The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-05-19
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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 MAGER
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 operate 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. o
MR.. GEORGES MAGER
"a 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
by the French Government to
come to the United States and
Canada as a tenor singer with the
French Army Band and visited
numerous American cities.
Mr.. GEORGES MIoUELLE
"a veteran of the French ARMY
Georges Miquelle was born at
Lille, France, on March Oath, 1896.
He began the study Of music at
the age of five and entered the
Solfeggio Glass 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 a pupil of the great
teacher and 'cellist, Servais), 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.
MlQUELLE
Renee -Miquelle was born
in Paris, France, on June 14th,
1897. Her first teacher, when she
was but 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-
1910, and also with Alfredo Ca
sella (1913-191D.
In September, 1914, she came to
the United States and, upon the
request of Mr.. Chadwick director
of the New England Conservatory
Of Music), she accepted the direc-
ton of class in Eurythmics there.
She resigned that position in 1917,
to be exclusively connected with
the Longy School BOUNDED in 1916
by her father, Of which she is
now 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 Col1ette 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 a 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-
ton Of Pugno, who took her as
his nunil and she then achieved