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54 . WINNETKA TALK April 7, 1928 Music News and Events =i New Trier Groups to Have Part in Music Conference All musical organizations at New Trier High school are working with, great enthusiasm in preparation for the National Musical Supervisors' con- ference which will be held in Chicago during the week of April 16 and in the program of which the New Trier orchestra and glee clubs will partici- pate. ; Arrangements for the conference are being made under the direction of an executive committee composed of Mrs. Marion Cotton, supervisor of music at New Trier High school and secretary of the National Supervisors' associa- tion, and supervisors of the various individual Chicago and suburban schools. Mrs. Cotton is the only officer of the association in the Chicago dis- trict and has been largely responsible for completing arrangements for the conference. The New Trier High school orches- tra, of which Mrs. Cotton is director, will present an hour's program between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock on the opening day of the conference, and the Ngw Trier Glee clubs, also directed by Mrs. Cotton, will give a concert Tues- day, April 17, at the Lyon and Healy all, Several groups from the New Trier orchestra will also participate in the concert to be presented by the All- High school orchestra, composed of young people selected from orchestras from schools all over the United States, in the Grand ballroom of the Stevens hotel on Wednesday evening. Frederick Stock of the Chicago Sym- phony orchestra will be the director. Members of the New Trier Glee clubs will also participate in the concert to be presented by the Nation- al High school chorus at Orchestra hall on Friday night. The chorus will be accompanied by 60 pieces from the Chicago Symphony orchestra. It is anticipated that the conference will be attended by more than six thousand supervisors of music from all over the United States and Canada. Any north shore resident may attend any concert or session of the confer- ence, Mrs. Cotton states, by taking out an associate membership in the asso- ciation. Lusk Returns from Extended Concert Tour South, West Milan Lusk, Wilmette violinist, who has been concertizing extensively in the South, West and on the Pacific Coast for the past four weeks, has returned to the north shore to fulfill a number of engagements in Chicago and vicinity during April. During his most recent tour Mr. Lusk was heard in some of the fore- most artist courses at various colleges and before music clubs in Mississippi, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon. He covered a distance of more than five thousand miles. Mr. Lusk did not appear this season before the Wilmette Sunday Evening club as had been announced. His tour of the West prevented a scheduled appearance before the club on April 1. Mr. Lusk's artistry received many glowing tributes in the various cities in which he appeared. He played in the Portland Oregon Auditorium on a series including such outstanding art- ists as Macbeth, Maria Sundelius, Anna Case, Rosenthal and Melius. Amy Neill Quartet Pleases in Concert at Kenilworth Hall The closing recital in the current series sponsored by the North Shore Chamber Music association was given Sunday afternoon, April 1, in the Ken- ilworth Assembly hall. The group of artists giving this recital was the Amy Neill String Quartet, made up of Amy Neill, first violin; Stella Roberts, sec- ond violin; Charlotte Polak, viola, and Lois Bichl, cello. The program presented was a very delightful one, including a classic by Schubert, a more modern composition by Dohnanyi, and a very modern com- position by Stella Roberts, a member of the quartet. The players showed unusual technical ability, a very attrac- tive sense of rhythm, and a high appreciation for the emotional values of the various numbers. The audience, a large and enthusiastic one, enjoyed the program so thoroughly that it demanded more, which it received in the form of Hugo Wolf's Italian Sere- nade. The association will continue the recitals in the fall, being convinced by the size of the audiences that chamber music supplies a read need and a strong desire for what is regarded by many as music in its purest form. It is expected that the 1928-29 recitals will be fully up to the high standard set by those that have already been given, Melody Way Piano Class to Appear in Recitals The Melody Way Piano class pupils of the Wilmette public schools are to oive two recitals. The Central and Taurel schools will be 'presented on Tuesdav night. April 10, at the Stolp gvmnasium at 8 p. m. sharp. The Logan and Howard schools will perform on Wednesday evening, April 11, at the same hour in the Howard school gym- nasium. ' Besides piano solos there will be groups of six and eight pupils playing the same piece at four different pianos. Two additional features which make these recitals of unusual interest are the little children singing their melo- dies before playing them and the rhvthmic games. The children are working hard pre- paring a good program and are eager for all their friends to hear them. The admission is free and the public is cor- dially invited to both of these recitals. Martinelli in Auditorium Concert Sunday Afternoon Many north shore music patrons are planning to attend the concert at the Auditorium theater Sunday afternoon, April 8, which represents Giovanni Martinelli's only appearance of the season in Chicago. The popular Met- ropolitan tenor was accorded a great ovation in his Winnetka Music club Artist-Recital appearance at the New Trier auditorium early in March, con- cluding the current season of recitals in a veritable blaze of glory. His program this Sundav will include oper- atic arias. French, Italian and English songs. The hour is 3:30 o'clock. The Chicago Chamber Music society will present the Gordon String quartet in the fifth of a series of concerts be- ing given under its auspices. at the James Simpson theatre of Field Muse- um of Natural History Sunday after- noon, April 8, at 3 p.m. Directs Glee Club John D. Jones Photo John G. Gunn, who is directing the Troubadour Glee club, will appear again before the people of the north shore when that group of singers presents its second annual concert at the Evanston "Woman's club Friday, May 4. Mr. Gunn began his early training in Europe, coming to America in 1910 and resuming his studies, which he continued until 1917, when he entered service in the World war. He served in France and Germany as regi- .mental song leader. After the war he again took up his musical study with prominent teachers of voice in Ameri- ca. He has been a teacher of voice for seven years, coming to Chicago three years ago after several years' in Ne- braska where he became popular as a director of glee clubs, chorus groups, and church choirs. He became affiliat- ed with the Troubadour Glee club as director almost immediately upon his arrival in Chicago and last November accepted the position of manacer and announcer at Radio station WEHS on the roof of the Orrington hotel, Ev- anston. He has sponsored various Troubadour club concerts on the north shore and is now engaged in arrange- ments for the concert on May 4. N. U. School of Music Presents "Crucifixion" The Northwestern university school of music presented "The Crucifixion" by Stainer, at the Evanston Congre- gational church last Monday evening. Prof. Loyal Phillips Shawe, director of the voice department of the school of music, directed numbers by the en- semble classes. Prof. Horace White- house, associate professor of theory. and church and choral music, played the organ selections. A tenor solo was offered by W. Chester Ewers, a junior in the school of music, and a baritone solo was sung by Hardin A. Van Deur- sen of Wilmette, also a third year stu- dent in the school. Reed B. Jerome, baritone, and Harry H. McMains pre- sented incidental solos. Skokie Music Groups to Present Concert at Winnetka April 13 The Glee clubs, band and orchestra of Skokie grammar school, Winnetka, are presenting their sixth annual con- cert in two performances at the Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial hall at the school Friday, April 13. The matinee, at 2:30 o'clock, is for the especial convenience of children in the lower grades. The evening con- cert is at 8 o'clock. Skokie school has three glee clubs, the member of which are chosen from the 250 or more pupils who are taking chorus work. The Girls' Glee club has been doing exceptional work for a grade school group and will do two groups of three and four-part songs, some of them a capella. There are forty girls in the glee club. There is a "changed-voice" Boys' Glee club of twenty-four voices, and a treble group of thirty-two boys. The group of numbers by the latter is to be noted because of its variety of songs and modes, extending from the Mozart religious theme in Latin to the modern exercise by Holst. Another rare treat is to be found in the Girls' chorus of 150 voices. These voices are just at a beautiful stage and the chorus will have ample opportunity to give account of itself in the group of two classical and two romantic numbers which it presents. The instrumental work is on a par with the choral work, illustrating the diversified activity .in music without undue emphasis in the school upon particular phases. The band numbers twenty instruments and the orchestra a few more. The program for the evening con- cert follows. The matinee program will be a selection of the more attrac- tive numbers from this program. I March oo. o.oo rode va Holmes Selection of Operatic Airs ....Denman Band 2 Dance: of the Hours. ..........n..0 Gluck Clarinet Quartet : Selection from the Creation Haydn Band IT Come Lassies and Lads ....English Air A Celtic Lullaby (a capella) .Irish Air The: Keel, BOW .. 0. irre Tyneside - Air Girls' Glee club III Massa, sDear df. ooh sis. 6 Dea Dvorak The Hymn of Free Russia Gretchaninoff Heavin, HAVA =...» vs sive sans Negro Boys' Glee club Iv Dear Angels Stand Beside Me ....Bach Shepher, Shepherd, Leave DecoYing co. vivcve oi ation + sasleie Purcell Pan's Holday, .. sci. nsriantrrisns Bridge Beauty and Truth ....Coleridge-Taylor Girls' chorus Vv Pairiotic Song "i: «vemos aad dye Grieg Theme--Invitation to the Dance .Weber Adagio--Sextet Opus 81...... Beethoven SaIOr Ss SONG ira yaaa ate Grieg Orchestra VI The SNIght .. 0%. coed aBalasn Schubert The Skylark's Song Co' OAPBHOY. i orem visse i beinia Mendelssohn Night "inthe Desert: ....... .% Jenkins Girls' Glee club VII Ave Verum' |, Lo 000i iid. Mozart The China Mandarin Bantock The Traveler's Song .... .Thiman Song of the Lumberman ........ Holst Boys' Treble Glee club VIII Morning . Seng odd L000 Beethoven Ay Wankin:o LL. i 0 LW Scottish Air Mixed chorus Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee Ensemble