Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-13
MATINEE MUSICAL
PLANS BUSY YEAR
Eminent Guest Artists Engaged
for Its Programs-Other
Concert Notes

The Matinee Musical Club calendar for
me season OF 1s17-ts will be an all-Ameri-
can one. The cub season will open on
TNe7aay November 6. at 2 80 o'clock in the
ballroom OF the Hellevue-Stratford, with
John Powell as the visiting artist at the
plano Tuesday. November 90, will offer
James @. MacDermid. composer, and Sybil
Sammis- s-MacDermid, mezzo-soprano, In
miscellaneous program. A week later the
annual club luncheon will take place in the
ballroom OF the Bellevue Stratford, at which
distinguished guests have already signifed
their intention OF being present On De-
cember the artists will be Charles Wake
Held Cadman, composer-panist, and Prin-
cess Tsianina, soprano. On December IS
the winning contestants of the 1917 Ma
tional Federation Of Musical Clubs Solom
Robinson, pianist; Graham Harrist VIC in
lst, and Marie sLoughney, vocalist, will be
heard In n varied program. The concert
VIII be followed by business meeting The
january concert will be a MacDowell day
Under the direction of Mrs Edward A.
MacDowell will be given a lecture, Illus
uated by numerous photographs On jan
uary % The Tanning of the Harp" will be
given, the Japanese scenario by Margaret
Scott Oliver, the music by Fay Foster and
Gertrude Ross, the Chinese music by Edgar
stillman Kelley
On January 23 the club will act as hostess
20 the Manuscript Society, which will give
Its annual concert that evening.
The midwinter choral concert will take
place on January 20. Vera Barstow vlo-
linist, will be the principal artist, assisted
by the club choral. A miscellaneous pro-
gram will be given on February 5, present.
ing Charles Gilbert Spross and Harriet
Ware, composers.
Tho next concert will be given February
10, when the members will hear Frederick
Gunster, tenor; Henry T. Burleigh and
Mabel Daniels, composers, On March r.
Huntingdon Woodman organiSt-composer,
will be heard in a miscellaneous program.
Henri Scott, basso of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, will give varied program
on March 10. On April there will be
given a miscellaneous program. April l6
Thaddeus Rich. violinist, and Henry Clough-
Leighter, composer, will be the artists. The
spring choral concert will take place on
April 49, presenting the prize cantata tnow
being competed for by Philadelphia COM
posers) by the club choral. The final pro-
gram will be given on April 30. In addition
20 the artists already mentioned, the club
will also present at various times George
II. Chadwick, Horatio T. Parker, Henry
Holden Russ, Henry X. Hadley Carrie
Jacobs-Bond, G.. Cotton Marschal, Margaret
Hoberg, Mary Turner Salter Marion Bauer
and several Philadelphia composers.
Mrs. Helen Pulaski lnneS, who has DEM
onstrated her capacity in the past, will
again direct the club chorus. The S1OU
prize cantata mentioned above involves
the following conditions: The cantata TO
be for women's voices with incidental solo
parts; the work to require not more than
thirty minutes for performance the COM
petition to be open only to residents OF
Philadelphia, who will select their own
text publish their own composition ana
have printed copies ready for sale by Jan
uary 81. 1918 Compositions must be sub
mitted under an assumed name, accompa-
MED by sealed envelope bearing on the
outside the assumed name and containing
the real name and address of the competi-
tor. and must be in the hands of the secre-
tary Of the club. Mrs. Horace II. BurreI
404 Gowen avenue, Philadelphia before
December l, 1917. when the contest will be
closed and the compositions submitted to
jury of at least three judges Of recognIzeu
Btanding.
The first of the principal recitas ar |
ranged by Arthur Judson for the season now |
beginning will be that of Efrem Zimbalist, |
the Russian violinist, on Saturday after |
noon, october 81, at the Academy of Music |
Zlmbalists art has ripened and matured |
since the days when he first appeared in |
Philadelphia as a youthful prodigy and one |
OF the famous trio which included Elman |
and Parlow, all OF whom are pupils of the |
distinguished violin pedagogue, Leopold |
Auer. After years retirement from the
concert stage following his marriage to
Alma Gluck, the well known singer Zim-
baiist reappeared and his playing called
forth high praise.
French arf In