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Musical Courier 1907-10-02: Vol 55 Iss 14, 1907
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1engaged on the faculty of the Cambridge Theological School, will sing at Dr. Kellner's for the Author's Club early in October. His songs will include arias by Vanucini and Handel; songs by Noel Johnson, MacDowell and Constance Tippett, and a couple of songs with violin obligato by Eugen Lansay and Henry Guy.
3Benjamin Whelpley, one of Boston's established song writers, has returned from a summer's recreation in Maine. While away Mr. Whelpley wrote to some extent, and gave several recitals by request here and there in the inland towns of Maine, which were attended with much success. The two programs given in Houlton, in the Unitarian Church, for each of which a brilliant audience assembled, consisted of organ and piano pieces by Mr. Whelpley and several of his own beautiful songs sung by Mary Obey, a young Maine soprano who has been studying in Europe for a number of years, and said to possess a voice of exceptional quality. Mr. Whelpley played Rheinberger's fantaisie for organ in B major, romance in D flat, and among others his own "Evening Song," "Serenade" and "Under Bright Skies," closing with Beethoven's "Hallelujah" chorus. Miss Obey sang with much charm Chaminade's "L'ete," a couple of songs by Bemberg and Ronold, and a group by Whelpley, namely, "I Know a Hill," "The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold" and "White Rose."
5Arthur Foote and his family have been sojourning at the Hotel Moorland, Eastern Point, for the month of September. Mr. Foote has completed a piano and string trio on which he has been engaged during the summer and hopes to have it produced this winter.
7Bernhard Listemann has arrived in Boston and has opened a violin school in the Pierce Building, where he is now registering pupils for the season.
9Gertrude Walker, soprano, a pupil of Madame Salisbury and now teaching in Salem, spent her summer in Canada, but has returned and begun her season's work. Miss Walker sustained a sad loss in the early summer in the death of her father, Albert J. Walker, and an old and prominent musician of Salem, Mass., where both he and his daughter have appeared together in concerts.
11It seems to be a verified thing that Boston is to have the San Carlo Opera Company with us, beginning at the Majestic Theater on December 9. The hasty visit of this company last spring but whetted our appetites for more. Constantino, Miss Neilson, Victor Maurel, besides many others, will be heard, and "on occasion," as the notice reads, Nordica and Calvé will sing.
13Lois Ewell, until recently with the Castle Square Opera Company here, has joined the Savage Opera Company.
15Clara E. Munger and her assistants have resumed teaching in their beautiful new studios at 177 Huntington avenue. Miss Munger spent the summer in the hills of Vermont.
17Charles Anthony, so THE MUSICAL COURIER representative is informed, has been engaged as director of the Metropolitan School of Music of Indianapolis, Ind., the place formerly filled by Oliver Willard Pierce. Mr. Anthony is well remembered by his many friends here.
19Caroline Gardner Clarke-Bartlett will resume her teaching of voice October 1 at her new studio, Room 509, Pierce Building. Winburn B. Adams has been engaged as Mrs. Bartlett's assistant and lecturer, and Cora E. Bailey as répétiteur and accompanist.
21A small member of the boy choir of Trinity Church was being taught and coached by Miss Palmer in her Pierce Building studios when THE MUSICAL COURIER's represented entered. Miss Palmer said: "There seems to me to be no possible reason for the boy voice at the changing period to 'go to pieces,' and I think it is caused by undue strain, which I eliminate by careful training; that is, relaxed throats and perfect freedom with properly focused breath, and so far I have succeeded in having the choir boys whom I instruct retain their beautiful head register."
23Laura Hawkins, who has spent her summer between her beautiful farm home in New Hampshire and the hotels of Vermont, will resume her teaching at 6 Newbury street about the middle of October.
25Mary Ingles James has reopened her Symphony Chambers studios for fall work. Mrs. James announces an unusually early and large registration.
27Katharine Goodson and her husband, Arthur Hinton, have arrived in Boston from abroad, being entertained here by friends prior to the former appearing on Friday afternoon in a recital at the Worcester Festival.
29Richard Platt, pianist, after a couple of months of camp life, has opened his Steinert Hall studio for teaching.
31W. S. Bigelow, Jr., has been all the past week in the cities of New York booking his artists. Mr. Bigelow is meeting with the success he merits, and has the confidence of his people.
33Felicitas Freeman, the young Boston soprano now in Paris, writes that she will begin her studies of the French language and singing at the conservatory the first of October.
35Byron Hughes, of the Baldwin piano house, has returned from a vacation at his Cincinnati home. Mr. Hughes is a musician of sound merit, and it is hoped will be heard in Boston this winter. His accompaniments at a couple of song recitals in Jordan Hall last season showed him to be par excellent in that line.
37Arthur Curry, violinist, and a Boston man, prepared all of the analytical and historical notes found in the attractive Worcester Festival Calendar. Mr. Curry's studio is in the Pierce Building.
39Bostonians please take notice: News for this column must reach the writer on or before Saturday morning of each week to insure publication in the following Wednesday's issue of THE MUSICAL COURIER, otherwise there is a delay of nearly a fortnight occasioned.
41Extra copies of THE MUSICAL COURIER may be found at the Oliver Ditson Company's Tremont street establishment.
43WYLANA BLANCHE HUDSON.
45Effie Palmer Back From the West.
47Boston, Mass., October 1, 1907.
49Effie Palmer spent the summer in the West, teaching a large class in Chicago. "Her success is easily understood when you hear her teach," said Elizabeth Crawford, a teacher of voice in Texas, who studies every summer with Miss Palmer. "The Sbriglia method certainly frees the voice, and I have learned to sing without a particle of effort."
51Miss Palmer has installed assistants to aid in the placing of young voices, all entirely under guidance of Miss Palmer herself, who treats the voice as having all the delicacy of an instrument.
53"How did I like Chicago? Well, I was so busy that I had very little time to meet the musicians there, but I was very much impressed with the progress and activity. My Chicago pupils had beautiful voices, and I wondered if the fine air there was the cause. Yes, I shall both teach and sing this season. In fact my various programs are already arranged, and my voice was never better. I have English songs, of course, also Irish, German, Italian and French songs, which I intend giving this season."
55Madame Heineck-Lloyd in Washington.
57Anita Heineck-Lloyd, the dramatic soprano, is in Washington, where she is about to open vocal studios. With an experience of many years in opera and oratorio in Germany and France, and having taught in Carnegie Hall, New York City, for many years, she has come to be spoken of as one of the successful teachers of America. For the last few years she has been located in Richmond, where her pupils are now occupying salaried positions in seven of the foremost churches. Mme. Heineck-Lloyd is a fluent linguist, having four languages at her command. She has been associated with many of the most famous musicians of the world. A student with the well remembered Desirée Artôt du Padilla, of Paris; Prof. Ferdinand Sieber, and Prof. Otto Lessman, the critic, both of Berlin, she has certificates from them all. Her concert tours have been with such artists as Liebling, Scharwenka, Teresina Tua and Arma Senkrah. She has traveled from end to end of the United States in opera, having been engaged by Neuendorff and Amberg in New York, from which city the transcontinental tours were begun. Madame Heineck-Lloyd brings letters of introduction to many of the influential people of Washington, and is planning to introduce herself there in her own recital.
59California Pianist Married.
61The well known San Francisco pianist, Marion L. Bear, was married September 23 to Dr. John B. Cook, of Los Angeles. Mrs. Cook's future home will be in that city.
63Van der Stucken Home.
65Frank van der Stucken, of Cincinnati, the conductor of the Cincinnati Festival, returned a few days ago from a vacation in Europe.
67CARL SOBESKI IN SEATTLE.
69Boston, Mass., October 1, 1907.
71Carl Sobeski, who has been closely identified with the musical life in Boston for several years past, left in June to spend the summer in Seattle, Wash., expecting to return this fall to the large following established here by his excellent work of past seasons. His Eastern pupils now learn, to their extreme disappointment, that Mr. Sobeski, their "friend and teacher," as they fondly call him, will not be back in Boston this winter, but that on account of the great demand made upon him in the West he has decided to stay and teach the pupils who have made it decidedly to his advantage to remain in Seattle.
73Mr. Sobeski was widely known here in the East, both for his beautiful voice and his extraordinary gift—for gift it was—for teaching, and these, added to an exceptional personality which caused lifelong friendships to exist with all he came in contact with, make his departure a veritable loss for Boston. For the past few seasons Mr. Sobeski coached with the baritone, De Gogorza, cultivating this singer's ideas as to beautiful phrasing and artistic singing, and before he came to America he had already made a reputation for himself in European drawing rooms.
75That Mr. Sobeski will prove a musical acquisition to Seattle is without doubt, for his list already includes some of the most beautiful voices along the coast, which he will have for training. He will also give song recitals in the West, and as the east winds prove so disastrous he will doubtless regain in the fullest that beautiful lyric quality which has made his voice such a pleasure.
77Mr. Sobeski is located at the Graystone, in Seattle, and is already very much engaged with a large class. He writes:
79"I have some exceptionally beautiful voices, and shall enjoy my winter's work here, where everybody is so charming, and the air is so invigorating. Already my throat has improved, and I was never in better voice. I am slowly recovering from the street car accident which I sustained several weeks ago. Altogether, I am delighted with Seattle, but have in no wise forgotten my Boston friends and dear pupils."
81A Miss Eldridge, of Seattle, a soprano of much promise, has commenced lessons with Mr. Sobeski, who says she has a voice which, when trained, will be beautiful enough for grand opera. Among others is Claude Craig, a young tenor of rare vocal gifts.
83Mr. Sobeski will find a place in the musical life of Seattle, as he found one in the East. He is a man of pronounced influence, of broad musical gifts, and staunch and manly attributes.
85Bispham's Opening Song Recital.
87The following is the program which David Bispham will give at his opening song recital in Carnegie Hall, Sunday afternoon, October 13:
89O Rudder Than the Cherry, Acis and Galatea………………..Handel
90Adelaide……………………………………………..Beethoven
91The Wanderer…………………………………………Schubert
92Selections from Dichterliebe…………………………..Schumann
93Errinnerung…………………………………………….Brahms
94Ein Ton…………………………………………………Cornelius
95Cecilie…………………………………………………Strauss
96In Memoriam Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
97Des Dichters Letztes Lied.
98Mit Einer Primula Veris.
99Erstes Begegnen.
100Mit Einer Wasserlilie.
101Ein Schwan.
102Mein Ziel.
103The World Well Lost, (MS.)…………………….Walter Damrosch
104Accompanied by the composer.
105Who Knows?…………………………………………..Max Heinrich
106The Mad Dog (Goldsmith), from The Vicar of Wakefield.
107The Stuttering Lovers (new), arranged by Herbert Hughes, Old Irish
109The Guilimant Organ School.
111William C. Carl, whose return from Europe was noticed last week in THE MUSICAL COURIER, has been busily occupied in preparing for the reopening of the Guilimant Organ School and in perfecting the plans outlined for the season. Students are arriving from distant points. Mrs. Lawrence Canfield, organist of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, at St. Augustine, Fla. (H. M. Flagler's church); Harold V. Milligan, of Portland, Ore., and Hattie Ellen Ullmann, of Sisterville, W. Va., are already here. Mary J. Scarby will arrive from England in a few days, and others will come in rapid succession up to the opening of the school, October 15. Mr. Carl has been engaged to give inaugural concerts this month on the new organs in Randall Memorial Chapel, Sailors' Snug Harbor; Asbury M. E. Church, Tarrytown, N. Y., and First Presbyterian Church, Elmhurst, N. Y. Mr. Carl will play the opening recital of the series to be given under the auspices of the Guild of Organists, on Monday evening, November 11, in the Old First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Carl will bring forward several important novelties this season, and during the European trip has materially enlarged his repertory.
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