Books › Musical Courier 1926-03-11: Vol 92 Iss 10, 1926 › scan 15
Scan 15
Musical Courier 1926-03-11: Vol 92 Iss 10, 1926
49 lines. Read by computer on 29 September 2026. Printed page 16. See the scan on archive.org.
1U. of N. C. Glee Club: Paul John Weaver, Director
2The Glee Club of the University of North Carolina, one of the two southern organizations competing in the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest, held at Carnegie Hall on March 6, gave its own concert at the Little Theater here on the following night, March 7. This club is composed of about eighty under-graduate students belonging to the university, and from this number thirty were chosen to go on tour.
3The club is under the direction of Paul John Weaver, who has been with them since 1919. He is widely known for his choral activities and connections with various associations, having just been elected president of the Southern Intercollegiate Glee Club Association. Aside from all this active work he has a considerable reputation as an arranger of Negro Spirituals.
4The singing of the club, both from the delicate pianissimo to the forte, showed excellent training and a complete understanding in the direction of choral work. The fresh young voices reflected great credit on their director. They began their program with old chorals and American songs; among these was My Little Banjo, by Dischmont, which proved a tremendous success, being roundly applauded and repeated. Additional songs and some old sacred ones of the sixteenth and seventeenth century completed the first half of the program. The second half contained the group of Negro Spirituals, arranged by Mr. Weaver, and these were the finest bits of the evening, vocally and in interpretation, and aroused great enthusiasm. Mr. Weaver's arrangement of Shout All Over God's Heaven was rendered in excellent fashion; also the familiar Go Down Moses and O Mary Don't You Weep. The program ended with O'Hara's Wreck of the Julie Plante. A Plainsman's Song by Bliss.
5Jerome Swinford, who has been soloist for this organization on many occasions, was again with them here in New York, and a member of the club, Theodore F. Fitch, sang an obligato solo. In reviewing the program one is conscious of the fact that in the Negro Spirituals the most finished choral work was heard. Without doubt the Glee Club is specializing in this particular field, for which they are so splendidly qualified. The audience was made up largely of Southerners, particularly from North Carolina. It was also reported that this Glee Club will be heard again in the late spring, possibly in Town Hall.
7Pedagogy Classes for Beginners
8CLEVELAND, OHIO.—At the Cleveland Institute of Music novel classes in piano pedagogy for beginners have been started this year with great success. They are conducted by Ruth Edwards and Dorothy Price of the piano faculty. Their purpose is to give the young teachers judgment and experience to make the proper contact with the child who is utterly ignorant of music, beginning his first lessons. Classes in pedagogy for advance students have been a popular course at the Institute for some time. Mrs. Franklyn B. Sanders, acting director, detected the greater need for instruction in method however among teachers of beginners.
9"A child must be led simply and naturally to the unknown through the known," says Miss Edwards in explanation of the course. "Walking, clapping, and marching are familiar acts to the child. By walking, clapping and marching to musical compositions he acquires a background of musical melody and rhythm very easily. When he approaches the reading of notes, he finds they fit naturally into what he already knows. His approach to an understanding of music is not blocked by a terrifying confusion and perplexity."
10"The teacher may have musical knowledge, but she may be helpless to transmit it to the child. She is baffled by the appalling ignorance of the child, and does not know how to begin to make herself intelligible."
11The classes in pedagogy include both men and women, and meet for one hour each week. For each class two children are selected from the music classes of the public schools. They are average children, not musically gifted, who perhaps would have no other opportunity to study.
12Both children are taught at the same time and help each other as they take their lessons. The teacher is a member of the class, a different member chosen each week. The practice teachers are never told in advance when they will be called upon. All are expected to be prepared for every lesson.
13The instruction is imparted simply. Both teacher and pupil are unconscious of the class watching them, but each member of the class is so deeply interested and following the lesson so closely as to be almost experiencing teaching it.
14Before the end of the hour the two children are dismissed and the rest of the hour given over to an open discussion of the teacher of the day and her or his methods. He is criticized favorably or unfavorably as deserved. Personality, the impression upon the child and the method of illustrating the lesson, are all discussed.
15After such thorough and very interesting training the teacher will find teaching not only easier but also much more pleasant.
16Classes in violin pedagogy also are taught at the Institute, both for beginning and advanced students. They are conducted by Andre de Ribaupierre, head of the strings department.
18MUSICAL COURIER
19SYRACUSE, N. Y.
20SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Recently Syracuse has enjoyed several exceptionally fine programs, Maria Jeritza was here February 21, and packed the Syracuse hotel ballroom. Her fine voice and beautiful singing more than satisfied her hearers.
21The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, at its Saturday concert, February 27, filled the Temple Theater to capacity and sold all the standing room that could be found. Respighi's Pines of Rome was the principal number of the program.
23JOHN McCORMACK
24Singing
25JUST A COTTAGE SMALL
26(By a Waterfall)
27Victor Record No. 1133A
28Mr. McCormack is singing this song on all of his programs
29Artist copies on request
30Send for our Worthwhile Catalogue, containing the themes of thirty-two worthwhile songs.
31HARMS, INC.
3262 West 45th Street New York City
34R. S. Stoughton Compositions via Radio
35A radio program of compositions for the organ by R. S. Stoughton was played by Edith Lang, from the Estey Organ Studio, Boston, on March 3. This program had an unusually unique feature in that the composer was present and did the announcing. Miss Lang, the organist, in addition to being founder and first president of the Women Organ Players' Club, has done considerable broadcasting and has developed a large radio following. Following previous recitals from the Estey Studio, she has received letters from England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as California. The program was as follows: Rameses II, Rose Garden of Samarkand, Dancing Girls of Delhi, Song of Autumn, By the Pool of Pirene, The Pygmies, Softening Shadows, Saki, Dreams, Ancient Phoenician Procession.
36B. M. Davison (manager of Publications for White-Smith Music Publishing Co.) introduced Mr. Stoughton as follows: "It is a pleasure to introduce to the musical public of this country a celebrated composer whose entire education was secured in Massachusetts, his native state. He has won the most enviable reputation all over the country as an idiomatic composer for the organ, and he excels when he writes for the organ in that colorful, orchestral style in which he is so eminently successful. In commenting on Mr. Stoughton's organ works, one must always bear in mind that he does not write in the ordinary matter-of-fact style. The strange, the unusual, attracts him; and hence we cannot attempt to apply all the harmony rules so dearly beloved by the theorist. His music lives and breathes and throbs; he paints gorgeous music pictures and while playing his music, we forget our troubles and enjoy the products of his creative art."
38Hart House String Quartet in Winnipeg
39The following has been taken from the Manitoba Free Press of Winnipeg, March 2: "The Hart House String Quartet of Toronto made its first appearance in Winnipeg at the Women's Musical Club yesterday afternoon, and gave the members an hour and a half of more beautiful music. Indeed, when it was all over, one found that one had been thinking about the music rather than the performance, which is usually the way when performances are very good. There was a rugged, individualized strength in the work of the ensemble which made their quieter, sweeter moments very effective, and throughout the players communicated the great pleasure in it that they undoubtedly felt. One recalled the fact that the quartet is endowed; that it has opportunity of daily practice, a free hand, and that Toronto feels a just pride in its efforts and its contribution to the artistic life of the city. Comparisons followed. When will Winnipeg be able to count on such regular series of chamber concerts by home players? The concert opened with the Beethoven quartet, the players, holding the attention from the first note and bringing to the measure a contagious energy and ardor. The slow movement, which is glowing instrumental song, was especially beautiful. One hopes that the Hart House Quartet will be heard here again soon in more of such music."
40This is only a part of the excellent criticism which was accorded the Hart House String Quartet upon their first appearance at Winnipeg. Almost invariably such glowing accounts are the unanimous opinion of this splendid organization.
42Roxas Studio Notes
43Emilio A. Roxas, New York teacher of singing, coach and accompanist, is enjoying an unusually busy season. Many of his artist-pupils are now holding prominent positions in the musical world, among these being David Dorlini Drollet, tenor, an artist-pupil of several years' standing, who is now appearing in the leading role in A Night in Paris at the Century Roof. Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, soprano soloist at Christ Episcopal Church, Ridgewood, N. J., is firmly established in the hearts of the parishioners. May Sellis, soprano, recently appeared in Clickering Hall as soloist with the Music Students' League, when her finished work won instantaneous recognition.
44Other artist-pupils of Mr. Roxas who appeared in concerts during 1925-26 are Inez Church, and Leon Carson.
46Jeanne de Mare's Musical Talks Popular
47Mlle. Jeanne de Mare has been wending her way successfully from coast to coast, giving her educational talks on composers and their chief-d'oeuvres from all centuries and classics down to the present era, and covering the contemporary Americans, among which are included Aaron Copeland, Henry Cowell, Dan Rudhyar, Antheil and Gershwin.
48At the present time Miss de Mare is en route for Florida. Later she will go to Europe where she will be assisted by Laurence Strauss, tenor.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.