January 18, 1928
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UMBERTO SORRENTINO,
the tenor, loves the summer, as is noted in this snapshot, taken in 1922 at his seashare home on Long Island. Now, however, he is doubtless smiling again, this time amid the snows of Canada, where he is singing. Sorrentino tvill be busy until late in May, his spring season being heavily booked, in both opera and concerts. He sings in Meriden, Conn., in Ohio and the Middle West, and each time will feature a group of American songs, which he says are always received with much favor. The tenor attributes the increase in popularity of songs by Americans to the fact that the English language is now more widely used, thanks to the Americanization of foreigners by various societies. Among such songs on his program are: It etait une fois {Murray Davey); Mayday Carol (Deems Taylor); The Bitterness of Love {James P. Dunn) and Night and the Curtains Drawn {G. Ferrata), all published by J. Fischer & Bro., New York. Vorrei Sapir, by R. Taverna, a young New Jersey composer, has also been splendidly received, Sorrentino having to repeat it whenever sung.
Reception to Paul Shirley
On January S a reception was given at their studio, 27 West Fifty-seventh street, by Ethel Grow, contralto, and Jane R. Cathcart, president of the Washington Heights Musical Club, to Paul Shirley, viola d’amore, soloist. Mr. Shirley played several of his own compositions, first giving the guests a short talk on his unusual instrument, explaining the changes he has made to bring it up to modern requirements ; Ruth Kemper, violinist, played some compositions by Henry Holden Huss, accompanied by the composer. Among the distinguished guests were :	Mme. Hildegard
Hoffman Huss, Mrs. and Miss Eberhard, William Burnett Tuthill, and many others.
Chicago’s North Shore Festival
The Chicago North Shore Festival this year will take place in Evanston (111.), May 24-30. The soloists will be Louise Homer, Tita Schipa, Mabel Garrison or Edith Mason, Rose Gannon, Theo Karle, John Barclay and Margaret Matzenauer. More complete details will be published in next week’s issue.
Future Friends of Music Concerts
The next concert by the Society of the Friends of Music will be at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday afternoon, January 31. Sigrid Onegin, contralto, and Bronislaw Huberman, violinist, are the soloists.
Sylvia Lent Recital March 5
Sylvia Lent, the young violinist who recently returned to this country following her success in Europe, will be heard at Aeolian Hall on Monday afternoon, March 5, under the management of the Wolfsohn Bureau.
New Metropolitan Artists Arrive
Two new artists of the Metropolitan Opera Company both reached here on January 15, G. Lauri-Volpi, Italian lyric tenor, and Delia Reinhardt, lyric soprano from the Munich opera.
Isidor Achron to Make American Debut
Isidor Achron, the Russian pianist, brother of Joseph Achron, pianist-composer, will make his American debut at Town Hall, Sunday afternoon, February 4.
Géza Kresz Hungarian Violinist
Studio: Schöneberger Ufer 44, Berlin W.
LOUIS BACHNER Singing
Staatl. Akad. Hochschule für Musik (National Academy of Music)
Berlin W. 15	Konstanzeretr. 62
LEONID KREUTZER, №
PROFESSOR AT THE STATE HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC LUITPOLD STR, 29	BERLIN W 30
January 27. On this occasion she will play two choral preludes, Bach-Busoni; rondo in A minor, Mozart; scherzo, from the Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Mendelssohn-Hutche-son; sonata (by general request), Griffes; a group of Chopin numbers:	Ballade in F • (op. 38), three etudes
(op. 25, Nos. 1, 2 and 3), Berceuse, and scherzo in B minor; Triar, Albeniz; Ondine, Ravel, and Liszt’s eleventh Hungarian rhapsody.
Russian Opera Campany Closes Brilliant Week in Buffalo
The Musical Courier is in receipt of a telegram from Loùise H. Marvin of Buffalo, N. Y., dated January 14, which reads as follows: “The Russian Grand Opera Com-j parpy under־ local management of Bessie Bellanca, closed a brilliant week’s engagement on Saturday, evening, January 43, having presented ;to . Buffalo,, hitherto unknown . masterpieces of great beauty. Principals־•,־chorus, conductors, orchestra. scenery ami costumes combined in unusually• line productions greatly appreciated by-the musical public.’’ .
Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert
The second concert of the Metropolitan Museum of Art »series was given on Saturday, evening¡ by David .Mannes and his excellent orchestra, before a record breaking audience. The capacity of the Museum is 10,000, which undoubtedly was reached at this concert. People began to arrive as early as 4 P. M., and after securing the most desirable location possible, waited for hours for the program to begin. At seven, a large part of the audience had already assembled, and at eight, not an inch of standing room was to be had in the hall or the balcony. The huge stairway leading to the galleries of paintings- was filled with those who found impromptu seats. From this point thousands enjoyed the music but were unable to see either Mr. Mannes or the orchestra members. There were two thousand seats provided with approximately three thousand standees, and over four thousand sat on the floor. Despite this big assemblage, a religious stillness prevailed which enabled everyone to hear the music.
The program, which was charmingly rendered by Mr. Mannes and his body of fine instrumentalists, comprised: Festival overture, Brahms; Unfinished Symphony, Schubert; Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3, Tschaikowsky; Prelude and Finale from Tristan and Isolde, Wagner; two movements from Suite for strings and solo flute, Bach; Moszkowski’s Serenade, and his Malagueña; Minuet from Symphony in E flat, Mozart, and Peer Gynt Suite, Grieg.
Chicago to Have Russian Opera Season
As exclusively told in the Musical Courier of December 28, there will be a Russian Opera season of five weeks at the Auditorium, Chicago, beginning Monday, February 19. Some further facts in regard to the season are here given out for the first time.
The nucleus of the company will be the Russian Grand Opera Company which came here last season, made such a remarkable trans-continental tour last spring and summer, and is on the road this year under the S. Hurok management. This company will go into the Auditorium and be strengthened as to chorus and orchestra by elements recruited from the Chicago Civic Opera Company so as to bring it to the size of a first rank operatic organization. There will be some Italian opera included in the repertory, for which certain principals of the Civic Opera and Conductor Polacco have been engaged. Feodor Chaliapin, the famous Russian bass, will also appear with the company for a number of guest performances.
Shattuck Busy in the East and Middle West
Arthur Shattuck, recently returned to this country after a year abroad, will be busy in the Middle West until February 9, when he will appear as soloist with the Minneapolis Orchestra, under the direction of Henri Verbrugghen, in Milwaukee. He will give recitals in Menominee and Escanaba, Mich., in Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and Watertown, Wis. During February he will give recitals at the University of N. C. at Chapel Hill, in Washington in the Master Pianists’ Series of T. Arthur Smith, and in Albany. On February 21 he will give his New York recital at Town Hall.
French Section I. S. G. M. Makes Dukas President
A cable from Paris dated January 10 received just too late for insertion in last week’s issue, announced the formation there of a French section of the new International Society for Contemporary Music, with Paul Dukas, the distinguished composer, as president.
Mme. Gahier’s First Recital Here
Mme, Charles Cahier will give her first New York song recital at the Town Hall on the afternoon of February 5, with Walter Golde at the piano. The concert will be managed by the Wolfsohn Bureau in conjunction with Mme. Cahier’s. personal representative, Ona B. Talbot of Indianapolis, Ind.
Galli-Curci’s Reentry at the Metropolitan
Mme. Galli-Curci will begin her second season at the Metropolitan in Lucia on Thursday evening, January 25. Two new members of the company, Delia Reinhardt and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi will debut respectively in Die Walküre Saturday afternoon, January 27, and Rigoletto, Friday, January 26.
Arden with People’s Chorus
Cecil Arden will be soloist with the People’s Chorus, under the direction of Camilieri, at . Aeolian Hall, on January 30. She will sing, an aria from La Juiye and a group, of songs.
MASTER CLASSES OF THE
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY
SUMMER SESSION OF 1923
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Mr. Brady’s exceptional ability as a teacher and.his untirffig efforts in their behalf for a successful career.
Mr. Brady’s teaching schedule in New York is always filled. The unusual success of his pupils and his fame as a teacher are constantly attracting to his studio the most promising vocal students and professionals who soon realize that Mr. Brady has much to offer which other teachers h^ye
WILLIAM S. BRADY
not. In recent years Mr. Brady has been unable to accommodate all those who have applied for lessons, and it was not an easy matter to induce him to come again tq Chicago for even a brief period this summer to conduct a master class.
A teacher of the voice may be the possessor of a remarkable voice and have achieved fame as an artist, but this by-no means stamp? him as a successful instructor. The most essential requisites are: A sound musicianship, an intimate knowledge of voice production and building up the voice, unerring recognition of faults and ability of correcting faults, sound ideas as to interpretation, style and repertory. When to this is added a decided.personality, magnetism,, a genuine ability to impart one’s knowledge, Unflagging interdst in the student’s progress, patience and common sense, such a person may- be well called an : ideal teacher. This; may be fittingly said of William S. Brady.
It is not only the. purpose; of. Mr. Brady’s work to prepare a student for his or her professional career, but also to advise and assist in a most practical way. He is, a strong believer in the ability of young American singers to succeed in opera or in other directions. When the student is sufficiently, prepared for an operatic career Mr. Brady, throughhis various connections, sees that they have a chance. He is strongly in favor of two years’ experience in the opera companies of Europe as & beginning of the career. Mr. Brady is again going to Europe this summer immediately after the conclusion of the master class to arrange for the operatic debuts of two of his students.
Katherine Bacon Recital, January 27
Katherine Bacon’s second New York. piano recital this season will be given at Aeolian Hall on Saturday afternoon,
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Pianists Prepared for Pablic Appearances
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Frederic Shipman, Managing Director, has made an arrangement with International Tours, by which they will not command his entire time, as heretofore, and he will devote the greater portion of each year to Personally Directed Tours of the U. S. A. and Canada. Mr. Shipman’s address for the next six weeks will be Hotel Trenton, Los Angeles.	-
Florence Reed, in Los Angeles (Cal.) Express:
At the Philharmonic, Umberto Sorrentino sane the last aria from “Tosca” with great fire and passion. He was warmly received and sang manv encores.	STIEFF PIANO USED
Tenor
UMBERTO SORRENTINO
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