Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNE 61937 SUNDAY MORNING ‘ i Art and Events in Music Field Notes on Old Masters in Music Baltimore to Not Truly ‘Ancient’ Be Hostess ' ' t After all music as It is known today in opera house and concert hall is not an old art according to Edward Barry Chicago critic His statement made recently in the Chicago Tribune that it is rather “an astonishingly young art” will come with something oi a shock to the many who have considered Bach and Handel and others as ancient history ' Mr Barry in his very interesting article1 corrects this view point and draws a few parallels that will impress vs strongly with the fact that “the great composers” are not as commonly held “an oligarchy of long long ago a group which passed into history before modern era had so much as stirred in its chrysalis the “of just how young music is “Can any one conceive" he asks ‘ (In comparison with the hoary archi- tecture sculpture and poetry whose ever conceived by man has passed idea surround us from childhood) completely away What we hear in without forcibly reminding himself our opera house and concert halls of the other things that were going is a product of yesterday and toon -- or had Already been accom- day” i Mr Barry considers the reasons plished when this same musiqwas being produced? Try contemplat- for this the first being that music ing the following atatement for is “by its very nature of more three consecutive minutes” he sug- fragile and transient character — It gests “and see whether it does not exists in time rather than space Musical notation was convey a startlingly new conception of the youth of music: alow in coming to perf“When Bach a very ‘early’ com- ection and where poetry "an alposer was drilling the choir of most equslly fragile art early the Thomas school Broadway was gained through the written word a already an old and important chance for an extended life music had to wait infinitely longer for thoroughfare” Further one probably thinks of any such opportunity for permaHandel as a contemporary of nence” He finds another reaaon in the Charlemagne Mr Barry says but as a matter of fact Harvard had fundamental change that music unobserved Its 100th anniversary long derwent in the tenth century when before tht time of Handel's death the new element harmony was notso- long indeed 'that the men of ed which necessitated almost a new the centennial graduating class were start for “this radically important gray and dignified members of so- addition to the art’s resources made ciety —and shortly after his passing obsolete all the music that had been based on melody and rhythm only” England passed the stamp act Moving forwdrd a few decades become more numerous Mr Barry points out Haydn — another ‘primitive’ — was seen in men the flesh by the fathers and women alive today and Robert Schumann's wife Clara might have come to the 1893 World's fair In Norma Squires daughter of Mr Chicago had she so desired Also as Mr Barry goea on ‘Thousands and Mrs David I3 Squires of this of living persons can rtmember ths city has recently returned from Los days of Liszt and Wagner Cosima Angeles snd Hollywood where she daughter of the first and wife of has been studying voice for a year the second died only geven years under Professor Leo Mark Coombs ago Some sons and daughters of She is to be one of the featured The singers at the Mutual Improvement Liszt may be alive today Chicago elevated was running before association conference on the proTschaikowsky and Brahms died” gram to be given Thursday and will “What does all this prove? Noth- also be a member of the chorus ing at all except that the music coming from Hollywood to particicomposed in the last few thousand pate in the conference years has had an infinitely higher Miss Squires who will remain mortality rate than the works pro- here for the summer with her parduced in other art forms within a ents has appeared on concert procomparable period The poetry of grams at the Biltmore hotel during Homer of the Periclean dramatists her year m California at the Ebell and of the Homans is still with us club concerts with other clubs and and still highly important Likewise in solo work at various churches the architectural ideas of the an- She recently won second place in heart-breaking- ly the-purad- t Civic Ballet Juilliard Will Publish Two Americans’ Works Orchestra to the Give Program For Biennial NEW YORK CITY— The 1939 biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs will be held in Baltimore It has been announced by Mrs Vincent Hllles Ober national The president probable time is May and the exact dates will be decided laterr The committee reaching tbs decision as to convention city was composed of Mrs John Alexander Jardine of Fargo N D immediate past president Mrs H Carroll Day of Albert Lea Minn program chairman of the biennial convention just past and Mias Ruth Ferry of New Haven Conn treasurer of the orSan Francisco Detroit ganization Cleveland Washington and Los Anhad invited the convention as geles well as Baltimore In selecting Baltimore the com- t rt mittee' was motivated in part because of the especially strong financial guarantee the largest in its convention history because a $1000 prize for the young artists’ contests has already been donated and because the proximity of Baltimore to New York world's fair which will then be in progress will constitute an additional inducement to 'i delegates The Baltimore Music club one of the largest and best known music clubs in the country will be hostess for the affair but the invitation comes from all the musical organizations of the city including the Peabody Conservatory of Music — Directs Festival -- r Those in charge of the forthcomproduction include: Costumes Josephine Hardy lights and stags effects Joe Cicalia publicity Clar- ence ' tv jW ' Realizing Her Aspirations 4 Impression of "Winter Hills you deep In winter T One of our Salt Lake eoloristswhos painting is a leisure time' occupation but who has for a year or more been 'applying herself assiduously to the study of her art in the time not given to her daily job is Nellie May Manning n Iwho is having her first show at the Art Barn opening Sunday and remaining for an indefinite - ‘ period j Miss Manning who became interested to the art of painting in her ‘university years but was drawn away from it when she entered the business world has studied several seasons with Joseph A F Everett accompanying his classes on sketchhas ing trips and her development been marked The past season she has been studying life work in the Art Barn classes under Waldo Midg-Je- y Her water colors have been seen to numerous local exhibitions and several of her canvases were hung in the last annual show at Eprmgville Clean handling of her wash a ‘nice Bense of balance in composition and warmth of feelings are attributes of Miss Manning’s work Her renditions of the Utah landscape are most agreeable and in 'several instances— as in “Ranch in Autumn” which was a member of the state annual — she achieves a looseness of treatment that indiHer growing confidence cates )“LUac Cottage” is a happy version y vall-and of spring in the Heber shows only a little 'homeal most overtopped by the great bush with its lilac plumes City-wate- i i ri one-ma- at -- ‘ i items one of the outstanding In the' “Wooded Stream” she? shows Jtfietumbllng waters of Big Cottonwood creek Hurrying over its rocky bed tinder the soft gloom of the trees through which the sun “Snow Banka” filters but sparingly gives us a landscape in Interesting winter mood and with the "Canyon Home” a Base rn ' Presents Awards Lily pons diminutive Metropolitan star has been chocsen to present the medals shields and silver cups awarded by the Music Education league of New York City in 'its series of contests young musicians to be held In Carnegie hail on JT a- French ('A f -- H i V- - v 4 i iK - ' Honor i M' vV4 - & P Chorus ”T “Lilac - - -- i i y 4 tail- 4 Barn- - Concerto In - (from Vtrdl Schubert-Llef- lt Schumann Chopin Laooe Fox Squires Mozart E flat major Andante— Allegro Allegro——— Mias Keep Orchestra wore for aecond piano played by Mra Beaton “Hark! Hark! the Lark” Winifred Ensign Bernice Ensign and Florence Pay ladies' chorus "Third Psalm” Relief society members instrumental selection “Serenade” the Moulton sisters selection from ‘‘The Unfiniahed Symphony" by Phoebe Peterson Starr on electric organ Sponsored by the women’s auxof the Disabled American Veterans of the World War a program will be presented at the- - Veterans' hospital Wednesday at 7:30 p m with Mrs Lawrence Wilkins chairman of the hospital committee in charge iliary The entertainment will include the following Vocal solo song and tap dance piano duet comedy readings accordion solo western songs to guitar accompaniment male numbers sr If V v - ladies' trio quartet v 4 f 7“i ' a s lir 5 p Wufi'-j mtim New Mexican Pueblos shown in the auditorium at the Z C M I Mr Eastgard has painted a good deal ln the southwest regions and several New Mexico themes are found in the collection among them an impression of the Indian pueblos under a hot September sky Interesting too i the ‘“Moonlight New Mexico” Pupils of Mrs Jessie Seamons Taylor of the faculty of the School of Music and Art will be presented in a piano recital on Monday at 830 p m at the McCune Recital hallt 200 North Mainstreet About 20 pupils will participate jffdgment in these pictures which shows seasonal moods of the Utah mountains and valleys the “Early Summer” and "Sitmnjer Comes to the Valley” being among the most There is however a attractive quality of “paintiness” about these Me-Cu- ne ' Rural Home at ' Midway Cottage" spring landscape by Nellie M ay Manning in her exhibition at the Art tenor Anderson Mrs Carol Hall is presenting a group of her junior and intermediate students in a pianoforte recital Sunday at 4 p m at the Art Barn Eight pupils will participate and assisting will be members of the Kangaroo Artists Revue group of which Mrs Hall is in charge The public is cordially invited to hear the program V ' ' solo Zurra Kipling Unknown Selected F Vaughn Bailey Paul Eisler Roadways Policemen's Chorus “September New Mexico” Gounod Soldiers’ Chorus from '‘Faust" Indian village Chorus Reading) with musical backgrounds Selected Robert Graham Selected Soprano eoloe Mrs Neff Pleasing variety is offered by the Huhn Invictue Your Land and Mv Land Romberg 26 paintings by Jack Eastgard who Bizet Song of the Toreadors is something of a newcomer in our Chorus Utah art colony which are now be-I- for Louis Bailly violinist who heads the department of ch&mbsr music at the Curtis Institute In Philadelphia has been made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the govThis honor ernment of France comes in recognition of his artistic achievements Yamecnlk A Valte Cherie Luella Burton Dean Smemoff Schubert Moment Musical Senior Orchestra Drdla Bouvenlr Violin trio Merle Williams Afton Elkins Virginia Olson A Glad Prayer Btenson Vocal quartet Helen Price Sue Christensen Elva Bronson June Randall In a Monastery Garden Violin aolo Ketelbe Ella Mabel Markay Arr G R Holmes Spiritual — Fantasia Burton Ward Wind Sextette Rachmaninoff Prelude in C minor Marie Burton piano Obbligato Violin Sextette The Mother of Gennesfcutf Reading Ruby Allen Robbins Ball Dear Little Boy of Mine Senior Bo s’ Violin Chorus Moszkowsk! Violin aoio Quitarre Ruth Hyde ' Rubinstein Gaines Seraphic Song Ladles' Quartet -- c y- Rohm La Zinaan Bohm The Green Cathedral penlor String Ensemble I Love Life Recessional Discovery A June Mar-get- El Veinte Singers directed by Raytiond Christopher and with Robert Bailey as accompanist will giv the full program Sunday at 6:30 p m at the Murray First ward Evelyn Gray Neff promichapel nent soprano sojoist will be featured The program follows: Mana 1 Presto con fuoco Mix Keep Erl tu eha macchiarl Masked Ball") Mr Barlow Hark Hark the Lark Romania la T major Prelude No 16 Mlflfl Keep Ho TallyJtilli of Home The Three for Jack Mr Barlow Aria s strength -- Allegro Allegretto Vivace Mlnuetto Mrs Edna Evans Johnson will present a number of her pupils in a voice recital to be given on Sunday at 8 p m at her home 1339 Normandie circle Friends of the artists are cordially invited to attend Accompanists will be Helen Taylor of the season in in the program to which the public Meryl Romney and Beatrice Hogen-so- n its final meeting the form of a supper party at the is given a cordial invitation The program is to be as follows: home of Mrs James A Hogle 543 A special Franz Schubert musical East South Temple street WednesTrio In ths Luxembourg Gardena Manning-Dieprogram will be offered Sunday at 6:30 p m at day Lorraine Irvine Meryl Romney The party is in honor of a charter 630 p m in the Waterloo ward Wilma DeLouey Sunshine and Pain Blumenthal member Floyd A Matson now lo- chapel by the Waterloo ward M I Anna de Ogilvte A Axel P Madsen of the general I Love Thee Orleg cated on the island of Aruba in the Bertha nomney board of the Young Ladies' Mutual Mattlnata Tosti Dutch West Indies who is visiting his parents and friends in the city Improvement association will give Kaale Mae Burdette The Heart That la Free Alfred Robyn for a month the address Dorothy HtauffeY The program will include a nar£1 Ceflro (Mexican folk song) An informal program will follow Manney ration of the life of Franz Schubert Beverly Beck Ode Brahms the BUpper Sappische by Florence Pay and dramatization Violet Jensen Because 1 Love Thee Dear of incidents taken from the account Hawley Melba Lindsay Burton diWilma DcLoney With ts Kisses Can Do No Harm Eysler recting a musical program will be by Le Roy DeKarver Russel Lorraine Irvine and Ronaldl Knell together Clavelltos Valverde given in the McKinley ward chapel with the following numbers: “Who Natalie Pixton Sans Tol d’Hardelot Sunday at 630 p m It will Include Is Sylvia?” by Edwin Butterworth Freda Lyons numbers: the following La Favorita Donlaettl Garden of Rostfl Ritter Jr tenor reading “The Erl King” Gladys Merrill Junior Orchestra Barbara Dowding and the song by The Fountain Harriet Wart - PC'fi ry& hl'Ci r I Walter Damrosch who recently conducted the premiere performance of his new opera “The Man Without a Country’ at the Metropolitan Opera house Mr Damrosch is now in his seventy-sixt- h year The opera is of course written from Edward Everett Hale poem cottage Most of her subjects have been found In the vicinity of the city and in the Heber region With the canvas “Rim of the Desert" there is This Is a vera new intereat seen sion of the southern Utah desert with a range of pink cliffs hemming it in and receding into the far dis' tance t 's Conductor and Composer high in Parley’s canyon she offers a more striking interpretation of the winter season in a picture of depth and lone OGDEN— Mrs Vera Frey Beasoit will present her advanced student Amy Rose Keep in a piano recital Tuesday at 8:15 p m at Glen Bros music hall in this city Rampton Barlow baritone Salt Lake City will be assisting artist The program will be as follows: Sonata Op 31 No 3eeveeeeBathOVa Ldr Week’s Music Calendar quartet4 Rehnard Perpetual Motion Valee Kehnaro primrose Gifford Gloria Draper Mary Bullock Mrs Giflora Du blst die Ruh Schubert Braams Vergeblithes Standchen Che Gelida Mauiuarom La Boheme Puccini Arthur Allen Mozart Fantasia in C minor -Cecil Taylor Air de Bijou from "Faust" Gounod Campbell-Tiptoibe bpirii k lower Ruth Zang Mvself When Young Lehmann M&na-Zutc- a Nichavo Walter Pontz Gounod Faltes Lul Mes Aeux ‘Faust" Robinson Twas a Dear Little Song Florence Glllmor A Concerto In minor Accolay Primrose Gifford None but the Lonely Heart Tschaikowsky Irie Harriet Ware The Lamplighter Manning Lewis German Habanera fromBette Kangaroo and Dingo Carmen" Blret George Hansen Fern Gregory Habanera "Carmen Bizet Delibes Leonl Duet from "Lakme" Vespers Bettv Pyott and Marie Pyott Margaret Marshall Maiden John A Ballade in A fiat Chopin May the Mrs Natalie Parsons Carpenter Annabelle Hewitt Eva del’Acqua The Trumpeter Dtx Chanson Provincelle Gwiue ta Hebbla Wolfe Don Giovanni Virginia Rushton r Moxart Ed Smith Claudius Doty Je die que rlen m’epouvante Verdi Carmen" Bizet Aria “Aida" Eleanor Williams I Would Weave a Song for You O'Hara Mad Scene from Lucia dt Lammer- Virginia Carmau moor" Donizetti Nature's Adoration Beethoven Norma Knight A Tone Cornelius Flute obbligato Lamont Wilson Lester Nordquist Concerto In A minor Grieg (Orchestral part on second piano by Marion MacDowell chapter of the Helen Hamilton) MacDowell Colony league will hold Lucille Lampman - “Canyon Home” a view of Parley’s Can In the Manning exhibition of watercolors I Helen Gahagan prominent in the stage profession has always aspired to a career gs singer and is now realizing her ambitions She has been invited (for the second time) to Salzburg to sing Lieder this season and will also fill concert engagements in Europe Also when she returns to America in August it is to sing at the Hollywood Bowl with the orchestra In private life Miss Gahagan under Fritz Reiner’s direction is Mrs Melvyn Douglas wife of the screen actor violin -- '' Parry Activities given: ijfw L R Ogden's Musical humorist ? v Gcn-do- ing in London James Thurber inimitable American humorist lent his touch to the attractions of coronation week in London with an exhibit of his drawings at the Storran gallery London critics admitted his brilliance as a vL ! tta American f 4r Sponsored by the city recreation department and assisted by the Salt ' Lake Civic Ballet the Salt Lake Philharmonic-Civi- c orchestra will give Us next performance in Liberty park on Friday June 18 at 8:15 p m The) entertainment will come as a contribution to the National Recreation week program and a varied program will be given’ Under the leadership of P K Ripka and M J Edelman the orchestra will be heard in several orchestral selections selected in response to popular request among them “Pizzicato Polka” by Strauss Carl von Weber's “Invitation to the Danes” and excerpts front "The Student Prince” For this outdoor' concert Miss Senta Van Vorst Vaitlnke director -of the Civic Ballet has composed a last December by the frolicsome number entitled “CamaRochester Philharmonic orchestra raderie" The musical score has under Howard Hanson been taken from a group of well- ' known folk songs The Civic Ballet organised in midwinter to give talented young dancers an opportunity for public expression of their art scored a success with Its first production -“An Oriental Fantasy" given - in'” March in the South high school ’ auditorium in conjunction with ths orchestra The choreography of a third ballet is now being written This production will be on a much larger scale requiring a larger bal- let personnel Anyone Interested in this venture is invited to communicate with Miss Vaitlnke' 604 Templeton building Pan-Americ- an " ' studied with Bernard Rogers at Eastman School of Music after having attended the Cleveland institute where he studied with Andre de Ribaupierre Recently he has studied composition with Roger Sessions Aside from the “Psalm for Orchestra” Mr Diamond’s compositions include a ballet a concerto for violin and orchestra a ballade for chamber orchestra which was performed by the New York Philharmonic chamber symphony under the direction of Hans Lange a for orchestra which was performed by the Philadelphia orchestra and had other performances under Philip James Howard Hanetc Re is at son Jacques present writing a chamber work commissioned by the League of Cord posers The “Psalm for Orchestra” which Is to be published by-- the Juilliard School- - of Music —wasflrst"per-forme- d Carlos Chavez conductor of the Mexican symphony orchestra and director of the National Conservatory of Music will head the committee for the chamber music festival sponsored by Mrs Elizabeth S Coolidge in connection with the twelfth seminar in Mexico City on July 13 to 24 ' 'i tA x Louise Bowman Engle and Eliza-- ? beth Hayes jSimpson teachers of voice Beulah Frances Gifford violin and Helen Hamilton piano of the music department of Westminster college will present senior students in the final recital of the year on Monday at 8 p m in Ferry hall Following is tne program to be IT orches NEW YORK CITY-Ttral compositions by American composers have been selected by the Juilliard School of Music for publication Each year the Juilliard School of Music holds a competition for composers and publishes one work This year the judges have recommended the publication of two compositions a “Suite for Orchestra" by Philip James and a “Psalm for Orchestra” by David Diamond Philip James was born in New York IJe graduated from the College oAthe City of New York and studied composition with Norris and Schenck He is professor of music at New York university and conducts the Bamberger Little Symphony orchestra Among his compositions Mr James has a number of orchestra works compositions for chamber orchestra choral works string quartets etc which have been performed by leading organisations was born in David Diamond Rochester N Y 22 years ago He wo iliary of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce as the southern California Festival of Allied Arts Miss Squires was formerly a pupil of Elizabeth Hayes Simpson of Salt vocal contests the conducted by the Lake City and was a popular soloist cient peoples “And yet nearly all the music women's community service aux- - here (I II Mr Eastgard reveals a selective Jack Eastward's impression ot canvases for the most part that 1s annoying Still Jifes and studies of spring bio&Sofos make up the show Hawkins' Military Band School (23RD SEASON) SUMMER COURSE FOR BAND INSTRUMENTS ' JUNE 14TII TO JULY 20TII Five weeks1 Interestlny study recreation AU practical at school Eat a m Pally T a m to 11 HarTraining Melody WrKin Baseball Band Practice mony Tennis Trips etc For further inHawkins formation write C of Uth of call fly University 2594-- R |