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sang recently at Memorial Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y. On this occasion she also did some fine work as a toe dancer.
French Publisher Offers Prizes
A. De Smit, the Paris publisher, at 187 Faubourg Pois-sonniere, is offering prizes of 500 and 300 francs for a number of compositions of a lighter sort. Any composer interested can obtain details of the competition, which closes November 1 next, by writing to the address given.
Elshuco Trio Concludes Tour
The Elshuco Trio, consisting of William Kroll, violinist; Willem Willeke, cellist, and Aurelio Giorni, pianist, has concluded its tour. For next season, the Trio announces two subscription concerts at Aeolian Hall, on December 7 and March 13.
Arrival of Doris Marie Pilzer
Max Pilzer, the violinist and teacher, and his wife were made happy on May 22 by the auspicious arrival at their home in New York of a very young lady whom they have decided to name Doris Marie.
Institute of Musical Art Adds New Trustees
Felix Warburg, and Dr. Eugene Noble, the latter pre-ident of the Juilliard Foundation, have accepted places on the board of trustees of the Institute of Musical Art, of which Dr. Frank Damrosch is director.
context and both artists gave of their best. According to the Post Standard : “Mr. Gordon proved himself an artist in many ways. His technical equipment has not been neglected and in all his playing there is a crisp, fresh singing tone that makes such works as the Schubert-Tausig March Militaire a rare treat.” Another critic wrote : “Clear sparkling tones full of freshness flowed from under Mr. Gordon’s supple fingers. His presentation of the Schubert-Tausig March Militaire was exquisite.”
Perfield Teacher’s Pupils in Hour of Music
A delightful hour of music with the pupils of Nell Hanks, presenting Dorothy Towl (assisted by Irene Nichols), Mary Ann Miller, Larry Miller, Edwin Goddard, Marjorie Sonner, Allan Towl, Dougal Fraser, John Gladding, Clayton Nichols and Clarence Armstrong, took place at the home of Mrs. Charles Fraser, of Kew Gardens, L. I., on Saturday afternoon, May 18. At the end of a well rendered program, Mrs. Perfield, of whose system Miss Hanks is an exponent, made an. interesting address.
Seismit-Doda Pupils Win Success
Charlotte Walker, soprano, who will soon appear in a Broadway production, sang for the Dickens Society on May 18, and won much applause for her artistic rendition of Musetta’s waltz from Bohême, The Last Rose of Summer and Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses, by Openshaw. Miss Walker is an artist-pupil of Maestro Seismit-Doda. Another Seismit-Doda pupil, Eileen Kearns, the six-year-old prodigy,
Dicie Howell
Omaha, 1922-23
“Beauty of voice of brilliant lyric quality of great range.” —Omaha W orld Herald.
“The finer points which make the artist. Lyric voice of pure limpid quality. She sings fluently with much finish and style. Displayed fine musical taste.” — The Omaha Bee.
Aeolian Hall, New York City, 1922-23 Notices
“Sang classic and modern with vocal discretion and good taste.”—New York Times.
“Her voice has a light silvery quality that bounds joyously.”— Neiv York Eve. Mail.
Buffalo, 1922-23
“A soprano of delightful purity and freedom and ease of singing.”—Evening Examiner.
“The bright spot of the program was Dicie Howell. Her singing of an Irish folk song with humming chorus Won a Storm of Applause.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 4, 1923.
“Naturally endowed with a soprano of singular purity and brightness Miss Howell has acquired such a knowledge of the art of bel canto that she uses it with a skill which enhances the beauty of her tones and enables her to deliver florid passages in song with remarkable fluency and finish. The flexibility of her tones and the polish of her vocalization gave distinction to her singing of Mozart’s “Alleluia,” Loewe’s “She is Fairer than the Fair” and the waltz from Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the last of which she sang brilliantly.”
—Newark Evening News, May 10th, 1923.
Direction EVELYN HOPPER	Aeolian Hall	New York City
ST. LOUIS HEARS BAKULE CHORUS
Philharmonic Orchestra Presents Excellent Program—Notes
St. Louis, Mo., May 19,—An interesting event was the visit to St. Louis of the Bakule School Chorus from Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, trained by Frantisek Bakule. These children gave a vocal program assisted by Marie Mikova, Czecho-Slovakian pianist. The children’s rendition of several American airs, notably the Star Spangled Banner and Dixie, was a piquant performance. The former was given with much dignity and in good English. During the concert a special medal was presented to Dr. Bakule by the Societie Française of St. Louis. Following the presentation of this medal the children sang La Marseillaise in the original French.
Engagement for St. Louis Concertmaster..
Michel Gusikoff, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been engaged for a two weeks’ appearance at the Grand Central Theater.
Philharmonic Gives Creditable Performance.
The St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, Frank Geeks, conductor, closed its season with an ambitious concert in which it presented Leroy W. Crow, bass, as soloist. ^ The orchestra, which is composed entirely of amateur musicians, has become a training school for professional orchestra members although some of its members are prominent business and professional men who have played in the organization for the last fifteen years. The orchestra is in its thirtieth season now and is a highly creditable organization. The last program included two movements of Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding symphony, a series of excerpts from Carmen, and the overture to the Marriage of Figaro. Mr. Crow is a newcomer to St. Louis. He sang the. Serenata from Faust and a group of ballads.
Notes.
The St. Louis Alumnae Club of the Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority will give a concert at the Delmar Baptist Church.
A recital was presented by Amie Guth Punshon, contralto, assisted by Ellis Levy, violinist, and Max Gold, pianist, at the Wednesday Club Auditorium.
Plans for awarding a scholarship in the study of voice and dancing are being arranged by the Executive _ Productions Committee of the Municipal Theater Association. The purpose of this scholarship is to enable talented members of the summer opera chorus to advance to positions as principals.
The management of the Municipal Opera season announces an advance subscription sale of over $65,000.
Announcement has been made that Paul Beisman, publicity director of the Municipal Theater Association, has been appointed manager of the American Theater (the largest St. Louis playhouse) to succeed Edward D. Smith.
The annual convention of the American Federation of Musicians was held in St. Louis, May 16 and 17. There was a concert by massed bands at noon on May 17 at the Hotel Chase and a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under the conductorship of Rudolph Ganz in the Municipal Theater, the same day.	V. A. L. J.
Archibald Sessions’ Pupils in Recital
Gladys Hahn, soprano, was heard in a varied program of songs at the Bergen Lyceum, Jersey City, on April 27. Miss Hahn has a lovely soprano of range and power, and acquitted herself in good style in several groups of songs, ranging from the old Italian school through old English, modern French and American works, and finished her program with four of the Gypsy Songs of Dvorak. She is largely a product of Archibald Sessions’ studio, with which teacher she has coached for three years. Recently, on Mr. Sessions’ advice, she has been doing some tone work with Walter Greene. This collaboration seems to have had a most successful result, as Miss Hahn uses her voice with surety and sings with good diction, enunciation and style.
The singer was assisted by Harry Waller, violinist, who played a group of solos and the Faure sonata, with Mr. Sessions at the piano.
Mischa Levitzki Returns to New York
Mischa Levitzki has returned to New York and after a few days devoted to the making of records will go to his summer home at Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J. He had been on the Pacific Coast since early March giving recitals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Portland and Vancouver. He also appeared as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He took a fortnight’s vacation to visit the Yosemite Valley and played his last engagement for the season at the Cornell College May Festival in Mount Vernon, la., on May 11. His successes on the Pacific Coast were so pronounced that prior to his arrival in New York, his manager, Daniel Mayer, had received signed contracts for twelve Pacific Coast recitals in the same cities next February.
Noted Stars for Veterans’ Benefit
A galaxy of musical stars probably unequalled in recent years, has been assembled for the first gala concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday evening, June 3, for the benefit of the Veterans’ Mountain Camp. They include Margaret Matzenauer, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan; Tito Schipa, lyric tenor of the Chicago Opera; Ina Bourskaya. of the Metropolitan; Florence Macbeth, of the Chicago Opera; Ernest Schelling, pianist-composer; Toscha Seidei, violinist; Willem Willeke, cellist; Alexis Kosloff, dancer; Levitzki, pianist; Queena Mario, of the Metropolitan; Edward Lankow, and Dirk Foch, conductor this past season of the City Symphony Orchestra.
Werrenrath in Drew Anniversary Play
Reinald Werrenrath has been invited by Daniel Frohman and Francis Wilson and his confreres of the Players’ Club to be in the all-star cast of The School for Scandal, to be given the first week in June at the Lyceum Theater as a tribute to John Drew on his fiftieth anniversary. The play will be under the direction of William Seymour.
Syracuse Likes Phillip Gordon’s Playing
Phillip Gordon, pianist, and Elinor Whittemore, violinist, gave a joint recital at the Mizpah Auditorium, Syracuse, N. Y., on May 11. The program was varied in