April 26, 1923
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artist-pupil of A. Y. Cornell who scored a fine success re centi¡/ in Holyoke, Mass.
burgh Gazette-Times is characteristic of other comments on Miss Hayden’s work: “Miss Hayden sang delightfully, with rare refinement of vocal skill. Her voice is of considerable range, pure in intonation, admirably equalized. Its quality is brilliant and at the same time warm, flexible and substantial in tone. Her delivery of the sustained passages was distinguished by a poised legato of uncommon loveliness.”
Alma Gluck’s Daughter Married
Abigail Marshall Gluck, daughter of Alma Gluck by her first husband, was married last Sunday at Portchester, N. Y., to Frank Delmas Clarke, son of the late Louis S. Clarke and Mrs. Clarke of New Orleans.
The engagement of the young people was announced in December, but the wedding was in the nature of a surprise. Accompanied only by two friends, they drove to Portchester in the bridegroom’s auto, obtained a license and were married before a Justice of the Peace.
Amato Singing in Fiume
According to a cable, Pasquale Amato, who is singing in the city of Fiume for the first time since he left the Metropolitan Opera House, had enormous success in Fal-staff. He has been engaged for six performances. Mr. Amato will return to America in the fall, when he will be heard in a concert tour under the management of R. E. Johnston.
Bartholomew on Music Week Committee
Among the prominent musicians who have been selected to serve on the Music Week Committee is Marshall Bartholomew, director of the Seymour School of Musical Reeducation and of community music at Yale University. Mr. Bartholomew is also a member of the Folk Song Committee.
Next Rost-Why Concert in London, May 1
Greta Rost and Foster Why will give their next London recital on May 1. During the last two months this artistic couple has met with fine success throughout England in their joint concerts.
B. R. Israel’s Address Wanted
Present name and address is wanted by the Musical Courier of B. R. Israel, formerly of 136 Washington avenue, Scranton, Pa., Bostonia School of Music.
GIULIO CRIMI
Tenor, Chicago Opera Company
“It is no grateful task to take the place of the greatest tenor, but Signor Crimi gave a performance of Canio that earned him six curtain calls after the ‘Vesti la Giubba’.”—Neiv York American.
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performed was the Asiatic desert scene, which had appropriate atmosphere and color. Altogether, they deserve praise for a creditable performance.
Sewickley Music Club a Fine Organization
The Sewickley Music Club which was organized a year ago by Olive Nevin has grown into a fine organization of which this artist is very proud. It is her hope that it may-produce an Ethelbert Nevin festival .sometime in the future. A recent meeting was devoted to studying the history of the dance. The club choral rendered several appropriate selections with Arthur Jennings conducting. After a paper by Mrs. Tracy Guthrie, which was illustrated by examples of idealized dance music for piano, there was folk dancing by a group of club members and some professional solo dances in costume. A French minuet, Egyptian dance, Russian Stamping Dance and colorful Spanish-American tango were all given in finished manner.
SPRING FESTIVALS
Nashua, N. H.
Two evening concerts and one matinee will make up the program for the twenty-third annual music festival of Nashua, N. H., which will take place May 17 and 18. The artists engaged are all Americans and include Vesta Thy-den, soprano; Marion Wisek, contralto; Charles Stratton, tenor; Walter Kidder, baritone, and Ernest Johnson, bass. The Boston Festival Orchestra has also been engaged. Among the works to be performed are Coleridge Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, Gounod’s Gallia and Verdi’s Aida in concert form.
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, la.
The annual music festival of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will take place May 7 and 8. Tito Schipa will give a recital the first evening. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with Rudolph Ganz, conductor, will give two programs May 8, a matinee and one in the evening. At the first of these, Michel Gusikoff, violinist, will be the soloist, and at the second Carolina Lazzari, contralto, will be heard.
Bryan, Ohio
The eighth annual music festival of Bryan, Ohio, will take place May 2 to 4 inclusive, under the direction of Forrest A. Tubbs. These annual festivals were carried on for six years by Mr. Tubbs and then the Business Men’s Association came to his assistance and guaranteed all expenses.
A popular' program will be given by Tubbs' Municipal Band on the evening of May 2. The following afternoon the children of the public schools will give an operetta. In the evening the program will be presented by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Lewis H. Clement, and the Festival Chorus, under Mr. Tubbs, Gounod’s Gallia being presented with Ruth Bruns, soprano, singing the solo parts. The fourth and final program will be given May 4, when Verdi’s Requiem will be presented with the following soloists: Maude E. Lackens, soprano; Norma Shellings Emmert, mezzo-soprano; Clarence Russell Ball, tenor, and Roscoe Mulholland, bass.
Ethyl Hayden Fulfills Gaul’s Prophecy
When Ethyl Hayden made her first professional bow to a Pittsburgh audience two seasons ago, it was Harvey B. Gaul who wrote in the Pittsburgh Post, “I give that girl one more year and then she will be singing around the concert
ETHYL HAYDEN
circuit in the big-time company. She has voice, beauty, and intelligence, the three virtues in singing, and she employs them all in everything she does.”
And it came to pass. She quickly followed up her Pittsburgh success with an appearance under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club of that city, and this season returned with the Pittsburgh Art Society.
If all other proof were wanting, the fact of two return engagements to a city would argue well for a singer’s popularity. But the fact of Miss Hayden’s engagement with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and as soloist with the Boston Händel and Haydn Society reinforce the standing of this young artist, besides the individual appearance she has made in various cities.
The summing up of Glendinning Keeble in the Pitts-
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nating vocal and piano line in Schumann’s Nussbaum was almost miraculous. He also interpolated two Chopin groups that gave much pleasure. Louis Fritze added variety to the latter half of the program with two well-rendered flute solos and an encore.
The American said, “Few persons of today remember the voice of Jenny Lind, but many of those who filled the Hippodrome last night will never forget Frieda Hempel’s singing of a Jenny Lind program.” The Times said, “The voice was the voice of Henipel, with its charm of brightness and agility, but the songs were songs that Jenny Lind sang, as few like Hempel sing them today.” The Herald said, “It is always a delight to hear her sing. Her voice last evening was fresh and captivating and her interpretations had both musical significance and personal charm. The Hippodrome was full of people and enthusiasm.”
PADEREWSKI
Paderewski held a capacity audience at breathless attention for three hours on Sunday afternoon, April 22, at Carnegie Hall, with a Chopin recital, and, as the Tribune says, Chopin can stand many hearings, especially when Paderewski is the interpreter. The audience rose to greet the great pianist when he came upon the -stage, and received every offering with thunderous applause. His program, which it will be well for the sake of record to give in full, consisted of the Fantasia, op. 49; preludes IS, 16, 21 and 24; two nocturnes, op. 15; ballade in A flat; scherzo in B flat minor; barcarolle; etudes op. 25, No. 6, op. 10, No. 10, op. 25, Nos. 7 and 11; sonata, op. 35; mazurka, op. 17, No. 4; valse; Polonaise, op. 53.
Of this recital the Times says: “He wrought that supreme magic which lie works as no other. Transcontinental tours often have a damaging effect upon the interpretations of executive artists. But with him the result seemed to be reversed. His playing reached an even higher level than he attained in either of the previous recitals he has given since his return to the concert stage. And in the music of Chopin he finds the fullest and deepest expression of all the moods of poetry and of lyric exaltation, and all the high illuminations of the imaginative power. Through this garden he roamed and found beauty at every turn. .
־ Nobody has ever wrought a line of melody with such beautiful feeling, such persuasive eloquence, as Mir. Paderewski.
. Afterwards there were encores and heated enthusiasts swarming to the platform. It was a notable occasion, as all Mr. Paderewski’s recitals are.”
The World says: “There was a flattering array of famous musicians at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Ignace Paderewski give his last piano recital of the season. Rachmaninoff was there, and Sigismond Stojow-ski and Willem Mengelberg and Alexander Siloti. .
How silly a business technical appraisal is when one is dealing with an artist. Most of the times when Paderewski pounded worst were the moments when he was at his greatest. For this was no mere ivory thumper, trying to get more noise out of a piano than there was in it. It was an interpreter who conceived the music he was playing in terms too big for his medium of expression. It was a fault, if you like, but a noble fault.”
■ Other papers speak in so similar a vein that it would serve no purpose to quote them.
YOUNG MEN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Young Men’s Symphony Orchestra, founded by Alfred Lincoln Seligman, was heard in its twenty-first annual concert, at Aeolian Hall, Sunday afternoon, April 22. The soloist was Phradie Wells, a young dramatic soprano, who proved her suitability to Wagnerian roles in her excellent rendition of Dich Theure Halle, from Tannhäuser. Her voice is strong, clear and brilliant, and she sings with earnestness and dramatic power. A later group, accompanied by Alfred Reimer at the piano, included numbers by Delibes, Clarke and Rachmaninoff.
The orchestra, under the capable direction of Paul Henne-berg, was heard in the Magic Flute Overture, by Mozart; Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony; an Asiatic desert scene, by Borodin, Eine Steppenskizze aus Mittel Asien, and Wagner’s Riezi overture. The young men showed good technic and played with spirit. Perhaps the best thing they
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