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Musical Courier 1928-07-26: Vol 97 Iss 4, 1928
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1July 26, 1928
3Activities of Ethel Glenn Hier
4Ethel Glenn Hier is completing a busy season as pianist, composer and pedagogue. During the past season her compositions have been programmed frequently at concerts. The Clio Club of Roselle and Roselle Park, N. J., planned a composer recital, and the program included a group of songs by Miss Hier, namely, The Hour, The Return, and Japanese Lullaby, sung by Mrs. Williams H. Bodine, soprano. Miss Hier also played her suite for piano, A Day in the Peterborough Woods. At the annual Conference of North New Jersey Music Clubs, held in Newark, Miss Hier gave a talk on the Boyhood and Life of Edward MacDowell, basing her remarks on a most interesting play which she has written for young musicians. On this occasion a program of compositions by MacDowell also was rendered.
6At a composition recital of the Alumni Association of the Institute of Musical Art, New York, Miss Hier's suite for chamber ensemble—The Night Wind Sings, Foreboding, Caprice, Intermezzo and Dance—was given by Lamar Stringfield flute; Albert Marsh, oboe; Edwin Ideler, violin; Robert Schenk, viola; C. Zelma Crosby, cello, with the composer at the piano. Hier compositions also were featured on the chamber music program given recently in Steinway Hall, New York, by the Society of American Women Composers. At this concert her Three Memorial Sonnets (If You Must Go; No, No We Will Not Say Unhappy Things; and Let Not June Come a-Singing at the Door) were presented by Radianna Pazmor, soprano; Mari-anne Kneisel, violin; Nancy Wilson, cello, and John Kirkpatrick, Jr., piano.
8A program of Ethel Glenn Hier compositions was given in Cincinnati before the Madisonville Music Club. Those taking part in the program were Ruth Wood, violinist, who played Joy of Spring, Intermezzo, and Come, Dance With Me, and Lonette Rhiel Luecke, who sang The Hour, The Return and Japanese Lullaby.
10Among the recitals given by students of Miss Hier during June was that in Tenafly, N. J., when a program of piano solos and duets was played by Donald and Carol Agger, Louise Redfield, Mildred Foster, Willard and Edith May Knowlton, John Mott, Alice White, Beverly Sartorius and Lenore McKee. Ruth Eleanor Ward, an eleven-year-old student, also gave an ambitious program of piano numbers in Roselle last month. On the evening of June 23 a program of piano solos, duets, trios and two piano numbers was given by pupils of Miss Hier in Roselle Park. One of the most important Hier programs of the season was that on June 26 by the Junior MacDowell Club of Roselle and Roselle Park, when a program of music for voice, violin, cello and piano was given for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, N. H. Miss Hier has worked indefatigably to assist in raising the MacDowell Fund, and she has every right to be proud of the fact that her club already had given three recitals for the benefit of the Fund. Miss Hier—as well as all those who are interested in the MacDowell Colony—is anxious that the Fund be completed as soon as possible so that Mrs. MacDowell soon may see the fruition of the plan for which she has worked so diligently for many years.
12The Flonzaley Quartet in Switzerland
13The Flonzaley Quartet, after a tour of Spain, is now assembled at the home of Alfred Pochon at Le Tronchet in Switzerland busy rehearsing on repertory for next season. As this will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary and farewell tour of the quartet, the task must take on a particular significance to the three original members who have labored together since its organization in 1903 (Nicholas Moldavan, the viola player, joined the quartet in 1925). The tour will open at Williamstown, Mass., October 21, and will continue to May 5, during which time it will play one hundred or more concerts, inclusive of the Pacific Coast. The quartet will also devote some time to Victor recording, it being the desire of the Victor Company to make as many new records as possible which will serve to perpetuate the art and memory of this organization after its disbandment.
15Jou-Jerville on Vacation
16Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Jou-Jerville, accompanied by Mrs. Augusta Jou-Jerville, the former's mother, left recently for a trip to California. They will visit Crater Lake, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Catalina Island, and be back in Seattle the middle of August. Marking the busiest season of his voice and opera work in Seattle, a reception was held at the Jou-Jerville studios, the McKelvey, a few weeks ago. Dancing and music were enjoyed by the numerous guests, students, artists, their relatives and friends. Barbara Bourne, Freda Hoeck, Mary Hutchinson, James Mount and Herbert Bartlett, singers; Gladys Leslie, reader; Ronald Hooper and Helen Hill, pianists, provided the entertainment.
18Etta Hamilton Morris Activities
19Etta Hamilton Morris, as chairman of the convention of the New York Federation of Music Clubs, with her own club, the Philomela, as hostess, had an exceptionally busy season during the month of April. Her Federation work as vice-president has been of such calibre that she was unanimously elected president to succeed Mrs. Harry Leonard Vilbard. She will continue her direction of the Philomela and her teaching activities in spite of the fact that she is booked for a tour of the state beginning on October 1.
21The Philomela was heard at the Voice Convention, sponsored by the Guild of Vocal Teachers, of which Mrs. Morris is a charter member. On the program Gena Branscombe conducted her own Dancer of Fjard, sung by the Philomela with incidental solos by Mrs. Morris and an artist contralto from her studio, Florence Tooker.
23Herman C. Pantley, tenor, has been reengaged as soloist at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, New York City, and at a prominent temple as well; John Barr, tenor, reengaged at South Congregational Church, Brooklyn, has filled acceptably several concert dates, three for Illuminati at the Hotel St. George, one at the Waldorf and one in Johnstown, N. Y.; A. Francois Allie, baritone, is beginning his fourth year as soloist at the First Baptist Church, New York City, filling many concert dates during March, April and May.
25These three singers will coach operatic work with Mrs. Morris at her summer home, The Music Box, Falmouth Heights, Mass. Messrs. Pantley and Allie will sing at Union Chapel, Oak Bluffs, during the month of July, and Mr. Barr and Mrs. Morris at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Falmouth, the entire summer.
27On June 13, three young artists were heard in recital at the Morris studio—Augusta Schwarze, soprano; Dorothy Reims, contralto, and Hugo Reims, tenor. On June 27 another recital gave opportunity to the younger pupils. Good quality of voice and the beginning of a method of singing were displayed by Isabelle Samuels, Emma Audley, Reginald Snyder, Harriett Kriofsky, Frida Behrens, Olla Booth, Warner Emerson, Ebba Mattsson, Dorothy Mueller, and Edna Irvin.
29Daisy Krey, contralto, for some time soloist at Bushwick Methodist Church, has been appointed Chairman of Contests for New York State. Mrs. Krey has assisted for the past four years as assistant chairman under Mrs. Morris and is well fitted for the work.
31Three Cincinnati Conservatory Artists at the Metropolitan
32It is significant that three graduates of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music should be chosen as members of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Two young ladies, who claim the Conservatory as their Alma Mater, have just recently had that distinction offered them.
34Grace Divine, mezzo soprano, studied with John A. Hoffman for about two or three years; Mr. Hoffman was Miss Divine's first teacher. Pearl Besuner, soprano, a native of Cincinnati, was a pupil of Dan Beddoe and the late Ralph Lyford; she made her first public appearance at the Cincinnati Zoo.
36Other than these two, Everett Marshall has been a member of the Metropolitan for some time and he also was a pupil of Beddoe and Lyford. The Conservatory is justly proud of its accomplished students.
38Ellerman-Coxe Pupils in Recital
39On June 22 a recital was given by the pupils of the Ellerman-Coxe studios at their spacious new apartment, recently acquired because of the enlarged enrollment of the classes. Throughout the entire program of thirty-two numbers, ranging from the old Italian and French classics and operas down through the modern American literature, and numbers in the native Swedish and Dutch costumes, excellent training, vocal production and finish of style were greatly in evidence and proved the fine work being done.
41Among the singers heard were Irene Dunne, of light opera fame; Marie Nicholson, Virginia Moreno, Gertrude Holmgren, Louise Profirett, Thora Fernstrom, Erma Meek, Teddy Van Doorn, Carrie Hasselriss, Mary Hanly, Ruth Hubach, Barbara Urch, Mary Miller, Florence Fordham, Clifford Oates, and Maria Sezzano, who recently won the silver medal in the Music Week Association contests. Refreshments were served and all had an enjoyable evening.
43Ethel Grow Pupil Wins Success
44Mrs. Leonard Martin was hostess to The League of Pen Women at Greenwich, Conn., on June 23. Regina Kahl was engaged to furnish the entertainment and sang musical settings by Marianne Genet of poems by Mrs. Thompson-Seton, who lived for some time in China and has woven the poems about the manners and customs of that country. The titles of these songs are Lotus Blossom, My Love Is a Blossom, and A Canton Boat Woman.
46The New York Morning Telegraph, commenting upon this performance, said that "Miss Kahl is an unusual interpreter of Oriental and European songs. She has a rich, velvety mezzo-soprano." Miss Kahl broadcasted the same program over WRNY on June 26. She is already well known to music lovers, being one of the most distinguished of the pupils of Ethel Grow.
48Activities of James Massell Artists
49Lucille Winston, who recently returned from a Public tour, has been engaged for concerts during the summer at Green Hill Park, Kingston, N. Y.
51Lillian Kenny, who has returned from a two years' vaudeville tour, will sing during the warm months at Cedar Hills Country Club, Lakeville, Conn.
53Naomi Pitta is now appearing in vaudeville in an act entitled The Flame of Spain.
55Arturo Yervati has just left for Egypt to fulfill an operatic engagement there.
57Styepan Slyeponthken has been engaged for a thirty weeks' tour as soloist with the Kibachich Chorus.
59Florence Rosen recently completed a vaudeville tour. The foregoing are all artist-pupils of James Massell.
61THE GERMAN GRAND OPERA COMPANY
62Direct from Berlin
63Presents
64DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
65Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung
66Given for the first time in America with the complete score
67and
68as heard at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
69100 Performances
70in the United States and Canada
71Under the auspices and supervision of the Artists' Association of Germany in Berlin
72Eduard Mörike, Artistic Director and Conductor
73(Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra)
74and a company of leading artists of Germany from the various opera houses. The tour will begin in New York for one week only, the middle of January, with an afternoon and evening cycle.
75Complete productions as to artists, chorus, orchestra, scenic equipment, properties, and unexcelled lighting effects.
76Arrangements may now be made for the four performances, or single performances. For details, dates, and terms, apply or write to
77George Blumenthal, General Manager
78The German Grand Opera Company
79Suite 920, Steinway Hall, New York
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