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8 TITE STJXPAY OREGOXIASr, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 4, 1914. - i fond of music He gave at his chateau difficult "D Minor Concerto" (Wlenlaw-8ki- ) a number of Wagnerian operas and and, "Ziegvenerwelssen" (Sarasate). engaged the best German artists he Mordaunt A. Goodnough will be the could secure to entertain his guests, pianist and Mrs. Rose Friedel Glanelll, all devotees of music It was a stu- contralto, the vocalist. pendous undertaking and his guests numbered only 25 people. And now I Miss Genevieve Bingham, a soprano learn that Rheims has been shelled." rrom tspoKane. W ash., is studying vocal Olive Miss Schneider was prepared Fremstad for the music with Robert Bolce Carson, and operatic stage by Lampertl. Recently will be presented by him In recital in says she has been studying French roles December. of the with Jean de Reszke in Paris. She sings 40 roles. In Karlsruhe she cre- part At Sunnyslde Methodist Ertlscon&l ated the of "Zerbinetta" In Church tonight. East Thirty-fift- h and Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos." East Yamhill streets, the first of the Steinway series of regular monthly aacred con Piano At a recent meeting of the Oregon certs for the coming season, under Chapter, American Guild of Organists, or j uiavju J Kira.jXAJj, the premier soprano of the it was stated that officials of tne direction Jasper Dean Mac Fall, payunless choirmaster, and Mrs. Samuel F House, will sing at Heilig Theater Portland churches more attractive Grover, organist, will be rendered by . salaries to their church organists they tne comDinea Wednesday, uctoDer Mme. Fremstad says (shd may soon be confronted with the situ- aouit and vested choirs w wie oiemway ation of a scarcity of pipe organists. of the church, consisting of 100 voices. reiers cook containing many expres The latter are offered more money to The recently organized East Side S10H3 oi appreciation oi me steinway Piano) : play pipe organs In the- Anon jiud, composed of male voices, motion picture exclusively, pro- T 1 1 . 1 ' 1 . , aters, and was Se- will be heard on this it stated that one gramme tonight for the flrst time. Miss snouia liKe Aery union to express m attle organist has resigned his church Taylor, i position to play a pipe organ in a pic- t'amllle violinist, will be the opinion ui me oteiuwiiy jl iano. DUt It ture house at 9100 weekly, it is likely assisting soloist. The newly organised tnis that a meeting of clergymen, church male chorus, the Arion Club. comDo&ed difficult. If you take all that is said in youd choir committees and organists will be exclusively of singers residing on the held In the near future to discuss the East Side, meets every Wednesday a o auu civxtx subject. A protest is also to be made night at 7:30 o'clock at the parlors little more, you will have the opinion that singers who. are not professional oi cunnysiae Aietnodlst Episcopal I voul musicians earning their living as such, Church. Membership Is open to any- like'to express." occupy lucrative choir positions. It is one who has a singing voice. thought that these positions should only be held by "bona tide professional RuzzI'b band, of this city, recently I The Steinway is universally acknowledged as th musicians." Played at the Crook County Fair, held STANDARD by which all Pianos are judged. at Prlneville, Or., and won much com- Mrs. Margaret Redding Kaon, con- mendation for excellent, high-cla- ss tralto, recently returned from a Sum- concerts. The soloists were: A. De The Steinway Piano Will Be Used mer in the East, accompanied by her Caprio, L. Blancone. Francesco Viole, niece. Miss Edith B. iCoon, a faculty M. Salvatore. Ben Drlscoll Mori Gloli at All the Fremstad Recitals. member of the piano department of the and E. Fonella. Tho opinion was ex- University School of Music Ann Arbor, pressed that tbe band was the best Mich. that has yet appeared la that portion MME. FREMSTAD of Eastern Oregon. . RECITAL Wallace Pvke. Anil rff pntlv Wednesday Evening1, October 7, at Heilig Theater onA of the sololRts with thA Ahnrn Mrs. Eva Wells-Abbet- t, English soprano, and Tickets $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 and 75c Grand Opera Company and Gustav Cramer, , were-soloist- s (Jastie-bqua- re Opera Company, has ar- Seat Sale Monday, October 5 - at a musicale at the Mount Tabor rived In this city to fulfill a profes- Sanitarium last Sunday by an orches- tra composed of H. W. Parsons, violin; ' ' vets? I - Ernest Helm, violin;. Ralph Morris rif bass; J. c. Abbett, flute; C. A. Sund-bo- m, MXSIC1AX9 ACTTFB XX CUBRENT clarinet: A. A. Buck, oboe; W. MVblC. Bequealth, H. grand bassoon; J. C. Boyer, trum- Madame Jennie Norelll, pet, and Mrs. Hulda Grandstrom-Hoy- t, opera prima donca. leaves for her piano. Patients who could be moved Sherman, May G home at Tacoma, Wash., to prepare were conveyed to verandas & concert In the and in i for her tour Middle West the parlor, while others enjoyed the Jt St: t cities. music through their opened MUs May Bchelder. soprano, windows. V1UTUK TALKING MACHINES. u Among the orchestra numbers were: PIANOLA I Zerbinetta in "Ariadne Auf Naxos." Serenade d'Amour" F. von Blon); STEINWAY. WEBER AND OTHER PIANOS. Bhe relates her war experiences In nunganan uance (Brahms), Morrison Bnrope. "At Vespers," "My Dream Lady," and at Sixth, Portland, Opp. Postofficf E. X. Arena, of New York, la, with a raedley.selectlon. Mrs. Arena, tendered a reception by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sverett Lucien E. Becker gave a successful Brodle. Mr. Arena leaves tomorrow piano recital .at the First Baptist for the East. Church, Oregon City, last Monday Opera-Hous- e Madame Clausaen, contralto, night. Mr. mlque. Following the Century Sanderson Reed. Mrs. John Julia Becker was .assisted by Mrs. season, Pavlowa again go Mrs. in the role of Amnerla She appears L. H. Olmsted, mezzo soprano; Mrs. H. will Ralph Hahn, Miss HazJ on tour eventually Bingham-Greg- g, as soloist at the Apollo Club male A. Berkman. accompaniBt, and reaching the Pacific Mrs. Helen Gustav Coast. At San Francisco she will ap- garet Gray, Miss SI I onorua concert, October 23. Flechtner, violinist. pear for several Edna Mrs. Fay M. Huntingdon, con- weeks during the Madeline Stone. Miss UiudJ Panama-Pacifi- c Exposi- Mrs. Raymond ?J tralto, one of the sololats at a con- Miss Ada Alice Tuttle and Harold International McKalson. tion, and following this she and her en- Brune. Mrs. Friedle-Gl- al cert to be given at Women of Wood Hurlbut, tenor, were heard an en- Rose . joyable at tire organization of artiste and musi- uenevleve Butterfield. Mis craft Mall. Friday afternoon. musicale given last Wednes- cians will sail for Australia for a tour Lewis. Mrs. Misa Hazel Koontz, aoprano, aang day night by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Tut- of Donald Lamont. the world. onerman. The accompanist i at Rally Day exerclaea, at Flrat tle at their residence on Mount Tabor. aioine coursen. Christian Church, last Sunday. Miss Tuttle recited "The Birth of the The New York Symphony Orchestra. tenor, pre- - Opal," with Harold Hurlbut, will Incidental piano accom- Walter Damroech. conductor, has en- Robert Boice Camon aent a programme of aacred mualo paniment by herself. This style of singer, peace meeting of Rotary reading has gaged its entire quota ot 85 musicians and Miss Beatrice at the the been extensively adopted coming season. or- were married recently I Club, Benaon Hotel, Tuesday. . by David Blspham. 'or the While other at the Oscar Wilde's ganizations conr-ple- te nnity Knisron; L,. Ruzzl, manager of Ruzzl's Band, "Happy Prince," are endeavoring to l Protestant 1 with Incidental music the officiating of con- by Liza their orchestras by filling the clergyman btl returns from a series band Lehmann, proved a charming places left vacant by musicians who a. aiornson. Mrs. Carson certs at Crook County Fair, held at number. Miss Tuttle also sang four have gone tralto singer and sune as sol children's songs de- to the front for the various Prlnevllle, Or. by Liza Lehmann. European nations now war New of the leading churches in a! Wallace Pyke, tenor, late soloist lightfully conveying their whimBlcal at the coming Opera words. Mr. sang York Symphony is fortunate in the fact before to Portland. with the Aborn English Grand Hurlbut an aria from that none of its members could be son is a member of the MoncJ Company. Is fulfilling a professional "Pagliaccl." "Rudolph's Narrative." -- ana appear from called for military service. Alexander iud will In a rd vocal engagement in this city. "La Boheme"; the "Serenade," concert-maste- from Saslavsky will again be the r. in the winter. Mrs. Q. S. Blrnie, of La Grande, "The Barber of Seville"; Magi- The first of sea- e returns home after vocal study with cal June" (Turney); "There Are Birds son, rehearsal the ' in the Valley" (Liza under Mr Damrosch will occur Oc- Fifty singers were present V : F. X. Arena, of New Tork. Lehmann). and tober 5, in preparation fot the two hearsal of the Portland Ol f. f "Funiculi Funicula" (Denza). Mr. weeks' engagement of the orchestra ciety and Handel Vocal Sol " Hurlbut was In excellent voice and iium unnift " - ' sang at the Pittsburg Exposition. The New blned chorus, last Tuesday with fine ease and expression. York season will open October 23. at chorus was well balanced sloual engagement' as a singer, and Aeolian Hall. Under the direction of were 9 altos, 23 sopranos, 8 hopes, he says, to make this city his Mrs. Rose Coursen-Ree- d sang two riaensel Jones, the orchestra's Spring 10 ban se a. Choruses were future home. Mr. Pyke bears creden- numbers, "I Hear You Calling Me" festival tour with a quartet of vocal Judas Maccabaeus" and "Ml tials that he has also sung with suc- (Marshall) and "The Little Damozel" soloists begins April S, and extends cess at symphony concerts and in (Novello) at the recent lecture on through the South Atlantic States to Joseph A. Finley has reed church choir work. He received his "Alaska" given under the auspices of Texas, thence north to Iowa and East compliments on the splendid vocal training in New Tork and , the Mazama Club at the Library hall to New York. Dy nis choir at Centenarvl ' Italy, his student course as a singer by Herbert M. Gleason. of . Mrs. Episcopal Church during extending to eight years. He Is stated Reed was enthusiastically recalled. Miss Edith Foley entertained her conference of Methodist ; ll to a or roDusio icuui Miss Geraldlne Coursen. was a sympa- senior recently especially pleased were t: 1 have dramatic students at her home, ill voice of nurity and unusual Btrength, thetic accompanist. 367 East Thirty-nint- h street, when" witH the rendition of "The admirable a Telling" 1 1 1 and has tall stature and short programme was creditably ren- (Hadyn's "Creation 1 r uhyslcal development. L.ast Summer, Arthur Alexander, the tenor, and who dered. Those who took part were: Miss day night before a large co xt when Mr. Pyke finished his grand opera formerly lived in this city, has reached Eva Wilson, Miss Foley. Miss wnen the choir, augmented Bertha to New Tork City Paris, Ma-gow- by J engagements in the East, he planned from where, at Hockman, Dean Morey. Miss Edith n, members of the Portia go to Europe to sing in opera, but the the outbreak of the war, he drove an Miss Litta Morey, Clyde" C. Society, sang "And the Glor: war changed all his European plans. auto for the Red Cross. Foley and Miss Helena Hardy. Among Hallelujah Chorus" IHandt the audience were: Miss Lillian Ertle Miss Kathleen Harrison, wlfo was She (at the ball game) Why does he Mlse Gussle Freyler. Miss Helena Robert Boice Carson nresented in recital last Spring by Wil make those motions with his arms be- Hardy, Miss Farmer, Miss LJllian musicale Thursday night it liam R. Boone, has been appointed fore he pitches the ball? Freund, Miss Frances Freund. Miss Miss (Jiara Thorberg, who organist of the Congregational Church He Those are signals to the catcher. Litta Morey, Miss E. Hayde. Mrs. F. a today from the East. Miss at Oregon City. As a pianist and The two men work In concert. Cryner. Mrs. R. Morey, W. Thomas and a pianist who has played organist Miss Harrison shows marked She Dear me! Is that the concert Clyde C. Foley. success in Eastern cities. ability and conscientious study. pitch I've heard about so often? Bos- w ton Transcript. Mrs. Edith M. Smythe entertained the Mrs. Sara Glance Bowma Fred Hampton Wing, concert violin- Inmates of the Patton Home for the has been appointed soloirl ist, left this city last week for a In the midst of wars' alarms. Mile. Friendless with a few musical selec- centor at the Third Churcl month's visit in Chicago and other Anna Pavlowa has opened her Fall tions recently and was assisted by her Scientist, and also Instruct! 4 cities. season and is now touring prov- Miss T. M. music at Willamette Univet J 5 Eastern the students. Balch and Miss inces of the British Isles. Pavlowa and Fisher, who sang two songs. Mrs. Or. Mrs. Bowman possessel This tiroaramme has been arranged her imperial Russian ballet and sym- Smythe was asked to pay contralto voice, and is one! a visit again. I 11 by Mrs. Catherine Cooach-Fredrlc- k, for phony orchestra recently appeared in Portland soloists selected t Covach-Frederic- k. Apollo cl by Mrs. Catherine for Manchester, England, according to ca- The Treble Clef Club has resumed Its Club male. chorus. . rendered at the Columbus Club Wednes- ble advices received. The English tour weekly Mahoney Is rehearsals under the direction The First Presbyterian sd day night, with Miss Ethel at of necessity limited In extent, Mrs. Coursen-Ree- d. (Sul- for of Rose and has was reorganized Wedr the planol Trio from "Mikado" Pavlowa will come to America about taken up the .study of Brewer's "Twi- last livan), sung by Miss Zlta Manning. Miss tho end of this month and open her light Pictures," a at the parish house. Geod 1 I Gertrude Hogan. Miss Gertrude Kung; American tour of the Metropolitan beautiful cantata for kenzie was elected presi Opera-Hous- e women's voices, four parts, with Inci- rielen Bennett, secretary. "The Yama Yarns Girls," Miss Genevieve November 3. . She will dental soli for dramatic soprani and Marian v. Lester, soprano! EDITED M. QUENTIN. Layne, Miss Muriel Johnson, Miss then tour the East and Middle West, contralti. The is BT JOSEPH Mrs. H. Scharff and going as music written to a ence Hadlock ,alto; J. A. anticipation .A?;'ft-V:.-.V-- Frances Keating, far West as Omaha. In Feb- poem by Charles Noel Douglas, 'EEN is evidenced ill Mlsp Nelly Lincoln, with Miss Edith ruary she will open which bass, and A. Cruikshank. the flrst concert of Portland. a season is full of beautiful thoughts and pic- leaders. Thirty-fiv- e were the Williams as soloist, and Miss Edna at the Century Opera-Hous- e, playing Symphony Orchestra, which takes tango. tures. The personnel of the club this a chorus membership of Halstead In the alternately with Dippers Opera Co- - season Is: Mrs. Frank Taylor. Mrs. 100 is expected next raeetinl place at the Heilis Theater Sunday af- parts ternoon, November 1. with Harold Mordaunt A. Goodnough, pianist; Dr. were well balanced. Hampton CHARTER MEMBER OF PORTLAND BAND. 10 altos, 4 and 4 Bayley as conductor. The first Clement B. Shaw, basso; F. POLICE Maua uesner was acconl Wing, violinist, and Mrs. J. Loomls, - of the season is slated for Fri- programmeI. will continue in that posi- day mornlTig. reader, rendered a musical A. jrimey, tne director of of high order last Friday night at Oratorio Society, There are many other financial de- Multnomah Hall. Each soloist was well will dir.! mands presssing- on concert-goer- s "The Messiah," which will! Just received and the bouse filled to its December 29 by the choJ now, but friends of the Portland Sym- capacity. junction with the Forth; phony concerts have not weakened In and Handel Vocal socletiei their enthusiasm and it Is reported "Christie's old Organ" will be chorus of 150 to 200 voices. that the financial response so far has rendered tonight at Rose City Park will meet every Wednesdi been encouraging from prospective Methodist Episcopal Church. Services room H, Presbyterian pa season ticket holders. of this kind have been immensely Thirteenth and Alder stre' "Portland Is now being Identified popular In Great Britain, where many and classed as a musical center with thousands ox copies ot me music nave Qeorge Wllber Reed. teJ Minneapolis, St. Paul. Loa Angeles and been sold. This service is superior to of the soloists last seas says . - San Francisco," M. Christensen, &ry-A- ...... t ; others in the adaptaballty of the music Apollo Club male chorus. president of the Portland Symphony to the theme of the story. The songs with Mrs. Reed, In Londi Orchestra. "Through Its work dur- f do not simply "fill In," but are writ- engaged In professional ing the past four seasons our orchestra ten Into the heart of the story so He plans to reach Portlanl is mainly responsible for this distinc- that story and songs together are a 1915. tion. "With this recogniton gained, in thought. is admirably point may unit It this be well conceded: That ndapted for a Sunday evening service. Dr. Clement B. Shaw the fund raised to pay the expenses The minister will tell the story and a of expositions of the entire organization Is far less chorus choir will render the musical series of than, usually Italian. French and Germa is paid to the musical numbers. Last Summer at church 600-60- any this ' " 1 at suite 7 Tilford conductor in of the other cities there was presented as a feature of V ' :" - ginning Saturday named. The members of the orches- Rose Festival week. "The Story of t. . y rs- t v. night. Whlt-temor- sion Verdi's "Aida" tra are not only helping to place Port- the Pink Rose." by Mrs. E. M. e. will land in the front rank of musical prog- the story unfolded and ress, arias Introduced. Morda l but are also educating the school nough, pianist, assij children of the city free of charge to William H. Boyer has resigned as will an understanding of better music" choirmaster of Trinity Protestant No admission will. be. chail. Francisco, a newspaper of that city Episcopal Church choir, after several Madame Norelli During Its six seasons of successful said: years' service in that capacity. Dr. Jennie the Apollo Club, "Julia Claussen was superb. opera prima donna, has work Portland's She sang so beautifully that the au- A. A. Morrison, who is the rector of W leading male chorus, has grown re- church, will hereafter also have ' -- home at Tacoma, ash., tl In dience encored again and again." The that 4 "v 1 her approaching tour oii markably membership, both active Chicago Inter-Ocea- n says: "Such a charge of the choir. Dr. Morrison Is u.: and associate. The charter member- is prize generation." a musician, has an excellent Middle West cities. She ship numbered 18, voice the of a trained at Denver, Cincinnati but several of whom (ti baritone voice, and has won distinc- si took no active part in the work, but George Seymour Beechwood, organ- U tinhlHi- Mi'll Tl itfAirinl iTIT nVifiii Tfcilltii tion as a composer of sacred music. cago and other Eastern were in sympathy with the movement. ist of the First Congregational Church, 2L "Xl pacts that her tour wil Today the membership numbers 76 ac- will give a short organ recital before The United States may before long months. She is also tive members and more than 400 asso- the regular church service this evening. be visited with a musical deluge. Mark next Spring in .New. York. I ciates. Mr. Beechwood's admirable pipe organ Hambourg. the pianist, who, despite Probably no city the size of Portland winning name, Rus- John Claire Monteith ii country work is him a great deal of his Teutonic is really a concert seal In this has a more creditable favorable comment. too strenuous for her, so we decided to sian, In a London Interview predicts club for this club of this kind. By actual compari- turn our faces toward Statue of that this country will, because of the consists of his student son It is the largest male singing club Miss Lyla Prosser, soprano, the war, be deluged friends who attend the west of Chicago has been Liberty. We had a small apartment great with musicial season body and the class of music added to faculty University . leading of the in a presented Is the of the at Kurlruhe, and when we gave It talent. "All the virtuosi," he of the highest order. The of Oregon Conservatory of Music Miss up we stored all our household effects says, "will be out of a Job. Touring beforehand to study thj entire membership, both active and as- Prosser recently from a year's Europe is which Is to be given, thl sociate, is looking returned there, having lost all the family silver the continent of out of the forward with keen- study with the great Italian voice plate in a safe deposit vault at Ber- question. In England the people will tics of the work of thi est anticipation to the coming concert, teacher, Giuseppe Campanari. lin. When we go to look games, the composers and sel with Madame Julia Claussen as soloist. started for London we still at athletic but rendered. Some were obliged to leave our trunks be- will not for some time be in the mood uneasiness concerning the possi- May Schelder, an American soprano, hind. My dog, to which I was per- to patronize concerts. America will bility of Madame Claussen's inability who has been singing leading roles at haps more attached than even our remain as the virtuosi's happy hunting Quite a number of Ff to secure transportation from Europe German opera-hous- es for several years, effects, could not be taken with us. ground and is likely to be so overrun slcal people attended the I In time to meet her numerous engage- has returned to New York, one of the So I left it with the Countess Gaston with them that competition will render distinctive reception ments has been dispelled by the an- many fugitives of war. She came de Montesquiou-Fezensa- c That dog it difficult to make a trip there profit' Thursday night by Mr. nouncement of her arrival In this from Paris, accompanied by her mother was given to me by one of the royal able." ward Everett Brodle, 61 country. While her work In well-know- n and grandmother, on 11 opera the arriving the Phil- family of Baden. I shall never see my M. M. Rudolph, one of the charter members of the Portland Police band, street, to Mr. and Mrs. grand contralto roles has adelphia. "When the war broke out," dog again. Perhaps I see my Louis Creitz will present In New York City. Mrs. 11 set musical critics with wonder said Miss Scheider, "I shan't violin waa born in Croaaville. TIL. and came to Portland from .Denver In 1904. He astir realized that to trunks or my furniture. It Is only a recital his son, Albert Creitz, Thursday has been a member of the monuted patrol since his appointment in 1905. Mr. singing with Mr. Arens and admiration, her pronounced success travel with my grandmother, who Is few weeks since I sang at the chateau night, October 15, at Lincoln High Rudolph in New York City an. In concert is said to be remarkable. now past 80 years of age. one bel- baa served as secretary of the band and at present is - from of the Marquis de Polignao at Rheims. scnool auditorium. Among num Be J11B35S ba JtmnHlmw iss sa 35 years Summers, since Mr. Arenl Speaking of her appearance in San ligerent country, to another, would, be Marquis the arm Annate lan of accepted ability. He Is Tho Is a bachelor ana very I bora oa tbe programme wlU be the Concluded OB

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