The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-24

No student or teacher Of violin or
piano can afford to miss this con-
cert, which ais under the direction
of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts
Enterprises, who offer choice seats
for further musical appreciation"
for 81.
The following is the complete
program for tomorrow's concert:
Sonata in D-Minor. Op. 1903. for vio
lin and piano ........,.....,..Br ahms
Allegro.
Adagio.
I'm POGO presto
Mess TS.' r ffisaSd and Gabrilowitsch
ca La Foiia variations ;C .oo3rI1a
tb "Rondo' .......:.;. ;Mozart-hrelSlel
fa) 'Nocturne. B-Ma ior" ......... Chopin
(b ',yalse; A-Flat Major ........ .CbPopini
(cl "Jeu d'EauX i'm; .....''' p B a51Si
'"' i''''pSo Mr.. Gaabrifitowitsch.
Sonata in E-Flat Major Op II; No.
MessT fS' T TiHi5 ia and G5abrioWitsch
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TINE. all-opera program to be
4 given by the Mendelssohn Choir
in its eleventh annual spring con-
cert Monday. April %, at the Murat,
under the direction of Elmer An
drew StefTen, will establish a new
high standard in choral work.
Three leading soloistS of the Chi
cago Civic Opera Company will as
sist the choir. These artists will be
Irene Pavloska, soprano; Forrest
Lamont, tenor, and Virgilio Lazzeri
baSSO.
The program Of solos, duets and
trios of these artists, whose fame is
known throughout the country, will
lend to the concert all the essen
tials of real grand opera.
The Mendelssohn Choir itself will
sing excerpts from no less than
eight different operas. Steifen will
have over $50 singers for this con-
cert. In the various chOruses these
singers will impersonate students,
townspeople, spirits, witches, cos
sacks, soldiers, priests, angels, am
bassadors, monks and Russian no
bles known as boyards.
In the difficult accompaniment
of the orchestral score four pianists
will assist, including Frank st.
Ledger. who is now director of the
National Opera at Washington;
Bomar Cramer, Willard McGregor
and Paul R. Matthews, who is the
regular accompanist for the choir.
The chief choral offering will be
the Coronation scene from Nous
sorgsky's Boris Goudonoh.' This
eight-part mixed chorus will be
made effective by an enlarged male
section of nearly seventy five voices
in which the laundering, deep Rus
sian BASES sing out a joyous well
come to their new car. Another
eight-part chorus will be the rendi-
ton of the choral prologue from
Boito's "Mefistofele," Hear Thou
My Prayer" sung by the angels.
THE Song Of the Scythe from
Mascogni's." "Cavalleria RustiCana'
and the Bell Chorus" from Leon
cavallo's Pagliacci will be sung to in
terpret the tuneful and melodious
Italian opera of which the public
never seems to tire. Lovers of
Wagnerian opera will hear a splen-
did excerpt from Wagner'S first
opera, "Rien2i'.
The Battle Hymn calling the
Romans to arise and cXpel the in
vading foe. This latter number will
be sung by male voices.
The women's voices, nearly 100 in
number. will be heard in Puccini's
Flower chorus from Madame But
terfly."
Some of the choruscs will be sung
in the native vernacular Of the
operas and others will be in English.
TINE Metropolitan School of Mu-
l. sic will present number of
students in a recital Saturday after
neon in the Odeon at 3 o'clock. The
public is invited.
Those taking, part will be-
Geneva Howell Mary Shields
TNr.laa In