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Musical Courier 1906-09-26: Vol 53 Iss 1383, 1906
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1BIRMINGHAM.
2BIRMINGHAM, Ala., September 20, 1906.
4That "creaking sound," referred to in the last number of THE MUSICAL COURIER, is again heard in Birmingham. All the musical machinery is being put in order for the work of the new musical year.
6The Birmingham Conservatory, in the new studios in the Cath Building, is entering upon its twelfth year, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. William Gussen.
8A new college of music, recently founded by two resident teachers, Edward G. Powell (vocal) and Frederick L. Grambs (piano and organ), is to be conducted under the management of Roy Young, violinist, formerly from Chicago. Studios for the school have been secured with the Jesse French Piano Company.
10At the Pollock Stephens Institute, the music department is in charge of Henry Taylor Staats, piano, and Madame Kein-Mullin, voice.
12Bertha Van Mekestyn-Severin, who was at the Institute last season, has accepted a position with the Birmingham Seminary, where she had previously taught for a number of years. The marriage of Miss Van Mekestyn to Carl Julius Severin took place in August of this year.
14Daisy Rowley and Norma Schoolar, two successful teachers, are both busy preparing studies for their pupils, who are returning one by one.
16Sara Mallam, of Birmingham, but professionally of Chicago, has issued circulars announcing her season of work as a singer in concert and recital. Miss Mallam spent two years in preparing the repertory of English ballads, negro dialect songs and German lieder referred to in her leaflets.
18Pauline Alber, a Birmingham girl, who has spent the past year in New York City studying voice culture, has been in Paris, and will visit Germany before returning to her native country.
20Mrs. J. S. Dunwoodie, formerly a teacher of piano in Birmingham, has just entered upon her duties as supervisor of music in the public schools of St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Dunwoodie will retain her studio at Tampa and teach there a part of the time, assisted by her son, R. G. Bailey.
22Helen van Hoose, of Birmingham, has recently been the guest of her cousin, Ellison van Hoose, the noted operatic and concert tenor, at the Van Hoose country home, at Princess Anne, Md.
24Safonoff and Lhevinne in London.
26London is to have a foretaste of the opening feature of the New York musical season. Safonoff and Lhevinne, who as conductor and soloist, will be the star attractions of the Philharmonic's opening concert, on November 17, have been engaged for a joint appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra in Queen's Hall on October 10.
28The program announced for the concert is as follows:
30Overture, Midsummer Night's Dream………….Mendelssohn Orchestra.
31Concerto in E flat, No. 5, Emperor…………….Beethoven
32Toccata………………………………………Schumann
33Gavotte………………………………………Gluck-Brahms
34Nocturne, op. 9……………………………….Scriabine
35Polonaise in F sharp minor……………………Chopin
36Concerto in E flat, No. 5……………………..Rubinstein
37Suite Kavkass………………………………..Ippolitoff-Ivanoff Orchestra.
38Pastoral………………………………………Ippolitoff-Ivanoff Orchestra.
39March…………………………………………Ippolitoff-Ivanoff Orchestra.
41Lhevinne's reappearance in London is awaited with great interest, as following his successful debut there three years ago, he met with an accident while cycling the morning after his concert and was forced to abandon his tour. Safonoff, who has been summering with his family at his country residence at Kieslovodz, in the Caucasus, leaves Russia this week and will join Lhevinne in Paris. Following their London concert, they will sail for New York on October 13.
43Rudolph Aronson's Associates.
45Rudolph Aronson has associated with him Edward Seguin, son of Zelda Seguin, the famous contralto, and for years a musical enthusiast and business man of repute in the West; and George N. Loomis, the concert manager identified with the Paderewski, Melba, Strauss Orchestra, Sousa and other tours.
47Both Messrs. Seguin and Loomis will assist Mr. Aronson in the management of the Concert Direction Internationale in America, at 1402 Broadway, New York. Mr. Aronson devoting much of his time to the offices in Paris, London and Milan.
49Risler, the pianist, will give a series of Beethoven recitals in the large European cities this winter.
51MUSIC IN HOLLAND.
52THE HAGUE, September 12, 1906.
54The Kurhaus at Scheveningen is for the moment the only place where the musical pulse of the country is beating. Never before this season has the director presented so many soloists. Arthur de Greef scored one of the greatest successes with a concerto by Mozart and the Hungarian fantasy of Liszt. In an afternoon concert Jan Sickesz made a good impression with a concerto by Saint-Saëns. Next year he will be invited for an evening concert. We heard with pleasure the Portuguese violoncellist, Miss Sieggia, who has made most notable progress since her first appearance at The Hague. Annie de Jong, who has not appeared at the Kurhaus in four or five years, had the honor to play there Saturday night for the first time a hymn for violin with orchestra, by A. Diepenbrock, of Amsterdam, for whom the Dutch musical world has a special regard. Though this composition does not belong to the virtuoso genus, and must be heard more than once to be fully appreciated, it was well received, and the performer was recalled several times. She had the same success also after a Mozart adagio and Hellmesberger's "Ball Scene."
56Kreisler will be here Wednesday. Possart is expected, too, and also Mr. Scharrer's successor, Dr. Kunwald, who will take charge of the orchestra at once.
58The Italian Opera will begin the season with "Giaconda," the French Opera with "Faust."
60An avalanche of concerts, orchestral and not orchestral, is being prepared. At Amsterdam a third concert agency has been started. It promises us Busoni, who has not been in Holland for many years past.
62Dr. J. de Jong.
64Milwaukee Germans to Hear Great Artists.
66MILWAUKEE, Wis., September 22, 1906.
68The members of the Deutscher Club, of Milwaukee, will hear a number of the great artists who are coming to the United States this autumn. Rosenthal is engaged to open the series of brilliant entertainments on October 25. Petschikoff, the Russian violinist, is to follow the Austrian pianist on December 6. After the New Year there are to be more concerts, with Schumann-Heink and Emilio de Gogorza as the soloists. The great contralto will sing for the club on February 8 and the celebrated baritone on March 21. The committee in charge of arranging the details of the social events of the club includes Charles J. Kasten (chairman), Anton H. Ott, Louis F. Scheckler, Bruno Fink, Dr. O. H. Foester and Dr. Hans Reinhard.
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