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Musical Courier 1928-09-06: Vol 97 Iss 10, 1928
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1Music Notes From Coast to Coast
3COLLEGE OF MUSIC OF CINCINNATI NOTES
5Cincinnati, Ohio. Immediately following the closing of the summer term of six weeks of intensive instruction in the various departments, including special attention to Public School Music and a normal class for piano teachers, skilled workmen were placed in charge of the College of Music dormitory, studio rooms and auditorium to rush the work of renovation and remodeling, which is to be done before the fall term begins on September 10.
7Lillian Tyle Plogstedt will join the College of Music faculty in September to teach piano and organ.
9Elmore Ryan, a graduate of several seasons ago from the dramatic class of Mrs. William Smith Goldenburg, has signed a contract to play leading roles in a prominent stock company of Long Island. Following her school studies, Miss Ryan will be remembered by the Cincinnati public for the several parts that she played with the Taylor Stock Company operating at the Grand Opera House during the summer season. Since that time she has had various dramatic assignments and has filled several engagements in vaudeville. Her promotion to more important parts has been the result of careful training and properly guided experience. Selma Kinman, another professional pupil of Mrs. Goldenburg, is spending part of the summer with friends in Cincinnati and the other times with her parents, who reside in Wilmington, O.
11William Smith Goldenburg, business manager of the College of Music, accompanied by Mrs. Goldenburg of the faculty in the department of drama and expression, with their daughter Virginia, and Mr. Goldenburg's mother, left for a motor trip to Chicago and other points in the lake region. They intended to devote considerable attention to such outstanding dramatic and musical features as prevail in Chicago during the summer months, especially the opera at Ravinia Park.
13It requires a wedding to induce William Blasi, registrar of the College of Music, to take even a few days from his work. Mr. Blasi, contrary to his usual custom of remaining at the College throughout the entire summer, left to be present at the wedding in Lima, O., on the following day of Dorothy Stolzenbach, gifted member of the piano faculty, and Karl Payne, a professional violin student of the class of Adolf Hahn.
15Dorothy O'Brien, graduate from the piano class of Dr. Albino Gorno, dean of the faculty, and for the past two years a member of the piano faculty of the Bethel Women's College, Hopkinsville, Ky., has been appointed director of the school of music of that institution. Miss O'Brien stopped in Cincinnati to visit friends, to whom her rapid rise in the musical world has been a source of gratification.
17Los Angeles, Cal. August 10, Percy Grainger stepped down from the conductor's platform and seated himself on the piano bench as soloist of the evening. Pietro Cimini, wielded the baton. The program opened with Sinigaglia's overture, Le Baruffe Chizzotte, which won an ovation for Cimini, it was so full of sparkle and life. Dohnanyi's suite for orchestra, opus. 19, further deepened the impression made by the first number. He closed with Verdi's seldom heard Sicilian Vespers. Cimini's control of the orchestra was complete and the interest of the audience was held to the final note of one of the most noteworthy and outstanding concerts of the season. Percy Grainger scored the huge triumph that was expected of him with Grieg's concerto in A minor, which he plays in a manner all his own. It was a notable performance. He was obliged to respond with four encores, the first, Brahms' Cradle Song, followed on demand by his own In a Country Garden, Air from County Derry, and Shepherd's Hey.
19Saturday night, Grainger again stepped upon the platform, opening the popular program with Svendsen's Coronation March. Then came a group of short numbers: Pavane, Faure; Mock Morris, Grainger; The Quiet Brook, Scarlatti; Clog Dance, Handel in the Strand, in which he was assisted by Ralph Dobbs, George Greenwood and Marshall Summer, pianists. The last number had to be repeated. The first half closed with the Peer Gynt Suite, which has not been heard for some time. After the intermission came Grainger's Power of Love, assisted by Anita Atwater, soprano, and coupled with this was Lord Peter's Stable Boy, by Grainger; two numbers by Delius, On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River, and Goldmark's Negro Rhapsody closed the program.
21The Pacific Southwest Exposition, which is being held at Long Beach, has featured music prominently, under the management of L. E. Behymer. A choir of 250 voices and the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, under Joseph Ballentine, are giving frequent concerts.
23Rudolph Reuter, piano pedagogue from Chicago, who is conducting his third season of summer classes in Los Angeles, presented his artist-pupil, Harold Van Horne, in recital at the Auditorium of the Westlake Music School. His opening Bach number was technically well played. However, after warming up on the Brahms-Gluck gavotte and the Rameau-MacDowell Sarabande, he struck his pace in the Brahms and Chopin groups, which followed, developing a delicate coloring and brilliancy most appealing. A modern group by Liapounoff, Griffes and Dohnanyi was played with rare delicacy and skill. Ravel's Ondine, Carpenter's Tango Americaine, and Liszt's Rhapsodie No. 11 closed the program, when he was obliged to respond to several encores.
25Bertha Vaughn, voice teacher, has moved her studio to the Beaux Arts Building on Eighth street.
27The local Chapter of Pro-Musica entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyce-Smith with a large reception in honor of Alfred Casella, who conducted at the Bowl for that week.
29Frederick Heeran, basso and vocal teacher, again will give two scholarships in singing: one to which young men from eighteen to twenty are eligible, and the other for young women from sixteen to eighteen.
31Vera Barstow, violinist, played at the Argus Miniature Bowl at Eagle Rock, offering the Mendelssohn concerto for violin.
33The Mexican Orchestra of Maestro Miguel Lerdo De Tejada, which is touring the states on the Opheum circuit, has had a long run in Los Angeles, creating great enthusiasm.
35The Smallman A Capella Choir, which is said by Percy Grainger to be one of the best in the world, will give the last program of the season at the Pacific Palisades Chautauqua.
37Mrs. J. J. Carter is given credit for the San Diego Sunset Symphonies, which have been given during August, on Sunday afternoons, at Balboa Park by the Civic Orchestra of San Diego, under the direction of Nino Marcelli. They have been a great success.
39The Levings-Barstow Trio, with Rudolph Reuter, Chicago pianist, as soloist gave the last of the programs at the Miniature Argus Bowl at Eagle Rock before a large audience.
41Richard Buhlig, pianist, returned for a series of summer classes during August.
43The Glendale Orchestra, under Modest Altschuler, has been giving a series of popular Sunday concerts at Nibley Park.
45Seattle, Wash. Sigismond Stojowski, Polish pianist and pedagogue, who has been conducting summer classes at the University of Washington, presented two historical sonata-lecture recitals at Meany Hall. This is Mr. Stojowski's third successive summer in Seattle, each summer drawing larger and larger classes. The two programs revealed him again as the excellent teacher who is able to illustrate with finesse the principles upon which he is basing his work.
47In addition to semi-weekly student recitals and lectures, the Cornish School has offered weekly evening faculty programs for the summer school students. Numbered among those performing were: Ellen Van Volkenberg, of the theater department; John Hopper, pianist; Franklin Riker, tenor, and the Cornish Trio.
49Kate Dell Marden, normal instructor, has been holding a course in the Dunning System.
51Helen Crowe Snelling has announced the opening of enlarged music studios for the study of piano and voice.
53Anna Grant Dall, formerly of the Cornish School, has opened a studio at her home, on Franklin Avenue, where she is accepting piano students.
55Grace Elliott in Maine
57Grace Elliott, pianist, accompanist and coach, has settled down for the rest of the summer at Orr's Island, Me. After a busy season that did not end until August 1, when she played at a costume recital at Columbia University, Miss Elliott made a motor trip through the New England States and is now resting in preparation for the new season that is about to begin.
59Max Kaplick Sails for Europe
61Max Kaplick, baritone, sailed on August 30, for a concert tour of Europe. One of his first appearances will be in Berlin in November at the Beethoven Saal. Before sailing Mr. Kaplick did considerable radio work over station WOR, singing the baritone parts in La Gioconda and Pagliacci.
63Grace Gardner Reopens Studio
65Grace Gardner, vocal teacher and musical authority of Cincinnati, will reopen her studio in that city on September 10, at the Hotel Metropole.
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