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Musical Courier 1902-03-26: Vol 44 Iss 1148, 1902
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1ROSALIND L. BILLING.
3MISS ROSALIND L. BILLING, a young and promising singer, is a native of Michigan, and took her first singing lessons at Notre Dame Seminary in Indiana. Her teachers there were impressed with the development of her voice, and encouraged by relatives and friends Miss Billing came to New York for advanced study. The young woman was fortunate in the selection of a teacher here—Mme. Emma Wizjak-Nicoleso—who is not only an excellent voice teacher, but who herself achieved fame as prima donna at the leading opera houses in Europe. Under Madame Wizjak-Nicoleso's guidance Miss Billing made rapid advancement. Last Wednesday evening the young singer made her first public appearance in New York at a concert given at the Waldorf-Astoria. The ballroom of the hotel was crowded with a fashionable audience, but there were also many musical people present, as well as several critics, and these predicted great success for the young artist. Miss Billing's voice is a pure, high soprano, very sympathetic in quality.
5The audience first heard Miss Billing in the duet from Mozart's "Don Giovanni," "La ci darem la mano," which she sang with Felix Hughes, and despite nervousness the soprano executed the difficult music with sincerity and charm. Later Miss Billing sang a group of songs—"Summer's Here," by George S. Aspinwall, and "At Parting," by Rogers, and in both revealed beauty of voice and expression. The audience recalled her several times. Miss Billing has a good stage presence and is very attractive in appearance.
7April 10 she will sing for the Y. M. C. A.
9Semnacher's Summer School.
11WILLIAM M. SEMNACHER, the head of the National Institute of Music, has made elaborate preparations for his summer school at Rockaway Park, which will be opened early in June. In a few weeks Mr. Semnacher will take possession of the building which he has had erected on a beautiful lot near the ocean. This is a large and modernly arranged building, admirably suited for the purposes for which it was erected. Mr. Semnacher expects to conduct classes all the summer, and will have the assistance of the members of the faculty of his institute. Already a large number of applications have been received from all parts of the country. Many teachers will avail themselves of the privilege offered to take a course of instruction from the "Leschetizky of America," as Mr. Semnacher has been called. Mr. Semnacher's season has been an exceptionally successful one from all points of view, and he expects to be busy all the summer.
13KUBELIK'S FAREWELL OF "FAREWELLS."
15JAN KUBELIK, the Bohemian violinist, followed his farewells at Carnegie Hall last Friday afternoon, and at the Metropolitan Opera House last Sunday night, by giving his farewell of "farewells" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night. As the young man sailed for Europe yesterday (Tuesday) he was unable to give any more "farewell" concerts. A large audience taxed the seating and standing room capacity of the old Brooklyn Academy, and for Brooklyn it was a "Connais tu le pays," from "Mignon," and Bizet's "Pastorale."
17Rudolf Frimi accompanied for Kubelik. This was Kubelik's third Brooklyn recital. The first and second were given under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute and the third was managed by Edward H. Colell, manager of Wissner Hall. The receipts for the third recital were several hundred dollars in advance of the first and second recitals.
19Innes and His Band.
21O WING to the great success which Innes and his band achieved at the Herald Square Theatre upon their recent appearance there, Manager Sam. S. Shubert has contracted for another recital by this splendid organization, which is now announced for Easter Sunday evening. In addition to the band, a notable array of soloists have been secured, including Signora Adele Borghi, Bohumir Kryle, Achille Alberto, Edgardo Zerni and Miss Frances Boydell. Easter music will be a feature, and a pleasurable program is assured.
23Watkin Mills.
25T HE eminent English basso sails from Southampton on the St. Louis on March 29 after singing in "The Messiah" the previous evening at Albert Hall, London. His tour extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and will cover a period of fifteen weeks. He sings at the Louisville (Ky.) Festival on April 23 in Verdi's "Requiem," and at Dayton, Ohio, with the Amici Club in a recital. He is accompanied on his tour by the Polish pianist, Eduard Parlovitz. The following is from the Bradford (England) Courier of March 13, referring to the Choral Society's production of "Elijah" on the 12th inst.:
27"Of the principals Watkin Mills must be accorded the pride of place, not only because he had the most prominent part, but because he filled it with such marked power and ability. He seems to have matured his conception of the Prophet. He gives it unction without exaggeration, dignity without stolidity, while his voice is as even, round and ringing in quality as ever it was."
29Baernstein Again in the West.
31A FTER singing "The Creation" with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston on Sunday next, Mr. Baernstein goes direct to Minneapolis and St. Paul for two performances of "The Creation," Gounod's "Faust" in Providence, R. I.; Detroit, Mich.; Springfield, Mass., and Kansas City, Mo.; the Verdi "Requiem" and the Mendelssohn Club concert in Chicago; "Stabat Mater" and recitals in Toledo, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind., and other Western cities will keep this favorite artist busy for the coming month.
33The plans are already in work for a trip to the Coast for next season in joint recitals by Sara Anderson and Joseph Baernstein, which is arranged to include about sixty of the most important cities in the United States and Canada and to cover a period of twelve to fourteen weeks.
35Eleanor Cleaver.
37M ME. ELEANOR CLEAVER, the contralto, who made such a successful appearance here two weeks ago, will sail for Europe again on the St. Paul on April 2. She goes to fill a number of engagements in London and Paris, and will probably return to America in the early fall.
39PUPILS' RECITAL.—On Saturday, March 22, the pupils of Miss Clara Bell Bagg gave a piano recital at her studio, No. 139 East Sixty-third street.
41The pupils who played were Miss Eunice MacKay, Miss May Ryan, Miss May Joyce, Miss Marie Pulling, Miss Flora Lente, Miss Annette Joyce, Miss Ethel MacKay, Miss Mary Wheelhan, Miss Nannie Atterbury, Robert Bagg, Jr., and Mathew Wheelhan, Jr.
43The work done by the pupils was excellent, and was plainly the result of painstaking and conscientious teaching. Miss Bagg herself played the Sonata in C minor and Chopin's Grand Polonaise in A flat.
45Portraits of Successful BOWMAN PUPILS
47ADDRESS E. M. BOWMAN, Piano and Theory Studio, Steinway Hall, New York.
49EDWIN VAILE McINTYRE, A. C. M. Organist of the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis. Piano, Organ and Theory Pupil of E. M. Bowman.
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