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MUSICAL COU R I EU
Middleton Signed for Another Festival
Arthur Middleton, who has been singing at many concerts in the West, has been engaged again for the Keene, N. H., Music Festival to be held in May. On the 24th he will take part in a performance of Dubois’ Seven Last Words and on the 25th in the Damnation of Faust. That same month, among other engagements. already announced, he will sing at the Spartanburg, S. C.,' and Mankato, Minn., Festivals.
Following Mr. Middleton’s appearance in Indianola, Iowa, the local manager there wrote to the baritone’s managers in New York as follows: “Regarding Mr. Middleton’s concert here, I want to tell you what a fine audience we had for him. It was the largest audience ever seen in this town at a concert. And words cannot express the pleasure and inspiration derived from his singing. We are very glad that we were able to bring such an artist to our little town.”
Ruth St. Denis and Company to Return
So popular were the several performances given by Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers earlier this season, that the two famous dancing stars and their company will return to Town Hall for a week’s engagement beginning Monday night, April 9. There will be several important additions to the repertory, including some of the East Indian dances associated with Miss St. Denis in former seasons." During the engagements, Wednesday and Saturday matinees will be given.
Gray Lhevinne to Be Heard Again in Norfolk
No end of interest is being expressed about the announcement of a recital in April by Estelle Gray Lhevinne. Norfolk, Va., has never forgotten the time when this little violinist gave some twelve recitals there and swept 5,000 or 6,000 people into heights of enthusiasm by her personal charm, magnetism and dashing violin interpretations—and it is remembered how a letter was signed by hundreds of names asking for a return date.
Grace Stevenson Active
The young and talented harpist, Grace Stevenson, has just returned from the South where for two weeks she was steadily engaged always meeting with much success.
Immediately upon her return she was engaged to play at the Holy Cross Academy, Washington, D. C., and on April 4, will be soloist at the Paulists’ Auditorium, New York City. Several other appearances will be mentioned in a later issue of the Musical Courier.
Easton Gives Great Delight
Haensel & Jones received the following telegram, dated San Francisco, Cal., March 13, from the Berkeley Musical Association: “Easton gave unqualified pleasure with her vccal artistry and graciousness.”
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linist a worthy pupil of Cesar Thompson. After the concert Her Majesty expressed to Tirindelli her appreciation and the desire to personally congratulate the artists.
WHAT THE JURY THINKS
[The music critics of the New York dailies constitute the jury in the appended extracts from criticisms which have appeared in our local newspapers. Many concerts and operas are given in the metropolis, and the following day the critics agree or disagree on the merits or demerits of the performer. However, on most occasions the writers do not agree, and this department is run for the purpose of reproducing some of the flat contradictions, showing that, after all, the review constitutes but the personal opinion of the critic who covers the performance.—Editor’s Note.]
Mario Chamlee, Tenor, February 13
Brooklyn Citizen	Brooklyn Eagle
Mr. Chamlee has a beautiful Mario Chamlee sang Edgardo voice which he never forces.	and during most of the first act
forced his voice.
Jacques Urlus, Tenor, in Götterdämmerung, March 2
Times	A merican
The Siegfried was Mr. Urlus, Jacques Urlus .... was a ... a spirited denotement of the singularly phlegmatic Siegfried character.	in demeanor and action.
Heinrich Knote, Tenor, March 3
Evening Post	Tribune
Knote’s is a real resonant voice, There was, at times, a throaty not the throaty voice of most quality in his notes, tenors.
Martin Richardson, Tenor, March 4
Herald	Sun
Good enunciation.	Indefinite of diction.
Sylvia Lent, Violinist, March 5
Tribune	Sun
. . . . a tone, which, at its .... a slight tone. . . . best, was remarkably strong, full and smooth.
Anton	Bilotti, Pianist,	March	6
Herald	Sun
It [his reading of the Grieg Anton Bilotti . . .	. played
concerto] was one built upon	the Grieg concerto with more
sensitive poetic lines, rather than	poetry than authority,
upon those of tempestuous and superficial display.
Wilhelm Bachaus’ C Sharp Minor Recital, March 6
Times	A merican
Monotone was not monotony, Such a venture .... has no nor was the evening’s music an	artistic significance whatever,
ear test, but rather an enjoyment Moreover,	it	tends to produce
heightened as in seeing a prism monotony, divide rays of light.
Evening Mail	Herald
Even the lucky ones possessing Whether or not a succession of “absolute pitch” found nothing	compositions in the same key
monotonous.	tends to monotony is probably
still an open question.
Emma Patten Hoyt, Soprano, March 6
Sun	T ribune
A young and quite charming The song recital given by soprano, Emma Patten Hoyt,	Emma Patten Hoyt at Aeolian
gave her first recital in Aeolian	Hall yesterday afternoon was as
Hall yesterday afternoon, her ca-	like any one of a score of song
£ abilities and personality lifting	recitals which have been heard
er program and its interpreta-	this season as one pea in a pod
tion out of the long rut of	is like its fellows. The singer
ordinary debuts. . . . She stamped	disclosed .... neither special
it all [her program] with indi-	charm of voice, nor of manner,
vidual grace. Her voice is fresh, sweet, pleasing.
Flonzaley Quartet and Helen Stanley, Soprano, March 6 Times	World
It [Rain in the Woods, by The quartet played with con-Scalero] was played with the ut-	scientious skill, but with little of
most finish, delicacy and charac-	their wonted variety and delicacy,
teristic expression by the Flon-	Helen Stanley sang in excellent
zaley Quartet. Mme. Stanley	tune, but with rather monotonous
sang the vocal part with real	tone quality,
skill, with a voice of beautiful quality .... and with musical feeling.
March 29, 1923
Rome Enthusiastic Over Tirindelli
The internationally known name of P. A. Tirindelli was sufficient to attract a large and aristocratic audience to the Sala Sgambati at his recent recital in Rome, Italy. Her Majesty, Queen Margherita, with his R. H. the Duke of Pistoia, the Duchess of Absburge, the Princess Massimo,
P. A. TIRINDELLI
Prince Colenna, Princess Respigliosi, Gabriella Besanzoni, Maestro Respighi and many of the artists and teachers of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, made the event most impressive by their presence.
Tirindelli is well known as violinist, composer, director of the Venice Conservatory and conductor of symphony orchestra, and all were eager to welcome this son of Italy after a twenty-five years’ absence in America. The applause given Tirindelli was spontaneous and a decided success was scored by him, for his music is fresh and melodic and offered much pleasure. The artists who tendered the program were John Valentine, American tenor, who for some time has been one of the artist-pupils of Gennaro Mario Curd; Maria Soccorsi, soprano, and Maria Flori, violinist. Mr. Valentine sang groups of Italian, French and English songs with fine tonal quality and style. His diction was excellent. The soprano was admirable in her dramatic intensity and the vio-
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