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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1927
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1BARNHART, HARRY HORNER (b. 1874). See Register, 9.
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4BARRAJA, ENRICO (b. 1885). See Register, 10.
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7BARRÈRE, GEORGES (Oct. 31, 1876, Bordeaux, France), studied flute in 1889-95 at the Paris Conservatory with Altès and Taffanel, harmony with Schwarz, Pugno and Grandjany, winning a first prize in flute-playing. From 1897 he was solo flutist at the Colonne Concerts and the Opéra. He also taught at the Schola Cantorum, and in 1895 founded La Société Moderne d’Instruments à Vent, which brought out over 100 new compositions. Coming to America in 1905, he joined the New York Symphony Society and became teacher at the Institute of Musical Art. In 1910 he founded the Barrère Ensemble (wind-instruments), in 1913 the Trio de Lutèce (flute, harp and ’cello) and in 1914 the Little Symphony (ordinarily three violins, viola, ’cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and tympani). As soloist and director he has become well known throughout the country and has introduced many interesting works. He is an Officer of the French Academy. He has written a ‘Nocturne’ for flute and piano and the song ‘Chanson d’Automne’ (both Schirmer) and has edited an Arioso by Bach for flute and piano and Altès’ 26 Études for flute. [R.9]
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10BARRÈRE ENSEMBLE, THE. See preceding article.
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13BARRIENTOS, MARIA (Mar. 10, 1885, Barcelona, Spain), graduated from the Barcelona Conservatory at twelve, having studied piano, violin and composition. She won medals for violin-playing when only eleven, and composed and conducted a symphony at twelve. At fourteen, after lessons with Bennet, she made her début as soprano at the Teatro de las Novedades in ‘L’Africaine.’ Within a year she also appeared in Milan as Lakmé. She was engaged at La Scala, and sang at principal theaters in Italy, Russia, France, England, Germany, Austria and South America till 1913. She then retired for three years, but was engaged for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, making her first appearance as Lucia in 1916, and has since sung there. Her répertoire includes ‘I Puritani,’ ‘La Sonnambula,’ ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia,’ ‘Lucia,’ ‘Don Pasquale,’ ‘L’Elisir d’Amore,’ ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Rigoletto,’ ‘Les Pêcheurs de Perles,’ ‘Linda,’ ‘Dinorah,’ ‘Lakmé,’ ‘Mignon,’ ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Martha.’ [R.10]
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16BARROWS, FRANK ELIOT. See COLLEGES, 3 (Simpson C., Iowa).
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19BARSTOW, VERA (b. 1893). See Register, 10.
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22BARTHOLOMEW, EDWARD FRY (b. 1846). See Register, 8.
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25BARTLETT, HOMER NEWTON (Dec. 28, 1846, Olive, N. Y. : Apr. 3, 1920, Hoboken, N. J.), was descended from Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first governor of New Hampshire. After general training at the Ellenville Academy and under tutors in New York, from 1861 he studied piano with S. B. Mills and Emil Guyon, organ and composition with Max Braun and O. F. Jacobsen. As early as 1855 he played in public and in 1856 began to compose. From about 1860 he was organist in New York, his longest service being in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, where he remained nearly thirty-five years. He was a founder of the A. G. O. and served terms as president of the N. A. O. and vice-president of the New York Manuscript Society, besides other posts of honor. Not long ago the Fraternity of American Musicians celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his wedding with a banquet, and in 1918, when the Hunt Memorial Hall was dedicated in Ellenville, N. Y., a Bartlett program was given, with his violin-concerto as the chief item, played by Miss Gunn and the composer. From the long list of his compositions — nearly 250 in number — may be mentioned the 3-act opera ‘La Vallière’ (1887) and the operetta ‘Magic Hours’; the symphonic poem ‘Apollo,’ based upon the Iliad, the Concerto in G and Ballade for violin and orchestra, the ‘Légende’ for orchestra; ‘Khamsin,’ a concert-aria for tenor and orchestra (rewritten in 1908); Toccata in E, Suite in C, ‘Festival Hymn,’ ‘De Profundis,’ and ‘Méditation Sérieuse,’ all for organ; three piano-ballades, ‘Gavotte Concertante,’ ‘Barcarolle’ and some études; besides many anthems, songs, etc. Several of his piano-pieces are based on Japanese themes. See Hughes, Contemporary American Composers, pp. 317-23, and The Art of Music, 4. 383-4. [R.5]
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28BARTLETT, JAMES CARROLL (b. 1850). See Register, 6.
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31BARTLETT, MARO LOOMIS (1847-1919). See Register, 5.
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34BASSETT, FRANKLIN (Apr. 7, 1852, Wheeling, W. Va. : Mar. 7, 1915, Pasadena, Cal.), studied at Leipzig under Reinecke, Plaidy and Jadassohn. While there an attack of pianist’s neuritis destroyed his hopes of a concert career and set him searching for a technical system less dangerous to the hand than those in use. In 1877 he established himself in Cleveland and from 1882 was one of the directors of the Cleveland Conservatory and organist of the First Methodist Church. His mode of instruction aroused general interest and he soon had many brilliant piano-pupils whose devotion to his personality and principles was a remarkable tribute. He was considered the first exponent in Ohio of a modern
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