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MAY MUKLE,
the cellist, cruising in Falmouth Bay and at Roxburgh Castle ruins, Scotland.
appeared in a trio concert at Wigmore Hall, London, with Myra Hess and Marjorie Hayward as the other artists. The program consisted of three trios by Rebecca Clarke, Mozart
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May Mukle on Round the World Tour.
From abroad comes news that May Mukle, the well known English cellist, sailed from Marseilles on December 16 on the S.S.
Lancashire on the first lap of a round-the-world concert tour.
Stopping off in Italy, the artist played for two weeks in that country before proceeding to India, where she is scheduled to make her first appearance at Colombo. The cellist will remain ¡״ the Orient until late spring, arriving in Honolulu in June.
Among the engagements May Mukle has filled recently was a performance in the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, where, with other numbers, she played the Grieg sonata for piano and cello, op. 36. Under Sir Henry Wood’s baton at Queen’s Hall, London, Miss Mukle performed the Tschaikowsky Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello with the orchestra. At th: same hall on October 12 she gave the first performance in England of Ernest Bloch’s Hebrew Rhapsody (Schelmo), also with orchestra, both artist and composition scoring heavily with the critics and public alike. Another appearance of the cellist was for the Oxford Ladies’ Musical Society, the performance being given in the oldest music room in Europe, where Handel and Haydn have both played. On this occasion, Miss Mukle played a Beethoven sonata, two groups of miscellaneous compositions and a sonata in E for cello and piano by Rebecca Clarke. On NnvemW I ־t,״
going to Hongkong and India. My other artist, Leopold Godowsky, also had enormous success in Japan. You can see^ for yourself that the Orient is a new field for first-class artists.”
Rosa Ponselle’s Unusual Concert Tour
Rosa Ponsellc made her season's debut at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon, December 16, in Ernani, and in splendid voice was welcomed back with tremendous enthusiasm. She was as fresh as ever, despite the long concert tour of the fall, notices from which are still coming in. At Dallas, Tex., she sang for the first time on November 27, under the auspices of the Dallas Male Chorus, and was immediately re-engaged for next season. The Dallas Herald said of her:	“Miss Ponselle was the outstanding sensation
of many seasons. She thrilled Dallas as it has not been thrilled m many moons. Pounding its palms as an expression of its enthusiasm did not suffice, and conservative Dallas used its heels in true Gotham fashion.”
Her next appearance was at Kansas City, on November 30, singing with the St. Louis Orchestra, Rudolph Ganz conductor. The Kansas City Conservatory of Music gave her a reception after the concert, at which Arnold Volpe, director of the Conservatory, acted as master of ceremonies, welcoming the guest by a happy reference to the fact that she had often appeared under his baton in New York, while white-robed children, junior members of the Conservatory aiM honor pupils, presented the guest with flowers and a testimonial.
On December 6 she sang in Jacksonville, Fla., her first appearace there, and scored another great success. The Florida Times-Union said:	“The evening was one of real
pleasure for the big audience, and those who overlooked the event or were prevented from attending by circumstances, have missed knowing and hearing one of America’s artists who will continue long in public favor and rise to the greatest heights in her art.”
i7i0n -S6 ^ternoon of the same day she sang at Orlando, Ala 1 he Morning Sentinel of that city spoke of her work as follows:	“The concert not only proved an afternoon
spcnt delightfully, musically, but also an event memory of which will finger long and affectionately in the hearts of those who were present. ... She is surely magnificent on the operatic stage and truly adorable on the concert platform. Hers is a noble voice of grand proportions, commanding power and dramatic power.”
By December 10 she was back North again and sang for he first time at New Britain, Conn., before an audience which not only filled all standing room, but also required all available space on the stage. New Britain, being a neighbor of Miss Ponselle’s home town, Meriden, provided a typical I onselle audience, composed of friends and old school chums from far and near who stormed the stage alter the program was finished, where the singer held an impromptu home-coming reception after two and a half months concertizing. It was her last concert appearance outside of New York City until next spring, when she makes an extended tour of the Pacific Coast for the first
Robert Ringling With San Carlo Opera
Robert Ringling, baritone, has been meeting with great success m his appearances with the San Carlo Opera Com-anÜyMHe san£ recently in Cleveland and also in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. This month he will go South givin״
Com״ COncertoS. ׳? F!orlda׳ rejoining the San Carlo Opera Company in St. Louis the middle of the month.
Florence Macbeth’s Numerous Concerts
Florence Macbeth’s tour of the Pacific Coast and en route to Chicago, where she is now appearing with success with the opera company, was a chain of brilliant successes. She gave a series of recitals on the Coast, under the direction of Selby Oppenheimer, appearing in such cities as Oakland, on October 17: Stockton on October 20, when she appeared at i i״enira! Methodist Auditorium, under the auspices of the Musical Club; San Francisco on October 23, where she won great artistic success at the opening of the St. Francis Matinee Musicales; Sant¿ Ana on October 30, opening the winter series of the Musical Association; Los Angeles on November 3, appearing with Royal Dadmun, baritone, as the first attraction of the Artists’ Course, under the direction of L. E Behymer. On November 8 she appeared c. . «a teachers of .th? Western Division of the Colorado State Education Association, in Grand Junction; on Novem-ber ), before the Southern Division of Teachers, in Pueblo and on November 10. before the Eastern Division, in Denver’ On November 14 Miss Macbeth made her first appearance m Joplin, Mo under the auspices of the Fortnightly Music Elub, m the High School Auditorium, winning another of her remarkably brilliant successes. Sedalia, Mo., heard the young singer m the opening concert of the Helen G. Steele Music Club series on November IS. Following this she sang m Kansas City, Mo., and Omaha, Neb., besides a number of other cities.
Morgan Kingston Likes Farm Life
Most people think a farm is a dead place in winter, yet if Morgan Kingston had his way he says he would skip away from his piano and opera scores and make *״in!•* •	*¡1S ^arm *n Alberta, Canada, right now.
I his is the coyote season,” explains the tenor, “and believe me, the fun of harvesting grain in late summer is nothing compared with the excitement of running down a coyote in winter. And all you need is a Ford, three dogs and a club. Two of the dogs are used to run the 311•״jj down• Then when they have cornered him, the third dog attacks him. It is at this moment that the hunter comes bumping and snorting across the prairie m his Ford. Taking care to avoid the three biting, snapping dogs, he kills the coyote with a club. He never shoots, because bullet holes spoil the skins which, by the way, retail at $5.00 apiece. Besides coyotes, there are always the funny little snow-rabbits to shoot, as well as some deer which stray down from the Rocky Mountains.
“And in the farmhouse,” continued the singer, “January finds affairs busier than June. The cattle must be fed and taken care of, meat must be cured and prepared for the summer, and every one must try to consume the vast amount of fruit that was preserved the previous Autumn. Verily, I’m for the farm in the winter time!”
Gigli Befriends Blind Beggar
Recently, as Beniamino Gigli was looking through his newspaper, he came across an article announcing the loss of a dog by a poor, blind man, upon which he depended for his living. Gigli immediately got in touch with the blind man, intending to replace the dog, but when he arrived at his home he found (both to his joy and disappointment) that the dog had already been found.
After a conversation. Gigli discovered that it was the one ambition of the blind man to own a newspaper stand, on which he could depend for his maintenance. Gigli became very happy then to know that he could still do something for him. He immediately made out a check sufficient to purchase the stand, and thus. brightened the Christmas of the deserving, unfortunate man.
Ivogun Sings Spiering Songs
At her final recital in her home city of Munich on ecember 5, Maria Ivogun, who is soon to come to America for her second visit, included in her program three songs by T heodore Spiering, all of which were well received
by the audience. They are Vor Deinem Fenster Ueber den Bergen, and Mädchenlied.	zensier, ueher den
Pavlowa and Godowsky Successful in Orient
A. Strok, concert manager in the Far East, writes to the Musical Courier from Manila, P. L, as follows:	“I am
now on a tour with Mme Pavlowa, and she has had very big success. We toured Japan for seven weeks and have spent ten days in Shanghai and Manila, and now we are
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