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Musical Courier 1906-09-05: Vol 53 Iss 1380, 1906
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1CARUSO will sing at the Berlin Royal Opera in October.
3THE musical competition of the Paris Société Musicale, recently announced in THE MUSICAL COURIER, is to close on October 1, 1907, instead of October 1, 1906, as originally planned.
5THE Rosenthal tour is being managed along new lines. Some visiting pianists do their piano playing in America by cable, before they reach these shores; Rosenthal evidently intends to do his by hand after he gets here.
7THE London Telegraph announces that Madame Patti has decided to close her professional career. The London Telegraph is slow, as usual, for THE MUSICAL COURIER announced the same news twenty-nine years ago and every year since.
9THERE is a report from abroad, received just as THE MUSICAL COURIER is going to press, that Dr. Muck is very ill in Berlin and has undergone a serious operation. The late hour at which the news arrived prevents verification through THE MUSICAL COURIER's regular European cable sources.
11Some persons think that President Roosevelt's spelling reform should be applied to music also. Then we would have this simplified code: Simfonie, Skerzo, Nokturn, Rapsodee, Fewg, Obo, Cord, Baytovn, Shopan, Tchykufskee, Greeg, Strous, Shoobert, Shooman, Berlio, Goono, Dandy, St. Sang, Putsheeny, Mascanyee, Hydn, List, Vogner, Glook, etc.
13JOE GANS, a negro, and "Battling" Nelson, a white man, fought for the lightweight pugilistic championship at Goldfield, Nev., on Labor Day. Official returns of the fight place the gate receipts at $78,000. Why not include this act in the vaudeville section of the director's benefit performance at the Metropolitan next winter? Art is always art, no matter what form it takes—especially in America.
15David Bispham Sails for England.
16David Bispham sails for England on the Philadelphia next Saturday.
18REED MILLER
19TENOR
20WOLFSON, BUREAU, 131 East 17th Street
22New England
23CONSERVATORY
24OF MUSIC
25BOSTON, Mass.
26GEORGE W. CHADWICK, Director.
27To be a student here is to enjoy privileges in a musical education that are within the reach of no other school in the country.
28Situated in Boston, the acknowledged music center of America, it affords pupils the environment and atmosphere so necessary to a musical education.
29Reciprocal relations established with Harvard University afford pupils special advantages for literary study.
30Every department under special masters.
31Class or private instruction.
32Pianoforte, Organ, Orchestral Instruments and Vocal Music Courses are supplemented by such other branches as Composition, History of Music, Theory, Literature, Diction, Choir Training, Piano, Accompaniment, Critical Pianoforte Tuning Course in one year. The Normal Department trains for intelligent and practical teaching in conformity with Conservatory Methods.
33The privileges of lectures, concerts and recitals, the opportunities of ensemble practice and appearing before audiences and the daily associations are invaluable advantages to the music student, who is now much in demand as teachers and musicians.
34For particulars and year book, address
35RALPH L. FLANDERS, Manager.
37LILLIAN BLAUVELT TO APPEAR IN NEW COMIC OPERA.
39The musical and theatrical world does not present today a more interesting career than that of Lillian Blauvelt, who a number of years ago was singing in a Brooklyn church for a few hundred dollars a season, and who will this year receive the stupendous sum of nearly $100,000 for one season's work in comic opera.
41The American songstress made her initial venture in comic opera last season, having previously appeared in grand opera in London, Paris, Rome and Brussels. The new opera is to be under the personal management of Joseph Weber, at whose theater its initial performance will be given on December 31.
43Lillian Evans Blauvelt, singer, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Blauvelt. As a small child she evinced a decided talent for music; at five she began the study of "solfeggio," and at seven the violin; at eight she made her first appearance in public at Steinway Hall, New York. Her vocal training was under the instruction of Jacques Bouhy, and after his return to Paris she studied with him for several years. She then accepted an offer from the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, as première soprano légère, and made her debut in opera in "Mireille," with such success that she was encouraged to learn other roles (Juliette, Margherita, Mignon, etc.), all of which were given; but, her health failing, she was compelled to cancel her contract and returned to her native land, where, after some months of rest, she again appeared in public with Anton Seidl in New York City. During the following years she sang in hundreds of concerts and oratorio recitals in the leading cities of the United States and Canada. In 1898 she went to Italy to study the language, and while in Rome heard that the soprano who was engaged to sing in the "Manzoni Requiem" (Verdi) had been taken ill, and, volunteering, learned the part in Latin in four days and acquitted herself with such success that she attracted the attention of Queen Margherita, who commanded her to sing at the Quirinal. During the autumn of 1898 she made debuts in Munich and London, after which followed a successful tour through Germany, England, Austria, Hungary, Holland and Switzerland. In February, 1899, she was married in Rome, Italy, to William F. Pendleton, an American. From 1898 to 1904 Madame Blauvelt made annual tours through Europe and America, singing with the great orchestral and oratorio societies, and in addition had the distinction of singing before many royal personages in Europe, among the most prominent having been the late Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle; His Majesty King Edward VII, at Buckingham Palace; Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria, Princess Beatrice, Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein, the Dowager Queen of Italy, Margherita, at the Quirinal, Rome; the late King Umberto, the King and Queen of Italy, and from several of these she has received recognition in the shape of jeweled decorations. Perhaps the greatest honor ever conferred upon any singer was bestowed upon Madame Blauvelt in Rome, on April 7, 1901—the decoration of the Order of St. Cecilia, presented by the oldest musical society in the world, the Royal Academy of St. Cecilia, which was founded in 1585. The order is a limited one, and in the history of the academy but seven others have been awarded the decoration, Madame Blauvelt receiving the eighth. She is the only English speaking person and the only woman who has ever been so honored in the 316 years of its history, and her name is carved on a marble tablet on a wall of the academy, a fitting tribute to her marvelous talents. Madame Blauvelt's voice is a high soprano, of very pure timbre and dramatic in quality; with this is united a musical intelligence which enables her to impart to the work its true interpretation; the range is from G to D—nearly three octaves.
45The above extract, from the National Cyclopedia of America, gives a general outline of the career of the famous singer, and which shows what pluck, perseverance and push, combined with intelligence, hard work and application, will do for one who is determined to reach the highest rung on the ladder of fame.
47Work seems to be Blauvelt's chief desire and ambition in life. Besides being a linguist of ability, speaking French, Italian and German, Blauvelt is also an accomplished violinist and pianist, and is an exceedingly clever raconteur.
49ROLLIE BORDEN-LOW SOPRANO
50Concerts, Recitals, Oratorio
51SPECIAL FRENCH PROGRAM
52Management: ANDERSON MUSICAL BUREAU, 7 West 42d Street
53VOCAL INSTRUCTION—RESIDENCE STUDIO, 43 West 10th Street
54Telephone 514 Chelsea:
56LILLIAN PRAY SOPRANO
57Personal Address:
58The Deshler, 124 West 114th St.
59Phone 1175-R, Morningside
61MISS MARIE NICHOLS
62THIRD AMERICAN TOUR
63ENTIRE SEASON, 1906-7
64Direction: LOUDON G. CHARLTON
65CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK
66Beginning November, 1906
68HEGEDÜS
69VIOLIN VIRTUOSO
70THE GREAT HUBAY'S TRIBUTE TO HEGEDÜS—
71"He has tremendous technic, added to a fiery Hungarian temperament, and a singing, sensuous tone, recalling Wieniawski; a rare combination, assuring for him great success and recognition in America.
72For terms and dates apply to RUDOLPH ARONSON, Concert Direction Internationale
7331 West 31st Street, New York
75MLLE. ELIZABETH PARKINA
76PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO
77WORCESTER FESTIVAL
78FOUR SEASONS AT COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, ENG.
79En Tour During October, November and December, Heading HER OWN CONCERT COMPANY
80Tour Under Direction of S. KRONBERG & CO., 1402 Broadway, New York City
81Telephone 3619-38th Street
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