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manner that will be a credit to all concerned. That Van Grove studied under Polacco and learned a great deal from this .distinguished conductor was indicated most convincingly by each gesture, each command that sprung from the forceful arms of young Van Grove. He builds climaxes a la Polacco. He believes in effect, in quick contrast and the least effective moments in a composition are gone quickly over. As a theatrical conductor, Van Grove already occupies a place from which he promises to rise to high altitudes.
Mary Wood Chase School Moves.
The Mary Wood Chase School of Musical Arts, for several years located in Lyon & Healy Building, has moved to more spacious quarters in the Fine Arts Building, taking suite 410, facing Lake Michigan, and decorating it in the same artistic fashion that distinguishes everything that emanates from that progressive and well managed school. The summer school at the Mary Wood Chase institution moves generally to Ludington (Mich.), but this season, due to many requests, there will be a summer session during the month of June in Chicago and the Ludington normal school abandoned this year. At the close of the summer normal school, June 29, Miss Chase will take a well earned vacation in California.
James G. MacDermid Here.
James G. MacDermid, the popular and successful composer, was among the visitors at this office this j>ast week. MacDermid came to Chicago to meet his publisher, F. J. A. Forster, and to renew innumerable friendships in the city where for many years the MacDermids were among the best-thought-of musicians.
Apollo Club Honors Harrison M. Wild.
For twenty-five years Harrison M. Wild has directed the destinies of the Apollo Musical Club as its musical leader, during which time he has achieved remarkable results with this fine body of singers and has brought it to the top rung of the ladder of success until today the Chicago Apollo Musical Club ranks high among the finest choral organizations of the land. To celebrate its beloved conductor’s silver anniversary, the club arranged a banquet in his honor on Monday evening, May 7, at the Auditorium Hotel. There were several speakers—friends and members of the organization—who paid homage to Conductor Wild, showing the esteem in which this fine musician is held in this community. These included Lena McCauley of the Chicago Evening Post, Edgar Nelson (who has been the organist and accompanist of the Apollo Club for ten years) and Albert C. Cotsworth. The talks were interspersed with musical numbers.
Else Harthan Arendt lifted up her glorious voice in a group of songs, which immediately won the hearty approval of the listeners, who loudly asked for more. Mme. Arendt is among the most popular artists in Chicago and justly so, for not only has she a beautiful voice, but also her lovely personality, charm of manner and exquisite interpretations make it a joy to listen to her. She was beautifully accompanied at the piano by her husband, Stanley Seder, who also assisted Theodore Harrison in the same capacity. Two violinists, both from the American Conservatory of Music— Stella Roberts and Nesta Smith—added to the enjoyment
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Mona. Adah Allen of Kalona (Ia.); showed herself the possessor of a good soprano voice in Charpentier’s aria Depuis le jour, from Louise, and in Sanderson’s Spring’s Awakening. Alline Stosberg, of Kansas City (Mo.) was another student who caught the fancy of the audience, which showed its enjoyment by applauding her vigorously after her singing of the aria from Puccini’s Tosca, Vissi d’Arte and Chadwick’s Sweetheart, Thy Lips Are Touched with Flame. Mark Love of Syracuse (N. Y.) gave a good account of himself in the reading of Handel’s Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves and Speaks’ On the Road to Mandalay. Elsa Soderstam of Chicago had the honor of closing the program, singing the aria, One Fine Day, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, and a Swedish folk song, Spin, Spin in a manner that not only reflected credit on herself, but also on her distinguished mentor. The recital added another feather to the cap of Dr. Lulek, and the work of his pupils is the best testimonial for his studio.
Rhys Morgan in Recital.
The debut of the Welsh-American tenor, Rhys Morgan, at Orchestra Hall, on Monday evening, May 7, was in every way successful. Though a counter attraction had drawn many of the society buds to the Auditorium, a representative and large audience was on hand at the launching here of this new recitalist. Mr. Morgan’s program was a comprehensive one and was sung effectively. The young singer has a charming personality, fine stage presence, sings with good understanding and clear enunciation. The voice is of sweet quality, sufficiently large, and all those qualities made his recital most enjoyable even though throaty production marred somewhat the other good work registered by the young artist. His singing is often too tight and this is regrettable as Mr. Morgan’s voice is of wide compass and with freer delivery would not only develop in volume but also gain in quality. The newcomer had the good fortune to have Gavin Williamson at the piano, who furnished accompaniments that were most artistic in every way. Mr. Morgan was warmly applauded and his debut presaged many other appearances in this city.
Van Grove a Fine Artist.
The Drama League of America presented an Hellenic Art Festival at the Auditorium Theater on Monday evening, May 7. The vast theater was filled with one of the most distinguished audiences encountered this season in the home of grand opera here. The Hellenic Art Festival is reviewed here only because Isaac Van Grove, its musical director, conducted in fine fashion the orchestra. Mr. Van Grove, who had transcribed from archaic notations on Greek vases, basreliefs and hieroglyphs, arranged and orchestrated the music, deserves more than a passing word for his excellent work. “Watch Van Grove,” said one of the world’s most famous operatic conductors recently to this reporter, “he is a comer.” Not very much interested in the presentation of the Drama League of America, outside of listening to the orchestra, the chance to watch Van Grove wield the baton came and the prediction of the famous conductor came back to memory as a prophecy. Van Grove, a serious student, arranged the music as only a fine musician could have done, and his orchestration showed him a fine manipulator of all orchestra instruments. His directing of the music places him in a high position among leading American conductors. That Polacco and the management of the Chicago Civic Opera have discovered in this young man all those fine qualities is no longer a secret, since Van Grove is to conduct several grand operas this coming season and, judging his work with the baton from the performance on last Monday night, he will fill the position with which he has just been invested by the management of the opera in a
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Chicago, May 12.—The Paulist Choristers of Chicago, with Edward Johnson, tenor, as guest artist, brought one of the largest audiences of the present season to the Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, May 6. The choir is only now coming back into its own after five years of careful training under its present leader, as after the regrettable departure of Father Finn, the high musical standard of the choir fell considerably and the one time famous organization took a secondary position in the esteem of music-lovers. This season the choir completely came into its own and the program heard on last Sunday could not have been better rendered by any similar organization. The Paulist Choristers of Chicago are once again a unique body of singers and the patronage that rallied under its banner was highly satisfied with the way the program was sung. Edward Johnson, in glorious voice, made a strong impression on his listeners, who applauded him frantically at the end of each selection.
Dr. Fery Lulek’s Pupils’ Heard.
Less than a year ago Dr. Fery Lulek, the well known vocal instructor, left New York to answer a call from the Chicago Musical College, where he has since been teaching voice to a large and representative class. In that short space of time Dr. Lulek has been able to train his students sufficiently to present many of them publicly - under the auspices of the Chicago Musical College. At the recital which took place at the Central Theater on Sunday afternoon, May 6, the following students distinguished themselves: Madeline Snyder of New Castle (Pa.), who opened the program with Mana Zucca’s happy song, Speak to Me; this was followed by Pirate Dreams, by Huerter, and Your Heart by D’Hardelot. Arlene Durkee, who hails from Faith (S. D.), made a good impression in Secchi’s Lungi Dal Caro Bene, Love Like the Dawn Came Stealing, by Cadman, and MacFadyen’s Love in the Wind. Grace Strasburger of New York made a strong appeal in Brown’s Night and two songs by Spross—Invocation to Life and Robin, Robin, Sing Me a Song. Norman Kling, of this city, revealed a fine sense of humor in Clarke’s The Blind Ploughman and Squires’ In an Old Fashioned Town. Lucille Wachtel of Mt. Carroll, (111.) showed the result of good training in Handel’s Care Selve, Curran’s Dawn and If I Gave You a Rose by English. Henry Corsell of Chicago sang with fine understanding Clay’s I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby and Adams’
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