IBM filifiil 'ADVANCE NEWS OF COMING ELWYN'ATTRACTIONS ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU - WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU Broadway Building, Portland, Oregon. Main 5991 Vol. II OCTOBER, 1925 No. 12 Hulda Lashanska THIRD EVENT NOVEMBER II [Page 2] THE ELWYN FORECAST Elwyn Artist Series Municipal Auditorium Season 192.5-192.6 Portland's Unexcelled Concert Course IO—Supreme Events—lO [Next Attraction] Mme. Matzenauer iFeb. Contralto —12Z Cershkovitch — Mon. San Carlo Opera _|J,aj'ch Symphony Orchestra Oct. °"e °pera —- 3"D Felix Salmond 26* M . soloist _*w *Thamar Karsavina II March and Ballet _U I 9 ^ULdlLoaShanska Tl?lV' OlaaSamaroff 1 April Pianist \\ C V ToschaSeidel 1|SJ - 'Roland Haves "TT April Violinist _J30 Tenor JJ ^ Moiseiwitsch "J Jan. Edward Johnson April Tian«Sf _J21 Joan Ruth JJ26 * New Subscribers have choice of either Hayes or Karsavina or by paying one-tenth additional may include both events. A Season Ticket insures permanent seat location. No waiting in line. A saving of over one-half. A Season Ticket costs only: $3.00, $3.00, $7.70, $11.00 [with tax] Telephone MAin 5991 ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU BROADWAY BLDG. THE E L W"Y n FORECAST ['Page 3 ] Special Announcement FELIX SALMOND "The Fritz Kreisler of the Violoncello." —Baltimore Evening Suh "He is of the elect among virtuosi." —Deems Taylor in N. Y. World "Mr. Salmond's high reputation is well deserved." ... —Phillip Hale in Boston Herald In Concert PYTHIAN HALL (YAMHILL AND PARK STREET) [Sat. Eve., Oct. 31 IN CONJUNCTION WITH FELIX SALMOND Violoncellist Portland Chamber Music Society It is seldom that a city the size of have Mr. Salmond give a recital as Portland has the rare good fortune it is so seldom we have, a Salmond of having a chamber music society or a Casals in our midst. The con- of real outstanding merit. In the cert on Friday Eve., October 30, Pipes-Conrad-Hutchinson Trio we wlH [eature Mr- Salmond »° concert , • . ... numbers, a sonata as well as the possess such an organization. Add ' , ,c • 1 . ,. 0 .. _ , , ensemble numbers or the society, to this combination Felix Salmond The acoustics of the Pythian Hall the eminent virtuoso, who will thrill are excellent, the capacity is, how- Portland concert goers when he ever, about 800, so we advise our plays the Lalo concerto with the subscribers to make their reserva- Gershkovitch Symphony Orches- tions promptly. A special price con• tra, and the concert will be one that sistent with the Elwyn attractions all will enjoy. at the Auditorium will prevail. The A number of our patrons have lower floor is $1.50 and the balcony asked if it would not be possible to is $1.00. ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU Phone MAin 5991 BROADWAY BLDG., PORTLAND, OREGON. The capacity of Pythian 1:.cl(wd find $ for tickets Hall is limited so it is ad- KT col „ , , , „ , , ™ , , r • visable to mail or tele- ^[li oojto the Salmond and Portland Chamber Music phone for your reserva- Concert, Pythian Hall on Friday Eve., October 30. tions without delay. 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IN JOINT RECITAL AUDITORIUM Saturday Evening, October 17th, at 8:25 ''W> • Mr. Myron Jacobsen at the Piano Ellison-White Conservatory DAVID CAMPBELL, Director A Well Established Conservatory of Music and Allied Arts Courses Offered in Voice, Piano, Violin, 'Cello, Wood Wind Instruments, Organ History, Theory, Harmony, Composition Speech Art—Stage Craft Orchestra, Opera School, Ensemble Dunning Classes, Musical Kindergarten, French Accredited Instructors Graduate and Normal Courses Students May Register at Any Time For Appointments and Information Call Registrar TELEPHONES [ EAst 1626 i&ff-SsZSSS EAst 5363 EAST TENTH STREET N., at WEIDLER [Page 6] THE ELWYN FORECAST Gershkovitch Symphony Orchestra FELIX SALMOND, 'Cellist—SOLOIST Monday Evening October 26th Program 1. Kalinnikov—Symphony No. I in G Minor I. Allegro moderato II. Andante commadomente III. Scherzo IV. Finale—Allro Mto Intermission 2. Naprawnik—Melancolie—Op. 48 No. 3 (stringed orchestra) A. Liadow—Music Box—Op. JACQUES GERSHKOVITCH 32 Conductor (Arranged for piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 clarinets, harp and glockenspiel) PIANOS 3. Lalo—Concerto in D for violoncello Baldwin Howard Hamilton Felix Salmond, Soloist Kohler & Campbell RADIOS 4. Glazounow—Symphonic Poem Atwater Kent Radiola (Stenka Razine) PHONOGRAPHS Victor Cheney Edison Brunswick MRS. FRED L. OLSON The Teacher Who Sings Hyatt and the Singer Who Music Teaches Phone Broadway Co. 2501 386 Morrison Street Exponent of and Recommended by Phone Main 6896 Yeatman Griffith STUDIOS 207-8-9 FINE ARTS BUILDING THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page 7 The CHICKERING '' iAm e r i c a's Oldest and <y\(j? blest Piano" THE PIANO OF THE MASTERS The golden beauty of tone is the charm of the Chickering Piano. Its tone is full, rich and resonant and particularly pleasing to the discriminating musician. The Ampico in the Chickering gives you the art of the masters of the keyboard. 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VICENTE BALLESTER Jf i^^Pl^^fr^ft I/W:»VWtAJY IXfglp MORRISON STREET ' " BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH [ Page 8 J THE ELWYN FORECAST Gershkovitch Symphony Program Notes Symphony No. 1, A Minor kettledrums, triangle, harp and Allegro Moderate, Andante, the usual strings. Scherzo, Allegro Moderato As Mr. Philip H. Goepp says in his interesting notes: "this Sym• Basil Sergewich Kalinnikoff phony begins with a theme that is individual from the first bar (Born on January 13, 1866, at and has moreover in a brief range Woina in the government of a touch of ancient (or barbarous) Orloff, Russia; died at Yalta on mode. The Slav is stamped January 11, 1901.) upon the first page of the score. Kalinnikoff, the son of an "For once a young Russian official in the Russian police ser• composer showed not a trace of vice, received his education at the strong influence exerted by first at the Orloff Theological Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Kor- Seminary where he conducted sakoff, but Glinka or Dargomy- the choir. He was very poor so zhski if at all. His cautilena is he journeyed to Moscow in the tender, broad and flowing. Young hope of bettering himself; also crimson blood courses through to obtain a fuller instruction in the work. All is serene, radiant, music. He arrived there in permeated with the joy of living, 1884, and entered the Music a fact the more remarkable when School of the Philharmonic So• one considers that the composer ciety, where he studied the was in the grip of his dreadful Casson and took lessons in com• malady when writing the sym• position of Ilyinsky and Blaram- phony. berg. His career at this school was a brilliant one. He was n.. graduated in 1892. In 1893 he a) Meloncolie (Op. 48 No. 3) was appointed assistant conduc• E. Napravnik tor to the Italian Opera in Mos• (for stringed orchestra) cow. In the course of a year symptoms of consumption began Edward Napravnik, a Bohe• to develop. His privations had mian living at St. Petersburg, told upon him. He was forced born in 1839, wrote the operas to leave his position and go to "Nyni - Novgorod", "Harold", South Russia. The remaining "Boubrovsky" and "Franches- years of life in Crimea were ka". He was the conductor of spent in composition. the Russian Imperial Opera House for a number of years * * * prior to the Revolution. The Symphony in A Minor was b) Music Box (Badinage Valse) performed for the first time at A. Liadoff Kieff in 1897. Alexander Wino- (arranged for piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 gradski conducted. It has been clarinets, harp and glockenspiel) played in Moscow (1898), Petro- grad (1898), Berlin (1899), Paris Anron Liadoff, born April 29, (1900) and many other cities. 1855, in Petrograd, Russia. The It is scored for piccolo, two flutes, pupil of Rimsky-Korsakoff in two oboes, English horn, two Petrograd Conservatory, after clarinets, two bassoons, four graduation of which he was in• horns, two trumpets, three trom• vited to teach harmony and com• bones, Bass Tuba, a set of three position in that institution. THE ELWYN FORECAST [ Page £f] Program Continued IV.