March 15, 1923 MUSICAL COURIER 56 who sang numbers by Leoncavallo, Dresel and Caldara with a well-trained voice. Program By California Artists. Stella Vought arranged a program by well known California artists which she presented at the Fitzgerald Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, February 24. Those participating were Walter Frank Wenzel, Lela Gordon Saling, Mabel Sherburne West, Harry Resifelt, Norman Smith, Jack Edward Hillman, Josephine Wilson-Jones and Erwin Holton. c. H. A. than good technic, being invested with a poetical content unusual for young musicians. Miss Poska played her part of the program with ease and sureness, and both were called out before the curtain after the Beethoven sonata No. 1, D major, and also after Walther’s Preislied, by Wagner-Wilhelmj. A. M. B. SEATTLE WELCOMES A NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN MUSICIANS SAN FRANCISCO LOUDLY ACCLAIMS FLORENCE EASTON SAN DIEGO CHILDREN ENJOY LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC Paderewski Casts His Spell Over a Large Audience—Local Notes San Diego, Cal., February 20—The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra gave the fourth concert of its San Diego Symphony season on February 12, at the Spreckels Theater. The piece de résistance was the César Franck symphony in D minor, which was well played. Solos by de Bussher (oboe) and Bronson (cellist), of the orchestra, were well received and had to be repeated. The orchestra also played for San Diego school children and had a crowded house as usual. Among the numbers on an extremely attractive program were the Nutcracker Suite by Tschaikowsky and the Oberon Overture by Weber. Another Audience Succumbs to Paderewski. The Amphion Club presented Paderewski to an audience that filled the Spreckels Theater to overflowing, February 19. The audience and the artist were in perfect accord from the moment he stepped upon the stage. Great artist and unique personality, he reached each member of that mixed assemblage and centered each thought upon himself He complied with the insistent encore demands until a’ very late hour. Local Notes. Under the direction of Mrs. Maurice B. Hesse organist a series of interesting recitals has been given at the Baptist Church, featuring a guest soloist each time. Mme. de Turcyznowvicz and her light opera company entertained the members of the Three Arts Club of San Diego with a dinner and program at the La Jolla Woman’s Club recently. Carl Morris is featuring two new songs by Alice Barnett on his recital program next week. One of them, Drums of the Sea, had a notable success when sung by Vernice Brand at La Jolla a short time ago. There is a growing demand for the songs_ of this talented young composer. The San Diego Music Teachers’ Association heard a most encouraging discussion of modern tendencies in art presented delightfully by Mrs. Gordon Gray. Even Jazz was put in its proper place without the usual rancour that attends (Continued on page 65) Symphony Orchestra Gives Beethoven Program—Other Attractions of Note San Francisco, Cal., March 3.—For those who have listened to good, bad and mediocre singers and felt that the great art of pure bel-canto was lost, the appearance of Florence Easton was at once reassuring. She was heard by the large audience which never fails to attend Alice Seckels’ Matinee Musicales. The program that Madame Easton sang was diversified in style and import. Her voice never appeared more beautiful than upon this occasion. She exhibited that she was at home in every school of song interpretation, giving the music, poems and diction equal consideration. Beethoven Program Given By Hertz. For the tenth pair of concerts, Alfred Hertz led the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra through an all-Beethoven program which included three movements of the ninth symphony, the D major violin concerto, played by Louis Per-singer, and the Fidelio overture. Alfred Hertz conducted the symphony with fine musicianship, enthusiasm and profundity. Louis Persinger, concert master of the organization, is highly esteemed by local concert devotees and, after his reading of the concerto, was given tremendous applause. Young Cellist Makes Debut. Stanislaus Bern, one of the foremost cellists and teachers of that instrument, presented his pupil, Emmet Rixford Sargeant, in recital in the St. Francis Hotel. Mr. Sargeant has already a most admirable technical equipment, displayed by his performance of the Lalo concerto. His tone is warm and luscious and he plays with fire and temperamental abandon. Other numbers were Tschaikowsky’s Variations on a Toccata Theme, Schubert’s The Bee and Popper’s Elfentanz. Both the instructor and pupil deserve congratulations for the splendid showing made. People’s Symphony Orchestra Heard. The sixth educational concert of the People’s Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship of Alexander Saslav-sky, was given in Scottish Rite Hall, February 23. The works played were Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding, overture to Mignon and Strauss’ Waltz, Roses From the South. The soloist on this occasion was Grazia Carbone, soprano, Calvé, May Peterson, Rachmaninoff, Rosing and Paul Althouse Among Concert Givers—Spargur Quartet Heard in Russian Music—Josef Hofmann Gives Excellent Program—Notes Seattle, Wash., March 3.—February brought a number of noted musicians this way, all of whom were given a welcome. For Mme. Calvé there was much enthusiasm, especially from those who, having heard her years ago, recognized the abiding magic of her method of singing. Then came May Peterson, soprano, who has sung here before, and Rachmaninoff, the pianist. Rosing, Russian tenor, ׳ created a sensation. Paul McCoole, a young and gifted pianist of this city, was Rosing’s accompanist and toured the Northwest with the tenor, who sang a return engagement two days after they had been shipwrecked on the way down from Victoria, В. C. Paul Althouse, tenor, sang at the Plymouth Church, under the auspices of the Men’s Club before a large audience, and Carl Gantvoort, who has a baritone voice of fine quality, appeared here for the first time in a program of distinction and his singing aroused much enthusiasm. Spargur Quartet Heard in Russian Music. The last program of chamber music by the Spargur Quartet sponsored by the Musical Art Society was given recently, Leone Langdon, pianist, assisting in the Brahms quintet, op. 34. A Russian group, selected from familiar quartets by Glazounoff, Borodin and Ippolitóff-Ivanoff, completed a program that was well chosen and artistically played. Josef Hofmann Gives Excellent Program. Josef Hofmann gave a beautifully played program at Meany Hall at the University of Washington before an enthusiastic audience. Opening with the Beethoven sonata, op. 106, there followed six etudes by Chopin, a group of his own compositions and two of the less hackneyed numbers by Liszt, besides several encores. Notes. Excerpts from four operas were given at the Cornish School of Music by advanced pupils of Jacques Jou-Jer-ville, the entertainment being repeated on Sunday afternoon on account of many requests, and later it was broadcasted by radio. 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