The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-23
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The following program. of all Ameri-
can music was. presented at one of
the recitals given during. the recent
convention of organists at Ocean
j.. Corey of Detroit, Mich:
Fantasia and fugue. S. Arther Gibson
Sonata in c minor Ralph L. Baldwin
Oriental Sketch. Ernest R. Kroeger
Allegretto. ........... Arthur Foote
Legend. Charles Wakefield Cadman
Caprice. Charles Wakefield Cadman
Prelude in D fiat. .Adolph M. Forester
dedicated to Mr.. Corey.)
Melody in B fiat. George e. Whiting
dedicated to Mr.. Corey.)
Grand Sonata in A minor ........
................. George E. Whiting
One of the many newspaper COM
ments about a recent Musical Courier
editorial is this n from the Rochester
Post Express: AN American imlpre-
sario who has just returned from
gage singers for opera in this coun-
try, complains of the graft in mu-
steal circles there and tells of agents
for singers who pay literally for a
chance to appear in the smaller opera
houses. Commenting on this state
ment, the Musical Courier pertinently
asks why the impresario could not
nave Ile same SINGERS II Lney
had presented themselves as candi-
dates here without the eclat OF
European operate engagements"
1T would be interesting, too for the
public to know what the booking
agents pay artists and what the same
booking agents charge Conservatives,
societies, etc, for the attractions
which they send out over the country
during the eason
The Following names have just been
engraved on one of the outside walls of
the new public library at Portland,
Ore: Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Handel,
Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn,
Chopin, Schumann, List, Verdi, Wag-
5ner, Brahms, Grieg and Mcdowell.
The names appear in largesletters and
side OF the street. The structure,
which covers an entire city block, cost
$500, 900. The library contains a large
number Of books on music.
.A musical exchange asks the per-
tinent question and answers 1T:
How many piano sonatas did Bee
thoven write 2"
ITO judge by modern recital pro-
grams he wrote threeT-the 'Appas-
sionata,' the Moonlight and the G
minor opus
London Daily Telegraph: The 9TH
er day I went to a trial, a veritable
Sanger Krieg,'a of a large number OF
singers who had been picked out OF
some 1900 by Raymond Roze for a
kind of foundation of his opera COM
|pany that is to show its powers at
Covent garden next November. IT
was an interesting exhibition. Many
Of the voices were OF lovely quality,
but almost without execution their
|owners had little or no sense Of die
ton. On the other hand, there were,
think, a few foreigners-two French,
one Dane, MISUNDERSTANDING. one and
all, had something more than Ia sense
Of diction, and they had developed 1t.
Year In, year out, T-sShave asked the
same question ais to- why our native
singers In almost every case suffer
FROM this lack of either the sense or
the training of the sense of diction.
The majority of the singers I heard
might have been singing Choctaw for
all I could hear, save, perhaps, for an
odd word here and there. Another
point 4 noticed was the proreness of
one or two singers to add high notes
to the decoration M fts-s1 - xss@sA-