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CESAR THOMSON,
and a friend, enjoying a holiday on the Meuse.
for the Victor Talking Machine Company. She has been busy also making new recordings for the Duo-Art, which include the Funeral March.from the Chopin sonata, op. 35; Danse of the Gnomes, Liszt; the op. 9, No. 2, nocturne and the etudes, op. 10, No. 7, and op. 25, No. 1, Chopin.
Mme. Novaes will spend next season abroad, and will return to this country for the season 1924-25.
BALTIMORE MUSIC NOTES
Baltimore, Md., June 10.—Baltimore’s outdoor grand opera season has opened auspiciously and one week’s performances indicate success from every angle. The De Feo Grand Opera Company has completed the first week of a month’s stay and Baltimoreans have responded finely, as the company so justly deserves. Impresario De Feo has augmented his regular organization with such well known singers as Heinrich Knote, Armand Tokatyan, Alfredo Gon-dalfi, Richard Bonelli, Edith De Lys, Pauline Cornelys, Alfred Diaz and others. The opening week’s performances included Tosca, Traviata, Trovatore and Othello.
After the close of the De Feo season at Carlin's Park, De Wolf Hopper and his company will come for an unlimited stay in Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
William A. Albaugh, the local manager, has announced his attractions for next season. It reads like a veritable “Who’s Who in Music.”
Madame Paula Samova, considered the best of Professor Bibb’s pupils at the Peabody Institute, has left to take up her residence in New York, where she will continue her studies next season.	E. D.
work is of thorough musicianship, brilliant and versatile. He was one of the first to revive the old Italian masters who, were the founders of all that was to come after; to him do we owe a method which is, without doubt, one of the finest existing and which is now celebrated throughout the whole world. Such is the work of Cesar Thomson which he has carried on and still does with untiring, _ unflagging vigor, devotion and energy. A pure and disinterested servant in the great service of art.	F. E. W.
Mary Wildermann Directs a Jubilee Program
Mary Wildermann, pianist and pedagogue, was recently honored by being selected to take entire charge of the musical program at Grand Central Palace on Wednesday, Tune 6, which was Staten Island Day at the New York City Silver Jubilee being held at the Grand Central Palace. Appearing on the program under her direction was Mrs. Frank Hank-inson, one of the best known contraltos and teachers of Staten Island; Arthur Foley, a favorite tenor of the Island; Asta Mober, a gifted mezzo-soprano from Stockholm, Sweden, who revealed a voice of great beauty and richness; Anthony Pesci, an unusually fine tenor, and Helen Haydock, accompanist. A pupil of Miss Wildermann’s, seven-year-old Mary Elizabeth Steele, appeared as a pianist and also commanded great admiration in her dance as a Dresden Doll. She was selected by Staten Island to represent the Child of the Island in the old-fashioned cottage depicting Staten Island as the home borough of the city.
Cesar Thomson Fishing on the River Meuse
Cesar Thomson, the great master teacher of the violin, who is coming to the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in September, enjoys nothing better than a cruise in his sailboat on the River Meuse when he has leave of absence from his busy musical duties.
The accompanying picture shows Mr. Thomson with a friend on a holiday on the Meuse opposite the deserted village of Vise, the first town in Belgium destroyed by the Germans. In this once joyous community of 4,000 people not a living thing is there, not a house is standing, not a roof remains. The devastation, the destruction are absolute, the silence complete.
Cesar Thomson, in yachting cap and jeans, completely absorbed in the preparation for the day’s fishing campaign, harmonizes well with the simplicity of the scene and carries one back in memory to the happy days when joyous families ate their goose dinners at the taverns and the youth of the village danced the Cramignon under the trees.
To speak of Thomson apart from hi? art would be to give the many touches of human interest that indicate the simplicity and greatness of a truly great man, a genius essentially simple and modest, the sign of true greatness, coupled with a genuine goodness of heart, a deep and profound sincerity, a superb intelligence, withal a great lover of the out-of-doors, a keen sportsman and brimming over with life and energy.
The same sincerity and vitality that mark his out-of-door pursuits in vacation time are revealed in his music. His
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PRESS COMMENTS
Lowell Courier Citizen, Nov. 19, 1922.
The Miquelles have been heard in Lowell before .	.	. played with simplicity but got all the beauty out of it possible .	.	. broad orchestral accompaniment which Mme. Miquelle handled marvelously well on the piano. Her
numbers for the piano were a delight! Mr. Miquelle’s solos were given with so much musical warmth that he was recalled and added numbers .	.	. etc.
New Bedford, Jan. 12, 1923.
.	. his sprightly bowing in an experience of unusual cello playing .	.	. the Chants Russes were admirably
played by both .	. her Bach number when her Angering was a joy to watch, we found Mme. Miquelle most in-
teresting. She was always in the mood and exquisite of nuance.
Newport News, Feb. 8, 1923.
It was a revelation in cello plaving . . . Such sympathetic rich tones, such easy mastery of difficulties . .	. brought
great applause. Mme. Miquelle played delightfully .	.	. was also heard in piano solos, and her velvet touch never
varying musical tone, clean-cut rapidity won strong applause . .	. She is a fine player. .	.	. etc., etc.
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Carmela Ponselle Gives Delightful Recital
Carmela Ponselle sails for Europe on July 31, and will sing in opera in London and Italy. She is also booked for a series of concerts. Miss Ponselle is very much interested in charity, and will give her services while in Italy at a concert for the Queen Helena Milk Fund.
Following Carmela Ponselle’s recent appearance in Washington, D. C, the critic of the Evening Star wrote of her art in that daily :
Carmela Ponselle, sister of Rosa Ponselle, the leading dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera House and herself popular in New York as a concert singer, gave a delightful recital before an appreciative audience at the Belasco Theater. Although this charming Italian singer is generally called a mezzo soprano, her contralto notes were so marvelously round and full that it would seem more appropriate to call her mezzo contralto. Miss Ponselle has excellent stage presence and fascinating personality. The first group of songs included Lieti Signor, Salute! Chi Vuol la Zingareila, Air Di Polissena from Rad-misto and Haydn’s Mermaid’s Song. This group alone offered her a
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Loves Me, He Loves Me Not as encore. The second group in English included Rachmaninoff’s The Soldier’s Bride, the Campbell-Tipton arrangement of The Crying of Water and two Silberta songs, Lullaby and Wild Geese. Following this group came three encore numbers, including two specially requested songs that were among the most popular of all the songs in her program. They were The Top O the Morning to You, Bizet’s sparkling Habanera and Tosti s Good Bye. The atmosphere of the house was slightly damp after the latter song and grew increasingly so when, after her final group, Miss Ponselle sang Home, Sweet Home with a volume of rich tone and feeling. Her last scheduled number was O Don Fatale from Don Carlos and the
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Carmela Ponselle has been engaged for the open air performance of Aida which will be given at the Polo Grounds m New York on July 20 under the management of Maurice Frank.
Olga Steeb Opens Piano School
Olga Steeb, the concert pianist, has just announced the opening of the Olga Steeb Piano School for September 4 in Los Angeles, Cal., with a staff of twenty-six affiliated teachers, all advanced students of Miss Steeb’s_ who have been teaching in their respective communities with marked success
Olga’ Steeb’s husband, Charle Edward Hubach, will take care of the business management, while she herself assumes the directorship of the new school and continues her concert work, which has grown to larger proportions for the last three or four seasons and has extended from coast to coast. Fannie Dillon, Los Angeles composer, whose works are being programmed by the leading pianists, i. e., Hofmann, Hughes, Paderewski, Olga Steeb and others, will head the department of theory and composition. The faculty and affiliated teachers include: Elizabeth Anderson, Pasadena; Josephine Arland, Pomona; Edith Bokenkraeger, Los Angeles ; Louise Burton, Los Angeles; Aileen Chaudet, Hollywood; Delphia Comer, Long Beach; Elizabeth Copeland, Los Angeles; Margaret Crist, Los Angeles; Fannie Dillon, Los Angeles; Catherine Egan, Los Angeles; Lucille Fan-cher Hollywood; Alice Frazier, Los Angeles; Bernice Hall, Long Beach; Clara Ingham, Monrovia; Florence Kelton, San Diego; Iris Kuhnle, Los Angeles; Loraine Lightcap, Santa Moni-ca; Thirza Merriam, Los Angeles; Francis Nickerson, Los Angeles; Vernon Robinson, South Pasadena; Margaret Sharle, Claremont; Zefer Sparrow, Burbank; Carl Egon Steeb, Los Angeles; Lillian Steeb, Los Angeles; Olga Steeb, Los Angeles; Vera Van Loan, Redlands; Leona Westcott, San Diego, and Claude Williams, Los Angeles.
Gates Begins and Ends Season on “Main Line”
Philadelphia’s aristocratic suburban section referred to as the “Main Line” has sponsored some notable concerts during the past season. Lucy Gates, the brilliant American coloratura, has been an especial favorite. Miss Gates began her season early in November by opening the series of subscription concerts given at the Green Hill Farms Hotel at Overbrook. She finished her season two weeks ago by giving a Mozart program in costume in conjunction with the Salzedo Harp Trio only ten miles from there at Bryn Mawr College. The concert was held out of doors in the beautiful Elizabethan cloister of the library and was largely attended by Main Line society, as well as the students and faculty of the college.
Novaes Postpones Sailing for Brazil
Guiomar Novaes has been forced to postpone her sailing for Brazil to June 23, in order to finish her recording work