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Musical Courier 1914-09-02: Vol 69 Iss 9, 1914
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1Filippo Guglielmi, and the second and third movements of young Garofalo's symphony are to be played.
3Another young American, Laya Machat, made a success in "Puritani." Her voice has improved greatly since last season and her singing of the difficult music (that is, technically difficult) was laudable.
5Duchess Massari (Maria Waldmann), the first Amneris, has made a present of a monument of Verdi to the city of Ferrara, her residence. The monument was inaugurated some days ago. At the same time a slab with an inscription to the memory of the librettist Solera was also inaugurated. Besides a great many souvenirs and unpublished letters of Verdi are to be given to the museum of Ferrara, all through the munificence of the Duchess.
7At Villa Umberto I a monster concert took place for the benefit of the Red Cross. About 50,000 persons were present. Vessella, the bandmaster, conducted.
9D. P.
11Carl Hahn to Teach Cello and Piano.
13Carl Hahn has decided that in addition to his pedagogic duties as a teacher of piano, he will also give instruction in the art of playing the cello. For this purpose, he has affiliated himself with the Robyn Studios, New York, as cello instructor. Mr. Hahn was formerly instructor of cello at the Cincinnati College of Music. Students of this instrument will learn with pleasure of this decision on the part of Mr. Hahn.
15Mme. Guercias Returns from Europe.
17Mme. Guercias, the operatic soprano, has returned to New York from Europe after an exciting trip. Mme. Guercias was in Vienna when war was declared and she experienced great difficulty in reaching a seaport. After considerable delay she obtained passage on the steamship Caronia.
19"What's that the orchestra is playing?"
20"Aren't you ashamed," she answered, "not to recognize that! Why, that's Hendel's Tango!"—Winnipeg Town Topics.
22The Music Teachers' Association, of California.
23San Francisco, August 20, 1914.
24To the Musical Courier
25I am requested by the State Board of the Music Teachers' Association to forward to you a copy of the following resolution passed by them August 6th:
26"Resolved, That to the press we owe unbounded praise sends word to the Musical Courier that he has returned from his vacation and is to be found at his studio, 28 West Sixty-third street, New York.
28Strauss Explains.
30The great German composer, Richard Strauss, does not often talk about himself, but he made an exception the other day in Paris, where he went to superintend the production of his "Joseph Legend." He confessed to a representative of Comoedia that he loves the orchestra better than anything else.
32"It is my passion, my world and my laboratory," he declared. "If I were Jupiter it would be my splendid thunder, and I pity that god for not having had anything but a monotonous and unvarying din to express his feelings. Variety is necessary—light and shade and, if possible, colors! But that is neither simple nor easy. I have played the piano ever since I was six, and already began to compose at that age. I was what we call an infant prodigy. My first orchestral symphony was executed while I was still at school, and all the critics agreed that I was a wonder master of instrumentation. At twenty I was conducting the orchestra at Meiningen, where Hans von Bulow engaged me for two years. Now I am fifty, and certain critics reproach me for complication and the celebrated discords. This is because, in spite of my labor and knowledge, I have not yet found out how to express myself more simply. Paradox, if you like!—but I write as I feel—I have no principles, but am a free man."
34This confession is certainly a relief, for it was the general impression that these "celebrated discords" were the result of an overweening desire to attract attention.—Winnipeg, Canada, Town Topics.
36Charles Widor has been appointed perpetual secretary of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, a much coveted post. The voting was unanimous. By this appointment there is a vacancy in the musical section of the Académie, in connection with which the name of Claude Debussy is being mentioned.—Exchange.
38ARENA OUTDOOR AUDITORIUM IN MILAN.
40Byford Ryan Resumes Work.
42Byford Ryan, the eminent tenor and vocal teacher, for some years leading tenor at the Opera Comique, Berlin, for the liberal support given to our every movement, and for the unlimited space placed at our disposal, whereby our work has been given so much valued publicity.
44The State Board keenly appreciated your generosity, and the interesting articles concerning the recent convention held at San Diego. They also wish to acknowledge their appreciation of your desire to uphold the Association in its policy of "standardization," a difficult but necessary problem.
46Thanking you most sincerely, I am. Yours truly,
47MARIE WITHROW, Corresponding Secretary.
49NORAH DREWETT
50SEASON 1914-15
51Management: Concert Direction M. H. HANSON
52STEINWAY PIANO USED
53437 Fifth Avenue, New York
55MRS. KING CLARK
56Mezzo Soprano
57American Tour
58WHOLE SEASON 1914-15
59Management, M. H. Hanson
60437 Fifth Ave. New York
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