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Single Copies 10 Cents VOL. 88. No. 3 Published WeeklyREVIE. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Jan. 19,192W9 $3.00 Per Year Lester Concert Ensemble Wins Success in

the Lester Ensemble and including such cele- Talented Group of Artists Sponsored by Prominent Piano Manu- brities as Elwood Weiser, ; Edouard Hargraves, pianist and Judson Eldridge, pianist. facturers Wins Laurels in Local Musical Circles The concerts by the ensemble have been most successful in demonstrating the superb While Presenting New Concert Band qualities of the Lester concert grand style J, with newly drawn scales by Paul M. Zeidler, the prominent technician, who has been instru- HILADELPHIA, PA., January 14.—Among the outstanding musical events in the Quaker mental in perfecting the new instrument. It is City during the current season is a series of concerts being given by the Lester Concert interesting to note that the Lester concert grand P Ensemble sponsored by the Lester Piano Co. These fine musical affairs are given each has been endorsed and adopted officially by the Sunday evening at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel and attract capacity audiences. The ensemble artists of the Grand Com- is also presenting programs before various colleges, women's clubs and civic organizations in pany, the Civic Opera Company of Philadelphia, and about the city, and both the programs and the manner in which they are presented have and the Women's Symphony Orchestra, of this been highly commended by the press and by city, and in other directions has won high various organizations. They are declared in Century Club, Philomusian Club, the Women's commendation from those prominent in musical fact to have an educational value that cannot Musical Clubs of Doylestown, Pa., Lansdowne affairs. The Lester concert grand has thus been be overlooked. and Germantown, at the Review Club in Oak established as an instrument of genuine merit. The artists making up the ensemble include Lane; Women's Club of Glenside; Episcopal The new Lester concert grand piano has, Wilbur Evans, bass baritone and winner of the Atwater Kent National Radio Audition prize in 1927, who is at present a scholarship pupil of Emilio De Gogorza at the Curtis Institute of Music; Josef Wissow, a pianist of wide repu- tation and a teacher at the National Conserva- tory of Music, New York, who has appeared as solo pianist with both the Philadelphia Orches- tra and the Philharmonic Society; Jeno De Donath, a famous Hungarian violinist, composer and conductor, formerly of the faculty of the Conservatoire de Budapest, and of the Academic de Musique in Geneva, and Mary Miller Mount, prominent coach and accompanist, who has accompanied such well known artists as the late David Bispham, John Barcklay, Lambert Murphy, Henri Scott and others. The program given by the ensemble at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel last night is charac- teristic and indicates the calibre of the music offered. It consisted of several solos by Mr. Evans, including "O, Thou Sublime Evening Star" from "Tannhauser," and Speak's "Sylvia," together with encore numbers "Boots," Curran's "Nocturne," and Nevan's "Mighty Lak' a Rose." Then came the playing of Svendsen's "Ro- mance," and Vecsey's "Valse Triste" by the vio- linist Mr. Donath, and Brahms "Rhapsody in G Minor," Chopin's "Valse Brillante" and Mac- THE LESTER CONCERT ENSEMBLE Dowell's "Polonaise," as piano solos by Mr. Mary Miller Mount, Accompanist; Jeno De Donath, Violinist, and Wilbur Evans, Bass Wissow. Mary Miller Mount played the accom- Baritone, With the Lester Concert Grand paniments to the vocal and violin numbers. The first of the series of concerts was given Church of St. Stephen, Torresdale; The Media through the medium of this excellent group of last October before the Beaver College faculty Club, Media; the Armory in Phoenixville and musicians, been introduced to the music-loving and student body. Others have since been at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. public of Philadelphia in a most effective manner given before leading organizations of the city Others will be given during the remaining and with results that have proven very gratify- including the Penn Athletic Club, the New winter season, with noted artists augmenting ing to its sponsors. 3