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MUSICAL COURIER
February 15, 1923
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
gave one week later Mr. Potjes played the twelve receiving the most votes.	A. M. B.
LOS ANGELES ENJOYS ROTHWELL’S WAGNERIAN INTERPRETATIONS
Los Angeles Women’s Symphony Orchestra in Thirtieth
Season—Los Angeles Trio Presents Novelties—Gamut Club Celebrates L. E. Behymer’s Thirty-seventh Wedding Anniversary
Los Angeles, Cal., January 20.—For the seventh pair of orchestra concerts, given January 12 and 13, Conductor Rothwell chose an all-Wagner program. Opening with the first Faust overture, followed by the Siegfried Idyl and the Forest Murmurs, the first half of the program closed with the Ride of the Valkyries. The first two numbers of the second part of the program, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Death and Funeral music from Götterdämmerung, were the most popular. The Parsifal number (Good Friday Spell) and the Tannhäuser overture concluded the program. All through the concert one sensed a genuine appreciation on the part of the audience. This unity of audience and performers is growing perceptibly—the pride of the public in the orchestra and conductor bringing a splendid response from the men.
For the sixth popular concert, January 21, Mr. Rothwell programmed Rimsky-Korsakoft’s suite, Scheherazade, the prelude to the third act of Lohengrin and Charpentier’s serenade from Impressions of Italy (viola solo by Emile Ferir). The audience demanded a repetition of the latter. The soloist for the day was Florence Ringo, who has a voice of exceptional range and quality. The Romanza from Adriana Lecouvreur (Francesco Cilia) was new to most of the audience. Her other aria was Ritorno Vincitor, from Aida.
The eighth pair of symphony concerts presented Benno Moiseiwitsch, who playeid the concerto by Schumann. The orchestral offerings were César Franck’s symphony in D minor (given in commemoration of the composer’s cen-tennary) and the Scherzo Fantastique, op. 25, by Suk.
Women’s Orchestra.
Los Angeles boasts the largest and oldest symphony orchestra composed exclusively of women in this country. It was organized thirty years ago by Harley Hamilton, founder of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, but for many years Henry Schoenefeld has been director. Goncertmistress Bessie Führer Erb and her sister, Lucy Führer Gentry, holding the first chair of the cello section, have held these positions since the institution. While composed of many professionals there are still a large number who play for the love of it. This year they gave the Beethoven Symphony,
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The Scandinavian Club of the University of California gave a concert at Wheeler'Hall, January 24, to which the public was invited. Natalie Bigelow, violinist, was the soloist and was accompanied by Maybel S. West.
Laura Jones Rawlinson, normal teacher of tlhe Dunning System of Improved Music Study for Beginners, gave a lecture on the system, recently, at the home of Mrs. George Rooker Webb. She also lectured in Oakland on the same subj ect.
The Etude program for January 22 was under the supervision of Mrs. Willis H. Collins and had Great Masters Prior to Debussy for the subject. The soloists were Mrs. Herbert Avery and Emily Kauffeld Bragdon, pianists; Mrs. George A. Davis, Mrs. J. Parke Upshur and Mrs. George A. Wheeler, vocalists, and the string ensemble. Last week the club celebrated its nineteenth birthday. It is growing so fast that a olubhouse may ,be planned in the near future.
The Musical Blue Book of California, Alfred Metzger, editor, a 400-page musical reference book, is to be published from the office of The Musical Review Company, San Francisco, Cal.	E. A. T.
SEATTLE NOTES
Seattle, Wash., January 26.—An interesting talk on American folk songs and ballads was recently given before the Musical Art Society by Max Garrett, of the University of Washington. The opinion generally prevails that such things are non-existent in this country. Dr. Garrett says that so long as there are old people to sing old ballads and songs and children to listen, the ballad and folk song will endure. Tunes were sung which had been discovered in the remote regions of the Vermont and the Kentucky mountains. Lonesome tunes, old spirituals and prairie songs of the cowboys each had its own idiom. Incidentally, Dr. Garrett told of places in the mountains of the South where the inhabitants still celebrate Old Christmas, which falls on January 6, what is called Twelfth Night.
The concert given by Vivien Strong Hart, soprano, was an artistic and financial success. The young singer leaves Seattle soon for New York and London. She has a three-year contract for the leading part in a new light opera, Aphrodine. Eugene Field Musser, from the Cornish School faculty, played Mrs. Hart’s accompaniments and was listed for two piano solos but the audience insisted on two more.
Mischa Elman was heard in recital ‘here recently. The Metropolitan was packed, as was the stage, and he was given a warm welcome.
Edouard Potjes, the Belgian pianist, who is at the head of the piano department of the Cornish School, gave a fine program of classical music before an audience that filled the recital hall. Encores were demanded even after the opening number, the Waldstein sonata by Beethoven which he plays with convincing authority. On the reverse side of the program was a list of thirty-six numbers. The audience was requested to check twelve of them. In a recital which he
CONDUCTOR HERTZ LAUDS
HIS BERKELEY AUDIENCES
San Francisco Symphony Closes Most Successful Season—
Lawrence Srauss Soloist with Berkeley String Quartet
Berkeley, Cal., January 24.—The season of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concerts came to an end recently, with a splendidly rendered program under the baton of Alfred Hertz. A very large audience again demonstrated enthusiastically its pleasure. The community ,has shown a real appreciation of symphonic music, and the series proved the most successful ever given in Berkeley. This is confirmed by the letter from Conductor Hertz to the Greek Theater, which follows:
Gentlemen:
At the conclusion of our series of concerts in Harmon Gymnasium, I am anxious to express my great happiness about the splendid audiences we have had this season.
With regard to sincere appreciation of the very best in music, I feel that the audiences in Berkeley are second to none and I am more than gratified to see that after so many years of pioneer work, we have reached the stage where the Berkeley audience does not have to be lured into the concert hall by cheapening the programs. On the contrary, I find them to be more appreciative the higher the standard of works offered.	Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Alfred Hertz.
Popular Concert Series.
The seventh program of the Chamber of Commerce Popular Concert Series was held at the High School, January 6. Lawrence Strauss, tenor, was the soloist of the evening and was accompanied by Therese Bauer. The Berkeley String Quartet rendered Beethoven’s quartet in F major and other selections. The quartet consists of Antonio de Grassi, Robert Rourke, Edward Towler and William Dehe. Among the ׳songs sung by Mr. Strauss was Child’s Play, which was written by de Grassi. It was well received.
Notes.
The Berkeley Public Library announces that a long list of volumes of music by many composers, recently added to its catalogue, is available.
The Beethoven Piano Club, consisting of the pupils of Roscoe Warren Lucy, held its first open meeting of the new year, January 14. The officers for the ensuing year are Merlyn J. Morse, president; V. C. Sengler, first vice-president; Esther Sittig, second v'ce-president; Beulah Butler Teasdale, secretary, and Lossie Ruddick, treasurer.
At a recent meeting of the Rockridge Women’s Club a paper was read on The Violin and Its Tradition by Mrs. L. G. Leonard. A meeting of the choral section preceded the program of the students of music history.
H. B. Pasmore gave an invitational musicale recently in San Francisco, at Knabe Hall, when ■he presented Margaret Caldwell Speer, soprano; Mrs. Le Roy V. Brant, mezzo soprano; Wilson Taylor, tenor; assisted by Eva Walker, pianist, and Mrs. Gayle G. Moseley, accompanist.
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