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Musical Courier 1913-11-12: Vol 67 Iss 20, 1913
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1Notes from the Mehan Studio.
3A new class has been formed at the Mehan studios, in New York, which promises to be most popular, and which will meet the needs of students planning for a public career. The class will take up creation of artistic atmosphere, dramatic readings, attitude for stage and all public work, and general interpretation. The first meeting was held November 3, when the class was addressed by Franklin Sargent, president of the Empire Dramatic School, Carnegie Hall; Azubah Latham, professor of oral English, Teachers' College, and John Dennis Mehan. All present were enthusiastic in their approval of the class, for it will fill a long felt want, especially as it gives each member an opportunity to learn some of the things which they do not learn until criticized by the public. The class is to be occasionally addressed by distinguished authorities on the subject under discussion. It meets every Monday evening, followed by an informal reception for the members, some of whom will sing.
5The first formal reception and recital will be given by Mr. and Mrs. Mehan Monday evening, November 24, at the studios, when they will introduce Thomas Rippard, cellist, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Several artist pupils will sing, and Mr. Rippard will be heard in solo numbers, and obbligatos to some of the songs.
7Marion Bauer's songs, "The Last Word" and "Over the Hills," will be sung by Mary Kendal, contralto, and Mr. Rippard will play the obbligatos, written especially for this occasion by Miss Bauer.
9Mary Jordan, contralto, makes her first appearance as Delilah, in "Samson and Delilah," at the Century Opera House, Wednesday evening, November 12. The role is one which gives Miss Jordan an opportunity to display her talents, both histrionically and vocally, such as no other she has yet sung. The following week she will sing the role of Azucena in "Trovatore."
11John Barnes Wells, tenor, is to give a recital in Richmond, Va., on November 17. Mr. Wells has sung several times in Richmond, where he is a great favorite.
13Malkin Music School Concert.
15November 9 there was a concert given at the Malkin Music School, the third of the season, and despite the rainy afternoon, the program attracted a fair-sized audience. Lida Lindgren, who is under the coaching of Pietro Floridia, delighted the audience with her beautiful singing. She showed fine training in all the details of artistic vocalizing, and had to sing two encores.
17Carl Berger, Jr., who has studied piano but two months, played MacDowell pieces very well. Ada Becker, artist-teacher, of the faculty; Messrs. Rittenband (violin) and Tucker (cello) collaborated in the Mendelssohn trio in D minor, playing with much effect. Blanche Schnitzer performed a Durand waltz nicely, J. Rittenband played Bruch's D minor concerto for violin with excellent taste and tone, and Fanny Goldstein showed pianism of high order in the closing piece, Rubinstein's D minor concerto.
19The number of pupils at this school is increasing daily, though it has been organized but two months. There are already over a hundred students. Together with other branches of music, special interest is centered in the cello department, under the direction of Vladimir Dubinsky.
21WORCESTER CONCERTS.
23Worcester, Mass., November 8, 1913.
25The first concert of the Steinert course was given Sunday, October 26, with Maud Powell, violinist; Miss Barrows, soprano, and Yolanda Mérö, pianist. Mechanics Hall was filled to capacity and these artists, so popular in this city, were received with great enthusiasm. It is to be hoped that the remaining concerts which the music house of Steinert & Sons are offering the public will permanently establish these events in Worcester.
27Tuesday evening, November 4, Paderewski gave a piano recital, the first concert of the now well established Ellis Concert Course. Mr. Ellis has made his concerts as much a part of the life of Worcester as the old festival week is. Mechanics Hall was naturally sold out, and a more appreciative audience has never filled that historic hall. Paderewski played the allegretto of Beethoven's moonlight sonata as if it were a Chopin nocturne. His Chopin was also, perhaps, too virile, and his Schumann somewhat disappointing. The program ended brilliantly, however, with Liszt's sixth rhapsody, which, by the way, was the closing number at his two previous recitals given here many years ago.
29PAUL HULTMAN.
31Max Jacobs Quartet at School Concerts.
33Julius Hopp, organizer of the School Concerts, has made Max Jacobs, the well known and popular violinist, musical director of the concerts, which began November 10, in the afternoon, at Public School No. 101, East 111th street, New York. November 11, evening, same auditorium for grown people. November 11, afternoon, Public School No. 4, Rivington street. November 13, Public School No. 40, Prospect avenue and Jennings street, the Bronx. The artists for the series will be Max Jacobs, violinist; James Liebling, cellist; Ira Jacobs, pianist, and Ruby Leyser, soprano.
35Manager Ernest L. Briggs, of Steinway Hall, Chicago, is arranging a Western and Canadian tour for the Iaco's String Quartet. It is planned to cover northern Minnesota, southern Canada and the copper country of Michigan. The Jacobs Quartet might well be called "The American Quartet," for every member is American born, and has lived and worked in the United States. Each is a first class soloist, and the unity of playing as a quartet is quite remarkable.
37FLORENCE TRUMBULL IN VIENNA.
39Florence Trumbull, whose marked achievements as an assistant to Prof. Leschetizky during many years, have long since established an enviable reputation for her in the Vienna musical world, has enrolled upon a strenuous program for the 1913-14 season, this being in response to the many demands made for her services both as teacher and soloist. Her concert engagements have led to appearances in the foremost European cities, and she is to be congratulated for the flattering approval she has won at the hands of the foreign press.
41Miss Trumbull's latest efforts were devoted to an interesting and very successful summer course for American teachers of piano desirous of coaching in the Leschetizky method.
43This season finds Miss Trumbull in her new studio on the "London gasse," and this charming location has been well selected for the social element in the American colony at Vienna, for her frequent afternoon musicales were ever the scenes of much pleasure and displays of artistic merit.
45Miss Trumbull also announces an early concert appearance in Vienna.
47FLORENCE TRUMBULL.
48Taken in Professor Leschetizky's studio.
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