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48 WINNETKA TALK May 19, 1928 T wentieth North Shore Music Festival Opens Monday Soloists, Choruses, Chicago's Symphony Will Feature Week The stellar event of the musical season, the North Shore Music festival, will engage the attention of the com- munity next week. It begins the 20th spring season with the concert Monday evening, and closes with the customary Saturday afternoon children's matinee and Sat- urday evening concert. The North- western university gymnasium will be given over to this event. Following the custom of other years, the interior of the great auditorium will be hung with baskets and garlands of flowers. The mixed chorus of 600 singers will again occupy the stage, together with members of the A Cappella choir and the male chorus, new this season, of a thousand mem- bers. Saturday the children will take their places on the tiers of singers' seats that rise at the rear of the orchestra and soloist platform, and, in the vast spaces of the immense con- cert room, thousands of Evanstonians, north shore townsfolk and festival patrons who come long distances every season will fill every available space for the music's enjoyment. Ranks at the Top The North Shore festival ranks among the supreme music festivals of the country, Fach year its program is planned to offer variety by way of innovations in chorus arrangements, combinations of artists and numbers. Among these innovations this season will be the presence on the program for the opening concert of a quartet of north shore artists. These singers will include Isabel Richardson Molter, soprano; Alvene Resseguie, contralto; Eugene F. Dressler, tenor, and Rollin M. Pease, bass. Many Notable Artists A second high spot will be the appearance for the first time in the Middle West of Dorothy Speare, who since being graduated from Smith college has achieved success as a novelist and then as an opera. singer. Claire Dux, who has sung in all the important opera houses of the world, will also be an artist star, and Jacques Gordon, concert-meister of the Chicago symphony orchestra, a violinist of sur- passing skill, will also appear as solo- ist. The United German Male choruses of Chicago will make up the men's chorus ensemble to feature Thursday evening's program, supple- mented by 200 local men singers. A singing of the Manzoni Requiem Mass of Verdi will be a program innovation. Marguerite D'Alvarez and Lawrence Tibbett of the Metropolitan Opera company, the latter making his fourth consecutive festival appearance, Rich- ard Crooks and Florence Macbeth will be the other artists. Large Chorus of Children The children's programs of Saturday afternoon are among the pleasantest features of festival week with the recurring seasons. Under the direction of Prof. John W. Beattie, director of the department of music in the Evans- ton public schools, a children's chorus of 1,500 voices will sing the prelude to "Konigskinder" by Humperdinck, and several groups of children's songs. The soloist will be Florence Macbeth, a delightful accompaniment to the children's numbers. A feature of the Saturday evening program will be the closing number, the singing of the great "Hallelujah" chorus from "The Messiah" by Handel. Northwestern gymnasium gives an impressive setting for the music festival. Week's Program (Subject to Change) FIRST CONCERT Monday, May 21, 1928, at 8:15 Festival Chorus of 600 Singers A Cappella, Choir Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor--Mr. Lutkin March.of-Homage............. 0: Wagner Aria, Tannhauser, "Hall of Song" IE Eh on JOT Wea said 2 .... Wagner Madame Molter Manzoni Requiem Isabel Richardson Molter, Soprano Alvene Resseguie, Contralto Eugene F. Dressler, Tenor Rollin M. Pease, Baritone SECOND CONCERT Tuesday, May 22, 1928, at 8:15 Soloists Marguerite D'Alvarez, Contralto Richard Crooks, Tenor ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor--Mr. Stock Overture, Oberon Aria, Faust Suite, "Ruses d'Armour" ..... Glazounow "In the Garden," from Symphony, "Country Wedding". .......... Goldmark Aria, Samson and Delilah, "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice........ i a pepe age sie NY Saint-Saens Swedish -Rhapsody ................ Alfven Intermission Hindou Love Song..... Rimsky-Korsakow Concert Waltz No. 2, FF Major, es Lh SRE 0 Lm LS Se Glazounow Prize Song, Mastersingers ...... Wagner Bacchanale and Finale of Overture... .. ; Ne BEER A IR al 'Wagner THIRD CONCERT Thursday, May 24, 1928, at 8:15 Soloists Dorothy Speare, Soprano Jacques Gordon, Violinist Male Chorus, 1,000 Voices Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductors--Mr. Stock, Mr. Lutkin, Mr. Reckzeh Overture, '"Liebesfruehling," G. Schumann Aria, '"Charmant Oiseau" from 'La Perle de Bresil" "Great Is Jehovah" .......... Schubert Pilgrim's Chorus!' ....:.v...... Wagner Mass Male Chorus Concerto for Violin .......... Saint-Saens Intermission Group of A Cappella Numbers United German Male Chorus The Sorcerer's Apprentice Aria, Mad Scene, from "Lucia di Lammermoor" ......&... 4... Donizetti Dance, G Minor. .............-. Dvorak Mass Male Chorus, '"Land-Sighting"' FOURTH CONCERT Saturday, May 26, 1928, at 2:15 Soloist Florence Macbeth, Soprano Children's Chorus of 1,500 Voices Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductors--Mr. Stock, Mr. Beattie Prelude, "Konigskinder".. Humperdinck Group of Children's Songs Polonaise, Mignon rv. cv." ice os Thomas Symphonic Poem, 'Dance of the Skeleton' Saint-Saens Group of Children's Songs-- a. Molly on the Shore ........ Grainger b. The Irish Washerwoman...Sowerby Intermission Shadow Song from 'Dinorah" Meyerbeer Waltz from "The Bat" ...Strauss Children's Songs FIFTH CONCERT Saturday, May 26, 1928, at 8:15 Soloists Claire Dux, Soprano Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone Augmented Festival Chorus, 1,000 Singers A Cappella Choir Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductors--Mr. Stock, Mr. Lutkin Overture, '"Sakuntala" ........ Goldmark Prologue from 'Pagliacci' ..Leoncavallo Symphonic Poem, "The Sirens"...Gliere Aria, "E Susanna non Vien" ....Mozart First Movement, '"'Sea Symphony".... rete af «0 ate Wee fe othe here Vaughan Williams Intermission Aria, Largo a Factotum, "Barber of Seville" .......... Rossini Introduction to Act II and Ride of the Valkyries ........ 'Wagner Aria de Lia, "I'Enfant Prodigue".... a se Ld a Debussy Rhapsody No. 2 Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah. . Handel Prominent Citizens Officers, Trustees of Festival Assn. The officers of the North Shore Music Festival association are the fol- lowing : President--Henry W. Price; vice presi- dents--James F. Oates, Charles N. Stev- ens; secretary--Walter B. Smith; treas- urer and business manager--John Hale Hilton; historian--Charles H. Reynolds. Members of the executive committee are: Allen D. Albert, Sewell L. Avery. Frederic W. Chamberlain, William H. Dunham, John H. Hardin, John Hale Hilton, William F. Hypes, Chancellor L. Jenks, Augustus Knight, Frank E. Lord, James F. Oates, Henry W. Price, Joseph EB. Paden, Charles H. Reynolds, Frank S. Shaw, Edward M. Skinner, Walter B. Smith, Charles W. Spofford, Charles N. Stevens, Frederic P. Vose and Harry B. Wyeth. Trustees are: Allen D. Albert, Paul L. Aldrich, William D. Allen, Arthur Ander- son, Sewell L. Avery, Edwin Balmer, A. F. Banks, Charles L. Bartlett, Perkins B. Bass, Carl M. Beecher, Nelson J. Bennett, John E. Blunt, Jr., Scott Brown, D. A. Brumbaugh Edward J. Brundage, William W. Buchanan, Glen Buck, E. J. Buffington, Daniel H. Burnham, Robert W. Campbell, W. M. Carpenter, C. M. Cartwright, ¥. W. Chamberlain, Charles F. Champlin, Charles H. Chandler, Ro- bert K. Clark, A. F. Cleveland, Raymond C. Cook, Edgar Coolidge, Frank F. Cor- by, Mark W. Cresap, Albert E. Cross, Frank S. Cunningham, Charles G. Dawes, Rufus C. Dawes, Marvin A. Dean, Willard J. Dixon, Mrs. George B. Dryden, William H. Dunham, William A. Dyche, J. S. Fearis, William Francis, Mrs. Louise Ayres Garnett, Philetus W. Gates, Mrs. William Gibson, Louis K. Gillson, Egbert H. Gold, Howard G. Grey, Martin W. Gridley, Alfred H. Gross ,John F. Hahn, Edward B. Hall, Richard C. Hall, Irving Hamlin, John H. Hardin, Edward K. Hardy, F. A. Hardy, William Hudson Harper, D, J. Harris, N. Dwight Harris, James Taft Hatfield, Oscar H. Haugan, William A. Heath, Wilbur Helm, Charles 'W. Hess, John Hale Hilton, Chester F. Hogle, Arundel Hopkins, Thomas D. Huff, Philip W. Huston, William F. Hypes, Mrs. Wil- liam F. Hypes, William A. Ilsley, Chan- cellor L. Jenks, Mrs. C. L. Jenks, Walter Clyde Jones, Theodore C. Kellar, Preston F. Kelsey, Curtis N. Kimball, Augustus Knight, L. B. Kuppenheimer, Miss Edith M. Lacey, John H. S. Lee, Charles G. Little, S. J. Llewellyn, Frank E. Lord, Charles D. Lowry, George M. Ludlow, Miss Cornelia J. Lunt, Peter C. Lutkin, T. T. Lyman, Miss Mary S. Marshall, William S. Mason, Dr. J. H. McClellan, F. H. McCulloch, Roger B. McMullen, George P. Merrick, Amos C. Miller, Ed- win S. Mills, C. M. Moderwell, George S. Montgomery, Mrs. Charles J. Morse, F. W. Nichols, James F. Oates, Mrs. Albert J. Ochsner, George Olmsted, Joseph E. Paden, Dr. William R. Parkes, Henry J. Patten, James A. Patten, Mrs. J. A. Pat- ten, C. H. Poppenhusen, Miss Mary Por- ter Pratt, Henry W. Price, Edwards Frederic Raymond, Earl Reed, Jr., J. W. Strong Reid, Irwin Rew, Charles H. Rey- nolds, Harrison B. Riley, Charles E. Ringling, T. W. Robinson, William F. Rollo, F. J. Scheidenhelm, John W. Scott, Robert L. Scott, Walter Dill Scott, John C. Shaffer, Frank S. Shaw. Edwin Sher- man, Philip R. Shumway, Parke E. Som- mons, James Rov Skiles, Edward M. Skinner. James .R. Smart, Walter B. Smith, Charles W. Spofford, Walter Spry, Charles N. Stevens, S. Raymond Thorn- burg, Samuel Noted Chicago Symphony Orchestra to Play for Festival Topliff, Oscar M. Torrison, Percival H. Truman, Fred- Frederick Stock's famous Chicago Symphony orchestra will as usual contribute an important p part to the music festival next week. eric P. Vose, Charles E. Ware, Lan- sing B. War- ner, Paul Warren, Charles P. Wheeler, Charles P. 'Whitney, John Henry Wig- more, John E. Wilder, Carl S. Williams, Lynn A. Wil- liams, Oliver T.. Wilson, Milton ' H. 'Wilson, James S. Winn, Wirt 'Wright, Harry Wyeth, C. Fred Yegge.