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Musical Courier 1902-04-09: Vol 44 Iss 1150, 1902
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1piano, and really astonishes his hearers by the variety of his tone colorings, his technic and the expression and intelligence which he puts into all he does. His favorite trick is to modulate from the selection he has just finished into the one which he wishes to begin, and he does this with never a hesitation, with often most interesting and complicated transitions. Four of his own compositions which he played showed invention and made a very favorable impression. Little Miecio received plenty of applause, as also laurel wreaths, but I fully agree with the critic who wrote that he is sure the little man would have received a few boxes of bon-bons with much greater contentment.
2L. D. S.
4SINFONIA.
5Alpha Chapter.
6BOSTON, Mass., April 2, 1902.
8Editor Musical Courier, New York:
10THE Sinfonia Fraternity wishes to thank you for the notice of the publication of volume two of its annual year book in your paper of this date, but wishes at the same time to state that the first national convention took place April 16-20 of last year, and not of this year, as the review might be interpreted.
12The second annual convention will take place in Philadelphia this month, April 21, 22 and 23, at the Beta Chapter Rooms, Broad Street Conservatory of Music, and among others appearing on the delegate program are Alfred P. De Voto, pianist, Alpha; Louis E. Black, tenor, Alpha; John K. Witzmann (of the Philadelphia Orchestra), violin, Beta. The Boston delegates to Philadelphia are George W. Chadwick, Ossian E. Mills, Ralph Howard Pendleton, Percy Jewett Burrell, Frank Leslie Stone, Alfred P. De Voto, Henry H. Hall, Chas. P. Giard, Louis Black. An application has been received this date for a charter for the Sinfonia Epsilon Chapter at the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Mich., Albert A. Stanley director.
14The various chapters of the Sinfonia Fraternity keep THE MUSICAL COURIER upon their tables, and any information regarding the fraternity, the only music students' (male) fraternity in America, and its coming convention will be gladly given by Percy Jewett Burrell, 13 Allen street, Boston, convention press representative, or yours very truly,
15RALPH HOWARD PENDLETON, Secretary.
16Box 74, New England Conservatory.
18MASCAGNI'S DECADENCE.
20MASCAGNI has had a disappointment. The post of director to the Accademia di Santa Cecilia at Rome, left vacant by the death of Marchetti, for which he was a candidate, has been bestowed upon a musician named Falchi, the composer of an opera entitled "Il Trillo del Diavolo." Meanwhile Mascagni's position as a director of the conservatory at Pesaro seems to be somewhat uncertain. At the last meeting of the Pesaro town council serious complaints were made of his behavior. He receives a stipend of 12,000 francs, for which, it is alleged, he makes a very poor return. He leaves the conservatory to look after itself for ten months out of the twelve, and only goes to Pesaro for the bathing season, which happens to be holiday time at the conservatory. Mascagni is said to be engaged upon a new opera dealing with the girlhood of Marie Antoinette. It is high time that he began to redeem the promise of "Cavalleria." His later works have met with little success. Even in Italy, only one of them, his Japanese opera, "Iris," lingers upon the stage, while on this side of the Alps even the once popular "Cavalleria" is gradually dropping from the current repertory.—London Daily Graphic.
22Oratorio—Concerts—Festivals.
24FREDERIC MARTIN
25Basso-Cantante.
26ADDRESS:
27PINKHAM BUREAU,
2833 Union Square West, NEW YORK.
29149A Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS.
31KALTENBORN QUARTET
32FRANZ KALTENBORN, Solo Violin.
33WM. ROWELL, Second Violin.
34GUSTAV BACH, Viola.
35LOUIS HEINE, 'Cello.
36For Terms and Dates address
37FRANZ KALTENBORN, 80 W. 82d Street, New York.
39REBECCA MACKENZIE
40SOPRANO.
41Available for Concert, Oratorio and Song Recitals.
42Address FRED O. RENARD, Manager,
43444 Central Park West, NEW YORK CITY.
45JOSEPHINE S.
46JACOBY
47CONTRALTO.
48ADDRESS
49104 West 58th Street, NEW YORK.
50ALICE
51Sovereign
52CONTRALTO.
5362 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
55J. FRED
56WOLLE,
57ORGANIST.
58Address:
59THE WOLFSON MUSICAL BUREAU, 131 East 17th St., New York. one of two readings
60THE WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BIPPAT, 131 East 17th St., New York. one of two readings
62GEO. W. JENKINS,
63TENOR.
64Sole Management of
65REMINGTON SQUIRE, 125 East 24th Street, New York.
67HOLMES GOWPER
68TENOR
69Address Kimball Hall or Bureau of Fine Arts, CHICAGO.
71MUSICAL PEOPLE
73One of the best accompanists in Omaha, Neb., is said to be Mrs. Nettie Haverly Allen.
75The pupils of Franklyn Hunt gave a musical at his studio, Topeka, Kan., March 22.
77The pupils of the Patterson School of Music rendered a program recently at Sandusky, Ohio.
79Wright Beck has accepted a position as tenor in the male choir of St. John's Episcopal Church, York City, Pa.
81Miss Olive Whiteley, violinist, is one of the rising young musicians of Kansas City, Mo. She is a pupil of François Boucher.
83Under the auspices of Miss Edith Morton and Miss Emma Ryan an excellent concert was given in Chester, Pa., March 25.
85A vocal and instrumental program was given at the sixth pupils' recital at Bollinger Conservatory Hall, Fort Smith, Ark., March 28.
87The pupils of Miss Jeannette Clouse gave a recital in Toledo, Ohio, April 1, assisted by Bertram Schwahn and Miss Alexandra Baer.
89Henry Distin, of Philadelphia, is supposed to be the oldest living cornet player. He is now about eighty-two years of age, and has played the cornet seventy years of his life.
91The fourth of the series of chamber concerts was given at Y. M. C. A. Hall, Riverside, Cal., March 17. There were numbers by Miss Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Hurd, Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Rice.
93A recent organ recital at the Wurts Street Baptist Church, Kingston, N. Y., was largely attended. Among the selections were violin solos by B. W. Johnston, organ numbers by Mr. Goldsworthy, and vocal solos by Miss Gildersleeve, Mr. Eastmead and Mrs. Banta.
95Those who are studying voice culture with L. Harry West, Watertown, N. Y., have organized themselves into a mixed chorus. As Mr. West has a large class of pupils, he will have a well balanced chorus of twenty-six voices. Miss Nellie Louisa Welch, studio accompanist for Mr. West, will also be the accompanist for these rehearsals.
97At Corvallis, Ore., the finance committee has begun a canvass for funds for the May musical festival to be held in Corvallis by the Willamette Valley Choral Union the first week in May. The managers hope to raise enough money to provide an orchestra of over twenty pieces. The prospect now is that the chorus will number 200 voices. The selection of soloists has not yet been made. A local chorus of over 100 voices is under regular drill by Wallis Nash, president of the union.
99The initial public recital of the Brazelton Conservatory of Music was given at Ashland, Wis., on March 26, to one of the largest audiences that have ever assembled in the Methodist Church, and was a success. Caddie Rea, Mabel Bailey, Hattie Buckles, Frank Holston, Martha Lathrop, Emma Tarbox, Mrs. Thos. Griffith, Myrtle Withers, Anna Holston, Irene Whiting, Vera Warner, Josie Potter, Mrs. F. A. Dyer, Rosamond Lamoreux, Mrs. T. E. Lieby, Miss Huddie Stookey, Mrs. A. W. Sanborn and Hallie Carlin took part in the program.
101Services of song have a large place in the exercises at the First Church of Christ, Northampton, Mass. The choir is under the direction of Ralph L. Baldwin, organist, with Miss Caroline L. Benway, Mrs. Elsie C. Rice West, Miss Louise Wetherbee, Miss Jessie M. Purrington, Charles L. Sauter, Edwin C. Howard, Robert L. Williston and Albert E. Brown soloists. Other members of the choir are Miss Edith F. Chapman, Miss Grace L. Chapman, Mrs. Mabel C. White Eldridge, Mrs. Ella K. Howard, Miss Amelia V. Seaman, Miss Grace E. Taylor, Miss Nellie L. White, Miss Emma S. Whitney, Miss Miriam B. Clark, Miss Annie P. Cochran, Mrs. H. C. Day, Miss L. Jennie Granger, Miss Helen F. Maynard, Mrs. Charles L. Sauter, Miss Jeanie P. Soule, Miss Ivanetta M. Warren, Norman F. Butler, Clifford M. Clark, E. A. Copson, Chas. L. Hunt, Harry M. Smith, Frederick C. Ely, George A. Ely, C. A. Hosford, S. Francis Howard, Chauncey Parsons, F. W. Roberts.
103"The Story of the Cross," by Dudley Buck, was presented March 23 at Westminster Church, and in the evening at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Utica, N. Y., by the united choirs of those churches under the direction of A. L. Barnes. In the afternoon C. H. H. Sippel presided at the organ, and in the evening Mr. Barnes acted in that capacity. The soloists in the afternoon were Miss Eleanor Owen, Miss Grace Palmer, Robert J. Hughes and Frederick E. Swancott. In the evening the soloists were Misses Owen and Palmer and Elliott H. Stewart and H. H. Klock. Those presenting the work were as follows: Miss Eleanor Owen, Miss Elizabeth Teti, Miss Anna Suter, Miss Myrtle Roberts, Miss M. Fisher, Mrs. Frank J. Slawson, Mrs. Gertrude Thompson-Frensdorf, Miss Grace Palmer, Miss Lelia Ryan, Mrs. F. Baxter, Mrs. J. H. Jones, Robert J. Hughes, Elliott Stewart, F. J. Slawson, E. L. Woolworth, F. E. Swancott, H. H. Klock, Edward O'Connor, Albert Niles and Russel Wheeler.
105One of the most elaborate church musical services in the history of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., took place at Christ Church March 26. Sir John Stainer's "The Crucifixion" and numbers from the French and Italian composers were given. Those who took part were: Soloists—Adolf J. Friedman, William E. Weedon, Mrs. Edward W. Buckhout. Choirmaster—Edward W. Valentine. Organists—William E. MacClymont, Holy Trinity Church, New York; Harry S. Bock, Christ Church, Poughkeepsie. Chorus—Crosby Ackert, Frederick Ackert, Reon Bowen, John Bowen, Joseph Cox, Raymond Daviss, Harrison Hopson, Herbert Eastmead, Arthur Krum, Clarence Millspaugh, Walter Mark, Charles Madison, Bryant Owen, Donald Pallie, Frank Valentine, Roy Whiting. Misses Julia F. Alexander, Esther Sargent Andrews, Margaret M. Burt, Flora L. Courtney, Sarah Fisher, Virginia Cascheron Gildersleeve, Edith Gildersleeve, M. Irene Graham, Lillie A. Hunter, Frances S. Iler, Florence Kelder, Anne Myers, Alice Bond Minard, Elmer Lockhardt Pryor, Marie L. Reynolds, May Louise Reynolds, Estelle Sayre, G. Willfred Tripp, Mary Emott Woodin, Miss Ruth A. Bahret, Miss Marion I. Brownell, Mrs. John N. Graham, Mrs. Harriet A. Greenhall, Miss Florence Hannah, Mrs. John N. Johnson, Miss Clementine A. Kirchner, Mrs. Mary F. Lihou, Miss Lucy F. Myers, Miss Bertha May Round, Miss Emily A. Taylor, Miss Florence Van Vliet, Mrs. James Waring Wood, James G. Adams, Harry W. Conklin, Thomas G. Ethridge, Storm Emans, John N. Graham, William A. Osterhoudt, William H. Osborne, Isaac Platt, Henry Ransom, Allen S. Reynolds, Isaac Trolley, John Tracy, E. W. Valentine, Rev. W. G. W. Anthony, Edgar S. Bock, Frank H. Bock, James S. Boyd, Albert Fredricks, O. Robert Hosfall, George W. Krieger, Jr., H. Allen Myers, N. P. Merrill, J. Leverette Moore, Thomas Mewkhill, Jr., Percy L. Reynolds, Albert A. Simpson, Harry W. Valentine, Dr. L. C. Wood.
107MISS GERTRUDE VON BETZ.—Her pupils' recital given at the Baldwin studios in Carnegie Hall, on March 29, was a successful event. She is an excellent pianist, an excellent teacher, and deserves to make a success.
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