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Musical Courier 1908-04-01: Vol 56 Iss 14, 1908
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1appearance in this city was a third of a century ago. Surely she ought to know, and does know, how to play the piano.
3On Tuesday evening last, Alfred Laliberte, pianist, gave a concert in the Art Gallery, and Rudolf Larsen, a young violinist, gave a concert in the Y. M. C. A. Hall. I heard Mr. Laliberte playing the concerto "Pathetique" by Liszt, in which he displayed simplicity of style and a great degree of technical facility. Mr. Laliberte was also booked for some compositions by Blumenfield, Scriabine, the "Rhapsodie Espagnole" by Liszt, and a prelude of his own. I reached the Y. M. C. A. Hall just in time to hear Mr. Larsen playing the "Ballade et Polonaise," Vieuxtemps, and "Faust" fantasy by Wieniawski, which he performed with a sympathetic tone, impeccable intonation and unimpeachable clearness of technic—and was called before the audience several times.
5The new so called Lyric Hall is certainly no credit to Montreal. This city has been without a proper concert hall ever since the late Windsor Hall was demolished, and what Montreal should have is a hall designed and built purposely for a music hall. Instead, the above hall was originally an old church and somewhat reconstructed as a concert hall. Just think of it! Lemberg, the capital of one of the poorest provinces in the Austrian Empire, and with less than half the population of Montreal, has an opera house and concert hall which cost 3,000,000 kronen ($600,000). It maintains an opera almost the whole year with a symphony orchestra of nearly 100 players, giving symphony concerts with eminent soloists. Ysaye told me that he goes there annually, and Montreal, with double the population, has not even a proper concert hall; but it has baseball grounds, lacrosse grounds and an arena to play hockey, and, I am told, also a great race track built and supported by some of our wealthy citizens, formerly directors of the Philharmonic Society, which collapsed. I may say that in this respect Toronto is ahead of Montreal, as the Queen City has a Massey Hall, which is one of the finest halls on this continent. I notice that Toronto was visited recently by the Thomas Orchestra of Chicago, as well as the Pittsburgh Orchestra. Montreal has not had the pleasure of hearing the former orchestra for nearly sixteen years. Had Montreal possessed a proper concert hall, we will say with a capacity of 2,000 the prices for seats to hear artists would not be so high as now. Two dollars and fifty cents to hear Carreño is too much, and the result was these $2.50 seats were not all sold. Nor was Paderewski's program worth $3 a seat.
7Owing to the illness of Mr. Matoff, his recital has been postponed to some future date.
9HARRY B. COHN.
11All Communications for
12MR. GEORGE HENSCHEL
13Should, up to October 1st, be addressed
14ALLT-NA-CHRICHE, AVIEMORE, SCOTLAND
15The HENRY WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU
17HAROLD BAUER
18Fifth American Tour
19January-May, 1908
20ENGAGEMENTS NOW BOOKING
21DIRECTION:
22Loudon Charlton
23Carnegie Hall New York City
24THE MASON & HAMLIN PIANO
26LESLEY MARTIN, Bel Canto
27Studio: 1425 Broadway, New York
28SINGERS—Suzanne Baker, Cora Cross, Pauline Fredericks, Julia Galvin, Nellie Hart, Marion Stanley, Estelle Ward, Ruth White, George Bemus, William Burt, George Gillet, John Hendricks, Dr. Eugene Walter, Margaret Blake O'Hara, George Wright, Mabel Wilbur, Winfred Young and many other singers now before the public in opera and church work.
30McLELLAN
31SUCCESSOR TO H. HOWARD BROWN
32TEACHER OF SINGING
33Atelier Building, 33 West 67th Street
34Phone: 4836 Columbus
36THE MUSICAL COURIER
38MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE WEST.
40St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1908.
42Fritz Kreisler and Josef Hofmann will make a joint appearance at the Odéon, April 3, under the local management of R. P. Strine.
44A Wagnerian festival, with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mary Hissem de Moss, Gwilym Miles and Hugo Olk, soloists; a benefit for the Orchestra, April 2, and the Thomas Orchestra concerts, April 6 and 7, with Kubelik, will form a brilliant closing of the public musical season. After that, the studio and music school exhibitions begin, lasting until June.
46Bernard Dierkes, a St. Louis man, has become a valuable educator in an unexpected way, namely, by writing a play designed to call the attention of parents to the manner in which music is taught. Mr. Dierkes calls his play "High C."
48Madame Padovani, one of the stars of the Milan Opera Company, gave a concert in St. Louis this week, assisted by A. I. Epstein, Louis Broeckhardt and Miss Webb.
50In addition to the three "piano shops" cited recently as holding music schools, conservatories and colleges in their places of business, there is also in St. Louis a peculiar school in which the pianos are typewriters, the faculty stenographers, the musical literature circulars and prospectuses, the heads of departments traveling agents who carry music intelligence down into towns not on the map, and of which the counties must be added in addresses in order to find them. These sow the seeds of musical information among people who do not even know that there is any, and so set the ball rolling toward the footlights. The plea of the "School" is that there is much in music which people must themselves learn, which is, of course, certainly true.
52Among private schools out in this country and in addition to those already mentioned are the Central Wesleyan, at Warrenton, Mo.; Lindenwood College, St. Charles; Hardin College, Mexico; Columbia State University, Stephens College and Christian College, also at Columbia; the Howard Payne College, in Fayette; a college in Moberly; the William Woods and Synodical College, in Fulton; schools in Cameron, at Carthage, in Farmington, in Kirksville (normal); Drury College, Springfield; Cotter College, Nevada, and the Steele School, in Sedalia (all in Missouri). The Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill.; schools in Danville and Decatur, Ill.; the Lawrence, Kan., State University; schools in Fayetteville, Ark.; in Muskogee, Okla.; in Dallas, Tex., are all prosperous, filled with students from different parts of the country, and which give much attention to music.
54Zeno Nagel, at Warrenton, is an energetic music leader in this class of music work, giving many performances, engaging artists of reputation, and working three days in each one. "Elijah" and "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" by Coleridge Taylor are now being prepared for spring festivals.
56A strong enthusiasm of Mr. Strine is the wonderful genius of Creatore, for whom he has just arranged a two months' engagement in the "Jai Alai" building in St. Louis for May and June. The title of the building sounds like an American's best attempt at the French for "I have gone," but it is not. It is of Spanish origin, the building having been put up by lovers of a favorite sport of that nation, similar to ordinary ball playing.
58Alice Pettingill's piano school is to give a special Beethoven recital this week. The program, which is well worth publishing, will appear next issue. The third piano recital of E. R. Kroeger was a Grieg morning, with Hugo Olk, violinist, as assisting artist. Sonata in E minor, op. 7, sonata in F major for violin and piano, "Humoresque," "Papillons," "Springtime," "Albumblatt" in A major, nocturne and the "Wedding Day at Troldhagen" were the numbers played. As before, a large company was present.
60Charles Galloway is giving monthly organ recitals in St. Peter's Church, which are largely attended. His
62HEINRICH MEYN
63BARITONE
64Management VERT & HANSON
65129 West 46th St., New York
67CECIL FANNING
68BARITONE
69(Accompanist: H. B. TUNPIN)
70ADDRESS:
71Eastern Manager: HENRY WOLFSOHN, 181 East 17th Street, New York City
72Western Manager: The MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC DIRECTION OF CHICAGO, 812 Fine Arts Building.
74ROMEO FRICK
75BARITONE
76ORATORIOS
77CONCERTS
78RECITALS
79L. E. BEHYMER, Manager, Los Angeles, Cal.
80Personal Address and Studio: 1115 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.
82EVAN WILLIAMS
83JOHANNES MIERSC
84FLORENCE
85MULFORD
86CONTRALTO
87THE FAMOUS BELGIAN CELLIST
88CONCERTS, RECITALS, MUSICALES
89Management: A. DE PAU
902465 Broadway (91st Street Subway) New York
91PHONE: 4848 RIVER
93TENOR
94HENRY WOLFSOHN
95181 East 17th Street, New York
96Private Address and Studio:
97AKRON, OHIO
98VIOLIN-VIRTUOSO and CONDUCTOR
99For CONCERTS and RECITALS address 430 North Meridian St., Indianapolis.
101GEO. W. STEWART, Manager
102120 Tremont Street, BOSTON, MASS.
104Anna Lankow
105Author of "THE SCIENCE OF THE ART OF SINGING"
106New York Studio: 25 West 97th Street. European studio address given later.
107The only authorized teachers in New York: Mrs. Jane Gordon, Mr. Andreas Schneider, Mr. Berrick von Norden and Mr. Victor L. Lankow. Abroad: Eduard Lankow, Martha Hofacker, Paul Vero n, Marie Orthen, Marguerite Arcularius-Jantzen.
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