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Musical Courier 1928-09-06: Vol 97 Iss 10, 1928
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1Otto Luening to Sojourn Abroad Until Spring
3Otto Luening has sailed for Europe, where he intends to devote his time to composition until next spring. His wife, Ethel Codd-Luening, one of the leading sopranos in Rochester, N. Y., and formerly with the Rochester American Opera Company, will prepare herself for the operatic stage in Germany, where the couple intend to make their headquarters for the winter.
5Mr. Luening's activities have centered largely in composition and in the cause of American opera. Founder and director of the Chicago Musical Art studio, he was for five years teacher of theory and composition in that city. Interested for the first time in American opera in 1921, he trained and conducted performances in Chicago in 1922. In 1925 he was engaged by the Eastman School of Music as Coach for the opera department. Shortly afterward he was made executive director of the opera department and has served in that capacity since that time. He has conducted for the Rochester Opera Company in Rochester, Chautauqua, N. Y., and on tour, and for the American National Opera Company in New York, in addition to his activities at the school.
7Luening's chamber music was first introduced to Chicago audiences in 1922 and caused much comment at that time because of its unusual form and content, one critic calling it "no music" and refusing to review it, another praising the "classical background" of the composer. Audience and press at later performances upheld the composer in his views. Wilhelm Middleschulte played several of his organ works in 1923 and 1924, and the composer was introduced to the Rochester public by Howard Hanson through his Symphonic Poem for full orchestra and also with his three songs for soprano and chamber orchestra. The Serenade for three horns and strings, written at the request of Eugene Goossens for the Rochester Philharmonic concerts and performed there last season with success, was repeated in the same season by Howard Hanson and again found signal favor. A musical setting for Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice for organ, chorus and alto solo was written and performed for Rouben Mamoulian's production in Rochester.
9Mr. Luening plans to complete chamber music and orchestral works while in Europe and to work on an opera. J.
11Dr. Wolle Plays Bach's Art of Fugue
13Dr. J. Fred Wolle, organist, has the distinction of having given the first complete performance of Bach's Art of Fugue in Canada, at the Holy Trinity Church, Yarmouth, N. S., of which the Rev. H. L. Haslam is the rector. This work comprises a series of sixteen fugues and four canons, all based upon and developed from one and the same chief theme. Owing to the length of the work, Dr. Wolle played it at two sessions, the first at four o'clock and the second at eight o'clock. It will be remembered that this well-known director of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem aroused much interest in the musical world last April, when he performed the Art of Fugue in its entirety for the first time in America at the Packer Memorial Church.
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22ADELE MARGULIES
23Eminent Pianist and Pedagogue
24Will Resume Instruction
25Sept. 15, 1928, at her Studio
2658 West 57th Street
27New York City
29MUSICIANS will enjoy these new FREE booklets.
31SONGS OF DISTINCTION
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41Songs of Distinction one of two readings
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43The Violinist's Treasure Book one of two readings
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49John Colville Dickson Pupils in Concert
50Pupils of John Colville Dickson gave a concert at his residence studio in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 9, when among those who took part in the program were Mildred Robinson, contralto of the First Unitarian Church; Mabelle Carlson-Phillips, soprano of the First Church Swedenborg; Nicholas Van Luit, baritone of the Rockefeller Baptist Church; Howard Burroughs, tenor of the Church of the Redeemer. The foregoing pupils all are of Cleveland, and those from other locations who were heard at this concert were Grace Bissell (soprano), Wanda Warner (contralto) and Clarence Steiger (baritone), all from the Lakewood, O., M. E. Church; Lillian Butcher-Stambaugh (soprano) of Youngstown, Ohio; William Bond, Jr., of Hubbard, Ohio; Olive Carnahan (soprano), teacher of music in public schools of Avalon, Pa.; Cecil Munk (tenor), teacher of music in public schools of Girard, Ohio; Robert Baker (baritone) a senior in Glenville High School. This concert concluded the regular Summer Normal School for Singers held each season, this making the seventeenth.
52Scholarship for the Blind at Master Institute
53Malcolm Coney, a blind student of Oklahoma, has been awarded a scholarship in piano at the Master Institute of United Arts, New York City. This scholarship, which carries with it full tuition in the piano course for next season has been supplemented by the American Federation for the Blind in awarding to Mr. Coney a scholarship covering his living expenses for a year in order that he should be enabled to take full advantage of the opportunity of pursuing his musical education at the Institute. Mr. Coney received his education at the Institute for the Blind of Oklahoma, studying piano under John Meldrum, director of the Institute. Mr. Meldrum, also blind, at one time a student of piano under Sina Lichtmann at the Master Institute of United Arts, has achieved success as a concert pianist. Mr. Coney will begin his work at the Institute in October under the direction Mrs. Sina Lichtmann.
55Granberry Conducts Opera at Athens, Ga.
56According to an announcement received from the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., "The University of Georgia Summer School's season of grand opera has been developed in the spirit of a truly civic enterprise, which it is believed could solve the problem of establishing opera throughout the country. The Summer School furnishes the chorus from its student body; the singers for the minor roles, from the professional music students; the orchestral players from the department of music; the plans for and execution of the stage decorations and scenes, by the art department; the costumes, from the department of design and dressmaking; the dances, from the department of dance; public announcement, program notes, etc., by students of journalism. The principal roles are entrusted only to artists from the greatest opera companies, which insures authoritative and brilliant performances. All details of the preparation and presentation of the operas are supervised by George Folsom Granberry, director of music in the Summer School, and Mrs. Granberry, who has charge of choral music."
57Among the operas given during July were Traviata, Il Trovatore, Hansel and Gretel and Samson and Delilah, all of them sung in English under the direction of Mr. Granberry.
59Dr. J. Fred Wolle
61George Engles' New System of Selling
62George Engles has inaugurated the unique custom of having artists who are available for concert appearances broadcast over the radio so that the local managers in various parts of the country may hear before engaging them.
63"Broadcasting is already proving of value in booking new and comparatively unknown artists," said Engles when interviewed about his new plan. "Hitherto the booking of artists has rested entirely on the shoulders of travelling agents. A manager with fifteen or twenty artists to book sends out a representative to secure contracts from the local managers. In going from town to town this representative invariably encounters two or three other competing agents in the offices he visits. Probably while he is discussing the abilities of his artists with his client long distance calls come in from other representatives wishing to make similar appointments. And on the desks of the manager are scores of circulars promoting other artists. Is it any wonder that booking presents insurmountable difficulties? Naturally, with the market so flooded, the local manager is wary of engaging artists whose reputations are still to be made, no matter how eloquent the travelling agent may be.
64"Under the arrangement of the National Broadcasting and Concert Bureau, whereby one evening each week its own artists broadcast a program, the local managers are afforded an opportunity to hear this musical material and form a personal opinion as to whether it is suitable for the concert stage. There is no annoyance involved,—no promotion talks or arguments. If the manager does not like a particular artist, all he has to do is disconnect his radio set."
65The National Broadcasting and Concert Bureau, after only four programs of this nature, has already secured a number of engagements for its artists, simply on the strength of the impression they made on managers over the radio. It is of course a fact, as Mr. Engles points out, that some of the most successful broadcasting artists do not have a good concert presence, but it is the policy of the bureau to include on its lists only such artists as it feels combine the ability to broadcast with that of holding the interest of a concert hall audience.
66In addition to his managerial role, Mr. Engles is now managing director of the National Broadcasting and Concert Bureau.
68MORE PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHIES
69The Pictorial Biographies of famous musicians published in the Musical Courier during the past fifteen months were received with great favor.
70The lives and the life works of Beethoven, Brahms, Tschaikowsky, Johann Strauss, Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert have been chronicled by means of rare and interesting pictures, documents and facsimiles, supplemented by brief texts and articles by well-known musical writers.
71There are more to come. Much valuable material has been collected bearing on the lives of Paganini, Richard Wagner, Gluck and others, and is now in process of compilation, with a view of publication in the near future. The exact dates will be announced
72SOON
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