January 4 , 1923
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MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Marshall Monroe, lyric tenor, who has unusually clear diction, was enthusiastically received. He put a great deal of fire into the Spanish folk songs, which were insistently encored. The piano numbers were both varied and spirited and much credit is due Miss O’Connor for the splendid platform manner of her pupils.
A Brahms program, given by members of the Fortnightly Club, proved to be one of the best they have offered. A group of four Hungarian dances, arranged for four hands, was played by Charlotte Dingley and Helen Snyder as the opening number. Then followed four songs with Isabelle Townley as soloist and Alice Kimball accompanist. Mary Moynihan contributed three violin solos accompanied by Elizabeth Bates. The concluding number was a piano solo, Rhapsody in C minor, by Elizabeth Bates.
Crowds Turned Away from Dupre Recital.
It must have been gratifying to Marcel Dupre, organist, to see the eagerness for even standing room in the large Memorial Church on the ca-mpus, when he gave one of the most interesting and illuminating recitals ever heard on that fine organ. M. Dupre played a long program with delicate sense of emotional contrast and tonal values. As a final number, he improvised a symphony on themes furnished him just before the beginning of the recital by organists True, of Stanford, and Fitzgerald of St. Patrick’s Seminary. There were four movements: an allegro, an andante, an intermezzo, and a finale or fugue. The whole showed originality and the most brilliant musicianship.
C. W. B.
SAN FRANCISCO’S FOURTH
“POP” CONCERT ENJOYED.
Charles Hackett Renews Former Success—Notes
San Francisco Cal., December 18.—The fourth “pop”• concert on the regular subscription series of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concerts was given in ■the Curran Theater, December 10. The opening number was Massenet’s overture to Racine’s Phedre. Debussy’s charming Petite Suite and Moussorgsky’s A Night on Bald Mountain were heard on the first portion of the program. Massenet’s Le Cid was an interesting number and two cello solos by Walter Ferner, principal cellist of the organization, revealed his exquisite tone, technical efficiency and his customary musicianship. Concertmaster Louis Persinger conducted the orchestra in these two numbers and earned for himself added admiration from his audience.
Charles Hackett Renews Former Success.
Charles Hackett, the American tenor who created a sensation in San Francisco while singing here with the Scotti
Burns Albert, soprano, gave a group of French and American songs, with Irene Hampton Thrane at the piano.
Cornish School Notes.
The Cornish School recently celebrated its eighth anniversary with open house. Two excellent programs of music were given in addition to the social aspects of the occasion. A bulletin was issued in which was concise records of the careers of former students, many of whom have been very successful. A number of them are in New York; Margaret Petit, Marjorie Avery, Ricky Ford and Ruth van Valey, dancers; Josephine Hutchinson, who played in The Hairy Ape and is rehearsing a new play, and Dora Vanderbilt who has been with the Walter Hampden company. Vivian Strong Hart has just signed a three years’ contract with a light opera company ■that is being formed and will appear in New York early in the year¡ Miss Hart has received all her training from her mother, Kuria Strong, who is a member of the Cornish School faculty, and Sergei Klibansky, of New York, who has been a successful guest teacher at the school for the last three summers. Helen Stryker is with the Belasco forces now and is the understudy of two characters in The Merchant of Venice with David Warfield. And so it goes in the story of this school.	A. B.
PALO ALTO CROWDS HALL TO
HEAR ORGANIST DUPRE
Organist Makes Astonishing Improvisation in Sonata Form —Stanford Students Score in Music Revue—Notes
Palo Alto, Cal., December 25.—Ram’s Head Society of Stanford University produced its annual Football Show in the Assembly Hall, November 25, the evening of the football classic between Stanford and the University of California. The entire production was conceived, composed and staged by local talent—the book and lyrics by Dan Evans, the music by Chick Midgeley, Myron Higby, Alice Dodds and Clu Carey, and direction by Arnold Bay-ley, Sam Mendenhall and Dick Taylor. A cast of thirty-eight and a chorus of twenty-four went from scene to scene with precision and ease. The music, while never notable, was melodious and frequently novel, particularly the theme-song, I Want to Major in Love and Blue My Shoes. There was an orchestra of fifteen students, which was occasionally reinforced by a stage orchestra. Among the favorites were Grant Corby, Clyde Coakley and Helen
English and Spanish folk songs, and piano numbers given by pupils of Eleanor, O’Connor, made up the program of the regular Sunday afternoon Community House concert.
SEATTLE BOOKS MANY
WELL KNOWN ARTISTS
Seidel Plays with Civic Symphony—Rose Florence Sings Songs by Local Composers—Omar Khayyam Given by Plymouth Quartet and Choir—Spargur Quartet Heard—Notes
Seattle, Wash,, December 27.—Different organizations of Seattle have been instrumental in bringing artists to this city. The Ladies’ Musical Club, the Woman’s League of the University of Washington, and the Men’s Club of Plymouth Church have all instituted courses. Margaret Matzenauer, Geraldine Farrar, Evelyn Scotney, Cyrena van Gordon, Mme. Gadski, Louis Graveure and Marcel Dupre are among the artists already heard.
The Civic Symphony Orchestra has announced an excellent group of musicians, the first to appear being Toscha Seidel, violinist, who delighted the audience with his playing of the Tschaikowsky concerto. He was heard also in a group of solos with Francesco Longo at the piano. This Civic Orchestra, under the direction of Mme. Davenport-Engborg, has entered upon its third year. It is composed of amateurs and professionals, and deserves the commendation of the community for its sincere endeavor to contribute what it can to the musical life of the city. The organization numbers over one hundred members.
Rose Florence Sings Songs by Local Composers.
A program of songs which gave much pleasure was offered at the Cornish School by Rose Florence. In compliment to Seattle composers, Mme. Florence sang the Meadow Lark, by Abbie Gerrish-Jones, and My Love and I, by Katherine Glenn. John Hopper furnished excellent accompaniments.
Omar Khayyam Presented.
Liza Lehmann’s setting of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was presented by the Plymouth quartet and choir of fifty voices under the direction of the organist, Wallace MacMurray. Margaret Hemeon,״ soprano, distinguished herself by her dramatic singing of the number,
I Sent My Soul Through the Invisible, which had to be repeated, as did the duet, A Loaf of Bread, and the bass solo, Myself When Young. Leone Langdon, pianist, and Mrs. Lang and Florence Sherman, violinists, accompanied the performance.
Spargur Quartet Well Liked.
The Spargur Quartet played recently at the attractive new recital hall in the Women’s University Club before an attentive and appreciative audience. The quartet played two numbers, Beethoven’s Op. 18, No. 2, and Smetana’s Aus Meinem Leben, with delicacy and musicianship. Jane
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