The Billboard 1924-06-14: Vol 36 Iss 24 (1924-06-14)

JUNE 14, 1924 Teed Doar cd MORE FAIRS Announce Pageants and Musical Programs for Annual Celebration r.ch week more faire announce their plans the musical features of their programs and ore is indication that more pageants will be given than last season. The Central Michigan rolr of Lansing, Mich., will present a pageant will be illustrated the history of ham County from the earliest days to the «ont time. The pageant will require a large ot and a feature will be the participation of 1.000 school children. rhe Flemington (N. J.) Fair met with such seat suceess with the pageant put on last n that another one will be given this year. rb. bf. Allen, president of the Flemington Fair j.soctation, advises a “Pageant of Progress’’ will be staged by the Joho B. Rogers Producing Company, and many musical features will be ptroduced. Six hundred people took part ino jast year’s pageant and the cast for this year will be fully as large and perhaps require a greater number of people. The Trumansburg (N. Y.) Fair promises a novel entertainment in which the history of the Finger Lakes district will be presented in a pageant, and here too the cast will be large. The Kewanee District Agricultural Board of Kewanee, IDL, thru the secretary-manager, L. S. Sprietsma, is completing arrangements for a ong festival as a feature of the fair. The festival will be given by the singing organizations of the city and the surrounding towns, and this includes church choirs, schools, community sing associations and singing societies, Lawrenceburg, Ind., has announced that the Dearborn County Fair, which at which is held ip that city, a feature of the musical program will be concerts by the Kentucky Cardinal Boys’ Band of Maysville, Ky. The Staunton (Va.) Fair bas announced as feature musical attraction the Stonewall Band. This organization of musicians history of much interest, as it was organized im 18535 under the name of the Mountain Sax-Horn Band, which name was retained until the Civil War, when it was mustered in as the Sth Virginia Band, and during the war performed field and hospital service as a surgeon corps. The band has appeared at many notable military and civic demonstrations in many of the States and was a feature at the expositions at Chicago, Buffalo and St. Louis, As other fairs announce their musical procrams we will publish them in the columns of this department. its Brigade bas a WHERE THEY WILL SUMMER Wilfried Klamroth Master Class, July 1 to August 15, Great Barrington, Mass. Lazar Samoiloff, San Francisco, Calif. Arthur J. Hubbard, July and August, Los Angeles, Calif. Vincent V. Hubbard, July and August, Los Angeles, Calif. Merle Alcock, Ravinia Park, Chicago, Ml. Jeanne Gordon, Ravinia Park, Chicago, IN. Lucrezia Bori, Ravinia Park, Chicago, M1. Giovanni Martinelli, Ravinia Park, Chicago, mn Mario Basiola, Ravinia Park, Chicago, Tl. Florence Easton, Ravinia Park, Chicago, I, (Continued on page 132) Artists’ Directory GROW Contralto Available for Concerts, Reel VOICE PLACING. Studio, 200 W. 57th St.. N. Y. Cirole s@rt7, ETHEL Dancing Corter-Waddell Studio of Dancing Private and Class Instruction OALt er. ORIENTAL. STAGE STEPS Dences Co for Professionals. Vaudevitic Acts Arra 724 St.. New York. 8 Ww. ne endleatt ates. SPANISH DANCING STUDIO. Teaches All Kinds of Dances, Spanish Tange an astanets. SENORA AURORA ARRIAZA 637 Madisen Ave, NEW YORK, Plaza 2/66. LOUIS VECCHIO Dancing, Grace, Poise, Stage Arts. Persona} Instruction Moderate Fees. caching for Professionals. Exercises, Technique, Routine. 1446 Brosdway, at 4ist St. NEW YORK CITY. MLLE. AMY MANTOVA Formerly Ballet Mistress N. Y. Hippodrome, Room eg New York. Circle 9/2!. Tom trancing “Children’s Clase Betunday." Bow tee ng. © ildren’s Class AMERICAN GIRL Awarded Estey Scholarship at Fontainebleau An event of outstanding interest in the musical world and particularly to organists of this country is the initial award just made of the Estey Organ Prize in competitive examinations for fellowship honors in the American Gaild of Organists to the new organ scholarship at the Fontainebleau School of Music for the summer season of 1924. The winner of the Estey prize is Leah Elizabeth Mynderse, of Albany, N. Y., who is not only a native American, but has received her entire musical education in this country. After leaving high school*she studied for several years with George Yates Meyers, organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy, N. Y., following this with a post-graduate course at the Organ School of Dr. William Carl in New York City. Almost immediately after entering the Guilmant Organ School Miss Mynderse obtained her present position of organist at the Morningside Presbyterian Church in New York, which post she has held for six yeats. Her musical studies were continued with Lynnwood Farnam and later with Warren Hedden and Clement R. Gale in Harmony and Counterpoint, and «he augmented her training with careful instruction in accompanying, composition and coaching under Walter Golde, well-known accompanist and coach. Sailing on June 18 Miss Mynderse will begin serious work at Fontainebleau under the personal supervision of Charles-Marie Widor, general director of the school, and Henri Libert, organist, in addition to continuing her study of composition. The Estey Organ Company Scholarship was originally established in February of this year by the American Guild of Organists and is intended to create the advanced study of organ playing under the notable French masters now in charge at Fontainebleau. Walter Damrosch, who is largely responsible for the founding of the School for American Students exclusively, and Frank Sealy, Warden of the American Guild of Orgunists, are equally enthusiastic at the opportunity that the scholarship affords to enable the American organist to obtain the benefits of the broadening effect which Fontainebleau provides, both in scholarship and its rare musical atmosphere. The Guild Scholarship examinations were conducted im more than fifteen cities of this country from Boston to San Francisco on May 14 and 15, making the competition national in scope, as the American Guild of Organists has thirtyseven Chapters and Guild members in fortyfour States. The necessary fonds for the Estey Organ Company Scholarship, which covers transportation, expenses and tuition for the winning American organist, are contributed to the Guild by tbe Estey Organ Company at Brattleboro, Vt. INTERESTING PROGRAM Offered by Graduates Granberry Piano School The eighteenth season of the Granberry Piano School of New York City, of which George Folsom Granberry is director, was brought to a close with the interesting program presented by the graduates in Carnegie Chamber Hall the evening of June 5. A Reger composition for twelve hands was given as the opening number under the direction of Mr. Granberry, and the interpretation served to demonstrate in an excellent manner the thoro training of the stu dents. The second number was a group of three compositions by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, played by Charlotte Rado. This young pianist read each composition with such skill as to indicate that she will be beard from in the future. This impression was further deepened by her interpretation of a second group with which the musical program was brought to a close. Her playing showed much talent and an earnest desire to understand the compositions. Eva Guernsey and Matilda Mayer played most effectively the first movement for two pianos from Bach's Concerto in C. Majer. An address, *‘Music in Its Relation to Life’’, presented by Rev, Floyd S. Leach, was very interesting and proved how essential music is to every-day life, also its helpfulness to the human race. The exercises terminated with the presentation of diplomas and certificates by the director, George Folsom Granberry, and the craduates receiving a teacher’s diploma were Eva L. Guernsey and Matilda Victoria Mayer. The members of the normal class receiving a teacher's certificate were Ada V. Conklin of Richmond, Va.; Pauline Dennerlein, New York City; Eva L. Frisbie, New York City; Dorothy M. Hall, Brooklyn; Mary Baldwin Hamill, Princeton, N. J.; Maria LePage, New York City; Elaine BE. Mersereau, West New Brighton, N. J.; Mrs. Arnold L. Nissen, Perth Amboy, N. J.; Charlotte Rado, Budapest, Hungary; Petra M. Tobler, Hackensack, N. J. NORTH SHORE FESTIVAL Has Attendance of 35,000—C. M. Loef fler Wins $1,000 Prize for Best Composition The North Shore Festival of Evanston, IIl., which has steadily advanced in attendance each year since it was first held fifteen years ago, exceeded all previous records this season and drew on the week audiences which totaled 35,000 As reported in these columns the 1924 Festival bad a most brilliant array of soloists, guest conductors and a huge chorus and each concert but added further to the splendid record of past festivals. The competition for the $1,000 cash prize for the best composition was keen and the sueessful contestant was Charles Martin Loeffler. who was awarded the prize on his com position entitled “Memories of Childhood—Life n a Russian Village’. CONCERT AND OPERA NOTES The Sarasota Times Nets Robert Ringling. baritone, as specially qualified for the post of Secretary of Commerce in the next Presidential Cabinet. Clarence Cameron White, violinist, was the soloist at the concert given by the 25th Infantry Band at the Ali Baba Theater in Nogales, Ariz., recently. Included in his program were several of his own compositions and he also played numbers by Schumann, Kreisler and Saint-Saens. On June 19, at Queen's Hall, London, Dusolina Geanini, American soprano, will make ber London debut. Following this she will appear July 1 as soloist in the same hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Henri Verbrugzhben. MOTION PICTURE MUSIC NOTES The musical program being presented this week at the New York Capitol Theater by 8. L. Rothafel is made up entirely of compositions of the late Victor Herbert. The overture is “Natoma”, played by the orchestra and conducted by David Mendoza, and the tabloid opere’ta for the week is ‘The Wizard of the Nile’, with a cast of principals including Frank Moulan, Sara Edwards, Claire Simpson, Virginia Futrelle and Leo deHierapolis. Doris Niles is leading the ballet corps in Luigini’s “‘Ballet of the Egyptians’. Another interesting orchestral number is ‘“‘Herbertiana’’, a compilation of Mr. Herbert’s most popular melodies, which were arranged by Dr. William Axt. Among the interesting musical numbers featured on the program at the Eastman Theater, Rochester, N. Y., the week of June 1, were John M. Moncrieff’s singing of *‘A Jolly Rover" (G. O’Hara), and a piano duo, Saint-Saens’ “Seherzo”’, played by Lyndon Croxford and Arthur Hitchcock. As a tribute to the noted composer, the late Victor Herbert, the orchestra, directed by Victor Wagner and Guy F. Harrison, played as the opening number Mr. Herbert's ‘‘Irish Rhapsody”. Estelle Carey, soprano, and Everett Clark, tenor, are soloists this week at the New York Strand. As a special feature the managing director is presenting ‘“‘Marimba Land”, with Hurtado’s Royal Marimba Band and dancers. D. Kenneth Widenor, formerly organist at the Rialto Theater, Omaha, Neb., has accepted PATRICK CONWAY AND HIS BAND AND SOLOISTS Featuring VAHRAH VERBA, CARLO FERRETTI itone ERNEST F. PECHIN, Cornet JOSEPH La MONACA, Flute Some Open Time tor July and August SEASON of 1924 219 West 46th St., “( Wallace). the position of organist and musical director of the Sixty-Ninth Street Theater, Philadelphia. The Volga Singers, in native costume, are appearing at the Rivali Theater, New York, this week. They «are singing as a prolog to the feature film three numbers, (a) “‘Night’’ by Rubinstein: (hb) “‘Serenade’’, by Fet, and (c) “Little Bireh Tree’, a folk song Fritz Kreisler’s “‘Liebesfrend” is being played as a saxophone solo by Harty Edison, and for the overture the orchestra is pkying Tschaikovsky's **1812"". O'Malley and Maxfield played their tinal week’s engagement at ite Missouri Theater, st. Louis, the week beginning May 381, singing “Sunshine of Virginia’, ‘It's a Lotta Bunk” and “That Old Gang of Mine”. As a musical oddity Conductor Litiau directed his orchestra in “A Trip Around the World’, and ©. Sharpe Minor played a number of selections on the Wurlitzer, The principal musical numbers this week at the Sheridan Theater, in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, are being presented by J. Walter Davidson and his Concert Orchestra, and there are also the usual excellent organ recitals, Leonard Leigh Introduced as an organ specialty at the St, Panl Capitol Theater, the week of June 7, a medley of ‘Songs Dad Used To Sing’. Bernard Ferguson, well-known baritone, appeared on the program in a musical skit, and for the noonday organ recital given during the week by Arthur Koerner, the Sextet from “‘Lucia’’ was used. The music program during this, “Joy Week’’, at the New York Rialto Theater, is being celebrated by a number of musical features. tiesenfeld’s classical jazz is “‘Little Grey Home in the West’ (Lohr) as it might have been played by other composers. There is also a song medley by Edward Miller, tenor, and for the overture von Suppe’s “Beautiful: Galatea” is being played by the orchestra, under the direction of Hugo Riesenfeld and Willy Stahl, alternating. Under the direction of Buel B. Risinger, the orchestra at the Howard Theater, Atlanta, opened the musical program the week of June 2 with the overture to the opera ‘‘Maritana”’ As an orchestral specialty the players were also heard in ‘“‘War Is Hell’’, a doughboy’s nightmare, and in the prolog to the feature picture, the Paramount Quartet, formerly the Berry School Quartet of Rome, Ga., were featured. The singers are well known thru the South for their harmony singing. 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