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gotten. The soprano is again appearing in Kiel this month, May.
Miss Craft has so far this season sung Butterfly and Salome at sixteen German Opera houses, including the great Dresden Opera House, and reports have been received that she will be a very busy “guest” artist next season.
Miss Craft has been offered a number of recitals in this country, but she has just written her manager, M. H. Hanson, that she will not return to America for the coming season.	__________
Enesco to Compose This Summer
The New York Symphony has engaged Georges Enesco, the Rumanian violinist and conductor, for three appearances with the orchestra next season.
Enesco, who has been concertizing in Paris and the French provinces, is now in Bucharest, Rumania. His summer will be spent in the mountain summer resort of Sinai, near the capital, where Enesco has a retreat, known only to his immediate family. Here, in the strictest seclusion he will spend his entire time in composition. His opera in four acts, based on the story of Oedipe Rex, is finished but not yet scored. This work and several other compositions in process of completion will keep Enesco busy until fall. Mr. Enesco will arrive in America for his second tour the early part of January.	_________
Letz Quartet for Muncie, Ind.
The Letz Quartet has been engaged by the Matinee Musi-cale, of Muncie, Ind., for a concert on March 28.
“a rare soprano,” and stated that her voice is resonant, full and sweet with impressive vibrant depths in the lower register. After the second concert Miss MacBride stated that "Miss Peter again delighted with her mellow, cello-like singing of the Massenet Elegie.” Miss Peter attributes much of the success which she has achieved to the splendid training she has had under Edna Bishop Daniel, “exponent of the common sense system of voice placement and tone production used by true voice culturists and real artists of all nations.”
Graft Again a Favorite in Germany
After an absence of eight years Marcella Craft has returned to Germany to appear in opera and concert, and that she has been remembered by her old admirers is evidenced by the enthusiasm with which she is greeted at all of her appearances. Every week brings her new engagements, and it is a great proof of her popularity in Munich that she has sung eight recitals in that city. She was engaged by the Sud-Duetsches Buro to give a Verdi Puccini evening on May 13, this as a result of the ovation given her when she presented a similar program at the Odeon Saal on April 2. In Munich Miss Craft also has won unusual praise for her Lieder singing and for appearances in Othello and Salome.
Before the war Miss Craft was a great favorite in Kiel, and the enthusiasm shown at her recent appearances there in Salome, Butterfly, Traviata, Othello and Tiefland proved that her former successes there had not been for-
Tribüte to Salvi
Alberto Salvi, celebrated harpist, is the feature of a laudatory article in Good Housekeeping Magazine for this month, entitled The Lay of the Latest Minstrel. Alberto Salvi Restores the Harp to High Estate, by Alice Booth. Commenting on the long years of daily practice which gave Mr. Salvi his remarkable technic and his tireless energy in adapting piano music for the harp, which give his programs their wide variety, Miss Booth closes her article as follows: “Harpists have not been willing to work to make themselves masters. The harp of supreme greatness has hung mute upon the walls. There were no new songs for it to sing, and the old time melodies were tinkling cymbals to the ears of a vital world like our own. Alberto Salvi has brought it to life. He has restored to power the oldest of stringed instruments, the instrument that should reign over them all. And if, from his devotion, we have a people that will understand the harp as they understand the violin or the piano—life will owe him a debt that can never be repaid.”
Two More Successes for Ruth Peter
Ruth Peter appeared as soloist at the two concerts arranged for the Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Guild Convention, at the Raleigh in Washington, D. C., on April 23 and 24. This young soprano is the possessor of a very beautiful voice and every time she sings she adds new admirers to her already long list. Following the first concert, Jessie Mac-Bride, in the Washington Herald, referred to Miss Peter as
1923-1924
TENTH SEASON
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Conductor Victor Kolar, Assistant Conductor
Past Season on Tour
Buffalo, 7 concerts
Ann Arbor, 4 concerts
Ypsilanti, 2 concerts
Jackson, 2 concerts
Kansas City, 2 concerts
Urbana (111.) 2 concerts
Bloomington (111.) 2 concerts
Utica (N. Y.) 2 concerts
Rochester, 1 concert Lansing, 1 concert
Past Season in Detroit
28 Symphony Concerts
20 Popular Concerts
5 Young People’s Concerts
25 Public School Concerts
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
Maintained and Operated by the DETROIT SYMPHONY SOCIETY
WILLIAM H. MURPHY, President —“An orchestra of extraordinary discipline and beauty.”—Bruno Walter.
A Limited Number of Dates for Out-of-Town Concerts, Season 1923-1924, Still Available
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WILLIAM E. WALTER, Manager, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, Mich.