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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921 MUSICAL DIRECTORY Portland's Music Center FRANCK V: : W&'V ' " ABAMB JENNIE NORELLI. the grand opera and concert so prano star, was at the Fort- land hotel, this city, for a few days last week on a visit to her relatives end left last night for Chicago to f ul- fill several concert engagements en tonr. She plans to return here Tout October 1 and hopes to remain in Portland throughout the winter. Madame Norelll, previous to the world war, made her home in this city, with her husband. Dr. Ernest O. Barton. She had then made good in professional opera and concert, but preferred a period of rest. She left "afterward for New Tork, where, at the Metropolitan grand opera house. she alternated as prima donna so prano with Sembrlch and sang Gilda in "Rlsroletto" to Caruso's Duke of -of Mantua. In Covent garden opera house, London, Norelll sang in "Klgo- "letto," "Travlate" and "Lucia." Of fered an engagement for five years as prima donna in opera at Dresden, Germany, Norelll accepted, and was making the necessary changes in the libretto from Italian to German as called for in the contract when the world war broke out, and Norelll re turned to this country. Since then she has been singing in concerts in the east, and also busily engaged in vocal instruction work in New York and Chicago. In the recent death of Caruso, No- -' relll has lost a personal friend. When Caruso passed on, Norelll wrote this letter to Dr. Barton: "It is evening and I have finished another day and Its work. There la sadness in my heart Caruso has left this world today. Be will leave behind him the memories not' only as a wonderful , singer, but one who had a heart of gold, a true comrade. I am sure Na- - pies today, like the rest of the world, and more so, is in deep mourning " rich and poor alike for he was be loved by alL This evening I recall my debut at the Metropolitan when I appeared for the first time as Gilda In 'Kigoletto.' Caruso was the tenor. Ee came knocking at my dressing room door, just as I was ready, and " said: "Let us go over the last stanzas of the duet, so that we are Bure to et well together. We hummed it "over and he said: 'Everything will go all right.' And everything did go off to perfection. After many recalls after our duet, Caruso finally took ma by the hand and led me down to the footlights. Then he retired and let me take the thunderous applause alone from the brilliant audience. It was the act of a true artist's souL From that moment I adored him with all my heart. And now he is gone." OPERA SEASON DRAWS NEAR. It is announced that September 19, In the Civic auditorium, San Fran cisco, the Scottl opera company plan to open an opera season of two weeks, in which the principal roles will be sung by Geraldine Farrar, Mario Chamlee and Antonio Scottl. . The repertoire for the season in cludes "II Barbiere dl Siviglia," "L'Oracolo," "La Navarraise," "Zaza," "Aida," "La Boheme," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Pagliaccl," "Carmen," "Lucia dl Lammermoor," "Manon Lescaut," "Rigoletto" and "Madame Butterfly." The engagement will close Sunday evening, October 2, with a gala per formance, consisting of the first act of "II Barbiere di Siviglia," the mad scene from "Lucia di Lammermoor," the third act of "La Boheme," the triumphal scene from "Aida" and "II Segrreto di Suzanne" complete. The roster of principals includes these sopranos: " Geraldine Farrar, Angeles Otteln, Olga Carrara, Queena Mario, Anna Roselle and Mary Mel lish. Alice Gentle, Myrtle Schaaf and Henrietta Wakefield will sing the .. mezzo and contralto roles. The tenors are Mario Chamlee. Charles Hackett, Jose Palet, Morgan Kingston, Joseph Hislop, Angelo Bada and Giordano Paltrinerl. Bari tone roles will be taken by Riccardo Stracciari, Antonio Scott, Mario Laurent! and Greek Evans. The basso list is composed of Leon Ro thier, Paolo Ananian, Louis' d' Angelo, Giovanni Martino and Italo Picchi. " Gennaro Papi and Fulgenzio ' Guer ,j rieri will be the conductors, assisted by Wilfrid Pelletier and Giacomo Spadoni. FARRAR'S VIEWS DISCUSSED. Geraldine Farrar's declaration that "no man has Interested me for more than half an hour" has caused mingled concern and laughter in Paris and Milan and diverse centers of Euro pean musical activity. A Paris correspondent of the Min neapolis Journal writes: "Yvonne Garlit, the famous prima donna of the Operatic Comiquie, said: " 'If Geraldine Farrar is telling the - truth, all I can say Is that there are thousands of men who must have in terested her. I believe she must have . been misquoted, because when I was In America I remember seeing her ' give a mighty good imitation of inter est on several occasions.' "Cleo De Merode, the 'morganatic fiancee' cf the late King Leopold of - Belgium, originator of milk baths and . famous as a beauty, declared herself as follows: " "Geraldine Farrar is quite right. Men today aren't Interesting They've forgotten the manner of chivalry and everything a woman likes. The old- ' fashioned man kept his affairs of the heart sacredly to himself and never bragged of his conquests. The society ' man of today' seems to delight In boasting of the number of hearts he has broken. Sometimes when I am surrounded by trousered nincompoops TWO MUSICAL PEOPLE AC TIVE IN CURRENT EVENTS. Miss Sylvia Weinstein. violin ist, and newly returned from New York City, will play in concert. Multnomah hotel audi torium, September 29, assisted by Miss Susie Michael, piano accompanist. Mrs. Mischa Pels is appointed solo soprano in the quartet of the Temple Beth Israel for the ensning year. I feel sorry for the whole male sex. In justice, however, it must be admit ted that woman herself, by reason of her freeness, her mannishness and her vampirish attitude. Is largely to blame for this condition." "Andre de Fouquieres commented: " "Miss Farrar is either joking or In ordinately vain. She should climb down from her pedestal and meet men on a common footing. What's her ad dress?" " PADEREWSKI AGAIN PLAYS. "It was one of the most delightful experiences I have ever had." said David Campbell, pianist, who returned last week from California, In recount ing his recent visit with Paderewski at the Paso Robles ranch of the fa mous Polish musician and statesman. "I spent two hours with Paderew ski, chatting of various interesting things," proceeded Mr. Campbell. Then he asked me to play for him. He was kind in his criticism of my work and said that should he ever teach again I should be one of the favored few who would be his stu dents Before I left Paderewski played a number of compositions for me delightful things, and played with all of his old abandon and fire. That was a treat, indeed, and a time which I shall remember with keen pleasure. My whole trip was enjoy able and I met many of California's big musical people. But naturally my visit with the brilliant Polish musician-statesman stands out as the cli max of my summer." Mr. Campbell, who is director and head of the piano department of the Ellison-White Conservatory of Mu sic, left August 1 for California, sail ing just the day after the ill-fated Alaska. He returned the middle of last week for the opening of the con servatory. MISS BYRD'S STAR SHINES. Miss Winifred Byrd, the Oregon New York concert piano star, as sisted by Mary Wells, soprano, and Walter Kieswetter, accompanist,, ap peared in a recent concert at Mon mouth hotel, Spring Lake, N. J., and the event was a brilliant success. The proceeds were for St. Uriel's church pipe organ fund. The programme: "Sonate Wald stein First Movement" (Beethoven); "Presto" (Scarlatti); Turkish March, from Ruins of Athens (Beethoven Rubinstein), Winnifred Byrd; "Vissi D'Arte, Vissi D' Amore," "Tosca' (Puccini), Mary Wells; ''Prelude,' "Waltz," "Etude" (Chopin); "Etude Heroique" (Leschetizky ) ; Paraphrase on the "Beautiful Blue Danube waltzes (Strauss-Schulz-Evler), Win ifred Byrd; "By the Waters of Minne- tonka (Liewrance); "Inter Nos (MacFadyen); "Love's in My Heart' (Woodman), Mary Wells; "II Pense roso ' and Hungarian Rhapsody .0. (Liszt), winurea tsyra. Miss Byrd is planning this fall an other Pacific coast concert tour. the' vocal cords, on whose length. breadth and thickness the pitch of the voice largely depends. The aver age length of the relaxed vocal cords in a man is 18 millimeters (about three-quarters of an inch) Caruso's vocal cords "were one-six teenth of an inch longer, than those of any other tenor I have seen. "The capacity for vibration of the vocal cords is another' most impor tant factor, for the higher the note the more rapid must be the vibration, Caruso when singing his wonderful chest C sharp reached the phenome nal vibration for a man of 550 per second. "Caruso's whole body seemed to have more average resonance, and one of the great secrets of his won derful voice was the formation of the epiglottis, which was thick at the base, as in bassos, but exquisitely fine and delicate at the free end. The power of his voice was so great that he often fractured glasses in my consulting room by singing their fundamental notes at the orifice. SINGING CRACKS GLASS. LONDON, Sept. 9. Dr. William Lloyd, throat specialist, who for many years treated Enrico Caruso, tenor, writes to the Dally Mall that. comparing Caruso with other great singers, he found the following char acteristics of the tenor's . perfect singing machine: ' f "The most striking feature was the great length of Caruso's vocal tube; the distance from the teeth to the vocal cords in Caruso was at least half an inch more than in . any other great tenor I have examined. "A second point was the length of Davis. George E. Baker, reappointed orgnntst and eaotrmaater of Piedmont Prenbyterlan church, was married September 7. MUSICAL BRIEFS Dora Dean McCutcheon, pianist, has returned from her vacation at Cannon beach. Miss Anna Ellis Barker, who has been spending .the summer in south ern California, returned to town last week. Robert Louis Barron will make his first appearance as special violin so lolst at Central Presbyterian church this morning, playing Adoration, by Borowski. Mrs. Mischa Pelz has been appoint ed solo soprano of the quartet of the Temple Beth Israel for the ensuing year. She has a fine, well-trained voice, and has won much credit as singer of sacred, operatic and con cert music J. William Belcher has returned from Grays River, Wash., where he spent the past six weeks in the mountains fishing and hunting. Mr. Belcher reports a good outing and good fishing. He will again direct the music at Central Presbyterian church, and begins there this morn ing. Miss Sylvia Weinstein, violinist, who recently graduated from the Damrosch Institute of musical art. New York City, will appear in con cert in the auditorium of the Mult nomah hotel September 29, assisted by Miss Susie Michael, piano accom panist. Admissions to this concert are by invitation. George E. Baker, a young business man of this city, has been reappoint ed organist and choirmaster of Pied mont Presbyterian church. He was a student in pipe organ with Wil liam Robinson Boone, Lucien E. Becker and Carl Denton, and plays with fine ability. Mr. Baker was married last Wednesday night in Piedmont church. Ethel Gertrude Cannon, who for the past two months has been conducting a piano class for teachers and ad vanced students in San Francisco, will visit Portland professionally Septem ber 15. Mrs. Cannon's last season's presentation to Portland piano teach ers and students of principles involved In musical and teachnical re-education met with unqualified success. The services of Miss Margaret Notz, one of the best known of the younger pianists of the city, have been in demand the past year as soloist and accompanist. It is not so generally known that Miss Notz is also an accomplished pipe organist. having substituted with success this past summer at First Church of Christ, Scientist, and also at the White Temple. Miss Notz will be presented in piano recital "this fall by William Robinson Boone. : Percy Rector Stephens, the New York City vocal coach, who has been professionally engaged in vocal work In this city for the past few weeks and has enjoyed the co-operation of a large class of students, left last night for his home in New York. "I have had a long professional vocal career, and have traveled much," said Mr. Stephens, when the time came to say good-bye, "but I never enjoyed any place or had a better time than this trip In Portland, Or. I hope I can visit this city again, next summer. Laura Jones Rawlinson arrived from Seattle last Wednesday night to attend the opening of the Dunnlno- School of Music Study, where she gave an explanatory talk and conducted a musical demonstration with children. It was an open class day at which many were delightfully entertained by ine iwo nosteases, airs it.ate L. Mar den and Mrs. E. Gladys Nash. Mrs. Rawlinson returned to Seattle last Friday, where she will remain for two weeks before leaving for New York to Join Mrs. Dunning. Of the Ellison-White conservatory of music staff, which opens tomorrdw, i-'avia uarapoeu, director of the school, has returned from California after a six weeks' trip. Miss Eliza beth Barnes, head of the dramatic department, and Miss Edith Wood cock of the piano department have also returned. Miss Barnes from Se attle, where she has been taking spe cial work In play producing with Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Vol kenburg, and Miss Woodcock from a summer spent in Boise, Idaho. Erwyn I Mutch of the vocal department has I returned from a fortnight's camping. BEATRICE VIOLIN PIANO FROM BEGINNING TO CONCERT APPEARANCE Mr. Eichenlaub Is the teacher of violinists who arrive, having been a pupil for three years and now an authorized representative of Sevcik, the world-famous master. Mr. Eichenlaub is prepared to Impart the principles of the Sevcik school of violin playing, which is conceded to pe the greatest system for the perfection of technique ever developed. Mr. Eichenlaub is not only an exponent of the technical side of viol'n playing, but through his association with Musin of the Royal Conservatory of Belgium he derived his ability to produce In his pupils the idea for the production of a singing tone, characteristic of the Belgian system of bowing. High School and University Credits Mrs. Eichenlaub, after years of study with Xaver Scharwenka and Mme. Eylau in Berlin, has perfected a system of study in which relaxation and hand development are coupled with the diryt application of technical principles to the study of compositions. This syStem of technical develop ment bringfs rapid results, at the same time building up a varied repertoire. ' High School Credits. 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Phone for Appointments, East 2454. 039 E. 17th St. No. trip with Rex Underwood of the Uni versity of Oregon school of music. ' . Mrs. T. J. Lallamont Dorgan, pian ist, has recovered from a tonsilitis operation and Is ready for her profes sional musical duties. Miss Helen Williams, from Everett, Wash., has returned from a four months' trip through Europe and plans to pass the winter in this city, studying piano with unaries .uierae. Louis Ambrosch violinist enters noon his second year' of musical ac tivity in Portland and says he is much pleased with this city and as a mem ber of the Portland symphony or chestra. The 'choir and quartet of the First Methodist Episcopal church, Twelltn and Taylor street, resumed the .sea son's activities last Sunday. In the ahaence of Miss Goldle Peterson Mrs. J. N. Archbald will be the soprano in the quartet during the month of Sep tember, with Mrs. Esther "Collins Chatten. contralto. E. 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