May 17, 1923
MUSICAL COURIER
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dents at the Normal School and appended to the letter was the accompanying sketch, showing the poses of the artist and her companions as they sat enraptured under the spell of the music brought forth by Miss Rubinstein’s magic bow.
Miss Rubinstein will fill her last engagement for this season at Ann Arbor, Mich., today, May 17, when she will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, conductor, playing the Bruch G minor concerto. On Saturday she and her mother will sail for Europe. The young violinist will fill concert engagements on the continent during the fall, but will return to America for a third season here beginning shortly after January 1.
Erna Rubinstein Inspires Youthful Artist
When Erna Rubinstein played at the State Normal School, Emporia, Kan., on April 26, she brought out one of the largest audiences ever gathered there. The seating capacity of the spacious auditorium of the college was completely exhausted, likewise the standing room, and finally, in response to requests, the windows were opened in order that several hundred people gathered outside and unable to gain admission could catch an occasional strain of the music played indoors.
An aftermath of her triumph there came to Miss Rubinstein in the form of a letter from one of the youthful stu-
ASHEVILLE ALL AGOG
OVER NATIONAL BIENNIAL
Extensive Plans Arranged for Entertainment of Guests— Other Notes of Interest
Asheville, N. C., May 8.—Music lovers are jubilant over the fact that Asheville this June will be the center from which will radiate the most constructive efforts ever put forth to enlarge the scope of American music. This city will be the scene of a dynamic musical gathering when on June 9 there convenes here the National Federation of Music Clubs. The formal opening of the convention is scheduled to take place on Saturday evening, June 9, with addresses by the mayor of the city and heads of departments of the national organization of music clubs. This will be followed by a week completely filled with business sessions, programs by famous artists, national musical contests and brilliant social affairs in honor of the visitors, for the entertainment of whom the city is making lavish preparation.
As a national convention city Asheville holds a distinguished place among resort cities of the United States.^ But perhaps never• in her history has the city as a whole evinced such wholehearted pride and interest in any convention as is being demonstrated in plans projected for the music club biennial. Great interest centers in the premier of Pan in America, the lyric dance drama by Carl Venth which took the prize awarded the best American composition. Mr. Venth himself will conduct the performance. Every possible step is being made by local managers to have the production equal a Metropolitan first night. The first artists’ recital of the week will take place on Tuesday night under the direction of Henry Hadley. Marie Tiffany will be one of the soloists of the evening. Addresses will be delivered by William Arms Fisher, of Boston, who is to speak on fake music publishers. Another speaker will be Franklin Robinson, of New York, head of the American Orchestral Society. Antoinette Sabel, of Los Angeles, will discuss music in industries and Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, will have acoustics as his subject. At the Battery Park Hotel there will be staged an elaborately appointed banquet at which will be set special tables for American artists and composers, State presidents and junior music club delegates.
Much of the work of arranging for the meeting has devolved upon Mrs. O. C. Hamilton, president of the Saturday Music Club of this city and her able corps of assistants whose efforts are winning words of praise from the National Federation and becoming a matter of justifiable pride to all Ashevillians.
Notes.
The April meeting of the Junior Music Club was devoted
as a recital program given by Mary Allen, contralto. Edward Hart was an excellent accompanist.
Miss Allen’s first group was of Heder from Brahms, Wagner and Wolf. Lia's aria from L’Enfant Prodigue found the singer with marked gifts in voice and sensibility in dramatic expression. Four songs by Rachmaninoff, sung in English, revealed uncommon perception in mood values and in the technic essential to the projection of each—the poignant passion of In the Silence of the Night, the arch conceit in Lilacs, the far and brooding stillness of The Isle, the transporting sweep of The Resurrection Hymn. A group in English closed the program, again enabling Miss Allen to display the beauty of her voice and her musician’s sense of the song in nice distinctions in color and atmosphere. She was not less pertinent in Carpenter’s charming little extravaganza, To a Young Gentleman, than she was mistress of the repose in Chaloft’s exquisite idyll, Harvest Moon. Miss Lang’s Day Is Done was repeated.
Throughout Miss Allen gave evidence of superior talent and admirable preparation, highly important in which she counts three previous seasons with John Doane as coach, in whose choir at the Church of the Incarnation, she is contralto soloist.
Witherspoon Studio Recital
At the last musicale of the season at the Herbert Witherspoon Studios, Wednesday evening, May 2, the following program was rendered before an audience consisting of about one hundred and twenty-five of the pupils and a number of invited guests. The entire evening was a pronounced success and the excellence of Mr. Witherspoon’s teaching was much in evidence. The program follows: Duet: Night Hymn at Sea (Thomas), Miss Harris and Mr. Witherspoon; Where’er You Walk (Handel), Silence of Night (Rachmaninoff), Roadways (Densmore), Walter Leary; Jewel Song from Faust (Gounod), Rose Dirmann; Mon coeur from Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns), Daffodils (German), Rosa Hamilton; Will o’ the Wisp (Spross), Wind’s in the South (Scott), Adelaide Spies; A Picture (Curran), I Am a Roamer (Mendelssohn), Over the Steppe (Gretchaninoff), Lassie o’ Mine (Walt), Knight MacGregor; Crying of Waters (Campbell-Tipton), Before the Dawn (Chadwick), Raymond Frank; Soupir (Bem-berg), Nebbie (Respighi), Robin Woman from Shanewis (Cadman), Anna Graham Harris; L’Oasis (Fourdrain), Ecstasy (Rummell), Rose Dirmann; Spirto gentil from Favorita (Donizetti), and Feast of Lanterns (Bantock), Manton M. Marble.
to Norwegian composers. Papers were read on the life and works of Ole Bull, Grieg and Sinding. Their compositions made up the musical program of the afternoon. Among the soloists on this occasion were Florence Kincaid, Ro-milda Birkmeyer, Ethel Gottlied, Eloise Hanaman and Frances Reed.
The annual audition of pupils of the Alvah H. Lowe Studios occurred recently at the Battery Park Hotel and brought together a number of distinguished musical artists and teachers. Pupils from the Lowe Studios have met with unqualified success as church and concert soloists.
Edwina Behre, pianist-teacher, will open her summer studios at Franklin, near Asheville, early in the season. She will have as associate teacher Louis Finton, the Viennese pianist who has recently opened a studio in New York. Accompanying these teachers will be a group of their artist-pupils, several of whom have already started promising careers as concert performers.	G. R.
Mary Allen in Wilson Studio Recital
The last but one for the season of the “Musical Evenings With Artist-Pupils of the Arthur Wilson Studios” occurred
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Amelita Galli-Curci Says :
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Dear Mr. Proschowsky—	.	_	February 23, 1923.
Having been associated with you for the past eight weeks, let me express my appreciation of your thorough understanding of the TRUE ART of singing and the intelligent simplicity of your elucidations, through which I have been able to discover and use new beauties in my own voice. It is with a feeling of great satisfaction that I recommend to you those artists and students who seek the truth in singing—the beautiful and lasting art of “BEL CANTO. Gratefully you¡*8»
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