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Musical Courier 1891-11-11: Vol 23 Iss 612, 1891
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1tion and orchestration are Wagnerian; but who can to-day free himself from the influence of the immortal Richard and who would do so if he could? The conductor of the Buffalo Orpheus was present, together with Mr. Lautz, the Higginson of Buffalo, to enjoy his triumph, but although he was enthusiastically called to appear on the stage, with his usual modesty he declined to do so.
3The a capella male choruses also contained two novelties, the one "Frühlingsglaube," by Mr. Van der Stucken, being particularly felicitous in tone and part writing. Kremser's "Hell-in's Fenster" is likewise charming. Both were sung with great finish and nicety of shading. In fact, the Arion under Van der Stucken's careful and energetic training, and with evidently new, good material among the tenors, sing now as well as any male chorus organization we ever heard in this city.
5The soloistic variety of the program consisted in the contributions of Miss Julie Müller-Hartung, Emil Fischer and Franz Remmertz. Miss Müller-Hartung is a new comer and a welcome addition to our concert sopranos. She is the daughter of that sterling musician Müller-Hartung, from Weimar, and a niece of the Hon. Carl Schurz of this city. The young lady is possessed of a nice voice, which she uses with taste. Her singing of an aria from Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro," Sucher's "Liebesglück," d'Albert's "Zur Drossel sprach der Fink," and the "Walküre" solo in Lund's composition was very creditable, and she made a good impression with the audience.
7Fischer sang the baritone solo in "Cinq Mai," Löwe's ballad, "Edward" (the latter with a good deal of false pathos), and Schubert's "Hark, hark!" in his usual felicitous style, and Franz Remmertz gave some of his old-time sonorous work in the incidental solo in the "Germanenzug."
9HOME NEWS.
11Casino.—The entertainment now offered at the Casino has succeeded so well that Mr. Aronson is contemplating the production of "L'Oncle Celestin" and "La Demoiselle du Telephone," two successful musical comedies. The title of the second sounds especially promising.
13A New Organization.—A new chamber music organization is the Schmidt-Herbert Quartet, consisting of Louis Schmidt, Carl Hauser, Henry Schmidt and Victor Herbert. These gentlemen will give four concerts at Hardman Hall on December 9, January 8, February 11, and March 11.
15Paderewski Will Play Next Week.—Ignace Paderewski will play the G minor Saint-Saëns piano concerto and his own interesting A minor concerto at his début next Tuesday evening at the new Music Hall. Walter Damrosch will conduct.
17The Symphony Society.—The first public rehearsal of the Symphony Society will take place at Music Hall on Friday afternoon, followed by the concert on Saturday night. The program will consist of Beethoven's seventh symphony, Brahms' violin concerto and Tchaikowsky's "Hamlet" overture. The soloist will be Adolph Brodsky, the new concertmeater of the orchestra.
19Sarony.—Sarony, whose name is synonymous with all that is most artistic in photography, has probably the largest number of negatives and stock photos of musicians and music people of any artist in America. He has stored away something over half a million negatives, and among them may be found the faces of nearly every celebrity who has visited New York. Any one of them can be reproduced with a few days' notice. He will pose all of the new artists who are to sing at the Metropolitan this winter and promises some novelties.
21Miss Du Pre's Concert.—Miss Lucile Du Pré, violinist, will give a concert at Steinway Hall to-night, under the auspices of several prominent society ladies. The young artist, a pupil of Schradieck and Lichtenberg, has won success whenever she has appeared before the public, having traveled through the country with Julia Rive-King and having played in many concerts and musicales since in New York. She will be assisted by Mr. Arthur Friedheim, pianist, and by the Baroness von Meyerinck, soprano and vocal teacher.
23The Damrosch Sunday Concerts.—The first of the "Damrosch Sunday Orchestral Concerts" will occur at Music Hall, Sunday evening, the 15th inst. The Symphony Orchestra, of New York, Walter Damrosch conductor, consisting of seventy musicians, and Mrs. Selma Kronold-Koert and Galassi, soloists, will interpret a very fine program. These concerts will be given on every Sunday evening during the winter, except on November 29, when the Music Hall will be given up to the Liederkranz Society. Miss Emma Juch has been engaged as soloist for the second concert. Adolph Brodsky, violinist; Mrs. Ritter-Goetze and Mr. Campanini are among the soloists engaged for subsequent concerts. With such splendid musical forces and the exceedingly low prices asked for seats and admission these concerts will meet with generous public favor. Music Hall has a comfortable seating capacity of over three thousand, its acoustics are unexcelled, and these features add to the charm of all entertainments that occur there.
25Hartmann's Concert.—Master Arthur M. Hartmann, a talented young violinist, gave a concert at New York College of Music Hall last Thursday evening, and played compositions by Hauser, Tschechulin, Raff and Paganini. He was assisted by Miss Jeanne Faure, soprano; Miss Jessie Shay, pianist and Mr. Drick Haagmans.
27Mrs. Hecker's Concert.—Mrs. Henrietta Hecker, the mezzo soprano, gave a concert at Steinway Hall last Wednesday evening. Mrs. Hecker was assisted by Miss Sophie Fernow, pianist; Mr. Carl Hild, violinist and Mrs. Hild, accompanist.
29Mr. Elson's Lecture a Great Success.—Louis C. Elson lectured successfully at Messrs. Porter and Daws' school at Farmington, Conn., recently on "The Troubadours and Their Descendants." He will be heard to-morrow evening at Sleeper Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, on "English Folk Song."
31Miss Diamant.—Miss Hattie Diamant, a pupil of Mrs. Ogden Crane, is a young soprano who will make her début at the assembly rooms of the Rheinischer Sangerbund Society on November 15, when she will sing the scena and prayer from "Der Freischütz," "La Fauvette Envolée" by Abt, and "Geburtstaglied" by Sachs. Miss Diamant has a remarkably sweet, flexible soprano voice, which she has under excellent control.
33Klein's Paschal Mass.—A grand musical service was held last Sunday in St. Stephen's Church, Twenty-eighth street, the occasion being marked by the rendering for the first time in New York of Bruno Oscar Klein's Paschal Mass, a solid contribution to ecclesiastical music. The mass was produced under the direction of Frank G. Dossert, organist and choirmaster of St. Stephen's. The composer, who is the organist of St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, this city, was expected to conduct it in person, but he was prevented by reason of sickness. The vocal parts were rendered by a highly trained and efficient chorus of sixty mixed voices, all members of St. Stephen's volunteer choir. The solos were taken by Miss Deane Creamer, soprano; Miss Annie Dunne, alto; William Xanten, tenor, and J. J. Dossert, bass.
35A large and appreciative congregation was present.
37Boy Musicians from Austria.—The Austrian Juvenile Band, a musical organization of forty boys, which is to give concerts in this country under the direction of Mr. D. Blakely, arrived here last Sunday on the Augusta Victoria, and began their tour in Providence, R. I., last Monday evening.
39Who Struck Dave Bimberg?—This interesting question interested the members of the Beth-El choir last week.
41More Singers for Manager Abbey.—Marie Van Zandt and the Ravogli sisters were among the passengers on the City of Paris last week. They came over to sing for the entertainment of the United States folks who have never heard them, and for the profit of Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau. Miss Van Zandt is at the Windsor and the Ravoglis are at the Victoria.
43Although Miss Van Zandt was born in New York and talks pleasingly about being a Yankee girl, she is almost as much of a stranger here as the others. Before she was in her teens she was taken to Paris to be educated, and her life has been passed principally in that city. She comes back, however, none the worse for her European experience—a bright young lady with a round face and blue eyes and brown hair and a pleasing smile. Moreover, she brings back neither a brogue nor an accent. When talking of singing with Mrs. Lehmann in "Mignon" she said: "I expect to be squashed" as naturally as though she had been trained in Boston or Chicago instead of Paris. She will sing first for Americans a week from next Friday in "La Somnambula," at the Chicago Auditorium.
45The Ravogli sisters were born in Rome and are proud of it. Unlike Miss Van Zandt, they are tall and dark. One of the sisters is a soprano and the other a mezzo soprano, and the two usually sing together. They first attracted the attention of American managers when they made a success at Covent Garden last year. They sang one act of "Orpheus" before the German Emperor when he was having a good time in London. They sing all the Wagner operas as well as the Italian.
47Theodore Thomas Honored.—Chicago, November 7.—Theodore Thomas and his orchestra of sixty men gave a concert to-night at the Germania Club. During the evening Harry Rubens, president of the club, on behalf of that organization, presented Mr. Thomas with a fine baton made of ivory and gold and studded with diamonds. The occasion was in the nature of a reception to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and was one of the most notable social events ever given by the club.
49Friedheim in Chicago.—Mr. Arthur Friedheim, the celebrated interpreter of Liszt, will make his inaugural appearance in Chicago at the first of the series of Thursday morning recitals to be given for the benefit of the Visiting Nurse Association at Hooley's Theatre, November 19. His coming has awakened a great deal of interest among the musicians of that city. It is fortunate for him that he can introduce himself under such favorable auspices, as the aforementioned recitals will be attended by the best elements of Chicago's musical and social population.
51The Minnie Hauk Company.—The Minnie Hauk Opera Company, C. D. Hess manager, began an engagement in Baltimore at the Lyceum on Monday. "Cavalleria Rusticana" is in the repertory. In the troupe we find the names of Del Puente, Galassi (?), Henry Peakes, Louise Natali, Helen Dudley Campbell, Tremelli (?). Leo Stormont and others.
53The Boston Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore.—This year the Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its concerts in Baltimore in the Academy of Music Concert Hall. The first concert took place last Friday night, and was a pronounced and unequivocal artistic success. The program consisted of the "Leonora" No. 3, Tchaikowsky suite, op. 55, and the "Meistersinger" prelude. Lillian Nordica was the soloist.
55FOREIGN NOTES.
57Grove's Good Work.—Sir George Grove, who was one of the literary executors of the late Dean of Westminster (with whom he visited the United States in 1878), is forming a committee to raise funds for photo-lithographic reproduction of the scores of Beethoven's symphonies. Sir George Grove, whose zeal as a propagandist of good music is well known, says that only by the study of these scores can the various points of doubt as to the reading be settled.
59Milan Opera Prices.—"Le Ménestrel" quotes the prices of admission to some of the theatres of Milan. They are astonishing. At the Manzoni Theatre 8 frs. are charged for fifteen representations—less than 11 cents for each evening. At the Philodrammatico, 8 frs. for twenty evenings—8 cents for each. At the Commenda the subscription is 4 frs. for eighteen performances—less than 4½ cents for each, and at the Pezzana 3 frs. for twenty-five evenings!
61More Lowe Lieder.—Eight hitherto unpublished songs by Carl Löwe are to be issued shortly by Messrs. Breitkopf & Härtel.
63Praeger's Wagner Recollections.—Messrs. Longmans, of London, are going to publish "Wagner as I Knew Him," by Ferdinand Praeger.
65Kalbeck in Demand.—Max Kalbeck, the Vienna music critic and littérateur, has reconstructed the libretti of Mozart's early opera "Bastien and Bastienne" (written when Mozart was twelve years of age and produced for the first time in 1768), and the same master's "La Finta Gardiniera" (1774), both of which works will shortly be revived on the same evening at the Vienna Court Opera House. Kalbeck will for the same theatre furnish the German translation of Massenet's new opera "Werther" and for the Berlin Royal Opera House that of Mascagni's "L'Ami Fritz."
67Lully Revised by Saint-Saëns.—The Comédie Française at Paris will shortly revive Molière's chef d'œuvre "Le Sicilien, ou L'Amour Peintre." It is to be given with the original music which Lully wrote for it, and Saint-Saëns has accepted the task of revising the old score.
69London.—Mr. D'Oyly Carte has broadened his plans and the Royal English Opera has ceased to be the home of English opera exclusively. He produced on Tuesday of last week Mr. Messager's "La Basoche" with an English version of Carre's original French libretto, to which none other than Sir Augustus Harris himself is willing to lend his name as translator, or as an adapter, Mr. Eugene Oudin assisting the great man. This work is already a year old, but anything a year old abroad is generally a novelty in England, where, I imagine, Mr. Messager's charming music had hardly been heard of and certainly had not been heard. The success of it was unequivocal. The music has distinction, animation, tunefulness, and many high technical qualities. The story proved amusing, while Sir Augustus Harris's English is at least intelligible, and the flavor of Drury Lane is not too marked. The costumes, scenery and management are all what Mr. Carte has taught his public to expect. Both singing and acting are of a high order, and the ensemble is excellent.
71Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Ivanhoe" has not lost its attractiveness. This and "La Basoche" are now given alternately.
73Two Artists.—Rosenthal and Carreño will both go to England next year.
75Scovel Sick.—London, November 7.—Chevalier Scovel, who was billed to appear in "Lohengrin" at Covent Garden to-night, was ill in bed when the time for the performance arrived.
77Paderewski on the Spree.—The pianist Paderewski has sailed by the Spree, as also Courtlandt Palmer, Jr., a talented young pianist and pupil of Ferdinand Sinzig.
79A New Operetta in Paris.—Last Saturday was the first night at the Théâtre Folies-Dramatique of the operetta of Mr. de Varney, "La Fille de Fanchon, la Viel-
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