TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 20, 1921
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FRANCI3 RICHTER, organist, th
Elks' band of 60 pieces and Miss
Idella Gunn Watson, soloist, will
bo the features at the popular concert
it 1 P. M. today in the public audi
torium. Under the direction of Frank Lucas,
the Elks' band has become one of the
best musical organizations of its
kind, and a programme of popular
elections will be given by the band
this afternoon. As any profits de
rived from the concert will go Into
the Elks' Christmas-tree fund. Elks
cS the city are determined to make
the concert th's afternoon a big: suc
cess. Francis Rlchter will play the over
ture to "Merry V'lves of Windsor" as
his feature number, and Miss Idella
Gunn Watson has selected "Beautiful
Oregon Rose" as her solo number.
The programme Is:
Numbers by the Elks' band March,
Warrior Bold" (Panello); overture.
"Orpheus" Offenbach); waltz, 'Ved
dlng of the Winds" (Hall); selection,
'.Robin Hood" (De Koven). Pipe or
t,an selections by Mr. Rlchter Over
ture to "Merry Wives of Windsor"
(N'lcolal); selection (Rubinstein); "On
the Bridge of Sighs" (Favorola).
Vocal solo, "Beautiful Oregon Rose,"
Idella Gunn Watson, with Francis
jtichter, accompanist. Elks band
March, "Celebre Toreador" (Metallo);
"The Sunny South" (Lampe); tone
poem, "Apple Blossoms" (Roberts);
"Humoreske" (Dvorak). "Star-Span-
Bled Banner." , ...
MUSICAL CLVB TOMORROW.
The Monday Musical club, Mrs. A. R.
Mattingly president, will meet at 1:30
P. M. tomorrow at the clubrooms, 148
Thirteenth street. "American Socle
ties and Institutions" will be the
lecture topic. The First Congregation
al church quartet, composed of Mrs.
D. D. Fisher, soprano; Miss Nina Dres-
eel, contralto; Ernest Crosby, tenor:
W, E. Robinson, bass, will give the
programme, assisted by Elsie Ray
Worden, cellist, and Mrs. Frederick
Newton, accompanist. The quartet,
with the exception of Mrs. Fisher, a
newcomer to Portland, Is well known
In the city, both in church and con
cert work.
The hostesses for the meeting are
Mesdames W. R. Jamieson, J. T. Leon
ard, William Braeger, B. B. Banning,
Paul Vosburgh.
The programme: Quartet' "Sing
Alleluia Forth" (Dudley Buck). "Oh
Awake, Beloved," (Coleridge), Ernest
Crosby; "The Morning Wind", (Brans
combe), Nina Dressel; group, Mac
Dowell, Nevln and Cadman numbers,
Elsie Roy Worden; "Sunset" (Buck),
W. E. Robinson; "Fleeting Days"
(Bailey), Mrs. Fisher; quart. "Still,
Still With Thee" (Foote).
HEIFETZ PLAYS NOV. S3.
All Portland music lovers will wel
come the announcement that Jascha
Heifetz will give a return concert at
the Heilig Wednesday night, Novem
ber 23, direction Steers & Coman.
The thousands of people who gath
er to hear Jascha Heifetz and sit
spellbound before his violan wlz
ardly, conjure an Individual picture
of an "off-stage Heifetz a mental
Vision, not quite clear perhaps, but
nevertheless fondly imagined. One
pictures him a slender prince with a
valet to knot that white bow tie;
another sees him lionized and fawned
over in society, rather bored. Inci
dentally still another visions a .seri
ous, pre-occupied student, ever slav
ing at his violin, annoyed by curious
admirers and fortified against the
outside world by a stern parent, a
brusque manager and a suave secre
tary. But thsee pictures are In the
main, quite wrong.
On the best authority it Is stated
that Heifetz is not a slave to his
violin; he practices only a few hours
In the morning, usually from 10 to
coon. Also, given his choice between
an evening in society and one at a
moving picture show, he will take
the latter. No valet waits upon him
no valet could, for Heifetz is the
type of person who can only be
suited by doing things himself. He
is a serious student in some ways.
English for instance keeps him busy
and he knows a good deal about
rhetoric and syntax. In music he
seems at present to be chiefly con
cerned in stydying opera scores. But
altogether he is as real a boy as your
son Is. Let him see a new engine
or a particularly good camera, and
be is immediately absorbed.
MfSICAL 1)1 OS NOV. ST.
One of the most interesting, un
usual musical events of the coming
week Is the third and final concert of
Susie Fennell Pipes, violinist, and
Henrlette Michaelson, Russian pian
ist. 3 P. M. next Sunday afternoon,
November 27, at the Portland play
house, Twenty-third street near
Washington.
The gently, inspiring compositions
of Brahms will form the text for Mrs.
Pipes and Miss Michaelson, whose
two previous concerts devoted to
the music of Bach and Beethoven,
were enthusiastically received by
large audiences.
Miss Michaelson has played with
Kntesel and Mrs. Pipes has played
and studied the Brahms sonatas with
Harold Bauer. Kniesel and Bauer
jointly edited the Grahms sonatas
so It is believed that Mrs. Pipes and
Miss Mlcaelson will be able to give
f- Epited Bv Joseph Macqueen. CjlffSif !llr0
TWO ML'SICAL PEOPLE ACTIVE
IN CURRENT EVENTS.
Howard D. Barlow, once di
rector of chorus at Reed col
lege, this city, is appointed
director cf the Beethoven so
ciety of New York city.
Blanche Nelson, dramatic so
prano, was presented in recital
by the MacDowell club last
Tuesday afternoon In the Mult
nomah hotel auditorium.
the authoritative interpretation of
these lovely compositions.
While Mrs. Pipes is one of the best
known violinists of the Pacific
northwest, playing with a number of
the celebrated pianists of the day.
Miss Michaelson is new to Portland,
having made her debut at the Bach
programme. The two are unusually
good in their ensemble work. For a
number of years Miss Michaelson has
been on the faculty of of the Dam
rosch Institute of Musical Art, New
York City, and has frequently played
with Walter Damrosch. During
leaves of absence she successfully
appeared in European capitals, where
she was enthusiastically acclaimed.
Portland members of Mu Phi Epsi
lon, national musical society, of
which Mrs. Pipes is an honorary
member, have acted as ushers for
the musicales. Miss Helen Watt, Mrs.
Marion Neil Giger and Miss Dorothy
Bennett ushered the last concert.
Miss Florence Tenneson, Miss Edna
Messenger and Mrs. Frank Carruth
will assist at the final programme.
APOLLO CONCERT, DECEMBER 1
In a recent issue of th'te magazine
Good Housekeeping. Mabel Garrison,
soprano who is soloist at the Apollo
club concert, public auditorium, De
cember 1 has an illuminating article
that treats of the problems that con
f. ont young singers students in par
ticular whose hearts are set upon
professional singing careers.
The experienced prima donna of the
Metropolitan opera talks plain, sound
tense to these thousands of hopeful
Vocalists; and one point she empha
izes is the fact t lat most young sng
rs are handicaped by vanity. They
iisten only to nice things about their
voices; "real sincere criticism hurts
too much." Miss Garrison tells these
girls: "Do not place much value In
the encouraging and flattering advice
ct relatives and friends; nine times
cut of ten they are not capable judges
Oi musical art." Nor ought a girl
who seeks a career to accept the
opinion of one instructor as a per
fectly sound and correct appraisal of
ner talents, unless the authority de
clares a musical "career to be an im
possibility. In that event, he is prob
ably right. To most people, a fine
voice means a fine artist, but critical
judges know how many other
attributes are necessary."
Miss Garrison s coming appearance
in concert with the Apollo club her
second appearance In Portland is
being awaited with unusual interest
by lovers of good music. Her con
summate art and exquisite voice are
acknowledged by the greatest Metro
politan critics. Mr. Sanborn of the
New YoJK Globe says: "Such revela
'. ons of vocal range and virtuosity as
well as style and expression In sing
ing as. Miss Garrison vouchsafes is
rare in any company at any time."
This December 1 concert will be
the opening concert of the Apollo
ciub's 14th season. William H. Boyer
:s conductor.
SOLSA'S BAND, DECEMBER 17-18.
Sousa and his band will be heard
in concert in the public auditorium,
Saturday and Sunday. December 17
and 18, with a matinee each day.
When Offenbach visited this coun
try, in the centennial year of the
United States, the then young John
Philip, son of Antonio and Elizabeth
t Davles.
Frank Lucax, director of the
Elk band, to be heard In
concert, public auditorium, 3
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Trinkhaus Sousa, just then a man of
two-and-twenty years, played first
violin in the orchestra assembled for
the composer of "La Grande Duchesse"
and "Orphee aux Enfers." Later
Sousa led a-touring church choir com
pany in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pina
fore." Twelve years in all he con
ducted the United States marine band,
serving In that period under Presi
dents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleve
land and Harrison. He organized
Sousa's band and directed its first
performance September 26, 1892.
The band leader has since composed
for his own players more than 50
marches. In the modern form of
talking machine records alone, sales
of the "canned" versions of his quick
step airs have exceeded $6,000,000. But
one. it appears. Is his favorite. Hun
dreds of thousands of American sol
diers and sailors marched to its
strains during the world war, and it
was played by the military bands of
Great Britain and France, as well as
by the most humble of American vil
lage bands. His reason for preferring
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" has
been told by Sousa himself: "It is
richest In melody and the best in
orchestration," he says. "I have other
favorites, too, and I feel that "Com
rades of the Legion,' which I wrote
only recently and dedicated to the
American Legion, t is worthy of a
place, but "The Stars and Stripes For
ever' Is my first choice. In this I am
backed, I think,. by thousands of my
hearers, who seem to be most en
thusiastic when the band plays that
composition.
MUSICAL ENGLAND REVIEWED.
The entire musical life of England
Is at present In a precarious condition,
according to Edmund Burke, baritone
from the Royal Opera, Covent Garden,
London, who has recently come to
this country for a concert tour.
"What with the strikes, unemploy
ment and the general financial and
Industrial unrest," states Mr. Burke,
"the musician in England has for
some time confronted a most serious
situation. The musical atmosphere,
wherever one goes, is charged with
depression and anxiety.
"Before the war the foreign ele
ment dominated all of the leading
enterprises. The Anglo-Saxon had
little chance for recognition. But,
with the outbreak of the war, these
foreigners mostly returned to their
own countries to enter army service.
Few, now that peace reigns, have re
turned perhaps because in America
they find a healthier and more prom
ising field of activity.
"But now that the English mu
sician has had his chance, he finds it
of dubious value. In time this state
of things must Improve. Realiz'ng
the gravity of the situation, there is
now a movement on foot to establ'sh
a national Ettglish opera company,
promoted on co-operative lines by the
artists. This movement Is receiving
the support of the different mun'cipal
authorities throughout the country.
If it succeeds it will be a great open
ing for the English-speaking singers,
the orchestra players, the conductors,
stage directors and all others identi
fied with a great operatic enterprise.
"The closing of that historic and
famous opera house, Covent Garden,
is a graphic illustration of English
musical conditions. Coming from
England to the United States, I seem
to have passed from musical chaos
to musical inspiration. The people
here can have no conception of how
exhilirating and creative is the ef
fect of this change.
"I. for one, am optimistic regarding
England's musical future. By the
time conditions have Improved, the
people will have learned to look first
to their native musicians when they
wish to establish orchestras or opera
companies."
MUSICAL BRIEFS.
Dr. Emil Enna, pianist, and Mrs.
Herbert Gaer Reed, reader, appeared
this past week In recital at Beaver
ton, Or., under the auspices of the
high school.
Alice Johnson, pianist, assisted by
Kathryn Crysler Street's singers, will
give the concert at the Men's resort
at 8 P. M. Saturday. Ray McAuley,
baritone, will sing during the showing
of a motion picture.
A short programme of Richard
Strauss' songs and a sketch of his
life were given at the last meeting of
the Monday Study club under Mrs.
Rose Coursen-Reed's direction. Mar
guerite Carney sang "Die Nacht."
Miss Gladys Dobson sang "Morgen,"
and Mrs. Blanche Berreth - Stanton
rendered "Allerseeten." Mrs. C. R.
Sparkman an I Miss Evelyn Chase are
new members of this club.
A new organization, the Elks' Wo
men's Glee club, has been rehearsing
under the direction of Mrs. Rose Cour-sen-Reed
and promises to take Its
place among the best of women's
voice choruses of Portland. Follow
ing are the members: Mrs. R. S.
Shaw, Mrs. Joseph L. Stafford, Mrs.
E. J. Elvers. Mrs. J. M Hlatt, Mrs.
R. L. Osburne. Mrs H. V. Nolan, Mrs.
Percy Willis, Mrs Emmet DrakeMrs.
J. W. Renwlck, Mrs. David R. Bell,
Mrs. M. Anslyn. Mrs. Reta Schelnis.
Mrs. A. Dorcas, and Miss Mary Bul
lock as accompanist. A few more
voices are desired, and any women
eligible, and wanting to Join the
chorus, are asked tf call up Mrs. Staf
ford or Mrs. Reed. The club will
not meet Thursday, November 14
I Thanksgiving day but the, following
Thursday, December 1, at 1 P. M.,
with Mrs. Reed, Bush & Lane build
ing.
One musical attraction of last week
at Woodlawn Methodist Episcopal
church was a recital by Webber's
Juvenile orchestra and the pro
gramme rendition was much enjoyed.
The Dancing Teachers' Music club
of Portland was recently entertained
with luncheon at 554 Everett street,
Mrs. Kate Dell Marden and E. Gladys
Nash acting as hostesses. The club,
which meets in the morning, is giving
interesting programmes on the early
history of music and musicians. The
next meeting will be held with Emma
Welch Landry, December 14.
The Hungry Seven club recently en
tertained at breakfast at Highway
lodge and hungry ones who gathered
around the festive table were John
Claire Monteith. Frank Elchenlaub,
Dr. Emil Enna. William R. Boone, Hy
Eilers, James Hunter. Carl Denton,
Paul Petri, Herbert Garr Reed, W.
Goodrich, George Frederick Street and
George Jeffry.
Mrs. Laura Jones Rawlinson of this
city now is in New York City doing
special work with Carre Louie
Dunning. Mrs. Rawlinson's many
Portland friends will be glad to
learn that she recently lectured at
Columbia university, where she and
Mrs. Dunning were entertained by
Dean Farnsworth of the musical de
partment of that institution. Other
lectures soon will be . given by Mrs.
Rawlinson in Newark, N. J., and
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Musicians who find that devotion
to their art attracts them to the study
of allied subjects' will be interested
In Percy Buck's "Acoustics for Mu
sicians." The author, who Is the
director of music in Harrow school,
has written a book, technical and
mathematical, but not difficult to
understand. Discussing first the pro
duction of sound, he proceeds to an
inquiry into the characteristics ' of
pitch, intensity, temperament ana
transmission. The volume has just
been received at the public library.
Howard D. Barlow, once director of
chorus work at Reed college and who
has since located permanently In New
York city, has been honored In being
appointed chorus director of the Beet
hoven society, New York city, quite
an influential and important women's
club with a vocal chorus. This club
gives recitals on the average once a
month and frequently engages solo
ists. Its recitals are always looked
forward to with pleasurable anticipa
tion. Mr. Barlow's relatives live in
this city.
The Carrie Jacobs - Bond Musical
club met November 12 at the home
of Nora Leopold, 531 East Tenth
street North, Sylvia and Lawrence
Overback assisting. A programme
was presented by the following mem
bers under the direction of Carrie IX.
Beaumont: Dorothy Gruber, Flor
ence Weinstein, Margaret and Eliza
beth Reynolds, Marjorie Scott, Vir
ginia Hale, June Frampton, Helen
McCravey, Margaret Hune, Frances
Jordan, ' Helen Rlttenour, Edessa
Nudelman, Sylvia and Lawrence
Overback, Nora ' Leopold,. Margaret
Tobey, Marion Smith, Joe Rogers and
Edna Leich.
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Maurice Leplat, an eminent violin
star from New York city and who was
educated in viplin playing at the Paris
conservatoire, has located in this city
and plans, to become a permanent
member of the musical community.
He was a fellow student with Thie
baud, the famous violin virtuoso, and
is an experienced concert soloist of
high excellence. He is a real violin
artist, and plays with fire, life and
wonderful expression. His particular
friend and adviser in this city is
Robert Robinson, the veteran violin
authority, who says that as soon as
Mr. Leplat has completed preparation
for his programme the Paris artist
may appear in recital.
"He looks more like a successful
young American business man than a
musician," was the remark made by
one who was introduced-tj Vecsey,
the Hungarian violinist, following his
recent arrival in New York. The ex
clamation is illustrative of Vecsey's
unaffected personality. None of the
usual earmarks or affectations of the
artist can be discerned in Vecsey, yet
he is a star of the first magnitude.
Anyone who appreciates unwavering
precision in technique combined with
bsolute tone qualities will thor
oughly enjoy Vecsey's playingr for
those are two of his outstanding
qualities. Twenty-four hundred notes
in 173 seconds, or nearly 14 notes a
secona, according to the stop watcn,
with that lightning-like speed so
rapid that his slender fingers are a
blur. Vecsey plays Paganlni's ''Moto
Perpetuo." This record achievement
is all the more remarkable in that not
one of the swift train of sixteenth
notes is off pitch. No matter how
difficult the piece he strikes each note
in its geometrical center so to speak.
Miss Minnetta Magers presented
nine students in a recent concert in
Salem and a large and enthusiastic
audience of music lovers greeted the
Bingers and heartily received each
number rendered. The programme
was varied and well balanced, rang
ing from lighter songs to the most
difficult arias in French and Italian-
Much liked were the songs by west
ern composers. The first was by
Portland's well-loved composer,
Kathryn Glen, "I Heard a Lark Sing,"
and the second by Amy Worth of
Seattle, "Song of Spring." The stu
dents presented were: Miss Hilda
Amsler, soprano; Mrs. Minnie Schal
ler Dickman and Miss Eva Pittman,
coloratura sopranos; Miss Trlsta
Wenger and Miss Letha Driscoll.
contraltos; Archie Holt. Fred C.
Boynton of Portland, tenors; Leon
Jennison and Austin Armttage, bari
tones. Miss Ruth Bedford, assisted
by Miss Myrtle Knowland and Miss
Eva Pittman, were at one piano and
did excellent work. Three talented
Fink.
Paul K. Hutchinson, baritone
'and pianist, iru recently solo-
it before the Harding; and
Coolldge club.
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young musicians were heard in an in
strumental trio, showing splendid in
terpretation. They were: Violin, Miss
Viola Ash; cello, Avery Hicks; piano
Karl Wenger.
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The next regular meeting of the
Portland Musicians' club will be held
Monday, November 28, in the grill of
the Hotel Oreyon. Plans are being
prepared for Women's day early in
December.
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Robert Neilson Sr. and Robert Nell
son Jr., father and son, are special
ists In Scotch music and gave an
enjoyable concert - before Arleta
camp, W. O. W., last Thursday night.
The father sings and tells dialect
stories and the son is a violinist.
Miss Elizabeth Barnes, head-of the
expression department of the Ellison
White Conservatory of Music pre
sented several of her students last
Monday night In a programme of hu
morous readings, poems and imper
sonations. Alice 'Price Moore, contralto, was
engaged as vocal soloist to appear be
fore the Sorosls club. The Dalles, Or-,
last Tuesday and gave much pleasure
by her excellent singing. The piano
accompanist was Miss Margaret Notz,
also of this city, and whose accom
paniments were cordially welcomed.
The Daughters of Isabella were de
lightfully entertained by their glee
club at a social meeting last Tues
day night. The club has made rapid
progress under the direction of Mrs.
Catherine Covach Fredrich and has
been invited to sing on several oc
casions during njuslc week.
Mrs. E. Jean Campbell is arranging
a series of Sunday-evening musicales
at the Camphell-Hlll hotel, and the
programme tonight Is to be given by
Blanche Nelson, soprano, who will fea
ture favorite ballads. The accompani
ments will be by Dorothea Schoop, a
newcomer to this city. Miss Schoop
is a talented accompanist.
Paul K. Hutchinson, pianist and
baritone, appeared with pleasing suc
cess as soloist at a recent meeting of
the Harding and Coolldge Study club,
held in the home of Mrs. Hugh Mc
Gulre, 818 Lovejoy street. Mr. Hutch
lnson Is a talented musician, who re
cently located in thia city. He was a
member of Harold Hurlbut's master
class last summer.
Miss Susie Michael, pianist, will
leave Thursday for Chicago, where
she will continue her musical studies
with Victor Heinze, eminent piano
coach. Miss Michael is a talented
young musician of this city who is
well known as a piano soloist, ac
companist and - Mnstructor. Miss
Michaels' piano classes in the future
will be conducted by Mordaunt A.
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Miss Elizabeth Hoben, vocalist and
pianist, has planned a series of con
certs In the near future. One of these
will be for the benefit of the Home
for the Aged, Sandy boulevard, and
for which she has prepared an in
teresting programme. Miss Hoben.
tor several years, has taken an active
part in musical circles In Portland
and has arranged and directed many
large and successful benefit pro
grammes for various charitable and
philanthropic enterprises.
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The Eurydlce club, ' a chorus of
women's voices, held its annual elec
tion at the Y. W. C. A. last Wednes
day night and the following were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, Mrs. J. S. Moltzner; vice-president,
Mrs. Ethel Lawrence; secretary.
Miss Marie DeYoung; treasurer. Miss
Georgia Baldwin. A board of five di
rectors will be appointed at the next
rehearsal, and the chorus plans to
give a concert in the near future. The
conductor and organizer Is E. Bruce
Knowlton and the accompanist Is Mrs.
Alvlna Knowlton.
Joseph Bonnet, one of the most
eminent bf the world's organises, has
been engaged to give a pipe-organ
recital in Sunnyside Congregational
church Sunday afternoon. December
4. Guilmant once dyeslgnated Bonnet
as his logical successor. Bonnet now
is touring through Canada, and after
appearing in organ recitals in Vic
toria and Vancouver, B. C. he will be
escorted to this city by James A.
Bamford on his way to California
and down south en route to New
York city. Bonnet Is official organ
ist of an historic church in Paris,
France.
A saxophone band of 500 members
Js planned to play at the proposed
exposition in 1925 by the two organiz
ers, H. N. Stoudenmyer and Edwin
Wetmore, and a band rehearsal and
meeting Is called for this afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the hall at 127
Fourth street. It Is proposed to or
ganize units of saxophone bands in
different towns of Oregon and to
assemble all such Oregon units for
mass rehearsals in this city, possibly
four times per year. Both Mr.
Stoudenmyer and Mr. Wetmore are
experienced musicians and band lead
ers. .
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Kansas Cvfjr is to have a new opera
company. It is already organized,
with a chorus of 25 selected voices to
produce comic operas. "The Chimes
of Normandy" Is the work selected
for the debut of the new company
and It is scheduled for performance
some time before Christmas. J. R.
Amelung. organist at Grace and Holy
Trinity church and a musician, with
considerable professional experience.
organized the company and Is direct
ing the rehearsals. Several .singers
who have been popular in Ottley
Cranston's Kansas City grand opera
company will appear in the gay
"Chimes of Normandy."
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Only one more rehearsal remains
of the Portland Oratorio society be
fore its concert, Sunday afternoon,
November 27, in the public auditorium.
The chorus, numbering 60 voices, is
well balanced, of fine quality. This
first programme, of miscellaneous
concert numbers, will be varied by
violin solos by Robert Louis Barron,
vocal solos by Harold W. Mooro,
basso, and pipe organ numbers by
Lucien E. Becker. Immediately after
this concert, work will begin on "The
Messiah," which will be rendered Jan
uary 8, 1922. New members will be
welcomed. There will be six regular
rehearsals and one or two extra for
"The Messiah."
Francis Rlchter, the gifted com
poser, pianist and organist, gave a
splendid programme of his own piano
compositions at the Cadman Musical
club's reception and muslcaie held at
the home of Mrs. Charles Campbell,
660 East Fourteenth street North, last
Thursday night. About 60 people
were present. Including members of
the Cadman club and friends. The
most serious musical work was the
first number on the programme of
Rlchter compositions the First Son
rta, Op. 25, first movement, marked
ty fine musicianship. Other specially
interesting nun.bers were Mr. Rich
ter's own three tone pictures "At
Twilight," "Vols des Olseaux," over
ture to the "Grand Nazar," and "Per
petuum Mobile." Mr. Rlchter also lm
I rovised on a given theme, the tjieme
being the first eight bars of the
well-known "Andante Cantabile"
(Tschaikowsky). As extra numbers
he gave his own arrangement for
piano of Krasler's "Caprice Vlennoie,"
si8o the "Dance of the Goblins"
(Bazzlnl). The next meeting of the
Cadman club will be held Tuesday,
November 22, at room 701, Eilers
building. A good attendance is re
quested, as matters of importance '
are then to be brought before the
club.
Roy Marion Wheeler has been re
engaged at the Y. W. C A. to conduct
singing for the industrial girls eacn
week.
The board of management of the
Monday Musical club will meet at
room E, PorMand library, at 10:30
A. M. tomorrow.
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Virgil Isham will be gone during
the week following Thanksgiving to
fill engagements out of town. He is
a pianist and a student with Roy
Marlon Wheeler.
Miss Gertrude Hoeber will be fea
tured as soloist in the concert to be
given today Inr Eugene, Or., as part of
the celebration of the home-coming
week-end at the University of Ore
gon. Miss Hazel Vaughan, dramatic art
student of the .Valalr Conservatoire
de Musique et Art Dramatique, who
appeared twice last week at- the
Eureka Council, No. 204, and Reed
college, made another successful ap
pearance before the Knights of Co
lumbus in their ball. Taylor and West
Park streets, last Monday night.
Seventy-two guests have been In
vited to the annual Thanksgiving
dinner to be given this year by Roy
Marlon Wheeler for his students. Din
ner will be served In his rooms In
the Goodnough building Tuesday
night, followed by a musical pro
gramme furnished by Cambre Davles,
violinist; Virgil Isham. pianist; Naomi
Hart, soprano, and Hazel Vradenburg
and Elberta Dean in violin duos.
Rex Underwood, head of the violin
department of the University of Ore
gon, presented a few advanced stu
dents in an informal recital last Sun
day in Alumni hall of the Woman's
building, Eugene. Helen Harper, Al
berta Potter, Margaret Phelps and
Gwendolyn Lampshire played on the
programme, which consisted in part
of the Bach concerto for two vio
lins and two other concertos for vio
lins the Bruch G minor and the
Mendelssohn. Several advanced stu
dents of Jane Thacher. who heads
the piano department, also played.
Interest was so keen that similar af
fairs will be held monthly.
m
Charles Wakefield Cadman's "At
Dawning," Eugene Cowles" "Forgot
ten" and Harry Ross Shelly's "Love's
Sorrow" are having quite a revival
of popularity, according to reports
from the east.- The New Work Musi
cal Courier in a. long article on the
musical taste of today finds that
music by Charles Wakefield Cadman
is enjoying more popularity now than
at any other time in the composer's
career. Beside "At Dawning." his In
dian duet. "The Warrior Departs."
has gained new friends, among them
Yvonne De Trevllle, soprano, and
Wells Clary, baritone, who are pre
senting it on all of their programmes
this season. "The Spring Song of the
Robin Woman" is perhaps more ex
ploited by operatic sopranos than
any of his other songs, while num
bers from "Shanewls" and "Love Like
the Dawn Came , Stealing" and the
"Lament" are gaining favor.
Miss Blanche Nelson, a dramatic
soprano from England and a new
member of Portland's musical commu
nity, was presented in recital by he
MacDowell club In Multnomah hotel
auditorium last Tuesday afternoon,
with Mrs. Lillian Jeffreys Petri as
accompanist. Miss Nelson, who is
stately and gracious in platform ap
pearance, has been carefully and com
pletely trained in singing, and It is
a great pleasure to hear her sing.
Her voice Is an excellent, agreeable
one, of power, resonance and good
quality, and her clear diction is good
to hear. Her vocal selections were
in English and French, and particu
larly charming was her exquisite ren
dition of one French aria. "Jal taua de
choses a vous dire" (Ferrari); also
her rendition of "Kerry Dance" (Mal
loy). She sang three new songs of
pronounced merit, composed by Will
iam Dlchmont, an English composer
and a veteran of the recent world
war. Mr. Dlchmont now resides In
Vancouver, B. C, and his three songs
chosen for rendition on this occasion
are marked with lovely sentiment
Mrs. Petri, as accompanist, played
with fine ability and expression.
Wllhelm Bachaus, concert pianist.
In one season played 21 times in
Buenos Aires and 18 of them were full
recitals. "It was remarkable," he
said recently in Kansas City. "No one
was more surprised than I. Really, it
seems almost Impossible. I only
know of one case where such a rec
ord was equaled and that was by
Josef Hofman in Miscow.
"We had intended (Mrs. Bachaus 's
with him) to go on to Rio de Janeiro,
but we couldn't get away. We
couldn't find time for Chile, even, al
though we did get as far as Monte
video. "There, you know, the women sit in
one gallery and the men In another.
It is queer, but you know those peo
ple perhaps have not been raised as
you were, and perhaps it is a little
necessary! Anyway, the women, as
well as the men, shouted their ap
plause, and the women Invariably
shouted for the 'Liebestraum' and the
men for the 'Campanella.' They
seemed to try to. drown out each
other.
"But it Is a delightful country. The
next time I think I shall begin with
Rio and thus be sure to see it."
Mrs. Mischa Pelz. soprano, has been
busily engaged singing at many re
citals, etc, since November 1. Here
are a few of her musical engage
ments. She began by singing with the
Portland Opera association sextet
for the Progressive Business Men's
club, Benson hotel. The following
Tuesday Mrs. Pelz was soloist for the
Kiwanis club meeting at the Multno
mah hotel. Mrs. Pelz appeared in
the spectacular tableau of Oregon
products presented by the Minnesotan
society of this city as a beautiful
Oregon rose. Costumed as a rose she
sang Edward Mills' "Beautiful Ore
gon Rose" and drew first special prize.
Mrs. Pelz was soloist for the Armis
tice day celebration at the public
auditorium. That night she was on
the concert programme given for the
Canadian Veterans' association, and
her rendition of "The Americans
Come" was enthusiastically received.
These extra engagements, in addition
to Mrs. Pelz' regular choir work at
the Temple Beth Israel and attend
ing rehearsals for the Portland Opera
association have kept this singer de
cidedly active.
BOY, 13, ESSAY WINNER
Lnwrence Tull Writes Paper on
the Signing of the Armistice.
BROWNSVILLE, Or., Nov. 19.
(Special.) Lawrence Tull, 13, won the
first prize In the Brownsville Times .
essay contest for grade school stu- j
dents with the following essay on the 1
Figrning of the armistice:
At the eleventh hour of the mint-bun
morning of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month of 1918. an entire world
threw off the spell of war and stood up
right In a new age. It was as If another
Easter had come. Three years have pa sued
since runners went across the battlefields
of France and, 'carried t othe rarest out
posts the order to cease rinng.
Now on the eve of November 11. of 1921. 1
the nations arts going back to the spirit "f
November 11. 1918. To America, as to,
the whole world. Armistice will hereafter
essentially be a day of rejoicing, but this
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year a motto of solemnity dominates the
harmony of our Joy In peace.
Our duty to our dead thta they may re
ceive part of their meed of honor will be
tfiKharg-ed to the best of our ability in the
burial of an unknown American oldler.
repreaentatlve of all unidentified American
dead of the world war. whose body l be
ins brought trom a battlefield of France
to rest at last In the central amphitheater
of the Arlington national cemetery. When
the body la being lowered the nation by
proclamation o( President HardlnK will
tand In silent prayer for two minutes from
12 o'clock until ia:0J.
The I.elon programme for the observ
ance of Armistice day will be guided every
where by the solemnity of the occasion at
Washington, but everywhere, too. Legion
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day is to them fraught with the highest
memories of the living.
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lin Hart, superintendent in the de
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hr asked must be low.
as the selection of high numbers
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Tniist rpar-h the state offices
from the county auditor by December
2 jinri th annlicant must advise the
department of the rer.r.est for a spe
cial number as well. Preference will
be given to present holders of num
bers when two or more owners apply
for the same number."
Application blanks and the new fee
rooks have already been forwarded
to the county auditors
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of Klagler ileninrinl Preshyterlnn
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