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THE
REVIEW
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V O L . XXXI N o . 2 2
TO GREET THE NEW CENTURY.
BRUCE W. HOBBS.
thousand voices of Frank Dam-
rosch's Choral Union, are rehearsing
every Sunday afternoon at Cooper Union,
special music which will be sung at Madi-
son Square Garden at midnight of New
Year's Eve, in connection with the cele-
bration of the birth of a new century, ar-
ranged by the Twentieth Century Depart-
ment of the American National Red Cross.
This celebration will partake of watch-
night meetings in every city, town and
village, so far as practicable, and while
music will be one of the chief features of
the occasion there will be speeches by and
greetings from distinguished men at home
and abroad.
TDRUCE W. HOBBS was born a gifted
*-* boy soprano, and for the past eigh-
teen years has been a tenor—singing in
oratorio, recitals, and church work of the
best in and around Boston. His early life
was devoted to mercantile affairs. About
ten years ago he was admitted to the Ap-
ollo Club of Boston as a first tenor, and
some five years later began solo work in
the club. About this time he was en-
gaged as tenor of Second Church Copley
Square, B >ston, which position he still
holds. Two years later his talent came to
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HENRY HOLDEN HUSS.
'THE Philharmonic concert of Dec. 21
will present Henry Holden Huss,
who will play his own piano concerto.
This is an admirable work and New York
has been waiting long and patiently to hear
it. Of all the modern composers, none
has had anything more important or more
scholarly to say than this young man whose
music is well known as essentially modern,
yet reverentially classical. His is not the
lurid stroke of hysteria, but burning with
earnestness and dramatic fire, bold with
the freedom that dares great things, he has
written himself down an earnest musician,
and a true poet.
His will be one of the most interesting
appearances of the Philharmonic Society's
season.
AN INTERESTING SONG RECITAL.
JV/IINNIE TRACY, the American singer,
* ' *• who has been heard with the Metro-
politan English Opera Co. this season, is
to give a song recital in Mendelssohn
Hall, on the afternoon of Dec. 12. Miss
Tracy is an American girl, who for many
years has been singing with the utmost
success in the leading opera houses in Eu-
rope. Her success, since she re-appeared
in this country, has endeared her to many
of the opera patrons and has won the un-
stinted praise of the critics. Her pro-
gram will comprise songs by the old mas-
ters, as well as many of the more modern
compositions.
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Electa Gifford, a soprano from Chicago,
who has been for some time in Paris, will
return to this country to join the French
Opera Company in New Orleans.
BRUCE W. HOBBS.
the front,—he gave up mercantile affairs
for the art which he has followed with so
much success. In addition to a pure,
agreeable tenor Hobbs had the advantage
of an excellent training with Sbriglia in
Paris of whose method he is an able and
enthusiastic exponent.
Although ex-
tremely busy as teacher, Hobbs has
too many large and important engage-
ments as soloist with the prominent sing-
ing associations in and about Boston to
neglect his own work, and each summer
finds him in New York with Leo Kofler,
St. Paul's, Trinity Parish. Last season he
was made an artist member of the Orpheus
Club (German). Good tenors, and espe-
cially tenors who are intelligent musicians,
are hard to find; so it is little wonder that
Hobbs is so greatly in demand, for he is a
fine musician, which is a great benefit to
the large number of pupils whose voices
and musical careers are in his care.
Hobbs has reopened his studio in Stein-
ert Hall, where he teaches breathing with
gymnastics, for the development of the
breathing-muscles; resonances, in order
that all the beauties of the voice can be
comprehended; solfeggi, for the use of
the resonances and control of the voice;
arpeggios, for all the different kinds of
voices for flexibility; exercises for enunci-
ation, diction, English, French, and Ger-
man. He adds this season a system of
sight-singing second to none, giving his
pupils an opportunity of perfecting them-
selves for church work especially.
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CONTEIIPORARY
AHER1CAN CO/lPOSbRS.
P R O M L. C. Page & Co. of Boston comes
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an interesting and valuable volume
by Rupert Hughes who writes upon
"Contemporary American Composers."
Hughes' writing is too well-known to re-
quire comment and he has treated the sub-
ject with great care. It is not his inten-
tion to present these composers from a
critical standpoint, but to tell simply and
directly who is writing and what is being
done by the Americans.
Neither does Hughes confine himself to
New York and Boston composers, but with
justice and discernment he has given Chi-
cago, Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco
and every other place that has something
of merit to offer the same consideration
and attention that the larger centers have
received.
He has classified his work into a general
survey — the innovators, the academics,
the colonists, the women composers, and
the foreign composers.
Under the caption of The Innovators,
Hughes treats at length MacDowell, Ed-
gar Stillman Kelley, Harvey Worthington
Loomis, Ethelbert Nevin, Sousa, Henry
Schoenefeld, Maurice Arnold, N. Clifford
Page. The Academics deal with John
Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, Horatio W.
Parker, Van der Stucken, W. W. Gilchrist,
George Chadwick, Arthur Foote, S. G.
Pratt, Henry K. Hadley, Adolph M. Foers-
ter, C. C. Converse, L. A. Coerne. The
Colonists chapter presents Henry Holden
Huss, Arthur Whiting, Howard Brockway,
Harry Rowe Shelley, Gerritt Smith,
Homer Bartlett, Frederic Field Bullard,
Homer A. Norris, Gleason, Sherwood, A.
J. Goodrich, Wilson G. Smith, and many
others. Among the women are Mrs. H.
H. A. Beach and Margaret Ruthven Lang.
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William E. Mulligan is giving a series of
organ recitals at the Fifth Avenue Collegi-
ate Church. He has had the assistance of
Julian Walker, Frances Miller and Max
Karger.