MUSICAL COURIER
4G
April 5, 1923
BOSTON TO OBSERVE CHICKERING PIANO CENTENNIAL
Five Distinguished Artists to Play at Chickering Concert, April 22
Thursday evening, March 8, in Steinert Hall. Fanny Cantor opened the program with Intermezzo a la Mazurka by Kern, followed by La Nuit, op. 60, by Schutt. Miss Aldrich played these pieces : Faschingswank aus Wien, Schumann ; etude in F and Revolutionary Etude, Chopin; Nocturne, Margaret Ellis Maybury; Etude, Backer-Grondahl; Waltz, Chopin; Un Mot d’Amour, Schutt, and Valse Française, Beach. Miss Sherwood brought the program to a close with a group of numbers comprising: Chanson du Voyageur, Paderewski; Barcarolle, Rubinstein; prelude, op. 23, No. 2, Rachmaninoff, and Spinnerlied, Wagner-LiSzt.
New York Concert Announcements
Thursday, April 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra, evening...................Carnegie	Hall
Lucille Oliver, piano recital, evening................Aeolian	Hall
Friday, April 6
Philharmonic Society of New York, afternoon..........Carnegie Hall
La Forge-Berumen Noonday Musicale....................Aeolian Hall
Josef Hofmann, piano recital, evening................Aeolian Hall
Saturday, April 7
Boston Symphony Orchestra, afternoon.................Carnegie	Hall
Philharmonic Society of New York, evening............Carnegie	Hall
Oliver Denton, piano recital, afternoon.............. Aeolian	Hall
Rose Solomon, assisted by Borris Feibish,	evening.....Aeolian	Hall
idoardo Dino Anghinelli and Enzo Baccante, evening...Town Hall
Sunday, April 8
Reinald Werrenrath, song recital, afternoon..........Carnegie Hall
Eugene Nigob, piano recital, afternoon...............Aeolian Hall
Philharmonic Society of New York, afternoon,
Metropolitan Opera House
Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini, afternoon.............Hippodrome
Ruby McDonald, violin recital, evening...........Princess Theater
Monday, April 9
Jacques Malkin, violin recital, evening..............Carnegie	Hall
Pavel Ludikar, song recital, evening..................Aeolian	Hall
Denishawn Dancers, evening...............................Town	Hall
Tuesday, April 10
New York Banks’ Glee Club, evening...................Carnegie	Hall
Rudolph Bochco, violin recital, evening...............Aeolian	Hall
Amy Grant, opera recital, 5:30 P.M.......................Town	Hall
Denishawn Dancers, evening...............................Town	Hall
Wednesday, April 11
Denishawn Dancers, afternoon and evening.............Town Hall
Eugene Nigob Recital, April 8
A few years ago Eugene Nigob, Russian pianist, gave a recital in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, when the Musical Courier commented in flattering terms on his play-
EUGENE NIGOB
ing, in part as follows: “He received a warm welcome from the large audience, and gave a decidedly successful recital. He is an artist of distinction, with ample technic, inspiring interpretation, and remarkable poise of manner.” Mr. Nigob has since then been busily occupied with a host of pupils, but now proposes to play more in concert, and at his recital on the afternoon of April 8, in Aeolian Hall, New York, he will be assisted by the Max Jacobs String Quartet. He will play the Moszkowski concerto, Waldstein sonata, Gounod-Liszt, Faust waltz, and pieces by Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
of the Society of Arts and Sciences; Philip Hale, critic and writer; Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Fritz Kreisler, violinist ; Richard W. Lawrence, president of the United Industries Chamber of Commerce; Robert Lawrence, director of community music; Mrs. John F. Lyons, president of the National Federation of Music Clubs; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Willem Mengelberg, conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Berthold Neuer, artist manager, American Piano Company; Mme. Elly Ney, European pianist; Mrs. George L. Nichols, grand-daughter of Jonas Chickering; Cardinal O’Connell; R. K. Paynter, president of William Knabe & Co.; Walter H. Rothwell, conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra; Senator Reed Smoot; Henry Souvaine, pianist and composer; Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, musical educator and critic; Frederick Stock, director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, president of M. I. T.; Frederick S. Snyder, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Dr. John J. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education; C. Alfred Wagner, president of Chickering & Sons; C. F. Weed, of the United States Chamber of Commercej Parham Werlein, chairman of the centennial committee of Chickering representatives, and Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, the president of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Among others who intend to be present at the dinner and concert are General Pershing, Mmes. Amelita Galli-Curci and Alma Gluck, Channing Pollock, the Duke de Richelieu and John Drew.
Matthews, the director, whose idea was to form a chorus of solo voices, but in which individual talent should be subservient to refined and artistic effect in ensemble. This at first seemed a formidable task, since singers accustomed to solo prominence as a rule are not inclined to submerge themselves in a chorus. But Mr. Matthews met with little difficulty. Ably assisted by Charles J. R. Spoule, president of the society; Mildred Faas, its vice president—one of Philadelphia’s leading sopranos—Edward S. Pierce, secretary, and others who have worked with high aims and untiring energy, Mr. Matthews soon saw the Choral Art a reality, and its first public concert, last spring, convincingly demonstrated the fact that he had not miscalculated the ability of his singers nor their willingness to unite for the one purpose of truly artistic results. The chorus sings entirely a cappella, and has received enthusiastic praise from music lovers and critics.
For the concert at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on April 12, a program of several distinctive features has been prepared. The soloist will be Myra Hess, the English pianist, whose only previous appearance in Philadelphia was as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and whose success was pronounced. She will play the prelude, chorale and fugue of Franck and a group of shorter compositions by Frank Bridge, B. W. O’Donnell and Debussy.
One of the principal numbers to be given by the chorus is the motet, Adstant Angelorum Chori, by Horatio W. Parker, which won the prize offered by the Musical Art Society of New York, about ten years ago. This comes in an opening group including the motet, Tu es Petrus, by Palestrina, and Ave Maria, by Rachmaninoff. A group of French and German folk songs; the chorus, Mannin Veen, arranged by Vaughan Williams; Celtic hymn, The Outgoing of the Boats, Le Fanu; The Silversmith, arranged by Kurt Schindler; Sunrise, Taneyef, and the part song, London Town, by Edward German, are other numbers to be given by the society.
Claire Dux Guest Artist with German Opera
Several weeks ago Claire Dux appeared as guest artist with the German Opera Company, taking the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger. So great was Miss Dux’s triumph on this occasion, which called forth hearty and genuine response from the audience and highly eulogistic reviews from the New York critics, that she was reengaged as guest artist by the managers of the German Opera Company for two appearances in Martha, taking the title role, on the evening of March 30 and the afternoon of March 31.
Elsa F. Sherwood Recital
Elsa F. Sherwood, piano teacher of this city, and two of her advanced pupils were heard in an interesting program,
Boston will take a prominent part this month in the Jonas Chickering centennial, which is being celebrated by musicians and lovers of music throughout the country. The exercises in Boston will be national in scope, attracting prominent men and women from all parts of the United States, for it was in the Hub City that Chickering made and sold his first piano 100 years ago. Courtenay Guild is chairman of the local committee. '	_
The observance in Boston will culminate in a concert April 22, at which five of the greatest pianists in the world will be heard, at which the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play and at which the Handel and Haydn Society, of which Jonas Chickering was president in 1843-49, will sing.
On the evening of April 21, a dinner will be given in the ballroom of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, the members of the national committee on the centennial celebration being guests of honor. Vice-President Coolidge• is chairman of the committee, including six of America’s most distinguished conductors, representatives of allied arts and eminent men and women from every domain of American life. Besides Mr. Coolidge the committee consists of: David Belasco, the producer; Artur Bodanzky, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company; George W. Chadwick, director of the New England Conservatory of Music; Governor Cox and Mayor Curley, Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Erno Dohnanyi, Hungarian pianist and composer; Carl Engel, head of the music department of the Library of Congress; Arthur Foote, American composer; Courtenay Guild, president of the Handel and Haydn Society; James L. Guy, president
Philadelphia Choral Art Society Concert
One of the most notable of the spring musical events in Philadelphia will. be the second annual concert by the Choral Art Society of that city, at the Academy of Music on Thursday evening, April 12. This organization is one of unusual character, distinguished by the fact that every
MYRA HESS,
pianist, who will appear as soloist with the Choral Art Society of Philadelphia on April 12.
one of its sixty or more active members is a singer of training and experience, most of them being well known as soloists in church, concert and oratorio work.
The Choral Art Society was organized about a year and a half ago, largely through the efforts of H. Alexander
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