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Musical Courier 1928-07-26: Vol 97 Iss 4, 1928
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1Activities of the Braun School of Music
2June was a busy month for the Braun School of Music (Pottsville, Pa.), of which Robert Braun is the director. There were graduates' recitals, faculty recitals, ensemble programs, demonstrations, and many other activities.
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5Although the commencement exercises at the school are not held until early fall, it is customary for the graduates to give individual recitals at the end of the season. The following graduates appeared in the ballroom of the new Neche Allen Hotel in Pottsville: Gertrude Eber and Anna Fegley, pianists; Ethyl Prince, soprano, and Thomas Luckens, baritone. The Johnny Schmoker Chorus of sixty boys, under Mary Muldowney, supervisor of music at the Cass Township schools and faculty member of the Braun School of Music, also gave a recital at the Neche Allen. Other pupils of the Braun School to appear at this hotel were the Braun School Trio (Arthur Acker, violinist; Leo Minnichbach, cellist, and Norman Lloyd, pianist); Mary Dormer, Dorothy Wilson and James Reese, three juvenile prize-winning pianists; Sylvia and Evelyn Weiner, youthful readers and pianists; Ruth Griffith, violinist; Martha Adamson, soprano, with Marian Wasley, pianist, and Martha Esterly and Helen Schneider, sopranos.
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8Interesting recitals also were given in the auditorium of the main school, including graduating piano recitals by Marian Weinmann, Kathryn Holahan, and a joint recital of solo and two-piano pieces by Stewart Schraedley and Norman Lloyd. Two ensemble recitals also were held, one by the pupils of Margaret Dunn, head of the Minersville branch, and the other by pupils of Carrie Lou Betz, including two-piano works, quartets, duets, violin and piano pieces, instrumental trio and small orchestra combinations.
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11The various branches of the Braun School also had their share of activities. At the Tamaqua branch, piano pupils of Valeda Brode, voice pupils of Helen Sandrock Aiken, and violin pupils of Roy Steeley gave an interesting recital at the First Presbyterian Church. And at the Schuylkill Haven branch, a varied program was presented at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church by representative piano pupils of Carrie L. Betz, Esther L. Boxmeyer, Anna Ball Reilly, Isabelle Hoffman and Lee Berger, and by dramatic pupils of Iona Paxson, as well as by two pupils of John Quine, Thomas Luckens, baritone, and Martha Esterly, soprano. Margaret Dunn, head of the Minersville branch, arranged a faculty recital in the spacious auditorium of St. Vincent's Church and herself acted as accompanist for John Quine, baritone and head of the voice department, and Tom Doyle, tenor. The Lansford branch, which is the youngest branch school, comprising only a juvenile piano department, and is in charge of Betty Short, pianist, gave a recital at the Edgemont Club, at which Mary McLaughlin and Freda Schatzlein, sopranos, sang several fairy-tale songs.
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14One of the most important local concerts of the season was given in the Capitol Theater, Pottsville, before an audience of thirty-five hundred, by the Elks Famous Forty Male Chorus (several members of which are products of the Braun School), under Edgar D. Brown, brother of Robert Braun of the Braun School; the Johnny Schmoker Boys' Chorus under Mary Muldowney; Robert Braun, pianist; Martha Esterly, soprano, and Margaret Dunn, accompanist. On this occasion, Mr. Braun played the first public performance of Godowsky's transcription of Albeniz' Triana (which is not yet published) and also two other Godowsky works, Paradoxical Moods and the Requiem.
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17A Summer Normal Course is to be held at the Braun School this summer from July 23 to August 31.
19Karin Dayas in Recital
20CINCINNATI, OHIO.—An interested and curious audience attended the concert of Karin Dayas, member of the Cincinnati Conservatory faculty, given in the Conservatory Auditorium on July 13. The pianist has proven her ability as an interpreter of the modernists in no usual manner. She has given proof of her mastery of technical difficulties and a deep understanding of tone and color. Her program comprised works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Godowsky, Liszt and Sauer. George Leighton in the Enquirer comments: "Mme. Dayas' playing is decidedly individualistic and of almost masculine quality. While she does not ignore tradition nor seriously distort the composers' intentions, she is first and foremost Madame Dayas. There is definiteness and reason in all she does, and emotional reactions from her listeners are evoked through her personality and admiration for her intellectual and pianistic equipment. Her interpretations are healthy, vigorous and interesting. Technically she is accurate to a degree and possessed of a dazzling facility. Without doubt she is a gifted pianist, a fact long ago conceded, but further emphasized last night."
22Klein School of Music Holds Annual Concert
23Evalyn L. Klein, director of Klein School of Music, of Harvey, Ill., staged an excellent annual concert at the Garden Theater, Harvey, on June 26. Electa Streevey-Brokaw, member of the faculty of the school, gave a very pleasing group of violin solos, with the capable assistance of Evalyn L. Klein at the piano.
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26The pupils appearing on the program were Helen Iola Walker, Norma Georgia Walker, Byron Arthur Bonnheim, Marybelle Ruth Harris, Rose Barus, Helen Dale Morrison, Carl Louis Ledell, Aumee Marie Haines, Gertrude Ina Roeder, Lillian Barus, Marie Marcella Wujastyk, Mildred Cech, Lorraine B. Reed, Alfreda Strzelecky, Alice Perkins, Amy Alice Guild, Kenneth W. Gregory, Jacob C. Van Der Woude, Elsie Meyer, William Charles Koch, Clara Frogantony, Samuel G. Van Der Woude, Anne Chohrek, Louise Fleece, Elizabeth Petronaitis, Eva Elizabeth Kass, Bernice Nelson, Ralph Meyer and Irene I. Romanek. Diplomas, certificates and medals were awarded by Miss Klein, director of the school.
28Proschowski Artist Goes to Texas
29Rosa V. Dominguez, a talented and charming young lyric soprano who has been studying with Frantz Proschowski, has returned to her home in San Antonio, Tex., before going to Mexico City to fill an important six weeks' concert engagement. Miss Dominguez made several appearances in New York City where she won all hearts with the sweetness, evenness and brilliancy of her naturally beautiful voice, which shows the improvements already brought about by excellent training. She has fulfilled many radio engagements, being the fortunate possessor of an excellent radio voice, and has also recorded for Columbia.
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32She takes with her to the South a new song specially written for her by Gladys Gilbert Rousille, a talented young composer of New York City, entitled Dear Heart of Mine, for which she prophesies a great future, and will sing it at all her concerts in Mexico City and elsewhere, declaring it has unusual beauty, interest and climax. She will return to New York early in the fall to fill additional concert engagements.
34Ruth Breton Scores Success in Havana
35To play in such a fashion as to make a Spanish audience forget its usual frigidity toward a North American and to actually enthruse over the playing is quite a feat. But this and more is what Ruth Breton, violinist, recently did when she gave two concerts at the Teatro Nacional in Havana. At the end of the program, she was recalled again and again, amid flowers, cheers and the most unbridled enthusiasm. The critics evidently shared the opinion of the audiences for, as noted in El Pais, "The previsions were as ever—the subtle feeling of anticipation which we hardly conceal. A North American! We quickly classified her as having a Saxon temperament with watery blood. But what a pleasant surprise to discover how here the lie was given to those who deny North Americans any depth of passion or divine light of emotion." The Prensa was equally enthusiastic in its praise of Miss Breton's playing: "Her execution is irreproachably accurate! Her bow knows every secret of her art, as does her left hand in the most difficult passages. Her technic reaches the limits of the unbelievable!" Miss Breton has played extensively and with success in Europe and the United States, but declares that she regrets not having known Havana earlier as she was charmed with the responsiveness of the audiences there.
37Harriet Cohen a Vienna Favorite
38After Harriet Cohen's second concert in Vienna this season, the audience were so insistent in its demand for encores that the lights in the concert hall had to be turned out to persuade them to go.
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