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engaged as.soloist 'with the Woman's9 Symphony orchestra, Sunday, March ,. 12,- at 5 'clock. in the Drake hôtel. Ne wiIl be beard first inWers Concertstuck and following the inter-' mnission in a piano concerto by the Chicago composerLe Sowerby. The pianist is a great admnirer of Sowerby, hiaving playe..d the world* premniere of bi$ piano suite, "Florida," in' Ger- many and a number of bis otber comn- positions on his continental cônc.ert, tours. Younig.,Mannheimer is described as having "championed the cause. of American music in haîf of the caPitols of Euro6pe.", He as, selected as the pianist for the first festival of Amer- ican music, is the only American pianist twice engaged to play at thie Feivls, ofthe Intraioa ociety M.'ovérthrsîc for Contemporary Music and bas ac r been twice called- to Rome for perý. cago and zvicinity witI be formances of new works at the the coining recital of P'o Amercan cadey. zhicIî is to be' given ott A native of Ohio, ',fr. Mannheimer ________on_______12 received much of bis musical educa- tion under well known teachers in Two Piano Prograr Chicago, later stdingLonon. -n Be Heard at SI and with Matthay inLndn here lie was engaged by the British Broad- Mme. Sturkow Ryder o -~-- ie e lan<IErnaii Aklev of WiIn, ini Fullerton hall, beginning March 12 and. continuing every. Sunday Until May,14. Two concerts will be-given: in the afterenoon, one at 3:15 and.one at 4:m30.% The poôpular admiss ion p ric e ill be retaîned. The concerts* will be given under the, auspices of the Mu Phi Epsilon Society, of the Na- tional Honor. Musical- sorority,. On Marcb 12, the proôgram will 'feature Evelyn Wienke,, soprano, and Ruth Ray, ýviolinist, with Walter Spry aLt the piano.. On March 19, Lola Fletcher, sopranoô,,Lois Dangremond, violinlist, Williami Hughes., pianist. A, special program will be given on March 26,,by the Columubia chorus of forty womien 's voices. This Sunday's program is as fol- lows : ,lid or Valse C Sharp Mnor ....... Chopin SOn the Holy Mount ... .... .. )vorak rewsks;' Rakoczy March..... Liszt A udi- Walter Spry Pantomine.. ......De Wala-Kochaflski Chorus of Dervishes . Beethovenl-Auer Traume ............. . .Wagner-Auer WiIl Flight of the Bumble-Bee ........ ......RimkyKorakov-Hartmaflfl ELwinceRuth Ray wneDie Elfe .... . .... Marxc Chicago Verschwîegene Liebe .... Wof te, pian- Stornello Pugliese . Sodera ring the N i4ke a. Lantern Iraner MeCmavAlong Hagemian cbild, prodigies rarely fulfili their promise im matùrity. Kreisler was himself a wonder-child. His interest in: the' violin began almost, with speech. He appeared in concert in Viénna at the age of- seven and eni- tered the Vienna> conservatory the. satnieyear,otbougb an>exception had* to- be miade in his case as tbe en- trance age was fourteen. Three years later. he carried off the gold miedal for violin playing, and having'learned,. in a manner of speaking, al that; Vienna could teach hini, went to Paris. At the Paris conservatory, Mas- sart the celebrated ýviolin pedagogue, and Delibes, wbo taught tbeory- raîsed their eyebrows somewbat at the inclusion of the. "petit Viennois," tben ten years old, into their classes. lnut when, two years. later, yourig Fritz won the Premier Grand Pri-x de Rome against forty competitors, ail of wliom were twenty years old or more, there was general recogni-i tion of the presence of a towerinz talent ini their midst. Frotu Paris, Kreisler returned to Vienna and undertook bhis first tour. This was with the faniaus pianist -'Nforitz Rosenthal and - was routed through the United States. The performiance of nve tBranhms recïtalsii15 ai,%: on five consécutive evenings in honôr States. Mrs. Akle of the Brahms centenary. of Mme. Rfrder's The orchestra will play the Over- they lhave given ture, "The Secret of Susanne" by piano composition Wolf-Ferrari and Beetboven's ssn- Sondahe promisesi phiony No. 4 in B Fiat 'Major. aundawiIpromioubs Piaff et * d. Their selectic ev has been a pupil for some time and a nutuber of two is in Chicago and tre. Their programi to be a novel one be exceilently play- mns are as follows:1 (Marie Briel, accomponist) Mrs. Zehr, Walter Spry .Coming in Joint Recital North, Sbore people. who did not have the opportunity to hear Isabel both tc> his cflaracter and genius. Hec gave up violin-playing coiupletely, an- nouncing bis ambition to become a physician like bis father. He studied intensively for this, studies that were interrupted by a period of miiitary Service during which he, became an officer in a regiment of Uhlans. tersinger." The .concert Wii at Mandel bail, located at 57. and 'University avenuei, at 8: given i Alvene 'i street seguie is jments in as ai Mrs. Kes- to this, country for the opcning of'new wc of engage- Radio City Music bail and ber singing readyi w Mexico., here ought to be news. Wagner er immedilate fame in the c. In E~urope she was ai >- nked among the eniinent. n sopranos9.