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W 11.. ME T r.·E LIFE November 23, 1928 Music· News and Events ~~Boris Godunoff" Is · Feature of Holiday Week at Civic Opera Popular North Shore Recitalist Leita, Dorfman to Present Georgian· Musicale Nov. 25 At its musicale Sunday, November 25, the Georgian will present Madame Letisia Leita, coloratura soprano, and Saul Dorfman, pia.nist. While American born , Madame Leita received her musical education and has spent a great deal of her life in Italy where she sang in the operas of Milan and other cities of that country. She will also be rememb~red by many in this country as an arttst over WMAQ from which station she g~ve a series of concerts. The flute-ltke <JUality of her voice has caused critics to liken it to that of Galli Curci's. Mr. Dorfman is a pianist of great promise. Though only sixteen years old, he is the winner of the Chicago championship in the Herald-Examiner piano tournament in which there were 15,000 contestants. Mr. Dorfman is a pupil of which his teacher, Glenn Dillard Gunn, is pardonably proud and his playing of several of Chopin's numbers is eagerly anticipated. Madame Leita will be accompanied by Ernau Akely, who is · the director of musicales at the Georgian. The program will be as follows : I The holiday spirit is reflected in the repertoire scheduled for Thanksgiving week by the Chicago Civic Opera company, commencing on Sunday afternoon, November 25, marking the advent of the fourth week of the present season of opera at the Auditorium. Following the usual custom of presenting at least one or two different works each week, including a revival from time to time to flavor th · operatic menu, the efforts of the Civic Opera company have met with the approval of music patrons, who have responded enthusiastically to the general excellence of the casts and repertoire by attending past performances in capacity numbers, and who have evinced great interest in what is to follow during the remaining eight weeks. Featuring the fourth week will be a performance Tuesday evening, November 27, of "Boris Godunoff," which has not been heard in Chicago in two years, but remembered for the discussion it created on its la.st appearance, when Vanni-Marcoux gave a great rendition of the same role-a role In which he has S"ored triumph after triumph-and in which he is again scheduled to appear on its presentation this season. Another feature that will greatly interest the devotees of the opera ballet, is the first performance this season of a complete dance divertissement to follow the performance of "Rigoletto," on Wednesday evening, November 27. "Carnival," a character divertissement was specially arranged by Vechslav Swoboda, premier dancer and ballet ·master of the Civic Opera ballet, to the music of Drigo-Liszt, and it will serve to introduce all of the premiere solo dancers of the company in the same program, thus affording them an opportunity of displaying their talents on a larger scale than has been the case so far this season. The soloists to appear are Maria Yurieva, premiere danseuse etoile; Vechslav Swoboda·; Muriel Stuart, premiere danseuse (at one time a pupil of Anna Pavlowa, after which she became a member of that artist's famous troupe, before joining the Civic Opera ballet, Harriet Lundgren, Julia Barashkova, Ruth Pryor and Edward Caton. While many members of the ballet are Chicago boys and girls, there are also a number of dancers recruited from many famous European organizations, which gives an international aspect to this important branch of the civic opera. The regular suburban matinee, falling on Sunday afternoon, December 2, will bring the second appearance this season of Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffman." . Rebuilt with an entire new production, its selection as the Suburban Special afternoon attraction proves its unquestioned popularity. 0 del mio dolce ardor Gluck La Folletta .. Marchesi La Partida .... Alvarez Mme. Leita II Overture .. Bach-Joseffry Preludes . . . . . ChOV! n Scherzo C Sharp Minor ...... . . Chopin Mr. Dorfman III Shadow Song-Dinorah ...... Meyer beer Mme. Leita Fantaisie Impromptu . ........... Chopin Scherzo B Minor . . . ......... Chopin The Chase . . . . . Paganini-Liszt Mr. Dorfman Sunlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ware Do Not Go My Love ... ... .... Hageman The Fountain ................ Wa,re Kiss Waltz . . . .. . ...... . Arditi Mme. Leita IV v Photo by Daguerre Josep~ine Lydston Seyl, (Mrs. Paul C. Seyl, H'i6 Westmoor road, Win- Award Juilliard Scholarship to Samuel Thaviu, Wilmette Samuel Thaviu of 338 Washington avenue, Wilmette, has just been awarded the J uilliard Foundation scholarship by the J uilliard School of Music in New York City. This extension scholarship entitles the holder to study under any approved teacher of music in the country. Mr. Thaviu will take advantage of this provision to continue his studies in piano and violin under Jacques Gordon and in harmony and theory under \Vatter Godell, whose only pupil is Mr. Thaviu. He has appeared with the Cincinnati and Chicago symphony orchestras recently and is playing over radio station WMAQ. He will give a recital for Lyon and Healy ~t 2:30 o'clock on the afternoon · of November 26. netka) well known soprano, is giving a number of recitals on the north shore during the pre-holiday season. She appears on the Winnetka Music club guest day program November 26. Other appearances in the next few weeks include: costume ,recita} in Frenc~ for Le Circle Francais, December 4; program for \\1omen s soctety of Wmnetka Congregational church December 5 · costume program at the Orrington hotel (with broadcast) Dec~mber 9. ' Isabel Molter to Make Woman's Symphony Gives Concert Tour in South Firit Concert Sunday Isabel and Harold Molter are leaving this week on a brief concert tour which will take them into the Southern states including Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky. Recently Mrs. Molter had the happy experience of singing before !500 students of the Wendell Phillips Senior High school (colored) of Chicago. Although it was a 40-minute program of the best classical songs, the spontan· eous bursts of applause showed the appreciative interest of the young people and Mrs. Molter says she experienced one of the real thrills of her musical career on this occasion. Mr. Molter, her accompanist, gave brief explanations of the songs sung in foreign languages. The Woman's Symphony orchestra of Chicago, of which Ethel Leginska is conductor, will have the first concert of the season Sunday, November 25, at 8 :15 o'clock, at the Eight Street theater, Wabash avenue and Eighth street. Jan Chiapusso, pianist, will be the soloist, and Ebba Sundstrom will conduct. The program is as follows : Prelude from "Hansel and Gretel" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humperdinck Gaelic Symphony Mrs. H. H. A. Beach Symphony Poem . . . . . . . . . . Smetana Concerta No. 2 in G Minor . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Saens Serenade, Opus 3 .. ...... . .. Weiner Finlandia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sibelius SUNDAY MATINEE RECITALS Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Harold Bauer will give a recital for two pianos Sunday afternoon at the Studebaker theatre. The program is sponsored by Bertha Ott, Inc. Andre Skalski, pianist, gives a recital the same afternoon at the Playhouse under similar auspices. U.S. and England Faithful to Opera's Native Tongue America and England are the only countries where opera is sung in any language that pleases the impresarios to use, according to Charles E. Watt, in his article in the current Music News magazine. Opera and · song reFritz Kreisler, · violinist, will be citals are given in all languages, with heard in his second recital of the seaa perference given to any language son Sunday afternoon, November 25, other than English. at 3:30 o'clock, at Orchestra hall. SYMPHONY HERE DEC. 10 Marion Anderson, celebra_ted colored WHITEMAN THIS SUNDAY contralto, will be the soloist in the secPaul Whiteman (himself) and his ond of this season's Little Symphony orchestra will appear in concert at the concerts at the New Trier auditorium Auditorium theatre Sunday evening, December 10. ' November 25.