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36 W ILMETTE LIFE January 24, 1930 Music News and Events· 13 year old genius of the violin, will be pre sented in Orchestra hall Sunday By Rutheda L. Pretzel The last great week of this season's give a recital in Chicago at the Audi- afternoon, January 26, at 3 :30 o'clo·.::k. Claire Dux and Gregor Piati go rsky opera in th e Civic Opera house, torium theater at 3 o'clock, Sunday Eric DeLamarter will be th~ condnc~'ac ker <irive at Madison street, Chi- afternoon, January 26. tor. Miss Florence Kirsch, pianist, will gave patwns of the Winnetka M u ic cago, fe ature two fir st performances Yehudi, whose debut a year ago be the soloist. The program follows: club Ar ~ ist-Recital series a bit of for the seac;on, and is divided among created a tremendous furor, has drawn (Subject to Change) Overture to "Euryanthe" .. . ...... Weber mttsical ambrosia last Monday evening the Italian, French and German reperto him great masters of mu sic and 1111- Concerto Grosso, D Minor .... . . Vivaldi at the New Trier High school audi toire, with two performances in Ger- told thou ands of music lovers, who Albert Blacker, violin torium. Both artists repre se nt the hc !'t man. thn.: e in French and thr ee in marvel at this .boy's unusual :~cSol Turner, violin in their fields, and both won the audItalian. 1 d \\' lt ·1 Charles Eck, Igor" violoncello . Tl 1e pro1 1· 1 · comp 1. IS 1111ent, w 11c 1 IS coupe 1 a Dances from "Prince . .... Borodin ience by their friend.1 mess. gram was lo_ng, Y:et the artists ~ni ght This ,·tnsing- week oi opera maiks lovable personality. Wherever he has Concerto for Piano, A Minor, Opus 16 the encl of the first season in Chicag-o's played he has been acclaimed as a .......... . .. . .... . ... ..... · · · · · Grleg have made 1t twice as long \Y1th·)tlt great new temple of music. The con- wonder child of extraordinary g·eni~ts. Allegro Intermission hearing the audience protest. !\ot sensus of opinion of critics and audiHis engagements are limited so as Suite from "Esclnrmonde" ...... 1\fassenet often does the applause roll to ~. he cnces is that the season has been the not to take too much of hi s time, and Evocation stage so enthusiastically and so confinest in the history of grand op~ra not infrequently he pleads for an dpL'lle magique sistently. Both artists chose numbers in Chicago. This last week has been portunity to play his magnificent if~:Ser;eForet that wer::. of high standard, yet they arranged with such a program tha~ it Stradivarius. This pleasure i ~ allowed Dan~-;e de l'Amazone, Opus 65 .... were not too technical outwardly t1) go may well take its placl' as the finest him only at concerts. Lia.dow over the heads of the hearers. week of chis season. Seemingly unconscious of all the 11 iss Dnx possesses a \'Oice that is · · \\'1'11 enthusia~m he arouses, Yehudi 1fenuQ "D on p asqua 1e, ,, hy D OlltZdti, 0. ain· and. COOl, graceful and altogether come to per f ormance on T) 1ursc1 ay eve- hin goes about sightseeing in the cities lm~ely. Like a bird ready for fl ight. f . where . he plays, enjo_ving everything . J 70 111ng, anuary ,J , Wit 1 a cast eatunng . the tone is delicately poised, exactly in salvt, · 1"1to1 s · c· with hoytsh eagerness. His studies are Marghen·~ a .. ch1pa, mcomo attended. to hv tutors and he leads the / the middle of the pitch, yet . !.dYing Rimini and Vittorio Trevi sa n. It is to life of an average tl1e ,·111J)r "'SSiOil of being so full nf It fc American lad. .__ be followed by a ballet. The opera season ' in Chicago is h~' 110 and move:ment that in a minute it will On the. following e\·ening, Friday, fl.,. awa,· forever. Miss Dux carnes . fl . "Jud1 ·th" 1 ·n f 1 ·rst means at its tcrminus in spite of the · . January 31, will occur the only ptr - Opera fact that hut one week remains of the the melody 1me owmg1y, never Ill ton formance this season of Bizet's "ClrPresentatt.on 1 ·n the East C much of a hnrrv to keep the tones men." The cast is !itt le changed from hicago Civic Opera cot)lpany season, perfectly round.eci and the quality ! ·C'rlast year. 11aria Olszewska again apEugene Goo sens' opera. "Judith," since its going will be followed almost suasive. vVhat cre r the mood of the pears in the title rolr, one in which she received its flrst American performa11ce immediately by the appearance of ~he song, it v:as projected with the skill of won prai se in all parts of the United recently in the Academy of Mu sic by famous German Grand Opera compc, ·Y a sensitiYc artist. Her first group was 1 1P1ua · Gramt. 0 pera com- which comes to the Auditorium f01 a composed of German songs, the :'-t~ CStates during last year's tour of the t I1c PI11'1 ace Chicago Civic Opera forces. Halhe pany. Mr. Goossens selected the c:1st "'eek of \Vagner preseutations. ond of Fr ench songs, and in the las t Stiles will be heard in her first French · and conducted the performance. He reThe German company, under the eli- group she sang in English . Schubert's role this season, Micaela. Rene Maison ceived an ovation on his appearance, rector hiD of S. Horok arrives at the "Wiegenlitd" was exquisitely taken. will again sing the Jo se and Cesare and the opera \\'ac; heartily applauded. at Auditorit;m Sunday, February 2 and the second verse being sung in Formichi the Escamillo. Thelma its conclusion. will remain seven days.:. gidng evening piamssuno. Outstanding, too, \·;as Votipka and Ada Paggi arc cast as The music i:-; remini sce nt of the performances exclu ively. "Aquarelles," by Debussy, and a wh:mFrasquita and Mercedes, l;iuseppe operatic music of Richard Strauss, ~ev\'orks to be offeree! include the fam- sical bit by Deems Taylor ca!!cd Cavadore as Remendado, Desire De- ports a special corresponde.nt ot the ous \Vagnerian operas "The Flying ·"Rivals." There were several encore.;, frere as Dancario, Edouard Cotrenil as Christian Science Monitor. "There is Dutchman," "Tristan and Isolde ," "Das the last of which was the well 1< ·'-·etl Zuniga and Eugenio Sandrini as some atonal and some pnlytonal " rit- Rheingolcl," "Die \Valkuere," "Sii.!g- Schubert "Ave Maria." !\1orales. ing," he says, "and the great majority fried," and "Die Goetterdaemmerung." · · k 1 b · · P1atigors Y provec to e a giant 111 of the themes occur in the orchestra The week ot>ens Sunda_v afternoon, There wi)l also be a {)resentation of · · 1 'p ell a cr1'ant 1. 11 in the true \Vagnerian manner. The mus1c1an.s 11 , as w as 1"> January 26, with the ~cason·~ sccPnd . t . 1 .1 . "Don Ju:lll," by ~Iozart. stature. Musically he has grown i·ar 1 performauce of . "T.hais." .. . ~ii~ ~~:gir~[ fora~~el~:ti~e~ 01 ~~-~~~i;~~~e.~ ~d The company contains 150 artists and above other cellists, having reached a On Monday even111g, January~/, \\'Ill as a result they are not particularly in- symphony orchestra. The roster of peak where it seems as if there ic; no occur the second pt:>·rformance tins :;e'a- tcresting to hear and 'tre almost ;111 _ principals iucludes the following: technique, only a warm, luscious, snnsot~ of Beethoven's. "Ficl~lio,". hear.d in possible to sin .~· with ~-nrrect intonaSopranos- Johan_ na Gaclski, Juliette !it tone that forms itself into the mo~t · Lippe, Isolde Margarethe Baumer, 1 o f rmn~c1 Ch tcago f or tl1e f trs.t t unel Ill tl1Fir~ytion. Mr. Goossens has not ~ucceeded in Dan·e, Von Bernhard, Edna.LaYinia Zahm, d e1'tg1 1tf u1 an d 1 )eau t.f I u fiv~ years. The cas,..t inc ucles ·r.ida obtaining the Oriental atmosphere Merran Reader, MiloradoYich. phrases. In the Boccherini 41 Snnata i:I Le1der as .Leonore, Kat!1leen Kerstmg which the plot of the opera distinctly Contraltos - Sonia Sharnova, Mabel A Major" this was immediateh· e\·ias M arztlhna ·. Het.lC 11aiso.n as Flores- demands, nor is there an _ \' long melod.ic Ritch, Maura Canning, Helena Lanvin, dent. On~~ had to hear only a few notes 1) 1 p AI Sheila Fryer. . · tan, R o b ~rt _n.mg 11~g as tzarro, ex- line, the themes being irequently even Tenors-Karl Jorn, Johannes Sembach, to know that here was an art1st \\'lt 1 1 and.er Kt,pms as h.occo, . Edward Cot- more hrief than those of \Vaguer or Humbert Leuer, Josef s. Leng-yel, Alex- soul as wetl as skill. Whether he reU!l as I· erna_ndo and GIUseppe Cava- Cesar Franck, but without the musical ander Larsen, Rudolf Hille. pulls out a ripe, daintily moulded tone ,·a lues of the stthJ. ects of those masters . Baritones - Gotthold Ditter, Richard in such a composition as the BL)cdore as J acqumo. Gro~s. Franz Egenieff, Werner Kills. · On Tuesday e\'ening, January 28, "The orchestration is as heavy as DaHHoR--rarl Braun, Bennett Challis, cherini, or a broad, firm tone that IS will occur the sixth and final per- that of Richard Strauss's 'Salome' or 11an~-; E. Hey. vigorous and passionate, as in the f'ondurtors: Han~ Blec·hschrnic1t, EJ·nest Prescoba!di "Toccata," he is always reformance this season of "La Traviata." 'Elektra' and the result is that the · 1 Tito Schipa, the popular lyric tenor, ,·oiccs can rarely be heard. while an~- Knoc·h, Erll ~t ~\T e hlich. fined, unsentimental, express1ve ~nc will be heard as Alfredo and Richard possibilit)' of getting· the ,,·ords (the - --- - -- genuinely the finished. artist. He Bonelli returns to the cast as Giorgio opera is in English l ~-; entirely nut of Rethberg Now in Demand I creates an atmosphere about his pbyqermont. C~audia Muzzio, of course, the question . . ." for Concert Engagements ing that :s hard to define-such an at1 smgs tht! V Joletta, and the balance:! of 1 · · mospherc that can only be created by the cast is unchanged from previous 1 .SAMUEL IN RECITAL Elizabeth. R.eth berg of the ¥et~opoh- one who has the immortal spark of 1 performanct!s. Harold. Samuel. pianist. will be heJrcll tal.and Rav~ma opera compames ts now genius. It is a curious fact that the A third and final performance of in recital at The Pla\·hon-.e Sunday fllln~g a :;enes of concert engagements. cello seems like another member of his "Die Walkuere" is scheduled for W~.:d.-, afternoon, January 26. ·at 3:30 o'clock. Dunng the past t\.vo weeks she was own bod7, and not a separate instru] bl'.. lc11 y, f or t h e most nesday evening, ] anuary 29, with Frida J..,T e appears under the direction nf so loi st at the Philharmonic-Symphony men t . H e Pays Leider a:; Bruennhilde, Eva Turner a~ Bertha Ott, Inc. pension fund concert, and. at Columbia part, with his head titlted back and his uniYCrsit , _.. She has at. o made three a})- eyes c1 · · h'1mse lf utter 1y to Sieglinde, Maria Olszewska as Fricka, ose d, g1vmg pearancc'3 in ~ ew York concerts of tl t 1 11 d H' Theodor~ ~track as Siegmund, Alex- honor~ as being the home oi thi') great the Friends of Music. 1a marve ous me ow soun . IS enander ~t1Jn1s as .\Votan and Edouard masterpiece. tire program was ·of particular interCotreull r.s Hundmg. The final perfurmance of the sca:;on I PLAy AT CONVENTION est, especially the Mainardi "Rh::tp0 S da f F 1 soci.ia Italiana," which was played for . n atur y a ternoon, ebruary . , , on Saturd<l:y eveni~1g-, February 1, (at E.:-. telle and Ceorge Swigart, 1037 the first time in America. It begins wlll occur the second performance tlus popular J;nces), v-nll be devoted tn a Ac:.hlanrl avcnu<:. \Vilmette and Claire with the quiet tones of meditation, :-tnd. season of "Pelleas et MelisandC:' w1th third ,hea:ing: of "~ucia di Lamm .: :- Lnuise Thurston, Chicago l;arpist, gave progresses to the riotous merry maka!1 unchang~d cast. It. would be u;npos- moor,' tlus tune, with two cha~ge;,. 111 a hali -IH,ur program of trios for violin, ing tones of pure joy. The audience Sible to thmk of thts opera W 1 t h~ut the cast. Florence Macbeth \\'Ill s111g cello, ani harp ;tt the annual conven- was quick to sense the unusual char,lcMar~ qarden. It marked her debut w1th the role of Lucia, and Richard Bone~li ! tion for the Chicago Dental society ter of his playing and his genius. the Chicago G~and Op~ra company and. that. of Lord H~nry Ashton: A.nton1n I J;~ Jd at the Ste\'(.:ns hotel Monday eve- Surely here is an artist who has gained the very top of his profession. she has sung tt pract1cally every sea- CortJs repeats h1~ charactenzat10n nf nmg, ] anuary 13. son si~ce that time. Both here and in Edgar of Ravenswood and Virgilio 1 France, she has made the role of Lazzari again sings the role of HayGIVE TWO-PIANO P ROGRAM Melisande her own, having learned it mond. Alice d'Hermanoy is the Alice :\ 1\\'(J·pianp recital by the famous January 26, at 3 o'clock in the Ctvic under the direction of the composer, and Theodore Ritch the Lord Arthur arti">h, Cuy ).f aier and Lee Pattison, theater. Bertha Ott, Inc., is sponsoring Debussy. Paris and Chicago share Bucklaw. io, .,che dulcd for Sunday afternoon, this, appearance. Dux, Piatigorsky Menuhin, Wonder Child, Civic Orchestra Offers Civic Opera Goes in Recital This Sunday .First Concert January 26 Thrill Hearers at Into Final Week A little fellow in silk blouse and The first concert of the eleventh ~eaMusic Club Program of Brilliant Season vclvet knee breeches, Yehudi MenuHn, son of the Chicago Civic orchestra will G er1nan pera C 4 rrtves · p ebruary 2 or Wagner p rograms . I I 1