Music Trade Review

THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NOVEMBER 10, 1923
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MENTH AND ANGELUS SCORE IN WILMINGTON CONCERTS
PLAYS FOR WELTE (LICENSEE)
Viennese Pianist With Angelus Reproducing Piano Makes Three Appearances in That City Under
Auspices of Geweh.r Piano Co.-Audiences and Press Both Unite in Tribute
Alfredo Oswald, Well-known Brazilian Artist,
Records Exclusively for This Instrument
WILMINGTON, DEL., ~ oyembcr 1.- The second
series of Angelus co nc erts for 1923 in this city
was inau gura ted on October 29 and October 30
by the Gewehr Piano Co., Hcrma Menth, the well­
known piani st, who scored a triumph here when
she appeared las t Sprin g, agai n repe ating it in
exac ting compar iso n r ecit a ls with the A nge lu s .
Alfredo Oswald, a young Braz ilian pianist of
a ttainm e nt s, n ow livin g in Balt imore, is the la t­
est artist to agr ee to r ecord exclusi ve ly for the
Welte-lVlignon (Lice nse e), add in g another well­
known artist t o this librar y.
M r. Oswa ld has h a d a varied and valu a ble
experience during hi s career. The so n of Ell'
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alone,
In th e others she was assi sted by the A ngelus.
And a gain it was next to impossible to tell when she was
playing or when the An gelus was r eproducing he r work.
Naturally, the intere.st of train ed musicians centered in
the Liebestraum, for the reason its sco r e is so we ll kn own
as to be easily followed. The fide lity with which Miss
1\lenth followed this fa med tran sc rip tion of a lo vt: d r ea m
was a huge mark in her favor. It s howed her the true
interpreter of a work easi ly to be add ed to or embelli shed
by a less faithful student.
The Dan se J"facabre, wit h its fantastic descrip tion of
midnig ht in a graveya rd, and a wild, d eliri ous frolic of the
dea d, did not (ai l to charm. J\[iss !lienth play ed the sam e
number with s uccess upon her appearance llere las t Sp rin g-,
and it gained ra th er than los t by its repctiti on last eve­
nin g. I n this she employ ed two pianos, on c th e Angdus
r eproducin g in s trum e nt a nd th e othe r a H allet & Davis
rtonreprod ucing g r a n d, sy nc h ro n izing th em in remarkable
fa !3hi on.
George A. Gt:wchr, h ead of the Gewehr Piano Co. , to
whom \Vilmin gton is inoebtcd for th e appearance'S of 1\'l i 55
i\[c nth, r ect.:: ived three offers fo r the g r and piano and dis­
posed of it with th t: arti::;t' s autogra ph inscribed upon the
inner frame.
So enraptured was tht.! audience at the close o f the
Dansc l'.-Iaca bre that it re fu sed to depart a nd demanded an
e nco r e. In r esponse l\liss ).{enth played a highly diffi­
cult arrangement of Strauss' B lue Danube \Valtz with a
dex ter ity and tonal effect that called fort h still 1lI0re
round s of applause.
P. K. Van Yor x, director of music for
the Angelus division of th e Hall et & Davis
Piano COl., and W. 13. B less in g were on hand
to ass ist Mr. Geweh r.
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MOLLER CO. IN LARGER WAREROOMS
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Herma Menth
The in st rum ent it ~e lf received equ al praise from
both the audiences and th e crit ic s.
Bo th the .'\ tigelus and Mi ss M<:nth are highly
popular in vVilmington, as was shown by t he
advanc e demand for t ickets to the appe ara nces.
It was so great that it was neCfssa ry to limit
tickets for eac h applicant to on e co nce rt only.
The g·old ball roolll of the Hot e l DuPont,
wh e re the co nce rts were give n, was filled to
capacit y each n ig ht. Be s ides the se ap peara nces,
·rvl iss 1vlenth p layed before the Exch ange Club
in a noon-time r ec ita l. ::VIi"s ::Vlenth's room was
filled with flower s from her num e rous admirers,
not only in this cit y, but from mati y of h er
fril:nd s in Philadelphia as well.
The dual playing of Miss Menth w ith the
A ngel us n ever fails to cap tivate her a udi e nces.
Typical oi the way they respond to th e a rt of
herself and of th e Angelus is tlte following press
noti ce from th e \"-ilmington Journal:
Henna ~Mc nthJ the Vi e nnc:-;.c pi anist, fa irly outdid h er­
self in hrilliancy at her secono An;:;dus r ecital in th e gold
ballroom o f th e Hotel duPon t last L'\Tlli n g' . Her program
'.. . as entir ely differe nt from that of ""fonday night, and
aga in she li tera ll y ca pti vated the large audienc e w hi ch heard
her. Her vivacity was only StlrtJ3ssed by her astonishing
mastery of th e piano.
Five nllmbers 5too(1 o ut fll-omi nent ly in th L: pro ~ r~m.
Th t'~L w~' n' the F antas ie and Fu gue' on a Theme by Each,
as arrangl"d by th e m;l:;t e r Liszt; th l: Poupee Valsante, or
"Dan cing Doll," by Poldini; the Val se in E ~.fa jor, by
Moszkow sk i; the eVL:r-popu lar Lichc;o;tral1Ol, by Liszt, and
Dansc j\[acaore, by Saint -~aens .
The Fantasi c a nd the Licbestraum :\Iiss M enth played
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A Single Valve Action
HAGERSTOWN, MD., Nove mber S.-The Moller
Music ·Co ., which this year completes its forty­
third year in business, has leas ed n ew 'Nare­
rooms in the o ld Hotel Franklin building, giving
it largely increased quarters an d b e tte r faci li­
ties to take care of its growin g busine ss, th e
advance of which has bee n s t eady.
TAVLOR TO OCCUpy NEW QUARTERS
MOB EHLY, :Mo., November S. Th e Taylor Music
Co. has leased large r quar te rs in the \'\ -illott
B uildin g on Re ed aven ue, thi s city. Th e firm
will occupy the new quarters af ter the y have
co mpl etely remodeled, w hich is expected to take
several months.
KELLEV=KONTER CORP. CHARTERED
The Kelley-Konter Music Corp., of ~ew York
City, has been incorporated with .a capital stock
of $ 10,000 by th e follow ing incorporators: R.
W. Konter, W. H. Saul and W. J. Ke ll ey. Th e
alto rney of r ecord is N. L. Goldstein, of 511
Fifth avenue, N ew York.
WHITE, SON CO.
Manufacturers of
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO
LEATHERS
530-540 Atlantic Ave., BOSTON, MASS.
KLINGLER PIANO CO. CHARTERED
Simplified to the Point of Perfection
Worcester Wind Motor CO.
Now Being Used by Leading Manufacturers
WORCESTER. MASS.
Make.. of Ablolutely Sati.fac:torr
Write for Full Particulars
WIND MOTORS for PLAYER PIANOS
PEERLESS PNEUMATIC ACTION CO.
4890486 Eaot 133rd Street
New York
Alfredo Oswald
rique Oswald, who is con sidere d the lead in g
composer of Sout h A merica, h e grew up in a
musi ca l a tm osp her e. For twenty years he was
a re sident of E urop e. In I ta ly he was a pupil
of Giuseppe Buonamici, the fa vorite pupil of
Li sz t and Bulow. Mr. Oswald has g iven con­
ce rt s throu g ho ut France, Germany, Italy, Be l·
gium, So uth .'\mer ic a and England. He played
with orches tras in I~russels, Turin a nd Flore nce ,
and in Rio de Jan eiro. Before the wa r he won
notabl e successes in Berlin, Muni ch and Frank­
fort. In Pa ri s h e played at the "Salle Gaveau,"
and made one tour of France a nd En glan d in
joint recit als wi th Albert Spalding, th e famous
violinist. In Florence, Ita ly, Mr. Oswald es­
tablished a very s ucce ssful trio w ith Albert
Spaldin g a nd Broglio (cell o), and for th ree
years the trio pl ayed chamb er mus ic. As a
teac he r Mr. Os wald worked five years in It a ly,
a yea r in Par i<, five years in Brazil, and is now
engage d at the Pea bod y Conservatory of Music
in Balti mor e.
Du e to thi s varie d exp erience Ivir. Oswald is
able to giv e th e Italians the warmth an d
spangled pa tt e rn in tone colo r that t hey love;
the Germans, the int ellect ual ciar ity and pr e­
cis ion th ey demand; the F renc h, a rarely poeti c
spirit and int erpretative sk ill, a nd to t h e severe
criti cs o f th e New York press he h as p ro ve d
himself "the ab lest South .'\mcrican mu sician
t o arrive here since Guiomar Novaes" (another
\Velt e-1Iig non (Li cc n,;cc) arti s t),
a piani st
of unu sua l acco mpli shments ," and "the po sse ssor
of ski ll, int ell ige nce and ta ste which give him
imm edi ate sta ndin g .'"
Also all kind. of Pneumatic. and Suppliea
TOLEDO, 0., N ovember 6.- The Austin Klingler
Piano Co. has ju st fil ed papers of incorporation
with a cap ital s to ck o f $10,000.
Edward J.
Austin, J ohn H. Ma larey, H. H e nry Mill er, Ora
E. Klin g ler and \Villiam J. Henrichs are the
incorporator s.