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1BAKLANOV, GEORGE (b. 1882). See Register, 10.
3‡BALAKIREV, MILY ALEXEIEVITCH (Jan. 2, 1837, Nishni Novgorod, Russia : May 28, 1910, Petrograd). Add to article in Vol. i. 168-9, that his last works include a second symphony, in D minor (1909), and a piano-concerto. See Montagu-Nathan, Hist. of Russian Music, pp. 63-73, and other works on Russian music.
5BALATKA, HANS (1827-1899). See Register, 4.
7BALDWIN, RALPH LYMAN (Mar. 27, 1872, Easthampton, Mass.), although first preparing as organist and composer, has also become a leader in public-school music, active in promoting higher standards of teaching and musical material and in obtaining credit for music-work in high schools. He graduated from Williston Seminary in 1890 and studied in Boston with Chadwick, Emery, Heindl and Elson. After being organist in Easthampton and Northampton, Mass., in 1904 he became musical director at the Fourth Congregational Church in Hartford and in 1917 moved to the Immanuel Congregational Church there. He was music-supervisor in Northampton in 1899-1904 and has since held a similar position in Hartford. He directed the Vocal Club of Northampton in 1894-1904, and since 1906 the Choral Club of Hartford. Since 1900 he has been one of the proprietors of the Institute of Music Pedagogy at Northampton (summer-school), where he has trained a great number of supervisors. His organ-sonata, op. 10 (Schirmer) and his 'Burlesca e Melodia' (Schmidt) are popular on recital-programs, and he has published anthems and songs (Schmidt, Boston Music Co.) The light opera 'Wanita' has had amateur performances. Choruses for men's voices are still in manuscript. For school use he has published Progressive Melodies, Progressive Songs, and a series of ten pamphlets of Standard Song Classics (Ginn). [R.8]
9BALDWIN, SAMUEL ATKINSON (Jan. 25, 1862, Lake City, Minn.), at fifteen was organist of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul. In 1884 he graduated from the Dresden Conservatory, where his teachers were Merkel for organ, Wüllner for composition and directing, Rieschbieter for harmony and counterpoint and Nicodé for piano. In 1886-89 he was organist at Plymouth Church in Chicago. He was then in St. Paul and Minneapolis as organist and conductor, founding choral societies in both cities. Coming to New York in 1895, he was organist at the Chapel of the Intercession till 1902 and then at Holy Trinity in Brooklyn till 1911. In 1907 he was appointed to the new chair of music at the College of the City of New York. Here he instituted the Sunday and Wednesday afternoon organ-recitals which have become notable. About 700 of these recitals have been given, including toward 1000 different works of every school of organ-composition. The annual attendance has averaged about 70,000. He is a founder and fellow of the A. G. O. and was one of the ten Americans to play at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He also gave recitals at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and at San Francisco in 1915. His published compositions are songs, anthems and church-services. His unpublished works are mostly in larger forms, including a string-quartet; a piano-trio; the 18th Psalm and 'The Triumph of Love' for solo voices, chorus and orchestra; two concert-overtures, 'A Journey in Norway' and 'Frithjof and Ingeborg'; a symphony in C minor; and an orchestral suite, 'A Summer Idyl.' [R.6]
11BALDWIN COMPANY, THE, of Cincinnati, organized in 1862, is the corporation that controls the Baldwin, Ellington, Howard, Hamilton and Monarch pianos. The Baldwin piano was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and a similar prize at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. The Baldwin type of player-piano is known as the 'Manualo.'
13BALLANTINE, EDWARD (Aug. 8, 1886, Oberlin, O.), secured his general education at Springfield, Mass., and at Harvard, where he was a special student in 1903-07. Meanwhile he studied piano with Mary Regal, Edward Noyes and Mme. Hopekirk, and composition with Spalding and Converse. In 1907-09 he continued piano with Schnabel and Ganz in Berlin and composition with Rüfer. From 1912 he was instructor in theory at Harvard. In 1918 he enlisted as musician and was assigned as saxophone-player to the 1st Regt. Band at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., with the rank of sergeant. His song 'Retrospect' came out in the 'Harvard Musical Review,' April, 1913, and his piano-piece 'Morning' in December, 1913. His Prelude to 'The Delectable Forest' (Hagedorn) was first performed at the MacDowell Festival, Peterboro, N. H., in 1914; the Boston Symphony Orchestra played his symphonic poem 'The Eve of Saint Agnes' in January, 1917. These works are still in manuscript, as are more incidental pieces for Hagedorn's fairy-play for small orchestra and chorus of women's voices; the tone-poem 'The Awakening of the Woods'; an 'Overture to the Piper'; songs; and pieces for piano, violin and piano, and 'cello and piano. [R.10]
15BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE, was established in 1916 by the municipality and is carried on by it. Its conductor is Gustav Strube. The number of players is 65, and seven concerts are usually
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