MUSICAL COURIER
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February 8, 1923
president, played works of Chopin, Moszkowski, Liapounoff, Liszt and Zanella at the regular Thursday weekly evening concert, January 25, holding his hearers’ attention through the force of his brilliant and at the same time highly poetic playing.
February 1, Charlotte Heath, soprano, sang Spray of Roses, and Dry Be That Tear (Dobson), pleasing everyone through her sweet voice and modest personality. William Mais (pupil of and assistant to Professor Stoeving) played the Handel A major sonata mighty well, with animation and style. Beatrice Pinkham was heard in the first movement from Grieg’s piano concerto, playing with splendid effect, for she has well developed technic, allied with gifts of refined expression; Professor Riesberg (her teacher) was at the organ in lieu of orchestra; piano concertos with organ accompaniment form a new feature at this modern, up-to-date school. Carl H. Von Lautz, pianist, made his first appearance, playing the D flat prelude by Chopin with nice tone, good phrasing, and poise; it was a most satisfactory performance! A piano trio, a bolero, was played with snap by Sarah Frances Espy, Evelyn Rosen and Elise Nipou, and this was roundly applauded. ,Janice Maloney sang Winds of Night, and Joy, showing a voice of beautiful quality, well trained, with distinct enunciation and winning appearance, and Frank H. Warner played sympathetic accompaniments.
Helen Moller’s Baby Pupils Dance
Another of Helen Moller’s delightful dance •recitals was given atop the Lexington Theater on Sunday afternoon, February 4. This time the program was given entirely •by the baby pupils, and is there anything more enjoyable to watch than the little tots? Innocence, sublime joy, freshness and youth—all these and more were personified in these baby pupils of Helen Moller.
No names were made public so credit cannot be individually given. However, the dancing, ensemble and alone, was splendid, one little tot—a real favorite—doing Narcissus and Whistling Boy to perfection.
The various dances included: Morning, Anitra’s Dance, Pan, Traumerei, At the Brook, Spring Song, Tug of War, Ragged and Hungry, Narcissus, Bubbles, The Long Road, Crossing the Brook, To Spring, Caprice, Dolly Dances, Gavotte, Meditation, Valse Petite, Whistling Boy, Recitation—The Two Lovers Seein’ Things, and Leaps. The Duo-Art piano, Mary Cantor, pianist, and Leon Goldman, violinist, assisted.
Tollefsen Pupils Play
Guests invited to attend the recital of Isabel Gould, pianist, and Anita Palmer, violinist, by Carl W. and Mrs. Augusta Tollefsen at their home, Brooklyn, January 10, were greatly delighted with the performance of these gifted young ladies. Beethoven’s sonata in F has lived a century or more^ and was artistically rendered and in keeping with the spirit of the composition. Miss Gould played Schumann’s Fasch-ingsschwank, Weber’s Rondo Brilliante, Chopin’s Nocturne in F sharp, Liszt’s Nightingale and Wagner-Liszt’s Spinning Song. These contrasting numbers were finely interpreted and expressively played. Miss Palmer gave Randegger’s Pierrot Serenade, the Hochstein-Brahms waltz in A major, Kreisler’s Schon Rosmarin, and ended the program with Fantasia Appassionata (Vieuxtemps), with fine artistic feeling. Her last number was masterful and she was obliged to respond with an encore.
Helen Greyce Features Cadxnan Songs
The songs of Charles Wakefield Cadman have for several seasons been favorites with Helen Greyce, soprano, of New York. Appearing recently with Mrs. Owen Kildare, lecturer, before the Prince’s Bay Woman’s Club, Staten Island, she sang From the Land of the Sky-blue Water, and Encore, a fascinating little number which she has made particularly her own. She is now preparing his two newest songs—Like Some Young Troubadour, and A Cry at Dawn, for her later engagements.
Grace Hall Riheldaffer also broadcasted Cadman’s Encore, from the Atlanta, Ga., station, her singing being distinctly heard in California.
Macbeth Delights Augusta
Augusta, Me., January 22.—Music patrons of Augusta gave Florence Macbeth, coloratura soprano of the Chicago Opera, a warm welcome and much applause when she appeared before them in the City Hall last Thursday night. Assisting Miss Macbeth were George Roberts, the pianist-composer, and Edward Meyer, flutist.
Of the programmed numbers, which included three of piano numbers, a group each of French and English songs, and two arias, the most popular proved to be the mad scene from Lucia, in which Mr. Meyer ably supported the brilliant singing of Miss Macbeth. Encores were numerous throughout an evening of music pronounced to be the most delightful of the season.	S. K.
Another Success for Althouse
Paul Althouse, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who has been scoring his usual success in concert this season, was enthusiastically received when he appeared on January 15 in Norfolk, Neb.
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Frederick H. Haywood was in Indianapolis from January 27 to 30, lecturing and giving demonstrations of Universal Song.
Elly Ney will give a recital in Denton, Tex., February 14.
Beniamino Gigli sang to more than 1,400 inmates of Sing Sing Prison.
Erna Rubinstein and Ernest Schelling will appear in individual recitals at the Ann Arbor Festival.
Mischa Levitzki will play seven times with Albert Coates this month.
The Ruth St. Denis company hired a special train to keep an engagement at Meridian, Miss.
The Kouns Sisters and Ernest Davis are Daniel Mayer artists who will soon go to England.
Organist Dupre will soon reach his 100th recital on tour.
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts produced (first time in America), D’Annunzio’s Dream of Spring.
Elsa Foerster and her brother are in the Ruhr district.
The first concert of the new Fique Choral was given in Brooklyn on January 30.
“Mme. Cahier is one of the finest artists that America has produced,” is the opinion of Walter Damrosch.
Vladimir De Pachmann will make his farewell tour of America, starting next October.
W. J. Henderson will lecture at the home of Mrs. William Woodward on Thursday afternoon, February 8.
Marguerita Sylva is engaged for a series of guest appearances in opera in Havana.
Hans Letz has been engaged as head of the violin department at the New York College of Music and the New York American Conservatory.
Florence Easton will leave New York on February 13 for a Pacific Coast concert tour.
Guy Maier will give a children’s recital at Aeolian Hall on February 20.
A Six-Day Community Institute for music teachers and directors in the cities and small towns will be held in Ithaca from April 2 to 7.
Carl Friedberg will arrive in America the middle of this month for his teaching at the Institute of Musical Art.
Mana-Zucca will conduct master classes in program building, works by old masters and interpretation of her own compositions at the Miami Conservatory.
The Metropolitan Opera Company may have a week’s season in Washington and Baltimore.
Theodore Spiering was well received when he played at the Swarthmore School of Music on January 12.
The German Opera Company’s season in Baltimore was a success.
Mr. and Mrs. Wassili Leps are off for Europe; they will return the end of March.
Josef Schwarz is now under the management of S. Hurok.
John McCormack has been winning success in opera at the Monte Carlo Opera House.	G. N.
1.000 women, was soloist at the American Artists’ Series, January 23, at Aeolian Hall, New York. He sang Italian songs by Caldara and Apolloni, and four songs by composers resident in America, namely Clarke, Kurt Schindler, Deems Taylor and Mrs. Beach. Mr. Baer is an artist from the Gescheidt studios, from which so many well known leading singers have come.
Continued Success for Joseph Diskay
Although in this country only a short time, Joseph Diskay, a Hungarian tenor, who is the possessor of a rich tenor voice which is always at his command, is upholding the
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fine impression made upon the public immediately after his first appearance. He is connected with the Keith Circuit and during the week of January 15 appeared on the bill of the 81st Street Theater.
On Saturday afternoon, January 20, by special request Mr. Diskay sang at the Friars’ Club where again his beautiful tenor voice was heard by a large and appreciative audience. Mr. Diskay will give several Carnegie Hall recitals next season, which are being looked forward to by his many admirers.
It is rather surprising, due to the fact that Mr. Albee (head of the Keith houses) is so extremely fond of artistic singing, that Mr. Diskay does not receive a better position on the bill. '
School of Arts Hears New Artists
Alfred Calzin, pianist, member of the faculty of the New York School of Music and Arts, Ralfe Leech Sterner,
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Paderewski will give another recital in New York on April 22.
Robert Leonhardt, for eight years baritone at the Metropolitan Opera House, died on February 2.
Leopold Stokowski is back from a flying trip to Europe.
The Goldman Band will go on tour before its annual summer season in New York.
Sousa and his band will begin a transcontinental tour late in July which will cover a period of eight months.
Mme. Charles Cahier is singing not less than five times in six weeks in New York.
Norman Johnston was a guest of honor at the birthday luncheon of the Life as a Fine Art Club.
The American Music Committee of the New York State Federation of Music Clubs aims to further the cause of American artists and composers and American music.
Samuel Baldwin gave his 872nd organ recital on February 4.
A president’s reception was given by the Women’s Philharmonic Society to Leila Hearne Cannes.
An all-American program was given by F. W. Riesberg at Port Chester.
Five of Dudley Buck’s pupils were heard in an hour of music on January 30.
Cologne hooted and ridiculed a performance of Schbnberg’s Five Orchestra Pieces.
Harriet Van Emden will return to America in 1924 for a tour under the management of Daniel Mayer.
Harold Lindau, an artist-pupil of Cesare Sturani, is winning new laurels in opera in Italy.
Tannhäuser was revived at the Metropolitan on February 1; it had not been performed there for eight years;
The Ondricek School of Violin Art, Boston, is about to open a branch in New York.
The dates for the forthcoming festival in Ann Arbor, Mich., are May 16-19.
Dorothy Jardon has signed contracts with Marcus Loew for a tour of his large motion picture theaters.
Frederick Gunster has been engaged for the Syracuse Festival, May 1.
Joseph Hollman will leave shortly on a trip to Japan.
A list of the European Festivals scheduled for this summer will be found on page 5.
Mme. Sturkow-Ryder has played at 108 concerts since June 1.
Arturo Papalardo won success conducting the Washington Opera Company in a performance of Rigoletto.
Ted Shawn to the Rescue
Ted Shawn scored a remarkable personal triumph and the entire Ruth St. Denis Company showed the gripping quality of its artistic performance recently at Portland, Me., when due to a train derailment the baggage car of the company containing the scenery and costumes did not reach Portland until nine o’clock in the evening. The performance was scheduled to start at 8:15 and the house was sold out long before that time. When word reached Mr. Shawn that the baggage car had been finally extricated from the wreckage and hitched onto a train due at Portland at nine o’clock in the evening, he immediately decided that the performance would be given and that the audience would not be disappointed. He stepped upon the stage at 8:45 P. M., just as the audience was beginning to get uneasy and rumors were beginning to spread that the performance had been cancelled; he explained the situation to the huge throng, assuring them that the performance would take place in spite of obstacles and launched into a lecture on the art of dancing, its development in America, and the great Deni-shawn ideal of creating a nationally independent school of dancing. He spoke for over an hour, arousing the intense interest of the audience and all the time the crew was feverishly working to get the baggage car unloaded and transferred to the theater. The performance finally began shortly after ten o’clock and so ample were the rewards to the audience for its patience that not a single person left the theater until the performance was over at midnight.
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