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The violinist, 1903
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1More About the Players
3Steacy Holmes is to be congratulated upon the success of the second concert, June 9, given by the Student's Orchestra at the Ohio Mechanics Institute, Cincinnati. The Institute String Quartet also took part, playing Schubert's E flat Quartet. The program was an unusually good one, and according to reports well played. The orchestra numbers were Handel's Largo, March from Raff's Lenore Symphony, Bach's A minor Bourre, Grieg's 1st Peer Gynt Suite and Schubert's B minor Symphony, all performed by fifty students in the mechanical arts.
5A violiniste pupil of Heinrich Hoevel, Hilga Jensen, played the Svendsen Romance and Sarasate's Z——— at a Minneapolis concert June 23 and altho' the Spainard's favorite composition is being worked over-time and begins to look frazzled and frayed along the edges, Miss Jensen is said to have made a great hit, which is quite what is to be expected from a pupil of Heinrich Hoevel.
7A Stradivarius violin belonging to a gentleman in Ohio has been rented by Otto Meyer, of LaPorte Indiana, who intends to take the instrument with him to Germany, where he will study, in the fall. The rental is $200 a year and a bond of $8000 was given by relatives of young Meyer, guaranteeing its return in good condition to the owner.
9Iowa music teachers met at Ottumwa four days in the latter part of June. The violinists heard in solos and chamber works were Rachel Steinman, Arthur Heft, Henry G. Cox, Willard Steiner, Alvin C. Armour, W. R. Colton and Alfred Manger; also the cellist, Wendell H. Heighton.
11The Indianapolis Conservatory closing recitals took place the last week in June. Sue Derexa Smith's playing of Scene de Ballet was an indication of the good work done in the violin department, according to reports of two subscribers in that city.
13Theodore F. Meier, the newly elected professor of music at Ripon (Wis.) College, was at one time a pupil of the late S. E. Jacobsohn and for the past three years has studied with Edmund Singer at the Stuttgart Conservatory.
15Graduation exercises at one of the public schools of Milwaukee included three violin solos, played by Geo. Nolton; Leonard's "Souvenir de Hyden" and pieces by Spohr and Lotto.
17Ella A. Toenjes played Vieuxtemp's Ballade and Polonaise at the Sioux City, Iowa, conservatory of music graduating concert, June 16.
19Read books on music and art this summer.
21A Common Complaint
23The following letter is addressed to readers of The Violinist by the well known teacher, R. S. Chandler, of New York:
25Has it ever happened to you that after giving several lessons you find that your own powers over the violin have mysteriously vanished?
27For many year I have been a victim of some odd law of nature that causes my own violin playing to be disagreeable to me for an hour or so after giving lessons; more particularly my tone is bad; though I will also, just as likely as not, make almost any technical mistake that I have corrected a pupil for.
29I presume the explanation of this annoyance is that my hearing faculty has been temporarily damaged by listening to the bad intonations made by pupils, yet even in case the pupils have been good ones, advanced players, the result on me is almost the same. This must be caused by the loss of magnetism. Upon inquiry I have found that other teachers are troubled the same way, without having given it much thought, as I have. As it must be violinists who would notice this changeableness in tone after teaching, I would like to hear what other readers of your excellent and valuable journal have to say.
31R. S. Chandler.
33Foreign Items of Interest
35Fritz Kreisler recitals are still all the rage in old London town.
37E. Rappoldi, the Dresden violinist and pupil of Bohm, is dead, aged 64.
39Hugo Kaun, formerly of Milwaukee, enjoyed the distinction of having one of his compositions, a quintet for piano and strings, performed in Berlin a few weeks ago. Carl Halir and Dechert were the eminent musicians who interpreted the first violin and cello parts.
41The new "festhalle" at Mannheim, with a seating capacity of nearly 15,000, has been dedicated by a grand festival, under the direction of Felix Mottl. At one end of the hall is a stage and at the other end a concert platform. By a simple contrivance the seats can be turned either way.
43The Moscow Trio celebrated its tenth anniversary by giving a grand concert. Messrs. Krein, (violin) Ehrlich (cello) and Shor (piano), during that period have played chamber works by all the old and modern masters, Beethoven leading off with 31 performances. Bach is second, with 19, and then come Haydn, 17; Mozart, 15; Handel, 24: Schubert, 12; Mendelssohn, 12; Schumann, 11; Rubinstein, 8; Scarlatti, 7; Tschaikowsky, 7.
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