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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
If the Symphony Orchestra would make
itself a stronger factor in the musical life
of New York, the passing of resolutions
would be unnecessary.
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CARLETON SLACK will return
* * • from Europe about the first of Sep-
tember.
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/CAMILLA URSO, the well known vio-
^-^ liniste, is passing a few weeks in
Boston.
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\X7HEN Dora Valesca Becker first ap-
peared in a musical capacity before
us it was as a child violiniste. Her musi-
cal development has kept pace with her
physical growth, and as she is now, a grace-
ful young woman, her musical work has
expanded until wherever Miss Becker ap-
pears the audience is charmed by her re-
markable proficiency in her art.
She
plays with refinement and taste.
Her
admirable handling of the violin is the re-
sult of hard and conscientious work, sup-
DORA VALESCA BECKER.I
plemented by unusual musical talent.
Her appearance with the New York La-
dies' Trio Club at the Waldorf-Astoria at
the recent convention proceedings elicited
rounds of applause.
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T H E tenth annual meeting of the New
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York State Music Teachers' Associa.
tion was held at Binghampton, N. Y.,
June 28, 29, and 30. The address of wel-
come was delivered by Mayor Jerome De
Witt. The first day's program consisted
of piano and organ recitals, and in the
evening a grand concert was given, after
which a reception was tendered at the
rooms of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation. On Wednesday there were several
concerts, recitals, and papers on musical
subjects and a reception tendered by Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Delavan. A similar pro-
gram was arranged for Thursday.
Sumner Salter is president of the asso-
ciation.
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T H E anmial convention of the Missouri
*• State Music Teachers' Association
was held in the Academy of Music in Kan-
sas City, June 14, 15 and 16, with three
sessions daily, at 10, 2 and 8 o'clock.
Singers and teachers from all over Mis-
souri were there, among them the La-
dies' Musical Club and Mrs. D. W. Steele,
of Sedalia, Ernest Kroeger, George C.
Veih, Frank J. Benedict, Milton B. Grif-
fith, Adelaide Kalkman, W. S. Bonsack
and Miss Maud Barrows, all of St. Louis;
A. T. Graber and Miss Helen Spencer, of
Joplin, and R. E. Wardell, of Warrens-
burg, all of whom, with Mrs. Carl Busch,
Frank T. Fisk, the Appy Trio Club,
Francois Boucher, Silas R. Mills, Mrs.
Mabel Haas-Speyer, Mrs. W. C. Goff, Mrs.
Jennie Schultz, Miss Lila Johnson, Dudley
Eaton, Will J. Murray and George Olmi
took part in the evening programs, which
were of a miscellaneous nature.
The Euterpe Club gave the visitors a
reception at the Midland Hotel Tuesday
evening.
The various officers and committees of
the association for '98—'99 are:
E. R. Kroeger, St. Louis, president.
H. E. Schultze, Kansas City, secretary
and treasurer.
Executive committee: A. F. Graber,
Joplin, chairman; Mrs. Troutman, Joplin;
Miss Helen Spencer, Joplin; Mrs. Philip
Perry, Kansas City.
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T H E president of the association, Ernest
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Kroeger, of St. Louis, spoke most
happily of the splendid strides that
Missouri is making in music. - A. T.
Graber, of Joplin, followed with an inter-
esting essay on musical "Philistines."
"Myself When Young," Liza Lehman's
beaittiful melody, was rendered in splen-
did style by Silas R. Mills. He was in
excellent voice, his interpretation being
especially commendable, and he was great-
ly assisted by the finished work of the ac-
companist, Mrs. Jennie Schultz.
The piano recital of Mrs. Carl Busch,
assisted by Mrs. Mabel Haas-Speyer, was
the feature of the afternoon, and it is not
often that the public is permitted to hear
such splendid renditions of difficult classics
as were furnished by these two gifted art-
ists yesterday afternoon.
Those divine
harmonies- of Schumann, the fantasies of
his opus 12, which are so difficult of a sat-
isfactory interpretation, were rendered in
most faultless style by Mrs. Busch. There
were eight themes that called forth all the
talents of the performer, the "Whims " in
particular calling for facile instrumenta-
tion.
The next meeting will occur in
Joplin.
[ N a recent address before the National
*• Convention of piano manufacturers,
Dr. Edward Everett Hale said of the work
of the music commission: "But that is
only the beginning of what we hope to do
in the way of public music in the city of
Boston. In advocating the establishment
of this commission, I used the argument
that no city could be truly musical, could
really be entitled to the reputation of be-
ing a musical city, unless the music was
popularized; that the reputation that Bos-
ton has to some extent as a musical edu-
cational centre required, if we were to live
up to it, that music should be popularized
in Boston; that it should be brought down
to the people, or rather, that the people
should be lifted up to the appreciation of
music; and I believe that we are going to
accomplish something in that line in the
city of Boston, and that other cities can do
equally well. Just what we are going to do
in Boston, the future will tell. Of course,
the education of the great mass of people
in music is a slow matter. It cannot be
done in a year, or in ten years, but the
longer it takes the more important it is
that a beginning should be made; and I
believe that music of high type—the pro-
fessional music, if I may call it so—will be
influenced and affected by the develop-
ment of purely popular music, and that
we cannot promote the spread of popular
music, we cannot interest the masses of
the people in a greater appreciation of
music, without lifting the whole power of
FLAVIE VAN DEN HENDE.
music up to a somewhat higher plane in
the city of Boston and giving it a stimulus
that will be felt at the top as well as at
the bottom."
T H R O U G H her exceptional artistic gifts
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Flavie Van den Hende has become
widely known as one of the most ac-
complished 'cello soloists in the country.
Having been associated with the Theodore
Thomas, Van der Stucken and Damrosch
Orchestras, she has had a professional ex-
perience which has well displayed her
wondrous capabilities to the American
public. Flavie Van den Hende has played
with marked success, and her pleasing
personality and marked musical tempera-
ment combined with culture and ex-
perience give her work a quality that is
rare and beautiful. As a member of the
N. Y. Ladies Trio Club she contributed to
the enjoyment of M. T. N. A. program at
the Waldorf-Astoria.
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T H E Mendelssohn Concert Company
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next season will be composed of