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Musical Courier 1905-10-18: Vol 51 Iss 1334, 1905
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1Greater New York.
3New York, October 16, 1905.
5SIGHT singing, ear training and choral music classes are resumed at Carnegie Hall, October 30, by Eva B. Deming, at 3 o'clock. She has taught these branches for ten years with increasing success, having investigated the best methods of Europe and America. Leading teachers of America, England and France have directed her studies and she has visited the prominent schools of the chief European countries, as well as America, in order to keep abreast of the times. Last summer she taught with much success in Chicago, amateurs and intending professionals preparing to teach these branches comprising her pupils. The importance of singers becoming broadly educated musicians also, of being able to read all vocal music, to read and follow all the parts as well as the instrument, in conjunction with their own singing, is all important, and this, and not voice teaching, is Miss Deming's specialty.
7The Mosher-Burbank lecture-recitals are well rounded, effective combinations of talk and illustrative music, by Emily Burbank and Florence Mosher, who have visited the countries on which they give their lecture-recitals. No lecture on Russia is as complete, as carefully worked out as theirs; Miss Mosher has played for some of the leading composers of Russia, and by living there, marking and benefiting by everything of musical interest, these young women give a fascinating hour, and are re-engaged this season for several important out of town places. Zelenski was especially warm in praise of their work.
9Amy Fay, president of the Women's Philharmonic Society, reports engaging the banquet hall at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the second Tuesday of every month for the concerts of the society. Miss Fay's book, "Music Study in Germany," is in its twentieth edition, and it may properly be called a classic in the field of music books. Vincent d'Indy, the French conductor, who is coming here, wrote a preface for the French edition of this book. Miss Fay is practicing hard, preparing for recitals she proposes giving this season.
11D. Frank Ervin, conductor of the People's M. E. Church, of East Sixty-first street, has accomplished much with the constantly changing material at his command. Wide-awake man and good musician combined, he has lately organized a choir guild for the further development of the music and to place on others the many details which he has so far assumed. Mr. Ervin is marked for yet higher things.
13Sergius I. Mandell has resumed violin instruction, his classes numbering many youngsters of pronounced talent, as demonstrated at his concert at Knabe Hall last season. A first class soloist himself, of genial nature and active temperament, his influence on pupils causes them to put forth steady effort.
15"Rosebud" and "Forget-Me-Not" are two rondos for piano solo by Hubert zur Nieden, written in fluent style, and very pleasing. They are dedicated to his little pupil Dorothy Neilson, of New York, and as they are carefully fingered to fit small hands, will suit many teachers.
17Platon Brounoff's lecture-recital on "Parsifal," with vocal and instrumental illustrations, for the William Morris Educational Society, was heard by 2,000 people. Before the Zionist Society he will lecture on "Hebrew Music and Folksongs," October 21, with vocal and piano illustrations.
19George C. Carrie, the tenor, returns from the Maine Festival laden with honors. He sang with Eames.
21Charles Meehan, once well known as "the boy soprano" (soloist at St. George's P. E. Church), is soloist now at St. Ignatius' Roman Catholic Church, Park avenue and Eighty-fourth street.
23Mme. Hervor Torpadie, returned from Onteora, in the Catskills, has been engaged as instructor of singing at the Finch School.
25J. Vernon Butler, conductor of the Worcester, Mass., Oratorio Society (now the "Pilgrim Chorus"), and vice president of the Worcester Festival Association, was in town last week. Edward Strong, Mrs. De Moss, Anna Bussert and Frederick Wheeler, among others, have sung with his society.
27Carl C. Müller, the nestor of harmony and composition teachers of America, found the "Aschenbroedel" entirely comfortable during the summer. He has resumed teaching.
29Mme. Noemi Fornier, the pianist and teacher, begins a piano ensemble class at her studio Wednesday mornings, for two pianos, four and eight hand playing, on October 18, calculated especially for sight reading.
31Beatrice Hall Fenety does the coaching at the Ely School, has piano pupils at Bayonne, N. J., and is a well schooled accompanist and teacher. Her piano recitals at Richmond Hill and at the St. Marks Club last spring were successful. Madame Decca recommends her.
33William H. Barber teaches piano Monday and Thursday afternoons at Mrs. Casper-Hartman's, 315 Riverside Drive.
35Horace Horton Kinney had a summer class in vocal music at Waverly, N. Y., and has resumed teaching here. He will continue the studio pupils' recitals this winter.
37Leopold Stokovski, organist and choirmaster of St. Bartholomew's, has heard many singers who desire to become solo singers in that choir.
39Silence Dales, the violinist, who studied here with Hubert Arnold, and was a soloist on Nebraska Day at the Pan-American Exposition, was married October 11 to Charles Tyler Knapp, of Lincoln, Neb.
41The Portland Sunday Telegram of October 8 publishes a full length portrait of Mme. Marie Cross-Newhaus, who, with Governor Cobb, assisted at the reception to Madame Eames at the opening of the Maine Festival.
43"Modern Vocalism" is the title of a ten page pamphlet by Asa Howard Geeding, the baritone and teacher, in which he says many things pertinent to singing.
45Marguerite S. Rutty has returned and resumed lessons in the Yersin phono-rhythmic French method and lyric dictation.
47Paul Listeman, the popular violinist, and Giovanni Ronconi, the latter just returned from Milan, have been added to the faculty of the Grand Conservatory of Music, Dr. E. Eberhard, president.
49At the Wirtz Piano School this Friday evening, October 20, occurs the first of a series of musicales which will take place at frequent intervals during the season. The participants are to be Mrs. Charles A. Wood, soprano; Juliet Kinney, piano; Arthur L. Beard, violin; Conrad Wirtz, piano, and Agnes Sumner Geer, reader. The program is made up of works by Handel, Foote, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Huss and Rogers.
51Charles A. Baker had charge of the music at the Pulitzer-Webb nuptials, on October 14, at Shelburn, Vt. A musical program was given by a quartet, consisting of Ada Chambers, Mrs. Dunn, Edward Johnson and Julian Walker, and the boy choir of St. Thomas' Church.
53Frederick W. Schalscha has removed to 1189 Madison avenue, near Eighty-seventh street, the Madison Avenue Day School, where he has charge of all musical affairs pertaining to this school. He will provide competent teachers for all branches. He expects to give musical evenings during the season, in which both pupils and teachers will participate. Mr. Schalscha is from the Royal High School of Music, Berlin, a pupil of Joachim and Halir.
55Lillian Miller has originated a specialty, that of overcoming hand difficulties in piano playing, not through mechanical means, but by a series of special technical exercises. Small hands, "hard" hands, and weak fingers and wrists are developed. She teaches also accompanying, harmony and counterpoint, and some of her compositions are becoming known in wider circles.
57Arthur Philips, conductor of the Amateur Glee Club, solo baritone of the Brick Presbyterian Church, has begun what promises to be a good season at Carnegie Hall. He studied with Homer Norris in Boston.
59A. H. Wilson may be seen daily from 11 to 1, on the subject of the voice, 109 West Forty-seventh street.
61Flora Finley, the violinist, was the guest last week of Mrs. Frank Seymour Hastings, on a yachting trip.
63The Lachmund Conservatory will this month give a repetition of the "Piano Concerto" concert of last June, at Mendelssohn Hall, this time at the conservatory parlors, when the seven solo pianists will be accompanied at a second piano by Mr. Lachmund. The affair attracted unusual attention in June, and small wonder, for it was highly enjoyable and well carried out.
65Elizabeth Boyer has returned from California, where she spent a delightful summer.
67Sedohr Argilagos, soprano, in whom many prominent society and financial lights were interested when she lived in London, is likely to be heard again this season.
69Edward Bromberg had a good rest the past summer, and his voice was never in as good condition. Safonoff, the Russian conductor, and Dr. Otto Neitzel, the German pianist and composer, indorse him highly, in duly signed letters.
71Charles Herbert Clarke, besides his private vocal teaching, has a choral society of nearly 100 voices, connected with the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
73Ernest R. Kroeger, the composer and organist of St. Louis, Mo., expects to visit New York Christmas week. It is likely some new songs of his and a quintet for piano and strings will be done by the Manuscript Society this season.
75Esther White teaches voice and coaches for concert and choir singing, having studios in New York and Summit,
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