MUSICAL COURIER
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May 24, 1923
Frank, well known in musical circles, was asked his opinion and the following lines are from his clever pen:	“It is in
three movements; the first, with a characteristic Ethiopian theme, is very likely the best, with marked melody strongly worked out; the second, the romanze, is written in the free fantasia style, but while not quite clear, is very interesting; the third, the rondo, is short but to the point, and snappy. The composer had something to say and said it very convincingly, brevity being also an important factor. One reason the sonata is seldom played is the fact that it abounds in technical difficulties, especially the piano part, but this handicap was easily overcome by that fine artist, Isaac Van Grove. Isadore Berger, who played the violin part, also showed some fine musicianship.” Mr. Schoenfeld some years ago won honors by being the winner of the $500 prize offered by the New York Conservatory of Music for the best symphony by an American composer,- in which Anton Dvorak was one of the judges.
Spry Summer Series.
A series of piano recitals will be given during June and July, under the auspices of the Spry Scolari—scholars of Walter Spry—to demonstrate Mr. Spry’s principles of teaching, before the summer students. The first program will be played by Margaret Baker Thursday evening, June 7, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spry in Evanston. The July recitals will be given at the Columbia School of Music.
Durno Artist-Student Heard.
A promising young pianist was introduced in Isabel Ebert last Thursday evening, May 17, at Lyon & Healy Hal¡. For the occasion—her first public recital here—Miss Ebert had arranged an interesting and well built program, in which she won well deserved success. In her rendition of the MacDowell Eroica sonata, the Balfour-Gardiner prelude (De Profundis), Daquin’s The Cuckoo and Chopin’s C minor nocturne and G minor ballade, Miss Ebert disclosed a fluent technic, fine musical intelligence, fleet fingers, and she draws from her instrument a large and pleasing tone. Other numbers on her program, which however were not heard, were the Liadow berceuse, Tschaiko wsky’s Troika, Albeniz' Seguidilla and Debussy’s Evening in Granada and his toccata. Miss Ebert should go far along the road which leads to success, as she has much to recommend her. _ She is a product of the well known Jeannette Durno studios, and she reflected considerable credit on Miss Durno, under whose able tuition she has been for four years.
Arimondi's Summer Cours.e.
For a period of eight weeks, beginning June 15, Mr. and Mrs. Vittorio Arimondi will hold a summer course in voice placement and coaching for teachers and students at the Fine Arts Building studios.
American Conservatory Competition.
The three young pianists who will appear at the coming commencement concert of the American Conservatory of Music are:	Pearl Appel, of Muscatine, Iowa; Lucille
Sweetser, Chicago, and Erwin Wallenborn, of Chicago, as determined by the annual contest held in Kimball Hall, May 12.
These young people are all members of the graduating and post graduate classes of the piano department, and are winners over nine other contestants in each of three
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CHICAGO NEARS CLOSE OF BUSY SEASON;
EVANSTON AND RAVINIA ATTRACT ATTENTION
Tito Schipa a Sensation at the Chicago Theater—Bakule Chorus of Prague Delights—Lakevlew Musical Society Presents Young Artists—Beethoven Trio Closes Series—Henry Wilson Smith Plays Schoenfeld Sonata—
Other News of Interest
well be used in the future as a basis of comparison, and they have been taught so well how to sing American songs that some of our popular numbers gain in value when sung by the young Bakule Chorus. They were received enthusiastically, those young girls and boys with their modest conductor, and they are worth while hearing wherever they appear, for in a way they are unique. They sing a capella, aways true to pitch, and their singing also serves as accompaniment for dances interpolated between choral numbers which showed some of the members as efficient with their limbs as with their throats. A return engagement should be arranged if possible. The Red Cross, whose work knows no nationality, is doing a great thing for music, which also knows no nationality.
Lakeview Musical Society.
The Lakeview Musical Society presented several young artists in a musical program at the Fortnightly Club on Monday afternoon, May 14. Only Paul Snyder, professional pupil of Mary Wood Chase, could be heard by this reviewer, as the affair, scheduled to begin at 2 :30, did not get under way until long after 3:00 o’clock. Mr. Snyder, who was heard here several times this winter, and more recently with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock at one of its popular concerts, played the impromptu by Chopin, in a manner all to his credit and that of his mentor, also the same composer’s mazurka, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, Debussy’s La Fille de Cheveux du Lin, and the Liszt rhapsody No. 6—a very comprehensive group in which the young pianist disclosed facile technic, fine understanding of the modern French piano literature, sane readings of the Chopin outputs, and an enthusiastic interpretation of the Liszt number. Mr. Snyder was much enjoyed by the elite audience as was shown by its vigorous plaudits.
Beethoven Trio Closes Educational Series.
The Beethoven Trio, the busiest and most popular trio of Chicago, finished up its educational series here with a chamber music concert at the City Club on May 16. One of the finest chamber music organizations now before the public, the Beethoven Trio, has reached a high standard and all its. concerts are fine examples of the best chamber music. Fortunate indeed was the City Club to have secured this trio for several of its concerts this season, affording its members an opportunity to hear chamber music as it should be played. The trio had the assistance of Johann Lingemann, who replaced the regular cellist, Theodore DuMoulin, and with Jennette Loudon, the pianist, and Ralph Miehaelis, the violinist, a fine program was excellently rendered. The allegro from the Brahms E flat trio, Percy Grainger’s Colonial Song, Irish Tune from County Derry, and Molly on the Shore, In Variation Style from Rachmaninoff’s Elegiac trio, and Dumka from the Dvorak trio were the numbers heard and which won the hearty approval of the many listeners on hand.
A word of praise is due the City Club for what it is doing toward the uplift of music. Not pre-eminently a musical organization, the club yearly presents a chamber music series and each year attains greater achievements and strives to present to its patrons chamber music of high order in all its different phases.
Schoenfeld Sonata Played Here.
A feature of Harry Wilson Smith’s concert on May 13, at Recital Hall, under the direction of Rachael Busey Kinsolving, was the first performance here of a sonata for violin and piano, by Henry Schoenfeld, a prominent and well known musician, formerly of this city but now residing in Los Angeles, Cal. The sonata won the Henri Marteau prize of $500 in Paris some years ago. As the recital was not attended by a member of the staff of this paper, Martin
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Chicago, May 19.—The recital season is practically over and the festival at Evanston and the Ravinia season loom in the near future as the principal musical attractions to keep the music reporters busy and to bring great enjoyment to music-lovers and others. During the past week many recitals took place, but only the important ones are here reviewed.
Tito Schipa at the Chicago.
One of the biggest events that has ever come to the notice of this department of the Musical Courier was the appearance on Sunday morning, May 13, of Tito Schipa, the distinguished tenor of the Chicago Opera, as soloist at the Chicago Theater, one of Balaban & Katz’ most famed moving picture theaters. It was at the same theater that, two weeks ago, five American composers competed for a prize of $1,000, and regular symphony concerts are given at the same theater by the same management every Sunday morning without any advance in the price of admission, and it is estimated the thirty-five symphony concerts have attracted over 125,000 people, thus showing how music, when it is of the highest order, will draw in Chicago, be it at the regular symphony hall, in a theater or in the sumptuous moving picture houses. All this prelude explains why Tito Schipa agreed to appear at a charity entertainment at the Chicago Theater. The theater was jammed to the doors, and Schipa scored one of his greatest triumphs here besides adding greatly to his already wide popularity. The appearance of Schipa at the Chicago made a stir here, as it was the first time that a star of his magnitude had appeared in Chicago in a moving picture theater, and now that the ice is brokn it is to be hoped that the management of similar large and well patronized theaters will at least once in a while engage world-renowned artists as musical attractions.
The Bakule Chorus.
The American Red Cross presented, at the Auditorium Theater on Wednesday evening, May 16, the Bakule Chorus of Prague. Director Frantisek Bakule has trained his chorus well and, made up of some twenty-five children, mostly young girls, the results he has obtained from his young forces are really marvelous. Superlatives galore are due the director as well as the choristers, as their singing was that of a professional body of mature performers. They sing their native songs so beautifully that they can
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