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1'Sylvan Suite,' op. 19, for orchestra — 'Midsummer Idyl,' 'Will o' the Wisps,' 'Dance of the Sylphs,' 'Evening Song,' 'Midnight,' 'At Daybreak,' given by Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1903.
2Sonata in G minor, op. 9, for violin and piano (1895).
3Cavatina and Romanza, for violin and orchestra (1895).
4Suite in E minor, for 'cello and orchestra (or piano).
5Variations on an original theme, for piano.
6'Charakterstücke,' 'Phantasiestücke,' 'Moods,' 'Serenade' and many sets of pieces for piano.
7'Sir Oluf,' cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra.
8'Des Sängers Fluch' and two others, for 8-part chorus a cappella.
9Suite for 'cello and piano, op. 35.
10Quintet for strings and piano, op. 36.
11Concerto for piano, op. 37.
13See appreciations in Hughes, Contemporary American Composers, pp. 298-304, and The Art of Music, iv. 382-3. [R.8]
15BROMFIELD, EDWARD, JR. (1723-1746). See Register, 1.
17BROOKFIELD SUMMER SCHOOL OF SINGING, THE, Brookfield Center, Conn., was founded in 1900 by Herbert W. Greene, who has continued at its head ever since. The enterprise has developed into a significant colony of musical workers and students.
19BROOKLYN ORATORIO SOCIETY, THE, was organized in 1893 by Walter Henry Hall, who has remained its conductor to the present time. Adopting a high standard from the first, it speedily secured recognition. During the first twenty years two concerts were given annually in the Academy of Music, the only adequate concert-hall in the city. When this was burnt, for the season of 1904-05 the concerts were transferred to Carnegie Hall in New York, but later resumed in the superior new Academy of Music in Brooklyn. The Society in its early days was much aided by the interest of Howard W. Connelly, who had been secretary of Thomas' Brooklyn choral society, and by the adoption of its concerts into the system of entertainments under the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. In 1912 Mr. Hall became professor at Columbia, and the Society was made one of the two sections in the University Chorus, assisting there on festival occasions, but with entire freedom for its own local concerts. Besides the more usual oratorios, the Society has to its credit Handel's 'Samson' and 'Acis and Galatea,' Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Liszt's 'St. Elizabeth,' the second performance in America of Henschel's Requiem (Metropolitan Opera House), Elgar's 'Black Knight' and 'Banner of St. George,' and the first performances in America of Elgar's 'King Olaf,' 'The Music-Makers,' 'Spirit of England' and Harty's 'Mystic Trumpeter.' Two Brooklyn composers have also been represented, Buck by 'The Light of Asia' and 'The Golden Legend,' and Shelley by his 'Vexilla Regis.'
21BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, THE. See Vol. iv. 801.
23BROOKS, HENRY MASON. See Register, 7.
25BROOME, WILLIAM EDWARD (1868, Manchester, England), had his early training from Roland Rogers of Bangor Cathedral; in theory he is largely self-taught. He was assistant-organist of Bangor Cathedral and of St. Mary's at Bangor in 1883-90. He conducted the Penrhyn Male Chorus, which visited the Chicago Eisteddfod in 1893, and gave many organ-recitals in the United States and Canada. He located first in Brockville, Ont., moved to Montreal in 1894, and in 1905 to Toronto, where in 1907 he succeeded Vogt at the Jarvis Baptist Church. In 1910 he organized the Toronto Oratorio Society, which has given important works with the assistance of the New York Philharmonic, Russian Symphony and Toronto Symphony Orchestras. He holds the degree of Mus.D. (by examination) from Toronto University. He has officiated as judge in the choral contests at the Chicago, Buffalo and St. Louis Expositions and in many other cities. He has published about 100 works (chiefly Schirmer, Ditson, Boston Music Co., Schmidt). These include the short cantata 'A Hymn of Trust,' for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra (Schirmer); the dramatic chorus 'Sea-Song,' with orchestra (Ditson); many anthems and a series of Opening Sentences from the Psalms. He was the recipient in Wales of eight national prizes for composition, the most important being for the opera 'The Siege of Cardiff Castle,' when Bridge, Parry and Mackenzie were the judges. [R.8]
27BROSKY, FRANK J. (b. 1883). See Register, 9.
29BROUNOFF, PLATON G. (May, 1863, Elizabethgrad, Russia), had his musical education at the Musical Institute in Warsaw and the Imperial Conservatory at Petrograd, Rubinstein and Rimsky-Korsakov being among his teachers. In 1891 he came to America and in 1892 settled in New York as teacher, singer and lecturer. He has lectured on Russian music and kindred topics for the Board of Education in New York and many other cities, taught operatic classes at the Institute of Musical Art and been lecturer on art and supervisor at the Modern Arts Forum. He has written the Indian opera, 'Ramona'; the oratorio 'The Glory of God'; a music-drama, 'Xilona'; four symphonies — 'Russian Revolution,' 'Return of the Jews to Palestine,' 'Carnival in Rome' and 'Titanic'; four suites for piano and two for violin; the overture 'Russia'; and numerous songs. He is the
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