
ELWYN FORECAST 'ADVANCE NEWS OF COMING ELWTO'ATTRACTIONS ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU - WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU Broadway Building, Portland, Oregon Main 5991 Vol. 1 MARCH, 1925 No 7 Ernst von Dohnanyi [ Page 2 ] THE ELWYN FORECAST Hayes Phenomenal Negro Tenor NEXT EVENT ELWYN ARTIST SERIES Auditorium Tuesday Evening March 17th Prices: $1.10,$1.65, $2.20,$2.75 Including Tax NO MAIL ORDERS Seat Sale Sherman, Clay & Co. Roland Hayes March 1Z, 13, 14, 16 and 17th Other Events Elwyn Artist Series €Mohd Garrison 7h Soprano ^Baritone Coming! Coming! March 20th May 1st Auditorium Management Elwyn Concert Bureau 1007 Broadway Building Main 5991 THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 3 ] Help make your city prosperous by telling your friends to visit Portland and our famous highway Multnomah Hotel ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU PRESENTS Ernst von Dohnanyi Hungarian Pianist AUDITORIUM Saturday Evening March 7th The Duo-Art alone reproduces the authorized interpretations of many of the world- famous Artists. Sherman, Clay & Co. Sensation of New York'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, sopranos; Merle Al- cock, Louise Homer, Margaret Matzenauer, Marion Telva and Kathryn Meisle, contraltos; Mario Chamlee, Edward Johnson and Allen McQuhae, tenors; Vincente Ballester, Reinald Werrenrath and (Continued from page 3) Clarence Whitehill, baritones; 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 String Quartet, 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 ] "H/rt1"l ft 'c Fomoiic A fti c+c Will -play for you in your own home vv uiiu & raiiiuut* n.i UMS IFYOU OWN AN EDIS0N A new enjoyment will be brought into your life by the possession of this— greatest of Phonographs THE NEW EDISON Hear it in our studios—your favorite artist will play for you and then let us explain how easily you may become its possessor. REED-FRENCH PIANO CO. EDISON DEALERS—Also the Famous AMPICO Re-enacting Piano TWELFTH AT WASHINGTON ST. BROADWAY 0750 Program I. Fantasie and Fugue in G minor Bach-Liszt Sonata in C major, opus 2 No. 3 ..... Beethoven II. 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Recommended by Phone Main 6896 386 Morrison St. Yeatman Griffith STUDIOS 207-8-9 FINE ARTS BUILDING [ Page 6 ] THE ELWYN FORECAST THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 7 ] Ninth Event Roland Hayes*—Sensational Tours Elwyn Artist Series Introductory Tour of A Brief Record of His Triumphs second Tour 1924-25 1923-24 As before, Mr. Hayes made a deep im• Roland Hayes, negro tenor, and one of the No more fitting person could have opened pression by the skill, the refinement, the It was really two audiences that heard finest recital singers at present before the what may quite justly be called the serious sincerity of his art. His sense of time, his Roland Hayes, the negro tenor, at the public, closed his first American tour with his musical season at Symphony Hall. It is no feeling for style, his command of nuance, Academy of Music last night. 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., Philadelphia 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.
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