The Press., 1922-06-08
Chautauqua Company
 All French

Perhaps the most interesting fact about the personnel of the Boston-Little Symphony, which comes to Chautauqua on the second day, aside from their emil nent talents along musical lines, is the fact that all the members of the company are natives of France and received most of their musical training there.
 MADAME CLAIRE WAGER
 Studied music at an early age took piano course with Alfred COrtOt, the great French pianist. Entered the famous conservatory of music in Paris to study singing with Prof. Duvernoy. Two years after, she left the conservatory to prepare her Operatic career with Prof. Sautet.
 She sang in Paris and various French cities. Was engaged at the Opera Comique when the war broke out. She then devoted her self to Red Cross concerts and en- tertainments for the wounded sol diers.
 MIX. GEORGES WAGER GA veteran of the French Army)
 After he was awarded the first prize at the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1906 he devoted himself to singing and studied many years in Paris, giving concerts in Paris and different parts of France. At the end of the war he was selected hn nh f0 come to the United States and Canada as tenor singer with the French Army Band and visited numerous American cities.
 MIR. GEORGES MIQUELLE GA veteran of the French Army)
 Georges Miquelle was born at Lille, France, on March 24th, 1896. He began the study of music at the age of five and entered the SOlfeggiO Class at the Lille Con- servatoire'' in 1903. He started on the cello when he was six years of age and entered the cello class at above named school under the celebrated master, Emile Dienne (himself being pupil of the great teacher and 'cellist, Servaisl, in 1904.
 He won the first prize for cello playing in 1910, having been awarded the same reward for Sol feggiO in 1909.
 MADAME RENEE LONGY-
 MIQUELLE
 Renee Longy-Miquelle was born m mi EN1son 1897. Her first teacher when she was but a child of four, was her father, Georges Longy, the world renowned artist, with whom she took up the study of SOlfeggio, Oboe and Piano.
 At the age of eight she began to specialize in piano (giving up the oboe entirely, studying with Berthe Grosjean in Abbeville, and entering college at the same time, from where she graduated in 1909.
 In the fall of that year she returned to Paris to complete her musical education, studying piano with Maurice Dumesnil (1909- 1914), and also with Alfredo Ca sella (1913-191N.
 In September, 1914, she came to the United States and, upon the request of MT. Chadwick (directOr of the New England Conservatory of Music), she accepted the direc- tion of class in Eurythmics there. She resigned that position in 1917, to be exclusively connected with the Longy School (founded in 1915 by her father), of which she is now a director.
 MISS LUCILLE CoLLETTE is a dainty little French girl who is "absolute mistress of the violin"
 One of the treasured remem- brances of Miss Collette is letter which the late Pugno wrote to Sir Henry Wood, of London, concern ing her. Just before Pugno died she played at the Sale Femina the Max Bruch Concerto for violin with orchestra, directed by Xavier Leroux, and two weeks later she played the Mozart Concerto for piano, Pugno himself playing the orchestral part on second piano.
 This young lady has had an extraordinary education. Besides pursuing her violin studies with the professors of the Conserva- toire, she studied the piano so hard that she attracted the atten- tion of Pugno, who took her as his pupil, and she then achieved important, things on the piano.
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