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Musical Courier 1927-11-10: Vol 95 Iss 19, 1927
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1SPECIAL MASTER CLASSES IN VOICE TECHNIQUE
2W. HENRI ZAY
3with a VERITABLE MASTER IDEA behind them. See "The Practical Psychology of Voice" by G. G. Gairdner, which is a Complete Vocal Method.
4Studio: 30 West 72nd St. Phone 1457 Endicott
6ENRICA CLAY DILLON
7STUDIO of ACTING
8Coaching for Professional Singers—Opera and Light Opera
9By Appointment: 15 West 57th St., New York City
10Phone: Susquahanna 7878—Tratagar 1162
12STEPHEN TOWNSEND
13Teacher of Singing—NEW YORK: 15 East 38th Street, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. BOSTON: 6 Newbury Street, Friday, Saturday, Monday. Choral Director, N. Y. Society of the Friends of Music.
15ARTHUR J. VINCENT V. HUBBARD
16Vocal Technique, Diction, Coaching, Program Building
17First Assistant: Dr. George L. Dwyer
18246 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass.
20Estelle LIEBLING
21SOPRANO
22Studio: 145 West 55th St., New York Tel.: 1787 Circle
24KATHERINE BELLAMANN
25Associate Teacher with ESTELLE LIEBLING
26Studio: 200 West 57th Street, New York. Phone Circle 9873
28EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY
29STEINWAY HALL – NEW YORK, N. Y
31Mme. Martha BRAARUD
32TEACHER OF SINGING
33257 West 86th St., New York Tel. Endicott 1938
35ALFREDO SAN MALO
36VIOLINIST
37Management: BECKHARD & MACFARLANE New York
39Exclusive Management
40R. E. JOHNSTON
411451 Broadway
42New York
44(no line here) one of two readings
45Victor Records Vitaphone
46Hardman Piano
48MUSICIANSHIP
49TRINITY PRINCIPLE PEDAGOGY
50SIGHT SINGING { not "Do-re-mi"
51"Intervals"
52"Numbers"
53SPECIAL SESSION FOR SINGERS
54Visitors Welcome—Schedule of classes for Adults, Children, Teachers, sent upon request
55Address
56EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD
57121 Madison Avenue (30th Street)
58New York City Phone Ashland 5551
60Information Bureau
61OF THE MUSICAL COURIER
62This department, which has been in successful operation for the past number of years, will continue to furnish information on all subjects of interest to our readers, free of charge.
63With the facilities at the disposal of the MUSICAL COURIER it is qualified to dispense information on all musical subjects, making the department of value.
64The MUSICAL COURIER will not, however, consent to act as intermediary between artists, managers and organizations. It will merely furnish facts.
65All communications should be addressed
66Information Bureau, MUSICAL COURIER
67Steinway Hall, 113 West 57th Street, New York, N. Y.
69OSCAR SAENGER
70Studios:
716 East Eighty-first Street
72New York
73Consultations and voice trials by appointment only
74Tel. 8573 Butterfield L. Lilly, Sec'y
76MUSICAL COURIER
77ARTISTS EVERYWHERE
78Frederic Baer, baritone, has been engaged as soloist by the Chaminade Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the afternoon of November 16, in the ballroom of the Leverich Towers, Brooklyn.
79Willem Durieux is scheduled to give a cello recital at the Engineering Hall on Thursday evening, December 1, with Marion Carley at the piano.
80Amy Ellerman, contralto, has been busy making Christmas phonograph records for various companies, including the solo, Gesu Bambino (Yon), for the Edison Company; she also sang in several German duets for the Columbia Phonograph Company.
81Lynnwood Farnam, organist, has the following engagements booked for the immediate present: November 12, Painesville, O. (Lake Erie College organ opening); 20, soloist, Friends of Music, Town Hall, New York; 23, St. James the Less organ opening, Philadelphia, Pa.; December 7, organ opening, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia.
82The Fique Choral annual Hallowe'en party, Edison Building, Brooklyn, October 29, provided a varied entertainment, consisting of card games, refreshments and dancing, and was enjoyed by a large company.
83Ignaz Friedman began his tour in San Francisco on November 4, appearing with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. During 1927 he has played on four continents. He will be here only until January, when he plans to return to England for thirty concerts in connection with the International Celebrity series of the Powell & Holt Management.
84Myra Hess will arrive in America on November 20 after two years' absence, and is to start immediately for the West, where she will appear with the Chicago Symphony before making her first New York appearance of the season, which is announced by her manager, Annie Friedberg, for Tuesday evening, November 29, at Town Hall.
85Jeanne le*Vinus, mezzo-contralto, will give her third New York recital early in February. In addition to her regular church and concert work, Miss LeVinus has been devoting much of her time to synagogue and radio. On October 26, her half-hour recital over WEAF was a marked success, and on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles at Temple Sinai, Brooklyn, she received laudatory comment for her stirring rendition of Manna-Zucca's Rachem. Miss LeVinus has studied with Hilda Grace Gelling for the past six years, during which time she won the silver medal for the Borough of the Bronx in the New York Music Week contests.
86John W. Nichols, tenor and vocal instructor, has resumed teaching in his New York studios. Many of his students are filling important engagements in and around New York City; a quartet will give the song cycle, In a Persian Garden, for the College of St. Rose, Albany, N. Y. (Mr. Nichols is in charge of the vocal department.) He is vocal instructor at Vassar College, director of the Commonwealth Art Colony, Boothbay Harbor, Me., also director of Trinity M. E. Choir, of Newburgh, an organization of one hundred voices. This large choir offers a fine schooling for young singers, preparing for solo positions; many of his choristers are filling engagements in choirs of Newburgh and vicinity. Isabel Vrooman, graduate of Vassar College, pupil of Mr. Nichols, has just been awarded a free scholarship at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City; she also has been selected for the choir of Calvary Church, 22nd Street and 4th Avenue, New York City.
87Harold Samuel, pianist, appeared in recital at the Town Hall, New York, on November 3, this marking his last appearance in the metropolis for a period of two years. During the mid-winter season, Mr. Samuel will play in Berlin, Vienna and other European musical centers.
88Mme. Schumann-Heink, Ernest Schelling, and Mrs. Edward MacDowell are featured in lectures at the Town Hall, New York, November and December, with others who are prominent in the musical world speaking informally at luncheons.
90Beethoven Symphony to Play Whithorne Work
91The second New York concert in the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra's series of seven for this season will be given under the baton of Georges Zaslawsky at Carnegie Hall on November 16. Mr. Zaslawsky and the sponsors of the Beethoven Symphony believe that more program space should be devoted to native composers, therefore they plan to present at each of the winter concerts at least one work by an American. Cortège Macabre, by Aaron Copland, was heard recently, and as a part of the next program Mr. Zaslawsky will offer Emerson Whithorne's dramatization of the American metropolis, New York Days and Nights. The work has been played twice in Paris and once each in Philadelphia and St. Louis, but this will be its first performance in New York. Mr. Whithorne has chosen five characteristics of the city for illustration: On the Ferry; The Chimes of St. Patrick's; Pell Street, Chinatown; A Greenwich Village Tragedy, and Times Square.
92The first symphony of Brahms and the overture to Marriage of Figaro will also be included on the evening's program. Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, will be the soloist and play the Beethoven concerto.
94Emily Roosevelt with Tillotson
95Emily Roosevelt, dramatic soprano, was the soloist at the Past Presidents and State Presidents Luncheon to all of the presidents of the Connecticut Federation of Music Clubs at the Hotel Stratford, Bridgeport, Conn., on October 18. She was also the soloist in New Haven on October 26 for the Daughters of 1812. Miss Roosevelt, who is a direct descendant of the illustrious family bearing that name, has recently become connected with the Betty Tillotson Concert Direction. Her season is developing rapidly.
97Recitals by Juilliard Graduate School Students
98The season's series of recitals by students of the Graduate School of the Juilliard School of Music opened on October 31 with a violin recital by Sadie Schwartz at Town Hall. Rudolph Gruen will give a piano recital at Town Hall on the evening of November 16 and Dorothy Kendrick, also a pianist, will be heard in the same hall on the evening of January 5. Other recitals by Juilliard students will be announced later.
100Buzzi-Peccia Gives Valuable Advice to Students
101Maestro Buzzi-Peccia has returned to New York after a five months' sojourn in Italy, where he has been teaching. Mr. Buzzi-Peccia's close touch with musical interests both in Italy and America enable him to follow the progress made in both phonetic and psychologic training as a foundation for the training of the voice—the traditional method used by the most eminent of Italian masters of the art of singing.
102In speaking of his experience in Italy he said: "My intention was to go to Italy for a long needed rest, where I could forget business and devote my time to visiting dear friends, and to working on my memoirs which will soon be published. My friends greeted me enthusiastically, but when they knew I was planning to stay in Milan for some time they asked me to give them lessons, and asked my advice regarding their careers, etc. Their pleas meant work and no more vacation.
103"It is a disappointment that I found much loud singing, forcing of tone, in my country. I expected to hear much better singing in my beautiful country of Bel Canto. They told me that such forced singing was for the necessary theatrical effect. That is all right, but what about singing with a free, melodious voice, without muscular effort, and with correct and expressive diction, and artistic interpretation? These qualities could not spoil that theatrical effect. It seems to me that such singers forget the golden rule of good singing: to obtain the maximum results with the minimum effort.
104"This frightful state of affairs can probably be traced to the fakes with their imprudent, criminal teaching in Europe, just as there are such fakes in this country. But there are also competent teachers, and intelligent pupils, and those who enjoy hearing good singing. There has been an overwhelming commercialism in the artistic camp, perhaps because of the scarcity of opportunities which enable the student to appear before the public and to find engagements.
105"This has created a special class of non-competent teachers, who make it a business to attract pupils by giving illusionary hopes of a great future and splendid engagements. Pupils who are anxious for engagements are not over careful in the teachers they choose. It seems to make no difference whether the teacher they choose has been a piano teacher, a singer, etc.; so long as he has become a teacher of voice, even over night, they flock to him. They forget that one must learn the art of teaching through practical experience, and that he must be able to face all different cases, and that, though Europe is the market place for public appearances, the student must go there well prepared and with solid foundation. There is a proper way to begin a career. The first step is to get into the right hands; the next, inquire as to possibilities. Perhaps it would be better first to see if there are any opportunities. A word to the wise is sufficient and may save troubles and dollars."
107Biltmore Musicales Open
108The twelfth season of Biltmore Morning Musicales opened Friday morning, November 4, in the grand ballroom of the hotel. Mischa Weisbord, violinist; Lucille Chalfant, coloratura soprano, and Louis Graveure, baritone, were the artists. Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of the Mayor, occupied a decorated box and following the concert she attended the luncheon given in honor of Mr. Weisbord by his sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Goldman.
110PARIS STUDIOS
111BYRNE STUDIOS for Opera, Oratorio, Concert gave 20 Operas in France during past season
112Concert staff of instructors
113JOHN FRANCIS BYRNE, Director
114(Recommended by Jean de Reszke)
115157 Foubourg, St. Honore, Paris
117JOHN HEATH
118PIANIST
119Studio, 45 rue des Acacias, PARIS, May until January
120Villa Martine, Beaulieu sur Mer, France, January until May
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