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8 THE SUNDAY OREGONIA.5T, PORTLAND, APRIL 18, 1915. 4gy f&) ' "1 y-s 'i-zK- J H f " v if - 1 ? ' l j ; , . I ; r-' . r - ' I r" I " - ,B i f , - 7r : : : 1 7- ',. l JFT-nTciSsVfGeifjr,. t k f'-vr.-v;L VV.S A REAL treat to all lovers of . music will bo the concert at S o'clock this afternoon at the Hel li? Theater, under the auspices of the Portland Grade Teachers' Association. The programme consists of musical numbers by Mrs. J. Macdonald Fahey, soprano, of Victoria, B. C. and the Orpheus Male Chorus, 'William Mansell "Wilder, conductor. There are more than 630 members of tlio Portland Grade Teachers' Associa tion, and the concert is in aid of the fellowship fund for sick or needy teach, era. The object aimed at is a most worthy one, and as the concert is first class in every respec:t, a large attend ance of those interested should be re corded. Mrs. Macdonald Fahey is stated to be one of the best sopranos in West ern Canada, and her numbers are of notable interest. The Orpheus Male Chorus is a popular choral organization in this city, and the sing-ers' voices blend, well together. It is always a pleasure to hear "Wilder's Men" sins. The programme: "Lo the Seal of Death Is Breaking" (Qerrish), and "The Huntsman's Farewell" (Mendelssohn); "Infelice" (.Mendelssohn), Mrs. Mac donald Fahey; "Oh, Haunting: Memory" tCarrie Jacobs Bond), "In Absence" Dudley Buck); "Vissi Carta Vissir D'Amour" from "Tosca" (Puccini), and "Ballatella" from "PagrUaccl" (Le oncavallo), Mrs. Macdonald Fahey: "Ve nlti" (Frana Abt), and "Bonny Bark" (Buck); "Rejoice Greatly," aria from "Messiah" (Handel), Mrs. Macdonald Fahey; "Warrior Bold" (West); "Sweet Genevieve" (Henry Tucker); "The Sheep Herder" (La Forge), and "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest" (Lambert). Mrs. Macdonald Fahey; "Tenting Tonight" ( Kittredge). COST OF SYMPHONIC TREATS. ' Modestly and quietly conducted, the concerts of the Portland Symphony Orchestra for the season of 1914-15, and costing for the six events about $6000, have come to an artistic conclusion and success. The deficit this year is about $2500, and if any financial genius should arise and blot out this deficit, and charge the cost to public education. his name would be blessed. This clipping from a recent number of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat news paper, regarding the financial affairs of the St. Louis (Mo.) Symphony Orchestra, is apropos: "The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, taking rank now among the best or ganiaatiens of its kind, commends it self to our approval for other than purely artistic reasons. "We may felici tate ourselves upon an additional cause for approval, to be found in the ex cellent management of the organiza tion, the proof of which is written plainly in the comparative figures com pile'd by Mr. Gaines, showing how very much is being done with financial re sources less than those of many other places. During the season 1912-13 the 6t. Louis orchestra gave 83 concerts at a cost of $81,218. while that of Cln cinnati. with 85 men, gave but 58 con certs at a cost of $114,659. That Cincin- lift A-.s y - -.-.t, . ' a fc M If M SM JVi7 7 1377-2 J3nSi JV7JS7- MTJSIC PEOPLE ACTIVE IX CURRENT COMMENT. George Barrere, head of the Barrere Ensemble of AVind In struments, directs concert at the Heilig Theater, May 5. Miss Henrietta Buckler, so prano, whose mother was a fa mous Kentucky beauty, ia study ing vocal music in New York City, where she recently took part with success in a Red Cross con cert. Tom Dobson. of this city, a singer, composer-pianist of note. takes part in a song recital at the Punch and Judy Theater, JNew xork City. Mrs. J. Macdonald Fahey, dra matic soprano, of Victoria, B. C, and William Mansell "Wilder, di rector of the Orpheus Male Chorus, appear at the concert this afternoon at 3 o'clpck, at the. Heilig Theater. Mrs, Frank G. McGettigan. so-? prano, was soloist at the conven tion of the Ladies of the Macca bees, held at the Multnomah Hotel last Thursday and Friday. Ted W. Bacon presents several orchestral students in recital at First Christian Church, Park and Columbia streets, Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Arthur G. Harbaugh, tenor, and Mrs. Mary Claire Mitchell, so prano, two of the soloists at the recital of Rossini's "Stabat Ma ter," last Sunday night, at the Church of the Madeleine. natl long and justly famed as a music loving city, Is lees appreciative than St. Louis seems to be shown by the figures giving comparative Income for the same season. In Cincinnati receipts were $47,333, and in St. Louis $51,964. The Cincinnati percentage of income to expenditure was less than 60, while in St. Louis it was about 60. The people at large have expressed an apprecia tion of the work of our orchestra as fine as- it is well deserved. Yet Mr, Gaines" figures, by showing a contrast between what is expended here and at other points, proves, clearly, the neces sity of enlarging our subscriptions to the guarantee fund as well as con tinuing our patronage of the concerts." "FAIRYIASD" HEHKARSAL. It Is stated that rehearsals have be gun at Los Angeles for the massive produotion of "Fairyland," the $10,000 prize American grand opera, by Hora tio Parker, the premiere of which will be under the auspices of the American Opera Association, July 1. Alfred Hertz, for. 13 years conductor of the Metro- Siiiliillillii ISWB1WIIIII M9P politan Opera Company, will direct. The prima donna role of Rosamund will be sung by Marcella Craft, a star of the Metropolitan organization, and Albert Reiss. heroio tenor of the same forces, will sing the part of Robin; William Wade Hinshaw. baritone, will sing the role of . Auburn, and other stars of first magnitude will be en gaged for the remaining leading roles. Albertina Rasch, ballerina of the Met ropolitan, will lead the ballets, which will be separate from the chorus of 80. A feature of the chorus is that it will be composed largely of soloists, the leading concert singers and choir soloists of Southern California having joined. The Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, augmented, will be used. The stage direction will be by Louis Gottschalk. who has produced 27 operas. A skilled veteran la needed for this task, as there are wonderful lighting effects' in the changes from the realities to the land of fairies. SYMPHONY GEMS SELECTED. These additional programmes will be rendered by the Boston Symphony Or chestra, at the Panama Pacific and In ternational Exposition, San Francisco, May , No. 7: Symphony No. 2, In D Malar Op. 73 (Brahms): Symphonic poem. No. 3, "Los Preludes," after Lamartlne (Listz); Tone poem, "Death and Trans figuration," Op. 24 (Richard Strauss); prelude to xne Mastersingers of Nu remberg" (Wagner). No. S: Symphony, No. 1, in D Major. Op. 16 (Sgambati); Overture to the opera Anacreon (Cherubim): Inter mezzi Goldoniani. Op. 127 (Bossl); Over ture to Goldoni's "Le Baruff e Chioz- zote," Op. 38, "The Squabbles of the People of Chiozza" (Sinigaglla). No. 9: Symphony, No. 2, in G Minor for two - violins and orchestra of strings "(J. S. Buck): solo violins, Anton. Witek and Sylvain Noack; overture to "Sakuntala," Op. 13 (Gold mark), "A Siegfried Idyl" (Wagner); overture. "Carnival." Op. 92 (Dvorak). No. 10: Symphony, No. 3, for orches tra and organ, Op. 78 (Saint-Saens) ; prelude to Stephane Mallarme's Ec logue, "The Afternoon of a Faun" (De bussy); three pieces from "The Dam nation of Faust," Op. ?4 (Berltaz) : overture to the opera, "Gwendoline" (Chabrler). No. 11: Symphony No. 6, In B-Minor, "Pathetic," Op. 74 (Tschaikowsky) ; overture Solonelle. Op. 73 (Glazoun off ) ; "On the Steppes of Central Asia," orchestral sketch. Op. 7 (Borodin);1 caprice on Spanish themes, Op. 34 (Rimsky-Korsakoff). No. 13: Symphony .No. 1. In E-Minor, Op. 39 (Sibelius); tone poem. "Thus Spake Zarathustra" (freely after Fried rich Nietsche). Op. 30 (Richard Strauss); overture, "Leonora," No. 3, Op. 72 (Beethoven). TOM DOBSON "WINS HONORS. ' Under the management of Loudon Charlton, Tom Dobson. the pianist-composer-singer of this city, was heard in a high-class recital recently at the Punch and Judy Theater, New York City, in a unique programme of songs, and his numbers were: "Au Clair de la June" (Lulli), "Pauvre Jacques" (Marie Antoinette). "The Nine-Penny Fidil" (Hughes). "The Gentle maiden" (Cowen). "Good Morrow, Gossip Joan" (A. L.). "La Palx" (Hahn), "Dansons la Gigue" (Carpenter), "Marie" (Jensen), "Margret am Tore" (Jensen), "Citronen Falter In April" ana "Liebes Frier"' (Weingartner). "St. Mary's Bells" (Dobson), "Dread" (Dobson), "An Answer" (Brockway), "Don't Care" (Carpenter). "Young Night Thought" (Fisk), "The Sea Gull and the Crow" (Norton), "Jim" (Lehmann), '"Juliette" (Brainard), "Seumas Beg" (Dobson), "Improving Songs for Anxious Chil dren" (Carpenter). One New York paper said: "The man who put the "punch" in the Punch and Judy Theater's first concert was one Tom Dobson, an entertainer with a way of reciting songs as if they were stories of his own. He plsyed his own piano on the tiny stage, and sang his 'Old Song Resung," besides repeating his TV'hen I Was One - and- Twenty.' There were some French and English, Hughes' 'My Father and Mother Were Irish" and Gordon's "A Fat Li'l Feller," Lehmann's 'Cautionary Songs" and Car penter's "Improving Songs for Anxious Children' at the close. Concert-goers discovered one thing that wasn't on the programme, and that was the theater itself, with its Old World air and its ushers gowned after the boys of Lon don's Bluecoat School. The Punch and Judy among local theaters is itself one of the "clever ones." " A second New York correspondent writes: "A ' group of children's songs of unusual charm was the feature of the recital of Tom Dobson at the Punch and Judy Theater. Mr. Dobson is a young American who has been studying abroad, and his interpretation of Car penter and Lehmann's juvenile songs and his originalities of expression were especially pleasing." Another New York writer: "Tom Dobson. a young American singer who recently was heard in the Punch and Judy Theater, will give a second recital in the same hall Monday afternoon, April 19. Mr. Dobson sings and plays his own accompaniments, while, to add further interest to his accomplish ments, he Includes several of his own compositions in his programmes. His repertory Is a varied one, ranging from classical French and German composi tions to songs of a light and humorous character which he is said to render in imitably. Mr. Dobson has gained a wide vogue this Winter as a private en tertainer." . "SPANISH GYPSY" DANCE CHOSEN. Dent Mowrey. a young American pianist and composer, who recently ar rived from Paris and who now plans to make .his future home in this city, will.be heard In piano recital at the Multnomah Hotel ballroom April 29, at 8:15 o'clock P. M. Mr. Mowrey will play individual solos and he and Mrs. Mowrey will be heard at two pianos. This will be Mr. Mowrey's first American piano season since his ap pearance as a "child prodigy." Sev eral years ago Mr. Mowrey won a prize at the Elks' Carnival, this city, for a march he composed. Mi-. Mowrey is the first American musician to be honored by the Univer sity of Paris, where his music to the "Spanish Gypsy" of George Eliot was presented last March. The '"Gypsy Dance" will be played at his forth coming - concert, and the composition is thus analyzed by a Paris corre spondent: "Dent Mowrey, the young American pianist, had a triumphant evening at the Paris Sorbonne. He Is the first foreign musician to have a hearing at the Paris University, and the circum stances which prompted the French Society for the Propagation of Foreign Languages to choose him as the com poser of the music to George Eliot's Spanish Gypsy' may well place him high in the estimation of his com patriots. The Sorbonne on the even ing of the recital was veritably be sieged by applicants for admission, not more than half of whom were able to gain an entrance to the hall. The story of the "Spanish Gypsy." as told, by George Eliot, lends Itself to music tn most eloquent fashion. Mr. Mowrey had wonderful scope and utilized it to the full. He has employed leading motifs to portray the various emotions of the different characters in the poem with splendid effects. He gets star tling 'atmosphere' by the judicious use of the banned consecutive fifths. Mr. Mowrey's reputation here as a com poser had hitherto been confined to his characteristic dances-, which possess great rhythmic charm, so it was but natural that the one dance he has in cluded in the 'Spanish Gypsy should arouse enthusiasm. The music alto gether is undoubtedly the finest he has written. Mr. Mowrey's playing was full of poetry." ECHO COMES OF BERLIOZ. . Nothing short of an artistic resur rection is the Barrere ensemble of wind Instruments, for It harks back to times a few centuries agotjmes pre-Berlolz, before the orchestra of many combina tions was known, to times when cham ber music flourished and its production was encouraged by the better class of nobility, who were sufficiently advanced 20 FREE Music Lessons See Our Window. GRAVES MLSIC CO, 151 Fourth Street. Girl' Band OrKantBlng. Inquire In strument Department. ' Seiberling-Lucas Music Co. Sheet Music. Tucktrf Supplies, Band and Orchestra Instrument. 125 Fourth, Between Alder and Washington. Mme. Fay M. Huntington MEZZO-COXTKALTO;. Concert and Instruction Studio 415 Sherman Clay Building. Main 3145. on the subject, this recent letter from James G. Sayer, of Lincoln, Neb., to his father. James J. Sayer. of this city, is quoted: "I hope you will be able to get to hear the Barrere ensemble. It is an event which comes very seldom in a lifetime, to hear the works of masters in the ast played by a company, of which every one is an artist and every one is taxed to his full capacity. Every musician that I spoke to said he had never heard anything like It. The per fect Intonation, the beauty of the works rendered, and the perfection of the ren dering will sever be forgotten by any one who has a musical memory. I once heard a company of five of England's best wind-players give a similar kind of programme, but here you have nine artists, and every work is played just as written no 'arrangements' of any thing by anybody. Get there if you have to sell a bushel of potatoes to do it. You may never have another oppor tunity." COMING MUSICAL EVENTS. Invitations are out for a soiree musical by Mrs. R. W. Schmeer, at the Multnomah Hotel ballroom, Tuesday night, April 27. Mrs. Schmeer, who has a fine dramatic contralto voice, was presented in recital by Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed two seasons ago at the Heilig . Theater. Since then Mrs. Schmeer has been studying in New York City with famous vocal teachers. She has. prepared for her concert in an interesting programme French, English, American, German and Italian com positions. The Treble Clef Club, Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed, director, will as sist. Edgar E. Coursen will be the accompanist. An important musical and social event of the week will occur Thursday night, when Miss Mary Bernhofer, colorature soprano, appears In concert recital at the Masonic Temple Audi torium under the joint auspices of St. Mary's Academy and Columbia Uni versity. Miss Bernhofer will be as sisted by Mrs. Carmel Sullivan-Tower, harpist; Charles Duncan Raff, "cellist, and Mrs. Florence Moak-Schmitt. ac companist. This will be Miss Bern hofer's initial appearance in this coun try. She sang recently with eminent success in Europe, and due to the stress of the war was forced to discontinue her professional European musical en gagements. Miss Bernhofer received her musical training in Munich, Ger-1 many, under direction of Madame j Oglaja Orgeni. , The junior piano students of Mrs. Josephine S. Bush and Miss Nellie L. Depp will be presented in recital Sat urday night at Sunnyside Methodist Episcopal Church. East Thirty-fifth and Yamhill streets. The Imperial Male Quartet, consisting of Dr. P. G. Onstad, J. Fred Bischoff, Clarence H Bush and W. I. Kalter. will assist. There will be also special numbers for two pianos by Mrs. Bush and Miss Depp. , Miss Margery Maxwell, soprano soloist at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, will sing the beautiful aria "Altho" Obscure More Royal Grand," from "The Queen of Shcba" (Gounod), also two smaller songs, "A Madrigal" (Chaminade) and "Spanish Serenade" (Sawyer), at Mrs. Elsie Bond Bischoff's recital. May 4. An orchestral concert at the First Christian Church, Park and Columbia streets, occurs Tuesday night - at 8 o'clock, when 12 advanced violin stu dents of Ted 5V. Bacon will be pre sented, along with .the First Christian Church Orchestra, of which he is director. Mr. Bacon is head of the Northwestern School of Music, 627 East Morrison street, and during, the past three years he has been successfully demonstrating the value of orchestral drill in promoting musical interest among his students. The First Christian Church Orchestra is one of the best amateur organizations in the city. The orchestra will be assisted by Adeline M. Alvord, reader, and several vocal soloists. The next recital for school children, teachers and parents of the series now being given by the Oregon Chapter of the American Guild of Organists takes place at the Columbia Theater, ttixth street, Saturday morning, at 9:30 o'clock. The programme will open with a pipe organ recital by one of the members of the Chapter, followed by a presentation of the opera of "Tannhauser" in films, accompanied by the music of the opera played upon the pipe organ by Freder ick C. School, organist of the theater, to discard the court jester for the court musician. It is inspiring to note that at the Heilig Theater, May 5, the Barrere en semble of wind Instruments will ap pear in concert under direction of Steers & Comas. 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