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MUSICAL COURIER
March 29, 1923
MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Charles Touchette was an able accompanist, with whom Miss Peterson shared honors.
The Bellingham Juvenile Band of 125 pieces was necessarily divided into Juvenile Band No. 1, of sixty pieces, and Juvenile Band No. 2, of sixty-five pieces. Frank Baul-dauf is director of both. Band No. 1 boasts an orchestra of twenty pieces, which Mr. Bauldauf says can compete with any grown-up orchestra in the city in the playing of regular band and orchestra music. The entire band is playing difficult band .music of the day as well as the average senior organization.
An excellent program was given in the Armory Club rooms under the auspices of the Women’s Relief Corps and J. B. Steadman Post, G. A. R. Addresses were given by Judge Brown and the Rev. Mr. McPhail. The musical program included numbers by a male quartet and the Lowell School Glee Club, which did some commendable four-part singing with Miss Green in charge. Vocal solos by Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Forester gave pleasure also.
The Ladies Aid and Luther League of the First Lutheran Church sponsored a musical program which was rendered in the church auditorium. Selections by the Scandia Male Chorus and Orchestra, vocal solos by Hildur Lindgren, Marie Roberts, Wallace Ferguson and the Rev. P. H. Nordländer, of Sedro-Woolley, comprised the list.
The Eureka P. T. A. program consisted of community singing led by Madge Ware, Eureka School principal A violin and mandolin duet by Marion McPhail and Tommie Yakahama was followed by several educational ten-minute talks.
Mrs. Hector Gawley received a letter from her daughter Marion Gilroy, who is one of a party from Bellingham spending the winter in Milan, studying music, languages and dancing. Miss Gilroy is progressing in her voice wörk with Cottone. She has been offered solo work in the presentation of The Messiah by the Episcopal Church of Milan which the Bellingham girls attend. All are working hard and doing splendidly. They are Bernice Wahl, Jeanice Turner, Lillian McCush and Catherine McRae Smith. Mr. and Mrs. H. Goodell Boucher, formerly of the Bellingham School of Music, are chaperoning the party, of which Charles Bowen, local teacher of piano and pipe-organ, is also a member.
Bellingham’s Fine Arts Building, erected especially for music and art housing in a central location, will be ready for occupancy May 15.
yiadimir Rosing sang in the Garden Street Methodist Episcopal Church Lullaby (Arensky), Death Serenade (Moussorgsky), Invocation to Love (Cyril Scott) and Do Not Depart (Rachmaninoff) were the most impressive numbers Paul McCoole, of the Cornish School of Music was at the piano and sustained Rosing in his exacting program in an artistic manner.
Ethel Gardner and Edith Strange attended the meeting of the State Music Teachers’ Association which met in Seattle, as representatives of the program committee for
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prominent artists. Sur la Mer (D’lndy) and four Slavic folk songs by Suks were sung by a chorus of women’s voices, directed by Albert Elkus, with Mrs. Roy Folger at the piano; a sonata for cello and piano (Saint-Saëns) was played by Rebecca Haight and Ethel Palmer; songs—The Soldier’s Bride (Rachmaninoff), Nuit d’etoiles (Debussy), Gavotte from Manon (Massenet) and The Captive Lark (Ronald) were rendered by Anna Young with Isabel Arndt at the piano, and The Blessed Damosel (Debussy), by the chorus of women’s voices with Mrs. El Blanchard and Anna Young as soloists and Allen Bier at the piano.
City to Have Its Own Opera.
There is a movement afloat to organize an opera company of our own. . This was decided at a meeting held by a number of influential people upon which occasion the Opera Association of 1923 was called into existence and Timothy Healy elected chairman. With the War Memorial two years in the future it is hoped to have this enterprise so well launched as to make San Francisco a grand opera center. Gaetano Merola, former conductor of the Manhattan Opera House, who has been residing in this city for the past two or three years, will be the musical director. A trial season will take place this coming October in the Civic Auditorium which will import Metropolitan artists for the principal roles and engage efficient California singers for the minor characters. The orchestra will be comprised of members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Merola is now in the East, making his arrangements, and everyone is hoping that after many vain efforts, San Francisco will finally realize one of her fondest dreams and have her own opera house and organization.
Notes.
The pupils of Rose Relda Cailleau were heard in recital at her studio. Thirteen young vocal students participated and were excellently accompanied by Madame Cailleau’s young daughter, Relda Marie Cailleau.
Victor Lichtenstein, violinist and member of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, is arranging a series of ten lectures on the appreciation of music from the amateur’s standpoint. The first of this series took place March 9. The lectures are under the direction of the extension division of the University of California. At each the discourse will be illustrated with musical numbers.	C. H. A.
BELLINGHAM NOTES
Bellingham, Wash., March 12.—A delightful program was given by May Peterson at the Normal School Auditorium, under the auspices of the Normal Lyceum Committee. The packed house was Miss Peterson’s from the first moment and enthusiastic applause required the repetition of several numbers, as well as additional encores. Her two opening numbers were arias by Handel and Bach. Other composers represented were Sigurd Lie, Thrane, Reger, Farley, Ganz, Hageman, Debussy, Dalcroze, MacDowell, Black, Watts’ Katherine Glenn Chadwick, Grant-Schaefer and MacFayden!
PACIFIC NORTHWEST DIRECTORY
SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING
OWN OPERA ORGANIZATION
San Carlo Company Prolongs Its Stay—Paderewski Receives
Homage—Symphony Program Attains Unusual Standards—Pacific Musical Society Renders Splendid Program—Notes
San Francisco, Cal., March 12,—March 8 will be a memorable date to at least 10,000 people who filled the Civic Auditorium to hear Paderewski. As ■he stepped upon the stage _ the entire audience arose as one body, cheering and shouting. After the audience regained sufficient composure, Paderewski took his seat at the piano and opened the first half of his program with Mendelssohn’s Serieuse Variations, the Schumann C major fantasia and Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata. These numbers were followed by works of Chopin and Liszt. He was more than generous with his extra numbers. Paderewski appeared under the management of Selby C. Oppenheimer.
Second Week of San Carlo Opera.
Fortune Gallo’s aggregation of artists gave the second week of opera, which was in every respect as enjoyable as the first. In fact, so successful has the present season been that both the local management and Mr. Gallo have decided to extend the engagement over a third week. The operas presented during the past week were La Traviata, La Tosca, La Gioconda, a second performance of Carmen (in which Alice Gentle, singing the title role, attracted a “standing room only” audience), Faust, the Jewels of the Madonna and Aida. The performances were all of the usual high standard maintained by this company.
San Francisco Symphony Program.
For the eleventh set of concerts given by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Hertz chose the Tschai-kowsky fourth symphony, the introduction to Wagner’s Parsifal and Liszt’s Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo. Judging from the enthusiasm and thunderous applause, the ■audience preferred the Russian work to that of the other two programmed numbers. Tschaikowsky’s symphony, with its melancholy strains, was admirably played by the orchestra under Mr. Hertz’ inspiration.
Child Violinist Is Heard.
Sarah Kreindler, talented child violinist, gave a recital on March 9 at the Scottish Rite Hall, assisted by Stella Jelica, San Francisco coloratura soprano, with Edward E. Young at the piano. Little Miss Kreindler was heard in the Grieg C minor sonata and the Mendelssohn C minor concerto and also in a group of shorter numbers, including works by Schubert, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Achron. Madame Jelica sang songs by Massenet, Puccini, Chaminade and Oscar Weil. The concert was well attended.
Splendid Program by Pacific Musical Society.
On March 8, the Pacific Musical Society offered a well balanced program by several of San Francisco’s most
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