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he was suddenly called away for some concerts his place was taken by Lowell Nicols, of the Drama League. After each of the stories Olive Nevin sang a Just So Song from Edward German’s delightful cycle by that name. There also was a dance by two of the young guests, Winifred and Peggy White. At the end of the program Olive Nevin asked the audience to join her in the song about the “tree in the wood with the green grass growing all around.” As this was announced a large blackboard was brought out, and, while the audience sang, Olive Nevin’s eldest son, Nevin Muzzy, who has inherited his mother’s talent for drawing, quickly drew “the wood and the tree and the branch and the nest” with gay colored chalk.
Philharmonic Announcements
The Philharmonic Society’s prospectus for the eighty-second _ season announces fifty-four subscription concerts to be given at Carnegie Hall, ten at the Metropolitan Opera House and six at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. The Carnegie Hall concerts will include eighteen pairs on Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons, with the exception of a single concert in the evening series which will take place on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving to permit of the observance of the holiday by players and subscribers; six Saturday evenings and twelve Sunday afternoons.
The concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House will take place on six Tuesday evenings and four Sunday afternoons. Messrs. Van Hoogstraten and Mengelberg are announced as conductors, with Henry Hadley as associate conductor. Mr. Van Hoogstraten will conduct the orchestra at the Stadium concerts in the summer before opening the society’s subscription season on October 25.
Soloists who will appear with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Manhattan during the season are: Paul Kochanski, Efrem Zimbalist, Bronislaw Huberman, Carl Flesch, Scipione Guidi, Erika Morini and Albert Spalding, violinists; Felix Salmond, Leo Schulz and Cornelius Van Vliet, cellists; Ernest Schelling, Mitja Nikisch, Yolanda Mero, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Harold Bauer, Mischa Levitzki and Wilhelm Bachaus, pianists, and Wanda Landowska, harpsichord.
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music the soloists will be Nina Koshetz, soprano; Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Harold Bauer,'pianists; Scipione Guidi, violinist, and Dusolina Gian-nini, soprano.
Early in the season the Philharmonic Orchestra will play under the direction of Willem Van Hoogstraten in Plain-field, N. J., at Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Mt. Holyoke and Connecticut colleges, and in Worcester and Boston. Later Willem Mengelberg will conduct Philharmonic performances in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Lancaster and Pittsburgh.
The season’s novelties will be selected by the conductors and announced at a later date. In the meantime subscription renewals continue to reach the Philharmonic offices in the Fisk Building, where applications for new seat reservations are also received, allotments to locations being made in the order of the receipt of the applications.
will not take place until the fall), orchestral concerts, which will be given throughout the summer by an augmented band, and a series of Wednesday afternoon Intimate Talks on Program Building, American Composers, Orchestras and Their Work, Helpful Literature, Oratorios, etc., by Miss Howell, who will also give complete song recitals in Memorial Hall at the college.
Miss Howell, it is learned, has offered to award a free scholarship to the student who, after an open competitive examination, is found to possess the greatest gift of singing. A. Y. Cornell, who will direct the vocal department, has offered a similar scholarship. Four additional scholarships will also be awarded.
Miss Howell returns to New York City in August to be the soloist eight times with Edwin Franko Goldman at his band concerts in Central Park on the Mall.
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PHILADELPHIA HEARS NEW
ORCHESTRA UNDER LEPS
Church Music Course at Wellesley
The Summer School of Church Music will hold its ninth annual meeting at Wellesley College, Mass., from June 25 to July 5. A new feature of the school will be a course on Music in the Church School. With the growing realization that the school of today is the church of tomorrow, and in line with advance in educational methods in allied subjects, church school superintendents of all departments will get much help ,from the course to be given by Reginald L. McAll, of New York, organist and director of music of the Church of the Covenant, New York. Mr. McAll has been called to give a similar ■course at Columbia University, and his experiences with the French army and as secretary of the American Seamen’s Friend Society guarantees the human service and helpfulness of the course.
A successful trainer of choir boys and choirmasters is Lewis A. Wadlow, of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia. He has_ been secured to give a demonstration course on the training of_ choir boys and choir directing and his wide experience is placed at the service of leaders in this important branch of church work.
The work in service playing and repertory will be taken by Richard G. Appel. Having begun his education with J. Fred Wolle, of Bethlehem, Mr. Appel studied with Ralph Kinder, of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia; Walter Henry Hall, of Columbia University, and with Wallace Goodrich, of Boston. _ His_ training and experience make him an authority on the liturgical use of the organ and its literature.
Linking up the school with the official plans of the church will be Wallace Goodrich, of the New England Conservatory of Music, who will outline the report of the Commission on Church Music of the general Convention, of which he was secretary. Lectures, demonstrations, conferences and recitals are open to all members of the Conference for Church Work with which the school is held.
Initial Concert Proves Very Successful—Stokowski Appears
as Guest Conductor—Union Men to Obtain Training in This New Organization—Gilbert and Sullivan Work Well Performed by Operatic Society—Jacobinoff and Ezerman in Recital
Philadelphia, Pa., May 9.—The Civic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wassili Leps, with Leopold Stokowski as guest conductor, gave its first concert to a large audience in the Forrest Theater, May 6. The orchestra of 108 players was organized last November by Local 77, American Federation of Musicians, to assemble and train union musicians in the principles of orchestra routine. The program included the Sakuntala overture by Goldmark; Dvorak’s New World symphony, the Saint-Saëns B minor concerto for violin and orchestra and Tschaikow-sky’s Marche Slav. Max Seenofsky was the soloist and acquitted himself satisfactorily. The orchestra did excellent work, thanks to Mr. Leps’ effective conducting and discipline. Mr. Stokowski added to the delight of the audience by conducting the final number.
Boccelli in Recital.
Luigi Boccelli, baritone, assisted by Bertrand Austin, cellist, and Mary Miller Mount, accompanist, gave a splendid recital at the Ritz Carlton, May 3.
Strawbridge and Clothier Operatic Society.
The Strawbridge and Clothier Operatic Society gave The Pirates of Penzance at the Academy of Music, April 30 Herbert J. Tily, who directed, deserves much praise for producing such a fine performance. The chorus showed absolute obedience to his direction and the soloists sang admirably. The orchestra was drawn from the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which means excellence in that part. Those appearing in the principal roles were Ruth Grovene-veld Gibbs, Maybelle Berretta Marston, Aleta Smith, Myrtle Dougherty, Caroline Hoffman, Ednyfed Lewis, Harold Simonds, Louis Starr, John Vandersloot and L. Herbert Tily.
Jacobinoff and Ezerman in Recital.
Sascha Jacobinoff, violinist, and D. Hendrik Ezerman, pianist, appeared in joint recital at the Little Theater, April 38. The program included three sonatas: Brahms in G major, op. 78; the Debussy sonata, and the one by Richard Strauss in E flat, op. 18. The audience was large and appreciative of the artistic accomplishments of the performers
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Samaroff to Play at Buffalo Festival
Olga Samaroff will present American piano music at the All-American Music Festival at Buffalo next fall.
				
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May Meeting of the Sewickley Music Club
The May meeting of the Sewickley Music Club was arranged by Olive Nevin and Ernest Gamble, and proved to be a unique affair. The announcements stated that members of the club were invited to bring their children and their neighbor’s children, as the program had been planned for such an audience. Mr. Gamble expected to do some readings from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, but as
An Active Summer for Dicie Howell
Dicie Howell, the young American soprano, who has been heard in annual Aeolian Hall recitals in New York for five years, will give a series of recitals and also teach at the Civic Summer School of Music in Winston-Salem, N. C., from June 24 to August 4. The school sessions will be held at Salem College, the oldest women’s college in the South, and will have _ the support and encouragement of all the local organizations.
The program for the summer will include what is known as the Summer Master School, Special Music Week (which
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