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May Cook furnished excellent accompaniments. The concert was managed by Earl G. Blew.
Mrs. Barnett H. Goldstein, soprano, and Ned R. Hockin-son, tenor, advanced pupils of Paul Petri, appeared in recital at the Woman’s Club Building, May 9. They showed the result of fine training and received much applause. Helen Harper, from the violin studio of Frank Eichenlaub, assisted. Mr. Petri played the accompaniments.
The Chamber Music Trio of Portland (Susie Fennell Pipes, violin; Ferdinand Konrad, cello; J. Hutchison, piano) gave a concert at Reed College, May 7. Elizabeth Gore had charge of the concert, which was extremely interesting.
J. R. O.
LONG BEACH SINGER
WINS STATE CONTEST
Women’s Chorus and Other Recitals Draw Interest
Long Beach, Cal., May 28.—Ruth Burdick Williams, soprano of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Long Beach and member of the Long Beach Lyric Club, is the winner of the California Federation of Music Clubs 1923 Young Artists’ contest for voice entrants. She has been a pupil of William Conrad Mills for the past two years. The announcement was made by Lillian Birmingham, president, who stated that Mrs. Williams was given the highest grades for singing, over_ a large number of entrants. Her voice has depth and quality. Mrs. Williams will attend the national convention in June at Asheville, N. C., to compete against singers from other States.
Women's Voices Heard in Chorus.
The Lyric Club of Long Beach, a chorus of fifty women’s •voices, William Conrad Mills director, gave a concert at the First Baptist Church, May 11. The club was assisted by Neil M. Russell, baritone. The program included four groups of choruses for women’s voices with incidental solos. Local composers’ works featured on the program were Ada Potter Wiseman’s text, With You (music by Laurie G. Nicholson), and Maple Leaves and Cherry Blossoms (A Japanese Episode), words and music by Alice Maynard Griggs.
Fitzgerald Music Company Presents Soloists.
The Fitzgerald Music Company presented Calmon Lubo-viski, violinist, and Flora Engel Myers, soprano, in a joint recital at the Fitzgerald Music Company recital hall. Both artists were accompanied by the Ampico. Mr. Luboviski has won recognition in Southern California music circles.
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Clarence E. Krinbill presented a number of his pupils in recital or¡ May 14, this being the fifth of a series.
The Fitzgerald Music Company presented three concerts in compliment to mothers preceding Mothers’ Day. A number of the highest grade of compositions were interspersed with old familiars especially selected as celebrating motherhood.
The Junior Business Women’s Club has organized a glee club with Mrs. Bernice Powell Wright in charge and Olive Haskins as accompanist.
The tickets for the Philharmonic series of concerts announced for Long Beach next season are to be sold by the members of the Ebell Club, the proceeds to go to the club house building fund. Plans for the advance sale are now under way. L. D. Frey will again manage the course for the season.
The piano pupils of Lucille E. Holman were heard in recital at the George Washington Auditorium on May 11. Fifteen small pianists won their first honors on this occasion.
The Woman’s Music Study Club of Long Beach held the final meeting of the year at the home of the retiring president, Mrs. H. H. Heylmun. Election of officers preceded the program and resulted in the election of Mrs. George Wing, president; Mrs. E. E. Frey, vice-president; Mrs. F. G. Mauthe, recording secretary; Mary Button, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. W. A. Rolf, treasurer. Lucy E. Wolcott led an opera program featuring illustrations from French, Russian and American operas. The three national works chosen were Louise. Snow Maiden and Natoma These were delineated by legend, theme and incidental solo music.	M. T. H.
PORTLAND ORCHESTRA HONORS ITS CHARTER MEMBERS
Choral Section to Be Added Next Year—Flute Club Offers Excellent Program—Minneapolis Symphony Pleases
Portland, Ore., May 29.—The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra presented an excellent concert at the Public Auditorium. Engelbert Roentgen, assistant conductor, directed. Dvorak’s New World Symphony was played with great finesse. Very pleasing also were Tschaikowsky’s Italian caprice and Alfred Hill’s Waiata Poi. The soloist was Anne Roselle, soprano, who sang the aria Dona Sono from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the Ballatella from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Mile. Roselle was heartily received. The orchestra appeared under the local management of W. T. Pangle.
Concert by Orchestra •in Honor of Charter Members.
In honor of the charter members of the Symphony Society and its friends, the Portland Symphony Orchestra (Carl Denton, conductor), gave a delightful concert at the Public Auditorium, May 21. Frederick W. Goodrich was at the municipal organ for the effective number, Rubinstein’s Kammenoi-Ostrow. There were also works by Tschaikow-sky, Percy Grainger, Sibelius, Brahms and others. The orchestra, by its free rehearsals for school children, has encouraged the establishment of public school organizations. In response to many requests Mrs. M. Donald Spencer, business manager, has decided to add a choral section. Next season there will be presented several choral works which will require a complete instrumental accompaniment.
Flute Club Offers Excellent Program.
The F°rtIand Flute Club presented an interesting program at the^Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. Particularly pleasing was Francis Richter’s flute quartet, effectively played by Robert E. Millard, Beulah Clark, Margaret Laughton and H. G. Knight. Mr. Richter is a local composer-pianist. Other participants were J. F. N. Colburn, concertmaster of the Portland Symphony Orchestra; Paul Mahoney, clarinetist: Mordaunt A. Goodnough, accompanist; F. W. Keller, J. C.
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sonalities of this age and Mr. Brown is receiving the congratulations of his many friends upon the honor and rare privilege bestowed on him.
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Joseph George Jacobson, well known pianist and teacher, presented three of his pupils in recital. Those appearing were Gladys Ivanelle Wilson, Myrtle Harriet Jacobs and San Rodetsky.
Harold Pracht, California baritone, was recently married to Hortense Haas.
Nellie Strong Stevenson ended her course of Illustrated Talks on Modern Music at the Forum Club with an analysis of ultra modern composers. During the season Mrs. Stevenson has played more than seventy-five piano illustrations, the solo numbers all by memory and the orchestra works in piano arrangements for four hands with the assistance of Cecil von Seiberlich Bowley. The members of the class showed genuine enthusiasm and interest, and are contemplating resuming this form of study next season.
The fourth and concluding concert of the Loring Club for this year took place at Scottish Rite Hall, May 22. Several important works for men’s voices were rendered, among these Arthur Foote’s Bedouin Song and The Farewell of Hiawatha, in which the solo was sung by James E. Ziegler; The Song of the Sou’wester and The Little Admiral, by Charles Villiers Stanford, the soloists in these two being P. H. Ward and George Krull, and Reinberger’s St. John’s Eve. Mr. Ziegler also sang a group of solos by Wallace A. Sabin, the director of the Loring Club Chorus, who accompanied, and several other songs by Frederick Mauer, Jr., who played the accompaniments for these.
Lolita McFarland, lyric soprano and artist-pupil of Johanna Kristoffy, is meeting with remarkable success wherever she appears. She possesses a beautiful soprano voice, which the young singer uses with unusual discrimination. Miss McFarland has appeared as soloist with the Lions’ Club of Berkeley, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Downtown Merchants’ Association and the Varsity Night Entertainment of Berkeley. Jane Sargent Sands proved herself on each of these occasions an able and dependable accompanist.
C. H. A.
SAN DIEGO IS TREATED
TO MINIATURE OPERA
Chaliapin and Paul Swan the Attractions
San_ Diego, Cal., May 28.—Chaliapin sang at the final Amphion Course concert of the season. The incomparable art, the magnetic personality and magnificent voice of the singer are never to be forgotten. His program seemed to touch every chord to which the heart vibrates. Recalled again and again the artist sang many encores. The Amphion Club is to be congratulated on having secured this artist for San Diego. Max Rabinowitch provided excellent accompaniments and pleased with several solos.
Under the management of Mrs. B. A. Buker, Paul Swan, rhythmic pantomimist, gave an interesting program at the Spreckels Theater recently. He has a fine command of the^ technical intricacies of the dance and gesture. He was assisted by Helene Richards, reader, and the San Diego Chamber Music Trio. The trio (composed of Alice Barnett Price, pianist; Jessie Voigt Marcelli, violinist; Nino Mar-celli, cellist) played both for the dances and during the intermissions, giving much pleasure with its artistic work. A delightful surprise—and the hit of the evening, too—was the interpretation by Mr. Swan of The Caravan from China Comes, by Alice Barnett.
L’opera en miniature, under the direction of Edward Ewald, is meeting with great success, which is well merited as it is tremendously interesting and educative. Mr. Ewald, a young and talented actor who is an excellent amateur musician as well, has been collecting records of grand opera from all imaginable sources until he has forty complete. He has built a miniature stage, an exact reproduction of the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, and, after having carefully studied the traditions, has designed tiny stage-sets complete to the last detail for which he has devised an elaborate lighting scheme. With the help of a Victrola and his little stage he can create quite an illusion. He tells the story, describing the action in a dramatic way, and the audience peoples the stage in imagination as the music proceeds. As the stage is only three feet high and the audience must not number more than fifteen, several groups are being formed and what was for Mr. Ewald in the beginning only a delightful hobby is now fast becoming an all-absorbing occupation.
At a recent meeting of the MacDowell Club the program was presented by Carol Scott, soprano; H. B. Bush, baritone, and Agnes Pratt, pianist (a talented pupil of Ellen B. Babcock).
Dolce Grossmayer, Grace Bowers, Loleta L. Rowan and Nell Cave have presented pupils in recitals lately, showing the results of excellent work.
Carrie Emerich, Chicago pianist, delighted the audience at the Thearle Music Company’s Saturday concert.
E. B. B.
PORTLAND CONCERTS ENJOYED
Last of City’s Annual Series of Sunday Afternoon Concerts Presented—Emil Enna and John Claire Monteith Give Joint Recital
Portland, Ore., May 13.—Hal M. White, manager of the Public Auditorium, closed the city’s annual series of Sunday afternoon concerts on Sunday afternoon, May 13, when he presented the Olds, Wortman and King Chorus, Mrs. Fred L. Olson, director; Leona Foy, accompanist; Elinor Whitson, soprano, and Lucien E. Becker, organist. Prolonged applause testified to the enjoyment of the audience.
John Claire Monteith, baritone, and Emil Enna, composer-pianist, who are numbered among the city’s best talent, were heard in a joint recital at the Woman’s Club Building, May 11. Mr. Enna played a number of his fine compositions, including a sonata and two preludes. Mr. Monteith, who has a glorious voice, sang several difficult arias. The hall was crowded and the artists had a hearty reception. Ida
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