MUSICAL COURIER
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June 15, 1922
and Couperin. Critics regard him as a violinist of unusual promise.
Another musical prodigy, Ruth Yalowich, nine-year-old piano pupil of Charlotte Gregg, played an exhausting program with the assurance of a mature artist. Her program included Bach’s “Partita” in B flat, the Haydn sonata in E flat, and works by Chopin, Grieg, Schubert, Liszt and Mozart. She was assisted by Mrs. Charles Hooker, contralto. The recital was in Genesee Valley Hall.
The Rochester Mannerchor gave its sixty-eighth annual concert on May 9 in Masonic Temple, under direction of F. Eugene Bonn, and assisted by Catherine Hofschneider, contralto, and Max Tour, violinist. This organization is one of the oldest male choruses in Rochester and has stood for a consistently high level of musical achievement. For many years it was conducted by Prof. Louis Jacobsen.
On the same evening the Glee Club of the Catholic Women’s Club gave a musicale in the Genesee Valley Hall, under direction of Guy Frazier Harrison. The assisting soloist was Raymond Wilson, pianist, of the Eastman School.
The Students’ Club of the Tuesday Musicale gave a concert on May 18 in the Genesee Valley Club. Margaret Hartman, Florence Reynolds, Sylvia Lipsky, Catherine Bodler, Mrs. Charles J. Gerling, Ruth Berman, Dorothy McHaie, Norman Prince, Lena Lisser, Florence Sweet, Helen Marsh Rowe, Betty Rosner and Jerome Diamond taking part.
Pupils of Mrs. George M. Cooper, Lucy Lee Call, Adelin Fermin, Samuel Belov and Gerald Maas, of the Eastman School, gave a recital on May 23. Those taking part were Florence Alexander, Helen Day, Dorothy Spitzmesser, Wilton Clute, Herbert Krahmer, Lela Ally Fish.
On May 31 pupils of Raymond Wilson, Mrs. George M. Cooper, Gerald Kunz, Gerald Maas and Edgar J. Rose gave a recital. They were Katherine Allen, William Carmen, Philip Van Tassel, Stanley Pietrzak, Veryl Toates and Evelyn East.
Recitals have been given recently by pupils of Annie Parsons, Jane Templeton and Carrie Holyland.
At a recent meeting of the Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the following officers were elected: Dean, Arthur G. Young, organist and choir director of Christ Episcopal Church; sub-dean, Guy Frazier Harrison; secretary, Alice C. Wysard; treasurer, Gertrude Miller; registrar, Ruth Sullivan.	H. W. S.
Spokane Items
Spokane, Wash.—The Spokane Daily Chronicle has installed a Radio Broadcasting Station. On May 10, Emil Eyer, tenor, sang five songs for the opening concert, assisted by George Greenwood at the piano. His voice carried well, his enunciation was distinct and he sang with commendable charm; the weather conditions were ideal for this initial concert, the waves were caught within a radius of two hundred miles; calls came in for special numbers.
Whitehead’s fifteen piece orchestra will give Thursday night radio concerts, both popular and classical programs. So far, the radio-craze has become quite contagious in the Spokane and inland empire.	D. B. K.
the people. It has become a link to bind together nations because it is a world language understood wherever civilization has gained a foothold. And I am sure it is deep appreciation of this truth which has prompted the creation of the Eastman School of Music.
“It is not an everyday happening that an individual builds a temple such as this that musical understanding may be cultivated. Honor to the man who has done this. The importance of his deed stretches far beyond the bounds of Rochester. That I have had a chance to lay one stone of service in this foundation year will always remain a source of joy to me.”
The musical program of Mr. Sinding’s compositions included a “Fatum” piano variation, played by Virginia O’Brien; “Albumblatt,” for violin, by Alfred Perrot; “Serenade” and “Caprice” for piano, by Ruth Northrup; “Danse Orientale” and “A la Menuetto” for piano, by Marie Erhart; “Romance” for violin, by Hazel Dossenbach, and four lyrics, “Maria Gnadenmutter,” “Cradle Song,” “Amber,” and “There Cried a Bird,” sung by Irene Fermin.
The last concert in the first series of subscription events in Kilbourn Hall was given on April 28 by Raymond Wilson, pianist, and Gerald Maas, cellist, of the Eastman School faculty, playing Strauss’ sonata, op. 6, for piano and cello, and each was heard in solo groups. In the second series, which was made necessary by the over-subscription of the first, a program was given on May 12 by Gerald Kunz, violinist; Lucile Johnson, harpist, and Samuel Belov, viola, with Guy Frazier Harrison at the piano. Mr. Kunz and Mr. Belov are members of the Kilbourn Quartet.
This series closed on May 19 with Arthur Alexander, head of the voice department of the school, in a self accompanied song recital. A song cycle, “Eiland,” by Von Fied-litz, was his most pretentious number. His remarkably fluent accompaniments, played without notes, added to the artistic excellence of the recital, which roused a large audience to unstinted applause.
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On May 22 Jessica Requa Cole, contralto, and Donald R. Cole, baritone, pupils of Charles F. Boylan, gave a successful recital before an overflowing audience. Both are well known Rochester singers. Their program included operatic arias, songs and a duet. The accompanist was Lorimer Eshleman.
Ralph D. Scobell, also a pupil of Mr. Boylan, and Harold Wollenhaupt, baritone, a pupil of Jane Templeton, gave a joint recital on June 1 that was one of the most popular nonprofessional events of the season. Mr. Scobell sang a program that showed all the colors of his voice and art. Mr. Wollenhaupt, who is only eighteen years old, is regarded as a singer of remarkable promise. His program, too, covered a variety of styles. Frederick Lee was the accompanist.
.David Cheskin, a sixteen-year-old Rochester violinist, amazed an audience with his playing in Convention Hall on May 23. The lad has been studying under Arthur Pye and is ambitious to complete his education abroad. The concert was to raise funds to defray his expenses. His program included a Handel sonata, the Saint-Saëns Introduction and “Rondo Capriccioso,” and short pieces by Kreisler, Brahms
EASTMAN SCHOOL, ROCHESTER,
TO HAVE SUMMER SESSION
Farewell Concert in Honor of Christian Sinding—Notes About the City
Rochester, N. Y., June 3, 1922.—The Eastman School of Music summer course will begin on June 26 and close July 29, paralleling the summer school at the University of Rochester, of which the Eastman School is a part. Classes have been scheduled so as to avoid conflict.
The course for public school teachers has been carefully arranged and gives the applicants work of the most practical value. Classes in public school methods will meet every morning at 11:30 o’clock (teaching the development of a child from kindergarten to maturity. Owing to the extensive nature of this subject, the summer work will proceed only as far as the seventh grade.
Elementary harmony to high school work will also be taught. Emphasis will be laid on ear training, and students will write and harmonize original melodies, and dictation and sight reading will be given attention.
Appreciation of music will be a third course. This will be similar to that conducted for the teachers of Rochester schools by George Barlow Penny at the University of Rochester for the last several years.
Three courses will be offered public school teachers of instrumental music. Musical instruments, purchased by George Eastman, have been placed in all the schools of the city for school children to cultivate their talents. The work of instruction, supervised by■ Jay W. Fay for the Board of Education, has resulted in the formation of many bands and orchestras. Mr. Fay will conduct the summer work in this department, offering a course in methods of organization and conducting, one for teachers of stringed and woodwind instruments.
Private lessons in piano, voice, violin, organ and harp will also be included in the summer work, for which a large faculty will be available. Practice rooms will be at the service of all pupils.
Eastman School of Music Notes.
Evidence of the esteem for Christian Sinding, head of the department of composition of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, was furnished at a special recital and ceremony in Kilbourn Hall on May 26. A large audience of invited guests gathered to pay honor to the distinguished composer. Mr. Sinding returns to his native Norway, after six months at the Eastman School. A program of his own compositions was played by advanced students of the school, and he afterwards presented his sentiments in an address, written by him in Swedish. A translation was read by Dr. Rush Rhees, president of the University of Rochester.
A bronze plaque of Mr. Sinding was presented to the school by Eleanor Bryan, president of the Students’ Association, which was accepted by Dr. Rhees for the school.
Mr. Sinding said that: “Music is not now thought of as a plaything in the hands of stupid princelings. It has won its way back to a place of importance in the lives of all
CLARA
NOVELLO
DAVIES
Vocal Authority
Distinguished
ANNOUNCES THE REOPENING OF HER NEW YORK STUDIOS SEPTEMBER 15
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of July and August, Mme. Davies
During the months will devote her time between teaching in London and conducting concerts in England and Wales.
Address NEW YORK STUDIO: 15 West 67th Street, New York
Phone : Columbus 4852