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Musical Courier 1928-12-20: Vol 97 Iss 25, 1928
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1SUMMER MASTER CLASSES TO BE HELD AT CHARLOTTENBURG CASTLE
3German Institute of Music for Foreigners Makes Important Announcement
5An Interview with H. W. Draber
7A DEVELOPMENT of extraordinary interest to American music students has just been announced. It is the founding of the German Institute of Music for Foreigners, which will hold summer master classes at Charlottenburg Castle (Berlin). H. W. Draber, the managing secretary of this newly-founded institute, is at present in America and will remain here for some weeks. This is Mr. Draber's first trip to America, and while here he will embrace the opportunity to become acquainted with American scholastic musical conditions by visiting the principal schools and foundations that have in recent years brought American educational facilities to a par with anything that was ever known in Europe.
9Mr. Draber, in an interview with a representative of the MUSICAL COURIER, said that he would like to have it understood that the Charlottenburg Institute did not intend to enter into competition in any way with American schools. The institute is for the education of foreigners not only from America but from other countries as well, in fact all countries except Germany, and is only intended for those who have completed their musical studies and are fully prepared to receive and absorb the instruction of the eminent teachers who will be at Charlottenburg. It is in every sense of the word a finishing school, and will do many things in addition merely to giving master classes. Mr. Draber said that he would like to call it a clearing house for foreign artists. He said that not only would the institute be prepared at all times to give advice upon all matters concerning music in Germany, but would be glad to be of service in other ways. For instance, some Americans may desire to have a rare musical manuscript looked up in the German which becomes at its best a thing of instinct to be acted upon rather than brought about.
11Pupils who prove themselves to be worthy will have a semi-public appearance in one of the spacious halls of the Charlottenburg Castle, not an appearance like a public recital where tickets are sold, but an invitation recital at which the gentlemen of the press will be honored guests. This will mean press recognition for those who make notable achievement and will undoubtedly lead to recognition outside of the walls of the institute.
13There will also be tours for scholars to various other cities of Germany where music can be heard during the summer and where visits may be made to places of historical interest. The students will also visit some of the various conservatories of Germany and will thus be able to see how matters are conducted there in the scholastic world.
15In May and June there is to be in Berlin a festival of music and drama including opera performances, orchestra concerts, chamber music and performances of plays. There being three opera houses in Berlin, it has been arranged that they will have their summer vacation at different times so that at least one of them will always be open. This will be an enormous advantage to Americans who come from cities where there is no opera, as they will thus have the privilege of hearing performances of the very highest type. There will be Wagner and Mozart Cycles, and concerts and so on, conducted by Bruno Walter, Klemperer and Furtwangler. Of equal interest is the fact that the entire Vienna Opera Company is to pay a visit to Berlin, and concerts will be given by the combined Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, conducted by Furtwangler.
17In the school there will be an orchestra made up of players from the Berlin Philharmonic at the disposal of students of conducting. Difficult passages will be selected and each student of conducting will have a chance to try his hand at these passages with this regular professional orchestra.
19The one branch of music that will not be taught during the summer institute is singing, it being felt by the organizers of the institute that Germany has at the present time nothing of supreme importance to say in that direction. In all other branches of art Germany stands supreme today as it always has, and American students will have the supreme privilege of being brought into personal contact with the best that the native land of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Wagner has to offer.
21La Argentina to Visit Orient
23La Argentina, celebrated Spanish dancer, will bring her American appearances to an end within the next week. She appears at Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening, December 19 and 20. She will also appear in the same auditorium on Wednesday evening, December 26; and on Friday afternoon, December 28, will give her farewell New York recital. She appears in Chicago December 30 and in San Francisco on January 3. On January 4 La Argentina sails for the Orient on the S.S. President Lincoln and will play her first engagement at the Imperial Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, on January 26.
25Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin
26CHARLOTTENBURG CASTLE,
27where the German Institute of Music for Foreigners is to be held.
29Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin
30THE GOLDEN GALLERY,
31in which Frederick the Great held his private concerts before moving to Sans-Souci Castle.
33Trude Fleischmann, Wien
34WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER,
35President of the German Institute of Music for Foreigners
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