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Musical Courier 1906-06-13: Vol 52 Iss 1368, 1906
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1VACATION DAYS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
3Wise men sometimes say unwise things. The philosopher who wrote, "Traveling is a fool's paradise," lived in an age when floating hotels and palace cars were unknown. Today nine out of every ten persons under sixty want to see the world. In this desire the members of the musical profession lead the procession of itinerants in both the old and new worlds. The middle of June finds pianists, violinists and singers scattered like the birds of the air. Some are filling engagements in strange lands and others are resting in retired places, and many others are "on the wing," traveling hither and thither.
5Caruso is in London. The famous tenor will sing in Germany and Austria before he comes back to New York to reap another fortune.
7Ysaye will be found at his beautiful home near Brussels. The violinist, as some readers of THE MUSICAL COURIER know, is to return to the United States for another tour this coming winter.
9Elsa Ruegger, the gifted 'cellist, has joined her kindred in the Belgian capital. Miss Ruegger is coming to this country again next autumn for her fifth American tour.
11Luisa Cappiani is in Italy, en route to her summer villa in Switzerland.
13Emma Thursby and her sister, Una, are in London. Later they will go to the Continent.
15Herbert Witherspoon, the American basso, is filling engagements in London. Mrs. Witherspoon is with him. July 10 the Witherspoons expect to leave England for Germany.
17Felix Hughes, the baritone, from Cleveland, Ohio, is in London.
19Hermann Klein is preparing to go to Chautauqua Assembly for his first summer at that healthful educational resort. Mr. Klein is to conduct the vocal department in the Chautauqua School of Musical Art.
21William H. Sherwood, the distinguished pianist, from Chicago, will again be at the head of the piano department at Chautauqua.
23Madame von Klenner is in Paris. She will come back the end of June and then go to Point Chautauqua, above the Chautauqua Assembly, on beautiful Lake Chautauqua, and reopen her summer school for vocalists.
25Louis Victor Saar is in Germany. When he returns to this country he will locate in Cincinnati, where he has accepted the position as master of the theory department at the College of Music in the Ohio metropolis.
27Henry Holden Huss and Hildegard Hoffman Huss will soon leave New York for their lovely summer home on Lake George, N. Y.
29S. C. Bennett will remain throughout the summer at his school for singers at Asbury Park, N. J.
31Arthur Claassen is rehearsing the Brooklyn Arion for the triennial sängerfest of the Northeastern Sängerbund, to be held the first week in July, at Newark, N. J. The same week Mr. Claassen will leave New York for a trip abroad.
33Carl Venth and Mrs. Venth are on their way to Italy. Their itinerary includes Germany, Belgium and France.
35Julius Falk, a young American violinist, is among the numerous artists of the bow who are at the present time attracting attention in London.
37Marc A. Blumenberg, editor in chief of THE MUSICAL COURIER, and Mrs. Blumenberg are in Paris.
39Theodore Björksten, the Scandinavian-American tenor, and Mrs. Björksten are in London.
41Laura E. Morrill will open her vocal studio at Stockbridge, Mass., the first week in July.
43Dora Duty Jones, the teacher of diction in four languages—English, German, French and Italian—has a class for the summer months in London. Miss Jones will return to New York in the autumn.
45Lhevinne, the great Russian pianist, is preparing his programs in Paris for his coming tour of the United States.
47Edvard Grieg is one of the lions of the hour in London. Edmund Severn and Mrs. Severn are in Springfield, Mass., planning pupils' recitals in piano, violin and voice. Later these successful masters will spend their vacation traveling in their own country.
49Eugene Bernstein, the pianist and teacher, has planned to spend the entire summer up in Spokane, Wash.
51Francis Walker, the baritone and teacher, is also one of the musical personages of importance in this progressive city in the Pacific Northwest.
53Mary E. Cryder, the Washington, D. C., teacher, singer and manager, is in Europe.
55Adolf Glose, the pianist, now of the national capital, and his clever daughter, are in London.
57The Lombardi Opera Company, with Elena Marin, as the leading prima donna, is filling engagements in Mexico.
59Jessie Shay is to be one of the attractions at the coming convention of the New York State Music teachers to be held at Geneva, N. Y., next week.
61Mme. Schumann-Heink has engagements to sing at the Sängerfest in Troy, N. Y., June 27, and at the Sängerfest in Newark, N. J., the beginning of July. The famous contralto is resting at her country home near New York. She is booked to sail for Europe July 8.
63The Berlin Philharmonic, with Kunwald, of Frankfort on the Main, as conductor, are announced to visit Holland this month.
65Members of the Swedish National Choir of the Young Men's Christian Association, under the direction of Hugo Lindquist, of Stockholm, are due in New York this week. This aggregation is booked for a tour of twenty-four concerts through the States of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska and Missouri.
67George Sweet will divide his summer months between his New York studio and his graceful villa at Parkhill on the Hudson.
69Blanche Marchesi is one of the singers for whom there is a ready demand during the June season in London.
71Grace Whistler-Misick, the American contralto, is one of the favorites in the musical world of the British metropolis.
73Robert Blass, the basso from the Metropolitan Opera House, sailed for Europe on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, Tuesday of last week. He will sing at the performance of "Parsifal" in Amsterdam and then go to Germany for three weeks. Blass is coming back to this country for the German singers' festival in St. Paul.
75Jack Mundy, the baritone and vocal teacher, will resume his summer camp in "The Pines," Chestertown, N. Y., after June 15.
77SPOKANE.
79SPokane, Wash., June 6, 1906.
81If the rapid increase in musical affairs continue, the Pacific Northwest will soon be as deeply concerned in music as the older cities of the East. The bookings for Spokane already announced for next season include Campanari, who is to sing here in October; Schumann-Heink, who is to come in January, and Rosenthal, who is to give a recital in March. Nordica and Ysaye are among the possibilities. The success of musical attractions in Spokane this past year have encouraged local managers to offer guarantees for this coming winter.
83The Saengerbund of the Pacific Northwest will hold its next meeting in Spokane one year from the present summer. This organization includes all the German singing societies of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Western Montana. The Spokane singing society, Harmonie, already is commencing its preparations for the entertainment of the German singers. The exact date has not yet been set. The "Bund" meets once every two years. The last fest was held at Portland, Ore., during the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
85Vincent Methodist Church was crowded a few evenings ago by an audience of musicians assembled to hear the closing lecture of a series which Julia Schelling, of Bruton Hall, has been giving before the Wagner Club. The attendance at these lectures has been a surprise to musicians of the city and is another indication of the growing sentiment. Some of the best artists in the city participated in the program. Miss Schelling's lecture was a comprehensive analytical presentation of the Wagnerian themes and style, in which the essential differences between the "Meistersinger," the subject of the lecture, and other great compositions of the master were shown.
87Eugene Bernstein is expected to leave New York June 1 for Spokane, where he will spend the summer.
89"Everybody Works but Father."
90(How They Sing It in Boston.)
91Every one labors except our distinguished progenitor.
92He reposes in a recumbent position within our residence through the day,
93His pedal extremities idling upon the bronze of the steam radiator,
94Serenely engaged in extracting nebulous atmosphere from a tobacco receptacle of mundane matter.
95Our maternal mentor receives soiled linen for the purpose of cleansing it,
96And in this connection I should include filial Ann.
97Indeed, everybody is engaged in some variety of occupation in our domestic habitat—
98Excluding, as primarily suggested, our distinguished progenitor.
99—Springfield Republican.
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