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program. Mrs. Goetz, who owes her entire training to Mr. Spry and his assistant, Miss Sage, will be among the pupils to demonstrate Mr. Spry’s principles of teaching to the-summer normal classes at his studio at the; Columbia School of Music, on Monday afternoons during July.
The Knupfer Studios.
Walter R. Knupfer, director of the Knupfer Studios, has closed his season of teaching which he pronounces the most strenuous one in his whole career as a pedagogue, and has embarked for Europie, accompanied by his wife, Anita Alvarez, and little daughter, Gretel. The Knupfers will visit Bad Kissingen for the cure and will gci later to Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps and to Switzerland. Their musical itinerary will include Berlin, Munich (Wagner Festival) and Salzburg (Mozart Festival).
The Knupfer Studios will be open during the summer with practically all the teachers in attendance.
The fall term will begin September 10. Several new members have been added to the faculty including Peter Sniadoff, the Russian violin virtuoso and former student of Sevcik and recognized as one of the principal exponents of this master’s method.
Columbia School Notes.
A number of the advanced students of the Louise St. John Westervelt Vocal Studio gave a pretentious program in the School Recital Hall, Monday evening, June 11. Those taking part were Clara Mammen, Louise Holstedt, Nina Samuel, Irene Barstow, Winnifred Erickson, Irene (Continued on page 45),
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who appeared on the program one realized anew the careful training; that had been given each participant—some of them only children, others full-fledged pianists. Miss Chase, the able head of the school that bears her name, has surrounded” herself with competent instructors and the long established school, built on solid foundation, has attracted the attention of teachers who annually coach during the summer months at the school, which has artistry as its motto.
Normelli Engaged by Apollo Club.
Edith Bideau Normelli, soprano, who has been under the exclusive management of Walter Anderson, Inc., of New York City for two years, announces that she is now under her own management in Chicago, where she has recently located permanently.
She will fill many engagements during the next season in the East, South and Middle West, tours already having been booked. Mme. Normelli has been engaged as soloist by the Apollo Musical Club of Chicago, Harrison Wild conductor, for the rendition of Handel’s Messiah, Sunday afternoon, December 23, at Orchestra Hall.
Saar Off to Portland.
Louis Victor Saar, of the Chicago Musical College faculty, left on Saturday, June 16, for Portland (Ore.), where he will teach at the Ellison-White Conservatory until August 15, as guest teacher.
American Conservatory Notes.
The Summer Master Classes and Normal Session of the American Conservatory begin Monday, June 25, in all departments. Free scholarship contests will be held as follows: Thursday morning, June 21, Josef Lhevinne scholarship; Friday morning, June 22, Delia Valeri scholarship; Saturday morning, June 23, William S. Brady scholarship.
All indications point to overflowing classes for each of the above mentioned artists. An important feature of the session is the department of Public School Music. D. A. Clippinger is specially engaged for the first three weeks to conduct classes in the study of fine old madrigals and modem choruses. On July 16 George H. Gartlan, director of Public School Music in Greater New York, will follow in three weeks’ courses on vital subjects such as School Management, The Elementary School, the High School, The Art of Accompanying, as applied to school work.
A series of five public recitals will be held on June 30, July 7, 11, 18 and 25 by members of the faculty. The first on Saturday morning, June 30, will be a two-piano recital by Grace Welsh and Aletta Tenold at Kimball Hall.
A special recital will be given by Suzanne Keener, member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, on July 10 under the direction of Mme. Valeri. Particulars will be announced shortly.
A delightful recital was given by the advanced children’s classes, Saturday afternoon last. A number of the participants showed remarkable work and the entire program was of an unusual standard.
What M. Jennette Loudon Students Are Doing.
The master classes in piano, which M. Jennette Loudon conducts at the Bloomington (111.) Conservatory of Music throughout the year, have brought forth some unusually well trained talent, several of whom appeared in recital in Bloomington, June 7. Those who took part and, from reports at hand, made very favorable impressions and proved a great credit to their most efficient teacher, were Harville Crandall, Rhea Jones, Alma Wrede, Maud Whitman, Gladys Powell and Glen Johnson. They played most successfully selections by Bach, Cyril Scott, Grainger, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Palmgren, Paderewski and Schubert-Liszt.
Elizabeth Phelps, an M. Jennette Loudon exponent, is now on an extensive concert tour of the West, which will keep her busy throughout the entire summer. Miss Phelps is one of Miss Loudon’s most active students now in the professional field.
Walter Spry’s Class Meeting.
Walter Spry’s class held its last meeting this season at the home of Margaret Farr, June 16. Evelyn Martin Goetz, a talented pianist and pupil of Mr. Spry, gave the
no difficulty in making that name known, as she should do well in her chosen profession, judging from the manner in which she sang the difficult aria, Il Est Doux, il Est Bon, from Massenet’s Herodiade. Dorothy Cannon, a very clever singer, has been well taught in the art of beautiful singing. She knows how to handle her organ and sings the classics with marked authority and dignity, as witness her reading of the Handel aria, Care Selve. Miss Cannon, who, by the way, is one of the most popular young ladies in the smart set,, is a very serious student and is well remembered for her few appearances last season with the Chicago Civic Opera Company in Parsifal, where her musicianship was much admired by the various conductors. Helen Freund, a pupil of Mrs. Herman Devries, of whom this department has often spoken, again disclosed her beautiful coloratura in songs in which she had not been heard previously, and deepened the good opinion formulated recently. Miss Freund’s work has been recognized and she has recently received honors that will provide for her further studies.
Raisa and Rimini in Europe.
Just as they left the Conte Rosso, on which they crossed the ocean, Rosa Raisa Rimini and her husband forwarded to the Musical Courier their picture, taken on board, with this inscription : “Dear Friends: Here we are after nine days of spaghetti. We think we look terrible. A few good games of tennis will take off the hundred pounds we both gained. Best wishes and love. Sincerely yours,
“(Signed) Rosa Raisa-Giacomo Rimini.”
Chicago Musical College Notes.
A concert by students in the piano, vocal and violin departments of the Chicago Musical College was given in Central Theater on Sunday afternoon.
Lucille ' Mallory, Elsa Reinhart and Margaret Hayes, vocal students, are engaged for summer chautauqua with the Ellison White Bureau.
Zelma Smithpeter, vocal student, and Manfred Gotthelf, of the faculty, were heard in a return engagement at the South Shore Country Club on Sunday afternoon. Miss Smithpeter sang last Monday for the radio.
Anne Leonard, student of Mrs. Herdien, has been singing recently with great success at recitals at Antigo (Mo.) and Manitowoc (Wis.).
Ruth Garnett, student of the vocal department, is in Asheville N. C.) attending, as a winner of the Rocky Mountains District prize, the convention of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs.	.
Students of Elsie Barge gave a concert in the Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, on Saturday evening.
M־rs. Cutter and Edward Collins, both of the faculty, with Alfred Wallenstein, first cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, joined in a program given for the benefit of the starving children of Germany and Austria, at the home of Mrs. Oscar Mayer, June 14. Ruth Jones, Dorothy Friedlander, Grace Strassburg and Lillian Winter gave a program this week for the Y. W. C. A. girls’ benefit fund.
The Stultses at Northwestern Gymnasium.
The Pirates of Penzance was given by the University Circle at Patten Gymnasium, June 14. Monica Graham Stults sang the role of Ma;bel, in a manner all to her credit and acted it with vim and enthusiasm. She was vigorously applauded, and, as ever, proved a favorite with the Evanston-ians. Walter Allen Stults was the sergeant of police. He made a very funny one and once more disclosed :his rich basso to fine advantage. Mr. Stults has often participated in opera performances, always winning the favor of h!s listeners. Rollin N. Pease was the Pirate King ; Loyal Phillips Shawe and Eugene Dressier were also in the cast. The performance was staged by Charles Jones, and the accompaniments furnished by the Little Symphony Orchestra. Last year, for the Mikado, the receipts were $3,000 and it was learned from good authority that this year the box-office receipts surpassed those of the previous season. The performance was for the benefit of the Women’s Building Fund of the Northwestern University.
Successful Beduschi Pupil.
Among the successful pupils of Signor Umberto Beduschi is William Rogerson, formerly with the Chicago Opera Association, who presented his photograph to his teacher with the following inscription : “To Signor Umberto Beduschi, with admiration for his wonderful teaching, from his pupil. (Signed) William Rogerson, January 10, 1922.”
At the Bolm School.
Jean Binet, Dalcroze exponent, who is to conduct special classes in Dalcroze Eurythmies at the Adolph Bolm School of the Dance this summer, will arrive just in time to commence his classes Monday, June 25, and not June 28 as first announced.- The classes will be daily and the course will last for three weeks.
Adolph Bolm himself will teach during the summer session, as will also his able assistants. There is a large registration.
Bush Conservatory Commencement Series.
Kenneth M. Bradley is a man of ideas.- His latest, a winning one, was to have the commencement exercises of the Bush Conservatory, of which he is the able and popular president, held in the recital hall of the school instead of in a downtown theater. The innovation is a good one and from an advertising standpoint it is recommended to other schools. Students who appear on the programs invite friends to come to the school and the visit may result in some of them enrolling next season. They get acquainted, find the surroundings congenial, and they are in the right frame of mind to listen to boosters of thé school. The commencement series of ten programs started on Tuesday evening, June 5, and was concluded on Saturday afternoon, June 16. Close to one hundred students appeared in the series, and judging from those who furnished the program on Friday evening, June 15, the talent this year at the Bush Conservatory is of the highest order. The Bush Conservatory, an old institution, has always held a prominent position among the leading schools in the country.
Mary Wood Chase School Commencement Concert.
The Mary Wood Chase School of Musical Arts is in many ways unique—witness the announcement of the concert that took place in the Fine Arts Recital Hall on Saturday afternoon, June 16, and which was billed as “the annual June concert by students selected from the preparatory, intermediate, ' academic and professional training courses.” The Mary Wood Chase_ School,_ which has many branches in Chicago and suburbs is a musical institution of which״Chicago is- justly-proud—Listening to the students
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