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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Dec 1933, p. 36

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is in the process of being organized dyseray. The company will bring crutia oinsehNe w i igve acon- by that. inimitable person, Mrs. a liveOweek season of opera to the cr nteNwTir îhsho ii pera bouse starting Deceniber auditorium on Moinday evening, janu- Homer E. Cotton, director of music 126. ary 15, under the auspices of the Win- at New Trier Township High sehool. Miss Talley returns to the operatic netka Music club, is on bis fifth con- Just how big it wili be depends- upon [stage after four years of,:retirement. secutive Anierican tour.. Not yet thirty recruits, but with ail the -talent avail- SM adle .berdeuin12attebsdrsimbndoeythite M etooitan Opera bhouse in New sensation. of three continents. The able- in- the, north -shore towns it is Yr nterl fGlai Rg-véteran of packed, triumphant tours i expected that th ru iIb ltlto."Urapernc tthttm the United tates fromn coast to coast onl lage nou h o b ve epr sena-when she wvas 19 years old, asa en-' in Canada and in, Cuba, througbout ail tion in à,11 voices of a grand orchestra, sation in, tbe operaticawornd. of South America, and in Euroefo but suficentin sco e o b nde a y nti 129 she was one of the talked> the Thames to tbe TI ber and f rom the of the m ajor symphonies. Mrs. Cot- about rimr onsftesage. Sbe Mediterranean .to the Baltic Seas, Mil- tonwil e ts omna cnduto, i-appeared in concerts in various cities. stein bas avëraged over one hundred though she hastens to say that- wben ' 97sesn e eu oe concerts a season in the past four yeas con ers re to b. gien be ex ecs ila, atRavinia. amid great enthu- Born in dssa, December 31, 1904, to turn over the baton to weli known sam h 112 h ne ésuidfrti-i aiect ne conductors. ba sie o th e she was through with tbe stage and Professor 'Stoliarski, later in Petrograd condctor hav - gv.entheW en_ýplanned, to retire to the farmf. under Leopold Auer. When the storms thsistc onen t ladte ro-M iss* Taleéy, *ho. is, now 27 years of the révolution broke, yugM- pective. orchestra.. Altbougb tbe proj- old, bais returned to New York at stein nianaged to survive, practicing and ects-ot hgh chol ctvit, heintervals durinig ber' retirement and playing ail through that tryn eid New Trier Board, of Educationbas M rs.- Marian C ottonsuer hr as renewed ber study of, singring n195hecm otofRsi n given its .approval to tbeý endeavor of i he mnusic dePartmeitai Neu Under ber new contract witb the Chi- made* his way to Geriivý. and in a sense wiIl be one of its god- Trier' High school, wIll direct the Icago Grand Opera company, she wil CnursErp parents. 161h aiumal Christmas concert to résume the role of Giida. Firt'. econquersEuroCea oe Alunni T<> Takce PMIt be given Sunday afiernoon, De- North Shore lnterested theiwt ht onrucewered Cntr PaErps Plans are rapidly taking form ini ceniber 17, ai 4 o'clock, ithe hig h Nortb shore music loyers are show-hedpcadbi rirsucse.Hl respect to the personnel of sectional sc19gmasu.Alm.i ing mucb interest in the forthcomin lad, pate in, Egind, Italy, Polnd leaders. To aà considerable degree, groiips in the school u411 partici- five-week season of opera. The fa- etc., capitulated in rapid succession. tbougb not entirely, tbe enterprise Paie ini this great festival offered. mous stars of many seasons, Plus "Tbis is God's musician," wrote Ai- will be carried on by alumni of New to ail rcsidents of thete ornship newiy 'discovered voices, ballet, and fred Einstein. Berlin's Ieading critic ini Trier High school wbo were active ih Qui cost. ail tbe appurtenances of opera in its the Tageblatt, after Miistein's debut in orchestra work'during their schooi _______ l ultimiate form, wiil be fortbcoming. witb the Berlin Philharmonic under days, but who bave since become pro- o hwl aecag fteTbe elaborate scenery and costumes Wilheim Furtwaengier. "The Casais of fessional, fllusicians. In some degree w ihwl aecag te of the Civic Opera company bave the violin," cried julius Korngold, dean tbe orchestra will be composed of brasses and percussion instruments. been Ioaned to the new company. of Viennese critics, in the Neue Freie associate directors of music in north OeAvnae fTann A board of directors bas been formed Pes Sbore schools. Mucb, however' wili n of the outstandiiig advantages to aid the opera, and more than balCm.fA-'- dépend uvnnn hr fcinnçtr ;,', ~of training with the new orchestra , o ; i ___.<,-___. A interested are asked to get in touch wNitb Mrs., Cotton at New Trier. Orchestra Personnel The personnel of the new organ- ization thus far selected is as follows:- Mrs. Honier Cotton,. director; Mrs. Catherine -Granquist Wagner, for- mnerly one of the concertmasters of the high school orchestra and now director of orchestral work in the ,Wihnette Public schools, assistant di- rector; George Swigart of Wilmette, ;DcnuunaaLur, wevu known locally scriber ,ily for bis long association witb Reb< rtte and New Trier schools as Thursdi or of the bands, but also as a Winnet et and xylophone ýsoloist in bis they 'w 'lIuiiyfseM wAUr.AAwi aJice Lcloea lbsaebigfr available for rebearsals. six of its Locl m an u -bs a anoncmn frs.s the re secions oe tpornt of tbe officers of these clubs will soon for be epaatesecion oftheor-bc made. The Directors of tbe opera chestra to have indi vidual training and -ompany were announced this week rebearsals in tbeir special parts be- by George Woodruff of Joliet and. fore being broughit together for tbe Ciaowoi o aigtela larer ehersas o th enireOr7in the affairs of the company since chestra., It is pointed out that very the untimely deatb Sunday of George few orchestras have this advantage. Lytton, who devoted the Iast few In a sense this orchestra -is -an ecbo rnonths of bis. life to founding the of anotber movement begun by Mrs. nwoeacmay ietr n Cotton ten or a doz en years ago. At clue:,opraomany. Di ubrtoBrs n- that time RhP andlude rom EvnstonfHuber Burn saIs will be. held every Mary ievening at 7:30 at the Mr a 'Community Hotîse, and is onq begin on January 11. ket S sensaional înrrocluctory tour included appearances witb the Philadelphia, New York. Phi lharmonic- Symphon~y, Lo s Angeles, St. Louis, and Portland Symi- phony orchestras. His position today- in the United States and. abroad is summed up in the reactions of the. Chi- cago pressto the vioiinist's appearances in recital >and witb the Chi cago Syni-. phony during February and March, 1933. "Cen jus is the word," said the Heraid and Examiner "Breatlitaking and satisfying, a perfect performer and e.jcnaio, A o~rran Cordon, Sjovic, Dorothy Hernian, Lu- WITH SYMPHONY )iano, Lucille Meusel, Alice The Chicago Symphony orchestra 3aenziger. plays 1Friday afternoon with Grete Iiarry E: Smoot of Wilmette Stueckgold, Metropolitan soprano as of those in charge of the tic- slit and Saturday night at, the on the, north shore. fort Popular concert of th season.,

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