MONTH LY LETTER

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We learn from our contemporary The Monthly Bulletin of the Royal Conservatory
that a new composition of Thomas Crawford, "Toccata for Organ and
Strings", was recently performed in Niagara Falls, N. Y«, by Gerald Bales, with
members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Adolphe Koldofsky died on April
8th at Los Angeles, Koldofsky was well known in Toronto as a violinist and conductor.
He was for a time with the Hart House Quartet and left Toronto to become
concert master of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He was also a member of the
Arts and Letters Club during part of his residence in Toronto Harvey
Perrin's Choir gave a concert on April U t h at the Eaton Auditorium, Toronto.
An esteemed local critic referred to the balance, the ease with which the high
notes were reached, the ensemble and the sensitive response of the choir to the
director 1 s indications.
Sir Ernest MacMillan recently completed his twentieth season as Conductor
of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During those 20 years the Orchestra
has attained a high rank among the Orchestras of America for which the credit
must go very largely to Sir Ernest 1 s musicianship We learn from the T.S.O.
News that the Orchestra will perform, under the direction of Sir Ernest, in the
Famous Orchestra Series at Detroit in November, and that in July Sir Ernest has
conducting engagements in Montreal and Detroit.
Nicholas Goldschmidt and H. Geiger-Torel have been recently presenting
their Opera School members and soloists in Opera and Operatic excerpts at Windsor,
St. Thomas and St. Catharines. Geiger-Torel is in South America directing a
season of Grand Opera. Bela Boszormenyi-Nagy received very favorable notices
in the press concerning his recent recital in Eaton Auditorium...... Boris
Hambourg has been playing his ! Cello with the new Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
John Weatherseed is adjudicator at the Prince Edward Island Musical
Festival April 30th to May 6th, and at Moncton, N.B. Musical Festival, May 7th
to 12th. John, in addition to holding office as President of the Canadian College
of Organists was recently elected President of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers
1 Association.
P I C T U R E
AT THE
S H O W S
CLUB
For the March 31st Dinner some of the larger paintings
by club members, referred to in a former
letter, were re-hung, following a short period
during which the competing plans of the new home of the Ontario Society of Architects
were displayed.
During April and continuing into May a collection of etchings, wood engravings,
aquatints, etc., were hung on the walls. These prints form an exhibition
of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and include
contributions from artists in the United States and England. The show has aroused
much interest and comment. As explained by one of our members it is an example
of perseverance in research of the variegated media of printmaking, with the
creative thought always present.