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Musical Courier 1928-07-26: Vol 97 Iss 4, 1928
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1Music Notes From Coast to Coast
3CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MUSIC NOTES
5Cincinnati, Ohio. The summer school of the College of Music devoted to a six weeks' intensive course of instruction in the various branches of music and drama taught at the institution is rapidly drawing to a close. Report is made that it has been one of the most productive summer seasons in the history of the college, particular interest having been centered on the department of public school music conducted by Sarah Yancey Cline. Enrollments in this department came from many parts of the country, teachers and prospective teachers and supervisors of music having availed themselves of the opportunity to earn needed credits for contemplated qualification for degree honors.
7Preparatory to the opening of the fifty-first academic year on September 10, the college buildings, including the new building erected last year, which houses the administrative offices and many studios as well as organ practice rooms, are undergoing thorough renovation. Special attention is to be given to the College of Music Auditorium, which will be completely redecorated.
9A new member of the College of Music faculty the coming season will be Norma Richter, who received a post-graduate diploma at the golden jubilee commencement held in Music Hall. Miss Richter is a product of the vocal school of Mrs. Adolf Hahn. She also has had a liberal education in opera under the direction of Italo Pichi, having taken prominent roles in several of the student productions given during the past few seasons.
11Another new addition to the College of Music faculty for the coming year is Louise Cox Crawford, who is to have charge of special classes devoted to pantomime and community drama in connection with the regular work of the department of drama and expression. Mrs. Crawford has had considerable experience in the direction of dramatic clubs in association with settlement work, especially in Chicago and Boston. Her last school affiliation, prior to joining the College of Music faculty, was with Mrs. William Smith Goldenburg as a member of the faculty of Mrs. Goldenburg's school in Avondale. Mrs. Crawford will assume her new duties beginning with the opening of the fall term on September 10.
13Janet Gibbs, post-graduate from the piano class of Albino Gorno two years ago, has accepted a position with the piano department of Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark. It is interesting to note in connection with the appointment of Miss Gibbs to the position on the faculty of Arkansas College that her immediate predecessor was Audrey Reeg, also a former graduate pupil of Dr. Gorno. Miss Gibbs will begin her new duties on September 10.
15The normal class in piano instruction under the direction of Frederick J. Hoffmann this summer has proven to be one of the most successful ever conducted at the College. Mr. Hoffmann has enrolled in his class not only a number of advanced piano students but also several teachers of that instrument who came from distant points to study with him during the six weeks' intensive course that he is conducting.
17Adolf Hahn, director of the College of Music, is enjoying a much needed rest midst the quiet and solitude of an Indiana farm, where he went shortly after the opening of the summer term. Mr. Hahn has taken up a new pastime; after much persuasion he agreed to become the owner of an automobile for his personal use and is now putting his spare moments learning to drive his high powered car.
19Davenport, Ill. An audience of 150 or more was delighted with the work of Alice Hawes in her first recital, given in the People's Light Auditorium. She is only seventeen years old but her musicianship makes her appear as one much more experienced. Her technic, which shows up in breath control, was remarkable, especially in the Song of India. In the last group the singer appeared in costume. Her teacher, Charlotte Anderson Warren, can be very proud of her pupil.
21N. F. S.
23Harrisonburg, Va. The month of June was filled with students' recitals. Miss Showalter, the Pabst School, and the Harmon School of Music presented their annual recitals. The Frances Calvert Juniors from Timberville, Edinburg, New Market, Mount Jackson and Harrisonburg gave a delightful open program this month in the beautiful auditorium at Mount Jackson, to a large and appreciative audience. The program consisted of piano solos, duets and trios, violin, flute, and vocal solos, readings and classical dancing, under the direction of Mrs. Lawrence Meem. The same program was repeated in the Frances Calvert Thompson studios at Harrisonburg. A contest, the playing of one movement from a Beethoven Sonata, before judges, proved interesting. Dolly Shannon of Mount Jackson won first prize and Dorothy Burkett of Mount Jackson won second prize. Several quartets added much to the success of the evening.
25F. C. T.
27New Bedford, Mass. Eunice S. Church, local teacher of piano, presented eight of her pupils in recital at the New Bedford Woman's Club. The young women were Barbara Clarke, Marjorie Keith, Marion and Ruth Barnes, Dorothy Levov, Ruby Luscomb, Edith Hammett and Margaret Crompton.
29Gladys Baker opened her home for a recital, presenting the following piano pupils: Louise Howarth, Virginia Bowen, Beatrice Timperley, Betty Gustafson and Marian Roberts.
31Clinton White, tenor, gave a program at the reunion of the New Bedford High School Alumni Association, accompanied by Helen Ponthan.
33The piano and violin pupils of Margaret Virgin, of Fairhaven, who form the Mozart Club, the youngest orchestra in that town, were heard in recital at the Fairhaven Town Hall. Among the pupils, most of whom study both instruments, were Walter Dixon, Alice Duffy, Tom Halsall, Earle Dias, Raymond Diggle and Pauline Riox of the violin choir; Priscilla Maynard, Robert Jackson, Ira Jackson, Virginia Morgan, June Sherman, Robert Knowles, John McQuillan, Walter Shaw and Anna Day. The orchestra also recently played at the Rotary Club luncheon.
35Mary Otheman, dean of local violin teachers, gave her forty-fourth annual pupils' recital at the Gambrel studio, presenting her four most advanced pupils. This was the eighty-first program that she has sponsored. The four pupils were Pearl Mendelson, Samuel Horvitz, Morris Rubin and Lester Willis. All acquitted themselves creditably, Master Rubin showing a particularly fine bow-arm and considerable temperament. Lena Arden accompanied at the piano, and Miss Otheman joined in the Toselli Serenade with cello.
37C. B.
39Newburgh, N. Y. John W. Nichols, musical director of Trinity M. E. Church, closed his series of eight important choral performances by his choir with The Creation, Marion Jamison, soprano, Wilfred Glenn, bass, and Mr. Nichols, tenor, singing the solos, duets and trios. Elijah and the Messiah were among preceding oratorios produced by this fine choir, which deserves big credit for such large undertakings.
41T.
43New Orleans, La. The last month of the New Orleans musical season has witnessed the presentation of a number of talented and for the most part youthful, local performers. Prominent among these was the recital before his departure for study in the North, of Ralph Squires, pianist, winner of the Philharmonic scholarship. Squires' enjoyable program, which displayed his technical ability and artistic interpretation, included a group of Chopin numbers, and compositions of Bach, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, R. Strauss, Liszt, Dohnanyi and Rachmaninoff.
45Frances Louise Diboll gave a recital for the benefit of the Dixon Hall Fund to be used for a music building at Newcomb College. After a Busoni arrangement of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D major, and Schubert's sonata, op. 120, Miss Diboll completed her program with compositions belonging to the modern school. Miss Diboll's personality is interesting; she is well equipped technically, and capable of forceful shading.
47Phillip Gordon, formerly of New Orleans, visited the city, where he was heard in several recitals. His sure but delicate touch manifested itself in Pastorale and Capriccio, Scarlatti-Tausig and the Gavotte, Gluck-Brahms. He displayed technical skill in the rapid Perpetual Motion of Weber.
49Of interest in local musical circles is the organization of the Active Membership of the Philharmonic Society to encourage students and young professionals to appear in public recitals and also to make a study and discuss the programs of visiting musicians. The initial performance of the Society presented a creditable and entirely enjoyable program. The performers included Stella Champagne, pianist; two vocalists, Josephine Bryan and Edward Day; Harby Kreeger, violinist, accompanied by Hannah Malter at the piano; and a two-piano number by Clara Mae Beer and Mary Byer.
51The third concert of the New Orleans String Quartet proved such an auspicious success that plans were made to increase the number of concerts in the next year's series to five, at which a greater variety in the character and type of chamber music will be offered. After an interesting rendering of Mozart's Quartet No. 17 and a Suite in old style by George Saint George there was an added attraction in the form of a quintet with Anita Socola Specht at the piano. Mme. Specht's facile technic and art of expression enhanced the beauty of the Saint-Saëns Piano Quintet, op. 14, making it a delightful culmination for the season. The quartet personnel consists of Albert Kirt, Jr., first violin; Ernest E. Schuyten, second violin; Carl Mauderer, viola, and Manuel Perez Sandi, cello.
53Mary Esther Wood presented her voice pupils in recital, assisted by Thomas Kirt, violinist, at the New Orleans Conservatory. Those on the program were Gladys Byxbe, Emilie Spalding Guedry and Mrs. Lawler C. Wright, all accompanied by Estelle Vincent. Guy Bernard served as Kirt's accompanist.
55The New Orleans Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, of which Dr. Ernest E. Schuyten is president, graduated thirteen pupils at its sixth commencement. Those receiving diplomas in music were Sister Mary Joseph S. S. N. D., Ada Moore, Marie Seybold Neumann, Mittie Kern, Winifred Hines, Dorothy Davis, Stella Champagne, Louise Veronica Olivier, Mary Bays Serex, Edna Carmelite Sirera, Alice Zaeringer and Frank Slater. Rose Mary Simms was graduated in dramatic art and expression. Albert Kirt, Jr., first graduate of the school, played the march for the entrance and entertained later in the evening with several violin selections.
57The Newcomb School of Music introduced its four graduates in two delightful recitals. Attica Aitkens, pianist, played an attractive program which was brilliantly concluded with the first movement of Chopin's concerto in E minor, op. 11, with Alice W. Wilkinson, Miss Aitken's instructor, at the second piano. On the same program was Katherine Bearss, soprano, whose songs were selected to display the lyric quality of her voice to its best advantage. Cecilia Mounger, pianist, entertained with an interesting program of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Daquin and concluded with the Poldini Etude Japonaise. The program of Gertrude Johnson, soprano, consisted chiefly of charming songs of the modern school which she sang with fine feeling. Clara del Valle del Marmol accompanied.
59Stella Champagne and Cerdas Donovan, piano pupils of Eugenie Wehrmann-Schaffner, were heard recently in recitals. Miss Champagne's program was played in very good style, with such outstanding numbers as the Etude de Virtuosité and Sparks of Mozkowski, and Arabesque of Debussy. Miss Donovan possesses decided talent interpretively and technically. Noted on her program were a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Lorelei of Seeling and Grieg's Sonata No. 7. Both Miss Champagne's and Miss Donovan's programs concluded with the Romanza and Valse from the Arensky Suite (for two pianos), with Mme. Schaffner at the second piano. one of two readings
60Stella Champagne and Cerdas Donovan, piano pupils of Eugenie Wehrmann-Schaffner, were heard recently in recitals. Miss Champagne's program was played in very good style, with such outstanding numbers as the Etude de Virtuosité and Sparks of Mokowski, and Arabesque of Debussy. Miss Donovan possesses decided talent interpretively and technically. Noted on her program were a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Lorelei of Seeling and Grieg's Sonata No. 7. Both Miss Champagne's and Miss Donovan's programs concluded with the Romanza and Valse from the Arensky Suite (for two pianos), with Mme. Schaffner at the second piano. one of two readings
62O. M. L.
64Norwich, N. Y. Musical features of the graduation exercises, class of 1928, Norwich High School, under Sarah Mason-Curnalia, included the good-sized orchestra, playing light music well; choruses by the Glee Club, in which sopranos hardly reached the high A's in Forget Me Not, and one wondered why they did not transpose it a half-step down; the duet, Whispering Hope, sung by Genevieve Colegrove and Marjory Curnalia, with variations in the piano accompaniment; and a vocal solo, Carrie Jacobs Bond's End of a Perfect Day, nicely sung by Marion Sergeant. The three cash prizes of the Weiler-Riesberg Foundation were awarded to Evelyn Pelt, piano; Josephine Bonney, composition, and Elizabeth Gibbs, vocal. This prize-money was instituted two years ago by Prof. Riesberg of New York, a graduate of Norwich High School and summer resident here, in collaboration with his cousin, Dr. J. Leo Weiler, leading dentist here, and has resulted in considerable interest among high school students.
66Charles Floyd continues in the lime-light, having charge of two choirs, at the Congregational and Methodist churches, his wife being solo contralto; he plans an evening of music soon, of works by John Prindle Scott exclusively. Mr. Scott is spending his summers near here.
68Coming musical events include the annual Chautauqua Week, when President Peffer provides high-class music and literary entertainment.
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72Redlands, Cal. Mrs. G. G. Moseley, business manager of The Spinet, announces the following attractions for the thirty-fifth season: The Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, Doris Niles Company, Leo Ornstein, Harry Farberman, and Tito Schipa.
74The Music Association opened with the Smallman A Capella Choir presenting an attractive program at the Bowl in Smiley Park. Other attractions include a Persian Dance Festival, with local talent; Homer Grumm, composer and pianist, and Chief Yowlace; Mischa Gogna's trio; Catherine Wade-Smith, violinist, and Violet Cossack, pianist; Nina Hager, mezzo-soprano, and Nono Hershel, accompanist; Gertrude Ross, Los Angeles composer and pianist, assisted by her daughter, Miss Ross, dramatic reader, and Melville Aver, baritone; Rosalie Barker Frye, contralto, who won the Hollywood vocal audition, and Arthur Hitchcock, who won the piano audition; John Parrish, tenor, and Nicholas Ochi-Albi, cellist, with Claire Mellonino, accompanist; Marie Montana, soprano, and Harry Ben Gronsky, boy violinist; Eugene Goossens, in joint concert with Sylvain Noack, violinist.
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78PACIFIC COAST DIRECTORY
80ARMSTRONG, FRANCIS J.
81Concert Violinist
82Resident in Seattle. 1519 3rd Ave.
84BAYS, BERNICE
85Lyric Soprano
86Available for Concert, Church and Club Work
87504 Majestic Theatre Bldg., Los Angeles
89BEHYMER, L. E.
90Manager of Distinguished Artists
91705 Auditorium Bldg., Los Angeles
93BOGART, ANDREW
94Teacher of Singing
95"A Message to Singers" mailed on request
962218 Lake Street, San Francisco
98BOWES, MR. AND MRS. CHARLES
99Voice—Mise en scene
100446 South Grand View, Los Angeles
102BRESCHIA, DOMENICO
103Voice Specialist—Composition
104407-8 Marshall Square Bldg., San Francisco
106COOK, ELSIE
107Pianist
108California Representative of Tobias Matthay Piano School
1093325 Octavia St., San Francisco
111CORNISH SCHOOL OF MUSIC, INC.
112Dramatic Arts and Dancing
113Nellie C. Cornish, Director
114Roy Street, at Harvard, Seattle, Wash.
116ENSEMBLE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
117Emmaletta Vantine, Director.
118All Branches Taught. Dormitories.
1192058 No. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, Calif.
121JACQUES JOU-JERVILLE of Paris
122Formerly Boston Opera
123and leading grand opera of France
124Private Voice Studios
125The McKelvey, Seattle, Wash.
127KANTNER SCHOOL OF SINGING
128Clifford W. Kantner, Director
129306 Spring Street, Seattle, Washington
131LOTT, MR. AND MRS. CLIFFORD
132Voice and Piano
133Member American Academy of Teachers of Singing, N. Y.
134912 W. 20th St., Los Angeles
136OATMAN, JOHN R.
137Musical Courier Correspondent
138713 Couch Building, Portland, Ore.
140PERSINGER, LOUIS
141Management Selby Oppenheimer
14268 Post Street, San Francisco
144S. T. EMBER, ROSA
145"Producer of Vocal Artists"
1464110 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles
148SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
149ERNEST BLOCH, Director
1503435 Sacramento St., San Francisco
152SIMPSON, ELIZABETH
153Piano, Solfege, Harmony
154Author of "Little Princes of Music Land"
15526 O'Farrell St., San Francisco
157THE CORA W. JENKINS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
15846 Randwick Avenue, Oakland, Calif.
159Boarding and Day School
160Phone Piedmont 2993 W.
162TOWNS, KIRK
163Baritone
164505 The McKelvey
165Seattle
166Canadian Club
167New York
169TRONITZ, PHILLIP
170Norwegian Concert Pianist and Pedagogue
171Studio—California Music Co. Bldg.
172Los Angeles, Calif. Summer Classes
173Also Head of Piano Department of Hollywood Conservatory of Music.
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