, Inc.
On the same program was “Come to the Fair,” by East-hope Martin, a charming ballad taken from the cycle of the same name and published by Enoch & Sons. Another entertaining number was “Old Fashioned Garden,” by Porter. On May 1, Ruth Ecton, soprano, sang among her English ballads “I Passed by Your Window,” Brahe, and “Thank God for a Garden,” Del Riego. Roy E. McKibben was accompanist and added materially to the pleasure of the program.
“Every American a Lover of Music,” Declares Schumann Heink
“Every American is a musician. The taunt that the American is a dollar man, that he thinks only of making money, springs from the infamy of ignorance,” Mme. Schumann Heink declared in a recent newspaper interview. “The beauty of the land about us in these United States of itself inspires to music. Even the wildest American desert is instinct with it in the music of its poetry and greatness. The sacred silence there is alive with a thousand melodies streaming from the blue heavens. I think it is the very voice of God himself, for God loves the United States. He has given to it so richly. So the very air of America breathes a hunger for music.”
Such is the opinion of Ernestine Schumann Heink, who every season travels from coast to coast on her concert tours, and who on account of the very large number of engagements she fills each year everywhere in America is in a position to make an authoritative statement.
Kochanski and Spalding to Play Bach Concerto
The Bach concerto for two violins will be played by Paul Kochanski and Albert Spalding with the New York Symphony Orchestra next season in Aeolian Hall, and will also be repeated on tour in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
Alma Beck for Keene Festival
Alma Beck, who recently appeared as soloist with the Orpheus Club of Cincinnati and in recital at Selinsgrove, Pa, has been engaged for the Keene, N. H., Music Festival on May 26. Miss Beck will sing “Mary Magdalen,” by Massenet.
DRESDEN PAYS HOMAGE
TO AMERICAN ARTISTS
Mascagni’s “Piccolo Marat” Proves Great Drawing Card at the Opera—Pattiera, Rosen, Hyman Rovinsky, Leo Abkow and Maire Ronnhal Give Programs
Dresden, April 6.—Mascagni’s “Piccolo Marat” has, as I forecasted in my report of the Dresden première, proved a great drawing card for our opera. The four performances succeeding the première found great recognition by the public before sold out houses, and all this in spite of the evident shortcomings of the work.
Pattiera Reappears.
Tino Pattiera, after his American successes, made his reappearance here as Cavaradossi, earning quite an unusual ovation. Artistically he has decidedly improved in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” He also won new laurels as Canio and Turiddu, and delighted a big audience as the Duke in “Rigoletto.”
Max Rosen Gets Ovation.
Fritz Busch, as a conductor of the last two State Orchestra concerts in the Opera, attained new heights of artistry. His readings of Dvorak and Schumann (D minor symphony) confirmed all previous favorable impressions. The soloist at the first of the two concerts was Max Strub, violinist, who played the Brahms concerto with exquisite technic, yet in a somewhat scholarly fashion, the composition thereby losing part of its original bigness. At the last concert, however, a real virtuoso, namely Max Rosen, of New York, appeared and took Dresden by storm as he did for the first time five years ago. He gave an inimitable reading of the Tschaikowsky concerto and earned a tremendous ovation.
More Americans.
Scarcely any among the younger pianists of late impressed us so favorably as did Hyman Rovinsky in his recital yesterday. Besides the Bach-Busoni chaconne, which opened his program, he excelled especially as an interpreter of Debussy’s “Children’s Corner” with its brilliant pianistic colors of mood and tonal poesy. Ravel’s “Sonatina,” replete with elegance, given with musical inspiration and fluent technical “esprit,” won him the admiration of his hearers at once. Rovinsky’s strength is the modern school, including Korngold’s “Màrchenbilder,” which he has made quite his own, imbued with personal conviction and enthusiasm. He further threw himself body and soul into Schumann (romance) and Chopin (A flat ballade). Regarding bigger forms of strong musical outlines (Bach for instance), the gifted pianist will still grow, yet what he presented in this line was important enough to show that an artist of the first rank is in the making. An American by birth, he did his country great honor.
Another young American artist is Leo Abkow, violinist, who scored a big success here. His style is more “robust” than that of Rovinsky, yet highly artistic and modeled on broad lines.
Mention should also be made of a young Finnish singer, Maire Rônnhol, who appeared in concerts; he gives much promise for the future.	A. I.
Morrisey Sings at Westminster College
According to the New Castle News, Westminster College students and a number of New Wilmington people had the privilege of hearing what was possibly the best concert given in the College Chapel in a long time when on Wednesday evening, April 26, Marie Morrisey, American contralto, was heard. The music critic of that paper stated that Miss Morrisey has something more than a rich contralto voice; she has a magnetic personality which seemingly reaches out and grips her audience at the very outset of her program. She was warmly received and seemed as delighted to sing as her auditors were to hear. The report wound up by saying that she showed an artistry that was most pleasing. She has a flexible voice capable of the most dramatic effects and withal appealingly sweet in the lighter numbers.
Frederic Shipman, Managing Director 15 Castlereagh St., Sydney, Australia.
PIANIST
SEASON 1922-1923 Dates Now Booking
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Mason & Hamlin Piano
“Corraling” the Springfield, Newark, Lindsborg, Keene and Charlotte festivals, the New York Symphony Orchestra at Chautauqua, and the bass solo position at St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, in addition to twenty other important concert engagements, is the gratifying record of Frank Cuthbert’s first season as a New York artist under the management of Walter Anderson. Mr. Cuthbert’s voice is a basso cantante of sufficient range and caliber needed for oratorios such as “The Messiah,” yet possessing the bass-baritone quality necessary to be interesting in recital and miscellaneous concert programs. Coming recently from Pittsburgh without much heralding, it is evident that Mr. Cuthbert is winning out entirely on his merits, and the record of his appearances this season prognosticates a future of brilliant attainments.
Minnie Carey Stine Features Popular Songs
On May 3, during New York’s Music Week, at the Noon-time Musicale, Union Social Center, Minnie Carey Stine gave a program of popular ballads. The first group
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