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MUSICAL COURIER
March 1, 1923
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
newspapers and music professions resulted in a highly successful project.
Mischa Elman, violinist, and Herbert Gould, bass, were heard during the week. Elman gave a recital before an audience which taxed the capacity of the Victory Theater. He displayed his usual splendid technic and beautiful tone quality. Gould won his audience by his interesting interpretations, opulent voice and attractive personality.
The local organizations taking part were the A Cappella Choir, C. M. Dennis, director; the Elks’ Concert Orchestra and Richards Club, both directed by Charles M. Richards; the De Molay Boys Band, directed by Edward Towner; the Municipal Band, directed by Will Lake; the High School Band and Orchestra, directed by George T. Matthews; the High School Glee Club, directed by Cleo Par-melee, and Hales Department Store Chorus, directed by Homer De Witt Pugh.
Students of the College of the Pacific and pupils of W. E. Johnson, Homer Pugh, Daisy Brinker, Lulu Peiper, Mrs. D. J. Gairaud, Maude Caldwell, Marjorie Fisher and Clarence Urmy presented programs at various places during the week.
Doings of Musical Penwomen.
Robert Romani, bass baritone, appeared under the auspices of the San Jose League of Penwomen. He has an excellent voice and gave great pleasure to his auditors. The Penwomen also presented a children’s play with music, The Tin Soldier, written and directed by Mrs. Don Richards, a local authoress and composer.
Rosing and Moiseiwitsch.
Rosing, tenor, gave a recital at the State Teachers’ College Auditorium. On January 22, at the Victory Theater, Benno Moiseiwitsch enthused a large audience.
College of Pacific Notes.
Two faculty recitals were given in the College of the Pacific Auditorium. Miriam Burton, pianist, and Nella Rogers, contralto, gave a program of wide appeal, and Mima Montgomery, dramatic soprano, and Jessie Moore, pianist, had a successful appearance.
William Edward Johnson, Le Roy Brant and Victor D. Ehle presented pupils during the month.	C. D.
PORTLAND NOTES
Portland, Ore., February 3.—The Apollo Club, William H. Boyer, director, gave its second concert of the season ׳at the Public Auditorium, January 29, and had a genuine triumph. In Franz-Boyer’s O, Thank Me Not (given unaccompanied), the club demonstrated fine tonal balance and expressiveness. Other choral works were Harold Milligan’s I’m Gwine to Sing in de Heavenly Choir, and Dudley Buck’s Bugle Call. The club had the assistance of Margaret Carney, soprano, who substituted for Margery Maxwell. She was heard in Bishop’s Lo 1 Here the Gentle Lark, with flute obligato by H. G. Knight. Miss Carney’s
recently at her studio, assisted by Carl Beverley Stratton, baritone.
Plymouth Congregational Church has engaged Lowell Redfield, bass, as director of its music activities.
The January union program in the Adelphian Club of Alameda assembled the members recently at a musicale contributed entirely by local artists. A series of three artist concerts was launched on January 30, when Katajen Attl, harpist, assisted by Stella Jelica, was •heard in program.
Endorsement of the work of the Fremont High School orchestra has been given by Alexander Saslavsky (formerly of the New York Symphony Orchestra and now leader of the People’s Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco) and William J. McCoy (head of the musical theory department of Mills College), who recently reviewed the orchestra’s work.
Carol Weston, violinist, and Phyllida Ashley, pianist, are giving a series of concerts from the Tribune’s radio broadcasting station.
A meeting of the Alameda County Music Teachers’ Association took place at the Y. W. C. A. building, January 30. The piano section met at the residence of Mrs. Del Valle, who played a four-hand number with Mrs. Ashley. Mabei Brousseau read a paper entitled The Modern Child Versus Abstract Technic. Miss Crandall sang.
The third of a series of historical musical programs was given recently at the First Methodist Episcopal Church. The program was selected from the works of Mozart and Haydn. Organist, Bessie Beattie Roland; Marion Hovey Brower, soprano; Herbert P. Mee, tenor, and Robert Baxter Todd, bass, took part.
Grace D. Le Page presented her pupils in a song recital at Ebell Hall, January 23, assisted by piano pupils of Eva Garcia.	E. A. T.
SAN JOSE CELEBRATES
NOVEL MUSIC WEEK
City’s Musical Resources Well Presented—Musicians, Organizations, Schools and Civic Authorities Unite
San Jose, Cal., February 10.—The outstanding event in San Jose during the past month has been the celebration of Music Week, sponsored by the Santa Clara County Branch of the California State Music Teachers’ Association and directed by an efficient committee. _ The city’s musical resources were well presented, beginning with special music and sermons on music in the churches on Sunday. Continuing through the week were public band concerts, singing by department store choruses, recitals in the hospitals and charitable institutions, performances by local organizations and demonstrations of the work done in the high school music department, the whole effort culminating in the finals of the Music Memory Contest held Saturday, February 3. Co-operation of the civic authorities, business men, educational authorities, daily
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OAKLAND’S CONCERT SERIES
MEETING WITH SUCCESS
Oakland, Cal., February 3.—The popularity of the Artists’ Concert Series was again manifested when Mischa Elman was heard by an audience that was crowded into every available space in the theater, including the orchestra pit. Handel’s sonata in E major and Saint-Saëns’ concerto in B minor were among the selections rendered.
Colbert and Blumberg Present Middleton and Rosing.
Arthur Middleton, baritone, was the first attraction of the new series of concerts arranged by Jessica Colbert and Lulu J. Blumberg. Miss Blumberg is making her headquarters in Oakland. The second concert featured Vladimir Rosing. A critic’s comment was: “His face is ׳a stage upon which drama and comedy pass in fleet succession. The voice, highly musical in quality and intelligently controlled, is an accompaniment.”
Concertmaster Soloist with San Francisco Symphony.
The seventh concert of the San Francisco Orchestra series was given February 2. Cesar Franck’s symphony in D minor had a fine reading and was followed by the violin concerto in D major (Beethoven), with Louis Persinger, concertmaster, as soloist. The concluding number was the overture to Tannhäuser.
Festival of Irish Music.
At the Auditorium Theater, January 21, an unusual treat was tendered by the Irish 110th Regimental Band, under the direction of J. Andrew Wiggins. The three soloists, all specialists in Irish folk music and dancing, were Beatrice O’Leary, soprano; Jean McNaughton, dancer, and Pipe-Major John Treholm. The concert was under the management of Z. W. Potter.
Notes.
A new and modernized production of Franz Lehar’s operetta in three acts, The Merry Widow, delighted a throng of comic opera devotees.
Dances of four nations marked the biennial Mills College Kermesse, which was given two performances on February 3, at the Municipal Auditorium. Students of the college put on the production under the general direction of Elizabeth Rheem Stoner, head of the physical education department.
The development of Oakland as a Musical Center was discussed recently by Z. W. Potter, following a dinner at Fruit-vale Congregational Church in Wetherbee Hall. Music was given by Mrs. Wilson Jones, dramatic soprano, and Eva Garcia, pianist.
The series of concerts which Mischa Gluschkin and an orchestra under his direction have been giving at the New Piedmont Theater, came to a close last week. Both the orchestral work and Gluschkin’s solo playing have been much liked and it is expected the concerts will reopen in the fall.
A recital was given January 7, at the House of Commons, ■by the pupils of Frank I. Atherton and Gertrude L. Atherton, teachers of violin, viola, cello and piano.
The piano pupils of Isabella Mary Smith were presented
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