The Detroit times., 1911-02-18
MUSIC

sh SuNciidiiiincu- gwen Mohuhy oitci
room, In the North Woodward Congre-
gational church.
Pupils OF Harry y. Boillotal, OF the
Detroit Conservatory OF Music will
! hall, Thursday evening, Feb. %. Mrs.
A. IL, Judson. soprano, will assist
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Miss Winifred A. Whiteley, pupil OF
Francis Francis =. York. director OF
the Detrot Conservatory OF Music,
will give a graduating recital Monday
evening, Feb. 81. in the conversatory
hall Miss Florence De WALTON White
ley, violinlste, %ill assist on the pro
gram.
Sunday evening St Johns Episco-
pal church choir, under the direction
OF D. L.. Edwards, will sing A. X. GauPs
sacred cantata. Israel in the Wilder
ness. The solos will be taken by
Masters Willard A. Nash and Russell
Callacut, sopranos, and Bertram
Beer, tenor, and A. II. Schumacher,
baritone
There is decided interest among
he music lovers OF the city In the
anounced reabpearance, here, In the
iarrick theater. Sunday afternoon,
March 8, OF Alexander Heinemann. the
German baritone, who was heard In
the same theater. in song recital,
earlier In the season. On his second
appearance Herr Heinemann prom
ises 10 be greeted by a large audi.
once.
The following Junior pupils OF the
Detroit College OF Music gave con-
cert in the college hall, Saturday aft
ernoon; Misses Alyce Bookheim,
Manola McCallum. Barbara Waters.
Evelyn Longey. Eelen Johnson, Ag-
mes Lord, Marian Hayes, Edith Meis-
or, Marion Bastedo, IneZ Waters,
Muriel Bernstein, Florence Grimm,
Alma Schlmmel, Vera Bernstein. Miss
Myra Holcomb, ccprano. sang two
groups OF songs.
There Will be no rehearsal or the
Detroit Conservatory OF Music or
chestra. Wednesday evening, on ac-
count OF the Theodore Thomas or
chestra, OF Chicago. giving a concert
In Detroit. The following pupils Of
the conservatory took part on the reg
ular weekly concert, in the conserva-
tory hail. Wednesday afternoon: Hiss
Mathilda Kalthoff, Earl Holmes, Miss
Joyce Hasse, Miss Lillian McMaster.
Miss Edna Miller and Miss Hazel
Patrick.
Mary Garden. the most.talked-of
primal donna OF the day, will make her
r. nat ..iI
Her highly cultivated dramatic abil.
ity, no less than her voice and beau
". has earned for her unique place
in the annals OF modern music No
operate character within the range
OF her voice is too abstruse TO be
grasped and appropriated by the YER
satiie and energetic Miss Garden But
it's ell hard work. declares Mary,
People talk a great deal about native
talent. but II is much too often a
native capacity of good energetic dig
ging have no patience with sing
ers or any other persons who are for
ever afraid OF orertaxing themselves.
Look at thelprinp donnas who refuse
10 sing more than once week, It's
perfect nonsense. ! can sing seven
times a week il it's necessary"
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The seventh Members concert of
the Tuesday Musicale. will be given
Tuesday morning. Feb. 81, at 1890
o'clock, in the Century building. The
program will consist entirely OF COM
positions by Norwegian composers.
Mrs. Lille Gulbrandsen Moore will give
an illustrated talk on Norwegian peas
ant music and will wear the Hardran-
peasant costume. The illustrations
will present two piano numbers,
founded on folklore by Sinding; folk
songs by the same composer, and a
group of peasant dances and three
Grieg numbers. The second part Of
the program will be given by Mrs.
Louise Unsworth Cragg, Miss Eliza
beth Ruhlmann and Mrs. Florence
Penberthy Butcher, pianists; Mrs.
Roy Arthur Littleield, soprano, Miss
Theodosia Eldridge, violinist, and
Miss Ola Dafoe, accompanies
Among the great symphony orches-
tras in the United States, none has
exceeded In development nor sur
passed, the lofty artistic purpose OF
the Russian Symphony orchestra, of
New York, which will be heard in De-
troit Sunday afternoon and evening,
March 10, In the Garrick theater. To
Modest Altschuler, its brilliant con-
ductor, II is said, Is due the credit for
the signal success OF the orchestra,
but IL is not possible TO overlook the
part that has been played by the
members Of the organization in lifting
II to the plane which, in these days
OF orchestral proficiency. is so diff
cult to attain. Beginning eight years
ago, with the determination to present
the representative works of the Neo-
Russian composers, Director Altschul-
er and his men have been able to
reach the ideal originally desired.
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There is no slowing up" of inter
est, In the third return engagement
to Detroit. of Nine. Anna Pavlowa and
Mikail Mordkin. the wonderful Rus
sian dancers, who come to the Gar
rick theater, Sunday afternoon and
evening, Feb 26.-Fhese remarkable
artists and their surrounding company
have aroused the admiration OF the
entire country, and they are now re.
turning from a trans-continental trip
which has been one series OF artistic
triumphs and big box Office receipts.
So many requests have been made 10
the local management for repetition
OF the two ballets, The Arabian
Nights" and "Giselle" that they Will