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THE IXDIAXArOLIS SUNDAY STAR, APRIi; 14, 1920. IV ey, Uanz a nd Mason Me on April Music Program 4 inula Rudolph Ganz to Interpret Masters Noted Soprano MAENNERCHOR'S ARTIST. Murat Next Sunday the solemn glory of its pensive chords might companion them into the rest of God. The fifth and last of the Sunday afternoon concerts of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises will present the Philadelphia string sirrN fonietta, an unique organization! composed of eighteen of the musicians of the string sections of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, on Sunday afternoon.

May 5. PROTECTION FOR EARS IS MR. LIEBLING'S REQUEST Calls for Washington of Acoustics Independence to Meet Emergency Painful Paragraph Crosses Ocean Oscar Ziegler Does Something New. RY LEONARD LIEHLlXfi. NEW YORK, April 13.

HE senses are said to be tne windows or tne soul. A very i mm pretty conceit, but a window should be like a door we ought to be able to shut it as well as open it. When we are confronted in a picture gallery with six miles of "old masters" we close our eyes. When we pass gluesome Barren island we hold our noses. But how can we protect our pars? The ear has no respite.

Piano organs, steel riveters, tootings of automobiles, gongs of street cars, rattling trucks and trains attack the ear and are registered on the brain. Some things, sermons, political speeches, advice and similar matters po in at one ear and out the other, but music never does. treats of the Ganz recital. Beethoven was the first to take the sonata out of the sphere of precise formalism and infuse into it the warmth of human emotion. Hitherto it had appealed only to polite circles.

Beethoven shaped it for the wide world, and to its cold formal basis added such a superstructure of expression of every degree as to amaze mankind of his day and all who have followed them. This great step constitutes him the maker of modern music that art work which raised music into an intellectual human, as distinct from a purely mathematical, element. His sonatas are complete perfect organisms reflecting and conveying to all who can fathom them most potent messages and secrets of one great heart and soul to the minds of all others. Thus these pianoforte compositions became and remain the grandest, as they are the richest and most perfect works of their order. In the "Apassionata" minor Op.

54 Beethoven seems to pour forth his fiercest soul fires. Balked and baffled by circumstancesdragged at the chariot-wheels of relentless fate shut up and off, by his deafness, from all sweet human amenities, the tone-artist has poured out his very soul in a flood of harmony, none more gorgeous than the unapproachable "andante" of the "Apassionata" which some have declared they would wish to hear in dying, that "THE PICK O' THE PICTURES 5flTHE THEATRE OF I St lis 4 If 4 DAYS, STARTING TODAY 3w ELLY NET. Elly Ney, pianist, who will play for the members of the Maennerchor at the academy of music this afternoon. MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. AXI MONDAY fjg TODAY I.OI IS R.

(iOl I.DE.N THKATKLS N. E. COR. WASH. A CAPITOL DOUBLE FEATURE Dolorr Del Rio "TRAIL OF '98" May McAvoy "THE TERROR' noDucuu 2930 K- lnTH urtrntum near fakkek Milton Sill "THE CRASH" unuiDn isot howahu nUHAHU NEAR BLAINE Janet Gaynor, C'haft.

Farrell "STREET ANGEL" NlDPXnC ltll W. MORRIS AKlAUt NEAR HYATT Lon Chancy "WEST OF ZANZIBAR" THAT TALK" ALWAYS AT THE i IQOI WONDERS fcfl PATHE TALKING NEWS-FABLE EVERY DAY VITAPHONE ACTS VOX A LI) HUIAX (iKKKX'S FLAI'PKKKTTES Movietone "A Man" Movietone Aews KM fit For the First Time United Artists rfcture MOVIETONE VAUDEVILLE MATINEE Lichen Rottes and Moderns at An event of musical importance in Indianapolis is the recital of piano music to be given in the Murat theater next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the eminent composer-pianist, Rudolph Ganr. This concert is the fourth of the Sunday afternoon series of concerts RUDOLPH GANZ. of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises.

An unusual programming of Mr. Ganz's numbers may be noted in that he opens his recital with a Chopin group, which nearly every other artist places in the center of his program. The old masters will have a place on the program as well as the moderns and a composition of the pianist's own. The program: i. "Fantasy In Minor" Chopin "Nocturne In Major" Chopin "Two Waltzes in Minor and Sharp Minor" Chopin "Polonaise in A Flat" Chopin "Fantasy in Minor" "Fantasy In Major" Haydn "Romanza In A Flat Major" Mozart "Sonata In Minor, Op.

57" (Appasslonata) Beethoven Allegro asaal. Andante con moto, Allegro no troppo. III. "In May. Op.

23" Ganz "After Mldnleht" Grlffe "The White Peacock" (Dedicated to Rudolph Ganz) Grlffcs Three Preludes "La Piierta del Vino" Debusav "The Girl With Flaxen "Idolde's Love Death" Wagner-Liszt "Appasslonata" Treat. "The Appassionata" sonata of Beethoven will be one of the rare woiyA. mm m. I -wP8 Wlno, dun CHKB mrrr.fMMzm. Marve'ous Ticture Women and Wrong Will Assist at Choirs Concert Final rehearsals for the annual spring concert of the Mendelssohn i Choir are now in progress under the I direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, conductor.

The concert which, through the course of years has come to be one of the major musical events of the season, will be given at the Murat theater Monday evening, April 29. The assisting artist will be Edith Mason, the prima donna soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera company, one of the greatest American artists of the times. A snirit of tribute and recognition to American composers and musicians will be observed at tnis concen as the irrpter Dart of the music to be rendered is from the pen of American composers. There is growing conviction among those who are active in musical affairs of this country that nt r-miirh attention is being ic- the constantly growing American musical talent and it is for this rea son that Mr. Steffen has chosen most of the numbers for this concert from the best works of our own American composers.

More Native Songs. Miss Mason's own part on the program will be devoted largely to the singing of American songs, mierpu- lated with one or two o(e'ul from foreign composers. The active membership ot tne Mendelssohn choir is composed largely of soloists and singers from the various churcn cnoirs ui ui all of them possessing sufficient vocal training and musicianship to insure a. vocal ensemble quite superior to that of the ordinary chorus. Not satisfied with past achievements, Mr.

Steffen is striving each succeeding season to improve the musical expression, dynamics, enunciation and the blending of so vast a number of voices. The present roster of active members includes about one hundred and twenty-five names. The officers of the Mendelsson choir for the current year are as follows: president, Arthur I. Franklin- vice president, Miss Martha Mc-Dougall; treasurer. Miss Gladys Alwes; secretary.

Miss Matilda Heu-ser; registrar, Ernst Heberlcin. The board of directors is composed of Miss Elleanora Atkinson, Mrs. Louis Traugott, DeWitt Talbert, Jack Rhoades and Humbert P. Pagam. The choir's regular accompanist is Paul R.

Matthews, organist of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. The choir maintains a permanent office at 27 E. Ohio street at the Fuller Ryde Music Co. Rer graduation recital at the central building of the Metropolitan School ot a Tuesday eve ning. Miss Payne will be assisted by Ft ITU.

nmerrim1 Katnryn cowiDy. iuo Violin. "Sonata In Minor" Tartlnt (a) Adagio. (b) Non troppo presto. (c) Largo.

(d) Allegro Commodo. II. Voice. (a) (b) ikl IfPfttn 'Ml. ROSIl a wnnv Ait nn nlseau re- belle" (from Bizet III.

Violin. "Concerto In Minor" (a) Allegro moderate (b) Romance. (c) Finale a la Zlnzars, TV Vnlcn. (a) "The Crystal Kramer (b) "Cellce" (Old French). Dy a.

ic) "Charming Chloe" German Violin. "La Oltana" Kreliler "The Ohost Dance" ElllI Levy "Nocturne" Boulanger "Tambourln Chlnols" Kreliler Anita Wandell, accompanist, The regular meeting of the Harmonic Club will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 :30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. H. B. Coldwell, 5666 Central avenue.

The opera to be studied will be "The Rhinegold" by Richard Wagner. A review of the opera and a discussion of Its themes will be given by Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs. Musical excerpts will be sung by Mrs. Jessamine B.

Fitch, Miss Norma Mueller, Mrs. Clyde CONTINTffD ON PAGE FIVE. Everybody Welcome Always. Come and See WEST ST. WEEK BY POPULAR REQUEST SEE THEM FROLIC THRU "HIGH SPEED" Featuring ALICE AXD BERT IX LOW DOWN" SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN SONG AND DANCE THC, SAT.

'lllfTMH)l)IFn' GDI jorie Harold, Miss Patra M. Kennedy and Mrs. Frances Batt Wallace. The program will include groups of English, Italian, French, German and Spanish compositions. The recital is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.

Miss Julia Marie Good, pianist, will give a junior recital at Indiana Central College next Tuesday evening at 7:30. The public is invited. The program will be given irt Kephart Memorial hall of the college in University Heights. Miss Good is a student of Miss Grace Hutchings, head of the piano department of the college. She will be assisted by Floyd Perkins, barytone, student of Mrs.

Jane Johnson Burroughs, head of the music department. Miss Margaret Chasey, piano student of Hutchings, will be accompanist for Mr. Perkins, and Miss Mabel Bailey, also piano student, will play second piano accompaniment for Miss Good in the final number. The following will be the program: "Them and Variations" (from "Bonata No. Mozart Julia Marie Good.

"The Publican" Van de Water "Dawn" Curran Flovd Perkins. "Will o' the Wisp" Phllln "Arabesque" Leschetlzkv "Caprice Espagnol" Moszkowski Julia Marie Good. "Children of the Moon" Russell "If God Left Onlv You" Densmore Flovd Perkins. Suite for two pianos, "Op. 15" Arenskl Romance.

Valse. Julia Marie Good. Mebel Bailey. H- Harriett Payne, violin pupil of Hugh McGibcny, will be presented in MHW3 EDDIE FOY-ULA LEt- Moved deeply by considering the present aural state of human misery, this writer cries aloud for some invention that will enable the ears of mankind to enjoy cuniiori, peace ami complete Eilrnoe if and when desired. Rossini, when he went to the opera, always took in his waistreat pocket two little rolls of soft cotton.

The cotton was white when he had to arm himself against ordinary compositions, but when he had to face Wagner and other "music of the future," the poor fellow found that nothing but thick cotton of the blackest hue gave him any protection. Ulysses escaped the songs of the sirens by filling his ears with wax. But wax and cotton are mere makeshifts. In bygone days, in the times of barbaric invasions, of the feudal system, of the holy Roman empire, of the French revolution, there weru cf people who trained themselves not to listen to reason or anything else; but we live in more enlightened times, we are restless and hysterical, and simple devices now are of no avail. This is a scientific age, and we must louk to the scientists for relief.

What a comfort it would be to shut out from our auditory nerves the chatter of women and men, when we are not in the mood for it, about clothes, bargains, theatrical and film stars, Wall street, bridge, gold, drys and wets, bandits, Hoover, baseball, pugilism, and above all, to be able to obliterate the sounds of piano, violin or vocal practice in the next apartment. Recently we saw a little silencing device to be placed in the ear. We spoke about it to a doctor, but he told us that he had examined the instrument and found it to be not only disfiguring but also inefficacious and in the end injurious. Therefore the Washington of acoustic independence is still to come, and he may be expected to arrive soon if there is any truth in the generally believed saying that our country always produces the man to moot the emergency. What is wanted is something that will do for the ear what opticians do for the eye They have glasses that enlarge and glasses that, diminish.

Maxim invented his gunshot silencer in vain for it is now prohibited by law. Maybe the contrivance could bo made smaller and turned into a receiving diminishes Should the process be possible, we herewith put in our order for the machine, and intend first of all to use it at the Metropolitan as protection against certain detonating singers. If it is a success there we shall next try for the same relief from some of tho modernistic orchestra compositionsthat is, if the apparatus could withstand such savage bombardments without bursting in the ear. A painful paragraph comes across the ocean by cable, that a high (jorniaii court has sustained the recent decision of a lower awarding an actress I'll) marks iJi'ii damages from a dramatic critic. Yhe said reviewer had dubbed the lady's movements on the stage "as graceful as those of a hippopotamus." Really, if 'he sw ay of the rigorous Judges bo not broken, criticism as a fine art will soon become obsolete.

"As graceful as a hippipotamus." What a solid simile, what a weighty pharse How could the actress be so short-sighted as to misinterpret the ponderous compliment? She has now placed herself in a decidedly peculiar position. Are we to assume that she is not as graceful as a hippoptamus? "We see no reason for objecting Climbing First, Ziegfeld picked her for his "Follies." Next, she was chosen for "Rio Rita" and now Warner Brothers will present her in the movies. Dainty Agnes Frcney is climbing; helped by clever dancing and seldom equalled beauty. Miss Franey says: "I don't believe In overlooking anything which helps add to your attractiveness. I am most particular about my hair and so many friends compliment me on its softness and lustre that I am sure my method of caring for it is right.

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It's economical. The 35c bottles will last several weeks. All drug stores recommend and guarantee It. Advertisement. nm.m otoptu Pamsf On ffer i4menVfln Tour ere foJay Elly Ney Program.

"Variations In Flat "Fantasy In Major. Opu. AllPfcro con fuoco ma non troppo. ArtaKlo (alter the son "The Presto. Allegro.

U. "Sonata, Opus. 57" Beethoven Allegro molto. Aria, con varlazlone. Finale presto.

nr. "Two Soncs Without Mendelsohn Rondo Oaprlccloso" Mendelssohn "Nocturne, Ci Malor" "Kturie, Flat Major" Chopin "Ballade, A Flat Major" Chopin "Waltz, Opus. 34" Chopin Polonaise, Opus. Chopin Having come from Europe late in January, Mmc. Elly Ney.

the eminent pianist, is now making her eighth American tour and will play in Indianapolis at the Maennerchor this afternoon. Her opening recital of the season was given in Huston on Feb. 12, and it was such a notable triumph that she was immediately engaged for a second appearance on March 23. Her tour, which has taken her to the Pacific coast, included two appearances with the Chicago Symphony orchestra late in February. Just before sailing for the United States Mme.

Ney completed a triumphal tour of Austria, Germany, France, Holland and England, filling more than seventy engagements, including eighteen appearances as orchestral soloist. The comments of the press everywhere gave evidence that she is at the height of her artistic powers. Critic Impressed. Of her performance of a Schubert sonata at the Hague, the critic of Hot Vaderland wrote: "I can not at the moment think of a more inspired interpretation than that of Elly Ney. It was all clear and majestic, simple and true.

This greatly talented artist expressed in the Adagio a nameless sorrow, In notes which seemed to come from another world. Such moments belong to the finer things in this life, which are offered all too rarely. They are Ilka a beacon in the sea of common music which is poured over us daily." De Telegraf of Amsterdam paid "From beginning to end she intrigued her audience, now in a volcanic flame of power, now in poetic emotion, and yet again by the superb beaut of her unrivaled technique, so marvellously balanced In rhythm, tempo and color, ami the thousand and one other characteristics which make the work of this great pianist the living, pulsating art which it is. She kept the audience at a high pitch of consummate satisfaction." to the comparison with the ancient and honorable family of Hippopotami. Beauty lies solely in the eye of the beholder, and possibly the critic, like most of his German colleagues, wears spectacles.

We arc of the opinion that the hippopotamus is by no means an ungraceful animal. Of course, unlike the nimble gazelle, our heavier friend does not spring agilely from rock to rock, nor may he, like the eager swallow, dart swiftly through the clouds, nor yet has he been seen on back-yard fences to emulate the leaping of the lithe-limbed cat. However, the hippopotamus has a slow and langurous grace perculiarly his own, and in the very dclibcrateness of his movements there is a seduction not unsoothing. Tho suing actress, it seems to us, made a grievous mistake in proceeding against a poor critic who merely tried to increase her artistic bulk. Shades of Wagnerian prima donnas! Is the German ideal of grace and beauty become so lean and attenuated? Formerly they had humor in the lattierland.

It remained for Oscar Ziegler to do something new in the way ot arranging a program for a piano recital. At his recent concert in Carnegie hall he gave four groups of pieces, the quartet of sections being captioned respectively, "For the Tired Business Man," "For the Tired Critic," "For the Musical Left," "For the llusic Lover." Mr. Ziegler's opinion of the musical tastes of some of his fellow beings, offered grounds for debate and disagreement. His schedule supposed the exhausted merchant to be soothed by Liszt's "Love Dream," and one could understand that; but how reconcile the same somnolent gentleman to Schumann's "Carnival," consisting of a couple of dozen or so of highly intellectual tone pictures connected with the history, literature and aesthetics of the composer's period? Again, the association of the weary critic with Satie and Schoenberg, shows a puzzlesome kink. Did Mr.

Ziegler intend them to act as stimulants or soporifics? The "Musical Left'' was treated satirically with classical pap by Mozart, Scarlatti and others. For the "Music Lover" tfca program offered Chopin and Beethovenwith Brahms and Bach in the discard. His programmatic pleasantries aside, however, Mr. Ziegler showed some admirable qualities such as reliable technic and a full and sympathetically-timbered tone. However, he also revealed occasional lapses into arbitrary conception and uneven phrasing and rythm, which seemed to stamp him as the victim of an intermittent wayward fancy that prompts him away now and then from his better musical Inclinations.

Or, perhaps, at such moments, he was merely presenting a picture of the tired pianist, grown tired of the regular inhibitions and prohibitions of dignified recital art oxd JOHN PAVIPJ0N MOTIOX riCTUHE THEATERS. The May recital of advance students of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held at the Metropolitan School of Music at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. The program: "Why" "Whims" Wavne Berry "Sapphic ode" "Water Roy" Carolyn Gaul "Romance" Schumann Schumann (Beauchamp). Hrahma Koblnson (Frlcrmood). Rlhellus "Scherzo Minor' Mendelssohn Muriel Adams (Mrs.

Monnlncerl "Mercedes" A. Stevens Opal Reynolds (Illnes). "Where K'er You Walk" Hnenrtel "Blrd'a Bonn at Kventlme" Coates Daniel Shattuok Krlermood). "Capprlci-lo No. 1, Op.

11" Brahms "Intermezzo No. 2, Op. llfl" Brahma "Caprlcclo No. 3. Op.

116 Urahms Hazel Lanikln (HalRh). "Serenade Tzigane" Valdez Thelma Fulkerson (Watson), Mlsa Eakin at tha piano. "Serenade" Rachmaninoff Jessie Terhune (Beauchamp). "Car Selve" Hnendel "Wings of the Night" Watts Ann Hunter (Frlermood). "Prelude and Fugue Minor" Bach "Forest Murmurs" Liszt Marguerite McCarty (Monnlnger).

"Harp Aeolian" Codefrled Janet Crulckshank (Montanl). "Little Mother of Mine" Burleigh "The Big Brown Bear" Mana-Zucca (TutiHe school musl- chorus. Franklin N. Taylor, director; -tta Martin at the piano.) 4- Lola Ruth Beck, pupil of F. Elmer Marshall of the dramatic art department of the Indiana College of Music and FMne Arts won first place in the Lebanon oratorical contest and will represent Lebnnon high school in tho central Indiana high school oratorical contest on April 27.

Lillian Carr Greene, piano teacher on the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and F'ine Arts, will present a number of her pupils in a recital at 1116 North Delaware street on Saturday afternoon, April 20, at 3 o'clock. The pupils appearing on the program are Alvamay Mitchell, Denoe Wolf-ard, Virginia Moore, Becky Brown, Juno R. Ross, Emily Yucknat, Ina Stanley, Charlotte Carl, Loydlovolla Cook, Barbara Bass, Alice Emerson, James Meng, Virginia Harbaugh and Norma Heuer. Wilma Davis Hine of the dramatic art department and Ruth Gant, pupil of Eleanora Beauchamp, gave a program before the Women's Literary Club of Frankfort on Wednesday, -(-- Angelina Shaneff, pupil of Donn Watson, accompanied by Addiy Ax-line; Opal Reynolds, pupil of Wilma Davis Hine; Helen Thorns, pupil of Glenn Friermood, accompanied by Mrs. James Wynne; Hazel Lamkin, pupil of Andrew Haigh and Mildred Lewis, flutist, pupil of I'asquale Montanl, all of the Indiana College of Music and Arts, will give a grotin of numbers each day from April' 15 to 19 at the Y.

W. C. A. during the membership drive. Ruth Gant, pupil of Eleanora Beauchamp of the piano department of the Indiana was the soloist for the Phi Beta Mothers' program on Tuesday at the sorority house, 3632 North Illinois street.

-4- Fred Newell Morris, will present Stanley Baker, barytone, in recital Wednesday evening at 8:15 In the Cropsey auditorium of the public library at St. Clair and Pennsylvania streets. Mr. Baker will be assisted by Mrs. Garrett M.

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