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delighted the large audience that many of the numbers were redemanded. Ruth. Pettit, contralto, sang the short incidental solo in the Wagner “Spinning Song” with excellent effect. Mrs. Storck’s ability in interpretation, combined with ■ beautiful tone production, is too well known to need comment, and though struggling with a cold, she sang with her usual fine effect.
Ilona McLeod Presented , in Recital.
Ilona McLeod, the gifted daughter of Jane Showerman McLeod, was presented in piano recital by her accomplished teacher, Charlotte Smith, April 4. The Twentieth Century Colonial Hall was filled, to the doors and. the young artist was accorded hearty applause and many beautiful floral offerings. Her clean, fluent technic, excellent memory, unusual poise and poetic interpretative ability were evidenced in her portrayal of her program of compositions by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, to which she was obliged to add several encore numbers. Miss McLeod is also an interpretative dancer and has been chosen to portray Beatrice in the Dante pageant.
Chromatic Club Program.
The Chromatic Club closed its twenty-fourth season April 1, a program in rhythmic expression presented by pupils of Helen Curtin, with Beatrice Turner at the piano, attracting one of the largest audiences of the year to Twentieth Century Hall. The dancers were Nettie Bauer, Ruth Keitsch, Janet Gisel, Florence Armstrong, Margaret Clark, Marjorie Harold, Ilona McLeod, Alice Burdick, Emma Aldag, Mrs. Karl Wilhelm, Louise Abel, Ann Welch, Dorothy Gisel and Ruth Johnston, who delighted in their artistic dances to the music of Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Grieg and Kreisler, played by Miss Turner. _ Lillian Hawley Gearhart accompanied Ilona McLeod’s solo dance, “Lotus Land” (Cyril Scott).
Very interesting reports for the year were given by the various chairmen of committees, showing the club to have a membership of over 1,150 and being in excellent financial condition. A vote of thanks and regret was expressed to the retiring president, Evelyn Choate, and a welcome extended the new officers as follows: President, Mrs. Robert W. Gallegher; vice-president, Jane Showerman McLeod; secretary, Dorothy Martin; treasurer, Agnes Mynter Robertson ; directors, Grace Horton Chester, Helen Cumpson, Mrs. S. W. Clement, Mrs. John Mesmer, Mrs. John Eckel, Mrs. George Critchlow, Lillian Hawley Gearhart and Mary Jauch. Mrs. John Mesmer is chairman of the program committee.
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The final students’ recital was held in Twentieth Century Colonial Hall, April 29, the participants _ being^ Beth Bowman, Anna St. James, Lillian Estrinn, Axilda Milligan, Gerald Stokes, pianists; Esther Kroeger, Dorothy Seiden-berg and Bertha Drecher, vocalists. These young students reflected great credit upon their teachers—Jane Showerman McLeod, Miss Larned, Mme. Blaauw, Harry Cumpson, Miss Lynch, Mrs. Spire and Mr. Meyer. Ethyol McMullen was the official accompanist.
Mary M. Howard presented her pupil, Mary Mehnert, in recital at the Musical Institute, April 7, in a program of piano solos, Mildred Grabenstatter (vocal pupil of Henry Dunman) assisting, Mrs. Dunman, accompanist. In numbers by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Lillian Miller, Homer Grunn, Scarlatti and MacDowell, this sixteen year old girl evidenced unusual talent, application
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Buffalo, N. Y., May 10.—From the opening night of Fortune Gallo’s San Carlo Opera Company in “Aida” to the closing “Trovatore” the Schubert-Teck Theater was filled to the doors with opera hungry audiences. To Mr. Gallo, impresario and director, and Mai Davis Smith, local representative, Buffalo owes a debt of gratitude in bringing this splendid company presenting finished performances at moderate prices. The engagement proved so successful that Mr. Gallo has promised to include Buffalo in his annual visits. Anna Fitziu, Bianca Saroya, Elizabeth Amsdem, Josephine Lucchese, Sophia Charlebois, Nina Frascani, Anita Klinova, Alice Homer were all excellent in their various roles. Gilda Mercalle, a Buffalo girl, for three years Frank Watkins’ pupil before studying with Sembrich, made her operatic debut as Micaela, and was accorded a real ovation and a wealth of floral tributes.^ Giuseppe Agostini, Romeo Boscacci, Gaetano Tommasini, Nicolo D’Amico, Joseph Royer, Mario Valle, Natale Cervi and Pietro De Bias! filled the male roles convincingly. Ernest Knoch, music director, had his orchestra and chorus well in hand, scenery, costumes and lighting all contributing to the excellent ensemble.
Mendelssohn Choir Heard.
The Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, 200 mixed voices under the direction of H. A. Fricker, visited Buffalo April 3, giving a concert in Elmwood Music Hall that was one of the outstanding musical features of the present season. Mai Davis Smith was local manager. Opening with the singing of “God Save the King,” then “America,” and closing with “The Star Spangled Banner” (the stirring choral arrangement by Geoffrey O’Hara, who was in the audience, as was also Ossip Gabrilowitsch), a program of exceptional beauty was heard, unaccompanied. The soloists were John Barclay, baritone, and Ernest Seitz, pianist.
Local Choirs Active.
The various choirs of the city presented unusually attractive Easter music. At St. John’s Episcopal Church, C. H. Fenner, organist and choir director, a mixed chorus of thirty voices and quartet—Edna Zahm, Florence Davis, William McLean and Bradley Yaw—sang Mr. Fenner’s "Missa m Memoriam” (first time in Buffalo, the second of his beautiful communion services. At the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, under the leadership of William Gomph, organist, a large chorus choir sang selections from “The Messiah” at the evening service; this choir also gave Stainer’s “Crucifixion” at the Good Friday service with Richard Miller and Edmund Northrup soloists. Central Presbyterian Church, with its newly enlarged auditorium, was filled to the doors for the Good Friday music service, Stainer’s “Crucifixion” being given by a chorus of sixty voices, William Wall Whiddit, organist and choir director (Mrs. Whid-dit assistant organist), Mr. Widdit filling the difficult task of director and tenor soloist in his usual capable manner. “Messiah” selections were given at the Easter evening service. Trinity Church choir, Seth Clark, organist-director, at a recent afternoon service gave James H. Rogers’ cantata, “The Man of Nazareth.”
The Municipal concert April 16 was a combination of vocal, band and organ numbers, the Lafayette Presbyterian Church quartet, Irwin Binder, organist, assisting. The band was under the direction of John Bolton, and William Gomph was director of the quartet.
Buffalo’s First Radio Broadcasting Station. Buffalo’s first radio broadcasting station, WWT, installed by McCarthy Bros. & Ford, in a room on the third floor of their building, was formally opened April 16, an excellent program being presented under the direction of Edward O’Dea. Those who contributed to the program were Webb's Novelty Entertainers, Boys’ Choir of St. Joseph’s Cathedral (Rev. Zumbusch, accompanist), Genevieve Abraham (soprano), Harry Holsman (vocalist), K. S. Rybicki (pianist), Edna Zahm (soprano), Ethyol McMullen (accompanist), Edmund B. McCarthy, Hon. Ross Graves, Ernest Hartwell (superintendent of education), Albert Kinsey (president of Chamber of Commerce), Rev. George Williams, Rev. M. J. Ahern (president of Canisus College), and A. H. Benzee (president of the Radio Association of Western New York), speakers. Programs will be sent out from WWT regularly every Thursday and Friday evening.
“Parsifal” at Opera Reading Club.
Mrs. Howard Hamilton Baker, assisted by Clara Gent-zach McGuire, presented excerpts from “Parsifal” before a large audience consisting of members of the Opera Reading Club and their friends in Elmwood Music Hall April 17. Mrs. Baker outlined the opera and sang a number of the arias in illustration, Mrs. McGuire playing the preludes, motifs and march, giving the remarkable delineation these two gifted women have made familiar for the thirteen years of the existence of the Opera Reading Club.
Schilsky Quartet Concerts.
The two last concerts of the Schilsky Quartet, under the local management of the Musical Institute, were given March 27 and April 6, in the Twentieth Century Hall, atid attracted good sized audiences. The quartet had the able assistance of Harry Cumpson, pianist, of New York (formerly of Buffalo), in the Brahms quintet in F minor, which was given with brilliance and virility and contrasted charmingly with the Mozart quartet in B flat. The last concert presented the exquisite “Bird” quartet (Haydn) and the "Trout” quintet (Schubert), in which Arnold Cornelissen (piano) and Philip Millonzi (double bass) gave valued assistance, the audience rewarding the players with unstinted applause. Other numbers were the dramatic adagio molto from op 41, No. 3, Schumann, and “Interludium and Valse” by Glazounoff. The quartet has gained remarkably in its longer association.
Rubinstein Chorus Gives Pleasing Program.
The Rubinstein Chorus of women’s voices (John Lund, conductor; William Wirges, Jr., accompanist; Agnes Preston Storck, soloist, and Ethyol McMullen at the piano for Mrs. Storck) presented a delightful program in the music room of the Iroquois Hotel, April 6. Mr. Lund is an excellent program maker and the offerings of the chorus so
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