The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

hua Shot TRE WINNETKA TALK November 12, 1927 Music News and Events Ye GIRL ARTIST APPEARS WITH LITTLE SYMPHONY Maria Matyas, Hailed by Critics as Future Opera Star, to Sing at New Trier When George Dasch and his Little Symphony orchestra opens its after- noon concert series for young people at the New Trier High school Monday afternoon, November 14, with it as solo- ist will be featured Miss Maria Matyas, an artist of the younger generation whose personality and charm and rare talent have already earned for her a firm place in the hearts of people wherever she has appeared. While Miss Matyas has studied music only for a little over two years, she has developed into a singer of unusual talent and promise and is scheduled to make her debut in Chicago under the direction of the Music Guild next spring. She was born in. Hungary, coming to the United States with her parents when but a child. Her train- ing has been entirely under the tute- lage of Rudolph Magnus in Chicago and, at the age of 22, she is said to give promise of becoming a great artist of 'the operatic stage. Praise From Raisa In a recent audition before Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Civic Opera com- pany, Miss Matyas impressed the great artist so favorably with the fine quality of her voice and attractive personality that Miss Raisa remarked, "I should like to sit in an audience and hear you sing." Vladimir Rosing, the fa- mous Russian tenor and opera impre- sario, before whom she also sang, wrote Mr. Magnus a letter in which he stated: "Miss Matyas has a rare talent and when further developed has the po- tentiality of -becoming a great singing: actress of the operatic stage. Her voice is beautiful and she sings with the soul of a real artist. At the audition she gave me I asked her to sing a num- ber of songs, not because I needed it to form an opinion, but because it gave me a personal pleasure to hear her sing." Concert Begins at 2:30 The hour of the afternoon program will be 2:30 o'clock instead of the time previously announced. Children of the north shore will be excused from classes for the afternoon 'upon evidenc- ing a desire to hear the concert, ac- cording to the heads of the schools in the various villages. At New Trier High school also the concert is consid- ered as an important part of the edu- cational program and pupils in the un- derclasses are required to attend as a part of their music appreciation work. 'Sir' Milan Lusk Thrills Audience at New Rochelle "Sir Milan Lusk, noted north shore violinist, offers recital" headlines the New Rochelle Standard Star in the October 29 issue, and continues to say: "Sir Milan Lusk, who played several times at the Roumanian court and who later was knighted by King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, rendered selections from Smetana, Dvorak, Suk, and other Czech composers. He thrilled the au- dience with his interpretations, first expressing joy, then running into mel- ancholic strains and back again to happier moods. Sir Milan is an ex- ponent of the Bohemian school and like Lindbergh's airplane, his violin means 'we' to him." : Eo hoot i Rg Landowska's Rare Artistry Thrills in Recital Monday By L. F. H. It is only four years since Wanda Landowska, who, with Nina Morgana, gave the second of the Artist-Recitals series of the Winnetka Music club Monday evening of this week, first brought her harpsichord and her rare artistry to this country. In that short time she has opened up a whole new world to music lovers. She has given up a new and beautiful instrument in a very old one and brought back an entire range of musical sounds that our ancestors knew, but we had never heard. She has breathed life and depth and color into old compositions that time had dried to the dullness of relics. But greater than her skill as harp- sichordist and pianist, more important than her knowledge of ancient music, is the contribution she has made to the whole art of music. A great musician, endowed with an inspired historic sense, she is teaching the value of its history to the art which has known it jeqst>> ' Visual art, paintings and sculpture, contain their history within themselves, and when they stand in chronological rows even the dullest observer catches from them something of the feeling of growing generations and abundant life. But music is evanescent. One can not hang it up and look from one example to another. Most of us have little sense of the progression of music, of the influence of war and peace and court favorites and new discoveries on the geniuses who lived among them. Music, for most of us, has only a present. Madame Landowska has giv- en it a past, and with that past she has opened up long vistas of beauty. Nina Morgana, petite and dainty soprano, displayed a charming voice, singing with agreeable tone, and con- siderable facility. Mention should be made of Alce Vaiden, Miss Morgana's accompanist, who played sympathetic and lovely accompaniments, most of them entirely without notes. Youthful Artists: Will Present Music Program George Swigart, an alumnus of New Trier High school, will present a group of violin solos at the next meeting of the Music club of New Trier High school, - which will be held Thursday, November 17. Mr. Swigart will be ac- companied at the piano by Miss Frances Anderson, also an alumnus of New Trier and at present a student in the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. The following numbers will comprise the program: "Sonata in E Major" ......... Handel "Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso".. xp Ege ad veeesses Saint Saens "Waltz In-A Major" v.essscscroves . RISE Brahms Hochstei "Ave Maria" .... Schubert-Wilhelm "Perpetual Motion" ............ Ries Melodie" ............ Tschaikowsky "Scherzo Tarentelle" .... Wieniawski Oldberg and Beecher to Give Two-Piano Recital Arne Oldberg and Carl Beecher, neither of whom need introduction to north shore music lovers, are to ap- pear in a program arranged for two pianos at the Evanston Woman's club Tuesday evening, November 15. Their performance will include some of their own compositions and arrange- ments. Lauded in Debut Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone, who is to give the program in the Winnetka Music club Artist-Recital Monday, De- cember 12, was accorded unqualified praise by leading Chicago music critics in his debut recently with the Chicago Civic Opera company. Glenn Dillard Gunn, critic for the Herald and Examiner, says: "The dis- tinguished guest was Heinrich Schlus- nus, who in voice and in art, repre- sents the best that this country has to offer. The voice is one of those noble German baritones which come to us from time to time. Rich, virile, reson- ant, it dominated the most sonorous Wagnerian ensemble with ease." Edward G. Moore of the Chicago Tribune says: "Mr. Schlusnus is anoth- er recruit to be highly recommended. He ranks high in voice and manner; an excellent singer, and an excellent artist." Whitehouse to Give Next Community Organ Recital The second concert of the North Shore Community organ series will be given at St. Luke's church, Evanston, Tuesday, November 15, at 8 o'clock. The guest artist is Prof. Horace Whitehouse, A.A.G.O., newly appointed Associate Professor of Theory and of church and choral music in Northwest- ern School of Music. He will play a distinguished program including the Bach "Toccaba in D Minor," a group of short melodies and chorals, the Saint-Saens "Prelude and Fugue in E Minor," and the "Grande Piece Sym- phonique," by Cesar Franck. These organ concerts are free and the public is cordially invited. Postpone Brewer-Spry Recital to December 8 The joint recital which was to have been given in the near future by Valona Brewer, violinist, and Walter Spry, pianist, has been postponed to Thursday evening, December 8 be- cause of, a painful injury recently sus- tained by Mrs. Brewer. The recital, first of a series of historical programs, will take place in the Winnetka Wo- man's club. DESCRIBES ORIGIN OF CHAMBER MUSIC Takes N am e From "Kammer Musik" of Germany; Popular- ized by Great Composers By Walter Spry Chamber Music is a term which organized from the German Kammer Musik or music of a refined nature and adapted to the home or drawing room. Musical culture of a community form- erly was gauged by its appreciation of this kind of music. Frederick the Great, an amateur flutist of ability was often heard playing with his court musicians. In those days there were no concerts on a grand scale as we have them now. Indeed this condition prevailed until the time of Beethoven. There were small orchestras, but they were organized by private individuals of wealth and used for the pleasure of the few. It was in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven that chamber music reached its highest development. In Vienna the nobility patronized the art of music, and engaged combinations of instrumentalists such as would make string quartets or strings and piano. This brought the finest productions of the classical composers in the families of the upper classes, and it was not until opera began to be popular and orchestra concerts were inaugurated on a large scale that the common people of the continent of Europe could hear the masters. This is to be noted--that with the popularity of Wagner in Germany, chamber music declined somewhat in popularity, and there are now comparatively few great composers of this delightful form of musical expression. New to Chamber Music In America, we as a class know very little about chamber music. True, we have had such organizations as the Kneisel and Spiering quartets and the old Mendelssohn Quintette, the latter of Boston, which have done wonderful missionary work. But they for the most part concertized as most other organizations have done. Compara- tively few have been the engagements of these quartets for chamber music in the home. There is at present at least one out- standing figure in this country who is doing a wonderful work in the cause of chamber music. I refer to Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who, in conjunction with the Congressional library, holds a Chamber Music festi- val each vear in Washington, D. C. This month the famous Rose's String quartet from Vienna will make its first appearance in America. My first ex- periences in hearing the heavenly music of Mozart and Beethoven were received from the Rose' quartet in Vienna. 1 hope they will come to Chicago and that some of the north shore music lovers may hear them. We can, however, point with pride to our Cordon String quartet, which accomplished the monumental task of playing the entire series of the fifteen string quartets of Beethoven in Simp- son hall last season. And it is to be noted that the hall was filled at each concert. This denotes a development in musical taste in our community as well as anything one may cite. Young people should be encouraged to form small organizations of instrumental players, and they will find that the time spent in studving the great com- posers will give them a mental and spiritual training nothing else can give.