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Musical Courier 1926-09-23: Vol 93 Iss 13, 1926
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1"GOOD TENORS SCARCE IN EUROPE," SAYS HENRY G. WEBER, HOME FROM ABROAD
3Henry G. Weber, one of the first conductors of the Chicago Civic Opera, called at the Chicago office of the Musical Courier recently and divulged, in the course of a friendly conversation, many interesting sidelights concerning his activities. Mr. Weber and his mother had gone to Europe, where they spent several months traveling, at times with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Johnson, having many consultations and visits with Giorgio Polacco in Milan and discovering that tenors are as scarce in Europe as in America.
5"As a matter of fact," said Mr. Weber, "we could not find any. We heard some in the making, but they all need two or three years' study before they could think of joining an opera company of the importance of the Chicago Civic Opera. However, Europe is crowded with American singers and in all the principal opera houses on the continent one is sure to find at least one American representative. We heard some excellent performances in Vienna, where we spent three weeks and heard eighteen performances during our stay. We spent most of our time in Italy, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, and I was very much struck by the beautiful work of American singers in Europe. Their voices were all of beautiful quality and I can well understand why American singers, especially among the women, are so much in demand throughout Italy, Germany and France and Austria."
7"Did you work while you were in Europe," the interviewer ventured to ask Mr. Weber, "or did you act as chauffeur for the party as you did a summer or two ago?"
9"I drove the car many miles, but had other duties such as making an entirely new translation of Tiflan with Charles Moore, stage director of our company. While in Europe, I could only translate the first act, then our stage director went ahead and translated the balance of the opera and I did the same. Few days after my return here, I received from Moore his translation which I compared with mine. What I thought I had done best I kept. What Mr. Moore had done better will be used in our translation of Tiflan when it is sung at the Auditorium during the first part of the season. This was, I will say, a gigantic work and I am pleased and happy that it is over. Now the management is having copies made of the translation so that singers will be given their books soon as they arrive."
11"What operas did you hear in Europe that made a strong impression on you?"
13"It all depends on where those operas were given, as I really heard some terrible performances in some parts of Europe."
15"Where?"
17"Why be unkind, but I heard a performance of Rosenkavalier in Vienna that to say the least was a marvelous production."
19"On what boat did you return?"
21"We came back on the Majestic, though we had passage booked on the Resolute, but she did not sail so we came back on that crack White Star liner with the Johnsons, where we had the pleasure of having for companion also Charles Hackett."
23"We were just getting interested in the talk when Mr. Weber pulled out his watch and said 'my goodness, it is 9:55 and I have a rehearsal at ten o'clock at the Auditorium, so goodbye. Will call another time.'"
25Activities at Harold Henry's Yellow Barn
27During the past few weeks there has been a constant pilgrimage to Harold Henry's Yellow Barn studio which has become a feature in the summer life at Bennington, Vt. On August 31 a recital was given by Madeline Tucker which aroused much enthusiasm. On September 3, Horace Britt, cellist; Harold Henry, pianist, and Mildred Cooper, accompanist, gave the final concert of the subscription concert course, and delighted a large and enthusiastic audience. On September 9 a recital was given by Mrs. Arthur Holden which left little to be desired in the way of musical understanding, poise, power, and technical finish and which, with that given by Miss Tucker, proves Mr. Henry to be a teacher of artists.
29Olga Warren to Tour Middle West
31Olga Warren will leave New York on November 1 for a six weeks' tour, filling engagements at Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and intermediate points. After a short rest over the Christmas holidays she will commence her Northeastern tour in four states, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, now being arranged for her by Associated Artists.
33"Mr. Gunster is unsurpassed."—Atlanta Journal.
35Frederick Gunster
36TENOR
37Forwarding Address: c/o Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York
39MIAMI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
40BERTHA FOSTER, Director, of the University of Miami
41Courses in Music, Art, Expression, Dancing
42STUDENT DORMITORIES
43CATALOG UPON REQUEST
44Opens October 15
45Miami, Florida
47BERNICE FROST
48Pianist and Vocal Coach
49will re-open her
50NEW YORK STUDIO—SEPTEMBER 8TH
51305 West 84th Street
52Phone, Susquehanna 10432
54FREDERIC WARREN Voice
55announces the re-opening of his
56NEW YORK STUDIOS FOR THE SEASON 1926-27
57MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
58Specialist in TONE PRODUCTION
59Studios: 212 West 59th Street.
60Residence Studio: 370 Central Park West, New York City
62NEW YORK SCHOOL of MUSIC and ARTS
63824 West End Avenue Cor. 100th Street
64NEW YORK'S OLDEST MUSIC SCHOOL
65Same celebrated faculty headed by Ralfe Leech Sterner, Arthur Friedheim, Paul Stoeving, Frederick Riesberg and other celebrated masters.
66Individual Instruction. Entrance at any time.
67Dormitories in School Building. A real home for music students.
68Many Free Classes and Lectures. Diplomas and Teacher's Certificates. Public Concert every Thursday night. Vocal, Piano, Violin and all Instruments. Public School Music Dept. Dramatic Art, Drawing and Painting, Interior Decoration, Dancing and Languages.
69ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ON REQUEST
71HENRY G. WEBER.
73SUMMER OPERA FOR NICE
74Great Outdoor Scheme of Summer Festivities Planned
75—World's Greatest Open Air Theater
77Nice.—Nice, France's great winter resort, is going to be a summer resort as well. Its delightful climate attracts so many visitors in the hot months that there seems to be no reason why this charming city should not support two "art seasons" a year, and music is to be the clou.
79Elaborate plans, therefore, are under way for an open-air theater. The site chosen for the project is the Villa Vigier, generously bought for the purpose by the Count and Countess Miléant. Its stage, which will project into the auditorium, à la Reinhardt, is to be the largest in the world; namely ninety feet long, fifty-two feet deep, and forty feet high. There will be comfortable seating capacity for three thousand people and ample room for two thousand more.
81Natural trees, shrubs, and flowers will form the back drop and wings, while the possibility of making the Mediterranean itself contribute to the scenic splendor is still under discussion. The artists' entrances and exits will be made chiefly from the back, the action taking place practically in the midst of the spectators, while in Carmen and Thais, for example, the chorus and ballet will enter from the front, thus seeming to make the audience take an active part in the show.
83The president of the summer festival committee, René Mercier, coadjutor to the mayor of Nice, promises an elaborate and interesting program in which internationally famous stars will take part. Prince Igor or Rimsky-Korsakov's Kitesh will inaugurate the "Théâtre de Verdure" during the second half of next September and the Russian opera troupe, now in Paris, has been engaged for the performance. It will be followed in turn by Lois Fuller with fourteen of her attractive pupils, an ensemble from the Comédie Française in Paris, and one from the Scala in Milan.
85Albert Wolff, of the Opéra Comique, is to be musical director; Lugné-Poë, founder of the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, in Paris, will be stage manager and Count Miléant director.
87With everything possible being done to make the project attractive, even to the construction of a palm garden, where visitors can stroll between the acts, Nice's ambition to become an all-year-round art center seems to be in a fair way of realization.
89S. J.
91Nadia Reisenberg's First Concert Tour
93Nadia Reisenberg, talented Russian pianist, will make her first concert tour this season under the direction of Baldini & Engelhardt. Her first tour will be marked by engagements with several of the prominent symphony organizations in America, which together with a series of concert engagements extending from Boston to the Middle West will continue over a period of twenty weeks.
95Not only will Miss Reisenberg appear in New York, Chicago, Boston and Detroit in recitals, but she will also appear with symphony orchestras in these cities. In Boston the pianist will be presented as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Koussevitzky, while in Detroit she will be presented first as soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and later appear in recital under the auspices of the Tuesday Musicals. In New York the pianist will play with the Friends of Music under Bodanzky, also appearing later in the season in recital at Aeolian Hall.
97Miss Reisenberg, who is an artist-pupil of Alexander Lambert, is among the outstanding women pianists of today, and was acclaimed at the time of her New York debut by a representative audience and by the critics.
99Steeb Piano School in Larger Quarters
101The Olga Steeb Piano School of Los Angeles, Cal., in line with its policy of advancement, has moved into larger and more commodious quarters. It is now in its fourth year, and this year's enrollment is nearly double that of previous years. Among the notable additions to the already popular faculty are Mary Carr Moore, of San Francisco, a composer of note, who will head the department of harmony and composition, and Iris Kuhne, who will teach Eurythmics. Olga Steeb, the director, is an artist well known in this country and Europe. She has been heard in New York City on numerous occasions. She will make many appearances in California this fall, among them her engagement with the Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Henry Rothwell conducting, in Los Angeles. She is a welcome artist in her own native state. one of two readings
102The Olga Steeb Piano School of Los Angeles, Cal., in line with its policy of advancement, has moved into larger and more commodious quarters. It is now in its fourth year, and this year's enrollment is nearly double that of previous years. Among the notable additions to the already popular faculty are Mary Carr Moore, of San Francisco, a composer of note, who will head the department of harmony and composition, and Iris Kuhle, who will teach Eurythmics. Olga Steeb, the director, is an artist well known in this country and Europe. She has been heard in New York City on numerous occasions. She will make many appearances in California this fall, among them her engagement with the Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Henry Rothwell conducting, in Los Angeles. She is a welcome artist in her own native state. one of two readings
104Chaliapin for Honolulu
106Feodore Chaliapin will appear in Honolulu during October under the local management of Ralph Julian MacBrayne. Mr. MacBrayne recently announced that he had taken over the arrangements for the concert to be given by the great basso, and that to accommodate the expected audience which, it is believed, will be larger than can be accommodated in any local hall, a special auditorium is being designed and will be erected on the territorial grounds. Mr. MacBrayne has made arrangements for the artist to remain over night in Honolulu, so that the concert can be given in the evening instead of in the afternoon or twilight as heretofore.
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