May 10, 1923
MUSICAL COURIER
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AUSTRO-GERMAN MUSICIANS’ RELIEF FUND COMMITTEE
Theodore Spiering, Chairman
List of contributors up to and including May 5, 1923:
Eleonore Henkelman
Mrs. Howard L. Weatherly
Maud Osborn
Blanche Epstein
Ethel Meshaloff
Evelyn Stern
Sidney W. Mandell
Romeo Perrella
Emma Ricardo Kieser
Mary Schenck
Mrs. George Ritter
Zenaida de la Torre
Mrs. Irving»Laurie
W. Urso
A Music Lover
E.	C. A. Figaro
H.	Weiss
I.	Balen
N. Segalowritz B. Meyerson,
Y. Novick
Anna Stumpf
Katherine Horst
Christina Goess
Joseph Correll
Frances Pehl
Henrietta Scott
Blanche Foster
Marie Schmidt
Florence Wessels
Alexander Morello
W. I. Tedesco
Mrs. L. J. Walther
Dirce Dal Lago
Alfred Arol
Albert Pirman
Jarrell E. Gose
Charles J. Hamp
Jules Daiber
Corinne Mayer
Myrtle Elvin Block
Countess Argilagos
Emily Grant von Tetzel
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson
Wallingford Riegger
Frederick Kahn
Lily Petschnikoff
Paul Bender
Maria Ivogiin
Mrs. Samuel Untermyer (in memory of Gustav Mahler) Mrs. Samuel Untermyer (in memory of Arthur Nikisch) Hardman, Peck Co.
Adolf Weidig Elisabeth Rothwell George Lehmann Florence Goldstein Sergei Rachmaninoff Katherine Goodson Hinton Andrea Polah Charles Mattmann Dr. C. F. Jellinghaut
F.	W. Reubler Adele Margulies Carlo Sabatino Herman Devries Mrs. L. H. Abele Wilhelm Bachaus John B. Siefert Mrs. H. C. Adams Joseph Gahm
Idis Lazar
Irma C. Correll
Varette Ter Stepanoff II.
Victor Ebling Ernest R. Kroeger Ottmar Moll Leo C. Miller David Earle Nathan Sacks Sam Franko Nathan Fryer Heniot Levy Harold Bauer
Varette Ter Stepanoff Ernest Schelling Alberto Jonas
Mrs. Geo. Herbert-Engelhard American Piano Co.-Wm.
Knabe Co.
W. B. Claypool Daniel Gregory Mason Anonymous (Toronto)
Albert Elkus
Mrs. Henry Schradieck
John Friedrich
Anna Heuermann Hamilton
Reger W. Kahn
Jean Stockwell Budlong
John F. Renner
Sohmer Co.
Society of American Musicians, Chicago
Music Teachers of St. Louis
Ruth G. Hill
Katherine A. Mohr
Gustave Becker
Robert W. Grant
H. F. Faber
N. Val Peavy
Otto Wissner and Son
Gustave A. Kluenter
Kate Hunter	.
C Sharp Club of Detroit, Mich. Ludwig Marum American Conservatory Chapter S. A. D. Sorority.
Irene Triesch Lamond Elsa Alsen Ganna Walska
Elise .Aehle, School of Music,
St. Louis
W. Richard Miles Mrs. O. H. Vorubrock Ernest A. Vorubruck Katherine Vaughan Mrs. W. B. Swords Frank Rodman Marion Wright *
Margaret Ives Maurice Wright Jack Thomas C. Leslie Wolf Chester Knierim Russell T. Oe'den Audrey E. Schmidt Marion A. Swords Andrew Pertici Elizabeth Leago Edward Zimmer Rose Williams Philip Luedde Ella A. Vorubrock Jennie Lee Aehle John Brent Williams Sherwood Family Anonymous, New York M. F. P., Albany, N. Y.
Werner Josten Margaret Seblouch Samuel Stetz Frank Williams Bella Frankel Antonio Lombardo George C. Hriczko, Jr.
Ellen Ballon Frances Jablow Myrtle Falcon Cooper John Standerwick Erl Beatty
Anne Harrison Wade Dorothy Goldsmith Netter,
Helen Michell Edward Garrett Lillian Brachman Charlotte S. Foreman Maurice Aronson Susie F. Pipes
Carl R. Edson Mrs. Carl R. Edson Leopold Auer Sophie Beebe Wilhelm Middelschulte Hans Letz Eleanor Spencer Cesar Saerchinger׳
Harriet Van Emden Mildred Largie Irma C. Correll Harold Manierre Antonio Lora Gertrude Lawrence Maud M. Foote Vera A. Way Emanuel Oesterreicher Adalbert Ostendorff Lilyan Weintraub Olive Hildreth Mayer Frederic Hoffman Alexander Lambert Edith Braun Frederick Jacobi Walter Knupfer C. O. Herz Mrs. John Gerrian Adolph Mayer Louise Robyn Augusta Murphy Bertha J. Burlingame Mrs. L. von Bernuth Willem Mengelberg George Fergusson Frederic Reidemeister Theo. Cassebeer Hans Kindler Marcella Sembrich Joseph Lhevinne Augusta Cottlow Frederic Jacobi, in memory of the late Robert Leonhardt Paul H. Wagner Henry Ziegler Ernest Hutcheson Alvin L. Schmoeger George Meader Elly Ney
Willem van Hoogstraten Max Adler
Mr. and Mrs. Crosbey Adams
Frank A. Schaedler
Alfred Hertz
Paul H. Bilhuber
Carl Westmann
Elizabeth Cueny
Florence Easton
Francis Maclennan
William H. Daniels
Ted Bacon
Edwin Grasse
Rubin Goldmark
Katherine Cavalli
Alfred E. Human
Euda R. Sollitt
Phillip Gordon
Guiseppe A. Randegger
Theodor Bohlmann
Charles Pabst
Paul Mausolff
R. F. Balke
Hugo Kortschak
Thilo Becker
William K. Schmoller
Mrs. David J. Kelley
Jacob J. Froess
Joseph Knecht
W. C. Dierks
Anonymous, Brussels
I. J. Paderewski
H. H. Flagler
W. H. Humiston
Arthur Alexander
Gustav Glaser
Nahan Franko
Dr. and Mrs. Elsenheimer
Harold Randolph Arthur Shattuck Josef Hofmann Amy H. Beach Dagmar de C. Rybner Dr. Cornelius Rybner Thuel Burnham Carl Busch Henry Hadley Victor Herbert Margaret A. Cox Mme. Charles Cahier Frank La Forge Myra Hess J. Lawrence Erb Nicoline Zedeler-Mix Sergei Klibansky Louise Keppel Theodore Spiering Eva S. Joseph Ida S. Lester Ernest Urchs Chalmers Clifton J. B. Berkhoel Alfredo Oswald Guy Maier Steinway & Sons Joseph Regneas ^
Fred Steinway
Herman Irion
Walter Fischer
Fritz Kreisler
Victor Harris
Anna Faber
B. H. Balensiefer
Paul H. Schmidt
Theodore E. Steinway
R. Mojewski
Hattie Kammerer
Albert Stuercke
Sylvia Cushman
Bern Boekelmann
Madeleine S. Stern
Mrs. Norman S. Goldberger
Anonymous, Springfield, Mass.
Francis Macmillen
Hans Schneider
Walter Spry
Herman Epstein
A. C. Wieland
Emerson Whithorne
John R. Oatman
Rudolph Ganz
H. C. Kudlich
John Passaretti
George Raudenbush
Morris Goldberg
Paul Miersch
Herman Diestel
August Palma
Louis Lupo
Carl J. Stern
Frank Paul
J. J. Hattstaedt
David Stanley Smith
Gustav Saenger
Martha Martin
Eugene Gruenberg
Julius Marx
D.	W. Lerch Edmund Gram Coenraad V. Bos Lee Pattison Geo. J. Birkal Frieda Hempel Anna Mussgang
E.	H. Droop Oscar Springer
Marguerite Melville-Liszniewska Georges Enesco Oscar G. Sonneck Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Carl Bernthaler J. C. Freeman Margaret Rice
astman Theater Orchestra (Rochester) and Orchestras of the Rivoli and Capitol theaters, New York
to be sent to Ernest Urchs, treasurer, care Steinway & Sons, 109 East 14th Street, New York.
for years had one of the best orchestras in the city, whose director, Carli Elinor, has in every way upheld the policy. As an added attraction during the MacDowell week, Mr. Elinor gave a program of MacDowell music, the club engaging Claire Forbes Crane, the eminently gifted pianist, to play the last movement of the MacDowell second concerto, the performance of which was an achievement of truly memorable musical value. Mr. Elinor is a real conductor and thorough musician, . and his orchestra has an enviable reputation. Their playing of the concerto and of the march from the Indian Suite was equal to almost any symphony orchestra of like size (fifty pieces).
The MacDowell Club looks forward to the busiest and most useful year of its existence next season. A new and beautiful clubhouse is to be erected for its occupation, which will materially assist in the broadening ambitions of the club, and the foundation of the new colony will be a gratification to its devoted president, Mrs. Graham French Putnam, and her efficient board. To Mrs. Anthony Carlson, who sponsored the sale of the seats for MacDowell Week at the California, much credit is due.	J. C.
Brahms’ Rhapsodie Sung at Scranton
Friday night, April 20, at the Town ,Hall Auditorium, John T. Watkins established a new musical record for the City of Scranton in presenting Brahms’ Rhapsodie. The choir was Maestro Watkins’ prize winning Jungermannerchor, the contralto carrying the important solo part being Kathryn Meisle. All three—conductor, choir and soloist—covered themselves with glory.
RUDOLPH REUTER Pianist
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divided the numbers, with the following result:	Tschai-
kowsky’s sixth symphony, Introduction to Act III, from Tristan and Isolde, Wagner; the prelude and Isolde’s Love Death, from Tristan and Isolde, and the overture to Die Meistersinger.
Besides the fourteen pairs of symphony concerts and twelve popular concerts, the orchestra has given eight school concerts and thirty-two outside concerts.
Olga Steeb, Soloist at Last Concert of Woman’s Symphony..
It was universally agreed that never had the Woman s Orchestra played so well as at the final concert, given April 18 at Philharmonic Auditorium, Henry Schoenfeld conducting. The Schubert Unfinished _ symphony gave opportunity for the excellent string choir of the orchestra, as did the number for strings alone. The piece de resistance was the concerto in G major, No. 4, of Beethoven, with Olga Steeb as soloist. Miss Steeb is not only a favorite musically, but Los Angeles also feels a civic pride in her as well, for she was born and educated in Los Angeles, and her career has been a gratification to a host of friends. Her playing of the Beethoven was refreshing in its clarity, delicacy of delivery and depth of conception. Her climaxes were brilliant, but the entire work was marked by a restraint that in no way interfered with the freedom of enunciation, or with the dramatic passages. Mrs. Schoenfeld’s reading was sympathetic and efficient.
MacDowell Club to Found a Second Peterborough on the Pacific Coast.
The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts, one of the clubs in this country seeking sincerely to assist Mrs. MacDowell and to further the ideals of the late Edward MacDowell, is about to achieve one of the ambitions it long has held, namely, to found on this coast a MacDowell ^ Colony, a retreat of inspiration and protection for creative artists, similar to the colony at Peterborough, upholding its policies and ideals. Not only are we several thousand miles from the colony in New Hampshire, meaning that the distance is prohibitive to many, but California is ideal the year around for such an enterprise, and our growing numbers of creative artists in all lines of art calls for such a move.
As a beginning for such a fund it is significant that a moving picture theater should offer first aid to the club in its fulfillment. The California Theater presented the club with 6,000 matinee seats for the week beginning April 16, entire proceeds of which should go to the fund. The manager, Mr. Miller, has been insistent on preserving the ideals of this theater; and as a main attraction in so doing has
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SACRAMENTO, CAL.,
which, after seventy years of constant service to the community, has been sold to business interests and, unless the movement now on foot for its purchase by the city for a permanent monument to California’s early settlers is successful, will be destroyed. This house was the place of many a brilliant concert years ago, and is to-day the best auditorium for music in the city because of its perfect acoustics.
and Little David, Play on Your Harp, Grant-Schaeffer. The encores were:	Cornin’ Thro’ the Rye, At the Well,
Hageman, Thy Beaming Eyes, Cuckoo Clock, Carry Me Back to 01’ Virginny, De 01’ Ark’s A-moverin’, I^ass with the Delicate Air, and Last Rose of Summer. To quote the Tribune: “Miss Peterson’s voice was particularly happily placed in the selections that were of a lyric nature. The Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, she sang with much grace. Maria’s Slumber Song, by Reger, and Nuit d’Etoile, by Debussy, were other numbers charmingly sung. Memory, by Rudolph Ganz, won an appreciably hearty reception from her audience. Musical perception chiefly distinguishes this singer’s work. . . . Miss Peterson makes an especially pleasing appearance on ■the stage. She has the self-possession, the aplomb, from which a concert singer should never be altogether separated.”
H. P.
LOS ANGELES CLOSES SYMPHONY
SEASON WITH FINE PROGRAMS
Olga Steeb Soloist at Last Concert of Woman’s Symphony— MacDowell Club to Found a Second Peterborough on the Pacific Coast—Notes
Los Angeles, Cal., April 28.—April 20 and 21 were the dates of the last pair of symphony concerts and mark the closing of the fourth season of the Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Walter Henry Rothwell, a season more brilliant artistically and more successful financially than last year. Without a soloist, the program was given to immense audiences and was received with unabated enthusiasm. The program offered the Brahms symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68; L’Apres-midi d’un Faun by Debussy, and the Strauss tone poem, Death and Transfiguration.
A few weeks ago the Philharmonic Orchestra presented Mme. and Henry Svedrofsky in the Bach concerto for two violins and orchestra as the novelty on the program. Mr. Svedrofsky is assistant - concertmaster of the orchestra, and both he and his wife are gifted soloists, and their playing of the celebrated but seldom heard work was received with marked approval. The other novel number on this program was a symphonic episode, Euphorion, by Paolo Gallico, a young Italian composer, at one time a student of orchestration under Walter Henry Rothwell, conductor of the orchestra. It proved of considerable interest. The opening number was Beethoven’s fifth symphony in C minor, given a splendid reading. The Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla closed the program. The last popular concert was a request program, and as the requests had about equally lain between Wagner and the Russian composers, Conductor Rothwell
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