MUSICAL COURIER
June 7, 1923
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Souls’ Church, New York, and at night was one of a quartet composed of Jeannette Vreeland, Wesley Howard and Fred Patton, at the Baptist Temple in Brooklyn. Miss Wright was contralto soloist in Elijah at the Church of the Ascension, New York, April IS (Jessie Craig Adam, organist). March 18, Miss Wright and Mr. Fuson gave a joint recital at the weekly Sunday night concert at Hotel Vanderbilt, New York City.
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played with warmth and sincerity, coupled with perfect rhythm and excellent musicianship. Mr. Lusk graciously responded to several encores.” The Oak Parker (May 12, 1923) declared the recital to have been as perfect a thing of this kind as ever Orchestra Hall has produced. Milan Lusk, violinist, is hailed as “one of the really great artists with that instrument, and all of his numbers gave the keenest pleasure to his attentive and enthusiastic audience.”
Praise Follows Macbeth’s Southern Tour
Florence Macbeth, coloratura soprano of the Chicago Opera, has been consistently adding to her successes as a concert artist of the highest rank and winning her way into the hearts of her audiences during her recent successful tour of the South, as the following excerpts will show:
Too much cannot be said for Miss Macbeth’s singing. Her tone was clear, her enunciation perfect, her carriage graceful and her vocal range seemingly unlimited. Coupled with the skilled accompaniment of George Robert’s, a pianist of note, Miss Macbeth’s interpretation of every number on the program was received with ringing applause.— Chronicle, April 10.
Miss Macbeth last evening instantly became a favorite with her audience, because of her rare combination of youth, simplicity, perfect naturalness and unusual personality. Her voice was delightful and she sang with greatest ease the most difficult compositions ... a program of six parts and the audience was fascinated.—The Houston Chronicle, April 10.
She is a singer of unusual charm and possesses a most winning stage presence. She gained the favor of her hearers upon entrance. Miss Macbeth is tres-petite, and with her silver-toned voice perfectly placed and controlled, her program was lovely. She is a rare musician with a voice of appeal.—The Mesenger, Owensboro, Ky., April 21.
Florence Macbeth appeared last night, charming her audience with her gracious manner, simple elegance and remarkable voice. She sings with ease and brilliancy the higher, fanciful and decorative scores in a way to bring enthusiastic applause at the close of each number and seems a finished actress as well. That she has an unusual high range must be admitted and her ability to use it to advantage was proved easily.—George Hoyt Smith, The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, April 18.
The American operatic soprano, Florence Macbeth, proved a charming artist. Her program was an interesting mixture of the deeper operatic arias, and some light and difficult songs, which kept her hearers in a pitch of expectancy. From a vocal and dramatic standpoint she seemed completely adequate, and the producers received many compliments on the concert.—The Jacksonville Journal.
Mrs. MacArthur Gives Tea for Arthur Bliss
On Thursday afternoon, May 24, Mrs. John R. MacArthur gave a tea in honor of Arthur Bliss at her home, which was attended by about sixty guests. Accompanied at the piano by the hostess, Lillibel Ibsen danced most charmingly._ Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Paolo Gallico, Mr. and Mrs. E. Robert Schmitz, Jan Sickez, Mrs. Hall and Miss Hall (grand-daughter and great-grand daughter of Julia Ward Howe), Mrs. Philip Sawyer, Mrs. John Ames Mitchell, Mrs. Milburn, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Savidge, Robert Mann, Max Jacobs, Caroline Beebe, Robert Thurlow, Johann Bull (grand nephew of Ole Bull), and others. Mrs. Latta, of Memphis, Tenn., received with Mrs. MacArthur.
Frederic Warren to Conduct Master Glass
Frederic Warren, director of the series of Warren Ballad Concerts and a singer of distinction himself, has accepted an invitation to conduct a master class in singing in Buffalo during the summer. He arrives in that city on July 9 to hear the voices of the largest class of aspirants for singing honors that has been organized there.
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Peterson’s Fine Treat in Fresno, Gal.
Fresno, Cal., May 16.—One of the finest musical treats of the season was that offered by May Peterson, Metropolitan Opera soprano, recently, under the auspices of the Musical Club. Assisted by Charles Touchette at the piano. Miss Peterson sang charmingly four groups of songs, offering numbers that would appease various tastes.
The Morning Republican is quoted as follows:	“So
rare as to be almost an unknown quantity is the singer, who, having achieved a reputation, still attempts to make her hearers understand what she is singing about. Hers not to make an audience understand, but to make it hear. Nothing else matters, seemingly. Therefore those who listened to May Peterson last night at the White Theater know at least one reason for the success she has achieved. She not only sings but she also makes an attempt to convey the meaning of the words by voice and gesture. Perhaps the fact that she is a self-made singer makes her a better interpreter of those songs which express the ordinary human emotions, such as Marietta’s Lied by Korngold, A la Claire Fontaine, the story of a young girl’s first love, and Hansel and Gretel by Mahler. . . . Miss Peterson has a clear soprano voice, well controlled and sweet.”	H. G.
Roselle Recalled Many Times
Anne Roselle’s visits to Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Boulder, Salt Lake City, and other Utah towns, as soloist with the Minneapolis Orchestra, have brought the young artist many triumphs during the past two weeks. So completely has Miss Roselle won the admiration and enthusiasm of her audiences at these appearances that they have demanded six and even seven recalls after solo numbers before permitting the performance to continue.
Arriving in Salt Lake City on the centenary of the birth of “Home, Sweet Home,” by special request Miss Roselle included this as a special number on her evening program. Of her performance the Salt Lake Tribune wrote: “She evinced a wealth of power, passion, art, and technic, that placed her on the heights in the estimation of her hearers. She is essentially and intensely dramatic, but in addition to this, she proved her lyric talents in an exquisite rendition of “Home, Sweet Home.”
Just previous to her Denver appearance, Miss Roselle sang at the spring music festivals in Lawrence, Manhattan, and Hays, Kans.
Many Engagements for Ethel Wright and Thomas Fuson
Thomas Fuson, tenor, and Ethel Wright (Mrs. Fuson), contralto, of New York, have filled many engagements during the past season, and now are busy preparing new programs and oratorios with the efficient help of Sol Alberti, the well known accompanist and coach. The engagements included an appearance as soloists in Elijah in Brooklyn Good Friday night the tenor sang Maunder’s Olivet to Calvary, at Bethlehem Swedish Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, and on Easter Sunday, besides singing his regular morning service, appeared as soloist with the combined choirs of- the two Presbyterian churches of Morristown, N. J. On January S, Miss Wright gave a radio recital from station WEAF, New York. Easter Sunday, she sang in the morning at All
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From the first gracious bow to the final tick tock' of her ‘Clock Song,’ Anna Fitziu, was in perfect harmony with the large audience that greeted her. Anna Fitzlu’s tones are clear as a bell and absolutely true and with all of her great love in her voice, she sings straight to the souls of her audience.”—Florida Metropolis.
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Composer Scott Opens The Scottage
Early in May, John Prindle Scott closed his New York apartment and opened his summer home, The Scottage, :it MacDonough, N. Y., for the season.
During the past five summers Mr. Scott has conducted a series of community concerts there that have become very popular, and he expects to continue the work this present season. Originating during the war in a few informal
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Community Sings, the scope of these concerts has widened considerably, and last season’s series closed with a festivai of singing and folk dancing. Professional soloists who have been in that locality have very kindly assisted Mr. Scott in this work in the hill country, and have helped to spread the fame of these affairs considerably beyond the local circles.
Among the well known New York musicians who have appeared in these MacDonough concerts are: Frederick W. Riesberg, pianist (of the Musical Courier staff).; Harriet Barclay Riesberg, soprano; Bessie Riesberg, violinist; Pierre Remington, baritone (of the Hinshaw Opera Company) ; Ruth Emerson and Francis Neff, pianists. Also George Anderson, tenor, and Lawrence Downey, baritone (of Washington, D. C.); W. K. Breckenridge, pianist of Oberlin, Ohio, as well as various other musicians from Binghamton, Norwich, Oxford, and nearby towns.
Edwin Hughes’ Versatility
Eminence in the pianistic world ,is attained by not-a few and the art of guiding young artists successfully in pianistic paths is understood by many teachers, but the secret of combining the two in a manner which rises to the heights of artistic eminence is attained by few. Edwin Hughes, whose gifts and abilities have long been recognized, possesses this secret and has proven it many times by his successful concerts and the presentation of three young artists this season, whose praise by press and public was unusual. Besides the formal debuts of Arthur Klein, Dorsey Whittington and Solon Robinson, there are young pianists appearing at the Hughes Studios constantly, presenting programs which in content and interpretation verge upon the artist class heard in concert halls.
_ Mr. Hughes has been steadily broadening his activities since his return from Europe to America a few years ago. As editor-in-chief of piano music for G. Schirmerhe has brought out new editions of ten of the biggest works for piano and orchestra, including the two Brahms concertos, besides others of the foremost works in piano literature. Mr. Hughes’ ideal has been to present to the American public editions which shall compare favorably with the best European publications, which ideal has been striven for in view of the demand both by teachers and students for this artist’s editions.
Mr. Hughes’ summer master class will be conducted in New York, during the course of which a series of individual artist programs will be played for the benefit and pleasure of teachers and students who gather from all parts of the country to place themselves under Mr. Hughes’ masterly guidance.	T. R.
New Management Will Direct Burmester
James D. Barton, a well known director of tours of noted theatrical productions and stars, is the managing director of The Barthines Co., Inc., directors of the tour of Willy Burmester, German violinist. Mr. Barton has just returned from Japan, where he signed this contract with the German artist. Mr. Burmester has appeared for several months in Japan and other Far Eastern countries, and wiil arrive in New York for his debut at Carnegie Hall on October 20 and a return engagement on November 2. This is the first artist of an interesting group which will be managed by this new corporation.