The Chicago Opera Company will give “Aida” Sunday night in the popular-priced series at the Hippodrome, with Catharina Jarboro in the title role, Pasquale Ferrara as Radamos and Foster Miller as the king.
Feodor Chaliapin, renowned Russian basso, and Alexander Smallens, dynamic Philadelphia conductor, will take part in the General Motors symphony concert Sunday night. The concert, to be broadcast over an NBC network, will be Chaliapin’s first radio appearance in this country this season.
With Werner Janssen conducting, the Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra will give an all-Russian program Sunday afternoon, comprising numbers by Rimsky-Korsakoff, Miaskovsky and Borodin.
Andres Segovia will play the guitar in a Town Hall recital next Saturday evening. He has been touring Europe and South America.
Anatol Rapoport, pianist, will broadcast over a Columbia network Tuesday, playing Liszt’s concerto in E fiat major. Rapoport, who was born in the Ukraine, is only twenty-three.
Robert Rudie, violinist, will be the soloist with the New York Civic Orchestra Sunday evening in the auditorium of the downtown branch of City College, Twenty-third street and Lexington avenue.
An all-Wagner program for the benefit of the Orchestra Pension Fund will be presented by Arturo Toscanini at Carnegie Hall Wednesday evening.
Alfredo Salmaggi, director of the Chicago Opera Company, announces a series of Sunday matinee Wagner performances, commencing with “Lohengrin” February 24.
Grete Steckgold has been engaged by the Minneapolis symphony orchestra as soloist at a pair of concerts February 22 and 24.
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