March 23, 1922
He is strongly in favor of two years’ experience in the opera companies of Europe as a beginning of the career.
Mr. Brady’s career as a master of the voice has been one of• extraordinary success, and a significant fact is that his material and artistic achievements are based on genuine merit. A brilliant array of young artists, such as Carolina Lazzari, Marcella Craft, Dorothy Jardon, Grace Wagner, Anne Roselle, Kathryn Meisle, John Steel, Miriam Arbine,
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Jenny Schwarz-Linder, Kate Condon and others, testify as to Mr. Brady’s ability as a teacher and his untiring efforts in their behalf for a successful career. These have won fame with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Chicago Opera Association, and national reputations as concert artists.
A master class will also be conducted by Jacques Gordon, violin virtuoso, now concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The position of concertmaster was offered to Mr. Gordon by Mr. Stock, the conductor, last summer after an exhaustive scrutiny of the available violinistic material in this country and Europe. The wisdom of this choice has been more than justified. Mr. Gordon’s work has won the unanimous and enthusiastic approval of the musical public and the press.
Wilhelm Middelschulte, considered by critics as one of the leading _ organists in this country, will also hold a master class this summer at the conservatory.
The department of Public School Music has been making rapid strides in recent years, and in order to afford the utmost possibilities for study in that direction for students and teachers during the summer months, the conservatory engaged the services of George H. Gartlan, director n" music in the public schools of New York City, well known writer and lecturer, to conduct special courses for postgraduates, in addition to the intensive regular courses offered.
cores. John Doane played splendid accompaniments and at the close of the concert shared the applause with Miss Arden.
Sylva Chooses Cadman Song
Margarita Sylva, well known singer now filling concert engagements, has turned her attention to Cadman’s songs and has approved especially for her season’s work “In Paradise” a particularly melodious and appealing number, and “The Fount of Bimini,” from the cycle “Birds of Flame.”
Chamber Music Art Society at Town Hall
The Chamber Music Art Society of New York will give a concert at the Town Hall on Monday evening, March 27. The program includes the Schubert octet, op. 166.
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Elmira — “Beautiful voice, admirably controlled.” .
Easton — “Coloratura was true, nice sense of variety.”
Detroit—“Technically beyond reproach.”
Shamokin—“Voice of rare quality. High notes reminded one of. Galli-Curci.”
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Recital at the Seymour School
A Grieg evening was given at the Seymour School of Musical Re-education, on March 7, by John Grolle, violin; France Woodmansee, piano, and Marshall Bartholomew, tenor, for the benefit of the Seymour School Scholarship Fund. The sonata in F major was given a sterling performance by Mr. Grolle and Mr. Woodmansee; a number of piano pieces were splendidly played by Mr. Woodmansee, and Mr. Bartholomew gave excellent interpretations of eight of the songs. It was an evening of the keenest enjoyment for the large number of friends and admirers of the school who were present. At the end of the program Mrs. Seymour spoke briefly upon the objects of the scholarship, telling how often those with the greatest gifts had the least money with which to educate them. She related some touching incidents of students suffering from all sorts of privations in order to get their schooling, and said the Seymour School had long ago determined to relieve that condition as far as possible; hence the scholarship fund.
Tour for Kerns, Van der Veer, House, Patton
A tour of the Maritime Provinces has been booked for tlie quartet composed of the well known singers, Grace Kerns, soprano; Nevada Van der Veer, contralto; Judson House, tenor, and Fred Patton, baritone. Mr. Patton is to appear in recital at Sackville, New Brunswick, April 19; Mr. House will give a concert at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, April 20, and Mr. House and Mr. Patton will sing Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” at Sydney, Nova Scotia, April 21. The full quartet will appear at the Halifax Music Festival for three_ days, commencing April 24, Handel’s “Messiah,” the Verdi “Requiem” and a miscellaneous concert program being given on the respective days. From the Halifax Festival the quartet will go to the Truro Festival on April 27, where Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” will be sung, and on the following day Nevada Van der Veer and Fred Patton give a joint recital at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the quartet starting on the return journey to New York thereafter via Boston.
Cecil Arden Closes Maplewood Series
On February 20 Cecil Arden of the Metropolitan Opera Company gave the last recital of the series of concerts of the Women’s Club of Maplewood, N. J., scoring a gratifying success. Her program was delightfully chosen, ranging from “Deh Vieni non tardar,” which was done with a clarity and beauty of tone and style which one seldom hears from a mezzo, to some seldom heard folk songs of Ireland arranged by William Arms Fischer. The aria from “Herodiade” was given with a breadth and fire seldom heard in so young a singer. Other numbers of Deems Taylor, Hadley, Homer, Buzzi-Peccia, brought many en-
Announcement by the American Conservatory, of the master classes of Josef Lhevinne, William S. Brady, George H. Gartlan, ״Jacques Gordon and Wilhelm Middelschulte, to be held this coming summer, has attracted much attention among professional musicians and advanced students all over this country.
It has only been during the last few years that the possibilities of summer master classes conducted by the foremost teachers of the world have been fully realized and developed. The advanced student and teacher can now obtain the privilege of further perfecting himself in his art by joining one of these master classes during the summer months. An artist like Lhevinne is unable to find the time to do any teaching during the winter season, as he is booked solidly through the season for concert tours. Similarly, many of those who desire to have the opportunity of studying with him, the professional musician and music teacher who are busy with their classes during the school year, are able to study only during the summer and are only too glad to take advantage of the summer master class to obtain new inspiration, new ideas and additional prestige in their work.
This summer will mark Josef Lhevinne’s third season at the conservatory, and judging from past seasons, it should prove another overwhelming success. Lhevinne is one of the few great virtuosos who are great pedagogues as well. For years his studio in Berlin attracted the greatest talents from all over Europe and America. Always having been a tremendous student himself, Lhevinne is able to impart to his pupils a wealth of the invaluable results of his years of experience and also the principles and traditions of his own instructors, principally the great Rubinstein. Mr. Lhevinne’s ideas on technic are especially interesting, including such expressions as "Finding the bottom of the keys,” “BaL ance of muscles,” "Value of firm fingers,” etc.
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In addition to a large class of students who engage private instruction, Mr. Lhevinne will conduct four repertory classes each week of two and one-half hours in length. These classes are made up of eight playing members and forty or fifty auditors.
At these sessions each player performs in turn a standard work and receives criticism from the master, who illustrates his ideas on how the composition should be performed at a second piano.
The conservatory was most fortunate in securing the consent of William S. Brady, of New York City, to hold a master class in Chicago this summer. Mr. Brady has an extremely busy studio in the metropolis. The unusual success of his pupils and his fame as a teacher are constantly attracting
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to his studio the most prominent vocal students and professionals, who soon realize that Mr. Brady has much to offer that some other teachers have not.
It is not only the purpose of Mr. Brady’s work to prepare his students for his or her professional career, but to advise and assist in a most practical way. He is a strong believer in the ability of young American singers to succeed in opera or concert work. When the student is sufficiently prepared for an operatic career, Mr. Brady, through his various connections, arranges for him to have experience in a European opera company, generally Italy or Germany.