The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-12
ARTIST Series TO
BEGIN JANUARY q
With JOSE ECHANZ
Eide Norsna, Olga d'Allaz and
Chicago String Quartet Con.
certs to Follow

Jose Echanis. young Cuban pianist
whose phenomenal playing has made
him practically . national hero In
his native land, win come to Bis.
marck for q recital on Monday, Jan.
%, under sponsorship Of the Artist
Series managed by Miss Maude 4.
Tollefsen. This concert, to be played
at the city auditorium at $50 O'Clock,
opens 4 series Of four.
Echaniz comes from q family noted
for its musical gifts. His father was
himself an able pianist, and 1t was
he who gave his talented son his
first instruction In music. Echaniz'
grandmother was Victorian Saint
Maxent, q French woman considered
the greatest harpist Of her day.
Young Echanix was fascinated by
the piano from his early childhood
and Of his own accord he usually
spent as much as three or four hours
q day at the instrument during his
grammar and high school studies. He
recalls that this brought him many
q jibe from his ball playing compan-
ions, but he was 20 persistent In his
devotion to music that his father
finally sent him to study with Ig-
nacio Telleria, the noted Spanish
composer who then was living In
Cuba, and with Alberto Falcon, d.
rector OF the Falcon conservatory.
His progress under their direction was
50 rapid that at II he was ready to
stand on his own as q full. fledged
virtuoso.
Gives Brilliant Performances
Echaniz is noted for his brilliant
performances Of works by such mod.
ern composers as De Falla, Albeniz
and Granados. He has won equal
praise for his interpretations Of
Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.
The second concert In the Artist
Series will be given February IS, by
Nine. Eide Norena, prima donna
guest star OF the Metropolitan Opera
Of New York and Of the leading opera
houses Of Europe. She comes direct.
" to Bismarck from New York upon
the completion Of her season there,
having time for only q few concerts
in this country before returning for
her European engagements.
March will bring Mime. Olga d. Al
laz in which Is being pronounced the
most remarkable costume recital
given before European and American
audiences. As an opera singer and
later the wife Of Major Emer Yeager,
American diplomatic military attache
to the Balkans, she was the ideal
person to combine the songs, stories.
costumes and dances Of the Near East
into her program which she calls
From the Baltic to the Black Sea
In Song and Story"
String Quartet Coming
Music week brings the concluding
number Of the series. The Chicago
String quartet, under management
Of Ben Goodsell, will play program
including compositions from modern
Americans and classical and modern
European composers. The gentlemen
Of the quartet are members OF the
Chicago Symphonic orchestra and the
woman cellist Is one OF the finest
players Of that instrument In Amer
lea.
This is the second Artist Series
which Miss Tollefsen has brought to
Bismarck. Her first venture In this
field occurred last season when the
Paris Instrumental quintet, Nelson
Eddy and Poldi Mildner aroused their
audiences to q great pitch OF en-
thusiasm and delight.
This seasons Offering Is richer by
one concert, there being four instead
Of three.