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’Appassionata” (Vieuxtemps), for violin, and Mercedita Wagner played “Cabin Song” (White) and “Czardas” (Monti), for violin, with good effect and excellent technic. Julius Koehl, concert pianist, owes his advancement as an artist of high degree to Mrs. Tollefsen. His rendition of Liszt’s “Consolation” and “Hungarian Rhapsody” No. 6 was in a masterful manner. The program ended with a quartet of violins, with piano, “May Pleasures,” finely rendered.
All this talent, excepting Mr. Kefer, who is a member of the Tollefsen trio, has been brought to a fine degree of proficiency by Mr. and Mrs. Tollefsen.
American Institute Activities
The present is an active period in the American Institute of Applied Music, being the culmination of the thirty-sixth season. On June 3, a general recital brought forward seventeen. numbers for piano, voice and violin. The performers were pupils of Misses Close, Marble, Chittenden, Mrs. Zed-ler-Mix, Greene, Mrs. Nellis, Messrs. Raudenbush, Sherman, Tebbs and Baker. Those participating were John Camph, Maria Cavagneo, Aaron Freedman, Muriel Bunnell, Alice Profumo, Elizabeth Gerberich, Nellie Lee Pearce, Doris Brixey, Kathleen Hill, Leon King, Sara Hitchcock, Lillian Rung, Hugh Eustis Paine, Mabel Eklund, Helen Parker Ford, Violet Waring and Fay Jacobs. On May 26 the one hundredth sonata recital was given, a program of works by Corelli, Reger, Mozart and von Weber being heard, rendered by Jean Stockwell, violin; Dorothy Leach, piano; Burnett Corwin Tutthill, clarinet; Louise R. Kep-pel, piano, and Francis Moore, piano. The students’ recital of June 6 brought forward pupils by the teachers named above, including also pupils of Mr. Klibansky and Lotta Madden. Sixteen numbers of vocal, piano and violin music, were performed by the following students: Edna Menefee, Adele Holstein, Lillian Simon, Sydney Shaar, Walter Preston and May Borjes, Frederick H. Hanlon, Clark Vincent Johnson, Louis Schoenborn, Jeannette Dalton, Edna Oster, Esther Adie, Florence Church, Mrs. Eugene Bascho, Martin Schlesinger and Grace Cottrell. This program had on it compositions by leaders in the musical world, past and present; hardly a name of prominence, from Handel to Palmgren, but was on this program. Other recent and also forthcoming events are as follows:
June 12, piano recital by Margaret Spotz; June 19, opening of the summer session; June 19, piano recital.by Francis Moore; June 21, short recital by a member of the Faculty; June 26, piano recital by Samuel Prager.
There will also be recitals every Wednesday at eleven o’clock through June and July.
Lucy Gates Does Not Believe in Hoodoos
That no superstition governs the actions of Lucy Gates is borne out by the fact that she is announcing her second annual New York recital for the date of Friday, October 13. Here is a date at least that no one can forget. It was not
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until this season that Lucy Gates gave her first New York recital at Aeolian Hall. She had sung before that in over 500 concerts throughout this country and Canada; also she had appeared in New York in opera and with the leading orchestras. The success of this recital brought forth high endorsement from the press. The New York Evening Post calls hers the finest voice now upon the stage. With this encouragement Lucy Gates feels that she wishes to make a New York recital an annual event.
Florence Hammon Pupils Heard
The Florence Hammon School of Piano of St. Louis, Mo., presented the intermediate and advanced pupils in a recital at the Artists’ Guild on Monday evening, June S. Miss Hammon is a normal teacher of the Effa Ellis Per-field pedagogical method.
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Severn, Jr., were interested. These included the Spring-field Orchestral Club, founded in 1875; the Symphony Orchestra, which ran seventeen years, from 1903, under the able direction of the violinist-composer, Emil Karl Jan-ser, and the Independent Orchestral Movement, launched by Andrien Cornelissen, which latter was abandoned when the leader went to Buffalo in 1913.
It is interesting to note that the veteran violinist, Lester W. Hardy, successful conductor for several seasons of the first-named orchestral club, heads the viola section of the present band. It is significant that the personnel of the new municipal orchestra includes several soloists of the quality of Mr. Hardy, and that its enrolled membership of sixty-five of the best instrumentalists residing here, by no means includes them all.
The project is being boomed by the Rotary, Kiwanis and other local clubs and plans call for at least three concerts with soloists in the coming season, and is already assured of substantial backing. Mr. Turner, the conductor, has had wide experience, having been for several years director of the Musical Art Society, the Schubert Male Choir (later the MacDowell Male Choir), and the Waterbury Masonic Choir. He is now the organist and choirmaster of Trinity Methodist Church.	E. N. B.
Troy, N. Y.—The musical season in Troy was formally brought to a close with the recital of Mario Cham-lee, tenor, on May 19. The concert made a brilliant climax for the twenty-fifth year of the Chromatic Club concerts in this city and added new laurels to that organization. Music Hall was well crowded and the tenor was given an enthusiastic reception. He sang a well selected program. The other artists who have appeared in Troy this season under the auspices of the Chromatic Club, include Paul Kochanski, violinist; Carolina Lazzari, contralto; the New York Symphony Orchestra, with Walter Damrosch as conductor, and Maier and Pattison, pianists. The artists announced for next season include Erika Morini, violinist; Frieda Hempel, soprano; Myra Hess, pianist, and a return engagement of the New York Symphony.
This is the busy season for pupil recitals from the Emma Willard and Troy Conservatories, also of the private teachers. At the Troy Conservatory, the piano pupils of Margaret Gillies, Anne Mooney, James McLaughlin, Jr., Eva Lewis, Mrs. L. T. Krause, Harriet Link, Clara Stearns, Miss Macdonald and Ruth Hardy, have appeared in recital; also vocal pupils of Charles B. Weikel. Violin students of Clarence Philip and L. T. Krause. At the Emma Willard, pupils of William L. Glover, Mrs. Annie Hagen Buell, Helen Fancher, Teresa Maier and S. Grahame Nob-bes have been presented in recitals.
Among other events of the month was the debut of Agnes L. O’Brien, soprano, at the Y. M. C. A. Hall. She was assisted by Thomas O’Neil, violinist, from Albany, and James McLaughlin, Jr. of Troy. Miss O’Brien is the soprano soloist at St. Joseph’s Church, Troy.
The third concert this season of the Troy Schubert Club Chorus, _ under the direction of Prof. Charles B. Weikel, and assisted by the Charlotte White String Quartet, of Boston, was a huge success. The club is a year old and has developed into a well balanced and attractive association that already has had three creditable public appearances and is planning a course of concerts for next season.
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Zanesville, Ohio—Zanesville is to entertain the annual meeting of the Ohio Music Teachers’ Association and music clubs next May, according to a report made by Mrs. Ora Delpha Lane,^ at a meeting of the City Federation of Clubs. At the joint meeting in Granville, Mrs. Lane was elected first vice-president of the Ohio Music Teachers’ Association, after declining the nomination for the presidency. The clubs will be in session three days and Zanesville will have a rare musical treat. Interesting reports of the central district meeting of the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs at Westerville, were given by Mrs. Graham Bailey, M. B. Ferguson and Mrs. Ora Delpha Lane, with an informal account by the president, Mrs. Byron LaRue. The meeting of the Central District was announced for this city next November.	R. M. C.
Aurora Potter Begins Initial Recital Series
On Monday evening, June 12, Aurora Potter, a gifted young pianist from Oregon, gave the first of a series of recitals by artist pupils of Edwin Hughes which will take place weekly during the summer • session at the Hughes studio. The initial program included the Waldstein sonata of Beethoven, “Faschingsschwank aus Wien” of Schumann, valse, op. 42, nocturne in D flat and ballade in A flat of Chopin, “La Soiree dans Granade” of Debussy, and “Campanella” of Liszt. The pianist gave a very pleasing rendition of the entire program, but displayed particular artistry in tonal effects in the Chopin group.
Tollefsen Senior Students Presented
The senior students of Carl and Augusta Tollefsen gave an artistic recital in the auditorium of the Manual Training High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 1. Anita Palmer, violin; Julius Koehl, piano, and Paul Kefer, cello, rendered very effectively Godard’s trio in F major, and with fine ensemble; Edith Roos played with very good results piano selections by Schubert, MacDowell and Dett; Otto Bender, in his Ries and Vieuxtemps selections produced fine, resonant violin tone. Elizabeth Murphy gave Schumann’s “Papillons” with fine effect and excellent rhythm. Lillie Davidson showed good spirit and interpretative ability in Massenet’s “Meditation” and Sarasate’s “Gypsy Airs” for violin.
Kathryn Makin’s three piano selections enabled her to render effectively the varied styles of treatment required. Mercedita Wagner (violin), Mr. Koehl (piano) and Mr. Kefer (cello) played artistically “Extase” (Ganne) and “Hungarian Dances” (Brahms) in true characteristic style. Young Bernhard Knudsen showed great talent in his violin selections by Beethoven and Francoeur-Kreisler. Isabel Gould rendered with delicacy of touch, good expression and excellent interpretation piano selections by Low, Schumann, Moszkowski and Wagner-Liszt. Anita Palmer entered into the right spirit of interpretation in “Fantasia
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