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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 36 given at the school or at pupils' residences, and class instruction Is given at the college. The school is pleasantly situated at 443 Monroe street. It will reopen September 10. Mrs.

Emma Richardson Kuster. Among the prominent musicians in Brooklyn is Mrs. Emma Richardson Kuster, who deservedly stands high both as a concert pianist and a teacher. Mrs. Kuster's ability as a pianist, both as an executant of the brilliant music the school Liszt and as an interpreter of Beethoven, Schubert and other classic masters, has often been testified to by the musical critics.

Her skill as a teacher is no less marked. She has resumed instruction for the season at her home studio, 393 Madison street. This season she will have no assistant, all the pupils coming entirely under her personal instruction. Mrs. Kuster gives not only a thorough training in technique, but in the memorizing which is required of her pupils she teaches scale and chord formation and enough harmony to make memorizing intelligent and easy.

An important feature of her system is the frequent private recitals which she began in 1S82 and has continued every season. At these every pupil is enabled to acquire ease and self confidence in playing before an audience. At the recitals, as all the pupils play solos, parents have an excellent opportunity to judge of Mrs. Kuster's skill as a teacher of students of all degrees of talent. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

This institution is the first one that was founded in this country for the purpose of giving a broad and practical education to those desiring to make acting their profession. It is now the recognized center of dramatic culture in this country, and in this respect corresponds to the French Conservatoire. The work of the academy is both an educational and a practical value. It cultivates imagination and intelligence as well as gives theatrical knowledge and experience. There are, therefore, two sides to the academy.

On the one hand it is academic and allied to the educational system of the state, holding its charter from the Board of Regents; on the other hand it affords practical training in the acting of parts, and is in close touch with the profession. The two years of the regular course correspond to these two aspects in the junior year the students are at work in the Technical Training School; in the senior year they comprise the academy stock company, and give public performances of plays. The faculty is composed of members carefully chosen for their special knowledge and their gift of imparting it. It has been said to be the largest and strongest body of instructors which has been brought together in the history of dramatic education. Students enter the academy from every walk in life, some college graduates and others of very deficient education.

The needs of the individual student are, therefore, carefully ascertained from the entrance examination and the work is directed toward bringing out the best results of which each one is capable. Miss Marie De Comps. Miss Marie L. De Comps, who has devoted the past ten years to the study of the human voice and the best manner of developing it, bids fair to become one of the leading teachers, when her method tor teaching becomes more generally known. Possessing a beautiful voice, which she has brought to its high state of cultivation largely by her own efforts, she stands prepared to show that, though the teacher may do much toward guiding and illustrating, it remains for the student to accomplish the greater part of the work.

Miss De Comps has made a special and careful study of how the foundation of the voice should be laid. Miss De Comps devoted many years to study before taking np active teaching, preferring to make or mar her own voice in personal experiment, rather than injure the voices of young students. Miss De Comps will resume teaching September 17, at her residence, 450 Dean street, where all communications may be addressed. Mr. F.

W. Foster. Mr. P. W.

Foster has given instruction on the piano during the past twelve years in Brooklyn. The course embraces the whole range of pianoforte literature and all grades of pupils, beginners or advanced students, being given the same careful attention. Particular pains are taken with beginners, to give them the firm foundation, correct Ideas and cultivated tastes that are indispensable to musical art and refinement. The beginning Is the most important time of all, when competent instruction from an experienced teacher is needed if the child's musical future is to be successful. First impressions are strongest and last the longest.

To train the hands of a pupil in such a manner that, while they gradually acquire the requisite strength, they also retain their flexibility, requires of the teacher thorough knowledge and experience, as well as the closest care and attention. Miss M. Louise Mundell. Miss M. Louise Mundell.

one of Brooklyn's best cultivators of the voice, announces that she will resume teaching at her studio, 276 MeDonough street, Monday, September 10. The delightful and artistically rendered recitals by her pupils last season are still in the minds of her patrons, and it is the purpose of Miss Mundell to give a series of studio recitals this year In Brooklyn as well as In Manhattan. These musicales are given for the further advancement of pupils who do acceptable work in the studio, but need the experience of singing before an audience, before making their debut before the musical world. By the time Miss Mundell is ready to graduate her pupils into positions they are prepared to sing before an audience, no matter how large or how critical. In addition to these Miss Mundell has formed a madrigal club, entirely of pupils studying at the present time.

This is for the purpose of giving them an opportunity to become sight readers, and to sing concerted music. Once a month Miss Mundell gives to her pupils and friends a lecture on the subject of "The Voice, and the Art of Singing," dividing it into parts, giving the pupils a thorough understanding of the human voice and how to use It in singing. The studio in Manhattan, though only opened in December, was the central attraction for pupils and musical people. A. HinchclifEe's College of Music.

Mr. Hinchcliffe'e college of music, which is open all the year, is situated at 207 Schermer horn street, where it has had a successful career of thirty years. Mr. Hinchcliffe was the musical director of the Empire theater of Newark, N. for some time and was associated with Colonel Sinn in a musical capacity at the Park Theater.

Mr. Hinchcliffe devotes all his time, talent and energy to advance the pupils rapidly. Each pupil will have the benefit of hie personal supervision. Mr. Hinchcliffe's long connection as musical director of the leading theaters of New York and Brooklyn is sufficient guarantee that the pupils will be thoroughly taught in all the branches of music.

The college will be open daily throughout the whole year from 9 o'clock A. M. to 9 o'clock P. Sundays and holidays excepted. Mme.

Berta Grosse Thomason. Mine. Berta Grosse Thomason, whose studio is situated at 340 Fulton street, gives a thorough and systematic course of instruction on the piano, according to the method of the Frank Kullak Academy, Berlin. The assistant teachers, having studied Berta Grosse Thomason's method for many years, are thoroughly competent and will teach the preparatory and intermediate classes under her direct supervision. An experience of fifteen years' teaching in Germany, England and this country, combined with constant appearances before the public as a performer, and her steadily growing enthusiasm for her profession, have made Mme.

Grosse Thomason an unexcelled teacher of music. Mr. W. E. Bassett, who teaches theory and harmony in the school, is one of Brooklyn's brightest musicians and a favorite pupil of the celebrated teacher, Mr.

Boise of Berlin. Jessie Howard Matteson. Miss Matteson is widely known both as a singer and a teacher of singing. She has appeared very often In concerts, both In this city and throughout this part of the country, and her fine contralto voice has pleased her audiences and won many laudatory notices from the critics. She is at present soloist in the Ross Street Presbyterian Church, where her sympathetic contralto voice is greatly en joyed.

She is a careful, painstaking and Intelligent teacher, her purpose being not only to give thorough and effective instruction, but to cultivate in her pi pils fine musical perception and enthusiasm for the beautiful art of singing. The fact that a number of singers, both men and women, who are holding church positions, study with Miss Matteson, Is an indication of the estimate placed upon her work. Her home is at 536 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, and she will be prepared to make arrangements for lessons or for concert singing after September 9. A. Arnold's Studio of Music.

This studio will reopen the latter part of September as usual. It is situated in the most central part of the borough, at 98 Greene avenue, a few doors from Clinton avenue, and is easily accessible by most of the car lines. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, who teach at this studio the art of piano playing, have been connected so many years with the musical public of Brooklyn, and their excellent methods and thorough instruction are so widely known, that it seems unnecessary to give special mention to them.

Mr. Arnold, who finished his musical education in Berlin and Paris, is an excellent performer and ranks among the first of the city, while Mrs. Arnold enjoys great reputation as a trainer of young pupils, and under her Instruction they invariably acquire a solid musical foundation. Miss Blanche L. Friderici.

Miss Blanche Friderici is very well known as a presenter of original monologues and character impersonations, and enjoys an enviable reputation as a teacher of elocution and acting. Miss Fridericl's course of instruction includes the cultivation of the speaking voice, the elements of practical elocution, physical culture and acting and the study of dialects, impersonations, monologues and plays. She also gives a course for teachers, in which there is special instruction in the elocution of the school room, the act of reading naturally and intelligently, how to teach reading and other relative subjects. Tuition is given either privately or in classes. The Brooklyn studio is situated at 131 Quincy street.

The fall season begins October 1. Miss Friderici frequently gives recitals, and without exception they have been well received by the public and by the press. Henry Gaines Hawn. Henry Gaines Hawn is too widely and favorably known to require much comment. He is the president of the New York State Association of Elocutionists, dramatic instructor of the Cornell Masque and was for nine years the dTamatic coach of the Polytechnic Dramatic Association in our own city.

Under his able control the Poly boys' plays assumed such prominence that they were classed at the head of all college dramatics. Last year Mr. Hawn produced the first play given by the Boys' High School Dramatic Association with pronounced success. The work, however, for which this teacher is most noted, is his preparation of his pupils for positions as platform readers and entertainers. It is said that most of the great readers of the country pass through his hands for final criticism and among his own pupils who have attained success are Mrs.

A. M. Calkins, Mrs. Olivia S. Hall.

Mrs. Henry J. Gielow, Miss Gertrude McMillan and Miss Helen Gomes. Mr. Hawn, aside from his school work and his Cornell plays has made arrangements for a great many of his own recitals for the season of 1901 2.

Frederic Reddall, Voice Culture. In selecting a vocal teacher the young singer will find it to his or her advantage to choose one who can advance their interests when competent to take a solo position. Altogether too many teachers neglect this, leaving pupils to shift for themselves after graduation; or else the teacher is unable to bring the requisite influence to bear to secure for the beginner a suitable opening. Frederic Reddall, one of our foremost teachers, by reason of his personal standing and well known ability, says he Is able to insure a favorable hearing for any voice he recommends. At the present time he is represented in Brooklyn and Manhattan choirs by more than a dozen of his pupils, men and women, who are filling satisfactorily solo and salaried positions, while others are doing similar work at Galesburg, In Writing to Institutions, Please Mention Brooklyn Eagle Educational Directory..