April 12, 1923
MUSICAL COURIER
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New York Concert Announcements
Thursday, April 12
Philharmonic Society of New York, evening.............Carnegie	Hall
Edward Rechlin, organ recital, evening.................Aeolian	Hall
Denishawn Dancers, evening................................Town	Hall
Friday, April 13
Earle Laros, piano recital, afternoon..................Aeolian	Hall
Winifred Byrd, piano recital, evening..................Aeolian	Hall
Denishawn Dancers, evening................................Town	Hall
Saturday, April 14
Chalif School of Dancing, afternoon...................Carnegie	Hall
Harvard Glee Club, evening............................Carnegie	Hall
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano recital, afternoon..........Aeolian	Hall
Denishawn Dancers, afternoon and evening..................Town	Hall
Sunday, April 15
Louis J. Cornu’s Orchestra, afternoon..................Aeolian	Hall
Bachaus, piano recital, afternoon.........................Town	Hall
Carl Schaiovitz, evening .................................Town	Hall
Philharmonic Society of New York, afternoon,
Metropolitan Opera House
Monday, April 16
Beethoven Association, evening......................Aeolian Hall
Tuesday, April 17
Philadelphia Orchestra, evening.....................Carnegie Hall
Brassard Choir, afternoon and evening...............Aeolian Hall
three sonata excerpts by Scarlatti, and George Raudenbush, violin, and Annabelle Wood, piano, played a Mozart sonata.
March 23, Geraldine Bronson, pupil of Miss. Chittenden, appeared in a piano recital consisting of a sonata, op. 78 (Beethoven), preludes (Rachmaninoff), Novelette (Mac-Dowell), The Italian Concerto (Bach), and three smaller pieces by Florent Schmitt, Rameau, and Godard. Both these affairs attracted large audiences of truly interested listeners, the performances going to show the superior quality of the executants as taught at this institution.
Dilling Pupils Heard
A harp recital was given by the pupils of Mildred Dilling at the studio of Mrs. F. M. L. Tonetti on Monday afternoon, April 2. The program follows : The Strolling Musicians (Rebikoff), Alice Parsons; Song Without Words (Harry M. Butler), Yolando Greco; Fais Do Do and La Mere Michel (French Folk Songs), Elizabeth Kalk; Nocturne (Grandjany), Peppina Scognamillo; L’Angelus (H. Renié), Marie Louise McGraw; Early Victorian Group, Alexander Tonetti, Margaret Van Etts, Crissie Tonetti; Valse Melancholique (H. Renié), Menuet (Hasselmans), Helen Clapham; Gitana (Hasselmans), Helen Sheldon; Menuet (H. Renié), Les Follets (Hasselmans), Barcia Jones; Folk Songs with the Irish Harp—The Birds Courting Song (Vermont), The Merry Golden Tree (Kentucky), The Ninepenny Fidil (Old Irish), The Kerry Dance (Old Irish), Karen Iljen; Esquisse (H. Renié), Quand Tu Me Vois Souffrir (Schubert-Godefroid), Prelude (C minor) (Chopin), Menuet (Rameau), Crissie Tonetti; Arabesque (Debussy), Marjorie Pedersen; La Source (Zabel), Edythe Muriel Smith; Contemplation (H. Renié), Impromptu-Caprice (Pierne), Francis Callow; first movement, Allegro Risoluto from concerto in C minor (H. Renié), Mariette Bitter (harp), Miss Eklofî (piano).
The Misses Bitter, Callow, Pedersen, Sheldon and Tonetti have had the privilege of studying during one summer under Mademoiselle Henriette Renié in France, of whose school Miss Dilling is the American representative.
First Interscholastic Glee Club Contest
The first Interscholastic Glee Club Contest will be held on April 21 at Town Hall between the glee clubs representing Phillips-Andover, Poly Prep, Taft, Hotchkiss, Law-renceville, Peddy, Loomis and Huntington. This contest is held under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Musical Corporation, A. F. Pickernell president, and will be conducted along the same _ lines as the yearly Intercollegiate Glee Club Contests which have proved so successful.
The prize song selected for this contest is The Sword of Ferrara, by Frederick Field Bullard. In addition to the prize song_ which the clubs will sing in turn, each club will have to sing a light song and their school song. The decision will be concluded on a point basis and the judges selected are Dr. Tertius Noble (chairman), Dr. Walter Henry Hall and Marshall Bartholomew.
William A. Zerffi Delighted with Openshaw Ballad
Another prominent music teacher in New York City writes glowing accounts of the tuneful ballad, Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses. Mr. Zerffi conducts a very large studio here in New York and is a musician of standing whose pupils are a credit to him. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of the song, and writes as follows regarding it: With regard to the song, Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses, by Openshaw, you will be interested to hear that this has been used by me _ many, many times in my teaching, and I have no hesitation in saying that I consider it to be one of the best teaching songs of the ballad type which I have found. In addition to using it in my studio, I have had pupils sing it a number of times in recital when it has never failed to meet the decided approval of the audience. With all good wishes, I remain	״■
Yours very truly,
(Signed) William A. Zerffi.
Joseph Diskay Active
Joseph Diskay, the tenor whose popularity is constantly increasing, continues to meet with overwhelming success in his tour of the Keith vaudeville houses. Mr. Diskay has also varied _his_ tour with several concerts and recitals, and also with singing at various radio stations throughout the country. Recently a letter was received from Ireland, expressing the appreciation which had greeted one number in particular—Mother in Ireland—a new ballad now being sung by Mr. Diskay on numerous occasions. The broadcasting which is ,being done by many famous artists proves invaluable in making them known to a larger public, and Mr. Diskay, with his clear, beautiful voice, is meeting with the reward he deserves.
second group contained the Hymne Paien, which perhaps was the most effective number that she sang of Mr. Elie’s works. His two Haytian Dances were also fine. It appeared from this first hearing of Mr. Elie’s work that when he sticks to his African and Spanish idiom he gives an originality and a certain strength that one feels is lacking when he attempts musical expression in other fields.
The publishing house of Carl Fischer Company is issuing a number of Mr. Elie’s compositions, upon which the following criticism of his published work will cast further light: “These compositions by Justin Elie ‘with a Haytian background’ are decidedly worth while. Their names are expressive of their contents—Tropical Dance, Prayer at Eventide, Isma-o, Nostalgie, Legende Creole. The last named is a brilliant violin solo, a concert piece; the others are piano pieces with a somewhat Spanish character. They are not at all difficult and should make an appeal to musicians interested in new sensations derived from the exotic. Mr. Elie is a Haytian, and he has absorbed his native sentiment and rhythms and knows how to transcribe them by the use of simple, direct means. There is no straining after effect, nor is the sentiment overdone, from which fact we know them to be native production, as foreigners generally see nothing but the picturesque and load it on to the exclusion of all else. Mr. Elie, on the contrary, has written real melodies to which the color is merely an accessory.”
Macbeth’s Second Aurora Appearance ~ •	Noteworthy
Aurora, 111., March 2.—At her second appearance in Aurora, Florence Macbeth, of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, was received with tumultuous applause by an audience which filled the East High auditorium last week. The concert was given under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Kells of the Kells Studio of Fine Arts.
Of the programmed numbers, which included three piano numbers by George Roberts, the assisting artist, a group of French and English songs, and another by American composers, the Ah Fors’ e lui aria from Traviata was the most popular, and the audience refused to leave until Miss Macbeth returned again and again, singing among her encores the North Wind (Farley) and Roberts’ In My Garden.
S. K. S.
Seismit-Doda Entertains for Gostantino
It was an event of interest at the Seismit-Doda Studios when that well known composer-teacher tendered a reception on Sunday, March 25, in honor of his countryman, Chevalier Luigi Costantino, pianist, recently arrived in New York after a successful concert tour in the principal cities of Europe. It is said that Chevalier Costantino has been acclaimed by Martucci to be an artist of distinction and intelligence, equipped with an admirable technic and fine feeling. The guests of Maestro Seismit-Doda greeted the newcomer with enthusiasm after his delivery of selections from Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti and others, in addition to a few of his own delightful compositions. Seismit-Doda enjoys the friendship of many prominent artists, and their presence at his receptions make them particularly interesting.
Program for Earle Laros’ Recital
Earle Laros, the pianist, will rive the following program at his New York retital at Aeolian Hall on the afternoon of April 13: Sonata in F sharp minor, op. 11, Schumann; two choral preludes (Joy Is in Thee and Rejoice, Beloved Christians) Bach-Busoni; sonata in C major, Scarlatti; Rpndo a Capriccio, op. 129, Beethoven; etude in C sharp minor, op. 25, etude in A minor, op. 25, Andante spianato and polonaise, op. 22, Chopin ; prelude in B minor, gavotte in A major, Laros; two preludes (The West Wind and The Dance of Puck), Debussy; The Bees, Dubois, and Bouree Fantaise, Chabrier.
American Institute Notes
March 16 occurred the 111th sonata recital at the American Institute of Applied Music, Kate S. Chittenden dean and J. Lawrence Erb managing director. This program contained four numbers, two of which were performed by The Euphonic Trio (Em Smith, violin; C’Zelma Crosby, cello, and Gladys Shailer, piano). Nancy Hankins played
Justin Elie’s Compositions
Among the foreign musicians who have visited us this season is Justin Elie, the composer. At the Princess Theater, on Sunday evening, March 18, he gave a concert assisted by Suzanne Gallien. Mr. Elie offered Liszt’s Fan-tasie Hongroise and three Chopin numbers as an opening group. While Mr. Elie is infinitely musical and artistic in his interpretation, his technical skill was not that of a virtuoso, which he is fully aware of himself. It is not as a concert pianist that Mr. Elie wishes to become known in America, but as a composer.
The first number of his own compositions was a suite of Two Tropical Melodies on two pianos. He was assisted by Lily Elie. In the second group were three songs sung by Suzanne Gallien, who disclosed an unusually good voice. The next group contained Les Chante de La Montagne, consisting of four numbers—Isma-o, Nostalgie, Nocturne and Yanvalos—and particularly this last one was barbaric and something quite unique and original. Miss Gallien’s
N. Y. Oratorio Society
engages Edwin Swain second time this season.
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Bucknell University
Oratorio Society engages Edwin Swain fourth season.
EDWIN SWAIN
The Baritone You Re-engage.
Edwin Swain Management
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RICHARD HAGEMAN
Announces the Opening of His New York Studios
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