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MUSICAL COURIER
May 24, 1923
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Stadium Auditions
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beginning May 10, at Aeolian Hall, to select soloists for STADIUM CONCERTS
All applications should be sent to MRS. WILLIAM CO WEN, Chairman 250 West 57th Street, New York
a gifted young violinist, with Beatrice Tate Wright at the piano.
Sara Mallam .presented George Dewey Bryant in a vocal recital with Minnie McNeill Carr as accompanist.
Ferdinand Dunkley presented Mary Emma Pearson, soprano, and Brown Bates, baritone.
Mrs. E. T. Rice, Margaret Proctor, Mrs. Jacob Bloom and Mrs. R. V. Allgood gave student recitals.
Alice Graham presented piano pupils in a studio recital.
The Loulie Compton Seminary observed Music Week, beginning the celebration on April 27 and concluding it May 4. The opening event was a concert by piano and organ pupils under the direction of Virginia Reese Simms, instructor. Marynette Baker, pupil of Cornelia Ehren, appeared in a graduate piano recital. On the next evening voice pupils of Emma Reid Mitchell were heard in an evening of song. Ethel Mae Adkins gave her graduating recital on May 4, as did Margaret Loyd, violinist, pupil of Mary Elizabeth Baugh.
A closing program of anthems was rendered by the chorus of fifty trained voices under the direction of O. Gordon Erickson at the Lyric Theater, where it has been singing all winter under the auspices of the Men’s Club of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The excellent program rendered was heard by a large audience. Among the numbers were the anthems By Babylon’s Wave (Gounod), Cherubim Song (from the Russian church liturgy by Tschaikowsky), the Angelus (Elgar) and Gounod’s Unfold, Ye Portals. This chorus choir has been a notable feature of church music in the city since its organization last October, being the first attempt here to maintain a choir so large in number. The success of the innovation has been marked.
A. G.
Boston, Mass.—(See letter on another page).
Chicago, 111.—(See letter on another page).
Chipley, Fla., May 8.—Mrs. I. A. Stewart presented the following pupils in a recital recently in the high school auditorium: Annie Parrish, Hazel Cook, Martha Jenkins, (Continued on page 54)
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number on the program was the duet by Mr. Reinhart and Mrs. Hemphill.
Audiences that packed every available space of the Ampico concert room of the National Exhibitors, Inc., in the Brighton Casino, April 13 and 15, heard a recital by William Chester Boyer, tenor, and Ruby Cordery Warke, pianist, ■and, a second recital, Mrs. S. G. Rosenstock, music lecturer, and Vida Roper, pianist, in An Evening with Charles Wakefield Cadman and Ethelbert Nevin. Vocal selections were artistically interpreted by Erna Cavelle, with the Ampico accompanying. Miss Cavelle has a delightfully clear soprano voice, excellent pitch and diction, and creates for herself the admiration of the public through her appealing voice and personality.
Inga Hoegsbro-Christianson, Scandinavian pianist, of New York, has opened a studio in the Stratford Apartments, where she will receive pupils for piano. Mme. Christianson is a graduate from the Royal Conservatory at Copenhagen.
Mrs. J. Haines Lippincott was hostess at a musicale given April 15 at her home. The varied program, under the direction of Evalyn Quick Tyson and Mrs. Mann, was given by William C. Boyer, tenor; Alice Needles Lippincott, soprano; Ray Newell and Mr. Toms, basso, and Miss Tyson and Miss Higbee, accompanists.
The Sunday evening programs offered by the Vessella Concert Band, Oreste Vesella conductor, are crowding the Casino of the Steel Pier. At the concert on April 18 An-netta Ribecova, soprano, was the soloist, and was vigorously applauded. Conductor Vessella and his concert band excelled in interpretations from Boito, Drigo, Balfe and To-bani.
Nora Lucia Ritter, soprano, is again in her studio, after several weeks of illness.
The quartet choir of the С. M. P. Church presented a program of distinction on April 26, at the Hotel Chelsea. Those taking part were Frances Leadom Hess, readings; Frank L. Nicoletta, harpist; the quartet—Mary E. Miller (soprano), Dorothy C. Turner (contralto), Daniel L. Snyder (tenor) and William E. Neilson (baritone), Helen Sinkinson Kline, organ and piano accompanist and soloist. The harp solo, Cansonetta, by Nicoletta, was splendidly played by the composer and pleased the large audience.
J. V. B.
Augusta, Ga., May 7.—The Community Service of Augusta is presenting at the Imperial Theater," early in May, a charming operetta called Cinderella.
The Glee Club of Tubman High School presented a delightful melange of music, mirth and nonsense under the title of “Daffy-Dills,” on May 4. This was staged by Jeane Turner. Among the girls who took part are Annie Smith, Emma Plunkett, Grace Etheridge, Mary Edwards, Margaret Wall, Dorothy Pund and Dorazel Sylvester.	P. G.
Birmingham, Ala., May 8.—The Birmingham Music Study Club elected the following list of delegates to the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs which convenes in Asheville, N. C., in June: Mesdames E. T. Rice, Earle Drennen, E. G. Chandler, R. C. Woodson, Victor H. Hanson, Emma Mitchell and Bettie Gilmore. In addition to these delegates from the Music Study Club, Mrs. George Houston Davis, second vice-president of the Federation ; Mrs. Oscar Hundley, corresponding secretary; Emma McCarthy, president of the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs, and Mrs. W. I. Grub, delegate at large from the State, all residents of this city, will attend the biennial from here.
The student recital season is on and local teachers are presenting pupils who reveal much talent and good training. Clara Harper Steele presented pupils in An Evening of Song. Those participating were Mrs. Walter Brower, Sara Hodges and Ethlyn Hayes. Assisting artists were Vincent DeMilita, flutist; Frank Rubineau Basenberg, violinist, and W. McK. Wright, interpreter of Indian songs (with Mrs. Robert Newman at the piano).
Fred G. Wiegand presented his pupil, Harold Johnson,
Abbeville, Ala., May 7.—The Music Lovers’ Club met recently at the home of Mr. T. J. Floyd with Mrs. D. E. Lee as assistant hostess. The club voted on scholarships in piano and voice to be granted some worthy boy or girl of the community. Mrs. T. J. Floyd was elected secretary and Mrs. J. H. Galloway, treasurer.	J. P. M.
Albany, N. Y., May 9.—The most important musical event of early May was the annual concert of the Girls’ Academy Glee Club, Frank Sill Rogers conducting. Stuart Swart, pianist; Raymond J. Zwack, violinist, and John M Zwack, accompanist, assisted. Eaton Fanning's The Miller’s Wooing was the big club number and the chorus was also heard in several part songs including Speaks' Morning and Cobwebs, by Gerrit Smith. Assisting the chorus were these well-known Albany vocalists: Mabel S. Van Ulinda, Louise Eades, Lillian Jones, Edgar S. Van Olinda, George J. Perkins, Edward L. Kellogg, Theodore D. Sherman, Thomas Geer Kenny, T. Reed Vreeland, Edwin B. Parkhurst and Ernest Bliss.
The Women’s Chorus of 100 voices gave a concert at the State College for Teachers recently with a program of folksongs of the British Isles. Edna Shafer and Mabelle Jo-cumson were soloists.
Ruth Glackman Rodgers, soprano, will be the assisting artist at the spring concert of the Mendelssohn Club.
The annual concert of St. Paul’s choir brought to notice several examples of Russian composition, sung unaccompanied. T. Frederick H. Candlyn conducted and the soloists were Harold T. Cooper, bass; John Dick, baritone, and Mrs. J. Stark, contralto. Mrs. Stark recently came to Albany from Scotland.
Elmer Tidmarsh, conductor of the Albany Community. Chorus and the Monday Musical Club Chorus, is one of the one hundred American students of music elected to study at Fontainebleau this summer.	E. IT. V.
Athens, Ga., May 11.—Harriet May Crenshaw, director of piano at Lucy Cobb Institute, presented her pupils in a two-piano recital, May 8. Those who appeared were Caroline Ashton, Frances Crane, Lilia Mae Webb, Harriet Jeffries, Annette Arnold, Alice Arnold, Ruth Morgan, Eliza Cobb McDorman, Jack Hancox, Kathleen McCorkle, Mary Stephenson, Helen McDorman, Alice Shaw, Emma Gray, Pearl Hardman, Anne Lewis, Pearlie Hammond, Mae Chapman, Evelyn Zettler and Dorothy Moran. Voice pupils of Louise Rostand assisted.
The entire student body of Lucy Cobb Institute aided in the presentation of Pan on a Summer Day (Bliss) in the Seney-Stovall Chapel, May 10. It was directed by Louise Rostand.
The Treble Clef Club of Lucy Cobb Institute recently presented a miscellaneous program under the direction of Louise Rostand.	H. M. C.
Atlantic City, N. J,, May 8.—At a luncheon given by the Council of Women’s Organizations of Atlantic City, the Crescendo Club was represented among the twenty-six clubs. A special song sheet, provided by the Women’s Foundation, proved to be all parodies on popular songs, composed by Sara Miller and Muriel Phelps. Music was furnished by the Nick Nichols’ Orchestra.
The Junior Crescendo Club held its monthly meeting April 28 in Ampico Hall. These musicales are interesting and largely attended. The music supervisors of the public schools, parents and friends of the pupils, displayed much interest and appreciation. Those taking part were Clara Hoffman, Louise DeVitis, Alice Burch, Grace Luzenberg, Dorothy Baker, Olive Filer, May Bell Hanson and Clara Lobe (pianists) ; trio for piano, violin and cello, Misses Young, DeVitis and Sachse; Anna Maier, violinist; Beatrice Hall, vocalist. The Juniors are attracting the interest of the Senior Crescendo members by their musical ability.
A special musical program was the feature at the St. Nicholas Catholic Church, April 18, with George Shortlano Kempton, organist and director. Rosini’s Stabat Mater was presented by the choir of fifty mixed voices, assisted by Frank Blessington and Joseph Powers, tenors; Michael L. Cawley, bass; Mrs. James P. Gill, soprano, and Miss H. Kerstatter, contralto. The Inflammatus solo was interpreted by Ethel C. Marina. The well trained choir displayed fine tonal blending.
Martinelli, tenor, scored a marked success April 29 in concert at the Hotel Traymore. The artist was in excellent voice, and scored his highest mark in the aria, Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci.
The Atlantic City High School Dramatic Society presented with marked success its annual production at Keith's Theater on April 7, before a large audience. The high school orchestra, Fred Harmon and Joseph Atlas, leaders, furnished the music, receiving warm applause.
The fourth recital of the Crescendo Club was held in the auditorium of the high school April 17 and was largely attended. Mrs. Samuel Reinhart, president, introduced the soloists. Those taking part were Veronica Sweigart, contralto; Alice Warren Saches, pianist; Oscar Langman, violinist; Sara Newell and Dorothy Neebe-Lang¿ accompanists. Miss Sweigart, in fine voice, interpreted songs of Saint-Saëns, Chadwick, Strauss, Liszt, Lieurance, Aldrich, MacDowell, Block and La Forge, responding to repeated encores. She was the first prize winner at the Penn State Federation, in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sachse played commendable numbers by Chopin and Schytte. Mr. Lang-man’s violin selections from Sarasate, Elman, Ravel and Kreisler were very artistic and he was fortunate in finding-in Miss Newell a capable and sympathetic accompanist.
The Kiwanians and their guests sponsored Erna Cavelle, soprano, at the midday luncheon in the La Victoire on April 17. Miss Cavelle sang a Cadman and two Nevin compositions. Her voice is rich and pleasing and under excellent control. The demonstration extended was flattering and encores were demanded. She was accompanied by the Ampico.
Nathan I. Reinhart, popular organist and pianist, assisted by Anna Shill Hemphill, pianist; Viola Robertson, contralto; Alice Marshall Christopher, organist, and Mr. Argieivies, cellist, were heard in a concert, April 18, in the music hall of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. The feature
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