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WILMETTE LIFE December 23, 1927 ·Music News 3nd Events Kenilworth Club OPERA IN BRILLIANT Musicale HOUDAY REPERTOIRE Enjoys _ by String Quartet Sunday Matinee Omitted Thia Week; "Die Fleclermaua"· New Year's Eve Offering Tht.' most brilliant period of Chicago's ririe opera is at hand. leading through thl' week to the gala New Y car's eve ·perf0nnance Saturday, December 31, when Johann Strauss· merry and melodiou s operetta "Die Fkdermaus" will he s un~ in En~lish under its name in the \'t' rnacular, "The Rat." Till' sparklin g holiday week follows a pre -C hri stmas week rich with invitin~ offerings for those who seek the inspiring- tranquillity oi grand opera after the turmoil of a daY of Christmas s·h opping. Thursday.' December 22. hrought a rcYival of "The Juggler of Notre Dame." with ~'fan· Garden in one of the choicest gems o(hcr remarkable rt'pertoirc. Saturday. December 24. afternoon's mat inec will he one of the most popular .. bills of the season, .. Madame Butterfl\'," with Edith Mason and a big cast. at1d on Saturday night "Tosca" will he sun~ at popular prices. This Christma~ en' offering wilf introduce Leone Kruse in her first American performance of the name role, Fernand Ansscau as the paii1ter, ·and Luigi Montesanto~ in h.is colorful and electrifying performanct· of the villainous tYrant of Rome. Vittorio Trevisan and oth~r familiar artists will complete the cast. The opera will he fotlowed hy a big ballot. Omit · Sunday Matinee The usual matinee will bt~ dispt·nsed with on Christmas dav. as commuters who constitute the prii1cipal patronage Sundav afternoons are assumed to he too htts\· at the festi\' t' hoard to venture to the Auditorium. The rush will start Mon ria~· evening, Decem her 26. when "La Giaconda," one of the most lcl\'ish h- cast operas in the r~' pert0ire. witt he ""Ill! with Rosa Raisa, {. vrt'lla 'an r.orcfon . .\ugu.;.ta Lenska. Cl~arles ~r arshalt. Cesare Formichi and Cha.;;e Bar0rneo in the leadin~· rolt·s. and Roberto Moranzoni conducting. The hallet will take part in seyeral scetw..;, adrfin~ the famou~ "Dance of . the Hours" as its fin ;.! contribution of tlw t'\'t'n;tw. T u e s d a,. t' V<'ninfr\ r<'octi·ion of "T.ou ;s t'" will hrinl.!' into st·rvire tht> identical cast which made tht' rP,·i\'al ,f the fa m ou~ F rt' n ch m usir clra n1 a so l · rilli:-~n t an af1 air rerl'nt h·. ~r ;trY G:trden . F~m:wr1 Anss<'au. ~faria Clae,sens ;111(! Yanni - ~f arcoux wilt ·ht· l)romitient · in the t'ast of thirh·-fl n·. sinl!im~· uwlrr r,inrJ..!'io Polacco's. lt·:ult' r-.hip . The hallrt will appear in tht' brilliant ~font martre sce nr . Next Recitalist N a'lional Bureau A'ids in Planning · Christmas Music So g-reat has hccnme the prcsentatiotr of Chri~tmas mu ~ ic hv~ ·a riou s groups all ·over tht· country that here has he~~~ .evidcncl'<l a need for a clearing houst· of information on such mu sic. An dfort to meet that need has just het.'n made hy the Xationa1 Bureau for the A<h;ancemcnt of Music. That hureau ha s hccn actiYe in promoting- t ht· idea of outdoor Christmas caroling, tirst re\·ivt·d on a large scalc in thi s country hy the Citv of Detroit. To ih iniormatin material <'1n <:aroling·. the hureau ha -. just added a _pamphll't. " \I u sir for Christmas." which con·r.... vanous kinds of musi\·al perio rmanet:s at Christmas time . That pamphlt·t t..., intended as a ~uide. nM onl~· i(Jr churrhes and Sunday schools. httt f,,r parent-teacht.'r as . . nciation,, public schools, voung pt·ople's :-.ocieties. Girl Scout atul BoY Scout or~aniza tions, Campfirt· (~irf~. community ct.·nters and settlement.. Besides sugg-estions for organizing and presenting- all sorts of indo.n r music programs for Christmas. the pamphlet contains lists of the Christmas anthems, cantata s and other compositions w'h ich are most widd.\· used. It also incln<les lists of th e best recording·s of Christmas musir for the ohono~raph and the plan:r ' piano. Copies of the hooklet arc heing distributed. without charge, from the headquarters of the ~ational Ru rcau for the ' Atlvanc<'lllent of ~ftt,ic at 45 \\'e \ t 45t-h street. ~t·w York CitY. The fo i'trth Nlitinn of the hun·an\ hookl<'t 011 . "Christmas Eve Carolim( has iust appeared. This . re,·isrt) pamphlet tdls ho\\· Dttroit organized the carolinl!. Qi\·e..; ~tH!g-estion;; fnr ·the· format ion ot rarol l!rouns and idea s a s to costumes. c~trol hookh·t-. a!ld tmhlic ih·. This lratld i' al.;.o ohtained upc .,n at)plication to tlw hurt.·au . By V. H. On Friday evening of last week at the Kenilworth club, the Gordon String quartet under the leadership of Jacques Gordon, violinist, gave an evening 'o f heauty and harmony long to he remembered. The ensemble work of this quartet is little less than perfection, the fine shading in tone and \·olume delicately and exquisitely done. At the dose of an evening of music of this sort. a listener 'feels an .e motion of uplift and- it seems almost too severe a break to arise and put on one's wraps and leave for home with only a word perhaps or just a . nod. so the c~mmittec in charge offered a simple and appropriate bit of refre shment. The audict e lingered and had coffee and discussed the program and felt that relief of spirit after the opportunity to express its pleasure. It was an innoYa tion to have this social hour at the Kenilworth dub after a concert of this kind hut it proved· a great success. The quartet gave the following numbers: Quartet in G Minor, Opus 10 .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · . . Debussy Quartet in F. Flat Major . . Dittersdorf Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernest Rloch Serenade .·............. Eouard L~lo An · Old Castle ...... ·.. ·. . . M ussorg-ski Titania . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Spt·aight Juilliard School Awards Fifty-Seven Fellowships Tito in Finale "Linda di Chamounix" wilt he sung for the la st time this sea son on \Vedncsday night and it will also mark Tito ~chipa's ·last appearance of the season. In addition the cast will include Toti Dal 11 onte. l.oma Doont' Jackson. Luigi ~~ ontesanto, \'irgilin 'Lazzari. Yittorio Tre,·isan and a di~tinguislwd cast. Roh<·rto ).foranzoni will conrluct. Th·· ~t':l~ou·~ fit·st 111-al'ing- nf "Lnhf'ngrin" is nntwun··,·cl for Thut·sclar t·\'Pnillg, WhPl1 thl" gn·nt 'Y:lg"llt'l' i:lll lll:lStPI'J)i t' C'(' will t-nlh..:t thf' ~f'rYkf'~ of Ll"ntw Kru~t", r.\Tf'l1:1 Yan r:onlon. Hf·llt· :\faison. T!olwrt Ringling . .·\lvxntwl·· r Kipni:-< and lloward Pt···~ fton . :\Jiss Yan c: .. nlon i-.: f:Pnilinr H.imini, Yirgilio Lnzzari, and Cha5ltIn addition, l\fmf'. Toti Dal as Or·t rud. hut :\Ji~~ Kna~ .... )ft·. )f;li..,nn Baronwo. nnrl :\tr·. Hingling an· lWW, nntl f:t\'o t·itP l\lontt· will hE> heard in an intea·polation Anotht-r itt-m conm··lliiH·n.: t·f Ow <·omylany this s.-:tsun. in tht' st'c:ond a<'t. Jf pn ry (; . ,\.dwr will (·onclll('f th.- t'··\·h·aJ. trihuting to the brilliancE- nf the pf'l'Tlt1·1·t· will lu· no Jl<'l'foa·manr·t· Frillav forman('t> will bt- tlw insl'l'tion of n l:iallet, night. · tn hf' dall<'<'d by the .-nth·.:- cor))s, to ~tt·auss' waltz, "The Beautiful Blue Mary Carden Satur~av Danuhe," though th-f' ol'iginal "Fleder"J.p .J .. ngi··UJ' cl·· ~otrf' n:uw>' will he· maus" wnltz will ' natumtly be retained in ~tiiW ~;ttunl:t,· nftf'rnoon lw Mnn· r::n- tht.· !<('hi'<'. "Tiw Dat" will hE> 5lung in an rl··n. ('· ·'-':IJ'P Formir·hi, F.flcotinr·cl f'ott'f"Uil, F;ngli~h translation. Henry 0. 'Vt>ber will l·)Sf' :\fojic·a, Dt.·sirt· Deft't>l'E', Hownrct l'~tnduct. The J uilliard School of Music, awarded fifty-seven fellowships in the Graduate school and granted thirty-eight scholarships in the Institute of Musical Art to applil·ants who took the September examinations. A late announcement by Dean Ernest Hutcheson states that Leopold Auer has accepted a place on the faculty of the gr~duate school and that he will give personal instruction to a limited munber of selected violin students. Florence Page Kimball has also been added to the facultv and The coming of ~f aurice Ravel to wilt assist M m4.·. ~Iarcdla Se1i1brich :\merica is an eyent of real historical who is the head of the singing departimportance. He will he guest director ment. oi the Chicago Symphony orchestra earlv this season. Ravd is one of the GREATNESS OF BEETHOVEN hcst. known of living composers. and A recent essa,· hY a Rt·ethoven sinet' the death of Saint -Sat.'llS and authority. assert; th;~t the great com- Puccini, he and Richard Strauss must post·r's instrumental works contain. prt.'sumahly stand as tlu.· <ll-ans of the "at least seven hundrt.·d tunes, each one creative musicians of the last generafull of character." And most of the.m tion. It is true that l{avel is ten nars oril.{inal. younger. than Stra.uss, hnt ht' hecame noted early in lift·, having written HEIFETZ RETURNS Habanera in 1895, when he was twenAfter two years "glohe-tnHting" ty, and his famous Pa\·a tH' pour ttnt.· in] ascha Heifetz is hack for an ex- fante dcfuntc wht.'n he was t wen tvfour, · and othe-rs of hi~ mo :-; t nnted tt·nsive American tour. works hcfore he was thirt v. ------------ ---·--~-Ravel's musical histon· -has ht·en a Pa·estcii\' and Antouio Xi<:oii (' h (:iot-gio curious one. His style aiHI manner apl'ol:u·t:o ('OildUC'ting. ' With tlw Xt·w Yt'ar's l~n' bill of "The parently have gradually changed. His nat," ~atunlay night, the ('Oill)lany will early works arc of the sort that must makt> ont' of Uw most intt'a·esting (lt·pat·turt·s whi<.·h has t'Yl:'l' nuu·lied its his- appeal to all the music-loving world, tory, hy pre~enting an ope1·etta. with all and ,<-Jth them his reputation was tlw la\·i:-;hne~!'l which brings the rt-guhn (]ttickly made and quickly became unig-!·a tHi (l)lern !-! of its rep('rtoi re to so magmfic-ent a standard of :l('hit' \'('Jllt'nt. Tlw \'ersal. His later works, many of them, lengthy l'a!-lt of the ·world-famous .Johann are of a nature that only very ad~trnuss mast~rpiec·e will inl.'ludf> such vanced and erudite musicians and munota hips n H nosn Ha isa. lr('Jlt' Pa \'lOska sicians with a distinct trend toward l':li not· l\J a a·lo, A li<·t~ d 'I Jt>rm:tnoy, Ln<"ill~ :\lt>UH<·l, ~ha rles lln.ckf'tt, l"orrest La mont modernism will care for. .lost> 1\foji<·:t, Lodtl\'ko Oliviet·o, Cia('om~ Joseph,. Szigeti, violinist, who made his debut at the age of 13 in his native city o.f Budapest, will give the next program of the artist-recital series, which is sponsored hy the \Vinnetka Music club. He appears at New Trier auditorium Monday evenin~. January 9. While comparatively new to America. Mr. Szigeti has already been accepted as great. He has been for more than a decade ott.e of the mo's t popular \'iolinists in Europe. He has appeared as soloist in America with such gn·at conductors as Stokm\·ski anrl Stnck, and in Europe with the fatuous Hichanl Strauss and manv other notables of the baton. · Music ·Lovers Await With Interest the Arrival of Ravel Schlusnus Caotivates Audience at Recital By L. F. H. One of th-: most succ(·ssfttl oi tl11· Artist- Recital series. sponsored hy t ht' \\'inn e t k a ~fusir cluh. wa~ gin·n Thursday evening, Dt.·rcmher 1.;, h~· Heinrich Schlusnus, the new Cnman haritone oi the Chicago Ci,·ic Opna company. Tht audience .was most appreciat iF and at the end of the- program would not lea,·e, hut kept clamoring- for m nrl'. Schlusnus leads us to heights oi t hl' real art of sing-in~. His ~uperh vr·ir~· orp-an. com hi ned with hi~ rarl.' arti :·;t r~· and musical un<lerstanditH! make hitil utterly satisfying- to his au<litnce. ~~ r. Schlusnus expn·ssed his adm ira tion for the ).-fiddle \\·est. its enthu.;i asm and spontaneity. He hope~ t1) return to America in 1929. V.le of the north shore surch· would we1come him.· and look fon\·ard to tIll· opportunitv of hearing- him ag-ain. FEET MUSIC ' Frederick Stock spoke before the Chicago City Club a few weeks ago, and after declaring that jazz appeals to the most brutal instincts. he added: "The music of the eighteenth century appealed to the head, that of the ninekenth to the heart, and this of the twentieth centurv appeals to th<: feet." · MUSSOLINI LOVES MUSIC M ussolini is passionately fond of t hl' His talent is such that it is hl' he could have achieved considerable eminence as a violinist had he ~e violin playing his profession. When he is wearied with the vexa tions of statecraft he finds great pleasure aa~d much hcneficial relaxa tion in taking up his \'iolin and play ing for an hour or so. ~ieved violin.