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Musical Courier 1892-01-27: Vol 24 Iss 623, 1892
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1will be given under the direction of Miss Henrietta Markstein, the first one next Sunday at Lyric Hall, in East Thirty-fourth street. Among those who have signified their willingness thus to promote the cause of good popular music are Campanini, Frederick Solomon, Pipaldi, the mandolinist; Albert Lester King, Galassi, D. Carl E. Dufft, W. H. Rieger, Henry Pepper, Miss Helen E. Metz, Mrs. Mary Harrigan Brown, Henry Dean and Ada Lewis, Emma Pollock, Harry Fisher and J. B. Radcliffe, of Harrigan's company. The Weber piano will be used, through the generous offer of that house.
3The Morgans.—Geo. W. Morgan, the organist, and his daughter, Miss Maud Morgan, harpist, will make an extensive tour this coming spring under the management of Henry Wolfsohn. They will visit the Pacific Coast and return by the Northern Pacific, giving a number of concerts in Victoria, British Columbia.
5Chicago Musical College.—The program for the celebration of the silver anniversary of the Chicago Musical College will contain a history of the college, written by George P. Upton, and will be illustrated, showing the pictures of the faculty and buildings occupied by the institution since the time of its establishment. The volume will be gotten up in white and silver, and Mr. F. Ziegfeld, Jr., is confident that the souvenir will be considered a suitable remembrance of this important event.
7The Music Club's Reception.—Last Saturday night the Music Club, a young organization, gave a concert, followed by a reception and dance. Among the interesting numbers of the evening was the trio for piano, horn and violin by Brahms, played excellently by Arthur Friedheim, pianist; Clifford Schmidt, violinist, and Carl Pieper, horn. Another was the Schubert "Forellen" quintet, for piano, violin, viola, 'cello and double bass. This was played by Franz Rummel, pianist; Richard Arnold, violinist; Emil Gramm, viola; Victor Herbert, 'cello, and Ludwig Manoly, bass.
9This lovely quintet is not played nearly so often as it deserves to be. Its intrinsic beauty is uncommonly great, even for Schubert music, and it is especially grateful for all the performers. Last night it was in excellent hands. Mr. Rummel's performance of the piano part was especially delightful, because it was at once individual and artistically subordinated to the general effect. This is a rare achievement in chamber music playing and one that can be spoken of with nothing but high praise.
11Later in the evening Mr. Rummel and Mr. Friedheim gave a notable performance of a new work—a theme with variations—for two pianos, by Ferdinand Sinding. This composition proved to be uncommonly interesting and deserves a more extended consideration than can be given to it at this time. Violoncello solos by Victor Herbert, songs by Julie Müller-Hartung and Harry Pepper, and violin playing by Dora Becker added to the pleasures of the evening.—"Times."
13A New Operetta.—Rudolph Aronson has accepted an operetta entitled "The Trumpeter of New Amsterdam," the libretto by W. J. Henderson and the music by Charles Puerner, composer of "The Pyramid." The operetta was written several years ago, but the managers to whom it was submitted preferred purchasing foreign successes to risking the production of a purely American work. Mr. Aronson, however, means to try the experiment at the Casino. The story of this operetta is founded on an incident in Irving's "Knickerbocker History of New York."
15The Hauk Company Disbands.—The Minnie Hauk Grand English Opera Company has closed its tour after a brief and unprofitable season. Mr. J. P. Howe, a well-known Western manager, was the backer of the company, Mr. C. D. Hess the manager, and Mrs. Hauk the ruling spirit.
17It appears that the prima donna's husband, the Chevalier Von Hesse Warteg, came to this country last summer and induced Mr. Hess to get up an opera company with his wife at the head. "Emma Abbott is dead," said the Chevalier, "and Mrs. Hauk is just the person to step in and take her place."
19Mr. Hess communicated with Mr. Howe, telling him that he had a "good thing," and the latter agreed to back the organization.
21"I was led to believe," said Mr. Howe yesterday, "that the weekly salary list would be about $2,000, but instead of that it was nearly $5,500. They got together a lot of Italians who couldn't talk English and a lot of Germans who couldn't even say beer to sing in English opera, and I had a sweet time. Even if the company had been doing a profitable business I would have had to close it, because I could not get on with Hauk. We closed in Boston and paid all salaries."
23Mr. Howe said he knew nothing about the prima donna's whereabouts, and intimated that he would like to very much, as he had attachments he would like to serve on her. It is said that the relations between the singers during the tour were very strained, and that Del Puente and Minnie Hauk took every opportunity to glare at each other.—"Herald."
25Harriet Avery-Strakosch.—Miss Harriet Avery-Strakosch, who for a time was the prima donna of the McCaul Opera Company, will join the "Trip to Chinatown" company at the Madison Square Theatre to-morrow night for the remainder of the season.
27The Damrosch Orchestra.—The month of January closes with a record of symphony concerts by the Damrosch orchestra, in addition to its concerts in this city, embracing the cities of Philadelphia, Allegheny, Lancaster, Washington, Morristown, Reading, Wilkesbarre, and Scranton.
29Miss Wade.—Miss Jennie Hall Wade is not only an excellent singer and a good looking woman, but she has that indefinable something called personal magnetism which always assures her a high place in the favor of her audiences as soon as she steps upon the platform. For the past two months she has been the solo soprano of the Lee Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn.
31Miss Lena Devine.—Miss Lena Devine, the soprano, has been gaining new laurels this season as a member of the Kellogg Concert Company. The Scranton (Pa.) "Republican" of January 15, 1892, says:
33Miss Lena Devine, an attractive young lady, with a voice of great range and flexibility, gave several selections which were most pleasing and evoked enthusiastic encores.
35Marion Hendrickson.—Marion Hendrickson gave a program of German music at Dr. Sachs' School for Girls, Fifty-ninth street, before a select audience of ladies, Wednesday afternoon, one of a series. She will sing the "Creation," with Mr. C. Mortimer Wiske's Westfield Chorus Society February 9.
37She also will fill a second engagement this season at the Chalmers Presbyterian Church February 17; also an engagement with the Valencia Amateur Orchestra the last week in February.
39Albani in Montreal.—Albani does not appear in New York this week, as she goes to Montreal and Albany to sing there in opera. All the seats for Albani's two performances in Montreal were sold two or three days ago.
41Mr. John Towers.—Mr. John Towers, of Indianapolis, has accepted the invitation of the committee of the M. T. N. A. to deliver an address at the July convention in Cleveland, and has chosen for his subject a bright interesting one, "Personal Recollections of Mendelssohn, Lind, Sullivan, Pinsuti, Kullak, Marx and Liszt."
43Otto Bendix's Second Piano Recital.—The second of Otto Bendix's series of three piano recitals will take place next Friday evening at Mason & Hamlin Hall, Boston. Mr. Bendix will play selections by Beethoven, Schumann, Scharwenka, Grieg, Weber, Tausig, Scarlatti, Rheinberger and Liszt.
45Mr. Mulligan's Third Organ Recital.—Mr. Wm. Edward Mulligan gave his third organ recital at St. Mark's Church, Second avenue and Tenth street, Tuesday of last week. He was assisted by Miss Kate Percy Douglas, soprano, and Mr. Chas. Palm, violin. Mr. Mulligan is a most sterling organist, and gave Händel's concerto for the organ in G minor, the overture to "William Tell," and other selections in a masterly manner. Miss Douglas' voice was heard to good advantage in Bizet's "Agnus Dei," and Mr. Palm's playing of Wilhelmj's arrangement of a Chopin nocturne was very artistic and gave much pleasure.
47Church Choral Society.—The Church Choral Society, conducted by Richard Henry Warren, will give its second concert on Thursday evening at Holy Trinity Church, Lenox avenue and 122d street.
49Miss Emma L. Heckle's Concert.—The following is the program of Miss Emma L. Heckle's concert, to be given at Steinway Hall next Tuesday evening:
51"Willkommener Tausch"……………………………Heinrich Hoffmann
52Waltz, "Man Lebt nur einmal"……………………..Strauss-Tausig
53Aria, "Heil'ge Quelle," "Figaro"……………………..Mozart
54"Souvenir de Bade"………………………………….Leonard
55"Der Schwere Abend"…………………………………Julius Hey
56"Frischlingsglaube"……………………………………Schubert
57"Joyful and Mournful" ("Egmont")…………………Beethoven
58"Gipsy Dance"…………………………………………Brahms
59Polonaise, E……………………………………………..Liszt
60"Die Beiden Grenadiere"……………………………Schumann
61"In Liebeslust"………………………………………….Liszt
62"Zigeunerweisen"………………………………………Sarasate
63"Wiegenglied"…………………………………………Wagner
64"Waldgespräch"………………………………………..Schumann
65Miss Emma Heckle.
67Miss Morgan Has Returned.—Miss Geraldine Morgan, the young American violinist, who studied under Joachim for several years, has returned to this country, and will soon be heard in one of our prominent concerts.
69Mr. Corey's Lectures.—Mr. J. N. Corey, who has been giving a number of very interesting lectures in this vicinity on the art works of Richard Wagner, returned to his home in Detroit on Thursday. The evening previous he was warmly greeted by a large and fashionable audience at the Shepherd Memorial Church in Cambridge, where he was formerly organist and musical director. Mr. Corey delivered his artistic analysis of Wagner's "Parsifal," many features of which he illustrated at the piano in a thoroughly refined and artistic manner. The rhetorical and pictorial features of the lecture were simply admirable.—Boston "Home Journal."
71An Evening with Paderewski.—Notwithstanding the exceedingly nasty weather quite a crowd was present in William M. Chase's studio in West Tenth street Monday night of last week, when a very charming piano recital was given by Paderewski. The guests began to arrive before 8 o'clock, and were received by Mr. Chase in person before being ushered into the main salon, where the concert took place. The following was the program: Variation, Händel; sonata, Beethoven; carnaval, Schumann; nocturne, mazurka, prelude, sonata, impromptu and valse of Chopin; "Melodie," Paderewski, and "La Campanella," Paganini-Liszt.
73It is hardly necessary to say that the audience was wildly enthusiastic and insisted upon encores till Paderewski repeated the last two pieces on the program.
75After the concert supper was served in the anteroom.
77Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Marie, Mrs. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Korbay, Mrs. Root, Miss Minturn, Miss Francis Lathrop, Mr. Hoppin, Miss Augustin Bliss, Mr. E. F. Hollbrook, Miss L. Dunham, Judge Holland, Dr. H. K. Mrs. Draper, Dr. James, Mrs. George Walton Green, Mr. and H. McKay Twombly, Mrs. George W. Curtis, Miss Curtis, Mrs. de Forest, Miss Deadrix Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gilder, Mrs. R. W. de Forest, Mr. William Appleton Brown, Miss Ethel Cram, Mrs. Grenville Winthrop, Mr. Horace Barnard, Jr., Miss May White, Mrs. W. H. Chandler, Mr. Richard Harvey Davis, Miss Grace Arnold, Miss E. L. Tuckerman, Mrs. Bigelow, Miss Ethel H. Scott, Mrs. J. Lyon Gardiner, Mr. G. P. Lathrop, Mr. D. E. Furness, Mr. William Mason, Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Mrs. F. M. Lathrop, Mr. Madison Jones, Mr. Charles H. Tompkins, Jr., Miss Seers Hoffman, Miss Louise Benedict and many others.
79Eddie Farmer's Success.—Prof. N. Bowditch Clapp received news lately that Eddie Farmer, the wonderful young pianist, who formerly lived here, and was taught by Mr. Clapp, had, December 19, performed at one of the concerts of the conservatory at Leipsic, Germany, Beethoven's concerto in C minor, with orchestra, from memory, and had in consequence been presented with a scholarship.
81Music in Illinois.—"The most successful entertainment of years in Springfield, both in number of persons in attendance and in the fact that the audience was most delightfully entertained, was given by the Ovide Musin Concert Company at Chatterton's Opera House last evening," says the Springfield, Ill., "State Journal." "The theatre was crowded with the most fashionable audience gathered together here since Booth and Barrett appeared. Musin and his company were brought here by the Germania Club at a great expense. The company was thoroughly advertised and each one was given to understand that they would hear the finest concert given in this city for some time, hence the large audience. The company more than fulfilled all expectations, and those who are capable of judging say for a musical entertainment it excelled everything ever given in this city, and we have had some of the greatest artists that ever come to this country. Those who attended extend praise and thanks to the Germania Club for bringing such a company here and trust that they will repeat it next season."
83An Aronson Musicale.—Mrs. Rudolph Aronson gave a musicale and soirée costume at her residence, 160 West Forty-eighth street, last week. Among the participants in the musicale were Leopold Godowsky, Heinrich Conried, Mrs. Aronson, Messrs. Gorsky and Pizzi and Rudolph Aronson, who played for the first time his latest waltz, "Rêve d'Amour." The costumes of the guests were picturesque and novel.
85Harry Pepper's Ballad Concert.—Harry Pepper's tenth ballad concert will be given at Hardman Hall this evening.
87The Manuscript Society's New Home.—The Manuscript Society has been in existence for three years, but hitherto it has devoted itself exclusively to the interests of American music. It has now, however, turned its attention to giving a social side to its mission, and has secured club rooms at No. 1 East Nineteenth street, at Fifth avenue. Last Saturday night it had the house warming of its new quarters and its members and their guests passed a delightful evening. There was no formal program, but a little music and a supper added to the enjoyment. The society is to be incorporated and some subscriptions to its capital stock have already been secured.
89Those present included the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, John F. Collins, Miss Laura Sedgwick Collins, Gerrit Smith, president of the society; Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Mulligan, Henry Hulen Huss, Beardsley Vandewater, Mrs. Mary Knight Wood, Ferdinand Carri, D. M. Levett, Otto Langey, Addison F. Andrews, J. Hazard Wilson, Miss J. T. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. James Nuno, Frederick Dean, Paul Ambrose, Sumner Slater, J. Whitney Coombs, Harry W. Lindsley and Dr. Henry G. Hanchett.—"Tribune."
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