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Musical Courier 1927-10-27: Vol 95 Iss 17, 1927
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1October 27, 1927
3MUSICAL COURIER
5Benno Moiseiwitsch in the Far East
7From Hong Kong, Singapore and Manila come tidings of the success of Benno Moiseiwitsch, Russian-English pianist, who, at the conclusion of his present oriental tour, will have played in practically every civilized country in the world. Everywhere the extraordinary pianistic talent that won for him the famous Rubinstein Prize in his early teens has brought him recognition as a pianist of the first rank.
9Women's University Glee Club to Give New Works
11Gerald Reynolds, conductor of the Women's University Glee Club, has returned from France, bringing with him a number of new works which the club will present this winter at its concerts at Town Hall, New York, in December and May. Mr. Reynolds again spent the summer at the Fontainebleau School of Music, where he is conductor of the festivals and advisor for the faculty and student body. At the end of the season, in recognition of his work in France, he was made an "officier de l'instruction publique," a government award for distinguished service in education and art, which has rarely been bestowed on other than Frenchmen.
13Three numbers written especially for the Women's University Glee Club by Daniel Gregory Mason will be sung this winter, and a Byzantine Mass, written by Poniridy, a young Greek now living in Paris, will also be sung, as well as several Greek folk songs unearthed by Poniridy. Mr. Reynolds also brought with him a cycle of poems by Whitman, composed by Roy Harris, a young musician now in Paris on a Guggenheim fellowship. In addition to new works the club is rehearsing old English, French and German carols; numbers from the Bach motet, Jesus, Meine Freude, and old church music by Nanini, Palestina pupil.
15The glee club is still accepting new members for the winter's work; applicants producing recognized university connections and passing a music test are allowed to join. Applications are received by Mrs. Philip Stimson, 25 Claremont Avenue, New York. Mrs. Wilson Fitch Smith is president of the club, which is now in the fifth year of its existence and numbers almost one hundred active members.
17Auer at Juilliard School
19The Graduate School of the Juilliard School of Music announces through its Dean, Ernest Hutcheson, that Leopold Auer has accepted a place on its faculty and will give personal instruction to a selected few of the violin students. Florence Page Kimball also has been added to the list of instructors in the Graduate School and will assist Mme. Sembrich, head of the singing department.
21Scanland Representing Patricia Bowman
23Among the artists for whom Harriett Scanland is publicity representative is Patricia Bowman, a Washingtonian, who studied in the Tchernikoff and Gardiner School of Dancing in that city and also appeared with Washington Opera Company in Aida. A couple of seasons ago Miss Bowman came to New York and took up the study of her art with Fokine, the Russian master of the dance. Last season Miss Bowman did a specialty dance with the George White Scandals. She danced also in the Fokine Concerts given at the Lewisohn Stadium last summer and later appeared in Merry-Go-Round, an autumn production on Broadway. Miss Bowman is featured also as a solo dancer in the ballet in the Fokine concerts given on October 23 and 30 at the Century Theater, and she will go on tour with the Fokine dancers during November, appearing in Boston, Detroit and other cities.
25Jacob Gegna an Artist of Individuality
27Jacob Gegna, since his very first appearance here as violinist, has proven himself to be an artist of individuality. He is a native of Russia, and one of a family of musical prodigies. Mr. Gegna learned the rudiments of violin technic from his father, who was himself a genius as composer and violinist, and who, feeling that the boy needed a broader field for study, sent him to the Kiev Conservatory, from which institution he graduated with high honors, afterwards departing for Petrograd to finish his studies under the eminent Prof. Leopold Auer. Prof. Auer subsequently recommended him for the much coveted post of head violin instructor at the Poltava Conservatory of the Russian Imperial Musical Society, which position Mr. Gegna held for ten years. Besides conducting violin classes, he also acted as violinist and first concertmaster with the Poltava Symphony Orchestra.
29Although his success as recitalist was firmly assured abroad, Mr. Gegna had always cherished a desire to visit America, and when the war of 1914 created such havoc and disaster in Russia, he journeyed to New York, where he immediately established himself as a serious artist and a player of unusual charm, as was evidenced by the unanimous stamp of approval awarded him by both public and press.
31BENNO MOISEIWITSCH,
32PIANO AND GOLF VIRTUOSO,
33ON THE LINKS AT MANILA.
35His views on matters musical and otherwise, as expressed to the ineluctable interviewers on his travels, show him to be a man of versatility, wide range of tastes and keen insight into life and human nature—qualities which are indispensable in the make-up of a genuine artist.
37Moiseiwitsch is an enthusiastic sportsman, owing, probably to his long residence in England. His favorite game is golf, at which game he is an adept. The accompanying snapshots show him on the links at Manila; his handling of the driver and of the midiron, it will be seen, are in perfect form. In one of the pictures he is shown with friends, resting between holes. While greatly enjoying his visit to the far East, he keenly regretted his inability to be present at the recent Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago.
39JACOB GEGNA
41JUNIOR CHURCH SCHOOL HYMNAL
43Next to the Bible the Hymns of the Church are the most influential factor in moulding the faith of those who use them. From our earliest childhood we have been saturated with the Gospel message as interpreted by the hymns of the Church. How important it is that the message should not be distorted by unworthy hymns.
45This book has been constructed by a committee of experts in Junior work and edited by Calvin W. Laufer, D.D., a musician and composer who is thoroughly in touch with the needs of the younger children and in complete accord with the educational ideals of the publishers.
47It conforms to the "Age Group" program developed in recent years and is the first of this series of distinctive graded hymn books to be published.
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