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All other countries, $3.00 per year. Single copy. Price 25 cents. INVEST YOUR MUSIC MONEY WISELY Interesting and Important Items Cleaned in a Constant Watch on Remittances Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere Remittances should be made by money order, bank check, registered letter or Marin uzzi United States postage stamps. Money THE COVENT GARDEN SEASON of in¬ CZECH MUSIC filled the programs for THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL is an¬ SUZANNE FISHER, a young American ternational opera opened on April 30th with February 1st and 3rd of the Cleveland nounced to begin Jully 22nd and close August soprano, is reported to have “jumped at one a new and retouched performance of Bee¬ Orchestra under Arthur Rodzinski. Among 23rd. There will be six performances of bound to the very top of the artistic ladder” thoven’s “Fidelio.” Weinberger’s “Schwanda” works presented were the Overture to “The “Parsifal,” with Richard Strauss conducting; by her interpretation of the role of Haitang ■rapper shows the date to which and the “Arabella” of Richard Strauss will be Bartered Bride” by Smetana; the “New and Karl Elmendorff is announced to lead when, on January 23rd, Zemlinski’s opera, novelties in the repertoire; Clemens Krauss, World Symphony” of Dvorak; and the “Con¬ four performances of “Die Meistersinger” “Der Kreiderkreis (The Circle of Chalk),” from Vienna, and Gino Marinuzzi, from certo for Violoncello” of Dvorak, with Gregor and three of “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” had its Berlin premiere at the State Opera. Etude. Wri Rome, will be new leaders, with Sir Thomas Piatigorsky as soloist. •3-»• Based on one of the most beautiful of the only. Contri Beecham as chief conductor and artistic GUSTAV MAHLER’S “Second Symphony, Chinese legends, the score is said to be of sible care is n but the publishers ^are director. not responsib KURT ATTERBERG’S opera, “Fanal,” in C minor,” had one of its rare American “fine workmanship” with “delicate coloring graphs either •«———-—-& has had its premiere at the Theater Royal of performances when it made the program and transparency of the orchestra” so that Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Atterburg became (with the exception of the Overture to ‘‘Pro¬ it “should find a permanent place in the SIR EDWARD ELGAR, probably the metheus,” Op. 43, of Beethoven) on February most inspired of modern British composers, widely known in America when in 1928 he repertoire.” won the ten thousand dollar prize offered by 1st and 2nd, of the Detroit Symphony Orches¬ •3-»■ Advertisements must reach this office passed away at his home in Worcester on tra. The Detroit Symphony Mixed Choir not later than the 15th of the second April 23rd. Bom June 2, 18S7, the son of the Columbia Phonograph Company for a AN OHIO INTERCOLLEGIATE OR¬ month preceding month desired. Rates on centennial symphony written in homage to of two hundred voices supplied the choral CHESTRA ASSOCIATION was formed at a application. the orgainist of St. George’s Roman Catholic parts, Lois Johnson, soprano, and Clara Church of Worcester, his early education was Franz Schubert. meeting of college orchestra conductors held ■3-»• Clemens (Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch), con¬ on December 14, 1933, at Kent State College. with the law in view; but he turned to his tralto, were soloists; and Ossip Gabrilowitsch own choice of music in which he was largely THE WOMEN ORGANISTS’ CLUB of On May 12, 1934, the All-Ohio Intercollegiate directed the interpretation. Orchestra, assembled by this association, gave self-taught. His masterpiece, “The Dream of Boston held on February 20th a “Travel Re¬ ■3-»• Gerontius,” was produced at the Birmingham cital” in which scenes of Paris were portrayed a festival at Kent State College, at which Dr. Festival, on October 3, 1900, with Hans by the use of music for organ, violin, violon¬ GRIEG’S unfinished opera, “Olav Trygva- Howard Hanson was the conductor of the SPECIAL NOTICES Richter conducting. His compositions in¬ cello and voice. son,” had what is believed to have been its evening program which included his own “Romantic Symphony.” AND clude almost every form; and he achieved ■3-1- first performance in America, when, on Feb¬ almost every distinction to be conferred upon ruary 14th, it was given a performance at AT THE CONCERTS-COLONNE of the Biltmore Theater of Los Angeles, under SERGEI RACHMANINOFF, according to a British musician and many from foreign Paris, on February 10th and 11th, “Tristan ANNOUNCEMENTS lands. Sir Edward made several visits to local Scandinavian auspices. a late announcement, is to become musical and Isolde” was given in concert form and in •3-»• director at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. America to conduct his works. its entirety. The first program included the •3-1- SIR HAMILTON HARTY finished, early first act and the first two scenes of the second; in February, his engagement as leader of the FRANZ LEHAR’S new “grand” operetta, SPECIAL NOTICES BENIAMINO GIGLI sang the role of and the last presented the remainder of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. When he “Giuditta,” has had its world premiere at Des Grieux (which for years was one of his appeared on the stage he received a wild most popular at the Metropolitan) in a the Vienna State Opera, heretofore the home ovation; and his tone-poem, “With the Wild of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. The innova¬ fiftieth anniversary performance of Massenet’s Geese,” was included in the program. “Manon” given on January 19th, in Rome. ARTURO TOSCANINI’S sixty-seventh tion was prompted by the desire to recoup birthday, on March 25th, was celebrated by the exchequer of the State Opera, which must •3-f> GENTLEMAN, TEACHER OF PIANO; a “radio party” from coast to coast, when a FELIX WEINGARTNER’S musical com¬ have been achieved with Lehar leading the Choral, Orchestral and Band Conductor— LIBRARY RECORDS show that a few special “Palm Sunday Program” of the Phil¬ edy, “Dame Kobold (Dame Imp) ” was pro¬ first four performances, with prices of ad¬ available after June fifteenth. Desires years ago there was at the New York Public duced on January 14th at the Stadttheater permanent location in College, High harmonic-Symphony Orchestra was broadcast mission tripled and quadrupled, and with School, or private work, In community de¬ Library a continuous long waiting list for the from Carnegie Hall of New York, with Maes¬ of Baden near Vienna, in honor of the record breaking box-office receipts. siring musical development. Address “Scheherazade” of Rimsky-Korsakoff and tro Toscanini leading. Listeners in were seventieth birthday of the composer. It was •3-»• X. Y. Z„ care of Etude. the “Pathetique Symphony” of Tchaikovsky; asked to contribute to the half million guar¬ the Austrian premiere of a work written some FOR sale:—Xylophone. Address P. 0. ANTONIO SONZOGNO passed away at and that now these lie for days and weeks on antee fund being raised for this oldest of our twenty years ago, with its libretto based on Venice, Italy, on December 31st. He founded Box 555, Elkhart, Ind. the shelves while the waiting list is for the a play by Calderon. American symphonic bodies. the first choral school of that city and was symphonies, chamber music and songs of widely known as a composer, especially for Brahms. “HELEN RETIRES,” an American opera DAVID STANLEY SMITH’S new “Con¬ by George Antheil, with its libretto by John his oratorio, “Mary at Golgotha,” and for a ANNOUNCEMENTS ~] “Requiem Mass.” ARNOLD SCHONBERG was the guest certo for the Violin” had its first performance Erskine, had its premiere on February 28th, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orches¬ when, on February 18th, it was on the pro¬ at the Juilliard School of Music of New York. gram of the New Haven (Connecticut) Sym¬ Marvel Biddle won approbation both for her AN ALL-STRAUSS PROGRAM was pre¬ CLASSICAL PIANISTS and Students— tra, for its pair of concerts on February 8th sented on February 9th and 10th, by the Learn to play "blues," fox-trots, etc., in and 9th.