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courses will include piano, song coaching, special study of the composer’s works and children’s songs. There is also a Listener’s Class for those who do not wish active work.
The Junior Music Club held a delightful party in Central School during the holidays, with Grace Porterfield Polk the guest of honor. The members learned her recent Christmas song called Santa Claus Farm, which Mrs. Polk dedicated to Mrs. L. B. Safford and the Junior Music Club.
The Miami Music Club chorus was entertained Thursday at the Clark studio by Adelaide Sterling ■Clark, its director. The officers are: President, Mrs. W. W. Perry; vice-president, Mrs. M. D. Thomas; secretary, Harriet M’Cay; treasurer, Emily Smith. Members include Mrs. J. A. Bissett, Mrs. E. V. Blackman, Mrs. E. A. Cathcart, Marguerite Denicke, Ann Finley, Martha Herrington, M. R. Klein, Harriet M’Cay, Patty Munroe, Helen Neal, Mrs. Russell Putnam, Mrs. Newman, Mrs. W. A. Rollert, Mrs. C. S. Singleton, Mrs. A. M. Steyer, Frances Tarboux, Elmina Warner, Eleanor Clark, Mrs. E. T. Clark, Mrs. Wedemyer, Mrs. Dan Avery and Helen Sherk.
One 6f the finest programs ever given by the student section of the Miami Music Club was rendered by Mrs. C. H. Crandon, recently, at her home. Mrs. James Bissett sang Deep River, by Burleigh, and a Scotch selection with Frances Tarboux accompanist.
The Emory glee club gave a program at the Fairfax Theater which was received with enthusiasm by a large audience. Members of the organization were honored by many social affairs during their brief sojourn.
At the annual banquet of the Woman’s Club, which took place at the Royal Palm Hotel, January 2, Corinne Faudel played the brilliant Staccato Etude (Rubinstein) and responded to encore with Grieg’s Butterfly. Maurine Pepper sang O Solo Mio, and as an encore" gave Penn’s Smilin’ Through.
Lena Stambaugh, soprano, and Jesse Townsend, pianist, are presenting acceptable programs at the Leamington Hotel this season. Mrs. Stambaugh has composed a number of songs which have been received with favor upon performance.
Iva Sproule Baker arranged a delightful musical program at the Flamingo Hotel recently. The Flamingo orchestra assisted Mrs. Clarence Busch, Mrs. Eugene Moore and Mrs. R. Showers-Baker who presented vocal solos. Vilona Hall was heard in several violin selections. L. T. High-leyman, pianist; R. L. Zoll, baritone; T. T. Young, pianist, and Hamilton Hopkins, bass, also gave appropriate numbers.
Erminia Ligotti, soprano, and Mario Palermo, tenor, attracted a large and appreciative audience to the Casino, recently.	L. B. S.
Minneapolis, Minn.—(See letter on another page).
Mobile, Ala., January 9.—A large and appreciative audience greeted Cecile Sherman, who was heard in recital at the Lyric Theater, January 7. Miss Sherman sang with brilliancy and charm, each number receiving enthusiastic applause. The accompanying artist was San Roma, a pianist of ability and interpretative ability.
The Junior Music Lovers is an organization attracting much local attention. It was founded by Mrs. Karl Klinge to further the love of good music in the minds of the young. The scope has recently been enlarged to include interpretative dancing, elocution and kindred arts. The recent recital given at Moose Hall was a most interesting event. The large auditorium was filled with friends, who expressed great appreciation of the work done by these embryonic artists. Those taking part were Harold Sherman, Bessie Lee Mariott, Hyacinth Bodden, Ruth O’Harra, Genevieve Brown, Ruth Kenyon, Herbert Stein, Clara May Kenyon, Gladys Boab, Evelyn Brown, Madeline Lutz, Grace Myers, Sara Boyd, Gertrude Stewart, the boy choir and the chorus.
Frederick I. Dunster, assisted by a number of his organ pupils, gave an organ recital, January 7, at the Jewish Temple. March of the Vikings, a very impressive com-(Continued on Page 60)
standing numbers of the concert were the Grieg Peer Gynt suite, a Sousa number, and Indian Dances by Skilton. Amelia Umnitz, a young Erie musician now studying in Chicago, was the soloist, playing Andante Spianato and Polonaise, Chopin, with the orchestra; and as solos, Gnomen-reigen, Liszt, and Rhapsody in C, Dohnanyi. She has a firm touch and brilliant technic and discloses a fine talent.
' M. McK.
Granville, Ohio, January 11.—The Granville Festival Association presented the fourteenth annual Messiah performance, under the direction of Karl Eschman, director of Conservatory of Music, Denison University. The University orchestra of forty pieces, augmented by players from Columbus, furnished the accompaniment. The soloists were Nina Shepard, soprano; Maude Wentz MacDonald, contralto; Ralph Warren Soule, tenor, and R. Edgar Veith, baritone.	B. T.
Indiana, Pa., January 15.—Mozart’s Impresario, with Percy Hemus, baritone, and a cast including Hazel Huntington, Lottice Howell, Gladys Craven, Thomas McGran-ahan and Francis Tyler was given January 12, in the Normal School Chapel. It was most enthusiastically acclaimed by a large audience. Every aria of the opera was encored and Mr. Hemus was forced to make a curtain speech. The performance was under the local management of Robert Bartholomew, director of the department of music.	F. M. D.
Memphis, Tenn., January 15.—The Ukrainian Chorus appeared recently under the direction of the Cortese Brothers, with Alexander Koshetz, conductor, and Oda Slobod-skaja, soprano, as soloist. This unique ensemble is rightly called a human symphony orchestra. The audience made insistent demands for encores which were generously and graciously given.
Isadora Duncan appeared at the Lyric Theater recently, under the auspices of Cortese Brothers.
Mrs. Lunsford Mason and Mrs. E. W. Taylor arranged a very attractive program for the free matinee recital of the Beethoven Club given at the Goodwyn Institute. Those deserving special mention are Herbert Summerfield pianist; Harry Bruton, tenor; Mrs. Bruton, accompanist; Mrs. C. B. Dunning and Mary Catharine Craig, a most talented young student who played the E flat Liszt concerto with much style and finish. Patrick O’Sullivan played the orchestral parts on a second piano.
A. B. Williams, chairman of the Music Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, announces that a Memphian, Joseph Henkel, violinist, has been elected to direct the Municipal Orchestra. Mr. Henkel has studied abroad and played in celebrated orchestras. There will be fifty pieces in the orchestra.
Mary Bolling Chapman presented Howard Ginsburg in a piano program at the Woman’s Building. Assisting on the program were the musical debutantes of 1922, including Grace Waring, Josephine Dickinson and Jane DuBose, who holds the Elizabeth Hill Scholarship in music—presented by Mrs. Chapman.	J. V. D.
Miami, Fla., January 12.—Sergei Rachmaninoff played before a large and appreciative audience at the White Temple, January 11, upon his return from Cuba. This concert was the first of the S. Ernest Philpitt Series. A gentleman in Mr. Rachmaninoff’s party is responsible for the little story that the Cubans have nicknamed him “Pre-ludio Rachmaninoff,” the C Sharp Minor Prelude being as popular with them as it is with the great pianist’s American audiences.
Mr. Philpitt will later present Mme. Schumann Heink, Jascha Heifetz and Geraldine Farrar. In addition to this series in Miami he is sponsoring the appearance of these artists in Jacksonville, Tampa and St. Petersburg. Mme. Schumann Heink will sing in Orlando, also, under Mr. Philpitt’s management.
The Miami conservatory is offering ten weeks’ master classes under Mana-Zucca, composer and pianist. The
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ERNEST BLOCH, Musical Director
SECOND TERM BEGINS FEBRUARY FIFTH
STUDENTS at the Cleveland Institute of Music Enjoy the Manifold Advantages Offered by a School of the Highest Ideals Headed by One of the Foremost Living Creative Musicians.
A Finely Trained Chorus and String Orchestra ; Ensemble Classes; Musical Theory in All Its Branches; Composition Taught in a Living Way; Lectures on Music History, Appreciation and Technical Problems—-These Are Some of the Benefits Reaped by Institute Students.
For Catalogue and All Information, Address :
MRS. FRANKLYN B. SANDERS, Executive Director
2827 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
January 25, 1923
Ruth Lenglade, Martha Cord and Harry Schnorr. Dan K. Wanee was the organist.
The Connersville Choral Society, under the direction of C. F. Tingle, presented the operetta, Ma’mzelle Tapsby Herbert, to a crowded house, on January 8. The principals in the cast were Frances Batt-Wallace, Mrs. A. E. Smith, L. Maurice Lucas, Editha Feigert, Fred Bird, Estella Keller, B. J. Ochiltree, E. W. Cotton, W. H. Schnorr, L. R. Jackman, R. C. Calhoun and Frances Kantman. All the parts were exceptionally well taken.	A. A. G.
Denver, Colo., January 10.—Musicians and music lovers are overjoyed at the phenomenal success of the Denver Civic Symphony Orchestra. Denver has shown its gratitude by substantial attendance, it having been necessary to turn hundreds away at the doors. The attainments of the orchestra are due to the efforts of its conductor,- Horace E. Tureman.
Mischa Elman appeared on the Arthur M. Oberfelder Artist Series, at the Auditorium on New Year’s night. Mr. Elman’s principal number was the Lalo Spanish Symphony.
Albert Spalding, violinist, who appeared January 9, on the Arthur M. Oberfelder Artist Series, played to a large audience at the Auditorium and was enthusiastically received, encores being demanded after each number.
The Denver String Quartet gave its twenty-first concert recently, at the house of Mr. and Mrs. William Ellsworth Fisher.
Under the able guidance of Horace E. Tureman the quartet is rounding out into a most creditable organization. The program consisted of the Beethoven quartet in C minor, op. 18, No. 4; the Schubert quartet in A minor, op. 29, and Percy Aldridge Grainger’s Molly on the Shore. H. S. R.
East Liverpool, Ohio, January 13.—A song service was held by the Symphony Club in the First United Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Charles Risinger, chorister of the club, arranged the attractive program. Alice Stevenson and Mrs. William Baker gave solos and a trio composed of Mrs. William Gerber, Mrs. Barrow and Miss Howard sang, accompanied on the violin by Miss Stanton and Ada McLain at the organ. The male quartet offered several numbers followed by carols sung by the entire society.	R. M.
Easton, Pa., January 17.—Warren M. Robbins, baritone, and Joseph A. Thierry, violinist, gave an interesting recital from radio station WOR, Newark, N. J.
Earle Douglass Laros has -gone to the West and will give recitals in Indianapolis, Greensburg and Bluffton, Ind.
Prof. Carl F. Pfatteicher, director of music, at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., gave the first of a series of three organ recitals in Zion Lutheran Church, assisted by Thomas Achenbach, violinist.. A large and appreciative audience was present. The second of the series was played on January 14 by the organist of the church, Wilfred Freeman, assisted by Norman Sweetser, baritone, of Philadelphia, and was much enjoyed.
Mrs. Harry Pursell has been elected soprano of the quartet of the Brainerd-Union Presbyterian Church of this city.
Lucia de Lammermoor was sung to a large audience in the Orpheum on January 9 by The International Grand Opera Company. The outstanding feature of the entire performance was the singing of Signora M. Casselotti, who sang the part of Lucia.	G• B. N.
El Paso, Tex., January 9.—The Philharmonic Society brought several artists here early in the season including Mona Gondre, French comedienne, and Geraldine Farrar.
Marcel Dupre, organist, gave a very fine recital recently at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Helen Cooper Williams, soprano, is a prominent radio artist. Walter Davis, tenor, has appeared several times on radio programs. Ode Akin, soprano, gave a-radio program lately and will give another at Fort Worth next week on her way to New York.
Charles Andrews directed the Orpheus Club in the program given by the organization at the formal opening of the new Scottish Rite auditorium.
The Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Anton Navratil, violinist, has given several programs this year and will give another, January 30.
'Elmer Hoelzle, organist at Trinity Methodist Church, has given several excellent recitals lately which have greatly stimulated musical interest in the church.
The El Paso Symphony Orchestra has given two programs this winter which have proved of great interest.
G. B. B.
Erie, Pa., January 17.—The artistic success achieved in the William Wade Hinshaw production of the Mozart comic opera, Cosi Fan Tutte, January 8, was recognized by the large audience that assembled at the Park Theater for the event, the third of the Artists’ Course, managed by Eva McCoy. This recognition extended to the master hand that had assembled the cast, well balanced, voices fresh and harmonizing with each other, a cast able not only to sing the Mozart music but also to put into the comedy the necessary mimetic ability and buffoonery demanded by the book. The costumes, new and beautiful, and the well-contrived setting were also admired. Irene Williams sang the role of Leonore with authority and musical intelligence, using her lovely voice with skill. The Dorabella of Philine Falco was presented with exceptional' charm of voice and personality. Lillian Palmer as Despina and Pierre Remington as Don Alfonso were entirely adequate, not only in voice but in artistic acting as well. Miss Palmer was an irresistible, vivacious Despina. Pierre Remington has a fine conception of the cynical bachelor role and delighted with his dramatic ability and excellent bass voice. In the role of Guglielmo, Leo de Hierapolis proved himself an artist of unquestionable merit, while Judson House displayed equally fine artistry of voice and manner in his appearance as Fer-rando. One of the real feats of the production was accomplished by Stuart Ross, who played the entire score of the opera on a piano off-stage. He deserved and was accorded much praise for this trying and successful performance. In the chorus of praise for the performance, the performers and the local management there was scarcely a dissenting voice. It is considered here a triumph for the American production. The press made very favorable comments.
The Erie Symphony Orchestra, Henry B. Vincent conducting, gave its second concert of the season December 30 before a record audience in the Park Theater. Out-