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34 November 26, 1927 WINNETKA TALK Music News and Events 5, |= LL CIVIC OPERA BEGINS MID-HOLIDAY PROGRAM Repertoire of Exceptional In- terest Arranged for Week Be- ginning November 27 The Chicago Civic Opera's fifth week, in the heart of the mid-holiday period which begins with Sunday, No- vember 27, afternoon's suburban ma- tinee of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci," will crowd the operatic calandar with more of those brilliant bills which have made the company's seventeenth season the most sparkling in its history. In the evening follow- ing the Sunday afternoon double bill Joha McCormack will sing his final concert of the year, giving a popular request program. "The Jewels of the Madonna" will be added to the winter's repertoire on Wednesday evening, with Rosa Raisa, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Giacomo Rimini in leading roles, and "Linda di Chamounix" is to be revived Saturday afternoon, after 6 years' absence, with Toti Dal Monte, Tito Schipa, Luigi Montesanto, Lorna Doone Jackson, Virgilio Lazzari and Vittorio Trevisan in the stellar cast. Changes of cast will characterize most of next week's repetitions of operas successfully given earlier in the sea- son. Kargau and Marshall Pair "Cavalleria Rusticana," to be given for the first time this season at the Sunday matinee, will be paired in the traditional way, with "I Pagliacci," this double bill forming one of the most popular known in opera houses the world over. In the former, Claudia Muzio will be Santuzza, Lorna Doone Jackson, Lola; Antonio Cortis, Turid- du; Desire Deifrere, Alfio; aad Maria Claessens, the mother. Robert Mor- anzoni will conduct. For "I Pagli- acci" Olga Kargau has been named to repeat her performance of Nedda; Charles Marshall will be Canio, and Robert Ringling, whose recent debut in the part was one of the major eveats of the season, will be heard once more as Tonio; Henry G. Weber will con- duct. "Loreley," on Monday evening, will be sung by the same cast which brought it into high favor the first week of the season: Claudia, Muzio, Eide Norena, Aatonio Cortis, Luigi Montesanto and Chase Baromeo, with Giorgio Polacco conducting. The bal- let will be seen as part of the specta- cular production. Tuesday's bill of "Snow Maiden" will bring Eide Norena to the title role of Rimsky-Korsakoff's delightful Russian folk-fantasy, and this will be the Nor- wegian's nightingale's first Chicago performance of that part. Richard Bonelli will be a new Misguir and familiar artists, including Charles Hac- kett, Lorna Doone Jackson, Irene Pav- loska, Augusta Lenska, Maria Claes- sens, Desire Defrere and Chase Baro- meo will sing under Heary G. Weber's leadership. The ballet will dance. Wednesday's performance of "The Jewels of the Madonna" will have familiar artists in the leading .roles Rosa Raisa, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Giacomo Rimini have roused many a Chicago audience to volcanic enthusiasm in past seasons' performances of Wolf-Ferrari's grip- ping drama of life ia the Neapolitan underworld. Among the twenty-seven other principals in this performance will be Anna Hamlin, Helen Freund, Lorna Doone Jackson, Jose Mojica, Govanni Polese and Vittorio Trevisan. Wallensteins Please in Kenilworth Club Recital The cqncert at the Kenilworth club last Friday evening, given by Alired Wallenstein, "cellist, and Virginia Wil- son Wallenstein, pia2ist, was one of rare beauty. The numbers on the pro- gram, chosen with splendid taste, fur- nished an evening's entertainment long to be remembered. The exquisite tones and vibrant cadences of the 'cello almost made the heart ache, so tender, so appealing, so lovely they were. Mr. Wallenstein, himself the picture of an artist, with straight, aquiline profile and mobile, sensitive features, gave a fine effect when he played. He has a habit of turning his head slightly to one side as he plays makng his audience feel that he is keeping his ear closely tuned to the slightest tone from his instrument, loving 1t and re- sponding to its every mood. Mrs. Wallentein, dainty and youthful, gra- cious in manner, with an unsophication and simplicity rarely seen in an artist of such wide experience, was a great assest to the program, her work as accompanist was most perfect. This is a wonderful combination of two great players. Carlos Salzedo Soloist in Next Symphony Concert Carlos Salzedo, harpist, will be the soloist with the Little Symphony or- chestra, George Dasch, director, in the second current season of New Trier Orchestral association concerts in New Trier auditorium, Monday evening, De- cember 5. Mr. Salzedo has many times toured in the United States and Europe and has appeared as soloist with all the leading symphony orchestras. As a harpist, his artistry and virtuosity have never been equalled by anyone in any period of history, according to eminent critics. The afternoon Children's concert will have George Swigart, youthful north shore violinist, as soloist. GREAT SIGHT READER Franz Liszt was not only a marvel- lous talent with a prodigious technic, but he was also a great sight reader of music. He was engaged to play Mendelssohn's G minor Concerto for the piano with orchestra under Men- delssohn's direction. He arrived at Leipzig and as they were about to be- gin the rehearsal, Liszt said to Men- delssohn that he had not had time to look the concerto over, so begged him to make any suggestions he might find necessary. The concerto went with- out a slip, Liszt reading at sight. NEXT ARTIST RECITAL- DECEMBER 12 Monday, December 12 is the date of the next Winnetka Music club Artist-Recital, at New Trier audi- torium--with Henrich Schlusnus, baritone, guest artist of the Chi- cago Civic Opera company, giving the program. This is Mr. Schlusnus' first season in America, but he has made a sensational success siace his arrival a few weeks ago. He is a principal in the Royal Opera at Berlin and, while specializing in Italian repertoire, sings with equal ease in English, French, and Ger- man compositions ranging from Bach to the moderns. He has a rich lyric voice well suited to re- cital work for which he is like- wise famous. Soloist George Swigart, a graduate of New Trier High school and a violinist of exceptional ability, will be the soloist at the afternoon concert for young people which will be given Monday, December 5, by the Little Symphony orchestra in the High school auditor- .um. Mr. Swigart is best known throughout the north shore through his connection with New Trier orchestra and as a member of the New Trier String trio, the latter composed of himself, his sister, Miss Estelle Swi- gart, 'cellist, and Miss Frances Ander- son, pianist, students. He is at present studying at the Bush Conservatory of Music under Prof. Czerwonky and taking post- graduate work at the high school. Westminster Choir Tours Through Fourteen States The Dayton Wesminster Choir has opened its sixth annual tour, one which will carry it through fourteen states by the end of February. January and February will find the choir concert- izing in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Ok- lahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas. This tour, like those made in the past is being made fore the purpose of in- creasing interest in better choral music. The choir, composed of sixty men and women, the best singers of the two hundred students enrolled in the West- minster School of Music, is the only one of its kind in the country. All of the students are training to become choir leaders and are required to take a three-year course before graduating. The curriculum includes orchestral and chorus conducting, the study of musi- cal instruments, history and analysis of church music, psychology, English hymnology, religious education and voice training. "THE LAST LAUGH" When Theodore Thomas wore a wig for the first time at the orchestra re- hearsal, he noticed that the men seem- ed very much amused. So he said: "Laugh all you want to for three minutes, and if any one laughs after that, I will shoot him." all formerly New Trier Interpret Masters in Recital Series Beginning Dec. § By Walter Spry The coming series of three recitals to be given by Mrs. Valona Brewer, violinist, and myself (I am a pianist) will be an opportunity for the musical grown-ups and would-be musical young people to be guided through the violin and piano music from the earliest writ- ers down to those of the present day. Mrs. Brewer needs no introduction to north shore people, since her home is in Winnetka and she has been heard in concert and church and has taught in many families. Perhaps it might be added that she stands in very high esteem among Chicago musicians. Only the other day one of them said to me: "Mrs. Brewer's art is of the finest, and only one in a hundred players ex- hibits such fine art in the use of the violin bow." Added to this the musician said: "She is also very talented musically, and her interpretations of the great composers are superb." What an opportunity for the north shore to have such an artist in its midst! As for myself, I might use a word B. L. T. was fond of aad say, "I am the 'w. k' pianist-teacher of the Colum- bia School of Music, and visit Win- netka once a week where I dispense my ideas of how to interpret the mas- companiments for Mrs. Brewer at the ters to young and old alike." Merle E. Maupin will play the ac- first recital which will take place Thursday evening, December 8, at 8 o'clock in the parlors of the Winnetka Woman's club. Organists Suggest Ban on Hackneyed Selections Several organists, choir leaders and orchestral directors in Chicago have agreed to follow the Rev. Paul Lin- derman's suggestion that a bonfire be built of hackneyed songs used at church weddings, festivals and other celebrations. Among the songs named by the clergyman, who is editor of the American Lutheran, a church publica- tion, are: Oh Promise Me; End of a Perfect Day; and Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. The list prepared by the church organists and leaders includes: Call Me Thine Own; Beloved, It Is Dawn; Because; My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice; and At Dawning. George Swigart Plays at New Trier Club Meeting The New Trier Music club met with Miss Ruth Harrison last Tuesday af- ternoon at her home on Abbottsford road, Kenilworth. George Swigart, a resident of Wilmette, was the soloist artist for the afternoon. Mr. Swigart is a young artist but has already made an exccllent impression in the musical world of Chicago and the north shore. Mrs. Howard E. Cotton of the New Trier High school is taking especial interest in the future of this youthful violinist and predicts a wonderful fu- ture for him in his chosen profession. MEETING OLD FRIENDS Johannes Brahms was noticed at a concert in Vienna to salute every once in a while during the performance of a work by a contemporary composer. Asked why he did this, he said: "I am recognizing some old friends in the musical themes."