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Musical Courier 1927-10-27: Vol 95 Iss 17, 1927
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1ARTISTS EVERYWHERE
3Martha Baird, an American pianist living in London, and who was heard in New York last season, has cabled Richard Copley that she has accepted an offer for a tour through Germany and Austria which will cause the cancellation of her New York recital scheduled for the evening of November 11.
5Horace Britt, cellist, according to cable advices, scored a great success in Barcelona, Spain, on October 13 as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Britt played for the first time in Spain Bloch's Shelome Suite for cello and orchestra.
7The Flonzaley Quartet members arrived from Europe on the S.S. Paris on October 11 for their twenty-fourth American tour. They face a season of more than ninety concerts and an itinerary that covers the South, East, Middle West and Canada. They brought with them a number of manuscript works, and other works new to this country, which they will introduce here.
9The Hart House String Quartet will spend sixteen weeks in the United States this season. During its first tour of the States two years ago the quartet was booked for two weeks; last season the booking doubled to four weeks, and the present plans for the coming year are a tribute to the success of the Canadian tour. "We shall not neglect our Canadian audiences, however," says Milton Blackstone, business manager of the quartet; "rather we shall concentrate our dates a bit closer in our travels around the Dominion. It is important, of course, that the quartet shall not lose its Canadian identity."
11Lillian Hunsicker is scheduled to sing in Cabasauqua at the opening of a series of monthly musical evenings on October 30. She enjoyed a pleasant and interesting summer in Europe this year, and tells of being in attendance at a performance of The Resurrection, with Mary Garden in the leading role, at the Paris Opera Comique, when the announcement of Lindbergh's arrival at Le Bourget was made. Much excitement was manifest in the theater, and America's national anthem was played by the orchestra. She attended a reception and garden party given by Ambassador Houghton and his wife in London on July 4, and saw King George, attended by his magnificent black horse guard, receive King Fuad of Egypt.
13Rudolf Laubenthal, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, recently arrived from Europe on the S. S. Homeric, just passing through New York on his way to San Francisco. The singer has been engaged for appearances with the Los Angeles and San Francisco opera companies, and will sing Tristan and Isolde for the first time on the Coast. He will return east about the middle of this month to sing several concerts before starting rehearsals at the Metropolitan.
15Mischa Levitzki was scheduled to play the Schumann concerto with Sir Thomas Beecham in London on October 17 and later in the season with Karl Muck in Hamburg.
17M. Mauro-Cottone, for six years chief organist of the Capitol Theater, New York, has been engaged as organist of the Free Synagogue (Dr. Wise), Carnegie Hall, where the music, with vocal octet, is specially important. On October 9 works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Dvorak were on the program. He has also an exclusive contract with the Irving Berlin Music Corporation, which will publish his organ compositions for motion pictures. Last season he was most enthusiastically received at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when his choral arrangement of Mendelssohn's first organ sonata was performed with a chorus of 250. King Victor Emmanuel, on suggestion of Mussolini, bestowed the cross of Chevalier of the Crown of Italy on him.
19Nina Morgana's winter season started off auspiciously with recitals in Westfield, N. J., on October 21; Lockport, N. Y., on October 26, and Buffalo, N. Y., on October 29. November and December will be crowded with engagements that will take her from Illinois to the Pacific Coast, and back to Virginia and Pennsylvania. On December 8, she will appear as soloist in The Messiah with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
21Joseph Regneas issued invitations to a studio reception, presenting Adelaide Fischer, soprano, October 9; many people attended and enjoyed her singing.
23Alfredo San Malo, noted South American violinist, has returned to New York after several months spent in France. His first American concert will be given at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 31, with Walter Golde at the piano. Mr. San Malo will play at this time his own transcription of Inca Prayer to the Sun, the first of his group of Inca music.
25Tofi Trabilsee opened his season with a concert of professional and advanced pupils, which was attended by a large gathering of the new enrollments at the studio, and a representative audience of New York music lovers.
27Haensel to Present American Artists Abroad
28A stir was created in the musical world by the announcement of the alliance between Haensel & Jones, New York managers of musical artists, Otto Mertens, the largest operatic agents in Europe and the International Impresario, Max Walther, one of the largest European concert bureaus, and rightly so because this new combination will undoubtedly have a vastly beneficial effect upon the destinies of many American concert and opera singers.
30Two years ago, Fitzhugh W. Haensel, president of Haensel & Jones, presented a number of American singers in leading German cities, among them notably Richard Crooks, tenor. The unbiased favor with which these artists were received convinced him that in Central Europe particularly there was a field for American artists which had not been exploited since before the war. Richard Crooks was immediately engaged for a series of concert and opera appearances which were to have taken place last summer, but due to American engagements it was necessary to postpone them until the summer just passed.
32Crooks' sensational success in the operas at Berlin, Hamburg, Budapest, etc., as well as his equally successful concert appearances, made this popular American singer in the course of a few weeks the most sought after and highly paid American singer in Europe. The equally successful appearances of Nevada Van der Veer, contralto, in recitals and with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Schuricht, who by the way has been engaged as one of the guest conductors at St. Louis, only served to emphasize the fact that American artists like the American films are welcomed with open arms.
34A concrete business arrangement was the natural result and the firms of Otto Mertens and Max Walther will, in addition to Richard Crooks and Nevada Van der Veer, present during the coming season Julia Claussen, mezzo soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Paul Althouse, distinguished tenor, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Marion Telva, contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The further details concerning the European tours of these artists will be published at the earliest possible moment.
36Visuola Demonstrated
37A general demonstration of the application of the visuola to private and class piano teaching was given at The Aeolian Hall School for Music Research on October 17. John C. Bostelmann, Jr., director of the School of Music research, spoke in illustration of the uses of the Visuola, and Sophie Pratt Bostelmann, A. B., associate director of the school, demonstrated with a six-year-old boy the principles used in the private lesson. The class work illustrated the pedagogy involved in modern piano instruction—leading from the school song to pianistic expression. The materials used were school song books published by the American Book Company, Ginn & Company, Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, and Silver-Burdette, and various pianistic compositions, including the Oxford University Course.
39The classes were composed of children between the ages of six and twelve—having had from three weeks' to three months' lessons and were under the direction of Addye Yeargain Hall. There was an interested and enthusiastic audience of Supervisors of Music, grade teachers, special music teachers, publishers, representatives of Research societies and of the Federation of Child Study. The results attained proved to be remarkable and confirmed the earlier impression of the far-reaching importance of this invention.
41OBITUARY
43ROBERT GLIER, SR.
44Robert Glier, Sr., noted violin maker, died October 19 in his eightieth year at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Peter Young, in Cold Springs, Ky. Mr. Glier was a member of a family of violin makers who were known as far back as 1632. His forefather, Johan Gottlieb Glier, of Klingenthal, Germany, who lived in the seventeenth century, was the first of the family to attain prominence in the art. The grandfather of the deceased, William August Glier, made a violin for Thomas Jefferson, to be used by a talented slave in the household of the President. Robert Glier, Sr., is credited with the production of more than 5,000 instruments, all of exceptional quality. Robert Glier, Jr., is engaged in carrying on the art of his father.
46SILAS EDWIN BEEBE
47Silas Edwin Beebe, father of the sisters so well known in the musical world, Helen and Carolyn, died at the Beebe summer home, Mystic, Conn., October 19. He was the son of Silas R. Beebe and Charlotte Wade Beebe, and for many years senior partner of the well known produce commission firm of Beebe Brothers of New York, members of the Produce Exchange. The daughters and widow survive him.
49VICENTE BALLESTER
50Vicente Ballester, well known baritone, died recently at his villa in Valencia, Spain, according to a despatch just received. Mr. Ballester, who never fully recovered from an operation for sinus, died after a brief illness of heart failure. His last performance at the Metropolitan was Rigoletto, under the baton of Maestro Serafino.
52BUDAPEST OPERA'S STAGE DIRECTOR DEAD
53Koloman Alszeghy, for many years stage director of the Royal Opera of Budapest, is dead. He was particularly esteemed for his work in the classic operas.
55Benno Moiseiwitsch is having continued successes in the Orient.
56Leopold Auer has accepted a place on the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music.
57Schoenberg's new quartet, given at the Coolidge concerts in Vienna, aroused much enthusiasm for the composer.
58Anca Seidlova is forging ahead in her pianistic art.
59American Opera Company will make its New York debut in January.
60Hugh Ross, new Schola Cantorum conductor, has many interesting plans for the season.
61Homer Mowe has opened new studios on Seventy-second Street.
62Rosa Ponselle will sing the leading role in the revival of Norma on November 16 at the Metropolitan.
63The Cherniavsky Trio concluded its Mexico City appearances with ten concerts.
64Women's University Glee Club is to give new works which Gerald Reynolds has brought back from France.
65Patricia Bowman has Harriet Scanland as publicity representative.
66The San Carlo Opera Company is coming to the Gallo Theater on November 7.
67Albert Coates will conduct in Edinburgh.
68Bela Bartok and Maurice Ravel have dedicated compositions to the talented violinist, Yelli d'Aranyi.
69Antonio Vidal, who is representing the Gran Liceo of Barcelona, is holding auditions with the idea of selecting voices for that opera house.
70The schedule for the first week of the Chicago Opera season is announced.
71Koussevitzky makes his American debut as a double bass soloist.
73I SEE THAT
75Lynnwood Farnam is pictured in a snapshot taken at York Minster, England
76Helene Romanoff is proud of the success of her Indian pupil, Princess White Deer.
77Claude Warford's pupil, William Hain, won the men's radio contest in the Greater New York tryout at Hotel Roosevelt.
78Dr. Mauro-Cottone has been engaged as organist of the Free Synagogue.
79Adele Parkhurst and Louise Osborne are Klamroth artists who have attained a recognized position in the metropolis.
80Alice Lawrence Ward's pupils, Margery Smith and Harold Patrick, were contestants in the New Jersey State radio tryout.
81The National Association of Organists made a pilgrimage to West Point, October 12, to hear the new organ of 287 stops.
82An evening of works by John Prindle Scott was given in the Binghamton-Endicott, October 13, and one in Norwich, N. Y., the same week.
83Myra Hess will return to New York in November and give her first recital after an absence of two years.
84Vito Carnevali has resumed activities in New York.
85Berenice Viole finds the Frenchmen most charming but light-hearted.
87ARTHUR MIDDLETON
88AMERICA'S FOREMOST BARITONE AND VOICE BUILDER
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