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Whitney at the organ, included Kyrie, Gloria and Sanctus from Mozart’s twelfth mass, Credo and Benedictus from Gounod’s mass and Agnes Dei (Loeschs).
The Nativity Mass by Bruno Oscar Klein was sung by the chorus choir of St. John’s Church under the direction of Norbert Roy. Mrs. Walter Larsen presided at the organ and the Larsen Orchestra assisted.
The augmented choir of the Baptist Church lately rendered a cantata by Ira Wilson. Soloists were Mrs. Norbert Roy, Mrs. T. T. Phelps and Howland Fisk. The organist is Norbert Roy and the director, Earl Fisk. M. L. N. L.
Greensboro, N. C., December 28.—Balfe’s opera, The Bohemian Girl, was performed by the Guilford College Choral Society, December 13, under the direction of James Westley White. The chorus of fifty voices gave a splendid account of itself, the work being characterized by precision of attack and good tonal balance. Beatrice Lynn Byrd, soprano, sang the title role with style and pleasing-quality of voice. Mrs. E. C. Caldwell sang the music of the Gypsy Queen with dramatic intensity and emotional insight.
J. Foster Barnes, baritone, took the part of the Baron effectively and Gurney Briggs was in the leading tenor role. Mrs. Robert Dann was accompanist for the performance and was thoroughly adequate.
The first number of the Greensboro Concert Course (Mrs. Lessie Lindsay Wharton, manager) was given at the National Theater by Claire Dux, soprano, and Alberti Salvi, harpist, with Herbert Goode as accompanist. Featured on the program were the two last numbers, sung with harp accompaniment. They were Sylvelin (Sinding) and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. Salvi was entirely successful in fulfilling the expectations of the audience. A bit of.local interest attached to the concert is the fact that Herbert Goode, Mme. Dux’s accompanist, formerly lived in Greensboro for some time and has many friends here.
Another soprano appearing recently was Evelyn Scotney, who was heard at the Greensboro College for Women. Mme. Scotney’s assistants were Maxmillian Rose, violinist, and Elvin Schmidt, accompanist.
Frieda Hempel gave her Jenny Lind program, December 20, with Coenraad Bos as accompanist and Louis P. Fritze, flutist. It was the most inclement night of this winter, but a large audience filled the Municipal Theater. As usual she won rounds of applause for her artistry, singing and exquisite appearance. The concert was fostered by the League of Women Voters.
The Euterpe Club presented a program of Christmas music at the home of Mrs. E. S. Wills. A double quartet, composed of E. S. Teague, E. S. Wills, E. C. Caldwell, Tillie Morlock, Benjamin Bates, Leonard Hurley, C. B. Shaw and J. Foster Barnes, gave several selections. Mrs. Cummings (Continued on page 54)
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pianist, gave a program before the College Women’s Club at the December meeting. Mrs. Brevillier disclosed rich vocal resource and interpretative gifts in songs by Kramer. Carpenter, Ferrari, Sinding and Novello. Mrs. Harry Burton Boyd was accompanist. Matching her intellectual talent with brilliant technical ability, Miss Berst gave fine interpretations of the Gluck-Brahms gavotte, nocturne by Field, Cradle Song, Leginska, and selections by Beethoven, Granados and Dett. Miss Berst recently studied with Leginska in London.
The Erie Festival Chorus, recently re-assembled by Morris Gabriel Williams, gave its first concert of the season, pleasing a critical audience with excellent choral work. Mrs. Lamont Feist, contralto; Mrs. W. K. Bayer, Mrs. E. J. Blila, Theresa Mozdy, sopranos, and John Connor, tenor, were the soloists. Accompanists were Isabel Paterson and Grace Greenman-Chapman. The chorus will give a midseason concert in February and the conductor is making extensive plans for a spring festival.
The choir of the Central Presbyterian Church gave a very successful performance of The Messiah with full orchestral accompaniment, under the direction of E. A. Hae-sener, on December 17. The soloists were Mrs. Leo Gruen-wald, Mrs. C. K. Schaaf, Addie Humphries, Marjorie Vale, sopranos; Anne T. Wilson, Mrs. D. G. Evans, altos; Bruce Morrison, tenor, and E. A. Haesener, bass.
The newly organized chorus of the General Electric Company made its debut recently in a concert directed by Wilson Root Bushnell, with Edna Indermaur as soloist. Miss Inder-maur pleased in her solo numbers and the chorus made a creditable showing for so new an organization.
E. A. Haesener, vocal teacher, presented the following trio of sopranos in recital recently: Mrs. Leo Gruenwald, Mrs. C. K. Schaaf and Mrs. C. W. Gebhardt.
George Ahl, violinist-composer, of Berlin, gave a recital recently in Masonic Hall. He was assisted by Mrs. J. H. Neeld, violinist, and Peter Le Sueur, accompanist, both from Erie.	M. M.
Grand Forks, N. D., December 31.—The University Philharmonic Society opened its season at the Metropolitan Theater under the direction of Fred A. Beidle-man, with Belle Porter Barton, soprano, as soloist. The program was of superior caliber and reflected the intelligent and careful guidance Mr. Beidleman is giving the body of students and amateurs. Haydn’s symphony in D major received an excellent reading. Shorter, numbers, the Kreisler Liebeslied, Sarabande (Carl Bohm), airs from Faust, and a Strauss waltz, were much enjoyed. Mrs. Barton revealed a soprano of excellent quality, particularly appealing in its upper register. Her numbers were My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, from Samson and Delilah; Liddle’s Now, and Rain (Curran). Mrs. Beidleman gave her very efficient accompaniments.
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Green Bay, Wis., January 2.—Mozart’s mass-in B flat was rendered by the choir of Christ Episcopal Church under the direction of Alex. Enna and the organist, Ralph Smith.
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Birmingham, Ala., January 4.—A feature of the sacred holiday music was the song service at the Lyric Theater, under the auspices of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The chorus of fifty trained voices and well known soloists gave a program of carols and anthems.
The cantata, Life Everlasting (Matthews), was admirably rendered on Christmas Eve by the choir of the Church of the Advent. Ferdinand Dunkley’s capable handling of the organ added much.
Genevieve Pitot, pianist, whose home is in New Orleans, appeared in a matinee recital during Christmas week at the Jefferson Theater, under the auspices of the Birmingham Music Study Club. Miss Pitot is from the Paris Conservatoire, where she was for several years a pupil of Cortot. The large audience that attended her recital was fascinated by her interpretations of Debussy, Ravel and Albeniz.
Federation Day was observed by the Birmingham Music Study Club, December 28. Emma McCarthy gave an informative talk about the State Federation’s plans and the coming State convention in Montgomery. Mrs. George Houston Davis, second vice-president of the National Federation, talked most interestingly of the recent meeting in Philadelphia and of the National Biennial which will convene in Asheville, N. C., in June.
The Treble Clef Chorus rendered a well selected program in Cable Hall just before the holidays, under the direction of Edna Gockel Gussen.	A. G.
Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page.)
Cheyenne, Wyo., January 8.—Josef Konecny, violinist, made his second appearance on December 11 at the high school auditorium. The concert was given under the auspices of the high school music department, Florence Flanagan, supervisor, the object being to raise funds with which to purchase a grand piano. A students’ recital was heard in the afternoon and was well patronized. The second program followed in the evening. The audience fell far short of what it should have been, considering the fine program offered by the artist. The audience made up in enthusiasm what was lacking in numbers.
On Thanksgiving eve an operetta was staged at the Princess Theater, sponsored by the Help One Another Club, in order to finance the extensive charities of the organization. John T. Hall of the Rogers Producing Company managed and presented All Aboard to audiences which filled the large theater at both matinee and evening performances. A cast of leading singers—Mrs. Maurice Collins, Mrs. James Mackay, and J. F. Simmons—was supported by a chorus of 200. The undertaking was successful financially and musically.
Carl A. Jesse, Musical Bureau head of the Cheyenne branch of the Western Conservatory of Music, directed a creditable concert on December 21 at the high school gymnasium. Twenty-five men and women compose the personnel, and the chorus sang a varied program in an acceptable manner. The organization, called the Choral Club, has made a fine beginning. Mr. Jesse came to Cheyenne only last spring and has since been actively identified with the musical life of the city.
Excellent music was prepared by the churches of the city for the holiday services. The choir of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, double its regular size, sang portions of Handel’s Messiah, directed by Mrs. James Mackay. The solos were sung by Gladys Kleinke, soprano; Mrs. Mackay, contralto; Rev. Charles A. Bennett (rector of the church), tenor, and W. S. Hays, bass.
At St. Mary’s Cathedral Millard’s mass in G was sung at the midnight Christmas service and was repeated on New Year’s day. Mrs. T. Joe Cahill is organist-director, and the choir is a male organization of splendid quality. The cathedral has a seating capacity of more than one thousand. The personnel of the choir includes Arthur Bachmann, Bart Toso Victor Haar, Roy Laughlin, William Keating, Edward Green, Oscar Lamm, Roy Dineen and James Cooper.
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Erie, Pa., January 1.—The Erie Symphony Orchestra, Henry B. Vincent, conductor, gave its second concert of the season at the Park Theater, December 31. The soloist was Amelia Unmitz, pianist, whose home is in Erie and who is doing advanced work at the Chicago Musical College. Her contributions to the program were Andante spianato and Polonaise (Chopin), Gnomenreigen (Liszt) and rhapsody in C, Dohnanyi. The orchestral selections were Peer Gynt suite (Grieg), Prelude (Jarnefeldt), Firefly (Friml), two Indian Dances (Skelton) and symphonic poem, Finlandia, by Sibelius. The subscription of generous local patrons made it possible to offer several hundred free seats to the general public.
A piano recital was given by Sergei Rachmaninoff, December 4, in the Erie Arena, on the Artists’ Course, auspices of Eva McCoy. He was greeted by a large audience.
Another concert under the same auspices was given by Alberto Salvi, harpist, December 11 in the Park Theater, The lengthy program, containing numbers by Grieg, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert-Liszt, Tedeschi, Dizi, Poentix and several of his own compositions, left the audience with a desire for more and no one would leave until several encores had been played.
Just before going on the rocks the United States Opera Company presented The Valkyries at the Park Theater. Although the best artists of the cast were reserved for the following night in Cleveland, the performance here had applause for the singing of Rudolph Young as Siegmund, Maria Korff as Sieglinde, the chorus and the splendid orchestra.
John McCormack appeared at the Arena, December 2, under the ausupices of S. Gwendolyn Leo, before an audience of about 2,500 persons, delighting them with a program of classics, art songs and Irish ballads. He was assisted by Rudolph Bocho, violinist, and accompanied by Edwin Schneider.
Many local musicians have made good showings in recent concerts. Georgia Brevillier, contralto, and Lois Berst,