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Musical Courier 1896-07-15: Vol 33 Iss 854, 1896
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1Canada, pupil of the same teacher, seems to have been speedily advanced, as she is already studying Semiramide.
3Miss Minna Kellogg, daughter of Mr. C. B. Kellogg, of New York, after her successful début in Milan, is in Paris en route for London. If this young lady is wise and studious she will certainly be heard from, as she has great dramatic intensity, the coveted contralto voice, a sunny spirit, and a piquant, interesting personality. She had real, warm praise and tokens of favor down in Italy, was offered other engagements, in Aida among them, and is invited to return. She is a brave little girl; but courage she must remember, is a very small part of operatic success.
5Miss Duff, of Boston, goes to Ghent for her vacation, to visit with Miss Stanley, who has received an engagement to sing some dozen rôles in that city. More later.
7Mr. Chas. R. Roberst, Jr., professor of diction and declamation in the Union Theological Seminary of New York, a position he has held for the past twenty years, is in Paris, looking young, handsome and ambitious. He returns from here by London and finishes his vacation in the New England mountains. He ought to teach more phonics to those people, otherwise they always stay mumbling. This, with their forced sanctimoniousness of facial expression, and their lack of striking the medium between rhetorical and conversational style, is what puts the good deacons to sleep.
9The painting of Mr. Julian Story, which has just been bought from the Salon by France, is the Laboratoire de Saint Lazare, which was put upon the canvas while the artist's charming wife was studying the rôle of Ghiselle, with which she made her very successful début at Monte Carlo.
11Congratulations for Mr. Story of all musicians through THE MUSICAL COURIER.
13Miss Alma Hultkrantz was a charming young Swedish singer with Nilsson face and voice, who was sent by musicians of Stockholm to Paris to study. Pupil of M. St. Ives Bax, of the Conservatoire and of the best piano professors, she went to America and became teacher in the Misses Winten's Ladies' School in Ridgefield, Conn. She will also be remembered by the visitors of Richfield Springs "one summer," where she charmed all by her Swedish and French melodies, her bright disposition, manners tinted with the French finesse, straight pretty form, round face, eyes like those of a kitten, and keen sense of humor.
15Little Cupid kept his eye on her all through, and marched her past the vulgar footlights to the altar, where she became Mrs. Castberg, and one of the best cared for and happiest of wives. Music, instead of pulling them apart, was made an added bond of union; instead of being thrown up was utilized; and now Mrs. Alma Hultkrantz-Castberg is busy giving valuable music instruction at 28 West Twenty-fifth street, New York.
17Well, the young couple are over here in Paris for a month for a visit, to taste the old art feast, see objects not made for money, hear the language, breathe the air, and go back still better prepared for home duties.
19Mlle. Troten, a bright French girl, a premier prix of the Brussels Conservatoire and student also in Paris, who is teaching piano in New York, is back on the native soil, also to rest and hunt up new treasures for her American pupils.
21Do you know that there is in New York to-day on Forty-sixth street—No. 66, I think—a veritable, real pupil of Jenny Lind, who lived two years in the house with the nightingale and sang in Stockholm, where Hallström wrote an opera especially for her? Amalie Riago is her name.
23Miss Maud Francis, a lovely home girl with a touchingly beautiful voice, returns to her home in Peoria, Ill., on Sunday after a season of study in Paris. Miss Francis is beautiful, accomplished and rich. It is sincerely to be hoped that she will realize how much more she could do for music by aiding musical movements, encouraging musicians, and introducing new composers as the matron of an elegant American home than by dragging it about in common pasty theatres herself, to be forgotten the minute her back was turned.
25M. Fassi, the amiable musical agent of Paris, of whom you have many times heard, has become associated with MM. Sallard and Cie., of the International Agency, Faubourg St. Denis, who are the agents of the Lamoureux concerts. That is a good move.
27With deep regret I learn of the illness of the genial and generous director of the publishing house of Alphonse Leduc, of Paris, M. Villeville. Hope for good news by next letter.
29Juliani's last pupils' concert was given at the Salle des Agriculteurs, and was brilliant and entertaining, as his auditions always are. Mr. Lavin was back from Berlin to represent his teacher, as was Mme. Toeder, of the Brussels Theatre Royal, who is likewise his pupil. The Misses Garrigues, Stelle, Kimberly, Lafitte, Ware, Tonnot, Cottman, Rigaut, and others sang with style, spirit and more or less progress since last concert. M. Juliani is well satisfied with his year's work, and goes this week with his wife into the country for a deserved rest.
31Mrs. Dr. Thomas Edwards, of Boston—no, there is too much that is good to say about this very worth-while musician to place it at the end of such a long letter, so it will come next week.
33My next letter will be devoted to Thoughts of Impresarios, which will make racy reading for débutants.
35FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS.
37Mme. d'Arona's Reputation Abroad.
39We are constantly hearing of singers going to Europe for the finishing touches, but it is something rare to hear of people coming to America to study; however such is the fact.
41Last week two young ladies arrived by the Fuerst Bismarck from Germany, for the purpose of putting themselves under New York's distinguished vocal teacher, Mme. Florenza d'Arona. They had been so impressed with the improvement their friends Mme. Augusta Schröder and Lena Becker have made, and the recognition they have gained since their return to Dresden last May (after one year's study with Mme. d'Arona), that they decided to follow their example and have done so, taking daily lessons in order to make the most of the time between now and the 15th, when Mme. d'Arona goes to Shelter Island for the remainder of the summer. one of two readings
42Last week two young ladies arrived by the Fuerst Bis- marck from Germany, for the purpose of putting themselves under New York's distinguished vocal teacher, Mme. Florenza d'Arona. They had been so impressed with the improvement their friends Mme. Augusta Schröder and Lena Becker have made, and the recognition they have gained since their return to Dresden last May (after one year's study with Mme. d'Arona), that they decided to follow their example and have done so, taking daily lessons in order to make the most of the time between now and the 15th, when Mme. d'Arona goes to Shelter Island for the remainder of the summer. one of two readings
44Even at the end of the season Mme. d'Arona is teaching eight hours a day, commencing her lessons—as is her custom—at 8.30 each morning. Some of her pupils (among them former pupils of Lamperti, Stockhausen and Marchesi) are most anxious to accompany her to Shelter Island in order to continue on with their studies, but this Mme. d'Arona will not agree to, as she proposes this summer to arrange the "d'Arona Special Teachers' Course" into sections, so that a pupil wishing to study one particular branch may do so without taking the full course.
46This will no doubt be grateful news to many who could not afford to take the full course, no matter how much they might desire to do so. Mme. d'Arona also promises to write during her vacation a few interesting articles for THE MUSICAL COURIER next season.
48Paris.
50M. LEON JANCEY GOES TO AMERICA.
52LÉON JANCEY is too well known in America, and by Americans at home and abroad, to need much heralding when he announces his intention of going to the United States for a season.
54With an established position in Paris as professor of lyric declamation, facial expression, and the laws of vocal interpretation and diction, M. Jancey unites a record as pensionnaire du Théâtre de l'Odéon and as officier d'Aca-démie. one of two readings
55With an established position in Paris as professor of lyric declamation, facial expression, and the laws of vocal interpretation and diction, M. Jancey unites a record as pensionnaire du Théâtre de l'Odéon and as officier d'Aca- démie. one of two readings
57To a finished art and graces of person he unites experience as a teacher and as a favorite dramatic recitationist in Paris salons. Young, handsome and gifted, he is an artist hors ligne in this line, and will be found invaluable in the élite affairs of New York society, in the arrangement of parlor theatricals, dialogues and amateur performances.
59M. Jancey hopes to reach New York about September 1, when he intends to take a studio in Carnegie Hall, and to give lessons to a limited number of pupils on the same principles that he does in Paris, returning by November 1 to resume his work here.
61M. Jancey has already had some 200 Americans as his pupils in the French capital, and numbers many as his warm personal friends throughout the States. He takes with him letters of introduction, recommendation and reference satisfactory for a consulship.
63He intends to make this American season an annual affair between September and November. As he insists upon a limited number of pupils this first season, M. Jancey begs that all those who would wish to form such a class will address him here at the earliest possible date to that effect. Terms, $5 a lesson.
65M. Jancey is not a vocal teacher and will not interfere in any way with such. He coaches, trains, teaches, in the French language, lyric declamation, facial expression, dramatic interpretation, &c., and will aid vocal teachers. He is needed in America to prepare students for their Paris operatic study or for theatre work, or perhaps to save them the expense and trouble of coming.
67Address 62 rue Condorcet, Paris. See card on page 3.
69FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS.
71Program Music.—The Echo Musical, of Brussels, publishes the program of Litoff's famous overture, Maximilien Robespierre. It is as follows:
73Andante, desolation and terror; Allegro, struggle of Robespierre and the triumvirs against the members of the committees; Poco ritenuto, the Marseillaise bursts forth, at first exultant, then mournful; A Tempo, outlawry of Robespierre and his accomplices; Sempre, erection of the scaffold, an immense crowd fills the square; Accelerando, Robespierre's head falls beneath the knife of the guillotine; Andante, stupor moved with affright, gathering of troops to a trumpet call; Allegro, end of the awful Reign of Terror has arrived, and cries of joy resound.
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