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Werrenrath Gives Two
Recitals in One

BRAHMS : CRADLE SONG
Edward Beckman, ■tenor, gave pleasure through his singing of varied numbers. He has a big voice of fresh, ringing quality which he uses ■with ease. He is still in his early twenties and certainly has a future. Both singers, in their work, showed careful training and a decided progress since the writer last heard them. Mr. Patterson furnished sympathetic accompaniments for the singers in the following program: Cavatina—Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer), Lenore Van Blerkom; Lie schwebt’ mir noch Kurzlich im Arme (Arensky) and Vergebliches Standchen (Brahms), Lenore Van Blerkom; Triste Ritorno (Barthélémy), Edward Beckman; Les Cigales (Chabrier), Ouvrez (Dessauer), and Le Nil (Leroux) with violin obligato, Lenore Van Blerkom; Pale Moon (F. K. Logan), My Rose (Malcolm), and For You Alone (Geehl), Edward Beckman; The Temple Bells —Indian Love Lyrics (Amy Woodforde-Finden), and Tally-Ho (Leoni), and ’Tis Enough (Edwards), Lenore Van Blerkom with the composer at the piano; duet—Si, la stauchezza mopprime, II Trovatore ^Verdi), Lenore Van Blerkom and Edward Beckman.
Marie Miller Under Her Own Management
Marie Miller, harpist, is now under her own management, with Eve Haran as her personal representative.
a year’s tuition under Eva Whitford Lovette, the well known mezzo soprano and vocal teacher, who has a wide reputation in this country where many of her pupils are holding important positions as teachers and singers. These scholarships were given at the request of members of the Federation who expressed themselves as having "long been inter-sted in your valuable work for music in the great State of Texas” and so “am asking the kind favor of a scholarship to your esteemed institution.”	D. G.
Patterson Pupils in Joint Recital
On April 17, two of the artist-pupils of A. Russ Patterson were heard in an Intimate Recital at the studios, assisted by Louis Hammerschlag, violinist. Mr. Hammerschlag opened a program that was just long enough and never tiresome. His contribution was the Tartini sonata in G minor, which he played extremely well. Next came Lenore Van Blerkom, possessor of a fine soprano voice of much power and sympathetic quality, who made a favorable impression upon the good sized audience. She is aided in her singing by her intelligent interpretations. Whether it be a French or German song, an operatic aria or a simple ballad in English, she is certain to get the best out of the composition and impart it to her audience in a charming, easy manner.
recital of the 1922-23 season at Carnegie Hall on April 8, Reinald ,	. ..
Werrenrath virtually sang two ’ recitals in one—so many were hi-encores—twelve in all. His first group of four old Italian songs ' he encored with the charming renditions of the old English, 1 he * i»J|
Pretty Creature. It is so seldom that an opening group at a New York recital ever has sufficient • applause for a singer to give an |S 5f§|® encore that the thunderous hand-	,;if
clapping that was so insistent fot -	: A¿;
this came as a big surprise.	^?§8■
Following the four bcautifu¡ V’ rof?I| seldom sung Serious Songs of Brahms came applause, that also pyffflKj demanded an encore to which Mr Werrenrath gave in the charm-	.
ing Sonnenschein by the same composer, and following the Credo from Otello he sang that 1,-r C lovely atmospheric French song,
Le Mirroir, by Gustave Ferrari.
Following the three Grieg songs that formed the fourth group of the program, the con- ’'_■%׳, tinuous and roaring applause «¡p־» forced the baritone to sing three ij«fi/i songs even though the perpetrat ■ ors knew they would get their usual string of unwearied Wer-renrath favorites at the end of the concert. The first encore after this group was Irmelin Rose, one of the Danish songs which Mr. Werrenrath sang at his last recital in February on Wash-ington’s Birthday; the secondwas : !
Dima, as usual the most requested C E■ of all in the many letters that w*¿,; > come back stage—and the third was the delightful Scotch folk	■■.'.;
song, Roy’s Wife of Aldivalloch, •»־. V; which Charles Gounod arranged .y;j for George Werrenrath, the baritone’s father, when he was the	S:
leading tenor in England and on VY -I S the Continent at the time the	" t
composer and singer lived to-	'	.־ j ׳
gether many years ago. After	V|Hts
the last group which was all in	,.-ajif;
English — modern of course—	.'ffiSfej*
came six more songs not printed	.9
on the regular list. The first was	. №.
The Wreck of the Julie Plante, Iff .
Geoffrey O'Hara’s setting of the :׳•v jp¡
Drummond poem by that name; next was the well known Kipling-Speaks “Werrenrath specialty,”	<f|
as the Globe says, On the Road	.!:»>- *	. r *- ■ •g>,	-	»
to Mandalay; then the Kashmiri	r
Love Song by Amy Woodforde-	!	j
Finden, which Mr. Werrenrath
has just recorded for the Victor	Bi¡'-,‘
Company; the fourth was The	k^■
House of Memories by Florence	Agl
Aylward, which is also a red sea!
record; Fuzzy Wuzzy, likewise a Etching by Marianne Hitschmann-Steinberger.
Kipling ballad and also recorded	~_________________
(music by Arthur Whiting) and
finally, ■The Last Song, written for Mr. Werrenrath by James Rogers.
The writer of this article heard several discussions among the listeners about the concert to the effect that it was the finest recital vocally, artistically and popularly, of any Mr.
Werrenrath has ever given. As the people edged their way toward the stage to get nearer at the conclusion of the program one woman turned and seeing the balconies crowded with eager and applauding enthusiasts exclaimed in a loud voice, “It’s just like an opening night at the opera—did you ever see anything like it?”
Scholarships Awarded to Lovette School
Washington, D. C., April 10.—Announcement of the gift of two scholarships for piano and voice to the Lovette School of Music of Washington, D. C., was made at the convention of the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs, which took place in Montgomery, Ala., last week. 1 he scholarship for piano entitles the successful applicant to a year s tuition under T. S. Lovette, a pianist and pedagogue of international reputation. Lovette pupils are found in many countries, including nearly every State in the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, North Queensland, England. Scotland and Wales. The scholarship in voice is given for
Lyric Coloratura Soprano
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