March 1, 1923
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of distinctive nature, for he is a fine pianist, and knows operatic and Russian music thoroughly. Following the song-numbers, some Tarasoff pupils danced, little Gertrude Lemon leading off, followed by Marguerite Tarasoff in Spanish dances, and Mme. Klimontowich in a Russian peasant dance. Some seventy-five people attended and highly enjoyed the music and also the social time which followed.
Concert Under La Forge’s Direction
For the benefit of the Brooklyn M. E. Deaconess Home, an excellent concert was given Tuesday evening, February 13, in the music hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, under the direction of Frank La Forge. Lawrence Tibbett, baritone, opened the program with a splendid rendition of the prologue from Pagliacci for which he had the excellent aid of Mr. La Forge at the piano. Betty Burr, soprano, was heard in two Schumann numbers, Er Ist’s and Sandman, and Huntington Woodman’s An Open Secret, which she gave with sincere feeling for its fragility. Mr. La Forge was at the piano for Miss Burr also.
Charlotte McCoy displayed a contralto voice of much power and beauty in Rachmaninoff’s The Soldier’s Bride, Arensky’s On Wings of Dreams, but it was in an arrangement by Mr. La Forge of En Cuba that she did her best work. She caught the spirit of its gay lilt and allowed it full sway. Eleanor Haley played excellent accompaniments. Albert Rappaport, ably supported by Cecilia Roth Rappaport at the piano, delighted with two songs in Russian, Quietude of Kachevaroff and Why of Kudrin, and Bar-thelemy’s Triste Ritorno. His voice is a tenor of unusual beauty and he interpreted his numbers with deep artistic insight. The fact that he explained the content of his two Russian songs added not a little to the enjoyment of his audience.
Dwight Coy, in a group of piano numbers, lent an agreeable variety to an otherwise vocal program. He gave the Paderewski Theme and Variations, Romance (La Forge), and the Schulz-Evler paraphrase on The Beautiful Blue Danube of Strauss. Mr. Coy scored a thoroughly deserved success. In a group consisting entirely of songs by Mr. La Forge—I Came With A Song, Come Unto These Yellow Sands, and Song of the Open—Esther Malmrose, soprano, had opportunity to display the unusual beauty of her voice and the charm of her interpretation. Ruth Carl-mark at the piano played effective accompaniments. Lawrence Tibbett was again heard in a group which consisted of Handel’s O Ruddier Than the Cherry, Brahms’ Wir Wandelten and Tschaikowsky’s Why. Mr. Tibbett enhanced the already excellent impression .he had made. This time Florence Barbour played his accompaniments in the commendable manner which is characteristic of La Forge pupils. The remaining soloist was Verna Rabey, coloratura soprano, who gave the Voci di Primavera of Strauss, ably assisted at the piano by Minabel Hunt.
And finally there was the quartet from Rigoletto sung by Miss Malmrose, Miss McCoy, Mr. Rappaport and Mr. Tibbett with Mr. LaForge as the accompanist. The opinion of the audience seemed to be expressed by the lady whom the writer overheard remark:
“That was one concert where I more than had my money’s worth.”
The assisting artist was Nina Koshetz, who sang two groups of songs.	M. A.
Plotnikoff and Romanoff at Tarasoff Studio
Eugene Plotnikoff, Russian pianist-conductor of the Imperial Russian opera houses, is becoming known as an authority on. modern music. Since arriving here he has met many former friends, opera artists and others, including Chaliapin, who hail him as an old companion. He
MME. ROMANOFF
has preserved, in his flight from Russia, many tokens of friendship and admiration given him there, such as rings, stick-pins, cuff-links, etc., all of value outside their associations.
A concert given by him in the dancing studios of the well known Russian teacher, Tarasoff, on February 11, attracted an interested audience, who heard Mme. Romanoff sing in Russian, French, German and English, works by Tschaikowsky, Strauss, Barbiroli and La Forge, and admired her fine dramatic soprano voice, as well as her splendid style and distinguished personality. Mme. Met-chik, contralto, sang a ballad by Moussorgsky, and as an encore the Habanera (Carmen) with opulent voice. Josef Borissoff played violin solos, including his own pieces, Humoresque Orientale and a staccato waltz, very brilliantly. Mr. Schvetz sang songs in Russian with appropriate style, and Mr. Loukin offered a Rachmaninoff song with effect.
To all this conductor Plotnikoff played accompaniments
MILWAUKEE ENTERTAINED
BY DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS
Chaliapin, Paderewski, Werrenrath, Cortot, Novaes and
Shattuck Are Heard—Chicago and Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Give Concerts—Ukrainian Chorus Appears
Milwaukee, Wis., February 10.—A fine concert was given in the Pabst Theater by Feodor Chaliapin on January 12. Both vocally and interpretively he is extraordinary, and Marion Andrews cannot bring him too soon again to suit the public.
Paderewski appeared in the Auditorium before 5,000 people who received him with frantic applause and kept him at the keyboard long after the regular program was finished. This, too, was under Marion Andrews’ direction.
Chicago Symphony Plays for Old and Young.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the fifth concert for the season, January 22, presenting an excellent program with its usual finesse. The evening concert was preceded by one at four o’clock for the children, at which Mr. Stock explained the various compositions, including the first movement from Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. In a few moments he succeeded in teaching the children to sing the famous theme. The Orchestral Association sponsors these concerts.
First Appearance of Conductor Verbrugghen.
The Minneapolis Orchestra appeared at the Pabst Theater, February 9. Arthur Shattuck was the assisting soloist. Mr. Verbrugghen presented an interesting program which included the C minor symphony of Beethoven, and numbers by Weber, Ravel and Wagner. The new conductor is dynamic as well as musicianly for he keeps his men well in hand, presenting the various numbers with fine contrast both in tone quality and balance. Arthur Shattuck played the F major concerto by Saint-Saëns. He was splendidly supported by the orchestra, and was recalled many times. Margaret Rice sponsored the concert.
New Dohnanyi Suite Proves Popular.
On February 5 the Chicago Symphony gave its regular fortnightly concert. A Mozart symphony and suite for orchestra by Dohnanyi were the high points of the program. The orchestra received such an ovation that the third movement of the Dohnanyi had to be repeated.
Two Pianists and a Baritone.
Reinald Werrenrath presented a program of the utmost beauty and artistry, January 25. His appearance was under the auspices of the Arion Club.
Alfred Cortot played in the Pabst under the local direction of the Bradford Piano Company. He created a furore and has established himself firmly for a future occasion. The concert brought out a packed house.
Guiomar Novaes was the splendid artist in one of Margaret Rice’s Twilight Musicale Series.
Ukrainian Chorus a Treat.
On February 4 Miss Andrews provided a treat for her patrons in the appearance of the Ukrainian National Chorus.
EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD DIRECTORY OF TEACHERS
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NEW YORK C. KATE BEACOM Piano and Class Work 621 E. 29th St., Brooklyn Phone: Mansfield 1297	RICHARD McCLANAHAN Grad. Mus. A. B. Director of Music, Riverdale Country School Telephone Kingsbridge 3123	ETHEL Y. THOMPSON President, Roseville Music Club Individual and Class Lessons 11 Pittsfield Ave., Cranford	MISSOURI FLORENCE E. HAMMON Examining Normal Teacher Nine Assistants Musical Art Bldg. St. Louis
		CALIFORNIA ADELE DAVIS Piano Belvedere. Phone: 3-M	
	MME. SCHUBERTH-NEYMANN Piano Ensemble and Individual Lessons Steinway Hall, Studio 9B, New York Phone: Stuyvesant 0500		
EDITH BEARDSLEY Piano and Classes Pupil of Xaver Scharwenka 253 West 91st St., Tel. Riverside 1215			OKLAHOMA LEILA G. MUNSELL Pianist, Teacher and Accompanist Muskogee
		ETHEL MAE OSBORN Piano and Classwork 427 Moss Ave., Phone: Oakland Piedmont 4659-W	
EMMA BECK 124 West 12th St., New York Phone: 3715 Chelsea	MRS. WILLIAM D. REED 34 West 96th St. Riverside 4634		
			PENNSYLVANIA CORA SHEFFER ANTHONY Piano and Voice Individual and Class 616 West 3rd Street Williamsport
RUTH CARLMARK Accompanist and Piano Instruction Pupil of La Forge-Berumen Studio 436 Sterling Place, Brooklyn	LESLEY GUEST REILAND, Mus. B. Member of the Piano Faculty, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., 1911-1918 Studios: 809 Carnegie Hall, New York City 1410 Avenue H, Brooklyn, N. Y.	ETHEL ALAIR Piano 167 W. Washington St., Pasadena Phone: Colorado 4593	
			TENNESSEE MATTIE EZELL Piano and Class Work 185i/2 8th Ave. N. Nashville Phone Main 3432
MAUDE TUCKER DOOLITTLE 164 22nd St., Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, L. I. Phone: 2477 Newtown Carnegie Hall, Room 803-4, Wednesdays Phone: Circle 1536		EDNA WHEELER BALLARD Harp 1101 Pine St., San Francisco Phone: Prospect 2306	
	ADELE F. SOUTHARD 11 West 96th St. Riverside 9773		
	EMILY L. SNOW Piano and Class Lessons 204 East 18th St., N. Y. Tel. 4428 Lexington	ILLINOIS LUCY SPENCER Director Children’s Dept. Columbia Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art Aurora Phone: 235	TEXAS NELLIE HALL Piano and Class Lessons Eriburg, Apt. 2 Abilene Phone 390
KATHRYN DRIGGS Pupil of Moszkowski and Victor Wittigstein Teacher at Scoville School for Girls 15 Clarke St., Brooklyn Phone: 2384 Main			
	MARY G. STOWE Teacher of Piano Pupil of Raif, Moszkowski, Thuel Burnham 275 Central Park West, N. Y.		
OLGA FISHER Piano and Class Work 93 Junction Ave., Corona, L. I. Phone: Havemeyer 0531			WASHINGTON ALICE REYNOLDS FISCHER 314 E. Birch Walla Walla
		INDIANA EDITH LACEY Pleasant Lake	
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		IOWA HAWAIIAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Mrs. Nina Warner, director (All Stringed Instruments Taught) 701 2nd Ave. East, Cedar Rapids	
			CHARLOTTE McNEELY Piano 2603 Everett Ave. Everett
MARY EDNA LAWRENCE Musical Pedagogue Individual Piano Lessons Class Lessons in Musicianship Cold Street, Rosedale, L. I. Phone: Laurelton 1746			
	MABEL COREY WATT Examining Normal Teacher Directress of Music Flatbush School Four Assistant Teachers 94 Prospect Park W., Brooklyn Phone: South 3688-J.		
			WISCONSIN MADISON MUSIC SCHOOL Laura J. Richards, director Piano and Harmony 132 Lathrop Street Madison Phone: Badger 3243
		ETTA GABBERT Teacher of Piano, Pipe Organ, Harmony and Theory Individual and Class—All Ages Studio: 1934 Farnam Street, Davenport	
IDIS LAZAR Concert Pianist and Teacher 50 Morningside Drive, Apt. 42, New York Phone 7770 Cathedral			
	HARRISON E. WOOD Piano 5 Robins Place, Yonkers Phone: 3652 Yonkers		
		MASSACHUSETTS MARY BLACK 156 Newberry Street Boston	FOREIGN!
JEANNETTE, C. LEIDY Piano and Class Work 416 West 122nd St., N. Y. Phone: 4475 Morn.			
			CANADA CARA FARMER Piano and Class Lessons, Demonstrations Certified Normal Teacher Mothers’ Creative Music Course 750 Bathurst, Toronto
	MAUDE BALLARD WOOD Teacher of Pianoforte 150 Lenox Road, Brooklyn Phone: Flatbush 8872-J.		
GERTRUDE LEONARD Pupil of Heinrich Gebhardt Teacher 1920-21 at Smead School, Toledo, Ohio; 1922 at Riverdale County School, N. Y. 29 Orchard Place, New Rochelle.		ANGIE WILDE Piano Summer Address: Duxbury Winter: 169 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.	
	NEW JERSEY RUTH E. JONGENEEL Piano Lessons 119 North 9th Street, Newark Phone: Branch Brook 4745	MICHIGAN DORIS GLEZEN Piano and Theory 517 Village Street Kalamazoo Phone 995	CHINA EMIL DANENBERG Pianoforte Instruction Pupil of Teichmuller (Leipzig) The Albany, Hong Konx
JENNIE S. LIEBMANN Piano and Class Lessons 1140 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn Phone: 0981 Decatur