New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Music Notes

Angelo Giuffrida, Italian violinis'
and composer, will give recital al
Carnegie Hall on Sunday evening
May 2s. Homer Laquadra will be the
accompanist. Mr.. Giuffrida is gradu.
ate of the Royal Conservatory Of Pa
lermo, Italy, receiving his diploma from
the conservatory when eighteen years
old. Hc played first violin with the
Massimo Theater Orchestra in Paler-
mo, Italy, and also was connected with
the municipal orchestra there. In 1914
he came to New York and played with
the Metropolitan Opera House Orches-
ira for three consecutive seasons.
The spring season Of tho Brooklyn
Opera Company will close with the per-
formance of "Carmen" at the Academy
OF Music next Tuesday evening. Nine
Ester Ferrabini will sing the title role.
Others in the cast will be Philina Fal-
co, Edith Mackey, r. Bornigia, Antonio
Razlog, Galtano Viviani and Natalie
Cervi. The conductor will be Antonio
del Orefce.
At the annual meeting OF the board
of directors Of the American Orchestral
Society, Inc, held recently, Chalmers
Clifton was elected musical director for
next season.
The New York Symphony Orchestra,
Walter Damrosch conductor, will pre-
sent at one of its early programs in
Carnegie Hall next season tho double
concerto Of Brahms for cello and vio-
lin, with Pablo Casals and Paul Ko-
chanski as the soloists.
Albert Coates, who will return next
season as guest conductor of the New
York Symphony Orchestra, is back in
London from visit to Rome, and writes
that he is now preparing for produc-
tion by the British National Opera
Company Wagner's Ring dramas. Ac-
cording to the announcement Mr..
Coates conducted "Rheingold" at Co.
vent Garden on May Is.
"It will be the first performance of
the Ring here since before tho war;"
writes Mr.. Coates, "and there is tre-
mendous interest in it. The opera house
is already sold out for the first cycle"
The following number Of students
will sail on June IA to pursue courses
at the Fontainebleau School of Music:
Thirty-nine pianists, two harpists, four
composition, nine violinists, twelve
singers for opera and opera comique,
four harmony, seven organists; six
conducting.
Nine. Ina Bourskaya, Russian mezzo-
soprano, formerly with the Russian
Grand Opera Company, will appear
with the Chicago Opera Company for
the full season of ten weeks, beginning
next November. At the conclusion Of
this engagement Nine. Bourskaya will
make her New York debut with the
Metropolitan Opera Company.
Samuel A. Baldwin will conclude his
fifteenth season Of free organ recitals
at City College this afternoon, at 4
o'clock, with the following program:
Chromatic Prelude and Fantasia {Ms)
Second Meditation. .Guilmant
st. AIMS Fugue. ................... Bach
:: d,ensaactl0n 1 Hollins
,,por.irs duHs '..... D Antalffy
Fiftb s.Urls Wagner
llth symphony. Wider
The additions for the choosing of
vocal and instrumental solosts for the
Stadium concerts will take place from
the 18th to the 25th Of June. There will
be at least one preliminary addition,
possibly two, in addition to tho finals.
The addition committee will be headed
by Mrs. William Coneen. Vocal appli-
cants must sing an aria. Pianists and
must play the first movement
Of concerto.
Mario Chamlee, tenor; Ruth Miller.
soprano, and William Reddick, pianist,
will give concert in the auditorium
OF New York University, University
Heights, next Wednesday evening. It
IS to be benefit concert, the pro-
ceeds Of which are to be used for de-
fraying the expenses of the European
trip which three members of the uni
vers1ty's Debating Club are to make
They are to visit the University Of OK
ford on june %, the University of
Edinburgh on the 25th and other lead
ing universities in the British Em-
p1re, maintaining the affirmative side
in the debate: Resolved: That the
Allied war debts to the United States
be cancelled"
The three men who have been Sc
lected to represent New York Uniyer-
slty, all members of the class Of 1922,
pre- Donald Brown, George McCarroll
and Ralph Walker.
Mr.. Chamlee's numbers will tnclnde
an aria from Puccini's "La Boham. -
and songs by Lehman, Tosti and Cad
man.
Mr.. Reddick WIN play pieces by Cho-
pin, Rachmaninoff, Moskowsk, AVA
Reddick.
The Fay Foster Interpreters will