61
MUSICAL COURIER
March 29, 1923
will be held at the same place on Wednesday, April 11, also at 10:30 a. m., under the direction of Mrs. F. S. Wardwell.
Adele Rankin Sings and Teaches
Adele Rankin has proved that an artist can combine teaching and singing successfully; not only has she launched several of her pupils satisfactorily, but has also filled many engagements herself.
“Too many would-be artists,” says Miss Rankin, “are so busy singing songs they haven’t time to study the voice. So they come before the public with a fine repertory and very little foundation, thrusting their imperfect art on a long-suffering public.”
Miss Rankin is a fine musician. Has a thorough foundation for a perfectly pure balanced tone through two and a half octaves, due, she says, to years on tone production
ADELE RANKIN
only. After a long program of difficult songs her voice is as fresh as at the start.
On the theory that New York is the place to bring the finished product, Miss Rankin, after the experience of many concert tours and operatic work, gave her first New York recital last Spring with great success.
Recent appearances have been in Reading, Allentown, Brooklyn, Newark, Jersey City and Mount Vernon. She will be heard in costume recitals at the Press Club, New York City, March 31, and in April in St. Marks on the Bouwerie, Mt. Vernon, and in sacred programs in Newark and Trenton.
of Maurice Sobel, Russian tenor, to replace him in the aria from L’Elisir D’Amore, as well as the duets from Madame Butterfly and La Forza del Destino. Mr. Sobel, who has a tenor voice of pure lyric quality also of splendid range, with Bertha Plock, whose fine lyric soprano has created so favorable criticism in former concerts during this winter, sang the Butterfly duet in splendid style and fashion. Their voices blended beautifully in mellow sweetness and fervant warmth of emotion. The applause was so great that they had to repeat it to satisfy the audience.
Bertha Plock’s first solo, the Vissi D’Arte from Tosca, gave her ample opportunity to display her fine, vibrant voice, so well controlled and resonant, in the softest shade of mezza voce as well as the emotional dramatic ending. Her later group of songs—Dawn, by Pearl Curran, and Song of the Open, by La Forge—brought renewed enthusiasm and she responded with a charming light encore number, Love Is a Bubble, displaying all her grace and ease of delivery. Elsa Mix, mezzo-soprano, of great warmth, richness and volume, showed her artistry and musicianship in her skillful rendition of Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta Voix from Samson and Delilah. Her later group of songs by Tschaikowsky, and Pale Moon by Logan given with temperament and fine tone coloring, completely won her audience. Una furtiva l’agrima, so well suited to Maurice Sobel’s fine voice of sentimental and mellow warmth, was heard to great advantage. He, too, had to respond with an encore.
There were solos for the assisting instrumentalists. Hugo Mariani did his fine reputation justice in the Paganini number, Streghe, and was forced to add several encores. Valentine Peavey, the pianist, gave a group of solos in splendid fashion.
The singers are from the Soder-Iiueck Studios, which has brought forth some more fine and capable artists, adding to the long list of her successful professional artists, now prominent before the public.
Krebs Arranges Program at Heckscher Foundation
S. Walter Krebs arranged a program for the benefit of the Heckscher Foundation at headquarters, Fifth avenue, New York, March 14, Signe Hagen, soprano, sharing the musical numbers with him, and Hon. George Gordon Battle, ex-district attorney, delivering an address on patriotism. Mr. Krebs played works by Bach-Tausig, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and his own Prelude d’Amour and etude, winning much applause. He also accompanied Mme. Hagen in songs by Strickland, Carey, Puccini, Grieg, a Swedish song, and in his own songs, A Song of To-morrow, and Garden of Life. Mme. Hagen also won big ׳applause. The artists recently gave a musical recital, Board of Education course, and another is arranged for April 4 at Public School 157.
New York State Young Artists’ Contest
Mrs. William Cowen, chairman of the Young Artists’ Contest of the New York State Federation of Music Clubs, announces that the contest will be held at Aeolian Hall on Thursday, April S, beginning at 10:30 a. m. The Empire District contest (New York, Connecticut and New Jersey)
Soder-Hueck Artist Pupils Give Concert
On Sunday evening, March 18, Nicolas F. Gentile, tenor, gave a concert of operatic arias and classical as well as mod-
NICOLAS P. GENTILE
ern songs in Italian, French and English, assisted by Bertha Plock, lyric soprano, and Elsa Mix, mezzo-soprano. The program of great variety proved an interesting one, thoroughly enjoyed by the large and enthusiastic audience.
Nicolas Gentile, who is a Neapolitan tenor, opened the program with Musica Probita, by Gastaldon, displaying a voice of smoothness and warmth. The violin obligato was furnished by Hugo Mariani, concertmaster of the Rialto Orchestra, blending in charmingly wi*h the tenor’s sonorous, fine voice, and made this opening number the immediate and assured success of the evening. Later on—again with violin obligato—he sang (in French) Massenet’s Elegie, which had to be repeated. Some Neapolitan songs, unknown here and beautifully rendered, captured the audience. Yet, Mr. Gentile, with all his “doing so well”■—still under the aftereffect of a recent severe grippe attack, and not allowed to sing all his scheduled program numbers—had the assistance
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY
Chicago's Foremost School of Music and Dramatic Art
Ninety Artist-Instructors	Catalog Mailed Free r
John J. Hattstaedt, President. Karleton Hackett, Adolf Weidig, Heniot Levy,
Associate Directors.
Kimball Hall, Chicago, III.
KANSAS CITY
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Piano, Voice, Violin, Expression, XDancing
JOHN A. COWAN, President	ARNOLD VOLPE, Musical Director
Send for Catalog
Founded 1867 by Clara Baur. A Complete School of Musical Learning. A Faculty of International Reputation. Ideal Residential Halls on Beautiful Wooded Campus.
56th Summer Session
Six Weeks' MASTER CLASS Conducted by The Great Pianist and Teacher
MME. MARGUERITE MELVILLE LISZNIEWSKA
Intensive Course in PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC, State Accredited—for Six Weeks, from June 15th to July 28th, 1923. PROGRESSIVE SERIES OF PIANO LESSONS All Departments open until Aug. 1st. Students may enter at any time.
Send for announcement to Bertha Baur, Directress, Highland Avenue and Oak Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MUSIC
Metropolitan College of Muelc—Thirty-Seventh Seaeon
Winter Term Opens January 2nd.
Artist and Master Classes In Plano and Violin Plano Teachers Pedagogy Course Open■ February 2nd.
All branches of music taught by a Faculty of Specialists
KATE S. CHITTENDEN, Dean	J. LAWRENCE ERB, Managing Director
212 West 59th St. (Central Park West), New York City.	Tel. Circle 5329
BAYLOR COLLEGE CONSERVATORY
J. C. Hardy, President The largest of its kind in the country BELTON, TEXAS
JOHN HEIMEL
Concert Violini■! and Pedagogue Studio: 151 Second ▲venne (near 9th Street)
New York City	Telephone Dry Dock 4070
| HAMILTON MORRIS
A Soprano	CONDUCTOR	Teachei
835 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Tel 6935 Lafayette
g BUTLER
A	PUPILS ACCEPTED
512 Fine Arts Building,	Chicago, 111.
CADMAN
CHARLES
WAKEFIELD
COMPOSER-PIANIST
En Recitals of His Compositions and His Famous “Indian Music-Talk.״
2229 Canyon Drive,	Hollywood! Cal.
GRANBERRY SCHOOL
Carnegie Hall, New York Courses For PIANISTS TEACHERS ACCOMPANISTS
SUMMER
Sight, Touch and Hearing. Booklet
Mr. Granberry will again have charge of the musio in the University of Georgia Summer School, giving course! for the Professional Training of Musio Teachers.
GORDON CAMPBELL
Vocal Coach—Professional Accompanist 17 Peschk• Str.f	Berlin-Steglitz
LEEFS0N-HILLE
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Inc. HAURITS LEEFSON, Fr».	Philadelphie Pa.
B E Ft G E Y
Chicago Opera School Lyon & Healy Bldg., Chicago
REUTER
i;
New York
p	PIANIST
H	Management:
HAENSE1 & JONES, Aeolian Hall
LOVETTE, Welsh Pianist
Teacher of International Reputation
EVA WBITFORD LOVETTE
ART OF SINGING A Limited Number of Resident Students Accepted
2019 N Street, N. W.	WASHINGTON. D. C.
DO YOU STUDY SINGING?
ARE YOU MAKING PROGRESS? IF NOT, WHY?
Read—“The Seceets of Svengali״
By J. H. Duval
And You’ll Find Out
$2.00 at all Music Dealers and Booksellers Published by James T. White, 70 Fifth Aye., New York City
Moritz Emery
PIANO TEACHING VOICE 1617 Spruce!St., Philadelphia
Management: DANIEL MAYER & CO.	Crafton House, Golden Square, W. 1
¡ROST•״ SW H Y
1	Contralto	d ,V	Bass-Baritone
A	LONDON	R	ENGLAND