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Musical Courier 1913-05-28: Vol 66 Iss 22, 1913
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1success in her recitals in Germany and England. She returns to England shortly, where, I understand, she is booked for a number of recitals before leaving for America.
3Nikolai Sokoloff has now returned to Paris to resume his teaching and concert work after having spent most of the winter season in England in his position as conductor. Mr. Sokoloff will be well known to all of our readers, having been for some years concertmaster of the Russian Symphony Orchestra. With this organization he travelled all over the United States and was frequently heard as soloist in concerts and recitals.
5Among the artists who have passed through Paris recently was the well-known American baritone, Thomas Farmer. Mr. Farmer came here from London where he received complimentary notices from Georg Henschel and Arthur Nikisch. Mr. Farmer remains in Paris only a few days and from here plans to journey through Italy, Switzerland and Germany before returning to America.
7Coral Hayner-Baker, who has been studying with Frederic Ponsot, is about to return to America, where a great success may be predicted for her. She is an artist of truly great worth. After studying two years with Madame Marchesi, she returned to America, where she met with such success that she did not hesitate again to take up her musical studies, this time to complete them by preparing a "repertory theatrical." She went, not to Madame Marchesi, who is now retired and living in London, but to the school of Frederic Ponsot, who for fourteen years was assistant professor to Marchesi. Today Madame Baker has a repertory of more than ten operas, including "Manon," "La Boheme," "Lakme," "Louise," "Romeo et Juliette," etc. Her voice is a coloratura soprano of the first order, proceeding from a remarkable method. She has unusual technic, making play of all the intricate difficulties of song, and Mr. Ponsot tells me that he considers her not a pupil, but an artist ready for a brilliant career.
9An interesting recital was given at the Salle Erard on Wednesday last by Jeanne Barbey, assisted by the really brilliant young violinist, Mlle. Rachel Baume. The program, among other things, included the Schumann sonata in A for violin and piano, splendidly interpreted by these two most excellent artists; a Meditation for violin by Gretchaninow, and the Corelli "La Folia" variations, which Mlle. Baume played with much breadth and facility.
11"Les Nocturnes" of Claude Debussy has been given at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, with illustrative interpretations by Loie Fuller and her pupils. The whole thing is an effect of a clever combination of waving motion and color such as we have become accustomed to expect in the Loie Fuller production. Needless to say it is very beautiful. It is, however, rather meaningless and adds nothing to the music. Some of the Parisian critics even find that it detracts from the music—that one simply does not listen to the music at all—and that it certainly does not interpret the music, which is an interpretation unto itself. But then, dancers—if Loie Fuller can be called a dancer—will "interpret" anything, since that is the present rage, and it is certainly a beautiful idea to add fitting colors to the Debussy pieces.
13The cinematograph is gradually entering into the domain of high art, and the Gaumont Palace, said to be the largest moving picture theater in the world, is providing a musical program of real interest. Among other things they have been using an orchestral transcription of four of Schlesinger's famous songs—"Mort d'un Enfant," "Longing," "Ne pleure pas, ma blonde" and "Crepuscule," to accompany the film entitled "La Disparition de l'Am-bassadeur." This music is played by a large symphony orchestra and has won a most flattering success; so much so that the managers of the Gaumont Palace are planning to use more songs by the same composer on their programs.
15An excellent program, consisting exclusively of the works of the great old master, Saint-Saëns, and presided over by the composer himself, was given on Friday last by the Trio Kellert, those three talented brothers whose ensemble work is so truly remarkable. They were assisted by Zina Brozia of the Opera. The program consisted of two trios for piano, violin and cello; the cello concerto, op. 33; pieces for piano solo and for violin and piano, and a number of songs.
17Mary Garden is again with us and is appearing in "Salome" at the Opera.
19Mrs. MacDowell passed through Paris recently on her way to America. She seems to be in poor health, but is full of enthusiasm for the cause of American music and is planning to do even more than she has done in the past to further that work which was commenced with such generous zeal by her illustrious husband.
21Leoncavallo's operette, "La Petite Reine des Roses," has just been given with small success at the Theatre Rejane.
23FRANK PATTERSON.
25Cecil Fanning Scores Success with London Choral Society
27Cecil Fanning has undoubtedly been one of the most successful of the recent additions to the London concert platform. This fact was thoroughly demonstrated on the evening of May 6, 1913, when Mr. Fanning appeared with the London Choral Society of 400 voices, at Queen's Hall. Mr. Fanning seemed to have very little difficulty in making his group of songs the success of the evening; in fact, between his numbers he was obliged to wait until the audience exhausted its enthusiasm and applause. After his singing of the ballad, "Edward," by Carl Loewe, he was brought to the platform six times and at the seventh recall gave as an encore "Verborgenheit," by Hugo Wolf. With this concert Mr. Fanning and Mr. Turpin completed their series of brilliant London appearances, and they are now at Dinan, France, preparing their programs for America.
29For the season of 1913-14 Mr. Fanning and Mr. Turpin are already booked from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.
31Robert Teichmüller's Half Century.
33On the occasion of his fiftieth birth anniversary on May 4, Prof. Robert Teichmüller, of the Leipsic Conservatory, received an entire house full of flowers and numerous valuable pieces of bronze and bric a brac, besides many dozens of telegrams and letters of congratulation. Though the celebration of birthdays is probably an art much finer in Germany than in any other country, the Leipsic professor was still unable to understand how the news of his jubilee had got so widely circulated. The Leipsic daily papers had contained news reports on his career the day before the anniversary, but that had not been sufficient notice to call out the greetings that flowed in from most distant quarters. The evidence shows that his pupils and friends about the world had been watching for the birthday and saving it up for him.
35In the career of every artist and educator it is inevitable that many years are necessary to acquire from the whole world the recognition that great achievement merits. It is therefore gratifying that at the age of fifty Professor Teichmüller has this universal recognition, and above all, in Germany itself, where each recent season has found the distinguished concert artists speaking in ever increasing respect for the work of the Leipsic master.
37The young artists trained under Teichmüller are now in concert work everywhere. Among the most sensation-ally gifted of these is the sixteen year old Fanny Weiland, who has just had an extraordinary successful recital in St. Petersburg, after having had great success in Vienna, Berlin, Leipsic and various south German cities. Three of the Teichmüller disciples are in Rio de Janeiro, where Charles Lachmund, Manoel Augusto DoSantos and Celinda Roxa have been playing with such great success as to have started an entire Brazilian colony to Leipsic for work under the same guidance. Recent recital playing in Portugal and Spain have aroused new interest for Teichmüller, and the venerable Italian master, Sgambati, has recently sent an unusually gifted child pianist to the Leipsic master. The Chinese government has sent a candidate to be trained for future conservatory influence in the Orient, two Georgian princesses are now studying in Leipsic, and two Bulgarians who applied for admission to Paris Conservatory, but were beyond the age limit for that institution, were sent to Teichmüller. Raoul Pugno has sometimes sent pupils to be taught in Leipsic during the Pugno vacation. The fine recital playing of Johanna Margarette Komme in Norway has started a colony from that part of the north. Maja Samuelson has played throughout Sweden and Finland and in St. Petersburg. The young Herr Häser has been recently called as first instructor at Danzig Conservatory, succeeding the unusually gifted Teichmüller pupil, Hugo Krömer, who has taken a similar position at the conservatory in Graz, Austria. Bruno Hinze Reinhold has just been placed at the head of the piano instruction at the Weimar ducal conservatory.
39Among others now very busily and successfully appearing in recital are the very gifted Roumanian, Muza Germani; the Russian, Kallista Kunduris; the Scotchman, William Lindsay; the Leipsic pianists, Georg Zecherneck, Mathilde Strauss, Paula Hegner and Otto Weinreich. The Mexican, Ernesto Berumen, has various further appearances for this summer; the gifted Portuguese pianist, Hernando Torres, is a Teichmüller assistant at Leipsic Conservatory, and Otto Weinreich is a regular instructor there. Sofia Herrmann has just played successfully at Zürich; the Parisian born Lilie Kröber Asch recently appeared in Bonn and will play frequently next season.
41Among the best of the Americans recently here, Florence L. Wagner, of Seattle, is having a fine career in the West, and the unusually gifted child, Blanche Cobacker, of Denver, has just arrived in Leipsic for a number of years' work.
43CORAL HAYNER-BAKER.
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