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Kennedy, recently featured at tl:fis house, his return was delectable. The "Chimes the film being· of a high . COI)1~dy charac­ o.f Normandy" is still ~ in a .. cLass with ter, heavy' drchestral 'mus1tP:- was .not "The ~Mil>:ado" and others of the same ilk, Movie-Th·eaters Find G ood drawn to any extent. Noticeable, how­ a nd is pleasant to look at when well ever, were Victor -Herber t's "Badinage" given. Joseph Sheehan as H enri found Music a n Impo rtant Asset and the same composer's "Mlle. Modiste," the score a little too low in pitch to suit · a waltz by W aldteuf el, the waltz f rom his resonant voice, and Daniel Denton "Maytime," the popular "Beneath the as .lean Grenicheux displayed his tenor Orchestra of Forty-five Skilled M usicians Accompanies Silent Star s," the Wedding Marches f rom both to advantage. The singing of Arthur C. "Midsummer Night 's Dream" ana "Lo­ "Burgess, the <;I:aspard, was not pleasant . Drama at the Old A cademy of. Music-House Also hengrin," the "Berceuse" f rom "Jocelyn," The star.of the-evening was undoubtedly Possesses Excellent Organ-Scores of Masters Employed and f or dramatic situations, the Over­ the irrepressible Serpolette of Elaine De ture to Rossini's "Barber of Seville." Sellem. Francis J. Tyler as the Bail.li -- -Worthy Musical Organization at the Eighty-first Street was ,equally as enj oyable as Serpolefte, Huge Repertoire at Loew's although not having as good an oppor­ Theater-Orchestra at Loew's New York Commands At Loew's New York Theater, the bill, tunity. Florent ine· St. Clair sang Ger- or rather, say, t he film, is changed every . ·maine, and while her voice showed Formidable ·Repertoire- Theater Also Has Large Organ day, and this naturally necessitates a fatigue, her artistr y was apparent. The and Uses Excellent Music change of music. It is well seen that this staging .was up to the excellent standard . entails an enor mous amount of work, a set by those productions of t he Boston huge repertoire and a wide knowledge of English Opera Company, and the attend­ music of every kind. The orchestra at ance was much better than .was to have HE movie-house having an orchestra this theater is under the direction of been expected · for holiday week. " The T theme he has. used Pierne's "Serenade Jacob E hm. Mr. Ehm has sixteen men Bohemian Girl" next week will end .the of symphonic; possibility is by no Viennoise," and for that of Gosse, Fle­ under his baton and a pipe organ with Chicago season for this company. · means restricted to the aristocratic the­ _gie:t"'s "Love Song." Excerpts from Thomas's "Mignon" occur here and there, four manuals and upward of ·sixty speak­ 'f he Oscar Deis Piano School has been atrical district of Times Square. The and the well-known gavotte "Amaryllis," ing stops. Besides his duties at the ·· incorporated in the State of Illinois with old Academy of Music at Fourteenth said to be the work of Louis XIII him­ playhouse, Mr. E hm is organist and a capital of $1,000. The incorporators are choirmaster at St. P aul's Lutheran Oscar Deis, president of the company; Street and Irving Place, for many years self. Also used are t he Drdla "Sere­ Church, Brooklyn. New York's only nade," Massenet's "Scenes P ittoresques," Blanca Metz Deis, secretary and treas­ Changing the film every day, it is not urer, and George A. McCorkle. Mr. ·Deis temple of music, is and for t he revolutionary mob scenes, possible for one man to attend to the now a - motion-pic­ Litolff's "Robespierre." is a musician of note and organist at the whole· musical side of the performance. Holy Name Cathedral of Chicago. ture theater under M.r. E hm has, therefore, associated with the management of Eighty-First Street Theater him Ernst Luz, who has a library of Summon Italian Men Singers • William Fox. It J. Walter Davidson is the musical di­ over 8000 numbers to .select froni. The may seem a bathos rector at the Eighty-first Street, with character of" music played depends, of The Italian men singers in the Chicago for t h i s house, an orchestra of twenty. This theater ·course; upon the char:acter of t}le film, Opera Association must appear before which h a r b o r s does . not attempt symphony concerts but compositions are used by Richard the Italian consul J an. 31 for examina­ memories of Patti, like those given by the Rialto and the Strauss, saint-Saens, Liszt, Chopin, Grieg tion to determine their fitness for mili­ Nillson, Gerster, Strand, but the accompaniments are in and even Beethoven and Wagner. Re­ tary service. It is exoected that aU who Mario and Brig. every case excellent both f or the vaude­ hearsal being impossible on account of are physically fit, now citizens of Italy, noli, to descend to ville acts and the film. In other words, · the constant attendance of t he men in and under forty-five years . old, will be the humble moving it is a theater-orchestra as it should be, t he orchestra pit, . the two o'clock per­ culled into the Italian army in the spring. picture, but · we as it is in any first-class English theater. formance is almost in the nature of a Cleofonte Campanini, general director m u s t remember hut seldom in any of the legitimate rehearsal, as the orchestra sees its music of the Chicago Opera Association, gave that the movie has houses in the United States. The movie­ for the first time, but so high a state of a luncheon to representatives of the press long since grown house is an educational influence in more efficiency has been attained that t he audi­ Friday afternoon to introduce Sylvio "Laz­ Jacob Ehm , M usical out of a state of ways than one: Director at Loew's h. "l"t I th" ence never suspects that they ar e playing zari, composer of "Le Sauteriot," which New Y ork Theat er Uml l Y· ~ ~s For "Nearly Married," with Madge at sig~t. J. A. H. will be g iven its world premiere here case, th~ thmg. IS .J an. 14. Mr. Lazzari said that he had done so very well that it justifies itself, taken the op.era from Paris, where the and the ghosts of bygone voices are now Opera Comique was to give it its world replaced with very excellent music. HADLEY'S "SALOME" HAS CHICAQO premiere, and brought it to this country, In the first place, the orchestra is an ·partly because he admired America and exceptionally good one, numbering for ty­ PREMIERE UNDER l;OMPOSER'S BATON was 'grateful to it for t hrowing its mili­ five men, and under the dir{:!ction of Fred tary weight to t he side of the Allies. Quintrell it does its part in the entei"­ partly because he admired Maestro Cam­ tainment in a thoroughly musicianly way. Tone Poem Well Played by Stock Orchestra and Makes Go~d Im­ panini, and partly because he had a Mr. Quintrell is an Australian by birth pression- Marie Kryl, the Soloist, ~cores in Liszt's E Flat Piano splendid opportunity to have it given pro­ and had his early musical education at pitiously by the Chicago Opera Associa­ the Adelaide College of ·Music. At the Concerto - Swedish Choral Club Gives Local Premiere of tion. Henry Hadley, composer of age of eighteen he was already wielding "Azora," and Arthur Nevin, composer of the conductor's baton. The house has Massenet's "Mary Magdalen"- Apollo Musical Club in Annual "A Daughter of t he Forest," which are also a fine three-manual pipe organ for­ also being given their world premieres merly in a church "Messiah" Performances - " Chimes of Nolniandy" Sung by in Chicago this . season, were present at and which has a Sheehan Company- Campanini Gives Luncheon to Press Men to the dinner. mellowness t h a t Moses J . Brines sang this month as many a new in­ Introduce Composer of "Le Sauteriot" soloist in "The Creation" at Milton Col­ strument fails to lege, Wis.; as soloist in the "Messiah" possess. Bureau of M usical America, when played as she played it, is a highly in Mason City, Iowa; at Ravenswood in Mr. Quintrell has R ailw ay E x change Build i ng, interesting piece of writing. the "Messiah"; at a recital in Chicago, a large musiC li­ Chicago, D ec. 30, 1917. · A popular concert was played by the and as soloist in Chicago with the Apollo brary at his com­ Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday H ENRY HADLEY conducted his tone Musical Club Friday night. mand, installed in evening, a movement from Beethoven's FARNSWORTH WRIGHT. what was formerly · . poem, "Salome," at its first Chicago "Pastoral" Symphony, and several lighter Patti's dressing­ performance, at the regular weekly pair numbers being oerformed. Frederick room, and his· ac­ of concerts by the Chicago Symphony Stock conducted. . Josephine Earl, the comic opera star companiments f or The Swedish Chor al Club, Edgar ·A. and pupil of the New York vocal in­ the feature films Orchestra. A virife conductor, he held­ Nelson conducting, gave on the evening structor, Robert Hosea, sailed last week cover a wide range. the ensemble with a firm grip, impress­ after Christmas t he first performance in for London, where she will sing the For "The Eternal 1 ~- "· ··· 1 ing the Hadley interpretation upon every Chicago of Massenet's oratorio, "Mary prima donna role in the English produc­ Temptress," i n . Magdalen." The work lacks the inspira­ tion of the "Lilac Domino." · which Lina Cava- Fr~d Quontrell, M u- phrase. There are many superbly beau­ . . . s ocal D irector at tiful passages in the work, effectively tion of much of Massenet's operatic writ­ hen IS the star, A cademy of Music ing. The performance went· well, Mr. Mr. Quintrell used scored, and the playing of it gave it its Nelson holding his forces right to their . such music as Richard Strauss's "Trau­ full meaning. Dvorak's Symphony, work, and the soloists did some good 0 merei," admirably arranged from the "From the New World," and the restful singing. Mabel Corlew-Smidt, Lillia.n original piano version; Tschaikowsky's Wright, Burton Thatcher and Edward L "Song Without Words," and several num­ "Pastorale" f rom Bach's "Christmas Ora­ Atchison were soloists. The Massenet bers by Chaminade, including the "Pas torio" were the other works on the purely work was preceded by Hugo Wolf's des Amphores." The characteristic orchestral .part of the program. "Christmas N-ight." KLINE themes, mostly Mr. Quintrell's own work, Marie Kryl was soloist in Liszt's E are descriptive of the persons in the play Flat Piano Concerto. This attractive Apollos Sing '~Messiah" V . and are musically interesting. Between young woman, looking more like a school­ The Apollo Musical Club turned to fi lms the "American Trio," consisting of girl than a · seasoned musician, played Chicago this year for all of ~he eight E a soprano, tenor and baritone, sang. with such confidence and maturity of soloists for its annual two performances These singers were not identified on the musical understanding that the audience of Handel's oratorio t he "Messiah." The SOPRANO program, but their work was of a high forgot she was still in her teens. Fine first performai;Jce, in Orchestra Hall, order, as was that of Joseph Interranti, feeling for tonal values, impeccable tech­ Friday evening, showed that the club is Miss K lin e's voice comes in th ~ "lyric" who sang solos. For "Du Barry," Mr. nique, clarity of execution, a highly de­ doing as fine singing as at any time in category. While this classification would Quintrell's score, if it can be called that, veloped sense of color and contrast, with its long career. Only a small au·Qience indicate a " light" quality, there can be no is largely of music m 01:e often heard in poise and ease of manner, made her work br:,lved the storm. to attend .the concert. question. of the carrying power of her voice. the concert hall. For Du Barry's own thoroughly enjoyable. The concerto, Moses J. Brines, tenor, sang well, al­ Even in the far reaches of the huge theater her lightest pianissimo was effective a nd though obviously handicapped by a cold. never missed a syllable of the text. Specialty, DevelOpment of llis middle register was warm ;,tnd rich, "Operatic Timbre" and Dic­ Admirable diction a nd free, fonva t~d tone tion. Author of ..Th e PracUcal Iris high tones wen~ !lWeet, and he used Psychology of Voice and of production did much to e·stablish this con­ Life.'" Studio. 50 West 67th his voice intelligently. Herbert Gould, d ition. HENRI ZA y Fo~e2~f~o~on St.. N. Y. Tel. Columbus 1405 w. basso, was uneven, his tremolo at times In addition to the tech"nical efficiency of maning his singing, and again disap­ JlillilW· work, ·M iss K line evidences a grasp on CHEVALIER Teacher of pearing entirely. Fredericka Gerhardt­ the musical content of a subject in hand. ASTOLFO Downing's contralto voice was small but -St. Louis Times. PE.SCIA Artistic Singing pleasing. Lucile Stevenson, soprano, 24 WEST 75th ST .• N EW YORK LATE OF MILAN T elephone, Columbu• 4266 showed some hard edges to her voice. Concert-Oratorio-Recital American Soprano Harrison M. Wild conducted. P e r s onal Repre s e ntative . Henri, Marquis de Corneville, returned Mgt. W olfsohn Bureau M. L. STORRS \ to his own at the Strand Theater t his 1 W. 34t h St ., N. Y. N-EAL-SIMMONS 830 N. La Salle St~ Chleapo. Ill. week and the foolery t hat accompanied . ·- . ... AME'RICAN CONTRALTO Address:-14 7 Bainbridge St. BROOKLYN, fii, Y. H-,· E'LE.N--- WEI.LLER _ CONCERT, O.RATORIO . T EL BEDFORD &84 ~