New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-20
UNIVERSITY COURSE
AGAIN FOR NEW ULM
S>GURRENT NEWS CLUB PREPARES
ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE
WINTER MONTHS.
NOTABLE ARTISTS WILL APPEAR
HERE IN CONCERT AND
LECTURE.

So successful were the members of the
Current News Club last year in carrying
out the University Lyceum Course that
they have again entered upon arrange
ments for this seasons course. The
numbers will be given at the High School
Assembly Room again as it was found
that the room could be comfortably
filled and the expense of the course is
considerably lessened by having free rent
The first of the course will come October
=, 18th and the last January 30th. There
will be four entertainments in all, two
of them being musical, one lecture and
one dramatic evening.
First on the list will be the Meyer-Ten
Brock Recital. The date is the 18th
of next month. Marie Ten Brock is
most gifted pianist. She commenced her
piano studies when child, under the we'll
known pedagogue, Victor Heinze. At
the early age of sixteen, she appeared as
a highly praised concert artist in America.
: She then went to Europe and finished her
musical education with course OF study
under Godowski in Berlin. Since then
she has been concertizing and teaching in
this country, and has had a most enthu-
siastic reception wherever she has ap-
peared.
The violinist, Otto Meyer is we'll known
to the concert goers of America and
Europe. When a student in Prague un-
der Professor Sevick, (Kubelik's teacher),
so pleased the great master, that he made
him his assistant in Berlin After two
successful years as teacher, Mr.. Meyer
made concert tours through Bohemia,
France, Belgium, England and Germany,
spending his summers with the great
Belgian master, Ysaye, under whom he
prepared his Repertoires. Mr.. Meyers
European successes were followed by an
engagement for a two years concert tour
of America with Marie Ten Brock under
the management of Haensel & Jones,
CT New York, since which time he has
been concertizing and teaching in this
country.
Second on the list comes the concert
by the Faust Opera Singers. There are
five members of the company, Mildred
Smith, contralto, Christian Mathisen,
tenor, Joel Mossberg, baritone and
Martha Mork, soprano, and Erma
Rounds, Pianist. All of them have been
engaged for years in public concert work
in the large musical centers of the world.
The first part of the program is given over
to quartettes and solos from the best in
oratorio and secular music. Mr. Christian
Mathisen, tenor, sings Norwegian folk
songs in native costume, and for the
quartette a group of our own familiar
folk songs are arranged, songs which have
a new appeal when presented by these
artists.
The latter part of the program is de-
voted to the opera Faust, with the story
of the opera presented in narrative FORM
An interesting insight into the care
with which the Faust Opera Singers
prepare their programs is given by the
Y fact that ten weeks rehearsals precede
each seasons concert appearances. Of
equal Importance is the fact that the
Faust Opera Singers were organized by
Mr.. Louis O.. Runner, of Chicago. Their
appearance in any concert series is certain
to be an epoch in the musical life of the
community.
Next will come the Bigelow lecture
December goth. Hon. Herbert S. Bige-
low, the most notable of the speakers
who were here during University Week
last summer, is leader of radical
thought. The man is best described in
the words of VIM. Marion Reedy, editor
of Reedy's Mirror, (St. Louis).
''This man Bigelow, who leads the
radical forces, is believer in the transla-
ton of Christianity into democracy. He
hasn't the ministerial mind, incapable of
comprehending issues beyond liquor or
citv vice. He sees the cause of de-
bauchery and vice in poverty and he
knows the cause can be abolished. He
understands that the world is not re-
formed by preaching, but only by getting
into the fighting in practical politics for
better living conditions and better govern
ment conditions. He believes in speed
ing up the people and in getting what
good he can out Of politicians and sinners
to help him to his ends. He studied
practical politics with Tom L. Johnson,
no tyro at the game, and he won a