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Nashua, N. H. The other officers of the association are George Richard, assistant conductor; Doris White Whitney, vice-president; Dr. Auguste Guertin, recording secretary; A. M. Bennett, treasurer, and the executive committee consists of Kate Nichols, L. Lemery, E. M. Webster, Mrs. Whitney, Alfred Lajoie, E. C. Gage, T. St. Francois, Dr. Guertin. Weekly rehearsals are being held and it is expected that a public concert will be given late in April.
Lyell Barber Wins Praise in Various Cities
Lyell Barber has returned from a most successful tour, which included a brilliant Chicago recital, four other piano recitals, and one appearance with Mme. D’Alvarez. Following are some excerpts from recent criticisms:
A large and discriminating audience of music lovers gave Mr. Barber that hushed attention which is the truest compliment to the magic of his interpretation. He has a wealth of personality and talent and his program was an exceptional one. The Beethoven sonata made dreams leap from the dust. It pulsed with strength and brightness.—Pontiac, 111., Herald.
Mr. Barber displayed not only a marvelous technic in his playing but also an intense suggestive interpretation of moods as revealed in his selections.—Eureka, 111., Journal.
Besides the -brilliant technic there was such feeling, such charm, such appreciation of the composer’s mood in his playing that to an unusual degree he carried his audience with him and they were willing to accord him all praise.—Bloomington, 111., Bulletin.
His natural endowment is rich and he has made the most of it. He plays with authority, born of entire mastery of his performance, with clean cut and fluent technic and a beautiful, musical tone.— Bloomington, 111., Pantagraph.
Long and difficult was the task assigned to Mr. Barber, but his work was superb. It is very evident that he is a concert pianist of enviable repute.—Ottawa, Can., Journal.
Erna Rubinstein with Cincinnati Orchestra
Erna Rubinstein will be soloist with the Cincinnati Orchestra on March 23 and 24. This will mark her sixth orchestral engagement of the season as she has already played with three New York orchestras—the New York Symphony, Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera, with the Chicago Symphony and the Detroit Orchestra in Kansas City. She plays with the Minneapolis Orchestra on April 12 and 13 and will appear again with the Chicago players in Ann Arbor on May 17״	________
Schelling Compositions on Chicago Orchestra Program
When Ernest Schelling plays his own Suite Fantastique with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 6 and 7, another Schelling composition will find a place on the program. It will be his latest opus, The Victory Ball, first introduced in Philadelphia and New York by the Philadelphia Orchestra and soon to be repeated by Mr. Mengelberg and the Philharmonic.
Panhandle Music Festival
The Panhandle Music Festival is scheduled to take place April 9 to 14 inclusive, at Amarillo, Texas, under the direction of Emil F. Myers. There will be recitals by Schumann Heink, Alberto Salvi, Anna Case, Arthur Middleton; a matinee by the Harmony Club Opera; a performance of Rose Maiden and of Elijah, and a .costume program by the Philharmonic Club.
Dr. Wolle Honored
A community celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the Bach Choir and the sixtieth birthday anniversary of Dr. J. Fred Wolle, its only leader, will be held in Bethlehem, Pa., April 4, in the Liberty High School Auditorium. April 4 is Dr. Wolle’s birthday anniversary.	__________
Editor Pleads for Police Band
On Monday of this week Leonard Liebling, editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier, addressed the Governor and Legislature on the bill calling for a special appropriation for the Police Band of New York City.
and other interpreters. The whole address showed Mr. Rains to be a man of wide reading, and great interest was aroused by his views.
Jane Cathcart and Ethel Grow Receive in New Studios
On Sunday afternoon, March 11, Ethel Grow and Jane Cathcart, both of whom are well known in musical circles, the former as a concert soloist and teacher, the latter as a piano teacher and president of the Washington Heights Music Club, received many guests in their new studios at 200 West Fifty-seventh street. The spacious, light rooms are most attractively fitted up and the artistic atmosphere is noted immediately on entering.
An interesting musical program was rendered by Robert Lowery, pianist, and Regina Kahl, who gave much pleasure in their artistic interpretations. Among the guests present were:	Adele Rankin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holden Huss,
Yvonne de Treville, Ida Geer Weller, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mustarde, Mrs. J. Harrison Irvine, Leila Cannes, Mrs. Motel Falco, Helen Hadley, Constance Eberhart, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kreiner, Charles Haubiel, Lillian Croxton, Edwina Davis, Marion Coryell, Marion Bauer, Carolyn Beebe, Rosalie Erck, John F. Majeski, Augusta Gloria Marks, Edna Horton, Mildred Langworthy, Elizabeth Louise Kreitler, Miss Martinez, Alma Maynard, Malcolm Stewart,. Henry Dater, Mrs. E. St. John Hays, Harriet Lowrey, Mr. and Mrs. George Kenneally, Winthrop Tryon, Mr. and Mrs. Schulz, S. B. Driggs, Susan E. Beard, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Denison Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Reed, Theodora Thomas, Miss Grayce, Miss J. E. Allen, Esther Powell, Mrs. E. B. Kimble, Dorothy M. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kumpf, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Romaine, Lawrence Goldman, Eleanor McCaw, Elsie Baird Burton, Mrs. Carmody, Frank Stewart Adams, Marjorie Beddoe, Miss E. Dunham, Robert Thrane, Shirley M. English, Carrie D. Shields and Alva Polaski.
Denishawn Dancers to Repeat in Chicago
Following the great success which they had last October, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers will return to Orchestra Hall, Chicago, for two more performances, on April 2 and 4. They repeated in Milwaukee to another very big audience on March 12, despite the worst snowstorm of the year. Another return engagement to be played before the season ends will be at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on April 7. Among the cities which have already booked return engagements for next season are Boston, Philadelphia, Lowell (Mass.), Portland (Me.), Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Utica, Rochester, Buffalo, Ann Arbor, Lexington (Ky.), Nashville, Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Wichita, St. Louis, Joplin, Nashville, Muskogee, Oklahoma City, Louisville, Indianapolis, Binghamton, Erie, Houston and Detroit. New cities to be visited include Bangor, Lewiston (Me.), Williamsport (Pa.), Lancaster (Pa.), Allentown (Pa.), Dayton, Atchison (Kans.), Galveston, Dallas and Tulsa.
Tetrazzini Gives Gegna Valuable Cello
When Max Gegna unpacked the huge packing case, resembling a coffin, sent to him from Rome, he found a genuine Guarnerius cello, the workmanship and tone of which are said to be the finest of that of any cello known. This wonderful instrument was willed to Mme. Tetrazzini by a wealthy Italian, with the stipulation that she should give it to “the most deserving young cellist she could find.” After a long search of the Continent and America she decided upon Max Gegna, the young Russian cellist, who had been her assistant on extensive concert tours. Mr. Gegna has been on tour with Mary Garden during the past season, only recently returning to New York.
Eaton to Conduct Nashua Symphony
Clayton Eaton has been elected president and conductor, of the newly formed Nashua Symphony Orchestra of
FRANCES PERALTA.
Among the roles that Frances Peralta has been heard in this season was the title one of Aida, in which she scored a brilliant success. According to the critic of the Evening Mail, ”Frances Peralta sang the title role in splendid voice," ami the Post commented:	“The
Aida was Peralta who really looked the part of a young woman able to hold the love of Radames. Peralta sang well. Her finest efforts were in the duets, the one with .Amo nasro (Danise) being notably lovely.” “Rich.of voice and stately of presence, Frances Peralta headed, as Aida, the c a s' t, ’ comniented the Globe.
March 22,1923
“Trumbull Triumphs״
This is the alliterative head which makes public in a special folder the splendid press notices accorded Florence Trumbull by the critics of the daily press upon the occasion of her recent concert at Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Some of the comments follow:
Her playing was marked by intelligence and sincerity. There was understanding of the music. .	. . Her tone was good in quality
with variety in the shadings and her technic was dependable. The Intermezzo'Scherzando of Leschetizky she gave with spirit and play of light and shade. The Bourree for the left hand alone of Saint-Saëns she brought out with a vigor and surety which much pleased the audience, it was a display number and she played it in the intended fashion. The Rachmaninoff Serenade was crisp and clean and made an immediate impression. It was musicianly playing with appreciation of values and evident desire to make clear the meaning ot the music. . The public gave her cordial applause.—Chicago Evening Post.
Miss Trumbull’s training has given her many artistic ideals. She has musical sincerity and the zealous absorption that bespeaks honesty of purpose. This atmosphere of sincerity pervades all that she plays. I listened to nine pieces, ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Leschetizky and Rachmaninoff. When a critic remains for nine numbers it is a proof of more than average routine of concert-reporting. It was with the romantic school that Miss Trumbull achieved her best effects and received the most enthusiastic applause, although the Mozart Minuet was played charmingly. Miss Trumbull’s technic is crisply correct, her tone varies with ease from the singing “cantilena” to the full forte, one accomplished without affectation, the other without pounding. Miss Trumbull’s audience gave applause and flowers, both, evidently, with glad hands.—Chicago Evening American.
The Liszt Legend Miss Trumbull played with good effect. She not only gave to the music breadth of style, but pianistic authority and imagination. In the rendition of this selection Miss Trumbull displayed her gifts as a pianist.—Chicago Daily News.
Florence Trumbull came with a method of piano playing rounded with deflniteness and finality. It is very evident in setting out to learn her art she had exercised unflagging diligence in applying all the science at her command to its fullest usetulness. Her tone is polished with greater care than is customary at this period of piamsm. Her treatment of widely diverse compositions is impelled by a very sure and systematic regard for the possibilities of the most complicated of modern musical instruments. Indeed, as the program advanced from Mozart to Liszt and Chopin, it became apparent the player was fitting her music to her remarkably keen-cut and glittering method, rather than using this method as an implement for exhibiting the music itself.—Chicago Daily Journal.
Having gone from Chicago to Europe and harvested a pleasant sheaf of favorable notices thereby, Florence Trumbull, pianist, signalized her return with a recital at Orchestra Hall last night. Hearing her play, one could understand how it was that the term, Leschetizky pupil” used to have such a definite meaning among pianists. It meant well developed fingers, wrists, and arms, also breadth and clarity ot performance and sanity of interpretation. Miss Trumbull had all the credentials, and additionally a quick wit of her own. — Chicago Tribune.
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in recent years was offered by Florence Trumbull in her recital in Orchestra Hall last night. It was marked by a crystalline clarity of tone and pedal, a glittering brilliancy of passages and sharply defined rhythms It was at once quaintly old fashioned and interestingly new It had an abundance of positive, almost aggressive, personality. These factors caused it to be received with many manifestations of approval by the audience.—Herald-Examiner.
Many inquiries are coming in for concert dates for this delightful American artist, and a spring recital is now being planned.
Cadman and Tsianina Score on Tour
A triumphant tour of the Pacific Coast was recently completed by Charles Wakefield Cadman, the American composer-pianist, and Tsianina, Indian mezzo-soprano. I hey have had fifteen concerts, and packed houses have been the invariable rule. Nowhere have they received such ovations and responded to so many encores. Tsianina s rich musical voice has won a great following there and she will be assured of a warm reception upon her return.
׳ The cities visited were: (California) Glendale, January 4׳ Brawley, 5; Santa Ana, 10; Los Angeles, 11, Santa Barbara, 17; Whittier, 19; Oxnard, February 13, and Long Beach, 14. (Washington) Spokane, January 31; Pullman, February 6; Cheney, /; Tacoma, 8; Tacoma, 9. (Oregon) Portland, January 26, and Wenatchee, February 2.
A novel feature of the concerts in Portland, Spokane and Oxnard was the attendance in a body of the Camp-Fire Girls in costume. They acted as ushers and greeted isia-nina with the Camp-fire call which added a charming quaint note to the concert.	.	.	, _ ,	, . ״
In Los Angeles, Sol Cohen, violinist, and Robert Alter, cellist, assisted the two artists. They presented Cadman s Thunderbird suite and the trio in D major, both of which were received with great enthusiasm. Another feature of many of the concerts was the beautiful stage settings. The Indian idea was carried out with blankets, tepees and boughs. The programs, too, carried a suggestion of the Indian.
Mr. Cadman’s new songs, Tell Her My Lodge Is Warm and A Gry At Dawn, were featured with marked success, his talk on Indian music and his piano compositions coming in for a good share of the applause. Tsianma’s rendition of the Invocation to the Sun God by Troyer and The Indian Lament by Cadman received mention from the critics everywhere. There is a sincerity and poise to her singing that wins her audience immediately to her.
France Goldwater, of Los Angeles, who had. the present tour in charge, reports several re-engagements for next’ season.
Leon Rains Addresses N. Y. S. T. A.
Leon Rains made an address recently before the New York Singing Teachers’ Association upon the subject of The Power of Mind, in which he outlined in much detail the many extraordinary manifestations that have been observed by scientists and others in the field of the occult and allied subjects. He opened his talk by explaining how the word occult had grdaually changed its meaning, and then proceeded to show by numerous examples how science always vindicates the statements of those who enter into the study of the unknown. He described the wonders of atoms, and electrons, describing how these infinitely small particles were, conceived psychically long before science discovered them, or proved their existence, by other means. His object, said Mr. Rains, in calling attention to these discoveries was to illustrate the power of the mind.
But that the mind was-not the. same as the brain Mr. Rains proved by citation bt-many eases quoted'from medical sources. He then further outlined tills difference by alluding to the phenomena of mental telepathy and hynotism, and the attempts of prestidigitators to imitate^ these phenomena. He described thd processes of Goue and Mrs. Eddy and then turned to the so-called tricks of the Indians, and finally he summed up his obs^Stions by bringing them into co-ordinatiofi with the af|;^£,g?§|uctibn and creation by genius, and the	V actors, singers