MUSICAL COURIER
38
June 2 8, 1923
DEAN OF SYRACUSE FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT RESIGNS
Dr. Parker Retires After Forty Years of Service—Harold Butler, of Kansas University, to Fill Vacancy—Prospectus
Announced for Next Season—Notes
musical viewpoint, and the membership (which now approximates 1,200) is steadily growing. The chairmen of the two principal committees for the coming year are Mrs. Harry L. Vibbard, who continues as chairman of the committee in charge of the larger evening concerts given by the club, and A. Cathleen King, who will act as chairman of the committee which has charge of arranging the programs for the fortnightly Wednesday morning concerts held at the Temple Theater.
Prospectus for Next Season.
The prospects for the season of 1923-24 are most excellent. The recital commission, which presents the most pretentious list of artists offered by any organization, has announced the selection of Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman and Ernestine Schumann Heink. Other artists are being considered and further anouncements will be made later. The Morning Musicales are bringing back Sigrid Onegin for an evening concert, following the spectacular success which she achieved in a morning recital before this club in April. There are several other organizations which will put on a series of more or less importance next season, and the annual music festival will, as usual, form the climax of the season. Unfortunately the festival held early in May resulted in a deficit of something over $3,000, but the directors seem undismayed and are planning to go ahead with an equally important festival next spring.
Notes.
Charles M. Courboin returned to Syracuse on June 14 to play at the wedding of Elsa Berwald, daughter of William Berwald of the College of Fine Arts, the conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Courboin came to Syracuse from a concert trip which took him as far West as Fort Smith, Ark., and Muskogee, Okla. He played, among other numbers, a composition by Dr. Berwald written especially for rendition at his daughter’s wedding. The wedding was held at the First Baptist Church, where Mr. Courboin was organist for seven years.
Among important students’ recitals given recently were ones by the pupils of Morton Adkins, formerly baritone of the Ravinia Opera Company; the piano pupils of Catherine F. Seymour, and also those of Arthur F. Van Eltinge.
S. B. E.
Syracuse, N. Y., June 14.—At the annual meeting of the board of trustees of Syracuse University, held June 12, the resignation of George A. Parker, dean of the College of Fine Arts, was received and accepted. Harold L. Butler, for the past six or seven years of the State University of ICansas at Lawrence, was appointed in his place. Dr. Parker has been dean of the College of Fine Arts for over twenty years and, in addition, has done some teaching in piano and organ. He has seen the College of Fine Arts grow from a small school to a student body of 1,600 students, with a faculty of twenty-five. He has worked faithfully and patiently at his post despite many difficulties brought on by the tremendously rapid growth of Syracuse University during the administration of the late Chancellor Day. Dr. Parker has done everything possible to maintain high standards of instruction and has been active in promoting the interests of music in Syracuse whenever opportunity afforded. He has succeeded in presenting a considerable number of artists of note in John Crouse College Auditorium and these, together with the student and faculty recitals, have been a large part of the musical life of the University Hill section and of the city at large. Dr. Parker will continue ‘to teach in the college, but will be relieved of the executive duties incident to his position of dean. Dean Butler has had extensive preparation for the position and undoubtedly will prove a successful and popular administrator. His work in !the West has been notably successful, not only in the technical work of the music department but in the furtherance of musical interests throughout the State. Dean Butler has appeared in concerts in many Western cities as well as in the East.
Morning Musicale Elects Officers.
At the annual election of officers of the Morning Musicale, Clara Drew, professor of music in the College of Fine Arts, was promoted to the presidency of the organization. Miss Drew has been chairman of the concert committee for several years and has also served in a number of other capacities, so that she is especially well qualified to assume the duties of president. She succeeds Harriett G. Fitch, who has served very effectively for several years. The Morning Musicales are in the most prosperous condition !that the society has ever known. The concert season this year was successful from a financial as well as from a
Fortune Gallo, will be made the more notable by the appearance, throughout the engagement, of the Pavley-Oukrain-sky Russian dancers, for three seasons a distinguishing feature with the Chicago Opera.
The sensational success scored by the Pavley-Oukrainskys with the San Carlo during its recent engagement in Havana, and the triumphs achieved by its forces in Mexico City just prior thereto, were impelling reasons for the closing by Manager Gallo of successful negotiations whereby this troupe of artists will now be seen in New York with the San Carlo forces. The company numbers some twenty-five members, headed by Andreas Pavley and Serge Ouk-rainsky, both artists of dramatic power and originality. The organization, in addition to the customary operatic ballet features as forming a part of the performances, will be seen in solo dances and divertissements of unusual classic elegance and beauty, making the productions of the San Carlo at the Century of exceptional artistic worth.
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Dean Butler, of Kansas University, Accepts Syracuse Post
Harold L. Butler, dean of the Schol. of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, has accepted the deanship of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y. Since coming to the University of Kansas in 1915, Dean Butler has increased the student enrollment from 180 to over 600; the number of faculty members from ten to twenty-four; the salary budget of the school from a little more than $20,000 to over $60,000. At the same time, the cost per student at the University has decreased. The annual number of graduates has increased from seventeen to forty-eight. When Dean Butler took charge the school owned seven pianos. It now owns forty-two. The School of Fine Arts in 1915 was housed in old North College, a building containing seven classrooms and studios. In 1917 Dean Butler obtained an addition to the building appropriation of the University, by means of which the front part ot the new Administration Building was completed. This part contains sixteen studios and classrooms, twenty practice rooms, including an organ practice room and a harp practice room.
In returning to Syracuse, Dean Butler will be welcomed by many friends, for he was head of the vocal department at the University for eleven years, resigning there to come to Kansas. The College of Fine Arts at Syracuse is one of the largest and most prominent in !the country. It has a student enrollment of nearly a thousand and is housed in one of the largest and finest buildings on the campus. Many prominent American musicians are numbered among its alumni. Among them may be mentioned Lucy Marsh, Morton Adkins, Richard Bonelli, Helen Riddell, Frederick Schlieder, Alexander Russell, Harry Vibbard, Joseph Seiter and Earl Stout.
George A. Parker, present dean, will at his own request be retired to a professorship in organ. Dr. Parker has served Syracuse University for forty years. To him more than to any other man is due the exceptional growth and development of the department.	M.
Ellis Clark Hammann Engagements
The second half of the season found Ellis Clark Hammann, that thoroughly reliable pianist and accompanist, filling his usual number of engagements, his appearances being as follows: February 7, Orpheus Club, Philadelphia; 8, accompanist for Estelle Werner at song recital in Reading; 14, accompanist for Mae Hotz and Horatio Cornell at the Ritz Carlton, Philadelphia; 26, Manufacturers’ Club musicale, Philadelphia; 26, (evening) musicale at the Lee School, Philadelphia; March 4, musicale, Philadelphia; 14, musicale, Germantown; 26, Manufacturers’ Club, Philadelphia; April 5, accompanist at the joint recital of May-belle Marston and Ethel Wilson, Philadelphia; 7, musicale, Philadelphia; 11, accompanist for Susanne Dercum, contralto, and B. Kusikoff, cellist, Philadelphia; 18, Orpheus Club, Philadelphia; 19, Treble Clef Club, Philadelphia; 23, Manufacturers’ Club, Philadelphia; 25, Mendelssohn Club, Philadelphia; May 1, Musical Fund Society, Philadelphia; 7, Second Presbyterian Church Choir concert, Aeolian Hall, New York City; 10, accompanist for Minna Dolores, soprano, in recital at the Ritz Carlton, Philadelphia; 14, Manufacturers’ Club, Philadelphia; 16, Ogontz School musicale, Philadelphia; 17, accompanist at the concert by the prize winners of the Philadelphia Music_ League contest; June 2, musicale, Philadelphia; 20, musicale, Merion, Pa.
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet with San Carlo Opera
The San Carlo Grand Opera season at the Century Theater this fall, so states an announcement by Impresario
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