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WiLMETTE' LIFE .Karch · 1, 1929 Music· News and Events Civic Orchestra, . Muenzer Trio to Play Milan Luak to Offer Pleasure. Called Chamber Recital Sunday Lenten Recital March 13 Soloists, Attract Chief Reaction In Kenilworth Asse~bly hall SunA program of music appropriate to Capacity Audience to Musical Things the Lenten season is to be offered by day afternoon, March 3, at 4 o'clock By R. L. P. R?Y Dickinson Welch, head of the mustc department of Smith college, had much to say on "Why We Behave Like Musical Beings,"' to members and guests of the Winnetka M usic club last Saturday morning at the Indian Hill Country club. Mr. Welch has a profound understanding of the music situation in America today, and a sense of humor. His comments were wittily ~iven, and the audience found him vastly entertaining as well as enlightening. Mr. Welch suggested that there is only one primary fact why music is made and why it endures: because we take pleasure in it, a very high kind of pleasure. Yet one can soon discover that this simple fact is overlooked. The value of music, the worth put upon it, is often explained as bein~ something quite different. It is said to endure because it is a religious agency, or a moral agency. Music takes its primary value from the fact that we find it beautiful. It is a good in itself, and an end in itself. Such compositions as Schumann's "Carnival" pieces are said to endure because of their stories. their literary significance. But although that adds richness to the effect, tlle real beauty is in the music. Since there are so many different kinds of music. and. since it is devised to give us pleasure, why do some ·of us find one composition inspiring while others think it rlnll? Mr. Welch pointed out that we are all very complex human beings. Some of us have little feeling for tonality. Or, we are unwilling to acknowledge that we are sensuous creatures, that we are motivated bv our emotions. We strive to conceal them. Mr. Welch said there is nothing any of us so much wants as an emotional experience to be completed. that we all want to he swept off our feet. We want music to appeal to the whole man, and not part of him. Yet even if we are able to feel pure emotion, there is our troublesome intellect demanding to be satisfied. Tt is the intellect that helps us share in the symphonies. They should be seized upon moment by moment, anrl the more fineh· we can follow the details, the better · we can understand th(~ composer and his problems. If we· cannot rcsnond to the sounds themselves. or follow the form of the composition. then . our case is hopeless. Mr. \Velch pla~·ed Bach and Chopin, Debus!w and modern composers, telling whv they wilt live. Each had an initial idea worth ·knowing, one that was de,·eloped and controlled hy a fine intellect. Each was a perfectly consistent, organized whole. and it caught the interest of the \\'hole man. satisfying him emotionaltv and intellectttalt~:. Milan Lusk, brilliant north shore vio- the M uenzer Trio will present the linist, Wednesday, March 13, under third concert in the current 1928-29 the joint auspices of Wilmette Post, No. 46, American Legion, and the Auxili(,lry of the Wilmette Post. The recital will be given in the Wilmette Woman's club. Proceeds from the recital are to be directed into the service funds of the post and auxiliary, it is announced. Since this program falls upon an evening when most churches have Lenten services, the hour of the recital has been set at 8 :30 o'clock in order to permit sufficient time for church-goers to ·hear the entire program, which wit! be designed to fit in with the spirit of the Lenten season. The recital on March 13 will mark Mr. Lusk's first appearat1ce on tltc north shore since his return from a European tour last summer. Hans Muenzer High School Pupils tQ Attend Recital by Yehudi M enuhin .ttle Symphony c.·ves Ll Concert Here March 11 Patrons of the New Tl'lier Orchestral association are to have the pleasure of hearing Ruth Breton, brilliant violinist. Monday evening, March 11, when that artist appears as soloist with the Little Svmphonv orchestra in the New Trier auditorium. Miss Breton has appeared as soloist with the principal orchestras throughout the United States and has won wide acclaim in European appear- aaus. Evanston and north shore music lovers, including the younger music students, members of the New Trier High school senior and junior music clubs and of Miss Helen Weston's classes in Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, will be well represented in the audience at the Auditorium theater Sunday afternoon, March 3. when Yehudi Menu!tin, the 12-yearold boy wizard of the violin, makes his first and only appearance of the season in Chicago. That the little musician already has captured the heart of Chicago is indicated by the box office statement a week in advance of his engagement that every seat in the big auditorium had been sold and that extra seats ,,·ere being insta1led on the stage to take care of last-minute customers. Yehudi will be heard in a program ranging from modern composers to the classics and one calling for every ounce of artistry that can be packed into a bow. The opening number, a concerto by Vivaldi-Franko, arranged hv Sam Franko and dedicated to Yehudi Manuhin. wilt be heard for the first time in Chicago. Other numbers include the Beethoven Romance in F Major: the Mozart G Major Adagio: Leclaire's Sarabande et Tambourin: Wieniaski's Concerto in F, and an ancient Yom GIPncoe 'Cellist on Radio Kippur melody arranged by Ernest Proifram in Italian Capital Bloch. . Phvllis Eileene Barry 'cellist, forLouis Persinger, concert master of the San Francisco Symphony orches- merh: of Glencoe, who · has been stutra, YE-hudi's first violin teacher and dying in Italy for two years, broadcast a program from the Italian Govhis godfather. will be at the piano. ernment Station EIAR in Rome FebruarY 26. Miss Barn· \\.·ill complete Professional Artists to her ·course at the Roval Academv of Present Concert March 17 Santa Cecilia in Ronie in Mav, · and The first Professional Artists' con- will make a tour of the Continent, apcert of the season is to be presented pearing in the principal cities, and return to America in June. She has under the auspices of the Columbia ouhlished sevePl of her compositions School of Music Sundav, March 17. at Orchestra hall. The Columbia school in ltalv and included some of them in orchestra. Ludwig Becker. conductor, her br.oadcast program. will play the Overture Op. 28 "LiePONSELLE SINGS SUNDAY besfruehling," bv George Schumann: Rosa Ponselle, world renowned soSvmphony in D Minor, by Cesar Franck. and the Overture Solennelle. prano, will he heard in recital Sundav ::-fternoon, March 3, in Orchestra hall. 1912. hv Tschaikowskv. Miss . Marv Winslow, one of the Mme. Ponsetle's appearance is under teachers in ·the Winnetka branch of auspices of Bertha Ott, Inc. the school. will olay the Beethoven Concerto in C Minor Op. 37; Miss lyn Wienke will sing the Aria "BallaHilda Hinricks, well known cellist, tetla" ·from Pagliacci, by Leoncavallo. will olav thE> Vetriations SvmphoniQues Students and their friends have Op. 23, · by Boellmann, anrl Miss Eve- been especially invited. series sponsored by the North Shore Chamber Music association. This famous trio is composed of Hans M uenzer, first violinist; Hai'IS Koelbel, second violinist, and Rudolph Wagner, pianist. This group of artists, so favorably known to north shore audiences, was organized as a trio in 1918 bv Hans Muenzer, then concert master of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Leipzig, Germany. Since that time the trio has grown surprisingly in its ability to present the outstanding chamber · music compositions and in its unification as an organization. It may be said that its recitals are surpassed by those of no other chamber trio. The concert on March 3 will include a Trio in B Flat Minor. Opus 5 by Volkmann and a Quartet in E Flat Major, Opus 87, by Dvorak, the viola part in this second number being taken by Friedrich Rittner, a musician of ·high standing and heard previouslv several times in conjunction with the Muenzer Trio. It has been said and with much justification that chamber music is of all music forms the highest and purest. Certain it is that concerts by chamber trios and quartets appeal strongly to real lovers of music. to those who are themselvC's amateurs and professionals in the field of music. It is to be expected, then, that the concert · of March 3 will attract a large and discriminating audience. By Critic The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, under the directorship of Frederick Stock. which was organized for the development of symphony players, presented an unusually.. fine program at Orchestra hall last Sunday afternoon. Two youthful soloists, members of the orchestra, were Betty Cain and Charles Sindelar, who played a Concerto for Two Violins, D Minor, by Bach and were given splendid support by' the orchestra. Mr. Sindelar seemed to have exceptional musical talent and not only played with poise, but ~ith technique and expression. Th(' other soloist, Saul Dorfman, pianist, should certainly · make a name for him se lf in the musical world. He not only has genius, but real po~er. His long fingers . have amazmg strength and agility, and his tones were agreeably shadowed. He played Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, for piano and orchestra, which is not extremely difficult, but requires polish. He was recalled and played "The Music Box," by Liadow. One of the features of the afternoon's program was Frederick Stock's Symphonic Waltz, which Mr. Stock conducted himself. This was done very well indeed, and showed the result of long, arduous practice. The first number on the program was Symphony in E flat major by Mozart, all four movements being played. Tschaikowskv's Andante Cantabile· and Irish Rhapsodv by Victor Herbert were the final numbers. These were conducted by Eric DeLamarter. The next of the series of Orchestra hall concerts bv the Civic Orchestra . will be given Sunday afternoon, March 31. These programs are given under the auspices of the Civic Music association of Chicago co-operating with the Orchestr<;tl association. Music-Making Stressed for National Music Week An increase in the degree of musicmaking on the part of American people is expected as the result of a special idea which is being stressed in preparation for the sixth N:Hional Music \:Veek. on May 5-11. The keynote of that observance is to be active participation in music in addition to listening to it. "Hear Music-Make Music-En iov Music" is a suggestion to the ouhlic made by the National Music Week committee in connection with the coming celebration. To that statement of man's triple relation to music the committee adds this special in junction regarding participation: "Make Music, for Music Makes Happiness." Josephine Lvdston Seyl, Soprano, Much in Demand Josephine Lydston Seyl, soprano, of Winnetka, sang- for the Kenwood Music club February 12. Mrs. Seyl gave her costume program on February 20 at the Evanston Presbyterian Home. On February 23 she will give a program for the Federation of clubs at the Henry Booth House and, on February 26, English songs in costume for the Rogers Park Woman's club. PIANIST AT STUDEBAKER Ernest Hutcheson, pianist, will present a recital in the Studebaker theater Sunday afternoon, March 3. Bertha Ott, Inc., has arranged for this program. ·