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Musical Courier 1928-06-21: Vol 96 Iss 25, 1928
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1New Teachers for College of Fine Arts
2Two new teachers will join the music faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University in September. Andre Polah, Dutch violinist and teacher, and former pupil and assistant of Ysaye, will head the violin department, and George Mulfinger, pupil of Emil Sauer, and a piano teacher at the Gunn School of Music in Chicago, will join the piano faculty.
4Mr. Polah is well known as recital artist, having repeatedly toured Europe and this country. He also has appeared with many of the large orchestras both here and abroad. After five years' study with Ysaye, he became Ysaye's assistant in Brussels. He has taught in Chicago and Rochester, and is at present teaching in New York City.
6Mr. Mulfinger, a graduate of Chicago University, taught for five years in Chicago before going to Vienna for a three year period of study with Sauer. While there, he gave many recitals and appeared with a number of orchestras in Austria and Germany. He returned to Chicago in 1924 as a member of the faculty of the Gunn School of Music, and from there he has made several recital tours through the West, Middle West and South. His recitals in Chicago and New York City brought him high praise from the most noted critics.
8Mr. Polah and Mr. Mulfinger will give recitals in Eastern and Middle West cities next season.
10Herma Menth Entertained
11Mrs. Robert Maxwell Campbell entertained for Herma Menth recently at her Park Avenue residence in New York. The many distinguished guests who attended the reception enthusiastically applauded Miss Menth for the fine artistry she displayed in her piano solos. Grace Stewart also was well received in vocal selections.
13Miss Menth also appeared at a benefit performance held at the Y. W. C. A. on Lexington Avenue, New York, playing numbers by Leschetizky, Kreisler-Rachmaninoff, Sauer and Liszt. This was a reappearance and therefore Miss Menth was given a hearty welcome. She was compelled to give several encores before the audience permitted her to leave the stage.
15Marie Caslova's New York Summer Class
16Marie Caslova, American violinist, a former pupil of Sevcik and Flesch, will devote the coming summer to teaching in New York. Miss Caslova's method combines the best features of the methods of her eminent masters, supplemented by some valuable original ideas, the result of her own experience as a concert artist.
18Miss Caslova was born in St. Louis, where she appeared as a child prodigy with the Symphony Orchestra. At the age of fifteen she was sent abroad, to study with Sevcik, and after six weeks with the Bohemian master she made a successful public appearance, playing the Paganini concerto. Next she went to Berlin, where she became one of the four pupils of Carl Flesch, who, because of his extensive concert engagements, would take only a few exceptionally gifted pupils. In Berlin the young artist made her debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra, afterwards appearing as soloist with the Gewerbehaus Orchestra in Dresden.
20Returning to America, Miss Caslova made her New York debut with the New York Symphony Orchestra, under Walter Damrosch. Appearances with the Chicago and Philadelphia Orchestras followed, and with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at home and on tour. Miss Caslova has appeared in joint recital with Leginska, Percy Grainger, Rosa Ponselle, Anna Case, Lambert Murphy and Oscar Seagle, and has made a joint recital tour with Mme. Gadski under the auspices of the Steinert Series (Boston).
22Critics Praise Mae Mackie in Recital
23Mae Mackie drew a capacity audience to the Academy of Music Foyer for her recent Philadelphia recital. "Miss Mackie has a voice of fine quality, good range and real musicianship," said the critic of the Inquirer in reviewing the recital; and according to the Public Ledger, "Her voice comes from an opulent, full-throated organ, filling the farthest corners of the concert hall with intensity." H. T. Craven called attention in the Record to the fact that Miss Mackie possesses a capable voice and he also declared that she scored a success. "Miss Mackie, who is a member of the Pennsylvania Opera Company," said the Bulletin critic, "is of stately presence, with a voice of unusual power, best suited to music in which she has an opportunity to display its contralto-like lower tones or the voluminous upper ones in the dramatic manner that seems to be her forte."
25Estelle Liebling Studio Activities
26Devora Nadworny is singing the leading role in Henry Hadley's Bianca, which was broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co. Elmera Lane, lyric soprano, is playing the leading role in Tell Me Again, in Los Angeles. Ruth Watson, contralto, was soloist at the Strand Theater, New York, the week of June 4. Beatrice Belkin, coloratura soprano, was soloist at the Roxy Theater, week of June 11. Patricia Besson, lyric soprano, was soloist at the Fox Washington Theater, week of June 11. Jessica Dragonette sang the leading role in Victor Herbert's The Singing Girl over the Philco Hour on June 6. All are products of the Estelle Liebling Studio.
28Moffett photo one of two readings
29JOHN CLAYTON, one of two readings
30new director of publicity of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. one of two readings
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33New Publicity Director for Chicago Opera
34The Chicago Civic Opera Company announces the engagement of John Clayton, as director of publicity in place of Ben H. Atwell, resigned. Mr. Clayton began his duties at once.
36Mr. Clayton has been the Rome Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for two and one-half years, and has just completed a seven months' tour of South America and Mexico. His articles have been appearing almost daily in the Chicago Tribune and have occasioned widespread favorable comment.
38Mr. Clayton began his career with the Tribune in April, 1919, as editor of the Paris edition, after having left the air service at the end of the war. In May he was drafted into the Tribune foreign service, and his newspaper ventures since that time have been crammed full of events.
40Mr. Clayton cabled the first interview from Russia with Emma Goldman as she entered the Land of Promise to organize the Russian Society of Friends of American Freedom. He covered the Red trouble in Italy, which preceded the birth of Fascism, and he was the first white man to travel from Mosul to Nisibin after the war. He covered with distinction the breakup of the Greek Army in 1922; the Smyrna fire, and the Mudena conference. He obtained an interview with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, which resulted in peace instead of war between England and Turkey. He covered the Lausanne conference, and accompanied the Italian delegation to Chicago in the summer of 1926 to cover the Eucharistic Congress, and later went to Mexico for a series of illuminating dispatches on the Catholic trouble there, and despite the obvious handicaps he managed to keep the Tribune informed of affairs in Italy. one of two readings
41Mr. Clayton cabled the first interview from Russia with Emma Goldman as she entered the Land of Promise to organize the Russian Society of Friends of American Freedom. He covered the Red trouble in Italy, which preceded the birth of Facism, and he was the first white man to travel from Mosul to Nisibin after the war. He covered with distinction the breakup of the Greek Army in 1922; the Smyrna fire, and the Mudena conference. He obtained an interview with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, which resulted in peace instead of war between England and Turkey. He covered the Lausanne conference, and accompanied the Italian delegation to Chicago in the summer of 1926 to cover the Eucharistic Congress, and later went to Mexico for a series of illuminating dispatches on the Catholic trouble there, and despite the obvious handicaps he managed to keep the Tribune informed of affairs in Italy. one of two readings
43Concert at Leschetizky School
44The annual concert by advanced pupils of the Leschetizky School of Piano Playing in Philadelphia was given at the Art Alliance. A difficult program was presented, which included piano concertos of Grieg, Schumann and Saint-Saens, and such numbers as the Sixth Rhapsody and Campanella of Liszt, the A flat ballade of Chopin and the Concert Etude of MacDowell. Harold Nason, a pupil of Leschetizky, is director of the school.
46Prof. Lyman Receives Honorary Degree
47At the recent commencement of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music was conferred upon Howard W. Lyman. This well known musician is a member of the vocal faculty in the College of Fine Arts and Professor of choral music at Syracuse University. He also is prominent as choral conductor and a leader in the field of church music.
49Van Buren Restores Yale's Old Instruments
50Piece by piece the old key-board instruments comprising the famous Steinert Collection bequeathed to Yale University were taken apart by Lotta Van Buren and piece by piece put together again, so that each is in its original playing condition. But few have any idea of the prodigious labor and patience, to say nothing of knowledge, which pertains to such work, but those who do, applaud Miss Van Buren, of old instrument fame, for her accomplishment.
52Szigeti in Berlin
53Joseph Szigeti has added to his long list of notable successes three concerts at the Beethovensaal in Berlin. The programs included three different sonatas by Tartini, three Bach sonatas for violin alone, and modern sonatas by Ravel, Debussy and Roussel, besides a number of shorter pieces. The Berlin press was unanimous in proclaiming the great art of Szigeti.
55J. H. Duval to Arrive July 1
56J. H. Duval, former New York vocal teacher who has been teaching in Milan for several years, will arrive in New York on the S. S. De Grasse, July 1, to hold a summer master class. A number of Mr. Duval's artist-pupils have been singing this season in opera in Italy with much favor.
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