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Musical Courier 1926-09-23: Vol 93 Iss 13, 1926
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1CHICAGO
3BERTHA OTT ANNOUNCES CONCERT SERIES
4CHICAGO.—From all indications Chicago will have a banner music season, which promises to surpass previous years in the number of artists and recitals. At least, as far as Bertha Ott is concerned, it will be, judging from her preseason announcement. Miss Ott, for many years was secretary to the late F. Wight Neumann, and since his death has become one of the city's leading concert managers. For the season of 1926-27 she has already arranged for over sixty recitals by well known and world famous artists. The first recitals of Miss Ott's season will be piano recitals by Leo Podolsky, a young Russian pianist, at the Studebaker Theater, October 10, and A. Leon Bloom (who has recently returned to Chicago from New York), at the Playhouse, October 10, and a concert by J. Rosamond Johnson and Taylor Gordon in a program of Negro spirituals at Orchestra Hall, on October 11. J. Rosamond Johnson is the Negro baritone who sits at the piano and Taylor Gordon is the Negro tenor who sings—sometimes both of them at once, sometimes each has a part and they both join in the chorus.
6Other artists to appear under Miss Ott's management are: George Mullfinger, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Elman String Quartet, Prince Alexis Obolensky, Laura Stroud, Lorna Hooper Warfield, Helen Stanley, Ernest Hutcheson, Lambert Murphy, Paul Kochanski, Harold Bauer, Ignatz Friedman, Amelita Galli-Curci, Margaret Lisiewska, Mildred Dilling, E. Robert Shmitz, John Coates, Maria Carreras, Harriet Eells, George Perkins Raymond, Theodora Troendle, Richard Crooks, Mischa Levitzki, Fritz Kreisler, Grace Leslie, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Daisy Jean, Harold Henry, Geneve Cadle, Harold Samuel, Nathan Fadim, Maria Jeritza, Constance McGlinshee, Leon Sampaix, Eusebio Concialdi, Ruth Radkey, Margaret Weiland, Mario Chamlee, Gabriel Fenyves, Moriz Rosenthal, Fannie Laskin, and others.
8Miss Ott will also bring in joint recital Heniot Levy, pianist and Richard Czerwonky, violinist; Franz Pfau, pianist, and Raphael Spiro, violinist; Guy Maier and Lee Pattison; Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals; Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch. The Ukrainian National Chorus with Alexander Koshetz, conductor, will be heard in concerts in the early fall, as will also the Tipica Orchestra of Mexico. The Tipica Orchestra is on its first tour of this country. The Flonzaley Quartet will again come to Chicago for three concerts. The English Singers of London will be heard in a program of Madrigals, folk songs, ballads, canzonets and other music.
10TWO DEVRIES PUPILS WIN JUILLIARD SCHOLARSHIPS
11Herman Devries is to be congratulated upon the acceptance by the Juilliard Foundation of two of his pupils for scholarships. Recently Mr. Devries presented Kurtis Brownell, tenor, and Carl Theman, basso, as worthy students and both were awarded scholarships by the Juilliard Foundation. Mr. Brownell has had his entire vocal instruction with Mr. Devries and Mr. Theman, too, is a loyal Devries student.
13CLARE OSBORNE REED RESUMES TEACHING
14Clare Osborne Reed, director of the Columbia School of Music, which is entering upon its twenty-sixth year, has returned from a motor trip through the Carolinas and a vacation spent at her beautiful estate in the Carolina mountains. She is starting her professional teaching work the first week of October.
16Included in Mrs. Reed's plans for the year are a series of artist classes especially designed for those preparing for public work. This work has also been arranged so that teachers and others having limited time for practice but wishing the experience to be gained and the advantages of class-work may enter as listeners. The professional teachers' training course includes two groups—those of the younger teachers with limited experience, and those of more advancement who constantly return to Mrs. Reed for coaching in their normal work, often bringing their own pupils with them for advanced criticism.
18ABERNETHY TO CONDUCT PEOPLE'S CHURCH CHOIR
19Emerson Abernethy, English baritone and conductor, has been engaged to conduct the choir of the People's Church. Mr. Abernethy was for many years choir director in London, having succeeded his father as director of a large Presbyterian choir, which position his father, a noted choir leader of his day, occupied for twenty-five years. In addition to his activities as choir director Mr. Abernethy has large classes in voice and also conducts the vocal normal course for teachers at Bush Conservatory.
21QUADRANGLE CLUB ENGAGES RUDOLPH REUTER
22Rudolph Reuter, pianist, has been engaged for a lecture-recital on November 9, by the Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago.
24CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE NOTES
25The Chicago Musical College opened its season of 1926-27, on September 13, with an enrollment so large as to cause the officers of the college to believe that they are facing the busiest season in the history of the college. An unusual number of former students have returned, this being particularly true of the vocal department—an encouraging factor in the season's work of the opera class.
27Herbert Witherspoon, president of the college, has returned from his four weeks' vacation in his own country place at Darien (Conn.). Florence Hinkle Witherspoon will return in a few days to commence her duties as a regular member of the faculty.
29Mr. Witherspoon has received letters from his pupils in Europe—Mildred Seeba, who won the Caruso Memorial Scholarship, now in Milan; Manton Marble, tenor, who is now in Berlin, and Esther Stoll, also in Berlin. All three singers expect to make their operatic debuts this season. Miss Seeba has already sung in Milan, Nice and other places in the south of Europe.
31The opera class, under the direction of Isaac Van Grove and Herbert Witherspoon, will begin rehearsals the first week in October, and two or more performances will be given during the season. Special attention will be given to this class and it is expected that performances will be given on an unusual scale of excellence.
33An alumni association is now in process of formation and the president is sending bulletins at stated intervals to former students of the college so that they will be kept in touch with all interesting details incident to the student life at the college.
35The Booking Bureau, under the supervision of Miss Massie and Mr. Witherspoon, is already functioning and it is hoped that advanced students will receive many opportunities for public experience through this bureau.
37Mr. Witherspoon will lecture in several states, probably going as far west as the Pacific Coast, on Music as a Vital Factor in General Education.
39The college orchestra will be reassembled for rehearsal the first Monday in October, under the direction of Isaac Van Grove. A junior orchestra will be formed for the younger and less experienced students so that they may receive early training in ensemble playing, preparatory to entering the first orchestra.
41The first meeting of the class in musical history and appreciation, conducted by Mr. Witherspoon, on novel and interesting lines, will be held in Central Theater, September 25.
43A new four-manual Moeller organ, modern in every respect, has been installed on the sixth floor so that the college now possesses three of the finest organs obtainable.
45A room has been fitted up back of the college restaurant for the newly formed lunch club. Most of the teachers of the college will belong to this club and it is expected that it will become a most enjoyable factor in affording the teachers opportunity of seeing each other frequently to discuss matters pertaining to their work and to the welfare of the college.
47From the above it will be seen that everything is being done to stimulate college spirit in the Chicago Musical College, to enlarge the opportunity for the students, and to improve musical education in every possible manner.
49JEANNETTE COX.
51Arthur Warwick Returns from Europe
52Arthur Warwick, teacher of piano, who has just returned from a three months' trip to Europe, resumed his piano instructions at his studio in Steinway Hall on September 15.
54BRILLIANT-LIVEN
55SCHOOL OF MUSIC
56PIANO, VIOLIN, HARMONY, ENSEMBLE PLAYING
571956 Humboldt Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. Tel. Spalding 8159
58Frederica Gerhardt
59DOWNING
60Contralto
61209 So. Harvey Ave. Oak Park, Ill.
62MARIO CARBONI
63Baritone, Grand Opera, Concerts, Recitals
64Suite 623-4, Lyon & Healy Building Chicago, Ill.
65FLORA WAALKES
66SOPRANO
671625 Kimball Bldg., Harrison 4868
68MARK LOVE
69–I BASSO CANTANTE:–
706656 N. Rockwell St. Chicago, Ill.
71GLADYS SWARTHOUT
72Chicago Civic Opera Auditorium Theatre
73LEON SAMETINI
74For dates address Personal Representative L. FERRARIS
7564 East Van Buren Street Chicago
76GORDON CAMPBELL
77PIANIST—ACCOMPANIST—COACH
78Repertoire for Vocalists and Instrumentalists
79CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE Home Phone: Edgewater 8921
80HANS HESS
81VIOLONCELLIST
82Bookings: 522 Fine Arts Bldg. Chicago
83For Instruction: American Conservatory
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