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enthusiastically received than ever before. He sang songs by Schumann, Schubert, Leoni, Spross, Boote, Dunn and Meta Schumann. Edgar Bowman was the accompanist.
Busy Month for Macbeth
Florence Macbeth has a busy month ahead of her, singing in recitals every third day and covering five States, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Florida and Kentucky. She has also been engaged as soloist with the Boston, Symphony Orchestra in Boston, Pierre Monteux conducting, and will appear as soloist, in the Bell Song from Lakme and the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Artists’ Night at the Newark Festival.
Holyoke, Mass., on Patriot’s Day, Friday in New Haven and Saturday in Montclair.
This ends the season for the company. Mr. Shawn was scheduled to sail on Tuesday for England and Spain on the Berengaria. Miss St. Denis will rest for a fortnight at the seaside and at the end of June will be joined by Mr. Shawn at Mariarden, the summer school of Denishawn, at Peterboro, N. H. Next season’s tour will begin in the East on October 15.
Frederick Southwick in Hazelton
On March 6, Frederick Southwick gave his sixth recital in the past four seasons at Hazleton, Pa., and was more
April 26, 1922
Ithaca Conservatory Promotes Community Work
The first Six Day Community Institute for Music Teachers and Music Directors, held under the auspices of the Ithaca Conservatory and Affiliated Schools, April 2 to April 7, closed its session with a request from each member of the Institute that in order to make permanent the value of the work received during the week a convention of this kind should become an annual institution.
The keynote of the week was the broadening of the viewpoint of the musician and his assimilation into the life of his community as a leader for the betterment of its musical conditions.
This note was sounded by W.
Grant Egbert, president of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Affiliated־ Schools, in his address, The Musician of Tomorrow, His Opportunities and Responsibilities. President Egbert said in part: “The musician of tomorrow will be able to work under better conditions and his responsibilities will be commensurate with his opportunities.
The specialist must be broadly educated, in command of co-re-lated subjects and a thorough musician.”
. Edward Amherst Ott, dean of the Chautauqua and Lyceum Arts School, made an appeal for the standardization of music through a co-operative movement of musicians themselves. He stated in part: “Business men have their Rotary clubs, commercial clubs and conventions, but the music teacher has no one with whom to talk shop. Music cannot be standardized until musicians get together and have their own committees and their own conventions.”
Other interesting talks were given by specialists in different fields. Correction of Speech Defects, by Dr. Frederick Martin, dean of the Martin Institute for Speech Correction; Problems of a Music Teacher in a Small Community, Harriet Corbin, Dryden,
N. Y.; Teaching Methods and Teaching Materials for the Piano, with discussion of the famous Kinscella Method for Children, Louise Tewksbury, director of the Conservatory Preparatory School; Physical Exercises for Singers and Speakers, Dr. Albert H. Sharpe, dean of the Ithaca School of Physical Education;
The Private Music Studio, Evelyn Bosworth, Elmira, New York;
Organizing and Conducting a Community Orchestra, David Mattern, teacher of music in the Rochester public schools; Needs of Community Musicians and Musical Organizations, C. W.
Whitney, Extension specialist in Community Music at Cornell University; Musical Form and Analysis, Gladys E. Hooper, specialist in public school music; Vocal Methods, Herbert Witherspoon of New York City, supervisor of the Ithaca Conservatory vocal department. G. C. Williams, dean of the Williams School of Expression, acted as chairman of * the Institute and varied the program with interesting interpretative readings of modern and Shakespearian drama.
Two outstanding events of the week were the musical contests of high school orchestras, glee and choral clubs. The orchestras of the East High School Orchestra, Rochester, under David Mattern, won the silver loving cup. The Ithaca choral and glee clubs won the cups in these two contests. Other events of the week were a faculty concert participated in by Leon Sampaix, director of the School of Piano Playing; John Quine of the vocal department; Frances Yontz, of the violin department, and Helen Harrison of the Williams School of Expression.
The music teachers in attendance at the Community Music Institute felt the need of an organization to make permanent the value of the work received. To this purpose, the Eastern Music Teachers’ Association was organized with the following officers elected for the year: president, Arthur Soule, Johnson City, N. Y.; vice-president, Emmet Clarke, Stone-boro, Pa.; secretary and treasurer, Mildred R. Sexton, Binghamton, N. Y.
The dates for the Institute next year are April 21 to April 26 at the Ithaca Conservatory.
Denishawn Dancers End Their Season
The New York engagement of Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers at־ Town Hall was so successful, although it was their fourth engagement in New York this season, that the original week was extended to include four more performances. It could have been prolonged beyond that but Town Hall was not available. The balance of the week was made up of a matinee and night engagement in
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