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Department of Wind Instruments—J. Henri Bové, flute; Ralph W. Brown, French horn.
Department of Violin—Leopold Clement Alberti, Mençtta Cavalla, John E. Dosso, Walter Edelstein, Samuel Epstein, Louis Kaufman, Eugene Mars Martin, Anne Robertson, Genevieve Beekman Voorhees, Harry W. Waller, Arnold Whitehead, Mabel Woodcock.
Department of Singing—Janet Adelaide Beck, Murella Cianci, L. Josephine Dameron, Jeannette Frances Hall, Lucy Atkinson Jackson, Gladys Sauls.
Department of Harp—Adaline Messenrschmitt.
Departmetnt of Public School Music—Arthur Francis Allié, Eutalia Louise Abner, Elsa Charlotto Borg, Ruth Hoit Bugbee, Margaret Alice Bunce, Kathryn B. Cunningham, Mary L. Curtis, Lillian B. Jahnes, Leah Gertrude Kennedy, Helen Catherine Kuck, Gladys Eloise Lane, Luetta Lipscomb, Florence Katharine Lucas, P. Sonya Lvoff, Helen Dorothy Parry, Margaret Mary Power, Arthur Francis Redding, Mary Deborah Ruhl, Miriam Deacy Waller, Marion Viola Warner.
Post Graduates (1923)—Artists’ Course
Department of Piano—Alton Jones, Wellington Earle Lee, Jenny Seidman, Sonoma Carolyn Talley.
Department of Singing—Lillian I. Gustafson.
Teachers’ Course
Department of Piano—Willie Beatrice Haines, Frances Carey Hall, Violet Muriel Haworth, Charles James King״ Jr., Beatrice C. Klein, Herman Charles Pantley, Ruth Pennington, Lucile Elizabeth Reding, Marjorie Wiggins.
Artists’ Course
Department of Piano—Alton Jones, Wellington Earle Lee, Jenny E. Seidman, Sonoma Carolyn Talley.
Department of Singing—Lillian I. Gustafson.
Teachers’ Course
Department of Piano—Willie Beatrice Haines, Frances Carey Hall, Violet Muriel Haworth, Charles James King, Jr., Beatrice C. Klein.
The silver medal was awarded to Lillian Gustafson, who likewise won the $1,000 Morris Loeb prize. Harold Lewis received the Faculty Scholarship. The Isaac Newton Se-ligman prize for original composition—($400)— was awarded to Alexander Brachocki, and $200 to Lillian Fuchs. Sonoma Talley received a $500 prize.
Members of the board of trustees of the Institute, who were guests of honor at the concert, are :	Paul D. Cravath,
John L. Wilkie, Felix E. Kahn, Paul M. Warburg, Felix Warburg, Dr. Eugene Noble, Edward D. Adams, Harold Bauer, Frederick I. Kent, Alvin W. Krech, Mrs. Sam A. Lewisohn, James Loeb, Elkan Naumburg, Mrs. Charles D. Norton, Eliot Norton, Mrs. William W. Norton, Mrs. J. T. Pratt, E. T. Rice, Leopold Stokowski and Samuel A. Tucker.
Features of Seymour Summer School
The Summer School of the Seymour School of Musical Re-Education, which opens July 9 and continues to August 18, in addition to its regular course of study, is offering some interesting lectures which will be of immense value to its normal class. Among the features planned are two lectures, illustrated with music, by Alfred Swan, professor of musical history of the University of Virginia, one on Franz Schubert and another on Modern French Music centering about Ravel.
Sir Paul Dukes will give a talk, also illustrated with musi, on Russian Music—Before and After the Revolution.
Harriet Ayer Seymour, founder of the Seymour School of Musical Re-Education, will speak on What Music Can Do For You, and Marshall Bartholomew, associate director of the school and well known artist and composer, will give two programs of songs, including Russian, Italian classics, folk songs of many nations and negro plantation songs and spirituals, all by Mr. Bartholomew.
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Adah Allen, student of Dr. Fery Lulek, will be soloist at the concert of the Sinai Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Goldblatt director, June 7.
A number of recitals given by the Chicago Musical College in the Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, include students of Mabel Wrede Hunter in a program there last Thursday evening; Hortense Youngwirth, artist student of the college this Friday evening; artist voice students in a recital last Saturday evening. Students of the violin department, will give a program June 4, and Gertrude Gahl, of the faculty, and artist students of Edward Collins, will give a recital, June 5.
Musical News Items.
The Mamay-Loboyko Ballet School, which enjoyed a great reputation in the East, has located in Chicago in roomy and commodious quarters at 59 East Van Buren Street, and its work creating much interest. A professional ballet and excellent faculty are important assets.
Dorothy Lindenbaum, artist pupil of Isadore L. Buch-halter, appeared in a piano recital under the direction of F. Wight Neumann, at the Playhouse, Sunday afternoon, May 27, in a highly classical program, delivered with much aplomb, exhibiting rare musical gifts in interpretation, tone production and technic, facile key manipulation and infusion of color. The master touch of her tutor was evident throughout in this student. Her large audience expressed unconcealed delight.
The thirtieth annual May Festival concert of the Chicago Sunday School Association was greeted by a large _ audience at Orchestra Hall, May 25. 500 young women’s voices, ably conducted in chorals by H. W. Fairbank, assisted by organ, quartet and soloists, furnished a splendid and well delivered program, but the bright star of the evening was the mite violinist, Guita Bustabo, only six years of age—a little wax doll who rendered on her little violin in musicianly style and assurance without a scrap of music before her and in wonderful tone and striking technic, a Mozart concerto in D and a Polonaise by Vieuxtemps, and in addition three heavy encores, a phenomenal performance, and she produced it all on an $8.00 violin, so the writer is told.
Jeannette Cox.
Institute of Musical Art Commencement
The commencement exercises of the Institute of Musical Art attracted an audience of enormous size to Aeolian Hall on Saturday evening, June 2. A very good musical program was given by a few selected graduates, as well as by the orchestra and chorus of the institute.
The opening number, Prelude to Lohengrin (Wagner), was beautifully played by the orchestra and conducted by director Frank Damrosch, who likewise conducted the closing number, Wotan’s Farewell and Fire music from Die Walkiire. Alton Jones played with marked intelligence and musicianship the first movement of Brahms’ D minor piano concerto for which he had the excellent support of Director Damrosch and the orchestra.
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, for soprano with clarionet obligato: by Schubert, was effectively rendered by Murella Cianci and Angel del Busto. Entrance of the Gods into Wallhalla, from Das Rheingold, by Wagner, for chorus and orchestra, conducted by Director Damrosch was heard next. Phyllis Kraenter created an excellent and lasting impression with Klughardt’s concerto for cello. This composition was conducted by her teacher Willem Willeke.
Lillian Gustafson sang the ballatella from Pagliacci with mastery. Sonoma Talley rendered Liszt’s Polonaise in E major.
Paul D. Cravath, president of the board of trustees, addressed the students, pointing out the future open to them and wishing them success in their chosen profession. Director of the Institute of Musical Art, Frank Damrosch, presented the diplomas. The graduates were:
Department of Piano—Esther M. Achinstein, !Margaret Ferguson Anderson, Omino Renato Bottega, James Claire Dietrich, Rose Eisen, Lucile Friermood, Stella Goldberger, Lillian Barbara Hasmiller, Edith Loretta Heinlein, Gene Helmick, Helen Anna Jackson, Bertha Katz, Frances Elizabeth Keeney, Sigmund Krumgold, Harold Hart Lewis, Luetta Lipscomb, Mabel Madeline Marx, Helen C. Veronica Schachern, George Patrick Sullivan, Lucille Wilkin.
Department of Organ—Sigmund Krumgold.
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Bush Conservatory News.
Robert Quick, of Muncie, Ind., last week won the fine old Italian violin presented by Lyon & Healy for a contest among the talented violin students of' Bush Conservatory. The young man is an artist pupil of Richard Czerwonky and a brilliant future is predicted for him. The competition was a keen one with several contestants of exceptional talent coming from all parts of the country.
Agnes Knoflickova and Margaret Conrad, young violin students of Bush Conservatory, were found of such talent by Prof. Otakar Sevcik, the noted Bohemian violinist and teacher of Kubelik, that he has decided to divide between them the Sevcik scholarship offered by the artist for this season. Miss Conrad is a Chicago girl, who has been studying for some time with Andrea Proudfoot at Bush Conservatory, and Miss Knoflickova is a Bohemian of some fame in her native country of Czechko-Slovakia. Both young artists will appear in concert at Bush Conservatory on Wednesday evening, June 13.
Knupfer Studios Commencement.
The first recital in the closing series of the Knupfer Studios presented a program of general excellence furnished by piano students of Walter ivnupfer, Anita Alvarez-Knup-fer, Dorothy Denham Eichenlaub and voice students of Eusebio Concialdi and Marie E. Dreier.
Mr. Knupfer undoubtedly knows how to get results, for the playing of the students shows the master hand of the pedagogue of long experience and superior musicianship.
Among the younger ones on the long list of performers, Bertha Williams, Arthur and Jeannette Rosenblum, Fanny Lee Meyer and Marjorie Pollack deserved special praise.
Interpretative qualities of a high order characterized the playing of Evelyn Mayer and Elsa Gaertner, while Karl Rothe and Winnifred Mickey won the audience by their effective performance of Rubinstein’s C major etude and MacDowell’s Concert Etude.
On the second program of the series Mr. Knupfer presented three of his professional students. Myrtle Peterson played the first movement of Schumann’s A minor concerto with the style, tone and technic of the mature artist; Bertha Garland gave a spirited performance of the last movement of Moszkowski’s E major concerto and Margaret Dirks distinguished herself as the interpreter of Liszt’s E flat concerto which she played with unusual brilliancy, temperament and authority.
Successful assistants on the program were Bert Long, professional student of Zerline Muhlmann, of the faculty, in songs by Schubert, Tschaikowsky and Mana Zucca, beautifully sung, and Florence White Rush, who was joined by her teacher, Eusebio Concialdi, in an extremely effective rendition of duets by Verdi.
Jeannette Durno Pupil in Recital.
Irma Orser, another of the ambitious young pianists from the Durno studio, will give a recital at the Lyon & Healy Hall on Sunday, June 10. Her program includes the prelude, chorale and fugue by Cesar Franck, several of the Chopin preludes, a waltz, a mazurka and an etude by the same composer, and a very interesting modern group.
American Conservatory Notes.
The annual commencement concert and exercises of the American Conservatory will be held at the Auditorium, Tuesday evening, June 19. The program will consist of three piano concertos, two violin concertos and three vocal arias, performed by students who have won the privilege of appearance. Adolf Weidig will conduct the orchestra, which will .consist of sixty members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Registrations for the master classes of William S. Brady, Delia Valeri and Josef Lhevinne have been coming in rapidly the past few weeks, and a large part of their teaching-time is now reserved, a fact which is most gratifying to the management. Professional musicians and advanced students from all parts of the country have been eager to take advantage of this opportunity.
Pupils of the children’s department, ably assisted by Ethel Lyon, Florence Nichols and Marie Stange, gave their closing program on Saturday morning, June 2.
Louise St. John Westervelt Studio Notes.
On June 2, Louise St. John Westervelt conducted a chorus of three hundred voices at the commencement exercises of the National Kindergarten and Elementary College.
Geraldine Rhoads, contralto, has left on a tour of New York and the New England states, which will extend up to
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The joint recital of Lola Scofield, soprano, and Mary Allen, pianist, on May 28, at the Columbia School of Music, was a brilliant success and a capacity audience enjoyed ■the program of the young artists.
Louise Holstedt, soprano, sang the solo part m Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise at the First Swedish Baptist Church, June 1.	,	.	״. ״
Marion Capps, soprano, was the soloist at the annual given by the Chicago Teachers’ College in honor of their senior class on May 26, at Fullerton Hall, Art Institute.
Frederiksen Presents Pupils In Recital.
On Tuesday evening, May 29, at the Athenaeum of Milwaukee, (Wis.), under the auspices of the Wisconsin College of’ Music, violin students from the class of Frederik Frederiksen appeared in recital. Mr. Frederiksen, who has made a name for himself as a conductor, directed the orchestra in the Siegfried Idyll by Wagner, the intermezzo from Wolf-Ferrari’s Jewels of the Madonna, and Emzugs-marsch der Bojaren by Halvorsen. The work of the pupils, according to report, was very much to the credit of the distinguished Chicago violinist and instructor.
Arthur Burton Pupil In Demand.
Hugh Dickerson, baritone, and a pupil of Arthur Burton, has been much in demand this season. His latest date is to be filled at Grinnell College on June 10, when he will sing the baritone solo in the Brahms Requiem and Mendelssohn’s St. Paul.
Chicago Musical College Notes.
The Chicago Musical College School of Expression and Dramatic Art gave a program of dramatic readings in Central Theater on Sunday afternoon. This performance, which was one of the most interesting of the college’s series of Sunday matinees, constituted the annual competition for prize scholarships in the senior diploma, graduation and post-