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24 WILMETTE LIFE October 12, 1928 Music News ·and Events Music Club Patrons Little Symphony Orchestra Opens Season November 1~ Keenly Anticipate 1 Recital by : M uzio -------------------------------...~ North shore music lovers are looking forward with keen anticipation to the fifth season of Artist-Recitals sponsored by the Winnetka Music club. The first of this series is scheduled for the evening of Monday, October · 29, when Claudia Muzio, world famous dramatic soprano, presents the program. Mme. Muzio, form ely of the Metropolitan Opera company, but in recent years one of the leading sopranos with the Chicago Civic Opera, ranks with the most versatile artists of modern times. . Critics hail her as "one of those versatile singers who can both flame in opera and charm in concert." Other artists appearing on the program this year are : Vladimar Horowitz, Russian pianist; Albert Spalding, American violinist; Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist; and John The Little Symphony orchestra of Chic~go, pictured ~bo~e. is to begin its seventh season of north shore concerts Charles Thomas, baritone. Mf)nday, November 12, at the New Trier Htgh school aud~to:mm. The orchestra appears on the north shore each Subscribers to the Artist-Recital winter under auspices of the New Trier Orchestral assoctatvm.. George Dasch, conductor of the orchestra for series have been reminded again to sevetal years, wields the baton. communicate with Mrs. Bessie Grant, secretary of the Winnetka Music club, if they have not yet received their ~eason tickets. Her office is at the ·1 Winnetka State bank. Ruth Breton These People Brunt of Orchestra Series Work A small nucleus of north shore music patrons each season assumes the responsibility of securing the Little Symphony orchestra for its program of concerts at New Trier. This group must see to it that sufficient subscriptions are received from interested north shore residents each year to guarantee the appearance of the orchestra and featured soloists. Here they are: Roland D. Whitman, president; Mrs. Homer E. Cotton, vice-president ; Mrs. B. K. Smith, secretary; · Harry L. Street, treasurer. Town chairmen are Homer F. Horton, Glencoe; Mrs. Ronald D. Whitman, \Vinnetka; Miss Helen Sears, Kenilworth; Herbert B. Mulford, Wilmette. Bear ~-------- Civic Opera Stars in Rehearsal for Gittil Gradova . 1928-29 'Programs .____ _ _ _ _ _ ___, I l Here's Season Schedule of The Little Symphony The schedule of Little Symphony orchestra concerts at the New Trier auditorium, including appearances of outstanding artists on several of the programs, has been announced as follows: First concert-Monday, November 12. Second concert-Monday, December 10; Marion Anderson, contralto, soloist. · Third Concert-Monday, January 14; Ruth Breton, violinist, soloist. Fourth concert-Monday, February 18; (soloist not yet engaged.) Fifth concert-Monday, March 11; 9itta Gradova, pianist, soloist. Extraordinary technical equipment and sound musicianship are qualities possessed by Ruth Breton, violinist, who will. be a soloist with the Little Symphony orchestra in its third concert at New Trier auditorium January 14. In addition to her successes in America, Miss Breton has scored triumphs in London, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg. Miss Ruth Haroldson in Recital at Kenilworth Miss Ruth Haroldson, pupil of Jacques Gordon, gave a short violin recital before the seventh and eighth grade students of the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth last Friday, Ottober 5. She was accompanied by Miss Adeline Veghte. Last year Miss Haroldson gave violin lessons to several children of the Joseph Sears school, and shec' has announced that she will give similar lessons this year. Chicago Critics Praise Milan Lusk Performance Milan Lusk, violinist, was enthusiastically received when he appeared last Sunday afternoon at the Eighth street theater in a symphony concert with the Chicago People's orchestra. After his rendition of his own "Romana," played for the first time with orchestra, he was recalled several times and finally added an encore, the "Ave. Maria," by Schubert, with harp accompaniment. In the earlier part of the program he was heard in the Italian concerto by D'Ambrosio. Critics of the Chicago Dailies were With ballet and chorus rehearsals in full swing, and the principal artists now g~thering in Chicago, the 1928-29 season of the Chicago Civic opera will soon be under way. The first performance of what probably will be the last year in the historic Auditorium will be given October 1 31, and from that night until the close 1 of the season, January 26, the great galaxy of artists who compose the Chicago opera will be heard in more than one hundred performances. The sale of season seats has continued unusualt~r heavy throughout the summer, and the month of September proved to be the banner month of the year. Only a few more days remain for those devotees of opera who desire to purchase season tickets, as the season seat sale positively will close · Saturday afternoon. October 20. On Monday, October 22, the single seat sale for the first week will begin. The first performance of the 192829 season will be "Carmen," in which the new contralto, Maria Olszewska, will be starred. This is one of the . Her popularity with north shore most sensational of Madame Olszew- music patrons is readily attested in the ska's many successful roles. European fact that Mme. Gitta Gradova, pianist, critics have called her the greatest Carmen since Calve. She has sung appears as soloist for the second sucthe opera in both French and German, cessive season with the Little Symhaving scored a phenomenal success phony orchestra in its New Trier in French at Covent Garden two sea- series. Mme. Gradova has been resons ago. engaged for the fifth coqcert of the Madame Olszewska, whose American· season to be given Monday, March 11. debut this performance will be, is one of the outstanding personalities · of the operatic stage·. There are not many Walter Spry Will Offer stars of either the operatic or the Illustrated Lecture Series theatrical world who combine outstanding vocal talent with great histrionic A series of four illustrated lectures ability. Even in her pictures Madame on techni~al and musical works for Olszewska projects the soul and the the pianoforte, will be given by Walter inner character of the individual she Spry, pianist and teacher, .in his is portraying. studio at the Columbia School of Music, Chicago, Monday mornings beginning Oct. 22 and ending Nov. 12. prodigal in praise of Mr. Lusk's perTwo lectures will be devoted to the formance. Carleton Hackett of the principles of "The Elements of Piano Chicago Evening Post said: "Lusk Technique" by Ernest Hutcheson, played well, good tone and clean tech- "Lessons in Piano-Playing" by Mr. nique. He brought the melody out "Pianoforte Teaching Arranged clearly and added the decorative fig- Spry, Upon a Rhythmic Basis" by Dr. Ralph ures neatly." H. 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