January 4, 1923
MUSICAL COURIER
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RECEIVED FROM MINNIE HAUK
Brard, Paul Ryman, Mme. Delia Valeri, Mr. and Mrs. G. Viafora, Mr. and Mrs. William Thorner, Mr. and Mrs. Berthold Neuer, Miss Neuer, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bloom, Vera Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Longone, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Schmoeger. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Epstein, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Palmer, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Kraus, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Johnston, Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Quolley, the Misses Lulu and Minnie Breid, Russel Schmitt, Mr. Valeri, Mrs. Helen Fountain, H. W. Dearborn, Mrs. Rosa Scog-namillo, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hemmerich, George Mattuck, Mrs. Mabel Gilroy. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Lyons and Miss Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morris, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Brill, Dr. and Mrs. Louis Fischer and S. D. Stam.
Nada Reisenberg to Give Recital
Nada Reisenberg, the young Russian pianist who won such instantaneous success at her debut on December 16 with the City Symphony Orchestra, is giving a piano recital at Town Hall on January 6. On January 7 she will commence a week’s engagement as a soloist at the Capitol Theater. For the past year Miss Reisenberg has been studying with Alexander Lambert.
Art Society of Pittsburgh Concert
The Art Society of Pittsburgh, Mrs. George Wilson, manager, has arranged an interesting program for its next concert, on January 5. Mildred Faas, soprano; Mabelle Addison, contralto; Bernard Poland, tenor, and Helffenstein Mason, basso, will be heard in Liza Lehmann’s In a Persian Garden, under the direction of Henry Lukens. These artists also will participate in the remainder of the program.
Buffalo Welcomes Gallo
(By Telegram.)
December 27, 1922.
Buffalo Welcomes Gallo’s San Carlo Favorites in holiday week of grand opera. Excellent productions. Large audiences. Great enthusiasm.	(Signed) L. H. M.
Unclaimed Letter
A letter addressed to Mrs. Grace Anderson is being held for claimant at the Musical Courier office, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York. Any information tending to place it in the proper hands will be appreciated.
Two Dates for Kindler
Hans Kindler will be heard in Philadelphia on January 8 and iii Chambersburg, Pa., on January 9.
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MINNIE HAUK AND HER HOME.
Minnie Hank, Baroness de Wartegg, born in New York on November 16. 1852, sends New )'ear's greetings to the Musical Courier from her home, Wartegg, at Tribschen near Lucerne, the same place where Richard Wagner spent the Wesendonck hours of his life. Mme. Hank־׳ made her debut in Brooklyn as Amina in Sound mb ula on October 18, 1866. and for more than twenty years thereafter was one of the world's foremost singers, both in concert and in opera, more particularly in the latter. She was the first American Carmen, the first ■Juliette here and the first Motion. The photograph shows her as Carmen, which she sang both in London and here in the C nite.fi¡ States during the years 1878-79-80. Her last American concert appearance is said to have been at the Brooklyn Academy in the late 80s or early 90s. singing with the Thomas Orchestra, conducted by C. Mortimer Wiske, who is still active as leader of the annual Newark festivals. She married Baron Hesse-Wartegg in 1881 and retired in 1896, living in Switzerland ever since. Mme. Hank is one of the few. mortals who have had the privilege of reading their own obituaries. Her death in Munich was falsely reported in 1912. The war brought her into severe financial straits in her old age, but about two years ago a large sum was raised in America among her old friends and admirers, sufficient to make her declining years comfortable.
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THE MUSICAL ASPECTS OF THE
COMMUNITY MUSIC MOVEMENT
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these companies and of the player-piano roll companies are already conscious that their scope is no longer to be restricted to the schools and the children, but is going on to include the homes and the adults. America as a whole has started to take instruction in music. Eventually the world may go to school to us for music appreciation.
Summarizing the effects, then, of the community music movement, we may say that there are values in it for the musician as well as for many other groups who are carefully scrutinizing it. The sociologist sees in it not only an invaluable leisure time activity, but an agency for the creation of good will during the hours of labor which will help in unifying the nation; the educator finds in it an aid to discipline and the building up of an esprit de corps whether in school, or in workshop, or on the battle field; the entertainer finds in it a never failing universal appeal of great profit; heads of hospitals and correctional institutions hail it as a new and as yet slightly known therapeutic agency; the physical training expert uses it as an aid in a large proportion of his activities; the religious leader, who, in his congregational singing has one of the oldest and most firmly established branches of community music, places it beside the spoken word as a means of reenforcing religious instruction. Catering to all these is that vast body of professional musicians, greater in number than the lawyers or the doctors or the ministers, and probably even greater 1 than the teachers in the schools, who find in music their livlihood. All of these classes and others which I have not mentioned might find in the community music movement sufficient reason for acclaiming and encouraging it even if the musician should say that it is doing nothing to further the cause of good music in our country. But if the contentions in this paper are well founded, the musician, too, however severe his standards, however exacting his requirements, however punctilious regarding the prerogatives of his art, may greet the community music as an ultimate ally to his fondest dreams because it is today interesting more people than ever before in music, because it is interesting more people than ever before in better music, because it is gradually raising the standard of material for general performance and for listening, and because beside finding today for this nation, long dumb, a voice frequently raucous and even discordant, but always filled with the first essential of permanent art, a vibrant note of reality, it is also laying the foundation for an intelligent, loving participation in music in the years to come such as the world has never witnessed before.
R. E. Johnston Has New Year Reception
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Johnston gave an old-fashioned New Year reception, being at home to many friends at 505 West End avenue, from 4:00 to 7:00. Their guests included many stars of the opera and concert stages and others from artistic and social circles. Among those present were:	Mr. and
Mrs. Beniamino Gigli, Mr. and Mrs. Giuseppe De Luca. John Charles Thomas, Anna Fitziu. Erwin Nyiregyhazi, Clara Deeks, Suzanne Keener. Helen Hobson, Magdeleine
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