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Newspaper Page TextTHIT SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, STATTCIT 21, 1915. 10 Ik.-,.- JMJj .t&V SXr'P! ltd it , n "4 ill r .4 ."V -CS iiill Sit a- i " K J" K 1 X d-?5: ' r 'x 1' , ! vsvCW v4is S0 ?vS 7 Mde. ( r,t VZ&WMM frit' 'Xf?i ' --rv W V-fA' X-1& x i & li T?! rf f Mp DECIDED musical student. A novelty will mark the closing concert for the season of 1914 115 of the Orpheus Male Chorus, Wil liam Mansell Wilder, director, to take place Friday night at 8:15 o'clock, at the Masonic Temple, corner West Park and Yamhill streets. On that occasien lour different Portland student solo ists will singr soles: Miss Kathryn Knsey. Miss Maude C. Ross. Miss Ruth M. Johns, Miss Marlon C. Atwater, with J. R. Hutchinson as piano accompanist. These four social soloists are studying with four different vocal instructors in this city, and the unusual nature of this musical event is being widely ar.d favorably commented upon. The male chorus has been faithfully drilled for this concert, and their numbers are also interesting ana novel. The pro grtmme: "The Huntsmen's Farewell" (Mendelssohn) and "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" (Knight): "Sum mertlme" (Stephens) "Prayer" from Tosca" (Puccini), Miss Kathryn Ensey; "Memory" (Bond), "Lazy Moon" (Cole), "Spring's Awakening" (Sanderson). Tiorian Seng" (Godard), Miss Marion C. Atwater. Part two: "Destruction of Gaza" (do Rllle). "Ernani! Ernani. Involani!" from the opera "Ernani" Verdi) and "Hark, Hark, the Lark" (Schubert), Miss Ruth M. Johns; -Vineta" (Abt) and "A Little Farm Well Till'd" (Hook 1749-1827) from the comic opera "The Soldier's Return." T. L. Thomas. D. R. Matthews and R. H. Bond; "Mattinata" (Leoncavallo). "Staendchen" (Richard Strauss). Miss IHaude C, Rcss; "Blue Danube Walta" (Strauss). "In Absence" (Buck). MHS. STODDARD WISS TRIIMPH. Mrs. Annette Stoddard, organist of Trinity Episcopal Church, of this city, was organist recently in Festival Hall, Panama-Pacific International Expo sition, San Francisco. She had the honor of being the first woman to ap-, pear In these high -class recitals, which are being participated In by Clarence Eddy and other noted organists. Mrs. Stoddard is a tiny woman, not quite five feet tall, and after her recital in Festi val Hall many In the audience ex pressed their surprise that a woman so small phystcally could master so com pletely a pipe organ of such magnitude. Mrs. Stoddard received her bachelor degree in both piano and pipe organ at Syracuse University, New York, and for three years was director of music In the Rockford. 111.. College for Women. Coming to this city a comparative stranger. Mrs. Stoddard has won tne admiration and esteem of Portland mu sicians, who are happy ana proud to claim her. . This programme was rendered by Mrs. Stoddard in Saa Francisco; "Pre lude and Fuge In F-Mlnor" (Bach) : "Caprice in E-Flat" (Faulkes); "Liebe stod." from "Tristan and Isolde" (Wagner-Gibson); "Scherzo Bymphonlque" (Russell King Miller): "Concert Over ture in C-Minor" (Hollins): "An Even ing Meditation" (Mansfield): "First Sonata" (Gullmant); "Christmas Pas torale" (Rogers): "Grand March," from "Aida" (Verdi-Shelley). THE ALTHOISES IN CONCERT. Paul Althouse, the young American tenor of the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, who, in three years, has been called upon to create three im portant roles, will, with his pretty wife, enter the concert stage next year and present scenes from grand opera in cos tume. Mrs. Althouse, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Breed, and who former ly lived in St. Paul, is a contralto and studied under Oscar Saenger, her only teacher. Slv' is - graduate of the Uni versity of Minnesota,' and has- the dis tinction of being the youngest girl to graduate from that institution. Mr. Althouse created the role of Count Niepperg In Umberto Giordano's new grand opera, "Madame Sans Gene." The Althouse role Is the most import ant in this new opera and has added no little fame to this excellent young singer, whose acting and singing are a -delight to alL Mrs. Althouse will also be heard in the Metropolitan, in some of the contralto roles. AEROPHOR IN ORCHESTRA. The time seems near at hand when orchestra players of wind Instruments, both brass and wood, will not use their lungs at all, but will pump air through their lips by mechanical means. The aerophor, so-called, is bringing about this revolution. It is a tragic fact that modern music makes such demands upon players of wind instruments that their career of usefulness under pres ent conditions is very short. In a com paratively few years they lose their embouchure. This new method of "artificial breathing" is going to be a vast help to them. The device is a simple one, consisting of a bellows" worked by the foot, or under the arm, which forces air through a vessel of water heated by an electric lamp to the temperature of breath 'and thence through a rubber tube into the mouth, through one, and MUSIC PEOPLE ACTIVE IN CURRENT COMMENT. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Althouse, of the New York Metropolitan Op era House, are to appear in con cert next season, and, in cos tume, are to present scenes from grand operas. Mrs. Rose G. Reed, director, and Mrs. A. L. Richardson, of La Grande, Or., one of the soloists, at a students' muslcale to take place at the' Heillg Theater, to morrow night at 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Annette Stoddard, organ ist of Trinity Protestant Episco pal Church, played recently on the Festival pipe organ, at the Panama-Pacific International Ex position, San Francisco. William Mansell Wilder is di rector of the Orpheus Male Chorus concert. Masonic Temple auditorium, Friday night. Miss Marguerite Dake played piano solos at banquet of wom en's auxiliary, George Wright Post, No. 2, Women's Relief Corps, held at County Courthouse hall, last Wednesday night Miss Edith Mozorowski played violin solo at a recent reception at the Neighborhood House, South Portland. Miss Kathleen Sealy, soprano, was Boloist at recent reception of the Derthlck Club, Oregon City, Or. Francis Graff,- 6 years old, played a violin solo at a meet ing of the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation of Richmond Public School. Miss Lyne so highly delighted could be summarized Into a few words it would be that the young singer's predominant qualities are brilliance and purity of tone, a perfection in cultivation, an absolute certainty of her powers, and a surprising absence of all effort in pro ducing her tones. She is of slight figure, unaffected and artless in manner, and with a personality which appeals to her audience at once. Her voice is a high coloratura soprano, and the ease with which she executed trills and the admirable evenness of her runs, par ticularly in the "Voco dl Prlmavera' and the 'Romeo and Juliet' aria, spoke vol umes for her natural ability and for her training as welL x "Her programme was admirably se lected, rendered in English, French and Italian, her French accent being espe cially true and dainty. The opening number, the familiar 'Caro Nome' from 'Rigoletto,' was charmingly rendered. The three other big numbers of the night. 'The Shadow Song' from 'De norah,' the La Boheme' aria, most ten derly rendered, and the waltz from 'Romeo and Juliet,' whose difficulties were dashed off with a brilliant ease that proclaimed her voice knew no such thing as fear of weariness, were all evenly admirable. She was recalled after every number and was gracious in the matter of encores." sometimes two, mouthpieces. All the player of the Instrument need do, whether he is playing the tuba or the flute or the oboe, is to maintain this current of air and to use the proper embrouchure. For several yeans Mr. manersieiB, - .nKaa. tnho nf thA Ttnston Svm- LUC tVIHiaunBO phony Orchestra, has been using this Ingenious contrivance, it eu&uieo m to play a phrase as flowing and as . - ac. cun Vio nlnved on the double bass viol. Mr. Jaenicke, one of the first horns or tne orcnesim, nu ex perimented with the device with much success, and Mr. Longy, the cele brated oboeist, has spent .much time experimenting with it. There are cer tain passages in Wagner's operas, in Richard Strauss' works, in fact, in nearly all moaern wor:s, msi -solutely unplayable if the musician must lose his lungs. Long phrases meant to be continuous must be broken Into several parts.' but with the aero phor the music is played as the com poser intended. Taking a striking example, the open ing phrase for tuba of Wagner'B "A Faust Overture" was never played as written until the aerophor was in vented, 50 years after the overture was written. Whether Wagner dreamed when he wrote the overture that some time such a device would be invented, or whether he hoped that once in a while there would be a tuba player with abnormal lungs, is difficult to say but it is certain that he never heard that opening phrase played as it is now by Mr. Mattersteig, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. PLAN FOR PRIZE CHORUS. A number of responses from different towns in Oregon have been received by Joseph A. Finley as to the call for names of singers wishing to go to San Francisco to the Exposition and willing to Join in forming a large chorus of from 130 to 150 voices, to compete for the 10,000 prize. The trip will cost each member of the chorus about $50 for a visit of 15 days. The director will pay his own expenses. The chorus, if organized, will be known as "The Portland Festival. Chorus" and will appear in concerts during the next season under the di rection of Joseph A. Finley, the present director of the Portland Oratorio So- . . . D...K,Tlarfiin Soninr ChorUS. Cieiy, lilts tr i cduj . - Centenary M. E. Church Choir and sev- i eral other choruses now prepares a three-day music festival May 17, 18 and 19 at the First rresDyienan Church. Mr. Finley nas oeen a resi dent of Portland for four years, and during that time has presented in ren dition these oratorios, Messian, "Elijah and "Keaempuon. a uuiubo of fine miscellaneous concerts have also been given under his direction with choruses of from 72 to 150 voices. "Some plan may be devised to raise money to lessen the expense to chorus members If a sufficiently large number respond to show the interest necessary, but the first Idea must be that of each . jutn. inflnriAd. navinx his memuw, iAitawfcw. own way and taking his chance at winning the prize." says Mr. Finley. "The assistance of all musical organi zations in Oregon will be welcomed in this enterprlze. TEYTE CONCERT TUESDAY, n., i -, i mipnsltv and interest ineio la bchumi " " j among Portland, and also Oregon, music lovers to hear Miss Maggie Teyte. the English prima donna soprano, sing. She is to appear in concert, under the auspices of Steers & Comar. at the Heillg Theater Tuesday night, and her programme, a uneij oci.ci.i- "In Quelle Trine Morbtde" Puccini (Manon Lecant) "Ivolone a Venere" Pare!" 'Serenita ,.....--- 1 "Cest 1'Extase Langoureuse," "La Flute de Pan." "Beau Solr." "Fantochea, SShevaux de Bols" .......... -C. Duey "Veara! Carlno" (Don Juan) ... ... -Mozart (a) "Until" Sanderson Jb) "The WoodpiBeon" L. Lehman c) "The Nlgtingale Has a Lyre of Giid" Whelpley , , th. T.llDwhammer" L.Lehman XVIII Century- 6one: . "r-.JP(iur Tor' Dezede (b) "Cette Eau de Rose" (c) "Le Bai lere " popular songs of Haut Auvergne Malaret id) "En "passant Par la Lorraine;'.... y ' Briesaud (e) "Le Rosier Blanc" Weckerlin (O "Petronllle" , W eckerhn MISS LYNE CHARMS SALT LAKE, r-t- i Mp. in Mnflri nf this city. expect to pass today at La Grande. Or., where, with their neice. Miss Felice T the vnnnc Emnd oDera Drima donna, they will visit friends. Miss Lyne, her mother and her grandmother. Mrs. XneOUOSia ruruuili, ichyo bwum vi unnAiitin irhnrn Miss Lvne is engaged to appear as soloist in concerts. m Miss lyne sang recently in reunai at r. rr- 1 .. 1 Cl T ..Va CitV I't'lh Lake City correspondent writes: xz tne opinion oe uie uuuieuw wu.ij - MELBA IN VANDEVILLE SOON. It is stated that Madame Nellie Melba, the Illustrious prima donna of grand opera and concert celebrity, has been engaged to sing in vaudeville, by the Keith interests, at the Palace The ater, New York City, commencing next Fall, at a salary of J6000 per week, or $1000 more than Emma Calve is paid for similar services. Melba will sing for the Keith houses, 14 times per week. The Keiths are working hard to Induce John McCormack to sing for them at about J5000 a week, but it is understood that the noted Irish tenor thinks that about four times that sum ought to be the figure. COMING MUSICAL EVENTS. At the Portland Hotel Tuesday after noon at 2:30 o'clock this miscellaneous programme will be presented by the MacDowell Club: "Meditation," from "Thais" (Massenet), and "Orientale) (Cui), Miss Lillian Morgan, with Miss Constance Piper as accompanist; "Bel Ragglo," from "Semlramide" (Rossini), "Burst. Ye Apple Buds' (Emery), ana "Waltz Song" (German), Miss Lina Linehan; "The Spirit Flower" (Campbell-Tipton), "Come to the Garden. Love" (Mary Turner Salter), and "My Heart Is a Lute" (Woodman). John Ross Fargo; "O Don Fatale" (Verdi). "Daybreak" (Daniels), and "A Heart From Kerry" (Beverly), Mrs. Lula Dahl Miller; two Tuscan folk-songs, "A Streamlet Full of Flowers" and "A Flight of Birds," Mrs. Miller and Mr. Fargc. Mrs. Warren E. Thomas will be the piano accompanist. The Monday Musical Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in room 406 Eilers building. Miss Martha Reynolds will give an informal talk on "The Arts of the Nineteenth Century. These talks are both interesting and educational. Miss Reynolds will be as sisted by Miss Ella Van Leuwen, who will sing a group of German folk songs, and A. D. Stewart, who will sing sev eral Jrish songs. Albert Creitz, the bdy violinist, will play two solos tonight at Atkinson Me morial Congregational Church, East Twenty-ninth and Everett streets. A great deal of Interest is being evinced by musical and social circles over the concert tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, under the direction of Mrs. Rose Coursen-Reed. A varied and interest ing programme has been prepared, the lighter songs alternating with the heavier compositions, thus showing the versatility of the students. Mrs. Reed will present the Treble Clef Club in three numbers and these soloists: Miss Christine Denholm, Mrs. Rose Friedle Gianelll, Raymond Graham (Astoria), Mrs. Margaret Gray (Vancouver), Mrs. Sanderson Reed. Mrs. A. L. Richard son (La Grande), Miss Maude C Ross (Astoria), Miss Madeline Stone and Oscar Lawrence Woodfin (Oregon City), with Edgar E. Coursen at the piano. It is to be regretted that Miss Dorothy Lewis will not be able to sing at the concert. Miss Lewis has accepted a four weeks' engagement at a Spokane (Wash.) theater and left for Spokane Sunday. The chorus choir of St. David's Epis copal Church is rehearsmg Stainer's "Crucifixion," to be sung Palm Sunday, March 28, at the afternoon service. Easter Sunday afternoon the choir will sing "Messiah Victorious" (William G. Hammond), which, it is said, has never been heard in this city. Most of the soloists for the May Music Festival, to be held at the First Presbyterian Church. May 17. 18 and 19, by the Presbyterian Senior Chorus, the Portland Oratorio Society, tne centen ary M. E. Church Choir, the Aeolian Male Chorus, the Lotus Ladles' Chorus, the G Clef .Girls' Chorus and several other musical organizations directed by Joseph A. Finley, and being prepared by him for this series of concerts, have been engaged. Mrs. Delphine Marx, con tralto, and Dom J. Zan, baritone, will each sing a solo, and together a duet. May 17. Mrs. M. Gabriel-Pullin, soprano, will sing a solo, with flute obligato and flute solo by R. E. Millard, May 18, when Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, soprano; Joseph P. Mulder, tenor, and W. A. Ba con, violinist, will be the soloists. May 19 Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, soprano; E. Maldwyn Evans, baritone, and Norman A. Hoose, tenor, will be the soloists in a rendition of "The Creation" .(Haydn) by a combination of all the choruses into one large chorus of 125 to 150 voices, to be called the Portland Festi val Chorus. Mr. Finley will have charge and will direct all the choruses taking part. There will be no admission charged, but a plan Is being thought out to guarantee seats to those attend ing and avoid the overcrowding which took place at "The Messiah" production. Miss Clara Wuest, contralto soloist at Reed College and at Centenary Meth odist Episcopal Church, will appear at Hood River. Or., Thursday in concert, assisted by Miss Frances Sheehy, pian ist, of this city, and George Wuest. vio linist, of Hood River. Miss Wuest is a student of Joseph A. Finley and has appeared many times during the last two years at Reed College, and at other places In Portland. She has sung in ora torio and in concert and has pleased her hearers. MUSIC NOTES.) Frits Krcieler will not finish his present season until well into May, and it is quite possible that he may give some concerts as late as June, for the demand made upon him seems end less. His manager says that instead of the 40 concerts originally planned, Kreisler by the Summer will have played nearly 80. Kreisler will not leave the country thl3 Summer but will probably spend the hot months in the Adirondacks. He begins the season of 1915-16 in San Francisco in September and will give a series of concerts along the Pacific Coast and in the West, re turning to the East in November. Mrs. Jessie O. Steckle sang at a St. Patrick's tea' given by the ladies of Pilgrim Congregational Church last Wednesday, using "The Shoogy-Shoe" (Mayhew) and "Sweet Is Tipperary" (William Arms Fisher), which were . Seiber'ing-Lucas Music Co. Sheet Mmale. Teachers)' Supplies, Band aid Oreheatra Instruments. 12S Ponrth, Between Alder and Washington. TONE Unsurpassed in the VICTROLA The Victrola brings to you the pure and varied tones of every-musical instrument, and the beauty and individuality of every human voice-i-all absolutely true to life. Such fidelity of tone was un known before the advent of the Victrola the first cabi net style talking machine; and this pure and life-like tone is exclusively a Victrola feature because of the pat ented Victrola features, which have been perfected after years of study and experiment. Modiinff door Sounding toards"V "Goose-neck'tube & tore Changeable needles .Prices $15 to $200 Easy Terms BIS PiLW Mum VUtannXVL S) It is the perfection of every part, and its perfect combination with all other parts, that gives the Vic trola its superior tone that makes the Victrola the greatest of all musical instruments. Sheman.play & Co. STKINWAT. WEBER AND OTHER PIANOS. PIANOLAS. V1CTROLAS AND ALL OTHER RECORDS Sixth and Morrison Streets, Opposite Postof f ice. well received. Both of these songs are especially suited to her tnerso-so-prano voice. Mrs. Steckle also sang at a meeting of the Woman's Overlook Improvement Club Friday afternoon. John McCormack. the famous tenor, recently appeared in concert at the Odeon, St Louis, Mo., and there was so much talk in one of the private boxes near the stage that Mr. McCormack be came annoyed He stepped near to the box and said: "When you get through I'll begin." There was quiet, after that "Yes!" sighed the opera manager, "we had a pretty rough season every way. But what took the sand out of me was the row between De Wrecker, the leading tenor, and De Squalchl. the prima donna. You know what an awk ward stage presence De Wrecker has? Well, he stepped on Squalchi's train 13 times during one performance, and the next night she came on as Marguerite In bloomers. That came mighty near breaking us." Puck. "Professor, do you think my daughter has any qualifications for the piano?" "Well, 'she has two hands, madam." Philadelphia Ledger. Emillo De Gogorza, the concert bari tone, announces that he is no longer under the management of Antonio Sawyer, and that all business com munications for the new season of 1916-16 may be addressed to him at Bath, Me. At Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of EasJ Ninth and Tine streets, tonight Joseph A. Finley will lead a chorus of 100 women's voice. The W. B. D. C. Women's Quartet will sing "As Pants the Hart" (Gollmlck), the O Cleft Girls' Glue Club will sing "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Smart). The 100 women will sing "Jeu Lover of My Soul'' (Holbrook) and "Christ Is King" (Smith) and will lead all the hymns, Lincoln High School Auditorium was crowded last Thursday night by an ap preciative audience on the occasion of a recital by the violin and piano stu dents of Frank G. ElohenUub and Beatrice Hidden. Eirhenlaub. Mrs. Eichenluub was th piano accompanist, and played with fine ability and .yni pathy. All the young students did aood work and showed encouraging musical . i. - l.J.l . Kl n r William pruKreaa, ino muv..." - Schuldt, Morris Dorfman. Elva Peter son. John umwionie. mnurtii (C onclrii"l on Pan 11. M aggie Teyte The Eminent English Prima Donna Heillg Theater TUESDAY March 23d I h Sits C ' "4. ' t & r 4 v I , . - . 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