November 3, 1917 ' MUSICAL AMERlCA 21 Teachers' Association, has appointed Mr. Bogert chairman of the convention com­ mittee for 1918, requesting him to se!ect When Mark Twain "Brought DOM"n the remainder of the committee. Mr. .Hogert has chosen Harriette Brower Frederick Schlieder, F. Morris Class and the House" at His Daughter's Recital · Albert D. Jewett. This committee will have entire charge of the next conven­ tion, which will be held at the Hotel Clara ·Clemens Tells How the She Relat~ the Story of Her Majestic in this city in June, 1918. Humorist Appropriated a Own Musical Ambitions and MYRNA SCHARLOW SCORES Huge Bouquet from Another Tells How They Are Being Admirer's Arms and Rushed Realized-What It Means to Welcomed Warmly in Red Cross Recital with It to the Stage of Old "Find a New Voice"-Trib­ in Her Home City LOUISVILLE, KY., Oct. 23.-Louisville's Mendelssohn Hall ute to Her Teacher own prima donna, Myrna Sharlow, of the Chicago Opera Company, appeared I T was in New York at the Hotel -voice.' You see there are about ISO in concert at Macauley's Theater on Oct. Gotham that MUSICAL AMERICA'S places in the human throat from 20 before an enthusiastic audience. interviewer again met Clara Clemens. which the voice m.ay find an exit-­ Miss Sharlow had not sung here since Our last encounter had been at the sing­ but there is really on1y one good place, April and was a we.come recita,ist. That one proper place for the emission of the er's former home in Munich about four the singer is gaining in breadth, poise voice. And hitherto I had succeeded and style; especially in her beautifully years ago. with uncanny certitude in discovering controlled legato, is very apparent. Her In her self-contained manner,· behind every one of the 150 places· in my vocal program was a varied one and embraced which withal there lurks a spark of apparatus, but neve_r the one good one. operatic airs, ballads and art-songs. She her witty parent's humor, Miss Clemens 1'his Mme. Valeri disclosed to me so responded to the applause with many proceeded to explain that distant goals convincingly that - I became quite an­ extras. Miss Sharlow was assisted by in life were often reached at a snail's other singing person. And when the Robert Dolejsi, violinist, and Harold pace and particularly was this the case metamorphosis was completed, no one Yates, pianist, both of whom were artis­ with some singers. Said she with the was more surprised than I at the facility tic aides. slightest of twinkles in her eye: "At the with which it had been accomplished. The concert was given under the age of five I was made acquainted with How? Simply with the aid of constant, auspices of the Evemng Post for the the piano and a number of years later well-considered exercises under the guid- benefit of the Red Cross. The Post is I was duly initiated into the world of . ance of this highly endowed-teacher. winning the favor of musical Louisville song, with a 'brilliant future' before me, "When I speak of having a new voice by the interest it creates and the pub­ according to the opinion of various I am not only guided by my own senses, licity it gives to musical matters, both prominent musicians in Vienna. If the or by the confident pleasure I now have at home and elsewhere. H. P. future was to be 'brilliant' it was not an in singing, but largely by the opinion of immediate future, in any case, but a lag­ the many musical connoisseurs and other ging one." professional singers who heard me sing MELBA HURT AT FORT WORTH When asked if Mark Twain had shown at the Fine Arts Building in Bar Harbor any interest in his daughter's work as a and elsewhere, and who expressed them­ singer, Miss Clemens replied: selves in such a manner that I know my With Arm in Sling, Continues "Faust"­ "Very much indeed. He was always voice sounds as it feels." Campanini A verts Panic ready to take me wherever we thought 1 When asked whether she had no oper­ [By T el egr aph to M USICAL AMERICA. ] might be benefited. I recall my first Clara Clemens, Contralto atic aspirations, Miss Clemens faceti­ New York concert in Mendelssohn Hall. ously remarked: FORT WORTH, TEX., Oct. 25.-Mme. That evening father was exceptionally live to witness the advent of 'my new '·'No, not as long as I am a contralto. Melba was painfully injured last night cunning. Of course, he arrived late at voice.' I regret this all the more when I Should I ever be reincarnated I should .and narrowly escaped death during a the concert, just as Mrs. H. H. Rogers remember his many acts of kindness to hope to come to earth as a soprano. performance of "Faust." In the vision was passing down the center aisle with,a . help me in my work. First I studied Then an operatic career would appeal to scene in the first act, the gauze curtain floral arrangement for me. This re- in Vienna, then we went to London, me. But, as it is, the contralto roles weighing 500 pounds fell, striking the minded father of his sins. Realizing where I worked with . Marchesi, then in the standard operas I find so horribly singer, smashing the spinning-wheel and his guilt, he exclaimed: 'Why, of course, to Italy, where I spent some time study­ uninteresting; nothing but old witches overtur ning the raised platform. she 111ust have some flowers-blest if I ing in Florence. .Later I came to and somber mummies, or accessory fig­ Mme. Melba was knocked unconscious didn't forget all about that.' And Munich, then to Paris, always working ures that seem to play but very inci­ and an uproar ensued, which was pre­ promptly taking the huge bouquet f:r:om and seeking a p_ure voca~ meth_od t_hat dental parts in the plot of the opera." vented from becoming a panic only by Mrs. Rogers; he passed down the aisle · would lead me m the right d1rect10n, Clara Clemens with her "new voice" the quick action of Director Campanini and handed the flowers up to me over - until I was to find what I sought upon my will be heard at her initial New York in having the orchestra play "The Star- the footlights as his special offering amid return to New York. Here it was Mme. recital in JEolian Hall on Nov. 26, prior Spangled Banner." . the frantic applause of the delighted Delia Valeri who revealed to me the long­ to entering upon her regular concert ac- After about ten minutes, the singer audience. But unfortunately he didn't sought .. secret and who gave me-'a new tivity of the season. 0. P. J. was revived and, although suffering acutely from bruises on the neck a nd shoulders and a sprained thumb, she was TONKUENSTLERGIVES CONCERT _send's arrangement of "America," Bruno­ His sound musicianship and· technical able to continue the opera with one arm Huhn's song, "My Boy," and concluding proficiency made his performance one in a sling. W. J. MARSH. with the National Anthem. The remain­ of superior merit. Mrs. Williams, with Begin Season at Waldorf-Astoria-Mrs. der of the program was by American her rare charm in manner and voice, Roebbelen and Messrs: Anton and composers. In addition to the above sang with her accustomed artistry the Sutro Sisters to Play Bruch's Two-Piano Reimherr Heard mentioned, Miss Barnes sang songs by " 11 est doux" aria froni Massenet's Concerto with Phi:harmoniC Mabel Daniels, Mary Turner Salter, Mrs. "Herodiade," English songs by Handel, The Tonklinstler Society gave its open­ Beach, Lola Carrier Worrell, Cadman,. Spohr and Rubner and a group of folk­ The fulfillment of an old wish ex­ ing musicale of the season in the Myrtle Chadwick, Manney, Fisher and John songs of various nations. The audience pressed by Max Bruch that his Concerto Room at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York Loud. Miss Carley's s_olo numbers were was large and cordial. in A Flat Major for two pianos and or­ City, on the evening of Oct. 23. The pro­ by MacDowell, Whelpley and Richard chestra be given its first performance in gram was presented by Mrs. August Platt. Both singer and pianist were en­ New York with the Philharmonic Society, Roebbelen, pianist,' and P. G. Anton, thusiastically applauded. Prominent Musicians Volunteer for will be realized on Nov. 30 at Carnegie 'cellist, who were assisted in the final Christmas Cheer Fund Concert Hall. This work was written for Rose number, Schumann's Piano Quartet, Op. and Ottilie Sutro, the gifted exponents of 47, by Richard Arnold, violinist, and Great Lakes Band Touring Iowa for the A performance for the benefit of the the art of two-piano playing, and it was Ernest Bauer, viola. George Reimherr, Liberty Loan Sailors' and Soldiers' Christmas Cheer finished and. dedicated to them in 1914. tenor, sang two groups of songs, with .- CHARLES CITY, IowA, Oct. 23.-A divi­ Fund is scheduled for Carnegie H;:lll, on Claude Warford at the piano. sion of the band from the Great Lakes Saturday evening, Nov. 3. Many prom­ "All Modern" is Mme. Langenhan's Mrs. RoebjJelen and Mr., Anton opened Training Station, which is a part of the . inent musical artists have volunteered. New York Recital Pro~tram Florence Easton of the Metropolitan the program' with Dohnanyi's. Sonata in band of 400 members under the direc­ "All modern," including a Tschaikow­ 8 Flat for 'cello. Mrs. Roebbelen showed tion of John Philip Sousa, is touring the Opera Company will sing operatic duets herself a pianist of exceptional ability · with Francis Maclennan of the Chicago sky group and a Rubfnstein song, is the cities of this part of Iowa in the interest program of Christine Langenhan's re­ and her work as an ensemble player, both of the Liberty Loan. All are enlisted Opera Company. Max Pilzer, the Amer­ ican violinist, will play, and Adolf Bolm cital at JEolian Hall on Friday evening, in this and the Schumann number, men who were familiar with band in­ Nov. 9. Mme. Langenhan is present ing stamped her as an artist whom it would struments before they enlisted. They will be seen in the "Assyrian Dance," besides presenting a joyous Christmas five unfamiliar Dvorak songs sung in the be a pleasure to hea,r more frequently. are traveling in a special car and their original Czech tongue, two Weingartner Mr. Reimherr has a lyric tenor voice trip concludes on Oct. 27. The past two dance with the membe.rs of his Russian Ballet. Theodore Stier, who for five songs, two by Strauss, one Hugo Wolf of pleasing quality, which he used with days they have given several concerts at and a final group of English songs by taste. J. A. H. Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. This divi­ years conducted the Pavlowa Ballet, will direct the music. New York composers, all still in manu­ sion is in charge of Bandmaster Brown. script. Walter Golde is to be Mme. Bertha Barnes and Marion Carley Give B. C. Langenhan's accompanist. "All-American" Concert in Lowell Walter :(.. Bogert Is Active in Arranging Grace Bonner Williams and Raymond Musical Events Carl Formes Wins Favor in Seattle LOWELL, MASS., Oct. 16.-For t he Havens in Joint Recital opening musical event this season of the Walter L. Bogert, teacher of singing, SEATTLE, WASH., Oct. 12. - Carl Midd:esex Women's Club, Bertha Barnes, BosTON, Oct. 27.-Grace Bonner Wil­ has reopened his studio for the season Formes, baritone of the La Scala Opera the Boston contralto, assisted by Marion liams, soprano, and R aymond Havens, and many pupils have already enrolled. Company, is winning laurels on the Carley, pianist and accompanist, pre­ pianist, who have met with much success The music committee of the MacDowell Pacific Coast. The week of Oct. 13 he sented a program entitled "Our Coun­ in their series of joint recitals, gave the Club, of which Walter L. ~ogert ~s appeared as Hem·y in "Lucia'.' and as try's Music" yesterday afternoon. Miss first in this season's list on the evening chairman, announces for the opening Schaunard in "Boheme." Local papers Barnes bas made a specialty of such pro­ of Oct. 17 in the City Hall in Warren, event of .the season a piano recital by commented not only upon Mr. Formes's grams and that presented yesterday by Mass. Mr. Havens opened the program Ernest Hutcheson, on the afternoon of fine voice and excellent singing, but also Miss Carley and herself offered the note with a Chopin group and was later. heard Election Day, Nov. 6. Frank Wright, his impressive stage presence ·and dra­ of patriotism through Stephen Town- in pieces by Debussy, Alkan and Liszt. president of the New York State Music matic ability. AMERICAN BARITONE CONCERTS-RECITALS-MUSICALES Management: FOSTER &·DAVID ORRIN .BASTEDO 500 FIFTH A. VENUE, - NEW YORK