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Musical Courier 1891-09-30: Vol 23 Iss 606, 1891
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1HOME NEWS.
3AT LAST.—The first positive announcement of a time and place for the production of "Rustic Chivalry" is made by Oscar Hammerstein, who has secured the Lenox Lyceum for two months expressly for the production of this opera. The first performance is announced for to-morrow evening. The company has been rehearsing for some time in Nilsson Hall, under the direction of Adolf Neuendorf. The chorus will number sixty people and a very large orchestra will be employed.
5Januschowski will appear in the prima donna rôle. Payne Clarke is the tenor. New scenery has been painted and new costumes and accessories have also been provided.
7A QUERY FOR THE AUTHORITIES.—To the Editor of the Herald: My attention having been called to an announcement in this morning's issue of your paper of the contemplated giving of operatic performances at the Lenox Lyceum, permit me to inquire if that building meets the legal requirements necessary to devote it to that purpose. If not constructed according to law which public department should interfere?
9A READER.
10September 25, 1891.
12"ALLEGORY OF WAR IN SONG."—S. G. Pratt's "Allegory of War in Song" will be given at the Madison Square Garden Friday and Saturday next.
14LEOPOLD WINKLER.—This well-known pianist has resumed his professional duties after a pleasant summer's outing, part of which was spent with the Fleischmanns at their summer home in the Catskills. Mr. Winkler will continue to teach at the National Conservatory.
16FREDERICK SHAILER EVANS.—Frederick Shailer Evans, the pianist, of Cincinnati, was a caller at this office last week.
18MRS. OGDEN CRANE.—The pretty hall of the Pamparo Athletic Club was last night filled by the citizens of the Third Ward of Bayonne City, who seem to never tire in their efforts to provide funds for the new hospital. A capital program had been prepared, the principal attraction being the well-known soprano, Mrs. Ogden Crane. After the overture by the Bayonne orchestra of local amateurs, the Misses Clark, Stilling, Lester and Dooley (the Ogden Lady Quartet) sang "Helloa" in an admirable manner. Mrs. Ogden Crane sang a solo, with violin obligato, "Angel's Serenade," with admirable skill and effect. She sang "Love's Dream of Thee" as an encore.—"Evening Telegram."
20MRS. S. DE LANDE.—Mrs. S. De Lande has resumed her professional teachings, for the season, at her Central Studio, 9 East Seventeenth street, city, room 6, to be seen Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9 to 5.
22MISS E. BECK.—Miss E. Beck has opened a studio for the season, 9 East Seventeenth street. Miss Beck makes the piano her principal branch of musical studies.
24TILLOTSON OPERA COMPANY.—The new opera company just organized by W. W. Tillotson to give Strauss' "Night in Venice," opens at the Park Theatre, Philadelphia, October 19. The force consists of Helen Lamont, soprano; Helen Barry, mezzo; Agnes Stone, contralto; Tom Perse, tenor; Stuart Harold, baritone, and Joseph Greensfelder, basso.
26THE NEW JARDINE ORGAN AT TALMAGE'S.—The new and beautiful Jardine organ at Talmage's new Tabernacle was dedicated on the 20th in the presence of a very large and attentive congregation. Talmage said among other things:
28The late Mr. George Jardine recently made a tour of the organs of Europe. He gathered up in his portfolio an account of all the excellences of the renowned instruments of music on the other side of the Atlantic and all the new improvements, and brought back that portfolio to America, declaring that the Brooklyn Tabernacle should have the full advantage of all he had obtained, and although he did not live to carry out his idea, his son, Mr. Edward Jardine, has introduced into this great organ all those improvements and grandeur, and while you hear this organ you hear all that is notable in the organs of Lucerne and Fribourg and Haarlem and St. Paul and Westminster Abbey and other great organs that have enlivened the world.
30In it are banked up more harmonies than I can describe, and all for God and the lifting of the soul toward him. Its four banks of keys, its 110 stops and appliances, its 4,510 pipes, its chime of thirty-seven bells, its cathedral diapason, and pedal double diapason, its song trumpet and night horn and vox humana, vox celestis, vox angelica, all, all, we dedicate to God and the soul.
32THE MUSIC CLUB.—The Music Club held an important meeting at its rooms on Thirty-first street. A nominating committee was elected to nominate the officers and governing committee of the club, and the nominees will be posted at the club house next Saturday, October 8, and will remain posted fifteen days prior to the annual election on October 18. Sentiment is divided on the question of the presidency.
34S. G. FLEISHMAN.—Mr. S. G. Fleishman, who has been studying in Berlin for the past eight years, returned to this city last Sunday. Mr. Fleishman has been studying piano and theory with Moszkowski and Urban and has among other compositions in his portfolio an overture for full orchestra called "Hero and Leander," by the way a most excellent theme for musical setting.
36MISS LOWE.—Miss Katie Lowe has returned from Europe and has resumed her piano teaching for the season at 2321 Third avenue, city.
38LOCKED UP.—Charles E. Locke, of general reputation, was locked up last Saturday on a charge of E. C. Hedmont, the tenor, who avers that he lent $1,200 to Locke, who gave him a bill of sale on the scenery and effects of the Emma Juch Opera Company. Bail was fixed at $1,000 and gentle Charlie got out late Saturday night. The Juch Opera Company was to have opened last Monday night in Bridgeport, Conn.
40NOT ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED.—All rumors and reports notwithstanding, Clementine De Vere (our De Vere) has no matrimonial intentious whatever. She prefers to devote her spare time to her art.
42HAMMERSTEIN HARANGUES.—A paragraph and an anonymous communication appeared in the "Herald" today and yesterday in reference to the Lenox Lyceum and myself, which if not corrected and further explained are apt to be injurious to me.
44The Lenox Lyceum is referred to as an establishment having but a license for selling "wines," and therefore by law excluded from permitting theatrical productions, especially such as the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana," which is to be given there under my management on Thursday next.
46The Lenox Lyceum has a "concert hall" license, exactly such as the Madison Square Garden, Eden Musée, Music Hall, Koster & Bial's, &c., possess. Such license covers all dramatic and operatic performances in which there is no rise of curtain or shifting of scenery.
48Having a somewhat severe experience in the obtaining and maintaining of theatrical licenses and being not at all unfamiliar with the requirements of the fire as well as the building department, I propose to give the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" in such a manner as will exclude even the slightest possibility of clashing with the law. There will be no rise of curtain nor shifting of scenery. In order not to arouse the ire of the building department I have affixed the one great scene used by means of wire cables, doing away with all wood work or wooden support. The fire department also will have no cause for ringing an alarm. I will use no curtain. I will not even use a fan, such as is in operation at Koster & Bial's. A shadow will be thrown over the scene. That shadow is entirely fire-proof.
50OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN.
51New York, September 27, 1891.
53MISS GERARD.—Miss Louise Gerard has been engaged as solo soprano at the church of St. Charles Borromeo, in Brooklyn.
55MRS. THURBER RETURNS.—Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber returned from Europe last Sunday morning.
57THIES.—Mr. Albert Thies was in London during last summer, studying oratorio with Shakspeare.
59ARTHUR CLAASSEN'S "THE BATTLE."—At the Madison Square Garden last Sunday night a composition of Arthur Claassen's was sung, under the direction of the composer, by a chorus of 200 singers from New York, Brooklyn and Newark, with the Seidl orchestra and C. H. Phelps, tenor, and C. Steinbuck, baritone. The work is called "The Battle," the poem by Schiller, and is for male chorus orchestra, with incidental solos for tenor and baritone. Mr. Claassen's music is well and vigorously written and contains several effective climaxes. The final chorus had to be repeated, owing to the hearty reception it received from the large audience present.
61THE GAERTNERS.—Carl S. Gaertner and wife, of Philadelphia, have returned from Europe.
63SO SAYS THE CHICAGO "FIGARO."—A Wabash avenue, Chicago, cigar store is kept by a great-grandson of the famous Muzio Clementi.
65THE MORGANS.—The following criticism in the "Times" will be read with interest by those who have heard Miss Maud Morgan's efforts on the harp: "New York has long been patient with a certain diminutive and hoary headed organist, who has lost more chords than the hero of Sullivan's ballad ever heard, and his classically robed daughter, who mercilessly plucks the heart strings of the harp until their anguish vibrates audibly."
67GIRLS IN A CLUB ORCHESTRA.—The admission of girls as violinists in the new social organization known as the Euterpe, in Brooklyn, is a new departure in musical circles. The Euterpe was recently organized by the retiring members of the Amphion Musical Society, of which Mr. C. Mortimer Wiske was formerly conductor. The society was organized with sixty members and it will begin its season with an amateur orchestra of sixty-five pieces and with a male chorus of fifty-six voices.
69Mr. Wiske urged that playing an orchestral instrument was no longer confined to men and that more girls than men were now taught to play the violin and other string instruments. Mr. Wiske is of the opinion that it is not just to bar the door against women and it was agreed to admit women into the Euterpe orchestra when their playing is up to the standard.
71FURSCH-MADI IS WITH US.—Mrs. Fursch-Madi, the French soprano, who has not been heard in New York for two years past, arrived by the Bourgogne little changed by her long absence. The popular artist said last night that she had returned to this country chiefly to assume the direction of the vocal classes at the New York College of Music. But she is also under contract to appear in concert both here and in other places and she will shortly sing in opera in Boston.
73"I have come direct from Paris," said Mrs. Fursch-Madi, "where I saw a good deal of the 'Lohengrin' riots. They were much more serious than the small outbreaks which interrupted the performances of the opera at the Eden Theatre some years ago. Those were got up by a few scamps. The recent disturbances, however, were the expression of the dislike felt to the man Wagner, not to his music. And the manifestations were confined entirely to Paris.
75"I dare say you know that Wagner's music is honestly admired—it is popular—in Paris. I have sung it myself often at the concerts, and I think if 'Lohengrin' had been given anywhere but in a subsidized state theatre it would have been listened to with respect. The Parisians objected to seeing money they had paid expended on a work by a man who had insulted them in their hour of distress.
77"But the feeling which led to the riots is gradually dying in Paris, and outside the capital it does not exist.
79"'Lohengrin' has been played to enthusiastic houses in the provincial cities. I myself sang the part of 'Ortrud' at the Bordeaux Opera House lately no less than thirty times in two months.
81"I have not the least idea what opera my impresario, Mr. Ruben, wants me to appear in. Yes, perhaps, a little later, I may be able to form an operatic singing class at the New York College of Music. French art, which is my art, seems more in favor here than it was when I sailed for Europe."—"Herald."
83WANTED—A position at a conservatory or in large town (conservatory preferred) by a good pianist. Seven years' experience in teaching. Modern methods taught. Guarantee satisfaction. Speaks English, French and Spanish. Address "Piano," care of this paper.
85The Worcester Music Festival.
87WORCESTER, Mass., September 26.
89THE musical pilgrim who journeys hither at this time of the year finds himself set down in an atmosphere as full of enthusiasm as a thunder cloud is of electricity; for the people of this charming city are vastly proud of their fine chorus, their annual festival and all its belongings. During these four days politics, business and all else have to stand aside, while the musical procession marches by. People talk of nothing else. On the street, in the stores, wherever you may chance to be, the scraps of conversation which float to your ears run something after this fashion: "Oh, wasn't Nordica just divine?"—"Did you hear Campanini in"—"orchestration was immense"—"never heard it before"—"Zerrahn said"—"wish they'd do it again"—"fine voice, but"—"Herbert played"—"Rummel to-morrow"—&c. one of two readings
90THE musical pilgrim who journeys hither at this time of the year finds himself set down in an atmosphere as full of enthusiasm as a thunder cloud is of electricity; for the people of this charming city are vastly proud of their fine chorus, their annual festival and all its longings. During these four days politics, business and all else have to stand aside, while the musical procession marches by. People talk of nothing else. On the street, in the stores, wherever you may chance to be, the scraps of conversation which float to your ears run something after this fashion: "Oh, wasn't Nordica just divine?"—"Did you hear Campanini in"—"orchestration was immense"—"never heard it before"—"Zerrahn said"—"wish they'd do it again"—"fine voice, but"—"Herbert played"—"Rummel to-morrow"—&c. one of two readings
92Now this genuine, home made, all wool and a yard wide kind of enthusiasm is extremely contagious. It affects even the stern critic, who will upon occasion point out to you a false note in the very harmony of the spheres. He comes here like a musical Saul of Tarsus, breathing out threatenings and slaughter, but, falling under the magic spell, selects his softest pen, a bottle of rose water for ink and lends himself generally to the promotion of the musical love feast which is going on.
94Yet there is good foundation for this feeling of local pride. This is the thirty-fourth annual festival of the Worcester County Musical Association, and during all these years there has been steady progress upward from small beginnings to larger accomplishments, from the singing of light and trivial music to the production of great classical works, from the banding together of a few local singers to the evolution of the great and well trained chorus of today. The audiences, too, have kept pace with this growth, not only in numbers but in appreciation and musical intelligence, until nowadays for singer or player successfully to run the gauntlet of a Worcester festival is almost a passport to reputation and success.
96People come to these concerts from all over New England, and even farther afield. All the week the hotels have been full to running over with visitors, performers and musical flotsam and jetsam of all sorts, while the seating
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