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MUSICAL COURIER
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MUSIC ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Lazzari and Edgar E. Coursen and Wm. C. McCulloch for the club. An organization like the Apollo Club is a big asset to any city.
One of the popular concerts of the municipal series was given Sunday afternoon, March 11, by the Monday Musical Club Chorus, Rose Coursen-Reed, director; Barreme Tyler-Stone, pianist; Mrs. Ray M. Lansworth, soprano; Laurence Woodfin, ■baritone; H. G. Knight, flutist, and Francis Richter, organist. These interesting concerts take place in the Public Auditorium.
Grace Wood Jess, mezzo-soprano, was heard with artistic effect in a program of folk songs, March 18. There were encores after each group of numbers. Raymond McPheet-ers furnished the accompaniments. This charming recital took place under the auspices of the Federated Music Clubs of Portland.
Lucien E. Becker gave the sixth of his monthly lecture-organ recitals at Reed College, March 13. J. R. O.
SACRAMENTO PLANS
LARGE CONCERT HALL
Sacramento, Cal., April 5.—Edward Johnson gave a fine recital, under the direction of the Saturday Club. His beautiful voice and fine interpretations made a lasting impression.
There is a wholehearted effort on the part of all factions of the city toward a Municipal Auditorium. For years this has been a vital need but it seemed impossible to get enough impetus to push the movement. Plans are now being laid on a broad scale for an auditorium that will seat at least five or six thousand. This will make it possible for the Saturday Club to enlarge its subscription list at a very nominal fee and at the same time bring many more artists to Sacramento. Heretofore there have not been any more members in the Saturday Club than any concert hall in Sacramento would hojd.	A. W. O.
SAN DIEGO IS CAPTIVATED
BY FLORENCE EASTON’S ART
Local Notes
San Diego, Cal., April 2.—Florence Easton scored a splendid success in her San Diego appearance before the Amphion Club. Many have spoken of this concert as being one of the best of the season. The program was well-balanced, showing the singer’s art• and musicianship from every angle. Ralph Leopold, at the piano, provided fine accompaniments. Miss Easton was obliged to respond to many recalls and was very generous.
The flaming Easter Cross on Mt. Helix glowed a little mistily at dawn on Easter morning, because of the rain. However, a large crowd of people motored out from San Diego and many .spent the night camping on the mountainside. This impressive Easter service has become an institution with San Diegans and the fame of it is spreading abroad. Singing is a most important part of the ceremonial. Another Easter institution is the open-air concert in Balboa Park on the afternoon of Easter Sunday. This affair is in charge of Humphrey J. Stewart, civic organist. A solo by Vernice Brand, contralto; community singing under the direction of Wallace Moody and organ numbers by Dr.
solo part and the baton was taken over by Giulio Minetti. Tschaikowsky’s Marche Slav was also excellently presented.
Alfred Hf.rtz and Symphony Orchestra in Final Concerts.
The. patrons of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra bade au revoir to Alfred Hertz and his musicians at the Curran Theater, March 23 and March 25. These concerts brought the twelfth season of the organization to a brilliant close. The numbers chosen for these events were Brahms’ symphony No. 3, Debussy’s L’Apres Midi d’une Faun, and Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration. The orchestra was never in finer form and Mr. Hertz’s conducting was beyond praise. At the close, Mr. Hertz was recalled many times and the huge stage was banked with many baskets of flowers, which manifested the high esteem in which both conductor and orchestra are held.
Thibaud and Cortot in Joint Recital.
Two exponents of the modern French school of music— Jacques Thibaud, violinist, and Alfred Cortot, pianist—were presented by Manager Selby C. Oppenheimer in joint recital, March 25. They gave a brilliant reading of Gabriel Faure’s sonata for violin and piano. It was a flawless performance, full of beauty of tone as well as the requisite delicacy. For his solos, Mr. Cortot chose Debussy, Chopin and Weber numbers. Mr. Thibaud’s solos were by Rimsky-Korsakoff, Saint-Saëns and Wieniawski.
Notes.
The San Francisco Trio, composed of Elsie Cook Hughes, pianist; William F. Laraia, violinist, and Willem Dehe, cellist, gave the third concert of its second season in the Italian Room of the St. Francis Hotel. The feature of the program was the first performance in this city of a new composition by George Edwards, who is considered one of the foremost composers residing in California. Besides this work the trio played Beethoven’s B flat trio and the E flat violin concerto by Mozart, the soloist being William F. Laraia.
Raymond L. White, pianist, and Louise Massey, mezzo-soprano, were the soloists at the regular concert at the Co-Related Arts Hall, Palace of Fine Arts, March 25. The program ranged from Bach to the modern French and proved unusually interesting to the large audience.
Five artists gave a concert with the Berkeley String Quartet for the benefit of the Russian Church, at the Fairmont Hotel, March 24. The artists were Elsie Cook Hughes, Willem Dehe, Carel Van Hulst and Antonio de Grass¡.	C. H. A.
PORTLAND LOOKS WITH
PRIDE ON APOLLO CLUB
Other Concerts
Portland, Ore., March 20.—On March 15 the Apollo Club (seventy-nine male voices), in its third program of the season under the able direction of William H. Boyer, did some stirring singing in John Hyatt-Brewer’s Break, Break, Break and Rachmaninoff’s Glorious Forever. The chorus, throughout the evening, acquitted itself with credit. Carolina Lazzari, contralto, was the soloist, singing an aria from Samson and Delilah and songs by MacFaydyen, Griffes, La Forge, Hagetnan and Fay Foster. Her success was pronounced. Katherine Pike Skedden accompanied for Mme.
SAN FRANCISCO HEARS
MANY ARTISTS OF NOTE
Titta Ruffo and Yvonne D’Arle Appear with People’s Symphony Orchestra—Ruth Draper on Matinee Series—Ida Scott Presents Florestan Trio—Moiseiwitsch Makes Fifth Appearance of Season—People’s Symphony Gives Russian Program—Alfred Hertz and Symphony Orchestra in Final Concerts—Thibaud and Cortot in Joint Recital —Notes
San Francisco, Cal., March 26.—Titta Ruffo, assisted by Yvonne D’Arle, lyric soprano, and the People’s Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco were heard in a well balanced program at the Civic Auditorium, March 18. So emphatic was the success of the concert that Frank W. Healy arranged another recital by these artists to be given on April 1. After Mr. Ruffo’s tempestuous interpretation of Largo al Factotum, from the Barber of Seville, the applause was deafening. Besides the Brindisi from Hamlet, Mr. Ruffo sang folk songs of Italian, French and Spanish origin. Miss D’Arle’s charming personality and delightful singing won genuine admiration. She sang Strauss’ Serenade, Grieg’s Ein Traum, and Musetta’s Waltz Song, from La Boheme. The orchestra, conducted by Alexander Saslav-sky, accompanied both artists and also gave splendid readings to the Mignon overture and the finale from Dvorak’s New World symphony.
Ruth Draper on Matinee Series.
Ruth Draper, monologist, was the artist whom Alice Seckels presented to the subscribers to the Matinee Musical Series. Miss Draper’s program on March 19 included some of her original character sketches.
Ida Scott Presents Florestan Trio.
Ida Scott, who has been presenting only American artists in concert this season, managed a concert given by the Florestan Trio at Scottish Rite Hall on March 19. The trio consists of Frank Moss, pianist; Dorothy Pasmore, cellist, and Lajos Fenster, violinist. The well rendered program, of which the audience showed marked enjoyment, was as follows: Brahms’ trio, op. 8; Cesar Franck’s sonata for violin and piano; Korngold’s trio, op. 1.
Moiseiwitsch Makes Fifth Appearance of Season.
Benno Moiseiwitsch, who enjoys great popularity in San Francisco, gave his first recital of the season on March 20. This made the fifth appearance of Moiseiwitsch this year, the previous performances being as guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco and as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and he attracted a capacity audience.
People’s Symphony Gives Russian Program.
For the fifth concert of the People’s Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Saslavsky presented a program of Russian music, the main number being Tschaikowsky’s Pathetic symphony. The orchestra played with understanding, displaying an amplitude of beauty of tone. Other numbers were the Serenade Melancolique, in which Mr. Saslavsky played the
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