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...July 4 an important auction at Christie's will dispose of a newly authenticated Rembrandt, Two Men Conversing, with certificates attached, and 63 of the Duke of Westminster's collection, including important canvases by Rubens, Van Dyck, Bellini, Murillo, Raphael, del Sarto, Titian, Veronese...
Seldom does one find a program which embraces numbers so far apart as did the program of Mme. Gauthier. She began with a group of eighteenth century airs from Bellini, Perucchini, and the Englishmen, Purcell and Byrd, followed it with a group of modern Hungarian and German songs by Bartok and Hindemith, rose to a climax with a group of American jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin, and descended through Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss and Milhaud to the end of her program...
Jordan Hall, Tuesday evening, Mme. Eva Gauthier, well known as intelligent artist and especially as interpreter of modern songs, in a program ranging from Bellini to Irving Berlin. Mme. Gauthier is only now receiving appreciation she has long deserved as a singer who is also a thorough artist...
Maestro Giordano, composer of Andrea Chenier and Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
...play has been in existence for some 15 years. Giordano did not see the play until 1919, although it was a favorite in Italy. He at once asked Bellini for the operatic rights and was refused on the grounds that they had been granted to another composer much earlier. Giordano applied to the other composer, and was denied the rights. Thereupon he set out for his villa on beautiful Lake Maggiore, set to work composing. When he completed it, he managed to secure the operatic rights which the other composer had kept, unused for 15 years...