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Musical Courier 1926-02-04: Vol 92 Iss 5, 1926
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1February 4, 1926
3February 7. Though not a professional musician, Miss Rabinoff's father has attained quite some distinction as a cantor of sacred music, and sang in nearly all the temples of the principal cities of Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Balkan countries.
5CONCERTS FOR JEANNETTE DURNO PUPIL
6Dorothy Wright, talented young pianist, a pupil for the past three years of Jeannette Durno, has been engaged for concerts in Grand Rapids (Mich.), on January 28, and in Logansport (Ind.), on February 1.
8CHARLES M. COURBOIN AT KIMBALL HALL
9In bringing to Chicago for recitals such eminent organists as Alfred Hollins, of England, who played at Kimball Hall, December 4 last, and Charles M. Courboin, who was heard there January 28 the public is offered the opportunity of hearing men who come from afar and whose reputations have been long established here. These recitals are among the important events of this musical season. The distinguished Belgian organist offered a rather sturdy program, including Cesar Franck, Grasse, Widor and Bach numbers, which he played with complete mastery and skill, save for a few mishaps in the last two. He was most successful at the hands of a large audience, made up principally of Chicago musicians.
11MARION ALICE MCAFEE BUSY
12So far the season has been especially active for Marion Alice McAfee, charming young soprano, and judging from the many engagements booked for her, she will be kept busy throughout the balance of it. On January 17, she sang a re-engagement at the Flanders Hotel, and on January 24 at the Musical Guild, at both of which recitals the audiences were most appreciative and asked for several encores. On February 7, Miss McAfee sings at the Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago; 14, afternoon, Hamilton Park Civic Music Artists' Recital, and in the evening at a private musicale in Evanston (Ill.); 28, she fills a re-engagement at the Orrington Hotel, Evanston (Ill.).
14WALTER SPRY PUPILS HEARD
15Pupils of Walter Spry were heard in a well balanced and well played program at the Columbia School of Music Recital Hall, January 26. Those who reflected the conscientious training of this widely known piano teacher were: Marie R. Jehlik, who rendered the andante movement of the Saint-Saens G minor concerto; Evelyn Martin Goetz, who played the Dohnanyi rhapsodic C major and the Liszt Hungarian Fantasie, and Rose Sorkin, whose offering was the rondo of the Chopin F minor concerto. Mr. Spry lent support at the second piano.
17RESPIGHI IS SYMPHONY'S GUEST
18Save for the Schumann Symphony, with which it began, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's program for January 29 and 30 was a Respighi program, with that prominent composer conducting his Ancient Dances and symphonic poem—The Pines of Rome—and playing his concerto for pianoforte and orchestra. Though a modern composer, Respighi's music does not lack imagination, color and melody. It is altogether charming to hear. Particularly effective is The Pines of Rome, which reveals Respighi a man of the theater and a master of orchestration. As composer, pianist and conductor, Respighi had the full admiration of the listeners, who left no doubt as to their appreciation. A highly interesting program!
20CARL CRAVEN BUSY
21Carl Craven, tenor, sang the role of Samson in the opera Samson and Delilah, January 31, at the Orrington Hotel, Evanston (Ill.).
23BUSH CONSERVATORY NOTES
24The Bush Conservatory chorus of 100 voices is preparing Rossini's Stabat Mater for the second concert of the orchestra, to be given in Orchestra Hall on March 22.
25Frederic Lamond, world-famed pianist, who returns from a European concert trip to teach at the Bush Conservatory Summer School, will reach Chicago, May 20, and will be available from that time for private lessons and coaching. Lamond's Master Repertory Class, which was such a big feature of the Summer School last year, will be repeated this summer.
26Guy Hague, baritone, pupil of Poul Bai at Bush Conservatory, has accepted an engagement to teach classes and also privately in the Kansas City High Schools, and will take up his work the first of February.
28WALTER SPRY'S LECTURE-RECITAL
29Walter Spry will give a lecture-recital on February 4 at the Recital Hall of Columbia School of Music, where he is one of the busiest piano teachers. Mr. Spry's subject will be The Pianist-Composer, and his illustrations will be from the works of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Lemont, Seeboeck and Edward Schuett.
31LOUISE ST. JOHN WESTERVELT STUDIO MUSICALE
32The program for the regular Saturday afternoon Studio Musicae, January 16, given by the class of Louise St. John Westervelt, was furnished by Marion O'Connor, contralto, and Edith Nelson, soprano. Assisting on the program was Mary Esther Winslow, pianist, artist-pupil of Clare Osborne Reed, who also serves as accompanist for advanced pupils in the Westervelt Studio. These have been attended this season by very large audiences.
34WESTERVELT PUPILS IN DEMAND
35Louise St. John Westervelt pupils are in demand as church soloists. Following are some of the positions they are filling at present: Marion Capps, soprano, singing at St. Christopher's Church, Oak Park; Winifred Erickson, soprano, Irving Park Christian Church; Irene Shields, soprano and director of the Halsted Street Institutional Church; Philip Kalar, baritone, Congregational Church, La Grange (Ill.); Jewell Prosser, contralto, Calvary Presbyterian, and Virginia Banford, soprano, Church of the Covenant.
36The Westmar Trio, composed of Marion Capps, Fannie Unger and Jewell Prosser, three Westervelt pupils, have been most successfully launched and is already launched and is already much in demand. The trio sang January 27 in the Columbia School Recital Hall. Other dates include: January 28, at St. Christopher's Church, Oak Park (Ill.), and February 7, at the concert given at the Cordon Club by the Mu Lota Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon for the benefit of the scholarship fund.
38CARL CRAVEN ACTIVITIES
39Carl Craven has been engaged for the tenor role in The Persian Garden to be given at the Windermere Hotel, February 7.
40Lillian Kramer, a Carl Craven student, is to sing the soprano part in the Armour Post Follies at the Eighth Street Theater on February 12 and 13. Irene Cox Banger, another Craven pupil, will sing for the Woodlawn Study Club on February 8.
42AMERICAN CONSERVATORY NOTES
43John Kendel, director of music of the State of Michigan, has been engaged to conduct special post-graduate courses during the summer session at the conservatory.
44Harold Gaudlin, baritone, artist-pupil of Karleton Hackett, is on an extensive concert tour to the Pacific Coast with one of the Redpath companies. Alma Robertson, soprano, also an artist-student of Mr. Hackett, has recently been engaged for a Redpath Company.
46JEANNETTE COX.
48Fontainebleau School Announcement
49The famous Palace of Fontainebleau, France, will open its historic doors June 25 for the sixth summer session of the Fontainebleau School of Music. The season of 1925 was in all respects the most remarkable in the history of the School, not only because of the large enrollment—167—but also because of the excellent quality of the students, whose industry and enthusiasm were fruitful in satisfactory results. At the close of the season certificates of fitness for teaching or performance were given to the outstanding members of the various classes. Of especial interest was the installation of a new three-manual organ (in large part the gift of American friends) in the new and commodious concert hall, which acquisitions made possible the giving of a series of weekly concerts by the leading musicians of France for the benefit of the students. The climax of the season was an excellent performance of Faure's Requiem by the students themselves under the direction of Gerald Reynolds. The happy conditions of the season of 1925 give promise of even better things in 1926, during which there will be no important change either in the faculty or in the general policy of the school.
50The Fontainebleau School of Music is the first instance of one country's offering to another a school of art for the exclusive benefit of the citizens of the other. The teachers are chosen from the best in France. The heads of the various departments for 1926 will be as follows: Widor and Libert, organ; André Bloch, composition and conducting; Nadia Boulanger, harmony (the appreciation and philosophy of modern music); Isidor Philipp and Decreus, piano; Remy and Hewitt, violin; (Vacant), cello; Grandjany, harp; Mauguère and Salignac, voice, repertory and mise-en-scene; Pillois, the French language and history of music; Fauchet, solfeggio and instrumental ensemble. To study with such masters as these is an extraordinary privilege. Because of the high musical standards and the shortness of the season, the school is exclusively for teachers, artists and advanced students, the foundations of whose musical training are already solidly laid, and its main purpose is to familiarize its students with the best French methods of instruction. It is essentially French in character, organized and administered by Frenchmen in accordance with the best French traditions. For this reason, it in no way competes with any American institution. The sole function of the American committee is to enroll students, whose number is limited to one hundred and fifty.
51In addition to their musical opportunities, the students live and work in one of the most beautiful palaces in all the world, which is replete with great historic traditions. They have the forest and the park for a playground. Such lovely haunts of artists as Barbizon, Moret and Montigny are within easy reach; Paris itself is only an hour away. During the summer important concerts are given for the students by French musicians of the highest standing.
53Yeatman Griffith Singer and Teacher Wins Praise
55HOPE FORD, soprano, instructor of voice at the College of Wooster Conservatory of Music, Wooster, Ohio, spent the holidays in New York City studying and coaching with her teacher, Yeatman Griffith, internationally eminent vocal pedagogue. Besides extensive teaching activities, Miss Ford is director of the College of Wooster Girl's Glee Club and soloist of the Westminster Chapel Choir. Recently the Wooster Oratorio Society gave Horatio Parker's Hora Novissima in which Miss Ford won great success as soprano soloist. She is from Los Angeles, Cal., and has studied the past three seasons in New York City with Yeatman Griffith, also attending his summer vocal master classes on the Pacific Coast.
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