The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-03-17
WOMEN AND MUSIC

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members.
Music = an art that God has given
US in which The voices u all nations
may unite their prayers IN one mar
moniouS rhythm. The sensitive woman
or man receives Impressions from ev-
erything around. These impressions
ara The basis Of thought and action. \
work IF art. be II d picture. q statue.
d composition, makes an impression.
Music to SOM may mean rest and re-
taxation 20 tired brain and worn out
nerves. 70 others il may bring broader
views and greater capacity u enjoy
the finer conditions and views of life.
Music says and means something TO ;
each and every one who listens 10 hear
a message What does the music YOU
hear say TO you? /
The musical member of The family /
has a fine opportunity TO add TO the .
plea sure Of the Others. If mother plays, !
the little girls Will also want 70 learn, /
if father sings. the boys are not 50 /
apt 10 think music j. only for girls. I,
How pleasant il j. 70 20 into family /
circle in which it l. possible TO sing |
+ j duet. 4 trio. d quartet. etc. or TO play
compositions for violin with piano.
House music i a great need in Amer
lean musical life. organization i
needed in music.
Education in the fine arts j. suffer
ing compared with science Lack of
organization and the inability to hold
together are the principal reasons that
a perfectly fair and capable judge of
things educational gives for the pres
ent unsatisfactory state of music in
this country. Every cOnServa tory or
school Of music in the United States
has among its pupils at least one girl
who feels she il called to the career
of a concert pianist. Many American
girls have had this conviction; a few
have realized it. and of all those who
carried to successful realization their
dreams and ambitions. none attained
fame with such great rapidity as a
girl from Texas. OLGA HickenloOper,
known on the concert stage as Nine.
OLGA Samaroff This American pianist
was born in San Antonio. Texas, less
than thirty years ago. Her father
} was an American and her mother be-
longed TO German family. Both the
mother and the grandmother Were eX-
cellent pianiSts, the latter having APP
| peared as a concert player in Ger
, many. and the young girl grew up in
4 musical atmosphere and under most
favorable conditions. The grand
mother gave special care to the mus
zeal education of the child. Later she
: was taken to Paris. where she was
= placed under the instruction of the
elder MarmOntel y few years later
: she became the first American girl
pupiI admitted to the Paris COnserva-
t tory her teacher being Delaborde. In
1905 she made her formal debut in
Carnegie Han, New York City, playin z
two concerts with Walter Damrosch' :
orchestra and a group Of solo pieces.
: That season and the next two We're
O spent in the United States In 1908
. she went to Europe to test her strength
o in the great music centers there. She
, won instant and appreciative recogni-
ton in London, Paris Vienna and
Munich among other cities.
Nine Samaroff has spent the past
year in Europe in retirement, perfect
: ing her repertoire and studying var
:. iouS compositions which she wishes u
4 add 10 her present list. Among these
a are the works of several American
composers for the piano.
Mime Melwine Bree, musician OF
note. was born IN Jablunkau, Silesia
She was the leading assistant to Theo-
dore LeSchetizkY. She took up the
= study of piano with DR.. Bree. whom
- she afterward married. She went tC
: Vienna for advanced instruction and
= for some time did concert playing il
= Vienna and being one of LeschetiZky'
principal assistants, she has prepared
some hundreds of pupils for the grea
teacher. among them a number o.
Americans. The following Well known
L pianists We're her pupils: Arthur
: SchnabeI. Frank LaForge, Arthur
: Shattucl and Marie Gabrielle RIOS
e bor<ka ,now Leschetisky'$ wife).
CIV
and oratorfo is Nine JomelH. She i
of Dutch parentage. born in Amster
: dam. Her musical instincts We're wei
: developed at an early age. At fiv
wears she was given instruction il
piano playing and she showed mark
/ ed inclination for singing. When bu
! a child she appeared in public man,
times She had made such success
that She was engaged al the age o
:, seventeen by the Amsterdam Oper
IL Company. making her debut in Rome
and Juliet She is an accOmplishe
pianist and harpist possessing a yer
Il fine voice. Her repertoire includes tn
best in the classic and modern litera
~ ture. She uses several pieces of Amer
lean composers in her recitalS.
Clara Josephine Schuman is Gale
one of the greatest piano forte play
ers the world has ever heard-a hiG
Ipinnacle Of fame for a woman music
ian to reach Her repertoire was q
great extent ranging from S"arlat
nc and Bach to Chopin and Brohms. Att'
II, her husbands death she lived in Eel
g lin and became the leading plan
~ teacher at the Frankfort C"n~ervat"r
:, where She remained until her death
1886 She was greatly beloved for he
noble and earnest character.
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