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Musical Courier 1928-08-09: Vol 97 Iss 6, 1928
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1Nelson Succeeds Wild as Conductor of Apollo Club in Chicago
3American Conservatory Presents Jacques Gordon in Recital—Other Notes
5CHICAGO.—After thirty years of unbroken service, Harrison M. Wild has wielded the baton as conductor of the Apollo Musical Club for the last time, his resignation having just been announced by F. E. Roberts, president of the club. His successor is Edgar Nelson, president of the Bush Conservatory of Music and for ten years chief accompanist of the Apollo Club. As Mr. Wild expressed it, "thirty milestones along the same road are enough," and since he had only recently been re-engaged for the coming season, his resignation came as a surprise.
7Mr. Wild has an international reputation as a conductor, concert organist and instructor. Besides serving the Apollo Club as leader since 1898, he was conductor of the Chicago Mendelssohn Club from 1896 to 1925 and choirmaster and organist at Grace Episcopal Church for twenty-three years.
9In Edgar Nelson the Apollo Club has chosen a man well trained for the work ahead of him, and one fully informed as to the workings of the organization. Besides being the head of the Bush Conservatory of Music, Mr. Nelson has been conductor of the Swedish Choral Club since 1915, conductor of the Sunday Evening Club chorus since 1913, and is now leader of the Marshall Field and Company Choral Society.
11LIVENS LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA VACATION
13A vacation in California is the aim of Mme. Sophia Brilliant-Liven and her husband, Michael Liven, who left Chicago for the West on July 29, to be gone until September. This busy and highly successful pianist and teacher and her busy violin teacher-husband will reopen their studios on Humboldt Boulevard and in Kimball Hall on September 4. Since coming to Chicago the Livens have made names for themselves in the profession and are counted among the most successful teachers here, many of their students having carried off coveted prizes and honors in several competitions.
15ARTHUR BURTON CLOSES STUDIO
17His most successful summer season at a close, Arthur Burton has locked up his Fine Arts Building studio and bided himself to Wisconsin for a little recreation. Until September 7, when he will resume teaching, the prominent voice instructor and coach will spend the time with Mrs. Burton at Pottawattomie Lodge, at Minocqua, Wis.
19VITALY SCHNEE AT HIGHLAND PARK
21Vitaly Schnee and his wife (well known Russian painter) are spending the month of August in Highland Park, where they are taking a rest and preparing for a busy season.
23During the past year Mr. Schnee had large classes and presented many pupils in recital. He is already booked under Bertha Ott for his own recital this coming season, at which he will introduce a program consisting mostly of works by modern composers, not forgetting, of course, Bach, for whom Mr. Schnee, like all musicians, has great reverence.
25Vitaly Schnee will have his own studios on the ninth floor of Kimball Hall, beginning in September.
27AMERICAN CONSERVATORY PRESENTS GORDON
29Jacques Gordon, concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony and Ravinia Opera Company, closed the Artists Series of the American Conservatory with a recital of music for the violin at Kimball Hall on August 1. Mr. Gordon, who is justly looked upon as one of the luminaries in music in America, is not only a fine artist but also a real human dynamo. Gordon works from early morning till late at night, as when he is not playing publicly or giving lessons at the American Conservatory, he practises at home, yet he is never too busy to find an hour now and then for recreation, just diverting the mind and keeping physically fit.
31All this may have no connection whatever with his appearance at Kimball Hall, yet his playing of Sowerby's suite for violin and piano in which he was superbly assisted by Harold Van Horne, pianist, showed conclusively that Gordon's manifold occupation with the violin keeps him fit for all occasions. His well balanced program, which contained also Chausson's Poeme, was concluded with a group consisting of lighter works, mostly those of resident composers. The large audience on hand applauded the popular violinist vociferously throughout the course of the recital.
33MANN STUDIO PROGRAM
35An attractive program given by the summer pupils of Ellen Kinsman Mann revealed a number of excellent voices. The singers, many of whom are teachers, showed by freshness of voice and vitality of style that their training had been done by a master hand. Among those whose work called for special commendation were Louise Bowman, Inez Dodds and Barbour and Nellie Teasdale Ostrom.
37NEWS NOTES OF THE GUNN SCHOOL
39The summer term at the Gunn School was a period of unusual activity. The classes of Glenn Dillard Gunn, Lee Pattison, Percy Rector Stephens, Alberta Lowry, Amy Neill and Jascha Selwitz were filled to overflowing. Arthur Granquist, who took his vacation in July, is teaching this August.
41The voice clinics of Percy Rector Stephens attracted a great group of professional singers. From Mr. Gunn's "How to Study" class, in which some fifty professional pianists were enrolled, Sara Levee and Grace Nelson were sent to play in the series of summer recitals at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Gunn also lectured there each Monday from June 25 to July 30, playing a recital on July 23. Meanwhile, with the co-operation of Ralph Ambrose of the Gunn School faculty, he directed all the piano study at the University's summer session.
43In July, extension scholarships were awarded by the Juilliard School to Rae Bernstein, Grace Nelson and Ruth Mover of the Gunn piano and How-to-Study classes.
45Dr. Daniel Protheroe, Felix Borowski, Eva Jack and Leo Sowerby are spending their vacations in Europe. Roland Leich, pupil in composition of Dr. Borowski and Leo Sowerby, was awarded the first prize in the Indiana State Competition for native composers, the composition submitted being a piece for piano.
47Music on the Air
49AN IDEA
51To all those who have original ideas for the improvement of radio programs we are duly grateful. The latest expression for improvement came from Zeh Bouck on the Sun when he proposed "The High-Brow Evening." Briefly told Mr. Bouck's idea is: that one evening a week from a single station, he devoted exclusively to the broadcast of artistic programs. These evenings to be made up of high-grade sustaining and sponsored programs. The reason for this, Mr. Bouck says, is because while the high-brow listener is decidedly in the minority he by no means is a negligible consideration. After reasoning that the dispersing of good music over countless jazz programs is decidedly discouraging for those who attempt to find the better programs, he very generously states, that while he is not arguing that more time be devoted to better music he does make a plea that enough of these select programs be picked to fill one solid evening a week from a particular station.
53This seems to be an excellent idea. A music lover could then definitely set aside one evening a week when he would be sure that his tastes would be satisfied rather than vainly attempting to find something of interest each evening. The interesting part of Mr. Bouck's proposal is the enthusiasm with which the public seems to be taking up the idea and to come to an honest statement of what the public thinks of the various broadcasting stations it is not out of place to mention that most of those expressing opinions feel that station WOR is the one best suited for the project. Some are in favor of eliminating the NBC from the idea, feeling that WOR's programs are more progressive. Mr. Bouck responds to this that such would almost be impossible, for the NBC have fairly good hold on the Philharmonic Symphony and the Goldman Band, which offer two of the best features on the air. Our recollection is that the Philharmonic concerts came over WOR all last winter without one single cut in the schedule.
55Our desire is to see Mr. Bouck's idea carried out and since WOR seems to be the station toward which the finger seems to point it is our hope that Bamberger's will consider the project. It offers material for something worth while.
57ON TURNING THE DIAL
59JULY 30 TO AUGUST 5.—Another glance over a week of musical presentations and one must conclude that it was dull listening. The features which had some sort of glamor were few: two operatic performances over WOR of Traviata and Martha, the former especially well presented; the Philharmonic concert as conducted by Albert Coates, who gave the Beethoven Fifth an impressive interpretation; The Hall Johnson Singers, in the Eveready Hour, who have come to be a genuine attraction. One must not forget the adequate singing of the cast which partook in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida. It is to be commented upon that on Tuesday evenings WOR puts on a program which is called One Midsummer's Night, which lasts five hours and programs eight attractions. They are good attractions and the idea smacks of the recent one which Mr. Bouck has been sponsoring, an evening of classical music by one station. If WOR can do this with an evening of no particular consequence it can unquestionably take up the classical evening idea.
61Stadium Concerts
63(Continued from page 7)
65greeted him and sent him off, and the audience was no small one. Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of Nobles from the opera, Miada; Elgar's orchestral variations, Enigma, and the Love Death from Tristan und Isolde were also given.
67THURSDAY, AUGUST 2
68(See story on page 7)
70FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
72Molinari made his second appearance on Friday evening. He programmed Casella's La Giara for the first time at these concerts, and the beauties of the score were skilfully brought out under his musically baton, with William Clark, as tenor soloist, displaying a voice of beautiful quality and excellent carrying power. Other composers represented on the program were Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Martucci, Debussy and Wagner.
74SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
76There was another "first time at the Stadium" performance on Saturday evening, namely, Corelli's Suite for String Orchestra, arranged from Op. 5 by Ettore Pinelli. Smetana, Strauss and Beethoven furnished the music for the remainder of the program.
78HANS HESS
79CELLIST
80Management of Hans Hess, Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
82WALTER SPRY
83PIANIST-PEDAGOGUE
84COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
85CHICAGO
87EDWARD
88Pianist—Composer—Conductor
8964 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, Ill.
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