Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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Nos 11/1925 . YORK TIMES , STONY POINT SINGERS AT THE METROPOLAN STONY POINT TOUR ENDS TEMPORARILY Nod 18 1925 BPK Vocal Ensemble Abandons Its Coast - to - Coast Trip Owing to Small Audiences . NY . They MAY ' RESUME NEXT MONTH , the tour , but it was conabiered one Ensemble Is Welcomed Here by a Large Audience and Allen Dances . bout Stony Point , and if this were true near . home It would certainly be . It cost $ 20,000 to cancel Singers Rehearsed American Operatio and Allied Arts Foun . dation Laboratory . $ " We are planning to reor na the ensemble and reduce the rumber of both soloists and chorus so that the company may be moved from city to city more cheaply . Ve hai peventy persons . ** Dect now to have atxut fifty . 1 terminated our contract with the mins ers yo they would be try to s other PORARent , but in the event we reor . canze We expert to have many of them back with us . We plan to und the nex company , out soon after the first 0 % the year . " The foundation than expected to begin notivities at Stony Point next year . objects have been endorsed by 771NY prominent per It directorate In . cludes George Benry Payne , Commte . sloner of Taxes : Archibald R. Watron , former Corporation Counsel : Ceorge E. Warran , Vice President of the Chas National Bank ; Wille'm Thinelander Stewart Jr , and Kenneth O'Brien . Otto H. Kahn is Chairman of the Advisory Committee for New York , which has a long list of names of well - known persons , 6 9 8 8 පහ දළ 64 nail . 10 C ? 1 12 3 要 1-10 The Stony Point Ensemble , which la spreading to more than a hundred cties between here and the Pacific Coast its first frults of novel musical enterprise 11 11 in the near Highlands of New York State , sang for the first time in this city 12 tlast night at the Metropolitan Opera House . Fifty vocal artiste - sell - named . " music's melting pot " -Included repre 1sentatives of a dozen States and Canada , a well as of Ireland , Italy , Germany . Russia and Java . Deep - toned bassos , who came here with Conductor Alexan- 9 der Koshe's in the Ukrainian Chorus , were with four exceptions already nat- 11 5 aralized citizens of America .. An audience as considerable in num- 11 bers as in social . prestige greeted the 11 ensemble , which was heard first in Rus - 11 slan Easter and Christmas songs , and 12 later in the Metropolitan ' , orchestra pit , as the auman " Instruments ' accompany ting the , well - known American dancer . Maud Allan . In Joseph Achron's new harmonies to “ Salome ' . Dance " and In the " Funeral March of Chopin . In ad altion to novel lighting of these episodes , the so - called Clavilux was " played " by Thomas Wilfred in sflent solo an screen approaching in size the great opera house proscenium . It was to those engaged in this per 10 i formance and to some others concerned in the building of Stony Point's Institute of Operatic Art something of a realiza tion of a dream . No Rip Van Winkle's dream , no exploit of " Mad " Anthony Wayne , was this latest venture from New York's historic river . Mies Allan's reappearance her first in nine years - was of interest to a late arriving house . Still beautiful , and graceful in form and movement , she gave Unterpretations such as her ad mirers have known since the San Fran cisco artist's Berlin debut in 1907. Leah Horne or Cleveland was the unseen and unnamed soprano soloist in Chopin's 10 March . Dina Bogatyreva , native of Siberia , and now an American , was the leading 10 contralto of an instantly encored Rug alan fullaby . Oda Tallys in an air from * Le Cid " and Benno Rabinoff in violin 2 solos had individual places on the pro gram , which closed with Miss Allan's ** American Indian Allegory and Mr. Koshetz's folksongs from the French , 6 German , Scotch and American negro originals . t The Stony Point Vocal Ensemble . which ** booked to make a coast - to . roast tour of 110 cities to give , as the izogram Klated . " native American talent a chance to be heard in its own land , " been disbanded , temporarily , at 1 ** ' , because American audiences were It gave live performances . The ensemble singers , most of them Auran men and women , were gather . art Summer at Stony Point - on - the Jludson and rehearsed four months on alary to represent the American Opera . te and Allied Arts Foundation . The Intter organization har started to build a Btony Point a Kroup of buildings hich have been called a laboratory in solch Americans will be trained in vari . ous phase of operatic art after leav . ing schools and studios . In addition a srpetrate real ortate corporation has Tad plans to build homes there , Max Mabinore , Director General of the Foundation , and Havrah Hubbard or kanized the enemble , which was trained to exander Koshtz , former director t'krainian National Chorus , und Dur was begun - an Nov. 7 with the ertation that American audiences would turn out in great numbers to Lear American singers , Pne after playing Nov. 7 At Boston , Sov . S at Waterbury , Conn . , Nov. 10 at tha Vetropolitan , Nov. 11 at Bridgeport , and Nov. 12 at Stamford , the company Wat directed to return to New York . The singers received two weeks ' salary in advance Monday and asked for ree learn of contract . * The tour WRS suspended , " said Mr. Tabibur yesterday at the foundation's dice al 230 West Fifty - seventh Street , brause the receipts were 80 much than expenditures that aw it , would face a huge Se tour were continued . The decided last Wednesday it would be best to suspend it at least until the company was reduced in nun . ber The publle did not scem Informed 8 C. U OOO OO 7 8 8 8 0 de tetsmo 1 1

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