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MUSICAL COURIER
January 2 5, 1923
SEISMIT-DODA
AS HE IS AND IN CARICA-
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The caricature to the right was drawn by Caruso, and is one of the prized possessions of Seismit-Doda, while that to the left was made by the well known artist, Viafora.
8 eismit-D o da's career as a musician covers activities as conductor, composer and teacher—he is a well known exponent of the real Italian method of vocal instruction. Among his artist pupils are Marianne Vota, Charlotte Walker, Bettina Nelli and Helene Marshall. Seismit-Doda has composed operas, orchestral works and vocal and instrumental numbers. At present he is seeking good librettos for musical comedies and light operas.
Weiner, has just heard the work played by the Lehner Quartet. It made a distinct success, the composer being called out several times after the scherzo.	Z. K.
BERLIN
(Continued from Page 63). internationale. Goossens as a conductor made an unmistakable hit.
Recitals and chamber music, too, have been more scarce of late, and the “soloist’s concert” with orchestra seems to be dying out. One thing is certain: there is no money to be made out of music in Berlin any more— or for the present at any rate. An orchestral concert on a grand scale costs from one million to one million and a half of marks. A recently sold-out recital in the Philharmonic, given by one of the most popular instrumentalists, netted—a deficit of 60,000 marks. The day of pure ideals is here. Help the poor idealists. César Saerchinger.
A Florida Tour for Edwin Swain
Down in Florida where Edwin Swain was born and brought up, the folks are looking forward with interest to the tour which he is booked to give there next month. Opening at Orlando on February 1, he will be heard at Miami, February 3; Ocala, 6; Sarasota, 8; St. Petersburg, 9; Jacksonville, 20; Palatka, 26; Winter Park, ]February 28. Mr. Swain will spend what little time there remains between engagements visiting his father (age eighty-six), and his mother and sisters. Before leaving for the South, his bookings include appearances with the Monday Morning Musicale of Albany, N. Y., January 23, and as soloist in the performance of Elijah, to be given January 28, at St. James’ Church under the direction of William C. Bridgman.
Gamut Club Honors
Erwin Nyiregyhazi
On January 10, the chief guest of honor at the Gamut Club in Los Angeles was Erwin Nyiregyhazi. He was requested to play a couple of numbers and so enthused the members that he was unanimously declared the “Pianist of Pianists.” He was elected an honorary member. The most representative audience of the year was present on this occasion in his honor, and seldom has such an enthusiastic reception been afforded an artist as that given Nyiregyhazi.
Mr. Nyireghazi is meeting with such enormous success on the Coast where he is now on tour, that reengagements are being arranged in practically every town in which he appears.
Robert O’CONNOR
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Following her appearance in Toronto on January 29, Elly Ney will make a tour of the Southwest, beginning at Fort Worth on February 6.
PIANIST
Studio: 375 East 199tti Street, New York Phone: 4016 Tremont
Bachaus Recital, February 13
Bachaus, the pianist, will give his second recital in Town Hall on Tuesday evening, February 13.
FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF
Strauss to Head Master Class at Vienna State Conservatory.
Vienna, December 27.—Richard Strauss’ contract with the Staatsoper, which expires next month, has been renewed, and in connection with his new contract Strauss has been promised by the Government a prominent post with the State Conservatory of Music, where he is to become head of a Master Class for Composition. This is the development predicted in the Musical Courier by your correspondent last summer, at the time when Strauss failed as candidate for the post of director of the State Conservatory. As stated at the time, there have been influential forces at work to combine in Strauss’ hands both important posts which the Austrian Government has to grant in the musical line, and this new appointment of Strauss seems to indicate that, sooner or later, his friends will succeed in making him director of the State Conservatory in place of Joseph Marx.	P. B.
Leipsic Philharmonic Strikes for Better Conductor.
Leipsic, January 6.—The Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra recently went on strike as the only means of ridding itself of the services of Conductor L’Hermet, whom it found incapable of raising the orchestra to a high artistic level. L’Hermet, who had money and influence, and founded the orchestra some years ago, was looked upon as more or less of a joke by the musical press, and the orchestra felt that it was beneath their dignity to have_ such a man at their head. They have now formed the Leipsic Orchestral Association, Inc., and elected as their president Dr. Barthol, the manager of the Municipal Opera. As artistic advisors, Professors Carl Straube and Stephan Krehl have been secured. This orchestra will now, it is hoped, fill the vacancy caused by the disbandment of the Grotian-Steinweg organization when Hermann Schechen, its conductor, was called to Frankfort. It is, of course, looking for a suitable conductor.	H. U.
New Yorker to Finance Weingartner’s Volksoper.
Vienna, December 26.—The conflict between Weingartner and his co-director at the Volksoper, Gruder Guntram, is settled. Weingartner will be sole director hereafter, with Gabor Steiner, of the Galeo Theatrical Agency, of New York, as his financial backer and business director. Steiner promises big things, but his plan of inducing Max Reinhardt to collaborate at the Volksoper has fallen through. Steiner is also engaged upon the foundation of a new big People’s Theater here, directorship of which he will share with Rainer Simons, founder of the Volksoper. Steiner’s alliance with Simons is not without significance, and is generally taken as a sign that Simons is soon to return to the post of director at the Volksoper, which he held for a decade with great financial and artistic success. P. B.
Toscanini Not Going to London.
Toscanini has cancelled his engagement to conduct the fifth concert of the Royal Philharmonic Society because he cannot have as many rehearsals as he wishes. All concerts, entertainments, luxuries, .and even necessities, are feeling the burden of the taxes imposed by the Government in order that Great Britain shall pay her way., L. C.
Mitja Nikisch Coming to America.
Berlin, January 7,—Mitja Nikisch, son of the great conductor, has, as the result of his success in England as a pianist, arranged for an American tour in 1923-1924. He will be under the management of Daniel Mayer. C. S.
Budapest Hears Berkshire Prize Work.
Budapest, December 22.—This city, the home of the composer who won the Berkshire prize last summer, Leo
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Pupil of Leopold Auer, made successful debut at Aeolian Hall, New York, Dec. 4, 1922
“Sound musicianship.”—“Large, colorful tone.”—“Solid technic.”—“Style.” —“Taste.”—“Sincerity.”— “Understanding.”— “Repose.”— “Excellent musical feeling.”—New York Press.
Second Recital, Thursday Evening, February 8, Aeolian Hall
Available for engagements—Pupils accepted.
“Excellent soloist and teacher.”—Leopold Auer.
Representative: FRANKLIN FORD. 1457 Broadway, New York	Phone Bryant 8208
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Concert Violinist
Management: LUDMILA WETCHE 208 W 99th St. N.V
JOHN HEIMEL
Concert Violinist and Pedagogue Studio: 151 Secoad Avenue (near 9th Street)
New York City	Telephone Dry Dock 4070
Mme. KATHERINE MORREALE
SOPRANO
Voice Culture—Repertoire 166 West 58th Street, New York City
Heizer Music School
Direction of Mr■ and Mrs. Frederick Heizer
SIOUX CITY. IOWA	1215 Douglas Stree
Lillian Croxton
COLORATURA SOPRANO
Concerts—Recitals
Management: Standard Booking Office, 17 East 42nd Street, New York City
OPPORTUNITIES
locations. Distinctive features of reliable service. Residence studios with private baths, steam heat, electric light, and fireplaces. Suitable for professional and business people of refinement. Club-like, business-like. Several large single studio vacancies. Leases from $900 up. Studios for short time reservation having Steinway grand pianos at 125 East 37th Street, telephone Murray Hill 0991.
A Phonograph Recording Laboratory has added a new department to their activities and can offer to musical artists a personal phonograph record of their own work for a nominal charge. $35.00 will cover recording and one dozen records. For particulars address Personal Phonograph Record Dept., care of Electric Recording Laboratories, Inc., 210 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Music in its twenty-fourth year. Begin teaching now or September 5. State education, experience and salary. Address “B. S. M.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
EXPERIENCED ARTIST—A well known soprano, active in the concert field and soloist at two prominent New York churches, would consider teaching in a private school in or near New York. Address “B. H.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
TO SUBLET—Large furnished studio, Grand piano, to sublet mornings until 2 p. m. in the Metropolitan Opera House building, 1425 Broadway, New York. Apply C. Ferraro, studio 33, 1425 Broadway, Phone Pennsylvania 2634.
VANDERBILT STUDIOS of New York.
Proprietor, Mrs. Mabel Duble-Scheele; office, 41 West Ninth Street; telephone, Stuyvesant 1321. Houses in best central
City that has been established for a number of years. The school is situated in one of the best parts of the city and occupies premises under a long lease at a very favorable rental. The. registration for this season is practically filled and the proposition offers exceptional advantages. The present owner desires to sell because of ill health. For particulars address “A. L. S.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
FOR SALE—Harp, Lyon and Healy, design 23, perfect condition. Address “O. A. K.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
LYON & HEALY HARP for sale, Style 21. Price, $600 cash. May be seen by appointment only. Telephone, Riverside 4122.
WANTED—Male teacher of voice in Middle West. Privately owned College of
ADDRESS WANTED—The address of Alexander Bevani, the vocal teacher who taught in San Francisco previous to 1921. Any information regarding his present whereabouts will be appreciated. Address “B. V. A.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York.
WANTED—Artist teachers of voice, violin and piano for next season’s positions in schools and colleges throughout the United States and Canada. Address Musical Artist Teachers’ Agency, 56 West 39th Street, New York. Tel. Fitzroy 2185.
WANTED—Bass for an English Lutheran Church in New York City; $25.00 monthly. Hearing Wednesdays, January 31 and February 7, 2 to 5 p. m. Apply to “F. W. R.,” care of Musical Courier, 437 Fifth Avenue (cor. 39th St.), New York.
CONSERVATORY FOR SALE—There is an opportunity to buy a large, flourishing Conservatory of Music in New York