New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Music Notes

The Music League Of the Peoples In
stitute will give q program of ukrain-
ian music in the great hall of Cooper
Union this evening, as the second of
series of fifteen concerts. The artists
taking part will be Sonya Yergin, So
prano; Boris Saslawskv, barytcne, and
the Balalaika Orch estra, The concerts
begin at S:15, and admission is free
A concert for the benefit of the needy
Italians of New York will be given at
Carnegie Hall on January 3 by the Ital-
ian Welfare League. Arturo Toscanini
aad his La Scala Orchestra will give
the entire program. This will be the
only appearance Of the famous con-
ductor and his orchestra in addition
to his three subscription concerts at
the Metropolitan Opera House.
Percy Granger will lecture on "The
Art of Cyril Scott" on Tuesday after
noon, December %, at the home of Mrs.
Otto H. Kahn. The lecture will be
illustrated on the piano by Mr.. Grain
ger and Mr.. Scott, with readings of Mr..
Scots poems.
Elizabeth Gibbs, mezzo-soprano
Aeolian Hall on Thursday evening,
January 13.
Joseph Fuchs will be heard in
second violin recital at Aeoian Hall
on January 3.
Royal Dadmun's only recital this
season will take place in. Aeolian Hall
on January 5.
Edward Morris, American pianist,
January 13.
January recitals include Nine Yo-
landa Mero's second piano recital at
the same hall or January 3; the sec
ond concert in the series Of sonata
recitals by Mr.. and Mrs Alexander
Bloch on January 10 at Aeolian Hail
Josef Hofmann will appear at Car
negie Hall on Saturday afternoon, Jan
uary IS.
Zimbalist will give his second re-
cital in Carnegie Hall on January o.
Pupils of the Martin Smith Music
School for colored children will give
a concert at Carnegie Hall on Thurs
day evening, December 80, at half-paSt
eight. There will be a symphony or
chestra Of one hundred and chill
drcn's orchestra of fifty. The soloists
Will be Florence Cole Talbot, soprano;
Marion Anderson, contralto; Andrades
Lindsay. pianist, and David l. Martin
jr., cellist. The concert is for the
benefit of raising fund to be devoted
to a music school building.
The Park Community Council an
nounces symphony orchestra, recent
ly organized IN cooperation with the
American Orchestral Society, with
jacques L. Gottleb as director. Re-
hcarsas are held every Monday eve
ming at o'clock at Public School 81,
East Eighty y-seventh Street, between
Park and Lexington avenues. Serious
music students and advanced amateurs
playing string or wind instruments are
invited to join. Former members of
the Neighborhood Symphony and Com
munlty Symphony orchestras make up
the present personnel. A series Of
community concerts is being planned.
Vcrdi's Don Carlos" will be the sub
ject Of Miss Amy Grants opera recital
next Thursday afternoon at 30 p. m.
at the Plaza
The Schola Cantorum Of New York
announces two choral concerts, which
are to be gi'en at Carnegie Hall on
the evenings Of January II and March
is, 1921. The first program will be
devoted to Russian music, whom new
works by Rachmaninoff will be pre-
sented for the first time: nlso folk
songs and choruscs from the operas
of Rimsky Korsskoff. Nine. Nina
Koshetz, of the Moscow and rctrograd
opera, will be the soloist. Spanish and
Italian music will he heard at the sec
ond concert. Palestrina's "Mssa Papac
Marccli" will be feature. Nine. Mar
guerite d'Alvarez will be the soloist.
The National Bureau for tn. Ad-
vancement of Music, 1o5 West For
tieth Street, announces that Otto Fl
Kahn has accepted the honorary
will organize New York's second an
nual music week, May II.
An hour OF music will be given this
afternoon OF the international Institute.
121 East TIVE nty-first Street Grsmercy
Park. Miss Ivens will sing. Christmas
carols will be sung by the audience.
The international Institute now has
Armenian, Italian, Jugo-Slav and Let
tish choral groups rehearsing at the
institute, and Esthonian and Spanish
choruses are about to be formed.
The different national chorus groups
will sing in the Christmas festival,
which will be held at tho institute on
Wednesday, December 29.
Jacinto Bencventes passion Flower"
in which Miss Nance O'Neill appeared
last season, will be made into an opera
by Albert Wolff, now conducting at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Ruano Bogislnv, singer OF gypsy and
Slnv folk songs, will appear at tho
belmont Thcater in January In her
first recital Of the season.
): Fiestro BorisoR, Russian violinist,
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