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VOL. XXVII.
No. 1.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, July 2,1898.
Twentieth Annual Convention
OF THE MUSIC TEACHERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA.
T H E Twentieth Annual Convention of
* the Music Teachers' National Asso-
ciation occurred last week at the Hotel
Waldorf, lasting from Thursday, June
23d, until the following Monday. The
Association has added to its member-
ship until it is composed, it is said, of
nearly two thousand members. About
two hundred delegates were present at the
Convention of which the following is the
program:
THURSDAY.
10:30 A. M.—Inaugural meeting. Ad-
dress by the Mayor of New York, and the
president of the association, Herbert Wil-
ber Greene.
2 P. M.—Concert, string quartette.
4 p. M.—Symposium on general culture
in music; address by Prof. George B.
Penny, dean in University of Kansas; Dr.
Henry M. Leipsiger, Mr. W. D. McCrack-
an, Miss Mabel Muirhead, New York,
and other prominent educators and writers.
8 p. M.—Grand reception in the Colonial
Room tendered to the. musical profession
of America by the local organization com-
mittee of New York City.
9 p* M.—Grand concert in the Audito-
rium. Chev. Giuseppe Ferrata, pianist;
short miscellaneous program; ending with
Liza Lehman's new song cycle, " I n a
Persian Garden," rendered by prominent
metropolitan artists.
FRIDAY.
10 A. M.—Symposium on vocal culture,
opened by an address by F. W. Wodell of
Boston, subject, " Some Aspects of Vocal
Teaching" in America; " Arnold W. Meyer-
Teeg, •" The Psychological Method of
Voice^ Culture." Other eminent speakers
followed and the symposium was closed
with a paper by Dr. Frank Miller of New
York, on his new discovery which was
of great interest to vocalists.
11:30 A. M.—Symposium on sight-sing-
ing in and out of the Public Schools: Ad-
dresses, W. A. Hodgdon of St. Louis, Mo.,
" Rote Singing, and Its Proper Place in
the Public Schools; " Miss Mary F. Burt,
of New York, "The Galin-Paris-Cheve
Method of Sight-Singing; " Eva B. Dem-
by Bruno Oscar Klein; J. C. Dempsey,
basso cantante; Mrs. Shannah Cummings,
soprano.
SUNDAY.
Special song services by five of the
most
noted choirs of the city—two boy
ing, of Philadelphia, '" Sight-Singing as
choirs,
two quartets and one chorus choir.
the Foundation of Musical Education;"
11
A.
M.—Marble Collegiate Church,
John Tagg, of Newark, N. J., " T h e Tonic
Fifth
Avenue
and Twenty-ninth Street,
Sol-Fa Method;" Miss Fletcher, "The
Richard
T.
Percy,
organist and choir-
Fletcher Simplex and Musical Kind-ergar-
master.
Quartet
choir.
ten System."
3.30 p. M.—Church of the Ascension,
2 p. M.—Concert: Miss Florence Ter-
Fifth
Avenue and Tenth Street, Charles
rell, pianist; Miss Louise Westerwelt, so-
Heinroth,
organist and choirmaster;
prano ; Miss Flavie Van den Hende, 'cel-
chorus
choir.
list; Win. H. Rieger, tenor; Allen G.
4.15 P. M.—St. James Church, Madison
Waterous, baritone; New York Trio Club,
Avenue
and Seventy-first Street. Walter
Miss Bertha Bucklin, violiniste.
H.
Hall,
organist and choirmaster; boy
4 P. M.—Symposium on church music:
choir.
Addresses by Cecil P. Poole, Thomas
8 P. M.—Calvary Church, Fourth Avenue
Whitney Surette, Walter Henry Hall,
and
Twenty-first Street, Clement R. Gale,
George Edward Stubbs, C. Whitney
Coombs, Richard Henry Warren, and organist and choirmaster; boy choir.
8 P. M.—St. Mark's Church, Second
others; illustrations by boy and mixed
Avenue and Tenth Street, William Edward
choir.
' 8 p. M.—Grand orchestral concert: Over- Mulligan, organist and choirmaster;
ture, Horatio W. Parker; dances, Bruno quartet choir.
MONDAY.
Oscar Klein; violin concerto, Homer N.
10 A.M.—Symposium on Harmony;
Bartlett, which was to have been played
last year; the Raff concerto, solo by Wm. short papers by Ferdinand Dunkley, Dr.
H. Sherwood, of Chicago; symphony in H. R. Palmer, Dr. Hugh Clark and
C, W. W. Gilchrist.
others.
SATURDAY.
11 A. M.—Business meeting of the as-
10 A. M.—Symposium on the conserva- sociation, when all matters under discus-
tory system: Chas. H. Morse, of Brook- sion in the council of delegates were then
lyn, Miss Amy Fay, of New York, Rich- presented to the convention for final vote.
ard Zeckwer, of Philadelphia, and others.
In the afternoon there followed a series
Discussion.
of interesting programs; papers on special
11 A. M.—Lecture recital by H. E. Kreh- subjects with illustrations; piano recitals;
;biel, of New York.
chamber music, and miscellaneous special
2 p. M.—Composers' concert: At which musical features.
An educational recital was given by
some of America's most popular songwrit-
ers appeared as accompanists; their own Mrs. A. K. Virgil, illustrating new meth-
compositions were rendered by favorite art- ods as to class and private instruction.
8 P.M.—The Oratorio of "St. Paul,"
ists. Arthur Foote, Clayton Johns, Chas. B.
Hawley, Harry Rowe Shelley, Dr. Gerrit with orchestra, chorus and solo artists;
Smith, W. W. Gilchrist, Henry Holden Walter Henry Hall, director.
A number of exceptional features
Huss, Homer N. Bartlett, C. Whitney
formed part of the program, among them
Coombs, and others.
3.30 P. M.—Concert: Brooklyn Cantata a recital by Max Heinrich, baritone; lec-
Club, Albert Gerard-Thiers, director; Miss ture on the orchestra by W. J. Henderson,
Elsa von Grave, pianiste; C. S. Cornell, the Franko Orchestra furnishing illustra-
tions; pianoforte recital by Xaver Schar-
baritone.
4.30 P. M.—Recital by Wm. H. Sher- wenka; recital by the New York Ladies'
Trio Club, composed of Dora Valesca
wood, pianist.
8 P. M.—Concert: The famous Lieder- Becker, violin; Mabel Phipps, piano;
kranz Society of New York; new quintette Flavie van den Hende, 'cello.