Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
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Herr de Cortez Wolffungen,
dramatic tenor. will appear in
a Joint recital in Gable Hall Friday
November rs, at s D. m.
The program will be entirely de-
voted to grand opera duets and solos
from Wagner's "Walkue" and Tam
hauser." Weber's "Freischutz," Leon
Ssvallo,s "Pagliacci," Gounods
MascsEni's "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
verdi's III Trovatore" and "Rigolet-
IT," etc.
Miss Mildred Harrison will be at
the piano.
THE Atlanta Womens Choral Club
met Friday, November 81, at 3
p. m. in the Phillips & Crew
Building. The organization was per-
1ected and officers elected as follows
Mrs. W. c. Jarnigan, president; Mrs.
Carthew- Yorstoun, vice president;
Mrs. Albert Spalding, secretary and
treasurer; MIR. de Cortez Wolffungen,
musical director, and Miss Mildred
Harrison, accompanist.
Mr.. Wolffungen Classifles the voices
Of those present and regular rehear-
sal work will begin next Friday, No
vember 2S. at p. m.
The Spinning Song" from The
Flying Dutchman" has been selected
Cor the initial study.
HAIRLESS SHELDON, JR., has
Just completed the score for a
Christmas cantata, which he
has composed especially for his
Christmas service at Trinity Church
and the Baptist Tabernacle His text
was taken from the Bible, with the
exception of one poem, written by
William r. Hammond, entitled THE
Babe of Bethlehem" The soloists
have been chosen from the choir Of
the Jewish Temple and the Baptist
Tabernacle and rehearsals are Well
under way.
This cantata win be heard first at
Trinity Church, and later a presen
fation viii take place at the Baptist
Tabernacle.
k1ISS MARY BELL GORDON, OF
VI Atlanta, n last years graduate
of the Atlanta Conservatory of
Music, was presented in recital in
Danville, Va, last week. She has
bsen made director of the department
of expression in the Roanoke lnsti-
tute of that place and displayed great
versatility in her first faculty recital.
Excerpts from Lii Lehmann's au-
photography, to which she has given
the significant title, MY Way" have
already appeared in some of the lead
ing Continental papers, and tell OF
that most interesting period In her
life, the Bayreuth days of 1875 and
1875, of her intercourse with Wagner,
and Of much that occurred there
when the "Nibelungen Ring" was be-
ING studied and first given The dis
tinctly personal note that ever char
acterized her work as an artist is
imprinted on every page Of her mem
0irs which are likely to be as gem
orally read and discussed as are only
the very important contributions 10
this particular form of literature. An
English translation is in preparation,
and will follow the original ere long.
When Gounod's Faust" was first
produced the European critics did not
like 1t, and New York Journalist
declared there was only one melody in
the whole opera The London critics
went to Paris and wrote soothing &C
counts of Il to their papers. There
was one conspicuous eNception-H.
Chorley He recognized its possibili- |
lies, but the managers and publish
ers were guided by the adverse YER
dict of the others. Finally he per
suaded Tom Chappe0 to speculate in
the opera TO the tune of forty pounds.
He bought the English rights and
made q fortune. As for Chorley, ne
made for the opera, when first pro-
duced in London. an English version,
which has been in use at Covent Gar
den for half century. II is now 10
be replaced by a new one, made by
Alfred Kalisch