May 24 , 1923
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A MEETING IN FAR OFF YOKOHOMA.
Left to right: Leopold (¡odowsky, who has just finished a most successful Oriental tour; A. Strok, manager; Fritz Kreisler, just arrived for his first tour of the Orient; (next hut one) Michael Baucheisen, Kreisler’s accompanist; Mrs. Kreisler.
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Mr. Fritz Kreisler, with Mrs. Kreisler and Mr. Racheisen (Kreisler’s accompanist), came to Yokohama by S. S. President Grant at two-thirty P. M. on Friday 20th April. There they were received by Mr. Koscak Yamadi (composer), Mr. Kojiro Senow, and Mr. A. Strok (manager). Then, there coming Mr. Godowsky, and Mrs. Godowsky and two great musicians, telling about the great progress of the Japanese musical field.
At six-ten P. M. at the same day, they and Mr. Yamamoto (manager of Imperial Theatre, Tokyo) get the train, to run straight to Nagasaki, and Shanghai (China). At Shanghai, Mr. Kreisler will give his two recitals and coming back to Tokyo on 29th April, and evening of 30th, there will be given Grand Reception at Imperial Hotel. His recital in Tokyo, it take place at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo, from May 1st to Sth, five continue evening concerts.
Then Mr. Kreisler will make concert at Kyoto Osaka, and Kobe. Then China and about the end of June he will go back again to America.
The price of tickets at Imperial Theater are: Yen 15. 13. 10. 4. 2.
The condition seems to be very good.
(Signed) Kojiro Senow.
(N. Y.) and Mount Vernon (Iowa) music festivals. On account of European engagements, Miss Morini will not return to America until next January, when she will open her tour as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Willem Van Hoogstraten, conductor, on January 13 and 15 at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House.
Guy Maier Sails for Europe
Guy Maier and Mrs. Maier were passengers on the S. S. Mauretania sailing from New York on May 8. They will go first to Paris and later will visit Switzerland and the Italian Lakes. The trip is in the nature of a belated honeymoon. They had planned to visit Europe in 1921 but when the sailing date arrived Mr. Maier was a patient in a Boston hospital and it was there that their marriage took place. Last summer’s trip to Australia was largely a professional one and so the present one is the first opportunity for rest and recreation. However, the entire summer will not be devoted to pleasure, for in September Mr. Maier will join Lee Pattison for some concerts in England. Mr. Pattison is at present in Chicago, conducting a summer master class at the Glenn Dillard Gunn Music School. He and Mrs. Pattison and their young daughter, Diana, will sail for Europe on August 1. Next season’s Maier-Pattison tour, which will be the last here for some time, will begin early in November.
Demonstration of Virzi Tone Producer
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Stadium Concerts to Begin July 5
The sixth season of Stadium Concerts begins on the evening of Thursday, July 5, with a minimum of six weeks, under the conductorship of Willem Van Hoogstraten, with a much augmented New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a new orchestra stand that is to cost fifteen thousand dollars. This announcement has just been made by the Stadium’s committee headed by Adolph Lewisohn, honorary chairman; Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, chairman, and Mrs. New-bold Le Roy Edgar, vice-chairman. The Philharmonic Orchestra is to comprise 106 men, an increase of twenty-one over last year. Arthur Judson is again to be manager.
Willem Van Hoogstraten will conduct for the entire six weeks. He is now abroad but will return early in June. The new orchestra stand will be a vast improvement over that of preceding years, and it is believed will definitely eliminate whatever difficulty has hitherto, existed in hearing the orchestra’s pianissimo from the farthest stone seats of the great semi-circle. Again only serious music will be given, programs similar to those presented at Carnegie Hall.
Mrs. E. Robert Schmitz Entertains
Mrs. E. Robert Schmitz entertained a few friends at her home Saturday afternoon, May 12. Greta Torpadie, Mme. Dienne, Marion Cassell and John Barclay gave a charming informal musical program, including: Le Bestiaire, by Poulenc; Catalogue de Fleurs, by Darius Milhaud; Poems Juifs and Six Saudades do Brazil, by Milhaud, three Chinese poems by Richard Hammond, dedicated to Mrs. Robert Schmitz, and one by Emerson Whithorne.
Among the guests were Mesdames L. P. Loomis, Bordes, Dienne, Torpadie, Bogue, the Misses Cassel, Prahar, Marion Bauer, Messrs. A. Bliss, Richard Hammond, Emerson Whithorne, Bordes, Dikelski, Salzedo, Varese, Kefer, Tin-lot, Klamroth, Haubiel, Reynold, and others.
Mme. Valeri Repeating Her Chicago Success
There are people who can scarcely understand the great success of the summer master schools because, they say, the course is too short to do any real good to the students who attend them.
“Nothing is more wrong than this contention,” Mme. Valeri, the distinguished teacher, said when seen at her New York studio recently. “I am sure that none of the guest teachers of the summer master schools has ever pretended to make a singer out of the comparatively very few lessons imparted in these schools. Nor are the students who frequent the master schools so small-minded as to believe that they can become accomplished singers within such a short term. Yet there are lots of good things that can be learned in twenty, fifteen or even ten lessons; in fact as many as to justify fully the interest that these schools have recently aroused in the whole country.
“I know that it is rather hard to believe it,” Mme. Valeri went on, “but it is a fact which I have stated numerous times, that if the pupil is well taught there must be _ an improvement in every lesson, more or less rapid and noticeable according to the intelligence of the pupil. Sometimes the improvement comes so fast that it gives the pupil an excess of encouragement. I have had the most curious experience in this respect. If the activities of a singer have been so far confined to light opera, or vaudeville or church work, she sometimes makes up her mind to become a Farrar or a Jeritza. If she never had before any greater aspiration than to sing in her town church, now she wants to give a recital in Aeolian or Town Hall, and the worst part of it is that in some instances you cannot stop her. You cannot prevent such students doing things for which they are not yet adequately prepared. The “hurry up” motto which plays such a great role in American life, often plays havoc among young singers.
“Some tangible proofs of the usefulness of the summer master schools? Yes. Quite a few students whom I met at the time of my first visit to Chicago in 1920 and who afterwards studied with me in New York hold at present very desirable positions. Suzanne Keener, coloratura soprano, is now a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company and during the last season has triumphantly sung in forty concerts under the management of R. E. Johnston, who told me yesterday that everywhere she goes they want her back again and that he has booked her for nearly seventy-five concerts and recitals next season. Miss Schaaf, who also was a student with me at the summer master school, has obtained successful engagements with the Scotti Grand Opera Company and is now a well appreciated member of the Metropolitan Company. Mr. Morgan, the tenor, appeared in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, a few weeks ago, winning the favor of the public and the press, and Miss Hobson has scored veritable successes singing in joint recital with De Luca in Atlantic City and with Gigli in Memphis and in Jersey City. A few more students whom I met at the summer master school in Chicago in 1920, and who followed me in New York for further studying, have obtained positions in churches and as teachers in the vocal departments of musical institutions.”
Referring to her coming visit to Chicago and the remarkable interest which it has created throughout the country, Mme. Valeri handed the interviewer a letter that John R. Hattstaedt, manager of the American Conservatory, sent her on April 16. The letter reads in part: “The results obtained have been beyond our fondest expectations. Your regular teaching time has been practically all sold. I meant to mention that fact to you in one of my letters but in some way it slipped my mind.”
“Yes,” Mme. Valeri concluded, “this public appreciation has greatly pleased me. To be truthful, I thought that after two years’ absence my friends of the West and the Middle West would probably have forgotten me. Also, I was afraid that the price of private lessons, which has been increased from fifteen to twenty dollars, the multiplication of the summer master schools all over the country and the numerous guest teachers who will visit Chicago this summer would make a difference, but it has not made any difference and, of course, I am very happy about it.” B.
Erika Morini’s Festival Appearances
Erika Morini, violinist, will close her third American tour with appearances at the Pittsburg (Kans.), Syracuse
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