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SOME OF THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS. Front row, left to right: Marguerite Hitch, William Mats, Gladys llirkmire, Paul Stoeving (head of violin department), Emma Robinson Sterner (vice-president and treasurer), Jtalfe tweak Sterner (director), Frederick Riesberg (head of piano department), Adriana Morales, Frank Howard Warner (of the faculty), Janice Maloney. Second row, standing left to right: Elisabeth Lansing, Jerome Kanner, Charlotte Heath, H. Paul Mehlin (piano manufacturer), Gladys Crockford, Helen Fink, Sophie Russell, Beatrice Pinkliam, Carolyn Shafer, Marie La France Turner, I)r. D. Keene Davis. Master James Ross, Mercedes Rubrecht, Sarah Frances Espy, Keziah Thomas. Eunice Rees, Archibald MacAllister, Jr., Elise
Nipou, John Maxwell, Ida Rosen.
made arrangements for this artist to return from New York at that time. The program on April 30 held the vast audience enthralled and eager for more.
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Roemaet Rosanoff, cellist. The program included works by Henry Eccles, Mendelssohn, Rameau-Godowsky, Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Faure, Granados, Liszt-Popper, Chopin, Medtner, Rachmaninoff and Emerson Whithorne, whose Chimes of St. Patrick’s and Pell Street, from New York Days and Nights, were played. Both artists were cordially received, and their appearance was a great treat to the children of the Institute and their friends.
Huge Audience Greets Gray-Lhevinne’s Return
On April 30 Estelle Gray-Lhevinne gave a highly successful recital to an audience of over two thousand enthusiastic hearers at Norfolk, Va. This is just another of Mme. Gray-Lhevinne’s returns in this vicinity. She was brought back there because of a great׳demand for her return owing to the success of the violinist’s previous Norfolk recitals. Many of her admirers are planning to attend in a body when Mme. Gray-Lhevinne gives a return date at Fortress Monroe in June. So popular was her concert there on April 29 in the huge Liberty Theater that Captain Dutton has
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New York School of Music and Arts Activities
Ralfe Leech Sterner, president of the New York School of Music and Arts, did his share in New York's Music Week, opening April 30 with an ensemble of piano (Alfred Calzin, pianist, member of faculty), harp (Gladys Crock-ford), and violin (William J. Mais, student). Each player gave a solo, Mr. Calzin playing pieces by Chopin and Liszt with fine and brilliant effect, Miss Crockford playing with beautiful tone, and Mr. Mais excelling in pieces by Handel and David (Andante and Capriccioso). Together they played works by Godard, Boisdeffre, Biggs, Hoffman, Handel, Saint-Saëns, Gounod and Briglia. This ensemble greatly pleased everyone, for the players showed thorough acquaintance with each other, sharing the music with genuine musicianship, and playing with real expression. The cultivation of ensemble playing is furthered at this school, for it makes for all that is artistic and true in music.
The 512th pupils’ concert, given at headquarters May 3, brought a varied program of twenty-two piano, vocal and violin numbers, with Mr. Mehlin as honor guest, the program consuming only a little over two. hours. As usual, there was a large gathering of interested hearers. They warmly applauded Eunice Rees, Elise Nipou and Madelon Eilert, who played the piano trio, Triumphal March (Holst), with snap. A vocal quartet followed, and Mr. Bianchi sang two Italian numbers with sonority of voice. Charlotte Heath’s voice was liked in Charmant Oiseau, and Janice Maloney and Miss Hitch sang a’Marzial duet prettily. Mercedes Rubrecht played Polichinelle (Rachmaninoff) with dash and plenty of character, and Miss Rees sang Vissi d’Arte well. Ida Rosen proved herself a fine little violinist in Rehfeld's Spanish Dance, and Gladys Birkmire sang songs by Curran and Terry well. Sarah Espy is a pianist of attainment, and played the solo part in Mendelssohn’s Capriccio in B minor (Prof. Riesberg at a second instrument), with brilliant touch. Keziah Thomas and Dr. Davis united in Verdi’s Home to Our Mountains and Elise Nipou and Miss Espy performed Sponholtz’ brilliant duet scherzo, op. 19, with fluency, unity and effectiveness. Adriana Morales has the range and vocal quality needed to make Noble Seigneurs interesting, and Archibald MacAllister, Jr., another vocal student, sang Woodman's In Arcady. Madelon Eilert has previously showed her pianlstic talent at these affairs, but never more than on this evening, playing Grieg’s Wedding Day. Janice Maloney’s fine voice and style, and Marguerite Hitch’s vocal capabilities were evident to all, each receiving sustained applause. Edith Dustin is a very talented violinist; she played the Sarasate Gypsy Airs well. Marie I.a France sang the Bird Song (Pagliacci) with real concert style, and little James Ross played Mlynarski's violin mazurka with plenty of snap. Miss Thomas’ powerful voice was heard in a Donizetti aria (O Mio Fernando), and Eunice Rees closed the program by playing Mendelssohn’s G minor concerto with brilliancy. Frank H. Warner played accompaniments as usual, and the entire evening was voted one of the best in the series of over five hundred concerts.
Washington Heights Club Making Progress
The progress which has been made by the Washington Heights Musical Club, founded by Miss J. R. Cathcart only two or three years ago, was well demonstrated by the brilliant affair that was given by the club at Aeolian Hall on the evening of May 10 before an audience that taxed the capacity of the hall. This was entitled an “organists’ open meeting” and included numbers played by three organists: Frank Stewart Adams, Lillian Carpenter and Ruth Barrett. Their performance was uniformly artistic and was warmly received. Beside this the program consisted qf a Chopin scherzo, forcefully interpreted by Mary Houghton Brown; a very lovely viola sonata by Henry Holden Huss, beautifully played by Edward Kreiner and the composer; the same composer’s stirring aria, Cleopatra’s Death, rendered by Ethel Grow, whose perfect diction and fine vocal equipment lent additional charm to the tender and passionate music; solos by Ruth Kemper, talented young violinist, and a set of piano numbers by Robert Lowery.
Praise of the Washington Heights Musical Club can scarcely be too lavish. It is sufficient to say that, practically speaking, not one of these artists would have had this opportunity to present the works given in so perfect a setting and before so distinguished an audience had it not been for the work of this club. That is what the club stands for : opportunity—opportunity both for the professional artist and the amateur. It gets the musician out of the privacy of the studio and makes of music a social thing with a wide public appeal. It is a good work and deserves the encouragement of that public recognition which the Musical Courier gladly gives it. As might have been expected, its growth has been remarkable, and its future is now assured.
Haarlem Philharmonic Elects Officers
At the annual meeting and election of the Haarlem Philharmonic Society of the City of New York, held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Thursday, April 26, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: (president) Mrs. Everett Menzies Raynor, (first vice-president) Mrs. Thomas Jacka, (second vice-president) Mrs. William Gage Brady (recording secretary) Mrs. Sturges Siegler Dunham (corresponding secretary) Mrs. Charles S. Conklin, (treasurer) Mrs. Charles Carroll Linton. Others who will serve on the board of directors are Mesdames Gail Borden, J. S. Carvalho, George H. Corey, Marshall Clarke, Frederick Atherton Duneka, Irvin Fisher, L. H. Irwin, J. H. Land, J. Edward Mastin, Donald McDonald, Harley Olcott, Rudolph Portong, John E. Roeser, Millard E. Robinson, Bevier Smith, Elwin Kane Stewart, Charles Appleton Terry, Walter Watkins, Benjamin C. Wooster, Harry G. White, Samuel Williams. Mrs. James E. Burt has been re-elected chairman of the music committee which includes Mesdames Lawrence Harvey, Frederick B. Robinson, Henry E. Russell, J. Clarence Sharp, Orison B. Smith, Warren Van Kleeck. Mrs. D. Roger Englar is chairman of the membership committee; Mrs. Horatio Hamilton Gates, of the committee of arrangements; Mrs. Trusten Polk Edwards, entertainment committee; Isabel Glen_ Koss, printing committee, and Mrs. Frederick Earle Bertine, press committee.
Concert at N. Y. Institute of the Blind
A very attractive concert was given at the New York Institute of the Blind, Ninth Avenue and 34th Street, on the evening of May 2, by John Meldrum, pianist, and Marie