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humanity, to relieving oppression and to the construction of the new Republic of Czechoslovakia, the people of which called her “Saint Charlotte” in their love and gratitude for her labor in their behalf.
The Masaryk home was always a center of music. Mme. Masaryk was a recognized inspiration to the composers and artists of her adopted country. Charlotte was the first of the Garrigue sisters who went to Europe to study music, where she was a pupil at the Conservatory of Leipsic, under the famous teacher, Louis Plaidy. Her father, Rudolph Garrigue, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a resident of Leipsic for several years in his youth. He migrated to this country and became a citizen of the United States. He inaugurated the Germania Fire Insurance Company, now the National Liberty, and was president of that company for thirty-five years before his death. It was while in Leipsic that he was inspired by the music he heard in the house of Felix Mendelssohn, where he was a frequent guest at the reunions of celebrated musicians—Felix Mendelssohn, his sister Fanny, Robert Schumann, Joachim, David, Gade, and others—which induced him to make his own home a center of music, where until bis last days his children received his encouragement in their musical interests.
Mme. Masaryk’s father was the influence which caused Malvina Garrigue (his cousin) to become the celebrated Wagnerian singer. It was she and her husband, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who created the roles of Tristan and Isolde under Richard Wagner’s personal supervision.
Mme. Masaryk’s son, Yan, ■is especially gifted in music, and would have made a career as pianist had he not met with an accident which injured his shoulder. Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk is one of a large family of brothers and sisters of whom only four are living, all in New York City: Dr. Evelyn Garrigue, Mrs. Eleanor Garrigue Ferguson (pianist and well known teacher), Mme. Alice Garrigue Mott and Mme. Esperanza Garrigue, both prominent voice teachers. Lydia Ferguson is a niece of Mme. Masaryk with whom she has spent considerable time during the past winter, while acquiring the language, and studying the folksongs of Czechoslovakia. Not alone. the family of Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and New York, but also the entire nation felt the loss of her great influence in matters of state and music.
Joseph Sykora
Joseph Sykora, father of the well known cellist, Bogumil Sykora, died on March 28, at Uzhorod, Karpatian Russia, Czechoslovakia, at the age of seventy-one. In his youth he was a distinguished cornetist and soloist with symphony orchestras and operas in Russia and in Western Europe (Vienna, Budapest, Prague, etc.) He possessed a fine technic and a beautiful tone, full of soul, and as soloist he had always uncommon success. Once in Graz, Franz Liszt, hearing him play, introduced himself to Sykora and highly praised his playing, giving him his visiting card (which Sykora kept all his life) and inviting him to ■a cloister where he stayed and played for him for several hours. Sykora often spoke with pride about this acquaintance and friendship. The Czar, Austrian Emperor, and the King of Bulgaria and of Greece also praised him for his playing, and decorated him.
Later he accepted a position as conductor of the 126th Imperial Infantry Regiment, and was active in Irkutsk, Ostrog, Kieff and Rostoff on Don. For the military orchestra, he wrote over 300 compositions, fantasies, waltzes, marches, etc., and an overture for full symphony orchestra. Some of them were published and made popular all over Russia.
In the World War he was active with his regiment and was seriously wounded. In the Bolsheviki horrors he escaped with his family from Rostoff on Don to Uzhorod, where he succumbed to his wounds. The Czechoslovakian Government sent to his funeral an honorable guard and company of soldiers, in spite of the fact that he was a Rus-sion officer, in acknowledgment of his deeds to art and in the World War.
Gustaf Holmquist
Just as this issue goes to press the news is received that Gustaf Holmquist, well known basso and vocal teacher at the Bush Conservatory, Chicago, passed away suddenly last Saturday morning, May 12. Mr. Holmquist died in a taxi between the Union Station and South State and Adams Street, Chicago, and his body was taken to the undertaking rooms at 422 North Clark Street, where his wife rushed as soon as notified. He sang the previous night out of Chicago and was stricken ill on the train. His companions placed him in the taxi in which he succumbed. Mr. Holmquist was known all over this country, having sung in oratorio with all the leading choral societies, and also went to Europe with the Swedish Choral Club and was decorated at the time by the King of Sweden.
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Isaacson to Stop Free Concerts
Charles D. Isaacson, who conducted a fgmily music page for five years on the New York Globe and for the last three years on the Evening Mail, announced that he is resigning and will give his farewell free concert on May 27 —unless, he says, “something happens which I do not now foresee.”
During his term of service on the two papers, Mr. Isaacson has given over 2,500 free concerts in 100 different institutions of every conceivable type. The 1000th concert was given at the Metropolitan Opera House, and the first Mail concert at the Hippodrome. The largest halls in New York City have been covered in single or regular weekly and monthly events, including Carnegie Hall, Aeolian Hall, Town Hall, Wanamaker Auditorium, the large high school auditoriums—De Witt Clinton, Erasmus, Commerce, Wadleigh, Morris, Stuyvesant, Washington Irving, Boys’, Eastern District—the various Y. M. C. A.’s, Y. M. H. A.’s, the big hotels, including the Waldorf, Astor, McAlpin, etc. Special work has been done in institutions like Sing Sing Prison, Central Islip Insane Asylum, Bellevue Hospital, Old People’s Home, Catholic Protectory, Hebrew orphan asylums. The industrial plants, factories and stores have been gone into. Concerts and operatic performances have also been broadcasted from the leading radio stations. Over 5,000 artists have co-operated.
Mr. Isaacson says: “I want to go out into the highways and byways to preach music and its importance to the everyday man and woman!”
Mathilde De Mora Pupils Give Recital
One of the contributions during the Music Week was a program offered by the artist pupils of Mme. Mathilde De Mora at the Hotel Belleclaire, on May 5. The pupils taking part were Pearl Friedman, Marie Savage, Isabelle Hend, Marianne Dolorès Francks, Elizabeth t>. Loy and Wanda De Mora. Miss De Mora was unusually effective in a group of songs and operatic areas. Lilly E. T. Larsen proved a capable accompanist. Miss De Mora has a splendid voice, and those who have heard the young singer predict an excellent future for her.
Obituary
Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk
Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk, wife of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, passed away, May 12, at their home in Lany, Czechoslovakia. Mme. Masaryk was the daughter of the late Rudolph and Charlotte Garrigue, born in Brooklyn in the year 1850. President Masaryk met the American girl, who was to become his wife, in Leipsic in the early 70s while she was studying music, aspiring to a career as pianist. When Charlotte Garrigue returned to America, Thomas Masaryk soon followed, and they were married in 1878 at the home of her parents, who then lived at 167th Street and Boston Road, New York. Returning to Europe with his bride, they entered upon the Czech struggle for independence.
Although not a Czechish custom, President Masaryk decided to take the name Garrigue when he married, in order to have his wife’s name associated with his life’s work. President Masaryk declares her insight and foresight in all questions were a brilliant light over his undertakings. The result of their untiring patriotism is now history, Masaryk having been acclaimed by his countrymen president for life— an honor and triumph never before accorded to any president.
Of their five children, two daughters and one son are living. Dr. Alice Garrigue Masaryk awakened the sympathy of all the world while held in the military prison of Vienna as a hostage for her father, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Her release from prison was obtained largely through the influence of Woodrow Wilson, Charles Crane and many American people. She is now president of the Red Cross at Czechoslovakia. The others are Olga Garrigue Masaryk-Revilliad, of Montreux, Switzerland, and Yan Garrigue Masaryk, former Charge d’Affaires of the Czechoslovakia Legation in Washington. Ella Garrigue Masaryk died in infancy. Herbert Garrigue Masaryk, a gifted young painter, died at the beginning of the war.
After her marriage Mme. Masaryk devoted her life to
N. Y. F. M. C. Gives Pre-Biennial Tea
The New York Federation of Music Clubs, Edna Marione president, gave a pre-biennial tea at the Hotel Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon, May 4. The purpose of the affair was to stimulate interest in the convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, which is to be held in Asheville, N. C., the week beginning June 9. Edna P. Van Voorhis, State chairman of publicity, was in charge of the arrangements. That there is a wide interest in the activities of the organization was evidenced by the large attendance, there being present a number of club presidents from various parts of the State, and even from other States, as well as many people prominent in New York musical circles. Included among the guests were Mrs. Herbert C. Keith, president of the Brooklyn Thursday Musical Circle; Olga Fisher, of the Corona Music Club; Mrs. R. R. Schaller, of Flushing, L. I.; Mrs. S. J. Latta, Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. William McPheleriiy, Danbury, Conn.; Grace Nott, Rose-dale, L. I.; Mrs. Worcester R. Warner, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Mrs. Frederick A. Springer and Carolyn V. Springer, Cos Cob, Conn.; Alice M. Wilson, Schenectady, N. Y.; Emma L. Wiles, Stony Point, N. Y.; Florence Lowenberg, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Russell R. Dorr, Greenwich, Conn.; Mary E. Barse, Kew Gardens, L. I.; Mrs. Frederick H. Haywood, Mrs. Daniel C. Buckley, Anna L. Gribbon, Helene Whitaker, Meta Schumann, Catherine B. Gutelius, Mrs. Marion P. Williams, Mrs. Roger Wensley, Mrs. Leon A. Miller, Margaret Whitaker, Mrs. Edwin Hughes, Katherine Groschke, Nannine V. Joseph, Ella Good, Janet M. Scrime-geour, Malcolm P. Austin, Mrs. William Barnum, Mrs. E. P. Lathrop, Mrs. J. Harrison-Irvine, Susan S. Boice, J. M. Priaulx, Mable Schlieder, Mrs. R. H. Conran, Isabelle Swan, Harry Barnhart, Izetta May McHewey, Howard Barlow, Carolyn Beebe, Helen T. Beebe, Jacques L. Gottlieb, Ida D. Gottlieb, Mrs. W. J. Collier, Mrs. L. R. Beirer, Mr. and Mrs. Paulo Gruppe, Mrs. W. L. Divine, Mrs. T. S. Merrill, Louise Niehaus, Martha D. Willis, Ruth Kemper, Addye Yeargain Hall, Emma A. Dambmann, Caroline Lowe, Grace Divine, Barbara Rawie, Charlotte Lund, Elizabeth D. Manes, Margaret L. Kemper, Oliver Stoll Gabriel and Mrs. John R. MacArthur.
Soder-Hueck Pupil Sings Lead in Chinese Operetta
Anna Reichl, the young lyric coloratura soprano, who made such a favorable impression as soloist for the annual convention and big banquet given by the Prudential Life Insurance Company at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom recently, gave further proof of her steadily developing vocal capability. Miss Reichl was San Toy in the Chinese musical production given at the big Krueger Auditorium, Newark, N. J. The cast had been under rehearsals for six weeks and comprised eighty people, including about twenty principals. San Toy (a boy role and the leading part) was Miss Reichl’s first attemnt in a musical production and she acquitted herself beautifully. One critic remarked: “Radio fans may have recognized Miss Reichl’s voice as that of the young woman whose voice takes high D so easily whenever heard from the Newark Radio Station. She certainly possesses a soprano voice of rare charm and promise, combined with youth and attractive personality.”
Anna Reichl is another singer who is growing under the careful and thorough guidance of Mme. Soder-Hueck, the New York voice trainer and professional coach.
Klibansky Pupils Successful
Artist-pupils of Sergei Klibansky are continuing their success in public appearances. Walter Jankuhn, tenor, is winning new laurels with his beautiful voice and artistic interpretations ; he appeared at a concert given by The Minnesinger Ensemble, April 12, at Beethoven Hall, San Antonio, Tex. Lottice Howell continues to receive splendid
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