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WlLMET.TE LIFE Decem~r 28. 1928 Music News and Events RAISA, GARDEN HOLD OPERA FANS' INTEREST Outstanding Stars ·to Give Initial Performances of Season Next Week Symphony Soloist Sell Subscriptions Foundation to Aid for Seats in New Vocal Pupils With Wacker Drive Opera Studies in Europe Three young singers now studying in Chicago. names not yet known, will go .to Europe next fall for a year of ope ratic training, with all expenses paid. If they make good they will have a second year o f E uropean ttaining and experienc e, leading to auditions for engagement with th e Chicago Civic Opera company. . At the sa me time, three or · more additional Chicago students of vocal art will be se nt abroad for a like fJeriod of musical education, and so on indefinitely. This endowment for the benefit of Chicago stude nts in the art of singing has bee n inaugurated by Samuel Insui!. president of the Chicago Civic Opera company. He has been joined h)· Stanl ey Fi eld. Ernest R. Graham and L o ui s B. Kuppenheimer, of the Chicago Opera directorate, in establi shing the Chicago Civic Opera Europ ean Scholarships. which is the name of th e foundation . It is anticipated that others to whom thi s encouragement of operatic education appeal s will join in the enterpri se , and that the resources and scope of the foundation will grow accordingly. This is the first step in pursuance of the program indicated by Mr. Insull when the plans for the new opera house in Wacker Drive were announced early in the year, namely, thatone of the important projects for the future was for the musical education of worthy young Americans. The public sale of subscription seats for the Civic Opera House, new home of the Chicago Civic Opera at 20 \Vacker Drive, will open February 1, according to an announcement just made by Manager Herbert M. Johnson of the company. Present subscribers were called upon for their renewals in letters sent out today by the company, and January 12 has been set as the last day for renewals. This early closing date has been named because of the tremendous amount of detail work necessary in changing old subscribers from their present locations to those in the new house. The announcement also reveals the fact that while the number of scats in the new house is practicalJy the same as that of the Auditorium, there has been a considerable increase of capacity on the main floor. There will be a few more seats selJing at $6 and an entire new section selling at the box-office at $5. The $4 seats will be located in the dress circJe and have also been increased in numbers. Likewise, !he $3 seats in the balcony. Seats at the lower prices from · $1 to $2.50 are located in the upper bakony and are considerably reduced in number. ~o dollar seats will be sold on subscription. There are no gaJleries in the -new house. There will be a fulJ thirteen weeks of opera during the 1929-30 season first in th~ new Civic Opera House, it was announced. Subscription seats for the full series will be sold for the price of twelve seats at the box office. The new scale of prices includes seats on the main floor back of the twenty-sixth row at $5.00. Otherwise the scale remains practically as it was in the old · house. There are no posts or other obstructions in the Civic Opera House and every seat has a full view of the stage. Rosa Raisa and Mary Garden, for several years lhe idols of Chicago opera-goers, are to make their first appearances with the Chicago Civic 9pera company this week, thus bringmg to a brilliant climax the ninth week of the operatic season. Mme. Rai sa's return to the Chicago stage for the remainder of the season will be one of the features of the New Year 's eve gala performance of "Norma," th e dramatic opera of Vincenzo Bellini. Miss Garden will be seen first on January 2 in "Sapho" one of her favorite roles. ' Other features of the coming week are th e first performances of "The Marriage of Figaro" and "L'Amore dei tre Re ," Mary Garden making her second Chicago appearance this year in the latter. Mme. Raisa will have opposite· her iri the cast for "Norma," Charles Marshall as Pollione, the Roman proconsul in the opera, who, as a member of the . Roman forces invading ancient Gaul becomes enamoured of Norma th~ priestess, thus giving foundation to the ~ramatic story which follows. Others Gitta Gradova, pianist, will appear as m the cast will be Coe Glade, Alice d'Hermanoy, Lodovico Olivicro and soloist with the Little Symphony orVirgilio Lazzari. · chestra Monday evening,. January 14, Garden in "Sapbo" . at the New .Trier auditorium. · Miss With M~ry Garden in her ·first appearance m "Sapho" will be Lucille Gradova h~s appeared with all the imMeusel, Maria Claessens, Rene Mai- portant orchestras in America. Her son,· Jose Mojica, Desire De'frere success in the last season's engagement Edouard Cotreuil and Antonio Nico: here with the Little Symphony was River Forest Audience lich. such as to compel her re-engagement. The w.eek beginning with the · SunEnjoys Lusk Performance day matmee presentation of "L'Elisir Her art is described as sensitive and Milan Lusk, north shore violinist d'Am~re," Donizet~i's musical comedy, poetic, comhining fire and briJliance played recently before a capacity audi~ with a tec!'t_!lical equipment equal to all ~eaturmg .Marghcnta Salvi, the charmcnce of music lovers in River Forest mg. Spamsh colorature soprano, Tito rtemands upon it. and, according to the local paper "gave S~htp~, the ~ell loved lyric tenor, and an excellent performar1ce bef~re an V1ttono 1 revisan buffo Lasso POSTPONE MUSIC MEETINGS audience which · was both sympathetic "Norma" follows o~ Monday evening HEAR PIANIST SUNDAY The Senior Music club. of New Trier and enthusiastic. He brought to his a~d "Don. Giovanni" which was so numbers a warm, human quality makE. ~ober~ Schmitz, pianist, wiH apHigh school has postponed its next h1.ghly p~atsed at its first appearance, pear 111 rec1tal Sunday ~fternoon, · Janmeeting until January 9 because many ing them a delight to the senses." w11l he gtven Tuesday evening. E.dward Barry in Oak Leaves wrote: uary 6, at the Stt1debaker theater. Chi"The Marriage of Figaro" will be en· of the members are ill. The Junior Music club has also · postponed its "Mtlan Lusk, the 'distinguished violin- cago, under auspices of Bertha Ott, hanced by entirely new scenery in the meeting. ist played River Forest last night. Inc. mQ...d.ern style :which has excited - exFor most, 1f not for all the audience travagant comment from those . who hav~ seen it. The c\st' ca.ils for three Vanni-Marcotix, Alexander Kipnis Vif- this was the first sight of Lusk sine~ lea~·ng sopranos, and Eva Turner, torio Trevisan, Chase Baromeo:' Inci- his recent return from Europe. It was Gives Foreign ~tchings Edl~ Mason and ~[arion Claire have dentql Dance!'! by the Ballet; Conductor goo~ t? hear the splendid singing ton~ toN. U. Art Department' f · Giorgio Polacco. ' B<>eq g.tven_ these assignments. Richard Wednesday eYening, January 2 at 8- of his Instrument again, and come into A collection · of etchings, including contact with a personality that ranks 1 one 1 ! smg~ ~~e role o~ Cou.nt SAPHO with Mary Garden, ' Lucille 300 Italian, French, German and Dutch AlmavtYa; V1rgl11o Lazzari that of Meusel, ~aria CTae~sens, Rene Maison, among the most interesting in ~he cn:ations, among them several RemBarber, Figaro· V,:itfl'lWa ~f'.llLIO.::ln .T~se !"iOJtca. Desire Defrere, Antonio world of contemporary music." brandts, has recently bee·n given the . have the part 0~~~ .lt TTVif/"""!'l'~ N~~ho~JCh, · Edouard Cotreuil: Conductor, Mr. Lusk has many engagements to .. . tt Von . ar o o a ; ose Gwrgw Pola<'co. art department of Northwestern uniMoJ_J~a Will ~.11dltl'q~· · ~; :. . ·T hursday · ~eni.IJg, January 3, at . 8- P!ay n~xt month in Chicago. Begin- versity by A. E. Gross, Chicago colBastiiO. Roberto Moranzoni will con- THE MARR!AGE OF FIGARO with Eva mng w1th the New Year, he will also lector. . duct. Tur!ler, Edtth Mason, Marion Claire, t~ke 01~ a few more violiu students at The. gift was announced recently "Th B b f S . , . Luctlle Meusel, Maria Claessens .Jose ev1 11 e wtth Mar- Mojica, Giuseppe Cavadore, Richard hts residence studio in Wilmette . . e ar _er o by Mtss Anna Helga Hong, head of ghcnta Salv1 and Charles Hackett is Bonelli, Eugenio Sandrlni, Vittorio the department. They will be used the Saturday night offering and "Der Trevlsan, Virgilio Lazzari; Conductor, she states, in the teaching of art Announce Dates for Civic Rosenkavalier" r'JI b · . Roberto Moranzoni. . ~1 e g!ven agaiJ? at Saturday matinee. .Jan\H\ry 5, at 2. h Orchestra Program Series history. t e unday matmee, closmg the nmth L'AMORE DEI TRE RE d'he LoYe of Last week, under Miss Hong's guidwee . Three Kings), with ·Mary Garden, Maria . The Civic Orchestra, Frederick Stock ance, students at the S~hool of Speech · ~. C_Iaessen!'l, Rene Maison, Lodovfco 011- director, and Eric DeLamarter conduc~ W k were conducted through the American Tht. ee I · · vtero. .Jose Mojica, Lui~f Montesanto I .,._! cllompl~te rei> rtoire for the week Virgilio Lazzari; Conductor, o'torgl~ tor, wiJl give the first of its 'series of exhibit of the Art Institute, Chicago, s as: o ows · Polacco. concerts at Orchestra haU Chicago and also saw the No Jury show. L'~~~~~h mD!~:t;Jirem~er ~· at ~ Saturday evening, January 5 at 8- S~mday afternoon, January Ther~ i~;~ with Mafgherrfa \al~l. ~~f~~bei~ :r;~ui~'Fprl~~S.Vli~t~o ~~~~) 'Wa~g~e~~~ will be three other concerts, February Northwestern P~ofeaaora T ~ Ti~o Schl~, .~art~ J:ii_ll, Vittorio Salvi Constance Eberhart, Charles Hac- 24, Ma~ch 24, and May 5. The last rMv s~n . Condu or· Rouerto Moransonl. kett, Giacomo Rfmlnf · Lodovfco Oliviero named 1s the great annual festival of Ne;.n ;~a~;enkv' D~c~mbe~ 3/' at 8- Virgilio LAzzari. Vltt~rio Trevlsan. · Con~ th_e Civic Music association. There Prl .L. · · e aa er ormance, ductpr, Roberto Moranzoni ' Nor~hwestern university professors Ro c~R· .· 1.50 to ,SlO.OO-NORMA with Sunday matinee ..January 6 at 2- DER w1ll be no concert in April. attend.mg. the 43rd annual meeting of 1J1t, alsa, Allee d Hermanoy, Coe Glade ROSENKAVAT IER (Th K' the Amertcan Historical association at ~~!_7 e s MLaarshall, Lodovlco Obllvlero: Rose) with Frfda Leide~ EnJ~~t ~~ 8~he IN RECITAL SUNDAY ·~a·· o zzarl ; Conductor, Giorgio Maria Olszewska Alice' d'H n, Indianapolis this w~ekend · are ] ames " · o ceo ermanoy, P 1rene Pavloska, Antonio Cortls .Jose . Leo _Podolsky, pianist, wiJl be heard A. James, dean of the graduate school · Tuesday evenln J DON· GIOVANNig, w1~nu;.7.'ed~ :!td~ ;tojic~,l Giuseppe Cavadore. Robert Ring- 111 rec1tal Sunday afternoon, January and :.pro~essor of ~istory; MelvU,e 6,_ at . The Playhouse, Chicago, under Herskov1ts, anthropologist; Isaa·c Jt · Edith ~n, . Hilda !J'!rk~ . ..':!'It~ .S<:hl~ C~~dpct~~~'(?l~·g~P;~~~~~~onio Nicollch ; d1rectton of Be~t~~ Ott, In~; ..... .. . - · . ·~ .. Cox, professor of h1story. ;. !n ·u .. f Cr.f'dilr. . ,. · · · A · l7. Attend Historical Meeting 11 J.: