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The Artist-Recital Series of 1933, sponsored by the Winnetka Music club, opened its tenth season brul- liantly Monday night with a. recital by Frederick jagel, tenor. As usual the New Trier auditorium was, filled .with eihfusiastic. music loirers gath- er ed from the IenÉth of the north shore. And equally, as, a matter. of ..course the audience was repaid ini full for its interest. Frederick Jagel, a leading tenor of *the Metropolitan opera, presented' a son1g recital, of great beauty, interest- ing contrastl, and decided range, both. vocally and intellectuWlly.. he pro- g iram opened with a group of early Italian and English--airs. 1n. these MIr. .jagel showed splendid conitrol and excellent legato phrasing. How- ever it was. not until the second r roup the German soîigs, tliat his voice really showed tol the best adivantage. Here, hssifîEsand, aâpparent nervousness disappeared,1 agi-ilease ofexpression and beauty of1 *diction muade thesé songs alternately .charming and moving. "Der Tami- bour' by Hugo Wolf and "Sclhla-5 ,gende Heérzen" by Richard Strauss were outstanding. As an encore Nr. jagel sang "'Nichts" by Strauss. As the strains of "Andrea Chenier"l loated out poignant nieniories ofC Ravinia filled the hiearts of miany lis- teners. With great sweetness and ,clarity. of expression NMr. jagel proved' that at last he %vas siniging1 whlat he really enjoyed niost-operat ft'ithll nits <olor and (draina or,:irn.ed]. rewarded wifth an aria trom the -.PalFisher" by. Bizet as an-encore. The third and fourtb groups con- sisted of several modern French,, Italian. and English songs., Here againMr. Jagel, sbowed excellent diction and, commùand' of the laài- * guages. "Stornello", by Pietro, Cimn- ara,, and the. ever bieautiful "0! * Quand je dors," by Liszt, brought ,out the pure tenor quality of bis -voice, marred only by a slight lack of .breath in his upper range. 0f his this week of Mrs. iErnest lE. White, 265. Franklin road, Glencot. Mrs. White became , acquainted with the siýger a numuber of years ago ýwhen Wi was studying in, Milano, Ital1y. ter Sweet," which opens a limited engagement at the Grand Opera House Sunday night, November 5. Maroon Claire, internationally fam- ous prima donna, and former star.of the CcaoCivic Opera company, will sing th e leàding, role in "Bitter, Swveet." -and Miss Claire, as, every one f rom Chicago's suburban area knous, has lived most of hier younig life in Lake Bluff. Frienls, of this' charming and taI- ented young wman, who 'have. fol- loured bier career fromi a young gi rl in lier. .student' days at Ferry -Hall, tbrough her y ears.of study abroad vwith famous masters, and lier conise- quent and successf ul. debut in1 Italy,ý with further conquests throughout Germany and-France, hier triumpha,ît return home to: he one of. the leading. prima donnas with* the :Chicago Civie Opera company, .and a leading con- c ert artist, will eagerly await her en- trance- into another fietd, that of the light 1%yric stage. W.lenMisÇar appears as Sari Linden, the heroine of Noel Coward's charmning operetta, she will be making her Chicago debut on the legitimate stage. Aithougli' this will be Chicago's first opportunity to witness ber ap- pearance in anything but opera and concert, St. Louisans had that privi- lege iast summer, when Miss Claire »ipeared as leading prima donna with the St. Louis Municipal Opera com- pan)- and where she scored one of thie most sensational sticcesses ever later as Jenny- Lind in "Nightingale," ini the titie role of "Nina Rosa" and as Barbara Frietchie in "'My Mary- land.". "ýBitter'Sweet" is the only musical piece by 'the eminent Mr. Coward to I)e presented in Amer ica, and further enjoys the. distinction of being the onl y work of other'than American rigin that Florénz Ziegfeld ever pro- duced. Its story covers a span of fifty .years, beginining ini the London IN NOVEMBER RECITAL William Blailock, baritone, an- notunces his second Chicago recital Lat the Illinois theater, Sunday after- noô6n,. Noveêmber .26. phony orchestra on Saturday night, LN6vember 18, when the Popular con- cert will be turned over to Paul Kerby, British citizen representiflg Austria in Chicago and to the Ce- tury of Progress. Instead. of having a. large building or other .exhibia at the Fair, Austria decided to have an officiai musical representa-tion here-* an exhibit of, its. greatest export crop -ýmusic. Austria has sent1 one of the conductors of the Vieniia Sympliony orchestra, Paul Kerby, 'her*e to 4do the honoârs for his adopted country. Mr,. Kerby. is an associate o the Royal Academy of London, has been in Vienna 'since 1926 and has won a wide reputation as an intepreter of Viennese. music., He will'- conduct- a program of both Iight and classical music fro M Viennese and Austrian composers. This Friday's program of the sym- phony and the one' for the f ollowing weeks are given as follows: Friday, Nov.umber 3, Z: 15. Soloist: Mischa Miscbakoff Legend, "Kikimora," Opus 65 . Liado* Symphony No., 6, .E Flat Minor, Opus 23 . ...Miaskomsky Allegro Feroce. Andante'Appas- sionato.. Presto Tenebroso., Al- legro Vivace. Intermissi,n Concerto for Violin, D Minor, Opus 47....Sibelius CAllegro Moderato. Allegro, 'Ma of Faust"...... ........... erlioz Invocation-Dance of the Sylphs. Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps. Marci, "Rakoczy." Thursday, Noveunbe 9S:11S- Friday, N.vemb.m IS, 2:15. $oloist: Rudolph Ganz "Rondo Infinito," Opus 42 . .. Sinding Symphony No. 1, E Minr Opus 39 .....1.. .. . Sibelius Andante Ma Non Troppo.-Alleg- ro Energico. Andante (Man.Non (1»b Danse de la fée Dragée, (c) Danse russe., (d) Danse arabe. (e) Danse chinoise. f)Danse des mirlitons'. III.ý Valse 4esfleurs. Chamber muasic on a dehinitely or-. gani zed season basis wiil be contili- ued again this year for 'the benefit of thet north shore suburbs. After' an unbroken record of. eleven years,. the North Shore Chamber M1usic a5-, -sociation wilI open its new seasoni Suinday afternoon, November. 19, at 4. o'clock in the K(enilworth Assenîblyý hall, Tliere is nic *other organization oi similar type,1 pur .veying only chanmber music, in the entire Chicago area. Active committees !are1 mainitained in the subu rbs 'of EÊvanston, Wilmiett 1 é Keniilmworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, and Highland Park, and the concerts e:î- joy patronage even f rom Chacago. Not itifrequiently outstandinig groups, of musicians appéar at these concerts earlier in the season than the%. are heard in Chicago. ln previous seasons the association bas drawn its talents from such nîo- table musicians as. the Londlon String quartet, the Barrere Wood Wind en- semble, the Mischakoff String quar- tet, the Jacques Gordon String quiar-* tet, the Elschuco trio of New York. the Philharmoniic String quartet of Chicago. tilt Mueuizer trio, and. others. The opening concert' this year wvi1I l)e given by the Philhiarmnic String quartet of Chicago, whose personnjel consists of John XVeiclier, first viojin: Robert Quick, second violin; Walter Ha:icock, viola, and Richard WVagner, violoncelIo. Mr. Weicher wvill be the soloist with the Chicago Symphony The officers of the association this year are Mrs. Percy B.. Eckhat,. .president; M1 rs. A.. B. Spach, secre- -tary,, and WValter Marx, treasurer, aIl of Kenilwvorth, from whomticet. maY be procured. > Young N.- S. Soprano in Demand as Solojst, Lolita Bertlinig of \Vilmette, who is rapidly climbivag the ladder of faine, lias been ini zreat <lpnnd i iý wicn Siegfried rrager's CUvic music forces are presenting in Madison, Wis. The production is 111 costume, and Miss Bertling is one -of the 'sev- eral, guest artists coming ýfrom nýChii cago for the occasion.