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*appearance willI be coupled with a performance of "'Pagliacci," ini which Mr., Tibbett. wilI: play Tonio.. There is ýno question that "Em-ý peror Jones. was the Most exciting operatic event of several seasons. It had been a, famous play for a num- ber -of seasons before. Then, Louis Gruenberg too.k it up and set music to Eugene 0' Neill's words. Thereby Mr.. Tibbett wals provided -with a ful length baritone role, and he wen t on and made the'bit of bis life. Those Who afttvnded. the1 performanceý in New -York, those others wbo took it at long distance over the- radio, al say tbat k t succeeded in- fairlyý well setting the audience allame. And it did not lu the least hurt the p)oi- tlarity of tbe piece that some people disliked the score intenselyI. That oinly added'[ïo the 'excitement.~ Other operas %vill corne later. A performance of "Aida" is being planned to l)e part of the welconîe *to the Italian flvers wben thev arrive ini Chicago. in othèr words, about the middle of J une. This will prob- ably be an openi air performance ini Sýoldiers' field. It will be huilt up with extra spectacular and pageant *features. and "Aida". is the one opera entirely dehinite has corne troin the plan makers. So f4r only the cast of "Pagliacdi" lias been made public, but it holds out promise of rnucb enjoyrnent. In addition to Mr. Tibbett. Mario Chiau- tee will appear as Canio, Marion Claire as Nadda, Giuseppe Cavadori as Beppe. and MàNjio Fiorello as Sil- io. Isaac, Van Grove: Chiçagoan. proinlnent artists take part. Miss Sandstrom' is a pia nist of ex- cepitional talent, aid, bas ýa well developed technique. She ba*s'already- played a number of concert e ngage- ments, baving appeared at the Nortl.- town Womnans club, the Albany Park Womnan's club, 'and the Ravens -iood Civic, league. Tbeé prograin for April 23 isas follows* Sonata Erolca (First MÀ.oveent). .... .. ... ...ýM acDowetll Miss sandstronm No, No, Mb C are - . Carisshi i Romance............... .... Debussy Polo .S.a........... Nin Miss Avenul Etude, P Major.....%. Coi N~octurnle E Major . Chopin Wiiltz'. n A Fiat Major é hop In Miss Sandstroni Cfme IUnto Thee Ylo Sands ...... .... La Forge Me Company Along Richard Itageman MissAen Ritual Pire Dance .......do Falla Etude F. Sharp M.%inor . Bortkdewlc* Faust Waltzes ....._....Gotnnod-Liszt Mi~sSandstrorn Glencoe Singcer ln 1 Program on April 1 Isabel--Ze-ht-, contralto, of Glencoe will be one of the soloists at tbe nexl Conover, accompani1sts. The program is as follows: My 14eart lu Heavy- "Nadeschda" ... . Gorlng-Thomas. Isabel Zehr (Edith Darnes, aecornpanist) Sonata E 'Major....Valentlni-Piatti Grave Allegro Allegro-Teanpo Di Gavotta Smitb, dean of. the Yale School of Musc t Ylewas played lu Woàlsey H all .inthe concluding concertof the New JiavenSympbony orchestra the last wee.k of March; the Philadeiphia orchestra' played, its cyvcle, of three concerts giving the entiire "Parsifai"ý Music in~ concert form with soloists overý last week-end; tbe Mus ic ans Emergency Aid played its last. con- cert of tbe season at. Madison Square Garden,, April 3, Walter Damrosch, conducting 'with both Fritz Kreisler aid. Rachinaninoif as solaists., The Mus icians Symuphony orchestra un- der Golschmann and with Gabril1- owitsch, as.: soloist, played. at the Metropolitan 0pera Ilouse the 4th and also last Tuesday, Ernest Scbell- ing conducting and Paderewski play- ing solos ...Ad oeteBso '. nphon, uneICoussevitzky play- cd its final two concerts of the season at Carnegie Hall on .Tbursday and Friday evenings of làst week, and the Philharmonie continued the Beethoven cycle April 2 doing the Symphonies No. 3 and 4. Last week Wednesday with Ileifitz as soloist Mr. Toscanini did the Blach "Bran- denburg," the. Brahm -Violin Con- An~d stili another orchestra and an- other concert was that by the Na- tional Orchestrai. association,. Leon iBarzin, conductor, on the aiternoon of April. 4 with Josef and Rosina Lbevinne.as soloists. What a wealth' and vairiety of svrnphofic nxIusic! Thus two rather unique musical units, both ofwhicb happen to have beeîn organized ýat about the.'same time, W,,, be beard on the saine pro- gramn. The Wornan's Sympbony or-. chcstra. of, Chicago is the onfly sym- phony, conmpos ed éentirelyý of women, conducted by a woman anid giving'a regulaàr season-series of concerts each year. The Chicago Bach cborus is the only large chorus in America wbich s ings Bach's. works in the originaIl language, Gerinan, ,as does tbe. Bach Cantata club of London. But. each will bear hearing for reasons other than its position in the "one and only"l class. Consistent evidence of sincerity: of purpose, rigid holding to .ideals.ý and., notable artistic menit have marked timie with orchestra and choruis throughout the Ebba Sundstromn is the intrepid conductor of tbe womien'.s contingent. She is a solo violinist of no little ability and a faculty niember of one of Chicago's leading conservatories of music. Edwin Stanley Seder, who di- rects the Bach chorus, is an organist of national reputation, and authority and pedagogue of that instrument anîd be has been, siaice 1918, director of music at the First Congregational capeiawm iiiake ni) the part of the program allotted to the chorus. The orchestra will acconipany the siligers and. it js. playing Tschaikowsky's fourth synxphony, an exciting and ever-popular work. The woodwil,,ds and borns will be featured ini the '*Se- renade" by Richard Strauss, w!i;Cia broughit that composer into public notice while he was still in his teens. in C Minor. edon April - xr ne last of jnoon at 2, EST'L., origina Icago. lias. been renewe.d. j 4 g ini Cli-, 1 1 iorc for