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MUSICAL COURIER
May 17, 1923
BACH FESTIVAL ARTISTS FOR 1923.
With Dr. J. Fred Wolle conducting, the twenty-fifth Festival will take place in the Packer Memorial Church, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26. There will be a chorus of 250 voices, distinguished soloists, orchestra, Moravian Trombone Choir, and organ. Accompanying are photographs of the soloists, all of whom, have appeared previously with the Bach Choir and are well known for their interpretations of the famous composer’s works. (1) Mabelle Addison is a great festival favorite, already having appeared this season on several such occasions and more are to follow this spring. (2) Fred Patton, too, is having an unusually successful festival season with many important spring dates to his credit. He made his debut in opera last winter. (3) Mabel Beddoe, contralto, will make her third appearance at the forthcoming festival. (1!) Emily Stokes Hagar is a soprano who fills many concert engagements each season. This will be her third appearance at the Bach Festival. (5) Nicholas Douty, tenor, has the distinction of having sung at every festival since its foundation twenty-five years ago. (6) Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass, has just returned from a most successful appearance at the Cincinnati Festival. His engagement with the Bach Choir will mark his eighth consecutive year as soloist with that organization. (?) Mildred Faas. soprano, during the past seven years has sung with the choir ten times. The programs for the festival will be as follows: Friday, May 25, 4 p. m., St. John Passion—Part I: 8 p. m., St. John Passion—Part II. Saturday, May 26, 1:30 p. m,. Mass in B minor—Eyrie and Gloria; 1! p. m., Mass in B manor—Credo to End. [Photos by (2) Floyd, (J,) and (7) Kubey-Rembrandt, (5) Lapp, (6) © Bachrach]
WORCESTER FESTIVAL
(Continued from page 5) selections were The Autumn Sea and More and More, both very pleasing and both very well sung under Mr. Bassett’s leadership. The feminine choristers, with Florence Easton as soloist, sang Bizet's Agnus Dei very effectively and the entire chorus closed the evening with the opening chorus of Brahms’ Requiem, in tribute to the late director, Nelson P. Coffin.
Orville Harrold sang arias from Manon and La Boheme that gave his fine, though decidedly individualistic tenor voice broad scope. Miss Easton chose from such unfamiliar operas as Oberon and Tschaikowsky’s Joan of Arc for her numbers and found in them excellent opportunities, singing brilliantly.
The New York symphony players gave a number of melodious selections including Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz, Francis Casadesus’ Le Moissonneur Berceuse, Haydn’s serenade for strings, Bizet’s Arlesienne Suite, No. 11, and Saint-Saëns’ Marche Française from Algerian Suite.	A. M. H.
Hotel Bethlehem Attracts Musicians
The Hotel Bethlehem at Bethlehem. Pa., which was opened in May of last year, is proving to be a great convenience to musicians attending the annual Bach Festival. Before this hotel was erected it was at times difficult to secure suitable accommodations for the festival period There are 200 artistically furnished rooms in the hostelry, two restaurants, a ballroom, etc. The Fountain Room is especially popular with guests.
The Hotel Bethlehem already has become so well known among festival attendants that weeks ago all accommodations for the forthcoming event on May 25 and 26 had been reserved.
Kriens Symphony Club Concert May 19
Christiaan Kriens, founder and conductor of the Kriens Symphony Club, an American orchestral training school (125 players of both sexes), announces the annual concert at Carnegie Hall, May 19, 8:15 p. m. Anna V. Daly, violinist, and Ethel Dobson, soprano, will be soloists, and the orchestra will play works by Beethoven, Goldmark, Chabrier and T schaikowsky.
Gunster Under Johnston Management
Frederick Gunster, the American tenor, has signed a contract with R. E. Johnston, going into effect July 1, whereby Mr. Gunster’s concert, recital and oratorio appearances will be under the exclusive direction of the Johnston management.
New Post for Valdane
Arvida Valdane has just been appointed soprano soloist at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Germantown. Pa., one of the best known choirs in Philadelphia.
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