THt PAGE TWO Orritorr, 11;wisti (it RoN ici,r, .MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. SALIMPECII P.4 ,u4 11“1- 1. 0. B. B. TO HEAR MASTERFUL ORATOR • Beethoven Fifth Symphony Feature of Third Subscription Con- cert by Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Mme Cahier Appears As Soloist. The Joy of Owning a Masterpiece It is as impossible to grow attached to a trouble. some undependable piece of furniture as it is to an annoying, dishonest person. Think carefully of these things the next time you make a selection of furniture. Is it economy to buy carelessly made, unde- pendable furniture when, for such a small extra price, you could have the lasting joy and pride which comes from owning a. masterpiece? And for example, this beautiful Chaise Lounge' —an exact copy of a real period masterpiece— made so well and substantially that it will serve a lifetime—will cost you very little more than you would be asked to pay for an ordniary piece pro- duced by the usual modern methods of furniture building. 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Advantages of membership: Preferential choice of seats. 20 Sunday Popular Concert. Particularly rich in solos is the program which Mr. Kolar has ar- ranged for the popular concert which will be given in Orchestra Hall at 3:30 this Sunday afternoon. There will be two soloists—Madame Helen Scholder-Perutz of Detroit, a most admirable violoncellist, will be one of them and the other will be Olive Nevin, the very distinguished lyric so- prano, both of whom are appearing with the orchestra for the first time. Madame Scholder-Perutz has had a most distinguished career and the fact that she has elected to make Detroit her home adds greatly to the musical wealth of this city, because there are few 'cellists now before the public that are her equal. 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FOURTH PAIR SYMPHONY CONCERTS NOV. 30, DEC. 1 Extraordinary interest attaches to the fourth pair of Symphony con- certs which will be given next Thurs- day evening and next Friday evening, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, at 8:30 o'clock because the soloist will be that su- preme artist of the piano, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff has ap- peared in Detroit in the past in re- citals, no that his superb art is not unknown here, but he is to be heard the coming week for the first time in this city with orchestra. She will prise it as a personal gift. The whole family wants ■ PLAYER PIANO We have them at all prices. Not the mechanical sounding piano of years ago, but the mod- ern, easy-pumping, expression- controlled instrument that re- sponds to your every mood. Hardman, Pease, Lester and other Pianos and Playen. Open an Extended Account at Finsterwald's. Msterwal s Michigan Ave. at Washington Blvd. "We Guarantee Everything We Sell" Terms if desired. DETROIT MUSIC CO. 2030 Woodward Ave. Open Evenings From the Maker LOYALTY WINTER CIRCUS COMING HERE FOR WEEK DR. LYNN HAROLD HOUGH The Rev. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, known as one of the ablest thinkers and masterful orators in the city, will address Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B. B., at the meeting to be held this Monday evening at the B'nai B'rith clubrooms. Dr. Hough was formerly president of Northwestern University. Ile has recenity returned from a tour of Eu- rope and his message to Pisgah Lodge is expected to be of the utmost im- portance. Program. An audience of smaller size than any other attending a "pop" concert so far this season heard Victor Kolar give a program on Sunday afternoon of decided interest. For Raoul Vi- but, it being the first time we have das, voilin soloist, it was a local de- been privileged to hear this artist per- form. Mr. Vidas elected to play the Saint-Saens "Concert Piece for Vio- lin with Orchestra," and he gave it a splendid performance. lie made his violin speak with assurance, playing always with full knowledge and taste, his instrument giving unalloyed pleas- ure to the audience. His auditors were most demonstrative in their signs of approval and Mr. Vidas was brought back several times. Mr. Kolar opened his program with the overture to "Le Roi d' Ys," by Lalo. The other numbers included Siegfried's Rhine Journey from "Dusk of the Gods," the allegretto from Mahler's Second Sympony, "Dance of the Nymphs and Satyre" by George Schumann, and Siegfried Och's "Humorous Variations on a German Folk Song." The last with its genuiqe humor made a hit and the applatme following it indicated the audience's real enjoyment of the clever composition. Kolar's reading of the Mahler number revealed new beauties and was so superbly given that after three recalls he summoned to stand to share with him the insis- tent applause. BUY FURS Mrs. Julia Friedman, widow of the late Louis DI. Friedman, died on Fri- day, Nov. 19, at her home, 426 East Hancock avenue, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Friedman was the daughter of the late Nathaniel Bur- ton, pioneer resident, and lived in Detroit all her life. She is survived by one 8011, George Friedman, and her sisters, Mrs. A. E. Rosengarten, Mrs. A. Schlessinger, Mrs. Louis Sneider, Mrs. Louis A. Goldberg and Miss Rae Burton, and three grand- children, Frederick, Burton and Louis Morton Friedman. Burial took place on Monday afternoon from the Ham- ilton undertaking parlors, Rabbi A. M. Ilershman officiating. S For the third pair of subscription concerts given on Thursday and Fri- day nights, Mr. Gabrilowitsch selected as the symphony Bethoven's superb "Fifth." The assisting artist was Mme. Cahier, mezzo-soprano, who sang two arias, Lia's aria from "I.' Enfant Prodigue" and the ever-popular "My Ileart at Thy Sweet Voice," from "Samson and Delilah." She also con- tributed a group of songs. The performance of the Beethoven Symphony was not a particularly inspiring one and the spirit of Beethoven was not there. It seemed as though Mr. Gabrilowitach was working under a physical strain of some kind, and tempi throughout the entire symphony lagged. His conducting of the Andante Movement, one of the greatest masterpieces in all musical literature, was marked by a keen sense of poetic feeling and refinement, but the orchestra was not at its best, and on several occasions played quite noticeably out of tune. This was particularly true with the flute section. Wetzler's Overture to Shakespeare's "As You Like It," performed for the first time in Detroit, was received with only cordial favor. It is a com- position of no great significance. Victor Kolar stepped to the platform to close the program with his own composition, "Slavokian Rhapsody," MISS FRIEDA KLINK which he conducted, and the audi- APPEARS HERE WITH ence was not slow to show its wel- come to the assistant conductor of U. S. OPERA COMPANY our orchestra. Mr. Kolar's reading of his composition was superbly au- thoritative and his mastery of the Miss Frieda Klink, of New York, extraordinary rythms a delight to the who is to appear her with the United ears, but as to the composition itself, while it contained some interesting States Opera Company, was not al- melodies and lots of orchestral color, ways a singer, although she always it is not one of Mr. Kolar's best ef- hod the splendid contralto voice which forts. The audience applauded vig- won her such great and emphatic suc- orously to the conclusion of this new addition to the repertory of the De- cess before she was twenty-five years troit orchestra and Mr. Kolar was re- old. called to the stage several times. January, 1921, found her giving her Mme. Cahier's singing was excellent first New York recital. It took place and her singing of "My Heart at Thy at Aeolian Hall, and brought her a Sweet Voice" was a signal for a long list of complimentary criticisms, burst of spontaneous applause. couched not in the usual vague terms with which a debutante is greeted, but Raoul Vidas Presented at Third serious, earnest and highly favored discussions of her art. The impres- Sunday Afternoon Concert. sion she made brought results at once. The well known managerial firm of Kolar Gives Interesting OBITUARY MRS. JULIA FRIEDMAN The I.oyalty Winter Circua will ap- pear in Detroit for a full week, at the Armory, from Dec. 4 to 9. The 18 big new acts will feature 60 circus stars. - Every effort is being put forth and no expense is saved to make this one of the best shows ever staged at the Armory. There will be two perform. ances daily, afternoons at 2 p. m. and evenings at 8 p. m. Tickets are now on sale. Nick Altrock, John Robinson's mili- tary elephants and trained animals will feature the acts. There will be acrobatic comedies. Dogs, ponies and monkies will appear in best acts of their kind in this country. Miss Daisy LeVan will appear in a .wining ladder act, a thrilling performance. Circus clowns, the best woman bare-back rider and others, including entertain- ing music, will be on the proram. il•KAUFMAI FURRIER 1402 Broadway Main 1398 Opp. Broadway Market OPEN EVENINGS d HUDSON'S MUSIC STORE 1250 LIBRARY AVENUE MISS F.FIEDA KLINK Haensel & Jon is sent for her and ar- ranged to take are of her affairs. Her most prominent engagement in New York last spring was her appearance as a soloist in Elgar's "Dream of Ger- ontius," at the great spring festival of the New York Oratorio Society with Walter Damrosch conducting, when she confirmed the fine impres- sion made at her recital. There were numerous other engagements, includ- ing a recital in Indianapolis on May 20 which resulted in an immediate re- engagement at that city, where she is to open the annual course of the Mat- inee Music Club on Nov. 9, this year. She was also engaged as the contral- to of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas on Fifth avenue, one of the best appointments in the metropolis. Summer Sundays last July and Au- gust did not find her idle either, for she sang regularly at the Elberon Memorial Church in Deal, an dwas al- so engaged for one of the weekly con- certs at Ocean Grove. Strauss' "A Hero's Life." Detroit is to have its first hearings of Richard Strauss' tone-poem, "A Ilero's Life," at the pair of symphony concerts, Dec. 14 and 16. One of the very few masterpieces of the last half-century, epic in conception, monumental in form, it, more than any other works of Strauss, has stood the test of time. • For over 20 years mighty was the battle which raged about Strauss and his music. In violence, virulence and vindictiveness it even surpassed the warfare waged for and against the music-dramas of Richard Wagner and the victory for the younger man has been hardly less notable than that won by the elder. His earlier works, "Don Juan," "Death and Transfigura- tion" and "Till Eulenspiegel," had gained comparatively quick favor when he staggered conservatism by undertaking in his "Thus Spake Za- rathustra" to put into tone the phi. losophy of Friederich Nieteche. Next he laid irreverent hands on the an- cient and holy form of the classicist, "Theme and Variations," in order to set forth in music the life and ad- ventures of Don Quixote. The roar of battle rose to a greater fortissimo than even he ever secured from his orchestra, yet he was not satisfied. On March 3, 1899, in Frankfort-on-Main, he conducted the first performance of "A Hero's Life." The war was renewed with unbeliev- able fury. Oceans of ink were poured from points of pens. First Germany, then Austria, France, England and America were swept by a barrage of pamphlets, magazine and newspaper articles until it seemed as if Strauss, should he escape his enemies, must surely be smothered by his friends. That was less than 24 years ago and although that battle was waged vigorously for a few years after "A Ilero's Life," today hardly the faint- est rumble of it is heard. 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