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Musical Courier 1903-02-04: Vol 46 Iss 1193, 1903
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1ISS LENA BEANE, of Augusta, gave an instrumental program in Bangor, Me., before the members of the Musical History Class, conducted by her sister, Mrs. Hamilton. This class consists of eighteen ladies who have met once a week since the 1st of November and under the instruction of Mrs. Hamilton have followed the course of music from its primeval state through the ancient and mediaeval periods to the modern epoch. Mrs. Hamilton's talks are said to be clear and concise. The subjects and programs have been: "The Origin of Music," "Early Notation and Its Development," "Rhythm and Its Advancement," "Ancient Music and Musical Instruments," "Mediaeval Music and Celtic Folk Songs," "National Songs and Other Characteristic Songs and Dances of Various Nations," "The Link Between the Mediaeval and Modern Periods of Music," together with the discussion and illustration of certain musical forms. This is the first of eight recitals to be given by Miss Beane in Bangor.
3Julius V. Seyler gave a studio musicale recently at Detroit, Mich.
5The younger pupils of R. H. Prutting gave a program recently at Hartford, Conn.
7N. Sidney Lagatree played at a concert given by the Waldo Quintet at Saginaw, Mich.
9A musical recital was given at Alvin, Tex., recently, by Miss Marguerite Smith's music class.
11Frederick Alexander gave an organ recital at the Flint Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich., January 9.
13Miss Louise Schellschmidt is a young harpist of Indianapolis, Ind., who plays in the German House Orchestra.
15Mark Hambourg was the soloist with the Heft Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Arthur Heft, conductor, at Des Moines, Ia.
17A recital by Mrs. Estelle Roy-Schmitz, pianist, and Herr Fritz Schmitz, violinist, was given at Watkin Music Hall, Dallas, Tex., January 20.
19The second of the lecture recitals on Schumann was given by Professor Lockwood January 14 at Freize Memorial Hall, Ypsilanti, Mich.
21The First M. E. Quartet, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is composed of Miss Grace Spencer, Grace Wheeler-Duncan, Thomas R. Williams, George Cave.
23A faculty recital of the music department of Baylor Female College, Belton, Tex., assisted by Miss Aura Belle Herring, was given on January 12. Nathan Sacks, director; Jessie Dockum, Carl Meiners, Aura Belle Herring, and Louella Jennings took part.
25At Roanoke, Va., an organ recital was given at St. John's Episcopal Church, January 22, by H. F. Williams, organist, assisted by the choir.
27John Thaler, of Calmar, Ia., has composed a new air for the words, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," which is a correct four part harmonization of a melody.
29The faculty of the Toledo, Ohio, Conservatory of Music gave a concert at the M. P. Church at Tiffin, January 30, under the auspices of the Wednesday Musical Club of that city.
31Mrs. Clara Jacobs-Feltmann, a former contralto soloist at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Mich., has been engaged to sing at All Souls' Church, New York city.
33Miss Myra Coleman Farming, soprano, and Miss Blanche Robertson, Ypsilanti, contralto, will sing at the next regular Wednesday concert of the Detroit, Mich., Conservatory of Music.
35The recital given by the junior pupils of Mrs. Mary Dutcher Atwood at the residence of W. Tracy Smith, St. Albans, Vt., recently was attended by a large number of friends of the pupils.
37Miss Marguerite Frye has been chosen as the leading soprano of the Trinity Episcopal Church Choir, at Seattle, Wash. A chorus of fifty voices, under the leadership of Edmund Butler, has been organized.
39A concert was given by Miss Leora Louise Beaubien, H. E. Holderness and Herbert B. Seymour, pupils of Elvin Singer, assisted by the Apollo Quartet, January 27, at Schwankovsky's Hall, Detroit, Mich.
41An organ recital and concert was given in the Reformed Church, Rhinebeck, N. Y., January 20. Frank J. Benedict, the organist, arranged a program which included works of Guillemant, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. Miss Grace Weir assisted.
43The Seattle, Wash., Conservatory of Music has given four scholarships instead of two, which have been won by the following: Piano, Mrs. Douglas W. Ross, Seattle; Miss Klockstead, Vashon Island; voice, Miss M. Chamberlain, Seattle, and James Forest, Seattle.
45The choir of the First Reformed Church, of Tarrytown, N. Y., is composed of Prof. J. M. Furman, organist and choirmaster; Miss Emma L. Silver, soprano; Mrs. D. S. Brome, contralto; M. W. Bowman, tenor; G. Herbert Cutmore, bass, and a chorus of fifty voices.
47The eighth of Albert H. Atterbury's subscription concerts took place in the Casino, Plainfield, N. J., January 15. The participants were Miss Edith R. Chapman, Mrs. Adele Laeis Baldwin, William H. Rieger and John C. Dempsey. Richard T. Percy presided as conductor.
49Elsa Ruegger gave a violoncello recital at the Western College, Oxford, Ohio, on the evening of January 20. The numbers rendered were of great variety and beauty, and enthusiasm ran high during the evening. Mlle. Ruegger was accompanied by Miss Sweezy, of the faculty of music.
51An impromptu musicale was recently given at the Sanford House, Jacksonville, Fla. Those taking part were Mrs. Carolyn Tew, Miss Ethel Savage, Mrs. C. W. Goodrich, Mrs. H. C. Whiteman, Mrs. Bolinger, Mrs. Ackerman, with G. G. Ackerman, A. E. Emnie, Gwynn Fox and Mr. Bolinger.
53Those who took part in the pupils' recital at the Conservatory of Music, Corning, N. Y., January 14, were: Regenia Tobias, Miss Verrill, Earle Costello, Loraine Sternberg, Mabel Magee, Mildred Fero, Dorothy Drake, Morris Braveman, Stanley Hall, Elthea Bronson and Helen Guile
55Local talent appeared in a concert at the Baptist Church, Rome, N. Y., January 22. Miss Jessica Phelps, Miss Broughton, Mrs. C. J. Durr, F. B. Hodges, T. J. Broderick, G. L. Prescott and J. Sheldon Tyler, and Mrs. George W. Sanborn, of Utica, and Miss Madge F. Leland, of Utica Conservatory, took part.
57One of the most enjoyable events of the season was the musicale given at Morristown, Tenn., recently, in which Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Knox, two musicians of San José, Cal., took the leading parts. Assisting were Miss Nita Rice, Mrs. Vaughtie C. Alexander, Miss Katharine King Davis, J. King Wooten, and Miss Davis, accompanist.
59An audience numbering over 300 listened to the cantata of "The Nativity" and selections from "The Messiah," given at Fall River, Mass., January 18, by a chorus of forty voices, under the direction of Thomas W. Allen. Miss Sarah Heywood gave the piano accompaniments and Albert Wood those for the organ. The singers taking the solo parts were Mrs. A. Bradshaw, Mrs. James Lightbown, Miss Edith Chatterton, Miss Ada England, Miss Edna Brewster, Mrs. H. E. Hunt, Herbert Schofield, William Jackson and Robert Daniels.
61A musicale was given by some of the pupils of Miss Burrowes, Miss Irene Griswold and Miss Mary Harvey at the Burrowes Piano School, Detroit, Mich., recently. The pupils taking part were Miss Edith Gonne, Miss Eleanor Boyd, Miss Mildred Welch, Miss Katharine Thorpe, Miss Albertine Boyce, Norman Megginity, Miss Gladys Mills, Sherrie Hardwick, Miss Mary Young, Miss Ethel Harris, Miss Elizabeth Ling, Felix Matthews, Miss Constance Cheney, Miss Margaret Stewart, Miss Hazel Forrester, Miss Geraldine Lowe and Miss Helen Bunclark.
63January 20, at Nashville, Tenn., Miss Elizabeth Price's pupils gave a unique program. The piano music was almost entirely from the compositions of Mrs. Emma L. Ashford, of Nashville, with songs from the "Santa Claus in Wonderland," by Mrs. Ashford and Mrs. Edwin Wiley. The piano pieces included a set from "Alice in Wonderland," two dances, "The Lobster Quadrille" and "The Fearsome Jabberwock." These are characteristic will their bright melodies and catching rhythm. Sketches were read so that the program followed Alice in her adventures. The players were all children.
65The faculty and departments of instruction of the Piqua, Ohio, Conservatory of Music are: Piano, Louis W. Sprague, Miss Carrie P. Doup, George H. Schaefer; voice, H. W. B. Barnes, Wilmer D. Lewis; violin, W. E. Simpkinson; organ, Louis W. Sprague; theory, harmony, composition and musical history, H. W. B. Barnes; sight singing, W. E. Simpkinson; modern, languages, German and
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