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AUSTRO-GERMAN MUSICIANS’ RELIEF FUND COMMITTEE
S. Rockman Frank Rodman G. Rosenberg
M.	A. Rossini Elisabeth Rothwell Dr. Cornelius Rybner Dagmar de C. Rybner
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Carlo Sabatino Mrs. Paul Sacks Nathan Sacks Gustave Saenger Cesar Saerchinger Frank A. Schaedler Ernest Schelling Mary Schenck Audrey E. Schmidt Marie Schmidt Paul H. Schmidt Alvin L. Schmoeger William K. Schmoller Hans Schneider Mrs. Henry Schradieck Henrietta Scott Margaret Seblouch
N.	Segalowritz Marcella Sembrich Oliver Shattinger Arthur Shattuck Sherwood Family John B. Siefert David Stanley Smith Society American Musicians
of Chicago Sohmer Company Euda R. Sollitt Oscar G. Sonneck Eleanor Spencer Theodore Spiering Oscar Springer Walter Spry John Standerwick Steinway and Sons Fred Steinway Theodore E. Steinway Barette Ter Stepanoff, II Carl J. Stern Evelyn Stern Madeleine S. Stern Samuel Stetz B. C. Strassberger Albert Stuercke Anna Stumpf Marion A. Swords Mrs. W. B. Swords
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E. A. Taussig W. I. Tedesco Jack Thomas Irene Triesch
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Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer (in memory of Gustav Mahler) Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer (in memory of Arthur Nikisch) Ernest Urchs W. Urso
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Harriet Van Emden Willem Van Hoogstraten Katherine Vaughan Mrs. L. Von Bernuth Emily Grant Von Tetzel Ella A. Vorubrock Ernest A. Vorubrock Mrs. H. Vorubrock
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Anne Harrison Wade Arno Waechtler Paul H. Wagner Petra C. Wahlgreen L. Ernest Walker Ganna Walska Mrs. H. J. Walter Mrs. L. J. Walther Vera A. Way
Mrs. Howard L. Weatherly Adolf Weidig Lilyan Weintraub H. Weiss Florence Wessels Carl Westmann Mrs. Ruth B. White Emerson Withorne A. C. Wieland Frank Williams John Brent Williams Rose Williams A. Winter
Otto Wissner and Son C. Leslie Wolf Richard Woltjen Marion Wright Maurice Wright
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Nicoline Zedeler-Mix Henry Ziegler Edward Zimmer
Theodore Spiering, Chairman
List of contributors up to and including May 12, 1923 :
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Frank La Forge Alexander Lambert Frederick Lamond Mildred Largie Mrs. Irving Laurie Gertrude Lawrence Idis Lazar Elizabeth Leago J. Glenn Lee George Lehmann D. W. Lerch Ida S. Lester Ellis Levy Heniot Levy Hans Letz Joseph Lhevinne Edna B. Lieber Antonio Lombardo Antonio Lora Philip Luedde Louis Lupo
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Francis Maclennan Francis Macmillen Guy Maier Sidney W. Mandell Harold Manierre Adele Margulies Martha Martin Ludwig Marum Julius Marx Daniel Gregory Mason Charles Mattmann Paul Mausoloff Adolph Mayer Corinne Mayer Olive Hildreth Mayer George Meader E. L. McFadden
Marguerite Melville-Liszniewska Members of The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Willem Mengelberg Olivia Merkel Ethel Meshalloff Elsa A. Meyer Clara Meyer B. Meyerson Helen Michell Wilhelm Middelschulte Paul Miersch W. Richard Miles Leo C. Miller Katherine A. Mohr R. Mojewski Ottmar A. Moll Alexander Morello Ellen P. Mudd Augusta Murphy R. E. Murphy
Music Teachers of St. Louis Anna Mussgang
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Dorothy Goldsmith Netter Ely Ney Y. Novick
Mrs. Frederick Nussbaum
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John R. Oatman Russell T. Oeden Emanuel Oesterreicher Maud Osborn Adalbert Ostendorff Alfredo Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Oswald
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M.	F. P., Albany, N. Y. Charles Pabst
I. J. Paderewski August Palma John Passaretti Lee Pattison Frank Paul
N.	Val Peavy Frances Pehl Alice Pettingill Romeo Perrella Andrew Pertici Lily Petschnikoff Susie F. Pipes Albert Pirman Andre Polah
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Sergei Rachmaninoff Giuseppe A. Randegger Harold Randolph C. G. Rathert George Raudenbush Joseph Regneas Frederic Reidemeister John F. Renner F. W. Reubler Margaret Rice Wallingford Riegger Mrs. George Ritter Louise Robyn
H. H. Flagler Maud M. Foote Lottie Forbes Charlotte S. Foreman Blanche Foster Bella Frankel Nahan Franko Sam Franko J. C. Freeman Friday Musical Club John Friedrich Charles Friska Jacob J. Froess Nathan Fryer
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Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Joseph Gahm
Rudolph Ganz
Edward Garrett
Frank Geeks
Aug. Genthert
Mrs. John Gerrian
Eugenia Getner
Gustav Glaser
Christina Goess
Jeannette Gohl
Morris Goldberg
Mrs. Norman S. Goldberger
Rubin Goldmark
Florence Goldstein
Phillip Gordon
Jarrell E. Gose
Edmund Gram
Robert W. Grant
Edwin Grasse
Eugene Gruenberg
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Henry Hadley Hugo Hagen S. K. Haines William John Hall Olga Hambuechen Florence E. Hammon Agnes Hanick
Anna Heuermann Hamilton Charles J. Hamp Hardman, Peck Company Victor Harris J. J. Hattstaedt Frieda Hempel Eleonore Henkelman Frank Henniger George L. Henry Victor Herbert
Mrs. George Herbert-Engelhard
Alfred Hertz
C. O. Herz
Myra Hess
Ruth G. Hill
Katharine Goodson Hinton Frederic Hoffman Josef Hofmann Katherine Horst George C. Hriczko, Jr.
Edwin Hughes Alfred E. Human W. H. Humiston Kate Hunter Ernest Hutcheson
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Hermann Irion Margaret Ives Maria Ivogun
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Frances Jablow Frederic Jacobi (in memory of the late Robert Leonhardt) Frederick Jacobi Paul Jelenek Dr. C. F. Jellinghaut Alberto Jonas Daniel Jones Eva S. Joseph Werner Josten
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Frederick Kahn Roger W. Kahn Hattie Kammerer Mrs. David J. Kelley M. C. Kellogg Louise Keppel Carl Wilhelm Kern Emma Ricardo Kieser Hans Kindler Sigmund Klein Sergei Klibansky Gustave A. Kluenter Joseph Knecht Chester Knierim Walter Knupfner Raymond Koch Hugo Kortschak Fritz Kreisler E. R. Kroeger Louise Kroeger H. C. Kudlich Otto E. Kuenne
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Mrs. L. H. Abele
Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams
Mrs. H. C. Adams
Max Adler
Elise Aehle, School of Music,
St. Louis, Mo.
Jennie Lee Aehle Arthur Alexander Elsa Alsen Bessie Altheimer American Conservatory, Chapter S. A. D. Sorority American Piano Company— William Knabe Company A Music Lover
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson Anonymous, Brussels Anonymous, New York Anonymous, Springfield, Mass. Anonymous, Toronto, Canada Hugo Anschuetz Countess Argilagos Frank E. Arnhold Alfred Arol Maurice Aronson Leopold Auer
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B. H. Balensiefer R. F. Balke Ellen Ballon Harold Bauer Amy H. Beach Erl Beatty Gustave Becker Thilo Becker Sophie Beebe Paul Bender
J.	B. Berkhoel Carl Bernthaler Paul H. Bilhuber George J. Birkal Myrtle Elvin Block Bern Boekelmann Theodor Bohlmann John W. Bohn Coenraad V. Bos Lillian Brachmann Harry Brandt Edith Braun
Carl Braune Adams Buell jean Stockwell Budlong Bertha J. Burlingame Thuel Burnham Carl Busch
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Mme. Charles Cahier
Theo. Cassebeer
Ka.herine Cavalli
W. B. Clay pool
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Louis Con rath
Myrtle Falcon Cooper
Irma C. Correll
Joseph Correll
Herbert Cost
Augusta Cottlow
Margaret A. Cox
Mrs. C. R. Crawford
C Sharp Club of Detroit, Mich.
Elizabeth Cueny
Sylvia Cushman
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Victor C. Daesch Jules Daiber Dirce Dal Lago William H. Daniels Rosalind M. Day Zenaida de la Torre Herman Devries W. C. Dierks Otto H. Dierker Herman Diestel E. H. Droop
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David Earle Florence Easton Victor Ebling Carl R. Edson Mrs. Carl R. Edson Albert Elkus
Dr. and Mrs. Elsenheimer Georges Enesco George Enzinger Blanche Epstein Herman Epstein J. Lawrence Erb
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Anna Faber II. F. Faber O. Wade Fallert George Fergusson E. C. A. Figaro Walter Fischer
Eastman Theater Orchestra (Rochester) and Orchestras of the Rivoli and Capitol theaters, New York
Contributions are to be sent to Ernest Urchs, treasurer, care Steinway & Sons, 109 East 14th Street, New York
six years of age, who surprised the audience with his skill in playing the Sietz D major concerto and a Schubert sonatina.
Harriet Van Emden Scores Success in London
A cable has been received from the Musical Courier’s London representative, dated May 13, which reads as follows : “Harriet Van Emden, Wigmore, Friday. Season’s best new singer. Beautiful voice. Perfect production.”
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third recital at Carnegie Hall, April 22, and two recitals in Brooklyn.
Everywhere along the route this great artist was given a welcome on the part of the public which for warmth and enthusiasm has perhaps been unprecedented in the history of American music, the critics acclaiming his playing to be even better than in his former days.
Paderewski’s tour was attended with sold^out houses wherever he was announced for recital. The climax of the tour was reached in San Francisco on March 8 when he played in the Auditorium to 10,000 people and when the gross receipts amounted to more than $24,000—a record probably never before achieved by any other artist at a single concert. Mr. Paderewski made the circuit, living in his private car, “Ideal.”
Hoxie and Leman Pupils in Recital
Pupils of W. Palmer Hoxie and J. W. F. Leman appeared in recital in Philadelphia, Pa., on the evening of April 9. Among the vocal artist-pupils who took part, in the program were Amy Jacque Brumbach, mezzo-soprano, who has just signed up with a New York manager for an extended tour through the South; J. Harvey Lowden, baritone and choirmaster in a Philadelphia church; Maria Mazzei, mezzo-soprano; Rose Kaplan, Russian soprano, and Edward Barnes, baritone. The violinists were Oscar Langman, recent prize winner of the Philadelphia Music Club; Marion Gansert, a talented young violinist, and Master Charles Jaffe,
First Concert at New Conservatory in Newark
The inaugural concert of the New Jersey Conservatory of Music, Gennaro Mario Curci director, which will begin its work about October 1 in its new home in Newark, N. J., was held at the Hotel Riviera, that city, on Monday evening, May 7. There was a large audience—which included a number of patrons and patronesses—and the fine calibre of the program was the source of much pleasure.
The program opened with an address by a member of the board of directors in which he set forth the aims and hopes of the newly established conservatory and then announced its faculty. Mr. Curci, besides being the director, will head the vocal department, his assistant teacher being a local woman, Belle Frisch Silverman. The piano department will be presided over by two well known pianists and New York teachers, Harold Morris and P. Martucci, while Edwin Idler, a former pupil of Pier A. Tirindelli, will have charge of the violin department; Boniface Bonfiglio, first dancer of the Metropolitan Opera Company, assisted by Mme. Edward Bonfiglio, will impart the principles of dancing, and Trucco will be in charge of harmony, and Emanuel Gatti, the school. of dramatic acting.
The program opened with two piano solos by Michael Lepore, a fifteen-year-old pupil of Mr. Martucci, who made an exceedingly favorable impression. He is indeed a gifted youth and has been well schooled. He has a good tone, unusually commendable rhythm and plays with a breadth of style and feeling. His numbers were the Liszt Lieber-straum, No. 3, and the Chopin A flat polonaise.
Madalene Erbland, an attractive young coloratura soprano, who is an artist-pupil of Mr. Curci’s, was heard in the Mad Scene from Lucia (Donizetti) which she sang admirably. Her voice is of appealing quality, sweet and clear, and she sings with a freedom that makes her singing the more enjoyable. The audience liked her immensely and called for an encore—Lo, Here the Gentle Lark 1 Professor Caso furnished flute obligato.
Then came Edwin Idler in two selections—nocturne, Chopin, and rondo capriccioso, Saint-Saëns. He is a mature artist and his rendition of these numbers revealed ample technic, a good tone, facile bowing and temperament. He was assisted by Pearl Sutherland Idler.
Armand Tokatyan, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, was the center of interest and his singing charmed his listeners. He gave a sympathetic rendition of a new Curci song—Aye Maria—followed by an aria from Tosca (Puccini), which was an admirable vehicle for the display of his voice. It is a rich and beautiful organ and he uses it well. For an encore, Mr. Tokatyan sang another Curci composition— the popular Naples Must Sing Forevermore, which caught the fancy of the audience and brought forth much applause for both the artist and the composer, the latter presiding at the piano for the singers throughout the program.
A young dramatic soprano who will bear watching is Renata Flandina, who although very young, possesses a mature voice and style of singing quite remarkable. She was heard in the aria from Madame Butterfly (Puccini) and Angel’s Serenade (Braga) to which Mr. Idler furnished violin obligato. Her encore was a dashing Cure¡ song— Stonella.
The duet from the second act of Carmen (Bizet), charmingly sung by Miss Erbland and Mr. Tokatyan, closed an artistic program.
Much Expected of Mabel Wood Hill’s The Fairies
The last issue of the Musical Courier carried a facsimile of the first page of Mabel Wood Hill’s charming song, The Fairies, for this page well introduces the atmosphere of the whole seven-page song. Beginning well up in the treble there are seven measures of dainty staccato notes in alternate hands, the whole suggesting Mendelssohn, and leading into the text
The fairies have never a penny to spend,
They haven’t a thing put by,
But theirs is the dow’r of bird and of flow’r,
And theirs are the earth and the sky.
—From Punch.
The song is being sung by various well known singers, and along with her new French song, Les Yeux, and her German song, Morgengebet, are frequently heard in our concert halls. Mrs. Hill has completed a setting for three-part women’s voices of The Fairies, which it is expected will be in demand by the Mozart, Rubinstein, Saint Cecilia and other societies.
Seventy Appearances for Paderewski This Past Season
Early in May Paderewski completed his present tour which included seventy concert appearances. The route of his bookings led him South, thence to the Pacific Coast and return East. The tour included two recitals in Chicago, two in Philadelphia, two in Los Angeles, three in Boston, five in New York—two appearances with the New York Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall and three recitals, the
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