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Musical Courier 1927-06-16: Vol 94 Iss 24, 1927
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1June 16, 1927
3MUSICAL COURIER READERS
5Beethoven in Japan
6Aoyama, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, May 4, 1927.
7To the MUSICAL COURIER:
8I have the honor to inform you about the Beethoven Centenary performances in Japan.
9The New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo played symphonies No. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9; Leonore overture No. 3, the Consecration of the House, and two violin romances, piano solo Eroica variations, vocal solo Adelaide, Ah, Perfido were added to the program. The concerts were held April 28, 29, May 1, 3 and 4, at the new auditorium of the Asahi Newspaper Company. On account of the illness of Conductor H. Konoye, J. Koenig conducted the whole program. Chorus of Nihon Academy of Music and nine soloists took part.
10The Tokyo Academy of Music will play the seventh symphony overture, Leonore No. 3 and Fantasie for piano, chorus and orchestra, op. 80, under the direction of C. Laurtrup on May 8.
11J. O. A. K. The Tokyo radio station broadcasted during twelve evenings in March and April many greater works of Beethoven, including four symphonies and opera, Fidelio.
12(Signed) J. Dov.
14Different Teachers
15To the MUSICAL COURIER:
16In a recent publication of the MUSICAL COURIER you printed a list of the contestants and their teachers who appeared in the Sesqui-Centennial contest.
17Perhaps I did not make it quite clear in my letter that both the violinist, Miss Hildebran, and myself are pupils of Mr. Francis Schwinger. No doubt you thought it a bit unusual for one teacher to be represented by both a piano and violin pupil in a national contest. Such, however, is the case.
18Thanking you, I am,
19Very sincerely,
20(Signed) GEO. A. COLUMBIA.
21Pueblo, Colo., May 26, 1927.
23FOURTH NORDIC FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE IN STOCKHOLM
24(Continued from page 5)
25coming courtesy on the part of the hosts, the most important orchestral contribution was made by Wilhelm Stenhammar. It was a symphony in G minor—or, more correctly speaking, in the Doric key of G—which has a technical finish and expression that would bear comparison with Nadetoja and Nielsen.
26Hugo Alfvén, primarily a symphonic writer, was represented by a ballad, A Messenger with Flowers, finely sung by the veteran baritone, John Forsell, and Nataanai Berg by a setting of the Song of Solomon for soli, chorus and orchestra, a lyric work of unusual tonal beauty.
27The chamber music comprised a cappella choruses by Oskar Lindberg and David Wikander, and a string quartet by Henning Nankell.
29NEXT FESTIVAL 1930
30The performance of Peer Gynt, which has already been mentioned, was the opening performance of the festival. It was given at the Royal Theatre, where it was followed by operas from the other countries. As none of them were new, a mere mention will suffice. Finland was represented by Nadetoja's Osterbottingor (Natives in a Finnish Countryside), Sweden by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's Aditi and Elisio, and Denmark by two works, Hakon Børresen's The Royal Guest and Siegfried Salomon's Leonora Christina.
31Despite protests in the press against the inevitable bulkiness of such a music festival, the date for the next one has already been fixed. It will be held in Oslo in 1930.
32H. G.
34A Busy Season for Anca Seidlova
35Anca Seidlova, Czechoslovakian pianist, has completed a busy season. Following her New York recital in Aeolian Hall, (when the New York Times greeted her as "the musical newcomer of the season," W. J. Henderson in The Sun commented on the "indisputable evidences of talent in what she did," and F. D. Perkins in the Herald Tribune noted "her 'marked technical fluency and interpretative ability,'") she played for the Society of American Women Composers at the Steinway Building and the Apollo Club in Brooklyn.
36Miss Seidlova recorded eight times for Victor Records, with Renee Chemet and also appeared as assisting artist with her at the French Institute Concert last December. January found the pianist fulfilling numerous engagements. She appeared in a concert in Johnstown, Pa., at which Carlos Salzedo and Marie Tiffany were programmed; with Hans Kindler at the Women's Club Concert, Greenville, Pa., at the Pennsylvania State College and at the Westchester State Normal School, Pa., and at a benefit for the Andrew Freedman Home for the Aged, New York.
37At one of the social events of the season when Mrs. de Koven entertained at her New York residence, Miss Seidlova made another appearance with Mme. Chemet, on February 1. From February to May she played six times in New York—assisting Madeleine Monnier at the French Chamber of Commerce Banquet; at the German Graduate Nurses Association concert, Hotel Majestic, March 2; twice in the Estee Company's series at the Triangle Theater in solo recital March 6 and in a two-piano recital with Martha Thompson, March 27; at the Society of American Women Composers concert, Chickering Hall, April 9, when Fannie C. Dillon's Western Tone Poem entitled Skylines and Silences, for piano and soprano, was rendered by her and Marie Tiffany; and as assisting artist with Abby Putman Morrison Ricker in the new Aeolian Hall on May 18.
38Anca Seidlova will tour the United States as assisting artist with Mme. Chemet next season.
40Carl Fischer Publishes Lindbergh March
41The U. S. Navy Band received Captain Charles A. Lindbergh on June 11 to the strains of The Spirit of St. Louis, the march written by Ralph H. Woods and published by Carl Fischer, Inc. This march was also played by the U. S. Army Band in the parade that followed one of the greatest events ever seen in Washington, and the Police Band used it when Lindbergh was welcomed to New York by Mayor Walker.
42The Spirit of St. Louis is sweeping the country; it is being featured in all the big movie houses and over the radio. Harold Sanford is broadcasting it over WJZ and WEAF, as are Harry Horlick of the A and P Gypsies and Harry Reser of the Clicquot Club Eskimos. Erno Rapee is playing it at the Roxy Theater, Nat Finston at the Paramount, and Carl Edouard at the Strand. one of two readings
43The Spirit of St. Louis is sweeping the country; it is being featured in all the big movie houses and over the radio. Harold Sanford is broadcasting it over WJZ and WEAF, as are Harry Horlick of the A and P Gypsies and Harry Reser of the Clicquot Club Eskimos. Erno Rapee is playing it at the Roxy Theater, Nat Finton at the Paramount, and Carl Edouard at the Strand. one of two readings
45Lindbergh's Flight
46Probably the first serious work to be completed commemorating Lucky Lindy's flight is a symphonic poem by James P. Dunn. It is entitled simply The Flight, and its composer says of it that it is "not so much a musical portraiture of the aeroplane, its tuning up and its subsequent solitary passage through the darkness, over the wastes of the ocean, beset by the terrors of the storm and sleet, but rather a tonal utterance of the indomitable perseverance, will power and high courage of Capt. Charles Lindbergh."
48LUDWIG WULLNER AS ORCHESTRAL LEADER
49Continued Beethoven Celebrations in Dresden—Interesting Novelties
50Dresden.—The Beethoven celebrations are still going on, the latest sensation being the appearance of Ludwig Wullner as an orchestral leader. This appearance, at the head of the Philharmonic Orchestra was undertaken in aid of charity and it goes without saying that Wullner, with his powerful personality, was able to raise the performance above the ordinary level. The Egmont overture, the Fifth symphony and the Eroica comprised his program.
51As for Beethoven recitals, they have assumed such proportions that lack of space forbids saying more than that they have all been up to the high standard customary in Dresden. Orchestral and choral concerts, quartet, song, piano and church concerts as well as conservatory programs have been attended and enjoyed en masse. Fidelio was revived under the direction of Fritz Busch with excellent soloists, though unfortunately with less excellent stage settings.
52A novelty was Walter Braunfels' Te Deum which had a successful Dresden premiere in the Kreuzkirche under Eduard Moerike. A Scandinavian program was presented by Moerike, on which occasion Gerhardt Schjelderup's second symphony, among other works, achieved a striking success. The composition revealed considerable originality, brilliant orchestration and vivid coloring.
54BURLEIGH'S CONCERTS HEARD
55At a conservatory examination concert Erhard Schneider, a gifted pupil of Adrian Rappoldi, introduced Cecil Burleigh's new violin concerto, and earned well-deserved recognition for both the composer and himself.
56A. I.
58Novello Davies in London and Cardiff
59Clara Novello Davies, vocal teacher, goes from London to Cardiff, Wales, every week-end to rehearse and conduct her Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir. At the same time she gives a limited number of lessons to old and new pupils. Mme. Davies has another choir, The Clara Novello Davies Singers, in London, and she has been conducting them in a series of six concerts with Dame Clara Butt as the soloist.
60Hugh Martindale, artist-pupil of Mme. Davies, who has been associated with her in her London studios for more than a year, has returned home to Canada for a two months' vacation. Leading physicians are constantly endorsing the Novello-Davies' method of breathing, and prior to Mr. Martindale's departure he had been working with some of the little tuberculosis patients of one of the largest hospitals in an effort to better their breathing.
62Oregon Music Teachers Convene
63The Music Teachers' Association of Oregon held a convention May 26 and 27 in Eugene. The former officers of the association were: President, George Wilbur Reed; vice president, Mrs. Charles Heinlein; treasurer, Frank Eichenlaub; recording secretary, Mrs. Clifford Moore; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Hoeber Peterson. The officers elected for the coming year are as follows: President, Mrs. Clifford Moore; vice president, Mrs. Charles Heinlein; treasurer, Frank Eichenlaub; recording secretary, Elizabeth Johnson; corresponding secretary, Elizabeth Levy.
65Lea Epstein in Buenos Aires
66Lea Epstein, violinist, is now in her home in Buenos Aires, following an absence of three years in New York. Miss Epstein has been appointed the MUSICAL COURIER correspondent from that city.
68OBITUARY
69E. N. WILLIAMSON
70Ellis Newlin Williamson, religious editor of the New York Evening Post, died in Bloomfield, N. J., from pneumonia. He was sixty-four years old. His widow and two sons survive him. He was a friend of all organists and choirmasters, his department, containing Sunday church-music programs, being the most complete of any of the metropolitan papers. Some years ago he was elected to honorary membership in the National Association of Organists, as well as honorary associate in the American Guild of Organists. For a quarter century he had been treasurer of Westminster Presbyterian Sabbath School of Bloomfield; he was also a trustee of the church.
72FREDERICK SCHWAB
73The death is reported from Paris of Frederick Schwab, at the age of eighty-three, who was for a long time music critic on the New York Times.
75STUART GRACEY
76In
77AMERICA
78September, October, November
79ONLY
80Opera and Concerts
81. . . "Towering above all was the baritone Stuart Gracey. This brilliant young artist gave a most admirable interpretation arousing tremendous enthusiasm. His voice is full and beautiful, pronunciation clear and distinct, a master of stagecraft, and he has been trained in a great school of singing."
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