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ST. LlOUIS. Cf{ICAGO. Volume 1. FEBRUARY, 1898. Number 6. FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER nstruotlon~nViolin~:: .. ::~::·~n~ony-, I Stra.s.sb~~~;~;_ ~~~~;rvatory of rlu.sic Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumenta.uon. A VENUE. ~--~--------------------~ D. S. DE LISLE, Acknowledged as the Open Day and Night, .• Musical Director •. largest and best Music Summer and Winter, Musical Library : School in the West. Orchestral Parts of Operas, &c, RESIDENCE' in all its Branches for sale or rent. Orchestral or Band Parts for No. J8J9 Biddle Street, Terms liberal. with 24 of the any musical composition on · short notice. Catalogues Cue Music Prepared. ST. LOUIS. Music "Taken Down." Composers' Mss. revised and prepared for publication. Proofs Read. CLARA STUBBLEFIELD, TEACHER OF PIANO, Mason.,. System of Technic. 3932 PAGE AVENUE. Following &l1e some of the sueeessfol and most pttominent Tecaeherrs. QTHMAR A. MOLL, LO'O"J:S COJ:NE...A.'J:'::S:,. GUJ:DO ::E?..A.RJ:Sr,. TEACHER OF PIANO, THEORY AND TEACHER OF VIOLIN, TEACH R OF PIANO, HISTORY OF MUSIC. SOLOS, TRIOS, QUARTETTE, Etc. Studio: 4205a EVANS AVE. Concert Pianist. :E'..A. 'O"L ~OE.J:,. Dr. J". l?. N::Ellv.COURS,. TEACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN AND TEACHER OF VIOLIN, ·THEORY OF MUSIC, SOLOS, TRIOS, QUARTETTE, Etc. ELMORE CONDON,_-==~ Organist of St. George's Espisc. Church. 1428 S. 18th St. BRUNO STRASSEEE.GEE, TEACHER OF VIOLIN, X .A.'J:'J:E J"OC:S:'O"~,. TEACHER OF PIANO, SINGLE AND CLASS. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, 1905 LAMI STREET, MANDOLIN, EUPHONlU~L 3958 WESTMINSTER PLACE, ST. LOUIS. VTJ:LLJ:..A.~ :SOECX. J:::..I.Liss L. C. VT::CLXJ:NS, MRS. EMILY BOEDDECKER, TEACHER OF VIOLIN CELLO, CULTURE OF THE SPEAKING VOICE, CLARINETTE AND ZITHER, AND DRAMATIC WORK. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 806 HICKORY STREET. Private Studio: HOTEL NORMANDE. Teacher of BO:S::ElR'J:' :S'O"ECEtEL,. O::H:ARLES SEY.:MOUR, LANGUAGES AND SHORTHAND WRITING, TEACHER OF FLUTE, VIOLIN TEACHER OF CORNET, 1310 SIDNEY STREET. AND MANDOLINE, Music arranged at moderate prices. 1314 St. Ange Ave. SINGLE AND CLASS. MISS ADAH BLACK, LO'O"J:S ~..A.:S::L::ElE.,. TEACHER OF DANCING (Fancy and Ballroom) TEACHER OF··. AND PHYSICAL CULTURE, VOICE AND PIANO, 3125 FRANKLIN AVENUE. CLEMENS STRASSBERGER, Sole Agent of the celebrated Studio, 1305 Washington Avenue. C. G. CONN Wonder and American Model Solo, Band and Orchestra Instruments. Always a good stock on hand. By good security on HERBERT C. WILSON' time payments. Catalogues free. ----------- VOICE CULTURE AND THE List of---- ART OF SINGING, Reception Hours: 3 to 4 P. M., on Mondays and Thursdays, {®I®0fr?lBeBt ~- R~!~~!:::~!.~~::.:~~tion @)e<:le~et®~ TM to tile following branches: at office of Union M. E. Church. LOCATED AT THE VoiCE CuLTURE-(ltalian method). The advanced operatic GARRISON AND LUCAS AVE. course includes the study of the Italian language. HARMONY, COUNTERPOINT, FUGUE AND COMPOSITION. PIANO LESSO!l'S are based on thorough Technical Exercises. 1 ~servatorium, A NoRMAL CouRsE, specially adapted for piano students pre MRS. KATE J. BRAINARD, I paring for teachers, includes elementary harmony instruction. Private Les.~ons $10.00 Per Term of Ten Lcuons VOICE CULTURE AND 3631 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS. Claas Instruction, 15.00 Per Term. REPERTOIRE .... Offileo~f~: P. M. Studio: 2706a Locust Street, WEBSTER GROVES, MO. Broaddu;;, Mr;;. K. G., - Voice C'u1ture. ST. LOUIS, :MO. or 1118 Olive Street, 8'1'. LOUIS, MO . ---- care of THIEBES & STIERLIN. Berry, Mis;; Mary H., Vioc~ Culture HlYIHTEU~ COlYIPOSITIONS Vocal Teacl)er at Stra77ber9er's C01);;erv. Revised and arranged for publication. Examination of MS. PARK with critical opinion, $1.00, Revision of MS., $2.50 and upward Dibble, Horace P., Voice, Pial)O, Or~aT). Address, with stamped envelope for reply, LIVERY & BOARDING STABLE. W. WALMENE, Mus. Bac. (Cantab.), Giraldo!), Mlle., - P.iat)o, Voice \ulbure. 27o6a Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo. LIGH'f LIVERY FOR HIRE. Griffibb, MiHot) B. Voice. F. N. OL.A.FF., PiaT)o. F. W. BUSSE, :1..:::3:1..0 v:T..A.S:S:J:J:NG'J:'OJ:N .A.'T'E. DEALER IN PHONE 1057• Mal)at), Miss, EXPRESS . ST .. LOUIS. l30STON, MASS. GERTRUDE EDMANDS, Scl)oel), I. 1., Violil) Soloi7b al)d Teacl}er. -AND- TEACHER OF MUSIC, Tl)ral)er, Miss AT)I)a H., Pial)o, Music Studio at 160 Boylston St. Harii)ol)y, Coii)po7itiol), C'oul)terpoil)b. +-3i< Picture Frameslt£-+ BOSTON, MASS. Pial)o. 1314 FRANKL.IN AVENUE. THE MUSICAL NEWS. Oevoted H !I)onthly musieal to the Jouttnal. ( Rift of musie. VOLUME 1. ~T. LOUIS, FEBRUARY, 1898. NUMBER 6. - Brainard. In 1865 they moved to St. Louis, where Mrs. methods." Another letter from her written after Mrs. Tb~ musi~al D~ws. Brainard became one of the leading sopranos, receiving a Brainard had resigned her work at Mary Institute says: large salary in Dr. Post's Church where she remained ''I am overjoyed to hear of your being " at it again." A MUSICAL JOURNAL, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. many years. In 1886 she assumed charge of the music in You with your big stock of knowledge •. and a soul full of -BY- Mary Institute, the female department of Washington devotion and untiring effort in the sacred art we both love, University, numbering in recent years nearly four hundred ought not to retire. For one like you cannot easily be THE MUSICAL NEWS . PUBLISHING Co. girls. During the nearly twenty-seven years of her labors substituted. I am filled with admiration for yourself and WALTER LuHN, Publisher and Proprietor. there Mrs. Brainard missed but one commencement, two your work." WALTER ·MALMENE, Musical Editor. annual musical rehearsals, and was "late" but twice. The late Mr. Weber said in a letter to Mrs. Brainard Her class work as systematized and developed in Mary Fraternal Building, ST. LoUis, Mo. in reference to some beautiful songs he had written: Institute, is deservedly monumental. From the primary ''When the work was done, when the little songs were BRANCHES: to the graduating class, sight-reading, ear-testing, scales safely anchord on paper, then came the question to whom BosTON, NEW YoRK, CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, major J minor and chromatic, intervals, part-singing, to dedicate them. 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Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as Second Class One of the patrons of Mary Institute who had also been Matter. a teacher there, wrote after Mrs. Brainard's resignation: "I cannot bear to think of you not being in your place Copyright 1898 by THE MUSICAL NBWS PUBLISHING Co., which no one else can ever fill. The influence of your St. Louis, Mo. sweet, gentle and well poised character, bas been in my judgment of as much importance as your skill in training." The following is a portion of the sketch that Many poor girls with promising voices have been started was compiled some years since by pupils and in their musical career by Mrs. Brainard . During the past friends, for A Woman of the Century. It is now thirty years her name bas been associated with the progress of musical art in St. Louis, and persons now prominent as given for puplication by request of "The Musical professional . and amateur musicians can r~fer to her as News." their conscientious guide during their struggles and studies. The late Dr. George F. Root of Chicago said, ''I am MRS. KATE J. BRAINARD was born in New York City. glad to learn that in a work entitled "A Woman of the Her father, Rev. D. E. Jones, coq~piler of 'The Temple Century," there is to be a sketch of the life of Mrs. Kate Melodies," the first hymn and tune book ever used and J Brainard, for a woman who can hold for twenty-six con made popular in this country, was of Welsh descent, a secutive years the principal of the musical department of man of rare character and versatil ability. Her mother an institution cf the distinguished merit and high require was a woman of great natural gifts, both of voice and ments of Mary Institute of St. Louis, can be no ordinary mind, and a regular contributer to the literatur of the day. person and well de!.erves a place among the prominent The daughter inherited in a marked degree their musical women of the Century. No woman can make such a record talent. When but a very little girl she studied the ele as this of Mrs. Brainard's, without possessing remarkable ments of music under her father, and began piano lessons qualities. She must be cultivated and refined, must have when but seven years old. At an early age she surprised tact and discretion, and must be rich in resourC('S to enable and delighted her father by carrying the alto in part-sing her to keep the interest and enthusiasm of her pupils. In ing, "making it" up with wonderful correctness. An all her work she may be triumphantly tested by the divine interesting incident apropo of this is narrated by Mrs lVf:trs.