C < 4 \ 41 ir H o •* Ejctra to SGZi Published bi-monthly by the College at Mount Vernon. Iowa. Entered as second class matter, at the post office at Mount Vernon, Iowa, Vol. XVI Mount Vernon, Iowa, April, 1915 No. 6 Annual Music Festival Number Julia Culp The World’s Greatest Lieder Singer 2 CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN First Concert Thursday Evening, April 29th, at 8:00 o’clock Madam Julia Culp, Mezzo-Soprano Madam Julia Culp, the young lieder singer of Berlin, has taken only twelve years to conquer the world and to win the place of the foremost singer of songs of this generation. Her golden mezzo-so¬ prano voice is pronounced by critics the most beautiful on the concert stage today. In its range and power, its resonance and roundness, its evenness and warmth, it is one of the great voices of all musical history. Culp’s softest tones are lovely beyond belief, while her for¬ tissimo is compelling with its sustained Caruso force. Culp is also a consummate artist, expressing convincingly all shades of feeling from intense dramatic passion to the tenderest wistfulness. She much re¬ sembles Schumann-Heink in the power of her personality, in her greatheartedness, in the force with which she at once grips the soul. An ardent temperament capable of the deepest feelings, dowered with the faculty of expressing itself in the richest of voices and with the subtlest and surest art—that is Julia Culp. It will be noted with especial satisfaction that instead of appear¬ ing in only a few numbers on a miscellaneous concert program, Culp and her talented accompanist Coenraad Bos, give us an entire even¬ ing, singing the songs of various nations and of many moods,—the colorful tone-poems of Schubert, Brahms and Beethoven, and English songs as exquisite perhaps if not so famous. Program Im Abendroth . Schubert Die Post . Schubert Standchen . Schubert Ave Maria . Schubert Adelaide . Beethoven Faithful Johnnie . Beethoven The Cottage Maid . Beethoven Romance To Elise Pierrette . Chopin . Beethoven . Chaminade Mr. Coenraad V. Bos Drink to Me Only . Old English When I Bring Coloured Toys .John Alden Carpenter I’ve Been Roaming . Old English Mignonette . Weckerlin Vor dem Fenster . Brahms Standchen . Brahms Der Schmied . Brahms Wiegenlied . Brahms Mme. Culp uses the Steinway piano exclusively Coenraad V. Bos at the piano CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 'A ' The demand for good music keeps pace with the increasing mus¬ ical education of the people. The result is so great a demand for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from cities of size, that it becomes in¬ creasingly necessary for them to eliminate all but the most desirable engagements. No other town and college community of the size of Mount Vernon is longer honored by the appearance of this orchestra. They have been coming to Cornell for fifteen years. Have you ever heard them? If you have not you have failed signally to appreciate a great opportunity. Avail yourself of this privilege now. Cornell College presents to the patrons of its May Music Festival the best music in the world performed by the best and most capable artists in the world. The programs are of such perfect artistic bal¬ ance as to be above criticism. Each program is perfectly contrasted, there is endless variety, and yet a symmetry which produces a per¬ fect whole. ,, The appearance of this orchestra with Ihe leading artists of the day as soloists gives to the concerts a standard which would be hard to excel anywhere. 4 CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN Second Concert Friday Afternoon, April 30th, 2:30 o’clock Francis Macmillen, Violinist It has been proven many times in America that of all violinists none makes a greater appeal to the mus¬ ically educated and uneducated alike than Macmillen. The qualities that one desires most in a violinist, Mac¬ millen possesses to an unusual degree. Under the spell of his charming per¬ sonality and fascinating fire and tem¬ perament, each auditor is led to feel that he is a personal friend with whom the artist desires to share all the enjoyment of playing and inter¬ preting a great work. It is through his tone that Macmillen makes his greatest impression and critics de¬ spair of adequately describing it, saying that one can only know and appreciate its purity by hearing the artist play. Few who attended Macmillen’s festival concert of four years ago have forgotten his magnetic playing and in bringing him again to Mt. Vernon the Festival offers you an afternoon with one of the few great geniuses of the violin, an afternoon that cannot fail of enjoyment to everyone, and that will not soon be forgotten. Program First Movement from .the Concerto . Tschaikowsky allegro moderato a. Andante . Lalo b. Passacaglia . Handel-Thomson c. Seranade . Arensky d. Spanish Dance in C Major . Sarasate a. Andantino .. Padre Martini b. Humoreske .. Tor Aulin c. Ave Maria . Schubert-Wilhelmj d. Tango . Fernandez Arbos Andante and Finale from the concerto.Mendelssohn CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN 5 For soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra what bet¬ ter or more popular pianist than Ganz could be offered. This eminent artist has played during the present season with all of America’s great orches¬ tras, and in almost every city and school of any prominence and he will come acknowledged everywhere as one of the lead¬ ing pianists of the world. As an interpreter of Liszt he is unsurpassed and the perform¬ ance of the wonderful A ma¬ jor concerto will have an un¬ usual interest. The opportunity of hearing a pianist of so great reputation with orchestra has not only never before been given the patrons of the Cornell Festival, but is one offered by but few festi¬ vals of the country. Third Concert Friday Evening, April 30th, at 8:00 o’clock The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mr. Clarence Whitehill, Soloists Program Overture, “Liebesfriiling” ... Georg Schumann Aria Suite, “Piemontessi,” . Sinigaglia Over Fields and Woods Rustic Dance In Montibis Sanctis Carnival Piemontesi Aria Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12. Liszt Intermission Wagner Overture to “Rienzi” Voices of the Forest from “Siegfried” Dreams—A Study to “Tristan and Isolde” Orchestration by Theodore Thomas Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Scene from “Die Waikure” Wotan: Mr. Whitehill 6 CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN The Quartette this year is composed ef Olive Kline, Margaret Keyes, Lambert Murphy and Clarence Whitehill. We are exceedingly fortunate in securing such a fine combination of singers. The quartette is selected by the Chicago Symphony Or¬ chestra management to travel with them in their spring tours, they are required to sing numerous choral works, a task that requires the broadest training and the soloists that are able to do such work ef¬ fectively are the exception. Probably the greatest singer of the four is Mr. Clarence White- hill, of the Metropolitan Opera Co., the greatest Wagnerian singer in the world today. He has a full baritone voice, capable of infinite var¬ iety of a fine dramatic expression. Mr. Whitehill will sing a number of arias on the Friday evening program while the whole quartette ap¬ pears in “A Tale of Old Japan” on Saturday evening. Clarence Whitehill Baritone Lambert Murphy Tenor CORNELL COLLEGE BULLETIN 7 Fourth and Fifth Concerts Saturday Afternoon, May 1st, 2:30 o’clock The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Frederick Stock, Conductor Mr. Rudolph Ganz, Soloist Program Overture “Othello,” . Dvorak Symphony E flat (Kochel 543), . Mozart Adagio-Allegro Andante con moto Menuetto Finale Symphonic Poem “Don Juan,” Opus 20, . Strauss Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2, A Major, . Liszt Scene Dansante, Opus 81, .. Glazaunow Saturday Evening, May 1st, 8:00 o’clock The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Soloists: Miss Olive Kline Miss Margaret Keyes Mr. Lambert Murphy Mr. Clarence Whitehill Program A Tale of Old Japan.S. Coleridge-Taylor Chorus, Soloists and Orchestra Horace A. Miller, Conductor Intermission “The Spinning Wheel of Omphale,”..... Saint-Saens Two Indian Sketches— a. The Indian Flute ... Horace A. Miller b. From the Wikiup . Horace A. Miller a. Mock Morris b. Shepherd’s Hey, . Grainger Overture “Academic Festival,” . Brahms UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 3 0112 105625419 SALE OF RESERVED SEATS PRICES Season Tickets—Section A and E, $5.00; B and F, $4.00; C and G, $3.00. Single Concerts—Thursday evening, $1.50; Friday af¬ ternoon, $1.25; Friday evening, $1.50; Saturday afternoon, $1.25; Saturday evening $1.50. 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