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Musical Courier 1891-05-13: Vol 22 Iss 586, 1891
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1PERSONALS.
3MISS WERNIG ENGAGED.—Miss Ella Wernig, one of the Ashforth pupils, has been engaged for the opening of the summer concerts at the Baltimore Academy of Music which began on Monday. The orchestra at these concerts is the Baltimore Symphony orchestra, Ross Jungnickel, director. Miss Wernig is a daughter of Prof. Charles Wernig, of Brooklyn, and is a very talented aspirant for vocal honors.
5EMILY E. LASSANGUE RETURNED.—Mrs. Emily Lassangue, for three years president of the California Musical College at Los Angeles, Cal., has returned from Europe, where she has been singing in concerts and oratorios. The lady was the teacher of Sir Arthur Sullivan's nieces, and expects to engage in vocal instruction and singing in New York next season.
7DR. HOPKINSON AT THE RICHMOND FESTIVAL.—The "Festival Bulletin," issued by the management of the Richmond (Va.) Festival, now in progress, states:
9A baritone has been added to the company, making a grand total of eight solo artists. No festival company ever offered more varied attractions. Dr. Hopkinson, the baritone, is too well known to need any special introduction. His work is always superb.
11Dr. Hopkinson is the Baltimore baritone of whom many favorable notices have appeared. Victor Herbert conducts and the Boston Festival Orchestra furnish the instrumental program. The last concert takes place to-night, with Rossini's "Stabat Mater" and Bruch's "Fair Ellen."
13HERFURTH SUCCEEDS KOGEL.—In place of Kogel, the former conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and who now goes to Frankfort-on-the Main, Musikdirector Herfurth, of Lausanne, has been chosen conductor of that important organization. The selection was a unanimous one after Herfurth had conducted only a single trial rehearsal.
15MARIE WILT WELL AGAIN.—Marie Wilt, the famous retired prima donna, has been dismissed as completely cured from the private asylum at Feldhof, near Prague, and the free disposition over her fortune of 500,000 florins has been restored to her.
17MARRIAGE OF JEAN BIZET.—A son of the celebrated composer of "Carmen" was married Saturday a fortnight ago at the Notre Dame de Lorette Church, Paris, to Miss Stephanie Lhermitte.
19BULOW GIVES UP.—Bulow gives up his plan to conduct a spring season of concerts at Lisbon "on account of ill health."
21SAINT-SAENS' PLANS.—Camille Saint-Saëns will leave Egypt soon to go to London to conduct there some of his own compositions. He has lately rewritten his opera "Proserpine," and has finished a new string quartet and a fantasia for piano.
23BAGBY RETURNS.—Mr. Albert Morris Bagby returned last Thursday from a two weeks' concert and lecture trip through Illinois and Michigan. His last stopping place was Detroit, where he delivered his reading of "An Hour with Liszt in Weimar" on Tuesday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. hall before a very large and appreciative audience. The entire tour was a success.
25MISS MARY HOWE'S ENGAGEMENTS.—After singing at the Thomas concert in Philadelphia last Thursday and with Nikisch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Chicago on Saturday, Miss Mary Howe will sing at the Buffalo and Indianapolis festivals and will close the most successful and prosperous season she has ever had, singing at the commencements of Dartmouth and of Middleburg colleges. She will spend her vacation at Poland Springs. Miss Howe was present at the opening of the new Music Hall last Tuesday night.
27SHE GOT TO A NUNNERY.—The dramatic soprano Donadio, who will be remembered here from her appearances at the Academy of Music under Mapleson's régime, and who was the wife of Frapoli, the tenor, who sang here, has lately taken the veil and entered a convent in Italy.
29DIVERS DEATHS.—The deaths are announced at the age of seventy of J. B. Mohr, professor of the horn at the Paris Conservatory, and for many years first horn player at the Paris Opéra; also at Colmar, aged eighty-four, of Constant Sieg, organist of the cathedral; also in Belgium, aged sixty-seven, of J. B. Lannoy, for many years clarinet soloist in the Belgian army, and the composer of six masses, with orchestra and cantata, "La Vallon," produced in 1874; also at Naples, aged sixty-four, of Emanuel Roxas, professor of singing at the Naples Conservatory, and the composer of many light operas and other works.
31The death is announced of Jules Alvary, who was born at Mantua in 1814. He studied at the Milan Conservatory. He was best known as director of the music at the Italian Opera under the empire, and as a composer of a very large number of songs and minor works. He also wrote several operettas and comic operettas, none of which attained any considerable success. The earliest of them, "Rosamunde," in two acts, was produced at Florence in 1840, and the principal part was created by Strepponi, who is now the wife of the composer Verdi.
33The death is announced of Auguste Bazille, for forty years chorus master at the Paris Opéra Comique, and for many years organist at the church of St. Elizabeth. He was born in Paris in 1828 and studied at the conservatory. He composed some minor works for the French theatres and a vast quantity of songs and piano pieces.
35MORE MASCAGNI COMPOSITIONS.—Mascagni has completed and handed to Sonzogno, the Milan publisher, the score of his new opera, "L'Amico Fritz," the subject of which is taken from the tale of Erckmann-Chatrian. Mascagni is now engaged upon the composition of a new mass.
37SAURET DECORATED.—King Oscar, of Sweden, has conferred on the violinist Emil Sauret the order "Grand Star of Wasa," in recognition of his great talent as a violinist.
39ROSSINI REMEMBERED.—The requisite steps are being taken to erect a grand monument to Rossini in Santa Croce, Florence, the Italian Westminster Abbey, if one may say so.
41VAN DYCK IN LONDON.—The Belgian singer and Bayreuth "Parsifal," Ernest Van Dyck, now the chief tenor of the Imperial Opera at Vienna, has signed an engagement to appear at Covent Garden in "Manon" and "Faust."
43SHE IS A SOPRANO, NOT AN ORCHESTRA.—A Louisville paper calmly says that Mrs. Nikisch will sing the rhapsody in A, by Lalo.
45SGAMBATI IN LONDON.—At the fifth concert of the Philharmonic Society, London, to-morrow night, Sgambati will conduct his "Sinfonia Epitalamia," given for the first time in England.
47FROM DALLAS TO CHICAGO.—Miss Eloise Harford has left Dallas, Tex., and gone to live at Chicago. The lady studied five years with Chas. R. Adams, of Boston, one year with the younger Lamperti at Dresden and last year with Désirée Artot. She has a remarkable contralto voice and sings charmingly. Dallas was too small for her.
49LONDON "FIGARO" ON BLUMENBERG.—The latest London "Figaro," just to hand, publishes the following item:
51Mr. Louis Blumenberg, who is reputed the greatest violoncello virtuoso in the United States, is now again paying a brief visit to London. He has wisely decided, considering the congested state of matters musical, not to give a public concert here, but he has been heard at St. George's Chapel, where he played a romance by Sivori, and at various private houses, and has excited considerable interest in social and musical circles. During the past winter, Mr. Louis Blumenberg has given numerous concerts in Berlin, Bremen, Paris and all through Thuringia. He is the happy possessor of a magnificent Bergonzi 'cello, and of a fine example by Nicolo Amati, one of the six splendid instruments which were specially made to the order of Charles IX. of France, the fleur de lis being still plainly recognizable.
53HOME NEWS.
55MR. AND MRS. NIKISCH SAIL.—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nikisch sail for Europe June 2.
57A CONCERT.—Louisa Morrison gives a concert this evening at Hardman Hall.
59H. BARITTA MULL.—The pupils of H. Baritta Mull gave a grand concert in Toronto, April 29.
61HARLEM PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—An effort is being made to reorganize the Harlem Philharmonic Society, and with this object in view more than three hundred of the prominent women of Harlem met last week in the hall of the Harlem Democratic Club. Among them were Mrs. C. F. McLean, Mrs. C. C. Tyler, Mrs. F. F. Newman, Mrs. J. Allen, Miss Dorsett, Mrs. Marshal P. Ayres, Mrs. Cutler, Mrs. Dr. Pierson and Mrs. Edgar Ketchum. The Rev. Dr. S. H. Virgin made an address commending the work, and a short musical entertainment was given to initiate the project. Nearly all those present signed the membership roll. It is understood that H. T. Fleck will be director of the society. Plans for forthcoming concerts and public rehearsals will be perfected at another meeting soon to be held.
63EMMA JUCH OPERA COMPANY COLLAPSED.—It was rumored in this city last week that the Emma Juch Opera Company collapsed last Saturday night in the city of Mexico, leaving Manager Locke some $8,000 behind in salaries and transportation dues. Manager Locke is reported to have telegraphed the managers with whom he had dates to cancel and fill with what they could. The company was to have opened at St. Louis Monday night.
65A FIRST CONCERT.—The first concert of the Broadway Conservatory grand amateur orchestra of one hundred performers will take place at Scottish Rite Hall, May 28.
67HARRY PEPPER'S BALLAD CONCERTS.—Mr. Pepper will give his sixth (and last of series this season) ballad concert on Thursday evening, May 21, at Hardman Hall, on which occasion his selections will be a review of the preceding concerts, which will include ballads selected from the following types, viz.: English, Irish, Scotch, American, Military, Nautical, Rural, Domestic, Love, War and Chase. These ballad concerts will be continued next season.
69ALFREDO BARILI.—Alfredo Barili, who has been quietly doing musical missionary work in Atlanta, Ga., was tendered a complimentary concert by the Polymnia Club in that city some time ago. Mr. Barili directed, and the concert was an eminent success. Mr. Barili will soon be in New York, for he sails from here to Wales, where he generally spends a month with his aunt, Adelina Patti.
71A SEIDL CONCERT.—Anton Seidl and his grand orchestra next Sunday evening at Lenox Lyceum.
73BALTIMORE NEWS.—The Oratorio Society of Baltimore produced "Mors et Vita" on Saturday last.
75On Friday last Mr. Otto Sutro sent out copies of a circular letter to several Baltimoreans and to Andrew Carnegie, of New York, soliciting ten subscriptions of $25 each to complete the guarantee fund of $2,500 to place the Oratorio Society in a position to meet any deficit that may have to be met at the end of this season and hold good for subsequent annual deficits until the total amount is exhausted. Yesterday Mr. Sutro received the following from Mr. Carnegie: "Please put me upon your guarantee fund for one half of the amount lacking, namely, $125. Wish your society success."
77Miss Elsie Conrad, pupil of Richard Burmeister, gave an interesting recital on the 7th.
79SHE SAILED YESTERDAY.—Mrs. Ritter-Goetze, who sailed for Europe yesterday on a six weeks' trip to visit her husband, will return to this country in time to participate in the Newark German Singing Festival.
81CONRIED GOES SOUTH.—The Conried Opera Company will open up on June 7 and continue until October 1 at the Oak Cliff Summer Theatre. Oak Cliff is a suburb of Dallas, Tex., and numbers about 75,000 inhabitants, having been built up by T. L. Marsalis, the Jay Gould of the South.
83AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, CHICAGO.—The annual summer normal session of the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, will be held at Chickering Hall, from July 6 to August 1. Lectures on various subjects will be delivered by by Director J. J. Hattstaedt and other members of the faculty.
85CHICAGO CHAMBER MUSIC.—The second concert by the string quartet of the Chicago Musical College, under the direction of S. E. Jacobsohn, which was given Tuesday evening, the 6th inst. at the new Kimball Hall was a very enjoyable affair. The instrumental numbers were the Spohr and Cherubini quartets, which were well interpreted, Messrs. Hyllested and Jacobsohn played the Arthur Foote sonata for piano and violin in a finished manner, and Miss Eva E. Wycoff sang very nicely songs by Goring Thomas and Meyer Helmund. The Chicago Musical College string quartet, under the direction of S. E. Jacobsohn, will give the third and last of its series of chamber concerts at the new Kimball Hall on Thursday evening the 14th inst. The entire program will be devoted to Beethoven. Two quartets, No. 8 and 11 in F minor, will be the instrumental numbers. Mr. Hyllested will play the sonata, op. 57, and L. A. Phelps will sing the "Adelaide."
87FIRST OF THE EXCURSIONISTS.—Miss Louise Gerard leaves for London May 28. Mr. Albert Thies returns to London during May and will be here again in October.
89POSITION—Miss Sophie Fernow, concert pianist, desires a position as teacher for advanced classes in a conservatory of music or young ladies' seminary. The highest certificates from Professor Klindworth, Amelia Joachim, Professor Scharwenka and others testify to her ability as pianist and thoroughness as a teacher. Refers also to Mr. Chas F. Tretbar, Steinway & Sons, New York, and to Mr. Otto Sutro, Baltimore, Md., to whom applications may be sent.
91LADY INSTRUMENTALISTS—Wanted for the American Ladies' Symphony Orchestra first-class female orchestral players. An entire season's engagement offered. Violin, viola, 'cello, bass, flute, clarionet, French horn, oboe, cornet, trombone, bassoon and timpani players. Call or address Manager Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, 1441 Broadway, New York.
93WHY?—Why Mr. John Philip Sousa and his band of United States Marine Corps should have given a concert last Sunday night at the Lenox Lyceum is a difficult problem to solve. The music they made was fit for a picnic excursion or a political torchlight procession. They butchered Wagner, Weber, Berlioz and other composers, until the air was as sanguinary as their uniforms, and they capped the climax when they played a "symphonic poem" by their leader called the "Chariot Race." It could have been dubbed "a race on the L road" with more truth. Mr. A. L. Guille, who possesses a pure voice and style, sang an aria from Verdi's "Jerusalem" and Gounod's "Ave Maria." He won great applause. Marie Decca sang in indifferent fashion an aria from "Perle du Brésil."
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