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Musician’s Club of Cleveland Holds Banquet
An event of unusual interest was scheduled for the annual banquet of the Musicians’ Club of Cleveland at the Statler Hotel Lattice Room, on Saturday, May 6. A program of compositions by members of the club was presented and received with great enthusiasm. James H. Rogers and Carl Riemenschneider furnished artistic accompaniments for the ensemble numbers. The composers represented were Frederick A. Williams, Charles Heyd-ler Wilson G. Smith, Francesco De Leone, James H. Rogers, Charles Rychlik and Albert Gehring. Warren Whitney, John O. Samuel and Sol Marcosson were other names which appeared on the program. The following officers were elected for the coming year: J. R. HaU, president; R. E. Sapp, vice-president; James Woodruff, secretary; E. H. Douglas, treasurer. During the year two important banquets were held, at which Harold Bauer, pianist, and Ernest Hutcheson, pianist, were the guests of honor. A very successful year has just been completed under the presidency of Albert Riemenschneider.
Annual Convention of N. Y. F. M. C.
The annual convention of the New York State Federation of Music Clubs, Mme. Edna Marione president, opened Monday, June S, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. The morning was devoted to registration of delegates and alternates and to reports of various committees. Most of the federated clubs of New York State were represented, a large number of delegates being present for the opening. A conference of federated club presidents was held in the afternoon, and the sessions and programs of the remaining two days—June 6 and 7— were carried out as outlined in the Musical Courier of June 1. A detailed report of the convention will be given in the issue of June IS.
gold medal. Honor students of the year were Ella Goldsworthy Cox, Iona Henrietta See, Doris Eber and Francis X. Attanasio.
Announcement was made that the Hon. Philip Berolz-heimer had presented four scholarships for men and women 18 years of age or over, possessing talent and ability but unable to afford tuition. A contest for these scholarships will be held in the early part of October.
At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association the matter of the endowment fund was taken into active consideration and will receive special attention during the com ng vear. A committee with Marta Elizabeth Klein as chairman will work to increase the fund. An outing June 24 and a dinner early in October were arranged.
The officers for the coming year are: Philip Berolzheimer, Hon. president; J. Watson MacDonald, president; Hugh James McAmis, first vice-president; Grace Leeds Darnell, second v:ce-president; Gertrude H. Hale, secretary; Willard Irving Nevins, treasurer.
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Carlo Marino. Gennaro Papi was the leader of the orchestra.
“L’Oracolo” (Franco Leoni), a tragic one-act opera new to Buffalo, was given an unforgetable portrayal by Antonio Scotti as Chim-Fang (an opium den keeper), with Italo Picchi, Louis D’Angelo, Armand Tokatyan, little Glara Burns, Henriette Wakefield and Paltrinieri, and served to introduce our new young Metropolitan opera singer, Myrtle Schaaf, who made her local operatic debut in her home city in the role of Ah-Yoe. She was_ given an ovation and deluged with magnificent floral offerings. _ Her beauty of voice, youth, grace and natural charm, combined with talent, both vocally and histrionically, and the desire to succeed have already placed this youngest of- the stars on thehigh road to great achievement and Buffalo is proud to clairn her. Her entire vocal training was obtained here with Edward K. Myer, who came on from his summer home at the Thousand Islands to witness her success. She has a four-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera, also with the Scotti tours.
“Pagliacci” was delightfully given by Anne Roselle. Emanuel Salazar, Renato Zanelli, Giordano Paltrinieri and Alfredo Gandolfi, with Gennaro Papi conducting as usual, without score, and closed the all too brief but highly artistic performances. Credit is also due the stage director, Armando Agnini, and the stage manager, Carl Berger.
After the close of this performance a reception was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Schaaf for their daughter, the artists and their friends, where a merry time was enjoyed till the small hours.	.
Thursday night, May 25, under the auspices of the Buffalo Express, the following grand opera stars sang for the Federal Telephone and Telegraph broadcasting radio station: Myrtle Schaaf. Orville Harrold, Anne Roselle, Queena Mario Henriette Wakefield and Armand Tokatyan, accompanied by William Benbow organist and choir director of Westminster Church, also director of the choral branch of the Chromatic Club.	L. H. M.
series of organ compositions were played which offered not only variety for the listener but every sort of difficulty of manual and pedal execution and ^ registration for the player. Yet there were no irregularities, no moments of hesitation or of stumbling. Every one of the players acquitted himself or herself with the skill and judgment of a real artist, and it was with rare satisfaction that one realized that into such hands the destinies of American organ music in the next generation were to be placed.
The program, is too long to print in full, but the names of the plavers must be given: David Hugh Jones, Sarah Eldert Rapalje, Alfred Merton Masonheimer, Karl Holmes Wagar, Flora Edith Dunham, Iona Henrietta See, Charles Roy Castner, Daisy Reeves MacMillan, Harold Morey Smith. Marta Elizabeth Klein, Florence Emma Sansom, Lillian Ellegood Fowler, Ella Goldsworthy Cox, Henry Schumacher Wesson. Amy Ellerman, contralto, was the soloist of the occasion, and gave a thrilling reading of Schubert’s great “Omnipotence.” Ella G. Cox was awarded the Wm. C. Carl
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BUFFALO PLEASED WITH SCOTTI
GRAND OPERA PERFORMANCES
“Carmen,” “La Tosca,” “La Boheme,” “L'Oracolo” and “Pagliacci” Presented with Noted Casts—Myrtle Schaaf Makes Home Operatic Debut
Buffalo, N. Y., June 1,—The Scotti Grand Opera Company, under the direction of Antonio Scotti, with Carl Stroh-menger and Bradford Mills business and booking managers (local management of Louise Michael and Genevieve Kraft), brought to a close their successful engagement in this city May 27, with a superb presentation of the two operas, "L’Oracolo” and “Pagliacci,” with “La Boheme” at the matinee. In point of artistic performance, excellence of cast, chorus and orchestra the operatic offerings have never been equalled in this city, and it is to be hoped that Buffalo will be included in the yearly tours of this organization, with company, chorus, orchestra and conductors from the Metropolitan Opera House.
“Carmen" auspiciously opened the engagement, Wilfrid Pelletier conducting, Alice Gentle, Marie Sundelius, Mary Mellish, Myrtle Schaaf (Buffalo girl), Morgan Kingston, Greek Evans, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinieri, Italo Picchi and Alfredo Gandolfi as principals.
"La Tosca,” with Alice Gentle, Armand Tokatyan, An-tonio Scotti, Louis D’Angelo, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Pal-trinieri, Carlo Marino, Walter Casale and Ester Ferrante, Gennaro Papi conducting, roused the large audience to heights of enthusiasm seldom reached in this city, and many were the recalls given the artists, Scotti gracefully and generously including conductor and orchestra. ׳
“La Boheme” was presented by Orville Harrold, Louis D'Angelo, Paolo Ananian, Queena Mario, Giordano Paltrinieri, Alfredo Gandolfi, Italo Pecchi, Anne Roselle and
Guilmant Organ School Commencement Exercises
Twenty-one years ago the Guilmant Organ School held the first of those annual commencement exercises that have been the milestones of a career second to none in the worthiness of its aim and the notability of its achievement. On May 29 for the twenty-first time the pupils of this school gathered together and demonstrated for their teachers and friends their right to be considered organists in the fullest sense of the world. These exercises were held under the direction of Dr. William C. Carl, director of the school, in the First Presbyterian Church. Fourteen pupils appeared, rendering a program whose difficulty would have taxed the resources even of veteran organists with an ease and excellence that left nothing to be desired and filled with astonishment those who associate the word student with immaturity and inefficiency. From the fugues of the classic Bach to the complex inventions of the moderns, a
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