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MUSICAL COURIER
March 1, 1923
The building is planned throughout to provide a normal and happy life for the students, and to afford every opportunity for their physical as well as mental development. The building is surrounded by large, beautiful grounds, well adapted for out-door plays and games. The' athletic field provides space for tennis, hockey, soccer and basketball.
The instructors have been carefully chosen and are all highly trained specialists from the best American and European colleges. In the musical department courses of lessons are given in piano, singing, violin, violoncello, harp and chamber music. Classes are held in solfeggio, harmony, counterpoint and composition.
The Harcum School offers diplomas for college preparatory, general academic, graduate and music courses.
Mildred Dilling’s Activities
Mildred Dilling, harpist, is in the midst of a very busy season. Among■ her many recent engagements was a Mozart program at the Brick Church on January 26, where she played a concerto for flute and harp; a recital at Park Avenue Baptist Church, January 28, and a return date there February 11; a recital in Washington, D. C., January 29, and three in New York on February 8, 16 and 22. She also appeared in Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, February 23, assisted by Grace Cristie, dancer, and Martha Baird, pianist. Return engagements are scheduled in Washington D. C., March S; Montclair, N. J., March 8 (the latter appearance with Montclair Glee Club), and New Britain, Conn., March 23. A joint recital with Arthur Middleton is dated for March IS, and an appearance in the Waldorf-Astoria with the Rubinstein Club, March 17. In addition to her public appearances, Miss Dilling has a large class of pupils, nine of which are doing professional work.
Erna Cavelle Sings at Atlantic City
At an Ampico concert at Atlantic City, N. J., February 11, the soloists were Erna Cavelle, soprano, and Hans Barth, pianist. Miss Cavelle captivated her. audience with her delightful interpretations of songs by Squires, Cadman, Clutsam, Openshaw, Sanderson, Howard, Ross and Farley. She was in good voice, her tones being of beautiful quality and well placed. Mr. Barth was heard in numbers by Chopin, Mana-Zucca and Liszt, as well as in compositions of his own.
Ulysses Paquin Wins Success in New England
Ulysses Paquin, bass-baritone, is making a two weeks’ tour of the French-Canadian manufacturing towns of New England, where he is meeting with enthusiastic receptions. He will shortly return to New York where he will give a recital under the management of the Standard Booking Office.
Wittgenstein in Private Recital
Victor Wittgenstein, pianist, gave a recital on January 20 at the home of Mrs. Cosmo Hamilton, 500 Madison avenue, New York. He played a group of Scriabin compositions, as well as one by Chopin, all of which won appreciation.
the training of all. Madeline Miller showed unusual talent in her fine interpretation and brilliant technical rendition of Liszt’s sixth rhapsody. Marion Wiba also proved to be a young artist of promise. As guest soloist, Florence Frascolla, soprano, a pupil of Mrs. Bytton (founder of the Bytton Vocal School), delighted the audience.
Facts About the Harcum School for Girls
The special aim of the Harcum School for Girls at Bryn Mawr, Pa., is to prepare girls for Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, and other colleges and to furnish a thorough academic course for girls not intending to go to college, and also, in addition to this, to offer the
THE HARCUM SCHOOL FOE GIRLS AT BRYN MAWR, PA.
best opportunities in all branches of music, art, language and other elective courses, with broader cultural opportunities than the usual school offers.
The standard of the school work is governed by the college requirements, a standard which insures thoroughness, not only in the college preparation but in the general academic and elective courses.
The school puts strong emphasis on music and art, expecting the study of either to be fully as serious as that of other branches and furnishing exceptional instructors and other advantages for them.
Besides the regular work, there are such opportunities as school lectures on musical appreciation, a series on history of art, and also lectures at various times during the year by distinguished speakers, and the public lectures at Bryn Mawr College. In connection with these lectures, the girls are taken to the opera, Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, recitals, theater and to the art exhibits of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The Harcum School is a handsome gray-stone building of Colonial design, equipped with every modern convenience: steam heat and indirect electric lights, sun parlors, reception rooms, classrooms, bedrooms with private baths, smoke-proof fire-tower, and a large gymnasium. The students’ rooms, unusually large and sunny, are artistically furnished.
MME. CAHIER
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WHAT THE JURY THINKS
[The music critics of the New York dailies constitute the jury in the appended extracts from criticisms which have appeared in our local newspapers. Many concerts and operas are given in the metropolis, and the following day the critics agree or disagree on the merits or demerits of the performer. However, on most occasions thef writers do not agree, and this department is run for the purpose of reproducing some of the flat contradictions, showing that, after all, the review constitutes but the personal opinion of the critic who covers the performance.—Editor’s Note.]
Ernest Schelling, Pianist, January 30
Sun	Evening World
The poetry of the Franck met The Franck was technically a deeply sympathetic response at	exquisite but seemed to want in
his hands.	poetry.
Violinist, January 31
Evening Journal This Russian’s piece, by which no one else had been sufficiently excited in score to ask a New York audience to listen to it, must be played. It proved to be further labored futility, and Mr. Huberman played it with enormous effort, always visible and audible, sometimes so uncouthly audible that his tone sounded as though fiddle and bow were equipped with rawhide.
Bronislaw Huberman,
T imes
The most important number of the program was Taneiev’s suite. ... It is music strongly tinctured with imagination, robust and vigorous, and showing little or nothing of the influence of the national folk song. Mr. Huberman played it with great power and conviction.
Georges Enesco, Violinist, February 1
Evening Mail
He was frequently off key, and his interpretation seemed of the kind that is shaped largely by the performer’s technical limitations.
T ribune
Not a showy violinist, but serious, sound and thoroughly competent, he showed a thorough harmony between the music and its mode of performance ... in his phrasing and expression Mr. Enesco showed a thorough sympathy with Brahms.
Sophie Sanina, Pianist, February 2
Sun
The Haydn sonata revealed many a pitfall wherein Miss Sanina’s rhythms had tripped.
Herald
Her touch is occasionally heavy without delicacy or distinction.
Times
Her playing showed intelligent command of technic and style in a Haydn sonata.
Sun
And yet there was a grace about the pianist’s lighter passages.
Frederic Lamond, Pianist, and Willem Mengelberg, Conductor, February 2
Tribune	American
If only Mr. .Mengelberg and the soloist had been perfectly at one in their feeling for the music, Brahms would have fared still better. As it was, one could not but note now and then the results of two strong wills somewhat at odds.
Conductor and solo performer were in agreement, but the band was not always an obedient factor.
Edwin Hughes, Pianist, February 5
Sun
He played somewhat heavily.
World
Played too loudly and too forcibly.
Herald
His touch is brittle, tending to produce somewhat hard, dry tone.
Tribune
The Chopin numbers were well played, but not particularly poetic.
Evening World
His touch and mood were light and graceful enough.
Morning Telegraph A most sensitive perception of values.
Brooklyn Eagle
A clear, fine singing tone characterized Mr. Hughes’ work.
Brooklyn Eagle Showed himself to be a pianist of poetic insight in his Chopin interpretations.
Summer Course at Fontainebleau School
The committee in charge of the enrollment of students for the summer session of the Fontainebleau School of Music (June 24 to September 24) reports gratifying interest all over the country in the exceptional opportunities for study offered by this essentially French institution. Though the school enrolls none but artists, teachers and advanced students, experience has already clearly shown that teachers, as well as public performers and serious students, find substantial benefit in a three-months’ course of intensive study with such great masters as Widor, Philipp, Heklcing, Capet, Demougeot, Boulanger and Bloch. The exclusively French atmosphere of the school removes it from all possible comparison or competition with any American institution. In addition to the musical opportunities, the situation of the school in the Palace of Fontainebleau itself, on the edge of the lovely forest, within a short distance of the Seine, and less than forty miles from Paris, offers countless opportunities for out-of-door recreations. The low rates of board, lodging and tuition—lower now than ever by reason of the increased value of the dollar in Europe—and tKe special discount to students on the French steamers, put a summer at Fontainebleau within the reach of musicians of even most modest resources. The office of the American committee, of which Francis Rogers is chairman, is in the National Arts Club Studios, 119 East 19th street, New York City, N. Y.
College Yells for Grace Kerns
Conventional applause was not the rule when .Grace Kerns, the soprano, appeared recently in recital at the Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa. The student body, composed of boys, rose en masse at the finish of the artist’s performance and after cheering lustily ended their ovation by giving their school yell with the singer’s name at the end.
The latest engagement to be announced for Miss Kerns is an appearance on March 14 in Reading, Pa., in a performance of Parker’s Hora Novissima.
Mary Wildermann’s Pupils in Recital
Recently a number of gifted pupils of Mary Wildermann, piano pedagogue, were heard in recital in her residence studio on Staten Island and later in her New York studio. The musicianship and technic displayed spoke well for