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WILMETTE LIFE December 13, 1929 , Music News and Events Sigma chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority of Northwestern university school of music, is giving the first of its annual series of public recitals in Fisk hall, University place, Evanston, Monday evening, December 16, at 8:15 o'clock. The sorority has, at present, more than fifty active chapters located in schools of high standard in all parts of the United States, besides many very active alumnae clubs. The program will be given by 1[arie E. Briel, organist, Grace Parmele, soprano, and Lydia Koch, accompanist . Miss Briel received her. master's degree from Northwestern university school of music in 1925, and is now organist at the \Vilmette Methodist church, choir director and organist at the Halsted St. Institutional church in Chicago, and is a members of the faculty of the Columbi<l School of M usic, Chicago. Miss Parmele recentlY made her Chicago debut in the Young American Artist series . She has been soprano soloist in the \\'ilmette Baptist church for four years, and is also teaching in the Columbia School of Music, Chicago. Miss Koch is organi:-\t of the \Yil mette Baptist church, and is a member of the facultv of the NortJ1 Shore Conservatory in -Chicago. Following is the program: OvertuFe Triumphale .... .. ...... Ferrata Toccata ... . ................ de Mereaux Pilgrim's Chorus from Tannhauser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wagner (Arr. bY Orsm) Miss Briel An Old French Carol .... Arr. by Liddle A Christmas Cradle Song ...... . ..... . . . . . . . ... . ..... . ... .. ... Alexine Prokofl' Carillon . . . . . .. Marie Briel Miss Parmele Toccata and Fugue in D minor .... Ba.ch Mi!';s Briel The Virgtn·s Slumber Song . . Max Reger Voices of the Sky . .. . .... H. A. Matthews Miss Parmele Andante from Symphony Pathetique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tschaikowsky La Concertina ... .. ..... ......... Yon Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Negro Spiritual) ...... .. .. ... .Gillette Toccata from Symphony V . . . . .Widor Miss Briel Want Every Child People's Symphony Gives Columbia School Pupils Musical Sorority to Have Chance to Third Concert Tomorrow to Give Recital at Club at Northwestern U. The third concert of the season by D. evelop in .~.Music Wilmette and Winnetka pupils of the Chicago People's Symphony orin Recital Dec. 16 Miss Katherine Hedglin of the Colum· chestra is to be given Sunday afterMiss Kathleen Air of the Columbia bia School of Music will 'p resent a recital Saturday afternoon, December 14, at 2:30 o'clock. The program will be presented in the Wilmette Woman's club building. Pupils who will participate in the recital are Elsie Jane von der Lippen, Mary Ellen Dailey, Shirley Pitts, Martha Leach, Bobby Mann, Lorraine Beecher, Isabel Mathieson, Suzanne Green, Rosemary Klein, Bill Lersch, jean Gordon, lack Lersch, Betty Mc~ulty, Banda Watts, Ella 1vlenzen, Jane Strom, Dexter Sharp, Marjorie Green, Regina Fontham, Margaret Stephens, Mary Louise Schaeffer, Jeanette Robertson, \Vilma Men zen, Mary Janet Lersch, Eleanor Beecher, Frieda Salmen, Julia Lineberger, Maty Jane Farley, Peggy Anderson, Janet ~f athieson, ~'illiam Rolfing, Alice Leland, and Evelyn Strom. noon, December 15, at 2:45 o'clock, in School of Music submits the followSteven's Eighth Street theater.. Solo- ing extract from the December issue ists will include J ohana S1ragusa, of the Music Supervisors' Journal pianist. Anne Post, contralto, and which should be of interest to parents 1ames 'Rogers Hansen, violinist. !he of children engaged in music study: orchestra is conducted by P. Marmus "The child who isn't musical doesn't Paulsen. The program follows: exist. Q\·erture Rienzi ... .. ....... ... . .Wagner ·'This is the opinion of leaders who Concerto' for Piano and Orchestra No. 4, hav.e followed the music profession for D minor, Op. 70 ·. · · · ···· ·· .Rubenstein a number of years and assert they Moderato assai ld h · ~cherzo Midsummer Night's Dream . . have yet to find the first chi w o 1s . . .. .... '. . ................... Mendelssohn not receptive to music. . ery so often the mother of a Aria Contralto Orchestra, "Ev My for Heart at Thy and Sweet Voice, Samson and Delilah ............... Saint-Saens youngster who thinks he doesn't like music or hasn't 'any ear' for music Waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube · · · · · · ·:····· ·iNTERMissioN···· Strauss will inquire about the advisability of C'oncerto for Violin and Orchestra, giving her child an opportunity for D major, Op. 35 · · · · · · · · Tschaikowsky musical instruction. If the child is · · · bl · 1 Allegro moderato conzonetta andante normal the answer lS mvana Y 111 t 1e Allegro vivacissimo affirmative. Every person in the world Svmphony, E minor, Op. 95, D k · is born with some degree of musical ·,.The New World" . vora 1 ·1 Adagio-Allegro molto ······ potentiality. The normal c 11 d reLargo sponds readily to the fundamental eleScherzo-molto vivace ments in music. Allegro con fuoco "This doesn't mean that every child is a future Schumann-Heink or a Paderewski. But almost any child, if given the oportunity, would make ex cellent progress and bring happiness to himself and others for the rest of hi s life. Some of these .. might conceivably U usic lovers who have a penchant develop into artists of the first rank, for \Vagnerian works will rejoice in but what America needs if it become s the news that the German Grand a more musical nation is more musical Opera company is to appear in the amateurs. Auditorium theater, Chicago, for one "Every child should have his chance week, February 2 to 8, in a repertoire in music. Ko one who has had the of master works bv Richard \Vagner. right kind of musical training has ever This appearance ·is made possible regretted it, and there are scores in 1 hrough Bertha Ott, Inc. All the per- any community who arc sorry that formances will be given in the eve- they did not learn more about music ning. when they had the opportunity." Among the outstanding works to be heard in Chicago are "The Flying Bow Bells of London in Dutchman," "Tristan und Isolde," Need of Readjustment "Das Rheingold," "Siegfried," "Qie The world famous Bow Bells of \\ralkuere,"' "Goetterdaemmerung," and London may not ring again for many ~r ozart's "Don ] uan." Principal in the operas include the' years, unless the finance committee of the city of London makes special following: provision to repair them, says a LonSopranos-] ohanna Gadski, J uliettc don corresponcJ.ent of the Christ'tan Lippe, Margarethe Baumer, Lavinia Science Monitor. They are the famous Darve, Isolde Von Bernhard, Edna hells that called back Dick WhittingZahm, Merran Reader, Miloradovich. ton. The tower that supports them Contraltos-Sonia Sharnova, Mabel has shifted a few inches out of the Ritch, Maura Canning, Helena Lanvin, perpendicular, due to an tu1derground Sheila Fryer. railway. It was built by Sir Chri stoTenors-Karl Jorn, Johannes Sem- pher \\'ren and is 235 feet high. hach, Hubert Leuer, Josef S. Lengyel, Alexander Larsen, Rudolf Hille. Sees Radio as Basis of Baritones-Gotthold. Ditter, Richard International Language Gross, Franz Egenieff, Werner Kius. The future will bring an internaBassos-Carl Braun, Bennett Challis, tional language into use, thinks WilHans E. Hey. liam. B. Stout, president of the Stout Conductors - Hans Blechschmidt, Air Lines and inventor of the Ford Ernest Knoch, Ernst Mehlich. all·metal airplane. He thinks the During the past summer S. Hurok, new language will be the language of managing director of the German the people who supply the best radio Grand Opera company, spent three programs, a·nd he predicts that as a months in Central Europe in behalf result of mechanical invention the conof the organization. With the co- fusion of tongues would give way to operation and assistance of the lead· an international language within two ing musical authorities, Mr. Hurok generations. was enabled to augment his list of principals with a number of the most RECITAL AT PLAYHOUSE distinguished Wagnerian singers and Leon Rosenbloom, pianist, will be conductors in Europe. Entire new heard in recital at The Playhouse Sunscenery for all seven productions in day afternoon, December 15, at 3 :30 the repertoire has been purchased o'clock. Bertha Ott, Inc., sponsors f r om Theater · kunstgewerbehaus this program. Stenger-Impekoven and company, Berlin; the costumes are being dePIANIST IN RECITAL signed and furnished by Theaterkunst Marvine Maazel, pianist, is to give Herman ]. Kaufmann, Berlin, and the a recital in the Civic theater Sunday electrical equipment was m~nufactured afternoon, December 15, at 3 o'clock. especially for the company by This is one of the programs given Schwabe and company, Berlin. under direction of Bertha Ott, Inc. Pauline Manchester Wins First ·Honors inS. A.M. Contest Wagnerian Operas Miss Pauline Manchester, Glencoe Will Be Heard in pianist, took first place in the finals of a contest held under the auspices Chicago Feb. 2-8 of the Societv of American Musicians in Curtiss hall, Chicago, last Sunday. Miss Manchester, who will appear with the Chicago Symphony orchestra this season, played the Saint-Saens Concl·rto in C Minor. Two other contestants, one of whom was Miss Pauline Pebles, had survived the preliminaries, in which thirty pianists were entered. The judges were Edward Collins, Rudolph Reuter and Herbert \Vitherspoon. Miss Manchester has achieved considerab le prominence as an artist through the Chicago and suburban areas, having appeared in a number of recitals and contests during the past few years. Perhaps her moe:· outstanding triumph prior to the contest last Sunday was the winning of a similar contest sponsored by the Society of American Musicians two years ago. The pr-ize in this instance was a grand piano. Soon after, the same society sponsored a recital at Curtiss hall in which Miss Manchester was featured. The north shore pianist is a pupil of Howard Wells and, according to music critics, possesses a thorough technical background, a definite sense of grace and poise and has the possibilities of a brilliant future. In addition to participating in a rigorous concert program she has twenty-five pupils and supervises the music and rhythm work in the Lake Forest Day school. Critic Marvels at Elusi. ve Personality of Yvette Gilbert That elusive personality, Yvette Gilbert. is the subject of several paragraphs of praisr hy J. T. Gre·m, a correspondent of the music section of the Christian Science Monitor. "Yvette never changes, and yet she is never the same," he says. "I have known her at home and on the stage. I have known her as Yvette of Montmartre-to characterize her first phase in a word. I have known Yvette of the Cathedra], chanting ancient hymns, impersonating saintly figures of the MkJdle Ages. I have known her playfully singing English musical comedy ditties in that delicious Franco-British linguistic mixture of hers. I havt1 heard her frolicking in buoyant songs of the road, of the saddle, of the ship, and-hey presto !-rising to such tragic force as turned an archaic verselet of a medieval troubadour into heartrending drama. I have seen her come down from that exaltation as if in volplane to a song r~velling in the joy of life, when Montmartre was a Parnassus and she all black-gloved arms and the willowy woman. uAlways she was Yvette, with that corsucating smile a1l her own, dancing on the flawless ivory of her teeth, MARTHA BAIRD IN RECITAL Martha Baird, pianist, is to a recital in the Studebaker Sunday afternoon, December 3:30 o'clock. Miss Baird under auspices of Bertha Ott, pre~ent theater 15, at appears Inc. tripping from her undulating lips; with that sparkle in her eye ~hat turned an auditorium into a venue lighted up a giorno; with those gestures of sculptured hands that, accompanying the spoken or chanteg word, told a tale twice over; with that exquisite, precise~ yet never over-emphatic coinage of the word' that mattered. . . . Our imagination, kindled by her diction and her inspiration, soars to romanticspheres and such monetary oblivion of environment as is begotten only by great art." ·~