THE SUNDAY OKEGOMAX. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 1919.
THE forthcoming concert appear
ance of Madame Luisa Tetrazzini
at the public auditorium, Mon
day. December 29, under the manage
ment of the Western Musical Bureau.
Laurence A. Lambert general man
aftr, 4s el-eating more than usual in
terest in Portland musical circles.
Judging by this keen interest and the
advance sale Madame Tetrazzini ought
to be greeted by a "sold-out" house.
Madame Tetrazzini received a ver
itable ovation at her Hippodrome con
cert in New York on November 30.
Critics are united In the opinion that
she is even more glorious in voice
than ever. It Is stated in New York
this season that no one in recent years
lias ever approached the astonishing
work of this great artl6t, and the
ovation which she received was
breath-taking. Enrico Caruso, "king
of tenors," led the cheering from his
box and the New York Herald says:
"It is marvelous how beautiful Tat
razzini's voice still is. In the vicinity
ot high C her tones are thrillingiy
high and full, and in the middle regis
ter there was more fullness and color
than in former years."
The New York American of Decem
ber 1 says: "Madame Tetrazzini's col
oratura still retains the dazzling radi
ance that distinguished it of old."
tNew York Herald: "Her voice is
now unequaled by any other singer
of her type."
New York Tribune: "Tetrazzini has
increased in artistic stature. Her
voice has even gained in color and
iter feats of bravura were astonish
ing: her use of it thrlllirg in dra
matic effect. "In short, Madame Tet
razzini is today an even finer artist
than she ever was."
New York Times: "Madame Tetraz
zini's supremacy can hardly be ques
tioned." Madame Tetrazzini sang in Portland
some six years ago and created a
furore.
SYMPHONY CONCERT. DEC. 31.
The third concert of the present
Portland symphony season will take
place in the Hetlig theater on the
evening of December 31. Soloists of
distinction, from abroad, have con
tributed to the success of the first
two concerts.
The success of the third will be
created by the co-operation of musi
cians and others from the home com
munity. The students of the Port
land art museum have made their
contribution to this concert in the
interesting posters which advertise
it. The problem of devising these
was given as a class exercise to a
group under instruction at the mu
aeuni. Each student supplied his own
solution of the problem, and the post
ers advertising the symphony were
the result. Such practical attempts
are valuable to the art student. The
spirited and individual quality of the
forthcoming work is a gain for the
community.
The entire programme of the con
cert of December 31 will be rendered
hr the symphony orchestra. One num
ber, an "Omaha Indian Love Song,"
by Busch, will be played by the
strings alone. Another number, the
Berceuse" of Jarnefeldt, will feature
strings and wood-winds.
The concert will be popular in Its
nature, with a mingling of selections
heretofore not played in Portland,
and well established favorites, fitted
t show the progress the orchestra
has made during the last year, with
Carl Denton as conductor.
TWO PORTLAND S1XOKHS
ACTIVE IN CURRENT
EVENTS.
Mrs. Blanche Williams Seger
sten, soprano, sang at last re
cital of the MacDowell club,
Multnomah hotel auditorium,
December 16.
Dom J. Zan, baritone, wlllbe
one of the soloists of Mrs. Jane
Burns Albert's concert. Multno
mah hotel auditorium, Janu
ary 3
Melba no light task as Mlmi in "La
Boehme," and again won a tremen
dous success. Later, she was one of a
galaxy of stars to delight London in
a special Mozart season, under the
direction of the late Hans Rlchter, in
which she was associated with Emmy
Destinn, the late Suzanne Adams, Gil
bert, the famous French baritone
whose untimely death was so much
regretted: Maurice Benaud, who h
San Carlo Grand Opera company upon
Its tolirs of the United States and
t I Canada, now constitute the chief topio
t of interest in American musical clr
I cles. This organization enjoys the
, I unique distinction of being the only
i I permanently organized traveling
I grand opera company now in this
f country. This company, by its splen
did productions at popular prices,
has done a great constructive work
in making operas better known to all
classes of theater-goers. It has
changed opera from being a sort of
foreign toy, for the sole enjoyment
of those who could afford to pay
high prices for it. Among the com
pany's artists to be heard In Port
land, are, sopranos: Elizabeth Ams
den, from the Paris. opera and Chi
cago opera; Queena Mario, American
coloratura: Estelle Wentworti, an
other brilliant Americ.i opera star;
Sofia Charlebois, from Convent Gar
den, London; Ester Ferrabbini, for
merly of the Montreal opera. Mezzo
sopranos: Stella Demette, of the
Metropolitan and Montneal operas;
Doria Ferdanda, Frances Morosinl
just returned to the stage in fans and AIlce Homer. Tenors: Manuel
after four years In tne war n l nw; I Wnlawir Spain's most eminent operatic
Alessandro Bond and Pasquali Amato
None who saw Nielsen's Zerllna in
"The Marriage of Figaro," can for
get her charm and grace and this
season her hearers in the west will
find that she has lost none of it,
while her voice still retains all of
that youthful quality which has al
ways characterized it.
Nielsen sings January 3 in joint
recital with the Portland Oratorio so
ciety. The society will render Han
del's "Messiah, with a chorus oi zuu
voices and a special orchestra, and
will be assisted by the following Port
land soloists: Miss Goldle Peterson,
soprano; Mrs. Mary Adel Vann. con
tralto: J. MacMlllan Muir, tenor, and
John Claire Monteith, baritone, while
Edgar F. Courson will officiate at the
pipe organ. Joseph A. FInley will
conduct, and states that the chorus is
in finer shape than it has been In the
eight years he has conducted the or
ganization. 1
After an hour's programme by the
choir. Miss Alice Nielsen will give an
hour's recital programme, assisted by
Thomas Griselle. pianist. Altogether
it will be a delightful evening.
The entire production will be under
the business management of the
Western Musical bureau, Laurence A.
Lambert, general manager.
STUDENTS OFFERED PHIZES.
The Musicians' club of this city is
conducting a prize-essay contest.
1 which is open to students of Portland
high schools and other institutions or
equal grade.
A prize of two 1919-20 season tickets
to the Portland symphony orchestra
concerts will be awarded to the Btu
dent writing the best essay on the
subject: "The Value of Music in Indi
vidual and Community Life."
Last year the Musicians' club of
fered a similar prize for the best
paper on "The Symphony Orchestra as
a Civic Asset." Great interest was
shown and several score of manu
scripts were submitted.
The conditions of the contest this
vear are:
1 Any bona fide student In a Port
land high school or other institution
of equal grade may participate.
2 Essays not to exceed GOO words.
3 Manuscripts to be written on one
side of oaoer only, and signed by stu
dent, giving school, home address and
telephone number, if any.
4 Manuscripts to be sent to prize
essay committee, care of Sherman
Clay &Co.. city, not later than De
cember 26.
Robert E. Millard Is chairman of
the committee having in charge the
details of this contest.
tenor: GinseDDl Agostini. Romeo Bos
caccl and Luciano Rossini. Baritones:
Joseph Royer, Angelo Antola and Ro
dolfo Fornari. Bassos: Pietro Da
Blasl and Natale Cervi. Musical, di
rectors: Gaetano Merola and Armando
BurattL
LAZ7.ARI CONCERT JAN. 7.
In two respects at least the career
of Carolina Lazzarl, who will sing
Jan-ary 7 in the Helllg, d.rection of
Steers & Coman, is exceptional. Few
singers of recent years have stepped
so suddenly into fame, and few in so
short a time on the stage have gained
so secure a hold on the public esteem
and affection.
Artistically, Lazarri sprang into be
ing as a full-fledged star. The critics
were quick to recognize in her an ex
ceptional "find." Yet the best evi
dence of success is not Initial ac
claim, but re-engagements. What bet
ter evidence of Miss Lazarri's success
and popularity could be found than
the fact that by almost every city in
which she appeared in concert last
season she has been re-engaged for
the present season? The bookings
up to midsummer for her transconti
nental tour called for more than 60
appearances.
Carolina Lazzari is of French and
Italian ancestry, but an American by
birth. It was on Christmas, 1891, in
a little town in Massachusetts, that
she first saw the light of day. Her
parents were cultured musicians and
in such an atmosphere it was natural
that her earliest thoughts should turn
to music. After attending the public
schools of her native town and the
Conference seminary at Bucksport,
Me., she went to Italy, where she
studied three years at the College
delle Orsoline, Milan. Here her gifts
as a vocalist were appreciated and
developed. She also gained fluency
and versatility as a linguist and won
a much-coveted certificate as a pian
ist from the conservatory of Verdi.
She has since won success in concert
and opera.
SAW CARLOS SING NEXT MONTH.
The San Carlo Grand Opera com
pany that played a successful week's
engagement in Portland last Feoru
ary, will return about the last of
January, 1920, for a week's engage
ment in the publlo auditorium, under
the management of the Ellison-White
musical bureau.
The remarkable successes of the
JOHN HAND'S CONCERT JAN. 12. '
Portland is to hear in concert, Jan
uary 12. John Hand, new American
:enor, who has been taking the east
Wy storm during the past few months.
Hal M. White, manager of the public
auditorium, has completed arrange
ments whereby Mr. Hand will appear
at the auditorium under the auspices
ri me cny oi j-ortiana. i he concert
will be one of popular prices.
Mr. Hand will complete an oper
atic engagement in New York within
a' short time, after which he will start
on a tour which will take him
through the principal cities of the
Pacific coast. He is well known In
t&a east and in the middle west and
on the Pacific coast, having sung in
several of the larger cities last sum
mer. One concert was given at the
facoma stadium when Mr. Hand won
Ue affections of several .thousand
aersons. He is hailed by leading east
ern critics as one of the coming ten
ors of the country.
ALICE NIELSEN SINGS JANUARY 8.
Alice Nielsen, soprano, who is vlsit
ng the west this winter for the
first time in five years and who
sings here in the public audito
rium, January 3. with the Portland
Oratorio society, has had signal hon
ors heaped upon her during her long
iuid conspicuous career In grand
opera honors which her art has well
deserved.
Though Covent Garden, London,
was the first opera-house In which
Mlgs Nielsen appeared after preparing
for grand opera by study in Italy, the
management thought so well of her
that she was' allowed to have her
dgbut with no less a singer than
Caruso for her artistic companion, and
1C is history that she shared equal
rmnors with him in "Rlgo'e to." the)
o6'"'A In will 'i .s..e first appealed I a
theru. She was cuosou. to foiiy vv . -t sh
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MUSICIANS' CLUB, TUESDAY.
The next regular meeting and
luncheon of the Musicians' club will
be held in the Multnomah hotel Tues
day, December 23. The principal guest
atld speaker of the day will be-W. A.
Petteys, principal of the Peninsula
school, who has chosen as his subject
"Music in Public Schools This subject-is
continually before the club In
one form or another, on account of so
many of tne members being instruc
tors, and therefore interested in musi
cal education in the schools. ' The
president wishes all members to at
tend these meetings or to signify In
advance if they expect to be unable
to attend specified meetings, as guar
antees have to be given in advance to
hotel officials, as to attendance, prior
to banquets.
In addition to the principal speaker
and talks from chairmen of different
departments, Harold Hurlbut, tenor
will sing "Le Rol d'Jo" (Lalo), Earle
C. Stevens will play a cornet solo.
choosing one of Carrie Jacob Bond's
songs and there will also be a violin
solo.
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M. Seller & Co., Portland, Wholesale Distributors
in charge of the social committee,
Mrs. Fred A. Krlbs, chairman; as
sisted by these Juniors: Marian
Meachem, Romona Klngsley, Mar
garet Clark) Maldron Horton, Adaline
Zurcher. Vera Burke, Agnes Clark
and Ellen Rowe. Small evergreen
trees were used la decking the halL
Holly and Christmas bells were hung
in the windows and there wai a
Christmas tree and a tiny gift for
each Junior. The decorating commit
tee: Mrs. Charles A. Norvell, Mrs.
Charles S. Campbell. Mrs. H. L May-
jiew, Mrs. E. C. Reed and Mrs. Lewis
j. num.
The club will have four line parties
at the Tetrazzini concert and Mrs.
A. R. Mattingly, chairman of the con
cert bureau committee, is arranging
the reservations for members and
their friends. December SO the club
will do its part towards entertaining
the state- teachers assembled in con
vention at that time and will arrange
for a musicals and reception in the
green room of the Benson hotel from
980 to 10:30 P. M. Mrs. Fred Kribs
chairman of the social committee, will
arrange the reception, and Mrs. Will-
lam Braeger has arranged the music
programme when Mrs. Hermann A.
Polltiz, soprano; Walter J. Stevenson
basso; a sextette from the Portland
Opera association will sing and the
string ensemble of the Monday Musi
cal club, Mrs. C. L. Knight, director,
will play.
Mrs. Hermann A. Polltz Is to be the
Bushnell.
Robert Louis Barron, violinist,
lays aoloa at organ recital.
public Budltorlnm, .1 I"
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recital, ;
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CAROLS SUNG AT REED.
Christmas musical atmosphere
abounded at the annual concert by
the Reed college chorus last Thurs
day night in the college chapel with
Its artistic decorations of holly and
evergreen, lighted candles and har
monized architecture. Hans Hoerlein,
a Reed senior In charge of the chorus,
won commendation for his able direc
torship of the concert. Miss M. Lucile
Murton was organist.
Following the lighting of candles,
by .little Miss Knowlton, came the
first carol sung from the echo-organ
loft by Misses Asenath Barnes,
Nana Seeley and Arthur House . and
Howard Hopklrk. The soft cadences
of "Holy Night" floated over the
audience. Carols from various lands
were finely sung by the chorus and
the programme ended with impressive
numbers from Handel's "Messiah."
CLUB ENTERTAINS JUNIOKS.
The Monday Musical club treated
its Junior department to a Christmas
party yesterday at the clubhome when
the following committee was in
charge of the arrangements: Mrs.
Edith Stiles Miller, chairman; Mrs.
Emma Welch Landry. Mrs. Anton Gie-I
lii.ch. Mrs. W. 1. Swank, Mrs. Percy
W. Lewis. Mr. L. W. Kelly and Mrs.
L. F. fern tth.-The refxeKhjsenta were.
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soloist for the next Monday Musical
club programme when Mrs. Walter R.
May will play a piano concerto with
David B. Campbell, of the Ellison
White conservatoryy at the second
piano. This programme will be given
Monday, January 5, at 118 Thirteenth
street.
COLLEGE CONCERT SATURDAY
Saturday night will be college night
in Portland, fqr the University of
Washington Glee club, together with
the original university "Jazz band,"
will appear In the public auditorium
In a musical entertainment under aus
pices of this city. Music of every de
scription is Included in the pro
gramme, from arias of grand opera
to the latest in "jazz" music.
Success has crowned the efforts of
the glee club since its organization
to the beginning of the school year.
The glee club has 29 members, the
"Jasz" band nine pieces, and in addi
tion, the organization has four spe
cialty men formerly in professional
theatricals, featured in comedy, origi
nal and spontaneous.
The oolleglate musical aggregation
will stage virtually the same pro
gramme in this city Saturday night as
was heard by the largest audience as
sembled in the university auditorium
in Seattle recently.
As In past years, the University of
Washington glee clnb membership
was selected by Irving M. Glen, dean
of fine arts at the university on Pu
get sound. Dean Glen, writing to
Hal M. White, manager of the audi
torium, says that the glee club this
year represents the very best musical
aggregation that has ever represented
the university. The unusual good
work -ot the members of the club is
attributed by Dean Glen to the train
ing received by the men at the out
door "sings" in army camps and can
tonments as every member of the
organization is an ex-service man,
many of them having overseas rec
ords. The famous university "jazz band."
composed of nine ctaver instrumental
ists, can play "anything" to "jazz"
time.
Profits derived from the concert
and entertainment will be turned over
to the associated students' fund being
raised for the purpose of erecting a
memorial building on the Unlverslty
of Washington campus, in memory of
the men who lost" their lives in the
recent world war.
pieces, (a) "The March of the Magi
Kings" iDubols), (b) "Christmas In
Sicily" (Yon); "The Little Orey Home
in the West" (Lohr) ; violin solo. "Ro
manco" ( WelniawskP : request num
ber; wedding march. "Midsummer
Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn).
OUTDOOR PIPE ORGAN BUILDING.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec IS. The
Bohemian club of San Francisco, an
organization of literary men. artists
and patrons of the fine arts, is hav
ing one of the largest pipe organs In
the United States Installed in its fa
mous grove of giant redwoods.
The only other outdoor organ Is at
Ban Diego. Cal.. it Is said.
The organ, protected by a stand of
steel and concrete, will be ready for
the annual forest play of the club
next summer. It Is expected.
MUSIC BRIEFS.
It is stated that already the ad
vance sale has begun in San Fran
Cisco for a February concert by
jascna xieuoiz, uio uw viouaiau
Judson House, the New York tenor
recently was engaged as soloist of
Temple Emanu-EL New York City.
Mr. House served two years with the
American army in France.
The will of the late Henry Lee Hlg
glnson, the Boston banker and backer
for many years of the Boston Sym
phony orchestra, does not leave any
substantia financial provision for the
future of that noted orchestra.
The Joint recital given by students
of Mrs. May Hayes and Miss Eliza
beth Hoben at Cathedral hall last
Wednesday night was a success and
every number was thoroughly en
Joyed. The recitations and character
(Concluded on Pas 9.)
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PIPE ORGAN RECITAL 3 P. M.
The organist for the rccltatl at 3
o'clock this afternoon In the public
auditorium is Frederick W. Goodrich,
assisted by Robert Louis Barron, vio
linist. The big pipe organ, which
was temporarily out of order laBt
Sunday, is now repaired and is in
good condition.
The music programme: Overture
"Mlsrnon" ' mhrosP-Thomas) : "N'ir
cissus " (.Nevln): selection, "Faust"
I (Qminod): violin solo. "Olaronin" Vt
tull) ; two descriptive cimsimaa
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