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June 15, 1922
accompanists were Florence Guisbert, Edythe Boothman and Helen Winegardner.
Third Concert.
Wednesday evening’s program was presented by Marjorie Schobel, soprano and pianist; Olivet Mitsch, contralto; Eugene Christy, tenor; Albert Lukken, baritone, and Doris Saunders, accompanist. Molloy’s “Kerry Dance” opened the program and the quartet from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” closed it. Each of the artists had solo groups and pleased with the excellence of their singing.
Fourth Concert.
The fourth concert, Thursday evening, consisted of three orchestral numbers and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater.” The orchestral numbers were the overture to Weber’s “Eury-anthe,” the Boccherini minuet and the Schubert military march No. 1. Soloists for the Rossini work were those who had been heard the previous evening. They deepened the already excellent impression they had made and much favorable comment was heard regarding their work.
Special praise for the success of this event is due Director Tubbs, and the Business Men’s Association of Bryan, which by promoting the festival demonstrated its acumen and interest in the city’s welfare.	F.
Suzanne Keener to Marry
Mrs. Henry Harbaugh Keener of N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa., has issued invitations to the marriage of her daughter, Suzanne Grace, at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in that city on Saturday evening, June 24, to Russell Barron Schmitt. Miss Keener is a member of the Metropolitan Opera and is under the management of R. E. Johnston for concerts.
Bryan (Ohio) Enjoys Three-Day Festival
Bryan, Ohio, June 1, 1922.—The seventh annual music festival took place May 2, 3 and 4, under the direction of Forrest A. Tubbs. To a festival chorus of one hundred voices, a festival orchestra of forty-five players, a municipal band of forty players and a grade schools chorus of four hundred voices, there was added the following soloists: Marjorie Schobel, soprano; Ruth Bruns, soprano; Eugene Christy, tenor; Olivet Mitsch, contralto; Albert Lukken, baritone; Edgar Beach, baritone; Dale Connin and Theodore Williams, trumpet; Doris Saunders and Mrs. Walter Gardner, accompanists.
First Concert.
The program opened on Tuesday evening with a concert by the Municipal Band. Ruth Bruns and Edgar Beach were the soloists. Dale Connin and Theodore Williams, trumpeters, gave the duet “Adeste Fideles,” a number which aroused much enthusiastic comment. Mrs. Walter Gardner was the efficient accompanist.
Second Concert.
The feature of the second concert, which took place Wednesday afternoon, was the presentation of Fletcher’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” by the fifth and sixth grades. _ The youngsters gave a thoroughly adequate and most enjoyable performance of this delightful work. The junior high school girls glee club gave a group of songs and there were also groups by the children of the first, second and third grades. The children of the second grade gave an English maypole dance and Gladys Briner pleased in a solo dance. Of particular interest was the violin class demonstration under the direction of Don. Wilhelm. The
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Erna Rubinstein Gives Shipboard Concert en Route to London
Daniel Mayer, concert manager, received word that Erna Rubinstein, the sixteen year old violinist who sailed for Europe on the S.S. Ryndam about two weeks ago, gave a concert on board ship in mid-ocean to the vast appreciation of her fellow passengers. Miss Rubinstein is now in London, where she will give several concerts before touring the provinces and the continent. She returns to America in the fall to fulfill engagements.
been made to install seating accommodations for ten thousand listeners.
Acoustic conditions had been tested with most gratifying, in fact amazing, results when fifty thousand people attended the open air Easter sunrise concert at 5 o’clock in the morning, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. Tests undertaken proved that even at the very fringe of the immense crowd the faintest nuancing of the strings could be heard clearly, while vocal solos, down to subtlest shading of dynamics, remained unimpaired to the distant listener, as did enunciation. Stretching over fifty-five acres, the remarkable natural amphitheater can accommodate an audience of one hundred thousand auditors. Only thirty-five minutes’ car ride from the heart of the city, and half or even less than that from the western suburbs of Los Angeles, public expression is hailing the proposed concert season as the first concerted movement toward a great civic open air art center, where _ all the arts, but especially music in concert and operatic form, as well as drama, will find an ideal setting.
cal matters of Los Angeles, and Mrs. J. J. Carter, one of the most successful advocates of music as an essential community _ asset, are directing arrangements of the season, which is not connected with the winter concerts of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, except that the personnel of the players will be practically the same. The Hollywood “Bowl” season is being sponsored by the Community Park and Art Association, which owns the “Bowl,” a natural stadium, by acoustic conditions and natural charm ideally suited for open air concerts.
During the coming season there will be six concerts every week.
Programs are to be given Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, for ten consecutive weeks. There will also be children’s programs and sacred concerts. The repertory will be on an artistic level with the Popular Concerts of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Almost three thousand season ticket books have been subscribed, and arrangements have
SUMMER SYMPHONY
IN LOS ANGELES
Six Weeks’ Season in the Great Hollywood Natural “Bowl,” with Seats for Ten Thousand
Los Angeles will have its first open air symphony concert season at the Hollywood “Bowl,” the natural amphitheater in the Hollywood foothills. The Community Park and Art Association is making final preparations to open the season July 9.
Sixty concerts will be given within ten weeks by an ensemble of sixty-five of the best members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles. Negotiations with eminent conductors, foremost among them Dr. Alfred Hertz, of the San Francisco Symphony, are well under way. F. W. Blanchard, manager of the former Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, for many years actively interested in musi-
THE HOLLYWOOD “BOWL,” WHERE THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY THIS SUMMER Some of the 50,000 music lovers listening to symphony	music at	the Hollywood “Bowl,”	the magnificent natural amphitheater in the	outskirts of Los Angeles, Cal., where an	open air
symphony concert season of sixty programs will begin	July 9.	The picture	gives only	a partial view	of the immense audience and	the wide expanse of the natural concert	stadium
famed for its excellent acoustics and entrancing charm	of landscape. {Inset,	left) : F.	W. Blanchard,	president of the Community	Park and Art Association; {right) : Mrs. J. J.
Carter, secretary of the Community Park and Art	Association. The large	photograph is	by Beam and the inset to the	right is by the Hoover Art Studios.