49 M TT C 1 r A T r n 77 7? 7 F R Camp Fire Girls, and Ernest. Schelling will finish the month with his second of concerto afternoons in Town Hall on January 30. More Herbertana (Continued from page 8) the same profession. The boy, who enlisted as an engineer during the war and received a commission, is married and living in Chicago where he sells bonds. The daughter is in New York with her father whom she serves as secretary. “Yes, she plays the piano with great style,” said her parent, "but you should hear, her rattle on the typewriter!” She is constantly after her father to begin his biography. What a book, rich in memories, it would be! But how can a man write a biography who conducts here tonight, there tomorrow night, and spends every breathing moment—when he isn’t eating or sleeping—in writing, writing, writing. Some one, statistically inclined, should figure out how many times around the world the Herbert MSS. would go when placed end to end! Golibart Filling Many Engagements Victor Golibart, American tenor, was engaged, immediately after his success in his Washington recital of November 16, to sing with the Washington Choral Society at its Christmas concert, December 18, when The Messiah was given. December 19 he sang two groups of French songs at the opening of the French Theater in Washington, under the direction of Mme. Benedict, and on December 22 at Cassey Hall, in a benefit for the Knights of Columbus. Moore and Parkhurst in Musique Intime Francis Moore, pianist, was the soloist at the Tuesday afternoon, December 26, recital at Sherryls, under the management of Katharine McNeal. He played an interesting program of Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Cyril Scott, Palmgren and Liszt numbers. On Thursday, December 28, Adele Parkhurst, soprano, gave the musical program at the same place. Cleveland Orchestra Here January 23. The Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor, will give its next New York concert at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening, January 23. The program will include the Rachmaninoff symphony No. 2, Loeffler’s Dramatic Poem, La Mort al Tintagiles, and Strauss’ symphonic poem, Don Juan. NYIREGYHAZI (Pronounced NEAR-ECH-HAHZI) “Highly imaginative artist with creative genius.”—Boston Globe. Management: R. E. JOHNSTON Associates: L. G. BREID and PAUL LONGONE 1451 Broadway, New York City Gottlow’s Aeolian Hall Recital, January 19. Augusta Cottlow is leaving for a short tour early in the new year, returning for her recital in Aeolian Hall on January 19, for which she has prepared an unusually interesting program. The principal numbers will be Beethoven’s sonata, op. Ill; MacDowell’s Norse sonata, Chopin ballade No. 4, and the Liszt Mephisto waltz. Shortly after the New AUGUSTA COTTLOW York recital Miss Cottlow leaves for an extended tour of the South and Middle West, which includes several return engagements, and an appearance with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. January Busy For Mayer Artists in New York. During the month of January no less than eight concerts will be given by Daniel Mayer artists in New York City. Elena Gerhardt will start the schedule with a recital in Carnegie Hall on January 16. The same week, Erna Rubinstein will appear in the same hall, on January 19. Schelling will start a series of three afternoons of piano concertos at Town Hall on January 23. Levitzki will give his last recital of the season in Carnegie Hall on January 24. Guy Maier and Lee Pattison will make their only appearance of the season in a two-piano redtal at Aeolian Hall on January 26. In addition, Ruth 5t. Denis, Ted Shawn and their company will give a program of dances at the Plaza Hotel on January 16 for the benefit of the Last year the East High units played forty-nine times in public, eighteen times in and thirty-one times out of school, it is these more mature orchestras and bands that play most often in public where musical excellence is desirable. Beyond either Senior High School there is a large festival orchestra and a band which have special rehearsals on occasions to prepare for public appearances. These organizations played eight times last year, exciting great interest and enthusiasm. In all, during the school year of 1921-22, twenty-six bands and orchestras, representing seventeen different schools, played publicly 392 times—253 times to the total population of the seventeen schools and 139 times to an average audience of 1,000 general citizens. The importance of this can hardly be estimated. Two hundred and fifty-three times in a single school year was the message of instrumental music hammered in, I might say “drummed in," to the coming generation, and on 139 other occasions the circle of outside musical influence was gradually widened. A peculiar feature of the Rochester, organization, and the one in which we take the greatest pride, is our Saturday-morning Public School Conservatory. At a neutral time and in a place conveniently situated, one of ■the Senior High Schools, we bring together all the pupils who are interested and teach instrumental music on a large scale. Between eight o’clock and one, with twenty instructors, we give sixty-five clock hours of instruction, including the musical work of the part-time school, which has in addition to music classes four hours of laboratory physics of sound and four hours of related English in the form of musical biography, history and appreciation. Here there are five classes of violin, four of clarinet, three each of flute, cornet, mellophone, French horn, trombone and baritone, drums, cello, two each of- oboe, bassoon, saxophone, tuba, piano, and one class of viola. Here the violinists may play in the violin choir of sixty violins and piano, in the string-orchestra of seventy-two, and in the junior orchestra of 102 pieces. The band boy passes as he improves from one to another of four graded bands. The saxophones have a saxophone band of twenty-six. The cornets, mellophone, and French horns each have a choir in which the pupils learn to play together after taking their lesson. The advanced band of fifty-eight is of real professional calibre, playing standard overtures, selections and band transcriptions of symphonic works. Pupils are routed from class to class so that each has from two to four hours of instruction. Attendance is carefully checked and followed up by a form letter system, so that the absence is less than two per cent of the total of 600 pupils. Faculty meetings are held once a month, and the most interested and intelligent cooperation is secured from the whole teaching force. Technical work is done in the class, quartet and sextet playing, with many on each part of course, in the assemblies, and a high grade of music is played in the bands and orchestras. Progress is tested three times a year by an examination on A series of scale drills prepared by the supervisor, and each pupil is held to an accurate performance of every major, minor and chromatic scale as the condition of continuing with his instrument. We are looking forward to the formation of alumni and community organizations as soon as the requisite material is lost to the school and may be reassembled from the ranks of the general community. The influence of all this work on the musical future of Rochester is far-reaching. If 200 pupils annually are sent out from the schools to leaven the population of our city and form the nucleus of a body of art lovers, concert goers, enthusiastic and interested performers in amateur organizations, and supporters of every musical venture, in ten or twenty years the results will be beyond all calculation. Already I״ have some data in hand and have plans laid to determine the radiating circles of amateur musical activity springing out of our school work, and I expect to find that its effects have permeated every phase of music in the city. In conclusion, I wish to state that what we are doing in Rochester can be duplicated anywhere. We have had the advantage of an unusual equipment, but that can be secured in proportion to the size of the community, if not by the munificence of a single citizen, at least by the combined efforts of interested individuals, chambers of commerce, rotary clubs, and the like. A city of 30,000 would have to have forty instruments to compare with Rochester, a city of 300,000 with 400. We have not yet solved all our problems. I trust that we have but made the beginning of our possible development. We are not posing as a model. I have given this detailed study of the Rochester system merely to place before you in the most tangible form a department in working order with the machinery already. in motion. I hope it will stimulate you to compete, to excel, to urge us on to further efforts for the greater development of this most useful and interesting field of educational activity. (Concluded.) Elena Gerhardt’s Dates. Elena Gerhardt, the lieder singer, will make her second appearance in .Chicago this season at the Studebaker Theater on Sunday, January 7. On January 10 she will appear in joint recital with Mischa Levitzki at Peoria, 111., at the Mohammed Temple, under the local auspices of the Civic Music League. AMPICO RECORDS KNABE PIANO USED ATLI-f^UBCI JAanagemerA Saltee 527 ïifthjfcte,, Jfetû'tfopk. !fr J-fomer Samuels Pianist y .Manuel fòerenguer> TTuUst Victor cR$cords J’teiniùay *Piano il THEO. —TENOR Studio: 22 West 39th Street New York Tel. 3701 Fltz Roy VAU YORX ״־־: !Now Starring in ‘ !Rose of Stamboul sA *1 Century Theater MARION GREEN GUILMANT ORGAN SCHOOL William C.^Carl, Director 17 East Eleventh Street, New York City Send for Catalogue ¡ZANELL H y ! BARITONE 1 y i Metropolitan Opera Co. Management: CHARLES L. WAGN 1 M D. F. McSWEENEY. Associate Manage fl[ ** SII FIFTH AVE. 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