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Brooklyn Institute Provides Rich Musical Fare · I - - - -- ---~"'--'-------'C October 14, 1916 MUSICAL AMERICA 43 Brooklyn Institute Provides Rich Musical Fare · I [Continued from page 39] already paid a larger sum for his serv­ lished rule of using the Academy Music certs in Brooklyn and New York, .in ices than any other choral conductor in Hall. which sixteen new Russian church com­ the East. Suffice to say that, without Dec. 6 and April 4. Of considerable United German Singers positions will be heard. Among the out­ social and musical importance, as well, bad feeling, his demand was refused, and of-town appearances of the Aeolian Choir ,will be the third white breakfast on the everyone is in the dark concerning his The Brooklyn Quartet Club will sing will be one at the Drew Theologi~al last Saturday in April. Besides these successor. The concert for Nov. 26 has at Prospect Hall on Nov. 12, the first Seminary, Madison, N. J. , events the club will provide an afternoon been postponed till Dec. 19, in advance of program of its 110 active members Jed The Philomela Ladies' Glee Club, .be­ musicale on Feb. 10. Although assisting which, however, will be the fifty-first an­ by Carl Fique. The latter is director ginning its twelfth season with Etta artists for the regular concerts have not nual celebration at Arion hall, in which · of the United Singers of Brooklyn, em­ Hamilton Morris, conductor, has in been definitely announced it is believed the men's, ·women's and mixed choruses bracing thirty-four German societies. On preparation two interesting concerts. that some selection· will be made from and orchestra of sixty-five will partici­ Oct. 15 these combined choruses will hold The first will be a benefit celel:irating the those who were -heard with the club last pate. forth at the Thirteenth Regiment Ar­ fiftieth anniversary of the Howard Or­ season. These included Anna Fitziu, The Woodman Choral Club will be mory in celebration of "annual German phanage and Industrial School, in No­ Nina Morgana, Reinald Werrenrath, heard as usual at the Academy of Music day." vember, at Kismet Temple. The program Anna Louise David and Rafael Diaz. under the direction of R. Huntington A chorus made up of pupils of the will be entirely from the works of negro Woodman, who continues as president of Hassell Conservatory, 853 Marcy Ave­ composers and the assisting artists will Arion's Quandary the music department of the Brooklyn nue, is in the process of formation. be Harry Burleigh, baritone; the James Institute of Arts and Sciences. Irwin E. Hassell, director of the con­ Reese Europe String Quartet, Melville Who will be the new conductor of the The University Glee Club, under servatory, may personally conduct the Charlton, organist, and Felix Weir, vio­ Brooklyn Arion is an all-absorbing topic. E. J. A. Zeirier, two seasons ago becom­ singers. In addition to this enterprise an linist. The second concert, on Jan. 18, Eugene Klee, successor to Arthur Claas­ ing an integral part of the University orchestra is forming, of which Adolph will be held in the music hall of the sen, who has led this distinguished Club of Brooklyn, will probably discon­ Schmidt will have charge. Academy of Music, and will be the club's chorus for two years, recently demanded tinue the practice adopted at that time The Aeolian Choir, which has merited first appearance in that hall. Percy an increase of salary. According to cer­ holding its two concerts in the clubhouse much success under the direction of N. Remus, baritone, will be the soloist. tain officers of the organization, he was and will revert to the hitherto estab- Lindsay Norden, will give about six con- GEORGE CHITTENDEN TURNER. FlUTE VIRTUOSI IN THE ORGANiST AND THE H MOVIES" SOIREE AT BOSTON How the Advent of the Films Has Increased the Opportunities of the Performer and . Added to Masters and Admirers of Instru­ the Resources of the Instrument-Adapting Music to the Picture-Cultivation of ment Meet and Play Novel Improvisation---Possibilities of Elevating the Popular Taste in Music Music By DR. WILLIAM C. CARL OSTON, MASS., Oct. 5.-Taking ad­ B vantage of the vacation season and [ Director of the Guilmant Organ Schooll the presence in Boston of several visitors, William S. Haynes, the well-known flute manufacturer, arranged several flute HE "movies!" What a magic word inestimable value in heightening the en­ travelogues and countless other things T this has been to scores of organists ! joyment of the audience. must be illustrated daily by the "movie" matinees and soirees during September. How many thousands and tens of thous­ In an up-to-date theater organ there is organist. The1:e were numerous conferences deal­ little that is missing. Naturally, one The performer should memorize enough ands have listened to an organ who ing with the technical and scientific fea­ finds the strings, flutes and brass, but, music to enable him to play for at least tures of flute construction and sevet·al previously had thought it destined to use in addition, there is the snare drum, bass a hundred different plays. With a large only in the church service! With the ad­ drum, cymbals, bells, chimes, piano, repertoire at his command any idea can evenings devoted to flute music, be3ides vent of the celesta, harp, triangle, rain and hail, be instantly illustrated, and the attention golf contests and a dinner at the Oakley thunder and lightning, and many other and interest of the audience directed to Club. The most remarkable of these "movies" a transi­ mechanical devices intended to be used the picture in a way otherwise impossible. events was a gathering of flute players tion began. Build­ as occasion demands. A string quartet The individuality of the performer and flute lovers at the Allison home in ers were not slow can be faithfully reproduced, and also a counts for a great deal. New music must the suburbs of Boston at the invitation • to realize the possi­ string orchestra. A brass band can be learned daily. of Mr. Haynes. 1 . bilities, and began bring an audience to its feet. In scenes With ari ever-increasing repertoire the . The occasion assembled an unusual 1 to take notice and where the diapason tone can be used, the player is bound to interest his audiences. company of forty or fifty devotees, of make experiments. effect is stunning, coming as it does in It is not necessary to discard the classics, the flute, among whom were several of The results have contrast with the var.ious devices just or to abandon legitimate organ music. the most famous virtuosi, numerous ama- • proved that the tre­ mentioned. When in combination with With discretion and judgment a choice teur players, writers upon musical sub­ mendous resources , the orchestra the organ gives a wonder­ can be made whereby a demand for a jects and others connected with impor­ of the instrument ful solidity of effect, and builds up the better class of music can be brought tant musical establishments. The fol­ have been greatly climaxes in a way that would other­ about. There is a wealth of material to lowing is a partial list of those present: increased, making wise be impossible. The ensemble is fre­ select ..:rom, and much that can·be easily George Barrere of the New York Sym­ it a complete or­ quently thrilling. adopted. Musical intelligence and the phony Orchestra ; Arthur Brooke of the Bos­ chestra in itself, fitness of things . are all important, and ton Symphony; Charles K . North of the Bos­ Must Be Specially Trained ton Opera Company ; Emile A. Bertinet of and thus giving to especially so in this line of work. the Royal Grenadier Guards' Band of Mon­ the world what Dr. Wm. c . carl treal; Anton Mainente of the "Pops" Con­ was heretofore not To accomplish all this an organist Necessity of Improvisation certs; Verne Q. Powell of the Haynes Com­ must be especially trained and made to pany,- formerly of the K ansas City Phil­ thought even pos- It is highly probable that nothing has harmonic Orch estra; John Wills of the Win­ sible. In scores of theaters the orchestra understand what is required for the gen­ occurred which will develop the art of chester Symphony Orchestra ; J. Harold Burke has been done away with entirely, anq eral effectiveness of the instrument in a improvisation in America so much as this of the Oliver Ditson Company ; E ugene B. Hagar, former President of the H andel and w , theater and its environment. Atmosphere the organ is used solely. In others a work. It is an absolute necessity to im­ Haydn Society of Boston ; Charles Peale of combination of the two has greatly en­ must be created that will transfer the provise. If this cannot be done, then the Boston ; J. 0. Brockenshire, Inspeotor of hanced the value and effectiveness of the ~ audience to the scene of the picture and performance suffers. Therefore, this Musical Instruments for the United States orchestra. ·~ ·•· make it forget all else. This can be done Government; Charles Woodsum ana J ames much-neglected art is destined to come Gibson, amateur flutists. The change came in a small way at·. and has been accomplished by many of into its own and b~ developed as never .first. From small instruments at the' our best players._ The great point is to before. Thirty or forty ardent admirers 'of _start, the business has: grown to such "play" the picture; not to give an organ People do not attend the "movies" to flute music, a few of whom came long gigantic proportions that organs costin'g recital while the picture is being shown, hear an organ recital.
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