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Musical Courier 1928-06-21: Vol 96 Iss 25, 1928
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1June 21, 1928
3The Hummel Brothers in Joint Recital
4One of the interesting spring recitals given in New York was that by Earle Hummel, violinist, and Stanley Hummel, pianist, at Town Hall. Both of these young artists have inherited their musical talent from their parents, the father having been closely associated with the late Franz Kneisel, and the mother is a well known pianist. The boys commenced their musical career when only five years old, and at that age Earle Hummel could name any note of the scale that was played.
6Among the concert engagements recently fulfilled by the two artists were appearances in Albany, Plattsburgh, Schenectady, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, etc., and joint recitals now are being booked by their manager, Walter Anderson, in the South incidental to an appearance at the Flora MacDonald College in South Carolina on November 19. Mr. Anderson is planning a tour through New England for the instrumentalists early in October. August 3 they are scheduled to broadcast from station WGY at Schenectady, and Mr. Anderson announces that he has other important engagements pending with prominent phonograph companies and broadcasting stations.
8A New Song by Cadman
9Charles Wakefield Cadman has just written a new song entitled The Playground Song of Youth, dedicated to the children of the Los Angeles playgrounds. The song has met with such enthusiastic response that it will be printed in the official song book of the Los Angeles Playground Department.
11Emily Roosevelt to Open Series
12Emily Roosevelt, dramatic soprano, who has achieved unusual success during the past season, and who has appeared with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, the Hartford Oratorio Society, in the Music Hall at Troy, N. Y., in Provincetown, Bridgeport, Stamford, at the North Shore Country Club (Chicago), in Springfield, Mo., Fort Wayne, Kan., St. Joseph, Mo., Kalamazoo, Mich., and many other important cities of the United States, has been engaged to open a series of concerts at Lake Amenia, N. Y.
14The first Sunday night concert of the series will be held July 1, extending through until October 1. Betty Tillotson, who has the entire engaging of artists for the series, announces that an unusual group of young American artists will be heard at Lake Amenia.
16MUSICAL COURIER
18Fourteenth Summer Session of Cornish School
19For its fourteenth summer, the Cornish School opens its doors to the teachers and students of the arts for a six weeks' summer session from July 18 to August 28.
21Peculiarly blest in its situation in the great Pacific Northwest, surrounded by two glorious ranges of mountains, the sea and a chain of lakes, the Cornish School offers its students all the advantages of the finest art schools of the country.
23Each year a group of teachers (nationally, and some of them internationally famous in the world of art) is gathered at this fine school for the summer session. This summer is no exception, and one finds among the guest teachers, Ellen Van Volkenburg (Mrs. Maurice Browne) fresh from a season's work in producing one of the outstanding artistic successes in London, The Unknown Warrior. Another guest teacher will be Lada, American dancer.
25Franklin Riker, tenor, well known for his work both as teacher and singer in New York, Philadelphia, and on the Pacific Coast, will conduct master classes in singing for teachers and students during the Cornish summer session. Martha Sackett, head of the Cornish School's elementary department of music, will give an intensive normal course for teachers of children. Miss Sackett has made a special study of child education with Calvin Brainard Cady in this country and also in Europe. Her course will be given for three weeks only, opening July 18.
27Fine art and commercial art both have their place in the Cornish summer curriculum. Mark Tobey, the only American included in Grant Overton's 1926-27 Mirrors of the Year, will teach fine art. Walter O. Reese, well known advertising, artist, will conduct courses in commercial art.
29Special attention is given to normal courses for teachers in all three major departments of drama, music, dance, Dalcroze Eurythmics, Plastic and Folk Dancing, French and Italian for public and private school teachers, are listed among other subjects to be given.
31The Cornish Summer Session draws its students from all corners of the United States. Students from Cleveland, New York City, the states of Texas, Arizona, Florida, and even from Scotland are among the applicants for summer school bulletins. Nellie C. Cornish is the able director of the school.
33Burnada Continues Success
34Isabelle Burnada, contralto, who was heard in New York twice last season and also in Boston and Chicago, will appear in Boston at Jordan Hall early in December. Miss Burnada gave two concerts in London during April, was heard recently in Paris, and her European manager announces that her success has been great.
36Miss Tillotson, who is vigorously working in the interest of all of her artists, feels that Miss Burnada is one of the finest contraltos to be found among the younger artists. Arrangements are being made for her appearance in many of the larger cities of the United States, and she will appear throughout the month of February in Canada. Miss Burnada was presented at Court in London on May 9.
38Augusta Cottlow a Judge in Chicago
39Augusta Cottlow, pianist, was invited by the Chicago Herald-Examiner to be one of the judges of the final contest of the Second Annual Piano Tournament on June 18.
41HART HOUSE STRING QUARTET
43Geza de Kresz, First Violin; Harry Adaskin, Second Violin; Milton Blackstone, Viola; Boris Hambourg, Violoncello
45"As successors to the disbanded Kneisels and departing Flonzaleys the Hart House String Quartet do honor to the line of string ensembles and add an individual influence to the sacrosanct traditions of chamber music."
47—John Rosenfield, Jr., in the Dallas News.
49H. T. PARKER, BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:
50The gentlemen from Toronto have their own way of playing . . . Here, as the Quartet sounded was Schubert returned to natural, unclassiced, musical life. As Mr. Koussevitsky restores Beethoven symphonic, so the four from Hart House rescued Schubert from too songful dalliance.
52NEW YORK CITY:
53A program of unalloyed artistic worth. The Hart House Quartet did strikingly effective work in Schubert's D minor quartet.—New York Evening World.
55An excellent ensemble.—W. J. Henderson, New York Sun.
57SEASON 1928-1929 NOW BOOKING
58MANAGEMENT: BECKHARD & MACFARLANE, INC., Fisk Bldg., New York
59Red Seal Victor Records—Canadian Victor Talking Machine Co.
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