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April 12, 1923
Blanche Thompson, vocalist. Aileen Dunkley gave two readings from Shelley. Several splendid reproductions of famous paintings by Watts, which Mr. Dunkley had specially imported from England, were exhibited. A. G.
Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page).
Buffalo, N. Y.—(See letter on another page).
Champaign, 111., April 2.—A concert of sacred music was given March 25, by the University of Illinois Choral Society, Frederic B. Stivens, conductor, with Lillian Rutlin Ayers, soprano; Edna L. Cass, contralto; Frank Tatham Johnson, tenor, and Arthur Beresford, bass, as soloists. The accompaniments were played by Jane Churchill Watt, pianist, and Russell Hancock Miles, organist. The numbers rendered were excerpts from Elgar’s Dream of Geron-tius and Franck’s Beatitudes.
The Spring Music Festival will be held May 10-12. Carolina Lazzari, the St. Louis Symphony, the University of Illinois Orchestra and a concert production of Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, by the University Choral Society, will be the feature of the four concerts included.
M. E. G.
Chicago, 111.—(See letter on another page).
Cincinnati, Ohio—(See letter on another page).
Crowley, La., April 4.—Mrs. Clyde W. Hill played the inaugural recital on the new organ in the First Methodist Church South. The program included numbers by Wagner, Gillette, Johnston, Guilmant, Dvorak, Stone and two original compositions by Mrs. Hill.	T. M. O.
Denver, Colo., April 4.—The Wolcott Conservatory of Music has issued an attractive ‘bulletin for the summer school, which will be in session July 2-August 4. Edwin J. Stringham, dean, will be in charge and a long list of teachers in piano, voice, violin, pipe organ, cello, public school music, language, theory, dancing and orchestral and band instruments is announced. A special feature will be a course in vocal pedagogy under John C. Wilcox.
A. T. C.
Elkhart, Ind., March 28.—Edith and Ethel Lord, harpist and violinist, played in Mishawaka, March 12, at the Methodist Church.
The Matinee Musicale, in a program of unusual interest on March 13, presented Russian music with Mrs. George Manning in charge. She spoke comprehensively upon the music and composers of Russia. The musical numbers which followed were by Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, Tschai-kowsky, Kopylow, Gretchaninoff and Cui. They were rendered by Mrs. Harry Green, soprano; Mrs. George Manning, pianist; Mrs. J. H. Couner, mezzo-soprano; Helen Zimmerman, pianist, and Eunice Zimmerman, violinist. Accompaniments were played by Mrs. Harold Stanton, Helen Zimmerman and Fern Miller.
The Chamber of Commerce Lyceum course presented the Covent Singers in a varied program of vocal and instrumental music.
The Swedish Lutheran Church was filled to capacity on March 13, when Gustaf Holmquist, bass, and Paul Hult-
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by the Musicale-Art Club, March 15, in the High School Auditorium with a local cast and orchestra. The performance, which was exceptionally good, was under the stage direction of Mrs. I. D. Harris and musical direction of Margaret Goeschel.
Dugald Stuart Walker gave his lecture, The Invisible Village, some weeks ago in the High School Auditorium, through the efforts of the Musicale-Art Club. For a fortnight following his visit a beautiful collection of the artist’s water colors, ׳book-plates and pen and ink drawings hung in the Public Library on exhibition.
A Music Memory Contest, in which nearly twenty-five hundred people are enrolled, is now in progress in Bay City under the direction of Charles H. White, supervisor of music in the public schools. Twelve hundred dollars in valuable prizes are offered, also terms of lessons by the city’s foremost music teachers as additional rewards. Silver cups have been offered by the various women’s clubs as team prizes for the schools, and the ,best-kept note books on the contest will be rewarded with additional prizes. The contest includes thirty-five compositions.
For the forthcoming Michigan Directory of Music, published by the State Federation of Music Clubs, a catalogue of Michigan composers has been compiled by Mrs. Norris Wentworth, Bay City, which gives a short biographical sketch, a complete list of compositions and their publishers, also photographs. The composers listed are: Rossetter G. Cole, James Francis Cooke, Eric Delamarter, Samuel Richard Gaines, William Howland, Earl Vincent Moore, Ben-detson Netzorg, Jessie Pease, Albert Augustus Stanley, Leo Sowerby, Guy Bevier Williams, Roderick White and Francis L. York.
The Michigan Music Teachers will hold the annual convention in Bay City, during the last week of June. Edwin
S.	Barnes, of Battle Creek, is president of the organization, and James G. Cummings, Saginaw, secretary and treasurer.
M. A. W.
Birmingham, Ala., March 26.—Two presentations of the cantata, The Crucifixion, by Stainer, characterized the past week. The first was given at the Church of St. Mary’s-on-the-Highlands, under the direction of Edna Gockel Gus-sen. The solos were taken by Leon Cole, bass, and J. D. McGill, tenor. Mrs. P. J. Smith sang the offertory solo and her rich contralto voice was never heard to better advantage. The second rendering was at the Church of the Advent, under the direction of Ferdinand Dunkley. There were forty voices in the choir. J. D. McGill was the tenor soloist and Brown Bates the bass soloist. The male quartets were sung by Carlton Smith, Sam Thomas, V. T. Kimbrough and E. L. Muchmore. The quartet, God So Loved the World, was sung by Lucile Roberts Brooks, Mrs. H■
T.	Burnet, J. D. McGill and E. L. Muchmore. Rebecca Bazemore sang the offertory solo.
On Sunday night, March 25, at the Lyric Theater, where sacred services are held under the auspices of the Independent Presbyterian Church, the choir of fifty trained voices, under the direction of O. Gordon Erickson, rendered an excellent program that was enjoyed by a capacity audience. This choir has established the reputation of being one of the finest choirs in the South.
The last of the season’s morning study meetings of the Birmingham Music Study Club was held in Cable Hall, March 22, with Ferdinand Dunkley as leader. He continued the series of papers which the club has been presenting this season on the Correlation of Music, Poetry and Painting. The artistic element as set forth by Mr. Dunkley was The Imaginative, as exemplified by MacDowell, Shelley and Watts. The audience showed intense interest in Mr. Dunk-ley’s splendid paper. The musical illustrations were rendered by Jean Blach, pianist;. Glen Nichols, pianist, and
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Albany, N. Y., April 2.—Musical Albany, with many from nearby centers, was largely in attendance at the most interesting musical event of the spring season—the concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Proctor’s Harmanus Bleecker Hall, under the local management of Ben Franklin. Pierre Monteux and his men won an ovation with a fine program and Edward Norris, pianist, made a favorable impression in his solo numbers. Mr. Franklin also presented the orchestra in concert in Schenectady.
Lillian Jones, violinist, Mrs. Leo K. Fox, Mary Gibson and Winifred Boyce were the artists who appeared at the spring musicale of the Semper Fidelis.
The Albany Association Glee Club sang The Song of the Cudgel, a Russian folksong, with El wood Miller, baritone, as soloist and John Louw Nelson, conductor, at a concert at the Ten Eyck recently. Mary Daniel recited ־Khrishna, set to music by Mr. Nelson and presented for ' the first time at the David Bispham Memorial concert in New York last year.	E. H. V.
Atlantic City, N. J., April 2.—The Lenten recitals given by the Crescendo Club each Thursday afternoon in the Vernon Room, Haddon Hall, have been interesting musical events. Leading local artists, assisted by special soloists, have presented excellent programs. The recitals were opened by Mrs. David Devanny, chairman, assisted by Sarah Croasdale, Mesdames Barbash, Bolte, H. Westney, M. Aarons, F. Young and Alice Warren Sachse. Ida Taylor Bolte sang several Hebrew selections, Lillian Westney was heard in Far Eastern and Northern songs and Evan Prosser interpreted Welsh songs. The second recital presented Evelyn Hemphill, pianist of Camden, N. J.; Mrs. Harry L. Westney, soprano, and Mrs. Harry Shill Hemphill, pianist. Mrs. Westney is well known for her interpretations of child songs. Her solos by Liza Lehmann, T. Spike, F. Norton, H. Avery Smith, Elliott and a group by Irene Franklin, were greatly enjoyed. Miss Hemphill played numbers by Schumann, Handel, Leschetizsky and Liszt.
Old-fashioned tunes was the theme introduced at the third recital given by Mrs. Charles P. Tilton, soprano, and Mrs. Charles Clever, pianist. On March 29, Ida Taylor Bolte and Alice Warren Sachse, pianist, gave the last recital, featuring Spanish music. Mrs. H. W. Hemphill and Mrs. Samuel Reinhart are responsible for the success of the musi-cales.
The arts and crafts department of the Women’s Research Club met in the Solarium of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel. An interesting program introduced Elena Avedona, soprano; Evan Prosser, tenor, and Victor Hargrave, pianist.
Mme. Avedano was heard at the luncheon of the Council of Jewish Women, at the Breakers Hotel. Alice Warren Sachse, pianist, assisted.
Harry Kauffman, baritone of the Beth Israel Temple, was soloist at the luncheon of the Woman’s Foundation Club, at The Ambassador, and together with Marcel Hansotte, pianist, received an enthusiastic reception.
The Ampico recitals, under the management of Erna Cavelle, soprano, in the National Exhibitors’ auditorium, have been interesting musical features. A recent program began with Ampico selections and several songs by Erna Cavelle. Madam Bell-Ranske then gave a lecture on When We Dead Awaken. Another recital featured the appearance of Princess Watahwaso, who has been assisting Charles Wakefield Cadman. She appeared in Indian costume to the delight of the audience. She was assisted by Miss Soreyell, soprano, and Mr. Dunham, pianist.
Evalyn Quick Tyson, pianist and organist, and Charlotte S. Mann, vocalist, presented Mary Jacoby, pianist, and Alice Needles Lippincott, soprano, in recital, March 17. The playing of Mary, the talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jacoby, was quite remarkable as the child is only in her eighth year. Her numbers were by Haydn, Ravina, Paderewski, Bach, Jensen, Lack and Mendelssohn. Mrs. Lippincott sang, expressively, Slumber Song, by Unterhart; Sing Joyous Birds, by Phillips; Pale Moon, by Logan, and It’s April in Killarney, by Nevin. She was warmly acclaimed by the large audience.
On March 28, at the Chalfonte Hotel, Arthur Tracy, tenor, and E. Luceans, baritone, were presented by Joseph D. Martinelli, conductor of the Chalfonte Trio. Both artists won spontaneous applause. Joseph Shall Lilly was the proficient accompanist.
Many gathered in the Grand Arcade of the Ambassador Hotel recently, to hear Signor Vincezo Ceccarelli, tenor, assisted by the Ambassador Artiste Ensemble, Harry Loven-thal, director. A number of popular classics served as a background for Sig. Ceccarelli, who sang Rudolph’s Narrative (La Boheme) and Recondita Arnaonia. This artist’s voice is of excellent quality.
The concerts offered by Oreste Vesella, conductor of the Steel Pier Concert Band, are drawing large audiences to the Pier, especially on Sunday evenings, when the assisting soloist, Annetta Ribecova, soprano, is to be heard. Mr. Vessella’s own compositions Victory Festival; march, The Air King; Prosperity, and the President Harding march (the last dedicated to our President) have been featured. Miss Ribecova wins well merited acclamation, being endowed with a glorious voice and attractive personality.
Frank Merrick, conductor of Steel Pier Symphony Orchestra, presented Hilda Reiter, soprano, and the Orchestra in concert on Easter Sunday.	J. V. B.
Bay City, Mich., March 27.—The Musicale-Art Club presented Evangeline Lehman, contralto, March 20, in the Masonic Temple. This artist sang recently with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at a popular concert and received very favorable press notices.
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