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the event as follows: “The music festival which was held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of last week, was generally acknowledged by those in attendance as the best event of the kind ever staged in Wolfville. These festivals, which have now become a regular institution, afford opportunities for musical culture such as are not enjoyed by other small towns, and deserve a more generous patron age than was accorded this year. Last week’s program was a more ambitious one than has before been given and was carried out in a manner which reflects much credit upon those in charge. It is said that plans have already been made for still greater things next year, when it is to be hoped our people will show their appreciation to a greater extent of the orivilege which they enjoy. As a community we owe more than we realize to the splendid educational institutions located in this town.”
Maranoff and Pupils Give Interesting Exhibition.
A dancing exhibition of uncommon interest was given in Jordan Hall, Friday evening, June 1, by M. Maranoff, director of the Russian Ballet School of Dancing in Symphony Chambers, and his advanced pupils. The program was a well-varied one, affording ample opportunity to reveal the talents of the dancers and the methods employed in Mr. Maranoff's studio. The exhibition was noteworthv for the skill and grace of the dancers, and for the lack of self-consciousness in all those who took part in the recital. Mr. Maranoff has succeeded in giving his pupils not only the fundamentals of this difficult art but also a high degree of interpretative abijity. Perhaps the most conspicuous and effective of the pupils who took part were Carolyn Hallett and Edna Stertz. An audience of good size was warmly appreciative throughout the performance.
Notes from the Theodore Schroeder Studio.
Etta Bradley, soprano, has filled many successful engagements during the past season. George Wheeler, a young-lyric tenor from New Hampshire, is beginning to receive recognition, having recently appeared at Dorchester, Everett Newton and Medford. Frances Waterman, a promising young soprano who comes to Mr. Schroeder from Providence, is already well established as a successful singer; she has recently been heard at the Chaminade Club in Providence, and Key (N. H.), Johnston (Pa.) and Danielson (R. I.). Adelyn Dana Ellis, another successful Schroeder pupil and teacher, recently gave a recital at Everett, Mass., winning favorable comment. Myrtle Greene-Brown, coloratura soprano, is planning her first Boston recital, to take place at Jordan Hall in the fall. Flora Barry, a prominent soprano, has advanced to the front rank of Worcester singers; Miss Barry was soloist at the recent concert of Le Cercle Jeanne Mance in Worcester and was also special soloist at the banquet given by the citizens of Worcester to the mayor of that city at the Hotel Bancroft recentlv William Richardson, the distinguished colored baritone, has just returned from a successful concert tour throughout the Southern States and Cuba,m meeting with his usual success and re-engagements; he will give a Jordan Hall recital in the early fall.	t q
Tollefsen Junior Pupils in Recital
Probably the best indication of the quality of the long program of the recital by junior pupils of Carl and Augusta Tollefsen, May 29, at Apollo Hall, Brooklyn, was the undivided attention to the very end, and the enthusiastic applause. The youngsters, in short dresses and knickerbockers, played the piano and violin, competed well with the older performers and showed how Mr. and Mrs. Tollefsen impart their technic to the participants. These teachers are doing public spirited work in providing future trained artists of violin and piano.
Mozart’s Ave Verum and Tolhurst’s Intermezzo for four violins and piano were rendered by Masters Eigenfeld, Hor-witz, Le Bell and Price; Angelo Consoli played Sarasate’s Les Adieux for violin; Alma Tollefsen gave on the piano MacDowell’s To a Wild Rose and Koellnig's Fluttering Leaves. Arnold Le Bell was heard in Alard’s berceuse and Tyrolienne for violin, and Edith Margolies, pianist, played Beethoven’s sonata, op. 2, No. 1, and Paderewski’s Minuet. Manuel Price, violinist, rendered De Beriot’s Sixth Air with Variations; Richard Bender, pianist, played Pirani’s Valse de concert and Mozart’s Invitation to the Dance; David Eigenfeld, violinist, was heard in Hauser’s Hungarian rhapsody; Bella Risikoff, pianist, played Beethoven’s sonata, op. 14, No. 2, and Chaminade’s Arlequin • Laura Schneider, violinist rendered Clarence C. White’s Serenade and Rehfeld’s Spanish Dance; Julia Tannenbaum played Kreisler's Indian Lament; Clara Markovitz played Rondo in C and MacDowell’s Witches’ Dance; Edith Pom-eranz, pianist, offered Bethoven’s Andante Favori, Grieg s Anitra s Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King; Eleanor Johnson, violinist, rendered Severn’s Polish Dance; Ogden Dingwell, pianist, played Chopin’s Prelude in Li flat, and Godard’s La Cavallerie Fantastique, and Sidney Horowitz, violinist, rendered Wieniawski’s Romance and Rondo Elegant. The ensemble finale for eight violins and piano was played by Angelo Consoli, Arnold Le Bell, David Eigenfeld, Manuel Price, Sidney Horowitz, Laura Schneider, Eleanor Johnson, and Julia Tannenbaum, assisted by Anita Palmer, viola; Ethel Gould, cello, and Isabel Gould, piano.
Maurice Dumesnil Sails
Maurice Dumesnil. pianist, sailed last Saturday for France, having completed a season of seventy concerts throughout the country. He will devote much of the summer to motoring, for he shipped a new car to Europe for that purpose. He will return to America in November.
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Mason, instructor in harmony, counterpoint and composition, presented the prizes to the children.
The large audience seemed greatly impressed by the high standard of work accomplished by the children and by the splendid method in which they had been trained. The performance of these children is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that none of them has had more than two years of- training.
Gala Nights at “Pops.”
For the second Sunday concert of the “Pops” season, Mr. Jacchia arranged a well-varied program of fragments from Wagner’s operas and attracted an enthusiastic audience that filled every inch of available space in the hall. Mr. Jacchia’s list included the overture to Rienzi, Venus-berg music from Tannhäuser, closing scene from Tristan, fantasia from Lohengrin, prelude to The Meistersingers, procession of the Grail Knights from Parsifal, Forest Murmurs from Siegfried and Fire Music from Die Walkiire.
Monday brought the annual Harvard Night, with Dr. Davison and the Harvard Glee Club assisting in accompanied and unaccompanied pieces from its repertory. Large crowds attended the remaining concerts of the week.
Barrows Pupil Wins Success.
Esther Mott, a soprano from the studio of Harriet Eudora Barrows, won a splendid success at a concert given recently under the auspices of the Business' and Professional Women’s Club of Pawtucket. The reviewer of the Pawtucket Times, commenting on this concert, said: “Miss Mott's program was varied enough in its character to show her versatility and she appeared as much at ease singing the difficult aria Vissi D’Arte from La Tosca, as she did in the simple pastorale, May Morning, by Manney. Miss Mott was given an enthusiastic reception and the enthusiasm grew as the program developed. She gave the impression of liking to sing, of putting her whole being into her work and of living the part she was interpreting. A pure soprano voice, a wide range of tone, a sympathetic understanding of the composer’s intent, coupled with a genial personality, made the singer’s work especially pleasing. Miss Mott has gained widespread recognition as a soloist and a successful career in the musical world has been predicted for her.”
N. E. Conservatory Notes.
A recital by pupils of the pianoforte normal department of the New England Conservatory of Music, of which Henry Goodrich is supervisor, was given in Jordan Hall, May 26, at which the general class was conducted by Alfred L. Whittemore, with Gertrude Goldman at the piano and at which the following young people, nearly all from Greater Boston homes, appeared as soloists : Irving Carver, Alicia Shoyer, Francis O’Gara, Rebecca Hill, Cyril Lange, Dorothy Chestnut, Dorothy Carnie, Rosa Carver, Beatrice Lange, Bertha Labunsky, Celia Marcus, Bertha Vimer, Tilly Garber, Helene Bennett, Mark Mackey, Marie Barry, Anna Sullivan, Catharine Corcoran, Grace Mahoney, Inez Capodicci, Kathleen Hanley, William Rouschal, Sarah Gordon, Rosilie Rosenberg, Ezekiel Clark, Charlotte Labunsky, Gertrude Gumner, Anna Loch, Alfred Rosenthal, Catharine O’Neil and Austin Devenny.
Students of the organ department gave a recital in Jordan Hall Thursday afternoon, May 31. Two works by Henry M. Dunham of the faculty were presented: the. fantasie in C minor, played by Alma Martin, of Shinnston, W. Va., and the Gloria in Excelsis, by Margaret Macy, of Berlin, N. H. Selections from Guilmant, Pierne, and Rheinberger were given by Ruth Staniels, of Concord, N. H.; Katharine Nolan, of Cedar Rapids, la.; Horace Killam, of East Boxford; Cornelia North, ’22, of Newport, R. L, and Joseph S. Black, of Gary, Ind.
John Peirce Scores at Wolfville Festival.
John Peirce, baritone, added another to his rapidly growing list of successes by his appearances at the eighth annual music festival held early last month at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, under the auspices of Acadia College. Mr. Peirce was heard in recital and also sang the baritone role in a performance of Mendelssohn’s popular oratorio, Elijah. Referring to his recital, the critic of the Acadian declared that Mr. Peirce “gave a recital that will be long remembered by those who heard him. He sang with fine feeling and delightful expression, quite captivating his audience by the charm of his voice and personality.” The same reviewer commented on Mr. Peirce’s singing in the oratorio as follows : “The recital given by Mr. Peirce on Thursday night had prepared the large audience for a great Elijah, nor were they disappointed.”
It is interesting to note that the festival was given under the direction of Carl Farnsworth, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and now head of the Acadia Conservatory of Music. Mr. Farnsworth also accompanied Mr. Peirce when the baritone gave his recital earlier in the week. The chorus of the Elijah was provided by the Acadia Choral Club, consisting of 125 voices, while the Acadia Conservatory Orchestra furnished the instrumental part of the performance. The other soloists were Nathalie Gifford, soprano, of the Acadia Conservatory staff; Edith Waye, mezzo-soprano, and Arthur Jones, tenor, of the conservatory staff. It is gratifying to learn that the festival was highly successful. Indeed, the Acadian, a weekly newspaper published in Wolfville, editorialized on
Boston, June 3.—Heinrich Gebhard, the admirable pianist, added another to his long list of successes when he appeared recently as soloist at the final concert of the Melrose Orchestral Association, Elmer Wilson conductor, at Memorial Hall, Melrose. Mr. Gebhard exhibited his familiar abilities as technician and interpreter in Grieg’s songful concerto. There were so many recalls after his performance that it was necessary to waive the customary no-encore rule and play an extra number.
The purely orchestral numbers of the program comprised Mozart’s charmingly melodious symphony in G minor and pieces by Smetana, Gomez, Liszt, Lincke, Komzak and Delibes. Elmer Wilson, the musicianly conductor of this orchestra which is now in its fourth season, merits great
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praise for his success in building up the Melrose orchestra. Under his direction the orchestra has already achieved fine precision, euphony and noteworthy dynamic shading.
Children’s Commencement at Longy School.
The first commencement exercises of the children’s department of the Longy School of Music was held Saturday afternoon, May 26, in Bates Hall. The children of the Boston and Charles River departments of the school were assisted by juvenile students of Gertrude Bowes Peabody of the Longy School faculty. The following pupils of Mrs. Peabody were heard in violin ensemble numbers and solos: Ernestine Groves, Olive Riley, Louise Schirmer, Joseph Richardson, Frances McIntosh, Ruth Bruns, Austin Ivory. All violin numbers were accompanied it the piano by Arge Gerry, assistant piano instructor at the Longy School.
Piano ensemble and solo numbers were played by Celina Robbins, Mary and Louise Whittemore and Hope Howell, pupils of Renee Longy Miquelle, director of the Longy School. Doris Morrison, a scholarship pupil, who received a diploma in solfeggio, accompanied a concerto at the piano. Two harp numbers were played by Barbara Whitney, a pupil of Harriett Shaw of the faculty. One of these pieces was an andante from a Mozart concerto with a flute obligato (Alice McLaughlin) and piano accompaniment (Mme. R. L. Miquelle). An interesting demonstration of rhythmic gymnastics and solfeggio numbers was given by pupils of the Boston and Charles River classes. Two special brief numbers in these subjects were given by three infant pupils of Mrs. Peabody.
At the close of the concert prizes were awarded to the solfeggio pupils as follows: Grades A and B—high honors to Mary Whittemore, first prize to Martha Swift and second prize to Nathalie Appleton; Grades C and D— first prize to Hope Howell, second prize to Paul Ivory and Hiram McIntosh. Special awards were made to Hope Howell, piano, from Mme. Miquelle; to Robert W. Kennedy, cello, from Georges Miquelle and to Austin Ivory, scholarship pupil in solfeggio, rhythmic gymnastics and violin, from Mrs. Peabody and Mme. Miquelle. Stuart
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