The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1916)

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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, MAY, 1916 Doings of Edison Artists It is a difficult task for a musical artist to give unaided a concert that will hold the attention and win the appreciation of a critical audience, and yet this is just what Albert Spalding, the famous American violinist, did twice within a week recently. One of these occasions was in Newark, N. J., where he was engaged to give a concert assisted by Loretta Del Valle. The latter was taken ill two days before the date of the concert and Mr. Spalding was obliged to appear alone. A few days later he and Andreas de Segurola were scheduled to appear in a joint recital in Kansas City, but shortly before the date fixed for their appearance the Metropolitan artist found that it would be impossible to leave New York, so Mr. Spalding again had to appear without assistance. Mr. Spalding later played a return engagement in Newark assisted bv Madame Del Valle. Marie Kaiser will make a demonstrating tour through Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma during the spring and summer months. Miss Kaiser has resigned from a very lucrative church engagement in New York in order to make the tour. She left for the west after her appearance at the concert given on April 22 by the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. On a previous tour made by Miss Kaiser for the Edison Company she traveled over nine States and sang before more than 50,000 persons. Herman Sandby, the famous 'cello player, recently appeared at an American-Scandinavian Society concert in the dual role of soloist and composer. He rendered a composition of his own, a concerto for the 'cello. Musical America made the following comment on this number of the program: "There was much interest in the first New' York hearing of Herman Sandby's 'cello concerto, played by the composer. It is an extremely melodious work, in which the Danish 'cellist has limited the instrument to its own proper sphere, and has not tried to make it speak the language of the violin. The first and second movements are marked by lovely melodies — beautifully played — and the Finale provides a brilliant contrast. The work was received with considerable approbation and the composer was recalled several times." Mary Jordan, the prominent contralto, whose Blue Amberol reproductions have delighted owners of Amberolas in all parts of the world, was one of the artists who appeared in the last musicale that was given at the White House in Washington this season. The artists associated with Miss Jordan in the concert were Percy Grainger, pianist; Paul Reimers, tenor, and Charles Gilbert, accompanist at the piano. Miss Jordan was among those who enjoyed a dinner with President and Mrs. Wilson, the social affair following the concert. Miss Jordan narrowly escaped injury in an elevator accident in New York recently. She was leaving the Mishkin photograph studio when the elevator, which she occupied with two other passengers, dropped several stories. In order to rescue the occupants of the car it was necessary to cut a hole through the top of it and reach them with a ladder. Miss Jordan was shaken up badly but received no serious injuries. Charles N. Granville has been engaged as a baritone soloist in connection with the Detroit May Festival on May 6. He will sing the part of Valentine in "Faust." The Tollefsen Trio, who have made several beautiful Blue Amberol records, recently gave their only New York recital of the season, the feature of the program being a rendition of a trio by an American, Rubin Goldmark. The members of the Tollefsen organization were commended highly by the critics for their artistic playing, one expressing surprise that they were not heard in the metropolis earlier in the season. "To a Nightingale," the latest song by George B. Nevin, is dedicated to Christine Miller, the noted contralto and popular Blue Amberol artist. Margaret Keyes was highly praised by Detroit music critics following her appearance in a Lenten morning musicale that was given in the latter part of March at the Ponchartrain Hotel under the direction of Charles Frederic Morse. She sang four groups of songs, displaying a surprising versatility. "Her diction was as refined as her voice was beautiful," said one critic. A defense of coloratura singing was recently made by Alice Verlet, the famous coloratura soprano, who has delighted thousands of people through her beautiful renditions on Edison records. The singer believes that the attitude of music critics toward coloratura singing should be more serious. "I tell you that in ten years, if their attacks keep up, there will be no more coloratura singers," she recently said. "The public, told constantly that the art is childish, will begin to believe it — at least that section of the public that is influenced by snobbishness. I feel that this is regrettable. The field of art is broad and while, perhaps, coloratura singing is not the greatest of arts, it is gay, sunlit and innocent." A beautiful example of the art of the