San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

the conventional lectures"
Monday evening DIR. Spaeth will
give his talk on Behind the Scenes
at the Opera" which gives an insight
into the romance and the reality Of
the mysterious region beyond the cur
tain, with an analysis of the music and
drama.
Miss Russell Hughes who has re-
Gently returned from New York and
Europe will interpret in the dance, the
characters of Madame Butterfly" "Sa-
lone" and Carmen" Miss Hughes
possesses the artists instructive dis
cernment of the spirit of interpreta-
tive dancing, and the suppleness and
natural grace Of body that responds
with the sensitiveness of n delicate in
strument. She studied in New York
with Ottakar Bartik of the MetropOli-
tan. in Paris with Guerra of the Opera
Ballet and in Barcelona with Dona
Rosa of the Opera Ballet there.
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Mrs. Charles c. Cresson MARY Jor-
dan, contralto) is expected to return
from the East about February 30. She
is filling concert engagements in Con-
necticut and Ohio and in Montreal and
Brooklyn, and is singing the great con-
tralto part in Elijah" in Toronto. She
will remain in New York a short time
to hear the concerts and operate novel
ties of the season before returning TO
San Antonio
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Bertram Simon, violinist, assisted by
Mrs. Nat Goldsmith, pianist, will play
the second of his series of conata re-
citals on Sunday afternoon, February
IL, at 4 o'clock, in the tapestry room
of the st. Anthony Hotel.
The program Mr.. Simon and Mrs.
Goldsmith will play is about as i'm
portant as could well be assembled from
the entire literature of sOnatas for vio-
lin and piano. Any one of the three
sOnatas chosen would be test Of abil-
ity of the greaest musicians of the
day. The Cesar Franck sonata in A
Major, the most modern number of
the group presented, is regarded as the
biggest composition ever written for
the two instruments. 1t is very char
acteristic expression of the genius of
the great mystic of French music who
set the world thinking new musical
thoughts of "a strange sweetness"
Mr.. Simon's violin, which is nearly
a hundred and fifty years old, is a
very valuable instrument. The in
scription on the case reads: johannes
Baptista Guadagnini Cremonensis fecit
Taur alumnus Antoni Stradivari.
1888" Brasse, Serate, Zimbalist and
other authorities have all examined it
and pronounced it a remarkably fine
violin--one of the best Guadagninis in
IL, IL Ia. III hill
liant. vibrant tone.
The program is:
Schumann ...... Sonata in ID Major
Brahms ......... sonata IN MAJOR
Franck ......... Sonata in A Major
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Ruth Bingaman, pianist, who is Civ
ing recital on Friday evening, Feb
ruary 8, in the auditorium of the Main
Avenue High School. is one Of the
| musical prodigies Of which San Antonio
is justly proud. Her name belongs
on the long list in which Harold Nor
ris, Rafaelo Diaz, Josephine Lucchese
and Hugh McAmis hold distinguished
| places.
Miss Bingaman has been under the
| instruction of Ernest HutchesOn, Oliver
Denton and Alberto Jonas.
The program which she will play here
| follows:
Caprice sur les Airs de Ballet DIAL
ccstc ................ Gluck-Saint
| (a) Allegro
(b) Motto Allegro lin fuguc form)
Ballade in & Minor .....,.... GricG
Variations on Norwegian melody.
! (aD Widmung ...... Schumann-Llszt
Oh Romance + Major -. Schumann
! (c) Ballet Music from ROsamunde
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Schubert
! ID NOcturnc Op. ~, No. >. Chopin
(el Ballade G. Minor ........ Chopin
(a) Vienesse Waltz No. l .......
............. Gaertner-Eriedman
(b) Nienesse Waltz No. .......
............... Gaertner-kricdman
(c) Concert Etude "Gebirgsbachlein"
................... Emil Sauer
First time in American
Cd May Night ............ Palmgren
(cD Soughing Pines =. Rubin Goldmark
81 Rhapsodic G Major go. Dohnanyl
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Mrs. Roland Springall will present
her pupil, Harriet Elaine Robertson,
in a piano recital Saturday afternoon,
February 10, at o'clock in the home
of her parents, DR.. and Mrs. G. Z. Rob
ertsOn, 100 East Summit Place. she
will be assisted by Miss Francis Skin
ncr. soprano, pupil of Mrs. Fred Jones
The following program will be given:
Sonata NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. haydn
Allegro con brio
AdagiO
PrestissimO
Gavotte in b Flat .......... Handel
Impromptu in A Flat ...... Schubert
Ilefelte ......'.' ''s''''' NuahiiAi"NN
La Lisoniera ....... Chaminadc
Harriet Elaine Robertson.
40 cessate di piargarmi" -. .Scarlatti
Inc Ctaf ..,.,...... .''''''' hoeS4'
Frances Skinner.
Ich Liebe Dich ................ Greg
humOreSque ........,.'.'''. IdAio
"reminiscences .......,.'.' Schuulah"
HaScheman .'..'''''''.'.' oCnS ~
Madrlgal ,....,.....'''''' baCN
Elegle ............'.'' NVileN
lmprOmptu ..............,. Schytte
Harriet ELane Robertson
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A very Objectionable habit is being