The New York herald., 1920-01-18


1.-THE Hotel Biltmore on next Friday. The
artists will be Mime Frieda Hempel, So
prano; Ossip Gabrilowitsch. pianist, and
Miss Cyrena Van Gordon. mezzo- contralto.
Mime. Henpel will sing Strauss "Blue
Danube Waltz Mr. Gabrilowitsch will
play Chopn's Nocturne in G major. and
Miss Van Gordon will sing Tschaikowsky' s
Farewell, Ye Hills
Eddy Brown. violinist; Serge Proko-
lfieff, pianist, and Vladimir Resnikoff,
barytone, will give concert in the Man
, H. opera house this afternoon Their
programme includes Beethoven's Three
Country Dances" Handel's Larghetto
and Rachmaninoffs Christ Is Risen."
The Friends Of Music will have their
third concert thfs afternoon In the Ritz
Carlton Hotel with programme of cham
Der music by American composers. The
Letz Quartet Harold Bauer and Louis
Bailly vii, be heard. The opening num-
Der is an .intermezzo for string quartet.
op. II, by Daniel Gregory Mason. MIR.
Bauer and Mr. Bailly will play a suite for
viola and piano by Ernest Bloch. The
programme will end with the quartet In A
major for piano and strings by Rubin
Goldmark.
On next Friday night in Aeolian Hall
Miss Harriet Scholder, pianist, will play
Chopin's ballade, F minor. the Bach
Busoni Chorale, II Call Upon Thee,
Lord" Liszt's Sonata Minor and four
numbers by Debussy.
Lada, with a symphony orchestra under
the direction of Nahan Franko, will dance
in Carnegie Hall on next Tuesday after
noon, interpreting Liszt's second Hum
garian Rhapsody, Spross "Will o. the
Wisp" and Debussy's "Golliwog's Cake
Walk"
Miss Frances Pelton-Jones, harpsi-
chordist, will be heard in a programme Of
Colonial classics supplemented by vign-
cites in the Rose Room OF the Plaza Hotel
on next Friday afternoon. Joseph Ma
thicu, tenor, will sing.
Carlos valderrama, Peruvian pianist
and composer. will give his first public
recital here on next Wednesday after
noon.
Plans arc under way for great music
festival to be held in New York from
April to April II under the auspices of
the New York Oratorio Society and the
musical direction of Walter Damrosch.
Two Gregorian melodies, the famous
hymn AVE Maris Stella" and the beau
tiful Introit melody for the Feast of the
Annunciation, which was utilized by Liszt
in his overture to the oratorio "Christus,"
are on the programme of the Schola Can
forum for it's concert in Carnegie Hall on
next Wednesday night This will be the
first appearance on concert programme
of large choral body in melodies in the
pure Gregorian style. Another feature
of the programme will bo revival of
Mozart's famous Requiem" and another
notable choral work which has not been
heard here in more than a quarter of a
century, Handel's lode OF st. Cecilia's
Day" in praise Of music, from the poem
by John Dryden. With the chorus, num-
bering about two hundred voices. will be
Mime. Mabel Garrison, soprano; Nine.
Florence Hinkle. soprano; Nine. Merle
Alcock, contralto Lambert Murphy.
tenor; William Gustafson. bass; Joseph
Bonnet. organist, and the New Symphony
Orchestra under Artur Bodanzky.
Miss Helen Teschner Tas WIN give a.
violin recital in Aeolian Hall on Thursday
night.
Soloists az a concert Of tho American
Music Optimists, OF which Miss Mana
yucca is president at Chalift's this after
noon will be Miss Dai Buell., pianist;
Stephen Sobolowski, barytone; Miss May
Stone. soprano, and the Elkady Trio.
II. Robert Schmits will give piano re-
cital in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel on Thursday morning, starting n
series of four entertainments. He will
also give short talk on the evolution OF
music
Enrico Caruso will sing for the first
time in concert this season tomorrow fore
noon at A. Morris Bagby's musical morn
ing in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel The
additional soloist will be Albert Spalding.
In the Garrick Theatre to-nifht concert
OF Irish music under the auspices OF the
Irish Musical Society, will be given by
John Finnegan, Miss Milo Miloradovlch
Valentine Crespi Ted Schulz, John
Totito and Anton Fayer.