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May 31, 1923
Debussy and Cyril Scott. Miss Foster made an uncommonly fine impression on her audience, which included many professional pianists, singers and violinists. To a highly serviceable technic this promising pianist adds genuine musical feeling and a very real ability to grasp and impart the meaning of the music in hand, particularly where the mood is profound, melancholy or dramatic. Miss Foster’s musicianship and personality combined to win for her a splendid success and she was obliged to lengthen her program.
Sousa Guaranteed $412,000
Concert managers throughout the United States have guaranteed an aggregate of $412,000 for the appearances of Lieut. Commander John Philip Sousa and his band during the coming season, according to a statement made in New York recently by Harry Askin, Sousa’s business representative. This is said to be the largest amount ever guaranteed for the season’s appearance of any musical organization or individual. The figures represent only the amounts which local concert managers have contracted to pay Sousa for his appearances, and take no account of the concerts which the band will give during the season under its own business management.
Sousa’s next season, which will be his thirty-first as the head of Sousa’s Band, will begin on July 21 and will be concluded on March 8, 1924. During the season he will make his fourteenth trans-continental tour. Sousa’s Band is the only self-sustaining musical organization in America. The great symphony orchestras without exception are supported in part by subscription or have guarantors to whom they can turn in case of deficit, while even the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Chicago Opera are conducted upon a subscription basis.
Both Mr. Sousa and Mr. Askin are proud of the stability of an organization which for a period of years, in all seasons and in all kinds of weather in all parts of America, has been such a drawing attraction that there has been no engagement where the receipts fell below the guarantee for that date. The uniformity of Mr. Sousa’s drawing power is demonstrated by figures, selected at random from last season’s records and designed to show receipts in cities which vary grealy in size: In Cleveland, Ohio, on September 30, 1922, the band played to $17,778 in two performances, a world’s record for any musical or operatic organization. On March 20, in Charlestown, W. Va., the receipts were $8,500; in Bangor, Me., on September 22, $5,000; in Rochester, Minn., on October 9, $4,200; in Atlanta, Ga., February 20. $7,200; in Washington, D. C., November 2, $5,000, and at the New York Hippodrome, on November 5, the receipts reached $8,300 for a single performance—the greatest amount for any of Sousa’s numerous annual appearances there.
Two Kriens Pupils Heard
Salvatore Manetto and Lydia Sacker, violinists, pupils of Christiaan Kriens, each gave their own recital within ten days, the former in Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, New York, the latter in Y. M. C. A. Hall, Paterson, N. J. Young Mr. Manetto played ancient and modern works, including three pieces by his teacher, and Miss Sacker’s recital was distinguished by the performance of the Mendelssohn concerto and modern works; she was assisted by Ethel Dobson, soprano, and Mr. Kriens (who is a capable pianist), played the accompaniments. This is the eleventh season this teacher has brought out several violinists in recitals of their own. Many former pupils occupy positions in leading symphony and cinema orchestras, the girl pupils having positions in schools and colleges. .
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ment. To play so well at so early an age, this young girl, it would surely seem, must be blessed with an exceptional aptitude for the violin as well as with notable musical talent.
Another valuable asset she has which speaks favorably for her future: An attractive personality, one, too, that makes an audience listen attentively when she plays. And she is pleasantly free from the childish airs and graces of the usual “infant phenomenon.” She has, indeed, no mannerisms at all, but on the contrary perfect concert manners. The audience applauded her with great warmth.—Boston Herald.
Critical Praise for Frank Cuthbert
Frank Cuthbert, bass baritone, continues to add to the many laurels he has already won throughout the country. His success in the Maritime Provinces in April has been augmented by two festival appearances this month, when he sang in Syracuse, N. Y., and Springfield, Mass. Appended are some excerpts from press notices received following these appearances;
He was kindly remembered from his appearance last year, and his splendid work last night justified his engagement by the association. His diction was well nigh flawless, every word being clearly understood. His voice is full, rich and wide of range (Abimelech and the Old Hebrew in Samson and Delilah).—Springfield Union, May 5.
His voice is rich and resonant and he sang without effort the sometimes difficult passages of his role.—Springfield Daily News, May 5.
Frank Cuthbert has a bass voice of excellent quality and wide compass, rich and resonant in the low range and showing many of the characteristics of a baritone in the upper register. He possesses all the agility necessary for an adequate performance of the most florid passages of the Haydn arias (The Seasons).—Syracuse Post Standard, May 2.
The parts assigned the bass-baritone voice call for every possibility of these two voice divisions, and Mr. Cuthbert comes up to requirement with artistic ease and charming introspection.—Syracuse Journal,
Mr. Cuthbert displayed a voice of absolute purity and wonderful range (miscellaneous program).—Truru (Nova Scotia) Daily News, April 16.
He has a very pleasant appearance and his work, particularly in The Trumpet Shall Sound, was of an exceptionally high order, and evoked an unusual amount of applause (The Messiah) .—New Glasgow (N. S.) Evening News, April 14.
Mr. Cuthbert fitted the roles which fell to him. His beautifully trained voice and unusually distinct enunciation showed to advantage'. As the High Priest of Dagon, his singing was marked with dramatic expression and power (Samson and Delilah) .—Halifax Chronicle (N. S.), April 12.
Mr. Cuthbert sang with great expression and the perfection of׳־ tone production which marks the well-trained voice (Verdi Requiem).— Halifax Chronicle, April 11.
Frank Cuthbert was most happy in his group of solos. The Gounod Vulcan’s Song served to show forth his powers of dramatic expression. His singing of Johnson’s If Thou Wert Blind disclosed the superb finesse of his artistry in emotional expression, but it was in his infectious delivery of Densmore’s Roadways that he revealed the rich, rounded quality of his baritone (miscellaneous program).— Halifax Herald, April 10.
Mr. Cuthbert has a beautifuly trained voice, and managed it perfectly, displaying lovely notes, real feeling, and range.—Halifax (N. S.) Chronicle, April 10.
Mr. Cuthbert made an instantaneous success with his taking songs so well rendered with his splendid bass-baritone voice.—Halifax Arcadian Recorder, April 10.
Marjorie Squires Sings Delilah Admirably
Marjorie Squires appeared as Delilah in Samson and Delilah when it was given in oratorio form at the Columbus, Ohio, Music Festival on April 24, following which the critics eulogized her as per the accompanying excerpts: Miss Squires lived up to the expectations of her audience both vocally and emotionally in that seductive song, My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, toward which the whole act progresses and from which the opera recedes until the catastrophe in the Temple—H. G. Davidson, Columbus Citizen.
Miss Squires sang the Delilah part admirably with a voice of opulent quality, dramatic fervor and well-grounded tradition. She was received with a furore of acclamation after the well-beloved aria, My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice. In the fury of the succeeding defiance she was admirably dramatic.—Columbus Dispatch.
In the role of Delilah Miss Squires sang the soprano parts of the opera in a manner that called forth repeated applause from the audience.—Columbus Daily.
Miss Squires more than satisfied everyone present, for she gave generously of her opulent gifts and sang with sensuous abandon,, displaying a voice of power and wide range, and a tropical temperament. Her florid passages were done with brilliancy, and her high notes rang out with clarity and warmth.—Columbus State Tournal.
Amy Ellerman’s Artistry Evident
Following Amy Ellerman’s appearance in the South Side High School, Newark, N. J., on May 9, the Newark Evening News had this to say regarding her part in the program:
In her introductory number, the .aria Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta vmx, from Samson and Delilah, Miss Ellerman quickly ingratiated herself by the mellow quality of her tones, always steady and smooth, and by the well controlled emotionality with which she charged the siren s cajoleries. That she is an artist was evident not only by her technical proficiency but by good taste in observing the letter and the spirit in the composer’s work by taking the final phrase piano instead of forte as so many contraltos do. Her singing of her second group advanced her in the esteem of the audience because of the ieeling and animation in her interpretations.
Maier and Pattison List Growing
The announcement that the coming season will be in the nature of at least a temporary farewell for Guy Maier and Lee Pattison has greatly stimulated the interest in these unique artists. Their time is filling up very rapidly, the latest additions to their list of bookings including the following recitals: Oberlin, Ohio, November 13; Muncie, Ind., 15; Iowa City, la., 20; Omaha, 22; Sioux City, la., December 8; Dayton, Ohio, February 8; Flint, Mich.,'February 11• Fall River, Mass., March 30. The first three weeks in March will be devoted entirely to Texas and Oklahoma, States which they have not yet visited, but where the music loving public is anxious to gain acquaintance with their remarkable ensemble playing.
Gebhard Pupil Wins Favor in Recital
Eleanor Foster, pianist and artist pupil from the studio of Heinrich Gebhard, was heard in an interesting program on May 10, in the music room of Amelia Gebhard, on Manchester Road, Brookline. Miss Foster gave a pleasurable demonstration of her talents in a well varied program comprising Bach’s French Suite; an intermezzo and rhapsody of Brahms; a waltz, a nocturne and a scherzo of Chopin; two pieces from Scriabin, and numbers by Casella,
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