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I SEE THAT
The Ukrainian Chorus will sing in Carnegie Hall, New York, on the evening of October S.
Randall Thompson is the name of the latest winner of a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
Maria Ivogun will return to this country next January for her second tour under the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau.
Albert Spalding has a fine list of orchestral dates for the coming season.	_
Josef Stransky was well received as conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic Society.
Gordon Campbell has gone to Europe for two seasons.
Thornton W. Allen, managing editor of the Musical Courier, was married to Elsie Guy on June 3.
The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra will give ten concerts in Oakland next season.
“The Gallant Seventh” is the name of Sousa’s latest march.
David Proctor, composer and pianist, has joined the organization of Harold Flammer, Inc.
A Samoiloff student has been engaged for opera in Berlin.
Walter Damrosch’s memoirs will be published in a few months.	.
Max Rabinoff has engaged Alma Voedisch as booking and advance manager for the Ukrainian Chorus.
Louis Robert, Dutch organist and conductor, was commended by Mengelberg.
Sadie Quinn, of Norwich, N. Y., has fifty piano pupils.
Anna Foster is a singer as well as a pianist, studying voice under Klamroth.
The opera season at Ravinia Park will open on June 24.
Artist pupils of Frank La Forge sang on May 28 at the Red Cross Club for Disabled Veterans.
Samuel Carr, a musical benefactor, died last week at his home in Boston.
Willard Flint has not cancelled a date in his some thirty years of public singing.
Nearly 300 friends and admirers crowded the Italian Line pier on West Fifty-seventh street when Gigli sailed on June 1.
Mme. Weinschenk has been engaged as dramatic coach at the Oscar Seagle summer school at Schroon Lake.
The Czecho-Slovakians are making elaborate plans for the centenary celebration‘of Smetana.
Mario Sammarco has accepted the directorship of the School for Voice which is to be opened in connection with the Municipal Theater at Rio Janeiro.
Paul Longone was married a short time ago in London to Carol Perrenot.
The management of Frieda Hempel has moved to 185 Madison avenue.
For the first time since coming to New York, Sol Alberti will keep his New York studios open all summer.
Moiseiwitsch will return here next season for his third American tour.
Paul Barnes, composer of “Goodby, Dolly Gray,” died a pauper on May 8 in Manhattan State Hospital.
William Kroll won the Loeb prize of $1,000 given each year to the student doing the best work in every course at the Institute of Musical Art.
Alfred Mirovitch will fill forty engagements in Java this summer.
Edward Falck, of Hugo Riesenfeld’s musical staff, died on May 27.
Voice, personality and brains are the three elements always present as factors in the popularity of every star, says Frank La Forge.
Subscriptions are being received in the one million-one dollar campaign to establish an American opera house.
The Guilmant Organ School held its twenty-first commencement exercises on May 29.
Rosa Ponselle will sing three new roles at the Metropolitan next season.
Elena Gerhardt has given four recitals in London this spring and attracted capacity houses every time.
Lenora Sparkes gave a concert on the S. S. Berengaria in honor of “Empire Day.”
Next October Mischa Levitzki will play at Wells College, Aurora, for the third time within three years.
The fall tour of the St. Denis-Shawn Company will include fifteen States as well as Canada.
Johanna Gadski is paying her first visit to Germany in eight years.
The St. Olaf Choir will hold a reunion of its former members on June 11, the Sunday of the commencement festivities.
A cablegram from Frieda Hempel tells of her safe arrival in Paris.
Five thousand dollars has been placed at the disposition of the Dallas Music Commission to be spent for the advancement of music in that city next season.
Zilpha Barnes Wood, summering at Sea Gate, will be at her New York studio three times a week.
Frances Alda will sail for Europe on June 24.
Elsie Cowen furnished excellent accompaniments for the program of songs presented at the MacDowell Gallery by Dudley Buck artists on May 16.
Lester Donahue, the pianist, has been busy in and about his native city of Los Angeles for the last few months.
The St. Louis Municipal Opera Association is presenting eight operas this season.
Many unfamiliar works were heard at the Bach Festival in Dortmund, Germany.
Walter Anderson, the manager, of New York, is on an automobile tour.
Harriet Ware gave a garden party at Burnley Farm, Plain field, N. J., on May 27.
Milan Lusk, violinist, has recorded some well known Bo hemian folk melodies for the Victor.
Rosalie Miller’s recent recital in Paris proved a fine success The annual convention of the New York State Federatio of Music Clubs opened last Monday.
The Lexington Avenue Opera House was sold on June 3.
A cable from Paris states that America is to have an oper company next October run on co-operative pr>- ־iples. Lillian Russell is dead.
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MUSICAL COURIER
Mae Kimball, of Atlanta. An interesting interview and brief biography of Mrs. Hall accompanied the photograph.
The weekly recital at Edison Hall on May 11 was one of the most artistic programs that have been given by this company throughout the past season. Ellen Lightfoot, talented pupil of Mrs. Duane Thomas Yould, gave several delightful readings. Guy Warner and Minnie Hecker (coloratura soprano) were the vocal soloists. Miss Hecker is a pupil of Margaret Hect.
, The various graduating recitals of the colleges in and around Atlanta have set a high record and aroused keen enthusiasm among the students. One of the best recitals of the year at Bessie Tift was that of Ruth Ranew, a graduate in voice, whose program was one that called for a variety of tonal color and artistic ability. To her credit be it said that she satisfied her audience in every particular, keenly critical as it was. Her work was much enhanced by the sympathetic accompaniment of Marguerite Robertson.
The last of the test recitals at Cox College was given by the graduates on May 6, when Lucille Wells, of the class of Mildred Harrison French, was heard at her senior piano recital. Her program ranged from a Beethoven sonata, played with excellent judgment, to the brilliancy of Granados’ “Valse de Concert.” Myrtle A.dams, of Mary Lansing’s clasSj assisted Miss Wells, singing an aria from “Mignon” and a group of French songs.
At Elizabeth Mather School for Girls (at Phillips & Crew Hall), May 12, Jennie Tutt presented Frances Strea-tor in a piano recital, assisted by Olive Walker, a former pupil of Miss Gelder, and Carolyn Cobb presented three of her pupils.
The “high light” of commencement week at the South Georgia State Normal School was the appearance of the glee club at the Strand Theater. The consensus of opinion was that it was one of the finest entertainments yet offered by the college.
On May 12, in the college auditorium of the Bowdom State Normal and Industrial College, a recital contest was held between the members of the Adelphian and the Al-phonian literary societies. Those who took part in the program were Eva Sproul, Maud Lovvorn, Ruby Lovvorn, Jewel Nixon, Eula Mae Traylor, Carrilee Pittman, Mabel Lipman, Glee Harrison, Hilda Trammell, Frances Barrow, Sara Burson and Irene Morris. The judges were Dr. C. W. Cemp, president of the college; Prof. R. K. Pitts, head of the English department; A. E. Fleming, Dr. Bean and Lula Hill. Maud Lovvorn, an Adelphian, won first prize with her offering of “The Gypsy Flower Girl, while Mabel Lip-man, an Alphonian, won second honors with “What the Clock Saw.”	P• G•
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BUSY MUSICAL SPRING
IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga., May 25.—One of the most interesting entertainments offered by the members of the college set in Atlanta was given by the girls of Brenau College, under the title of “Brenau Follies.” One of the most popular numbers was the singing by an excellent quartet of a number of college songs. Annie Beth Sessions was roundly applauded for her singing. The first act finale included a duet by Lucille Westerfield and Willie Kimbrough, which made the biggest hit of the entire show. The last act was more ambitious, offering four of the most promising girls in the school in grand opera roles, in which Winifred Byrd, whose voice is remarkably clear, sweet and strong, sang the “Jewel Song” from “Faust,” and was acclaimed best of the four.
Membership List Open in Atlanta Club.
The Atlanta Music Club’s subscribing list for membership for next season’s tickets was opened on May 10. The response to this announcement has surprised even the most enthusiastic members of the club.
Atlanta Musicians Featured at Woman's Club.
N. A. O. Convention in Chicago
The annual convention of the National Association of Organists will be held this year in Chicago, August 1, 2, 3. 4. These conventions are becoming an important factor in developing interest in organ and the program committee has secured the co-operation of many distinguished recitalists. Among those who will appear are Clarence Eddy, Rollo F. Maitland, Lynwood Farnam and Clarence A. Tufts.
There will be talks by Paul E. Sabin, of the Riverbank Laboratories ; Dean Peter C. Lutkin, of Northwestern University, and Felix Borowski, president of the Chicago Musical College.
The headquarters of the convention will be at Kimball Hall and many of the sessions will be held there.
The officers of the N. A. O. are:_ President, Henry S. Fry; chairman of the executive committee, Reginald McAll ; treasurer, A. Campbell Weston; secretary, Willard I. Nevins.
Pierne Work Well Given at Oberlin Festival
Oberlin, Ohio.—Pierne’s “The Children’s Crusade” closed the May Festival of . the Oberlin Musical Union at Finney Memorial Chapel, May 19. The chorus of the Oberlin Musical Union sang with verve and fine tonal balance, responding readily to the baton of Conductor Dr. George W. Andrews. Special praise is due the childrehn’s chorus, which delivered its music in simple and unaffected manner most delightful. The soloists were Ethel Hayden, Marjory Moody, Roy K. Patch, Herbert Harroun, and a quartet which consisted of Mrs. C. W. Savage, Mrs. Charles Adams, Mrs. Hastings and Daphne Kimball. The Cleveland Orchestra lent excellent support.	B. G.
Obituary
Edward Falck
Edward Falck, one of Hugo Riesenfeld’s musical staff at the Rivoli, Rialto and Criterion theaters, died on Saturday evening, May 27, at his New York home, after four months of illness. He is survived by his widow, Ella Falck, and two sons. The funeral was held Monday morning, May 29, at the Campbell Funeral Church. An orchestra of twenty-five from the theaters played the hymns and some of Mr. Falck’s favorite numbers.
He was born in New York on June 28, 1874, studied at the Columbia School of Mines and was graduated from it in 1894, but soon after turned to music. Going abroad he studied first in Leipsic and later in Vienna. He became one of the conductors at the Karlsruhe Opera and later went in the same capacity to Rouen. He was assistant conductor at the Paris Opera for a time and while in the French capital acted as one of Jean De Reszke’s assistants. In 1908 he came back to New York as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan and in 1916 joined the Riesenfeld staff.
Joseph Ronan Groves
Joseph Ronan Groves, of Selma, Ala., died there on May 20. For thirty years he was organist and choir director of the Catholic Church. The Selma Minstrels were organized by him and for twenty-eight years he was their director. At the time Camp Sheridan was located near Montgomery, he gave up his church position and large piano class and volunteered his services as a K. C. worker. A number of high class ballads were written by him and attained considerable popularity.
The initial appearance of three Atlanta musicians, organized for professional concert work following successful amateur careers, featured the musicale given May 23 at the new theater-auditorium of the Atlanta Womens Club, when Susie Bowden Johnson, Bonita Crow and R. E. Dale were presented. Mrs. Johnson is a soprano who has been heard frequently in musical programs of the season, singing various grand opera roles in the series of operalogues preceding the Metropolitan week; Mrs. Crow has a rich contralto voice with a mezzo range of exceptional power and sweetness while R. E. Dale is an Atlanta singer whose voice has ’delighted all who heard him, particularly in the basso role of Ernani in the opera musicale given at the Howard Theater, and also in the singing of the role of Archibaldo, the old blind king, in “L’Amore dei Tre Re.”
Musical Program at Agnes Scott.
The Agnes Scott College department of music rendered an interesting program May 10 at the college, with Elizabeth Lockhart, contralto; Elena Wooten, soprano, and Mrs. Lewis H. Johnson, accompanist.
Amateurs Present “The Call of Spring.
Atlanta’s most attractive and talented boys and girls took part in “The Call of Spring,” which the children’s division of the Atlanta Woman’s Club presented at the club auditorium on May 13. This pageant was written by Mrs. Earl Sherwood Jackson from Louisa M. Alcott’s flower fable, “The Frost King,” and was a fine example of adaptation and a beautiful combination of dancing, dramatic interpretation and music. One hundred and fifty children^ took part, the principals of the cast including Nellie Sullivan, Irene Shepherdson, Dorothy Keeling, Virginia Turman, Thelma Turman, Patricia Sanders, Freda Sullivan, Lois Spies and Raymer Johnson. Others were Mamie Goodhart, Nancy Frederick, Olivia Harris, Josephine Dinkier, Marjorie Bel -fuss Marguerite Scott, Mollie Logan, Aldora Hudson, Lillian Criswell, Eloise Maddox, Carolyn Berry, Jane Sharp, Marguerite Snelling, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Mildred Dolive, Susan Collier, Dorothy Richardson, Ann Faylkner, Wilhel-mina Dougherty, Ruth Brooke, Ruth Miller, Helen Miller, Marian Miller, Marian Donovan, Martha MacKmght, Virginia Ayer, Georgia Nadele, Emily Elder, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Virginia Blackstock, Phyllis Naedele, Susie Fulghum, Louise Hope Tumlin, Charlotte Belfuss, Virginia Collier, Betty Miller, Mary Lodge, Dorothy DeLeon, Louise Wesley Margaret Hausard, Clara Birdsall, Jean Oliver, Olivia Harris Charles Everett, Laison Jordan, Garfield Miller, Jr., Samuel Clarke, Addison Smith, Charles Frederick von Hermann, Tom Wesley, Callowan Stanford, Henry K. Stanford, Jr., Allen Pierce, Leighton Mitchell, Edward MacDonald, Roger Wing and Sanford Cooper.
Variety Club Gives Musical Program.
A “candied” musical program entertained members of the Norris Variety Club, composed of employees and employers of the Norris Candy Co., Inc., at Burns Cottage, May 10. Every musical selection was renamed for some brand of confections manufactured by Norris, Inc. The club has a membership of forty-two, all of whom are interested m music, and who derive a great deal of enjoyment from the monthly meetings.
Wedemeyer’s Band at Lakewood.
Wedemeyer’s Concert Band gave its usual concert at Lake-wood on Sunday afternoon, May 14. The program ranged from “The Barber of Seville” selections to an Hawaiian foxtrot.
Recitals and Notes of Interest.
The class of Evelyn Donehoo entertained parents and friends at an artistic recital at the home of Miss Donehoo on May 10. The pupils taking part were Sara Logan, Mary Joyce Papy, Frances Abercrombie, Charlotte Bode, Molly Logan, Virginia Smith, Betty O’Brien, Jeanne Hicks and
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The Atlanta Journal of May 14 carried half a page headed “Information of Interest Throughout the South in Regard to Federated Music Study Clubs,” which contained a photograph of Mrs. George Hall, recording secretary of the National Federation of Music Clubs, and president of the Rhode Island Federation of Music Clubs. Mrs. Hall was formerly
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