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Musical Courier 1913-05-28: Vol 66 Iss 22, 1913
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1OBITUARY
2May Allport.
4May Allport, the Chicago pianist, passed away at Sfax, Tunisia, on April 18, burial taking place in the same locality on April 20.
6Miss Allport left Chicago two years ago to travel in Italy, and in March of the present year she undertook alone the journey across the Mediterranean from Palermo to Africa. The long journey over the desert proved too much for her, and she died surrounded by missionary friends. She was buried in the French cemetery until such a time when the French colonial department will issue a permit for the removal of her body to her own country.
8Since 1875 Miss Allport's influence was well known in the Chicago musical world. She was one of the founders of the Amateur Musical Club. For many years she also was the moving spirit in the musical programs of the Fortnightly and "The Little Room." She studied with European masters, but her greatest musical inspiration, however, came through the technical and artistic instruction of Regina Watson, of Chicago.
10Leonard B. Marshall.
12Leonard Babbidge Marshall, long identified prominently with musical life and education in Boston, Mass., died May 23 at the home of his sister, Mrs. V. P. Peirce, at 169 West Newton street. He had been ill only a short time and succumbed to an attack of pneumonia.
14Mr. Marshall had been connected with the Boston public schools for fully half a century, first for a time as instructor and later as assistant director, which position he held at the time of his death. In his earlier associations with the schools he was contemporaneous with the late Julius Eichberg, also with J. B. Sharland and Henry Holt, with which last named instructor Mr. Marshall was co-author of the series of instruction books known as the "Normal Music Course."
16Bach Festival at Bethlehem.
17South Bethlehem, Pa., May 26, 1913.
19The final round of rehearsals for the Bach Festival to be held at Lehigh University Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31, began with the assembling of singers in Packer Memorial Church yesterday afternoon. With the great black covered platform filled with 315 singers, including the choir of 100 boys and girls, the scene presented a fine indication of what the audiences will see and hear when the festival is in progress. Judging from the excellent tonal quality as well as the fine volume in yesterday's practice, the beautiful "St. Matthew's Passion" and the mighty "Mass" will be sung as never before in America.
21Dr. J. Fred Wolle, conductor, will go to Philadelphia three times during the early part of this week to meet the forty members of the Philadelphia Orchestra who will assist at the festival. There will also be two orchestra rehearsals in Packer Church. While in Bethlehem, the Philadelphia musicians will be quartered in the university dormitories, an arrangement that proved most satisfactory at the 1912 festival.
23The soloists will arrive in town in ample time for their rehearsals alone and with the choir. Their roles in the Bach Festival, besides being of unusual technical difficulty, make exceptional demands upon the singers in the way of interpretation and religious feeling. With this in mind, they have given their lines proportionate study and thought under the general direction of Dr. Wolle, who is acknowledged to be one of the foremost students of Bach in the country. The soloists to appear at Bethlehem on Friday and Saturday are: Grace Kerns, soprano; Florence Mulford and Margaret Adsit Barrell, contraltos; Nicholas Douty, tenor; Horatio Connell and Edmund A. Jahn, basses.
25Jamaica Musical Art Society.
27The annual meeting and election of officers of the Jamaica Musical Art Society of Jamaica, N. Y., was held on Monday evening, May 19. The following officers were elected: Percy G. James, president; Richard W. Reeves, vice-president; M. P. Coffin, secretary; J. Fletcher Watts, treasurer; Carrie A. Lewis, business manager; Dexter H. Walker, chairman of the orchestral committee; H. Denton Bastow, director. Mr. Watts and Miss Lewis were re-elected to their respective positions.
29Plans for the coming year were discussed and it was decided to hold three concerts, one in the autumn, another in mid-winter and the last in the early spring. The organization is still young, but its productions thus far have been of a very high order.
31Franz Egenieff in Berlin.
33The following Berlin tributes refer to Franz Egenieff, the noted baritone and lieder singer, who is to make an American tour beginning in October, 1913, and continuing until June, 1914, under the management of the Concert Direction M. H. Hanson, New York:
35The opera's excellent baritone, Franz Egenieff, gave a lieder abend at Bechstein Hall. The warm and intelligent art of the singer, assisted by the exemplary distinctiveness of his diction, gained for him continuous and well-deserved applause.—Berliner Tageblatt, March 30, 1913.
37The art of singing is not dead. One could convince oneself thereof last night at the Bechstein Saal. Franz Egenieff gave a lieder abend which showed the excellent Kammerässanger in full possession of his great art, his beautiful voice, and his, by now, proverbial interpretation.—Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, March 28, 1913. (Advertisement.)
39WANTED
41WANTED—For opera companies now being organized, distinguished singers of experience; artists able to sing in English, Italian and French, and also for concert work. Only first class artists need apply. All applications will be treated in strictest confidence. Address "GRAND OPERA," care of Musical Courier.
43WANTED—A man to take position as Director of Music in a Southern College. Must have good foreign training and be a brilliant pianist, with the ability to direct and draw patronage. Salary $2,000 and home. Address THE INTERSTATE TEACHERS' AGENCY, Macheca Building, New Orleans, La.
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