Matters Musical May 1, 1921 news

<> During the coming week three important recitals will be given in the Odeon by the College of Music. The first will take place Tuesday evening, when pupils of Lino Mattioli, representing some of his advanced talent, as well as some of those who are in the earlier stages of their training, will be heard in a diversified program. It is as follows.

Trio – Serenad……………………………………………………………….Mozart
                            Forence Evans, Jessica Steinle, Richard Fluke
(a) Brahama………………………………………………………………….Bremberg
(c) Saphic Ode……………………………………………………………….Brahms
                            Louise Rider
(a) Marie…………………………………………………………………..…Franz
(b) Embarquez vous ……………………………………………………….…Godart
                            Chapman Utly
(a) Ariette…………………………………………. ……………………...….Vidal
(b) Bolero……………………………………………………………….…….Lillo
                            Florence Evans
Aria –"Ah, Rendmi"…………………………………………………………....Rossi
                            Augusta Litzendorf
(a) Pres de Rampart de Seville………………………………………………….Bizet
(b) Farewell………………………………………………………………….....Schubert
(c) When Love is Kind………………………... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....Old Irish
                            Jessica Steinle
(a) Southern Song………………………………………………………………Battens
(b) Gavotte from "Mignon"……………………………………………………...Thomas
                            Mrs. Gibson
Aria—"He is Kind, He is good,"
    From "Herodiade"…………………………………………………………....Massenet
                            Helen Correll Fluke
Aria from Semframide…………………………………………………………...Rossini
                            Langebrake
Aria "Ritorna Vincitor," from "Aidia" ……………... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..Verdi
                            Katherine Jenkins
Aria—Nadeshda………………………………………………………………...G. Thomas
                            Verna Cook
Quartet from "Rigoletto"…………………………… ……………………………Verdi
                            Amy Hattersley, Auust Litzendorf,
                            Geoge Rambo, Richard Fluke.

A recital by advanced pupils of Albino Gorno, head of the piano department of the College of Music will be given next Wednesday evening. Mr. Gorno will present his pupils in solo and ensemble numbers, one of the features being two movements from a sonata for piano and violin by Arthur Foote. In this, Uberto Neely, pupil of Emil Heermann, will be the assisting artist. The program, in detail, is as follows:

Spanish Rhapsody for piano and orchestra……………………………... ... ... ... ...Albanez
Arranged for two pianos by the composer.
                            Miss Teresa Farr, Miss Sally Farr
"Allegro Appassionato," for piano and orchestra…………………………………...Saint-Saens
With second piano accompaniment
                            Louise Renick
Duet for two Pianos. "The Poet Song at the Vesper Hour"…………………………..A. Gorno
                            Miss Teresa Farr, Miss Sally Farr
Adagio and finale from G Minor Sonata……………………………………………..A. Foote
For piano and violin
                            Miss Remke, Mr. Neely
First movement from G Minor concerto……………………………………………..E. Schutt
For piano and orchestra, with second piano accompaniment
                            Audrey Reeg
"Fantasie Ballet" (for piano and orchestra"…………………………………………..G. Piern
With second piano accompaniment
                            William Walker
Larghetto and finale from concerto in F minor……………………………………….E. Schutt
For piano and orchestra, with second piano accompaniment.
                            Adelaide Brettschneider

A chorus of 60 voices will sing Haydn's oratorio. "The Creation." Next Tuesday evening, May 3, at the Rockdale Temple, Rockdale and Harvey avenues, Avondale. The chorus will be supported by 14 men from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The soloists will be Mrs. Della E. Boman, soprano; Howard Hafford, tenor, and John Dogg, bass. Lillian Tyler Plegstedt will preside at the organ, and the work will be under the direction of John Hersh, choirmaster. The public is invited to attend.

Next Thursday evening the pupils of Romeo Gorno will give a recital in which two pupils of Hans Schroeder will sing a duet. This is the second recital given by Mr. Romeo Gorno's pupils in the past fortnight, and indicates the large class of talented young players under his direction. The program is as follows:

a. Lento……………………………………………………………………………Cyril Scott
b Scotch Poem…………………………………………………………………….McDowell
                            Hazel Brewsaugh
a. Dreams……………………………………………………………………..…...Bizet
b Novellette in F Major…………………………………………………………….Schumann
                            Clyde Bell
Duet—"Passage Birds' Farewell"……………………………………... ... ... ... ... ...Hildach
                            Lillian Sherman Long and Clyde Knost
a. Valse Triste……………………………………………………………………...McDowell
b. Impromptu
                            Margaret Lukens
Nocturene………………………………………………………………... ... ... ... ..Sgambati
                            Dorothy O'Brien
a Hindu Song………………………………………………………………………..Bemberg
b.Lyre and Wind…………………………………………………………………….Rogers
                            Lillian Sherman Long
a. Romance………………………………………………………………………….Tschaikowsky
b. Elfin Dance………………………………………………………………………..McDowell
                            Clifford Lang
"Why Do the Nations," from "Messiah"……………………………………………….Handel
                            Clyde Knost
Andante Sostenuto and Allegretto (from Sonata for Piano and Violin)…………………Jiranck
                            Marjorie Schobel and Frances Calvert.
                            Accompanist, Miss Wilma Lee Pigg.

Next Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock pupils of Irene Carter will be heard in a recital at the College of Music. Miss Carter will present an interesting number of gifted young players, among whom will be Helen Schweikert, Libby Mallin, Ruth Goldenberg, Lillian Mills, Margaret Houseton, Minnie Kling, Esther Schultz, Selma Chaliff, Luella Eichengruen, Louise Heisel, Annett Barker, Helen Becker and Anabel Feemster.

        At the Saturday noon recital given by students of the College of Music yesterday Esther Remke, Fred Phillips and Selma Chaliff gave the program. They are pupils of Lillian Arkell Rixford, Adolf Hahn and Irene Carter.

        The Clifton Music Club will hold its last active meeting of the season Tuesday, May 3, with Mrs. Louis R. Luebbert. The election of officers will take place at this meeting. The program will be rendered by the following members. Mrs. Louette Riehl Luecke, Mrs. Myra Reed Fox, Miss Eleanor Wenning, Mrs. Emma Beiser Scully, Mrs. Howard Fishback, Miss Russell Martin, Mrs. A. F. Scheu and Mrs. Lois Neel Swift.

       One of the interesting season-end events in Cincinnati musical circles will be a concert in Emery Auditorium, Thursday evening, May 26, by the combined forces of the glee clubs of the University of Cincinnati and the Chamber of Commerce, under the direction of Will R. Reeves. Both Organizations are holding rehearsals weekly, having in preparation a program of ambitious proportions. Cyrene Van Gordon, contralto, of the Chicago Opera Company, has been engaged as soloist for the concert.

Miss Bertha Baur will present Elizabeth Cook in a pianoforte recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Wednesday evening, May 4.

Florence Golson will appear in a son recital at the Conservatory of Music tomorrow evening. The date of this recital was advanced when Miss Golson was invited to be the guest of honor at the white breakfast, the annual social closing event of the Rubinstein Club New York. The club recently produced Miss Golson's prize cantata, "Spring Symphony," with such glowing success that they have invited Miss Golson to sing some of her own compositions before the club this month.

Miss Hatie Uller will present the following pupils in recital at the East End Library Auditorium May 5 and 10: Adelyn Stansbury, Anna Miller, Catherine Abeling, Emmogene Robinson, Stella Breig, Margaret Hunt, Marie Knost, William Federbush, Ralph Chapman, Edith Virginia Lorenz, Laura Peddicord, Pernadette DeFlurin, Ruth Elanore Heeb, Helen Blackman, Margaret D. Cross, Mildred Chapman, Sylvia Estell Mollie Engel, Bessie Engel, Thelma Widman, Leona Chapman and Lloyd Marquis.

An imposing and attractive booklet has been issued by the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, giving a summary of the Ohio Festival of 1921 held in Cincinnati recently, a summary of the activities of the clubs in the different parts of the state, and including a directory of the entire membership. Mrs. Arthur Bradley, of Cleveland, is the President.

Alta Harrison, soprano; Lulu Miller, violinist; Blanche Cochran, reader, and Margaret Pyle, pianist, from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, give a recital at the Norwood Presbyterian Church.

Wednesday evening, May 4, at the Church of our Savior, Norwood, John Niles, tenor, and Jean Kirk, violinist, will give a joint recital, Mrs. Thomie Prewett Williams acting as accompanist.

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is furnishing soloists for a number of our-of-town commencement programs, sending Idella Banker, soprano, and Minnie Leah Morris, pianist, to Osgood, Ind., May 8.

The Musical Art Society of Cincinnati, of which John J. Fehring is director, has been engaged to give a program with orchestra at the Hotel Gibson ballroom May 10. The concert will be given for delegates attending the National Convention of Wholesale Grocers, which will be held in Cincinnati during that week. The final concert of the subscription series of the society will be given June 1 at the Odean, at which a new cantata "Paul Revere's Ride," by A. J. Gantvoort, will be sung.

The next orchestral concert at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, under the direction of Pier Adolfo Tirindelli, will be given Saturday evening, May 7. The orchestra will play only the opening and closing numbers,--the balance of the concert being given over to a quartet of soloists. The program will be as follows:

Overture, "The Force of Destiny"…………………………………………………Verdi
                            Conservatory Orchestra
Aria—"Cielo e mar" (La Gloconda)……………………………………………….Ponchielli
                            Clifford Cunard
Concerto, A minor (for violin and orchestra)……………………………………….Vieuxtemps
                            Mary Louise Gale
Recit. And Aria—With Verdue Clad (Creation)……………………………………Haydn
                            Idella Banker
Concerto, C minor (for piano and orchestra)……………………………………….Rachmaninoff
                            Mildred Gardner
Danse from "The Bartered Bride"…………………………………………………..Smetana
                            Conservatory Orchestra

        Cincinnati composers who are interested in the announcement of the nineteenth annual competition offered by the Chicago Madrigal Club should write for particulars to D.A. Clippinger, 617 Kimbal Building, Chicago, in whose hands all manuscripts must be placed by September 1, 1921. The award will be made October 1, 1921. The setting to a madrigal by Samuel Richard Gaines must be in true form for a chorus of mixed voices "a capella" strictly polyphonic. A prize of $100 is offered.

        The class of Jean ten Have was heard in recital last Thursday night at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, giving opportunity to the following violin pupils for demonstrating their individual ability: P. A. Bolen, Hugh Johnson, Gladys D. Fried, Katherine Donald, Claudia Peck, Rubin Phillips and Karl Wecker.

        Charles Gray will play the following organ program at St. Paul's Cathedral this evening after the 7:45 service:
        Organ Sonata, in G major (Pastoral), Rheinberger: "Andante Cantabile" (from string quartet, Op. 11) Tschaikowsky; "Fanfare," Lemmens March in B-flat, Silas.

Frances Moore, pianist, a pupil of Madame Marguerite Melville Liszniewski, of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, will give a recital next Thursday evening.

Elizabeth Jamieson, pupil of John A. Hoffmann, gave a song recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music last Monday evening, displaying a voice of mezzo quality, well schooled and judiciously handled. Her program gave her opportunity to display her marked versatility.

Jennie Dembinsky, pianist, last Tuesday evening was heard in a recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she has pursued her studies under Marcian Thalberg, Miss Dembinsky possesses those attributes of musicianship, technic and temperament that should carry her into the field of concert playing.

Mrs. William Evans, mezzo contralto, and William Meldrum, pianist, from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, gave a recital last Thursday evening at Mt. Sterling, Ohio, for the Twentieth Century Literary Society of that city.

        William Kraupner's pupils were heard in a pianoforte reacital last Wednesday night at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. The program was of varied interest, calculated to display to the best advantage the particular ability of each student. The following were heard: Mrs. Katherine Seitz Daniel, Norma Gutzwiller, Cecile Falkenstein, Clio Canatsey, Mary Marable, Louise Osborne and Corneliua DeReo

        An interesting program of solo and ensemble harp music was given by pupils of Joanne Mulrean-Sanning at the Hotel Gibson last Monday evening. The following students were heard: Ruth Arnold, Nellie Caddy, Edith Flemming, Mrs. J. Will Franklin, C. William Franklin, Edna Weiler-Paulsen, Mrs. J. Stevens and Helen Weiler. Assisting on the program were Mrs. Joseph Gantenberg, violinist, and Ralph House, cellist.

        Lucy DeYoung, pupil of Dan Bedoe, was presented in a song recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Friday night. Miss DeYoung has a voice of unusual depth and range, a full, rich contralto that promises to win for her a full measure of success.