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MUSICAL COURIER
March 8, 1928
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
ranged for four hands (Mrs. C. Dingley and Mrs. Chas. .vloscr). This club accomplishes a great deal in the way of promoting good music in Palo Alto.
The Stanford Glee Club will give its first concert on the campus March 16, and will leave on its regular spring tour the following week. The route this year will take them through the southern portion of California where concerts will be given in the smaller cities between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The trip will be made by automobile. The Glee Club now numbers eighty-six members.	C. W. B.
LOS ANGELES HEARS
SAN CARLO COMPANY
Los Angeles, Cal., February 19.—In reviewing the first week’s engagement of^ the San Carlo Opera Company, the thing that stands out is the uniform excellence of the performances. Stage settings and costumes are'fresh and tasteful ; the chorus is composed of excellent material, well trained; each performance moved with smoothness and promptness. Musically and dramatically also, a high standard has been maintained with a commendable balance, in casts. Credit for the splendid orchestral effects is due Director Peroni and Conductor Franchetti. The operas given were Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Aida, Martha, Boheme, Rigoletto, Carmen and II Trovatore. Conductor, Carlo Peroni.	j. c.
Barbara Maurel on Middle Western Tour
Barbara Maurel, the mezzo soprano, is meeting with an unbroken string of successes on her present concert tour through the Middle West. Recent bookings on her route included Kansas City, Kan., February 9; Kansas City, Mo., 10; Miami, Okla., 12; Bellville, Kan., 14; Omaha, Neb., 16, and Sterling, Kan., 19.
A notice from the Kansas City Times said:
Miss Maurel was so fine looking it was quite a few minutes before any of her hearers took time to see what manner of mezzo-soprano she was. When they did they found a young singer whose ideas of interpretation put her at once a long distance past the elevation she might be expected to have reached. ׳ She was especially successful with Dehussy’s Nuit d’Etoiles, and Rachmaninoff's The Soldier’s Bride. The others of her songs dipped into almost all the vessels singers go to for songs, the operatic number being the Habanera from Carmen. One of her encores, Guion’s Little Pickaninny Kid, was sung as though her youth might have been spent in Georgia or Alabama which is to say that she did not exaggerate it the way most singers do.
Ralph Leopold on Pacific Coast Tour
Ralph Leopold, American pianist, left New York to fill a number of concert dates on the Pacific Coast. He will be heard in Portland and Astoria, Ore.; San Francisco, Berkeley, Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego, Cal.; Phoenix, Ariz., and Reno, Nev. His last engagement before returning to New York will be in Chicago on April 3.
Easton Soloist with Los Angeles Orchestra
Florence Easton, Metropolitan Opera soprano, continues her triumphant concert tour of the Pacific Coast and West this month with appearances in Nevada, California and Arizona.
min’s voice is of a lovely quality and she sings with intelligence.
Sarah Kreindler, a gifted child violinist, appeared at one of the recent Discovery concerts which are held every Sunday morning at the California and Granada theaters. Even at this early age the child has technic and natural expressive instincts.
Marian Frazer created quite a sensation when she played for the members of the San Francisco Musical Club. Besides being technically most efficient, she has unusual interpretive ability, playing with great verve and spontaneity.
C. H. A.
PALO ALTO NOTES
Palo Alto, Cal., February 18.—Knightie Knight was the annual opera bouffe written and staged by Ram’s Plead, an organization that corresponds to the famous Triangle Club of Princeton. This year’s burlesque concerned itself with a reversal of conditiofis as portrayed in Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee. Michael Ely and Philip Newell were responsible for the book and lyrics, and Richard Malaby and Myron Higby for the music. A word of praise must be given to Arnold Bayley for his capable chorus direction and to Theodore Van Deusen for the attractive settings.
The San Francisco Chamber Music Society gave a performance in the Community House of Kreisler’s quartet in A minor, Mozart’s quartet in D major, for flute and strings, and Ravel’s quartet in F major. The music committee of the Community House deserves abundant thanks for giving Palo Alto this truly fine concert.
The Stanford University Band gave the first of the weekly concerts planned for Thursday afternoons during the remainder of the college year. These are open air concerts, taking place in front of the new Stanford Union, and are the beginning of what is hoped will become a definite tradition. The programs will include military marches, Stanford songs, in which the students will join, and other numbers. A large and interested crowd gathered for the initial concert.
Vocal solos by Erna Seegar, contralto, and piano solos by Mrs. A. J. Moore, the accompanist, made up the usual Sunday afternoon concert at the Community House. Miss Seegar’s voice is displayed to the best advantage in the higher, softer tones. Her group,of Indian songs was especially well rendered. Mrs. Moore’s accompaniments were musicianly, and in her two solo groups she displayed a fine technic and a delightful delicacy of touch.
A delightful program of harpsichord and folk music of the eighteenth century was played and sung by the music department of 'Castilleja school. The numbers were given in costumes of the period, which evoked many exclamations of pleasure.
The Fortnightly Club, at its last regular meeting, heard the Brahms A major sonata for violin and piano (Mrs. C. J. Clark and Mrs. J. F. Prior), Cyril Scott’s Blackbird Songs (Mrs. W. A. Roberts), and the Brahms waltzes, ar-
SAN FRANCISCO BOWS
TO JOSEF HOFMANN
Chamber Music Society Assisted by Schnabel—Orchestra Gives “Pop” Concert—Notes
San Francisco, Cal., February 21.—The capacity audience which Josef Hofmann never fails to attract in this city heard a fine program at the Arcadia Pavilion, February 18. The sonata presented was Beethoven’s Hammerklavier, op. 106, which was followed by six Chopin etudes. Mr. Hofmann’s Children’s Corner and his etude in C major (for left hand) were heartily applauded and the recital concluded with two compositions by Liszt. The pianist was presented by Manager Selby C. Oppenheimer.
Chamber Music Society in Different Combinations.
Elias M. Hecht, founder and manager of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society of San Francisco, engaged Artur Schnabel to appear in conjunction with his organization at the fifth concert of the present season. The numbers presented were the D minor Brahms sonata, for piano and violin, played by Mr. Schnabel and Louis Persinger, first violinist and musical director of the organization. The quintet performed was by Schumann, in which Mr. Schnabel and Messrs. Persinger, Ford, Firestone and Ferner par-tic pated. It was interpreted with scholarly comprehension, periection of ensemble and a keen appreciation for dynamics and nuances.
John C. Manning, founder of the Student’s Chamber Music Series, presented as his second attraction, the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco. It gave a virile reading of the Dvorak quintet, with Mr. Manning playing the piano part; the Mozart D major quartet for flute and strings, employing Elias Hecht, flutist, and Ravel’s quartet.
Popular Symphony Concert.
Alfred Hertz, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, selected an attractive program for the “Pop” concert including Mozart’s overture to Don Giovanni, Liszt’s Les Preludes, Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Spanish Caprice and the Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda.
Notes.
Lorraine Ewing presented twenty-two of her piano pupils in a recital at the Fairmont Hotel. The soprano solos by Kathleen Hall were an added attraction. The young pianists gave an excellent manifestation of the fine instruction they are receiving.
Helen Bradford, talented pupil of Hazel Nichols, gave a piano recital at the Conservatory of Music assisted by Selma Margolis, violinist; Virginia Parson, soprano, and Ruth Cook, pianist. The works presented were the Mozart-Grieg sonata for two pianos, the Beethoven sonata, F major, for violin and piano, and songs by Mozart, Ross and Carey.
Edith Benjamin, lyric soprano, was heard in a program of varied works at the Palace of Fine Arts. Miss Benja-
PACIFIC NORTHWEST DIRECTORY
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BOWES, CHARLES Teacher of Voice 446 South Grand View, Los Angeles	COLBERT, JESSICA Concert and Theatrical Management 619 Hearst Bldg., San Francisco		SPROTTE, MME. ANNA RUZENA School of Vocal Art Sixth Floor of Tajo Bldg., Los Angeles
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