April 5, 1923
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YEATSIAN GRIFFITH.
Reading from right to left: Yeatman Griffith, eminent vocal pedagogue; Mrs. Yeatman Griffith, and assistant teachers, Euphemia Blunt and Harry 0. Thorpe. Yeatman Griffith will conduct vocal master classes this summer in Los Angeles, Cal., from July 2 to August 11, and Portland, Ore., August 15 to September 12. The assistant teachers will have charge of the Neiv York studios this summer until Mr. Griffith returns the last of September.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
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ing of the cello solo in this number and his success was spontaneous and well deserved.
A Talented Conductor.
It was good to see a native born American conductor at the head of an American orchestra, one in which, as a matter of fact, the proportion of native Americans among the players is probably larger than in any other American symphony orchestra. By the time the middle of the Beethoven overture was reached there was no question of Mr. Alexander’s undeniable talent for conducting. His gestures are sharp and incisive, without being extravagant, his command over his men absolute at all times, and—as he proved by the results which he Obtained in so short a space of time—he has that indispensable power of getting from his men the best that there is in them. His musicianship is of the first rank and his interpretations were all based upon fulfilling the intentions of the composer without in any way trying to graft upon the score any exaggerations or special readings of his own. His success was extraordinary. At the end of the first part there was an ovation which lasted for minutes, compelling him to bow repeatedly, and to cause the orchestra to rise twice and share with him in the honors; besides which there was a whole procession of ushers bringing baskets and other floral offerings. There was another ovation at the end of the concert. It was a truly striking success, one as deserved as it was spontaneous.
Klingenberg, Soloist.
The soloist of the evening was Alf Klingenberg, director of the Eastman School of Music, who played the solo part of the Grieg piano concerto. Mr. Klingenberg—like the composer, a man of the North—brought out all its vernal freshness and youthful beauty, his brilliant interpretation of the final movement being particularly effective.
Mr. Alexander led his men in the finely played and sympathetic reading of the orchestral part. There was also a tremendous amount of applause for Mr. Klingenberg, who was called upon to come out and bow his acknowledgments several times and also received numerous floral tributes.
Despite the fact that it was one of the worst evenings of the winter, with the thermometer at twenty, a fifty-mile wind blowing, and a blizzard of snow outside, the theater was comfortably filled by an audience which, as already stated, gave evidence of its appreciation of the program by repeated applause of the heartiest sort.
Last St. Cecilia Club Concert
Victor Harris will conduct the last concert, for this season, of the St. Cecilia Club, in the ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria this evening, April S. The club, with its chorus of 125 women, will have the assistance of John Barclay, baritone, and an orchestra from the New York Philharmonic Society.
Anghinelli and Baccante in Joint Recital
Edoardo Dino Anghinelli, pianist and composer, and Enzo Baccante, tenor, will be heard in joint recital at Town Hall, Saturday evening, April 7. Their program lists some novelties, including songs by Pizzetti, Mariotti, Respighi and Cimara, and piano compositions hv Frugatta and numbers from Anghinelli’s Clavis Poesis.
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ing operas, the latter writing his own libretto, which is based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. This will be produced by the British National Opera Company, of which Mr. Harrison is one of the conductors, and Dr. Lyon’s work will be produced by the Royal Carl Rosa Company, probably during the season at Covent Garden during the autumn.
H. A.
Composers Elected to German Academy of Arts.
Berlin, March 14.—The members of the German Academy of Arts recently elected as new members the following composers:	Ferruccio Busoni, Franz Schreker, Walter
Braunfels, Alexander Glazounoff and Carl Nielsen, of Denmark.	A. Q.
American Pianist Impresses Dresden.
Dresden, March 12.—Rudolph Reuter made a very favorable impression in his last Dresden concert. Not only is his technic masterly but he also has interpretative gifts. The young pianist, who was warmly received, must also be commended for his unhackneyed program.	A. I.
Vienna Philharmonic for London Season.
London, March 5.—It is now understood that the management of the Viennese Staatsoper has been successful in arranging for a visit of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to London this season. The performances are to be under the direction of Richard Strauss and Franz Schalk and the visit will probably be timed for June.	G. C.
Details of London Handel Festival.
London, March 3.—Details of the great triennial Handel Festival, to be held at the Crystal Palace, Greater London, this year from June 16 to 23, inclusive, show that some lesser-known Handel to be performed includes selections from Alexander’s Feast, Esther, the Dettingen Te Deum, Samson and Acis and Galatea. An exhibition of British manufactures relating to musical industries is also to be held at the Palace during the month of June.	G. C.
Vienna Philharmonic’s South American Tour Assured.
Vienna, March 7.—Your correspondent learns, from an official of the Staatsoper, that the government has today finally given its consent to the proposed second South American tour of the Philharmonic Orchestra. This decision, which is rather unexpected in view of public sentiment in the matter, is due chiefly to the influence of Director Richard Strauss, who will accompany the orchestra on the tour. There is still a chance that the tour may be cancelled in favor of a proposed season of the Vienna Staatsoper in London this spring, since, through the mediation of the Austrian minister at London, the Staatsoper has received a definite offer to come to London for six weeks. The invitation has been accepted by the Austrian government, but in case a suitable London theater may not be found immediately, the London plan will possibly be postponed until next spring, and in that case the Philharmonic’s South American tour will materialize this summer. Weingartner’s resignation from the Philharmonic concerts, prompted by his objection to Strauss, heading the South American tour, has been withdrawn and, as a symbol of his complete reconciliation, the Philharmonics had his desk decorated with laurel wreaths at the last concert. If the London trip is finally decided on, the Salzburg Festival next August will be carried out as originally scheduled, with Strauss, Schalk and the Philharmonic participating, but if the South American tour materializes, the Salzburg program will have to be materially altered.	P. B.
Strauss and Reinhardt to Teach at Vienna.
Vienna, March 11.—It is announced that Max Reinhardt will next season head the dramatic class at the Vienna State Conservatory. Leopold Reichwein, head of the operatic class there, will be dismissed, according to the Neues Wiener Journal, to give way to Richard Strauss. Both are to have the rank of university professors.	P. B.
A !Wagner Première.
Breslau, March 12.—In the course of two orchestra concerts, under the auspices of the Bruckner Society, conducted by Dr. Felix Gatz of Berlin, there was an alleged world première, or rather an excavation, of an old forgotten composition by Richard Wagner. Those who have read the biographies of Wagner will recall his second opera, Das Liebesverbot oder die Novize von Palermo, the only performance of which Wagner conducted himself while Kapellmeister at Madgeburg. Indefatigable and overzealous reverence is now exhuming this little opera, and Munich, where the revival of Wagner’s first opera, Die Feen, also took place, is going to have this “second performance anywhere” under the leadership of Bruno Walter.
From the overture, one gets an idea of the whole opera, following as it does the trend of the French-Italian operas of Auber, Bellini and the like, then in vogue throughout the world. It has a certain brisk élan, but is even less “Wagnerian” than Die Feen, and nothing more or less than the average Kapellmeistermusik of the period. Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure furnished the story of the libretto.
Dr. H. AI.
Young American Astonishes Leipsic.
Leipsic, March 3.—In the eighth Philharmonic concert of the Society of Friends of Music, the soloist was the youthful American cellist, Mildred Wellerson, who was heard' for the first time in Leipsic. Her success was enormous. This child virtuoso revealed astonishing technical resources in Tschaikowsky’s^ Rococo Variations. But it was not only with her technic she amazed us, but also with her noble singing tone which actually warms one. An artist with a rich future! In the same concert, a D minor symphony by Gustav Lewin, Weimar, received its first performance anywhere, but having little artistic value, it was vehemently declined by the audience.	Dr. A. A.
FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF
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Frederick Delius Has Paralytic Stroke.
Berlin, March 10.—It has just become known that Frederick Delius, the English composer, suffered a stroke of paralysis about two months ago and must now be moved about in a rolling chair. In celebration of his sixtieth birthday, a concert was recently given in Frankfort, at which Delius was present to hear a program devoted only to his own works. Among the compositions performed was his new cello concerto, the soloist being Alexander Barjowsky, to whom Ernest Bloch dedicated his Schelomo rhapsody.
A. Q.
Color in Music.
London, March 12.—The new symphony by Arthur Bliss, A Color Symphony, had its London première last Saturday and was well received by a large audience. Divided into four movements, each movement is designed to represent a different color, sub-titles being given to denote the principal things suggested by that color, i. e., (1) purple, the color of amethysts, pageantry, royalty and death; (2) red, representing rubies, wine, revelry, furnaces, courage and magic; (3) blue, the color of sapphires, deep water, skies, loyalty and melancholy; (4) green, representing emeralds, hope, joy, youth, spring and victory. The work appeals as absolute rather than as program music. Heard on these lines it is a masterly achievement in tonal building, the orchestration is brilliant and the contrapuntal development, particularly in final fugue, is a masterpiece of ingenuity and skill.	G. C.
Vienna State Conservatory to Have Rank of University.
Vienna, March 3.—The Austrian Parliament has passed a favorable vote on the plan, forwarded some months ago by Joseph Maix, the new director of the State Conservatory of Music, of granting that institute the rank of a university. So far the Salzburg deputies in Parliament had objected to the plan, claiming the honor for the Salzburg Mozarteum. At the request of the State Savings Committee, tuition fees for foreigners have now been fixed at five times the rate paid by natives at the State Conservatory, in order to reduce the deficit of the institution.	P. B.
Vienna and Prague Exchange Orchestras.
Vienna, March 1.—The Vienna Symphony Orchestra has returned from a successful concert given at Prague under the direction of Franz Schalk, which formed part of the Vienna-Prague Exchange Concert scheme. Apart from its musical significance, the concert was a political event of prime importance, and was attended by Professor Ma-saryk, president of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, and by the highest officiais of that state. The Vienna Philharmonic, led by Richard Strauss, will give two concerts in the Czech capital this month.	P. B.
Noted Austrian Musician Dead.
Innsbruck (Austria), March 1— Josef Pembaur, the elder, one of the best known among the older Austrian pianists and conductors, and father of Josef Pembaur, the famous Leipsic pianist-teacher, died here at the age of seventy-five years.	P. B.
Latest Viennese Operetta Successes.
Vienna, March 4.—The sumptuous production of Die gelbe Jacke (The Yellow Jacket), the new Lehar operetta now running at the Theater an der Wien, has had a tremendous success, the composer conducting. The next Lehar première will be Libellentanz (a revised version of his Sterngucker) at the Stadttheater, the_ end of March, when Marie Rajdl from the Staatsoper will probably sing the leading role as guest. The return of Fritzi Massary to her native Vienna, which took place last night at the Carltheater in Leo Fall’s Madame Pompadour, which she created at Berlin, has been in the nature of a triumph. The Theater an der Wien has secured first rights on Gratin Maritza, the new operetta by Emmerich Kalman (composer of Shari), and the new operetta by Edmund Eysler, based on the life of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (who died, under mysterious circumstances, in 1889) will have its first production at Vienna late in the spring. P. B.
Vladimir Shavitch Scores in Dresden.
Dresden, March 10.—A young American conductor, Vladimir Shavitch, husband of the pianist, Tina Lerner, made a successful debut in Dresden when he conducted a program of Tschaikowsky, RimskyvKorsakoff and Rachmaninoff. The press was favorable in its reports.	A. I.
Two New English Operas.
London, March 4.—Dr. James Lyon, of Liverpool, and Julius Harrison, who is now conductor of the Scottish Orchestra at Edinburgh and Glasgow, are ,both busy complet-
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