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The violinist, 1903
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1Among the Players
3The announcement of Maud Powell and Jacques Thibaud for tours early in the season, with possibly Burmester, Mac Millen, Marie Hall and Kreisler later, should dispel any doubt of the brilliancy of fiddle attractions for 1903-4. Compared with these prospects, and more to follow, the past season has not been over-luminous.
5Indiana music teachers assembled at Richmond June 23, 24, 25 and 26. Oddly enough both the violin soloists for the meeting hail from Ohio. Jean A. Parre and Sol Marcossen were selected. The latter gentleman was also heard in a recital at Louisville, Ky.
7The Leggett Quartet, of Lansing, played an admirable program at Adrian, Mich., June 4. Aside from the viola player, William Leggett, all the members are ladies. Florence Birdsall plays 1st violin, Blanche Wheeler, 2nd and Ella Birdsall the cello.
9At Oberlin the commencement exercises and alumni festivities took place June 22nd and 23rd. Representatives from the classes for sixty years past were present. The conservatory quartet and Elizabeth Wilson played the Schumann Quintet.
11The thirty-first National Sangerfast held at St. Louis attracted large audiences; probably 50,000 people visited the city. An orchestra of 200, and 14,000 voices, helped make the event one to be remembered.
13Bernhard Listemann rather surprised the people at Springfield, Ill. who attended his concert there on the 9th of June. His solos, as usual, were very brilliant, by Paganini, Ernst, Bazzini and Hubay.
15A Trombone Choir of fourteen players took a conspicuous part in the Bach Festival held at the old town of Bethlehem, Pa., recently. The choir has been in existence 150 years.
17Miss Josephine Gamble, a young girl of 17 and pupil of Arthur Heft, will go to Europe in the fall to increase her reputation; she already plays with enviable skill and delicacy.
19A "Deforriot concerto" and "Adagio from Reis" are said to have been performed by a violinist at Seattle, tho' some skeptics might doubt it.
21Jan Van Oordt has gone to Holland, where he always passes the summer and visits his old home.
23The Ohio music teachers met in Cleveland the latter part of June and listened to some fine violin playing by Sadie Walker, Charlotte Demuth, Johan E. Beck, Mrs. Gisela L. Weber and Sol Marcossen.
25Kun Arpad is said to be the name of a violinist from Budapest who, with his mother and grandmother, reached these shores last month in quest of our American golden eagle.
27A thirteen year old miss, Josephine Brown, a pupil of L. E. Hersey, played Musin's Mazurka de Concert and Raff's Cavatina at a concert recently given in Bloomington.
29Hermann Zeitz' violin school of Milwaukee came out in a fine program June 19, ending with the Bach Air for G string, played in unison by a dozen pupils.
31Three advanced pupils of the Ed. Schroeder Violin School at Dubuque, Iowa, gave a concert in that city June 8 that called out much praise from the critics.
33Binghamton, N. Y., held a festival the first week in June and among the attractions for the event was the Kaltenborn Quartet.
35Paganini's D Major Concerto was played at the Evanston (Ill.) school of music commencement concert by Earle Waterous.
37Charlotte Demuth and Herbert Butler were the violinists at the Illinois Teachers' meeting the 3rd week in June at Galesburg.
39Mabel Lee, a devotee of the violin at Aberdeen, S.D. who has studied in the east four years, will go to Germany in the fall.
41Herbert Patton has discontinued teaching at the Fort Wayne Indiana Conservatory and has changed his location to Detroit.
43Eugene Gruenberg, violin teacher at the New England Conservatory, is spending his vacation in Genoa, Italy.
45Mildred Kellner, a pupil of Dr. Chas. Baetens played Wieniawski's Legende at a concert June 19 in Omaha.
47Victor Herbert and his orchestra are playing a summer engagement at Willow Grove, Philadelphia.
49Pable Casals, the Spanish cellist, will revisit this country next winter.
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