March 15, 1923
AUSTRO-GERMAN MUSICIANS’	
RELIEF FUND COMMITTEE	
Theodore Spiering, Chairman	
List of contributors up to and including March 10, 1923:	
Harold Randolph	Frederick Jacobi
Arthur Shattuck	Walter Knupfer
Josef Hofmann	C. O. Herz
Amy H. Beach	Mrs. John Gerrian
Dagmar de C. Rybner	Adolph Mayer
Dr. Cornelius Rybner	Louise Robyn
Thuel Burnham	Edith Braun
Carl Busch	Augusta Murphy
Henry Hadley	Bertha J. Burlingame
Victor Herbert	Mrs. L. von Bernuth
Margaret A. Cox	Willem Mengelberg
Mme. Charles Cahier	George Fergusson
Frank La Forge	Frederic Reidemeister
Myra Hess	Theo. Cassebeer
J. Lawrence Erb	Hans Kindler
Nicoline Zedeler-Mix	Marcella Sembrich
Sergei Klibansky	Joseph Lhevinne
Louise Keppel Theodore Spiering	Augusta Cottlow
	Frederic Jacobi, in memory of
Eva S. Joseph	the late Robert Leonhardt
Ida S. Lester	Paul H. Wagner
Ernest Urchs	Henry Ziegler
Chalmers Clifton	Ernest Hutcheson
J. B. Berkhoel	Alvin L. Schmoeger
Alfredo Oswald	George Meader
Guy Maier	Elly Ney
Steinway & Sons	Willem van Hoogstraten
Joseph Regneas Fred Steinway	Max Adler
	Mr. and Mrs. Crosbey Adams
Herman Irion	Frank A. Schaedler
Walter Fischer	Alfred Hertz
Fritz Kreisler	Paul H. Bilhuber
Victor Harris	Carl Westmann
Anna Faber	Elizabeth Cueny
B. H. Balensiefer	Florence Easton
Paul H. Schmidt	Francis Maclennan
Theodore E. Steinway	William H. Daniels
R. Mojewski	Ted Bacon
Hattie Kammerer	Edwin Grasse
Albert Stuercke	Rubin Goldmark
Sylvia Cushman	Katherine Cavalli
Bern Boekelmann	
Madeleine S. Stern	
Mrs. Norman S. Goldberger Anonymous, Springfield, Mass.	
	Guiseppe A. Randegger
Francis Macmillen	
Hans Schneider	
Walter Spry Herman Epstein A. C. Wieland	Paul Mausolff
	R. F. Balke Hugo Kortschak
Emerson Whithorne	
John R. Oatman	William K. Schmoller
Rudolph Ganz	Mrs. David J. Kelley
H. C. Kudlich	
John Passaretti	
George Raudenbush	
Morris Goldberg	Anonymous, Brussels
Paul Miersch	
Herman Diestel	H. H. Flagler
August Palma	
Louis Lupo	Arthur Alexander
Carl J. Stern	Varette der Stepanoff
Frank Paul	Ernest Schelling
T. J. Hattstaedt	
David Stanley Smith	Mrs. Geo. Herbert Engelhard
Gustav Saenger	
Martha Martin	
Eugene Gruenberg	Sergei Rachmaninoff
Julius Marx D. W. Lerch	Anonymous (Toronto)
	
Edmund Gram	Mrs. Henry Schradieck
Coenraad V. Bos	John Friedrich
Lee Pattison	Anna Heuermann Hamilton
Geo. J. Bickel	
Frieda Hempel	Tean Stockwoll Budloug
Oscar Springer	
Marguerite Melville-Liszniewska Sohmer Co	
Georges Enesco	Society of American Musicians,
Oscar G. Sonneck	
Ossip Gabrilowitsch	
Carl R. Edson	Ruth G. Hill
Mrs. Carl R. Edson	
Leopold Auer Sophie Beebe	Gustave Becker
Eastman Theater	Orchestra (Rochester)
Orchestras of the Rivoli and Capitol theaters, New York	
Contributions are to	be sent to Ernest Urchs,
treasurer, care Steinway & Sons, 109 East Fourteenth street, New York.	
Gigli Entertains
On Sunday, March 4, Beniamino Gigli, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, gave a dinner in honor of Commissioner and Mrs. R. E. Enright. Among those present were: Rosa Raisa and her husband, Giacomo Rimini; Sophie Irene Loeb, Mrs. R. Scognamillo, Mr. H. W. Dearborn, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Longone, and Maestro Rosati.
Commissioner Enright presented little Rina, Gigli’s daughter, with a small, white Sealyham terrier. Mr. Gigli says that his “Noah’s Ark” is now complete—comprising a dog, a cat, five birds, and two children.
After the dinner Mr. Gigli and Mr. Rimini sang several operatic duets.
Helen Moller Dancers Draw Large Audience
On February 27, The Stowaways and Art Alliance of America of the Art Center presented The Helen Moller Dancers; Joseph Mathieu, tenor; Robert Armbruster, pianist, and the Duo-Art Piano in a concert at the Little Theater for the Greek Dance, Lexington Opera House building. The affair was a real success, over a hundred people being turned away because of lack of room. The audience was very appreciative.
Cherniavskys Score at London Concerts
A cable from the Musical Courier’s London representative, Clarence Lucas, received as the paper went to press, reads:	“All Cherniavsky Wigmore Concerts Crowded.
Encores. Critics praise.”
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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR ST. MARY’S ITALIAN MISSION
Armand Tokatyan of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Magdalene Erbland, Constance Veitch and Southland Singers to Participate on Program at Plaza on April 16 Under Bishop Manning’s Auspices
On Monday evening, April 16, at the Hotel Plaza, a benefit concert will be given for St. Mary’s Italian Mission in the Bronx, under the auspices of the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, D. D., Bishop of New York.
The artists appearing will be Armand Tokatyan, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Magdalene Erbland, coloratura soprano; Constance Veitch, English cellist, with Maestro Gennaro Curci, the well known coach, at the piano for the singers. A novel feature of the evening will be several dances in costume, by girls from St. Mary’s Mission, one of the dances being given to the vocal accompaniment of the Southland Singers, Emma E. Dambmann, founder and president, with Lucille Blabe at the piano.
Ruth Emerson will play for Miss Veitch.
The proceeds of this concert will go toward building a new church. Last year’s concert resulted in sufficient funds being raised to purchase the site. At present the chapel is a slightly improved old engine house. The rapid influx of Italian families into the Wakefield district of the Bronx section of New York City made it imperative to act at once so as to cope with the religious needs of this incoming population.
Since 1917 St. Mary’s Italian Mission has been holding its services with the Rev. Lorenzo De Sano as priest in this little engine house, but now it is hoped that enough funds may be raised through the concert on April 16 to build a new church.
Bishop Manning in a recent letter to the Rev. Lorenzo De Sano says:
It gives me pleasure to express my warm endorsement of the faithful, devoted and efficient work for our Lord and His church which you are doing among your people at St. Mary’s Mission.
With every good wish,
Faithfully yours,
(Signed) William T. Manning.
Mrs. Thomas Ewing is the chairman; Edith Ballin, treasurer, and the program committee includes: Mrs. Floyd F. Chadwick, Louise Eustis, Mrs. Edward Egenberger, Mrs.
W. Dallis Goodwin, Mme. Emma Dambmann and Mrs. E.
M.	Peters. The patrons and patronesses include:
Rev. J. G. H. Barry, D.D., Rev. Selden Delany, D.D., Rev. H. V.
B.	Darlington, Rev. Milo H. Gates, D.D., Rev. Arthur Judge, D.D.,
Rev. Wm. Pitt McCune, Ph.D., Rev. Joseph P. McComas, D.D., Rev.
H. Percy Silver, D.D., Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, D.D., Rev. Ernest
N.	Stires, D.D., Rev. J. D. Sutton, D.D., Judge Thomas C. T.
Crains, William C. Dickey, R. Carlton Fontaine, Haley Fiske, Harry Groesbeck, Jr., Henry L. Hobart, Charles C. Marshall, F. deLancey Robinson, George Ellis Reed, Mrs. Harry W. Butler, Mrs. William
C.	Dickey, Miss DeVoe, Mrs. Albert Delafield, Mrs. B. D. Donchain,
Mrs. R. Carlton Fontaine, Mrs. Haley Fiske, Mabel Gerry, Mrs. Harry A. Groesbeck, Jr., Mrs. Paul Galatti, Mrs. J. M. Hodson, Mrs. Harold M. Hadden, Julia McAllister, Mrs. William T. Manning, Adeline Moller, Mrs. Charles C. Marshall, Mrs. Joseph P. McComas, Helena Pierce, Mrs. George Ellis Reed, Mrs. F. deLancey Robinson, Mrs.
Myles Standish, Maud Sword, Mrs. Caleb Stetson, Mrs. Joseph Serris Simmons, Mrs. Percy Hamilton Stewart, Mrs. J. Kemp West, Mrs.
Ernest Fahnestock, Mrs. John Burwind, His Eminence Archbishop Platon, Metropolitan for the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Humphrey, Justice ^nd Mrs. Edward R. Fintch, Mrs. John Sanford and Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley.
Orders for boxes and reserved seats may be sent to Edith Ballin, 230 West Seventy-sixth street, treasurer. The boxes range in price from fifty, forty and thirty dollars for a box seating eight. Tickets are two dollars and a half, and reserved seats may be obtained at an additional cost of fifty cents. ־
An especially fine program has been arranged which will include operatic selections and songs by Mr. Tokatyan and Miss Erbland, as well as several duets. ־
Mr. Tokatyan recently enjoyed a striking success as Lucio in Anima Allegra at the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of the new opera. His singing and acting re-
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ceived unanimous praise from the press, H. E. Krehbiel, veteran critic of the Tribune, commenting: “Mr. Tokatyan wrote his name distinctly in the books of the judicious.” The reviewer of the World said: “Among the males, the surprise of the evening was Mr. Tokatyan. He blossomed out as a clever actor with an amazingly fine voice, well
ARMAND TOKATYAN,
tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
handled, of lyric color and admirable volume. He should go far at this, house.” Following his brilliant success, Mr. Tokatyan next sang with Maria Jeritza in her farewell performance in Thais.
Miss Erbland is a young American singer endowed with a beautiful voice. In a recent concert in Columbus, O., Nelson H. Budd, critic of the Morning Journal, said: “Miss Erbland made a charming stage presence. In this regard she was reminiscent of Galli-Curci and vocally her gifts probably resembled those of her maturer'sister in the latter’s early career.”
The Brooklyn Eagle, in commenting upon a recent concert of Miss Veitch, said: “Miss Veitch played with great expression on that beautiful instrument.”
Revival of L’Africaine
The Metropolitan will revive Meyerbeer’s opera, L’Africaine, on Wednesday evening, March 21. The opera has not been heard in New York since the season of 1906-7. The cast will be as follows: Selika, Rosa Ponselle; Ines, Queena Mario; Anna, Marion Telva; Vasco da Gama, Beniamino Gigli; Nelusko, Giuseppe Danise; Don Pedro, Adamo Didur. Artur Bodanzkv will conduct and Samuel Thewman has the stage direction.
Frederick Dixon to Include American Works
Deems Taylor, Beryl Rubinstein and Marion Bauer are the Americans represented on the program to be given by Frederick Dixon at his second piano recital of the season in Aeolian Hall on the evening of March 20. The balance of the program will be made up of the Beethoven, op. 57, sonata, and works by Mendelssohn and Chopin.
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