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Musical Courier 1928-12-13: Vol 97 Iss 24, 1928
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1JOSEFIN HARTMAN VOLLMER
2COACH AND ACCOMPANIST
3"The perfect accompanist."—Mme. Schumann-Heink.
4215 West 75th St., New York City. Phone: Trafalgar 2377
6ELS LEHMAN
7INTERPRETER OF CHARACTERISTIC SONGS OF THE SOUTH
8Miss Lehman's work is especially adapted for Clubs and Social Functions
9For full particulars address: 427 Park Avenue, New York
11RAYMOND BAUMAN
12ACCOMPANIST
13TEACHER — COMPOSER — PIANIST
14Studio: 150 Riverside Drive, New York City. Tel. Schuyler 5800-9823
16PLATT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
17ESTELLE PIATT and CHARLOTTE KENDALL HULL, DIRECTORS
18COMPLETE COURSES IN ALL BRANCHES
19134-5 CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK CITY Telephone Circle 8175
21MADDALENA ELBA
22COLORATURA SOPRANO
2356 West 87th St., New York. Tel.: Schuyler 8107
25SOMMOVIGO
26Maestro of Bel Canto
27EXPERT VOICE PLACEMENT—GRAND OPERA COACHING
28Studio: 203 West 103rd Street, New York Tel. Academy 8862
30RUDOLF LARSEN
31TEACHER OF VIOLIN
32Assistant to PROF. LEOPOLD AUER for 8 years
33336 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 828 Carnegie Hall, N. Y. C.
34Telephone Nevins 1518
36KEDROFF QUARTET
37RUSSIAN VOCALISTS
38NOW ON SECOND AMERICAN TOUR
39Mgt. Wm. B. Feakins, Inc., Times Bldg., New York
41The English Singers
42Now Booking Season 1928:1929
43Concerts of Madrigals, Folk Songs & Other Music
44Management METROPOLITAN MUSICAL BUREAU, 33 West 42d St. N.Y.C.
46MADAME VINELLO JOHNSON
47Singing in all its Branches
48New York—Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays
49Boston—Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
50New York Studio: Hotel Majestic
51Boston Studio: 31 Trinity Place (Tel.: Kenmore 4228)
53TONE QUALITY UNSURPASSED
54I want to express my sincere appreciation of your incomparable instrument. In quality of tone it is unsurpassed.—Nevada Van der Veer Famous Contralto
56Jovada Van der Veer
58KRANICH & BACH
59Grand—Reproducing—and Period Model Pianos
60237 East 23rd St.
6177 EAST JACKSON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL.
62CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST UPON REQUEST
64MUSICAL COURIER
65Artists Everywhere
66(Continued from page 45)
67gaged by the Hartford Cecilia Club, December 11, singing the Bach Christmas Cantata; further engagements include Columbia University International Institute (re-engagement), and the Newark Woman's Club.
69Gina Pinnera has been engaged for a recital appearance this season at Providence, R. I., on January 6. Lexington, Ky., Detroit, Mich., and Wichita, Kans., are other cities that have contracted for her services. In Detroit she will sing with both the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and for the Detroit Golf Club.
71Francis Rogers' pupil, Kurtis Brownell, has been engaged as tenor soloist in the Choir of the Memorial Methodist Church, White Plains, N. Y.
73Anton Rovinsky aroused much interest in New York two seasons ago with his program, "Sacred and Profane Music," and his more recent programs, "Bach Variete" and "Parallels and Contrasts" have also evoked much controversy. This season he is offering "Melting Pot Pourri," in which he emphasizes some of the founts of inspiration from which the native American musical idiom is being developed.
75Harold Samuel sails for America on December 26 and begins his tour of this country at Winnipeg, January 7. He plays an all-Bach program in Town Hall, January 20. Among other bookings are a recital at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Dallas, Tex., and with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
77John Prindle Scott has returned to New York, following his summer spent at The Scottage, McDonough, N. Y., and Syracuse. This is my fourth season in this tavern so I'm feeling quite at home, he says. Mr. Scott is well known as the composer of notably successful songs and anthems and is resuming his residence in his uptown apartment-hotel.
79Willard Sektberg is now in the midst of a coast-to-coast tour as accompanist for Mary McCormic; in addition, Mr. Sektberg is receiving very flattering notices for his work as soloist.
81Henry F. Seibert, organist, has recently been heard in recitals in White Plains, Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, Reading, Pa., Washington Auditorium, and twice in New York City, not counting his frequent appearances in Town Hall, New York, of which he is the official organist.
83Bruce Simonds, pianist, includes the following among his recent and forthcoming engagements: December 3, New York; 9, Middletown, Conn.; 16, Boston; January 15 and 16, New Haven, Conn.; 20, New York; February 16, Oxford, Ohio; 19, New Haven; 27, Middlebury, Conn.; March 19, New Haven, and April 6, Boston.
85Ethelinde Smith gave a recital recently at Salem College, Salem, W. Va., with Angelo Eagon playing artistic accompaniments at the piano. "Ethelinde Smith delighted an appreciative audience with her Songs of Many Nations program," wrote the reviewer for the Clarksburg Exponent in commenting on the event. This was Miss Smith's first engagement on her fourteenth tour of the South after which she went to Alabama for engagements in three cities there. The soprano's present tour covers the entire country and part of it twice and will keep her occupied until next April.
87Dorothy Speare, a young writer who became an opera and concert singer while at the peak of her writing success, having written novels, short stories and magazine articles appearing in rapid succession, will fill ten engagements in January on her first American concert tour, just about the time her fifth book will be released by her publishers. This last volume will include all of her articles upon conditions in musical Italy which have appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Pictorial Review, and other publications. Among cities on Miss Speare's January itinerary are: Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Columbus, New York, Lancaster, Pa., Philadelphia, Pa., Louisville, Ky., Hot Springs, Ark., and Dallas, Tex.
89The Studio Guild, Grace Pickett, president, invited interested music lovers to meet its registered artists in the studios, 4 p. m., from December 3 to December 12; such artists were Ernest Roth, Guy Wiggins, Grace Helen Talbot, Wayman Adams and Jane Freeman.
91The Tollesen Trio, "a national institution," gave a Schubert program in Bridgeport, Conn., before an overflowing audience. The Hure Serenade, liked so much when played at Town Hall, will be repeated by them at their Brooklyn Institute concert, January 6. The trio has also recently been heard by the South Shore Women's Club, and at the Brooklyn National Society of New England Women; they go on tour in February, following which will occur their second New York recital.
93Jeannette Vreeland is scheduled to give a recital in Asbury Park, N. J., on January 11, after which she will start on her Southern tour which will take her as far south as Montevallo, Ala., where she will be heard on January 26. She will appear in Rock Hill, S. C., on January 24. The soprano made her first appearance of the season in New York on October 30 at a Barbizon recital.
95Helen C. Weston gave a studio party recently in the Brooklyn Weston studio, taking the form of a reunion of former and present pupils of the deceased A. Campbell Weston who are now piano and organ pupils of Prof. Riesberg and Paul Fouquet, and of Muriel Reid, violinist. Sylvia and Everett Hatner, pianists; Paul Fouquet, George Dewey and Muriel Reid, violinists; and Georgette Milwit, dancer, appeared in their specialties, and the score of young students.
97The Women's Symphony Orchestra of Philadelphia reports that it finished its seventh season in June, 1928, without a deficit. J. W. F. Leman is director of the orchestra and Fredericka Warren Ferguson, business manager. This season the orchestra will give two concerts before the Philadelphia Music Club, and the annual series of three concerts will take place in the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford, also in Philadelphia.
99Copland-Sessions Concerts
100The Copland-Sessions Concerts will be resumed this season, beginning December 30 at the Little Theater, when a program of exceedingly contemporary music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, Bernard Wagenaar, and Nicolai Lopatnikoff will be given.
102New York Concert Announcements
104Thursday, December 13
105Morning
106Plaza Artistic Morning, Hotel Plaza.
107Evening
108Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
109Prince Mohi-ud-din, cello and oude, Town Hall.
110Reba Dill Corder, song, Steinway Hall.
111St. Erik's Annual Lucia Festival, Hotel Astor.
113Friday, December 14
114Afternoon
115Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
116Evening
117Down Town Glee Club, Carnegie Hall.
118Jean Knowlton, song, Steinway Hall.
119Russian Symphonic Choir, Washington Irving High School.
121Saturday, December 15
122Afternoon
123Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Young People's Concert, Carnegie Hall.
124Fionzaley Quartet, Town Hall.
125Evening
126A. W. Binder, original compositions, Town Hall.
127Juilliard School of Music, orchestral concert, Engineering Auditorium.
128La Argentina, dance, Carnegie Hall.
130Sunday, December 16
131Afternoon
132Society of the Friends of Music, Town Hall.
133Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Metropolitan Opera House.
134People's Chorus of New York, Carnegie Hall.
135A. W. Epstein, song, Steinway Hall.
136Anderina Materassi-Barton, piano, Guild Theater.
137La Argentina, dance, Gallo Theatre.
138Lynnwood Farnam, organ, Church of the Holy Communion.
139Evening
140Henry Street Settlement, chamber music concert, Provintown Playhouse.
141Sadie Phirsichbaum, piano, Steinway Hall.
142New York Chamber Music Society, Hotel Plaza.
143Elise Steele, violin, Guild Theater.
144Robert Baird, song, John Hopkins Theater.
146Monday, December 17
147Afternoon
148American Orchestral Society, Mecca Auditorium.
149Evening
150Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
151Women's University Glee Club, Town Hall.
152Roszi Varady, cello, and Yolanda Mero, pianist, Engineering Auditorium.
154Tuesday, December 18
155Afternoon
156E. H. Sothern, dramatic recital, Town Hall.
157Evening
158Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall.
159New York String Quartet, Town Hall.
160Dorys Le Vene and Kenneth Rose, sonata recital, Steinway Hall.
162Wednesday, December 19
163Morning
164Rhea Silberta, lecture, Hotel Plaza.
165Afternoon
166La Argentina, dance, Town Hall.
167Evening
168League of Composers, Town Hall.
169Mr. Edwin Franko Goldman, music-dramatique, Aeolian Hall.
170Fritz Kreisler, violin, Carnegie Hall.
172Thursday, December 20
173Morning
174Harlem Philharmonic Society, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
175Afternoon
176Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
177Evening
178La Argentina, dance, Town Hall.
180Friday, December 21
181Morning
182Biltmore Morning Musciale, Hotel Biltmore.
183Evening
184David and Clare Mannes, Washington Irving High School.
185Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
186Herman Kosoff, pupils' piano recital, Steinway Hall.
187Monte Huloke Carol Choir, Town Hall.
189Saturday, December 22
190Morning
191Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Children's Concerts, Carnegie Hall.
192Afternoon
193The English Singers, Town Hall.
194Evening
195Solomon Pimslur, composition recital, Engineering Auditorium.
196William College Choir, Town Hall.
198Sunday, December 23
199Afternoon
200Philharmonic-Symphony Society, Carnegie Hall.
201Adel Chorus, Charles Hopkins Theater.
202Lynnwood Farnam, organ, Church of the Holy Communion.
203Evening
204Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, Carnegie Hall.
206Monday, December 24
207Lynnwood Farnam, organ, Church of the Holy Communion.
209Music in the Schools and Colleges
210(Continued from page 33)
211of music. The excellent program was one of the most varied and entertaining of a long series presented by the school musical clubs.
213The special feature of the program was a group of songs in period costumes, by members of the school classes from 1888 to the present time. Even the prospective "Glee Club of 1938" was represented on the stage of the High School. In addition to the special numbers, arranged for this twentieth alumni reunion, the present glee clubs and choral club gave a fine program. There were also instrumental selections by a string ensemble and a brass quartet and solo numbers.
215The Thanksgiving reunion idea was started in 1908 by Miss Bryant, director of music in the schools since 1906. In 1908 the glee club quartet, which graduated in the spring, was invited to come back and sing at the Thanksgiving concert, which it did. One member of this quartet appeared; he was Austin Dunbar, whose high tenor voice was heard four years on the Cornell Glee Club and many more years in choirs and festival choruses. Mr. Dunbar is now a prominent lawyer in Syracuse and has formed the habit of attending Thanksgiving Glee Club reunions, having missed none since 1908.
217The Club of 1918 was represented by John Speed, baritone soloist of St. John's Episcopal Choir, and Clinton Rose, from the Congregational Choir; 1928 by Olaf Brauner, leader of the High School Glee Club last season. Other members of this alumni group were Willard De Camp, former leader of the High School Glee Club; Harold Bush, soloist in 1917; Fred Vaughn, soloist in 1924; John Button, 1920; Harold Sharp, 1918, and William Stocking, 1926. Nine of these singers were former members of the Cornell Glee Club.
219Lexington, Ky.
220Notes
221The University of Kentucky, through its extension department, announces a high school music festival to be held in Lexington, Ky., on April 12 and 13.
222The Annual Music Memory Contest for the State will be held in Frankfort, May 4 next.
223Helen McBride has been elected chairman of the All-Southern Chorus, which will be heard in Nashville, N. C., during the Southern Conference for Music Supervisors, during March 6, 7 and 8. The various committees are busy organizing this chorus. There will also be an orchestra. The chairman of the orchestra committee is Mr. Kutchniski of Winston-Salem, N. C. The chorus will be directed by Will Earnhart, of Pittsburg, Pa., and the orchestra will be directed by J. E. Maddy, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
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