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Musical Courier 1907-12-04: Vol 55 Iss 23, 1907
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1First United Presbyterian Church last week. The orchestra comprises a number of well known non-professional players and has twenty-eight members, under the direction of Charles T. West. Mrs. Leonard C. Jones sang a group of songs, and Joseph Howard, harpist, assisted.
3The Mayo-Rhodes Quartet, which comprises Madame Mayo-Rhodes, soprano; Ferne Whiteman, alto; J. Ernest Tompkins, tenor, and W. D. Russell, bass, is busy with engagements.
5Florence Gumm, who will be heard as soloist with the symphony orchestra during the season, has taken up her music seriously and has accepted the position of solo soprano in the First Baptist Church.
7Adams Owen is now the second bass of the Mendelssohn Male Quartet, in place of Cole D. Schmidlap, lately deceased.
9The Temple Quartet's personnel includes Frank Farmer, first tenor; Llewellyn Jones, second tenor; C. W. Kettering, first bass, and Fred Carringer, second bass.
11Ada Castor has returned from New York and is now solo soprano in the quartet at the Central Presbyterian Church.
13Tuesday evening, November 19, the Apollo Club gave the first concert of its seventeenth season. The writer is pleased to record it the best of all the Apollo concerts given during the past five years. The club gave its accompanist, David McKinley Williams, an evening off and sang every number unaccompanied, with pleasing fidelity to pitch and such exquisite shading as only the really musical could fully appreciate. The director, Henry Houseley, has worked very hard. Charles W. Clark assisted the club and pleased even more than when he sang here before.
15A heavy enrollment is reported in the Mayo-Rhodes studio and includes a pleasing percentage of really promising voices.
17WILLIAM DAVID RUSSELL. one of two readings
18William David Russell. one of two readings
20Buffalo.
22BUFFALO, N. Y., November 30, 1907.
24The concert given by the Pittsburgh Orchestra, assisted by Madame Fremstad, on Monday of last week, was one of the finest ever heard in Convention Hall. Mr. Paur and Madame Fremstad responded to many calls.
26Evelyn Choate is giving a series of instructive lecture-recitals Thursday mornings in the small ballroom of the Twentieth Century Club. The first was a resumé of the program afterward given by the Pittsburgh Orchestra. Mrs. Choate has a fluent command of language and gives brilliant piano selections illustrative of her subject.
28Dr. Percy Starnes, of the Albany Cathedral, inaugurated the series of free organ recitals at Convention Hall. Last Sunday week a pupil of Guilmand and Widor—Alfred Butler, of Newark, N. J.—played. Blanche Tolmie was the soloist.
30At the request of many of his old Buffalo friends, Heinrich Jacobson, of Rochester, visits the city on Wednesday to teach vocal music. He comes partly for relaxation and change of scene, being kept almost too busy with studio work and "choral rehearsals" in Rochester.
32The pretty Japanese operetta, "Cherry Blossoms," given with such success recently, was repeated last night at St. Paul's Evangelical Church parlors. The organist of the church, Emil Keuchen, composed the music, two Buffalo girls the libretto.
34VIRGINIA KEENE. one of two readings
35Virginia Keene. one of two readings
37Wisconsin Conservatory.
39MILWAUKEE, November 27, 1907.
41The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, corner Mason and Milwaukee streets, Milwaukee streets, Milwaukee, Wis., opened its second term Monday, November 18.
43Public confidence in the up to date methods, as well artistic and conscientious work, has enabled this popular institution of learning to record a steady increase of pupils, not only from the city, but to a very large extent from Wisconsin and the surrounding States. The members of the faculty represent experienced teachers and artists in all departments.
45The diploma course furnishes thorough training for entrance into professional life, although it is not restricted to students having such an end in view, and is open to any person who is qualified to pursue more advanced studies. Candidates must give a creditable and adequate performance of a program as required by prescribed models, prepare a composition in a given time, read at sight, and pass examinations in theory and history of music.
47Ottawa.
49192 CORBURG STREET.
50OTTAWA, Ontario, November 29, 1907.
52Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" was presented at the Russell Theater on Wednesday of week before last before an audience that filled the playhouse from pit to gallery.
54A set of twelve select songs by Ernest Whyte, the composer, of this city, has just been published by the McKechnie Music Company.
56Clara Clemens, the daughter of Mark Twain, gave a song recital at St. Patrick's Hall, under the auspices of the Woman's Morning Music Club. She was assisted by Marie Nichols, violinist, and T. H. Mark, accompanist.
58The Ancient Order of United Workmen gave a concert at St. George's Hall, on November 21. Donald Heins, Margaret Taplin, Margaret Cross, Cecil Bethune and Gordon Bennett provided the program.
60F. BEVERLEY OWEN.
62Norwich.
64NORWICH, Conn., November 30, 1907.
66Charles R. Bartlett has accepted a church position in Washington. Mr. Bartlett has written several sacred songs, perhaps the best known of which is "The Master."
68Frank L. Farrell has opened his studio in the Central Building, after spending the summer in Berlin. He was a pupil of Alberto Jonas.
70The many pupils of Wilhelm Heinrich are pleased to know that he has resumed teaching here for the winter. Mr. Heinrich spent a part of the summer in Berlin and Paris, later going with a party to Norway and Sweden for the purpose of studying the songs of those countries.
72Archibald Mitchell and his daughters, Edith and Isobel, have returned from Berlin, where they have been during the summer.
74LYLE F. BIDWELL. one of two readings
75Lyle F. Bidwell. one of two readings
77Atlanta.
79ATLANTA, Ga., November 30, 1907.
81Dr. J. Lewis Browne has resigned his position as organist of the Sacred Heart Church.
83Richard Schliwen, a violinist from Cincinnati, has recently located in Atlanta.
85Grace Lee Brown, one of the best church sopranos in this State, is now in Paris, where she will spend one year in study.
87Louise van Harlingen, a soprano, who has studied at Oberlin, Ohio, and in New York, with William Nelson Burritt, is now singing in the choir of the First Baptist Church.
89Edwina Behre will give a series of lecture-recitals on educational topics in Atlanta this winter.
91Students and music lovers attended a concert at Agnes Scott College, Thursday night of week before last, at which the following artists contributed the program: Mrs. Haan, soprano; Richard Schliwen, violinist; Oscar Oppenheimer, cellist, and the Messrs. Maclean and Dieckmann, pianists.
93Alfredo Barili and Madame Barili have returned to their studios in the Lawndis Building.
95The Klindworth Conservatory of Music is now located in its new home on Forest avenue.
97Mary Harrison, of Alabama, who has studied with Marchesi, sang at the last meeting of the Woman's Club. Mary Drake, also of Alabama, played the piano accompaniments. Philip Green, pupil of Theodore Morgan, performed a number of violin solos.
99Helen Crennen, of Washington, D. C., has been in Atlanta, and her soprano voice was warmly praised by many who heard her sing at a recent club meeting.
101Mrs. Charles O. Sheridan, contralto, who resided in Paris for years, has planned to make a tour of the South.
103Dr. J. Lewis Browne and J. Fowler Richardson, two organists from Atlanta, have given attractive recitals at the Jamestown Exposition.
105BERTHA HARKWOOD. one of two readings
106Bertha Harkwood. one of two readings
108Portland and the State of Oregon.
110PORTLAND, Ore., November 27, 1907.
112Under a competent corps of teachers, the University of Oregon, at Eugene, is doing effective work. The piano department has Mrs. Stephanie Schnecker at the head. Mrs. Schnecker has had long training under the foremost American teachers. Her associate is Alberta Campbell. Katherine Ward-Pope has her hands more than full in the vocal department. She began her training with Mrs. Walter Reed and later studied in New York with Victor Harris and Karl Breneman. The violin department is under LeRoy
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