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Participating also in these programs of American music are Marguerite D’Alvarez, Raymonde Delaunois and Lu-cilla de Yescovi. Mme. Tas will return' to America in the fall.
EDWIN SWAIN
date Palatka will have the opportunity again of entertaining Mr. Swain who has an assured and unforgettable place in the regard of its music-loving group.”
Other Florida towns which applauded Mr. Swain included Palm Beach, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Melbourne, Winter Park, Miami, Sarasota, Ocala. Incidentally, Mr. Swain managed to combine a brief vacation with his family in Florida.
People’s Symphony Chamber Music Concert
The Letz Quartet gave the April 27 chamber music concert in the series under the auspices of the People’s Symphony concerts, paying tribute to F. X. Arens, now of Los Angeles, in playing a largo from his quartet in C; it is melodious, easily understood music, on classic lines, and was much applauded. The beautiful contents of Tschaikowsky’s quartet in F, and a Debussy excerpt completed the program, which was heard by an extremely attentive and grateful audience of genuine music-lovers. The New York String Quartet gives the concert of May 25, and the Tollefsen Trio that of June 22.
Hofmann Sails May 26
Josef Hofmann sails for Europe on May 26, and will return to America to open his season at Carnegie Hall on October 21. Mr. Hofmann will go to Europe late in January for a long tour, beginning at Liverpool on February 2.
Activities of Mae D. Miller Artists
Mae D. Miller, vocal teacher, of New York and Allentown, recently presented her pupil, Helen Maude Miller, mezzo-contralto, in recital in New York and Allentown. The program was an interesting one, including as it did numbers in Italian, German and English. The singer was well received on both occasions.
Adele Schuyler appeared with Schildkraut in Peer Gynt, and Bernardine Brady has just closed a successful season in the role of Elinor in Irene at the Jolson Theater in New York. Both of these artists are from the Mae Miller studios.	, .
Several of Miss Miller’s pupils are filling church positions. Russell Van Winkle has been selected as the baritone soloist at the Church of the Redeemer, Paterson, N. J.; Gladys Evans is soprano soloist at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Bethlehem, Pa., and Bessie Taylor is contralto soloist at the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Bethlehem.
A. Russ Patterson Pupils Busy
Edward Beckman, tenor, has filled the following dates recently: March 27, soloist in Crucifixion, Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York; March 30, soloist, Crucifixion, Salem Lutheran Church, Brooklyn; April 13, banquet, Messiah Lutheran Church, Brooklyn; April 14, Norwegian Club, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn; April 17, A. Russ Patterson recital: April 21, concert at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Brooklyn.
־־ Rose Dreeben, soprano, sang on February 22 at the Washington Irving Auditorium, New York; March 10 at Gloversville, N. Y.; April 8, at the Community Center of Wilmington, Del.	,	, .	,
Leonore Van Blerkom, soprano, appeared at the Pleiades Club as guest soloist on April 1 and sang on the 14th m Brooklyn.	.	, T T
Esther Keep, contralto, was soloist in Elizabeth, N. J., on March 26.
Unqualified Praise for Edwin Swain
“No one who heard Mr. Swain’s cultivated and beautiful baritone voice failed to carry away rich memories for the future,” so read the Palatka, (Fla.) Daily News the day following the appearance in that city of Edwin Swain. “Those present gave this artist the tribute of closest attention and only words of highest praise were spoken in regard to his concert. ... To the writer no number of Mr. Swain’s program gave so richly the real depth and beauty of his voice as the great Handel number, Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves. The Lark was sung by Mr. Swain as musicians dream of hearing that great lyric, seldom having their dreams fulfilled.” The same paper spoke of Mr. Swain as “a scholarly and •musicianly singer” and declared that “it is hoped that at some later
Mme. Teschner Tas to Present American Works
Helen Teschner Tas, who sailed on the S.S. New Amsterdam April 28 for concerts in Europe, will be heard in London in May and in Paris in June. At Lazare Samin-sky’s lecture recitals on The Celtic Element in American Music, Mme. Tas will play, among other American works,
HELEN TESCHNER TAS,
the violinist, snapped with her husband on hoard the New Amsterdam on which she sailed on April 28 for European engagements.
Louis Gruenberg’s sonata, for which the composer may be at the piano. She will present with the Colonne Orchestra the concertina after Ariosti by Albert Elkus, of San Francisco, at one of the two Paris concerts to be devoted chiefly to American composers and composers residing in America, which Mr. Saminskv is to direct. Among other Americans whose works she will play are Albert Stoessel, Emerson Whithorne, Frederick Jacobi (whose first of three Preludes is dedicated to the violinist), and Edwin Grasse.
Latest German Press Comments on
CORNELIA RIDER POSSART
The Distinguished American Pianist
MUNICH
The interpretation of the Haydn Sonate was finely chiseled, full of poetry and grace. In Chopin she revealed her astonishing velocity and her vigorous yet finely shaded touch.
. —Abendzeitung.
CASSEL
In this artist there lives an art of such nobility, such glowing warmth and grandeur as is rarely so completely vouchsafed to anyone.
—Cassel Post.
The artist is in possession of a finely polished dexterity, an unusually excellent staccato, and there is a great wealth of nuances in her touch.
—Casseler Tageblatt.
WEIMAR
Mme. Rider-Possart proved the deep seriousness of her strong personality with distinguished success. The passionate character and urgeful haste of the Schumann G-minor sonata—unfortunately rarely played—carried conviction. The andanto shone forth in a poetic apotheosis.
•—Thüringer Landeszeitung.
Photo by Mishkin, N. Y.
BERLIN
Her technic is masterly, and intellectually and musically Mme. Possart is absolutely sovereign to her task.—Berliner Tageblatt, (March 29, 1923).
The climax [of the concert] was Tchaikovsky’s B-minor concerto, in which Mme. Possart could focus all her excellences and let them shine as in a spectrum.—Allegemeine Musikzeitung, (March 9, 1923).
Feeling, grace, and a pearly elegance characterize her playing.—Berliner Börsenzeitung, (March 9, 1923).
HAMBURG
Fundamental musical feeling, combined with a subtile and super-clean technique.
—Hamburger Anzeiger.
Well developed technic and a beautiful and varied touch gave all her offerings a plastic and impressive effect.—Hamburger Fremd,enblatt, (March 10).