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and W. J. R. Thorbecke, Charge d’Affairs at the Netherlands Legation. During his stay in Tokio Mr. Hollman has been giving cello lessons daily to the younger Prince Kuni, son of his dinner host.
Cleveland Institute Concerts End
The third season of the Cleveland Institute of Music was brought to a close by a series of four large concerts, the last of which was an exhibition recital by Institute students on June 1 at The Hotel Statler. This program w.as given by cello, piano and violin students, the Institute Orchestra and the Institute Chorus.
The most important of the series of concerts was the one given by the Institute String Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bloch, the musical director of the Institute and known internationally as’ a composer and musician. An interesting feature of this program was a group of pieces written by Bernard Rogers, Jean Binet and William Quincy Porter, all members of Mr. Bloch’s Composition Class at the Institute. This is the first recital actually putting into practice the laboratory idea of the Institute. The program, one of the best of the year, was as follows:
Concerto Grosso No. 8 (per ia Notte di Natale, 1712)... ..Corelli
Soliloquy, for flute and string orchestra..........Bernard Rogers
Flute Solo.................................Florence McG. Rogers
Our Lady of Potchaiv (Russia Folk-song)............Quincy Porter
Suite of Popular Swiss Airs and Dances.................Jean Binet
Wedding Dance.
Lied of the Emmenthaler (Up on the Mountain).
Yodler.
Song of the Swiss Guards at the Tuileries.
Dances.
Concerto Grosso, No. 17, in G minor.......................Handel
Concertino.....André de Ribaupierre, Ruth Willian, Margaret Sharp
Another concert of the season was given by these faculty members: Dorothy Price and Mary Edith Martin, piano, and Ruth Willian and William Quincy Porter, violin. André de Ribaupierre, noted violinist and guest teacher at the Institute for the last two years, presented another program assisted by Beryl Rubinstein, pianist, with Ruth Edwards, accompanist.
The Summer Session at the Institute will open June 21, while a nine weeks’ course in voice given by Giulio Silva, began June 1.	s. T. J.
Crooks to Be Boston Symphony Soloist
An important engagement that Richard Crooks, tenor, will fill next season will be an appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Fall River, Mass. Due to his success in Boston this season, as soloist twice with the Handel and Haydn Society, the artist is greatly in demand for recitals and concerts throughout New England territory. Richard Crooks “thrilled the large audience and created a furore” at the first concert of the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Music Festival, at which the young tenor appeared on April 9. April 10 and 11 he followed up his initial success with even more acclaim. “Simply immense!” was the concise verdict of the London, Ontario, Free Press after Crooks had appeared there recently as soloist with the Musical Art Society. The young tenor continued his conquest of Canada by making numerous appearances at the music festivals in the Maritime Provinces.
“Regarding Mr. Crooks, he is all you have claimed him to be, and a genuine fellow with a remarkable career ahead of him. He literally took the place by storm.” Such was the message conveyed to his managers by the conductor of the Festival after Richard Crooks sang recently on three consecutive days in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was engaged by the well known Reading, Pa., Choral Society for a performance of Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise with orchestra on May 23.
Mr. Crooks, who has been scoring so substantially everywhere, has been placed under contract by the Victor Talking Machine Company to make records exclusively for that company for a term of years.
Beatrice Balish’s Pupils Heard in Recital
Pupils of Beatrice Balish were heard in an interesting piano recital at the Music School Settlement, Sunday evening, May 27. Those taking part were Bertha Tax, Mildred Blum, Anna Birnbaum, Fanny Gaber, Sadie Newman, Goldie Dworetsky, Herman Wolin. Michael Tausner, Pearl Rosen-blum, Sophie Pichersky, Lillian Canter and Evelyn Jackter. Numbers by Grieg, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Rameau, Rubinstein, Beethoven, MacDowell and others were rendered.
Althouse Prolongs Summer Season
Besides singing numerous engagements during the summer months that have already been announced, Paul Althouse has been chosen to appear at Artie, West Warwick, R. L, on June 24, under the auspicies of the executive committee of the Parochial Union of the Church of St. John the Baptist, of Centreville, near Providence. A special program has been arranged to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the church, which is Roman Catholic.
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Glaussen to Fill Another Summer
Julia Claussen, the Metropolitan mezzo-soprano, has just been engaged for another summer appearance, on June 24 under the auspices of the executive committee of the Parochial Union of the Church of St. John the Baptist of Centre-ville ten miles from Providence, R. I. A special concert will be given commemorating the centennial anniversary of the church, which is Roman Catholic in denomination
New Engagements for the Denishawn Dane
The route sheet of next season’s tour of Ruth St. D< led hhawn and the Denishawn Dancers is filling up rapi Among the dates for which Daniel Mayer has rece signed contracts are the following: Bridgeport Co Pottsville, Pa.; Olean, N. Y.; Niagara Falls, N Y׳• Un town Pa.; Louisville, Ky.; Enid, Okla.; Springfield, ] and Chanute, Kans.	־vs,
Honorable Mention for Dan Beddoe
■ ‘^u®r?.tus. ?^Lm Pa'^ a sPkndid tribute to Dan Bed m the Cincinnati Enquirer of May 13. In summing up musical achievements in that city during the past se months he made honorable mention of five vocalists, inclu in which was Dan Beddoe for his singing of If With Your Hearts, in Elijah.	v m
Answers to letters received in this department are published as promptly as possible. The large number of inquiries and the limitation of space are responsible for any delay. The letters are answered seriatim.
Di Tanti Palpiti.
“Can you give me information concerning Di Tanti Palpiti which is supposed to have been sung by Patti?
Some years ago Di Tanti Palpiti was sung not only by Patti, but also by all the other great soprano singers of that day. It appears to be out of fashion in more recent days, but was a favorite aria much used in the less op scene in the Barber of Seville. The aria occurs in lancredi, by Rossmi, but is said to have been composed after the opera had been sung. The soprano Malanette was not satisfied with her song and insisted on Rossini’s writing a new one or re-writing the objectionable air. It is said that he dashed off Di Tanti Palpiti while waiting for a dish of rice and it received the name of Aria de’ Rizzi from the public. Tancredi was written in 1813 and produced such a sensation in Venice, that the Venetians were said to be “almost mad with excitement. It was this opera that made him famous and es-tablisned his reputation as a composer of serious opera.
Book on Violin Playing.
I am interested in the rudiments of music, especially piano and violin. I have taken lessons on both instruments, but during the past year have _ forgotten quite a bit of the principles. I have started to take violin again with the intention of becoming a teacher and would appreciate it if you would let me know of some book which contains the information desired.”
is intended
Eugene Gruenberg’s Violin Teaching and Violin Study for the use of both teachers and pupils.
The Opera of Martha.
In the announcement o-f the coming winter opera season at the Metropolitan Opera House, the opera Martha is mentioned as one to be given. When was it first performed, and is it not usually sung in English?”
Yef, Martha is usually, or at least often, sung in English, and it is usually called by the English spelling of Martha, not Marthe. It was called Eady Harriet and was a ballet when first written, then was changed to Marthe, in the year 1843. Stradella and Martha are the two IHotow operas that have survived, so to speak. At the time of Elotow s successes someone said “All that will soon be forgotten,” while an English critic writing early in this century remarked, “The score is absolutely devoid of any real musical interest, and the fact that performances of such a work as Martha are still possible in London gives an unfortunate impression of the standard of musical taste prevailing m England.” However, if the public likes it that is a good reason for its being heard next winter.
Sight Reading.
“}yould you please give me the names of some books on sight reading ? Are there any musicians who have made a special study of this subject?”
Sight reading is_ a subject that occupies a prominent position among teachers and musicians. There are some vocal teachers who insist upon their pupils learning to read music at sight, considering it one ot the most important branches in a musical education. Wilbur A. Lyster, Carnegie Hall, New York City, is one of the musicians who devotes himself to teaching and is called “Maker of Readers.” A book by Wedge, Ear Training and Sight Singing, may help you.
Perfield Teacher Presents Pupils
Mary Gibson Stowe, an exponent of the Perfield System, presented her pupils in a piano recital at the studio of Thuel Burnham on May 5. The program follows: Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, arr. for two pianos. . Saint Saens ^	_	Mrs. Doelling—Miss Stowe
From Strange Lands...................................   Schumann
Funeral March of	a Marionette........................ ...Gounod
t״v , r s a ,	Eloise Cook
Duet—L Angelus	.......	 Gounod
Betty Cook—Dorothy Palmer
Pastorale .........................................  Burgmiiller
Dorothy Palmer
From the Fairies. ..............................Mildred Weston
When Twilight Comes.
Away They Softly Creep. %
Brownie Drum.
.......Clementi
Edmund Parlow
...........Bach
........Oesten
Florence Maxim
.....Burmüller
....von Weber
.....Beethoven
........Schütt
....... . Mozart
, Wagner-Spindler ..........Chopin
..........Heller
.....Beethoven
Massenet
.Schubert
Schubert ... . Liszt
Debussy
Arensky
Betty Cook
Virginia Uppercu
Isabel Schaffer
Drusilla Cooke
Rondo ............
The Skaters.......
Intrada...........
Dollie’s Dream..., Old Noah Himself
Ballade ..........
Valse ............
Sonatine .........
Aveu .............
Martha Pratt Dirai-je, Maman.. Gretchen Uppercu
Margaret Palmer
Variations on Ah! Vous
Solvjeg’s Song...........
Tarantelle ..............
Song to thè Evening Stai-Valse ...................
.	Mary Lillian Uppercu
The Warrior.................................
Andante from sonata, op. 26............
״	.	Theresa Vaughan
Elegie .....................................
Impromptu .......................... ...
Ella Uppercu
Menuet . . Consolation
> Margaret Carlaftes
En Bateau (for two pianos).....................
Valse (for two pianos).........................
Mrs. Doellong—Miss Stowe
Portland Takes Pride in Ethelynde Smith
A most enthusiastic reception was given to Ethelynde Smith when she sang recently for the Portland (Me.) Men’s Singing Club, Alfred Brinkler, conductor. On the following day the Portland Evening Express devoted much space to praising the fine artistry of the soprano. Among other things, the critic of that paper stated:	“The club was
assisted by Ethelynde Smith, soprano, a local favorite in whom, too, the city may take pride, for it is seldom that a Portland vocalist can boast so flattering a series of uninterrupted successes as has been the good fortune of this Portland girh Miss Smith gave a song group, and also had the solos in the cantata and her work rounded out an evening of high artistic excellence.”
Joseph Hollman Honored in Japan
Joseph Hollman, the veteran Dutch cellist, who has been giving recitals in Japan, was the guest of honor at a dinner party given by the elder Prince Kuni in Tokio on May 4. It is said that he has the distinction of being the first foreign musician to be entertained at one of the Imperial palaces in the last twenty-five years. Among the other guests were the Princess Nagako Kuni, the bride-elect of the Prince Regent; several members of the Japanese nobility
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