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Musical Courier 1909-09-15: Vol 59 Iss 11, 1909
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1PHILADELPHIA, September 11, 1909.
3The tenth season of the Philadelphia Orchestra will open with the concerts of Friday afternoon, October 15, and Saturday evening, October 16. The season will consist of forty-four concerts played in Philadelphia, twenty-two being given Friday afternoons and twenty-two Saturday evenings. The list of soloists already engaged is a varied and distinguished one, including Teresa Carreño, pianist; Olga Samaroff, pianist; Cornelius Rübner, pianist and director of music, Columbia University; Pepita Arriola, the Spanish Wunderkind of the piano; Tilly Koenen, Dutch contralto; Allen C. Hinckley, basso, Metropolitan Opera Company; Dr. Ludwig Wüllner, liedersinger and reader; Thaddeus Rich, violinist; Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Herman Sandby, cellist. Carl Pohlig, director of the orchestra, is now in Paris, but will arrive in New York September 28. He writes that he is bringing back a number of new and unknown works of great interest and is looking forward, with great pleasure, to the opening of the season. The orchestra itself remains practically unchanged, so that with one or two exceptions the same men who have played together in the past, and who so thoroughly understand their conductor, their work and each other, again will unite in a harmonious whole.
5With the smoothing away of one or two little annoyances, it would seem that there is absolutely nothing further to be desired in the arrangements made for this year's work. For years there have been certain Saturday evenings when the orchestra could not use the Academy of Music, and annoying changes in the regular plans had to be made. Owing to the kindness of the Orpheus Club in relinquishing its right to the Academy on certain Saturdays an unbroken series will now be given. Another little worry was the obtaining of a suitable hall for practice. This season the daily rehearsals will take place in the bright and airy hall over the entrance halls and lobby in the Academy of Music. A separate room in the Academy has been also provided for storing the orchestra's valuable library. Talk about your symphony halls if you will, but what symphony orchestra has a hall to equal our old Academy of Music? with its perfect acoustic properties, its well built spaciousness, its safety, its wealth of memorials to great musicians now passed away, and its noble traditions of the past that call aloud to the present and future for even better things—a call that can only be answered by such a mighty power for good in the world of art as are Carl Pohlig and his men, the Philadelphia Orchestra.
7WILSON H. PILE.
9COLUMBUS MUSICAL NEWS.
10Columbus, Ohio, September 10, 1909.
12Thomas Robert Davies, head of the vocal department of the College of Oratory and Music, on Neil avenue, reports a flourishing school of earnest students.
14The season of twilight concerts, which has proven so attractive these past dozen years or so, is in the hands of Grace Hamilton Morrey this year. Mrs. Morrey announces that Cecil Fanning will open the series Friday afternoon, October 8. H. B. Turpin will preside at the piano for Mr. Fanning. This will be a very auspicious beginning. The other music folk who will contribute the monthly recitals are: Effie Nichols, pianist; Ann E. Hughes, soprano; Marie Kullak-Busse, soprano; Millicent Brennan, mezzo soprano; Janet Ramsey, pianist; Edna Paine, pianist; Caroline Harter Williams, violinist, of Oberlin; Mrs. Harrie Bliss Hutchinson, contralto, and Margaret Parry Hast, soprano. Mrs. Morrey promises an entire Grieg program, which will include the eight or nine numbers of the "Peer Gynt" suite, with the two songs, "Solveig's Song" and the "Cradle Song," which occur in the Ibsen drama, and which Grieg has so exquisitely illustrated with his music. Ohio State University had this program early in the history of the twilight concerts, the faculty and students enjoying it so much they requested it later, and now send in an urgent request for the same numbers. That program was pronounced one of the most educating programs ever performed in the chapel.
16Marie Kullak-Busse announces that her classes have begun in her studio at 66 East Fourteenth avenue. Mrs. Kullak-Busse is keeping up the reputation of her illustrious grandfather—Theodor Kullak—the Berlin pedagogue. Mr. Busse is a member of the faculty of Ohio State University, so the atmosphere of the Busse home is distinctly scholarly.
18Among the teachers who resume their classes next week are Herman Ebeling, Ethel Harness, Frances Williams, Rosa L. Kerr, Emily McGallip, Francis Houser Mooney, Grace Hamilton Morrey, Nora F.
20MISS CECILE MURPHY
21MEZZO-CONTRALTO
22Vocal Instruction
23811 Nicollet Avenue
24MINNEAPOLIS
26PRIMA DONNA CONTRALTO
27Eastern Mgr.: GEORGE M. ROBINSON,
28No. 1 Madison Ave., New York City
29Western Mgr.: MAX RABINOFF,
30Kimball Hall, Chicago
32HELEN GAUNTLETT
33WILLIAMS PARMELEE
34Planist-Contralto
35SYRENA SCOTT
36Dramatic Reader
37CONCERTS, RECITALS, READINGS WITH MUSIC
38134 Carnegie Hall, New York City
40TOLLEFSEN TRIO
41CONCERT TOUR BOOKING
42For Terms and Dates Address J. E. FRANCKE, 24 West 31st St.
44Mme. JENNIE NORELLI
45PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO
46Recently at Covent Garden, London; Royal Opera, Stockholm, Sweden; and Metropolitan Opera, New York
47For Bookings Address: MUSICAL COURIER, 437 Fifth Ave., New York City
49BEATON
50PH. B. American Pianist-Composer
51A. M. 7110 Kinsman Road, S. E.
52Cleveland, Ohio
54Wilson, Marie Hertenstein, Lucille Pollard Carroll, Edith May Miller, Clara Michel, Emma Ebeling, Elinor Schmidt, Anna Broekhoven, Alfred Preston, Burton De Witt, Oley Speaks, Alfred Rogerson Barrington, Carrie Lou Betz, Minnie Reiber, and Florence May Scott.
56Among the new teachers in Columbus is Virgilia I. Wallace, a pupil of Frank King Clark, of Paris. Miss Wallace has opened a beautiful studio at 411 East Town street, where she had pupils awaiting her before she had time to unpack her music. Mr. Clark warmly recommends Miss Wallace as entirely capable of teaching his method.
58October opens with a matinee and evening concert by Sousa's Band. Other musical affairs in October are a song recital by Madame Schumann-Heink, a song recital by Cecil Fanning, and Isadora Duncan, with the New York Symphony Orchestra. How is that for the artist attractions of a city during one month, which had not that many concerts of the first rank during a whole season of a six years ago yesterday. There will also be a number of musicales of lesser importance in October which will test the endurance of the poor music critic.
60Oley Speaks has returned from his summer in Europe and is busy getting settled in his studio, 26 South Third street.
62Isabel Gorman, a splendid young pianist, who has been on the sick list for some years, having suffered an injury to her spine, has resumed her piano teaching.
64Jessie E. Crane will open a new pipe organ at Newark Tuesday evening. The action is electric.
66Estella Clark, a graduate of the Conservatory of Music in Ohio Wesleyan University, is one of the new accessions to the music teachers' ranks. Miss Clark was a pupil of Edward Young Mason in piano and organ.
68ELLA MAY SMITH.
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