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Musical Courier 1892-01-27: Vol 24 Iss 623, 1892
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1The Seventh Paderewski Recital.
3PATTI-LIKE was the size of the audience that jammed the new Music Hall last Saturday afternoon. The great Polish pianist looked a trifle thinner, paler perhaps, for he has been playing incessantly, but played with all his old time fire and feeling. Here is his program:
5Sonata Appassionata, op. 57 ……………………………………… L. van Beethoven
6Impromptu ……………………………………………………….. Franz Schubert
7Carnaval, op. 9 ……………………………………………………. Robert Schumann
8Ballade, A flat ……………………………………………………. Franz Schubert
9Valse, D flat ……………………………………………………… Frederic Chopin
10Nocturne, B major …………………………………………….. Frederic Chopin
11Scherzo, C sharp minor ……………………………………… Frederic Chopin
12Barcarolle, F minor ……………………………………………. Frederic Chopin
13"Man Lebt Nur Einmal" ……………………………………… Strauss-Tausig
14Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 2 …………………………………. Franz Liszt
16The Beethoven received a superb reading and the B major nocturne of Chopin was literally a sung poem. The scherzo was played with great power and meaning, while the Tausig arabesques were charmingly given. After the Liszt rhapsody the enthusiasm was so great that Paderewski returned and played the same master's sixth rhapsody brilliantly, probably to show many he was not as tired as he was reported.
18The Second Patti Concert.
20WHAT was called on the program the second and last Patti concert was given last Wednesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera House. The crowd was enormous, over $11,000 being taken in at the box office. Nothing can avail against the songstress's popularity. She sang first in a miscellaneous program a valse by Arditi, "Se Saran Rose," and of course "Home, Glucose Heim." Afterward the first act of "Traviata" was given. La Diva was heard in duos and solos. She sang the "Ah, fors e lui" with remarkable art, though she was by no means in the voice she was at her first concert. Messrs. Guille, Del Puente and Novara participated, also Miss Fabbri. Patti will be heard again in March. She is the only trump card of Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau.
22The Mozart Club's First Concert.
24THE Mozart Club, of this city, a new organization, the members of which are Messrs. J. Eller, oboe; O. Oesterle, flute; C. Reinecke, clarinet; F. Bernhardi, bassoon; C. Pieper, horn; G. E. Eager, piano, will give a concert next Saturday evening at Chickering Hall. The program will be as follows:
26Quintet, E flat ……………………………………………………. Beethoven
27Piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn.
28Song ……………………………………………………….. Miss Th. Pfafflin.
29Scherzo from quintet ……………………………………… Onslo
30Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn.
31Song ……………………………………………………….. Miss Th. Pfafflin.
32Octet ……………………………………………………….. Gouvy
33Flute, oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons and two horns.
34The club, with kind assistance of Messrs. Foerster, Solist and Niebling.
35This will be the first appearance of Miss Theodora Pfafflin, a young and talented soprano. The names of the members of the club, all artists, guarantee an evening of excellent music and music of a rare quality. Ensemble music for woodwind and brass is too rare nowadays.
37Boston News.
39(From the Boston Office of THE MUSICAL COURIER.)
41THE Boston Symphony Orchestra has been booked by Manager C. A. Ellis for a Western tour of three weeks at the close of its regular season.
43Mrs. Lillian Nordica closes her most successful American tour January 28 in Boston, the occasion being an operatic concert, at which Mrs. Scalchi, Mr. Paul Kalisch and others will appear.
45Mr. and Mrs. Georg Henschel will again visit this country about March 15, under the management of Mr. Charles A. Ellis. As heretofore, their tour will be devoted principally to vocal recitals, with a few appearances in oratorio.
47The coming performance by the Händel and Haydn Society will be a particularly notable one.
49A mass by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach will upon this occasion be given its initial production, for which a well chosen quartet of soloists has been engaged, consisting of Mrs. Jennie Patrick-Walker, Mrs. Carl Alves, Mr. Italo Campagnini and Mr. Emil Fischer. Beethoven's "Choral Fantaisie" will close the evening's program.
51A reading of the orchestral score of a new comic opera, "The Continentals," by Mr. George H. Hayes was given at the Hollis Street Theatre on Tuesday afternoon of last week.
53By invitation of Mr. Hayes a goodly number of professional friends, musicians and members of the press made up the audience.
55The opera is a three act work, scored for full orchestra, and abounds in original and tuneful music.
57The orchestration, while not remarkable in its coloring or especially elaborate in treatment, possesses much character and is on the whole exceedingly well done. A more complete rendering of the work is promised for a later day, when the more pretentious vocal numbers (the lyrics for which were written by Mr. Emil Schwab), including the choruses, will be given by competent singers.
59The Cecilia offers a miscellaneous program for its next concert, January 27. The soloists will be Miss Leonora von Stosch, violinist, and Mrs. Arthur Nikisch, soprano. As usual, several novelties will be given, including an anthem by Brahms for female voices (MS. original production of the work) and part songs by Alfred R. Gaul, Max von Weizierl and Tschaikowsky.
61Mr. Carl Baermann will give the first of a series of three piano recitals, January 28, in Union Hall. The advantages of Mr. Baermann's annual series of recitals to the piano student can scarcely be overestimated, while to all lovers of the best in music they are a source of infinite delight.
63Mr. Fritz Giese, who for many weeks has suffered from a broken arm, has now fully recovered and will make his first appearance since his illness on February 7 in Mechanics' Hall.
65Mr. Ivan Morawski occupies an enviable spot in the warmest corner of Boston's heart. Since his advent four years ago he has steadily grown in favor, and to-day is possibly the busiest vocal teacher in the city. Whenever he appears here, either in concert or oratorio, he is invariably a delight to his hearers and a credit to the performance.
67Mr. Eliot Hubbard announces a song recital to be given in Chickering Hall on the afternoon of February 3. He will be assisted by Mr. T. Adamowski and Mr. Clayton Johns in a very interesting program.
69The sixth Philharmonic concert, Mr. Listemann conductor, will be given Thursday afternoon next. Miss Adele Lewing, pianist, and Dr. G. Rob. Clarke, basso, are to appear as the soloists.
71Mr. Wm. H. Sherwood is back again in Chicago after an exceedingly successful concert tour to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Sherwood gave over a dozen concerts in all and was everywhere received with enthusiasm, as an artist of his calibre should have been.
73The concert grand piano manufactured for Mr. Sherwood by Mason & Hamlin made many new acquaintances and friends upon the trip and was retained in San Francisco by some enthusiastic admirer.
75Mr. John Braham, musical director at the Park Theatre, is hard at work upon a comic opera, which promises to be as melodious and well written as Mr. Braham's music has invariably been.
77Opera in Italian and French.
79THERE was nothing new given at the opera last week. Wednesday night last "Les Huguenots," with the original cast, the two exceptions being Albani, who sang instead of Nordica, and Scalchi. Friday night "Lohengrin," which was a disappointment, owing to the illness of the brothers De Reszke, whose places were ill taken by Mr. Vinche, the "King," and Mr. Montariol in the title rôle. Emma Eames, who improves on every appearance, was the "Elsa." At the Saturday matinée Mozart's "Don Giovanni" was given, with Carbone as the "Leporello" instead of Edouard de Reszke. Last Monday night "L'Africaine" was sung. To-night "Prophète" will be repeated, and Friday night "Dinorah" will be given for the first time this season. At the Saturday matinée "Aida" will be sung.
81Mr. Samuel P. Warren's Organ Recital.
83LAST Thursday, at Grace Church, the following program was played:
85Trio, Sonata in D minor, No. 8 ……………………………………… J. S. Bach one of two readings
86Trio, Sonata in D minor, No. 3 ……………………………………… J. S. Bach one of two readings
87Andante.
88Adagio e dolce.
89Vivace.
90Two pieces, op. 28, Nos. 2 and 4 ……………………………………… H. W. Parker
91Concert piece (No. 2) in B.
92Larghetto in F.
93Suite, three pieces for the organ ……………………………………… F. Capocci
94Entrée in D.
95Meditation in G minor.
96Allegretto giocoso, in G.
97Organ Symphony, No. 1 ……………………………………… C. M. Widor
98Prelude, Moderato (C minor).
99Allegro (A flat).
100Intermezzo (G minor).
101Adagio (E flat).
102"Marche Pontificale" (C).
103Meditation, Lento (E flat minor).
104Finale, Allegro (C minor).
106The second number of the program, the two pieces of Mr. H. W. Parker, organist of Holy Trinity Church, New York, was very good indeed, especially the concert piece, which was brilliant and yet thoroughly musical. I liked Capocci's suite quite well, but of course the Widor symphony was the great work of the recital.
108Widor has a style quite his own. I know of no one who writes like him. The most popular movement of the symphony is certainly the splendid "Marche Pontificale," and it would be a good idea if it could be published separately, so that it might become better known.
110Another American's Success.—Meta Hieber, a soprano, a Californian by birth, has just made a successful appearance at Munich in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust."
112FOREIGN NOTES.
114Cable Clippings.—A letter has been published from Mr. McNulty, the Irish musical critic, which insinuates that the principal features in Mr. Gilbert's "The Mountebanks" were taken from the libretto of an opera written by Mr. McNulty, which he sent to the late Mr. Arthur Cellier last summer. The principal characters in this libretto were a magician who, with an elixir, changes persons into whatever characters they wish to be, and a clockwork man. Mr. McNulty also claims that his libretto had a song "Drop a Penny in the Slot," while Gilbert's version has it "Put a Penny in the Slot."
116The Vienna pianist, Moritz Rosenthal, is creating a furore in Berlin.
118Mr. C. J. Abud, formerly acting manager of the Gaiety Theatre, has taken an eighteen years' lease of the Prince of Wales Theatre, and last Saturday assumed control. His first venture will be the new comic opera "Blue Eyed Susan," by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt, with a musical setting by Osmond Carr. Mr. Arthur Roberts, the "Captain Cross-tree" of the Alhambra production, again appears in that character. Miss Marion Burton will play "William," and Miss Nellie Stewart, of Australia, is to be "Susan." Grace Pedley, Katie Seymour, Chauncey Olcott and Arthur Williams are to be in the cast.
120Which Is Correct?—Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" has at last been produced in Paris, long after most of the great cities of the world had heard it.
122New Yorkers are familiar with the work, so I need not analyze it.
124Despite the warmth with which the opera has been received abroad, it has had no success here. Indeed, it would not be exaggerating much to say that, though "Cavalleria Rusticana" was applauded here to-night at the Opéra Comique by the friends of Mascagni, publisher, so far as Paris is concerned it is an utter failure.
126The music impresses us as trivial and vulgar. The orchestration appears insignificant. Any pupil of the Paris Conservatoire could do more with his instruments than Mascagni.
128So great altogether was the disenchantment caused by the performance that after a spell of bewilderment, which lasted till "Santuzza" had ended his duo with "Tiruddu," the public grew hilarious. The drinking song more particularly aroused derision.
130"Cavalleria Rusticana" was admirably sung by Miss Calvé, who created the part of "Santuzza" in Rome. Miss Calvé acted with truly Italian spirit and scored a great personal success.
132Mr. Bouvet, the baritone, made an excellent "Alfio," but the tenor, Mr. Gilbert, did poorly with "Tiruddu," a fact which, in some measure, may explain the rebuff to the work.
134The Italians will doubtless attribute the failure of the opera to political causes. They will say that Paris did not applaud it because it was Italian.
136But this is false. Paris did not applaud because it thought Mascagni's music rubbish. The truth is every one of the French operas produced within the past ten years in Paris has had more merit than "Cavalleria Rusticana."
138Paris has just applauded "Lohengrin." To-morrow it will applaud "Die Meistersinger" or "Otello," because those works are good. But she will not indorse a success won elsewhere by poor music.—"Herald" Correspondent.
140"Cavalleria Rusticana" was successfully produced in Paris on Tuesday, although some of the French critics attacked it severely. A syndicate with a capital of $100,000 has been formed here to acquire from Mr. Ascherberg the sole English rights in "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "L'Amico Fritz."—"Sun" London Correspondent.
142Tschaikowsky in a Rage.—Tschaikowsky is said to have thrown the score of his new symphonic poem, "The Wojwode," into the fire after its first performance in Moscow. Afterward he regretted this act, committed in a moment of feverish excitement, and went to a hospital for nervous diseases for treatment. He also threw into the fire the overture and several fragments of the music to a ballet entitled "Casse-Noisette," but this was saved by the timely intervention of a friend.
144Henschel's Music to "Hamlet."—Georg Henschel's incidental music to "Hamlet," although it had to be greatly curtailed on Thursday evening, proved to be of a high class and thoroughly appropriate. It will be performed as an orchestral suite at the London Symphony concert on next Tuesday, and it has been secured for production in its entirety at the revival in German of "Hamlet" at the Burgh Theatre, Vienna, next winter.
146Mrs. Max Heinrich's Success.—Mrs. Max Heinrich, the soprano, since her reappearance in the English concert rooms has had a most flattering success. London "Truth" calls her a "charming Lieder singer," and the musical quality and finish of her interpretation of Schubert, Schumann, Jensen and Brahms are spoken of as truly admirable. Her husband, Max Heinrich, is at present singing in this country.
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