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1~ WILMFTTF IIPP September 20, 1934 MuicNews aud Eestsj Outlook Brught for CIty Opera Seaspn The outlook for the opera next season in Chicago appears to be se bright and hôpeful that music levers are perfectly deligbted. Box office sales, it bas been reported, are al- ready far beyond expectation, for both single opera and season tickets are going rapidly. Announcement cornes from the Chi- cago Grand Opera company that Maria Jeritza will open~ the seasor on Saturday night, November 10, ir the leading role of Puccini's "Turan- dot" with Frederick jagel as the prince. Later in the season she will appear in a revival of Ricbard Strauss' "Salome." Lawrence Tib- bett is coming to sing in an all-Eng- lish performance of "Boris Godunoff,' following the original Moussorgsky version -and not the better known edition rewritten by Rimsky-Korsa- koif. Tbe artistic personnel bas beep- enriched by-the engagement of such other artists as Lotte. Lehmann, Editli Masoni, Elisabetb Retbberg , Coe Glade, Marie Olszewska, Sonia Shar- nova, Mario Chamlee, and René Maison. Other guest artists d uring the sea- son are te be Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior, and John Charles Thomas. Performances will be given for six weeks on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- day and Saturday nigbts, and Satur- day afternoons. The final perform- ance.will be the Saturday matinée of Dec. 22. About fifteen operas will be given during the season, to be drawn from a list of two dozen now under considération. Additional features will be special Friday nigbt ballet performances under Miss Page's direction. Among those promised' are "La Guiablesse," first given at the Auditorium a year ago under the sponsorsbip of the Friends of.Music, and like it in that it will have an all-Negro cast.; wonld premiéres of "Hear Ye! Hear Ye 1" by Aaron Copland, and "Gold Stand- ard," by Jacques Ibert, and further performances of "Bolero," "Puffen- fee," "L'H1istoire du Soldat," and "L'Histoire d'un Pierrot."- Tbe list of artists, conductors, and directors who bave signed contracts to, appear isnow fairly:complete. It is as follows: Sopranos - Hilda Burke, Lucia Diano, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Edith -Mason,. Margery Maxwell, Lu- cinda Munroe, Hilda Ohlin, Elisabeth Rethberg, Franca Somigli, jean Ten- nyson, Anna Turkel, Aida Vanos. .Mezzo-sopranos and contraltos- Evelyn Ames, Alice Mary Baenziger, Hortense Drummond, Coe Glade, Eleanor LaMance,' Maria Matyas,. Maria Olszewska, Helen Orstein, Ada Paggi, 'Sonia Sharnova. Tenors 'Giuseppe Cavadore, Mario Chamlee, René- Maison, Giovanni Martinelli, 'Launitz Melchior,, .Lodo- * vico Oliviero, John Pane-Gasser. *Baritones - Wilfred Engelman, Claudio Frigenio, Carlo Morelli, Jo- seph Royer, John Charles Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett. Bassos-Chase Baromeo, Guido Guidi, -Emanuel List, Louis Lovich, Vittorio Trevisan. Conductors-Gennaro Papi (musi- cal director). Dino Bigalli, Lco Koep,.I Musuic Group Planis Year's Actîvitiesý The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, ttraining school, for young sympbony players, will begin its sixteenth sea- >son the first week in October. The *orchestra will again be under the di- e rection of Eric DeLamarter, associate -conductor of the Chicago Symphony r orchestra, who achieved national prom. inence for bis conducting of the con- certs of tbat organization at the 1934 Century of Progress. Fredenick Stock, -director of -the, Chicago Symphony or- tchestra, will again, in the capacity of *musical director, supervise tbe activi- *ties of the Civic orchestra. - Previous to the organization of the eCivic orchestra most of the memhers e of American symphony orchestras à were imported f rom Europe. because - of the lack of opportunity 'for young -American musicians to gain the neces- sary routine in orchestral playing. The training gained in the Civic orchiestra *bas enabled over ninety young musicians *to obtain positions in the major sym- Iphony orchestras of the country. At Ithe present time some tbirty members of the Chicago Symphony are gradu- ates of t he Civic orchestra. including four first desk players. Admission to the Civic orchestra is through examination only. The, train- ing is thoroughly practical. The first haîf of the season is spent in rehears- ing the, standard repertoire under 14r. DeLamarter three times a week, witb separate section rebearsals under- lead- ing members of the Chicago Symphony orchestra once a week. During the second baîf of the season concerts are given at Orchestra hall, with occa- sional out-of-town engagements. The work of the Civic orchestra also in- cludes a class for conductors,, and classes ini theory and composition under the eminent theonist and. composer, Dr. Albert Noelte, free to members of the orchestra. Entrance examinations will be held in Chicago during the first week of Octoher. Applications should he made to thie Civic Music association, Fine Arts building, Chicago. A nominal en- trance f ee is réquired. Members -of the" orchestra are paid for the concerts. Mrs. Edwin S. Fetcher and Mrs. Roland D. Whitman of Winnetka are members of the board of directprs of the Civic Music association. To Begin.Season On Monday, September 24, the first faîl rehearsal of the North Shore Symphony orchestra will be beld at the Winnetka Community House under 'the direction of Mrs. Homer Cotton. Members should note the change froin 'Tbursday to Monday, wbicb bas been. found advisable.. Old members are urged to be present at this first meeting to hear outlined the extensive plans for.the year. New talent will also be welcome, it is announced., OfficiaI tryouts are to be arraniged.for some early date. Giacomo Spadoni, Isaac Van Grove, Siegfried Vollstedt, Henry Weber. Stage director-Isaac Van Grove. Stage manager-Bernard Cantor. Tecbnical director - Harry, W. Beatty. Ballet director-Ruth Page. Ballet soloist-Harniet Lundgren,. ,.Ruth Pryor, Edward Caton. Harold Kreutzberg, Bentley Stone. IN OPERA RECITAL Kaufmann & Fabry Co. Helen Hedges of Glencoe, so- prano, and John Eliot, Icuor, wilI si tg arias and sceites fromn Verdi's opera, «'La Traviata," îîext Monda v eveenîng, in aitn opera recital. to be' given by'Rutheda L.. Pretzei ut the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyizn Lloyd., 1035 Bluff road, Glencoe. The re- citai is open to the puiblic ai a small fee. Boirowsky Ballet. The ballet, "Century of the.Dance" by Felix Borowsky wbich is, being performed every evening at the Ford Gardens, A Century of Progress, promises to be. of tremendous inter- est. The ballet is conducted 'by jaques Samasoud, and is directed by Michael Fokine. There are five epi- sodes, which are as follows: 1-Bal given by Andrew Jackson, 1834. 2- Carnival in Venice, 1860. 3-Spanish Fête, Seville, 1890. 4-Birtb of the first Ford. 5-Grand Finale-' Marcb of,.-the Nations'-including Modemn dances. Utmost attention bas been given to the stagecraft and tecbnical' effects of ligbting, and it. is ,because of the unusual beauty of these light- ing effects that the ballet 'is 'being presented only at night. Perform- ances are beld at 7:30, 8:30, and 9 :30 o'clock. The ballet Will continue until October 4. start Rehearsals The Lake Shore Opera' Players started rebearsals this week for tbefr, faîl production of. the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The, Gondoliers." William H. Knakp of Evanston is musical director, and Mrs. Knapp (Nina Sbumway) is musical coacb. Charles E. Luttini business man- ager. Radio Programs Lawrence. Tibbett will -be on the air next Tuesday evening (September 25) at.7:30 o'clock; at 8:30,o'clock of the samne 'evening, the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra will give a pro- gram. On the fQllowing Friday after- noon tbe Boston Symphony orchestra will play at 3 o'clock. A&ngna Enters to, &ppear On Ne Se. Aîigna Enters, dance mime,,who is to be presented in recital at -the Ncw Trier bigh school auditorium on Fri- day evening, October 26, by the Gleni- coe Girl Scouts, will choose from a repertoire of over a hundred "'com- positions" for ber program. Tbe ne- citai is under the direction of Rutheda L. Pretzel, and proceeds will go to- ward the quota which the Glencoe Girl Scouts send in to the New Trier Girl Scout Council. Miss Enters, wbo presents a pro- gram of more than a. dozen dance tharacterizations to off-stage piano accompaniment, will include new com- positions wbich she is arranging ini Greece at the present time. She is to return f rom Greece, wbere she wvas sent by a Guggenheim fellowsbip, the middle of October. One of Miss Enters' most striking characteriza- tions is that of the Boy Cardinal, which was created last year. L o u i s Untermeyer, distinguished New York critic, describes the coni- position: "Here, recreating that mix- ture of beauty and brutality whichi characterize the Renaissance, Misî Enters again revivified a period by concentrating on an episode. Here, vivid ini bis scarlet regalia, was one of those meçieval boy prelates-pos- sibly a Borgia's anomalous nephew- no longer a cbild yet already cinical. touched with decadence, but still re- taining the exuberance of boylaood. Tbis is made clear to you by the mincing steps, the disillusioned cyes. the curled lips, as -the already tainted youth went bis way, blessing parish- ioners, listening abstractedly to questions, kissing the hand of somne fair communcant-most of al by the contradiction of bis mind and bis spirit. Wbenever he thinks he is. unobserved, he slyly produces a pair of castanets hidden ini bis sleeves and,. while he practices new rbythms, bis feet-not yet schbled to ecclesiast- ical solernnity-instinctively break into steps suspiciously like tbe tango." Miss Enters' program is to bc a balance of burnorous and serious compositions, ail of which show a careful and scholastic background of study. Tickets for reserved and un- reserved seats will be on sale the first of October in alI north shore towns. Art Instiîtute Lectures Next week, beginning Monday, the following lectures will be given every morning at Il o'clock by Miss Helen P'arker at the Chicago Art bistitute. on. certain phases of A Century of Progress Exhibition of. Fine Arts: September 24: Henri, Aiken, and 1Mary Cassatt; September 25: Dutch and Flemish Old Masters; September 26:, Eighteenth Century English and French Paintings; Septemfber 27:%, Modern French Paintings, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Vah Gogh, and Seurat; September 28: Contemporary Painters of the American Sceie; September 29: Whistler. Mrs. MildrS4 Hendrickson, pianist, has moved ÇËont- 1603 Lake avenue to 1607 Lakçene Wilmette, and bas begun We faîl term of ber teaching. Winifred Townsend Cree, violinist, bas resumed her teacbing at ber Wil- mette studio, 627 Eleventh Street.' 't September 20,1934' , IC4 . WILME TTE 'LIPE C. .Y