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Musical Courier 1898-08-15: Vol 37 Iss 962, 1898
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1Boston Music Notes.
2BOSTON, August 13, 1898
4ANNA MILLER WOOD, whose almost phenomenal success in this city has been watched with interest and satisfaction, finds herself equally successful in her native city, San Francisco, where she spends about four months of the year. Here in this city she has one of the best church positions attainable. She is in demand for concert work all through the season both in and out of the city, and her list of pupils is a long one, occupying every moment she can devote to them. In San Francisco she devotes herself to teaching and recitals in that city and nearby places. She speaks most enthusiastically about the beautiful voices she has to work with—the beautiful California voices, so many of which have already become known in the world of music.
6Among her pupils Alice Raymond Clark, who has been studying with Miss Wood for the past four years during the latter's visits to San Francisco, has recently been engaged to fill the contralto position in the First Baptist Church in Oakland, Cal.
8Carolyn Boyan, who has been Miss Wood's pupil and assistant teacher for the past six years, is the contralto at the First Methodist Church in Oakland.
10Evelyn Ashton Fletcher, the originator of the Fletcher Music Method, a method which is designed to give a systematic and logical musical education in a way to please children by appealing to their imagination, love of symbolism and the picturesque, will spend the greater part of August at Mont Eagle, Tenn., where she will give a course for teachers wishing to obtain the method. In the autumn Miss Fletcher will teach in New York.
12A young Bostonian, William Berger, is said to have carried off the prize of 2,000 marks for the best setting of Goethe's poem, "My Goddess," the prize having been donated by Dr. Walter Simon, of Königsberg. Mr. Berger has recently written a symphony which is to be produced at Mayence in the near future.
14Two Boston composers will be represented at the Worcester Music Festival—George W. Chadwick and Mrs. Beach—the former by "Lily Nymph" and the latter by "The Rose of Avontown." Mrs. Beach will write an orchestral accompaniment for her cantata especially for the festival.
16W. A. Howland, of Worcester, whose success when en tour last spring, has been mentioned in THE MUSICAL COURIER, will open a studio in Steinert Hall this autumn. Part of the week he will be found in the Boston studio, while the remainder of his time he will devote to his Worcester pupils. Boston is to be congratulated upon the accession of this fine musician.
18Among the recent arrivals at the Hotel Preston, Beach Bluff, are Clara E. Munger and Priscilla White, of Boston.
20A series of readings by George Riddle is announced to take place at the Louisburg, Bar Harbor, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the week of August 14.
22Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Adams are spending the summer at their lovely cottage at West Harwich on Cape Cod. As usual a number of pupils are continuing their studies with Mr. Adams during the summer months.
24Myron W. Whitney is entertaining a party of friends at his summer place at Long Pond, Plymouth.
26Arthur Whiting, formerly of Boston, is spending the summer at his country house at Cornish, N. H. Franz Kneisel, with his family, are also at this delightful mountain village, where he occupies the house of Thomas Dewing, a well-known artist of New York.
28Prof. Ernst Peiler, a well-known piano teacher and musician of Hartford, Conn., died August 5 at St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, where he had gone in search of health. His death was caused by nervous exhaustion, the result of overwork.
30Professor Peiler was sixty-eight years old. He was born in Posen, Prussia. Coming to this country when a young man he settled in Hartford about fifteen years ago, where he has since been very successful as a teacher. He has composed considerable church music, which is well known in Canada and England. The funeral took place in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday afternoon at St. Thomas Church, of which he was a member.
32Liebling Before the Queen.
33LONDON, August 5, 1898.
35THE German pianist Georg Liebling was summoned from his holiday in the Interlaken District to play before Her Majesty Queen Victoria, at Osborne, last Thursday. Mrs. Liebling accompanied him. They arrived Wednesday evening, crossed to Southampton and went to Osborne Thursday morning. The Court Circular of the Times of August 5 said in its announcement: Herr Liebling had the honor of performing the following pieces of music upon the piano before Her Majesty last evening:
37Fantasiestücke …………………….Schumann
38Auf Flügeln des Gesanges ………….Mendelssohn
39Rondo Capriccioso …………………Mendelssohn
40Andante Spianato et Polonaise ……..Chopin
41Fantasia from Don Giovanni ………..Liszt
42Suite à la Watteau ………………..Georg Liebling
43Louis XV.
44Marquise de Pompadour.
45Secret d'Amour.
46Bal Champêtre a Versailles.
48Her Majesty was very much pleased with Herr Liebling's interpretation of the various items on this program, and at the end of each signified her pleasure, and discussed some of the merits of each composition with him, always speaking in German. At the close, she complimented him very warmly upon his "Suite à la Watteau," each number of which, she said, she had enjoyed thoroughly. Afterward, she talked with him for some minutes about his various other compositions. Her Majesty asked to have Mrs. Liebling presented to her, which greatly pleased this accomplished lady, with whom she conversed for some time.
50The Queen finally presented Georg Liebling with a beautiful diamond pin set in a very pretty design, bearing her initials, V. R.
52This is one of the most felicitous appearances before Her Majesty this year, and the great artist will doubtless bear it in his memory throughout his life, as being one of the most pleasant occasions that can come to so few of those before the public. In this instance, his great talent has made him a worthy recipient of this distinguished honor.
54A Midsummer Musciale.
56Miss Eleanor G. Schults gave a "midsummer musciale" recently in Johnstown, N. Y., and achieved a success. With regard to her playing the local newspapers speak in very complimentary terms. Miss Schults will return to New York early in October to resume her studies.
58Manuscript Society Program.
60It is expected that the Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra program at the Madison Square Roof Garden on Friday, August 26, will be made up, as far as possible, of compositions by members of the Manuscript Society, which celebrates its tenth anniversary on that occasion.
62Heinrich Meyn.
64Heinrich Meyn, the baritone, has, since leaving New York last May, been enjoying a pleasant and profitable season in London and on the Continent. In London he sang at Georg Henschel's, Alma Tadema's, Jacques Blumenthal's, Miss Wilbur Phipps', Lady Hay's, Mrs. Amalie Lehmann's and Mrs. Liza Lehmann-Bedford's. He will return to New York in October for business, and will bring with him a new work by Liza Lehmann, in which he will be heard here.
66The National Conservatory.
67PROSPECTUS FOR 1898-9.
69THE National Conservatory is located at 128 East Seventeenth street, New York city. It was incorporated in 1885, under the laws of the State of New York, and chartered in 1891 by the Congress of the United States. The founder is Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber.
71Your attention is invited to the accompanying summary of the purpose and scope of the National Conservatory of Music of America, and to the details and cost of its curriculum, and to its faculty.
73PURPOSE AND SCOPE.—The Conservatory places the best obtainable musical education within the reach of all; it is open to those of every race, creed and color, upon the condition that they give proof of sufficient natural talent to justify their admission. The full course of instruction covers from three to six years, but varies with the aptitude and diligence of the students.
75THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR extends from September 1 to May 1. The hours of tuition are from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. and from 8 to 10 p. m. daily.
77THE SUMMER TERM extends from May 2 to August 12. To its advantages the attention of musical students in out of town colleges, seminaries, &c., and pupils in the enjoyment of a vacation period is invited.
79STUDIES.—THE VOCAL DEPARTMENT comprises a preparatory, a concert, an oratorio and an amateur course, the latter having been established for the many applicants desirous of profiting by the advantages of the Conservatory, without intent to embrace a professional career. The course includes singing, solfeggio and theory of music, deportment, fencing and chorus.
81OPERA.—The operatic department is devoted to a thorough study of all operatic roles, classical and modern repertory, dramatic action and diction.
83THE INSTRUMENTAL DEPARTMENT comprises instruction in piano, organ, harp, viola, violoncello, contrabass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trombone and orchestral ensemble. The course includes solfeggio, theory, harmony, counterpoint, composition and history of music.
85CLASSES FOR TEACHERS in every department are also in operation.
87CHILDREN'S SOLFEGGIO classes.
89EVENING CLASSES in singing, chorus, piano, solfeggio and theory of music.
91The artistic faculty consists of Rafael Joseffy, Adele Margulies, Leopold Lichtenberg, Victor Capoul, Gustav Hinrichs, Henry T. Finck, James G. Huneker, Max Spicker and others.
93The dates of the fourteenth annual entrance examinations are as follows: Singing—September 1 (Thursday), from 9 a. m. to 12 m., 2 to 5 p. m. and 8 to 10 p. m. Violin, Viola, 'Cello, Contrabass, Harp—September 2 (Friday), 10 a. m. to 12 m. Wood instruments—2 to 4 p. m. Piano and Organ—September 6 (Tuesday), 10 a. m. to 12 m. and 4 p. m. Children's Day—September 10 (Saturday), Piano and Violin—9 a. m. to 12 m. Orchestra—September 15 (Thursday), 2 to 4 p. m.
95Admission daily.
97Gustav Hinrichs.
99Gustav Hinrichs has moved into larger quarters at 145 East Sixty-second street, his steadily increasing singing class demanding it. His new studio affords him also the necessary room for his evening opera classes, of which two are complete and a third one is forming. The moment Mr. Hinrichs made it known in private that he was to inaugurate them applications came in at once, and before any public announcement was made the first two classes were filled.
101No wonder, if we consider the large number of successful opera singers now before the public who had their training from and owe their career to Mr. Hinrichs. There is no more competent and more experienced man in this country than he in his field. Mr. Hinrichs' first private musciale with his best pupils will take place in October, to be followed by regular monthly entertainments of a high artistic order, and public performances of his opera classes will follow later in the season.
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