Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Mar 1938, p. 30

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:The annuai evening concert of the Nortb Shore ilusicians': club, sponsored for the bënefit of the élub's scholarsh fund, will be held. Monday cvening, March 14, at 8:-15 o'clock at the, home et. Mms Hobuan D. Pettibone, 698 Blacktborn road, Winnetka. This, is the one yearly activity of the organiiation open to the public, and tickets mayVbe obtained from any member of the club. Theprogram. will include a piano and cello souata by 1 Estelle 7 Swigart,,cellisti and Frances Andersoni, pianist- a group of 'fuite, numnbers by *Marion-jordan firidgman; a vocal group by Dorothy Cordts, and, piano numbers by Eulalia Kober,.Stade. Ernait Akely will atccompany the flutist, and Evelyn LaSalle, pianist anid.composer, will_ accompany, Mrs. Cordts. The latter is to present 'for.one of ber numibers a. song composed by Sers. LaSalle. mrs. Bridgman was borninl Mass- achusetts, and received b er early training on the flûte at the Lofigy scbool. in- Boston. When sbe was twelve yeaÈs old she gave bier first New, York recital and was pre- seiited with a medal by Carl Fischer. 8h. has, appar44 as soofluist with many of the leading orches- tras in the E-ast, and bas had wide experience in botb concert and radio> work. Recently s he moved to Ev-, anston, and is now flutist in the Chicago Wonian's Symphony or- chestra, with wbicb orgartization she bas been soloist many times. Mvrs. Stade, teacher and concert artist, is a graduate of the Chicago Musical college,* where sIte beld a scholarsbip for five years under ùed at te iC1vic Jpera [iuUbV asas-0 ing artist with . Benjamin Gigli, r, and was one of the first staff iists for KYW radio station. She ,d that position for several years as of tbe pioneer artists ini radio. iorotby Cordts, the well Icnown k'ber entire training in Chicago und Sof prominent teachers. SIte bas ap nist in various hlQ£!rches anid befg contralto, er a nuum- oeared as of the orgaliizatiofl are Mrs. Norman 4..Watson, Pr"ident; Mrs. Irma Griese, vice-president, Gerhardt 'Hoîste, treasurer, Miss Myrtie Hasse, secretary. Among :the sOlÔits will be Mrs. Miriami Engeihard of HIighland Park, tbe cellist, %who will, play.Intermiezzo" 'by Enrique Geanados and "Scherzo" by Dbaniel. van -Goens;. Frtedl Bray of' Wilmette wili. accompany some of the-, choral numbers witb b is Hamnniond oôrgan and as soloist will give "Preludio" fromù C Mmnor Sonata' by GuIlmaut. Phillip Gates of Wilmette', bartone soloist Merrill Chase-Town1 George'Studgairt~, Violiiist ior several Chicag iW to sing "The Pili o, and. North Shore eburches, , rrmü" by Tschaikowsky, "Eve- Tannhauser" by Wagner, and .d Psalm" by john Prindle ar" will be given i Gernian, d n1avnethe rclo bbligato. A .varied programn represefltiflg Beethoveni, Brabms, Debussy, Liszt, Moussorgsky and other composers w.ill be presented by David Geppert, pianist, and George Swigart, violinit, both of Wilmette, for the, benefit concert to be beld Sun- day afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Howard School auditorium in Wilmette untder the auspices of the Logan.IHow ard and Central-Laurel 'Parent Teacher associations.. This is the second of a series of three co ncerts, for the bene6ýt of the Wilmette Scbools, orchestra. .George1 Swigart began b is musical studies at the age ýof eighti..and soon. after began, appear- ing in concerts. He was concertmeister oet the .New Trier.ý Higb School orchestra for four years and duxring his higb school days was twice soloist with the Little Symphony orchestra of.-Chicago under George Dasch., >After graduation f rom high scbool he attcnded Northwestern univer- sity for a year and continued bis, studieg with Richard Czerwonky at Biush conservatory. For, two years he wasconcertmeister of 'the con- servatory orchestra., In. 1929 he was awarded a scholarsbip by:the. Juilliard Foundation. of New York, and ini 1930 and 1931 studied in Berlin during which tinie be gave a number of concerts and won the praise of foreigun music critics. Upon bis return to this coun- try he was made a member of the faculty of Bush conservatory,' and later joined the staff of the Chi- cago Conservatory of Music. His Chicago debut he made in 1932, and the following year gave tbe second Anierican performance of tht Czerwonky concerto at an* or- chestra concert under the. direc- tion of the composer. More recently George Swigart bas coached with Mischa Miscba- koif, concertmeister of the Tos-, canini orchestra, and with Jacques House Photo Gordon at Music Mountain, Conn. He is well known for bis work in ensemble, especially with the Swi- gart trio,. comnposed. of himself, bis sister, lEstelle, , cellist, and Pauiline Mancbester, pianist, Who will be bis> accompanist for this prograin. The past four years Mr. Swigart bas devoted bis time; to teaching at the North Shore, Coun- try Day scbool, the Dushkin school, and New Trier High scbool. ini inven LQven id knowledge. iissociateu will b. Mrs4 Forrest La ,e school opened Marcb I.- le counil bas invited aIl Chicagoans who ded Hofmann's early concerts and ail stu-- sof the great musician to form the grQuP h will, attend the concert together and lit items of Hofmanniana in the Orchestra foyer. WILMF.,TTE

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