Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-02

t40ufts,, he rs a nan of unusually wide
FAnsieal experiences and SOCIAL pres
tige Professor Douglass has spent
over year in selecting the teachers
for his new school of music. e
MIR. Saffa Kinney will be musical di-
rector. Mr.. Kinney is one of the
prominent MUSIC ans of New York
City. holding ont of the finest organ
positions and conducting two of the
biggest choirs and musical societies in
that city. He was a pupil of Edward
Mcdowell. Mr. Kinney has four of
the best vocal pupils in New York
City, all of whom are holding fine
church positions.
The operate department will be I'M
der the instruction of Madame Isdora
Martinez. the famous Spanish prima
donna, whose work throughout Europe.
South America. and with the Metro
politan Opera Company. is well known
as succession of triumphs. Madame
Martinez trains a pupil SO thoroughly
in operate roles that the managers are
eager to secure pupils who have been
under her careful training. She is
singer who has 20 operas in her own
repertoire.
Leo Pol NORM, the celebrated French
pianist who created such a sensation
in Paris by his artistic playing. He is
a pupil of the great teacher Roul
Pougno, and many other celebrated in
structors.
Ernst Schmidt, assistant conductor
of the Boston Symphony orchestra,
will teach the violin. Mr.. Schmidt is
- hA 1n inio of
the present age, and some of his COM
positions are already famous his Blue
White March having created a sensa-
ton wherever it has been played.
Leon Van Vliet. the famous Dutch
| concert cellist, will have charge of the
| cello department Albert Sand, a
| member of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra, will teach the clarinet. Theo-
| dore Celia, the new concert harpist of
| the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will
| teach the harp. Mrs. sGenevieve Stan
| ley Adams, the well known actress,
| will give thorough and practical stage
| instruction, and will place pupils
when ready under good managers.
Madame Bertha Dupree will teach
advanced French and French plays.
Miss Sara M. Smoot, the only wo-
man III AiHtTlCd 10 nave d ucSiCO
from Yale College, will teach. French.
Italian, German and Ssh. Miss
Smoot is also graz, sfrom the
| California University. Nathan Has
kell Dole. the American poet and the
greatest translator of Spanish, Italian,
French, German and Russian, will
teach English prose and specialize on
English poetry. =,
To the above mentioned list of In
structors will be added many assis-
tants. Be ston was chosen for the
4 headuuart ers of this new enterprise,
and there will be a branchi in New
York City. All other large cities will
eventually have a school in connection
with Boston as headquarters for train
ing teachers to take up the branch
work which is to be started later.
Mrs. Saffa Kinney, wife of the must
cal director, who is prominent socially
in both New York and Boston, will
chaperone all young ladies studying at
the new school. The American Con-
cert Bureau, which is connected with
the school, places pupils for public
work when their studies are completed.
Severa, opera companies also are in
terested in the new school and are
ready to take pupils when they have
completed the operate training neces-
| sary.--Adv.
3 1RNIIAM
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