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January 4, 1923
then an encore) and graciously gave a number of encores. The Knoxville Sentinel spoke of this gifted artist’s “beautiful and well trained voice” and said it was “one of the most enjoyable and highly appreciated concerts of the season.”
Maier and Pattison Give Overcoat Concert
St. Joseph, Mo., December 14.—The team work of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison is acknowledged everywhere, but their team work is best known here in St. Joseph, where they held a thrilled audience throughout a long program in a bitter cold, unheated auditorium. . Snuggled down into furs and overcoats, the listeners gave themselves up to the warmth of energy and tone color these artists exhibit. The Italian suite, Pupazetti, by Casella, was an especially attractive number. Other items were a Bach-Bauer fugue, the prelude, fugue and variations by Cesar Franck, the Saint-Saëns variations on a theme by Beethoven, and the Orgy by Iljinsky.	E. G. M.
Mischa Levitzki Resumes Tour.
After a brief holiday Mr. Levitzki will resume his tour with an appearance with the Cleveland Orchestra on January 4 and 6. At his second New York recital at Carnegie Hall on January 24 Mr. Levitzki will play the Beethoven op. 101 and a Schubert group, including the dramatic Erlking.
Ralph Leopold at Private Musicale
Ralph Leopold played a program of piano music on December 8 at a private musicale given by Mrs. Winchester Fitch at her beautiful home, 21 East Eightieth street, New York. His program comprised works by Schumann, Dohnanyi, Olsen, Leschetizky, Liszt and Wagner.
Glee Club Organized at Scudder School.
The students of the Scudder School for Girls in New York have organized a glee club under the leadership of Prof. K. Abeles, and will give concerts to raise funds for the worker the school supports in the devastated portion of France.
Dux Starts 1923 Activities in Fort Worth
Claire Dux starts her 1923 activities with a recital in Fort Worth on January 4. On January 8 she will appear in Jacksonville, Fla., with Herbert Goode at the piano, and on January 11 she sings at a special concert in Philadelphia.
A New Song by Russell J. England
The American composer, Russell J. England, has recently completed an effective sacred song, set to the biblical text from Isaiah, “Seek Ye the Lord.” It is soon to be issued by Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge.
CAROLINE E. SMITH BECOMES MANAGER OF
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
At the last meeting of the board of directors of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles the resignation of Manager L. E. Behymer was accepted by the board and Caroline E. Smith, personal representative of W. A. Clark,
Jr., and secretary-treasurer of the orchestra since its inception, was elected by unanimous vote to replace Mr. Behymer as the manager of the orchestra. Mrs. Smith is well qualified for this position, for much of the remarkable success achieved by this splendid orchestra during the past three years is attributed to the dynamic energy of this astute business woman who has practically held the guiding reins of the organization from the first.
The present season of the orchestra is wholly confined to its engagements in Los Angeles and Southern California.
Because of its numerous visits to contiguous cities numbering in all eighty-five concerts, so much work is involved that the board of directors deems it essential that Mrs.
Smith should devote her entire time to further carrying out the plans of Mr. Clark so that the Philharmonic Orchestra may be presented in every community, offering to schools and colleges an opportunity to hear the best in music at a cost made possible through the generosity of its founder.
The fourth season of the Philharmonic augurs well for greater success than any previous season, not only in Los Angeles, but also in all the cities of Southern California.
Recently the orchestra played its first concert in San Bernardino, a city heretofore not considered so deeply interested in music as in commercial progress, yet its appearance brought forth such crowds that hundreds were turned away from the large auditorium. The same result was repeated at Anaheim, a much smaller city, with the result that both cities have requested two concerts each for next season. The first of ten concerts arranged for San Diego was played on November 20 at the large Spreckels Theater and every seat was sold far in advance. The orchestra is now recognized in every community where it appears, not only as a great educational factor, but also as a civic asset of inestimable value. Civic bodies in every city have put their shoulders to the wheel and are now actively assisting the music organizations in making the Philharmonic Orchestra a permanent institution.
It is finally dawning upon chambers of commerce that in founding and financing the Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years, W. A. Clark, Jr., has given to our Southern California cities a monumental institution limitless in its scope that cannot fail to have a great emulatory effect in each community.	H.
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Wolfsohn Bureau Moves.
The Wolfsohn Musical Bureau and the Music League of America have moved to new offices at 712-718 Fisk Building, 57th street and Broadway.
engagement. Her interesting program was made up of eighteenth century classics, French songs, a modern Italian aria, Russian songs, songs by living composers and children’s songs. Although Miss Smith charmed her audience in all the numbers she sang, it was in the last group, children’s songs, that she־was particularly delightful. She had many recalls (four after the Madame Butterfly aria and
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Franck Centennial at Wanamaker’s
Three organ recitals in honor of the centenary of the birth of Caesar Franck, the eminent French organist, with exclusively Franck music, were planned for the Wana-maker Auditorium, New York, Dr. Alexander Russell, concert director, on December 27, with Marcel Dupre, organist: December 29, with Charles M. Courboiu, organist, and January 3, with Marcel Dupre again. An eight-page folder had been prepared by Dr. Russell, the title page containing a picture of Franck, so greatly resembling Carl Reinecke, with complete programs and further cuts of Dupre and Courboin, and sketches of all three.
A packed audience, admitted only by ticket, attended the opening Dupre recital, and it was interesting to note the general perusal by listeners of the program notes. “He served music without ever asking it for renown,” said Debussy, for it is a fact that he lived an almost hermit-like life. The originality, learning and Bach-like qualities in much of his music; the melodious vein, the dramatic periods, all this came to the fore in Organist Dupre’s playing. The request for silence, printed on the program, was unnecessary, for people listen to the beautiful instrument and masterly playing with absorbed interest.
Friday afternoon, January 5, at 2:30 P. M., Mr. Dupre will give another organ recital, and following a tour of the Eastern States during January, February, and March, he will give three more recitals. January 12, the Society of Theater Organists will present a model motion picture and music program, the organists being John Priest, organist at the Cameo Theater; J. Van Clift Cooper, organist at the Rivoli Theater, and Vera Kitchener, of the Lincoln Square Theater.
An Echo of Muzio’s Paris Success
Apropos of Claudia Muzio’s recent appearances a‘ the Paris Opera, the Neuvelle Revue of November said:
“Claudia Muzio, passing through Paris on her way back to America, where she is celebrated, is at the same time one of the most finished and most seductive artists that we have ever been privileged to hear. Her clear soprano voice of long range, pure though warm, dominates without the least effort all tbe ensembles, but preserves, however, in the cantabile and in its half tones, a delicacy, smoothness and charm which are truly exquisite. Her method of placing the notes_ in lighter passages makes one dream of a little bird singing on a swinging branch; the sound has a delicious elasticity. I am thinking particularly of the Nile scene; but in the emotional scenes of thq first and last act this artist, who incidentally is a great beauty, grand in manner and constantly within the character, held us under her charm.”
After her present engagement with the Chicago Opera Miss Muzio will go to Paris for several guest performances.
First Bauer Recital
Harold Bauer, pianist, returning to New York after a long European tour, will give his first recital in Aeolian Hall, Saturday afternoon, January 6, at three o’clock. Mr. Bauer will play Bach’s chromatic fantasia and fugue; Beethoven’s sonata in_E flat, op. 81; Schumann’s Davids-bundlertanze, op. 6 (eighteen short pieces) ; Chopin’s polonaise fantasie, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, and Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsody No. 13.	-	.
Ethelynde Smith at Southern University
Ethelynde Smith, soprano, gave a song recital at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., under the auspices of the Music Club, on December 1. This was a return