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MUSICAL COURIER
May 17, 19 2 3
Drucker <$׳ Baltes photo.
You Are Welcome, Chicago Tribune
From the C. T. of May 6, 1923: “This department acknowledges indebtedness to Leonard Liebling, editor ot the Musical Courier, for the best characterization of musical criticism of the year. He says there are two kinds of critics—attaboy and atavistic.”
MOZART SOCIETY’S FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
BREAKFAST AND FESTIVAL IN PASTELS
Two Thousand Guests Present, with Fifteen Hundred Seated at Tables—Apple Blossons Decorate the Ballroom of ,the
Astor—Remarks by Honor Guests—Many Gifts Presented
EDOARDO
PETRI
TEACHER OF SINGING
Mr. Petri announces that he will continue to teach privately through the Summer months without interruption.
Studio 1425 Broadway New York City
Telephone Pennsylvania 2628
Clark, Egyptian pendants; Mrs. R. Fred Allin, Mrs. Edgar O. Challenger, Mrs. John F. Churlo, Mrs. Charles Bech-stein, Mrs. Charles C. Spanier, Beatrice E. Sillo, Marion Bechstein, and Marion A. O'Neill each received half a dozen golf balls.
The new governors of the club for 1923-24 received a warm welcome. They include Mrs. George L. Kumpf, Mrs. John Kneisel, Mrs. Ernest Hothorn, Mrs. Ellis Bux-baum, Lillian Schwoerer and Mrs. C. Benjamin Philips.
The president, as usual, threw her new hat later to the Juniors, and Angela Cochrane was the lucky winner.
The very enjoyable event finished with dancing, and so came to an end the fourteenth annual breakfast, testifying to the successful past and the still greater future of the New York Mozart Society. .In closing, one might well quote the Invocation, sung by the Choral at the outset, and printed in the program, as follows:
(Music by Spross)
M ay our hearts be tuneful, Lord,
O n Thy grace relying,
Zealous art Thou in Thy word,
A 11 our wants supplying;
R ound Thy table now we sing,
T hanks for all Thy love doth bring.
—Rev. John McNab.
The fourteenth annual festal occasion, the regular Breakfast and Springtime Festival in pastel colors of the New York Mozart Society, Mrs. Noble McConnell, founder and president, took place as usual in the Hotel Astor grand ballroom, May 5, and was a notable social success. The many handsome colored gowns, the crinoline costumes of the breakfast committee, the Junior Cabinet, governors of the club and guests of honor, with the appropriate music by Orlando’s orchestra of a score of instruments, all made a lively, attractive scene. As members entered the “apple orchard” reception room, they formed in line, a committee personally escorting each member and guest of honor to President McConnell, who in turn introduced each to her neighbor at her right, and so on down the line. So the 1,500 members and guests filed past, and at about 1 o’clock found themselves in the grand ballroom. Here was a veritable riot in colors, with decorations on every table, 1,500 being seated, apple blossoms covering tables everywhere.
President McConnell rapped for order and introduced Dr. Keigwin, who was made official chaplain of the Mozart Society; he invoked divine blessing in graceful words, and the Choral sang the Invocation, printed below. The president stated that over half the members (525) had already paid their annual dues for next season, thus assuring the needed financial impulse to make it notable. Then she offered a toast (every one standing) to the President of these United States, and, following that, one “To the next President, Senator Edwards, of New Jersey.” Mrs. McConnell next mentioned Mrs. Muschenheim, wife of the hotel’s proprietor, and presented her with flowers. Rev. Father John Dooley was then mentioned by her. The priest said he was quite overcome with the splendid picture before him; that he at first tried to keep his eyes on the ceiling, but soon found them wandering to the floor level (small wonder!). Rev. Father McGoldrick said the exquisite scene quite entranced him, spoke of the club banner with the illustrious name of Mozart, and Rev. Father Irwin said this was “an Elysian field, a garden of ladies.” Samuel Gardner Estabrook, husband of Mrs. Estabrook, chairman of the breakfast committee, said a few words, followed by Mrs. Haradon. Mrs. Clarence Burns spoke of Music Week, what the Mozart Society had accomplished, the East Side clinic maintained by the Mozart, and the board of governors presented President McConnell with a beautiful diamond cross, which quite overcame the recipient. Here the appropriate melody (referring to the president’s name), Sweet Adaline, was played, to enthusiastic applause from all present. She thanked the board with much feeling. Having introduced the speakers so far, she continued by presenting to the assembly the twenty-two guests of honor, who were Senator Edward I. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Clarence Burns, Lulu Breid, Rev. John H. Dooley, Samuel G. Estabrook, Rev. James F. Irwin, Dr. and Mrs. A. Edwin Keigwin, Suzanne Keener, Noble McConnell, Rev. John McGoldrick, Mrs. Frederick A. Muschenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Percy, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Ries-berg, Mrs. Edwin Bliss Shayes, Mrs. Charles Whitman, Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. White, and Mrs. John Francis Yaw-ger.
Mrs. John Francis Yawger, noted club woman, told appropriate stories. Howard L. White and Mrs. White, of the New York Tribune, were introduced. Mrs. Charles Whitman said a few words, as did Frederick W. Riesberg, of the staff of the Musical Courier. Mrs. Muschenheim bowed, and Suzanne Keener sang her thanks in Saint-Saëns’ bird song, with coloratura effects, reaching high E’s with ease. A “baby shower” for Attorney Daiches was announced by the president, as planned by the capable Mrs. Estabrook. There followed the giving of gifts by the president, as follows:	Mrs. Estabrook, a hand painted
gold edged dinner service; Mrs. William Maynard Haradon, half a dozen gold service plates; Mrs. E. Bassford Schmalholz, similar plates; Mrs. Owen T. McWilliams, a Tiffany sport wrist watch; Mrs. Jack Schumacher, amethyst chain and pendant; Frances Pendergast, golf bag; Bessie E. Stevens, Grace Hession and Mrs. Malcolm V.
Miss Margot Hayes, contralto, at Kimball Hall was heard in her last three groups. This was ample opportunity to judge Miss Hayes’ voice and talent, both of which are of unusual promise and augur well for her vocal and artistic future. The timbre of her voice is sympathetic, lovely and warm in color, and lends itself readily to expression of the text’s message. I liked her particularly well in Rubenstein’s “The Tear”, where she displayed a charming mezza-voce. Rachmaninoff’s “Lilacs”, sung in the movement as it is played by the composer in his piano arrangement of this exquisite fragment, could easily have been repeated. So could the Rubenstein song, for that matter.— Chicago American■, Herman Devries.
A vivacious personality of attractive outward mien, Miss Margot Hayes by name, was mistress last night at a recital to an appreciative audience at Kimball Hall. Her voice, a contralto of bright and pleasing quality and intelligently used, was heard to advantage in a program of songs admirably chosen to bring its merits to the fore. Wholly delightful were “two old-fashioned songs,” Hope Temple’s “My Lady’s Bower” and “The Trysting Well” by Berthold Tours. In the closing group of songs by A. Goring Thomas, “To Welcome You” and “Winds in the Trees” were much applauded. Miss Hayes’ voice has good range.—Chicago Journal.
Margot Hayes, contralto, at Kimball Hall, May 12, appeared in a recital of unusually fine quality, during which Miss Hayes evoked the warmest applause for the very excellent renditions she gave to the five groups of songs presented. This clever young vocalist possesses a fine, powerful, rich voice, beautifully trained, and also much interpretative talent, which the very wide range of songs chosen tested very thoroughly. She was especially successful in a very spirited rendering of “The Three Cavaliers” (Dargomzysky) and Brahms’ “Der Schmied”, also the beautiful Rubenstein song “The Tear”, “Le Soir” (Thomas), Moussorgsky’s “Hopak” and Rachmaninoff’s exquisite “Lilacs”. It is also a very agreeable experience to listen to so beautiful a setting to “Bonjour Suzon” as that composed by Mr. Devries, it being as charming in its own original way as the popular one so much used and a welcome novelty. Miss Hayes gave it most charmingly and won special applause thereby.—Chicago Music News.
Miss Margot Hayes gave a song recital last evening at Kimball Hall. Miss Hayes has׳ a full, resonant contralto voice, almost verging on the mezzo-soprano, which she has learned to control well. She sings with understanding of the music and with temperament. There was variety in her singing and the brilliant numbers she sang with especial spirit. Miss Hayes showed the interpretative instinct.—The Chicago Evening Post, Karleton Hackett.
At Kimball Hall Margot Hayes, contralto, disclosed in a trying recital of German, French, Norwegian, Russian and English songs, a voice of pleasing quality, commendable as to its tone production, susceptible of diverse changes of mood and style and of adequate range. Fqur Russian songs by Moussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Rubenstein and Dar-gomzysky, the last arranged by Kurt Schindler, were given with the proper interpretative spirit, and two old fashioned songs by Hope Temple and Berthold Tours had quaintness and charm. They were especially well rendered.—Chicago Daily News, Maurice Rosenfeld.
MARGOT HAYES
CON T'R ALTO