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Musical Courier 1909-06-02: Vol 58 Iss 22, 1909
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1with the conviction that Madame Wood did much for her voice in a brief time.
3Saturday morning, May 29, the Granberry Piano School gave the closing pupils' recital for the regular season (sessions will be held during the summer in New York and Newport, R. I.). Helen Gridley, Ruth Jeremiah, Katherine Hand and Lillian Salter, four little girls who had studied but fifteen months, gave a good account of themselves in the opening pieces, including a minuetto by Haydn, a gavotte by Mrs. Beach, a waltz by Seeböck and a tarantelle by Pieczonka; also in playing ensemble numbers, led by the violin, played by Alice Ives Jones. Other small players who distinguished themselves were James McCurrach, Helen Schmidt, Helen Metcalf, Helen Lyon and Elizabeth Hand. The higher grades were well represented in performances by Charlotte Spooner, Edmund Brown, Miss Love and Mrs. Perrine, who played masterpieces with the finish and musicianship for which the Granberry School has become renowned. The Faelten system of fundamental training is taught at this school.
5New York State Music Teachers Convene June 29.
6The first meeting of the local vice presidents of the New York State Music Teachers' Association was held May 25, at Steinway Hall. Louis A. Russell, chairman; President Edmund Severn and Dr. James Lee addressed the meeting. A large attendance augurs well for the convention, for in this meeting there was no lack of ideas, of inquiry, of suggestion as to ways and means. Committees were formed and plans made for the convention, to be held at the College of the City of New York, beginning Tuesday, June 29. In his address Mr. Severn emphasized the necessity of personal work on the part of each vice-president. Dr. Lee told of his work in circulating the public schools of New York, and of the list of people, important in political, school and musical life, which he has secured as patrons. It is planned to give most of the concerts in a room seating 700, rather than in the large Tudor Hall of the College; check rooms for ladies and men will be provided; the daily lunch is to be served, as last year. A publicity propaganda has been entered upon, and it is hoped to secure a large attendance of up State people. It was voted to meet again Tuesday evening, June 8. Among others present were Perry Averill, chairman of the program committee; Dr. J. Christopher Marks, J. Warren Andrews, Anna L. Johnson, J. N. Broeckhoven, E. W. Berge, Laura S. Collins, H. Brooks Day, S. Lewis Elmer, Elsie R. Eddy, Abbie I. Friedenberg, Grace Gardner, Fannie Hirsch, Amy Ray, Eva Wycoff, Wilford Waters.
8The list of artists secured to date include Edith Chapman-Gould, Shanna Cumming-Jones, Emma Wycoff, Margaret Keyes, Louise Biggers, Babette Huss, Adele I. Baldwin, Dr. Franklin Lawson, Dr. Ion Jackson, Charles N. Granville, Edwin H. Lockhart, Lester Bingley, Ethel Newcombe, Madame Pardon, Henry Holden Huss, Bruno Oscar Klein, the Misses Sondheim, Madame Tollesen, S. A. Baldwin, Gaston Dethier, Karl Klein, Giacinta della Rocca, Carl Tollesen, Leo Schulz, Hans Kronold, Paul Kefer, Emilie Grey, David Bispham, Henry G. Hanchett, Charles T. Farnsworth, Kate Chittenden, Dr. J. Mendelssohn, Clifford Demarest, Gottfried Federlein and Gustav L. Becker.
10Stojowski a Passenger on the Majestic.
11Sigismond Stojowski, the pianist and composer, was a passenger on the steamer Majestic, which sailed June 2 from New York to Liverpool. Mr. Stojowski will be absent all summer, and on his return to this country in the autumn he is to make a concert tour under the management of Haensel & Jones.
13Zimbalist, Susanne Dessoir, and the Sevcik Quartet made the biggest concert hits of the season in Braunschweig.
15"Stanczyk," a symphonic scherzo, by Ludomir Rózycki, was played with success in Cracow.
17Leona Watson's Success in "The Climax."
18Leona Watson's success in "The Climax," now running at Daly's Theater, led to inquiry as to her antecedents, and the discovery was soon made that she was another of the Zilpha Barnes Wood pupils, whose entire vocal and stage training came from that source. Coming to Madame Wood a country girl of sixteen, after five years' hard work she started on her career as a prima donna, not having to undergo the drudgery of chorus work. Under Madame Wood's direction she sang Marguerite, in her pupils' production of "Faust," before ever witnessing a grand opera performance. She sang also in "Il Trovatore," "Bohemian Girl," "Martha," and as Santuzza. Of her performance before entering upon the professional stage, Van-Cleve, the blind critic, said in the Stage: "Miss Watson seems obviously designed for an opera singer of distinctly dramatic type. Her Santuzza was a fine piece of impersonation and realization, both vocally and histrionically." The Musical Courier at this time said: "Miss Watson impersonated the trying, passionate Santuzza with a beauty of voice and a dramatic sincerity worthy of a professional."
20From our daily papers:
21Miss Watson as the girl with the voice was admirable; she had the voice and knew how to use it.—New York Herald.
22Miss Watson, a newcomer, has been deservedly welcomed and acclaimed.—New York Times.
23The scene in which she sang her solfeggi was as well manipulated as it was quaint and original.—Morning Telegraph.
24An unusual combination of singer and actress.—New York Sun.
25Miss Watson plays with a great deal of charm, and sings the difficult arias excellently.—New York Times.
26Miss Watson was the heroine and a capital one.—Allan Dale.
27Combines the qualities of actress and singer to a rare degree.—New York World.
28A pupil of Nikisch, named St. Czyzowski, is trying to found a permanent orchestra in Cracow.
30The new Klinger statue of Brahms is one of the handsomest monuments in Hamburg.
32Esther Boone's German Press Tributes.
33Esther Boone, the American dramatic soprano, whose success in opera abroad was reviewed in The Musical Courier of last week, made some of her most brilliant successes in Germany, particularly in Mainz and Strassburg. As Elizabeth and Venus in "Tannhauser," Elsa in "Lohengrin," Sieglinde and Fricka in "Die Walküre," Aida, Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana," and other roles, she was received many times with enthusiasm by the music lovers of the Fatherland. The music critics were almost unanimous in proclaiming the art and beauty of voice of this young prima donna, who, by the way, is a native of Georgia. It is announced that she will sing in the United States next season, and then Americans will realize that another lovely singer who is proud because she was born under the Stars and Stripes has been added to the ranks. The following extracts tell of Mrs. Boone's triumphs in different performances at the Grand Opera in Mainz:
35The very large audience applauded the artists in the open scenes as well as at the end of the acts. After the Nile act she was recalled six times.—Mainzer Journal.
37Frau Boone left a delightful impression as Venus. She gains ground with every appearance. We are convinced that this richly gifted singer has a great future before her. The art of modulation which she showed in the highest parts of her voice was really a triumph of art, and with her temperamental handling of the dramatic role of Venus was particularly admirable.—Mainzer Neuester Anzeiger.
39We have in Esther Boone a singer who seems to be predestined for the part of Sieglinde, not only because of the beauty of her tones, but also in personal appearance. Her work was excellent. In the love scene in the first act, the scene of her despair, Frau Boone found the right heart tone.
41Frau Boone celebrated another triumph yesterday as Sieglinde. Her work grew from scene to scene. She played the last scene of the first act excellently and in the second act her dramatic powers held one enthralled.—Mainzer Journal.
43In Mrs. Boone, who impersonated Elsa, we learned to know a singer of tall, slender appearance with a ringing, sympathetic voice and spirited delivery, who possesses all the attributes which belong to the Wagner heroines. The singer held and interested the hearers from the beginning to the end of the opera.—Mainzer Journal.
45Mrs. Boone, who sang the Elsa, received great applause. She has a well-trained sympathetic voice which has so much power that she is without doubt on the way to being a heavy dramatic soprano. Her acting is graceful and clever.—Mainzer Neuester Anzeiger.
47In the repetition of "Cavalleria Rusticana" yesterday Mrs. Boone sang the Santuzza. She lent so much of the beauty of her voice and her passionate temperamental phases to the role that her great applause was well earned.—Mainzer Neuester Anzeiger.
49In yesterday's performance of Verdi's "Aida" Mrs. Boone introduced herself as the Ethiopian Princess, and showed that she had given much thought and study to the role. The beautiful and distinguished artist was the center of the production. She created a character of exuberant warmth here and there. The singer, who possesses, together with her trained and beautiful voice, a brilliant personal appearance, was most pleasing to the eye in her very tasteful, rich Oriental costume. Her well-developed technic of singing, the even tones of her register, and also her clear tone production show that she has had thorough masters. Great interest awaited Frau Boone's appearance as Elizabeth. Her artistic representation was of the very highest order. Joyful and triumphant came the entrance aria, sad and heartfelt came the prayer. The artist impersonated the character of this lovely sufferer in an ideal way, through the charm of her personal appearance.—Mainzer Neuester Anzeiger.
51Neumann Off to Europe.
52F. Wight Neumann, the Chicago manager, will sail for Europe next Saturday on the Deutschland.
54Hekking, Thibaut, Marteau, Busoni, Sjivinski, Didur, Selma Kwiz, Ignaz Friedmann, Bandrowski, etc., were heard in concert at Cracow last winter.
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