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Teacher of FLORENCE MACBETH, Prima Donna Coloratura; LENORA SPARKES, Lyric Soprano, and other prominent Artists. Studios: 318 West 82d St., NEW YORK CITY. Tel. Schuyler 8537
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ITALIAN AND NORWEGIAN 561 West 143rd Street, New York City. Tel. 2970 Audubon
DR. CHERUBINO RAFFAELLI
From Royal Conservatory, Florence. Italy TEACHER OF SINGING AND PIANO 602 West 137th Street. New York City	Telephone Audubon 5669
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GIUSEPPE BOGHETTI
Vocal Studios: 1710 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa.
Professor of Choral Music, Columbia University Address 39 Claremont Ave.
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William S. BRADY
TEACHER OF SINGING
Studio: 137 West 86th St., New York. Tel. Schuyler 3580
CHARLES SANFORD SKILT0N
COMPOSER and ORGANIST
Univenity of Kan»,	Lawrence, Kan»•
MARIE SUNDELIUS Soprano
With the Metropolitan Opera Co.
Exclusive Management:
HAENSEL & JONES,	Aeolian Hall. New York
Edwin Franko Goldman
CONDUCTOR THL GOLDMAN BAND A Symphony Orchestra in Brau”	Colombia University Concsrti
Personal address: 202 Riverside Drive. New York
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Management: THE WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU,
712-718 Fisk Bldg., New York
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Address: 54 West 82nd Street. New York	Telephone 5880 Schuyler
DAN BEDDOE
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Voice Culture-Recitals and Oratorio Cincinnati Conservatory of Mnsic Cincinnati, Ohio
?: COLLEGE OF MUSIC
New Building—114116־ East 85th Street
Founded for the Higher Education in all branches of Music Conducted on the same plane of the European foremost conservatory. Over 40 eminent instructors.
Piano Department...........August Fraemcke, Dean
Vocal Department...............Carl Hein, Dean
Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition. Rubin Goldmark, Dean Vocal Students have exceptionally good opportunity for Grand Opera and acting.
Terms reasonable.	Catalog on application.
GEORGE S. MADDEN
BARITONE
Master Singer Concert, Recital and Oratorio
“In oratorio music his style was especially praiseworthy.—N. Y. Herald.
GEORGE H. LAWSON, Manager
267 Macon St. Brooklyn, N. Y. Phone 7992-W Decetur
January 25, 1923	MUSICAL COURIER
ISIDOR AGHRON’S HECTIC CAREER AROUSES
UNUSUAL INTEREST IN AMERICAN TOUR
His Escape from the Russian Bolshevists and Safe Arrival Here After Many Hardships—American Debut to Take
Place at Town Hall on February 4
extends only as far as the railroad station, which is under the jurisdiction of the railroad police, a national body. So friends of Achron—to whom he had not forgotten to send free tickets, formed in a knot about him and hurried him to the station, where, once he had put his foot inside, he was sure to be free from further molestation on the part of the commandant.
A Hectic Time.
Arriving finally at Odessa, he was appointed a professor at the State Conservatory of Music, which the Bolshevik Government had taken over. One plan for escape to the outer world went wrong ; Achron was luckily able to get away in another direction though several of the plotters were shot. Finally, in December, 1920, he was able to cross the ice on the River Dniester and get into Roumania, only to be arrested by the Roumanian border police, as he had no papers. But before that he had been robbed of all he possessed by brigands in the woods, and when he encountered the border police had nothing but the suit he stood in—and not all of that. Taken to the nearest town where there was a police headquarters, he spent ten days in a cellar prison, with other refugees. Then of a sudden came a police sergeant, paging Isidor Achron. Was he the pianist? Yes. Very well, he was to report that evening at the commandant’s house, where there was a soirée, to entertain the guests.
It was his piano playing that won him freedom. The commandant, pleased with his playing, recommended him to a friend, an impresario, and before he left Roumania he had given fifty-eight concerts, seven of them in Bucharest, and had played by command before the Royal Family at the palace.
After that came three concerts in Budapest, four in Berlin, and finally the trip to the United States, where he is soon to try his fate.	H. O. O.
Isidor Achron, the Russian pianist, who will make his American debut as a soloist at the Town Hall on the afternoon of February 4, had rather a busy time on the way from St. Petersburg to New York. Getting arrested got to be a habit with him.
To begin at the beginning, he was born in St, Petersburg—Petrograd, to be fashionable; began his piano study when he was eight, working with Mme. Essipoff and with Dubasoff, a pupil of Anton Rubinstein, and started his public career with a tour in Russia when he was seventeen years old. In the year 1912 he became associated with Heifetz, and for the five years, 1912 to 1917, the two young men toured their native land, giving joint, recitals. (It was, by the way, a happy reunion for them when, on the seventh of this month Achron made his first American appearance at Heifetz’s Carnegie Hall recital, playing the piano part of a sonata by his brother, Josef Achron, the violinist).
Achron was not so lucky in being able to get away from the Bolshevists as Heifetz, but he was finally allowed to travel from Petrograd to Odessa, giving free concerts for the Bolshevists all the way. That ordinary journey of a few days took him seven months. There was incident after incident, he says, some comic and others almost tragic. At Kremenschuk he unfortunately forgot to send complimentary tickets to the City Commandant, the result being that soldiers entered almost as soon as he had begun to play, ordered every soldier in the audience to report at his barracks within twenty minutes on pain of being shot, and then closed all but one door of the hall, compelling the audience to pass out in single file, each one showing his pass. Woe be to him who had forgotten to bring one; it meant a week or two of hard labor under police surveillance.
Peculiarly enough, the authority of a City Commandant
have scarcely been heard before by this city's musical coterie. The chorus is singing well this year with fine balance of tone, accompanied by Adrienne Marcowitch, and directed by T. H. J. Ryan.
The Orpheus Club directed by John Spargur presented Patricia Murphy Galloway, soprano, and Margaret McAvqy, harpist, at its winter concert. The outstanding feature of the evening was Ave Maria by Gounod, with soprano obligato by Mrs. Galloway and harp, violin and piano accompaniment, played by Miss McAvoy, John Spargur and Rose Karasek Schlarb, directed by Ralph Cunningham. P. S.
Palo Alto Hears Zither Concert
Palo Alto, Cal., December 31.—Ruth Collins, soprano, with Charlotte Collins at the piano, sang four groups of songs at the regular Sunday afternoon Community House concert. Miss Collins, a pupil of Marie Partridge Price, exhibited a light voice of more than pleasing quality and a gracious stage presence. Her Caro mio ben and the Jewel Song from Faust were well delivered, and the Massenet Crepescule quite captured the large audience.
The novelty of the zither was partly accountable for the huge crowd that overflowed the Community House concert room, December 31. Under the agile fingers of Fritz Genske the instrument gave forth a clear, sweet tone; but it must be said that the various possibilities of the instrument are more interesting than musically satisfying. After the novelty had worn off the audience seemed to like it more as an accompaniment to the singer, than as a solo instrument. Assisting Mr. Genske were Isabel Townley, soprano; Guido Marx, cellist ; Genevieve Young, contralto, and Elizabeth Bentley, pianist. Numerous encores were granted.
C. W. B.
State Music Memory Contest for Ohio
Ohio is to have a State Music Memory Contest! The plan, brought up by Nelle I. Sharpe, State Superintendent of Music, at the recent Ohio State Teachers’ Convention, is now to become an accomplished fact. The membership of the committee for the contest, as announced by the State Department of Education, consists of Nellie Glover, Akron; Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley, Western College; E. H. F. Weis, Muskingum College; Walter Aiken, Cincinnati; Margaret Streeter, Camden, N. J.; Adella Prentiss Hughes, Cleveland; May Beagle, Pittsburgh; R. M. Tunnicliff, Bowling Green; Joseph Wylie, Toledo; R. W. Roberts, Columbus; Grace Mytinger, Wapakoneta; O. E. Wright, Dayton; Lorena Tomson, Elyria; Geo. Ziegler, Marietta; Helen Roberts, Byesville; Harriet Scarff, Portsmouth, and I. W. LaChat, Cambridge.
The contestants will be divided into three groups: pupils in country schools, pupils in exempted villages and cities and adults. For the first group the list of music will contain thirty selections, for the second, forty, and for the third, fifty. The music, although of a high standard, will be kept within the range of a large participating public. T. T. F.
The Robinson Duffs Hold Reception
A reception was given on the afternoon of January 11 at the home of Mrs. Robinson Duff and her daughter, Sara Robinson Duff, both of whom are well known for their achievements along pedagogical lines in the vocal field. An informal program—and a very interesting one —was given by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sheridan, the former a young pianist who is rapidly gaining recognition and the latter a contralto who is studying with the Duffs. Mr. Sheridan opened the program with the Bach chromatic fantasie and fugue, and he played it brilliantly and with masterly style. He also was heard in a group of numbers by Grilles, Moszkowski and Chopin, in all of which his fine artistry was in evidence. Mrs. Sheridan was heard in two groups of_ songs of very different types and was equally at home in each number. There were selections by Caldara, Paisielio, Hugo Wolf, Grieg, two Old Irish numbers and several_ characteristic numbers by Harry Burleigh and David Guion. Mrs. Sheridan also was heard• in a duet, Marchesi’s barcarolle, with Essie Case, soprano, another pupil of the Robinson Duffs.
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
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fifteen thousand people. It was a perfect Southern night with the moon shining down upon the palm and acacia-embowered Spanish palaces of the Plaza de Panama. Red and white-robed choristers with lighted tapers, stood in the balconies and sang the ancient carols, antiphonally. Later the Friends of Art presented tableaux (also out-of-doors, at the Organ Pavilion of famous paintings of the Nativity. The same choristers furnished the musical background for the pictures. Mrs. L. L. Rowan had charge of the singing, selecting quartets from four of the leading churches. Mrs. George MacKenzie arranged the tableaux.
Hackett in Song Recital.
Charles Hackett, tenor, assisted by Gordon Hampson, pianist, as accompanist and soloist, gave a delightfully varied song recital as the fourth event of the Amphion Course. He was very cordially received.
Notes.
The San Diego Music Teachers’ Association entertained its new members with a formal reception, followed by a short program by Carolyne Landgraf, soprano, and Leola Fairchild, pianist.	E. B. B.
Tacoma Notes
Tacoma, Wash., January 13.—The Tacoma Oratorio Society gave a creditable performance of Bach’s Christms oratorio; the most pretentious work the society has yet attempted. The chorus proved its mettle in the difficult fu-gal passages and sang the chorals with fine feeling and lovely tonal quality. Enough cannot be said in praise of J. W. Bixel, director and founder of the society, whose untiring-effort and fine musicianship are felt in all his undertakings. This is the first rendition of this work in the Northwest and was attended by musicians from Seattle and small towns adjacent. Betsy Lane Shepherd, heard, in the soprano role, gave a very excellent performance; Florence Scott Beehler, contralto, sang charmingly, and Henry O. Price, tenor, had a difficult role which he executed with efficiency. To Frederick W. Wallis, baritone, belongs much praise. _ His rich voice and the artistic manner and assurance with which he sang his numbers provoked storms of applause. Beatrice Hopkins McHaney, as accompanist, left nothing to be desired. B. F. Welty, presiding at the pipe organ, added greatly to the general effect. The society will begin rehearsals of Niels Cade’s Crusaders, it being customary to take up lighter music study for the spring concert.
Louis Graveure, baritone, and Marcel Dupre have been presented lately by Bernice Newell, to packed houses. Tacoma music lovers were especially pleased by these fine artists.
Edouard Potjes, Belgian pianist, was presented in afternoon concert by the Ladies’ Musical Club and Edwin Cook, baritone, accompanied by Mrs. Frank Warder, was heard in two groups of songs. Mary Dempsey, harpist, played with fine understanding- and a double quartet from the chorus sang three Christmas numbers. The quartet was composed of Mrs. Percy Starke, Margaret Miller, Mrs. W. Drips and Mrs. J. W. Bixel, sopranos, and Mesdames L. J. Muscek, E. N. Tollefson, Milton Fisher and Gertrude Eastman, contraltos.
The Lyric Quartet has just concluded an engagement at the Rialto Theater. This quartet includes Mrs. MacLellan Barto, soprano; Mrs. John Henry Lyons, contralto; Herbert Ford, tenor, and Edwin Cook, Jr., baritone; with John Henry Lyons, director.
The Messiah was given by Westminster Presbyterian Church choir, under the direction of Raymond Holmes. Solo parts were taken by Mrs. Percy Starke, soprano; Mrs. E. N. Tollefson, contralto; Raymond Holmes, tenor, and Ralph Holmes, bass.
The Saint Cecelia Club gave its winter: Concert at the First Christian Church with the Spargur String Quartet assisting. This is the second time the dub has presented the quartet consisting of John Spargur, first violin; Albany Ritchie, second violin; E. Hellier Collins, viola, and George Kirchner, cello. Such clarity of tone and beautiful shading