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the Conservatory and his numbers were given with a fine precision and interpretative sense. He was accompanied by Mary Frances Thompson, also of the conservatory. Mr. Cowell’s deep bass voice is heard frequently in Peoria and always gives pleasure.
The Choral Club of the Amateur Musical Club gave The Swan and the Skylark on April 12, as its annual concert. Under the direction of Annie Griswold Smith, the chorus of sixty voices gave a beautiful rendition of this work. The soloists were Elizabeth Frederick Kintzer, soprano; Reeda Circle. Crutchfield, contralto; Lloyd Livings, baritone, and Bruce Metcalf, tenor. Hattie Zinser Wookey, pianist, and Bertha Brunner, organist, accompanied.
The cantata was preceded by numbers given by the two girls who were joint winners of the $100 scholarship awarded each year by the club to local music students. They were Katherine Lorenz, a mezzo-soprano, who has a voice of excellent quality and sings with a poise unexpected in so young an artist, and Viola Starts, pianist, who is barely fifteen years of age and plays the most difficult selections with an assurance and strength that is remarkable.
The choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church sang The Crucifixion on Easter Sunday, as is its yearly custom. Solo parts were taken by James Wilton, Campbell Gray, Ernest Mellor and A. R. Squyer.
Men’s Glee Clubs of Illinois Wesleyan College and of Knox College gave concerts in Peoria on April 3 and 6, respectively.
The students of Manual Training High School gave a concert in the auditorium with selections by the Senior Girls' Glee Club, the Junior Girls’ Glee Club, the school orchestra and a piano solo by Viola Starts.
The Peoria Players scored a triumph in the presentation of the Moliere farce, The Impostures of Scapin, which was given by an excellent cast of local Thespians on the Women’s Club stage, April 9 and 10, and again in Spring-field, 111., before the Community Players of that city, April 12. Under the direction of Mrs. Frank Gillingham Morrill, the Peoria Players are gaining State-wide attention for the success of its Little Theater movement.
The Bradley Conservatory Orchestra, under the direction of Eldon C. Murray, has given a series of Sunday afternoon concerts which have been free to the public and have met with an enthusiastic reception.	M. J. S.
Providence, R. I., April 14.—Francis Paul Vellucci, the talented young pianist, attracted an appreciative audience at the Providence Plantations Club. Since Mr. Vellucci made his debut here two years ago he has made great strides in his art and, although still in his teens, is to be reckoned a serious player. The concerto (in the Italian style) by Bach which opened his program was played admirably, while the Beethoven sonata, op. 27 No. 2, which followed, was given with clearness, intelligence and technical facility. Poetry and charm marked his playing of Schumann’s novelette in E major and Weber-Tausig’s Invitation to the Dance. Amon'g the modern compositions Mr. Velucci included in his program was Carpenter’s Tango American. Said the Providence Journal; “Mr. Vellucci has already gained a dependable and brilliant technic. He plays with a certainty and clearness that is unusual for one of his years. He has temperament, too. This natural gift was noticeable throughout his program.”
Under the auspices of the National Association of Organists, Helen Hogan gave an organ recital in the Central Congregational Church. Miss Hogan’s opening number was Liszt’s fantasie and fugue which was followed by the Bach-Vivaldi concerto. To both of these numbers she brought rare skill. Bonnet’s rhapsody on Catalonian carols was the closing number. This difficult work was played with fine effect and brought forth hearty applause. Miss Hogan was assisted by Julia S. Gould, contralto, who sang two numbers by Bach and Dvorak.	G. F. H.
San Antonio, Tex., April 11.—The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Rudolph Ganz, conductor, was presented by the San Antonio Mozart Society, David L. Ormesher, director, in two concerts—matinee and night—April 5. The orchestra did splendid work under the baton of Mr. Ganz. He conducts quietly and with authority. The numbers for the matinee program were by Schubert, Thomas, Grainger and Liszt. The encores were the Meditation from Thais (played by the concert master, Michel Gusikoff) and The Swan, Saint-Saëns (played by H. Max Steindel, principal cellist). Mr. Ganz was the soloist for the matinee, playing the Liszt concerto in E flat, with the orchestra under the capable direction of the assistant conductor, Frederick Fischer. His tone is powerful and his technic faultless. He received a veritable ovation at the close and was forced to add two encores before the audience was satisfied. Numbers at night were by Wagner, Tschaikowsky and Chabrier and at the close, for encore, the Brahms dance, No. S. Carolina Lazzari, contralto, was the soloist. Her numbers were the Page Song from the Huguenots, and Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix, from Samson and Delilah. She also was obliged to respond with two encores, the accompaniments being played on the piano by Mr. Fischer. The Mozart Society contributed a splendid number—Fantasy on a Russian folic
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the helm and it goes without saying that things bigger and better than ever are in store for the members. While Mrs. Hill is affiliated with several clubs, besides being president of the State Federation of Music Clubs, most of her time is given to the Beethoven Club work. In this she has proven herself to be so capable and efficient that her election was not a surprise to Memphians. Other officers of the club for the ensuing year are Elizabeth Mosby, first vice-president; Mrs. David L. Griffith, second vice-president; Mrs. R. A. Street, third vice-president; Mrs. C. N. Marshall, recording secretary; Mrs. Emerson R. Bailey, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. F. Pritchard, treasurer, and Mrs. James M. McCormack, auditor.
^ A series of Lenten recitals was given at the Memphis Country Club on Sunday afternoons during Lent. Among those participating were Angelo and Joseph Cortese, harpist and violinist; Mmes. Charles Watson, soprano; Garner Strickland, soprano; Guston T. Fitzhugh, soprano; C. S. Lancaster, contralto; James L. McRee, soprano; Hugh Sandidge, tenor, and Mmes. Arthur Bower and Frank Sturm, accompanists.
The Josephine Club was selected this year by members of the Renaissance Circle to receive the benefit of its annual Spring Musicale. An attractive recital was given at the home of Mrs. Guston Fitzhugh last week, when a large fund was presented to the educational department of the Josephine Club.
Mrs. Clyde Parke and Mrs. Clarence Banning, of the Beethoven Club, arranged the March program for the matinee recital given at the Goodwyn ׳Institute. Numbers for piano were artistically given by Mrs. C. H. Marshall'. Mrs. Walter Richard, contralto; Katherine McKeaver, violinist; Arthur Bower, tenor; Josephine Hyde, harpist; Ava Norris, pianist; Mrs. J. L. McRee, soprano, and C. L. Montgomery, baritone, combined to provide a delightful musical afternoon.	J. y. f).
Missoula, Mont., April 23.—Friday evening, April 13, the Montana University Symphony Orchestra made its last appearance of the season at the University auditorium. The orchestra has been splendidly trained by Prof. A. H. Weis-berg and this was evidenced at its pel formance on Friday evening.
Marian Ferguson, a talented fifteen year old violinist, made an excellent appearance as soloist, playing Viotti’s twenty-third concerto. Miss. Ferguson is a pupil of Prof. Weisberg.
Saturday evening, April 7, the San Carlo Opera Company presented Madame Butterfly to a large audience at the Wilma Theater. Every seat in the large theater was taken and many were turned away. Tamaki Miura, the Japanese soprano, took the title role and was more ’than delightful in the part to which her nationality lent a finished interpretation. Other roles were proportionately well taken, making the entire performance one of brilliance. Sunday afternoon, April IS, the Missoula Choral Society made its last appearance of the season at the Liberty Theater, A. H. Weisberg conducting. Handel’s Judas Maccabeus was presented. The soloists were Josephine Pearce, Mrs. Charles Peck and Mrs. H. T. Forbis, sopranos; Mrs. T. E. Fitzgerald and Mrs. T. A. Price, contraltos; Donovan Warden, tenor, and W. L. Shovell, bass. The following members of the Symphony Orchestra furnished excellent accompaniments : Violins—Grace Gwinn, Bernice McKeen, Hildegarde Weisberg, Mrs. R. Gwinn, Ermel Malvern, Ruth Hawk, Dorothy Mueller; cello—Lois Ferguson; double bass—Mrs. A. H. Weisberg, and piano, Mrs. J. T. Walford.
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Nashville, Tenn., April 25.—An audience that crowded the hall, stood in the aisles and even sat on each other’s laps heard the concert by Phillip Gordon, pianist, and Aleda Waggoner (the latter a popular local soprano). Mr. Gordon played here last spring and created such an impression that everyone was eager to hear him again. His program on this occasion embraced numbers by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Cui, Strauss, Grieg and Chopin. Miss Waggoner’s delightful coloratura was heard in songs by Cadman, Wiggers and Bach-Gounod.	D. F.
Oakland, Cal.—(See Music on the Pacific Slope).
Oklahoma City, Okla., April 23,—Phillip Gordon, pianist, and Elinor Whittemore, violinist, presented a recital at Park Congregational Church. An artistic interpretation was given each number of a well selected program. Both artists use their technical mastery with excellent intent
G. D. F.
Peoria, 111., April 19.—Peorians have enjoyed an unusually fine musical season which closed with the Jenny Lind Concert by Frieda Hempel and her assisting artists on April 18. This was the last of the series given under the auspices of the Civic Music Association and was attended by a capacity house. The singer was attended by a group of society matrons and maids in costumes of 1850. Other interesting features such as have been employed elsewhere to make the concert an unusual and wholly delightful one were introduced.
The 9ieveIand Symphony Orchestra played in Peoria on March 16, also under the auspices of the Civic Music Association. Nikolai Sokoloff directed the splendid program.
The Ukrainian National Chorus came under independent management, the latter part of February. The remarkably beautiful tonal effects produced by Professor Koschetz and the dramatic solo work of Nina Koshetz was received with great enthusiasm.
The final concert of the artists’ series given by the Amateur Musical Club was the recital by Mabel Garrison on March 20. A crowded house greeted her and paid tribute to her beautiful^ voice with such loud and long applause that she was obliged to return again and again for encores.
The last members’ recital of the Amateur Musical Club was given by George G. Smith, baritone, of Chicago; Eldon C. Murray, violinist, of Bradley Conservatory of this city, and Mark Cowell, bass. The program was arranged on short notice, when those scheduled to appear were prevented by illness just the day before the recital. Mr. Smith and his accompanist, Florence Gullans, were guests in the city, having stopped on their way back to Chicago from an engagement in Owensboro, Ky., and consented to give a part of the program. The young baritone is a former Peor-ian and had not appeared in recital in his old home town for some time. His audience was delighted with his progress. His voice is of beautiful natural quality, well trained and well handled. His accompanist came in for her share of approval as she plays with artistic sympathy and pleasing touch. Mr. Murray is head of the violin department at
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A. Wolf, president of the local chapter and chairman of the Music Week Committee, are included these members: George Benkert, Walter G. Bahn, John G. Brubaker, Charles E. LeFevre, Horace E. Reichardt, George B. Rodgers, William Z. Roy, Richard Stockton, Harry A. Sykes and Charles E. Wisner. The chapter is co-operating with the Choir and Chorus Night, which includes a chorus of one hundred and sixty trained voices selected from various choirs, a ladies’ chorus of forty voices, and the Apollo Club, composed of forty male voices.	W. A. W.
Lemars, Iowa, April 20.—Ruth Rothschild appeared in piano recital at the Congregational Church, playing the Beethoven sonata in E flat, Debussy’s Minstrels, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, Liszt’s Caprice Poetic and Grainger’s Country Gardens and Spoon River. Miss Rothschild plays with a brilliant, fluent technic and excellent tone.
On Easter Sunday the Western Union Choral Club of seventy voices made its initial appearance under the baton of Herbert Haas. Alta Freeman and Ruth Rothschild were the accompanists, and Earl Thompson, baritone, the soloist. On March 20, Miss Freeman played before the State University of South Dakota. She revealed a brilliant technic, sweeping the keyboard with exhilarating fleetness and sureness. Her program, built for the most part as a vehicle for technical prowess, was dashed off with the zest of a dynamic personality. On April 6, Miss Freeman appeared in a piano recital before a crowded house at the Hildreth Memorial Church. Her program included numbers by Brahms, Bach, Chopin, Ganz, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. The spring term at Western Union College has been replete with student recitals. Iva Musbach and Helen Hayes, advanced pupils of Alta Freeman, appeared in recital at the college chapel recently.	G. M. E.
Lima, Ohio, April 16.—Frieda Hempel appeared April 13, in the program of Jenny Lind. From the opening until the close of the exceedingly interesting program, the gifted soprano held the enthusiastic audience as if by magic spell. As we listened to the tones so colorful and sympathetic we truly believed that the immortal Jenny Lind stood before us. And then we wondered who, in the next generation, would be able to impersonate our Frieda Hempel. She generously added six numbers to her program and returned time after time to acknowledge applause. Lima was charmed as it has never been before. Coenraad V. Bos, at the piano, gave the singer and the flutist excellent support. Of special interest was his phrasing in The Trout by Schubert, The Nut Tree by Schumann and an old English number, I Would Be a Butterfly. His solo work was an excellent part of the program, as was that of Louis P. Fritze. The Woman’s Music Club sponsored the concert.
On March 20, Charles Wakefield Cadman and Princess Tsianina gave an interesting program of Indian music in Memorial Hall, under the auspices of the Woman's Music Club. Both artists were cordially received.
Mrs. Charles A. Black has been elected president of the Woman’s Music Club. She will succeeded Mrs. Clem Baxter, who has been in office since 1921. The club has just finished a gratifying and successful year and comes to Mrs. Black as a well organized and successful institution.
Mrs. Clarence Klinger has been re-elected president of the Etude Club, an organization now in its twenty-fourth year, formed for the study of music in all its forms.
Mr. and Mrs. Branson Harley Holmes have returned to Lima from Cleveland where Mr. Holmes has been studying violin, preparatory to assuming duties with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra next season.	I. H. K.
Memphis, Tenn., April 14.—The third municipal concert sponsored by the Music Committee Chamber of Commerce and the Park Commission was given at the Lyric Theater. A program of operatic selections was arranged by Joseph Henkel and the wonderful advancement made by the orchestra was very marked. It was “Mississippi Night” and the Mississippians who were fortunate enough to hear Cora Cook, contralto, who was the guest soloist for the evening, had every reason to be proud of her. Miss Cook has a rich, full voice and charmed everyone not only with her singing but with her lovely personality. The aria Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns), with full orchestral accompaniment, and two groups which included suite—From, the South (Nicode), Sanctuary (LaForge), Brownies (Leoni), By a Lonely Forest Pathway (Griffis) and We’ll to tbe Woods and Gather May (Griffis) were given. Mrs. Lunsford Mason was at the piano and gave splendid support. The orchestra gave Mascagni’s Preludes Siciliana, Intermezzo Rusticana (harp played by Mrs. Joseph Henkel and French horn played by Mr. Hands), selection from La Josca (Puccini-Tavan), overture, The Hermit’s Bell (Maillart) and March of the Bojaren (Halvorsen). A. B. Williams is chairman of the music committee and devotes a great deal of time to the development of music in Memphis.
Mrs. Jefferson Franklin Hill, who has been president of the Beethoven Club for six consecutive years, is again at
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