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8 TITE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAKD, MAY 83, 1915. f : - - ' , . v,, - J y - : . . r-' . f- r . K.f .5 r x - ' a. ' ; ." 4 i ' i y v- J y - L , ' . - , I -, . i-r w 1 f " ? . " I t I " . :V A -" fi - L ;?; C"' " f - 1 - V f vC I h .! : -2Fmi?K3 i I v invij)mm t MtSIC PEOPLE ACTIVE IX K s. WITH the third concert of this sea son, which will take place Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock at the Heilig Theater, the Apollo Club malo chorus ends Its aeventh season of work. In many respects this has been the most successful season in the club's history. Tne big Claussen and MacDermid concerts were marked tri umphs and have set a pace hard to sur pass. At Thursday night's concert no out side artists will be presented, but solo numbers will be sung by two Apollo Club members. Paul Wessingrer, bari tone, and Joseph P. Mulder, tenor, both of whom are prominent in musical cir cles. Air. Wessingrer will sinfr a group of beautiful German songs, as well as one In French. At his recent appear ance before the MacDowell Club he won warmest commendation and applause for his -splendid Interpretation and vocal finish. Mr. Mulder will sing a group of three charming Knglish songs, which will aftord a fine opportunity for the dis play of his beautiful tenor voice. The numbers to be suns by the Apollo Club Include several entirely Tew ones, and selections have been made to please many tastes. Alto gether this promises to be one of the most satisfactory concerts the club has ever given and a capacity bouse is ex pected. The conductor. William i. Boyer. has rehearse the music with the chorus until letter-perfect ren ditions have been obtained. The programme: "Hunting Song" (Bullard), "Maiden With the Lips so Kosy" and "Marietta," Italian popular song (Gall); "Thine Eyes so Blue and Tender" (Lassen), "Violets" (Downing), "Love, I Have Won You" (Itonald). Joseph P. Mulder; "Kerry Dance" Molley-Brewer). "God Bless Thee, Love, Forever" (Rodhertsky), "On the Road to Mandalay" (Sparks), 'Castllla' (Protheroe); "May Night" (Brahms). "Silence Safety" (Franz), "Oh That Never, the Sun" (Leoncavello), Paul "VV'essinger: "The Lamp in the West" (Parker), "Suoml's Song" (Mair), "The Image of the Rose" (Relchardt). "The Broken Melody" (Sibelius) and "Silent Kecollections" (Tache). V EMPIRE NIGHT MAY 24. "Empire Day Reunion," at the Arm ory tomorrow night at & o'clock, and under the auspices of the allied British societies of this city, will attract not only a large music loving audience, but MVSIC PEOPLE ACTIVE CIRHEXT EVENTS. Paul Wessinger, baritone, and Joseph P. Mulder, tenor, soloists at the Apollo Club male chorus concert, Heilitj Theater, Thurday night at 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Harold C. Bayley and Miss Dagmar Inez Kelly, contraltos, two of the soloists who appear at the Empire day concert. Arm ory, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Miss Helesf White, coloratura soprano, and Miss Gertrude Hoe ber, contralto, will be presented by Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed in re cital at the Masonic Temple au ditorium May 81. Mrs. Myron E. Ross, . contralto, soloist at concert of the Mad rigal Club, Robert Boice Carson, conductor, at the Multnomah Hotel ballroom, Tuesday night. Miss Katherlne Brandes, mezzo contralto, sang: last week at the meeting of thi New York Society, and also at th Jatton Home for the Friendless. Alberlco De Caprio, bandmaster and baritone soloist In this city, leaves to accept four weeks en gagement as a member of the orchestra, en t6ur of the Cec chettl and Montrezra, Grand Op era Company. Miss Mildred Crawford, 12 years old, played piano solos at the May Music Festival. St. Helens, Or. one representing many different na tionalities British, British colonies, Irish, Frenchi Russian, Japanese and others. A splendid programme of national music and folk songs has been selected, and those who will take part are well known and admired soloists. The speakers who will deliver short ad dresses are representative and enter taining. The programme: "Bagpipe Selec tions," Pipers Maodonald, Gray and Loch; address, E. W. Matthews, chair man; tenor solo, "The Dear Little Shamrock" and "Ma Cushla," Barry J. Murphy: contralto solos, "War" and "Land of Hope and Glory," Mrs. Har old C. Bayley; address, Emmett Calla han; baritone solos, "King Charles" and "Nelson," E. Maldwyn Evans; so prano solos, "Killarney" and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," Miss Nona Lawler; Highland reel In costume, Messrs. Rennle, Hood, Thompson and Sutherland; address. Edward Boyce; tenor solos, "The Minstrel Boy" and "Let Me Like a Soldier Fall," Rev. F. 5V, Gorman; contralto solos, ".dug us i. i ?7 Ci3 tvbrcf. MacDonald" and "The Scottish Blue Bells," Miss Inez Dagmar Kelly; ad dress, "The British Born as an Ameri can Citizen," Dr. W. T. Williamson: baritone solos, "Highlanders, Fix Bay onets" and "Rule Britannia." Fred T. Crowther; National anthems, "God Save the King and America." accompan ist, Carl Denton. MUSICAL FESTIVAL SUCCEEDS. One of the pleasant, enjoyable mu sical features of the week was the se ries of three concerts of the May Fes tival of Music last MonJay, Tuesday and Wednesday nights by the Festival Chorus of more than 100 voices, and made up of the Portland Oratorio So ciety, the Presbyterian Senior Chorus, the Lotus Ladies' Chorus and the Aeo lian Male Choru,s, all trained by Joseph A. Finley and directed in the festival by him. All the events were largely attended and quite successful. The concerts last Monday and Tuesday nights have been reviewed already In The Oregon ian. At the last concert "The Creation," a beautiful oratorio by Haydn, descrip tive of the creation of the earth and all living things upon "it. was sung. The music is beautiful, with several fine fugues working up to splendid cli maxes. The soloists, Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, soprano; Norman A, Hoose, tenor, and Maldwyn Evans, baritone. sang exceptionally well. "With Ver dure Clad." by Mrs. Albert: "Rolling on roaming buiowb." Dy Mr. Evans, and "In Native Worth," by Mr. Hoose, the latter solo strictly from memory, were the best-received solos. The trios. "Most Beautiful Appear." "On Thee Each Laving Soul Awaits" and "The Lord Is Great." by the chorus, with the final chorus, "Sing the Lord. Ye Voices All," both with trio as oblitrato. were the most showy and notable, but the most effective chorus was "The Heavens Are Telling" by the full chorus and trio of soloists. It went with a swing and power, combined with a fine tone quality, which was stimu lating, and was greeted at the close with a spontaneous and hearty buret of applause. All three accompanists Mrs. Adelbert Van 'Brakle and Miss Maud Geener on the piano and Edgar E. Coursen on the pipe organ, contributed greatly to the success of the eingers. Of especial beauty were the Intricate fugues and rapid passages of "The Cre ation" accompaniments as rendered by Mr. Coursen. "The festival as a wholo was a dis tinct success, and the session of the First Presbyterian Church and Dr. Boyd as sponsors. Mr. Finley as di rector, and chorus, soloists and accom- panists as partakers in the concerts, are all to be congratulated. Members of the Festival Chorus will hold rehearsals Tuesday nights until after June 11. when they will sing in a concert in the open air in Connec tion with the Rose Festival. Joseph A. Finley, the director, has promised to furnish two concerts, one In the after noon at the Grand-avenue music stand, and the other in the evening at the Park-street music stand. The first will be made up of glee club and solo num bers by the Lotus Ladies' Chorus of 21 voices and the G Clef Girls' Glee Club of about SO voices and perhaps some numbers by the Aeolian Male Chorus of nearly 30 voices. The even ing affair will consist of miscellaneous numbers by the Festival Chorus and solos to make up a programme of about an hour's duration. The Aeolian Male Chorus and the Lotus Ladies' Chorus will also sing numbers. Prob ably about 100 voices will take part. Among the numbers by the Festival Chorus will be "The Lost Chord." "The Gloria" from Mozart's "Twelfth Mass" and "The Heavens Are Telling." MISS FARRJJIDEFENDS FILM WORK GeraJdine Farrar. the Metropolitan Grand Opera House. New York, sons and opera star. Is able to give a good defense as to the contract she signed recently to pose at $2 a minute for the movies. "I am a fatalist," said M:iss Farrar. in an interview printed in the New York Herald. "I have some queer the ories about things, and one of my the ories Is that when some wonderful gift is given to a person to blossom forth in its fullness and beauty when that person is young, somehow and some time that talent, that extraordinary gifttnuBt be paid for. "The throat is fragile; who can tell when the time shall come when artists perforce and through no fault or ac count of their own shall lose the mas tery of their gifts? It is the tragedy of the thing that great workers axe not able to retire in the fullness of their powers, at the very highest point of their artistic endeavors. Of course, they can. in the sense that nothing but themselves prevents it, but they won't. The same little spark within them that drives through the early years is relentless in the same drive in later years. "Jennie Lind was a marvelous singer, perhapa the greatest of her age. But have we a record of her voice? Are we able to sit here and listen to her art? There are others of operatic his tory who, if the talking machine had been a reality in their time, would have left for us an imperishable record of their singing. "The phonograph settled for all time the plaint of opera singers that their work was fast fleeting to be enjoyed for the moment and then pass away. "Likewise the motion picture ie an imperishable record -of the opera artist as an actress. "Those roles in opera The Goose Girl. Carmen, Tosca, Adrienne. Manon these have become something of my very own. Certainly I can mostly lay claim to them, after the hours I !ave wept over them, laughed over the in end slept with them In my dreams. And now that I am going to have a record made of these impersonations I am happy to think the record will be one of which I shall be pleased and have no excuses to make for age shortcom ings. "That brings us again to the starting point," she said, earnestly. She placed her hand on her hroat. "Who can tell when so fragile an instrument has run its course don't console me with good wishes, I know there is a price for everything. But the world of today and tomorrow so far as it sees me in motion pictures, is going to see Ger aldino Farrar as she is and not as she once was.' MUSIC FESTIVAL IS JlE 24. Attention of the musical world wtll be focused upon Los Angeles, Cal., from June 24 to July 3, when the great music festival in connection with the bien nial session of the National Federation of Musical Clubs takes place, the grand climax of which will be the premiere of "Fairyland." the $10,000 prize grand opera, written by Horatio W. Parker, dean of music at Yale University, with libretto by Brain Hooker, the noted poet. "Fairyland" is the second prize American opera to be produced, and It Is interesting and significant that the first prize ever offered for an opera was given by the Metropolitan Opera Company to Horatio W. Parker for hU "Mona." This second contest was par ticipated In by 6C compose, the prize having been offered in April. 1913. by the National Federation of Musical Clubs. The prize money was raised by Los Angeles citizens and donated to the federation for this purpose, with the understanding that the meeting for 11H5 would be held in that city, and every four years thereafter, provided a similar fund was raised and offered to American composers by the Los An geles committee. As a result of this compact the America Opera Association was formed for the purpose of estab lishing a permanent operatic and mu sical festival in Los Angeles, to pro mote and foster National musical pride and ambition and to provide a regu larly current opportunity and reward for American musicians. F W. Blanchard is the president of this association, and he and his con freres promise to give "Fairyland" the best production possible, at an expen diture of $50,000 or more. The pre miere will be given Thursday. July 1. S50.0OO FOR SYMPHONY. St. Louis. Mo., is still serious and hard at work trying to raise the J50, 000 guarantee fund for the symphony orchestra. "A modern spirit has com to mean that a city is not great in any way which Is not cultivating art as one of Its assets." says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "The plastic arts have a place, the dramatic arts another, but music because of its universal appeal, is that form of art in which modern cities reach the people within their own boundaries and in wide territories outside. No St. Louisan can listen to a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Or chestra without catching a finer and higher public spirit, and a greater as surance that, like the apostle, he is 'a citizen of no mean city." "Outside, in all the- vast territory tributary to this town, the St. Louis symphony music, which has charmed scores of cities, and thousands of peo ple, has linked the name of St. Louis with a pleasant, lingering remem brance, the best advertisement possible. There Is but one new thing to say and it had best be said plainly: What would be the effect of abandonment of the orchestra for want of a guarantee fund of only 1 50.000 1" COMING MUSICAL EVENTS. Three young singers Mrs. Hazel Koontz Day, Miss Helen White and Miss Gertrude Hoeber are to make their debuts at a soiree musicals given by Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed May 31 at Ma sonic Temple auditorium. Assisting will be Raymond Graham, baritone, of Astoria: Miss Maude C. Ross and Miss Madeline Stone in two duets the "Flower" duet, from "Madame Butter fly," and a brilliant waltz song, "April Morn" (Batten). The Treble Clef Club and Tuesday Olio combined will ren der two numbers. Among Miss White's numbers 'will be the "Jewel Song." from "Faust"; Rich ard Strauss' "Morgen"; Schubert's "Die Forelle"; two catchy songs new to Portland. 'Which." Hewitt). end "Daddy and Baby" (Levey). Miss Whlta has a sweet, clear coloraturo soprano, under fine control. Miss Gertrude Hoeber has a dramatic soprano voice and will sing for her first number Wagner's "Dlch Theurs Halle." Another Interesting number sung by Miss Hoeber will be the "Ber ceuse, from Goddard s Joeelyn, In which she will play her own violin obligate. Miss Hoeber is a talented violinist. Miss Dorothy Lewis has returned from Butte, where she has filled a six weeks' engagement at a theater in that city and will be also one of the solo ists at this concert. Miss Lewis was prepared to appear at Mrs. Reed's re cent student concert at the Heillg The ater, but an important out-of-town en gagement prevented. Miss Catherine Davis and Mrs. How ard Bennett announce the last of their series of violin and piano recitals for the season Tuesday at S P. M. at the Woodlawn School. The new pipe organ, donated to Reed College by W. P. Olds in memory of his wife. Mrs. Lilian Cooke Olds, and built in the college chapel at a cost of 110,000. will be dedicated at a special service preceding the baccalaureate sermon, next Sunday afternoon. May 80. It was originally planned to have the organ completed by May IS. but unavoidable delays made this impos sible. Part of the organ is already completed, and it was tried out for a few minutes several days ago. All who heard it were more than delighted with the beauty of the tone. On the night of Founders" day. Monday, May 31. dur ing commencement week, a recital will take place in the chapel by the Port land chapter of the American Guild of Organists. On account of the limited seating capacity of the chapel admis sion to all of these services will be by invitation. The college chorus will sing at the dedication services. The Monday Musical Club will meet in Eilers Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, when an Interesting pro gramme will be given by the students of the club. The annual meeting will be held immediately at the close of the programme. The last music meeting this season of the MacDowell Club occurs Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Port land Hotel, when this first-class pro gramme will be rendered: "Etude, D Flat" (Liszt), "Improvisation" (Mac Dowell). "At the Spring" (Arensley). "Prelude, No. 22" (Chopin). Mrs. Ella Connell Jesse; "Largo" (Handel) and "Vision Fugitive" (Massenet), John Claire Monteith; "Pad mlo Dlo," from "La Forga del Destino" (Verdi), Mrs. Raymond A. Sullivan: "The Pauper's Drive" (Homer), "Myself Wben Young" (Lehmann), Mr. Monteith; "A Fairy Love Song" (Willeby), "Somewhere a Voice Is Calling" (Tate), Mrs. Sullivan. Mrs. Warren E. Thomas, piano accom panist. This is the first season of .the Mac Dowell Club, and it has been a most successful one. under the wise and tactful administration of its first presi dent, Mrs. Thomas Carrick Burke. Mrs. Burke has Just been elected for another year as president of the MacDowell Club a deserved compliment to her. Miss Mabel Ryder, a- student of Dr. Emil Enna, will give a piano recital at the Benson Hotel Sunday afternoon. May 30, assisted by Miss Slater, so prano. A concert will be given Ty the Am phlon Male Chorus at the Y. W. C. A. hall Thursday night under the direc tion of Charles Swenson, assisted by the ladies'. string quartet, consisting of Miss Christine Brakel. first violin: Julia Hel ene Swenson, second violin: Isabella Steele, viola, and Marion Brakel, 'cello; European ladies chorus. Mrs. Fay M. Huntington. mezzo contralto: Miss Christine Brakel, violinist; Mrs. Robert J. Powers, harpist. The second concert of the Madrigal Club will be held Tuesday night. May 25. at the Multnomah Hotel ballroom, under the direction of Robert Bolce Carson. The club is composed of -U solo voices, almost all these singers being prominent church soloists. The club will be assisted by Mrs. Myron E. 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