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SHURA CHERKASSKY.
This eleven year old pianist from Russia caused a veritable furore when he gave his first recital in Baltimore on March 3, when it is reported that l¡,000 people were unable to gain admittance to the hall. According to critics who have heard him play, his technic is amazing and he plays with the assurance and refinement of a great artist. The young pianist is here photographed with (left) Julius Bloom, his uncle and personal representative, and Frederick R. Huber, municipal director of music of Baltimore, who brought him to the attention of the music world.
greatly enhanced by the exceedingly apposite lines from Baudelaire, indicating the mood of each of the three movements, which were selected and read by Esther McCollough in the original French and also in a beautiful English translation which the reader had made for the occasion. One of Mr. Huss’ old pupils, Miss E. A. Wrigley, presented one of her pupils, Jeanette Crane, in a brilliant performance of MacDowell’s concert etude.
Mrs. Huss closed the program with a delightful interpretation of three unusual songs—Fauré’s Après un reve, Huss’ The Smile of Her I Love, and Schumann’s Dedication.
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Lillian Pringle, cellist, of Chicago, has completed a tour of 20,000 miles.
Claude Warford believes that all serious students can be taught to sing satisfactorily.
Helen Fogel, a ten year old pianist, gave a successful Aeolian Hall recital.
Earle Laros, pianist, will give his first New York recital at Aeolian Hall on Friday afternoon, April 13.
The Vienna Philharmonic’s South American tour is now assured.
St. Louis has a piano educational recital course.
Guy Gatey-Carreras is now associated with the Universal Concert Bureau, Inc.
At its annual business meeting the Music Students’ League re-elected its entire board of officers.
It is reported that Dirk Foch will not conduct the City Symphony Orchestra next season.
The 100th birthday of the song, Home, Sweet Home, will be celebrated on May 8.
The only New York recitals Carl Friedberg will give this season are at the Institute of Musical Art.
Owing to the cost of its production, Strauss’ Whipped Cream ballet will not be given at the Vienna Opera.
Following a stay of nine years in Detroit, Charles Hargreaves, tenor, has returned to New-York.
Vienna papers report that Marie Kolowrat, grandniece of Franz Schubert, is virtually starving.
The La Forge-Berumen Studios in New York will offer a _ unique course in accompanying this summer.
It is understood that The Sam Fox Publishing Company will have branches in London and Paris.
Ethel Leginska sailed for Europe last week on the Majestic.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Carter held a reception for the Musicians’ Club on March 25.
Chaliapin’s daughter is scoring success in the Russian cabaret, Duvan Torzoff, in Vienna.
Mildred Wellerson, the youthful American cellist, astonished Leipzig with her playing.
Cincinnati will celebrate its fiftieth May Festival May 1-5.
Rochester’s new orchestra made a splendid showing at its first concert on March 28.
Tucson, Ariz., a town of 28,000 population, has a music club numbering 875 members.
Alfred Wilhelm Hansen, European publisher, died recently.
John McCormack will return from abroad in time for his next American four, in October.
Georg Hartmann will not be permitted to resume his posi-. tion as director of the Deutsche Opernhaus in Berlin.
It is rumored that the Metropolitan Opera contemplates an extension of its regular season next winter by one or two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schelling entertained in honor of Willem Mengelberg’s birthday, on March 28.
Joseph Carl Breil is writing another opera.
The German Opera Company gave fifty-six performances of fourteen operas during its New York season.
Dr. Hans Schoor, Queeralles 23, Klotzsche-Dresden, Germany, seeks material for a biography which he is writing of Antonin Dvorak.
Richard Strauss and Max Reinhardt will teach at the Vienna State Conservatory next season.
Percy Rector Stephens was operated upon for appendicitis on March 28.
Fourteen concerts will be given at Carnegie Hall next season by the State Symphony Orchestra of New York, Inc.
The Westminster College Girls’ Glee Club, Per Nielsen, director, has been well received in concert on tour.
Lawrence Gilman succeeds the late H. E. Krehbiel as music critic of the Tribune.
Much interest is manifested in Josef Lhevinne’s summer master classes at the American Conservatory.
John Powell will give three talks on music at Rice Institute, Houston, Tex.
The Goldman Band will give its first concert of the season at the Hippodrome this month.	G. N.
Unique Success of Huss Viola Sonata
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holden Huss can be heartily congratulated on the artistic performance of their pupils at the last meeting of the Huss Music Club on March 10, in their spacious Steinway Hall studio.
Georgette Bushman’s singing was especially noteworthy by reason of its delicacy, finish and musical feeling. Mabel Merrill displayed a soprano voice of great beauty and decided possibilities for future artistic development. Edmund Nesadoski and Edith Segel gave pleasure in groups of piano solos, and Florence Sansom was enjoyed in vocal solos. E. Marion Texton’s two original pieces also pleased. Lillian Loewe gave a delightful performance of Liszt’s Gondoliera and Rubinstein’s Staccato Etude. Charles Ames, a newcomer among the Huss piano pupils, showed promise of great achievement in the future by his playing' of the finale of Beethoven’s Moonlight sonata. The club had the privilege of hearing Eduard Kre,iner, the violinist of the Letz Quartet, who, with the composer’s assistance, gave a splendid interpretation of the^ poetic and passionate Huss viola sonata. The effect of this imaginative and very original work was
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It is said that Toscha Seidel has inherited a fortune and legal steps are being taken to obtain-possession of it.
Guiomar Novaes has begun her long Pacific Coast tour.
Salvatore Fucito, Caruso’s coach and accompanist, will teach at the New York School of Music and Arts.
Lee Pattison and Edward Lowrey have collaborated on a song to fox trot time, to be published by T. B. Harms.
Erna Rubinstein will concertize in Europe in the fall, returning here the end of December.
Lenora Sparkes will be soloist on next spring’s tour of the Minneapolis Orchestra.
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn are planning a program of dances to music of American composers,
Felix Salmond will appear for the third time in the Beethoven Association series in Aeolian Hall, April 16.
Oskenonton, Mohawk Indian and pupil of Joseph Regneas, will concertize in England this spring.
Leone Kruse will create the soprano role in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new oratorio by Carl Hauser.
A reception was given at . the New York studios of Frederick Dixon on the afternoon of March 25.
The departure of Henri Vergrugghen is felt keenly in Australia.	*
The Zoellner Conservatory of Los Angeles has found it necessary to enlarge its faculty.
Juan Manen, Spanish violinist, will give ten concerts in Cuba.
Annie Louise David appeared in 170 concerts with Mme. Bernhardt on her last tour of America.
Millie Ryan has entirely regained her health and will resume professional activities this month.
Boston will observe the Chickering piano centennial on April 22.
M. E. Florio has returned to New York and opened a studio at 170 West Seventy-second street.
The $1,000 prize offer for a Yale song is open only to Yale men, graduates or undergraduates.
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“A pianist who deserves the name of artist.”
W. L. Hubbard, Chicago Tribune.
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