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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, DECEMBER IV 1923 v 4 " . V -1 I jam, " a! ' - - 1 f .1 f "V 'aV - J I T , 't: A, I v t I I SSSC ' BT C. HILTON-TXJRVET. THERE always has been a sort of occult connection between music and the process of hanging on to one's "grip." There's the old saying, "Whistling to keep up his -courage," and many another, which testifies to a popular belief in the power of music, particularly when the music is self-made. This latter premise to courage implies a considerable amount of the virtue to start with, for it . is not the easiest thing in the world to achieve a "pucker" when one is down-hearted or fearful. So that anyone who "whistles to keep up his courage" deserves every ounce of that heart ening virtue he can hold. It is one of the optimistic signs of the day that the world is turning to music in times of stress. The finest example of this fact just at present is the preparation for a community sing at of all places in the world Astoria. Think of it!" The town is burned wiped out crumpled and sliding into the river. The biting cold winds beat down upon a flat, fire-scourged space where once was a comfortable city. The night shuts down black and cheerless where once twinkled lights upon lights. The battleship moored in the harbor keeps a searchlight trained on the blackened walls, to watch against the sinister activities of thieves, thugs and the like. It is all very far from cheer- ful. Men have lost money. Business supposedly well-founded literally has gone up In smoke. Neighbor ing cities and towns are sending bread to Astoria. They are send ing blankets and clothes and build ine material for shelter. The work of more than a century has been reduced to a pitiful heap of ashes. And Christmas is only eight days away! In centuries long past, when the world was young and unwise, the principal citizens of Astoria would have attired themselves in sack , cloth and ladled some of Astoria's ashes upon their stricken heads. They would have "registered" (as the moving pictures people would say) grief, loss, consternation. Not so the people of Astoria today. They figure being above all things else practical that it would be a waste of valuable time to demonstrate the loss of their town, since the news papers have attended to the cir culation of this fact. Instead, they propose to have a good, hearty "sing" to "keep up their courage" (though it does not appear to need it), and to have a. Christmas tree for the kiddles. Truly this ia a programme for gods and men to 'listen In" upon! Music, in such an instance, must prove itself a truly constructive force. The new city of Astoria will literally be built upon music, for the community sing will rouse cour Age and hope in every soul. This in turn will make easier the task of clearing away the debris and put ; ting up the walls of a greater As toria to come. And "dollars to doughnuts" when the new city at last looms against the sky, there will be some sort . of musical exer cises to celebrate that fact. When the writer begaif this apotheosis of the Astoria "sing" there was some sort of "moral" which waited decorously to be set at the conclusion of the homily. But what that "moral" is now that the end has arrived we haven't the faintest notion. Perhaps it is what tho little pickanniny replied when his Sunday school teacher asked him what was the way to get to heaven, namely: "Heah, all de music yo' kin!" ARTIST-STUDNETS' RECITAL. In spite of the inclement weather a large and appreciative audience at tended the recital given by the art ist-students of Mrs. Fred Is. Olson at the Pythian temple auditorium last Tuesdayevening. An enjoyable programme was rendered with credit both to thjf students and to their teacheryr -The programme opened witrh- W numbers splendidly sung Jby the Olson trio (Misses Andross, Muir and Jones), followed by arias sung in Italian, French, Russian and English by Mrs. Brandenburg, Dr. Welch, Mr. Ail, Misses Ruff and Andross, and a violin number by Miss Sylvia Weinstein. The second part of the programme was made up of English songs. Many numbers were new to Port land audiences. The Olson trio fin ished the evening's entertainment with two numbers. Miss Weinstein played the obligatos and a solo number. The accompanists were Miss Nettie Leona Foy and Mrs. Oliver Wickersham. KEXT SYMPHONY CONCERT.. "Singing with intense passion and putting her whole heart into words and music, Marguerite D' Alvarez gave her opening group with all the warmth of her unusually rich con tralto voice," said the Los Angeles Record recently of the great Peru vian contralto who will appear as soloist at the third concert of the Portland symphony orchestra De cember 20. VA contralto of great range and flexibility, with all the finer quali ties worked out to a, very- satisfac- mmmmmm wiiiiiwiiii feSilspliiiiiiiiSi Vn jN v, ? J- is '1 FIGtTRES PROMINENT IN LOCAL MUSIC EVENTS. Max Rabinoff will present the Ukrainian National chorus January 15 at the municipal auditorium. William Mansell Wilder is leader of the Orpheus Men's chorus, which will sing at the luncheon of the Women's Research club tomorrow. Miss Nina Dressel, contral to, will sing with the Orpheus chorus tomorrow -at the luncheon of the Women's Re search club. tory finish in her accomplish ment," wrote Carl Bronson of -the Los Angeles Herald, and he praised especially "La Seguidille" from Car men, which Mme. D' Alvarez will sing with the orchestra here. All of Mme. D' Alvarez' numbers will be given with orchestral accompani ment, thus providing a fitting back ground for the noble organ -which is her voice. The composers Mme. D'AIvarez has chosen to interpret at her ap pearance here range from Gluck to Bizet and include Tschaikowsky, a choice that proves her a musician as well as a singer. Some of her greatest successes on her recent Australian tour were made in the classic. arias of Gluck, calling as they do for a "grand sincerity." In sacred' song Mme. D'AIvarez has touched listeners the world over and Bizet's "Agnus Dei" will pro vide her opportunity here. Mme. T' Alvarez's belief that "beauty in singing is acquired only through suffering" fits her peculiarly as the interpreter of Tschaikowsky that "explorer into the mysteries of hu man aspiration and . disappoint ment," while her Spanish blood makes her songs in the Spanish style unexcelled. The orchestral offerings which Carl Denton has prepared for Wednesday night match in bril liance and importance those, of the soloist. The ' symphony is Beet hoven's Fifth, unparalleled for the. "combination in a single- work of the emotional intensity found in Lurfeu E. Becker, orgauist, who will be host for tomorrow's meeting of the Monday Musical ....club. h; If s '-r-.wiii ii ltWirM""tirtniii1iririii-ift' m r mmmmm & 1 V. the first movement, the touching appeal of the slow movement, the mystery, followed by the reckless display of spirit in the Scherzo and the paean of rejoicing which rings through the Finale." Richard Wag ner's "Tannhaeuser" overture . will follow the Gluck aria, and a bril liant march, "Cortege du Sardar,' from the pen of a modern Russian composer, . Ippolitow Ivanow, will follow Mme. D' Alvarez's group of modern songs. Copies of the Symphony Society Bulletin, containing educational notes on the programme, may be obtained from the business office of the orchestra in the Sherman, Clay & Co. building, or from the music librarian of the ' central library. The, programme in full is Symphony No. 5, C Minor, Opus 67; Allegro Con Brio,; Andanto Con Moto, Scherzo (Attaca); Finale, Al- allegro (Beethoven); aria, "Divini ties, du , Stvx." from "Al,ate' (Gluck); intermission; overture to "Tannhaeuser" ' (Wagner); songs, "No One , My , Grief Can Feel" (Tschaikowsky)," "Seguidille," from "Carmen" (Bizet), and "Agnus Dei" tsizet. - ORPHEUS CHORUS TO SING, The Orpheus men's chorus will be heard In a group of songs, as sisted by Miss Nina Dressel, undor the leadership ' of William Mansell Wilder, at the luncheon of the Womens Research club tomorrow at noon. The luncheon will be held in the ballroom -of the Multnomah hotel and will include addresses by the chairman of the club, Mrs. E. G. Leihy, and other speakers. The se lections by the Orpheus will be: carry Me Back to-Old Virginny,' "The Passing Regiment" and "Ab sent" The. Orpheus was organized in 1906 and incorporated in 1911. It is said to be the only strictly a-capella men's .chorus in America. It i-s still singing under the direc tion of. its first leader and organ izer, Profsssor Wilder. Miss Dres sel, contralto of the First Presbv- terian church, will sing "The Morn ing Wind" (Branscombe) and "The Lilac Tree" by Cartland. Mr. Har old Graham, pianist, will accom pany her solos. The programme has been . ar ranged with care and' promises such enjoyment that the members of the. Research club are urged to aiLena m iuu lorce. ORATORIO SOLOS TO BE SUNG. An elaborate and exacting pro gramme of solos from "Various stanaara oratorios will be eiven tn night at the Sunnyside Methodist episcopal cnurch by P. A. Ten Haaf baritone. The full chorus of mired voices will sing Spicker's "Fear Not Te, O Israel," Gounod's "By Baby lon's Wave," and "Great and Mar velous" from Gaul's "Holy City." Tho recently organized men's choru3 will assist by singing "Nature's Praise of God" (Beethoven) and "Jesus, Sa vior, Pilot Me" (Robinson). Mrs. S. F. Grover will preside at the organ. The public is invited to attend. THE '"MESSIAH" TO BE SUNG. Handel's "Messiah" will be given next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the municipal auditorium by the Portland Oratorio society. Joseph A. Finley will conduct the produc tion, and 'will be assisted by Mrs. Ethel Meade at the piano and Lucien E. Becker at the pipe organ. Soloists will be Goldife Weller Peterson, soprano; Mitylene Fraker Stites. contralto; Ernest Crosby, tenor; and . J-ohn Claire MOnteith, baritone. ; Some of the big choruses and so- los of the oratorio will be suns as follows: "Hymn of Glory," (Piebro A. Ton), "The Holy Night, (Dudley . Buck); Lucien E. Becker, pipe or gan; "Comfort Te," "Every Valley," Mr. Crosby; "And the Glory,' chorus; "But Who May Abide." Mr. Montieth; "O. Thou Tellest. ' ' For Unto Us," chorus; "Pastoral Sym - phony," Mr. Becker; "He Was De spised," - Mrs. Stites-; "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs," chorus; "Lift Up Our Heads," chorus; "1 Know That My Redeemer Liveth," Mrs. Wessler; "Hallelujah," chorus; " A man PVinrno Mi PanlrAr TT7 inr t TWr , WiV,l-i'' a hsenno' frnm I the citv the regular rehearsal Tues- dav will h nmlttprt and a. sDeoial . rehearsal held Friday at the cen tral library. UKRAIMAN CHORUS COMING. u ' TT, . . ,, ... , , The Ukrainian National chorus, a remarkable innovation in music, will be presnted in Portland January 15 by Max RaDinoff, formerly im presario of the Boston grand opera company, who introduced Pavlowa and her ballet Russe to America There will be the added attraction of a Russian prima dofma. Ukrainia lies in such a position I geug rayinciiiiy maL ik une uveu nuie ; to benefit by the historic and mu-; sical culture of both the orient and the Occident., It has been swept by artistic tides from Asia and from western Europe for many centuries. It has felt every influence imagin able in its folk music, from Chinese to Scottish. It has also been influ enced by the ancient Greeks, deriv ing from them certain forms of the musical scale. The Ukrainian people, wnile dwell ing in the path of all the racial movements of the past and while showing traces of those movements in their songs, have nevertheless de veloped distinct and marked musical characteristics of their own. In par ticular they have shown a persistent fondness for contrapuntal singing. By a seeming second nature they are able to invent independent themes and combine them correctly with i Captive" and a Spanish air of som the principal air. They possess a 1 ber character by Alvarez, after rare gift for improvisation in coun terpoint, and they can thus add free, flowing lines of harmonic decora tion to the principal theme with a skill that can only be described as intuitional. To show how this skill has been evolved one would hear, if he wan dered into a Ukrainian village, some one start a song and sing alone for a few minutes. Presently he would hear another oice start singing an entirely different melody, but in perfect harmony with the first. Then the addition of a third voice would be heard also with a new and dif ferent melody. This would continue until perhaps five voices are heard in perfect polyphony.- From this na tive gift composers have derived their inspiration. They are aiming to build a national school that will preserve this centuries-old flavor and add only such technical-require ments as artistic necessity compels. Fundamentally they write in four parts, but they add more parts, even up to eight, as they see tit. They use modern harmony, of course, but they are careful to select uch chords as will heighten the orig inal significance-of the native melo dies without distorting them. SALEM CHORUS APPEARS. The Salem Women's club chorus gave the first of their season's con certs Monday night, December 4, at the First Methodist church of that city. The chorus appeared un der the direction of Paul Petri of Portland. They sang three songs with finish and a warmth of inter pretation that places them in the front rank of Oregon choral so cieties. Assisting was Stewart Wendell Tully, Daritone, who is as sistant in the music department at Oregon Agricultural college. Mr. Tully sang a group of songs of his own composition, filled with or iginality and showing decided tal ent. Accompaniments for the chorus were played by Miss Dorothy Pierce and Mrs. William Frederick Gasklns accompanied Mr. Tully. APPEAR IN EUGENE. Mrs. Jeanette Boyer-Xanten, vo calist, and Margaret Laughton, flu tist appeared last Tuesday night in Eugene under the auspices of the Eugene Bible university, which gave its second number of the se ries of concerts. Mrs. Xanten sang four groups of songs and arias with finish and beauty of tone and re sponded to several encores. Of par ticular interest to the people of Eugene was a song "The Mill Race," by P. Burton Arant, who has charge of the piano department of the uni versity. Mr. Arant accompanied Mrs. Xanten because of the illness of her instructor Paul Pietri. The flute groups by Margaret Laughton were an added feature. Both artists will appear in Eugene next year. STUDENTS PLAY IN RECITAL. Miss Eda Trotter and Miss Mar- jorie Trotter presented advanced and professional students in piano recital Monday night at the Lin coln high school auditorium. Each performer previously had appeared in private recital. Helen Trogen Foster won acclaim with her tone work and brilliancy. Louise M. Ja- cobsen gave- a- good interpretation of the Greig Concerto in A Minor, accompanied on the second piano by Miss Eda Trotter, and Stephen Whttforji played the sixth rhapsody of Liszt in his musclanly way. ORCHESTRA IS REVIEWED. An extended account of the work of the New York symphony series this season appeared in a recent issue of the Musical Observer and excerpts are given herewith: The first concert of the orches tra's Carnegie hall series was chiefly notable for Albert Spald- ings performance of the Brahms Concerto. For some unaccountable 1 . Fink Photo. Lora Jean Crockett, who baa been appointed organist at the East Side Christian church. , reason Mr. Damrosch elected to spend the first 45 minutes on the "Fifth Symphony" of Glazounow, which, like all the music of this Russian Henry Iladley, isfluent. mellifluous, correct, superficial and almost as full of Quotations as "Hamlet." The reminiscences in this case range through 'Sieg fried," "Trovatore," "Aida." the "Vw vv nrM Rvmnhnnv" nnil ATpn- ' delssohn.s "Midsummer - Night's Dream." At the other end of the i,..t Ta.niui wntr., f 'Founta'ns Rome" had its Innings once, more. One would like, to penetrate the se cret of the unprecedented propa ganda evidently back of this agree able but unimportant piece, which is fast threatening to turn It into a downright pest. A mple of weeks earlier Mr. Spalding had made clear in his first New York recital in two years that his art has gained superbly in depth, authority and poise. The aamirea American violinist played .the "Concerto" of Brahms on this oocaslon with a noble breadth and continenoe of style, as well as a profound grasp of the spirit of the music and a lofty feeling in setting it forth. One has . heard him draw a tone of greater mellowness -and more opulent beauty than either at this concern or hm Tireviniia rp.Ital J But of the heightened maturity of his work there can be no room for question. At tn" third concert of the New York Symphony series, November 5 popular concern occupied Itself chiefly upon the soloist, Mme, ualve. The? great French woman was scheduled to sing two airs with orchestra and five songs with piano accompaniment Almost in variably some alteration or re arrangement takes place in her bill of offerings and one is never cer tain what her numbers will be until she is in the midst of them. The present case was no exception. She deleted one of her orchestral airs and changed the order of the songs. She began with her proven battle horse, "O ma lyre immortelle," and the songs she sang were the ser enade from the "Pearl Fishers,' two 'by Gretchaninow, Berlioz's which she returned and gave, by way of additional favor, Valverde's "Clavetitos," with the usual accom paniment of swaying hips and wav ing arms. I was unable to hear the Gounod air, but it must have been less than usually effective if. Mme. Calve sang it as she did the songs which came later. As a ' matter of fact, the singer has never since her first concert last season quite reached the remarkable plane of excellence she attained on that memorable oc casion. Indeed, this time she fell considerably below it Unques tionably Mme. Calve still impresses the younger generation of music lovers as the survivor of a school of vocalism and a range of dra matic expression no longer culti vated ir this superficial and half baked age. But her singing at this concert sounded labored and ill poised, her vocal support ap peared vacillating and uncertain. her tone hollower and much less suave ,in its beauty and variety than the previous year. Occasionally she still accomplishes' surnrisinK things in the way of emotional tone coloring, and the old Calve spoke in the last measures of a poignant Spanish song by Alvarez as. well as the coquetry and intoxi cating abandon of "Clavelitos." On the whole, however, it was not the Calve of less than a twelve-month earlier. The orchestral part of the pro gramme consisted of Beethoven's "Eighth Symphony," a piece from Liadow's "Apocalypse" and Alfven's often promised "Midsommarvarka." "Midsommarvarka," or the "Mid summer Wake," is the name given to the rural festivities with which the eve of St. John's day (in June) is celebrated in Sweden. The piece is agreeable Sunday - afternoon music, not to say capital moving picture entertainment a rhapsody made up of melodies of a rustic na ture, adroitly put together and pleasant to hear, but calling for no closer scrutiny. MUSIC TO BE DISCUSSED. Music will be the subject of dis cussion at one of the sessions of the Oregon State Teachers' associa tion, which will meet in Portland at the Lincoln high school, Thursday and Friday, December 28 and 29. Thursday morning has been set aside for the consideration of music and the programme has been arranged by B- B. Walsh of Portland. Miss Lena Belle Tartar of Salem, will read a paper on the subject, "Music in Salem Junior High Schools." Mr. Cramer of The Dalles will sing the solos, "The Walnut Tree" .and "The Lotus Flower" (bchumann). Evelyn R. Applegate of Klamath Falls will read a paper on -rne Boy's Voice and Its Pos sibilities in High School." She will illustrate with a boys quartet from liiamatn Falls high school. SEASIDE CLUB AT WORK. SEASIDE, Or., Dec. 16. (SoeciaL) On Monday night, December 18, at the Central school auditorium, the Seaside Woman's club will present fcmil .Lnna, composer and pianist, in recital, assisted by Mrs. Hobart Gar Read, dramatic reader. The affair will be-a benefit for the scholarship loan rund of the federated clubs. The Seaside club is gradually get ting into working shapo for the year. The club took care of the membership drive of the Red Cross and the sale of Christmas seals and has made a donation for the com munity Christmas tree and- for the Community Service committee to be used for needy persons. A social afternoon will be held at Hotel Seaside Tuesday, January 9. CHURCH HAS NEW ORGANIST, Miss Lora Jean Crockett who has I heen appointed organist at the East side .unrisiian cnurcn, is a taientea young musician. She received her first training in Los Angeles and later studied at Washington State college with Mary Bennett Lundy In Spokane last season Miss Crock ett was a popular soloist and ac- icompanist at various club functions. She came to Portland to join her family, as her father is pastor of Itne juaat Kiae unnstian cnurch. Miss Crockett recently has ap peared before the Women's Adver tising club in a group of MacDowell numbers and was well received. She is a welcome addition in the circle of younger Portland musicians. MUSICIANS TO AID FUND. One of the music features of the holiday season will be the con tribution to the Wilson foundation fund by musicians of the city in eluding J. Ross Fargo, tenor; Miss Nina Dressel, contralto, and a small group of the Whitney boys' chorus, who will sing December 28 at 8 P. M. in the large parlors of Ho tel (Portland. The Whitney boys will smg a special arrangement of the "Holy City," and other Christmas music. Miss Mary Bullock and Ma rie Chapman MacDonald will be accompanists. - UNIVERSITY CHOIR SINGS. John Claire Montelth, baritone, was one of the assisting soloists in the second annual presentation of the St. Celia Mass, Gounod, by the University of Oregon vcspcT cholf ! ln-Eugene last bunaay atternoon. I Mme. Rose McGrew, soprano, and f John B. Siefert, tenor, Instructors (J 5 Cash WOO $2 Momtkly (11C M Cash 94 Monthly YOU CAN Yon can afford to pay 95 cash and 92, 94, 95 or more monthly You, therefore, can afford to buy now during: Factory Clearance Sale. 91 holda- one until Christmas, then pay balance of 94. 9.1 sends one home, then -or more monthly.. 101-T03 Tenth St. at Washington and Stark Sts, in the university school of -music, were the other soloists. . The two college glee clubs have been united to form the vesper choir, and under the able direction of John Stark Evans, head of the piano, de partment, the young choristers are doing work that is unusual misin terpretation, flexibility and beauti ful tone quality. Flans lor present ing other choral works later in the season are being formulated by "the management. REED OBSERVES CHRISTMAS. na& fftiioo-a nffir.iallv nbserved Christmas the past week with mus ical presentations of luietme senti ment. The annual Christmas organ recital given by Lucien E. Becker Tuesday and the Yule concert of the Reed chorus Thursday, in ad dition to chapel programmes, ex pressed the spirit or tne season. Dudley Buck's urana sonata in E Flat" was the outstanding num ber of Mr. Becker's programme. "Christmas in Sicily," by Pietro Yon, was repeated from a previous pro gramme bv Mr. Becker and added a unique touch. Other numbers were Yon's "Hymn of Glory," "Ca'n- tabile"-(Joseph Hongen), ana "con cert Caprice'' (Edward Kreiser). Monday's chapel programme fea tured the return appearance of the Thalii string quartet which played "Presto from the secona jvienaei- Hnh mmrtAt. And . "Canzonetta" from the first Menaeissonn quartet. On Wednesday Miss Genevieve Gil bert, soprano, sang "The Christ 1 Child" (Whitney), and "The Spirit) Flower (tjampDen hjjiuuj. duc wm. accompanied by a vionn oDJigatoj played bv Miss Marie Page. j Hans Hoerlein, an alumnus of; Reed college, gave the organ pro gramme Friday, when the chapel"! service was devoted only to Christ mas music and readings. His num bers were "Christmas i-astorai f UToriron "Tusii Rambino (Yon), and "Noel Ecosais" (Guilment). i The re-preeentation or tne nrist nvas concert by the Reed chorus as a Sunday popular concert this after noon in the municipal auditorium has been canceled. - SOCIETY GIVES CONCERT. The first of a series of concerts planned by the Beaux Arts, society was given last Monday night at the Sherman, Clay & Co. halL Eleanor Allen, president of the society, ex plained the purpose of the organiza tion, which Is composed of 22 talent ed Portland girls, Ida May Cash and Mary Bullock opened the pro gramme with a suite for two pianos by Chaminade. Vocal numbers were given by Leone Maurton. Marion Bennett. Duva and Ruth Agnew. Helen Herner read the last act of the play "Mercedes" (Thomas Bailey Aldrich),"ahd Kathryn Sharkey, vio linist, played the "Zigeunerweisen" (Sarasate). Margaret Notz and Jean Harper played the piano accom paniments. CALVE IN SONG RECITAL. An interesting account of the ap pearance of Emma Calve in song re cital appeared in tho Chicago Daily News November 28. The article follows: Some great singers remain great in spite . of their long- service in the art of music or, let us say, their age. 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AFFORD TO BUY A PHONOGRAPH NOW Schwan Piano Co. absence of some years, returned to Chi cago last evening and -gave a song re cital at Orchestra hall, is the samo ex uberant, temperamental artist that we have known for a number"" of years. She retains all that virile personality, that gay spirit, that volatile manner and vitality that she always had. And as for ner singing, every tone .that she emitted showed tho true artist and the musician. It was a distinct pleasure to hear her sing a cradle song by Gretchanlnoff with a soft, sweet voice, clear and true in pitch and with a, mezzo voice that was of exquisite quality. It was interesting to hear hen interpret "Home -and Mine," by the same composer, with sl tenser dramatic interpretation. It was pure lyricism that she put forth in "Platslr d' Amour" (Martini), an old Italian song, -and again she gave a striking contrast to her emotional rendition of "La Wort du Cosaque" (Muntowsko). But it brought back the Calve of her glory when she sang the "Habanera" from "Carmen," with her old-time vi vacity and charm, and she received a rousing! burst of applause from the de lighted audience, which filled the hall. POET KNEW MUSIC. Few of Shakespeare's readers real ize that the dramatist had a great knowledge of music. "Many," ac cording to Louis C. Elson, "are un able to follow some of the poet's most subtle metaphors because! they are unfamiliar with the musi-l cal works to which he refers, or with the song or melody whioh en riches the scene." In order to en lighten students of song and lovers of Shakespeare, Mr. Elson has writ ten "Shakespeare in Music," a fasci nating study of the subject bearing the sub-title, "A collation of the chief musical allusions in the plays of Shakespeare, with an attempt at their explanation and derivation, to gether with much of the original music." Mr. Elson discusses the musical instruments in use in Elizabethan times, writes of the dances o the period, the Bacchanalian music, and finds the poet's musical knowledg surer in vocal than in instrumental music An interesting chapter dis cusses Shakespeare's ballads, and another his lyrics, some of which have had many settings and are still frequently sung. The book is in valuable for students of Elizabethan music. It is now in the circulation department of the public library. MUSIC CLUB WILL MEET. Mr. and Mrs. Lucien E. Becker will entertain members and friends of the Monday Musical club to morrow night at their home at 380 East Fourteenth street North at a soiree musical. Those who will ap pear on the programme are Lucien E. Becker, organist; Mrs. Richard C. Williams, contralto; Mrs. Ray M. Lansworth, soprano, and Mrs. Bar reme Tyler Stone, accompanist. Nature's Rarest ival 'Wiliijn" p PtinihiRn(gp The one-shade rouee ras- mine perfumed that has al ready found a welcome place in many thousands of hand bags; it's the' fastest selling rouge on the market today. Puct a nature-bloom on the heeks of every type. 75c a box, with mirror and puff. ARemiller Company,New York, product, and a dominant feature in all Owl Drug Stores. r 1 tn mi mm J ill IrJlStlw. vm & k m r 1 7g 95 Cash 96 Monthly -OlfrO 95 Monthly Portland's Largest Piano Distributors The programme includes several numbers of particular interest and the affair promises to be delightful. MUSIC BRIEF'S. The glee club of St. Helen's hall appeared in concert on Wednesday night. The club is directed by Mrs. Mabel Hall Smith. ' J. Ross Fargo, tenor, will sing at the democratic dinner' December 8 at the Hotel Portland, when mem bers of that party will celebrate the birthday o Woodrow Wilson. . - . Miss Frances Young, who coaches with Dent Mowrey, presented her music class in Kelao in recital last Monday night. Two public recitals have been ar ranged for this week by the Ellison White Conservatory of Music. Caro lyn Hutchins, student of Elizabeth E. Woodbury, will appear Monday night in a dramatic interpretation of "Timothy's Quest," by Kate Doug las Wiggins. Advanced students from the voice, piano, violin, harp and speech arts departments will give a recital Thursday night. . 1 Russian music was the subject of I study at the Wednesday meeting of the New England Conservatory club, held at the home of Mrs. B. H. Bow man, when Miss Agnes Watt and Mrs. Grace Watt were hostesses. The programme was devoted to the (fonrlTidi on T'ng- LL uJSON-VKin- oFMUSic- TK ScKool of Artistic Ideokla New Term Just Opened Faculty of Sixteen Competent Instructors in PIANO, VOICE, VIOLIN, HARP, THEORY, HARMONY Dunning System for Beginners FRENCH, SPEECH ART, STAGECRAFT, COACHING 654 Everett St. PHONES Branch Studios In IRVINGTON MUSH & LANE BUILDING School of Drama and Expression MARIE B. VAN VELSOR Stare, Moving Picture. Elocution, At tention given to acquiring vocabulary, extemporaneous speaking and correc tion of faulty breathing and speech. 409 Bush Lane Bide. Main 2239 BEGINNERS 10 lessons guaranteed. Popular songs immediately. ADVANCED Short course for business Piano Playing. Hours 13 to 8 P. M. Practice rooms. 514-15-16-17 177 DADVCD Wash. Eilers Bldp 4th. For Rent Furnished music studio; 1 or 2 days a week. BF 135, Oregonian. 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