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appearances next season. This will make seven similar engagements with Mr. Damrosch in Wagnerian roles in two seasons. Judson House and Mr. Patton will sing “Samson and Delilah” with Matzenauer at the Asheville Festival, North Carolina, August 8. Irene Williams will appear in two engagements at the same festival on August 11. Della Samoloff, a Russian dramatic soprano, and a new rising young artist under Miss Gescheidt’s instruction, has been engaged as soloist with Creatore’s Band for this summer’s tour. Miss Samoloff is to give a joint recital with Juan Rese, the renowned Chilean pianist, at a radio concert on Bedloe’s Island, June 24.
Meehan Baby Baptized in Rome, Italy
The baptism of the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Meehan took place recently in Rome, Italy. Mr. Meehan was the famous boy soprano who sang for five years in St. George’s Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York City. His wife was the Countess de Boulanque and he is said to be the only American man known to have married into the higher Italian nobility, and also the only American man to be married in the Vatican. The baby received the name of Giulia Frances Kathrine. Baroness Romeo della Terrazze, lady in waiting to Queen Elena, is the godmother; Frederick Meehan, the godfather, whose proxy was the Reverend Father O’Neill, rector of the church. The ceremony was performed by Father Passocco of the Church of Santa Carmillo.
Mr. Meehan was the former director of the Administration of the Red Cross.
Lusk a Newark Radio Favorite
When Milan Lusk, the Czecho-Slovak violinist, played at the radio station in Newark, N. J., on June 2, he gained for himself no small number of admirers. His success was pronounced, judging by the many letters he received after the performance from his “invisible audience.” One of these letters was from Mr. Popence, musical director of the W J Z station, who wrote : “We have had numerous telephone calls concerning your music and feel that you must have made a tremendous impression on the listening public. Among the selections rendered by the violinist were: “Bohemian Fantasy,” by Smetana; “Liebesfreud,” Kreisler, and “Souvenir Poétique,” by Fibich. Mme. L. V. Wetche accompanied sympathetically.
A Busy Two Years for Henrietta Wakefield
Henrietta Wakefield, contralto, has gone to Cincinnati, together with her husband, Greek Evans, baritone, for a ten weeks’ engagement with the outdoor opera company there. This month (June) Miss Wakefield completed a tour with the Scotti Grand Opera Company, with which organization she has just signed a contract for the next two years. She has also been re-engaged for two more years at the Metropolitan. During 1922-23 and 1923-24 this energetic artist will have forty-seven weeks of engagements each year.
Mr. and Mrs. Huss to Teach at Diamond Point
At Diamond Point, on Lake George, in their studio on the mountainside, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holden Huss will teach a limited number of advanced piano and vocal students and teachers for six weeks, beginning July 17. Motoring, swimming, boating, golf country club, and a free library of 6,000 books nearby are a few of the attractions offered.
Music at Pennsylvania State Normal School
Much interest is being manifested in the summer session for supervisors of music at the State Normal School, West Chester, Pa., of which Hollis Dann is the director. Attractive concerts by well known artists have been arranged, as well as a choral concert by the students.
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Changes in Ithaca Conservatory Faculty
Ithaca. N. Y., June 21.—Twenty-five new teachers will be added to the instruction staff at the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Associated Schools for the new regular term opening on September 19, according to an announcement made by General Manager George C. Williams of the personnel of the faculty for 19221923־. Two new chools will be added, the Chautauqua and Lyceum Arts School and the Conway Military Band School. Dr. Edward Amherst Ott comes to Ithaca to be dean of the new Chautauqua and Lyceum Arts School. He was formerly a teacher at Hiram College and Drake University, president of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association, and has been prominently identified with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau for twenty-four years.
Patrick Conway, who will be the dean of the new Conway Military Band School, needs no introduction to lovers of band music As the organizer of the original Ithaca Band, which later developed into the famous Conway’s Band, he has become one of the most prominent of bandmasters. He was a captain in the late world war, being director of all musical activities for the air service. In addition to residing here permanently Mr. Conway will have associated with him on his faculty some of his foremost instrumental musicians.
The piano department of the conservatory will have three new teachers. The most prominent of these will be Jaromir Weinbreger, who will be director of the theoretical department. He has also attained considerable success as a director of a number of leading orchestras abroad. His principal work here will be in harmony and musical composition, and he will also teach piano. Mr. Weinberger will arrive in Ithaca from abroad about September 1. He is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory.
Another addition to the piano department faculty will be Walter Flandorf. He had his early musical instruction in Berlin and studied with Prof. Leon Sampaix until the latter came to the Ithaca Conservatory in 1914. For the past two years he has been teaching in Indianapolis, where at the same time he has been director of large orchestras. He is also a very able organist.
Edith Kimple, of this city, who completed the postgraduate course this year, will be an assistant teacher in the piano department.
To the vocal department the Ithaca Conservatory will bring Bert R. Lyon, who has studied in France with the eminent French master, Jacques Bouhy; in London with William Shakespeare, one of the best known English vocal teachers, and also with Herbert Witherspoon. He will come here as one of Mr. Witherspoon’s assistants.
A new member of the vocal department faculty will also be Louise Case, who has studied with Frank Ormsby, Harold Butler and Leila Robson, of the Metropolitan Opera Company. For three years she has been a personal pupil of Mr. Witherspoon, and will likewise be his assistant here. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and her home is at Interlaken. For the past year she has been teaching at Wilmington, N. C.
To the violin faculty will be added Frances Ella Yontz, of this city. Miss Yontz will be an assistant teacher. She has studied extensively in Berlin and won the Otokar Sev-cik master violin scholarship. at the Ithaca Conservatory last year.
Helen Casey will join the faculty of the Williams School of Expression. She is a graduate of New Rochelle College and the Dalcroze School of Eurhythmies, and also did special work at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. At present she is teaching at Wilmington, Del., and will specialize in the school of expression in diction, phonetics and eurhythmies.
Dr. K. M. Dallenbach, professor of psychology at Cornell University, will teach that subject also at the conservatory. Herbert Witherspoon will again teach in the vocal department, beginning with the new term. He will come to Ithaca on the first Saturday of each month.
In the Chautauqua and Lyceum Arts School there will be associated with Dr. Ott, as visiting teachers, Ross Crane, former director of the Art Extension Division of the Art Institute of Chicago; Glenn Frank, editor of the Century Magazine; Alton Packard, well known cartoonist, with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau; John Ratto, character studies, now artist with Redpath Lyceum Bureau, and Honoré Willsie, author.
Patrick Conway will bring the following musicians here to be. associated with him on the faculty of the Conway Military Band School: S. Evanson (clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Joseph La Monica (flute, soloist with Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra), Pedro Lozano (brass instruments, soloist with Conway’s Band), Ernest F. Pechin (ebrnet, soloist with Conway’s Band), Frank Seltzer (cornet, trumpet, soloist with Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra), Cardell Simons (trombone, soloist with Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra), and George Allen (percussion instruments, member of Conway’s Band and an Ithacan).
With but two exceptions, the remainder of the present faculty of the Conservatory Schools will be intact for the ensuing school year of 1922-23. The short summer school term, it is announced, will begin on Monday, July 3.
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Gescheidt’s Pupils’ Interesting Plans
Adelaide Gescheidt is closing the most active and successful year of her vocal teaching. By the end of June she will have given 3,500 lessons, the usual number she accounts for each season. She has also established a teaching center in Philadelphia this season as an extra activity to her organization. She will leave soon for Europe for diversion as well as an important professional engagement, and will be gone for two months. She will visit France, Italy, Germany and England, and will return late in August, reopening her New York studios September 4. The recent presentation of new representative singers from her studios in a song recital in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Plaza was a distinct success.
The important engagements of some of her artists before the public prove the merits of her teaching. Irene Williams and Judson House, besides their concert and oratorio activities for next season, have been engaged by William Wade Hinshaw for the principal roles in the opera “Cosi Fan Tutte” (Mozart) for the tour of 1922-1923. Fred Patton, who has sung at eight festivals this season, has been re-engaged by Walter Damrosch for two orchestral
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