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Musical Courier 1898-10-17: Vol 37 Iss 971, 1898
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1OUR CANADIAN DEPARTMENT.
3MUSIC IN CANADA.
5It is evidence of the growing importance of Canada that recognition of Canadian enterprise and art is wrung from the not too willing critics in the United States. A case in point is the opening of a department entitled "Music in Canada" in the leading musical journal on the continent, THE MUSICAL COURIER, of New York. Last week's issue contains the first of a weekly series of letters from Miss May Hamilton, Toronto, who has just been appointed Canadian correspondent for THE COURIER. Miss Hamilton is organist in Cooke's Church, and has already distinguished herself as a student of music. Her record at the Toronto Conservatory of Music is excellent, and her opportunities in New York were not thrown away. Miss Hamilton is enthusiastic, hard working and painstaking. Nor is she unskilled in writing. More than once have articles from her pen appeared in the Westminster, and she has been a frequent contributor to other Toronto journals. Her first letter is quite up to the mark.—Westminster Magazine, Toronto, October 8, 1898.
7Last week's issue of the New York MUSICAL COURIER contained an innovation which will prove most welcome to its large circle of readers in Canada, and which cannot but tend to increase the already wide influence in the Dominion of that most enterprising journal. A special department devoted to the musical interests of this country has been added to the many excellent features which distinguish THE MUSICAL COURIER among the leading musical magazines of our times. The attractive manner in which the matter relating to Canada is presented, both as regards the excellence of the editorial work, which has been intrusted to the care of Miss May Hamilton, of this city, and the prominence given the department in the artistic and elaborate heading adopted, illustrates in a practical manner existing foreign ideas as to the important position which is now being taken by this country in musical affairs. The aims of THE MUSICAL COURIER in initiating this new departure are best explained in its own editorial comments regarding the matter.—Saturday Night, Toronto, October 8, 1898.
9A paragraph in THE MUSICAL COURIER of New York, dated Wednesday, September 28, is as follows: "The first letter from the headquarters of THE MUSICAL COURIER in Canada, just established, appears in this issue of the paper, and will surprise the great bulk of our readers in the disclosures it makes on the remarkable musical activity among our closest neighbors. It was owing to this advancement of Canada in the musical world that THE COURIER felt the time had come when it must give as much attention and space to that country as to other countries, and without which the paper would at this stage be incomplete." That THE MUSICAL COURIER have secured clever Miss May Hamilton, of Rosedale, for their Canadian correspondent is for them a matter of congratulation, and interest to her many friends.—Mrs. Cecil Gibson in the Toronto Mail and Empire, October 14, 1898.
11Miss May Hamilton, of Toronto, has been appointed Canadian correspondent of the New York MUSICAL COURIER. Miss Hamilton has been a frequent contributor to Saturday Night over the signature "Hume Caswell."—Toronto Saturday Night, October 15, 1898.
13THE MUSICAL COURIER has added a Canadian department to its columns, and though somewhat belated, the feature is welcome. The publishers have discovered that along certain lines there is greater musical activity in Canada than in most other sections of this continent, and has appointed a Canadian representative, in the person of Miss May Hamilton, of this city, who every week writes an agreeable and newsy letter, and also, I understand, looks after THE COURIER's business interests. Moreover, THE COURIER proposes to drop its outside features and devote its columns entirely to musical interests. As the best weekly musical publication in America, it should speedily increase its already large reading public in Canada.—Touchstone (musical and dramatic critic), The Mail and Empire, Toronto, October 15, 1898.
15THE MUSICAL COURIER has organized a Canadian department, of which Miss May Hamilton, of Toronto, is the authorized representative. The Winnipeg correspondent, through the mediumship of Miss Hamilton, is Mrs. Dallas Peter.
17If these two ladies can put a stop to the coming of inferior Ontario musicians (?) to Winnipeg they will be doing the public a service. Of course, there are exceptions.—Charles H. Wheeler, in the Winnipeg Daily Tribune, October 8, 1898.
19A proof of the growing importance of Canada as a musical centre is to be found in the fact that THE MUSICAL COURIER, of New York, one of the best musical journals in the United States, has considered it necessary to institute a Canadian department in its columns. The issue of September 28 contains two pages devoted to musical matters in the Dominion. Miss May Hamilton, organist of Cooke's Presbyterian Church, has been engaged as the Canadian correspondent of THE MUSICAL COURIER, and her work in the issue to hand is a fair indication that the department will be well conducted. Miss Hamilton is a lady of recognized literary ability, several of whose contributions have from time to time appeared in the Globe and other papers. Miss Hamilton was the author of "St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, an appreciation by a Canadian Protestant," which appeared lately in the Globe. It was signed "Hume Caswell," and won much praise for the writer.
21In her correspondence in the current issue of THE MUSICAL COURIER, Miss Hamilton says: "The Canadian musician is a living, steadfast reality. There is nothing indefinite about him. He is a man of sympathetic nature, noble instincts, high aspirations. He loves his art and is true to his friends. He is proud of his country and is loyal to his sovereign. Possessing natural talent and la-
23WHAT IT SIGNIFIES.
25The Ovide Musin Violin School
26Season 1898-'99
27Permanent Address
28Steinway Hall
30New York October 12th 1898
31Editor Musical Courier.
33Dear Sir—
35I opened my virtuoso School of violin in New York in Aug. last and I have at present 26 pupils. Of this number 19 have come to me directly from my advertisement in your paper. I have seen the Musical Courier all over Europe, in India, Australia, China and Africa and yet I had no idea of its great value as an advertising Medium for artists and teachers until now.
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39Very sincerely
40Ovide Musin
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