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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1915)
T iScBf jjjl 21uljjlBy' Joseph IIacqueen. i"2 f-f J V "T- , i ; : -:: v. 7 ... -..r V , v. I ' - " V& J O Moore -- ., . L-srt- -K f k r- i j r.vvv: i::;-r:: Mi fx n" ' ; ,. iLiiw . J ft : W liisi ) Vvfcr; j J------- Ji :' l V w ' ' , , ,i V,;.- , ... ....? f4 "7 "f YCS J-V t Ml SIC PEOPLE ACTIVE IX t I 1 X5 ' 14 J f . I CIHREST COMHBST. t ' ' . f K V-CiS mJ&V H I Waldemar Lind is conductor at i 4W? .i-: 1 W U V - J concert of the Portland Sym- I B , ' 1 . V . f phony Orchestra, thl afternoon ?J,v v FOR the sixth and last nine this season the Portland Symphony Orchestra will play in concert at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Hellig Theater. It will be the final concert of the fourth and most successful sea son. Waldemar Lind will conduct and Harold Bayley will be concertmaster. As Winter gives way to Summer, so Portland's symphony concerts will now give way to Summer amusements. Yet it is safe to say that they will be much missed, for since the orchestra has been organized these concerts have setadily srained in popularity until now they draw practically capacity houses each time. That the love for symphony works has been aroused in this city is indicated clearly by this steady in crease in attendance, which in the fcrand aggregate will be such at the end of the season that 1914-15 vill go into history as the banner symphony year. This is gratifying not only to the orchestra, but also to all those who gave their support to safeguard the destinies of the orchestra, which ware somewhat uncertain when the plan was first launched. - The programme this afternoon will be one of the most brilliant ever oC fered in Portland and is as follows: Vorspiel to "Lohengrin" (Wagner): Symphony No. 4, Op. 90. "The Italian" (Mendelssohn): "Second Arabeskque" Debu?.-iy): "Prelude in C Sharp Mi nor" (Rochmenoff): "Danse des Mirll tons'" from the "Nutcracker Suite" Tschaikowsky) ; "Suite L'Arlesienne No. 3" (Bixet): overture. "Carnival Ko main" (Berlioz). IRISH SIGER OF ARMY FAME. Miss Diana O Moore Phillips, a wom an of aristocratic Irish parentage, and whose cousin is Sir O Moore Creagh. the successor to Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief of the British army in India, is quite an exalted au thority as a professional singer, and she has just arrived from Vancouver, B. C. to begin her professional musical duties and to make her permanent borne In Portland. Miss Phillips has had quite a dis tinguished musical career, and has iunf with such vocal celebrities as Ben Iavies. the great English tenor: Charles Copeland, Philip Halstead and others. London, England, and Glas gow, Scotland, are two delightful MUSIC PEOPLE ACTIVE CIRRE.NT COMMENT. Waldemar Lind is conductor at concert of the Portland Sym phony Orchestra, this afternoon at 3 o'clock, Heilig Theater. Dr. Max Pearson Cushlng. in structor in, history in Heed Col lege, is appointed organist at Trinity Episcopal Church. Miss Mabel Garrison, a new so prano of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company, New York, makes hit. as the page in "Les Hugue nots." , , Miss Diana O'Moore Phillips, a concert ' singer, late of Vancou ver. B. C, chats about music af fairs and soldiers. Miss Mary P. B. Bernhofer, so prano, recently of German opera, will sing in concert at the Ma sonic Temple auditorium. AprH 22. Miss Nona Lawler, soprano, ana Victor Cullen, bass, two of the soloists at a sacred concert to night at the Church of the Made-' lelne. East Twenty-third and Sis kivou streets. Grant Gleason. pianist, takes part in the programme at tomor row afternoon'i recital of the Monday Musical Club, Women of Woodcraft Hall. Miss Jean Kitta and Miss Dor othy Younger, two young piano students who take part in the re cital under direction of Miss Mabel Bernece Warren, at Ellers Hall, April 1. places at which to sing. Miss Phillips says. "Vancouver, B. C, has been my home for some time past." stated Mis Phil lips, "and at the present time it has quite a military air, due to so many soldiers being trained there before they proceed to the war in Europe. These citizen, or volunteer, soldiers are camped to a large extent in Has tings Park, in Vancouver, B. CX, and are mostly infantry. Soldiers are be ing drilled in side streets, and mem bers of the medical corps are specially active. On the lawns of private houses army tents are located. The new mil itary spirit has made its mark on the people of British Columbia. They look graver, more thoughtful, now. Society functions have been stopped largely and women are busy making socks and other supplies for soldiers. Funds for these object are being secured through teas, etc.. held at women's houses." Miss Phillips is a bright entertain ing woman to interview, and ber talk J-p --11 as to her musical career and the fa mous singers she has met and with whom she has been associated profes sionally is quite a treat. She thinks she will like Portland. AID FOR TEACHERS' FUND. Members of the Portland Grade Teachers' Association are working en thusiastically for the concert to be given for their benefit by the Orpheus the Heilig Theater, under the direction of W illiam Manseii wiiaer. Since the Portland Grade Teachers Association was formed three years ago its 00 members have assisted in many entertainments for the. oenetit 01 other organizations, but this is the first time the public has tiad an opportunity to lend its support to any affair for the aid of this organization. The pro ceeds are to be used to establish a fellowship fund to assist members who ka in rdA hr small lonnii or in other substantial ways. In point of membersnip. wotk ana imiututo Portland Grade Teachers' Association is one of the most important cluba in the Pacific Northwest The committee in charge of the con cert consists of Miss Jennie Limbocker, Mies Ella Emsen and Mrs. Lou Gray. The programme at the concert is: "Lo, the Seal of Death Is Breaking" (Gerrlsh) and "The Huntsman's Fare well" (Felix Mendelssohn), aria "In feliee" (Mendelssohn) Madame Mac Donald Fahey; "O Haunting Memory" (Carrie Jacobs Bond) and "In Absence" (Dudley Buck), (a) "Vissi d' arte yissi d' amour," from "Toaoa" JPuccirn) and (b) "Ballatella." from "Pagliaccf (Le oncavallo), Madame MacDonald Fahey; "Veniti" (Franz Abt) and "Bonny" Bark" (Buck), aria "Rejoice Greatly." "The Messiah" (Handel). Madame MacDon ald Fahey; "Warrior Bold" (West), "Sweet Genevieve" (Henry Tucker); (a) "The Sheep Herder" (La Forge) (b) "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest" ILambert). Madame MacDonald Fahey, and "Tenting Tonight (Kitt redge). The soloist Madame MacDonald r- -1 l-n.fo H r1 fa a SO- prano of distinguished merit and is acknowledged to oe one 01 J""" cipal sopranos of Western Canada. She is a stranger 1n this city and there is much interest in this her first concert appearance in Oregon. CHARMS OF O.UARTIER tATIJT. Wherever musicians meet a welcome topic i travel in foreign lands, and lucky is the singer or player who can boast during hia student days of hav ing fiad 'a studio in the old -Quartier Latin" of Paris. Several of Portland music colony have had studios in the "Quartier Lat in," and amg them are Miss Kath leen Lawler (In private life Mrs. J William Belcher) and Dent Mowrey, the pianist. At the present time Mia Lawler is singing at New Yprk con certs and Mr. Mowrey is making his new home in this city. VWtth hs hunt for a studio, the in terest and love of the 'Quartier Latin" is born at once in the student who has arrived in Paris to work out the achievement of hia heart's ambitiona, said Mr. Mowrey last night' "Past gray churches, colored by Father Time: through narrow streets wKh old curio shops full of treasures ; up and down old stairs, many of stone, and never a lift: In and out of picturesque old cobbled courts and through leafy old-world gardens his search takes him. Perhaps at last he is rewarded by finding Just the place of his dreams (such was my luck), the sort of place we have all read of in books of Paris. It over looks an old convert garden, where the white-capped nuns can be seen busying themselves among the bird-filled trees and the gay melange of flower. There !s about these old studios, with their 25-foot chimneys and glass roofs, which have housed many a great artist, an atmosphere which penetrates to the very soul of the serious student giving him ample inspiration and courage to battle with th many difficulties which beset the path of the aspiring artist Each day the student works in undis turbed eiolitude until 5 o'clock P. M. is near, when he welcomes the delightful relaxation of the tea hour. - "This doea not mean that work is for gotten. No.'the student may jojn fellow-students in front of a cafe, where tables, are arranged on the sidewalk even in Winter, when the air. is warmed by huge seven-foot charcoal braziers filled with glowing coals. A glass of cafe-au-lalt is a favorite beverage. Or he mav join a ohance party in one or another studio, where interesting dis cussions take place where, perhaps, a pianist will play a new addition to his repertoire or his latest composition. A sculptor or painter may show a piece of work whioh he hopes to have ac . i w.. .a. uaiMi 1 nr n. talented I cepLtru u.v wh. ...v.., w- playwright may give an outline of his new play. in en, pe.iiu-i'. tipie. a little dancing. "These affairs may be limited to a small number of guests, or they may run into the hundreds. Here one meets noted people of all lands and tongues great painters, sculptors, writers and musicians, who have in common their pursuit of one or the other of the arts. This mingling together and exchanging of ideas in Paris is one of the great est educational influences. At an af fair of Mils kind I met for the first time M. Chabas, the painter of the fa mous 'September Morn.' ' "In the evening the 'Quartier Latin cafes are popular. There is music and . . i . V. naJntarv ILTB fonO Of making pencil sketches of various types which interest tnerm anions mo n.oo of humanity gathered about the tables. A favorite Thursday nirnt diversion is dancing at the 'Bal Bullier,' a place rarely overiooaea oy me luui ibl, utiA mar im In her element. With what abandon does sihe waltz, tango and pas seui (one-eiepj. oho artistic Imagination to express itself i ninthi and the result is a wild riot of live colors. Here a head bound by a turban of onrivt green bur, there a petite figure clothed from h-ead . 1 l ) flnmlnrr rofl - htftTA. Iltlfl With a tunic made from a leopard sjtin, and ii t.. .n trh t wi i t a Grecian i t,i. nnaia Ti-rvf rf 1 n v bare feet. I 17-:, wiiu dwii-j-w - Such scenes play their part in feeding the imagination 01 uie artist. "Aside from the 'vie de Boheime of. the 'Quartier,' volumes could be' writ ten of the incentive and influence Paris gives with her wonderful vistas, her parks, art treasures and noble monu ments." 8YMPHOXIC WEALTH CHOSEN. Dr. Muck, the conductor of the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra has made a most remarkable set of programmes for the 12 subscription concerts which the orchestra is to render at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, from May 14 to May 26, inclusive. So far as is possible in such a number of concerts, he covers the en tire ranee of orchestral literature. Six of these programmes are: No 1. Symphony, No. 3, in E flat major. Op. 55, 'Eroica" (Beethoven); variations on a theme by Josef Haydn, Op. 56a (Brahms); "Don Juan," tone poem, after Lenau. Op. 20 (Strauss); overture to the opera, "Euryanthe" (Weber). No. 2 Overture, "Sea Calm and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 (Men-delssohn-Bartholdy); symphony No. 6. In G major, "Surprise" (Haydn); suite No. 2, in E minor, "Indian," Op. 4 (MacDowell); "Hungaria," symphonic poem. No. 9 (Liszt). No.. 3 A French programme symphony in D minor (Caesar-Fronk): "L'Apprenti Sorcier" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), Scherzo; after a ballad of Goethe (Dukas); suite, "L'Arleslnne" No. 1. Music to Alphonse Daudet s play (Bizet)i? rhapsody for orchestra, "Es pana"'Chabrler). No. 4. Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (Brahms): suite for flute and strings in B minor. No. 2, solo flute Andre Maquarre (Bach); symphony, "Shepherds' Music," from the "Christ mas" oratorio (Bach); overture to Goethe's . "Egmont," Op. H '(Beetho ven). ' No. 5. Wagner programme Overture to "Rienzl"; overture to "The Flying Dutchman"; Introduction and bacohan ale, from "Tannliauser," act 1 (Paris version); prelude to "Lohengrin"; pre lude to "Tristan and Isolde"; prelude to "The Master Singers of Nuremberg"; funeral music from "Dusk of the Gods"; prelude to "Parsifal." No. 6. Overture to the opera. "Der Freischutz" (Weber); symphony No. 8 in F major. Op. 93 (Beethoven); sym phonic sketches, suite for orchestra (Chadwick): "Karelia," overture for full orchestra; "The Swan of Tuonela. legend from the Finnish folk-epic, "Kalevala"; "Finlandla," symphonic poem for orchestra. Op. 26. No. 1 (Si belius). ANOTHER UOHR JOY ARRIVES. The children of Madame Louise Ho mer, the American contralto of the Met ropolitan Opera-house, now number six, the latest addition to the family being a daughter, born a recent Sunday even ing. Sidney Homer, husband of Madame Homer, in a message from their home at Rye, N. Y., notifying the Metropoli tan management of the arrival, said that the stranger weighed seven and a half pounds, and that the usual formula of mother and child doing well was applicable in this instance, says the New York Telegraph. The' girl is to be named Helen Joy Homer. The singer and her family have been a favorite topic with those who like to picture the successful mother and the successful artist The contralto's other children are: Louise, Sidney. Jr., Annie Marie and Katharine (the famous Homer twins) and Hester Makepeace, born about three years ago. Madame Homer has not been heard at the opera this season. When she did not appear in the Fall schedules it was Inferred that she was to sing the latter half of tie seaaop. A couple of months ago the reason for the singer's absence was made known. - - COMING MUSICAL EVENTS. Mrs. Elsie Bond Blschoft has just written two choruses for women's voices, entitled "Butterflies" and "Bar carolli." These numbers will be sung by a chorus of 20 young women at Mrs. Blschoffs complimentary students' re cital, Lincoln High School auditorium. May 4. The date for the complimentary re cital by Mrs. R. W. Schmeer at the Multnomah Hotel ballroom has been arranged for April 28. Mrs. Schmeer has had a year's vocal study In New York City-with Oscar Saenger. rho has prepared so many students' for the Metropolitan stage, also Madame Valerl. Mrs.-Schmeer has devoted all her enr ergles to the study of grand opera, both vocally and dramatically, and will sing on this occasion several of the big contralto arias. The Treble Clef Club, Mrs. Rose Coursen-Reed, director, will assist Miss Mary P. S. Bernhofer. soprano, reeently of German concert and grand opera, will be heard in concert at Ma sonic Temple auditorium April 22. She was engaged recently to sing a three years' engagement at the Stadt Theater, Essen, Germany, but on the outbreak of the War she left Europe and went to Alaska, where she has relatives. In Alaska Miss Bernhofer appeared w)th success at a. number of concerts. One German newspaper 'speaks of Miss Bernhofer's' singing as "a gsntle jug gling of the notes of the highest octive, by which one is involuntarily drawn Into this whirlpool of song. She will one day become a luminary in the art of song. Seldom is one able fo hear such- a charming, finely polished so prano." Lovers "ot ensemble music will, have a genuine novelty presented them shortly by Steers Com an in place of the usual string quartet generally brought to this city. The Barerre en semble is composed of nine solo artists on wind Instruments, headed by M. Georg Barerre, the world's greatest flute virtuoso and founder of the So ciety of Wood instrument Players of Paris, an organization along the same lines as the one which bears the artist's name in this country. The members of the Barerre En semble are all soloists In the leading symphony orchestras of New York, and each year they give a series of concerts and make short tours offering pro grammes of rarely heard works by the greatest classic and modern masters, composed for various combinations of wind instruments. The Instruments used in the Barerre Ensemble programmes are one flute, two oboes, one English horn, two clari nets, two bassoons and two French horns. The Barerre Ensemble Is an fine in its line of work as is the Flonzaley Quartet. A' free musical and literary enter tainment which promises to be unusu ally interesting occurs at the First Christian Church, corner Park and Co lumbia streets, Tuesday night April 20, by the Bible school orchestra, under the direction of Ted Bacon, of the Northwestern School of Music This orchestra has developed into a fine mu sical organization and receives invita tions frequently to play at Important religious meetings. At th.ls entertain ment there will be between 25 and 30 instruments represented, al vocal tal ent and one of the best readers in the city. The next meeting of the MacDowell Club will be Tuesday afternoon, April 13, at the Hotel Portland and will be devoted to the life and works of Robert Schumann. Miss Eleanor Rowland will give a biographical sketch and Dr. C. H. Chapman will speak on "The Ro mantic Movement." Mrs. Virginia Spen cer . Hutchison will sing "Mondnach," "Der Nussbaum" and "Fruhlingsnaiht" Francis W. Richter will play the "Car nival," and Otto Nedemeyer, baritone, will sing a group of songs. Including "In wunderschonen Monat Mai," "All nachtlich un Traume," "Ich grollle Nlcht" and "Widmung." It will be guest day, each member being entitled to bring one guest. 1 The Monday Musical Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at S o'clock in Women of Woodcraft Hall. A delight ful programme will be. given, the theme being "The Correlation of Drama and Music." Adeline M. Alvord, under whose direction the programme has been prepared, will read a paper on "Drama an,d Music." The following will be the interpretation of the subject: "Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Rachman inoff), Grant Gleason; "Correlation of Dramatics and Music": "Bergliot" ( B jornson ); "Music" (Grieg); reader. 2 w v- vs ' f .' " V ' '- '.s 1 1 - r - i MASON k HAMLIN, ' v BOSTON, MASS. Centlemen: - ., During ml) experience .in the Operatic vorld I have used monu fine pianos, but I consider Mason & Hamlin the most artistic of all. ... . As a "Singer's" piano, Jiih its lovely velvety, tone, sympathetic, yet forceful, hen solid sup port is required, the Mason & Hamlin is in my opinion above and beyond all other makes. , ' ' ' Very truly yours, (Signed) DR. LU1C1 CECCHETTI. THE Mason & Hamlin is the most costly piano in the world today. It is the Stradivanus of pianos and its conquest of the artistic musical world has been watched wjth wonder and constantly increasing admiration by the highest musical authorities in both Europe and America. 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The Becker Conservatory of Music announces a students' recital at the Young Men's Christian Association hall Wednesday night An interesting pro gramme has beer, prepared and will be played by the juniors and intermedi ates of the institution. The seniors recital will take place two weeks later. Invitations for either event may be had from the students or by phoning to the Becker Conservatory of Music Beginning Tuesday night the Pres byterian Senior Chorus and the Port land Oratorio Society will combine in rehearsals for the final series in prepa ration of the music for the May Fes tival of Music to occur Monday. Tues dav and Wednesday nights. May 17, 18 and 1, at the First Presbyterian Church, under the auspices of that or ganization and directed by Joseph A. Finley. Rehearsals will be held In room A of the Presbyterian parish house, corner Thirteenth and Alder streets, every Tuesday at 8 P. M. The Cen tenary Methodist Episcopal Church choir of 30 voices is being prepared on the same choral work so that by uniting the three choruses one as large as the recent "Messiah" chorus may be expected. The first two nights of the festival will consist of miscellaneous programmes. Mrs. Jane Burns Albert Mrs. M. Gabriel Pullin, Miss Merle Woody, Mrs. Delphlne Marx, Joseph P. Mulder, Dom J. Zan, Robert Millard, flutist ana Walter A. Bacon, violinist will be the soloists. Wednesday, May 19, Haydn's "Creation" will be sung. Mrs. Jane Burns Albert soprano; Nor man A. Hoose. tenor, and E. Baldwyn Evans, baritone, will be the soloists. Mrs. Adelbert Van Brakle, accompanist of the Portland Oratorio Society, and Miss Maud Gosner, accompanist for the Presbyterian Senior Chorus, will ac company on the piano, and Edgar E. Coursen will accompany on the pipe organ. MUSIC NOTES. Henry Kruse, a student of Miss Sudye Evelyn Ford, gave a programme for the Dertbrick Club, of Oregon City, last Friday afternoon. His numbers In cluded compositions of Sljlnsky and Lladow. Following his policy to encourage the development of musical art tn America, General Director Gatti Casazza has LUIGI CECCHETTI Distinguished Orchestra Conductor of the Italian Grand Opera Com pany, Composer of Opera and Gradu ate in Literature, Writes of the PIANO i - -)'' Pianos, Music Rolls Victrolas and f lay & Go. added to the forces of the Metropolitan Opera-house, New York, a young Amer ican soprano, Miss Mabel Garrison. Critics of New York have given Ml is Garrison's voice high praise. She lacks experience on the operatic stage, but a year or two at the Metropolitan will remedy that deficiency. She appeared recently as the page iu "The Hugue nots," an exacting part The Mozart Club, of Oregon City, di rected by Miss Sadye Evelyn Ford, at its last meeting -studied Verdi and his opera "Alda." Mrs. Oswald gave an, In teresting sketch on the life of Veidi. Henry Kruso read a paper on the form of an opera, and Miss Ford then told the story of the opera and gave illus trations of the principal scenes. The musical numbers included the popular arias and duets of the opera. A sacred concert takes place tonight at 8 o'clock at Holy Cross Catholio Church, Botvdoin and Stanford streets, and this programme will be rendered: Organ prelude, "The Lord Is My Light" (Allltson), Leo Conlln; "Souvenir" (Dardla), Miss Manning: "Ave Maria" (Kahn). Miss Matschlner: "It In Enough" (Mendelssohn), H. H. Griffin: "Ave Maria" (Schubert), Miss Wagne; "Hosanna" (Granler), Mrs. Rose Frledlo Glanelll; "O Salutarls" (Keger), Mr. Conlin; "Nocturne" (Chopin). Miss Chapman; "Salve Reglna" (Henrfhaw), Mrs. Kirk; "The Day Is Ended" (Bart lett), with violin obligate by Mr. Grif fin, Mix Manning. The accompanists are Miss Ullman and Father O'Donnel. 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