San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
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if possible to 800, thus being assured
of the cooperation of the music lovers
of the city, and enabling the rluj to
bring to San Antonio the best artists
of the times, having for its end and aim
the advancement OF music 10 .hH high
est degree. thus assisting in making
| this city the music center o. the South
west. Ways and means to this end will
be the subject of the afternoons dis
CuSsion.
On April :, at the last concert of
the 1922-1923 series, the ST Louis
Symphony Orchestra will be presented,
with Caroline Larraria, contraltn with
the Chicago Opera company and Ru1-
oIph CAM, director Of the orchestra
and noted pianist, as tie soloists.
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The r Minor and Il Mdio: Musical
Club will hold its regular monthly
meeting next Saturday afternoon,
February Il, at , O'ciOc& in the Y. NJ.
{. A. auditorium. The subject for the
afternoon will be Patriotic Music.
with Paula Hess and Gertrude Kahn
in charge of the program.
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San Antonio has had much pleasure
the past week in welcoming Josephine
LuccheSe on the occasion of her first
appearance in opera in her native city.
For n young girl, however. talented, to
leave her home town at Is, merely a
promising young music student, and re-
turn three years later as the prima
donna soprano with the largest travel
ing operate organization in the cOun-I
try, is a notable achievement for any
/ grNn l,,N -. .l,,t
CheSe-Or rather, Mrs. AdOlfO Caruso-I
has done. Since she sang here in con-
cert last November, under the auspices
of the San Antonio Musical Club. she
| has become the wife of the SheyaiiCr
CarusO, one of the directors. of the San
Carlo Opera Company, of which she is
the star. Still it is as Josephine Luc-
cheese that she will always be known to
her San Antonio friends, who are just
ly proud Of the place she has attained
in the musical world.
Since her arrival n week ago today.
Miss LuccheSe has received much at
tcntion from her friends and the muSi-
clans of the city. On Monday, at noon,
she. and the other leading members
Of the San Carlo Opera Company. were
the honor guests at an elaborate lunch
con given by the San Antonio Musical
Club at the st. Anthony hotel.
During an intermissiOn of the per
Torrance of "Rigoletto" on Monday
evening. Miss Lucchese was presented
by the San Antonio Musical Club with
a bronze tablet, in cOmmemOratiOn of
the pride they had in her success and
the pleasure they had taken in spOn-
sOring her first professional return TO
her native city. Nat Il. Washer made
the speech of presentation. The beau
tiful tablet. which pOrtrays Miss Luc
CHEESE singing the spinning song from
Martha" is the work of Miss Wal
dine Tauch, another talented San An
tonic girl who has won recognition in
her chosen field of artistic expression.
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The students musical given We'd
nesday evening, February Z, by the
pupils of Mrs. J.. L. Marks. in her
studio. was n marked success. The
appreciation of each number was shown
by round of applause, which brought
forth an encore from every singer on
the program. This is the second one
of a series of three pupils recitals
which Mrs. Marks is giving this sea-
son, the first having occurred in No
vcmbcr. The third and last of the
group will have the addition of several
male voices, added to the fourteen wom-
ems voices which have been heard i'll
the preceding programs.
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In the special program of music
which will be given Sunday evening in
the Peacock Alley of the st. Anthony
hotel, by Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Paul
Blitz, cellist and pianist, and Joe Kar-
cher, violinist, the sOloist will be Mrs.
i. J.. Marks, soprano. She will sing
the Waltz Lente aria of Musetta from
La Boheme" by Puccini; the "Elegy"
by MassCnet, with cello Obligato; Love
l Have Won YOU" from the Cycle
of Life" by Landon Ronald, and HON
ing by Dell RieGe.