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Musical Courier 1907-10-02: Vol 55 Iss 14, 1907
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1CHICAGO, September 30, 1907.
3Albert Ulrich, of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, announces the engagement of the following new members for the orchestra: Herman Kortschak, first violin; R. Mangold, second violin; R. Maedler, double bass; M. Pottig, second horn; O. Schubert, first trumpet, and the return engagement of Carl Wunderle, first violin, and A. Heinicke, cello.
5F. Wight Neumann, who has been abroad since last June, has returned to Chicago and announces the date of the opening of his season as October 20, with Schumann-Heink, in an afternoon recital at Orchestra Hall. While abroad Mr. Neumann negotiated for some interesting attractions now pending, renewed many old acquaintances, and was entertained by many celebrities, including Felix Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Felix Mottl, Emil Paur, Marcella Sembich and Madame Gadski. Mr. Neumann also attended the Mozart and Wagner performances at Munich, the stage settings, orchestra and chorus of which performances he praises very highly; but the soloists, he remarked, are not on a par with the soloists heard in opera in this country. Mr. Neumann's list of artists for this year is of the same high standard maintained in the many past seasons and includes the following:
7October 20—Schumann-Heink, recital, Orchestra Hall.
8October 24—Max Bendix, recital, Music Hall.
9October 27—Marcella Sembich, recital, Orchestra Hall.
10October 30—Emma Calvé Concert Company, Orchestra Hall.
11October 31—Bessie Abbott Concert Company, Orchestra Hall.
12November 3—Vladimir de Pachmann, Chopin recital, Orchestra Hall.
13November 7—Charles W. Clark, recital, Music Hall.
14November 10—Madame Gadski, recital, Orchestra Hall.
15November 13—Operatic quartet, consisting of Edward Johnson, Gwylim Miles, Corinne Rider Kelsy and Mrs. Herbert Spencer, Music Hall.
16November 17—Josef Hofmann, recital, Music Hall.
17November 24—Teresa Carreño, recital, Orchestra Hall.
18December 1—Rudolph Ganz, recital, Music Hall.
19December 5—Annual recital of Walter Spry, Music Hall.
20December 8—Herbert Witherspoon, recital, Music Hall.
21December 15—Lawrence Rea, song recital, Music Hall.
22December 29—Glenn Dillard Gunn, piano recital, Music Hall.
23January 5—Orchestral concert, New York Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Hall.
24January 23—David Bispham, recital, Music Hall.
25January 26—Kneisel Quartet, Music Hall.
26February 2—Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, recital, Orchestra Hall.
27February 9—Harold Bauer, recital, Music Hall.
28February 23—Kneisel Quartet, Music Hall.
29March 1—Olga Samaroff, recital, Music Hall.
30March 29—Kneisel Quartet, Music Hall.
31April 5—Joint appearance of Fritz Kreisler, violinist, and Josef Hofmann, pianist, Music Hall.
32April 12—Emilio de Gogorza, recital, Music Hall.
33April 26—Fourth and last appearance of Kneisel Quartet, Music Hall.
35The dates given are as near correct as possible, and should any changes take place they will be duly announced.
37Dates have not been arranged for the following artists, who, however, are booked for Chicago: Francis Rogers, baritone; the Flonzaley Quartet; Frank La Forge, pianist, and Mrs. Hissem de Moss, soprano, as well as Director Mahler and the young violinist, Mishka Elman.
39Bernhard Ziehn's revised edition of his "Manual of Harmony," which appeared in the first edition several years ago, with all remarks, explanations and annotations in German, has just been published by the W. H. Kaun publishing house, of Milwaukee, with English translations, thus making this most valuable musical work of the day available to a much larger class of admirers. When the first edition of this "Manual of Harmony" appeared the critics of Germany wrote that it was "the work of a genius, to be recommended to every master, disciple, teacher and student of music." Profusely illustrated with excerpts, it gives proof of a wonderful knowledge of musical literature of every period in the history of art. Of a most interesting personality is the author of this work. Bernhard Ziehn, modest, retiring and quite unaware and not caring much for the world's opinion of his great work; gathering around him as pupils and disciples many of the representative artists of the day, and leading the quiet uneventful life of the ideal master who lives but for his work and his pupils. Born in Erfurt, Thuringia, on coming to America Mr. Ziehn taught in the public schools for two years, having been a schoolmaster in Germany; but later deciding on devoting himself exclusively to the profession of music, he has built a monument to his fame and reputation through his unequalled works on the science and art of music, and last but not least by the many talented pupils, acknowledged artists in their own line of work, who are pleased to call him master. Among these pupils may be mentioned Eleanor Everest Freer, Grace Wessel Chadbourne (author of the Shakesperian song cycle), Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Helen Louise Birch, Regina Watson, Helen Rudolph, Frederic Lillebridge, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Otto Wolf, Oscar J. Deis, Kenneth Bradley, and Glenn Dillard Gunn.
41It is interesting to observe, though it is well known in musical circles, that it is to Bernhard Ziehn that the musical world is indebted for knowledge concerning the solution of the unfinished fugue in Bach's "Kunst der Fuge," a query which has remained unsolved for almost 150 years; and for deciding the authorship of Luther's "Ein feste Burg," which had defied explanation for almost 350 years.
43A fact worthy of more than passing interest and one that will interest all pianists and teachers, is that Mr. Ziehn is the original inventor of the Contrarium Reversum and Symmetrical Inversion, a system for the acquiring of piano technic and now considered the only modus operandi among educated piano teachers. This work was published under the title of "System of Exercises for the Piano," in 1880, by Hugo Pohle, of Hamburg, Germany, since which time many systems and methods have appeared based on this original work, but to Bernhard Ziehn belongs the honor of discovering and propounding this now universally adopted system.
45Many articles from the pen of Bernhard Ziehn have
47EDWARD WALKER
48DRAMATIC-LYRIC TENOR
49CONCERT-ORATORIO-RECITAL
50Address 6437 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago
52CHICAGO ADVERTISEMENTS
54CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
55NOW BOOKING MAY FESTIVAL TOUR, 1908
56MAX BENDIX, Conductor
57EXCLUSIVE DIRECTION DUNSTAN COLLINS AGENCY AND MUSIC TEACHERS' EXCHANGE
58DUNSTAN COLLINS, President.
59MAX BENDIX, General Musical Director.
60PHILIP RAY, Manager and Treasurer.
61LABARTHE FRENCH PIANIST one of two readings
62LABARTHE one of two readings
63TWELVE RECITALS one of two readings
64Auditorium Hall, Season 1907-08 one of two readings
65FRENCH PIANIST one of two readings
66For programs and catalogs one of two readings
67ADDRESS: LABARTHE PIANO SCHOOL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
68STUDIOS one of two readings
69Kimball Hall one of two readings
70Chicago, Ill. one of two readings
71DRAMATIC SOPRANO one of two readings
72EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT one of two readings
73DUNSTAN COLLINS AGENCY one of two readings
74PHILIP RAY, Manager one of two readings
75Auditorium Building, Chicago, Ill. one of two readings
76RAGNA LINNE
77Mrs. THEODORE WORCESTER, PIANIST one of two readings
78CONCERT PIANIST one of two readings
79Exclusive Management one of two readings
80DUNSTAN COLLINS MUSICAL AGENCY one of two readings
81PHILIP RAY, Manager, Auditorium Building, Chicago one of two readings
82MRS. THEODORE WORCESTER, PIANIST one of two readings
83Exclusive Management DUNSTAN COLLINS MUSICAL AGENCY
84PHILIP RAY, Manager, Auditorium Building, Chicago
85MARIE WHITE LONGMAN
86(no line here) one of two readings
87CONTRALTO one of two readings
88Exclusive Management one of two readings
89DUNSTAN COLLINS Musical Agency one of two readings
90PHILIP RAY, Manager one of two readings
91Auditorium Bldg., Chicago, Ill. one of two readings
92MARC LAGEN, TENOR.
93(no line here) one of two readings
94Exclusive Management: one of two readings
95DUNSTAN COLLINS MUSICAL AGENCY, PHILIP RAY, Manager, Auditorium Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
96WALTER SPRY
97PIANO RECITALS
98Tour in Middle West, Nov. and Dec.; East, Jan.; South, Feb. Address 624 Fine Arts Building, Chicago
99AMERICAN CONSERVATORY
100KIMBALL HALL BUILDING, Wabash Ave. and Jackson Boulevard, CHICAGO.
101THE LEADING SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART IN THE WEST.
102Among the seventy eminent instructors the following might be mentioned:
103Piano—John J. Hattstaedt, Victor Garwood, Violin—Herbert Butler, Charles Mokrenhout, Allen Spencer, Henri Levy, Silvio Sciorti, Jennette Loudon.
104Theory, Composition—Adolf Weidig, Hubbard W. Harris.
105Stage—Keleton Hackett, Edward C. Towne, Ragna Linne, Jennie F. W. Johnson, John T. Read.
106Organ—Wilhelm Middelschulte.
108MAX BENDIX, Conductor one of two readings
109TWELVE RECITALS one of two readings
110Auditorium Hall, Season 1907-08 one of two readings
111For programs and catalogs one of two readings
112(no line here) one of two readings
113EDNA RICHOLSON
114MARY WOOD CHASE
115LUILLA GERTRUDE CHILSON
116ELAINE DE SELLEM
117THE COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART (Incorporated)
118AUDITORIUM BUILDING, CHICAGO
119Director, CLARENCE DICKINSON, Registrar, DR. WILLIAM CARVER WILLIAMS.
120PIANO DEPARTMENT
121VICTOR HEINZE
122JEANNETTE DURMO-COLLINS
123MRS. BRUNO STEINDEL
124SIDNEY J. SILBER
125KATHERINE HOWARD
126BERNARD HUGHES
127MAY D. LAURENT
128VIOLIN DEPARTMENT
129LEOPOLD KRAMER
130FRANZ ESSER
131Fritz Itte
132ORGAN
133CLARENCE DICKINSON
134MASON & HAMLIN PIANO USED
135SOME PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY.
136ELOCUTION.
137LULU TYLER GATES
138LANGUAGES.
139COUNT SPARZINI
140ERNEST SICARD
141MATILDA KIEMM
142EAR TRAINING.
143MRS. FREDERICK B. MORLEY
144DRAMATIC ART.
145DONALD ROBERTSON
146PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC.
147MARGARET SALISBURY
148HARMONY AND COMPOSITION
149CLARENCE DICKINSON
150For catalogue and further information address Registrar.
152HARRISON M. WILD Concert Organist one of two readings
153KIMBALL HALL, 243 Wabash Ave., Chicago one of two readings
154INSTRUCTION one of two readings
155PIANO ORGAN one of two readings
156CONDUCTOR—Apollo Musical Club, Mendelssohn Club. one of two readings
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