April 19, 1923
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large audience at the Berlin Beethovensaal insisted upon five encores, calling for the artist to play again and again.
The announcement that Mr. White would return to Berlin after his two Berlin recitals to give another concert aroused considerable enthusiasm. His Leipsic success at the Gewand-haus apparently was no less than the one at Berlin. The cable refers to this concert as “great” and mentions that many encores were given.
Verdi Club Rose Breakfast and Dance
Wednesday, May 2, at noon, Hotel Astor, will witness the coming Rose Breakfast and Dance of the Verdi Club, Florence Foster Jenkins president and Mrs. C. B. Phillips, chairman. The club announces that G. Aldo Randegger, pianist and composer, is organizing a selected chorus of mixed voices for certain benefit concerts, and members are asked to join.
Judson House at Ohio Festivals
Judson House, now on tour as leading tenor with the Hinshaw Cosi Fan Tutte company, will appear at the Ober-lin, O., spring music festival May S, singing César Franck’s The Beatitudes. Mr. House will also take part in the Columbus, O., festival, April 24, when Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah will be given in concert form.
Louise and Marguerite Walker in Recital
The membership committee of the York (Pa.) Music League presented Louise Walker, coloratura soprano,^ and Marguerite Walker, violinist, in recital before an audience of 1,200 on the evening of March 26. The recital was the fifth of a series of successful musical attractions presented by the membership committee this season.
Mme. Gahier Off for Europe
Mine. Charles Cahier will sail, for Europe, Saturday of this week on the S.S. Ohio. She will begin a long series of concert engagements immediately upon arrival, singing in Holland, Scandinavia, Budapest, Vienna and Germany. She will make her headquarters at Salzburg, returning to America in October for an extensive season of concerts here.
Goodson Remembered in Leschetizky’s Will
Katharine Goodson has just heard with pride and pleasure that her beloved master, Professor Leschetizky, who died during the war, left her, in his will, a lovely antique vase. It is needless to say how much she will value and treasure this beautiful thought of her old and revered professor.
Archie Herbert Cooper Dead
Archie Herbert Cooper died on April 11 in his thirty-fourth year. Funeral services were held last Saturday afternoon at his late residence, Lynbrook, L. I. Mr. Cooper was the husband of Adeline C. Gelling, for eight years secretary for M. H. Hanson, the concert manager.
will appear daily in brief addresses rendering tribute to the organ and its various phases of activity.
An event of great importance will take place at Wana-maker’s on the afternoon of April 30 when Charles M. Courboin, the organ soloist on that day, will be decorated by the Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambassador, who will come from Washington to bestow upon M. Courboin the honorary decoration of the King of the Belgians, Chevalier of the Order of the Crown, in recognition of his services in this country as a Belgian musician. Last year’s festival of. the organ was a great success, but the National Association of Organists promises an even greater event for the festival just arranged.
Representing the N. A. of O. on the different days will be: Monday, April 30, Messrs. Noble, Macrum, Mrs. Fox; Tuesday, May 1, Messrs. Adams and Maitland; Wednesday, May 2, F. W. Riesberg; Thursday May 3, Messrs. Noble and Macrum; Friday, May 4, Mr. Nevins, and Saturday, Mr. Sammond, besides Mr. Doane.
Van Hoogstraten Sails
Willem Van Hoogstraten, who will conduct the Philharmonic the first half of next season, sailed Saturday for Amsterdam on the steamship Volendam. He will return to his home in Lawrence, Long Island, early in June, and will conduct The Philharmonic at the Stadium summer concerts.
In the several subscription series of the Philharmonic Society, the last concert of this season was given last Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera House. Altogther the Philharmonic Orchestra has given fifty subscription concerts at Carnegie Hall, twelve at the Metropolitan Opera House, and six at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, previous to the two special performances of the Ninth Symphony: five free concerts at Cooper Union, five students’ concerts at City College, five at Carnegie Hall, and four concerts at the Commercial High School in Brooklyn. The Society also arranged for five lectures which were given at the University Settlement in Eldridge street by Daniel Gregory Mason, the composer and associate director of the school of music at Columbia. These lectures enlisted the services of instrumentalists in demonstration of the characteristics of the several choirs of an orchestra and attracted audiences which filled the Settlement House at every lecture.
Philharmonic plans for increasing the scope of the society’s work in the eighty-second season will be announced in the near future. Subscription renewals for the concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn are now being received at the Philharmonic offices.
N. C. Artists for Festivals
That artists of National Concerts, Inc., are securing their full share of the important spring festival dates throughout the country, is evidenced by the fact that at the Ann Arbor Festival, probably one of the most important in the United States, three of them will appear. Florence Macbeth and Giuseppe Danise will sing in joint concert on artists’ night and Jeanne Gordon as Delilah in Samson and Delilah; and had it not been for the fact that Rosa Ponselle is booked solidly during the month of May on the Pacific Coast, she would have also appeared at Ann Arbor, which would have been a clean sweep for this bureau.
Both Miss Macbeth and Miss Gordon are booked for the Newark Festival. Miss Gordon will appear as Delilah at the Springfield Festival; Mr. Danise at the North Shore Festival, Evanston, and Miss Macbeth at Spartanburg’s annual event.
Denishawn Dancers Re-engaged for Montreal
When Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers gave two performances at the St. Denis Theater, Montreal, on March 3, under the local direction of Miss M. C. Cunard, they gave such pleasure to two capacity audiences that they have been re-engaged for three performances next season, on April 21 and 22. The following day they will appear at the Russell Theater, Ottawa, under Miss Cunard’s management.
Roderick White in Europe
M. H. Hanson, Roderick White’s manager, has just received a cable from the Herman Wolff and Jules Sachs Bureau of Berlin informing him of the tremendous reception with which the American violinist has met at his first appearance in Berlin and Leipsic a few days ago. The
Stewart comprised the program this year. Thousands were present.
Hallett Gilberte, composer-pianist, was a visitor in San Diego recently and was heard in a recital of his own compositions at the Hotel del Coronado. Mr. Gilberte was assisted by Virgie Lee Mattoon, contralto.
At the last meeting of the San Diego M. T. A., Annie Marie Clark, supervisor of music in the public schools, talked on Co-operation between the Private Music Teacher and The Public School Supervisor. A short program was presented by Mrs. Conrad Solem, pianist, and William Harper, bass-baritone. Miss Clark spoke enthusiastically of her work and explained some of the details of the plan. An interesting feature is the establishment of a series of orchestra concerts for the children of the primary departments. The orchestra of the Cabrillo Theater, an excellent small orchestra, is doing this valuable missionary work and the programs are specially arranged to illustrate the study in the class-room and in preparation for the memory test that will come later. Grace C. Stanley, state commissioner of primary education, was a guest and spoke a few encouraging words concerning the vital importance of music in the schools.	E. B. B.
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sense for musical values as in his other appearances, and the same polish of interpretation possible only to the musician with broad imagination and a high idea of technical equipment.”
WILHELM BACHAUS
Wilhelm Bachaus, sterling pianist, gave his last recital for this season at the Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. An audience of goodly proportions gathered to hear him. He began with a Brahms group, two intermezzi, the F major romance (which immediately had to be repeated) and a breath-taking performance of the Paganini variations. Not satisfied with this, his next offering was the Schubert Wanderer Fantasy, which he played superbly, though even Bachaus cannot hide the fact that it is a bit too long for its musical content. To end with there was a miscellaneous group which was refreshing on account of its unhackneyed character. It began with the Chopin G minor Ballade, to be sure, and ended with the Schubert-Tausig Marche Militaire, but between them there was a Study in G flat by Seeling (whom one ought to know, perhaps, but whom one doesn’t), a vigorous Bohemian Dance by Smetana and a Danse d’Olaf (whatever that may be) by Pick-Mangiagalli, better music than was to be found in all his insipid ballet, II Carillon Magico, upon which the Metropolitan wasted time and money two seasons ago.
The quantity and heartiness of the applause throughout the recital must have warmed the cockles of Mr. Bachaus’ heart and have proved to him how quickly he has made friends for his art over here. There was an insistence upon extra numbers—among them a playing of the Schumann Traumeswirren that was a marvel of delicacy—which brought the recital almost up to the dimensions of two recitals.
N. A. of O. Organ Festival at Wanamaker’s
The National Association of Organists will celebrate New York’s annual Music Week, April 30 to May S, with a second Festival of the Organ, to be given in the Wanamaker Auditorium, in co-operation with the American Guild of Organists and the Society of Theater Organists. The programs will present the organ in different phases, such as the organ and choral singing, the organ and the American composers, the organ as a recital instrument, the organ and the theater and the organ in the church. The following noted organists will appear during the week: Charles M. Courboin, formerly organist of Antwerp Cathedral; Rollo F. Maitland, organist of Philadelphia; John Hammond, organist of the Eastman Theater, Rochester, N. Y.; Firmin Swinnen, organist of the Aldine Theater, Philadelphia; Charles Doersam, New York City; Channing׳ Lefevre, organist of Trinity Church; Lynnwood Farnam, organist of the Church of the Holy Communion; John Doane, organist of the Church of the Incarnation.
The programs will also include choral singing by the Morning Choral of Brooklyn and the Jamaica Choral, also the choir of the Church of the Incarnation. Noted speakers
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