New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Music Notes

The second of series of three morn
ing musicales, for the benefit Of the
Brooklyn Music School Settlement
.Will be given in the ballroom of the
Hotel Plaza, on Thursday morning,
artists will be Margaret Matzenauer,
Metropolitan Opera Company, and Hans
Kinder, 'cellist.
The third and last concert of the
series will take place on Thursday,
March 10. The artists will be Yvonne
do Treville, coloratura soprano, in cos
: Tune recital, and the we'll known
dancers, Marshall Hall and Rose Ro-
landa, In interpretative dances.
Juan Manens violin recital at the
new Town Hall, 121 West Forty third
. Street, next Saturday evening, will be
- his last appearance here before re-
s. turning to Europe for series of con-
sSrts IN Germany, Holland and EEg-
land.
Erika Morini, violinist, who made
her New York debut with orchestra on
= January rs, apd who will give her first
recital at Aeolian Hall on Friday af-
ternoon, will have her sister, Alice
: Morini, as accompanist. Erika Morini
was born in Vienna, where her father
directed conservatory of music. Her
family is from Trieste. She has been
playing in Europe for the last FIVE
!. wears. Az the age of twelve she played
: for the first time under the direction
of NiSisch, Since then she has sp-
peared under Nikisch and Weingartner
many times.
Marinus de Jons, Belgian pianist,
, whc will be heard for the first time in
New York at Aeolian Hall tomorrow
evening, was born in Oosterhout a
little village on the Belgian frontier,
q one OF a numerous family Of peasants
: whose fathers only ambition was to
make OF him good farmer in spite of
his great genius for music. This mani
rested itself at an early age, when he
, began to compose without having the
least knowledge either of theory or of
harmony. Until he was fifteen years
old he worked without q teacher, prac-
ticing in secret without the knowledge
of his parents. His talent then came
to the attention of wealthy family
and he was sent to the Antwerp Con-
8 seTvatory, where, to the astonishment
of all, he was admitted to the superior
q class in piano and was able to follow
? without difficulty the classes in coun-
terpoint and fugue.
At the end OF two years of study
with Emile Bosquet (Prix Rubinstein)
and with Lodewyk Mortelmans (PriX
8 de Romeo he won his diploma with the
: highest honors, after which he with
= drew to his native village and remained
IN retirement for four years, making a
profound study of the Gregorian chant
with the Benedictine Fathers.
a. In 1919 a competition was organized
: for the composition of prelude and
e fugue. Marinus de Jong won the prize
= in competition with the best musicians
& of the four royal conservatories of
+. Belgium, and the jury further honored
a him with the statement that his work
= compared favorably with the famous
= fugues of Bach.
Since that date Marinus de Jong has
played in Europe under the direction
. Of Hans Richter, Otto Lohse, Siegfried
. Wagner, Colonne, Weingartner, and
others.
ess Duci de Kecekjarto will give his last
concert IN New York before leaving on
his Middle West and Pacific Coast con-
cert tour on Sunday evening, February
10, at the Lexington Opera House,
Christine Langenhan, soprano, will ap-
pear on the same program.
Pietro A. Yon, who will play his new
Gregorian concerto for organ with or
chestra for the first time in New York
when he appears as soloist with the
New York Symphony Orchestra Sunday
afternoon in Aeolian Hall, has been the
organst and chormaster of the Church
of St. Francis Xavier. in West Six
teenth Street, since 1907.
Mr.. Yon came to this country from
Rome, where he was substitute organ
ist at the Vatican. He is graduate
of the Academy of ST. Cecilia, taking
full honors in organ. piano and compo-
sition, being awarded the first prize
medal of the academy, and special
prize medal from the Italian Minister
of Public instruction. He is a native
OF Piedmont italy, where he was born
thirty-fve years ago.
Paul Kochanski has selected the
Brahms concerto in D for violin with
orchestra for his. debut with the New
York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Dam
rosch conducting, at the concert an
nounced for Carnegie Hall, Monday af-
ternoon, February Ia.
The Cleveland Orchestra, formed by
the Cleveland Musical Arts Associa-
s-Stion, will give its first concert here at
the Hippodrome next Sunday night.
,Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of this Or
ganization of almost one hundred play
% -srs, has decided upon a Tschaikowsky-
Wagner program for its debut here.
Nine. Margaret Matzenauer, contralto
has been especially engaged as soloist,
and will be heard in several Wagnerian
= smumbers, one of which will be the
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