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...University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers...
...assure its existence for the next three years Henri Verbrugghen will conduct the 16 concerts at home, the same series in St. Paul, will lead on Nov. 4 the identical program given 25 years before with Soprano Dusolina Giannini, the soloist, instead of her teacher, Marcella Sembrich...
...Orchestra, so Mrs. Bok made her Institute of Music in three years' time into one of the few wonders of the music world. Money is much, but far from all in that world. At a music institute the teaching staff is all-important. To hers Mrs. Bok attracted Mme. Sembrich, Emilio de Gogorza, Carl Flesch, Moritz Rosenthal and many another. A program comes next. The Bok administration provides needy students not only with instruments and instruction, but with living expenses and funds for their debut concerts as well...
...Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...
...season will receive ten new singers: Sopranos: Elda Vettori of St. Louis; Martha Attwood of Baltimore; Louise Lerch of Allentown (Pa.), pupil of Marcella Sembrich; Editha Fleischer, who came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...