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Fred Patton Is Singing Again
season, among them many re-engagements. Included in his recent and forthcoming engagements are the following appearances : March 11, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Philadelphia; March 14, Hora Novissima, Reading, Pa., Choral Society; March 20, Elijah, Elizabeth, N. J., Oratorio Society ; March 28, St. Matthew Passion, St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York; April 14, recital, Birmingham School, Birmingham, Pa.; April 17, Brahms’ Requiem, Bridgeport Oratorio Society; April 19, recital with Richard Crooks, Springfield, Ohio; April 23, Judas Maccabeus; April 24, Samson and Delilah, Columbus, O., Festival; April 28, Chadwick’s Judith, Fitchburg, Mass., Festival ; May 4, recital. Gabon, O. ; May 5, Beatitudes, Oberlin, O., Festival; May 9, Worcester, Mass., Festival, Pilgrim’s Progress; May 14, Busch’s King Olaf. Mt. Carmel, Pa., Choral Society; May 17, Water-bury, Conn., Choral Society; May 25. St. John Passion, and May 26, B Minor Mass, Bach Festival, Bethlehem, Pa.
Of the aforementioned engagements, the Philadelphia, Birmingham, Springfield, Columbus, and Mt. Carmel dates are new, the balance re-engagements. It is worthy of note that this year marks Mr. Patton’s third consecutive festival at Worcester, the first time in twenty-three years that any bass or barione has been engaged for the two festivals following his debut.
Music Students’ League Activities
Current activities of the Music Students’ League are as follows: March 18, at Steinway Hall, a recital by Estelle Liebling and Rafaelo Diaz; 20 and 27, at the Musicians’ Club; 20, auditions for concert; 27, business meeting; League chorus every Tuesday at 7 P.M., at the Musicians’ Club; second student concert, April 14, at Carnegie Chamber Music Hall. The secretary is Florence Mendelssohn, 115 West 85th Street.
Salmond and Hutcheson in Sonata Recitals
Felix Salmond, cellist, and Ernest Hutcheson, pianist, whose sonata playing in a Brahms program was one of the outstanding features of the Pittsfield Festival last fall, will make a number of joint appearances during the coming season. They have just been engaged by the B Sharp Musical Club of Utica, N. Y., for a recital on February 13.
New Building for Sternberg Conservatory
The Sternberg Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia has purchased property on Twenty-first street, just north of Chestnut street, for a new home. The present quarters of the school at 10 S. Eighteenth street will be vacated in September. Constantin Sternberg is director of the conservatory.
Fred Patton has entirely recovered front his recent attack of pneumonia. After two weeks spent in recuperation among the pines of New Jersey, he was able to resume his duties at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, on
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‘'getting better” at Pig’n Whistle Inn, Brown’s-Mills-in-the Pines, N. ■I.
Sunday, March 4. Mr. Patton will soon enter upon his fifth year in this important solo position.
Extensive bookings have been made for Mr. Patton by his managers, Haensel and Jones, for the spring festival
March 29, 1923
first night of Charpentier’s Louise, newly staged and conducted by Toscanini himself.
A Magnificent Louise.
It is boresome to use so many superlatives, but I must say that, having heard the work in New York in the era of Hammerstein, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, and in sundry other places, I consider this production miles the best. This in spite of the fact that Fanny Heldy, especially imported from Paris for the occasion, did not come up to Mary Garden, and that I have seen better impersonators of the Mother than Signora Cassazza, whose voice has an almost masculine depth. And also in spite of the language, for the music of Charpentier and the atmosphere of Louise somehow require the accents of French.
In spite of all this the performance was ־ simply magnificent. Aureliano Pertile was a manly Julien, vocally and dramatically satisfying, and old man Journet simply tremendous as the Father. Vocally this great baritone, whom I heard fully twenty years ago in New York, is almost as much of a marvel as Battistini.• His voice today seems larger and more beautiful than then and his acting gave us one thrill after another. Fanny Heldy, favorite of the Paris Opéra, looked winsome and sang with the finesse that one expects of the artist she undoubtedly is, but her voice sounded disagreeably sharp next to the Italians about her.
All the minor parts, without exception, were well cast, and the chorus, excellent in the studio scene, took one’s breath away in the big climax on Montmartre. The orchestra, marvelous in the hands of the other two conductors, achieved an indescribable beauty under Toscanini. It is his orchestra, and it understands his every move as the Berlin Philharmonic understood those of Nikisch. But it Ss a younger and an enthusiastic band of men, a conglomeration of artists such as probably exists nowhere else. ! don’t know how it is as a symphony orchestra and how tit played in America, when it had been scarcely organized ; but today, in the Scala, under Toscanini, I should pit it !against the best in the world. The very memory of it makes one glow with pleasure.
If this is Fascism, I am for it—in music at any rate. And if, under Mussolini, Italy can be as efficient as the Scala is under Toscanini, it is going toward the most glorious period in its history. My Fascist friend was right, after all. “Italy is fine, now.” But he forgot the finest thing of all; the Scala under Toscanini.
César Saerchinger.
Engagements for Klibansky Pupils
Sergei Klibansky, the New York vocal instructor, announces several new engagements of pupils from his studio. Lottice Howell has been engaged for a tour of three and a half weeks through Maine, under the direction of W. R. Chapman, director of the Maine festivals, beginning April 15. Juliette Velty has signed a contract with Morosco to appear in his production of Gabette. Mrs. Iver Smidt is now the contralto soloist at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Garner Strickland has been substituting for Mrs. McRee, another Klibansky pupil, at St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tenn. Al-veda Lofgren was the soloist at a^ concert given by the Cosmopolitan Choral Club in New York, February 27.
Mr. Klibansky gave pupils’ recitals as follows: February 26, at the Institute of Applied Music, New York; February 28, at the East Side Y. M. C. A., New York; March 1, at the Chatterton Hill Church, White Plains; March 8, at Wanamaker auditorium, New York. Pupils who sang were Alveda Lofgren, Helen McFerran, Grace Marcella Liddane, Cyril Pitts, Raymond Hart and Walter Preston,
Macbeth Off to Coast Again
For the second time this season, Florence Macbeth, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, has left for a series of concerts on the Pacific Coast, where she opens at Seattle, Wash. This appearance to be followed by concerts and recitals in Portland, Ore., Vancouver, B. C., and other important cities. Three of the concerts are joint ones with Mischa Levitzki, the pianist.
On her return journey, Miss Macbeth has fifteen recitals to give and these take her as far south as Houston. Her festival appearances include Newark, N. J.; Spartanburg, S. C., and Ann Arbor, Mich.
Hempel’s Easter Concert
Frieda Hempel will give her Jenny Lind Concert at the Garden Pier Theater, Atlantic City, on Easter Sunday afternoon, April 1. On account of the Easter parade, the concert will not begin until 4 o’clock. In honor of the day, Miss Hempel will add as a special number an aria from one of the oratorios so closely associated with the Swedish
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Raisa and Rimini to Sing at Hippodrome Rosa Raisa, dramatic soprano of the Chicago Opera, and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, will be heard at the Hippodrome on Sunday evening, April 8. Immediately after they will leave for the Pacific Coast, where they are booked for sixteen concerts.
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