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WILMETTE LIFE February 21, 1930 Music News- and Events 'Civic I P Orchestra String resents econ I j S · d London Quartet to PIay H ere ~OnCe~ ~nday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~b~en London. String Quartet Pla~'S J Here on March 9 The Chicago Civic orchestra of which Frederick Stock is musical director and . Eric DeLamarter, conductor, will give its second conce_rt in Orhall Sunday afternoon, FeOruary 23, at 3:30. An exceptionally interesting program. has selected Miss engaged Sarah Ann soprano, has been as McCabe, solo artist. Miss ~hestra ~nd The London String quartet, which will be heard on Sunday afternoon, March 9, at 4 o'clock, in the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth, is cJn:.;dered one of the great chamber music ;>rganizations of the world. It will pl·y under th e auspices of the North Shore Cham her Music association, of wh;ch Mrs. Percy Eckhart· is president. McCabe has earned remarkable triumphs on the concert stage -and will be heard in Bizet's brilliant "Tarantelle" and in a group of Irish folk 5ongs. The accompaniments to these have been specially scored by Eric DeLamarter. The remainder of the program will comprise the overture to Gluck's Iphigenia in 'Aulis," Mozart's G minor symphony, "The Swan of Tuonela" Sibelius, . the lnt.ermezzo from Wolf-Ferrari's ··The Jewels of the Madonna" and Dvorak's "Festh·al :March," which will be heard for the :first time in Chicago. Program Soloist: (Subject Sarah Ann to McCabe, Change) Sopl'ano Overture to "Iphigenia in AuJis" . . Gluck Symphony, G Minor (Kochel 550) . . :\Iozart Tarantelle ... · · ·. · · · · ·8· · · · · · ··· · ·· · .Bizet The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius lnt .. rmls Jon Group of Irish Songs Intermezzo from "The Jewels of the Madonna" · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Festival March · · · · · · · · D\·orak Each member of the quartet is a rl j, _ tinguished artist and. ,·irtuoso. John Penninrrton and Thomas Petre are t!1e f.rst second violins, C. 'Varwick Evans is 'cellist, and Philip Sainton is the viola player. Mr. Pennington, " ·ho is almost as good a pianist as he is a fiddler, won fame as a prodigy on the Yiolin in England, playing concertos under Sir Dan Godfrey at the age of at~d 12. by Mr. Petre also made his first sional appearance as a child prodi::o:,·. plaving the l\fendelsshon Concerto in J.ofldon. The 'cellist is disting-ui shed as a concert artist. ha\·ing played the ma ior concertos with practically all the · · f ·1 r. trading <>rchestras of Europe. Sainton comes Of an artJsttc amt y, with a !:{nndfather who was a rcnowned violinist, a mother who was a well r-. _ sinrrer, Sainton Do lhy, for \\'hom ~{endelssoh n wrote his "0. Rest in the Lord;· and a father who is noted "' a silver point artist. In addition t o his interpretative activities, 1\lr. Sainton prof~s- ~~ kno~Yn European Tourists May Attend Mozart Festival North shore residents who will migrate to Europe for the summer will have the opportunity of attending the Wagner and Mozart festival in Munich, Germany, from July 21 to September 1. Following the festival, there will be a week devoted to operas by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner. All performances of "Tristan unci Isolde" and "Tannhauser" · at the Baireuth Festival will he conducted 1)\· Arturo Toscanini. "Tannhauser" wiil be given on July 22. August 1. S. 9. and 20: and "Tristan" on July 23, August 6 and 10, at Baireuth. Siegfried \Vagner and Elmendorf will conduct on~ "Ring" series: Muck will conduct a "Parsifal" performance. Mr. \Vagner wiJJ conduct a "Ring" series at the Scala in Milan, beginning on March 9 or March 11. and this will he the first time he has conducted this work outside of Baireuth. He has imposed a condition that the work will he per· formed as Richard \Vagner composed it. without any cuts. The London String quartet, recognized as the ~vorld's most famous musical group of its type. will gi\'e a recital at 4 o'~lock 111 the after~10on. of Sunday, March 9, at the Joseph Sears school in Kemlworth. The recttal 1s sponsored by the :N"orth Shore Cham her ~,f usic association, of which Mrs. Percy E.ckhart is president. The members of the quartet arc as follows: .J~lm Pennmgton, first violin; Philip Sainton, \'iola: Thomas \\'. Petre, second vtOitn, and C. Warwick Evans. violincello. Mischa Mischakof! to Now Selecting National Make First Chicago High School Orchestra Appearance This 1¥eek Members of the National High Mi cha Mischakoff, Ru:;sian violinist. School orchestra and chorus are now \': ill make his first Chicago appearance when he plays the Tschaiko,nky Con certo for violin. in D major. with the <:;hicago Symphony orchestra Frid::ty afternoon and Saturday evening of this week. DLtring the 1929-30 se ason he is devoting himself exclusi,·cly to concert work, hut previous to this sea!;on he has been concert master with seven) European orch.cstras of not('. The violinist was horn in Podolia. south'v\'est of Russia. in 1897. In 1913 he was the Gold Medal graduate of the St. Peter<;burg- conservatory. \1\'herc he was taught by Professor Korg-ueff. a pupil of Leopold Aue.r. In 1917. after demobilization from the Russian arm_v. Mischakoff became concert master of the Petrograd orchestra under AJ.bert Coates. From 1918 to 1920 he was j-,rofessor o'f violin at the Nizhine-Novgorod conservatory hy appointment of the Soviet gm·ernment. He was con cert master of the Moscow Grand Opera during' the season of 1920-21. and later held the same position in the Warsaw Philharmonic. He made ccncert tours of Russia, Germanv and Poland before coming- to New York. In a competition with 500 candidates he was chosen for a public appearance with the Philharmonic orchestra of New York in the Stadium concerts ir the summer of 1923, and in the followin~ spring he received his appointment as concert master of the New York Svmphony orchestra. From 1927 to 1929 he was concert master of the being selected under the direction of R. Lee Osburn of Haywood, Ill. and ]. E. Maddy of Ann Arbor, Mich. The orchestra and chorus will perform at the Music Supervisors' National Conference in Chicago the week of March 24. Walter Damrosch will be here from New York to rehearse the orchestra before the supervisors. About 400 yc;>ung men and women will sing in the chorus, and 300 boys and girls will play in the orchestra. has composed extensively, and se\'eral of his orchestral compositions have hren played with . the Qu·e en's Hall nrnrchestra in London and at the Stadium concerts in Ne\\' York. The London Morning Post sa id of the quartet after a performance. "The London String quartet can challen .~e comparison with any possible rival. English or continental. Nothing- could l·e more beautiful than their quality and halance of tone." Redfern Mason in the San Francisco Examiner, applauded the cc,llahoration of the quartet in headli!l<'S and then continued his praise , "A first c!ass string- quartet is a thing of slow grov.-th. Technical perfection is not rnough, though it is the elusive, inrlefinable quantity known as personali+T. Every player must possess -it and the ·four-fold harmonv must be so spiritu'llly sympathetic ti1at · the group of atti~ts play as if they were members of one family." The quartet celebrated its twentirth anniversary in 1928. It has given over 150 concerts in London, made three tours of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, three tours of Spain and two tours of South America. It has played in France and Holland seven times and has produced more than 100 new works. lt has made four tours of the Un!t("d States and Canada. Mr. Evans says, "The interest in chamber music, or in string quartets, is increasing a11 o'Ver the world. We do not like to call ourselves a chamber music organization because that name has become associa~ed in people's minds with a small h:tll. with a chamber. But so-called chamber music can be played just as effectbely and we believe more effectively in a large hall. We have proved this time and time again all over the worldN" MARTINELLI INGSr MARCH 3 Giovanni Martinelli, the popular tenor, will give what is announced as his only Chicago recital on Monday evening, March 3, at Orchestra halt, under the auspices of the Chicago Association for Child Study and Parent Education. GIVE JOINT RECITAL Rudolph Reuter, pianist, and Jacques Gordon, violinist, will give joint recitals at Kimball hall on Tuesdav evenings, February 25, March 25.- and April 22, under the direction of Bertha Ott. Orchestra of Noise Is Latest Berlin Novelty An "Orchestra of Noise" is the latest Berlin novelty for those who like something new in music. It has two to four minute lenR"th works which are called hv ·such titles as "Nocturnal Noises," "Riot," "Tempest with Hail," "Departure and Arrival of a Train," "Street Noises," "Noises of Machines," "A Railroad Train in Action," and "Animal Cries!' Additional "musical versions of flivvers. Pullmans. skyscraper:~. threshing machines and prairie sounds" are promised hv Sowerby, Converse. Honegger, Antheil and Carpenter. IN CONCERTS SUNDAY Winifred Macbride, pianist, will appear at the Playhouse. and Adelaide Berkrpan, pianist, will play at the Civic theater, on Sundav. Februarv 23, under the direction of I!ertha Ott. TO BROADCAST 4 'AMERICA" Ernest Bloch's "America" will be broadcast from the Roxv Theater studio in New York on Sunclay, February 23. Max Herzberg has directed the chorus, and the orchestra will he directed by JosepH Littau. Philadelphia orchestra under Stokowski. Serge Prokofieff, Russian pianist and composer, will function in both capacities at the February 28 and March 1 concerts of the Chicago Symphony orchestra at Orchestra halt. He will play his own "Concerto for Pianoforte in G Minor," and will conduct his "Le Pas d'Acier." I