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MUSICAL COURIER
May 17, 19 2 3
RUBINSTEIN CLUB CELEBRATES
ITS TWENTIETH WHITE BREAKFAST
Birthday Party Voted the Best Ever—Gigli Heard in Recital
Campbell Studio.
DOROTHY JARDON
Dorothy Jardon Features Openshaw Ballad
The following telegram was received from Dorothy Jardon regarding the tuneful Openshaw ballad, Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses, which Miss Jardon introduced on the coast while filling a very successful six weeks’ engagement at Loew’s State in Los Angeles, and The Warfield in San Francisco:
Los Angeles, Cal.
Open Colorado Theater May 19 in Denver. Will sing Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses. This week at Loew’s State Theater, Los Angeles.	(Signed) Dorothy Jardon.
SINGERS WELL TAUGHT
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acting was Marta Melis.” . . . “Marta Melis kept us absorbed in her divine singing.” . . . “She showed a magnificent artistic schooling.” . . . “An admirable contralto of enormous vocal faculties and a perfect school of singing.” . . . “Unites with exquisite style a voice of ample, flexible and pure timbre” . . . “and she has a remarkable school of singing,” this last from a Havana paper, translated from the Spanish, and evidently means that Miss Melis has been well taught.
Before me are half a dozen additional typewritten pages of press notices of these pupils of Mr. Hughes. Too long to quote, evidently, and superfluous, for they all repeat the same thing in many different wordings and the meaning of it all is that they are Singers Well Taught.	F. P.
Ernest Davis Sails for Europe
Ernest Davis, tenor, sailed last Tuesday for Europe, having completed a successful concert tour, which included an appearance in Erie, Pa., where he was at once re-engaged for next season. Mr. Davis also sang with the Kansas City Opera Company and then gave a concert in Iola, Kans., where he was also re-engaged for next season. The tenor expects to sing in England after which he will proceed to Italy where he will remain until the end of this year, returning to America about January 1.
Jeannette Vreeland a Great Success
Walter Anderson, Inc., manager of Jeannette Vreeland, received the accompanying telegram following the soprano’s appearance at the Syracuse Festival: “Vreeland made great success. Audience tremendously enthusiastic. Congratulations. (Signed) Central New York Music Festival Association, Melville Clark, secretary.”
Griesel, Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Brodie G. Higley, Mrs. Leonard L. Hill, Mrs. Theodore M. Hardy, Mrs. Samuel J. Kramer, Rev. and Mrs. Robert Hugh Morris, Katherine A. Martin, Mrs. Elmer A. Miller, Marie Cross Newhaus, Ivor Novello, Sigrid Onegin, Dr. Fritz Pensoldt, Mrs. E. M. Raynor, Mrs. Louis Ralston, J. Fletcher Shera, Marguerite Sylva, Marie Sundelius, Mrs. Thomas L. Slack, Major and Mrs. A. P. Simmonds, Dr. and Mrs. John Philip Sousa, Mrs. Ralph Trautman, Mr. and Mrs. Gianni Viafora, Hon. Frederick A. Wallis, Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, Mrs. John Francis Yawger and Mana Zucca.
During the breakfast, Mrs. Chapman cut the huge birthday cake. There were twenty wishes to be made and as each was completed Mr. Chapman blew out a candle and young ladies stationed in the various boxes threw flowers down on the assemblage. Mrs. Chapman also presented Mary Jordan Baker, who has been corresponding secretary and treasurer of the club for the past fifteen years, with a purse of five hundred dollars in gold from the members in token of her loyalty and untiring efforts. Mr. Chapman made a short and witty address, declaring he was out for a record as to brevity since Mrs. Chapman had scolded him last year for taking up too much of the time.
Every one then adjourned to the Astor Gallery while the room was being cleared for the recital which Beniamino Gigli gave, assisted by Vito Carnegali at the piano. His programmed numbers were arias from Martha, L’Africaine and Pagliacci, and a group of songs, O del mio dolce ardor (Gluck), Quando il diavol nacque (Donaudy), Paquita (Buzzi-Peccia). He was in a buoyant mood and his delighted audience insisted upon so many encores that the number of his offerings was more than doubled.
From four until seven there was dancing in the Astor Gallery and even then the guests seemed loath to depart, declaring this breakfast to be the most successful in all the history of the twenty years.
tone, appeared as soloist for the Chicago University Black Friars May 4, 5, 11 and 12. Ethel Martha, contralto, is engaged as soloist for the Anthropological Society, May 13.
The annual concert of the Chapek Music School was given on Tuesday evening, May 8. An interesting program was furnished by a number of talented and well trained students, and the school string orchestra, under Joseph H. Chapek’s direction.
Jeannette Cox.
SPARTANBURG FESTIVAL
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here to hear him sing, rendered the baritone parts of Valentin and Wagner ,in a manner that pleased. Barbara Maurel, mezzo-soprano, took the roles of Siebel and Martha.
Children’s Concert.
•The children’s chorus of S7S voices was the principal features of the program Friday afternoon, at the fourth concert. Della Baker, soprano, was the soloist. The children’s chorus was directed by Mrs. B. L. Blackwell, supervisor of public school music for Spartanburg. The hall was filled, and fond parents were thrilled with the music by their children. Miss Baker’s group of songs was also appreciated, and she was called on to add an encore.
Artist Night Finale.
The triumph of the festival was the Artist Night Concert, with Gigli and Miss Macbeth as co-stars. They sang fifteen or more numbers in solo work, and rendered a duet from Verdi’s Rigoletto.	D. L. S.
Continued Havana Success of San Carlo
A dispatch from Havana reports the continued success of the San Carlo Opera Company in its second week there. The works given were Tosca, Traviata, Hamlet, and Aida, and, as during the first week, the house was sold out for each performance and the enthusiasm tremendous. The company leaves to return to New York today (May 17).
The twentieth is an excitipUfi^hday for any one and certainly the twentieth birthday oT the Rubinstein’s annual white breakfast is an occasion which will live long in the memory of all those who attended. Out of doors it was bleak and rainy and generally disagreeable, but in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria on Saturday, May 12, all was bright and gay with spring blossoms, lovely summer dresses and animated chatter. It was eleven thirty when the president, Mrs. William Rogers Chapman, and the remainder of the reception committee, took up their places in the Astor Gallery, and in the hour that followed there was a constant stream of people passing to offer their congratulations and best wishes. Then, escorted by dainty maidens with shepherdess crooks and passing between tables replete with springlike decorations and surrounded by an eager throng, the procession moved to the honor table in the grand ballroom. Never have there been so many at a Rubinstein breakfast. Not only was the grand ballroom with its boxes crowded to its utmost capacity, but also it was necessary to place tables out in the foyer. On the president’s table was a huge birthday cake and on each individual table were similar cakes. The favors were old-fashioned flowers in little individual pots, forming a quaint centerpiece.
When all were in their places, Mrs. Chapman gave a few well chosen words of welcome and introduced Rev. Robert Hugh Morris, D. D., who offered the invocation. Grace was sung by members of the Rubinstein Choral after a time-honored custom, and then Ivor Novello’s Bless You was given by special request. Mr. Novello, who was one of the honor guests, was compelled to bow his pleased acknowledgment of this tribute. After the serving of a delicious breakfast which was in keeping with the other good things for the birthday, the guests of honor were introduced. It was a notable list including Helen V. Boswell, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Mrs. Walter S. Comly, William R. Chapman, Clara Novello Davies, Harriet E. Devoe, Mr. and Mrs. Beniamino Gigli, Mme. Galli-Curci, Mrs. J. H.
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sented by a pupil of the conservatory and Mr. Weidig. It was finely performed by the composer and Mildred Brown, Catherine Smith, Stella Roberts and Anne Slack.
Sturkow-Ryder Engagements.
Mme. Sturkow-Ryder, the well known pianist, has just filled the following engagements:	May 8, Wisconsin State
Normal Music Festival; 9, musical talk, round table, Wisconsin Music Festival; 10, recital, Marquette, Mich. May 14 she gave a concert of her own compositions for the Council of Jewish Women at Sinai Temple.
Knupfer Studios.
The Knupfer studios, Walter R. Knupfer, director, will conclude its recital series with four concerts to be given at Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building, on May 20, May 25 and June 3.
Piano students of Walter Knupfer, Anita Alvarez-Knup-fer, Dorothy Denham Eichenlaub, and voice students of Eusebio Concialdi, Margaret Lester and Marie E. Dreier, will furnish the program of the first recital on May 20. The second recital, May 20, will be devoted to a program given by professional students of Walter Knupfer, Eusebio Concialdi and Zerline Muhlmann, assisted by Eusebio Concialdi, of the faculty. The program of the third recital will be given by members of the graduating class.
After the program, certificates, diplomas and degrees will be conferred upon the graduates of the institution by Bernard C. Peterson, who will also address the class.
The closing recital of the series, on June 3, will be given by members of the junior and preparatory classes.
Musical News Items.
The following are busy Carl Craven pupils: James A. Fryor, basso, who was special soloist at the Church of Peace, May 6; J. E. Stevens, basso, gave a program at the Illinois State Penitentiary last Sunday, with Esther Thoman as accompanist; Mr. Stevens also gave a program for the radio at the Drake Hotel. Porter Burleigh, bari-
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