Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25
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ninQ MIN III MS early Gays.
AS Miss Robbins aptly asks,
what are you doing for your s.
year-old boy" Or your girl, or your
other children who are over 3 for
that matter! . ...#.
A Joint recital by Arthur Mid
dleton and Hazel Moore will be held
Monday evening, January 26 in the
Council Bluffs auditorium under the
auspices of the Federated Mothers
and Teachers club of that city.
1 Arthur Middleton has not been in
Omaha for some time, and
undoubtedly many of his social ad-
mirers will avail themselves OF this
opportunity to hear him. Mr.. Mid
dleton is bass baritone Of remark
able voice, wide in range, we'll
trained. and resonant, and both his
diction and vocal style have been
found worthy of comment. His ac-
QUESTION to the Metropolitan opera
forces few years ago was re-
ceived enthusiastically by both press
and public, and in concert Mr.. Mid
dleton has become known through
out the country. The reserved seat
sale for the concert opened Friday
at ClarRs drug store, Council
Bluffs. Tickets are on sale in
Omaha at Schulz Edison shop, Fiji
teenth and Farnam streets.
| According to reports Mrs. Os-
car Hammerstein and Fortune Gallo
of the San Carlo Opera company,
will join forces to carry out the late
Oscar Hammerstein's plans to give
opera in the Manhattan Opera
house.
| A movement is on foot, backed by
leading financial and musical people
to do something definite and prac-
tical in the support Of American
music. Two American operas, "The
Legend by Carl Breil, and SHANE
wis" by Charles Wakefield Cadman,
will be taken on tour OF many of the
principal cities. 1t is not nearly as
hard to support American music now
when every one whose name ends in
ski, or ska, or ova, or any other pc
culiarity and who can essay fairly
understandable English is adver-
tised in glowing headlines as an
American artist, as it was when any
good American artist became "-anni'
or "-ovitch" in the end Of the name
with di or d or Won before it in
order to gain a hearing.
| American music has made great
strides in the past few years. 1t is
beginning to have distinctive fea-
lures of its own, yet it must conform
to the general lines of symmetry
which are true for all music, just as
certain proportions are true for all
statuary for instance. The idea OF
taking out one or two operas for a
tour OF number of cities brings to
mind what we thought when the
Canadian opera forces dissolved long
before the war. In HARMONY one
learns that wide skips are not sue
ccssful unless the harmony is the
same, and in business, like the
management OF opera wide skips
with one or two operas rather than
an entire repertory ought to bear out
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Musical Notes.
Henry Cox asks us to announce
| that 1t Is necessary for all music
students, and musically interested
students in the schools, to make
their subscriptions for the low-priced
student tickets-to the Minneapolis
| symphony concert--through the
| teachers. Mr.. Cox can receive only
the regular advanced reservations OF
higher priced seats, through the
mail, and requests music lovers to
kindly communicate only In writing.
Parents wishing to accompany and
sit with students will be provided
with seats in the same sections, at
the dollar rate Of admission, plus
war tax. Mr.. Cox announces that
the sale of reduced price student
tickets will have to close Saturday,
February Z.
The new semesters of public
school music classes are being Of
fered by Miss Joanna Anderson.
Glasses in Manual 1 will be held
Mondays, 4 to p. m. Harmony J.,
Mondays. to 6 p. m. Manual 2,
Wednesdays, to p. M. and Har-
| U1Ouy WSulicSudySs W ~ 49,
Manual Is offered Thursdays. to
S p. m. Glasses begin February Q.
University credit, IS weeks. Practi-
cal help, 10 weeks. Third floor, Pat
terson block, Seventeenth and Far
nam streets
A short musical service will pre-
cede the evening service at the First
Methodist church this evening. Mrs.
w. Dale Clark, Mr.. Carral and Law
renee Dodds will sing.
The Colvin Piano school presents
in piano recital the following pupils
of Luella NJ. Davis Saturday evening.
January 81, $40 o'clock. in Library
hall. Twenty-third and NJ streets,
South Side: Dorothy Kol1ansky.
Margaret Cameron, Marion Wilker-
lson, Eleanor Connell, Irene Fitch,
Letha Cove, Esther Jones and Alma
Kohansky.
Eight numbers from the Mes
siah" by Handel were given at the
University of Nebraska last week
under the direction of Mrs. Carrie
y. Raymond. Memorial hall was
crowded and many were turned
away. Among the soloists was Mrs.
Arthur Gutzmer OF Omaha, whose
singing of the famous contralto solo.
"He Was Despised," was greatly
praised by the local critics.
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