Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 9 - Page 3
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58 Pages.
THE
fflJflC TIRADE
NEW
V O L . XXXII. N o . 9 . Published Every Saturday Dy Edward Lpan Bill at 3 East Fourteentii Street, Mew YorK, March 2,1901.
HERBERT HEMINGWAY JOY.
T is quite unnecessary to state that the
best teachers of vocal music are those
who have come into it through having been
first instrumental musicians; for then the
voice is not treated as a thing apart and
distinct from music, but as a part of the
entire machinery, the beautiful result of
which is a well-trained voice and a musi-
cianly knowledge of what to do with it.
Herbert Hemingway Joy, who has re-
cently come to New York, has located at
Carnegie Hall in the capacity of vocal
teacher. Whereas Joy is not so well known
to the East as he is in other fields, two of
his pupils have become favorites in their
homes as well as in many musical centres
where they have sung with notable success.
These pupils are Mrs. Emma Porter Makin-
son, of Pittsburg, and Frank King Clark,
of Chicago, both of whom concede the sat-
isfactory results to be due to Joy's skillful
and conscientious work.
Joy commenced his career as pianist and
studied music under A. K. Virgil, when
this well-known instructor had his con-
servatory in Burlington, Iowa. He also
studied organ and harmony under James
H. Rogers, and taught at the Burlington
College. At the same time he held the
position of bass soloist in Dr. Salter's
church, and the success with which he met
in this field induced him to give himself to
vocal music entirely. Joy studied with L.
A. Phelps, in Chicago, and Gottlieb Feder-
lein, in New York. He taught at Burling-
ton, Keokuk, and at the Iowa College of
Grinnell, for some time, and then located
in Chicago, where he had much success as
teacher and as bass of the Evanston Pres-
byterian Church. Owing to ill health in
the family, Joy was compelled to make a
change of climate which took him to the
Pacific Coast, where it did not take long
for those seeking musical advancement to
realize the benefit that this man could be
to a community.
He was tendered the organ of the First
Congregational Church at Tacoma at the
largest salary given on the coast, and he
also was made director of the choral so-
cieties of Tacoma and Seattle, rival cities
in all save in appreciation of Joy's abilities.
During his sojourn there he gave such
works as Messiah, Elijah, Creation, Stabat
Mater and similar masterpieces with such
success that the musical life in the North-
west felt his presence forcibly. For six
years Joy was director of the Cecilia So-
ciety, an organization of women's voices,
I
which was notably one of the finest of its
kind in the country. Meanwhile he ac-
complished so much as teacher that many
of his pupils have branched out as success-
ful singers, and most of the salaried church
singers in Tacoma were his pupils.
Not satisfied, however, to remain in the
far West away from benefits and advan-
tages to himself, he went abroad to spend
some time with the best masters of Europe.
He studied with Garcia in London, with
Trabadello in Paris, and then gave him-
self over to the admirable training of
Delle Sedie, an exponent of whose work
he is.
Joy has given especial care to French
diction, and has entered thoroughly into the
work of the Yersin sisters, having been in-
terested in English diction through a cor-
dial sympathy with Mrs. Pollard, whose
work upon diction has made its way into
the public school system.
Among singers who are well-known on
the Pacific Coast and throughout the coun-
try are, Retta Johnston Shank, Guy Carle-
ton Evans, Harry Hanlon, Rosina Rosin,
Edith Russell, Wilfred Harrison, of Boston.
One of the best was Margaret Macintosh
Marvin, who died in St, Paul, where she
sang at the People's Church.
Among others occupying church posi-
tions in Tacoma are, Grace Clark, Kather-
ine Wentworth, Mrs. Hugh Manny, Paul
Shaw, Winifred Cummings and Edna
Avery. Joy's studio is chaperoned by his
talented daughter who also plays his ac-
companiments.
j*
DOHNANYI'S RECITAL.
C R N S T VON DOHNANYI, whose in-
^
terpretation of the great Beethoven
Concerto in E minor at the last Philhar-
monic Concert was the real attraction, is
to give a Beethoven recital in Mendelssohn
Hall, on this Saturday afternoon, at 3
o'clock. The program will be one of un-
usual interest to all real lovers of music.
No pianist in late years has ever attempted
such a recital, and this will be the first
given since the time of von Eulow and
Eugen d' Albert.
KOFLER IS RETIRED.
Leo Kofler, organist and choir master of
old St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, re-
tired on a pension February 1. He entered
the position in March, 1877, and won wide
recognition for his work. Mr. Kofler will
now devote his time largely to private
teaching.
Sd.oo FKR YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
OPERA FOR NEXT SEASON.
T H E air around the Metropolitan Opera
* House has been thick of late with ru-
mors as to the probability that there would
be no season of opera next winter. The
question has finally been settled, and those
who have been trembling lest they would
have no one to worship next year may now
possess their souls in patience. There will be
opera. A long conference of the Directors
of the Maurice Grau Opera Company was
held at the Opera House on Friday night
while the performance was in progress.
All those at the conference pledged them-
selves to secrecy, but it was learned Mon-
day that a season was decided on.
The season will last only ten weeks, in-
stead of fifteen, as at present, or seven-
teen, as heretofore. It has been seen that
the public is surfeited with opera, and
will attend the performances only when
the most prominent stars are in the cast.
The English season which preceded the
performances in foreign tongues in the
Fall did not aid the cheaper Saturday
night representations this Winter. Fur-
thermore, the company engaged for this
season grew to formidable proportions.
Mr. Grau finds himself overstocked with
sopranos and tenors. Mr. Salignac, for
example, has been heard only once on sub-
scription nights, and has been drawing his
salary for very little work. Mme. Nordica
has been idle, too, much of the time. Miss
Breval has a very limited repertoire, and
can be used only for a few operas. Mr.
Dippel has done substituting principally,
while Mr. Van Dyck has sung only Sieg-
mund and Tannhauser.
By reducing the season to ten weeks the
manager will be able to carry on his work
with a much smaller company. He will
find it possible to get on with a reasonable
number of tenors and sopranos. He will
be able to make stronger casts and to cen-
tralize more effort on his productions.
And the public appetite will be whetted by"
the prospect of having to get its fill in a
short time. Nothing has yet been decided
as to the date at which the season will
begin, but it will undoubtedly be as late as
the middle of December. Who will be in
the company must also yet be a matter of
conjecture. It may be surmised that only
the most attractive and useful members of
the organization will be re-engaged.
Mrs. Antonia Sawyer gave a song recital
at the Waldorf-Astoria. She was assisted
by Messrs. Paul and Franz Listemann and
Isidor Luckstone,
58 Pages.
THE
fflJflC TIRADE
NEW
V O L . XXXII. N o . 9 . Published Every Saturday Dy Edward Lpan Bill at 3 East Fourteentii Street, Mew YorK, March 2,1901.
HERBERT HEMINGWAY JOY.
T is quite unnecessary to state that the
best teachers of vocal music are those
who have come into it through having been
first instrumental musicians; for then the
voice is not treated as a thing apart and
distinct from music, but as a part of the
entire machinery, the beautiful result of
which is a well-trained voice and a musi-
cianly knowledge of what to do with it.
Herbert Hemingway Joy, who has re-
cently come to New York, has located at
Carnegie Hall in the capacity of vocal
teacher. Whereas Joy is not so well known
to the East as he is in other fields, two of
his pupils have become favorites in their
homes as well as in many musical centres
where they have sung with notable success.
These pupils are Mrs. Emma Porter Makin-
son, of Pittsburg, and Frank King Clark,
of Chicago, both of whom concede the sat-
isfactory results to be due to Joy's skillful
and conscientious work.
Joy commenced his career as pianist and
studied music under A. K. Virgil, when
this well-known instructor had his con-
servatory in Burlington, Iowa. He also
studied organ and harmony under James
H. Rogers, and taught at the Burlington
College. At the same time he held the
position of bass soloist in Dr. Salter's
church, and the success with which he met
in this field induced him to give himself to
vocal music entirely. Joy studied with L.
A. Phelps, in Chicago, and Gottlieb Feder-
lein, in New York. He taught at Burling-
ton, Keokuk, and at the Iowa College of
Grinnell, for some time, and then located
in Chicago, where he had much success as
teacher and as bass of the Evanston Pres-
byterian Church. Owing to ill health in
the family, Joy was compelled to make a
change of climate which took him to the
Pacific Coast, where it did not take long
for those seeking musical advancement to
realize the benefit that this man could be
to a community.
He was tendered the organ of the First
Congregational Church at Tacoma at the
largest salary given on the coast, and he
also was made director of the choral so-
cieties of Tacoma and Seattle, rival cities
in all save in appreciation of Joy's abilities.
During his sojourn there he gave such
works as Messiah, Elijah, Creation, Stabat
Mater and similar masterpieces with such
success that the musical life in the North-
west felt his presence forcibly. For six
years Joy was director of the Cecilia So-
ciety, an organization of women's voices,
I
which was notably one of the finest of its
kind in the country. Meanwhile he ac-
complished so much as teacher that many
of his pupils have branched out as success-
ful singers, and most of the salaried church
singers in Tacoma were his pupils.
Not satisfied, however, to remain in the
far West away from benefits and advan-
tages to himself, he went abroad to spend
some time with the best masters of Europe.
He studied with Garcia in London, with
Trabadello in Paris, and then gave him-
self over to the admirable training of
Delle Sedie, an exponent of whose work
he is.
Joy has given especial care to French
diction, and has entered thoroughly into the
work of the Yersin sisters, having been in-
terested in English diction through a cor-
dial sympathy with Mrs. Pollard, whose
work upon diction has made its way into
the public school system.
Among singers who are well-known on
the Pacific Coast and throughout the coun-
try are, Retta Johnston Shank, Guy Carle-
ton Evans, Harry Hanlon, Rosina Rosin,
Edith Russell, Wilfred Harrison, of Boston.
One of the best was Margaret Macintosh
Marvin, who died in St, Paul, where she
sang at the People's Church.
Among others occupying church posi-
tions in Tacoma are, Grace Clark, Kather-
ine Wentworth, Mrs. Hugh Manny, Paul
Shaw, Winifred Cummings and Edna
Avery. Joy's studio is chaperoned by his
talented daughter who also plays his ac-
companiments.
j*
DOHNANYI'S RECITAL.
C R N S T VON DOHNANYI, whose in-
^
terpretation of the great Beethoven
Concerto in E minor at the last Philhar-
monic Concert was the real attraction, is
to give a Beethoven recital in Mendelssohn
Hall, on this Saturday afternoon, at 3
o'clock. The program will be one of un-
usual interest to all real lovers of music.
No pianist in late years has ever attempted
such a recital, and this will be the first
given since the time of von Eulow and
Eugen d' Albert.
KOFLER IS RETIRED.
Leo Kofler, organist and choir master of
old St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, re-
tired on a pension February 1. He entered
the position in March, 1877, and won wide
recognition for his work. Mr. Kofler will
now devote his time largely to private
teaching.
Sd.oo FKR YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
OPERA FOR NEXT SEASON.
T H E air around the Metropolitan Opera
* House has been thick of late with ru-
mors as to the probability that there would
be no season of opera next winter. The
question has finally been settled, and those
who have been trembling lest they would
have no one to worship next year may now
possess their souls in patience. There will be
opera. A long conference of the Directors
of the Maurice Grau Opera Company was
held at the Opera House on Friday night
while the performance was in progress.
All those at the conference pledged them-
selves to secrecy, but it was learned Mon-
day that a season was decided on.
The season will last only ten weeks, in-
stead of fifteen, as at present, or seven-
teen, as heretofore. It has been seen that
the public is surfeited with opera, and
will attend the performances only when
the most prominent stars are in the cast.
The English season which preceded the
performances in foreign tongues in the
Fall did not aid the cheaper Saturday
night representations this Winter. Fur-
thermore, the company engaged for this
season grew to formidable proportions.
Mr. Grau finds himself overstocked with
sopranos and tenors. Mr. Salignac, for
example, has been heard only once on sub-
scription nights, and has been drawing his
salary for very little work. Mme. Nordica
has been idle, too, much of the time. Miss
Breval has a very limited repertoire, and
can be used only for a few operas. Mr.
Dippel has done substituting principally,
while Mr. Van Dyck has sung only Sieg-
mund and Tannhauser.
By reducing the season to ten weeks the
manager will be able to carry on his work
with a much smaller company. He will
find it possible to get on with a reasonable
number of tenors and sopranos. He will
be able to make stronger casts and to cen-
tralize more effort on his productions.
And the public appetite will be whetted by"
the prospect of having to get its fill in a
short time. Nothing has yet been decided
as to the date at which the season will
begin, but it will undoubtedly be as late as
the middle of December. Who will be in
the company must also yet be a matter of
conjecture. It may be surmised that only
the most attractive and useful members of
the organization will be re-engaged.
Mrs. Antonia Sawyer gave a song recital
at the Waldorf-Astoria. She was assisted
by Messrs. Paul and Franz Listemann and
Isidor Luckstone,
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