The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
up TO The PEOPLE.
TOpekans Must Decide on Art
lists They Will Hear.
Canvass City to Determine Sem
timent Toward Music.
PLAN 6 HIGH CLASS CONCERTS
Musical Art Society Would
Bring Famous Artists.
Melba Will Give Extra, Dean
WhitehOuse Announces.
PLAN G HIGH CLASS CONCERTS

Announcement was made today by
Dean Horace Whitehouse, of Wash
burn college, of a probable artists
series for the musical season of 1916
II. Backed by prominent musicians
of Topeka and the Musical Arts soci-
ETY. the city will be canvassed this
week in an endeavor to discover if
Topeka will support a full season of
high class music.
At the Washburn College Faculty
recital by Signor Scipione Guidi, vio-
linist and Hugh c. Dickerson, bar
itone, at the First Baptist church to-
night a list of the artists considered
for the course will be passed out
among the audience with the request
that the favorite artists on the list be
checked. Advertising of the same
nature is being run in the State Jour
nal tonight and those interested in
such a series are requested to mark
and clip the ad and mail it to Dean
Whitehouse. If the expression of in
terest seems to warrant 1t, the course
will be assured and the artists and
the dates of their recitals will be an
nounced in next Mondays State Jour-
nal.
Series of Six Concerts
The course contemplates a series
of six concerts with an extra concert
by Madame Melba. A wealth of must
cal talent has been lined up by Dean
picked from a long array of artists.
For sopranos Madame Media Is as
sured for an extra concert. Either
Alma Gluck, whose name is a byword
with the victrola fans or May Peter
son will be the other soprano on the
course.
For the violin recital Fritz Kreis-
Ter, whose last American tour was
probably the greatest individual mu-
steal triumph since Paderewski's first
American appearance, has been al
ready tentatively engaged. Eugene
Ysaye, the Belgian violinist, regarded
by many as the worlds greatest vio-
linist has also been considered, but
Kreisler's popularity in Topeka, prac-
tically assures the Austrian artist s
appearance here.
For contraltos Dean Whitenouse an
nounces that he has opportunities of
securing Schumann- Heink, Julia Culp
or Tilly Koenan. The latter is a new
conner in the ranks of the altos but
foreign critics look for her to assume
by Schumann-Heink, when the lattor
retires.
Topeka may have a chance to hear
Sigpor iMartinelh, the tenor of the
Metropolitan grand opera. Either he
Or Paul Reimer will be on the art
lists course, Martinelli is to sing in
Kansas City in November
From the ranks of the baritone
either Herbert Witherspoon. baritone
of the Metropolitan. or Louis Graveure
will be selected.
Mrs. Mcdowell Coming.
The increasing interest among music
lovers in the works of the late Edward
Mcdowell. Americas greatest COM
poser would forecast a big interest in
the recital of his piano works and
songs by his widow. Mrs. Edward Nc
Dowell, assisted by two singers. Mrs.
Mcdowell has attained national promi-
hence not only by her successful re-
citals OF her husbands works but by
her successful establishment of the
artists colony at Peterboro. n. H, the
former country home of the great
American composer. A tentative en-
gagement of Harold Bauer, pianist,
who was heard in Topeka two years
ago, has already been made by Dean
Whitehouse. in connection with the
manager of the Artists series in Wich-
ita. Ernest Schelling, the German
pianist, is also a possibility on the
course.
For an ensemble number" either
the Zoellner string quartette or Bar
rere ensemble of. wood, winds and
horns. will be chosen