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MYusic and Drama
Ruth 1Jr,
Bauer, Pianist I
Qf Note, ComingI
Anong centemporary pianists, none
holds\ higher rankl than Harold Bauer,
and it is therefore gratifying to antici-
pate his appearance here with the
Chicago Symphony orchestra at the
fifth Mlay Festival concert Saturday,
afternjoon, May 24. Mr. Bauer wilt
play one of'-the greatest {concertos in
the pianist's repertory-the Beetho-
ven "Emperor" concerto in E flat mna-
jor, Op. 7 3.
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Prim avera
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Premiere
One of the modern c'
Will! WILL APPEAR HERE APRIL 7
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Not the least interesting feature of. ....'.. N*
Mr. Bauer's career is the fact that hie....."w"~
first w~on fame as a violinist, abandon-j
ing the violin for the piano in 1892'
at the behest of Ignace Jan Paderew- R
s i. lie ,was born at idralden. ,near I
London, Eng;land, April 28, 1873 an a,
as his name indicates, he has OGerman
ancestry. As a child he evinced extra-
his debut in London as a violinist atG{
the a.ge of nine! Por nine years he
devoted imself to the violin, giving
frequ~ent recitals with his two sisters, .....................
both talented muiscally. ..
In 1892, Mr., Bauer met Pade'rewski, ,t'~'~. .. . ...~.
who gave him sever'al lessons in piano sN""'J
playing andl was so delighted by his
(ability that he ur'ged imrn to go to t
Paris to continue with that instru- N*.
men Theppil. followed the master'sI4 .
capvital arndafteri adutyear in the French a .
caia ae i dbtas a pianist"
wvith brilliant success. lie was prac-
tically sq4jt-auht, being oe of th4e £~~*~ , &N
few eminent piansts of the day whose
name is not linked with that of some ' .
great pedagogue.
Mr. Baker's early, triumphs in '.~
Europe back in the '90's were dupli-
cated when he made his American de- *
but with the~ Boston Symphony or-! I N~t
chestra in 1900., From that date his
position at the 'bead of his profession .
has been secure.' He has played in Tt would-seem that violin virtuosos amazed. Two years ago Erika Morini
practically' every important' city in are -becoming more and more youth- ing May Festival, her first appear-
this country and with every important fi. Last year at the May Festival we aneiln ro'
sy mphiony orchestra in the world. heard Erna Rubinstein, and. were From her pictures, Miss Lent seems
His immense repertory, tremendous:., ; ~ ,rar1 npthnncidclip is n
Which will be given its American'
premiere at the coming May Festival
is Respighi's "Pnimnavera." tiMahnscript
copies 'only'were obtained front Italy,!
but the parts for the orchestra and'
Choral Union are now lin' the hands of i
the printer and will' be ready for re-
hearsal shortly. The "'Primavera"is 11
an exceedingly modern work of iarge l
dimensions.I
The original text is in Ital ian, but
it will be sung at the Festival in Eng-
lishi. Prof. Marion C. Wier of the
rhetoric department is making tse
translation from the Italian. TheI
work is carefully done in blank verse,
and is niade syllabically comparable:
to the original so as to fit the musical:
notation. The translation already
seen is of interest, both as to form and
content, and of lyric phraseology.
"Seadrift," by Frederick Delius, will
also 'be given its initial performance
in this country, by the University i
Choral Unione Rehearsals of this
number are under way and 'its ultra-j
modern harmonies and its melody of
almost continua,; modlatory' char -
acter are rapidly being mastered uin-
der the direction 'of Prof. Farl V.!
Moore. Solo parts will he sung by,'
Royal Dadmun, baritone. The nextj
of this Work is 'taken from~ a poem by]
Walt Whitman, and will be sung in
e,
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!Madame Clara Clemens, contrail
will be the soloist at the thirteenl
pair of subscription concerts of t1
Detroit Symphony orchestra at 8:;
o'clock, Thursday and Friday nigh
in Orchestra hall, Detroit. Madan
Clemens will sing the famous ai
"GCerechter Gott" from Wagner
"Rienzi," and an group of other sele
tions.
Another feature of the concert w'
be the flr, t performnce in Detrc
of Richard Strauss' monumental tot
poem,. "Thus Spake Zarathustra,"
composition founded upon NietzschE
1work. This work requires the use
an organ, and until the new Murp'
organ was installed In Orchest
hail Mr. Gabrilowitsch was unable
realize his ambition to perform it.
Mr. Gahnilowitsch, as is his invai
able custom, will be the soloist at tl
final pair of concerts Thursday ai
Fri lay nights, April 10, and 11. lN
C-abrilowitsch will play the Bleet
oiven fifth concerto, in E fiat, Op.
known as the "Emperor." As he
considered one of the world's greate
pianists,; Mr. Gabrilowitsch's conce
is usually the climax of the season.
SCARY ''IT W ITH
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Ruth, Draper's success.-this winter
in New York can well die mea4urcd by
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technique, and supreme musicianship! also acquired a wide reputation as
have everywhere elicited enthu~siastic a~ teacher.
applaus e, Mr. Bauer has won particu-
lar fameO as an interpreter 'of Brahmis Perhaips his greatest service to mu-
and Schum'~ann 'although he has touch- sic, aside from his own art, was the
ed nothing in the realm of paino' organization of the Beethoven as so-
miusiq which he has not ad pnyed. elation und~er. hisdirection. This ors
Unlike miost of hi - ~aai cc contn -;gar iat.iorfconsists of distinguished
poraries,ltlr. Bauer is notva composer, musicians who render their services
a fact fr which we must be duly ! ratuitously for the performance of
thankful ,when we con sWi~sh.t which iseldon .haar'd chamibe~r music master~-
so many perforxmers'have 'given Birith pieces. Theproceeds were first given
to. He ]is, howvever, di% e(Ysiuf-e2to publishhthe {relibie1 translation of
able wore as a transcraber o. f , arl Thayer's "'bi1c of 'Beethoven" and are
comnposi -ons. hlis chi rifling tireat- now donated~fo afund for needy musti'
ment of, the Bach 1).rt14 n' B iat' cian's. Mr. Dauer's genius for en-
for har , chord, wcli h-, rpayed' in semble playing has for several sea-
Hill auditorium in the fall.: f ,521,li- sns been one of the most, notable.
lustr'ate h' lis talent. 1Mr. 3auoi has features of these concerts.
American girl, but received her train-
thrilled us with herj fine playing at. ar
Choral. Union concert. Now Sylvia
'Lent is scheduled to play at the con-,
ing abroad,, and iisa pupil of Leopold
Au er, the master' teacher.; The suc-
cess, achieved a't her first recital in
I Berlin, .little more than a~ year' ago,
has been a forerunner of repeated sur-
I cesses in' other important cities in
Germany and America. A recent1
article' in the Musical Corii'ier makes
a point of her1 enthiusiastic, reception
n mane German music centers. The
Tlicat.e (Magazine writes:~ "A lissome
girl, violinist slipped into AeolianI
SHal on a Marchr afternoon, tucked her
finally written to a German transla- the enthusiastic 'praise given her by
tion., Alexander Woolcott, the famous
The Introduction and ]Hymn to the! metropolitan critic. His article, in
Sun, from Mascagni's "Iris," will heI part, says:
also offered for the first time in this "After her shining success in Lon-
country. This work 'is short but don, Ruth Draper has returnMd to this
powerfully dramatic and umay be sung country. with some monologues that,
With great effect. have been favorites over here in other
~x years and several new ones that will
is made on youthful talent as a pre-; be. And her new program, marked by
cursor of future attainments, the sig- the same astonishing variety, seemsi;
nificant accomplishments of thisd to be measurably richer in hzu~ln:ta
young arit tili e teensf, Zah1= 'sympathy and 'human' appeal.'
ray plaehe"nth hm ofte ' "ne is tenibted to say the intcomi-f
matured. 'Press com'ents characterize parable art of' Ruth' Dape r; anal yet
her as having a stpnos1ciiu. the phra'se is sin ularly ineptf when,'
fiddle under her chin, 'and'played' so in 'her work*,'*,he is' so imedia Ld
w ell that'Leopold Auer ~a~s a pleased , n n~ial'cmprbet 3arc
andi 'proud 'master. . . 1 erford,. _vhose recitals .are at;,concf.e
Critics have atonce1 recognized ther1s iead ulk es
as ; an artist of highest 4ttainin ants. "'Miss Tlraper~ dodges the wrd re-
in this country, in addition~ to her lawn' cital. possibly as a chilling nd sl -6
recitals i'n New York' andl else~liere n'ilaying xord', ;inl 'uses in. 1,"I'r '-
she has appeared on irr6~ranis wit~h inotcements and -prngrams me:'ely
such tOitinguished cilleakw-3 s as'Gin. t the description, "RuLth' Draprer in (In,-
r <elpe De Ltuca, Paul Bel#nder~, and i1'-mnal Character Sl<<te ." She;
other well-know n artists ratthe NMet- iight better bill he. ,pro-nrtir : r -c
ropolitan Opera hzouse. ' ' ' boldly by lettering the posters: Ruth
"Certainly her, stage ispeopled mull- - -" "
titudin ously. She stands there alone
and talks. as a, French d res smak er, [ ?"-
prancing and, gesticulating around.
two rich and susceptible AmericanNOV
tourists. Next, three generations of
Russian Jews come forward into 100
lCourt. A distracted New York debut-,
ante conducts her campaigns beytele- \1
phone. An old Irish woman rocks -
placidly' in her County Kerry house
and tells of her dream the night her -
boy was killed. An English hostess i
struggles with the difficulties of ex-
1 ibiting her garden at a time when -**'
all the floewers have either just 'stop-
ped blooming or not yet bloomed.
She pi'ctu~res them all with e~quaX DQoxnot. goout in your car, anotl
'fideiity, and thrills you oquailly wvith day until you have .taken out a poli
itheir comedy and pathos."' of automobile 'insurance covering
Miss.,Draper's ,prograxm in Ann
Arbor, Monjhiy, April 7, will include
entirely different nu~mbers fromn the
performaanpce presented here last,
spripg, whichi was such ~a unanimous
success at that time. The production,
ias announced, will include "On a'
Poirch In a. Maine Coast 'Town," "A
German Governess," "A Southern
1Girl at a 'Ball," "An 'Engplish Garden,"
"At-.a Telenhone Switchboard," and"
"A Dalmatian Peasant."
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