MUSICAL C0ÜR1ÈR
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February 1, 1923
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
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Mrs. Warren E. Thomas is president. J. Hutchison fur״ nished the accompaniments. _	J. R. O.
SEATTLE KEENLY INTERESTED IN F. OF M. C. STATE CONTEST
George T. Hood, New Assistant Manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, to Be Greatly Missed—
Other Notes
Seattle, Wash., January 15.—Young musicians are keenly interested in the announcement of a contest to be held in this city during March. The winners of the state contest, which is sponsored by the Washington State Federation of Music Clubs, will be eligible to compete in the national contest in Asheville, North Carolina. Mrs. Frederick W. Graham, is the chairman of the local contest.
Spargur Quartet Offers Novelty.
The Kreisler quartet in A minor was presented here for the first time by the Spargur String Quartet, at the concert on January 10. The other number on the program was the Schumann quintet, op. 44, with Cecile Baron, a local musician, at the piano. The Musical Art Society is doing good, constructive work for the community in sponsoring this series of chamber music concerts.
Seattle to Lose George T. Hood.
George T. Hood, who has been a prominent figure in the theatrical affairs of Seattle for twenty-two years, has been made assistant manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and will be associated with Clark A. Shaw, in the management of the Auditorium. When Mr. Hood assumed. financial responsibility for the stranded Russian Opera Company and directed its tour of the United States, he became more or less of a national figure. The rehabilitated company started here in Seattle after Mr. Hood got the members and rather jaded scenery through the customs office. The departure of George Hood is a matter of general regret.
Rachmaninoff Program Given.
The regular monthly concert of the Ladies’ Musical Club was given recently, a fine Rachmaninoff program having been arranged by Mrs. A. E. Boardman and Mrs. Bamford A. Robb. It served as a preliminary to the coming of the artist himself next month, under the auspices of the club.
Moiseiwitsch Receives Ovation.
Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist, appeared with the Civic Orchestra, January 14. The audience gave him an ovation at the close of the Liszt concerto and again after the group of solos.	A. M. B.
Palo Alto Happenings
Palo Alto, Cal., January 14.—The Morris Club, assisted by Bolton White, violinist, and Isabel Townley, soprano, gave a most enjoyable and artistically satisfying concert at the Palo Alto Union High School auditorium, under the auspices of the Girls’ League of the high school. This was the club’s first concert this year and it revealed the fact that George B. Little, director, has trained the ensemble of voices most creditably, the singing being spirited and musicianly and the diction remarkable for its clarity. A large audience applauded vigorously and exacted numerous encores.
Alma Agee, violinist, and Louise Polos, pianist (from Berkeley), were the soloists at the Sunday afternoon Community House musicale, delighting the large audience with a gypsy program.	C. W. B.
Activities of Henry F. Seibert
On Sunday afternoon, January 14, Henry F. Seibert, organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, gave an organ recital at the conservatory on the estate of Pierre S. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. This was his third recital there this season. On December 22, Mr. Seibert gave two recitals in Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa., on the new four manual $25,000 Austin organ. January 22, he played for the Lutheran Society of New York at the Astor Hotel.
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Mugge, and Marjorie Corrigan, dramatic reader, pupil of Josephine Storey-White.
Mrs. Harry Tanner, president of the Cadman Club, has accepted the directorship of the Community Church Choir at Sand Springs.
Each year the Hyechka Club sponsors two recitals by the student members. The one given recently at Carnegie Library was unusually interesting. The committee in charge consisted of Patti Adams Shriner, chairman, Sybil Mahler Wilson, Mrs. J. W. Finnell and Marie Wall.
Ellen Reen Kersey presented a group of piano pupils, in recital at the library recently.
Among the clubs whose membership is composed of the younger musicians is the Moszkowski Club, sponsored by Patti Adams Shriner, which meets at her studio once a month. Mrs. Shriner was a pupil of Moszkowski.
Broadcasted from the station of the Tulsa Radio Company, the Wednesday night radio concerts are attracting the attention of many neighboring states. The first program was given by the Cadman Club. Since then Robert Boice Carson has arranged two delightful programs. Those taking part were Mrs. P. J. Edwards, contralto; Dorinda Bruce, soprano; Vesta Kellam Balch, soprano; Sybil Mahler Wilson, violinist; Roy Harrison, tenor and Edwin Forsythe, tenor.
Mrs. Walter L. Cain’s piano pupils were heard in a well played program at the library, Nov. 17th.
The music department of the Central High School, under the direction of Lila Wade Harrell, supervisor, gave the cantata, Bethlehem of Judea, by Marie Hine, organist and choir director at Trinity Episcopal Church. Mrs. Hine is a scholarly musician and the cantata is replete with pleasing solos and tuneful choruses. Ruth Blalock and E. E. Crerie were the accompanists.
John Knoles Weaver presented a group of pupils in piano recital, assisted by Edith Lockwood, violinist; (pupil of Adolph Kramer) and Pearl Mason, reader; pupil of Margaret Wyndham.
Vancouver, B. C., January 17.—The second recital of Marguerite D’Alvarez proved an unqualified triumph for the contralto. In every mood of a finely varied program, Mme. D’Alvarez held a complete grip on the sympathy and admiration of the audience and granted many requested encores.
Louis Graveure, baritone, made his second appearance recently with the Vancouver Men’s Musical. Club. Eight hundred people sought tickets after the auditorium of St. Andrew’s Church was sold out. The audience applauded Graveure most enthusiastically and the numbers of the club were most successful.
Mrs. Haley, artist-pupil of Holroyd Pauli, gave a violin recital of particular merit at the Congregational Church. She opened with a fine rendition of Greig’s F major sonata and throughout her exacting program played with admirable command and musical intelligence. Kenneth Ross gave excellent support at the piano.	E. R. S.
Washington, D. C., January 11.—The MacDowell Music Club met in the club rooms, Elks Hall, January 4, and an unusually interesting program was given. Mrs. E. M. Brown gave an interesting reading of the life of .Edward MacDowell. Novella McIntyre, pianist, played his Nautilus and From a Wandering Iceberg, and Margaret Stowe, pianist, gave Mid Ocean and Witches’ Dance. Gwenfyl Griffith Osborne, contralto, artist pupil of Theodore A. Schroedore, of Boston, Mass., sang Till I Wake and Kashmiri, from the four Indian Love Lyrics, by Amy Woodforde Finden.
The choir of St.' Peter’s Church gave a song service on New Year’s Eve. The soloists were Mrs. E. M. Brown, soprano; Stephen Gardner, tenor; Mark Swingley, bass, and Gwenfyl G. Osborne, contralto.
Mrs. Williams’ piano pupils gave a delightful recital recently.
The Methodist Episcopal Choir gave a musicale for the benefit of the music fund, at which the soloists were Etta Garter, soprano; Gwenfyl G. Osborne, contralto; Harry Kear, tenor; Mark Swingley, bass, and Mae Hackney, organist.	G. M. C.
Wilmington, Del., January	12.—Mayor Harvey’s
Quartet made a professional appearance recently at the Queen Theater, under the direction of James Ginns, who offered the quartet four hundred dollars for a three-day engagement, the money to be turned over to the Kiwanis Child Welfare Committee. Besides Mayor Harvey the personnel includes Charles M. Banks, William Mask, Jr. and J. Frank Ayres.	E. G. M.
Youngstown, Ohio, January 20.—The chorus of the Monday Musical Club made its initial appearance of the season at Moose Hall on January 15, assisted by Mrs. Herbert Davies, Mrs. M. Humphries and Opal Dell Chaney, sopranos; Catherine Ogilvie, contralto, and Roy Gorman, baritone. Stephen’s To the Spirit of Music, which the club did so impressively last year, was repeated. The club has extended its range of dynamics and there were many delicate nuances brought out in this fine piece of choral writing. Roy Gorman sang the baritone obligato for Bruch’s Clan Alpine, from The Cross of Fire, with telling effect. Allah’s Holiday (Rudolph Friml) and Kommenich’s My Love Hath Wings were other choral numbers offered. Mrs. W. Herbert Davies and Mrs. M. Humphries sang solo numbers and Catherine Ogilvie, contralto, and Opal Dell Chaney, soprano, also gave enjoyable selections. Gertrude McCartney was the able accompanist.
The performance of Verdi’s Aida, with which the San Carlo Opera Company opened its seventh Youngstown engagement January 12, at the Park Theater, is altogether the finest thing this organization has given here. Marie Rap-pold and Manuel Salazar, in the leading roles of Aida and Rhadames, divided first honors of the evening. Richard Bonelli’s role of Amanasro gave him opportunity to reveal fine vocal and dramatic art. Natale Cervi’s fine, rich voice rang firm and clear as the King, and Pietro de Biasi as the High Priest, was admirable. Anita Klinova was the Priestess and Francesco Curci the messenger.	R. M.
Karle in Oswego
Theo Karle will give a recital, with Thomas George at the piano, in Oswego today, February 1. His program will include classic songs and arias, lieder (in English), and modern American songs.
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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audience by her compellingly significant performance. She played d’Albert’s Allemande suite, some etudes of Chopin, Dvorsky’s descriptive piece, East and West, and a glittering etude, The Fountain, by Adele Aus der Ohe, one of the later pupils of Liszt.
A series of piano recitals has been given by Ernest Hutcheson, interpreter par excellence of both classical and romantic compositions. His Chopin recital, January 11, drew a large audience which displayed genuine enthusiasm.
On the same evening Ignaz Friedman scored a sensational success in Massey Hall. Avalanches of tone, enormous speed and power, and simplicity and playful elegance alternate in his playing. Many encores were given.
Mr. Fricker, the conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir and organist of the Metropolitan Church, gave an organ recital in St. James Church in Montreal, which met with distinct success.
Mr. Fillion, violinist, and Viggo Kibil, pianist, gave a recital, January 10, when they played three sonatas by Tartini, Beethoven and Franck.
Ernest MacMillan recently gave a short lecture on the life and works of César Franck, followed by a fine presentation of the prelude, choral and fugue and the A major sonata for violin and piano, Mr. Von Kunits playing the violin.	W. O. F.
Tulsa, Okla., January 8.—Mario Chamlee, tenor, opened the Carson concert course at Convention Hall. His program was varied and showed his splendid voice to the best advantage. He was especially happy in the aria, Che Gélida Manina, (from La Boheme) and Una furtiva Lagrima (from Elisir D’Amore). Conal O’Quirke gave splendid support at the piano.
Louise Homer, contralto, gave the second concert on the Carson course. Mme. Homer was in glorious voice and completely enthralled her audience. Her singing of the Suicidio aria, from La Gioconda, was superb.
The recital given by Titta Ruffo, assisted by Yvonne D’Arle, soprano, and Alberti Sciarreti, pianist, will long be remembered. The Drinking Song from Hamlet, and the aria from Othello, brought him storms of applause. This is the second time the Hyechka Club has brought Ruffo to Tulsa.
The third number on the Carson Course, Mozart’s Cosi Fan'Tutte, was presented to a large audience at Convention Hall. The opera is charming, and was given with a piano, the descendant of the spinet, instead of an orchestra. Irene Williams was the demure Leonora, Philine Falco the extravagantly love-sick Dorabella and Lillian Palmer the saucy and resourceful Despina, who acted as though she really enjoyed it. Judson House as Ferrando, gave the audience many chuckles with his fine comedy and much pleasure with his voice, while Leo de Hierapolis and Pierre Remington, as Guglielmo and Don Alfonso, rounded out a well balanced cast. Stuart Ross, at the piano, performed his part with such taste that one gave him the supreme compliment of entirely forgetting the accompaniment.
The Ukrainian National Chorus sang in Convention Hall, recently under the local management of Mr. Carson. During its excellent concert a child, hearing a wonderful bass solo against an accompaniment of humming, clutched her mother’s arm and was heard to whisper “Mother! Who’s playing the organ?” The soloist, Mile. Slobodskaja, sang selections from Tschaikowsky, Moussorgsky and Glinka.
Kathleen Kersting, Wichita’s child prodigy, gave a recital lately in Convention Hall. She has a high lyric soprano of great sweetness and maturity of tone, for one so young. She is a protegee of Mme. Calve and will continue her vocal study under the personal supervision of the celebrated diva. Mme. Schumann Heink and Galli-Curci were enthusiastic over the beauty of her voice.
Robert Boice Carson presented five pupils at the Central High School auditorium. Rachel Watson Shaffer, soprano, gave the first part of the program, after which Dorinda Bruce, soprano; Nettie J. Huggins, contralto; Roy Harrison, tenor, and R. E. Howe, bass, sang Liza Lehmann’s In A Persian Garden. Mrs. Walter L. Cain and Marie Hine played splendid accompaniments.
William Walter Perry presented his advanced piano pupils in recital at Carnegie Library, December 6th., assisted by Emma Lockwood, soprano, pupil of Mrs. H. J.
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