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son, Franz Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Hugo Wolf, Wint-ter Watts, Kramer, Molly Carew, Rudolph Ganz and Frank Bibb, she won the hearty approval of her listeners.
Sturkow-Ryder’s May Happenings.
Though the musical season is on the wane, Mme. Sturkow-Ryder’s many activities still keep her on the “go.” During May the following were among her activities:	May 6.
annual Bach recital, Chicago studio; 8, Oshkosh (Wis.) concert, Wisconsin Music Teachers’ convention; 9, talk to W. M. T. A., on The Needs of the Student; 10, concert, Marquette (Mich.); 14, Chicago, concert for Sinai Council of Jewish Women; IS, Chicago Artists’ Association, and 26, studio recital, Chicago.
Summer Term at the Gunn School.
The summer work at the Glenn Dillard Gunn School of Music and Dramatic Art has already begun. Lee Pattison, American pianist and associate of Guy Maier in two-piano programs, has opened a preliminary term before beginning his regular summer classes for which the registrations are particularly large. Mr. Pattison plans a very interesting series of interpretation classes at which he will play, illustrating the whole literature of the piano and, with the assistance of Guy Woodard of the Gunn School faculty, much of the piano and violin literature as well. Mr. Gunn has turned over to Mr. Pattison for this class the highly interesting and efficient group of young professionals who attend his “How to Study” classes during the regular school yea•־, so that it bids fair to be one of the most active centers of musical interest in Chicago during June and July. Listeners may attend. Jacques Gordon, concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, will join Mr. Pattison in a program of sonatas at an early date.
The volume of inquiries from organists, choir masters, chorus leaders and teachers of music in the public schools regarding the lectures to be delivered at the Gunn School by Father Finn, of the Paulist Choir, is remarkable. It should be stated that this course comprises sixty hours. The subjects to be discussed are:	General Examination of the
Choral Idiom in Music, Training Boy Sopranos, Altos in Boy Choirs, The Pedagogy of General Musical and Vocal Technic in Boys; series two, The Merging of all Choral Elements in Ensemble, Principles of A Cappella Singing; series three, Gregorian Chant, Medieval Polyphony, Modern Russian Choruses, and Collateral Requirements of a Choral Conductor.
The group of young professional singers that has gathered around Mme. Colberta Millett, of the Gunn School, this spring will be very largely increased by the summer’s registrations. These have come in with such increasing volume that it will be necessary for those who wish lessons with this noted associate of Lili Lehmann, this summer, to confirm their registrations immediately.
These two distinguished teachers, whose services have been in demand in Chicago for the past twenty years, will both be available during the summer term at the Gunn School, where they can be interviewed. Mr. Gunn will coach the usual number of professional pianists, and will conduct his normal courses. Mr. Woodard’s professionals are returning for the summer from symphony orchestras and schools.
Bush Conservatory Orchestral School Concert.
A spring concert by the Bush Conservatory symphony orchestra, Richard Czerwonky conductor, was the initiation of the commencement class of 1923, at Orchestra Hall, Thursday evening, May 24, an auspicious event for all of the participating students. The program was happily arranged to impress advancement and the effective work being accomplished by the faculty.
The orchestra rendered its part efficiently in the accompaniments to the soloists as well as their numbers—the Beethoven overture, Egyptian Ballet music by Luigini, and especially the Tschaikowsky March Slav—which met with surprisingly good treatment at their hands, marking the rapid progress this organization is making on each additional hearing. A tendency to retard at times was discernible, but quickly overcome through the masterly control and brilliant conductorship of Mr. Czerwonky, who is fast making this body a distinctly outstanding asset to this commonwealth, as well as to this meritorious conservatory.
The Beethoven Trio, delivered by Alice Josephine Sullivan and Rose Peterson-Burgeson, sopranos, and John C. Min-nema, baritone, was sung with splendid expression and tone with attention to shading and with assurance.
Marion Levin played a violin concerto in D minor, by Bruch, with good warm tone, much aplomb and color, good pitch and clear technic.
Henry Berning, in a Rubinstein concerto in D minor (one movement), was successful in tone production, which was
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Cara Verson Sails for Germany.
Cara Verson, the American pianist, who won fine success last season in Europe, has returned to Germany, having sailed on the steamship Orduna on May 19. Miss Verson will spend the summer in the Bavarian mountains, getting her program ready for the autumn, when she expects to give recitals again in the larger German cities, also Vienna, Paris, London, and probably Florence, Milan and Rome, Italy.
MacBurney Presents Leola Turner in Recital.
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gram of finely contrasted songs. Often has Miss Turner been heard under the same auspices, and on each hearing there is a noticeable and marked progress. She has improved upon her stage deportment, her fine poise evincing this; her grasp of the poetic content of her songs has increased, and in projecting moods she shows improvement as indicated when changing from deep pathos to lightness and charm. Miss Turner delivers a tone that is both brilliant and flexible; her voice is full, yet clean-cut and wide in range. Though in her rendition of some of her songs her vivacity caused her to take too rapid a tempo at times, her evident feeling for the artistic balance of the songs always found a climax. Miss Turner impresses as a sincere young artist, and her loveliness and charm of manner are greatly in her favor. In songs by Charles E. Horn, H. Lane Wil-
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Chicago, May 26.—The musical event of the last weeks in May has for many years been the North Shore festival, given annually in one of Chicago’s aristocratic and cultured suburbs, Evanston, the home of the Northwestern University, which lends its spacious Patten Gymnasium to the consecration of music. Artists of international reputation have appeared at this festival, and the fifteenth annual celebration included the names of many of the most popular singers before the American public. The festival began on Thursday evening, May 24, and will be concluded oil Wednesday evening, May 30. In view of the fact that the festival lasts a week, lapsing from one into the other, the report of the festivities as far as this department is concerned is deferred for. a week, so that all the story can be published in one installment. The various staff photographers of the Chicago office of the Musical Courier had their cameras well loaded when the writer decided that no pictures would be run this season, for though snapshots are interesting, the artists appearing at Evanston are so well known to the readers of this paper that the publishing of their features would not add materially to the story, so the space given this department for the review of the festival will be used, solely for that purpose.
Karl Reckzeh Presents Artist Pupil.
Karl Reckzeh presented his pupil, Leonard Shure, in a piano recital at Kimball Hall, Sunday afternoon, May 20, before an audience both large and thoroughly enthusiastic. This surprising candidate for pianistic honors is but twelve years of age and will, no doubt, be heard often in the future. He is a boy who looks his age, but plays with the power of a full grown man and the delicate touch of a woman—a pleasant appearing, round faced, well built chap, whose stage deportment told the story of his inexperience before the public. This did not weigh in his favor as a preliminary, but when he reached the keyboard of his instrument and started to deliver a difficult program, made up of a concerto by Mozart, sonata by Beethoven, nocturne by Chopin, an etude by^ Liszt, etc., presenting accomplishments of a high order, disclosing splendid manipulation, absolute aploma and art in the projection of tone and tone color, unfolding his gift of musical intelligence, he stood revealed to view as a remarkable student, brim full of talent in the hands of a master tutor. His two piano numbers, with Mr. Reckzeh at the second piano, added further to the delight of his performance and convinced the writer of the great value of his equipment as an artist-pupil.
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