The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-09

Will present singing ana udnC
Jeanne Johnson, Emma Elizabeth
Hallett. Margaret Pfennig, Martha
Dean Lesher. Marjorie Kaser. Mar
jorie Miller, Eugene Williams and
Yvonne Powell, pupils of Miss Beau
champ. Miss Roes, Miss Gorsuch,
Clarence NJ. Woesner, Miss Loucks,
Miss Sommers and Evan Georgieff.
HE benefit concert at the
North Methodist f. church at
- at Meridian and Thirty
Eighth SITS, on Friday night will be
given by the advanced students of
the Indiana College Of Music and
Fine Arts. Ruby Winders, pupil
Of Glenn Friermood Robert Weller,
winner of the Freiermood scholar
ship; Carl w. Frey. pupil Of Ferdi-
nand. Schaefer and Justine Stoson-
burg, winner of the Todd Dramatic
Art Scholarship; Marjorie McCul-
Tough, cornet and Mary Virginia
Wallace, pupil of Bomar Cramer.
Miss IsabeI Parry. teacher of the
Dunning method of musical educa-
ton for children in the Metropolitan
School OF Music, has returned from
her summer vacation and is begin
ming her fall classes. Miss Parry
holds all Of her classes at the North
school, corner of Pennsylvania and
Thirty-Fourth SITS.
Willard MacGregor, artist pianist
Of the Metropolitan School of Music,
will go to Kokomo Monday TO play
the opening artist recital for the Ko-
komo Matinee Musicale. This will
be Mr.. MacGregor's first program in
the State. He will give the opening
recital for the Indianapolis Matinee
Musicale next Friday at the John
Heron Art Institute, and will give
program for the Bloomington Fri
day Musicale later in the month.
T. T. +
Harry Calland. chairman of the
committee on associate members for
the Mendelsohn choir, announces
that nearly one hundred new asso-
ciates had been added in the past
three weeks. The choir is holding
weekly rehearsals every Tuesday
evening at Hollenbeck Hall in prepa-
ration for the coming concert, which
will be directed by Elmer Andrew
Steffen. the choir's conductor. A full
complement of 125 singers will par
ticipate in the concert on Nov. %,
In addition to two pianists and two
violinists. Several new and unique
choral compositions will be included
in the choir's program. One Of these
will be fantasy on Russian folk
song by Samuel r. Gaines. This
beautiful number. in which many
themes Of the Russian folk songs
will be heard, will be sung by the
entire choir, with two solo violinists
and piano accompaniment. Another
beautiful number, with solo for bari
tones, will be the Invocation to the
Great Spirit" by Charles Wakefield
Cadman. The opening number of
the program will be Cesar Franck's
150th Psalm, with a new arrange
ment for two pianos, especially writ
ten for this concert by Samuel r.
Gaines. A group Of Latin motets
and a group of Indiana songs will
be included in the program.
The career of Rosa Raisa, the So
loist of this concert, is typical of
the great artists who have risen
from comparative obscurity.
Rosa Raisa, a native of Byalestock.
Russia, made her debut in opera at
Parma under the baton Of Cleofonte
Campanini on Dec. 6, 1918, in Verdi's
"Oberto." Almost Immediately she
took her place in the front rank
Of Italy's dramatic sopranos. From
there her fame spread to the other
European countries and to South
America. and in all of these places
she sang with enormous success.
Her American triumphs with the
Chicago Opera Company then fol
lowed.
The arrival of a singer OF the type
of Nine. Rosa Raisa is in these days
an event of peculiar significance. In
opera no less than in the theater
the ingenue seems supreme. and
more than one New York critic has
followed the lead of w. ]. Henderson
of the New York Evening Sun in
lamenting the passing OF the grand
style" from the lyric stage. Sud
denly there appears an artist like
Nine. Raisa and these very critics
give vent to a delightful sigh Of re-
lief. The grand style" has not dis
appeared after all, and though the
old queens of song. the PATHS, the
Nordicas, the Lehmans may have
passed, youth steps into their place
with as vital a message as was
theirs.
Although Nine. Rasia is Russian,
she is operatically an italian artist,
while in the field of the song recital
she is distinctly an internationalist.
She speaks with utmost fuency Rus
sian. italian, French. English. Ger