The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-04


musicianship.
He returned to America for the
season of 1923-24, appearing twice
with the New York State Symphony
Orchestra, five times with the New
York Symphony, twice with the
Cleveland Symphony, and twice
again with the Philadelphia Or
chestra, in addition to many recitals.
On all of these occasions he con-
firmed the supreme success of his
previous season in America.
AS a result, he was specially en-
gagged for the Pittsfeld Festival of
September, 1924, which necessitated
special journey from Roumania to
Pittsfield and return. OF the Pitts
field Festival, his performances
were the outstanding successes.
The months of January, February,
March and April. EneSco returns for
his third consecutive American
season, which includes his first visit
to the Pacific Coast.
His program follows:
I
Sonata in Minor" ............V eracini
RitoTnello.
Allegro.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
olga.
Il
"Beal Schem' ......-.......E Ernest Bloch
improvisation.
Rejoicing.
,Sara5and5e, ct Tambourin in D. ;Leclair
Habanera in A Minor. ....... Sarcastic
"
Sonata" (Kreutzerl ......... Beethoven
Sanford Schlussel will be at the piano.
A N event of extraordinary i'm
L n portance to every music-lover
in Indianapolis and vicinity is
promised in the coming of the IA
nous st. Olaf Lutheran Choir,
which has been engaged to give a
concert Sunday at o'clock at the
Murat.
This organization, composed of
sixty carefully selected voices from
the student body at ST. Olaf College,
Mortified, Mimi, has repeatedly
toured the country from east to
west. winning the highest praise
from the music critics of leading
newspapers in Boston, New York,
Chicago, Cleveland, Washington,
Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and
Los Angeles. It's coming here is in
response to urgent requests from
many to whom its fame has spread.
The choir has been trained and
its concerts are conducted by DR..
F. Melius Christensen, whose cho-
raj ideals were absorbed in the
classes directed by Cantor Gustav
Schreck at the University of Leip-
sig, who for many years also was
the leader of the celebrated Thomas
Church Choir
Sixty young men and women form
the choir, and the unanimity Of
critical opinion concerning their
merit is one of the most astonishing
things in Americas musical life.
Professor Christensen retains only
such voices as are free from I'M
steadinesS and disposition to
breathiness, and the result is per-
lection of balance, precision of at
tack and release and fawless into
nation. 1t is difficult to convey to
those who have not heard this sing
ing group the likeness and control
of the body OF tone, for the sixty
voices are exactly like one voice
multiplied by sixty.
n
Amelita Galli-Curci will be again
heard in the Murat Theater on
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 10, in one
of the Sunday afternoon concerts
under the direction of the Ona B.
Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Her
radio debut on Jan. 81, has caused
the greatest enthusiasm from the
thousands in Indiana, who heard
her beautiful voice, and has created
keen desire to see this wonder
woman and to hear more of her
great gift of song. Assisting Nine.
Galli-Curci will be Homer Samuels,
distinguished pianist and husband
of Galli-Curci
The following Sunday afternoon
in the Murat Theater Feodor
Chaliapin, greatest of living bassos
will give a recital OF songs. AS
sisting Mr.. Chaliapin will be the
eminent Russian pianist Max
Rabinowitch, who will be re-
membered as adding distinction to
the last appearance of the late
Isadora Duncan.
Feodor Chaliapin, has been
thirty-seven years before the pub
lie
"Ah!" he says, I should give
$4,000 TO be able for one year to
lie back and sleep and think and
dream and do nothing, knowing
that nothing was expected of me!
Oh! for such a rest! But the time
has not come. . And perhaps
in my heart of hearts I do not
want it to come just yet. Think of
it! For thirty-Seven years I have
sung and played the works of great
masters without a spell in which to
breathe and say I am a simple
fellow; let me idle and be simple
] Seventy or eighty times in each of
those years I have given great per-