MUSICAL COURIER
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March 1, 1923
gratulated upon t'he excellent work he is accomplishing with his orchestra.
People's Symphony Concert Enjoyed.
The People’s Symphony, conducted by Alexander Saslava-sky, gave a concert at Scottish Rite Hall on February 6, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the usual enthusiastic listeners who attend these concerts. Among the works interpreted were Tschaikowsky’s Casse Noisette, the first movement of the Pastoral, the Dance of the Bon Bon Fairies, with the harp portions delightfully played by Barbara Merkeley, and the Scene at the Brook.
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Ada Clement, pianist, and Artur Argiewicz, violinist, assisted by Rena Lazelle, soprano, gave an enjoyable concert on February 12 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Faure’s and Schumann’s sonatas were among the works interpreted by the instrumentalists, while Miss Lazelle contributed a group of lovely Russian songs, charmingly rendered.
On February 10, the members of the Musicians’ Club of San Francisco gave a luncheon in honor of Benno Moiseiwitsch, the noted Russian pianist.
The Music Teachers’ Association of San Francisco gave its annual banquet at the Hotel Whitcomb on January 31. A large attendance was present to hear the excellent addresses by the outgoing and incoming officers. Frank Carroll Given, the outgoing president, gave his time and energy to the cause and has succeeded in accomplishing much in its favor. Mrs. Alvina Heuer Wilson is the new president and other newly elected officers are Lillian Birmingham, Augusta Gillespie and Evelyn S. Ware.
Institute of Musical Art Concert
Aeolian Hall was filled to capacity on Saturday evening, February 24, the occasion being the tenth annual public concert of the Institute of Musical Art of New York. This concert, given under the auspices of the Auxiliary Society of the Institute, provides a number of scholarships to enable talented students to secure a musical education.
The student orchestra as well as several student soloists rendered very satisfactorily the following program: Symphony No. VIiII in F major (Beethoven), orchestra; concerto for piano in A major (Liszt), Jenny Seidman; Abend auf Golgatha (Othegraven), Chorus; concerto for cello (Lalo), Milton Prinz; overture to Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz), orchestra; Una voce poco fa (Rossini), Murella Cianci; Russian Fantasie (Napravnik), Jeannette Glass.
ern California. She entertained at a tea-musicale at the Mary Louise Tea Shop and has appeared in Van Nuys and Pasadena the past week.	J. C.
SAN FRANCISCO HEARS
NOVEL SYMPHONY WORKS
Hertz Presents Interesting Program at Ninth Series of Concerts—lone Pastor¡ Soloist with Minetti Orchestra —People’s Symphony Concert Enjoyed—Notes
San Francisco, Cal., February 11.—Alfred Hertz presented an attractive program for the ninth pair of symphony concerts at the Curran Theater on February 9 and 11. Several novel and interesting works were heard, among which were Albert Elkus’ Rondo on a Merry Folk Song, which was given its first public performance by Mr. Hertz and the orchestra. It is a cleverly constructed piece of work, full of brilliant tone color with admirable instrumentation. Mr. Elkus was forced to appear on the stage twice in response to the hearty demonstration of appreciation shown him by the large audience. Another novelty on the program was Anatol Lyado’s Fragments of the Apocalypse. The symphony of the day was Schubert’s C major. In this number, as in the others, Mr. Hertz displayed his usual imaginative powers, his intense musicianship and command of the orchestra to ׳the most minute detail. The last number of the program was the Grieg concerto played by Benno Moiseiwitsch and the orchestra. Mr. Moiseiwitsch rendered this concerto in his customary brilliant style, with depth of feeling and technical perfection. He was the recipient of an ovation.
Ione Pastori Soloist with Minetti Orchestra.
On the evening of February 9 the Minetti Orchestra gave the second concert of its season. The program opened with Schubert’s Rosamonde overture and was followed by Jean Sibelius’ tone poem The Swan of Tuonela. Other works -which were given a creditable performance by this aggregation of semi-professional musicians were Lacome’s Spanish suite, La Feria; Ganne’s Extase and the overture to Suppe’s Light Cavalry. Ione Pastori was the soloist of the evening and contributed two operatic arias—Mozart’s Voi che Sapete and Verdi’s Ernani Involami—and several songs. Miss Pastori’s voice is at all times lovely, rich and round, and imbued with great sweetness and variety of color. She sings with taste, her phrasing and diction are excellent. Miss Pastori received well merited applause and added several encores. Mr. Minetti is to be con-
beautiful voice gained her a reception of marked cordiality. The accompanists were Edgar E. Coursen and William C. McCulloch, and Ralph W. Hoyt, organist.
Chiaffarelli’s Band made its debut, January 28, at the Public Auditorium, playing Schubert’s unfinished symphony and Chiaffarelli’s Titanic suite among other selections.
Every Sunday afternoon the city presents a musical program at the Public Auditorium featuring local soloists, bands, orchestras and vocal societies. An admission charge of fifteen cents is made to cover the expenses. The last program was furnished by Richter’s Concert Orchestra (twenty-two instruments), with Francis Richter, conductor, and Nellie Wehoffer, contralto. The Auditorium organ is the largest in the Pacific Northwest.
Anatol Berezovsky, tenor, has been singing at the Rivoli Theater. He is a recent arrival from Russia and expects to join the Russian Grand Opera Company in the near future.
Emil Enna, prominent Portland composer-pianist, has been appointed music editor of the Portland News.
The Portland Opera Association, Roberto Corruccini, conductor, is rehearsing Verdi’s Ernani.	J. R. O.
LOS ANGELES HAS A
GALA WEEK OF CONCERTS
Rachmaninoff and Chaliapin in the Limelight—Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Trio Continue Series— Three Master Artist Recitals
Los Angeles, Cal., February 12.—On February 2 Rachmaninoff made his only appearance this season in the Trinity Auditorium before a capacity audience.
Chaliapin appeared February 6 and 8 in the Philharmonic Amditorium. Both evenings the house was sold out and his audience laughed and wept and applauded as he played upon its emotional gamut. Max Rabinowitih made a splendid impression with his piano numbers and accompaniments. Nicholas Levienne added cello solos.
Josef Hofmann gave his first recital February 10. That he holds a high place in the hearts of the public was evidenced by the reception he received.
Something Old and Something New.
The Philharmonic Orchestra presented its ninth pair of concerts February 9 and 10. The light and brilliant Rhap-sodie Espagnole, by Ravel, gave a modern touch between the Beethoven symphony, No, 2, in D, and the Oberon overture, by Weber. Betsy Lane Shepherd was soloist and gave an excellent account of herself in the Air de Lia, from L’Enfant Prodigue (Debussy) and Massenet’s aria from Herodiade.
NEW YORK’S GREATEST MUSIC WEEK
By Cromwell Childe
York, that it will take, it is estimated, fully five years, to put it in complete working order. So it will not form a part of the 1923 Music Week. It will be fairly well installed, however, for Music Week, 1924. The details of this are absorbingly interesting and of vast importance.
Word has reached New York from the Middle arid Far West which seems to show that the big western centers of population have recently taken many steps ahead of New York in the development of music, specifically in the direction of musical education. From now on, however, that will no longer be the case, for this new plan of musical development for the young can scarcely fail to bring New York into the lead and make it the center of a powerful national movement. New York is to be districted into forty-eight districts (for convenience, the same as the present school districts). Each district will be presided over by a local committee, chosen for its interest in music, headed by some eminent leading citizen, and with a New York public school executive as vice-chairman. Once a year contests will be held in each district covering every phase of music. The winners of these will meet in Borough contests, each Borough having a yearly music festival. And, in turn, the Borough winners will go into a city-wide contest, the final winners to receive scholarships which will give a year’s tuition in some New York City music school or studio of the first week, perhaps even a year’s trip abroad.
Could anything more wonderful and inspiring and useful be conceived ? Such is the great new idea -back of the present Music Week, to be developed alongside of the great programs that will be presented for the week itself. It will be seen from this that the new Music Week of New York is no mean institution, but one that is being worked out with great skill by Miss Lowden.
For the week, the whole year around the city will be divided into ■its five boroughs, each with its chairman and a special Borough committee. Thomas L. Leeming is to be the chairman for the Borough of Brooklyn, George Cromwell for the Borough of Richmond, Ray Palmer for Queens, Albert Goldman for the Bronx. The post of chairman for the Borough of Manhattan has not as yet been filled, for the ideal man is still to be discovered. Nor has the Association yet named its president. William H. Porter has been chosen treasurer, Miss Lowden is director, and Cromwell Childe, publicity director. On the board of directors, in addition to the four Borough chairmen already named, are W. Rodman Fay, Miss Lowden, Paul B. Cravath, Dr. Eugene A. Noble, director of the Juilliard Foundation, and Martin Conboy.
The year that has rolled around since New York’s very successful Third Music Week last year has brought with ■it some remarkable developments, worked out quietly and consistently for many months, and now just bearing fruit. Because of this quiet work, a new Music Week for New York is now to be announced, a fourth annual observance that will go far ahead of all others, for the reason that a big permanent organization is behind it.
The permanent organization is to go by the name of the New York Music Week Association, Inc. It has been fortunate enough to secure Otto H. Kahn as its honorary president and as one of its chief friends, and it has already actively set the ball rolling and begun preparations for organizing Music Week for this year at its new headquarters, 299 Madison avenue, corner of Forty-first_ street. The personnel of those who will be the chief executive figures seems to assure a week that will^ be the most striking of such obesrvances ever given in this country. This, of course, is saying much, but the outcome, with very little doubt, will justify it. To the making of all this, the vision, the plan, the charted detail of what is to be done and the organization of the machinery to carry out all that is hoped for, chief credit must be given to Isabel Lowden, director of New York’s Music Week for the past two years, and chosen without a question as the leader of this year’s enterprise because every plan and part of it is hers.
The dates, April 29—May S, have been chosen for this year’s celebration, and again the chief work of making the many and assorted programs will fall on the shoulders of practically the same thirty-odd committees as last year, with very much the same ■people serving on them. In other words, this year’s Music Week will not be greatly different from that of a year ago, except that it will be materially bigger and better. But the handling of it will be radically different, and, furthermore there is to be a great and very wonderful extension of the work, series of city-wide contests, open to all, to be established everywhere in New York, with the purpose of bringing forward the most promising of younger New York would-be-musicians and rewarding the best of them with scholarships.
The Contest and Scholarship Plan.
So comprehensive and far-reaching is this contest and scholarship plan, which already has been prepared by _ Miss Lowden and a special committee of distinguished musicians she has caused to be appointed, headed by Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist and choirmaster of St. Thomas, and George H. Gartlan, Director of Music of the public schools of New
Social and Musical Airs.
The Ellis Club offered the second concert of the season at Philharmonic Auditorium. Herbert Gould, bass, was soloist. This club of men’s voices has been under the direction of J. B. Poulin for many years. Mrs. M. Hen-nion Robinson is the accompanist since its early days and always comes in for a large share of the appreciation. These concerts are an event of the musical season and have social as well as musical atmosphere. Mr. Gould received high praise from press and audience.
Los Angeles Trio Adds Flutist and Features Goossens.
The Los Angeles Trio, founded by May MacDonald-Hope, pianist, gave its fourth concert, February 9, at the Ébell Club Auditorium. Besides Calmon Luboviski, violinist, and Ilya Bronson, cellist, regular members of the trio, J. Plowe, flutist, assisted in the trio, op. 7, by Eugene Goossens, a delectable succession of tone pictures. The Kreutzer sonata, A major, op. 47, by Beethoven, received a remarkably excellent interpretation. The program concluded with César Franck’s trio, F sharp major.
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Hollywood has a flourishing Opera Reading Club which now numbers over 200. Frank Nagel is the counselor, pianist and accompanist. The club was organized in October with fifteen members. Dr. Nagel, assisted by Edwin Sked-den, will sponsor the Hollywood Community Opera to be put on under Mr. Skedden’s direction.
Gloria Bretherton and Chev. and Mme. Guerrieri entertained at their monthly studio tea-musicale held in the MacDowell Club rooms.
Pupils of Bertha Vaughn, assisted ■by Homer Simons, pianist, gave a song recital in the Ebell Club house, January 24. Those appearing were Ruth Schaffner, Electa Felt-Ferry, Mary Teitsworth, Eunice Ross and Sara Crosby.
John Smallman, who is a successful singer, teacher and conductor, says in discussing the many angles of his work that to know fully the situation in any field one must be active in it. He believes that a teacher can hold the interest of his puipls and inspire them to greater efforts by continuing his public work. In this way the point of view, as both singer and teacher, is maintained and the enthusiasm and loyalty of the student is heightened. Mr. Smallman is having splendid success with his concert appearances this :season and will no doubt present another song recital in Los Angeles this year.
Doris June Struble is filling some important engagements this month in Los Angeles and other cities of south-
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