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10 TTTE STTJiDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, OCTOBER 25, 1914. tO, L . " ! f - .''.r:.JJ;:;::.v & ! 4 Vs sW-.?' fe-f V 7 J J r- a ! ; v i - i I - I S - f v EDITED BY JOSEPUH M. QUEXTIN. SCHUBERT'S symphony in C major will be the feature of the concert next Sunday afternoon at the Hel ligf Theater, by the Portland Symphony Orchestra. It is a delightful compo sition and 'will prove a strong feature for ushering in the symphony season. Krana Peter Schubert, who died in 1S2S at the age of 31. had independent ideas, like most geniuses, and It is told of him that, after having secured. In 1826. the post of conductor of the Karnthner Theatre, in Vienna, he sud denly quit in a "huff," when asked to alter an aria he had written to suit the voice of the chief vocalist. It was sifter this that he wrote the symphony that will be played next Sunday and many of his loveliest songs, as well as the mass in E. Other numbers chosen for the pro gramme by Harold Bayley, who will conduct, are "Maurische Fantasie" and "Malaguena," from the ballet "Boabdil" (Mosxkowski), "Mijcnon" overture (Am broise Thomas) and "Wotan's Fare well" and "Masric Fire," from "Die "Walkure" ("Wagner). Friday morning at 10 o'clock the or chestra will be heard in its final re hearsal for the concert at the Heilig. Ini'itations have been Issued to the stu dents of the Lincoln High School to at tend in a body. Pupils of one other school, yet to be determined, will be Invited. The Heilig Theater manage ment has kindly donated the theater for the rehearsal and so the expense of holding: the rehearsal is practically negligible. These rehearsals for the benellt of the school children last sea con proved of tremendous value in mu sical development and are regarded as fully of as great import as are the regular concerts. The orchestra this year will consist f about 55 performers, with a com plete instrumentation. The concert will begin promptly at 3 o'clock, November 3, and the symphony will form the first lialf of the programme. A report on the concert of the Apol lo Club, male chorus, which took: place last night at the Heilig Theater, with the assistansce of Madam Julia Claus een as soloist, will be found in another column of The Oregonian of today. Joseph A. Finley. director of the Portland Oratorio Society and Presby terian Chorus, is reorganizing a glee club of girls between 14 and 18 years of age. This club was begun last year In Mr. Finley's Sunday school class of pirls of these ages and was so popular that it waa tbougtu boat to add. to to number. About 20 girls have promised to start and organize the new club, which begins rehearsing tomorrow af ternoon at 4 o'clock at room 609 North west building. Sixth and Washington streets. Miss Merle H. W'ooddy will be accompanist and chaperone. All girls of high school age are welcome to join as members. The cost is only for mu sic and is slight. . Mrs. Fred L. Olson will be the soloist Friday night at the Hotel Benson for the convention of the Congress of Mothers. T. P. Nason will play a vio lin obllgato and Miss Claire Oakea will be piano accompanist. Mrs. Hazel Gurr Bell received many compliments on her singing on the programme of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Spanish-American War Veterans last Tuesday night. Her numbers were "Somewhere a Voice Is Calling" (Tate), "You. Dear, and I" (Clark), and Miss M. Foster was piano accompanist. Mrs. Bell is a new member of the Wednesday Eve Choral Club, Mrs. Covich-Fredrich. director. The members of the Wednesday Eve Choral Club will hold their first rehear sal Wednesday night, under the direc tion of Mrs. Catherine Covach-Fred-rich, with Miss Ethel Mahoney as ac companist. The members for this sea son are: Mrs. Charles Hacker, Mrs. B. Mantle, Mrs. A. B. Holderman, Mrs. Harold Scharff, Mrs. Ed Kraenick, Mrs. Lola Edmonds Cook, Mrs. Hazel Gmr Bell. Miss Kelly Lincoln, Miss Lela Muir. Miss Genevieve Layne, Miss Edith Bayers, Miss Celeste Albln. Miss Ger trude Hogan, Miss Frances Keating, Miss Olga Johnson, Miss Catherine Frainey, Miss Anna Walsh and Miss Julia Burke. Mrs. Fred L. Olson, soprano, has been engaged by the Harriman Club to sing at the old Heilig Theater Wednesday night, when the Baker Stock Company will present the play "Mother." m m m The first public recital of the Music Students' Club will take place Thurs day afternoon at 3 o'clock at 607 Til ford building, when Dr. Clement B. Shaw and Mordaunt A. Goodnough will be heard in joint recital. A delightful programme of vocal and instrumental music is promised. At this morning's service the White Temple quartet will render the anthem entitled "Sanctus." "St. Cecelia" (Gou nod) and Hartridge G. Whipp will sing for the offertory solo "Judge He, O God" (Dudley Buck). The Temple quar tet at tonight' service .will . aing xhe , MUSICIANS ACTIVE IX (XBBT MUSIC COMMENT. Madame Isabella L'Huillier, so prano, recently a grand opera prima donna in Parts, Berlin and London, will appear In recital in this city shortly. MlfcS Emma Strout, student, has Wt this city for Charleston, S. C for continued music study, and plans to return to her Portland home next Spring-. Madame Blanche Arral, formerly a grand opera prima donna in Eu rope, is now engaged selling society tea In New York City. Charles Swenson, pianist, and Mrs. Julia Helena Swenson, violinist, ap pear on recital programme of Psy chology Club at the home of Mrs. E. E. Coovert, Thursday afternoon. Miss Kathryn Ensey. soprano, was one of the soloists at the Monday Musical Club reception, held at the Multnomah Hotel, last Monday night, and sings next week at Camas, Wash. Miss La Velle Long will be one of piano soloists at Bu Mary's Acad - students recital, Saturday after- at 2 o'clock. anthem, "He Shall Come Down Like Rain" (Dudley Buck) and Mr. Iloose will sing "In Native Worth." "Crea tion" (Haydn) and Mrs. Chapman will be heard in "Thy Work to Do" (Briggs). A club of women singers is in the process of being organized at 609 Northwest building, from 6:45 to 8 P. M. Saturdays, beginning this week. Al ready nearly 30 singers have signified their desire to join. The only fee will be the cost of music. Smart's beautiful cantata, "King Rene's Daughter," and miscellaneous trios and quartets and choruses will be practiced and publicly presented. , - A third chorus is being formed of male voices, to meet Wednesday nights, beginning November 4, at the First Presbyterian parish . house, and will begin Immediately to rehearse a pro gramme for public presentation. While a number of members will be from the Presbyterian, Portland Oratorio and Handel Vocal Society choruses, all men are welcome and a chorus of 40 is hoped for. The only expense is for cost of music Joseph A. Finley is di rector. Assisted by Hortense Ingalls, Vocal ist, and Elmer Sneed, violinist. Georgia Rich Lydick directed the tirst of a series of -piano recitals by her students before a large and appreciative audi ence recently at the First Baptist Church, St. Johns, Or. The Florence Crittenton Refuge Home is to have a benefit concert Tuesday night, November 17, at the Masonic Temple. It is stated that the home is greatly in need' of financial assistance, and these musicians will appear on the concert programme to raise money for unfortunate wanderers: Rose Coursen Reed, contralto; Mrs. Frances Striegel Burke, pianist; Mrs. Henry W. Metzger, soprano; Miss Maude Ross, soprano; Edgar E. Coursen. pianist; the Treble Clef Club with Miss Geraldine Coursen, accompanist, The opening reception and musical of the Monday Musical Club, held at the Hotel Multnomah, brought out a large audience of musicians and other music lovers and served as the introduction of several of the more recent additions to Portland's musical colony. The guests were received by the officers of the society, headed by the president, Mrs. J. G. FrankeL and the musical programme was announced by Mrs. Russel Dorr. The Schumann trio opened the programme with a scholarly rendition of the three movements of opus 16 (Jadassohn). Members of this trio are Carl Grissen, violin, who re cently, returned from several years'. musical work abroad: George von Ha gel, 'cello, who has had a wide expe rience as a 'cellist, both in this country and in Europe, and William R. Boone, a well-known Portland organist and pianist. The fact that each member of the trio is an artist and soloist on bis own instrument is quite evident in the work of the trio In the richness of tone and the musicianly interpretation of ensemble work. Their stage pres ence is dignified and their musical message is effective. Following the trio Mr. von Hagel played three 'cello numbers, "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Grutzmacher). "Slumber Song (Squier) and "Gavotte" (Popper). Miss Helene Butzlaff, soprano soloist at the First Unitarian Church, sang "In dieser Stunde" (Spicker) and responded to an encore with "Haymaking" (Xeedham) Miss Katherine Ensey, also a recent ar rival, sang "Ah, Love but a Da" IGil berte) and "Expectancy" (La Farge). Miss Flora Willman played a "Mazurka" (Poter) and "Prelude In G Minor' (Rachmaninoff). Mrs. Fay M. Hunting ton was also on the programme, but was unable to be present. During the evening Mr. and Mrs. Carville illus trated an interesting exhibition dance. The next programme by the club, No vember 2, at Christensen's Hall, will be a study of the correlation of dan cing and music. All study classes will also begin at that tlrrte. ; Frances Richter. the Portland pianist, en route for Chicago and other Eastern cities, was recently, with his mother, visiting his former home in Minneapo lis, Minn., and was interviewed by Caryl B. Storrs, the well-known music expert of that city. Mr. Storrs tnus writes his impressions of Mr. Richter, as printed, in part, in the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper: Accompanied by his friend, Adolph Grethen. Mr. Richter came to my room, bringing with him the score of his 'Symphony in C Minor. No. 1.' which he has recently com pleted. His method of composition is both curious and interesting. His own manuscripts he writes by the Braille system and when a work is completed he dictates it to his father, who in scribes it on the five-line staff in regu lar form and who, by the way. makes a manuscript which is a -model of ac curacy, clarity and beauty of work manship. Mr. Rlchter's first sym phony tells the story of his own life from the sorrow and despair of his ear lier years to the Joy and courage he has found through the aspirations he has struggled to attain despite his pit eous limitation. ilie sub-title of his symphony is "From Imrkness to Dawn,' and as he outlined i for me, partly on the piano and partly y verbal explana tion, I realized that 1 was enjoying the privilege of hearing before it had ever been performed by an orchestra a sym phonic work of perfect form, beautiful symmetry, scholarly construction, elo quent feeling, striking originality and rich in sustained interest 'and melodic invention. Though the Richter sym phony is essentially modern in feeling showing, without imitation, the com poser's sympathy with Wagner. Cesar Franck and Richard Strauss it is also suggestive of Mozart in its simple themes and of Beethoven in its close adherence to classic symphonic form, "After making a piano sketch of his symphony, Mr. Richter gave a brief recital, which included well-known works of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Rubinstein, and proved him a concert pianist of exceptional technic, bril liance, artistry and virile power. He afterward left Minneapolis for Chicago and New York, to arrange for concert performance of his symphony, which he has never heard save with the Inner ear of the composer. Later in the sea son he is to return to Minneapolis and if he gives a recital here, as he hopes to do, every lover of music in the city should make an imperative point of hearing him." At the Men's Club meeting of the Sunn'yside Methodist Episcopal Church last Tuesday night the musical num bers were rendered by Marie Keller Fisher, O. A. Bosserman and Jasper Dean MacFall, with Mrs. Samuel F. Grover, accompanist. The newly-organized East Side Mali Chorus is showing much interest and enthusiasm in the new organization. About 50 members are now enrolled, and it is the intention of Jasper Dean MacFall, the director of this club, to now increase the membership to from 75 to 100 voices. He says that any male singer residing on the East Side of Portland is welcome to membership. John Claire 'Monteith was received with much enthusiasm by the students of Jefferson High School last Tuesday morning when he sang In a lecture re cital before the assembly on the na tional music of different countries. Mor daunt A. Goodnough was accompanist, and also played two solo numbers. The recitals are arranged' by the Monday Musical Club under the direction of Mrs. Herman A, Heppner with the ob ject of interesting the young people in music and also to furnish them with an opportunity to hear the best musicians in this city. A letter has been received from Bos ton, Mass., that Miss Helen Wegman is seriously ill with typhoid pneumonia, Helen Wegman is on the rolls as a stu dent of the New England Conservatory POLICE BAND SAXOPHOXB FLAYER BORN A BADGER. . v " it t Edward Borlce. Patrolman Edward Burke, sax ophone player in the Portland Po lice band, which will tour the East next Spring, was born at Two Rivers. Wis.. November 5, 1S78. He came to Portland in 1900 and has since made his home here. Mr. Burke always took keen in terest in instrumental military music and before coming to Port land was a member of military bands at Two Rivers and other Wisconsin cities. On May 28, 1905, Mr. Burke was appointed to the Portland Police Department, and almost immediately went to work to. organize a band among the policemen. He was a charter member and ever since the or ganization has held some respon sible position in the band. He is now treasurer, and as such, will handle the money now being raised for the trip East to boost Portland. Mr. Burke, in his official capac ity, is superintendent of the mu nicipal building at Second and Oak streets, and has charge of the entire property of the Police Department, THE Pianola and Stein way ALLIANCE (J When the demand for a Steinway Player Piano became apparent, Steinway & Sons began an investigation which embraced both the European and American fields and extended over a period of several years. As a result of this investigation, it was demonstrated that the supremacy of The PIANOLA had been gained solely through superla tive excellence and recognized superiority, and that the artistic quali fication of The Pianola alone, among all instrument of. its type, were of a standard commensurate with those of the Steinway Piano. j When such a House virtually stakes its reputation upon the superiority of The PIANOLA, no individual need hesitate to accept the verdict as authoritative and final.' Sherman, IM VICTOR TALKING MACHINES AND ALL THE RECORDS. ay 8c Co. PIANOLAS STEINWAY, WEBER AND OTHER PIANOS Morrison Street at Sixth. Opposite Postoffice of Music, where she studied under George Proctor. Miss Wegman studied the piano for seven years with W. Gif ford Nash and two seasons with Frank Richter. both of this city. Mrs. E. C. Wegman was called to Boston last week and will remain with her daugh ter until Spring. . . This programme will be presented by the Psychology Club Thursday after noon at the residence of Mrs. E. E. Couvert: "Snow Flikes" (Cowen), "Zulignung" (Strauss), Miss Ruth Johns, "Meditation," from "Thais" (Massenet), Mrs. Julia Swenson; "Guitarrl." 'Spanish Dance" (Hassel man). Miss Carmel Sullivan: "Aria" (Verdi). Miss Ruth Johns: "Kigaletto" selections (Liszt), Charles Levenson. ... Of the 111,000 required as a founda tion fund, in addition to the seat sale for the Kansas City Symphony Orches tra' the coming season, 14000 has been subscribed, remarks the Kansas City Times.- It is expected the remainder will be raised before the first concert of the symphony seaaon, which Is to be given November 2 in the Shubert Thea ter, Kansas City. The request of the Kansas City or chestra, for financial support in the form of a foundation fund, which is to be drawn upon in case of need, is a singularly modest one, compared to those in other cities. For the founda tion fund of the Minneapolis orcheetra. one millionaire gives a little more than the entire fund in Kansas City. And yet Kansas City has a conductor In Carl Busch whom Minneapolis has been proud to receive as an honored guest- conductor on the occasion of its per formance of one of Mr. Busch's orches tral piecee. Experienced musicians in other cities have heard with surprise that Kansas City gets through its symphony sea son, giving at least seven symphony concerts, one popular and three or four school children's free concerts, with so small a foundation fund, when other cities have had to raise all the way from $30,000 to $100,000. Minneapolis subscribes JSO.000 annually. That is the measure of faith in Its orchestra Kansas City has a conductor who. as guest-conductor in Berlin and Copen hagen, directed two of the finest or ganizations 'in Europe in performance of his own pieces. It has a new concert-master in Henri Shostac. who served with conspicuous success the Royal orchestra of Dresden In a like capacity. It has a new violist who led the violas in Minneapolis and later in St, Paul. It has excellent arists at the head of all its various sections strings, wood-winds and brasses and It has what is known as "good ma terial" throughout. This was proved In the rehearsal held when work was begun on the programme for the first concert. , ... Madame Isabella L. Huillier, mezzo soprano, will appear In recital In this city at an early date. ... Miss La Velle Long, one of the piano students at St. Mary's Academy, and who has studied piano with William R. Boone, will be heard in recital at St. Mary's Academy Saturday afternoon at 2 o clock. Little Miss Long is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Long. 270 Broad way. ... A New Tork police report of a re cent holdup shows that an opera singer, formerly well known, has gone in for tea selling. She is Blanche Arral and she is the wife of Hamilton Bassett. a former newspaper man of Cincinnati. Mme. Arral came to this country some years ago to get an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera-House. after sing ing in opera-houses of Europe and-in the Orient. She was unsuccessful, and, after appearing at some concerts, she decided to drop singing and go In for business. As she was in her office at Forty-second street and Fifth avenue one day recently a highwayman came In and. after choking her, ran away with a box containing more than $200. Mme. Arral screamed, but got no re sults from the police. Her assailant is still at large. ' Rev. Father Gregory, who has re cently returned from the war zone, spoke Friday evening at St. Francis Hall. He was in Germany during the first battles and related his experi ences. A short musical programme, under the direction of M. J. Keating, followed, consisting of these numbers: "Four Leaf Clover" and "Lullaby," Miss Martha McNamee; piano duet, "Over ture," from "II Trovatore," the Misses Marie and Clare Monks; "Somewhere a Voice Is Calling," and "When Tou Come Home," Miss Frances Keating. A programme of piano numbers is planned by Roy Marion Wheeler, Til ford building, Friday night, when Mr. Wheeler will present these student. Mrs. John R. Kaseberg, Walter McCoy, Helen Kaseberg, Helen Mahler. mYs. John several fine residence of Laurel hurst, presented in but, rendered lent style: Wiegerlied F. Risley, soprano, sang numbers recently at the Mrs. C W. Hayhurst. in Mrs. Risley, who has been recital by Harold Hurl these numbers trr" excel - "Stftndchen" (Schubert); (Brahma). "Kashmlrt Song" (Finden), "Day Is Gone" (Lang), and "I Hear a Thrush at Eve" (Cad man). In the rendition of the last two songs her fine pianissimo and good phrasing were especially commendable. ... Warren Erwin, tenor soloist at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, sang "Crossing the Bar" (Piccolomini) at the morning service, last Sunday. Mr. Erwin sang with beautiful tone and phrasing. His diction and pianissimo are excellent. . Wolf-Ferrari's "New Life" will be rendered November 19 at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, by the Choral Society under the direction of Henry Gordon Thunder. The exquisite music will be played by the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Horatio Connell has been engaged for the prin cipal baritone part. . . The fact that Fritz Krisler. the fa mous violinist and Lieutenant of the Austrian Landstrum, has been wound ed in the right arm makes it interest ing to know how other celebrities in the world of music are occupying them selves during the period of enforced Inactivity caused by the war, says a dispatch from Copenhagen. Ignatz Friedman, the pianist, who had been guaranteed $37,000 for a con cert tour through Germany and Russia, will now go to Italy and try his for tune as a composer. His wife is a Russian of the Tolstoy family, and he will not expose her to a longer stay in the German capital. Busoji. the pianist and composer. Is in despair. He has shut himself in his rooms in Berlin, declaring that he can not see anybody. He had engagements for the coming season worth $50,000 which have all been cancelled. Eisenberger. who has fled from Bel glum, where he earned a fortune as a teacher of music, has left everything behind him and is now earning just a littte more than $15 a month by play ing every night at a small restaurant in Berlin. He was arrested as a Russian spy and detained several days because he had not his papers with him. Godowsky, who had recently pur chased a furnished castle near Brus sels, has fled from Belgium. He is now in London, accompanied by the Ameri can violinist, Louis SiegeL Zedor, the baritone, who made about $75,000 In the United States last Win ter, is In Berlin. He has, so his agent says, unlike many of his colleagues, in vested his money safely. Joseph Weiss, one of Germany's best pianists, is playing at a thlrd-rato music-hall to get a living. . A new song, "The Harriman Club Song." words by William H. Brewster and music by A, De Caprio, both of this city, will be sung by O. B. Hughes, tenor, during an intermission between the second and third acts, ac the old Heilig Theater, Eleventh and Morrison streets, Wednesday night, during the rendition of the play, "Mother." Wednesday night is the Harriman Club night. Words of the song written by Mr. Brewster are": It is worthy that we know Of the good that we can give. Of the harvest that we sow And the worth it is to live. The smallest seed is planted The act's forgotten long; Yet nature hath enchanted And the growth is tall and strong. And from an humble starting There grew a wondrous tree: We see that branches parting Reaching out from land to sea. Chorus. , His work we all inherit. The reward he left to man: That we way reap the merit Of the good that he began. For a monumeut of fame. Stands across our native land: And the road that bears his name. Is the railway that he planned. His work remains unbroken. And the onward march of men. Stands by to pay a token In the words of tongue and pen. And so It came by striving From this noble-minded man. And God hath kept it thriving. That the world might use his plan. ... The New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor, announces the engagement of Felice Lyne as solo ist for the concerts at Middletown, Conn., November 23: Pittsfleld, Mass.. Concluded on Paffe 11.) 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