July 1, 1916 MUSICAL AMERICA 35 Gertrude Curran, it was decided to raise the number again, to 1200. Beside the regular seven afternoon RUDOLPH GANZ AS MUSICAL EDITOR concerts of the club this year, it was de­ cided to give two evening concerts at the Academy auditorium. Permission for Pianist Making Set of Records Which He Thinks Will Have Distinc·t Educational Value­ this was granted by the School Board. Demand for Bach-Editing Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin-Atti­ There will be the three chamber music recitals and also one by the Chicago tude Toward American Compositions Symphony Orchestra in May. This or- · chestral concert will mark the close of the anniversary year, and following the . Ely HARRIETTE BROWER concert the members of the club will hold a reception. The active member­ ship is still limited to eighty-five mem­ '' J T has been a full season," remarked Pathe people think I am very business­ Bach. They say: 'If you approve, Mr. li ke, fo1· I am ready to begin my work Ganz, we should like to work on Bach, bers, who give the club programs and - Rudolph Ganz, the distinguished transact the business of the organiza­ as early as half-past nine in the morn­ Beethoven, Schumann and then some tion. composer, pianist and teacher, in the ing. It does not always work _out well. modern compositions.' Which proves course of a recent conversation. "Al­ The other day I was pleased with the they really desire to study the best. The first concert in November will be by Anna Case and Theo Karl. The next though filling occasional concert engage~ playing, all seemed. to ·go satisfactorily; "Another piece of work I have on hut alas, through some little defect in hand is the editing of the entire set of will be by Percy Grainger. The appear­ ments, this has been my_ 'teaching year,' ance of George Barrere, the flautist, and and I have given a great many lessons, the wax, the work had to be all done Beethoven's Sonatas, for piano al)d vio­ over again." lin. This is to be done in conjunction his little orchestra is looked forward to both privately and at the Institute of "Do you think there wjll be a demand with Leopold Auer, who will edit the vio­ with interest. The last concert will be Musical Art. Next season will be a lin parts. He has already completed his that of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 'concert year,' as I shall be on tour a share of the work. I shall phrase and good part of the time." finger the piano parts. In the matter MAY PETERSON'S MUSICALE Besides teaching, playing and com­ of fingering I pre~er simplicity-not to posing, Mr. Ganz has taken up a ne\':" make the passage more difficult by con­ Soprano Sings for Summer Colony at line of activity, in which he is greatly stantly shifting fingers, but easier, by Seabright, N. J. interested. He has signed a five-year simpler means. Some of my fingerings May Peterson, the American prima· contract with the· Pathe Phonogr~ph may surprise you; they may seem to Company, and will make a complete set revert to t.he older and more classic donna, was the principal artist at a mu­ of records for it. ways, but I feel the performer will gain sicale given at Seabright, N. J., on Fri­ "The idea is of genuine educational by it. day, June 16. Mills Peterson was enter­ value," said the artist. - "I feel the ac­ ~· 1 shall also perform the same service tained by Mrs. John Jay Knox at her complishment .of it will have wide in­ for the Brahms Sonatas in connection home there for the week-end. After the flu ence among young students and teach­ with Theodore Spiering. These works co ncert a luncheon was given in her ers who live at a distance from musical will be issued by Carl Fischer.'' honor at the home of Mrs. Ida Barrows, which was attended by leading members centers. The records of the 'Educational· American Compositions Series,' as they will be called, will em­ of the Seabright colony, including Mrs. brace much of standard playing and "Do you intend to place any composi­ John Jay Knox, Mrs. William Barbour, teaching literature. There will be the tions by American composers on your Mrs. Henry Borden, Mrs. Irving Knox, complete set of Bach's Two and Three programs for next season?" Mrs. Thomas Clark and Mrs. Herbert · Part Inventions. Students play a few "Yes; for one thing I shall play the Straus. Among the guests at a tea given of these, but are not familiar with them MacDowell 'Eroica.' I like the 'Tragica' for Miss Peterson by Mrs. Renil Kimball all, as a rule. Now they will have each just as well, but the 'Eroica' is not heard were Mrs. Irene S-toddard and Yvonne de set entire. It is my intention to include so often. The art of composition is be­ Treville. some Preludes and Fugues from the ing assiduously cultivated in America; Edouard Deru was the violinist on the 'Well Tempered Clavichord,' some of the your composers are doing some· excellent program with Miss Peterson and Francis Beethoven Sonatas and a few of the work. As you know, I am always on Moore was her accompanist. Among the Mende:ssohn 'Songs Without Words,' the lookout for new things. I came to numbers sang by Miss Peter son were that is to say, the representative ones, this country in 1900. And the very next "L' Absence," by Berlioz; "Depuis le like the Duetto, Hunting, Spinning and seaspn, in 1901; at one of my recitals, I jour" ("Louise"), by Charpentier, and Spring Songs. Of course, we will have placed several pieces by American com­ as an encore, by request, "The Lass with some Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. I posers on the program. Among them a Delicate Air," with her own accom­ shall also include some of the Cramer were Sherwood's 'Exhilaration'- and two paniment. and Clementi Etudes, for I use them in pieces by MacDowell. I was looking my teaching and recommend them to over some compositions _the other day Plan Society-for Giving Operatic Music students and teachers. which a young composer, Charles Griffes in York, Pa. by name, had brought me. I found them "By means of the phonograph I can Photo by Mishki 11 YORK, PA., June 24.-Prominent solo­ give the idea of tempo, nuance and in­ Rudolph Ga:nz, the Eminent Swiss both interesting and beautiful. He goes his own way, though in style and work­ ists of this city participated in a musical terpretation, but cannot convey the idea Pianist program last Wednesday evening at the of the piano tone quality, for that is not manship his pieces are somewhat along the lines of SchOnberg and Ravel. I home of Mrs. Harry Read, with the pur­ possible on the phonograph. for the whole set of the Bach Inven­ pose to form a society in this city for tions?" I asked. showed them to Paderewski, who was Explanatory Booklets much pleased with them. ~' the performance of operatic music. Mrs. "For each composition played I shall Improved Tastes "And so the most of next !;Cason you James Maxwell Rogers was in charge of prepare a little pam'phlet, explaining how "I have not doubt of it. I find the will be on tour; is it not a pleasant pros­ the evening's program. In excerpts from the piece is to be studied, with rules for taste of students and players in this . pect?" I asked. "II Trovatore" the following was the cast practice and so on. In this way the country has changed greatly during the "Well, yes, I do look forward with of characters: Leonora, Lillian Ring; work will be truly educational. last fifteen years. Pupils who come to pleasure to the work, though I certainly Azucena, Mrs. E llis Smyser Lewis; Man­ "You can see that all this is taking me now do not expect to be fed on the do not enjoy the constant traveling. A rico, George T. Hanning and "William H . much of my time at present. Not only Liszt Rhapsodies and brilliant composi- great many concerts and recitals are al­ Eckenrode; · Conte di Luna, Douglas . must the music be prepared and played - tions of that ca:Jiber. They seem anxious ready booked and others are pending. I Read. The following took part in the but edited and corrected afterward. The to study more serious music, especially shall haxe another busy season." · evening's program: Mrs. E llis Smyser Lewis, Lillian Ring, B la nche Obardick, Mrs. Louise Smith, Elea nor POVLA FRISCH'S DEPARTURE paring not only programs for his own Sewickley and Beaver. The mass began Hetrick, George T. Hanning, William H. Eck­ with the "Kyrie" and continued through em·ode, Douglas R ead, · Mary Haines Taylor, recitals but also those in which he will Henrie tta Owen Wiest, Annie Ansta clt, Singer Sails for French Visit-Plans of appear as accompanist for Mme. Povla the "Christe Eleisori" to the "Gloria in F 1·ances G1·eenwalt, H a rold Jackson Bartz. Frisch and Pablo Casals. Another Pease Excelsis," the music being a'~corded in­ G. A. Q. Pease Artists artists who will have a busy vacation terested attention. The Rev. J. S. Mar­ Mme. Povla Frisch, soprano, sailed time here is the American vioiinist, Rod­ tin spoke . between the two parts of the Pasquale Amato will be the first at­ Saturday, June 24, on the Lafayette for erick White.