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CONCERT RECORD OF WORKS BY SOME OF OUR BEST AMERICAN COMPOSERS
Marion Bauer
•	• •; • . Marie Tiffany, New York .Minnie Carey Stine, New York .Minnie Carey Stine, New York Minnie Carey Stine, New York .Minnie Carey Stine, New York ••••Estelle Liebling, New York .Minnie Carey Stine, New York .....Estelle Liebling, New York
•	Minnie Carey Stine, New York ....Estelle Liebling, New York
Orientale ................ ...
Orientale ....................
By the Indus....................
Star Trysts...................
Youth Comes Dancing.............
Youth Comes Dancing...........
Only of Thee and Me.............
Only of Thee and Me.............
The Linnet Is Tuning Her Flute. The Linnet Is Tuning Her Flute
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
Ear ....................................Marie Tiffany, New York
Exultai״)!!........................Maude Holzer Evans, Philadelphia
..........................Maude Holzer Evans, Philadelphia
Ecstasy......... ............................ •Ida F. Boite, Philadelphia
Ah’ TL״°V״e־ tf* ai?ay................״....Ida F. Boite, Philadelphia
i	a,DaJ ' ■■.........׳••F״eda KIlnk* Worcester, Mass.
ïhe	I Æe lpr-mg.............Maude Ho,2er Evans, Philadelphia
v >S aî f IP"■11®..........................Frieda Klink, New York
The Years at the Spring.................Helen Fouts Cahoon, Dallas
A Hermit Thrush at Eve (Piano),
Maurice Dumesnil, St. Joseph, Mo.; Iowa Falls, la • Port Huron, Mich.; Streator, 111.; Bowling Green, Toledo, New Philadelphia, Ohio
G. W. Chadwick
Thou^Art^So Like a Flower,.....Mme• Schuma"״ Hei"k• St. Louis
„ J . T ״	May Poterson, Tacoma, Wash.; Portland, Ore.
.bedouin Love Song...........Edwin Swain, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Ralph Cox
..........Earle Tuckerman, New York
..........William Simmons, New York
To a Hilltop To a Hilltop
Mabel W. Daniels
.......Henry Jackson Warren, Boston
. . . . . . .Marion Aubens Wise, Brookline Mrs. J. K. Shinn, Independence, Kans
Glory and Endless Years The Persian Captive. . . . Villa of Dreams...........
Arthur Foote
.. Lotta Madden, New York Mildred Graham, New York ...Frieda Klink, New York ..Lotta Madden, New York .William Ryder, New York . .Marie Tiffany, New York
Shadows. . . Shadows... Tranquility. Tranquility Tranquility, Tranquility.
G. A. Grant-Schaefer
Little David......	.......May Peterson, Portland, Ore.: Tacoma
Down to the Crystal Streamlet (A la Claire Fontaine),
The FairiP	^ Royal Dadmun, New York
The Sea ..............................£aro!ln.a Lazzari, Los Angeles
lhe bea...............................Virginia Burch, Evanston, 111.
Francis Hopkinson
Free (From “THE FIRST and augmented by HAROLD
My Days Have Been so Wondrous AMERICAN COMPOSER,” edited VINCENT MILLIGAN).
, Dorothy Schwenck, Ithaca
The Garland (From “COLONIAI?LOVE LYRK?¿3״ fdited'fnd augmented by HAROLD VINCENT MILLIGAN)
Elizabeth Hood Latta, Philadelphia
Bruno Huhn
...............William Ryder, New York
־ ;.'■״־־ •a* ־ \v • ■ • • •Everett Crawford, Ithaca Vito Geraldo Petrone, Independence, Kans. ...............Archibald Jackson, Detroit
Invictus. Invictus. Invictus. Invictus־.
Louis Johns
The Knight's Return............Harold L. Butler, Lawrence, Kans.
George B. Nevin
The Songs’of^hèa Woods; 'frió 'for WotSl* Voices0,Ь°°Ше1<1' ^
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.
Francisco di Nogero
My Love is a Muleteer............Minnie Carey Stine, New York
Robert Huntington Terry
Leonard Cowley, Yonkers, N. Y. ----Ellis Doyle, Yonkers, N. Y.
The Morning Is Calling. The Morning Is Calling
Claude Warford
Twilight Fo’ Dreamin’,
Florence Otis, Savannah, Atlanta, Ga • The Last Wish,	St* Augustine’ Jacksonville, Fla.
Florence Otis, Savannah, Atlanta, Ga : St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Fla.
RADIO BROADCASTS Gena Branscombe
• Norman Jolliffe
Program broadcasted from Newark, N. J.
By St. Lawrence Water,
At the Postern Gate,
I Bring You Heartsease,
Three Mystic Ships,
The Morning Wind,
Krishna,
Hail ye Tyme of Holiedaye;
The Best Is Yet To Be...............
There’s a Woman Like a Dewdrop.........! Ethel Grow
Just Before the Lights Are Lit,	>
Sprightly Mrs. Grasshopper.
From ,‘Three Songs for Unimproving Children and I »,״ ״ ,
One Song for Sleepy Time,	f ־ • •Bobby Besler
The Birthday Party,
Over Dreaming Children,	J
Violin and Piano
Mrs. Ferlin-Michaelis
An Old Love Tale At the Fair,
A Memory,
A Carnival Fantasy,
G. W. Chadwick
.................Walter H. Kidder, Boston
Bruno Huhn
..........Harold T. Cooper, New York
J. W. Metcalf
.................Grace L. Baum, Boston
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MUSICAL COURIER
learning. The choir has, from its inception been under the direction of Lloyd Morey, F. A. G. O., organist and choirmaster ; it is a vested choir of 16 voices, and has acquired a reputation for musical worth quite equal to that of the famomus Paulist organization. As a matter of musical education it would be a fine thing to have this choir make a tour to show what can be accomplished in choral singing. Its members receive no renumeration for their services, but the training is sufficient recompense to these singers, and regulations are strictly kept.
The programs received included the Christmas program, a typical Sunday program, and the Palm Sunday program. For the Christmas program the outstanding feature was the carols, nearly all sung unaccompanied. The program was; Traditional French carol from Gevaert’s Collection de Choeurs, edited by Clarence Dickinson; Pietro Yon’s beautiful setting of The Infant Jesus, an old Latin hymn; two of Nicolai’s old German chorales, harmonized by Bach, How Bright Appears the Morning Star, and Wake, Awake for Night is Flying; Traditional carol in dialogue form, harmonized by Stainer, in which the Page was sung by Mrs. Lloyd Morey, soprano, and the King by Howard W. Thomas, tenor; the Twilight Carol by Matthews, the familiar old English, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, and Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep, a Besancon Carol. Mrs. Morey was heard in three interesting carols, From Heaven High the Angels Come, (XIV century English), The Virgin’s Lullaby, by Harker, on an ancient Latin poem; and another old English carol, What Child is This. The program closed with Good Christian Men, Rejoice, a new setting by T. F. H. Candlyn of the old Latin hymn In dulci jubilo.
The particularly interesting feature of the program for February 25 was the offertory, O Thou Who Dost Accord Us, an old choral, by H. Isaak (1590), harmonized by J. S. Bach, and found in the Bach Chorale Book.
The Palm Sunday service was held in the great hall of the Wesley Foundation, and opened with All Glory, Laud and Honor (Bach). This was sung unaccompanied. The others included, O Gladsome Light (Sullivan), O Fount of Love (Wilson), Come Unto Him (Gounod), and Hail to Thee, Hail, from the Passion Play of Oberammergau ar-ranged by Baker.
The always welcome Pro Peccatis (Rossini’s Stabat Mater), was sung by Ray I. Shawl, baritone soloist of Trinity, and O All Ye Who Travel, from the Seven Last Words of Christ, (DuBois) was sung by Mrs. Lloyd Morey, soprano soloist, and the First Word, Father, Forgive Them by Mrs. Morey, Mr. Shawl and the choir.
J he closing .group, sung entirely unaccompanied, com-pnsed O Domine Jesu Christe, (Palestrina), Ave Maris Stella, (Anerio), Panis Angelicus, (Baini), Agnus Dei (G K Schwartz) They That Sow in Tears, (Holy City), and Passion chorale, O Sacred Head Now Wounded (Bach).
F. R.
Washington, D. C.—(See letter on another page).
Peterson’s Concert “Different”
Sacramento, Cal., April 5.—May Peterson, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, assisted at the piano by Charles Touchette, appeared here at the Clunie Theater on February 16 in an interesting concert under the auspices of the Saturday Club. According to the Bee: “It was an exceptionally friendly audience that greeted May Peterson and the! u dlsPlay °! welcome at her return to Sacramento and the club the singer was quick to appreciate and to respond to. . . . A Peterson concert is something just a little different from the usual order. Highly artistic and refined, the novelty of it lies in the artist’s disarming way of stepping forward and giving explanations of her songs. She does it so naturally it cannot fail to establish a valuable bond of sympathy and understanding between herself and her listeners. The voice is a lyric soprano, expressive in its purity and perfections of pitch. It soars as lightly into the high registers as a bird’s and is scintillatingly beautiful when it does.”	jj p
Macbeth’s Triumph in Seattle
One of the bright stars of this year’s music festival at Newark, N. J., was Florence Macbeth, the young American prima donna, who this season scored so brilliant a success with the Chicago Opera Company. She is now touring a* c(2lcert| drawing huge audiences and winning much favor. At Seattle, Wash., she achieved “the greatest triumph of the music season,” the local managers wiring that “Macbeth’s Seattle concert last night was another artistic triumph for this highly gifted artist. Hers is the most brilliant success of the musical season. She thoroughly thrilled a large and enthusiastic audience, responding to many encores. Consider Macbeth the outstanding coloratura soprano of the day.”
Rosati and Ornstein to Teach at Lake Orion Summer School
It has been announced that Enrico Rosati, the vocal master, and Leo Ornstein, the pianist, will be among those to teach at the International Chautauqua-Assembly and Summer School at Lake Orion, Mich., from July 4 to August 26. There are plans to make this a great permanent Chautauqua and arrangements are being completed for a membership drive in Oakland County for one thousand members at ten dollars each. Dr. C. S. Knight, of the. First Baptist Church in Pontiac, is chairman of the campaign.
Truette Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Everett E. Truette, the well known Boston organist, teacher and choir director, recently celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as organist and choir master of the Eliot Church, Newton, Mass. There was a reunion of all the singers of the chorus choir, past and present, the gathering including a number of singers now prominent in Boston musical life.
New York and Boston Recitals for Leginska Next Season
Ethel Leginska will play both New York and Boston recitals next season, the former at Carnegie Hall on November 7, the later at Jordan Hall on November 3. In January she will leave for an extensive Pacific Coast tour.
May 3, 1923
song by Samuel R. Gaines—directed by Mr. Ormesher, with accompaniment by a portion of the orchestra and Eleanor Mackensen, regular accompanist of the society, at the piano.
The San Antonio Musical Club entertained at the April luncheon, April 2, which was also the annual luncheon given in honor of musicians and music lovers in the army. Mrs. Beck, the president, introduced the speakers: Mrs. A. Williams, Mrs. George Chase Lewis, Frances Nash (Mrs. E. M. Watson) and Mary Howard. Photographs of Bertha Berlinez, a San Antonio girl who is making a success in opera in Italy, were shown. Mrs. A. J. Brandon was chairman of the program which was given by Mrs. Oscar Kain, soprano; Mrs. W. H. Noble, violinist; Mrs. Wm. S. Weis-singer, contralto, and St. John Wright, pianist, of London. The accompanists were Mrs. A. J. Brandon and Mrs. Nat Goldsmith.
The April luncheon of the Tuesday Musicale Club was held on the third, with Cara Franklin in charge. Of unusual interest were the following written interviews with some of San Antonio’s musicians who have been successful elsewhere: Mrs. John Steinfeldt, about Ruth Bingaman, pianist, Ora Witte, about Colberta Millet, soprano and teacher; Mrs. T. H. Flannery, about Harold Morris, pianist, composer and teacher; Alice Mayfield about Hugh McAmis, organist; Mamie Dennison about Rafaelo Diaz, tenor; Mrs. Eli Hertzberg about May Howard, soprano, who was present as honor guest, and Mrs. John B. Albright about Josephine Lucchese, soprano, of whom some photographs were shown. Musical numbers were given by Helen Beck, pianist; Annie Oge Wicks, soprano; Mrs..T. H. Flannery, contralto ; Leonora Smith, violinist, and Mary Howard, soprano. The accompanists were Mrs. Harry Leap, Ethel Crider and Mrs. Nicholas Corwin Hall. Mrs. Hertzberg, president of the club, also made a few remarks concerning the first teachers of the persons interviewed.
A sacred song service was given April 4, at the Highland Park Lutheran Church. Of particular interest were the solos by Sarah Karcher, violinist, accompanied by Mrs. J. D. Dart.
The Thursday Class of Musical Appreciation, conducted by Mrs. C. C. Higgins, lecturer, with Mrs. Lawrence Meadows playing the motifs at the piano, studied Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, April 5. Mrs. Higgins’ talks are most comprehensive.
The San Antonio College of Music presented Irena Wise-cup, of Rockdale, a youthful pupil of John M. Steinfeldt. She plays with technic and musical insight far exceeding what is usually expected in one of her age. The program consisted of the Beethoven concerto in C major, with Mr. Steinfeldt at_ the second piano, and other numbers by Bach, Mozart, Steinfeldt, Raff, Moszkowski, Neubert and. Mac-Dowell.
The Sunday program given by the excellent orchestra of the Empire Theater, under the direction of Julien Paul Blitz, consisted of the overture to Stradella (Flotow), On the Mountain (Godard), At the Mill (Gillet), Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses (Openshaw) and, for the popular taste, Rose of the Rio Grande. Patrons of the Palace Theater heard the orchestra play, under the direction of Don Felice, Ba buco dono sor (Verdi), Marche Slav (Tschaikowsky), Träumerei (Schumann) and Paul White-man’s fox trot arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Song of India. Joseph Sheehan and his company are presenting a condensed version of Martha, this week.	S. W.
San Diego, Cal.—(See Music on the Pacific Slope). San Francisco, Cal.—(See Music on the Pacific Slope). Seattle, Wash.—(See letter on another page). Spartanburg, S. C., April 24.—A high school singing contest, the first of its kind in this part of the country, was held here April 20 when a dozen boys and girls representing high schools of Greenville, S. C.; Asheville, N. C.; Rock Hill, S. C.; Spartanburg and other cities competed for a fifty-dollar prize each for the best boy and girl singer. The judges awarded the first prize for boys to John Mc-Cormac, pupil of the Buncombe County High School, Asheville, and designated Vernon Tanner, soprano, of Spartanburg, as second best. For the girls, the winner was Jane Frances Taylor, of Hastoc School, and the second best Lucia Atkinson, of Spartanburg.
The youthful singers sang two songs each in the afternoon and were heard by a committee of three judges who sat behind a screen and knew the singers only by the number called by the director. In the evening at Converse College auditorium, a large audience attended a concert given by the high school singers, assisted by the Spartanburg High School Glee Club. The high school competition is a plan of Frederick W. Wodell’s, director of the Spartanburg Music Festival, who stated in a short address at the evening concert that the purpose of it was to encourage the teaching of singing in public schools.
In an extensive program, affording opportunity to show the range of her voice and the artistry of her work, Madeline F. Hunt, contralto, appeared April 16, in the auditorium, before an appreciative audience. Miss Hunt was assisted by Mesdames Horace L. Bomar and W. C. Cooke, violinists, and Fannie J. Julliene, accompanist. A feature of the evening was the singing of a Lullaby composed by Mrs. Jullienne, the composer playing the accompaniment and Mrs. Cooke the violin obligato. Miss Hunt is one of the leading voice teachers here and takes prominent part in the choir at the Church of the Advent. She was probably best liked in Verdi’s O, Don Fatale. Her rendition of Farley’s The Night Wind was also excellent. Miss Hunt’s voice is rich and full.	D. L. S.
Spokane, Wash.—(See Music on the Pacific Slope). Stamford, Conn., April 12.—An artist-pupils’ recital was given by the advanced classes of Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Abell, April 7. Paul Kefer, cellist, was guest artist and Signe Larsen was his accompanist.
The artists presented by the Schubert Club at its eleventh recital of the season were Leila Joel Hulse, contralto, and Max Drittler, pianist. Mme. Hulse was given an ovation, her sympathetic interpretations and rich, colorful voice completely captivating her audience. Max Drittler gave a particularly interesting rendition of the G minor sonta by Schumann.	E. F. W.
Urbana, 111., April 20.—That the “corn-belt” evidences interest in musical research is shown by three programs of the choir of Trinity Church at Urbana, 111. This church ministers. to the Methodist student body at the University of Illinois, and is affiliated with the Wesley Foundation, a social centre established by the Methodists at institutions of