May 24, 192 3 16 MUSICAL COURIER SENTA EUE, of St. Paul, formerly Musical Courieb correspondent in Stuttgart. curtain calls at the end of the performance and the audience was reluctant to let her leave the theater, insisting that she return at least as a guest from time to time. W. H. An American Singer in Copenhagen. Copenhagen, April 14.—The American singer, Parish Williams, at short intervals, has given two concerts in Copenhagen. Although this season it is very difficult to struggle against the growing dearth of money, this young singer succeeded in gathering quite a large audience, both evenings— a phenomenon which in itself speaks for the many merits of the artist. Not only did Parish Williams please the ears of his audience, but also the press was unanimous in praising his beautiful, warm timbre, cultivated and musical manner of singing, and well selected programs. He is one of the singers we shall enjoy hearing again. F. C. William Tell Revived in Naples. Naples, March 21.—•One of the features of the opera season at the ^Teatro San Carlo has been the revival of Rossini’s William Tell, Tullio Serafín conducting. The French tenor, Sullivan, sang Gessler; baritone Cicada was William Tell, and the principal soprano was Ida Pacetti. William Tell had not been heard in Naples for thirty years. The revival, on an elaborate scale, was received with great friendliness by both press and public. H. L. New Italian Society for Modern Music. Rome, April 8.—A new society, called the Italian Association for the Culture of Modern Music, has been recently founded, with Count Senator di San Martino as honorary president, and Alfredo Casella as active president. S. Modern Music in Brussels. Brussels has had a series of concerts of modern music by the chamber music society, Pro Arte. Among the composers represented on its program were Stravinsky, Mali-piero, Schoenberg, Fauré, Koechlin, Roussel, Ravel, Honegger, Poulenc, Milhaud and Satie. The concerts took place m the hall of the Brussels Conservatory, The society already has a senes scheduled for the season of 1923-24, among which, besides works of the composers already mentioned, compositions by the following men will be heard : Auric Bartok, Alban Berg, Berners, Casella, Debussy, de Falla! Moulaert, Oboukhof, Prokofieff, Tailleferre and Jean W îener. PC Mme. Adler Celebrates Golden Jubilee. Ttr<''°P,fn*iagen’ 14.—By a festival concert, the pianist, Mrs. Agnes Adler, recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her first public appearance in her native town, Copenhagen. Mrs. Adler made her debut at the age of seven, together with her brother, Emil Robert Hansen, who was for many years a cellist under Nikisch in the Leipsic Gewandhaus Orchestra, and who is now conductor of the Philharmonic Society in Aarhus, Denmark’s second town. Mrs. Adler’s fine expressive art for many years has given her a foremost place among the women pianists of Denmark. The memorial concert was a very festive event. Mrs. Adler, in the course of the evening, received a profusion of flowers, and laurels, and on her unpretentious black dress shone the gold medal Ingenio et Arti, which the king had the same morning with his own hand, fixed on her breast, a very rare distinction, only given to the greatest artists and most prominent men of science in Denmark. F. C. Contemporary Music Center’s Meeting in London. London, April 20.—At the last meeting of the Contemporary Music Center held under the auspices of the British Music Society, the international work was a sonatine for flute and piano by Philipp Jarnack, which although providing ample ground for a brilliant display of flautic virtuosity on the part of Robert Murchie, had not a very strong musical appeal. Little known works by British composers included a cello sonata by Frederic Delius, which had an ideal exponent m Cedric Sharpe, and the new Arnold Bax pianoforte quartet in one movement, which is intensely interesting strongly rhythmical and full of color. G. C. ’ Ignatz Waghalter’s New Opera. Berlin, April 23,—The Late Guest is the title of a new opera by Ignatz Waghalter, conductor at the Deutsche promised at Covent Garden for Christmas and the New Year. g. C. Ravel Has Great Reception in London. London, April 16.—Ravel, in London for brief space, had a tumultuous reception at the Queen’s Hall, where he appeared last week to conduct two of his own works, the Mere d’Oye suite and the Valse Choregraphique. Although not so great a conductor as composer, his readings were interesting and effective and the audience was intensely enthusiastic, cheers and loud cries of welcome resounding on all sides of a crowded hall both before and after the performance. G. C. Italian Marionettes Take London by Storm. London, April 15—In the presence of many notabilities of musical and social London the first performance was given last week of Respighi’s Puppet Opera, The Sleeping Princess, played by the marionettes of the famous Teatro dei Piccoli of Italy. A more attractive and delightful entertainment has seldom •been given in London and the music is entirely suited to the players. Scored for small orchestra it is melodious and simple yet forms a completely satisfying setting for the antics of the puppet actors, and for their vocal representatives, who were, however, more successful as note than word interpreters. The musical director is Francesco Ticciati, a pupil of Busoni. A large number of operas are promised for future performance, including Per-golesi’s La Serva Padrona, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore. G. C. Big Festival Concert For Weingartner’s 60th Birthday. Vienna, April 10.—Felix Weingartner was the recipient of great ovations last night on the occasion of a big festival concert in celebration of his forthcoming sixtieth birthday (June 2). The program, conducted by Leo Kraus, one of the younger conductors of the Volksoper, and composed entirely of Weingartner’s own orchestral compositions, served to introduce to Vienna Gustav Havemann, the Berlin violinist, who scored a notable success with Weingartner’s violin concerto. p, B. Three New Viennese Ballets Produced. Vienna, April 8.—At a special matinee at the Karl Theater, three new ballets were produced, for the first time anywhere, entitled Manon, by Heinrich Berte, Danae, by Hans Gartner, and Adam and Eve, by Hans Ewald Heller. Of these, Gartner and Heller are newcomers to the dramatic stage, while Berte has previously achieved prominence by his_ arrangement of Schubert melodies into the operetta which was successfully produced in America under the title of Springtime. The Heller ballet was the only one of the three to show some real talent, but its production was virtually killed by poor stage management. P. B. American Singer Leaves Opera to be Married. Stuttgart, April 21,—Senta Erd, a St. Paul girl, and leading lyric soprano of the Stuttgart Opera, sang her farewell performance here last night. Quite appropriately she selected Fidelio, the role in which she made her debut in Basel, for her last appearance. She will sail for America, accompanied by her mother, and will be married in Detroit where she will make her home. Miss Erd received no less than twenty FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF Neither Strauss, Schalk nor Reinhardt Available for Salzburg. Vienna, April 26.—The absence on concert tours of Richard Strauss and Franz Schalk and the proposed trip of Max Reinhardt to America has made it necessary for the Salzburg Festival Committee to seek elsewhere for conductors and artistic directors for this summer’s festival. It has become known that the committee has made proposals both to Karl Muck and Wilhelm Furtwaengler. R. P. New Spanish Opera by de Falla. Madrid, April 2.—El retablo de maese Pedro (The Altar by Master Peter) is the title of a new opera by Manuel de Falla which has just had its premiere in Seville. The music, founded on Spanish folk melodies, stood out by reason of its interesting technical structure. The new work met with great success and Falla was acclaimed with unbounded enthusiasm. E. I. Wiesbaden Theater to Be Immediately Restored. Berlin, April 7.—It is now learned that the first reports of the extent of damage by fire to the Wiesbaden Theater were somewhat exaggerated and the fear that the tremendous cost of rebuilding would not be forthcoming is now remote, since voluntary donations by Americans and others, as well as by the municipality, have made the speedy restoration of the palatial structure a certainty. A. Q. Concert in Famous Cologne Cathedral. Cologne, April 5.—Quite a sensation was caused when the first concert ever given in the famous Cologne Cathedral took place. Old church songs by Soriano, Anerio and Lasso, sung by the cathedral choir, were followed by modern choral works by Haller and Griesbacher. These were succeeded by compositions for organ performed by Hans Bachem, not the regular cathedral organist but a virtuoso engaged for the occasion. He played works by the Protestant composer, J. S. Bach! The cardinal, as well as the archbishop, Dr. Schulte, attended the concert and bestowed their blessings on the audience at the close. H. U. Eugen d’Albert’s Return to London. London, April 16.—The reappearance of Eugene d’Albert was not a signal for great enthusiasm in London. He played a whole Beethoven program as if he had a spite to work off on some one and as if it could not •be on his English audience, it had to be the unoffending piano. The program included the C minor sonata and the E flat major (Appassionata). Opera to Be Revived in London. London, April 16.—The British National Opera Company is opening a season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on May 14 with the first performance of Gustav Holst’s opera The Perfect Fool. Madame Melba has promised to appear in various roles during the season. Opera is also WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA Civic Summer Master School of Music WILLIAM BREACH, Director Six Weeks Session, June 25th to Aug. 4th DICIE HOWELL Soprano and Teacher A. Y. CORNELL Celebrated Vocal Instructor of New York City will head the Vocal Department ADELAIDE CAMPBELL Head oj Voice Department, Hollins College, Va. CHARLES TROXELL Tenor Assistants to Mr. Cornell CHARLES GILBERT SPROSS Coach and Accompanist MRS. WILLIAM JOHN HALL Piano, Normal Method Teachers Normal Courses—Piano and Voice BuSiidiLheSn,H,t״Sapm 5:ollelie~0־lde״ Women’s College in the South-Beautiful Campus—Fine Music and Sulmer F^ 7 r W• R°°™s:־Re