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Musical Courier 1903-07-08: Vol 47 Iss 1215, 1903
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1CHAUTAUQUA
3CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., July 2, 1903.
5THE thirtieth annual assembly of the Chautauqua Institution opened here today under the usual favorable conditions. Since THE MUSICAL COURIER will be personally represented on the grounds during the entire season, and as the opening days come too late for an extended letter of review for the present issue, your correspondent deems it advisable to devote the space of the present week to an outline of the principal musical events that have been arranged for the season, together with the names of the prominent musicians that have been engaged to take an active part.
7The list of musicians who will appear at Chautauqua this year is a long and interesting one. It will be seen at a glance, to those familiar with music at Chautauqua during the past years that a decided step in advance has been taken in this branch of art. I will append also the cities from which these artists come, and the dates of their sojourn at the assembly:
9Emilio Agramonte, New York, voice, July 6—August 28.
10Miss Carrie A. Alchin, Cincinnati, ear training and pedagogy of music, July 6—August 14.
11James Bird, harmony, July 6—August 14.
12Miss Helen Buckley, Chicago, August 7—30.
13Miss Carmela Carbone, New York, soprano, July 17—August 7.
14Miss Grazia Carbone, New York, contralto, July 17—August 7.
15George Crampton, Chicago, bass, July 2—17.
16George H. Downing, Binghamton, N. Y., bass, July 17—August 7.
17Dr. Carl E. Dufft, New York, vocal instructor and soloist, July 3—August 30.
18Mrs. Carl E. Dufft, New York, voice, July 6—August 28.
19I. V. Flagler, Auburn, N. Y., organist, July 3—August 30.
20Alfred Hallam, New York, director of music, July 3—August 30.
21Mrs. Katherine Cordner Heath, Columbus, Ohio, soprano, July 2—17.
22Harry O. Hirt, Erie, Pa., accompanist.
23Edward P. Johnson, New York, tenor, August 7—30.
24Miss Georgia Kober, Chicago, pianist.
25Mrs. Marie White Longman, Chicago, contralto, July 2—17.
26Sol Marcossen, Cleveland, Ohio, violinist, July 2—August 30.
27Horatio A. Rench, Washington, D. C., tenor, July 2—17.
28William H. Sherwood, Sherwood Music School, Chicago, concert pianist and composer, July 2—August 30.
29Mrs. E. T. Tobey, Memphis, Tenn., pianist.
30Henry B. Vincent, Erie, Pa., assistant director of music, July 3—August 30.
31Chautauqua Band and Orchestra, of twenty pieces, under the direction of Hallam and Vincent, playing both string and brass instruments, taking part in the regular concerts and giving daily twilight promenade concerts.
32Children's Chorus, directed by Mr. Hallam, to be organized early in July.
33The Grand Chorus, directed by Mr. Hallam, will be organized July 2 and drilled daily throughout the season.
34The Guitar and Mandolin Club, directed by Mrs. Anna M. B. Robertson, of Wellsville, N. Y.
35Male Glee Club, directed by Mr. Hallam.
36There will be three grand concerts each week, generally Monday evening, Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening, by well known soloists, assisted by the Chautauqua Chorus and Orchestra, under Mr. Hallam's direction. Mr. Flagler will also give frequent organ recitals in the Amphitheatre and the pupils' recitals of the Chautauqua School of Music will also be given in the Amphitheatre and at Higgins' Hall. There will also be that sterling series of piano, violin and vocal recitals in Higgins' Hall by Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Marcossen and Dr. Dufft throughout the entire season.
37On Friday evening, August 7, the chorus will give Mendelssohn's "Elijah." The soloists will be Miss Helen Buckley, soprano; Miss Grazia Carbone, contralto; Edward P. Johnson, tenor, and Dr. Carl Dufft, bass.
38The Chautauqua Dramatic Club has arranged to give the morality play "Everyman" on two evenings, August 11 and 13. This production of Mr. Frohman's was one of the artistic and financial successes of the past season in New York, Boston and Chicago, and the club is to be congratulated upon attempting its presentation.
39Outside of music many prominent men and women in educational and scientific work will appear. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, will again be a visitor to Chautauqua during August.
40The musical program of the present week is as follows:
41July 2.—Organ lecture recital, Beethoven's Second Symphony, I. V. Flagler.
42July 3.—Organ lecture recital, "Wagner's Music Dramas," I. V. Flagler.
43Vocal recital, Dr. Carl Dufft.
44Evening Quartet Concert: Soloists—Mrs. Katherine Cordner Heath, soprano; Mrs. Marie White Longman, contralto; Horatio A. Rench, tenor; George Crampton, bass.
45July 5 (evening).—Sacred song service.
46July 6.—Organ recital, Mr. Flagler.
47Patriotic Concert (evening).—The Chautauqua Choir, soloists and male quartet.
48July 8.—Ballad concert.
49July 10.—Concert of American composers: Chautauqua Chorus and soloists, Sol Marcossen, violinist.
50To those readers who are not acquainted with Chautauqua the following extract from the Quarterly will perhaps give the most concise interpretation one could wish. It says:
51Chautauqua is many sided. It stands for a great system of summer schools, for an elaborate program of lectures, concerts, conferences and entertainments, for an agreeable social life, and for an outing in the country. If too much emphasis is laid on any one of these things the others are likely to be neglected.
52People who have never visited Chautauqua are likely to think of it as a place crowded with eager students, jostling each other in their anxiety to find places in the class room and lecture hall. It is true that a great deal of thorough work is done in the class room, and library, and laboratory at Chautauqua; but, on the other hand, it is well to point out that hundreds and even thousands of people enjoy the summer at Chautauqua without taking part in any systematic or thorough intellectual work. To be sure, an attendance upon popular lectures, the enjoyment of classical and popular concerts, all have an educational influence; but for those who need rest and rational recreation it is possible to make these things really incidental and subordinate to a thoroughly interesting and stimulating out of door life.
53The lake offers opportunities for excursions on swiftly flying steamers, for trips in small yachts and launches, for rowing and sailing. There are many streams which make their way into the lake and suggest pleasant exploring expeditions, with a picnic supper as an element of the trip.
54The roads of Chautauqua County are kept in admirable condition, and invite bicycle runs and long tramps and drives to many places of interest. The shore of Lake Erie, with its surf, its high shale cliffs and magnificent view of a great inland sea, is a favorite point.
55Those who enjoy their sport vicariously find in the baseball matches, and in the athletic contests on the lawn or in the water, much of a fascinating interest. The organized athletic life under the auspices of the School of Physical Education is of a thorough character. Hundreds of students are enrolled for systematic normal courses, for calisthenic drill, and for specialized forms of sport and athletic exercise.
56It is clear from these suggestions of out door opportunities of Chautauqua that those who shrink a little from the strenuous intellectual life in the summer time need not have any fear that Chautauqua will make undue demands upon them. There is the widest choice of interesting occupations. Chautauqua holds up as an ideal symmetry of life. It aims at sanity and balance. It seeks to keep in just proportion the different elements of wholesome, stimulating, all around living. The life is rich, and thorough, and interesting, just because people of widely varying tastes and sympathies unite and co-operate on the basis of a fundamental belief in the essential righteousness of all the various elements which contribute to symmetrical living.
57RALPH HOWARD PENDLETON.
59Saar Going Abroad.
61LOUIS V. SAAR, the composer, sailed for Europe the Fourth of July on the steamer Phenicia, of the Hamburg-American line. He will go from Hamburg direct to Leipsic to consult with the publishers of his more recent compositions. The new Piano Quartet successfully performed at Mendelssohn Hall the past season is included in the list. There is also a new violin sonata, a sonata for 'cello, and several choruses. Mr. Saar's fame is growing abroad. He wins prizes "right and left," as one of his admirers said during the Baltimore Saengerfest, where his song was sung in the exciting contest for the Kaiser's prize. The jury selected Mr. Saar's composition out of a list of nearly 400.
62Mr. Saar expects to return to New York about September 15.
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