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MUSICAL COURIER
January 25, 1923
MRS. MACDOWELL’S IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES
The Testimonial Fund
The improvement in the condition of Mrs. Edward MacDowell, who was severely injured in an automobile accident on December 30, continues steadily though slowly. During the past week she has been able to leave her bed for the first time for short periods, bu-t still suffers considerable pain.
Immediately after her accident, Joseph Regneas wrote to the Musical Couurier, offering to be one of twenty-five to subscribe one hundred dollars apiece toward a fund that should be a testimonial to Mrs. MacDowell and replace for her the income lost through her illness, thus avoiding any possibility of the interruption to the work of the Peterborough Colony.
Under date of January 16, Miss Nevins, Mrs. Mac-Do well’s sister, wrote to the Musical Courier to say that Mrs. MacDowell had received a check for one hundred dollars from Charles L. Wagner which she would like to credit to this fund.
The Musical Courier will continue to act as collector for the fund. Contributions, which will be acknowledged in these columns, should be addressed to the Mrs. MacDowell Colony Fund, care Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Selwitz Makes Announcements
Samuel D. Selwitz, the Chicago manager, announces that Sylvia Tell, première danseuse, formerly of the Chicago and San Carlo opera companies, is now under his management. This month Miss Tell appeared at the Carmen’s Hall in Chicago before an audience of over 6,000 people. So pleased was the audience with her dancing that the stage was literally covered with flowers presented by the West Siders.
Another artist kept busy under the Selwitz management is Elsa Diemer, soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera and now touring the United States. She appeared January 11 in the concert performance of Tannhäuser given by the Union Choral Society of St. Louis, Mo. Miss Diemer had appeared several times previously in the same city, but this was her first date under her new manager.
A Gem in Art
The Boubelais from Manon Lescaut, more commonly known as the Laughing Song, has become indelibly associated in the memories of Anil Deer’s audiences. The song itself presents tremendous difficulties in the rendering of its musical and natural laughs, requiring much study and the highest coloratura art, and when sung by Anil Deer, with her inimitable art, it is irresistible, invariably calling forth a number of repetitions before her audience is content.
graffl of musical education in the public schools. This committee has received the backing of the city administration in the form of a generous contribution from the Park Board.
Joseph Hinkle has been chosen by the committee as director. He is a Memphis musician and takes the place of Edwin Nevin, resigned.
Ukrainian Chorus a Success in Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico, January 2.—To Max Rabinoff goes the honor of having brought to Mexico the chief artistic and novel treat of 1922, the Ukrainian Chorus. This organization has just completed an engagement that was an artistic success, and, we feel reasonably sure, a financial one as well— an engagement which was extended five days, but even so was far too short to satisfy the throngs of people desiring to hear and rehear these marvellous Russians. Two outdoor concerts were given in the Bull Ring to crowds averaging 25,000 people. Not since the days of Caruso’s famous appearance has such drawing power been demonstrated.
Alexander Koshetz, the conductor of this human orchestra, received an ovation at every performance, and was the recipient of abundant praise from local critics. The two soloists heard by this writer, Mile. Oda Slabodskaja, and Mme. Nina Koshetz, scored successes. Both were greatly enjoyed in their Russian songs, and Mme. Koshetz, the night of the benefit of her brother, the conductor, sang two songs by a Mexican composer. In these her perfect Spanish diction and Italian interpretation brought instant appreciation from her audience.	R. E. G.
A. Russ Patterson Studio Activities
A. Russ Patterson has inaugurated a series of Intimate Recitals which will be given weekly at his residence studios, 326 West Seventy-sixth street. The first and second of these were given by Idelle Patterson on January 14 and 21. She will present her next program on Sunday afternoon, January 28.
Other recitals at the studios will include artist-pupils such as Rose Dreeben, an American festival prize winner, who will give a recital on Tuesday evening, January 30, and Janet Watts, lyric coloratura soprano, Friday evening, February 9.
These recitals have grown so rapidly in popularity that Mr. Patterson finds it necessary to admit by card only. Ruth Kemper, violinist, assisted January 14; Lucile Orrell, cellist, January 21, and A. Russ Patterson accompanied Mme. Patterson. Herman Neuman was at the piano for the assisting artists.
Huberman’s Fourth Orchestral Engagement
Bronislaw Huberman makes his fourth orchestral appearance of the season in New York on January 31, when he appears as soloist with the Friends of Music, under Artur Bodanzky. On this occasion Mr. Huberman will give the first American performance of Tanieff’s suite for violin and orchestra. On February 4 he will be heard in Milton, Mass., with Paul Frenkel at the piano, and on February 13 he will give a recital in Carnegie Hall, New York.
Phillip Gordon Completes Western Tour
A successful tour of the Pacific Coast has just been completed by Phillip Gordon, pianist, and his assistant, Elinor Whittemore, violinist. Appearances were made before business, musical and women’s clubs and leading schools throughout the entire coast country, the audiences totaling many thousands of people. In each case the leading musical house of the city sponsored the concert.
The quality of Mr. Gordon’s program and his pleasing personality won him enthusiastic response wherever he appeared. The heavy Liszt arrangement of Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture was played consecutively throughout the tour, proving a sensational feature and bearing testimony to Mr. Gordon’s strength and endurance. The Ampico was used at the concerts to play Miss Whittemore’s accompaniments and to contrast Mr. Gordon’s records with his actual playing, a most convincing experiment. Mr. Gordon made personal contacts with leading musicians in each city and listened to pupils of prominent teachers. He reports tremendous progress in musical life in the West since his visit there six years ago.
The sterling qualities of Miss Whittemore’s violin playing have won for her general recognition and acclaim. These artists began their tour of the Middle West and South on January 18.
Mr. Gordon’s success was so great in San Francisco that arrangements were immediately made for his return for a period of three weeks, November 11 to 30. Spokane, Portland, Denver, Salt Lake. City, Ogden (Utah), Phenix (Ariz.), Caspar (Wyo.), San Diego, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Berkeley, Stockton, Fresno, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Modesto and Lodi (Cal.) were also among the cities which registered approval of this excellent artist.
Memphis Civic Music League Hard at Work
With the object of bringing to Memphis, Tenn., big musical attractions at popular prices the Civic Music League, composed of a number of the city’s most prominent business and professional men, has been formed. The guarantors of the league are: W. Halliburton, W. R. Herstein, P. M. Farrington, W. P. Maury, Joseph Newburger, A. K. Burrow, W. C. Johnson, W. L. Smith, Frank Milton, June H. Rudisill, E. R. Barrow, Frank Hayden, C. J. Haase, L. K. Saulsbury, W. J. Prescott, Charles A. Gerber, Clarence Saunders, R. L. Jordan, R. L. Brown, Roland Fontaine, J. F. Ramier, F. N. Fisher, J. W. Canada and W. E. Hyde.
A grand opera season with prices from fifty cents, to $2.50 with a children’s matinee at prices of fifty cents for any part of the house, is one of the first attractions contemplated by the guarantors. Negotiations are in progress with Fortune Gallo, impresario of the San Carlo Opera Company, for a limited engagement.
In addition to the Civic Music League, Memphis has a Chamber of Commerce music committee of which Dr. A. B. Williams is the chairman. This body has raised $10,000 with which to employ a municipal music director and to put on a season of public concerts by local talent. It also is the plan of the committee to have the director give a part of his time to assisting in the development of a pro-
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