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Sensation of 's 1923-24 a tour of the Far West whose Musical Season Coming Here citizens will have their first op• on First Western Tour portunity to hear the great tenor. "Comment on the program which Judging from the laudatory press Mr. Hayes presents offers little field notices which continue to pour in for notice, for his audiences know from all Eastern cities where Roland well what to expect from Mr. Hayes, tenor, has appeared in con• Hayes. The applause of yesterday cert this season, it would seem that seemed tp indicate that a large part his phenomenal successes of the of his hearers love and revere early 1923-24 season have been greatly music and is charmed by the grace surpassed during 1924-25. The with which the greatest contempor• management reports that in New ary singer of these songs illumines York and Boston, the announce• and glorifies works by Handel, ment of a concert by Roland Hayes Gluck or Mozart. means a sold out house in Carnegie and Symphony Halls weeks before "There is, of course, also a large the date of his appearance. Under following for his German songs. date of February 2nd, the Boston It is his distinction to make Ger• Globe reported: man sound, as no one else in memory does, a lyric language. To Roland Hayes in Last Appear• Brahms especially does he bring ance of Season his great sympathy and high pow• "Roland Hayes gave his last ers of musicianship. Where else Boston recital of the current sea• may one hear 'Botschaft' sung as son in Symphony Hall yesterday it was yesterday? afternoon. He will now depart for (Continued on page 4) [ Page 4 ] THE ELWYN FORECAST

Mr. Hayes for a long time. Mr. Hayes undoubtedly recognizes the jewel he has found. He shows it in his gracious sharing of applause."

Wolfsohn Musical Bureau An• nounces List of Artists to be Presented During 1925-26 Season. The preliminary announcement of the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau of New York, of which the Elwyn Concert Bureau is a part, contains a dazzling list of artists which are to be presented by them next season. It includes the names of Inez Barbour, Lucretia Bori, Bertha THE CELEBRATED ^ £fe Farner, Mabel Garrison, Eva Gau- NEGRO TENOR M thier, Mary Lewis, Maria Kurenko, Hulda Lashanska, Elizabeth Reth- berg, Louise Homer Stires and Joan Ruth, ; Merle Al- cock, Louise Homer, Margaret Matzenauer, Marion Telva and Kathryn Meisle, ; Mario Chamlee, Edward Johnson and Allen McQuhae, ; Vincente Ballester, Reinald Werrenrath and (Continued from page 3) Clarence Whitehill, ; Alex• "Perhaps fewer feel great en• ander Brailowsky, Josef Hofmann, thusiasm for his French moderns. Nikolai Orloff, Moriz Rosenthal, Again the applause of yesterday Olga Samaroff, Benno Moiseiwitsch, seemed to point that fact. But the John Powell and Harold Samuel, recitative and aria of Azael from pianists; Cecilia Hansen, Albert Debussy's 'L'Enfant Prodigue' stir• Spalding, Toscha Seidel and Eduard red a few as much as anything else Zathurezky, violinists; Felix Sal- on the program. mond, 'cellist; Salvatore de Stefano, "At the end of the first group of harpist, and the London String early songs one is sure that Mr. Quartet. Thamar Karsavina will Hayes' forte is that sort of music. begin her second American tour in Then one finds him an ideal in• January. An interesting and out• terpreter of Debussy. The first con• clusion is forgotten for the moment standing attraction will be the "S" until the memories of his Brahms Trio, which will be composed of come thronging back. At this Harold Samuel, Toscha Seidel and juncture he sings the spiritual Felix Salmond. "Steal Away." The analyist and classifier throws up his hands and The London , a quits. Wolfsohn attraction, is scheduled "It is high time more than pass• for an appearance in Portland April ing mention be made of William 13th, under the management of the Lawrence, who has accompanied Portland Chamber Music Society. THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 5 ]

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He had three third New York concert yesterday in Car• achievement to recognize the greatness of were exquisite. thousand persons before him and six hundred negie Hall, on the eve of going abroad for his Roland Hayes at this date. Critics and crowded upon the stage at his back. fourth tour of the Old World. The audience public throughout, the land have warmed to —New York Herald-Tribune At times Hayes holds the listener spell• filled the auditorium and the stage. his music, and nowhere is this more manifest bound with his firm hand on the very heart• —W. J. Henderson, New York Herald than in Boston, where he was first recognized With Symphony Hall now stripped of its strings. as a singer of distinction. remnants of bucaneering, the concert season Verily, the singing bird has nested in the The audience packed the hall from the last It is unnecessary to remark on the beauty commenced yesterday afternoon with Roland throat of Roland Hayes. Willingly the audi• inch of standing room to the last of the seats and the purity of the voice, the innate Hayes' song recital, which included Mozart's ence succumbed to the rich and mellow tones on the stage. Indeed, many would-be listen• musicianship of the singer or his fine sensi• concert aria "Per Pieta Non Ricercate," freighted with the racial tribulation and its ers were necessarily turned away at the doors. bility to the piece at hand. These have no Schubert's "An Die Leier," Schumann's ineffable yearning, and expressing. From these phenomena Mr. Hayes is clearly whit changed. One did fancy that there was "Geisternahe," Hugo Wolff's "Beherzigung," Griffes's "In a Myrtle Shade," Whelpiey's —F. W. L., Public Ledger the John McCormack of his an added power in the voice. race. And he is further like Memory did not seem to re• "I Know a Hill," Warren Storey Smith's "A Caravan from China Comes," several negro Roland Hayes, the young negro tenor who the distinguished Irish tenor call that on former visits Mr. in that he sings Handel, Hayes had essayed many spirituals, as well as a generous supply of has been making a sensational success in this encores, which included Handel's "Would country and abroad, was given a tumultuous Mozart, archaic Frenchmen, songs of the dramatic, but Italians of the eighteenth or one found the new power full You Gain the Tender Creature," an aria from reception at his Philadelphia recital in the "Manon,"andNevin's"MurmuringZephyrs." Academy of Music last night. Such an the nineteenth century, classic as pleasing as the muted audience as that which greets a Galli-Curci German Lieder, and French voice, which has ever been Only a year ago, on the wings of his or a Kreisler assembled to hear the tenor— modernists with understand• charming. European favors and appreciation, Roland Hayes commenced his'triumphal march over every seat in the house being sold and the ing and style, and whether he —Boston Globe these United States, so that now his name and overflow seated on the stage. sings in English, in French, October 6, 1924. the warm and restrained fervors of his voice —Philadelphia Record in Italian or in German, his diction is absolutely distinct have penetrated even to those circles less Five years ago Roland musical. Now there is an overflowing con• It is no flattery to say he is a lyric tenor and seemingly effortless. Hayes gave a concert in a —Pitts Sanborn, New York cert hall, and applause, instantaneous, fevered excelled by none on the concert stage. His little upstairs room on 135th and honest. Roland Hayes is like to become a is a voice of wide range, rarely even in its Telegram and Evening street with a group of his own cult—a deserved one—he needs no favors now. people about him. Yesterday registration; a voice of thrilling quality in Mail. It was a sound and varied program yester• the upper register, and silvery beauty in the afternoon he packed Car• negie Hall to the doors with day afternoon, commencing with the formal middle notes. One thing his latest ap• patterned Mozart aria, to which at times he —Philadelphia North American pearance proved is contra• as varied a collection of races and professions as that staid gave a strange and searching accent—a sug• diction of all rules and super- gestion of wildness, yet within the pattern. Recalling a most famous singer's matinee, stitutions; that an artist may old building has ever held. * * * His is a glorious voice and feeling for mood— marked years ago by "Kneisel weather and a begin in a small auditorium one finds it in the richness of his German Paderewski house," the third and farewell and climb to a large one. All Something of this heart• romantic songs; in the chill reaches of his appearance of Roland Hayes, the remarkable within a few months, too. break is imprisoned forever Hugo Wolff; in the pale melancholies and eerie negro artist, drew to Carnegie Hall in yester• Mr. Hayes had wind and in his voice and has found its fancy of the Griffes setting for Blake's poem; day's storm an audience that packed even weather against him, but no way to his program. The in the gentle phrasing and precision of the the stage and thronged the footlights for matter. It was a crowd up, songs he sings are all a little Handel; and again in the chastened oriental encores. down and all around to make pensive, a little wistful. Even mood of Sarren Storey Smith's "Caravan," Roland Hayes' beautiful natural voice, a gala symphony jealous. the negro folk-songs which suggested by the verses of Richard Le native emotional power, developed artistry —New York Sun and Globe you hear shouted in uproar• Gallienne. and pure enunciation of foreign texts, again ious glee are tender rather Yet with all his imaginativeness, there is an enthralled hearers, white and black. In his selections Hayes dis• than hilarious, whereas the excellence of diction, whether it be in French, —New York Times played exceptional taste, "Spirituals" have a simple German, or in the pounding rhythms of the musical knowledge, variety poignance which breaks down Spirituals; a perfection in phrasing. Roland Hayes gave his third song recital of interpretation and mastery all defenses. * * * His voice —Boston Herald, October 6, 1924 of the season yesterday afternoon before an of the best nuances of de• has the same magical gifts of audience that crowded Carnegie Hall to the livery. His renderings de• true depth and feeling and Roland Hayes is a fine tenor with a fine doors and overflowed two or three hundred lighted even the connoisseurs, light, discerning skill with voice; he runs as high and low as is required; strong, upon the platform. and the Spirituals fairly trans• which he follows the delicate he is a lyric tenor, but there is enough of the His closest approach to unbending was the ported the entire audience. contours of his melody. * * * heroic in his voice to permit him to be as dram• closing group of Negro Spirituals, but he sang Carnegie Hall was packed to For the most part his voice atic as he pleases. He is a credit to the negro them with a depth of feeling and unaffected the doors, even the stage being seemed to have gained in race, of course; but he is a greater credit to simplicity that made them worthy to rank filled with listeners. " Roland Hayes Singing " strength and sweetness. music itself, because he sings life and greater with the "art-songs" that preceded them. —Leonard Liebling, New —Allison Smith, NewYork beauty into what other men have written on Deems Taylor, New York World York American. F^^SE^ainrih^fGlyj^hilpot, London World, October 26, 1924. paper.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. [ Page 8 ] THE ELWYN FORECAST

"For voice in its sonority of baritone range, and fine deep color, it would be difficult to match Mr. Werrenrath, and for admirable dic• tion of the English language to which later in his program the singer gave due attention. And for simple undefiled art of song itself there are few who can approach this American artist."—The Cin• cinnati Times-Star, January 14, 1925. =—= Alexander Brailowsky Coming to the West Alexander Brailowsky, pianist, will make his Chicago debut on February 27th and 28th, as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Or• chestra. He gave his last New York recital of the season in Carnegie Hall on February 14th. This was his fourth concert in New York since his debut there November On Tour with Werrenrath 19th. In late March Mr. Brail• "Werrenrath is one singer who owsky leaves the States for Mexico reaches a dramatic climax in song City. Before leaving he will make without seeming to strive to do so. a final appearance in New York His voice, full, resonant and of with the New York Symphony on exceeding sympathetic quality from March 22nd. From Mexico City low to high register, is an extremely he will go to South America for flexible one. With the singer the art his second tour of that country, comes first, effect afterward. Al• and then to Paris. Next November ways there seems to be a reserve he comes to the United States for power upon which he could draw an extensive tour. Alexander Brail• if he wished. The simple folk song owsky is one of the new artists who and the ballad Werrenrath sings will be presented on tour next sea• with a sweetness that penetrates son by the Wolfsohn Musical Bu• and stirs the heart. But his is a reau and who will make a limited facile art and it reaches into the tour of the West. realm of the operatic apparently without effort."—William Smith Heifetz Applies for Final Goldenburg in the Cincinnati En• Citizenship Papers quirer, January 14, 1925. Jascha Heifetz applied for his "Reinald Werrenrath, one of the second American citizenship papers few really eminent recital singers at the Naturalization Bureau in before the public today, appeared New York on February 3. Im• at the Emery Auditorium Tuesday mediately after making application night. Werrenrath's fine, well- Mr. Heifetz left for a series of schooled voice and evident artistry recitals in the South and Middle are such that one listens to him West. Mr. Heifetz came to Am• always with great interest and erica with his parents in 1917 and certainty that whatever he essays was introduced to America under will he well done."—Lillian Tyler the management of the Wolfsohn Plogstedt in the Cincinnati Post, Musical Bureau, under whose man- January 14, 1925. Continued on page 10 THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 9 ]

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Continued from page 8 agement he has toured ever since, this season being his eighth season in the United States. Gallo Plans American Company m Garrison for American A unique and far-sighted plan is \ ' (y Soprano forming in the mind of the greatest of all traveling impresarios, For• Coming! tune Gallo of San Carlo Grand Co. fame—an American March 20th Opera company to present on the road an opera by an American Tenth Event composer. Elwyn Artist Series His plan to a large degree de• pends upon the musical clubs of Elman's Engagement the country for fulfillment. If it Announced meets with sufficient encourage• San Francisco news dispatches ment and the clubs are willing to recently announced the engage• place an American opera company ment of Mischa Elman, world- on their concert courses, then the famous violinist, to Helen Frances venture could eventually be placed Katten of that city. The wedding on a sound business basis. Mr. will take place in the latter part Gallo's readiness to.be a pioneer of May, after Mr. Elman's tour is in such an undertaking is one of completed. the most gratifying and at the same Mischa Elman's concert in Port• time highly encouraging, develop• land on December 4th was one of ments in the history of American the highlights of the present musical opera agitation and promotion. season. THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 11 ]

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Vincente Ballester, baritone, sang very great interest manifested in the title role in "" with Grand Opera in this city. the Co. on January 28th. Mr. Ballester will make a Western tour next Roland Hayes, tenor, was re• season under Wolfsohn Musical cently nominated for the Hall of Bureau management. Fame, the nomination read as fol• lows: "We Nominate for the Hall Margaret Matzenauer, who has of Fame—Roland Hayes, because been singing with the Metropolitan he has been acclaimed throughout Opera Company all season, is free Europe and America as a great from her duties there for a few concert tenor, because he brings to weeks and has spent a busy month his recitals not merely a lyric of on concert tour. Mme. Matzen• great flexibility and beauty, but auer will appear again on the also a scholarly understanding of Pacific Coast next season under music and a gracious and compel• Wolfsohn Musical Bureau manage• ling interpretation; because he puts ment. to shame the average vocal artist by a positive mastery of the five John T. Adams, president of the languages in which he sings; be• Wolfsohn Musical Bureau of New cause his singing of the Negro York, was a Portland visitor the Spirituals has in it a quality of latter part of January. He at• revelation; because he is just mak• tended most of the operas of the ing his second concert tour of San Carlo Grand Opera Co. and America preparatory to his fifth expressed himself as delighted with European tour." — Vanity Fair, our Municipal Auditorium and the January, 1925. [ Page 12 ] THE ELWYN FORECAST

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