49
MUSICAL COURIER
te 1, 192 2
GAY MacLAREN AND IDELLE PATTERSON,
with “Toots,” out for a stroll in Central Park.
THE ARTONE QUARTET AT THE ST. JOSEPH MUSIC FESTIVAL The Artone Quartet was the last attraction presented at the recent St. Joseph, Mo., Music Festival, and much enthusiasm was manifested over the fine program heard and the artistic manner in which each number was given. The accompanying picture shores (left to right, first row) Dicie Howell, soprano; Mrs. F. H. Hill, local manager; Mabel Beddoe, contralto; (second row) Francis Moore, pianist; Walter Greene, baritone, and James Price, tenor.
JOHN MATTHEWS, dramatic tenor, who received many letters of commendation after his recent appearance at a radio concert in Philadelphia. Mr. Matthews has been filling many engagements in the East during the 1921-22 season.
JOHANNES HAARKLOU On May 13 Johannes Haarklou, dean of Scandinavian musicians and composers, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He was born in Sondfjord, West Norway, and did not take up music until he was nearly twenty-five years old, studying first with the Norwegian organists, Cappelen and Lindeman, and later in Leipsic and Berlin under E. F. Richter, Jadassohn, Kretschmar, Bungert, Kiel and Haupt. From 1880 on he teas organist in Christiania and from 1885 to 1888 conducted popular symphony concerts there. His works, little known outside of Scandinavia, include five operas, four of which are frequently given in Norway, an oratorio, four symphonies and other orchestral works, a piano and a violin concerto, a violin sonata, works for piano, organ, and a number of songs. (Photo, S. Genthe, Leipsic.)
THE WOMEN'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA This orchestra, composed of fifty women musicians, was organized in the fall of 1921 by Mabel Swint Ewer, president of the organization, and already has achieved decided success under the efficient baton of J. IT. F. Leman. These musicians are all members of the Philadelphia Music Club. (Photo by J. E. Green.)
Mr. Gallico will close his studios June 15 and two days later sail on the Rotterdam to spend the summer in England, Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy. He will return to America not later than October 1, in order to be here for the rehearsals of his oratorio, “The Apocalypse,” which will be given its first performance in New York in the fall by the Oratorio Society of New York. Mr. Gallico will be kept busy next season teaching a large class of professional pianists. (Photo © Underwood d Underwood.)
PAOLO GALLICO,
THE GREAT “PEOPLE’S THEATER,” BERLIN
The people’s stage movement, which began in Berlin in the nineties and now has a splendid monument in the great People’s Theater on the Biilow-platz, has made tremendous strides all over Germany by virtue of the interest taken in it by the labor organizations and the Socialist party. Besides Berlin, where the league has over 100,000 members, there are now fifty associations organized after its model. Recently Frankfort, Munich, Dresden, Danzig, Aachen, Krefeld, and eight smaller cities have been added. The parent body in Berlin acts as godfather to all of these organizations and gives them the benefit of its experiences. Opera and concerts form an integral part of the scheme, and the renovated Kroll Theater in Berlin will soon crown the organizers' labors in that respect. There is no country in the world where the masses are given such broad opportunity to see and hear the best of dramatic and operatic literature at extremely low prices
as in Germany..