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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Feb 1931, p. 32

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Announcemnent was made at the Iturbi concert last Monday eve*ing at New Trier High scbool that Al- bert-Spalding, world famousviolinist, * h to be presented ïn an"extra con- cert spponsored by, the Winnetka Music club on. Saturday. evening, .Marci 14. This is for tbe benefit of the unemployment fund, ý and Mr * Spalding has graciously off ered tô give bhis services. without charge, It wiIl be remembered tbat M r. *Spalding won. an ovation when be appeared Wn tbe Artist-Recital series : a year ago, for bis peisoftality and aftistry imbues- bis music with ,a subtle distinction *wbicb elevates it yet makes it appealing to ereryone., The Artist-!Recital series is entircly civie 'and pbilantbropic, and during seven yrears bas gien the commu-, uity the very finest artists at nominal subscription .f ees. Since- the Iturbi COteft was fthe last for tliis smiaon, 8ubscr bers are asked to send teir checks to Mrs. Bessie Grant, W .in- uetka State Banik, so that tbeyma be sure of having tickets for next' year. The waiting list is long, io)r thç popularity of these conce rts bas grown enormously each year. Tn spite of the long waiting list, the Winnetka Music club, wbicb spon- sors the series, bas continued to. present its. artists in the intimate and acoustically nerf ect small auditorium By Ruteda 1- Pretm.I Jose Iturbi thrilled the patrons of the Artist-Recital series last Monday evening at New Trier H-igh school with his pianistic virtuosity.. His pro- gram showed him in a variety of t'one and tempi, ini order to demonstrate, that he, was at home in whatever. type of composition lie cared to play. The' audience was enthusiastic and, pounded palms vociferobusly after each numbeC. Mr. Iturbi b as- a -wAy of, endingý most of the compositions, witb his' right armi flying üp into the.' air dramatically, a gesture bound to-, bring down a' stormn of applause, éspecially when it is followved hy a poeful chord.j It is doubtful whter even Rachmaninoff can get the. volume out of, piano strings that Itu.rbi gets-he comes down on the keys fromi a foot above them and the resuit' is -an .enormous ,tone. which- thunders out over the audience in a manner to make listeners gasp. Iturbi began bis -programi with the Mozart A major sonata, whrh Art- ist-RecitalI patrons heard dance out uinder the musical fingers of- Wanda Landowska on the harpsicbord a fev; years ago. ýAs played by Iturbi, the sonata basmore depth and richness,- virility andwàrmth. It is, therefore, not Mozart playing that We are *ac- customed to, and whether one pr efers. It to the silvery and sparkling Mozart- of Landowska is a matter of taste. After some sustained tonal work *fi a Schumann "Arabesque," Iturii plunged into the B3rahms variation s on a Paganini theme. Here at last one felt 'that he was on. his ow-i aiter concert$ because of the pleas- ure it is given tbeto payforth cordial. and, responsive, group in the auditorium. Mrs. Roland D. Whitman, chair- man, Mrs. Sidney F. Bartlett anxd Mrs. Everett L.* Harris: have been ont. lub sncit incpti t teo othe lub ist-eital eptommiý te o members now include Mrs., George e. Frazer, president of the Winnetka Music club: Mrs. Dwight C. Orcutt Vera Gilette, pimnist,. wini 8etyof Americati Musici« 014 tioiwlI be heard in r ti.Civic Theatre on Simda mom February 22,, at 3ý OPUiOtM by -Bctha Ott. Albi club for Trier H fQr thse untemploymeWnt runa. H-arriet Mason Is Praised for Her Power and SUIl Miss Harriet Mason, young Glen- coe pianist, who is to- be one of the soloists at the concert sponsored bv ina undér Symphony Orchestra'to Play DeLamarter Work. Eric DeLamarter *will conduct the Chicago Symphony orchest ra at the Friday afternoon, February 27, and Saturday evening, February 28, con- certs. The soloists will be jane An- ýc- 1 ago Dy Prof. S iz ed Cxpgfleit D be h .rica. seiii ad n fot giving flirely a striic- ing -exhibition of technique. The Brahms bad everything, brilliance and; fire and spirit. Extremely agile digital ý dexterity was coupled with Latin temperarnent, dash and vigor.' It turned out t>hat. this was the best. number. o n the, entire program. Qne felt in the Brahms Iturbi's deligh It in racitlg througb the intricate varia- tions with such vitality and powere Theè Liszt eleventh Rhapsody whiclh 'of ml- Leon Ros-enbloom, pianist, and tli- Rai de Vermond, basso, will give a âne joint recital on Sunday afternoon, tor- February 22, at the Playh- . under the directfion of:'Bertha -Ott. o!cIocIc, i n '4

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