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WILMETTE LIFE December 20, 1929 Music News and Events Giovanni M anurita Makes Opera Debut Next Monday Night The eighth week of opera in the new temple of music, the Chicago Civic Opera house, will be featured by the debut of Giovanni Manurita, young Italian lyric tenor, who has been engaged for the 1929-30 season. Mr. Manurita rates all · the de sired qualifications for romantic tenor in appearance and historical background as well as voice. Enlisting in the Italian air service during the great war at the age of fifteen, and serving three years, he was many times decorated for valor, and promoted from private through several grades to the rank of captain, \\rhich he held as a lad of seventeen. Young Manurita will make his first Chicago appearance on Monday night of Christmas week, in Ro ss ini's delightful farce, "The Barber of Seville." He is cast in the role of Count Almaviva. This performance will also mark the first performance this seaso n of Marghcrita Sah·i, dainty ~panish coloratura soprano who made an auspicious b ow to Chicago audiences last vear in the role of the sp ri g htly Rosi'na. \Vith tho:-;e incomparabl e comedjan , (;iacomo Rimini as Figaro, the barber, Virgilio Lazzari as th e eccentric mu sic master, Don Basilio, and Vittorio Trcvisan as Don Bartolo, g-uardian of Ro sina, an cYening of fun is assured. Maria Claessens as Bertha, the hou sekeeper, adds much to the plea sure of the cn'ning-, and the baton wi ll he in the hand s of senior conductor,' Roberto Moranzoni. · Ir-------------, Nurses' Glee Club Sings NEXT WEEK'S OPERAS The debut of Giovanni Manurita, young lyric tenor from Sardinia, the first performances this season of · "The Barber of Seville," Rossini's great comic opera, and of Mozart's brilliant "Don Giovanni" feature the eighth week of opera in the Civic Opera House, Wacker drive at Madison street. By popular demand, the Sunday rnatinee performance of Dec·ember 22, whi ch opens the week, has b~en changed to "Aida" with the cast wh1ch :;;ang the work in the d edicatory performance of November 4, in'cl uding Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Hilda Burke, Charles 1\Iarshall, Cesare Formiqhi, Virgilio Lazzari, C h ase Baromeo n nd C i useppe Ca vadore. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. :\1onday evening subscribers will have the first performance of "The Barber of Sevi11e." It will be Marglwrita Sal vi's firl>t appearance of the season. Manurita. makes h;b; debut in the role of Count ..:\\maviva, Uiacomo H.imini s ings the Figaro, Vanni-:\'fart·oux the l>on Basilio and Vittorio TreYisan th Don Bartolo. Roberto :.\Ior·anr.oni conduc-tK The third performanct· of :\Iassent>t's fant astic opera "Don Quichotte" will be giYen on hristmas e\'e with no ehanges from the last 1) rfo rmance. Ther will be dan 'I.'S IJy the IJa\let and Emil Coopt>r will eo ndu<'t. The di s ting-uish ed C"ast whi ch preRt' nted "Don Giovanni" laHt i'eason has again lwe n (·hosen for the fir:-;t pe rformall<:t· of the \\ o rl< on C' hri st mas night. It ineltHh·s Frida Leider as tht Donna Anua, Hilda Hurl{e as Donna Elvira, Bdith :\ln.f'on as Ze.rIina, <'harles llal'kett a~ Don Ottav10, Vanni-':\Tarl'oux as ])on < :i ovanni, C' ha::;(l Hanmwo ns the C'ornme ndntorP, Virg·iii o Lazzari as Leporellu and Vittorio Trevisn.n :ts 1\Tase tto. On Thursday vening-, DecPmher 26, oceurs tht' stcond Jlt·r t'orman ce of "La Fon:a. d el Destino," with nn uncha.ng·ed cast, and for the Saturday matinee of Dt·('t·mher ~8. "Otello" h as b('en ch osen with tlw east whirh sang it with s uc h sUl'l't'ss on Su~1dar afternoon, No\·emht·r 24. \V'he n "Higoletlo" ro nws to its second p e rformanl'e on the eve ning of Saturday, December 2R, :evera\ changes will be appnn·nt. ~Tar ght-r ita. Salvi r e places Edith ~Ia son as G ilda. Giovanni :\ra nurita r ep\a('es Charl es Hackett a::; th <> Dukt- and Ciovanni Inghilleri sings tlw Rigc·\etto in place of H.ichard Bonelli. program of Yuletide _f!lusic which ~he nurses' glee club of Iwanston hospttal will sing at the First Congregational church, Evanston, Sunday evening at R. The chorus will be directed by Helen Haw! ~ Carlisle. Blanche 1L Lyons, colora~ure soprano, wi ll be the soloist, Mrs. W. Lyons will be pianist, Reba Sternberg, accompanist, and Horace vVhitehouse, organist. The order of the concert ,\,ill be as follows: Civic Orchestra to Christmas Carols Sunday Open 1930 Concert Groups of Christmas carols, tradi Series January 26 tional and modern, will make up the Organ Prelude-Horace Whitehouse "The First Nowell" ........ Traditional "'T'he Silent Night" ...... ·.. Franz Gruber "Shepherds! Shake off Your Drowsy Sleep" ...... . Besancon Carol Glee Club A group of Christmas numbers on the organ..-Horace Whitehouse Scripture reading and prayer ... The Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown "How Far Is It to Bethlehem?" .... Shaw "Pe:-tt-Fire Smooring Prayer" ............. Traditional Gaelic "The Cherubic Hymn" ..... . Gretchaninoff Glee Club "Song-s My Mother Taught Me" .. Dvorak "The Kings" ............. Peter Corneliul" "The Christmas Tree" . .Peter Cornelius Blanche Lyons Old Carols: "Joy t o the World"- :-trranged from .H andel's "Messiah" "0 Little Town of Beth lehem" . . . . . Lewis H. Redner "lt Came Upon the Midnight C le:-tr" . . . . . . .. Richard S. \Villis "Hark ! the Herald Angels Sing" ..... . .ArT. from Mend lssohn Gl ee Club Postlude-Horace Whitehous e .,Don Giovanni" Xmas Day Another high light of the week is the first performance this season of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" on Christmas night with the exce llent cast \vhich sang it during the 1928-29 season. Vanni-Marcoux wiii he seen and heard as the trifling nobleman, Don Giovanni, while Frida Leider, Hilda Burke and Edith Mason as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Zerlina, will portray the parts of lacl.ics who had caught his Invite ·Holiday Shoppers fancy for a moment. Charles Hackett to Hear Caroling Programs will sing the Don Ottavio, Vittorio Holiday shoppers will be interested Trevisan the Masetto, Virgi li o Lazarri the Leporello and Chase Baromeo the in program. of Christmas carols to be Commendatorc. The baiiet appears in presented Saturday, December 21, by incidental dance s and .M usical Director children from the Chicago Civic Music Giorgio Polacca conducts. choruses. These presentatiops include a program in B lackstone court bf the Junior Music Club Meets :\rt In stitute at 2 :30 o'clock, in coin Addenbrooke Residence operation with the Art Instiutc; in th e The Junior Music club of New Trier Venetian court, Fine Arts building at High sc hool met at the home of Constance Addenbrooke, 727 Forest av~: 3 o'clock, in cooperation with the Fint.: nue, \Vilmette, Monday, December 16. Arts building; in the Stevens hotel The program consisted of two piano lounge at 3 :30 o'clock, in cooperation solos, two vocal solo , and a vioiin solo. Marcia Smith played a piano with the hotel manageme.nt; in Lyon selection, "Impromptu" by Reinhold, and Healy's store, \ \'abash avenue and after which Ernes t Bostrom favored Jackson boulevard at 3 :30 o'clock, in witi-J :L violin solo, "Concerto" by Seetz. cooperation with the store manageEllen Cozzens then sang "Still As th e Night" bv Bohm. This was follow'.!d m ent. The programs are an annual by another vocal. solo by :M;arian Jean event spo nsored by the Chicago Civic Sax. who sang "0 Mer Ouvre Toi." Music association. Similar programs are The program closed with a piano solo to be given by children in th e various by Arline Sandy, who played Chopin's parks of the city. "Valse." Isolated Listeners, I .4 bsence of Applause, Stokowski's Scheme German Grand Opera Co., Arrives for Tour of U. S. Johana Gadski and singers of the German Grand Opera company are in the country, with new scenic, lighting and costume equipment to be used in the Wagnerian productions on a tour from Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The company appears in Chicago the week of February 2-8 at the auditorium theater. Leopo ld Stoko\\'ski, director of the Phi ladelphia orchestra, has unfold ed a plan to m embers of the vvomen' s committee organization for a temple of mu sic "herein members of the audience will he isolated from each other, accordipg to a staff correspondent of th e ~ ew York Times. If Stokowski has hi s way individuals would sit in insulated stallsJ _oblivious t o all that is going on around th em save the beautiful symphonic sounds poured to them from the orchestra. There \vill be no applau se, no extraneous no is es to hamper the flow and ebb of harmonious sounds. The seats wo uld be arranged in graduated tiers and each stall will have a slide over the top so that member s of the audience will be invi sible from all sides. Stokowski is r,cpor ted to say, "Lights will go on as the audience assembles. J tL t before the mu sic begins the lights \viii be solwly dimmed so the entire temple wiii be in darkness and th e audience will be lite~aily drenched with beautiful mu sic. Creator s of music are up in the clouds while playing, and the jarring noise of hitting the hands together comes like a shock after the elation. Music is con trolled sounds. Hand-clapping is uncontrolled sound ." Stokowski realizes there may be dif ficulty in doing away with applause. particularly when foresign artists ap· pear, but he asks that his method be tried, at least. Ildebrando Pizzetti to "When you see a beautiful paintMake Tour of U.S. Soon ing vou do not applaud," he argues. Ildebrando Pizzetti, a promi 1ent Ita 1- "When you stand before a statue, ian composer, will make a sho t concert whether you like it or not, you neither and lecture tour in this country, arriv- applaud nor hiss." ing February 25. He will be presented at Carnegie hall, New York, on FebruXMAS MUSIC ABOARD SHIP America's fir st "Sea-going Christmas ary 27 for the world premiere of his latest composition, "Rondo Veneziano." Music Festival" is to be given aboard Among his operas are "Fedra," "Debora the Canadian Pacific liner, Duchess of e Jaele," "Fra Gherardo," and "V·, Bedford, which leaves New York on Straniero." December 23. The Chicago Civic Orchestra, Frt-derick Stock, musical director, and Eric DeLamarter, conductor, will give ~he first of a series of four concerts at Orchestra hall, S unday aften100t1, January 26, at 3 :30. The other thrP~ concer t s will he prese nted re specti\' ely February 23, March 30 and May 4. T\11.~ la st nam ed is the great annual fc tivJl of the Civ ic Music association at whic!. the Civic orchestra will give part of the· program. There \\'ill be n o concert in April. "These concerts of th e Civic orchestra have been some of the m os t enj oyab le events of the year in past sea5o n s and it is planned to make them even more attractive this seaso n," comments the Civic Music Bulletin. "The pro, g rams, rhoscn by ~1 r.· Stock and ::Ir. DeLamarter, arc of li g ht and attracttn· charact er, such as are pre sented hy tht> Chica<YO Symphony orc he st ra at it~ pop ul;r concerts. Soloists of brilliaEt talent will be given participation. ··rt \\'onld be diffi cult to overcstin:ate the worth of the performances which arc offered in this se rie s, and mcmlwr.., ni the Ci,·ic ~[u:-;ic asstKiation and the pub li c ge nerall y are ur ge cl. tn . ub cribe ior the se ri es. Subscriber. t o th t: ft. ur concerts \\'ill n ot onlv hav e their ticket se nt to them ten day-s before each con ce rt and ther e by spa r ed th e trouble nf going to the box-office t o sec:.1r<: them, · hut will b e able to secure tht' sa me scats for each performance . "S ub sc riptio n s for season tickets should reach the office of the Civic .N{usic association, 637 Fine Arts building, before January 6. ' Ether-wave Instrument Fails to Thrill Critic Leon Theramin's ether-wave instrument which bears his last name, was used in the Schillinger "Airphonic" s uite presented recently by the Cleveland orchestra at Carnegie hall. \Vinthrop P. Tryon, New York music cri tic of the Christ ian Science 'Monitor, says of the experiment, "Schillinger , a ll res pect to whatever message he may have to convey, merely staged at the concert of the Cleveland orchestra what I should call a lab oratory experiment, with accompaniment of o rche stra. He may have done that which portend s somethi n g revolutionary in musical a rt , but he seemed to me merely t o exalt something which is casual and incidental in the realm of acoustics." Christmas Music Festival Attracts Large Audience The New Trier High school audi torium was packed to capacity last Sut1(la_v afternoon when the annual Christmas music festival was held . Betwe en. one and two hundred people were turned away. Man y who att e nded praised highly the w?rk of ~be high school musical organiza tiOns wht~h took part in the program. Spect'!-1 credit for the success of the commumty Christmas program goes to , M_rs. Marian Cotton head of the New fner mu sic departm'ent, and her assistan.ts, Miss Winnifred Mickey and Mi~S Adelaide Jones. HOME FOR HOLIDAYS Miss Margaret · Davenport, music teacher at the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth, will spend the holidays at her home in Baraboo, Wis.