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January 25, 1923
the members of Congress attending. It will be remembered that Mr. Gray, on account of his rich and well trained basso voice, was chosen soloist at Calvary Baptist Church, where President and Mrs. Harding attend. He later formed the National Male Quartet, all of whom are splendid singers and are much in demand.
Bernard Schram, cantor-tenor of the Washington Heights Synagogue, New York, sang at the Washington Heights Y. M. H. A., on the evening of January 14. His numbers were the aria from La Juive and a group of songs. The executive director of the association, in a letter to the singer, thanked him for his kindness in making the concert such a “delightful and distinguished success.”
Patronesses for Emery’s Runaway Tom
Runaway Tom, The Choir Boys’ Operetta, story, lyrics and music by Moritz Emery, will be given by the boys and men of. St. Paul’s Choir, Philadelphia, on Friday evening, February 2, and Saturday afternoon and evening, February 3. The patronesses include Mrs. Edwin N. Benson, Jr., Mrs. Andrew Alexander Blair, Mrs, Edgar Butler, Mrs. Harry W. Butterworth, Mrs. John H. Chapman, Mrs. John M. Chattin, Mrs. L. P. Chapman, Mrs. Leonard Coleman, Mrs. Morton P. Dickeson, Mrs. E. Y. Douglas, Mrs. Frederick M. Dunn, Mrs. Bruce Ford, Mrs. C. Bradford Fraley, Mrs. Frederick Gardiner, Mrs. William J. Haines, Mrs. Edward Hardcastle, Mrs. Gilbert Harvey, Miss Mary Hebard, Mrs. A. A. Jackson, Mrs. H. T. Luderssen, Mrs. E. H. Maher, Mrs. Biddle Marsden, Mrs. J. Willis Martin, Mrs. Maxwell Meryweather, Edith Moses, Mrs. John Muir, Mrs. Curtis K. Mullin, Mrs. John S. Naylor, Mrs. Arthur E. Newbold, Mrs. A. E. Outerbridge, Mrs. F. H. Packard, Margaret Parker, Mrs. David Pepper, Mrs. Austin Purves, Mrs. Richard Rossmassler, Mrs. William Lord Sexton, Mrs. William Henry Snyder, Mrs. Isaac Starr, Mrs. A. S. Weaver, Mrs. Alfred Weill, Mrs. John H. Whittaker and the Misses Zebley.
Ernest Davis Answers an S. O. S. Call
Ernest Davis, the popular American tenor, showed remarkable vitality and enviable versatility recently in the closest call of his career. A performance of Tannhäuser in concert form was scheduled to take place in St. Louis, under the local management of Elizabeth Cueny on Thursday, January 11. The performance was to be in English, and Arthur Hackett was slated for the tenor part. At the last moment Mr. Hackett was taken ill. There are not many tenors who can sing Wagnerian roles in English. Miss Cueny, on January 9, sent out an S. O. S. and the call reached Mr. Davis through his manager, Daniel Mayer. Mr. Davis has not sung the part for some time, but he agreed to do his bit and help out. He spent the day in hard work reviewing the part, left on the St. Louisian in the afternoon, reached St. Louis on the night before the performance, and filled the breach with a creditable achievement. It was a hurry call and a hurry trip, for Mr. Davis had to rush back to sing in recital in Mount Vernon, N. Y., on Monday, January 15.
Onegin in Benefit Concert
Sigrid Onegin will give a special recital at the Selwyn Theater, New York, on January 28, in aid of the Tonsil Hospital, with Michael Raucheisen at the piano. On January 31 she will be soloist with the Friends of Music, under Artur Bodanzky, singing three songs by Berlioz and other numbers. This will be Mme. Onegin’s second New York orchestral appearance this season. On February 8 she will make her first appearance in Boston in recital.
Gigli has had an offer to appear in opera in South America.
“Play-six Chopin etudes every morning,” is Alfred Cortot’s advice to pianists.
Clifford Vaughan will give a piano recital at the Seymour School of Music on February 1.
Josef Hofmann will play some of his own compositions, written when he was eight years old, at his third recital in Carnegie Hall, on February 4.
Willem Van Hoogstraten is guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
May Peterson has begun her third concert tour of the Pacific Coast.
For the “Pop” concert of January 28 at the Century Theater, Dirk Foch will present a “request” program.
An orchestral arrangement has been made of Harold Henry’s Dancing Marionette.
Cecil Arden has been granted a month’s leave of absence from the Metropolitan to appear in concert.
Schumann-Heink has lesumed her tour and is singing with her old-time fire and vigor.
Mary Potter is booked for sixty-one dates in fifteen weeks.
Ohio is to have a State music memory contest.
A recital will be given by the Washington Heights Musical Club for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony Fund.
Theodore Steam’s Snow Bird was given its world premiere by the Chicago Opera and proved a great success.
Five free concerts will be given by the City Symphony Orchestra in Cooper Union this season.
Marcel Dupre will return to America next season for a second transcontinental tour.
Louis Bamberger is to erect a $500,000 museum in Newark; it will contain an unusual collection of musical works of art.
Theodore Spiering has formed the Austro-German Musicians’ Relief Fund.
Katherine Goodson will tour in America from September to December, 1923.
Elsie־ Lyon succeeds Mary Potter as contralto soloist at . Temple Emanu-El.
Leopoldine Damrosch, daughter of Walter Damrosch, will make her debut on the legitimate stage.
Lionel Powell, the London manager, will present American artists in the British provinces.
Marguerite Monnot, French virtuoso pianist, will tour America next season.
The centenary of Lalo occurs this week.
Ganna Walska’s tour will begin on February 9.
After next season Guy Maier and Lee Pattison will not play again in America until the fall of 1926. G. N.
Korsakoff set them originally, and the arrangements of Mr. Kreisler are therefore to be regretted. Cyril Scott’s highly imaginative Lotus Land was beautifully played and had to be repeated. The audience was a typical Kreisler throng and encores were numerous.
Mr. Lamson accompanied with his customary skill and taste, his work in the Beethoven sonato being especially noteworthy. Mr. Kreisler’s next Boston concert will take place Sunday afternoon, March 11, at the Opera House.
Burgin Quartet Wins Favor in Springfield.
The Burgin Quartet (Messrs. Burgin, Bedetti, Fourel and Thillois, leaders of their sections in the Boston Symphony Orchestra) made its first appearance in Springfield, Mass., on December 1.8, as a chamber music ensemble. The Bur-gins seem to have had a splendid success, the critic of the Springfield Republican saying:
The Richard Burgin string quartet of Boston made its first appearance in this city last night at the Hotel Kimball in the second of the chamber music concerts arranged by Miss Julia Rogers. Its leader, Mr. Burgin, had played before in the same series of concerts and had showed qualities suggesting that he must be an ideal quartet player, and in the performance last night of the Schubert quartet in D minor he at once showed this to be the case. Moreover, the quartet which he leads, while in some ways it has not attained the automatic precision of a few old established organizations dedicated wholly to quartet playing, is one of the best and most interesting in the country, and ought to be more widely known.
. . . All the voices balance well and blend harmoniously, and all the players have fine musical feeling. . . . One could hardly ask for a finer performance of the D minor quartet, an old favorite which has somehow been neglected of recent years, so that to many of those who heard it last night it may have been new except for the familiar variations on Schubert's song, Death and the Maiden, in the andante con moto, the most popular part in a work which throughout is saturated with beauty. It is a work, tpo, which gives a fine chance for the display of the remarkable combination of brilliance, elegance and suavity in which Mr. Burgin sets an example that his associates follow; the sparkling presto of the finale was as notable as the rich melody of the first movement and the andante.
After the Schubert number the string quartet played exquisitely the familiar andante cantabile from Tschaikowsky’s one string quartet and the ingratiating Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf, and the concert closed with a strong and impressive performance of Faure’s quartet in G minor for piano and	strings,	the piano	part	in which
was well played by Miss Rogers.	Faure’s	originality	and	power as
a composer of chamber music have not always been adequately appreciated, and even now his major	works are not so	well	known as
they deserve. This is an imposing	quartet	with rich	sonorities that
require much technical competence, and the full effect was realized in the ensemble of last evening. The strings are sometimes put to it to hold their own against the piano in the forte passages, but there was never any lack of volume, and the many interesting and extremely modern tonal effects in which piano and strings־ collaborate were striking and often beautiful. The finale was a brilliant climax to a fine concert of chamber music.
Petrauskas Winning Success on Tour.
Mikas Petrauskas, the Lithuanian composer and singer, is having splendid success on his annual tour. He sang in Waterbury, Conn., January 3; New Britain, January 5, and in Bridgeport, January 7, all the concerts being very well attended by his compatriots in those cities. _ His programs included numbers from Borodin, Verdi, Gounod, Mayerbeer, Massenet, Denzu, Napravnik, and airs from his own opera, First of the May, Boy or Girl, and Bruite.
Mr. Petrauskas’ forthcoming concerts include appearances in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago.	J• C.
Soder-Hueck Artists Before the Public
With many successful singers now appearing in public throughout the country, three more report the following appearances:
Elsie Lovell-Hankins, contralto, soloist of the First Christian Science Church of Providence, R. I., appeared with the Monday Morning Choral Society of that city on January 19, her beautiful voice and art meeting with fine success. Edgar Gray, basso, sang at Representative Mann’s home in Washington, D. C., President Harding as well as
I SEE THAT
The Chicago Opera loss this season is only eighty per cent, of its guarantee.
Alberto Salvi has patented a device for the harp which permits the muting of the strings simultaneously.
The Institute of Musical Art offers three scholarships in interpretation under Carl Friedberg.
Sir Henry Heyman has had a relapse and is in the Lane Hospital, Stanford University, San Francisco.
During Darius Milhaud’s month in America he is appearing as soloist, conductor and lecturer.
John Charles Thomas is filling nineteen concert engagements this month.	_
Casella is due to arrive in America the latter part of this month.
Josiah Zuro is conducting Nazimova’s film production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome at the Criterion Theater.
Albert Vertchamp has appeared successfully in recital with Alice Nielsen in Providence and Woonsocket.
Fred Patton sang The Messiah eight times from December 17 to January 5.
Reinald Werrenrath has made a record for the Victor ot On the Road to Mandalay.
Galli-Curci and Titta Ruffo are to be the godparents of Elena Schipa.
Percy Grainger has had fifty-eight appearances m Scandinavia and Holland from September 8 to December 26.
George Reimherr will give a song recital at the National Theater on Sunday evening, February 4.
The Doree Operalogs Company is meeting with success on tour.	_
Mischa Elman is concertizing on the Pacific Coast.
Prof. Stockton Holborn lectured at the Harcum School on January 12 on The Need of Art in Daily Life.
Emilio A. Roxas has been engaged as coach and accompanist to Lauri-Volpi, the new tenor of the Metropolitan
Opera•	.	_ .	_
A. Russ Patterson has inaugurated a series of Intime Recitals.	_______
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its first two concerts of the season for the young people of greater Boston. Mr. Monteux conducted at both concerts. The program was as follows: Beethoven’s overture to Fidelio; minuet and finale from Mozart’s symphony in E flat major; Handel’s larg , arranged by Helmesberger; The Animals’ Carnival, Saint-Saëns; two Hungarian dances of Brahms, and Chabrier’s España. Both concerts were heard by crowded houses. As was to be expected, the humorous music of Saint-Saëns made the greatest appeal.
People’s Choral Union Sings Elijah January 14, in Symphony Hall, the People’s Choral Union sang Mendelssohn’s familiar oratorio, Elijah. The chorus was assisted by an orchestra of symphony players and by these soloists: Marjorie Moody, soprano; Gertrude Tingley, contralto; Rulon Robison, tenor, and Herbert Wellington Smith, baritone. George Sawyer Dunham conducted. The well-trained chorus of the Union sang in spirited fashion and Mr. Dunham conducted in a manner that tended to revitalize the old work. He is a leader of exceptional abilities. The soloists acquitted themselves well. An audience of fair size was very appreciative.
People’s Symphony Concert The People’s Symphony Orchestra gave its twelfth concert of the season on״ Sunday afternoon, January 14, at the St. James Theater. Emil Mollenhauer conducted the following program: overture, Leonora No. 2, op. 72, Beethoven; concerto for cello in A minor, Volkman (Eleanor Leutz, soloist) ; Komarinskja, Glinka, and symphony No. 3, in A minor (Scotch), Mendelssohn.
Conservatory Club Plans Benefit Concert The Conservatory Club, composed of 100 girls of the New England Conservatory, is preparing to give a concert in aid of its scholarship fund on Friday evening, February 2, in Jordan Hall. The program will consist of piano solos by Antoinette Szumowska; songs by Charles Bennett; violin solos by Mrs. Paul T. White, accompanied by Alfred DeVoto. The concert will be managed by Mary Townsend Hobson, president of the senior class.
Carmela Ponselle Pleases Carmela Ponselle, mezzo soprano, assisted the Boston Symphony Ensemble at the second concert of the season in the Boston Athletic Association series Sunday afternoon, January 14, at the gymnasium of the B. A. A. Miss Ponselle sang the aria, O Mio Fernando, from Donizetti’s La Favor-ita; the popular Largo of Handel, and Massenet’s familiar Elegie. The singer’s voice, skill and emotional intuition left an exceedingly favorable impression on her listeners and she was warmly applauded. Mr. Vannini’s ensemble played numbers from Nicolai, Goldmark, Albeniz and Poppey.
Raymond Simonds Having Active Season Raymond Simonds, the admirable tenor, spent the holiday season in Boston after a highly successful fall tour with the Duo-Art for the Aeolian Company, visiting Roanoke, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo and Dayton. An ardent sportsman, Mr. Simonds divided his recreation time at home between snowshoeing and fishing through the ice. At present the popular singer is touring under the management of K. M. White, He will be heard in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York State.
Fabrizio Plays in Brockton Carmine Fabrizio, violinist, added another to his rapidly growing list of . successes when he played in Brockton, Mass., January 7, at the Pythian Temple. Accompanied by Alfred DeVoto, pianist, Mr. Fabrizio was heard in an interesting and well varied program comprising these pieces: Hav-anaise (Saint-Saëns), Concerto Romantico (Riccardo Zandonai), Spanish Dance (Ketten-Loeffler), Reve d’Enfant (Ysaye), and Rondino (Vieuxtemps.) Mr. DeVoto played the following numbers: prelude (Glazounoff), Scherzino (Henry Hadley), Rhapsody (Dohnanyi), nocturne, The Girl with Flaxen Hair, and The Hills of Anacapri (Debussy).
Kreisler Opens American Tour Fritz Kreisler opened his American tour in Boston January 16, in Symphony Hall, playing to an audience that filled all the available standing and sitting room in the hall. In full possession of his familiar powers, the great violinist played the following program: Kreutzer Sonata (Beethoven), sonata in G minor for violin alone (Bach), Lotus Land (Scott), Polichinelle (Kreisler), prelude and pavane (Couperin), and arrangements by the violinist himself of an old Irish folk tune, Farewell to Cuchullan, and of various melodies out of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Scheherazade.
Mr. Kreisler’s transcriptions from Rimsky-Korsakoff, which brought the program to a close, are ingenious arrangements of fragments out of the pictorial suite, Scheherazade. While they carry an inherent appeal as melodies, one misses the gorgeous orchestral background against which Rimsky-
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