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MUSI C AL COURIER
.1 une 15, 1922
ONE MILLION-
ONE DOLLAR CAMPAIGN
Under the Auspices of the OPERA IN OUR LANGUAGE FOUNDATION, INC. and the
DAVID BISPHAM MEMORIAL FUND, INC.
To Establish an American Opera House
And further purposes of these organizations, which are
Opera in Our Language Foundation.
To further in every possible way opera in our language in the U. S. A., to organize, reorganize or assist companies, and if foreign works are given, to acquire adequate translations. (Foreign works and artists to lie heard only in English.)
David Bispham Memorial Fund.
To assist the American composer, notably of operas, and to keep alive the name of David Bispham and his art through a fitting memorial.
Checks of $1 or more may be mailed to Mrs. Louis
E.	Yager, treasurer-director, at National Campaign Headquarters, Room A-18, Congress Hotel, Chicago.
National Officers—Mrs. Archibald Freer, Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. Albert J. Ochsner, Mrs. Louis E. Yager.
Amount received to date, $284.
Individual subscriptions are: George Meehan, $5 ; J. M. Frieder, $4, and the following of $1 each:
Esther Levine, Geo. J. Mead, Max Wolf, Irma Frieder, Ruth Frieder, Arnold Frieder, Roland Frieder, Gussie Dal-let, Mrs. Belle Cashman, Magda Weinreb, Fern Bryan, Elsa Weinreb, Olga Weinreb, Oscar Weinreb, Mrs. Sadie Lill, Mrs. Arthur House, Mrs. Geo. Mead, Alice Frieder, F. F. Frieder, Mrs. L Frieder, Mrs. H. Englander, Alfred Frieder, Mrs. Gisella Weinreb, Nellie Grassly, Harry Dallet, Sam Fischer, Mrs. J. Lindblum, Margaret King, Miss Golden, Edward Frieder, Mrs. Edward Frieder, Oscar Frieder, Rose Laurence, Kathryn Frieder, Sue H. Johns, M׳rs. Ida Rose, Harriet Egolf, Leah Walling, Mrs. Walling, Mrs. Chas. Bid-well, Will Greenberg, Mrs. S. A. Pexton, B. D. Kinsey, Russell Doherty, Arthur Hartmann, Mrs. Levy Mayer, Mrs.
F.	L. Carson, Mrs. Margaret Wheeler Ross, Ernest Carter, Mrs. Ernest Carter, Laura H. Carter, Roger E. Carter, Elizabeth W. Carter, Alice A. Macbeth, Mrs. John Walker, Mrs. Wm. C. Foster, Karl Schmidt, Mrs. Schmidt, Pauline Doerr, Montgomery Clark, Mrs. Montgomery Clark, Otto Miessner, Mrs. W. A. Buttolph, Dorothy Buttolph, Mr. W. A. Buttolph, R. E. Cantwell, Jr.; Mrs. Cantwell, Rudolph Reuter, Mrs. Vette, John L. Vette, Peter Christian Lutkin, Robert Stewart, Phyllis Shaw, Mrs. Genevieve Porter, Mrs. Eric Gustenberg, Mrs. C. T. Atkinson, Mrs. F. W. Barker, Mrs. C. S. Day, Mrs. T. M. Flournoy, Mrs. E. J. Murray, Theodore Hinckley, Mrs. W. L. Baum, Mrs. Rudolph Atroeh, Mrs. Rachel Freese Green, Zella Marshall, Mrs. Lambert Bassandale, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Dema Harshberger, Mrs. F. K. Copeland, Alice Gustenberg.
Tait, of the well known Australian firm of impresarios, Tait & Williamson, regarding a twenty-four weeks’ tour of the principal Australian and New Zealand cities. In the event the deal is consummated, the San Carlo organization will sail from San Francisco for the Antipodes next April,
work are Ralph Hartzell, Robert G. Bosworth, Samuel E. Kohn, Mrs. Richard H. Hart, E. Clinton Jansen, James N. Wright and Josephine Trott. At the Musical Society of Denver’s final luncheon of the season, Josephine Trott spoke on the “Origin and Formation of the Civic Symphony Orchestra.” Horace Tureman, who has been appointed director, gave a talk on the “Ideals of the Orchestra, and its Needs.” Election followed the luncheon and addresses, arid the officers and directors for 1922 and 1923 are: president, Mrs. Fredericka Wadley; recording secretary and treasurer, Edith M. Perry; corresponding secretary, Edith Kingsley Rinquest; directors, Ralph Verner, Paul Clark Stauffer and Mrs. Thos. Walker.
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Estella Moore, who won the gold medal in the piano contest, gave a recital on May 24, strengthening the splendid impression made during Music Week. Miss Moore combines fine phrasing and beautiful tone with an intelligent interpretation, and since her recital a year ago, has gained materially in breadth and individuality and the subtle quality which distinguishes the true artist. She is a pupil of Anna Knecht.
Anna Knecht, prominent piano teacher of Denver, is going for a year of study and recreation in Paris, Berlin and Rome.
The Denver String Quartet’s fifteenth and final chamber music concert of the season occurred May 28 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gans. The numbers (played by request), were by Beethoven, Glazounoff, Tschaikowsky, Debussy, Haydn and Borodin.	J. T.
Agnes Brennan Plays at “Marymount”
Agnes Brennan recently gave a piano recital for the faculty and students of Marymount College, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson. Miss Brennan is a very busy teacher, spending most of her time at her attractive studio on Riverside Drive and at Marymount College, where she is the artist-teacher. With all her teaching and pupils’ recitals, she manages to give a recital herself now and then, thus giving to the^ students valuable example and inspiration, and to her friends keen delight.
At the “Marymount” recital, Miss Brennan offered an unusually attractive and varied program. She began with the Beethoven sonata, op. 57, which she rendered in dignified, masterly style. Other numbers were "From a Wandering-Iceberg” and “To the Sea,” by MacDowell; “Arabesque” and “Golliwogg’s Cake Walk,” Debussy; “Polichinelle,” Rachmaninoff; Cracovienne,” Paderewski, and a Chopin group of preludes, a waltz, nocturne, scherzo (B flat minor) and polonaise.
Her excellent technical equipment and her beautiful, sympathetic tone were especially commented upon. One paper spoke of her “remarkable rhythm" and “intelligent interpretation,” and also stated, "The artist displayed great energy and vigor combined with rare poetic feeling.” Anothej־ paper praised her for “contrast in style and . . . adaptability to moods;” "due regard for color and atmosphere;” “singing tone.” Miss Brennan is a sincere, conscientious artist and teacher, who well deserves the success she has attained.
giving three performances at Honolulu en route. In Australia the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide will be visited. The leading cities in New Zealand to be played are Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch. The San Carlo company would return to American shores in time to pursue its regular tour of the United States and Canada in September, 1923.
Mr. Gallo will decide, upon his return from Italy to London in July, whether he will take his forces to the English metropolis or not. He writes his manager, Charles R. Baker, that strong pressure has been brought to bear upon him to present his organization in England, but the Antipodean venture appears so attractive to him that he may forego the London engagement until some future time.
Antonia Sawyer Married
Antonia Sawyer, the New York concert manager, was married on Saturday afternoon, June 10, to Ashley Miner, of this city, a well known figure in the-silk business. The ceremony took place at Mrs. Sawyer’s home in White Plains, the officiating clergyman being Rev. Father Simmons, of the White Plains Episcopal Church. Only a dozen or so of the most intimate friends of the couple were present, among them Percy Grainger.
San Carlo Opera May Visit Australia
Impresario Fortune Gallo, of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company, while in London recently, conferred with J. N.
Deems Taylor wrote after hearing
ROSING
“Russian Tenor Stirs Audience; Rosing must be ranked by this performance with other great ones”
“When the Russian tenor sings in Russian as he did last night at Aeolian Hall, he is to be ranked with the other two great Russians who have sung in New York this season—with Chaliapin, the basso, and the baritone of the Chicago Opera Company, Schwarz; his interpretations are as effective as Chaliapin’s and better than Schwartz’s. He is a great artist. His all Moussorgsky programme last night reduced his audience to the breathing silence which arises when artistic communication is complete. He was compelled to give an encore after each group.”—New York World, January 6th, 1922.
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DENVER’S MUSIC WEEK
SPECTACULAR SUCCESS
Remarkable Performance of Light Opera—Original Local Operatic Fantasy Given—Various Musical Activities—N otes
Denver, Colo., June 7.—Denver’s second Music Week more than fulfilled the opulent promises of its sponsors. Hundreds of enjoyable musical events in all quarters of the city drew thousands of auditors each day of the memorable week—May 14 to 21. The streets were gaily decorated with flags, banners and colored lights, and street bands in the evenings added to the general atmosphere of festivity.
Remarkable Performance of Light Opera.
Most important of all events were the three splendid performances of “Robin Hood,” at the Municipal Auditorium, which, under the clever stage management of William C. Walsh, and the musical direction of John C. Wilcox, director of the Municipal Chorus, reached a high standard. The excellent chorus of 150 was one of the outstanding features. The principals (and there were two complete casts, alternating), were all singers of local fame, and all parts were admirably done.
Original Local Operatic Fantasy Given.
“The Awakening,” an original operatic outdoor fantasy, created entirely—even to scenery and costumes—by local talent, was also given two successful performances at the auditorium. It is a fanciful pageant, designed to arouse interest in the preservation of the scenic attractions of Colorado (directed mainly towards campers and tourists, who are often criminally careless in failing to extinguish their fires, etc.). E. C. MacMechen, editor of “Municipal Facts,” wrote the play, and Henry Houseley composed the overture, lyrics and incidental music. The Denver Art Association took charge of the staging and costumes, general direction being assumed by Anne Evans. Mrs. W. B. Staley was director of dances and Burnham Hoyt scenic director.
Various Musical Activities.
Many choruses and bands from other Colorado cities took part in the week’s celebration ; 3,000 school children sang in chorus at the auditorium, under the direction of Isabelle H. Abair; scores of concerts were arranged for hospitals, orphanages and charitable homes. The various high school orchestras and choruses competed for loving-cups and other prizes; music memory contests for prizes were held in the junior high schools, and hundreds of recitals were given in all available studios and halls.
The Denver Music Society offered gold medals to the winners in violin, piano and voice contests. The finals were held at the auditorium, following the preliminary contests, Riccarda Forrest, a girl of fourteen, winning the violin medal ; Estella Moore, the piano medal, and Anthony Seganti, the one for voice.
A local music firm offered a grand piano and two other trophies for the three best pianists under twenty years of age. There were 112 contestants, and Dalies Frantz, a lad of fourteen, won first prize; Beatrice Feinberg second, and Rosa Rosenblum third.
The debut of a new local orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Zdenko Dworzak, took place May 17, assisted by Blanche Housman, soprano, and Edwin House, baritone. The players, numbering forty, presented their part of the program — “Stradella” overture, Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony and a Strauss waltz—very creditably.
An affair of unusual interest was offered the Alliance Française in a program of French composers, which was admirably performed by artist pupils of Paul Clark Stauffer—Misses Worth, Ashbaugh, Courtney, McGuire and Skivington. Mrs. L. O. Scott, soprano, assisted in several delightful French songs.
Among other Music Week activities of the Denver Conservatory of Music, of which Mr. Stauffer is head, was a unique program consisting entirely of works of Chopin, presented by Mr. Stauffer and his assistant piano teachers, and a program of music written for two pianos.
Corinne Bourk, pianist, junior teacher of the Wolcott Conservatory faculty, played a comprehensive program May 17, at the auditorium of the school, disclosing musical temperament and a facile technic which promise well for the young lady’s future.
The week closed in a blaze of glory, May 21, when fourteen choruses sang before 8,000 people in the auditorium. Those participating were the Welsh Male Chorus, J. T. Williams, director; the Colorado Woman’s Glee Club, Helen Roberts, director; St. Francis de Sales Boys’ Choir, Mrs. M. J. Halter and the Rev. J. R. Koch, directors; Park Hill Choral Society, the Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Quartet, the Denver University Men’s Glee Club, the Treble Clef Glee Club, the Sacred Heart Boys’ Choral Club, the Sacred Heart Girls’ Choral Club, the State Teachers’ College Glee Club of Greeley, the Orpheus Singing Society, the Pueblo Steel Works Choral Club, the Colorado Agricultural College Glee Club, the Fort Collins Municipal Chorus and Denver Municipal Chorus.
Civic Orchestra Launched.
Close upon Music Week came the glad tidings that the Civic Symphony Society of Denver is to be an actuality in our community life. This orchestra is modeled upon the excellent and highly practical plan of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. The public subscriptions, which must be $10,000 a year for three years, are coming in fast and it is hoped rehearsals can begin by the last of June, so that the Sunday afternoon concerts, which by courtesy of Mayor Bailey will be given in the auditorium, can open the fall season. Horace Tureman, conductor of the former Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, was fortunately available and has been engaged to direct the new orchestra. Applications from musicians who wish to be identified with the orchestra are pouring in, and about seventy-five players will be selected from the number. The Denver Music Society projected the plan of the Civic Orchestra and is one of its chief sponsors. In addition, twenty-four public-spirited men and women of Denver, with the vision to see what an organization of the sort will mean to the community at large, are standing back of it, in the form of a Board of Directors. The seven trustees who will push the actual