June 7, 1923 M IJ S I C A L C O U U I K It 46 GUIOMAR NOVAES, the brilliant Brazilian pianist, is photographed in one of the pictures with her husband on board ship bound for a trans-continental concert tour of this country. The snapshot was taken last fall following the pianist’s marriage to Octavio Pinto. The other picture of Mme. Novaes •was taken in Brazil. consisted of 750 singers selected from the chorus classes in the various schools. It must have been stirring to hear this fine melody sung in such a manner. It is a real patriotic song by a real American patriot and ought to be recognized as a national asset. The words and music are 'by Judge Allen, of the Juvenile Court of St. Louis, who knows whereof he speaks when he writes: “People of every tongue. Our universal song Resounds afar. All sing in praise to Thee, Spirit of Liberty, Guiding humanity: America 1” Florence Trumbull Enjoys Boston Visit Florence Trumbull, pianist, remained in Boston for a few days after her recent successful recital there and met a number of Boston’s musical notables socially during her visit. Among them was Philip Hale, the dean of the Boston critics, who heard her play various selections from her repertory that he especially requested to hear. She also won the interest of Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and renewed acquaintances with various prominent members of the musical profession who are located there and whom Miss Trumbull knew well in Vienna. Bookings for concerts beginning in the early autumn for this popular American pianist are being made in gratifying numbers. Enesco to Play with New York Symphony Georges Enesco will have five appearances next season with the New York Symphony alone during January and early February. Three of these will be on tour in Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, while two will afford New York and Brooklyn the opportunity to hear again this incontestably great and versatile violinist. Mr. Enesco is at present in Rumania, where he will remain until early fall. Southwick Pupil Gives Recital Matilda Wardell, lyric soprano, pupil of Frederick Southwick, gave a recital in Hazleton, Pa., on May 22. Hazleton musicians were enthusiastic over Miss Wardell's limpid soprano voice and her excellent interpretations. of the excellent impression he made, the successor of Nikisch proved somewhat of a disappointment in Holland. Cari, Flesch Leads Soloists. Carl Flesch, the Hungarian violinist, was soloist at one of the big symphony concerts when he played both the Bactt E major and the Bruch G minor concertos. In both works he revealed his habitual purity of style and infallible surety. K. S,' begun, it will not be long before the club will be the center of much added interest. It would pay other organizations of similar nature to follow the excellent example set by this club. Tokyo Has Russian Symp. Concert The first concert of the new Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Jacques M. Gershkovitch conducting, drew a large audience to its first concert of the season in Tokyo, Thursday evening, April 12, at the Hall of the Imperial Hotel. It was a very brilliant evening. The Hall was filled with a distinguished audience, which was loud in its applause for Dr. Gershkowitch, the celebrated artist, who did magnificent conducting. The program opened with the Symphony in C minor by Beethoven. This showed his admirable artistry to the full. This was followed by the Tiny Christmas Tree, opus 21, Re-bikoff, and proved most diverting. Variation sun un theme Rococo, opus 33, Tschaikowsky, came next, with N. Varfolomeyeff, cellist, as the soloist. The program closed with the brilliant La Grande Paque Russe, of 36, of Rimsky-Korsakow. Audience manifested great enthusiasm, and we were discovered Messrs. Joseph Hollman, Willy Burmester and Willy Bardas in its at this evening. The second concert of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Gershkovitch, conductor, was triumphant close Sunday evening, April 22, at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo. The program just the same as the first concert for the above. Take Kurohe. Washington Pupils of Perfield System On May 18, the piano class of Helen Miller, an exponent of the Effa Ellis Perfield Pedagogical System, gave a musical evening at the Washington, D. C., Club. Those appearing on the program included Marion Mansfield, Betty Marshall, Elizabeth Robertson, Priscilla Holcombe, Evelyn Ault, Frances Stabler, Helen Mansfield, Louise Frances Bruce, Florence Bradley, Virginia Elizabeth Deyber, Mary Coleman Worthington, Mildred Lewis, Irma Mussina, Robert Mansfield, Roberta Yerkes and Kitty Reese. The New America Sung in St. Louis At the thirteenth annual concert of the combined high school choruses of St. Louis at Grover Cleveland High School Auditorium on the evening of May 18, Charles Claf-l n Allen’s song, The New America, was sung by chorus and audience, accompanied by an orchestra of fifty players selected from the high school orchestras. The chorus Amsterdam, May 9.—The celebrated German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, has recently made his first appearance in Holland as guest conductor at two Concertgebouw concerts. He undoubtedly possesses many qualities which a big conductor must have and his subtle feeling for instrumental color and his firm characteristic rhythm are especially noteworthy. Although not wanting in original ideas, his taste is sometimes questionable. An instance is his tendency to extremely slow or extremely fast tempi. In spite Cesar Thomson's Interesting Huiul Cesar Thomson, famous virtuoso, who is coming to the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Ithaca, N. V., in September as the master teacher in the department of violin playing, is considered by a great many the world over as the leading exponent of the technic of Paganini, who represents the climax and the highest triumph of the virtuoso. In Paganini's playing one of the chief characteristics was the lightning-like rapidity of his lingering. Of all the famous violinists since Paganini's day, Cesar Thomson is one of the very few who have developed this remarkable technic, lie has not only acquired a perfect mastery over all the technical details, but even out-Paganinied Paganini in performing publicly the composer’s Perpetual Motion not only in single notes as it was written but in fingered octaves throughout. The accompanying picture represents the left hand of Cesar Thomson and is almost the exact replica of the hand of Paganini. It was March 21, 1892, that Tschaikowsky, the famous Russian composer, wrote to a friend: “In Petersburg 1 heard a very interesting violinist named Cesar Thomson. Do you know him? He has a most remarkable technic; for instance he plays passages of octaves with a rapidity to which no one has previously attained.” To this master of technic today there are no difficulties, no intricacies, no technical combinations that he cannot overcome. Cesar Thomson was born in Liege, March 17, 1857, and received his first lessons on the violin from his father, afterward entering the Liege Conservatory at the age of seven, where he studied under Jacques Dupuis, surpassing all his fellow pupils at the age of fourteen and was recognized as the foremost technician among violinists at the age of sixteen. In 1882 he became professor of violin in the Liege Conservatory. leaving that post in 1897 to succeed Ysaye as principal professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatorv. Others who have held this post are de Beriot, Leonard, \ ieu.xtemps. Massard and Wieniawski. He has played extensively throughout Europe and South America and has appeared with phenomenal success in London. Among his CESAR THOMSON’S HAND decorations is one from the King of Greece bestowed during his successful recitals there in 1921. Cesar Thomson married the Countess Louisa Riva in Lugano, Switzerland, and spends his leisure hours in this lovely lake region. S. H. D. American Composers Give Program in Pelham Several weeks ago there appeared an article in the Musical Courier regarding the activities of Pearl G. Curran, who was recently elected chairman of the music section of the Manor Club at Pelham, N. Y. One of the most interesting affairs of late was one which Miss Curran arranged for the Manor Club in which the entire program consisted of songs popular fifty years ago. On April 24 she offered a program of American composers and their compositions. The composers present were Marion Bauer, pianist-composer; Harriet Ware and Robert Huntington Terry. The artists who gave the program were Blanche Da Costa, soprano; Lillian Sullivan, contralto; Ellis Doyle, tenor; Katherine Bacon, pianist, and Alfred Boyce, accompanist. The program opened with an address by Marion Bauer entitled, Modern Music in America. The second group consisted of Charles T. Griffes’ sonata for the piano, played by Miss Bacon. Then followed a group of songs by Harriet Ware, sung by Miss Da Costa. Mr. Doyle sang three songs of Robert Huntington Terry's, Mr. Terry accompanying the soloist. In Mrs. Sullivan’s group were numbers by Howard Barlow, Victor Harris, Gena Branscombe and Gertrude Ross. The next group was Marion Bauer’s suite for the piano, From the New Hampshire Woods; Miss Bacon was again the soloist. This most interesting program closed with Harriet Ware’s duet, A Day in Arcady, sung by Miss Da Costa and Mrs. Sullivan. Artistically the program was a tremendous success and the splendid impression created was doubly enhanced by the representative musicians, not only the three eminent ones who were there personally, but also the others who were represented on the program. If-;he Pelham Manor Club under the able leader-sh p of Pearl G. Curran continues its activities as already AMSTERDAM'S MUSICAL SEASON ENDS Muck’s Success Results in Post-Series of Popular Beethoven Concerts—First Holland Appearance of Furtwängler Disappoints ELIZABETH BONNER CONTRALTO Penneylvanln tUill