MUSICAL COURIER
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May 24,1923
Milan Lusk a Busy Artist
Within the past few weeks, Milan Lusk, the Bohemian violinist, has been filling many important engagements in and about Chicago. A steadily growing demand for this artist is the most convincing proof of his popularity. On April IS he played at Woodstock, 111., in the Opera House to a capacity audience of about 1,000 people. He played with unusual brilliance and much temperament, the audience insisting on more than one encore after each of his groups. On April 18 he appeared before the Bohemian Club in the Webster Hotel, Chicago, with marked success. Every
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available space was taken in the Methodist Church in Indiana Harbor, Ind., when he played there under the auspices of the Woman's Club on April 24. Milan Lusk was engaged as the special attraction for the yearly musicale given by the Daughters of Indiana at Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building in Chicago, on May 1. He also appeared with the Irving Park Woman’s Club on May 7; recital in Grace Church in Oak Park, 111., May 8; the West End Catholic Woman’s Club on May 12; the Hermosa Club, May 16, with a few additional dates still pending for the next few weeks. Judging by the great number of inquiries for dates next fall and winter, there is no doubt that Milan Lusk will have a record breaking season for 1923-24.	•
Marie Mikova on Tour
Marie Mikova, concert pianist, is on tour as soloist with the Bakule Chorus of Prague. Appearances booked for Miss Mikova and the chorus comprise Washington, Newark, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Omaha, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Syracuse and Boston.
In Pittsburgh three concerts were given in Syria Mosque, which has a capacity of 4,000. At the third concert there even standing room was sold. Miss Mikova has had tremendous success on this tour.
Syracuse Gives De Luca Fine Reception
Giuseppe De Luca, well known baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, appeared at the Syracuse Festival on May 2, and was warmly received by an enthusiastic audience.
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SEASON 1923-24
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devoted to the works of Chopin and Beethoven, while the third recital comprised works by Schubert and Schumann. She created quite a stir among musicians and music-lovers, for she is singularly fitted through personality, technical equipment, experience, and artistry to interpret the works of the great masters, embodying all that is excellent in piano playing.
After her Beethoven evening she was favorably compared with other pianists who had been heard in this composer’s works in Minneapolis and according to Dr. Nilssons of the Minneapolis Journal, she “can well stand comparison with d’Albert, Godowsky, or Paderewski.”
Minneapolis is fortunate to possess so authoritative a pianist, undoubtedly the most distinguished who has ever settled in the Twin Cities. During the coming season she will be heard in many cities of the Northwest, as demands for her services are innumerable. That this artist is one of the foremost exponents of the Leschetizky piano method is a well known fact, and this has earned for her a wide reputation as a pedagogue. During her residence in Vienna, pupils went to her from all parts of the world, but especially from the United States. Since she selected Minneapolis as her home, pupils have flocked to her from all parts of this country. Their successful public appearances during the past season fully attest her splendid ability as an inspiring master-teacher and guide for aspiring pianists. W.
Neighborhood Music School Program
The extraordinary achievements of the Neighborhood Music School were evidenced by a program given at the Children’s Theater, May 9. A large audience, which included some of the best known pianists, witnessed the demonstration and testified hearty approval.
The Senior Orchestra appeared first and played the initial movement of Mozart’s G minor symphony. A fine body of strings was supplemented by a tactful pianist and the consequent effect was well balanced and tonally good. Mozart was recreated into flesh and blood with all the vigor of unabashed youth. There was excellent phrasing and dynamic effect and the tone quality often rose to the point of luxury. It is hard to estimate how far boys and girls now of high school age can go with such a background of ensemble training and intimacy with the fine things of symphonic literature. This same group of players furnished the background for Bach’s concerto in D minor for two violins. The solo parts were exceedingly well rendered by Eva Geisinger and Leonard Sirotae. Louis Burkow wound up the affair in brilliant fashion with his performance of the violin concerto in B minor by Saint-Saëns. The technical complexities offered by this opus are no child’s play and to say that this young lad fiddled through them creditably is saying a great deal indeed. The orchestra again gave adequate support.
To have instilled into youthful minds love for and appreciation of the fine points of chamber music olaying is something of which to be vastly proud. A really splendid string quartet comprised of Eva Geisinger, Louis Burkow, Harris Danziger and Gertrude Berkowitz, presented the first movement of Haydn’s quartet op. 76, No. 1, with a high degree of ensemble and artistic effect. Miss Berkowitz, the cellist of the group, appeared earlier in the evening in a solo number by Golterman. A good sized tone, accurate intonation and musical feeling marked her performance.
The Junior Orchestra, with legs dangling from a large number of chairs, in spite of curls which got in the way and bow arms that seemed much too short, won great applause by playing the march from Athalia (Mendelssohn). Two of these little people represented their departments by violin solos, Rhoda Martin from the elementary and Julius Shaier from the intermediate. This littlest girl’s aplomb and steady execution of a Bach minuet was one of the evening’s chief joys.
Another was the piano playing of Dora Zaslavky, the young girl who attracted so much attention at the Aeolian Hall concert by the United Music School Settlements. She began with an original two-part invention which had a musical theme and interesting treatment. Chopin’s Fantasie, op. 49, followed and revealed this remarkable child’s talents at their fullest. She has a well developed arm technic that obtains a full rich tone at any tempo she chooses and, what is more phenomenal, whatever she plays seems full of meaning to her and consequently to her hearers. Such emotional comprehension in one of her years is indeed rare. Elsie Mandelberg gave a fluent rendition to a Chopin waltz and Mildred Bertuch played a movement from a Brahms sonata showing a solid foundation.
As usual the names of the people responsible for this splendid training are left to surmise. But the value of the work they have done in discovering unusual talent and in giving all who desire it a chance for self-development and expression does not need to be guessed at.
Monasevitch Wins Stokowski Medal
The Stokowski Medal for violinists was awarded to Grisha Monasevitch, pupil of Franz Kneisel, on Sunday, May 13, at the Musical Art Club, Philadelphia, Pa. Following the announcement of the winner, a vote was taken to determine whether he was talented sufficiently to appear with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and it was unanimously decided that he be presented next season. The date of his appearance will be decided by the director of the orchestra.
Mr. Monasevitch received his earlier training from Frederick E. Hahn, of Philadelphia. He was the winner of the Kubelik-Sevcik scholarship in 1921, and of the Pennsylvania State Contest^ in 1923. He was admitted to the Kneisel master class in 1922. The young violinist will represent Pennsylvania at the National Contest to be held in Asheville, N. C., in June.
Graveure to Teach in San Francisco
Louis Graveure will conduct vocal classes in San Francisco, Cal., for five weeks, beginning July 16. Selby C. Oppenheimer has undertaken the management of the course, and he states that the Master Class will be limited to from fifteen to twenty selected pupils, but that membership in the auditors’ class is unlimited. Auditors attend all sessions with the advantage of listening to the coaching, programs, etc., of “master” pupils. Mr. Graveure will accept a few students for private instruction, preference being given to members of his classes.
Mme. Bailey Apfelbeck Scores Success in Minneapolis
It was with pride that her many friends and admirers welcomed home the gifted artist, Mme. Bailey Apfelbeck, a native of Nashville, Tenn. Recently returned from Eu-
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ropean musical centers after twenty years of unusual success, she brought with her many of the highest honors.
Mme. Bailey Apfelbeck has appeared abroad in over four hundred concerts and recitals and was chosen as soloist for more than a hundred orchestral appearances under European conductors. Her success earned for her the reputation of being one of the foremost pianists before the public.
In recognition of her exceptional artistry she was awarded the most highly prized orders for art and science, and is said to be the only lady, with the exception of Lilli Lehmann, possessing the Golden Cross of Merit with the Crown.
It was upon invitation that this artist went to Minneapolis and met with instantaneous success. Her art was clearly demonstrated in her great success with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra when she played the Grieg A minor concerto, and also in a series of concerto recitals when she played ten of the greatest standard concertos in the course of three evenings, all in one short season—truly a stupendous task for the artist and an exhaustive test of her versatility.
During the season just passed, Mme. Apfelbeck set for herself an equally heroic task in giving three recitals with short intervals intervening. The first two of these were
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