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Musical Courier 1926-09-30: Vol 93 Iss 14, 1926
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1Crown Prince Congratulates Josef Adler
2The first communications have just been received from Josef Adler, the well-known pianist and teacher, since his arrival at Tokio, Japan, where he is on a two months' concert tour of the Orient with his friend, Iwao Fukui, violinist, and member of one of Japan's most distinguished families. He writes: "Two days before we arrived at Yokohama there was a gala celebration on board the Siberia Maru. It was the Emperor's birthday and meant a day of entertainment. In the morning there were athletic games in which many noted Japanese wrestlers participated, in the afternoon pyrotechnical display for which the Japanese are famous, and much drinking of Saki, a rice wine. The evening was given over to a concert followed by a dance. Iwao and I provided the musical fare before the dance, and opened up with a sonata for piano and violin by Handel, followed by pieces for violin of Tartini, Kreisler and Bach, and piano pieces by Chopin, Beethoven and Liszt. I closed with the Staccato Etude of Rubinstein which brought out a salvo of applause so that I had to repeat it. The Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus and his consort, who gave us distinguished company from Honolulu on, and whose suite was the next to ours, congratulated me heartily and invited me to play at the palace in Stockholm. He is a charming fellow and very democratic."
4Sight Singing as a Science
5A lecture recital with illustrations will be given at the Manhattan Trades Schools in New York on the evening of October 5 by Wilbur A. Luyster, representative of the French system, the Galin-Paris-Chevé Method, formerly taught by him for eight years for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Mr. Luyster has made a specialty of this branch of music for many years and has personally taught countless numbers of people to read at sight. As a result of the demand for instruction and knowledge of sight singing by such a vast number devoid of knowledge to sing unless the music was played, and apparently not knowing how or where to learn, Mr. Luyster will conduct a class embracing a course of thirty weeks' instruction to be held every Tuesday evening at the above mentioned school. This class is for, and within the means of, the public and will be open to anyone who enjoys music and wishes to learn to sing and read music from the staff without an instrument as fluently as he reads print from a book. No requirements will be necessary to join, such as voice trials or previous knowledge of music. In Brooklyn there is to be a similar class on of England would have a chance to hear America's crack orchestra.
7THE PICK OF THE PUBLICATIONS
9Piano
11(Schroeder & Gunther, Inc., New York)
12Twelve Two-voice Preludes, by Newton Swift.—Twelve contributions without title or program. The foreword by Clara Damrosch Mannes gives the purpose of these works in which she says, "music's highest and best expression lies in its own language, which goes beyond a visual picture and human emotion. The beauty of interval and line, the form and architecture of the phrase, the perfect voicing—all these factors constitute music and the student should from the beginning be sensitized and made to hear and appreciate these essentials." Mr. Swift has attempted to offer just these things to the student in these little two-voice preludes.
14(Carl Fischer, Inc., New York)
15Musical Theory at a Glance, by Grace Hofheimer.—The author has announced this work as "the elements of notation, transposition, scale and chord formation, intervals and pianoforte fingering." In this volume Miss Hofheimer has laid down the fundamentals of music so that every one may learn to read and enjoy music, as she claims that groups of tones represent musical thought just as groups of words represent written or spoken thoughts. She begins with an Introduction and follows with Scales, Intervals, Triads, and Tone Groups. A highly valuable little volume, written in a concise and direct manner.
17(Otto Halbreiter, Munich)
18A Western Suite, by Radie Britain.—The suite includes: On The Plains, The Covered Wagon, Mirage, Camp Fire and Stampede. Miss Britain is capable of handling the characteristics of the West for she herself is a westerner though she has for many recent years been studying composition abroad. Though a young composer this work shows decided originality in combinations and plenty of ideas. There is continuity of form and a fine melodic line throughout the whole work. The harmonic net she weaves is intricate and interesting. It is the result of much talent.
20OBITUARY
21William H. Cloudman
22William H. Cloudman, for many years the right hand man of Manager M. H. Hanson and widely known in the musical world, passed away last Saturday at his home on West 47th Street, New York. Mr. Cloudman married a few years ago and shortly afterwards retired from business on account of ill health. He was about forty years of age. Private funeral services were held on Monday and the body was taken to Elgin, Ill., for burial.
24Tina Filliponi
25Word comes from Italy of the sudden and unexpected death there of Tina Filliponi, a young Italian pianist who visited this country early in 1924 and gave several recitals, including one in New York which received very favorable notice from the critics, who looked upon her as one of the most gifted and promising of the young Italians.
27Mrs. Mary A. Leavy Kennedy
28Mrs. Mary A. Leavy Kennedy, for half a century well known in New York as contralto church soloist and also as piano teacher, passed away on September 20 at the age of eighty-one.
30New York Recital
31AEOLIAN HALL
32Sunday Evening
33OCTOBER 10th at 8 o'clock
34Local Management:
35ARTHUR AND HARRY CULBERTSON
361526-27 Aeolian Hall, New York
38Favorite Melodious Ballads for All Singers
40WESTELL GORDON
41Recital and Broadcasting Artist
42IS SINGING
43THE FAR AWAY BELLS
44AND
45A BROWN BIRD SINGING
46Two Wonderfully Effective Ballads That Will Appeal to All Singers
48Mr. Gordon's Favorite Ballads Are
49I Heard You Singing
50One Little Dream of Love
51Come Back In Dreams
52Wonderful World of Romance
53Homecoming
54Thank God For a Garden
55The Song of Songs
56You In a Gondola
57I Look Into Your Garden
58Because
60CHAPPELL-HARMS, INC., THE HOUSE OF BALLADS
61185 Madison Ave., New York
63Thursday evenings at Public School No. 15, beginning October 7.
65English Tour Offered to Philadelphia Orchestra
66LONDON.—Upon hearing that the Philadelphia Orchestra has postponed its European visit until the spring of 1928, the London Concert Agency of Powell and Holt has offered the orchestra a tour of thirty concerts in the English provinces. If this tour should be accepted it would take the place of the annual London Symphony tour and the greater part of England would have a chance to hear America's crack orchestra.
68M. S.
70GEORGE LIEBLING
71KIMBALL PIANO
72WELTE MIGNON RECORDS (Licensee)
74JOSEPH REGNEAS
75Vocal Instructor
76From the First Principles of Singing to the Fully Developed Artist for Opera, Oratorio, Concert and Church
77Interviews and Consultations by appointment only.
78New York Studios: 135 W. 80th Street
79Telephone Trafalgar 4386
80All Vocal Instructions Given Personally by Joseph Regneas
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