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Seibert’s First Year in New York a Success
Henry F. Seibert, organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, played for Pierre S. Du Pont, Kenneth Square, near Wilmington, Del., on April 29. This was his fourth engagement there within a year. The Du Pont organ, a four-manual Aeolian, is placed in a large conservatory that will seat 2,000. The conservatory is enclosed in glass and is filled with flowers, plants and all kinds of greens. In the summer one can hear the singing of birds. Mr. Du Pont, being of a philanthropic nature, admits _ the public to his estate twice a month. A small admission is charged, the fund being given to a local hospital. Mr. Du Pont engages prominent recitalists throughout the year. An antiphonal organ is to be added to the present four manuals.
In the near future Mr. Seibert will give recitals on two new organs in Reading, Pa., at the Holy Spirit Lutheran Church on the three-
Nelson, soprano, and Mabel Rifch, contralto. Among the recent recitals played by Mr. Seibert in New York, mention might be made of the Skinner Organ Company, for radio broadcasting, on March 4 and 18, and Easter Sunday evening. He has been chosen as one of the five New York organists to play these recitals regularly for the Skinner Company.
This is Mr. Seibert’s first year in New York and it has been a most successful one. Some of the enthusiasm expressed in his recitals probably is due to Mr. Seibert’s desire to arrange programs with a human appeal, and yet
THE DU PONT CONSERVATORY.
(1) An exterior view of the building, in which there is a concert hall seating 2,000.	(2) An interior view. (8) The four
been placed in the conservatory.
not lower the standard of the program. So many laymen have expressed the opinion that organ recitals are uninteresting ; that they can be made interesting by injecting music that the layman can enjoy and understand.
manual Aeolian organ which has
manual Skinner, and at the Windsor Street Methodist Church, on the two-manual Austin. He will give the last musical service of the season at Holy Trinity, New York, on Sunday afternoon, May 6, with Esther
Spangled Banner, accompanied by the Navy Yard Band, as the assembled people stood at attention and the colors were lowered to the salute. Later numbers included the Balatella from Pagliacci, and the popular Musetta Waltz from La Boheme, with all of which she “thrilled her audience,” according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
Miss Roselle left New York on April 16 to join the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra with which she will appear as soloist on its extensive spring tour of six weeks.
College of Music and American Conservatory Give Combined Recital
Carnegie Chamber Music Hall was well filled Friday evening, April 13, which day and date did not prove unlucky for the many students who took part in the concert given by the affiliated institutions, the New York College of Music and the American Conservatory of Music, Carl Hein and August Fraemcke, directors. Three each of piano, vocal and violin numbers, and two ensemble selections (piano, violin and cello) made up a program of eleven items. One who heard this recital marks it with the adjectives good and excellent after each number, so registering about ninety per cent. The participants in the order of their appearance (playing works by Benoist, Chopin, David, Donizetti, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Woodforde-Einden, Denza, Bach, Ernst, Ries and Weber), were the students Herman Hoffman, Howard Kay, Nathan Cohen, Helen Gillespie, Lillian Egli, Marie Gilroy, Marion Nachenson, Linnea Hartman, Doris N. Coxon, John Winslow, Belmont Fisher, Leonora Heyman and Mathilda Greenberg.
Lucchese Engaged for Ravinia Season
Josephine Lucchese, now on tour with the San Carlo Opera Company, with which she has been singing stellar coloratura roles the past two seasons, will also be prominent in the casts to be presented during the season soon to open in Havana.
On his return from Cuba, after a brief rest which will be in the nature of a belated honeymoon, since she went on tour immediately after her marriage to Capt. Adolfo Caruso in Philadelphia last fall, she will go to Chicago, where she has been engaged for ten performances with the summer opera company at Ravinia Park, directed by Louis Eckstein. The roles which she will sing there will include Violetta in La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Olympia and Antonia in Tales of Hoffman, Micaela in Carmen, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Suzel in L’Amico Fritz, and the title parts in Martha and Lucia.
Miss Lucchese has also been engaged for a recital at the Chautauqua held at Orion Lake, Mich., on August 18.
Josef Schwarz to Italy and the Orient
Josef Schwarz, immediately after his forthcoming appearance in Chicago, leaves for Italy, and will spend the summer in Europe where he has been engaged for a number of guest performances of opera. In the early fall he returns to America to fill a number of engagements which will take him to the Pacific Coast, whence he sails for the Orient, having been engaged by managers in Yokohama for a tour of the far East. He will return to America in time for a few additional dates in the late season of 1924 under the management of Hurok.
Current Engagements for Patton
Fred Patton, baritone, recently was heard in two performances in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Other appearances last month include Bridgeport, Conn.; Springfield, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio (two days at the Festival) ; Schenectady, N. Y., and Astoria, L. I.
CINCINNATI NOTES
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 19.—Pupils of William Morgan Knox of the College of Music faculty were heard in a violin recital at the Odeon on April 16. The accompaniments were played by Virginia Gilbert from the class of Albino Gorno.
Frances Boecher, a graduate pupil of Estelle B. Whitney of the College of Music, gave a recital at the Odeon on April 13.
The vocal pupils of Hans Schroeder, of the College of Music, appeared in the Odeon, April 14.
A novel program of original compositions was enjoyed, April 16, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, presented by the members of Omicron Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity. The works were by Edgar Stillman Kelley, Chalmers Clifton, Augustus O. Palm, George A. Leighton and Ralph Lyford. They were performed by John A. Hoffmann, George Leighton, Burnet C. Tuthill, Jean Verd, Albert Berne and Garner Rowell.
A vocal recital was given by the pupils of Lino Mattioli of the College of Music, April 11, in the Odeon.
The Clifton Music Club held a meeting on April 13, at which Augustus O. Palm delivered a lecture on Oriental Music. A number of musical selections were also rendered by the members, making the afternoon a pleasant one. _
Members of the Students’ Music Club were entertained on April 14 by Martha Hopkins.
There was a meeting of the Meltone Musical Club on April 18, at the home of Mrs. Edwin Malden, Walnut Hills..
The Rebecca Bryan Boone Chapter of the D. A. R. gave a delightful list of musical numbers at the residence of Mrs. Edward S. Smith, Clifton.
J. H. Thuman, manager of the College of Music, delivered a lecture on the May Festival music before the Council of Catholic Women on April 17, in the ballroom of the Hotel Alms.
Clifford Cunard, tenor, pupil of Dan Beddoe of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, gave a song recital at Conservatory Hall on April 18, including two songs by Louise Harrison Snodgrass who acted as accompanist.
Florence Hardemann, post-graduate and gold medalist of the College of Music, has been receiving some flattering compliments upon her work as assisting artist with Schumann Heink, in her tour of the southern states.
The advanced pupils of Albino Gorno, of the College of Music, were heard on April 12.
Lillian Denman, pianist, of the class of Leo Stoffregen, was soloist at a musicale given at the home of Mrs. Clifford Ault, April 9.
Richard Knost, baritone; Dorothy Butts, soprano; Maria Terrshova, pianist; Agnes Wagner, soprano, and Milton Dockweiler, violinist (with Louise Renick as accompanist) gave a concert on April IS at the East High School Auditorium.
Frederick Shailer Evans presented a number of his pupils in a piano recital on April 13, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
A musical program was rendered by members of the Alpha Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon at the Northside Methodist Episcopal Church, on April 12. Among the numbers was Sea Fairies, a chorus composed by one of the members of the sorority, Elizabeth Cook. Aline Doeller, mezzo-soprano, and Clifford Cook, bass, assisted.	W. W.
.	4000 Hear Anne Roselle in Brooklyn
A Brooklyn audience, said to have been the largest ever gathered under that roof, greeted Anne Roselle, soprano, Thursday evening, April 12, in the 13th Coast Defense Command Armory, when she appeared as soloist at the concert which was a special feature of the opening of the American Legion membership drive.
Miss Roselle opened the ceremonies by singing the Star
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