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M US IC AL COURIR R
April 12, 1923
LAZAR S.
SAMOILOFF
BARITONE
© George Maillard Kesslere
Teacher of
ROSA RAISA, greatest living dramatic
soprano, Chicago Opera Company.
GIACOMO RIMINI, leading baritone, Chicago Opera Company.
GABRIELLA BESANZONI, famous contralto, Metropolitan and Chicago Opera companies.
JEAN BARONDESS, soprano, singing in Italy and Egypt this season.
CONSUELO ESCOBAR, Mexican coloratura soprano, Ravinia Park Opera Company.
MARIA LUISA ESCOBAR, Mexican dramatic soprano, San Carlo and Mexican Opera companies.
GITA GLAZE, Russian soprano, formerly Russian Imperial Opera Company.
IZA KREMER, International balladist.
HELEN LUBARSKI, soprano, concert singer.
FRANCES PERALTA, soprano, Metropolitan Opera Company.
BIANCA SAROYA, soprano, Ravinia Park and San Carlo Opera companies.
SONYA YERGIN, soprano, Volks Opera Company, Berlin.
ALICE ZEPPILLI, soprano, Chicago Opera Company, now singing in Monte Carlo.
CONSTANTIN BUKETOFF, Russian baritone, leader and soloist of the famous Russian Cathedral Choir.
CHARLES CARVER, basso, concert singer.
VLADIMIR DUBINSKY, baritone, formerly Petrograd Opera Company.
EDWARD LANKOW, basso, Metropolitan and Chicago Opera companies.
ANGELO MINGHETT1, tenor, Chicago Opera Company.
CURT TAUCHER, leading German tenor, Metropolitan Opera Company, and many others.
The art of singing in all its branches, from the rudiments of tone-placement to the study of concert and operatic repertoire.
Mr. Samoiloff’s time for the remainder of this season is entirely filled. He will sail for Italy June 15, and will re-open his studios the middle of September.
Reservations of time for lessons next season should be made now.
SAMOILOFF BEL CANTO STUDIOS
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Berlin which revealed many amiable qualities, as well as some signs of immaturity—or perhaps just nervousness due to an appearance before a foreign audience. The audience was, however, most sympathetic and spent unstinted applause especially after a good rendition of Brahms’ Botschaft, Strauss’s Traum durch die Dämmerung and Hugo Wolf’s Liebesglück. It cannot be said that Mr. Williams’ choice of American songs—by De Vere Nicholson, Katherine Glen and Walter Kramer—was an especially happy one, calculated to increase European respect for American creative endeavor. He also sang for the first time in Berlin Rhea Silberta’s Yohrzeit and some songs by Sinding, Lange-Miiller and Agersnap in the original Norwegian.	C. S.
Vasa Prihoda.
Special invitations to members of the press and a number of connoisseurs were issued by the Gramophone Company to hear Vasa Prihoda, violinist, whose appearance in the company’s sumptuous little hall was said to be his first in Germany. This young Czech is already well known in America but, strange to say, till now was scarcely known in Berlin. While his technical mastery is undisputed, still the laudations with which practically all the press greeted him were read with consternation by a number of able and unprejudiced musicians who heard Prihoda in a program containing Vitali’s Chaconne, Paganini’s D major concerto, Beethoven’s F major romance, a Dvorak Slavic Dance and II Palpiti. Though granting that Prihoda is a big violinistic talent, possessed of a remarkable left hand technic, a large but not especially warm tone, a flexible bow arm, and a particularly pleasing appearance; still there is no definite quality in his playing winch can be pointed out as excelling that of other well-known artists. Furthermore, neither the phrasing nor the interpretations of Mr. Prihoda are above reproach, being often rather primitive or immature. If Heifetz should now appear in Berlin the critics might realize that more than one of their superlatives had been misplaced.	A. Q.
Christian Sings at Stephens’ Studio
Again was the studio of Percy Rector Stephens crowded with listeners when Harrison Christian gave a program of songs and an aria. Handel’s Where’er You Walk, Floridia’s arrangement of Ochiette Amati, and Handel’s Si tra i ceppi made up the opening group. His second group of French and German included Schubert’s Erlkoenig, the in-
Bradley studios.
HARRISON CHRISTIAN,
baritone.
terpretation of which was given in an entirely individual manner. There followed a well-supported Eri tu, Verdi; Salt Water ballads and English songs.
The “rehearsal” at the studio of Mr. Stephens is in final preparation for a concert tour of some six appearances in Virginia, where he will appear under the auspices of The Tithers, an organization of Lynchburg, Va., and other clubs and societies throughout the State.
Mr. Christian was heard in New York at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club, where he sang on March 11. His individual,_ dramatic interpretations are of especial interest, and his portrayal of various moods invariably causes a demand for repetition. A young man of virile personality and exceptional talent, he should go far as an artist.
Resume of First Half of Hammann’s Season
Among the numerous engagements filled by Ellis Clark Hammann, pianist-accompanist-organist, during the first half of the 1922-23 season are the following: September 26, organ recital, Philadelphia; October 22, organ recital, Long-wood, Del.; 23, Manufacturers’ Club musicale, Philadelphia ■ November 5, Rich-Kindler-Hammann Trio, Chamber Music Association, Philadelphia; 23, accompanist for Helen Ack-royd-Clare in recital; 24; accompanist for Horatio Connell, York, Pa.; 26, Chamber Music Association, Philadelphia • 27, Manufacturers’ Club musicale; 29, Rich-Kindler-Hammann Trio, Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia; December S, accompanist for Beatrice Eaton, Wilmington, Del.; 6, Orpheus Club concert, Philadelphia; 13, Orpheus Club concert, Haverford, Pa.; 17, organ recital, Longwood, Del.; 31, accompanist for Thaddeus Rich; January 7, Rich-Kindler-Hammann Trio, Germantown Chamber Music Association; 8, Mendelssohn Club concert: 17, Mendelssohn Club concert; 22, Manufacturers’ Club musicale ; 23, musicale, Philadelphia; 24 accompanist for Ursula Greville, Philadelphia; 25, accompanist for Mae Hotz and Horatio Connell, Philadelphia; 30, Treble Clef concert, Philadelphia.
BERLIN CONCERTS
Vladimir Shavitch-Tina Lerner.
In a second orchestral concert, Vladimir’ Shavitch, the American conductor, again selected an all-Russian program, this time comprising only works of Tschaikowsky, namely the Romeo and Juliet overture, Symphonie pathétique and the B flat minor piano concerto. This last attracted much attention, performed as it was by Tina Lerner, who made her reappearance here after an absence of ■several years. She showed all her former skill as well as maturity of conception by reason of which her performance was a pleasure to hear. The ovation accorded her must have been very gratifying and again proved that the public knows a good thing when they hear it. One can hardly say that the orchestral accompaniment was faultless, a tendency towards sluggishness being perceptible in the players—they were not “on their toes,” but Mr. Shavitch skilfully held the work together. It was in ■the overture and symphony where he got the utmost out of the men under his temperamental baton. Climaxes of big proportions, moments of tenderness, variety of nuance and rhythmic energy were a few of the virtues displayed by this promising young conductor.
A. Q.
Parish Williams.
Parish Williams, American baritone, fresh from the studio of Jean de Reszke in Nice, gave a song recital in
CURRENT MUSICAL PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
[The Musical Courier will endeavor to keep this department up to date and to that end requests that all notices and prospectuses of musical prize contests be sent to the Musical Courier so as to be included in this department. It will be found that in each contest the name and address are given, to which intending candidates may apply directly for further information. Manuscripts are submitted at the risk of the composer.—Editor’s Note.]
Zuro Grand Opera Company (Details of contest in Musical Courier for January 25)—$100, $75, $50 and $25 for the designs of settings for any one of the following operas: Aida, Carmen, Faust, Rigo-letto. Contest ends April 15. Opera Design Contest, Carona Mundi, Inc., 312 West Fifty-fourth street, New York.
The Berkshire Music Colony, Inc. (details in issue February 15)—$1,000 for chamber composition which shall include one or more vocal parts in combination with instruments. Contest ends April 15, 1924. Hugo Kortschak, 1054 Lexington avenue, New York City.
Chicago Musical College (details in Issue March 8) Seventy-three prizes and scholarships, amounting to more than $20,000. Chicago Musical College, 624 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
Bush Conservatory (details in issue February 15) —Free scholarships for the summer school from June 27 to July 31. C. F. Jones, registrar, 839 North Dearborn street, Chicago, 111.
Philadelphia Conservatory (details in Issue March 1)—Free scholarships for the Summer Normal at Beechwood School from July 5 to August 2. P. D. Cone, Eastern Manager, Art Publication Society, 1702 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Committee of the Stadium Concerts (details in issue March 8)—American composers, native born and naturalized, invited to submit unplayed manuscripts. Manuscripts will not be received until May 1. Auditions for soloists to be heard at the summer concerts will begin in April. Mrs. William Cowen, Room 712, Fisk Building, Fifty-seventh street and Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Baylor College—$1,000 in scholarships and silver cups to winners in contests for piano, violin, voice, vocal quartet and orchestra. E. A. Schafer, Secretary, Baylor College, Belton, Texas.
American Conservatory (details in issue March 22) —Free scholarships for the summer session from June 25 to August 4. American Conservatory, 503 Kimball Hall, 300 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.
Dudley Buck—Free competitive scholarship for the summer master classes at the University of Kansas, June 11 to July 21. H. L. Butler, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Chamber Music Association of Philadelphia—$500 for composition for string quartet. Score and parts must be in the possession of the Chamber of Music Association of Philadelphia, 1317 Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia, Pa., not later than November 1.
Lorenz Publishing Company—Three prizes amounting to $325 for unpublished anthem. Contest ends July 1. Lorenz Publishing Company, 216 West Fifth street, Dayton, Ohio; 70 East Forty-fifth street, New York; 218 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.
The Gunn School of Music and Dramatic Art, Inc. —Six scholarships for the summer master classes. The Gunn School of Music and Dramatic Art, Inc., 1254 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.
W. A. Clark, Jr., president of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles—$1,000 for the best symphony or symphonic poem for orchestra and $500 for the best chamber music composition (trio, quartet, quintet, etc.) by a composer of the State of California. Contest ends September 1. Caroline E. Smith, manager of the Philharmonic Orchestra, 424 Auditorium Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.