MUSICAL COURIER
March 8, 1923
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The operas chosen for the season are: Naughty Marietta, Victor Herbert; The Fencing Master, Reginald de Koven; Wang, S. Woolson Morse; Prince of Pilsen, Gustav Luders; The Bat, Johann Strauss; The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar; The Chocolate Soldier, Oscar Strauss; Sweethearts, Victor Herbert; The Gypsy Baron, Johann Strauss, and Gypsy Love, Franz Lehar. Members of the company will be Blanche Duffield, leading soprano; Helen Morrill, second soprano; Dorothy Maynard, ingenue; Flavia Arcara, contralto ; Craig Campbell, tenor; Thos. H. Conkey, baritone; Detmar Poppen, basso; Roland Woodruff, juvenile parts, Frank Moulan and William McCarthy are reengaged as first and second comedians. The former is in his fourth season with the Municipal Opera. Frank A. Rainger will be the stage director again this year and Charles Previn will be the musical director. William A. Parsons, chorus-master, already is rehearsing the chorus. The season will open on May 28.	V. A. L. J.
Dr. Alexander Russell on Wanamaker
The January issue of The Diapason contains a two-column article by Dr. Alexander Russell, concert manager at the Wanamaker New York store, in the form of a tribute to the late John Wanamaker’s love and appreciation of music. He speaks of the many free concerts given in his Phila-delph.a and New York stores, the great organs around which the concerts center, and gives many instances of his love for music.
In the Philadelphia store stands the largest organ in the world, built up on the St. Louis Exposition organ as a foundation. He mentions the inauguration of this organ by Organist Courboin, and that of Dupre of the New York organ. Strauss and his orchestra appeared in the New York store, followed by Sauer, Godowsky, Stokowski, Bis-pham, Werrenrath, and hundreds of others. American composers’ and teachers’ recitals were regular features, and drew thousands of listeners. Marcel Dupre was brought over by Wanamaker to inaugurate the new organ (New York store), season 1921-22. His second tour, now in course of completion, began at this store, followed by nearly one hundred recitals throughout the United States, and will end in this store. Wanamaker was a man who talked little, but simply went ahead and did things. Dr. Russell concludes:
In the summer oi 1921 the National Association of Organists met in the Philadelphia store. Mr. Wanamaker addressed them one afternoon, and as he left the hall took me by the arm saying:	‘If
anyone asks you if we built this organ for advertising purposes, tell him that I would rather tear the organ down than allow such a thought a place in my mind.” Then he went away, waving his hand to the delegates, who promptly elected him and his son, Rod-man Wanamaker, honorary members of the association.
Davis Engaged for Operatic Festival
Ernest Davis has been engaged for three performances with the Kansas City Opera Company during the week of May 6. This will be his second engagement in the Missouri city this season, as he sang in a performance of The Messiah given by the famous Lindsborg Chorus in the fall. He will sail for England on May 15, and will concertize there during June and July, later going to Italy for further coaching in his operatic repertory. While in Italy he will appear in opera in several of the important cities. He will be available for concert here beginning January next.
tion, gave a concert assisted by Julia Claussen of the Metropolitan Opera. The Jessie L. Gaynor Choral Club of Webster Groves, of which Leo C. Miller is the conductor, also gave a concert on January 30. Lester Donahue, pianist, was the soloist of the occasion. Many excellencies and beauties were found in each of these concerts and the serious effort and real musicianship which leaders and singers alike put into the work bore fruit in beautiful performances.
Children’s Symphony Concerts of Intimate Nature.
A series of concerts for school children are being given on successive Saturday mornings during the months of January and February by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. These concerts are free to school children and their guardians and are made possible through the generosity of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., owner and publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who is a director of the St. Louis Symphony Society, and a son of the late Joseph Pulitzer, who for so long was a patron of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 2,000 and 5,000 children attend each one of these concerts and the sight is one worth while—not only to music lovers but also to psychologists. At the latest concert, which was given Saturday morning, February 10, the audience became so enthused that it whistled and sang the numbers which were most familiar. It is interesting to watch the behavior of the children in these concerts. At a recent one a little girl who has struck up a great friendship with a fatherly second violinist, carried on a rapid fire conversation with him between the numbers. Another child, a boy who aspires to follow in the footsteps of Conductor Ganz, shocked his playmates by yelling at the top of his lungs, “Hey there, Rudy!” when the conductor stepped on the platform. Each one of these concerts, is preceeded by an explanatory talk given by Conductor Ganz and the children thoroughly enjoy the whole procedure.
Ultra Modern Music on Symphony Program.
The old school music lovers were tremendously shocked, surprised and ultimately greatly amused with the symphony program presented Friday and Saturday, February 9 and 10, because John Alden Carpenter’s Jazz Pantomine, Krazy Kat, was a part of the program. This was one number in a group of examples of humor in music which formed the second half of the program. Another number was Saint-Saëns’ Carnival des Animaux. •A fact in connection with the program which was still more shocking to the elders was that these two very bizarre compositions were placed in juxtaposition to the immortal Manfred symphony of Tschaikowsky. The entire program was given splendidly and the audience went away not only amused but also thrilled by the rendition of the Tschaikowsky work.
Other Musical Events and Notes.
A very successful concert in the Elizabeth Cueny Course was the program by the Flonzaley Quartet, with Helen Stanley as soloist. Miss Cueny also presented the Stuart Walker performance of the Book of Job and the Kreisler recital.
Plans for the 1923 season of Municipal Opera in St. Louis were announced yesterday. The season will be ten instead of eight weeks, as formerly, and seven performances a week will be given this year instead of six per week as in former years. As usual, there will be no matinee performances.
ST. LOUIS CHORAL CLUBS
MAINTAIN HIGH STANDARDS
Porteous’ Fortieth Year as Choir Singer Celebrated—
Choral Activities of the New Year—Children’s Symphony Concerts of Intimate Nature—Ultra-Modern Music on Symphony Program —Other Musical Events and Notes
St. Louis, Mo., February 13.—St. Louis musicians are celebrating this week the fortieth anniversary as a choir singer of one of their most popular fellow artists. This is William M. Porteous, who for forty years has been a member of the choir of the Second Baptist Church of St. Louis. Porteous took the position of solo basso in the Second Baptist Church in 1883 and except during the summer vacations has not missed a Sunday in the forty years since that time. He has been not only a favorite singer but also individually popular in the musical life of St. Louis for half a century and has been sought after on all occasions for solo work in big ensemble concerts. Porteous also has taken leading parts in all movements for the betterment of music in St. Louis and is one of the leaders still in all activities of this type. Although sixty-six years old, this remarkable singer’s voice is as full and rich as it was twenty years ago and he sings with the same tireless energy. He is not resigning because he feels he is failing, but in his own words: “I want my friends and the public to remember my best voice—not my failing voice.” Porteous was born in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1857. He came to America in 1879 and immediately became known as a choir singer in the East, where he joined the choir of the Park Street Church in Boston, when George D. Chadwick was organist and choirmaster. In 1882 he came to St. Louis and the following year became a member of the ' Second Baptist Church Choir. Porteous is the third in the family to win fame as a choir singer and his son, James W. Porteous, who now is a member of one of the best St. Louis church choirs, is following in his footsteps. In addition to his choir work, Porteous has appeared in opera, having sung the part of Mephisto in Faust, Silvio in Pagliacci and Spara-fucile in Rigoletto.
Choral Activities of the New Year.
The choral organizations of St. Louis have been giving a number of concerts since the beginning of the new year. On January 11 the St. Louis Pageant Choral Society, Frederick Fischer, conductor, presented the Wagner opeta, Tannhäuser, in concert form, and gave an exceptionally creditable performance. The 200 voices in the chorus, assisted by the full orchestra of the St. Louis Symphony Society and ten soloists, composed the personnel of the production. The out-of-town artists taking part were George Walker, Arthur Hackett, Elsa Stralia and Elsa Diemer. The other soloists —Raymond Koch, Glenn Lee, Carl Otto, Albert S. Koeppe, Orson L. Curtis and Vera Putnam Riechers—are St. Louis artists.
The following week, the Knights of. Columbus Choral Club of ninety voices, with Mildred Boyars as soloist, presented its first concert of this season, and on January 24, the Morning Choral Club, a women’s singing organiza-
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