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Musical Courier 1903-07-08: Vol 47 Iss 1215, 1903
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1Boroff, Mrs. Herbert Butler, Kirk Towns, E. Warren, K. Howe, Mrs. Sarah Cosgrove.
3The Heft Symphony Orchestra gave a concert June 22 at Des Moines, Ia. The soloist was Miss Eleanor Frater.
5The pupils of Miss Margaret Mears, of the Pontiac Studio of Music, gave three recitals in Pontiac, Mich., recently. The first recital was given by Miss Marguerite Giddings, assisted by Miss Kathryn Giddings and Clyde Giddings, both of Detroit. The program for the second recital was under the direction of Miss Mears, assisted by all of her pupils. The third recital was in charge of Miss Pauline Harris, assisted by William Leggett.
7The Harrisburg Conservatory of Music held its commencement exercises on June 16. The class of 1903, which graduated, consisted of Mrs. Charles K. Todd, Miss Alice Florence Miller, Miss Bertha Claire Grant, Miss Edith May Grissinger, Miss Sarah Anne Lemer, Miss Daisy Ellen Mathias, Miss Edna Katharine Shope, Miss Selina Ellen Lebo, Miss Effie Virginia Dorn, Miss Harriet Aubrey Parker, Leroy Oscar Myers and John Sylvanus Thompson.
9A musicale was given recently at the home of Miss Mary Conrade, Zanesville, Ohio, by the following pupils of her piano class: Annie McCarty, Elizabeth Roberts, Nannie Fuller, Edith Stacey, Helen Gordon, Winn Stacey, Clara Rowe, Alice Ebert, Margaret Brown, Katie McCarty, Nellie Bauer, Helen Poe, Carl Ferrell, Ada Carr, Helen Ludman and Ernest Harkness. Fannie Brush, Marguerite Matthews and Gertrude Hollister, pupils of Mrs. Graham Bailey, also took part.
11The annual concert by the pupils of the piano department of the Geneseo (N. Y.) State Normal School took place early in June under the direction of Miss Harriet G. Fraley, instructor of instrumental music at the Normal. There are forty-one pupils in the piano department this year, the graduates being as follows: Florence Allen, Buffalo; Lucia Byam, Mumford; Frances Downing, New York city; Frances Helmer, Almond; Reta McIntyre, York; Roy Outterson, Caledonia; Mary Robinson, Geneseo, all of the State of New York.
13Some of the best musical talent of Springfield, Ohio, assisted at the dedicatory service at the First Congregational Church June 21. There was a general chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Metta Rude Young, consisting of Favola Stephenson, Ebbie Moyer, Jeannette Mast, Mrs. Young, Belle Aldrich, Carrie Muzzy, Mae Forbes, Louise Henking, Roy Aldrich, Greer Foote, W. Louis Wood, Charles Bancroft, Ray Johnson, Harry Yeager, T. J. Thomas, W. H. Keifer. There was also a ladies' chorus, under the direction of Miss Marie Davies, consisting of Miss Laura Bakhaus, Miss Florence Wilder, Miss Elsie Watkins, Miss Havel Harris, Miss Louise Henking, Miss Ruth Adler, Miss Mae Forbes, Miss Emily Hougham, Miss Carrie Muzzy.
15A soirée musicale was given June 22 at Detroit, Mich., by the following pupils of Elvin Singer: Mrs. Oren Homes, of Hudson, Mich.; Mrs. Theodore Otis Leonard, Jr., Miss Glencora Bolton, Miss M. Isabel Day, Miss Genevieve Duers, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Miss Amy Wheeler, L. R. Carley, Wilford Goldman, Wm. K. Hamlin, of Toledo, Ohio; Frank Wise, Jr., assisted by Miss Ella Schroeder, violinist. On June 30 those taking part were Leora Louise Beaubien, Carlotta Fuller, of Leamington, Ont.; Mabel Fuller, of Leamington, Ont.; Myrtle Fuller, of Leamington, Ont.; Rosabelle Fuller, of Leamington, Ont.; Lucile McKellar, of Chatham, Ont.; Edyth Butler Rodda; Gertrude Summerville, of Chatham, Ont.; Nelle Rowe Timmons, of Bay City, Mich.; Cecil Violet Turner, H. E. Holderness, Robert L. Johnston, of Memphis, Mich.; Fred M. Shinnick, Ernest E. Sheppard, Herbert B. Seymour, Richard L. Whitton.
17The graduating class of the Knox Conservatory of Music, Galesburg, Ill., was: Piano Department—Winifred Genevieve Banschbach, Princeton; Edna Bearmore, Thayer, Kan.; Jennie Crain, Augusta; William E. Essick, Clarion, Ia.; Lulu Eyck, Galesburg; Helen Ferguson, Orion; Julia Estelle Ferris, Woodhull; Gioga Dagmar Gaston, Cerro Gordo; Addie V. Gibson, New Windsor; Grace Francis Grove, Galva; Gratia Hope Hyde, Prairie City; Harriet Elizabeth Kimpton, Galesburg; Winifred E. Morris, New Windsor; Mabel W. Olson, Galva; A. Clementine Tilden, Galesburg. Vocal Department—Lilian A. Elwood, Nashville; Lulu Eyck, Galesburg; Addie V. Gibson, New Windsor; Katharine M. Mars, Galesburg.
19Doane College, Crete, Neb., sends out an interesting year book for the past season. In the department of music the teachers are Walter Guernsey Reynolds, diploma from Mansfield (Pa.) State Normal Conservatory of Music, private pupil of M. Guilmant, and Madame de Picciotto, Paris, musical director, singing, piano, organ, theory; Jennie Chamberlain Hsoford, A. B., piano; Robert Lithgow Dick, private pupil of Miss Silence Dales and Gustav Mendendorf, violin and harmony. The school of music has had 189 pupils, the courses of study comprising the following branches: Musical theory (embracing the theory of sound, harmony, harmonization of melodies, modulation, counterpoint, imitation, canon, fugue, musical form, musical analysis, musical history and instrumentation, in all of which standard text books and reference books are supplemented by lectures), piano, violin, viola, violoncello, organ, voice, chorus singing, orchestra, ensemble practice and recitals.
21A graduating recital was given at the Detroit (Mich.) Conservatory of Music, by Miss Grace Mansfield, pianist, Ypsilanti, pupil of Francis L. York, assisted by Miss Charlotte Fankhauser, Powhatan Point, Ohio, pupil of Mrs. Norton, with Miss Ruby Pratt, accompanist, on June 19. Francis L. York director, James H. Bell secretary. The faculty is as follows for the summer session: Piano—Francis L. York, Lena McMaster, Mrs. M. D. Bentley, Alice L. Carpenter, Oleane Doty, Mrs. Louise V. Cragg, Mrs. R. W. Turnbull, Kate McDonald, Georgia Richardson, Mary H. Christie, Albert Mildenberg, of New York after June 15. Voice—Ida Fletcher Norton, Mrs. C. H. Clements, Fred. G. Ellis. Violin—Wm. Yunck, Frederica Moews, Ella Schroeder, Charlotte McDonald, Marian Graham. Organ—Francis L. York, Mary H. Christie, Mrs. M. D. Bentley. Violoncello—Emma McDonald. Harmony, Composition—Francis L. York, Kate McDonald, Virgil Clavier—Lena McMaster, Mrs. M. D. Bentley, Mrs. R. W. Turnbull. Public School—Mrs. Emma A. Thomas, Jennie L. Thomas.
23Miss Agnes C. Bryan, who was married at Calvary Church, Seventh avenue and 129th street, on June 29, to William Wallace Chandler, of St. Louis, Mo., is the daughter of the officiating clergyman, Rev. J. R. Bryan, of Plainfield, N. J. Miss Bryan has been for eighteen years supervisor of music in the South District Schools of Hartford, Conn., and the excellence of her work is evidenced not only by the personal letters of high praise she has received from noted educators in different parts of the United States, but by the fine singing and thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of music shown by the children and youth of Hartford. In the wedding ceremony Dr. Bryan was assisted by Rev. George H. Whitney, D. D. The bridesmaids were Miss Virginia K. Chandler, St. Louis; Miss May Bryan, Cranford, N. J.; Miss Edith Harker, East Orange, and Miss Anna Geer, of Hartford. The matron of honor was the bride's sister, Mrs. Russell R. Dorr, of St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. George Wornrath, an intimate friend of the bride, sang "Oh, Perfect Love," set to music by Mrs. Sumner Salter.
25The tenth annual song recital by pupils of Mrs. Lillian Sherwood-Newkirk took place June 9, at Lockwood's Hall, Norwalk, Conn. Those assisting were Miss Emma Kemper and Julian Walker, of New York. Miss Sally Betts, accompanist. Pupils 1900-1903—Mrs. Harry Sherwood, Mrs. Geo. Buxton, Mrs. Edw. Chasmar, Mrs. Geo. Raymond, Mrs. Jas. M. Kendal, Mrs. Robt. S. van Buren, Mrs. Harry Woodworth, Mrs. Frank Hubbard, Mrs. Arthur Jelliffe, Mrs. Chas. Simons, Mrs. Reed Haviland, Mrs. Warren Smith, Jr., Mrs. Hartley Williams, Miss Maud Cochrane, Miss Grace Adams, Miss Hattie Raymond, Miss Millie Wilcox, Miss Lelia Gregory, Miss Flora Sherwood, Miss Hattie Parker, Miss Ida Richmond, Miss Claude Bethel, Miss Edna Bradley, Miss Elizabeth Rood, Miss Martha Hegelein, Miss Ethel Slater, Miss Anna Staub, Miss Emma Kemper, Miss Alice Cram, Miss Mabel Sherwood, Miss Katharine Henry, Miss Florence Haviland, Miss Pearl Gregory, Miss Gertrude Dolge, Miss Jeanette Smith, Miss Helen van Wagenen, Geo. Gerbich, Rollin Sherwood, Spencer Adaps, C. B. Dolge, Chas. Gregory, Fred. Carder, Chester Benedict, Albert Mossman, Herbert June, Geo. W. Cram, Dr. E. E. Selleck.
27The Michigan Conservatory of Music.
29THE students of the Michigan Conservatory of Music, of which Alberto Jonas is the director, enjoyed a novel entertainment recently with Edouard de Reszke, the distinguished basso, as the chief entertainer. The following article from the Detroit Evening News tells the tale:
31With all his dignity left on the hall rack with his hat and cane, big Edouard de Reszke spent yesterday afternoon at the Michigan Conservatory of Music, apparently having the time of his life, singing and dancing the cake walk in the studio of his old friend, Maurice de Vries.
33The famous basso was as frankly happy to be away from his stage work as a small boy on a holiday, and was so genial to the pupils fortunate enough to be in the Conservatory at the time that they lost their very natural awe of so great an artist, and it proved a pleasant party all around, each one playing his or her little piece to the evident enjoyment of the honored visitor.
35After a long period of voluble chatter between the musicians, De Reszke told Director Jonas that he would like to hear some of the pupils play and sing, and a hasty skirmish was made through the Conservatory for volunteers. At first the pupils were too thoroughly overcome to respond, but the easy good nature and evidently sincere wish of M. De Reszke put them at their ease, and an informal musicale began. As each finished, the big chap came forward with a hearty handshake and a few broken words of appreciation.
37"It was like a thunderclap when M. De Reszke said he would be glad to take his turn, for, as everybody knows, the De Reszke brothers can rarely be persuaded to sing at the houses of the rich for thousands a night, let alone in a private studio in so informal a way," said Director Jonas this morning. "He was so unaffected about it that I was entirely overcome. He was in magnificent voice, and to Mr. De Vries' accompaniment sang the aria from 'The Magic Flute,' the aria from 'Emani,' the 'Golden Calf,' from 'Faust,' and an aria from 'La Juive.' In this latter, which was not the one he sang at the concert on Tuesday evening, the score calls for two octaves, from low E flat to high E flat, and De Reszke is probably the only basso who can sing it as written. Before commencing it he asked if the piano was of normal concert singing pitch, otherwise he could not attempt it. Fortunately it was, and he rendered the aria superbly. We were so delighted we hardly knew how to thank him, but waving aside all thanks with his cheery laugh, he lifted De Vries off the piano stool, sat down himself and began to play the rag time song, 'Hello, Mah Baby,' singing a bar here and there, and finally getting up and cake walking up and down the room, still humming the air. He laughed and laughed and seemed to thoroughly enjoy throwing off all restraint."
39Last night De Reszke broke another of his rules in indulging in a late supper and champagne, in offering a farewell to Mr. Jonas and Mr. De Vries. It was nearly 2 o'clock this morning before he left his friends, and he was up again at 6 o'clock to leave with the orchestra for Cleveland.—The Detroit Evening News, May 21, 1903.
41Among the other artists who have played and sung for the students of the Michigan Conservatory are Pugno, the French pianist; Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist, and Adelaide Norwood, of the Castle Square Opera Company.
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