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· 5& WILMETTE LIFE May 18, 1928 Twentieth North Shore Music Festival Opens .Monday Soloists, Choruses, Chicago's Symphony Will Feature Week The stellar CYeilt of the mu sic:tl .sea. L)ll, the :\orth Shore ~lu : iC' fe stiYal, will engage the att<:ntion of the community next week. It begins the 20th spring sca.·on \Yith the concert ~[onday eYening, and closes with the customary Saturday afternoon children's matinee and Saturday evening concert. The Korthwestern university gymnasium will be given 0\'Cr to this event. Following the custom of other years, the interior of the great auditorium wili be hung with baskets and garlands of flov· . ·ers. The mixed choru.; of 600 singers will again occupy the stage, together with members of the A Cappella choir and the male chorus, new this season,. of a thousand members. Saturday the children will take their places on the tiers of singers' seats that ri·3e at the rear of the orchestra and soloist platform, and, in the vast spaces of the immense concert room. thousands of Evanstonian.s, north shore townsfolk and festival patrons who come long di·.stances every season will fill every available space for the music's enjoyment. Ranks at the Top N orthwestern gymnasium gives an impressive setting for the music festival. "Great Is Jehovah" ... . . ..... Schubert "Pilgrim's Chorus" ....... . .... Wagner Mass Male Chorus Concerto for Violin ......... . Saint-Saens (Subject to Change) Intermission Group of A Cappella Numbers United German Male Chorus FIRST CONCERT The Sorcerer's ,t\J:lprentice ........ Dukas Jlondny, 1\lay 21, 1928, at 8: 1& Aria, Mad Scene, from "Lucia di Festival Chorus of 600 Singers Lammermoor" ... . ..... .. .... . Donizetti A Cappella Choir Dance, G Minor ..... .. ....... . .. Dvorak Chicago Symphony Orchestra ~~a~~ Male Chorus, Conductor-1\Ir. Lutkin "Land-Sighting" .. . ....... , ...... Grieg l\larch of Homage ................ Wagner Aria, Tannhauser, "Han of Song" . . . . .. ...... . .......... . ......... .. Wagner FOURTH CONCERT l\ladame Molter Saturday, l\Iuy 26, 1928, at 2:11) l\fanzoni Requiem ... .. . ... .. .. . ... . . Verdi Soloi!'t Isabel Richardson l\Iolter, Soprano Florence Macbeth, ~opnmo Alvene Resseguie, Contralto Children's Chorus of 1,500 Voices Eugene F. Dressler, Tenor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rollin l\1. Pease, Baritone Conductors-:Mr. Stock, )lr. Beattie Prelude, "Konigskinder". . Humperdlnck Group of Children's Songs SECOND CONCERT Polonaise, Mignon .............. Thomas Tuesday, J\Iay 22, 1928, at S:lii Symphonic Poem, "Dance of the Soloists Skeleton" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Saens Marguerite D' Alvarez, Contralto · Group of Children's SongsRichard Crooks, Tenor a. :\lolly on the Shore ........ Grainger Chicago Symphony Orchestra b. The Irish \Vasherwoman ... Sowerby Conductor-Mr. Stock · Intermission Overture, Oberon ...... . .. . ... .... \Veber Shadow Song from "Dinorah" Meyerbeer Aria, Faust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gounod \Ynltz from "The Bat" ........ Strauss Suite, "Ruses d'Armour" .. . .. Glazouno\v Children's Songs "In the Garden," from Symphony, FIFTH CO~CERT "Country Wedding" ... . . . . Goldmark Suturdny, 1\Iay 26, 1928, nt 8: l& Aria, Samson and Delilah, Soloists "My Heart at Thy Swee t Voice ...... . Claire Dux, Soprano . ... Saint-Saens Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone Swedish Rhapsody ...... , .... Alfven Augmented Festival Chorus, 1,000 Singers Intermission A Cappella Choir Hindou Love Song ..... Rimsky-Korsakow Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concert \Valtz No. 2, F Major, Conductors-Mr. Stocl{, Mr. Lutkin . .............. . ....... ... .. Glazounow Overture, "Sakuntala" ........ Goldmark Prize Song, 1\Iastersingers ...... Wagner Prologue from "Pagliacci" .. Leoncavallo Bacchanal and Finale of Overture ... S~·mphonic Poem, "The Sirens" ... Gliere ... Wagner Aria, "E Susanna non Vien" .... Mozart THIRD CONCERT First Movement, ·~sea Symphony" .... Thursday, l\Iny 2-t, 1928, at 8: lii ........... , . . . . . . . . Vaughan Williams Soloists Intermission Dorothy Speare, Soprano Aria, Largo a Factotum, Jacques Gordon, Violinist "Barber of Seville" .......... Rossini 1\lale Chorus, 1,000 Voices Introduction to Act II and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ride of the Valkyries . ....... Wagner Conductors- 1\Ir. Stock, Mr. Lutkin, Aria de Lia, "L'Enfant Prodigue" .... Mr. Reckzeh · .. ............................ Debussy Overture, "Liebesfruehling," G. Schumann Rhapsody No. 2 .................... Liszt Aria, "Charmant Oiseau" from Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah .. "La Perle de Bresil" ... ..... . ... David ................ . .............. Handel Week's Program The North hare festival ,rank among the supreme music festivals of the country. Each year its program is planned to offer variety by way of innovations in choru·,; arrangements, combinations of artists and numbers. Among- these innovations this season will be the presence on the program for the opening concert of a quartet of north shore artists. These singers will include habet Richardson Molter, soprano; Alvenc Resseguie, contralto: Eug~ne F. Dressler, tenor, and Rollin M. Pease, ba'3S. Many Notable Artists A second high spot will be the appearance for the first time in the Middle \Vc . t of Dorothy Speare. who since being graduated from Smith college ha'5 achieved success as a novelist and then as an opera singer. Claire Dux, who has sung in all the important opera houses of the world, will also be an artist star. and Jacques Gordon, concert-meister of the Chicago symphony orchestra, a violinist of surpassing skill, will at o appear as soloThe United German Male ist. choruse'5 of Chicago will make up the men's chorus ensemble to feature Thursday evening's program, supplemented by 200 local men singers. A singing of the Manzoni Requiem Mass of Verdi will he a program innovation. ~{arguerite D'Alvarez and Lawrence Tibbett of the Metropolitan Opera company, the latter making his fourth consecutive festival appearance, Richard Crooks and Florence Macbeth witt be the other artists. Noted Chicago S,ymphony Orchestra to Play for Festival Large Chorus of Children The children's programs of Saturday afternoon are among the pleasantest features of festival week with the recurring seasons. Under the direction of Prof. John W. Beattie, director of the department of music in the Evanston oublic schools. a children'·,; chorus of 1.500 voices will sing. the prelude to uKonigskindcr" by Humperdinck. and several groups of children's songs. The soloist will be Florence ~facbeth. a delightful accompaniment to the children's numbers. A feature of the Saturdav evening program will be the closing number. the singing of the great "Hallelujah" choru~ from "The MC'ssiah" by Handel. Frederick Stock's famous Chicago Symphony orchestra will .as usual contribut~ an important part to the music festival next · week~