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Musical Courier 1892-02-17: Vol 24 Iss 626, 1892
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1occasion being Mr. Emil Fischer, basso; Miss May Lyle Smith, flute; John Marquardt, violin, and Mr. Max Liebling, pianist.
3The tenor of the Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church, Orange, Mr. S. Fischer Miller, will sever his connection with the choir of that church on May 1 and will take a needed rest of a year.
5The following well-known artists have been engaged for the choir of the Cathedral in Newark: Mrs. Gretta Canfield Delaney, soprano; Miss Minnie F. Flynn, contralto; Mr. Frank Thompson, tenor, and Mr. Joseph M. Byrne, basso, while the organist will be as before, Mr. Wm. F. Hattersley. The music is of a high order and many churches might well envy the Cathedral upon the possession of such a well trained choir.
7Miss Maggie Lynch, soprano; Miss Rose Lynch, contralto; Mr. Eugene Carroll, tenor, and Mr. Wm. Thompson, basso, comprise the choir of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Newark, and are doing excellent work. The chorus of twenty-six voices is under the direction of Miss Kate E. Lynch, who has been the organist of the church for a number of years.
9The entertainment for the benefit of the North End Athletic Club took place in Association Hall, Newark, Thursday, February 4, the following well-known artists taking part: Mr. James Sauvage, baritone; Tonzo Sauvage, pianist; Mr. Milton H. Gruet, violinist; Mr. Richard H. Barker, cornet soloist; Frank E. Drake, pianist, and last, but not least, the star of the evening, Mr. Marshall P. Wilder, the popular humorist. All the numbers were heartily applauded, all being obliged to respond to numerous recalls.
11The Orange Mendelssohn Union will give their second concert this season on Monday, February 15, at which the soloists will be Max Heinrich, baritone, and Miss L. Florence Heine, violinist. A very choice program has been arranged and the result will be a large attendance of the music loving people of Orange.
13Connecticut Musical News.
14NEW BRITAIN, Conn., February 6, 1892.
16THE week just closed has been one of great interest here. Last Thursday evening the Philharmonic Society, 175 members, under the very able direction of Mr. R. P. Paine, with Mrs. Hascal, of Boston, soprano soloist; Mr. Herbert M. Johnson, of Boston, tenor; Henry Meyer, of Boston, baritone; Mrs. V. P. Marwick, of Hartford, contralto, with the Germania (Boston) Orchestra of thirty-eight pieces, gave a most intelligent presentation of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Golden Legend." The concert took place at the elegant South Church, which was packed in every part by people from New Britain, Hartford and surrounding towns.
18This concert completed the first half of the season of '91-'92, and this is the fourth season since the society was organized. While full credit is due the ladies and gentlemen of the chorus for their faithful attendance at necessary rehearsals, yet to Mr. Paine is due, in greatest measure, the credit for the marked success as demonstrated in the rendering of the several works to date, including as it has a rendition of "Elijah" last season by the united choruses, total 800 voices, from this city and Middletown.
20Comments by New York and Boston people who heard that presentation were that so intelligent and effective a rendition had rarely been heard in their cities.
22The members of the Boston Orchestra, as well as several of the most prominent local soloists of New York and Boston who have sung here, will attest to the truth that Mr. Paine is to-day fully entitled to rank among the most capable conductors of this country.
24He is the organist and conductor of music at the South Congregational Church, one of the two large churches of that denomination in this city of but 30,000 people. His salary, however, is $1,000 (net). He ranks among the leading solo organists of the country, his picture being among the number published a few years ago.
26Already he has charge of five choruses like the Philharmonic, and private lessons and organ recitals must give way to the demands for his time as conductor, which branch of the art he only began less than five years ago. He conducted another rendition of "Golden Legend" at Hartford last evening, sung by the Rosner Hall Choral Union, the same artists and orchestra being present.
28The next concert takes place in February, when "St. Paul" will be given, with some of the most prominent singers in the country as the soloists.
30Local Talent Showing Up in Louisville, Ky.
32THREE concerts given within the past two weeks have attracted attention; halls were crowded and many unable to find standing room.
34The first of these local affairs was the vocal recital of the students of St. Cyr. Friends and others—otherwise—sat side by side; criticism had fair play and was favorable if not enthusiastic.
36Mr. Constantine Leber, lately from Milan, Italy, a thoroughly cultured and talented musician—a gentleman in every sense of the word—a pupil of Leonida Boschini, has been engaged to assist in the professional department of the school. Having for two years accompanied the pupils of the most celebrated maestri in Italy, Mr. Leber is fully equipped to raise St. Cyr to the rank destined for it by the founder.
38The second concert was of serious import, as being the initiatorial entertainment of the Louisville Quintet Club. It originated with Messrs. Henry Burck and Wm. Frese, gentlemen who have done excellent work in the cause of violin and piano music in our city. Here is the program of their first concert in Louisville, with the members of the Louisville Quintet Club: William Frese, piano; Henry Burck, first violin; Albert Fleckenstein, second violin; Sebastian Krebs, viola; Karl Schmidt, violoncello.
40Trio, op. 131 (for piano, violin and violoncello)………….Rheinberger
41Allegretto amabile. Andante.
42Scherzo (allegro). Finale (con moto).
43Messrs. William Frese, Henry Burck and Karl Schmidt.
44Sonata, op. 18 (for piano and violoncello)………………Rubinstein
45Allegro moderato. Moderato assai. Moderato.
46Messrs. William Frese and Karl Schmidt.
47Violin solo, "Rondo Capriccioso"……………………….Saint-Saëns
48Mr. Henry Burck.
49Quintet, op. 76……………………………………………..Jadassohn
50Allegro moderato. Scherzo (allegro vivace).
51Sostenuto. Finale (allegro con brio).
52The Louisville Quintet Club.
54We are so devoutly thankful for anything approaching chamber music that criticism is out of place. It was very good for Louisville, or any other ville, and would have been altogether admirable if Mr. Wm. Frese had only remembered to accompany and not to lead with the piano. The metallic crashes he brought out of the brilliant Decker piano he used overpowered and destroyed the exquisite tones from the strings, which gave the allegretto amabile of the Rheinberger trio a very unamiable crudeness. The andante was charmingly accompanied in its opening phrases, but the climax was reached with a crash of wires as inexcusable as the taking of the lead in the following scherzo allegro, which the pianist did, and gave out the theme like a trip hammer. The finale (con moto) was well played, however, and gratitude at hearing something of Rheinberger led us to applaud heartily.
56Mr. Karl Schmidt, the newly elected director of the Liederkranz Society, showed himself a reliable violoncellist in his playing of the allegro from Rubinstein's sonata. The pianissimo of the piano allowed the peculiar organ tone of the 'cello to be heard. These firmly sustained tones, and the piccicchietto notes, drum-like in their evenness, were given with most artistic effect. The moderato assai was full of exquisite Gefühl—no English word expresses the full rounded comfort given by such tones. A tempo rubato, which to me seems a "go as you please" or "as you feel" sort of movement, led on triumphantly to the martial-like modulations of the closing moderato.
58The music was worthy the applause it received, and Mr. Schmidt's playing was throughout excellent. May he long reign in Louisville.
60Never has Mr. Henry Burck played as well as he did in the Saint-Saëns rondo. He brought out the individuality of the theme most carefully, with clear, pearl-like tone, and had the enthusiastic pianist accompanied with the same delicacy of interpretation the selection would have been all one could desire. As it was, the violin seemed to accompany the piano.
62In the quintet there was too much cat in the strings. Jadassohn can write for strings, and in time, without the metallic piano, the quintet will play his music. The allegro moderato had hardly closed before we started homeward, and thereby lost the best thing on the program, according to the local journals next day.
64The third and last concert was given by the enterprisingist of enterprising firms in our city, the Smith & Nixon piano house, new agents of the Steinway piano, to introduce Miss Henrietta A. Kitchell, of Cincinnati, a cousin and pupil of Julia Rive-King.
66Here is the program which she interpreted in a charmingly poetic style, a little nervousness perhaps, but that was because her heart got tangled in her fingers, and after the maestria which Raff's "Fileuse" calls forth, how is it possible to calmly give Wilson Smith's courteously gavotte without a nerve twinge?
68"La Fileuse"……………………………………………..Raff
69Gavotte in F……………………………………………….Wilson G. Smith
70Two etudes……………………………………………….Chopin
71Gavotte from "Mignon"…………………………………Thomas
72"Arletta di Balletto"…………………………………….Joseffy-Gluck
73Gavotte…………………………………………………….Bach
74(Arranged for the left hand alone.)
75Concert waltz…………………………………………….Moszkowski
76"November Days"………………………………………Gerrit Smith
77"Oh, Beloved Mine"……………………………………F. Behr
78"Dance of the Elves"……………………………………Kroeger
79Romanze………………………………………………….Saint-Saëns
80"Gnomeneigen"…………………………………………Liszt
81She played as an amateur rarely plays—as an artist. Well, she is too young, too fair, too gentle and graceful to allow her hearers to question or care whether she is artist or amateur.
83The coming week Conductor Walter Damrosch and orchestra will give two concerts in our city at the Amphitheatre Auditorium of those indefatigable managers and patrons of the best musical and dramatic art, Quip & Camp. Society is expected to turn out en masse, for Lord Walter is or was adored when here five years ago at the Louisville Exhibition of Industry and Art. The sale of seats has already been large, and that is saying much.
85Octavia Hensel.
87Toledo Music.
88TOLEDO, Ohio, February 1, 1892.
90MUSICAL events in Toledo so far this season have not been numerous, but the quality of the entertainments attones in a measure for the lack of quantity. And while Toledoans are neither so fortunate as to hear the matchless Paderewski nor permitted to assist in adding to "Patty's" plump and robust box office figures, yet the denizens of the Future Great are occasionally favored with some fair specimens of the "art which charms."
92The entertainment of the Y. M. C. A. Star course, January 30, brought before our people Edouard Remenyi and his concert company, and the Wheeler was packed to the doors to hear them. Remenyi's performance carried the house by storm, and he was recalled many times. Mrs. Alice Bates Rice won her audience by her superior gifts as a singer and her modest and unassuming manner. Miss Edith McGregor possesses a charming alto voice, has a prepossessing appearance and her singing pleased all. Mr. W. H. Fessenden, late of the Boston Ideals, has a voice of uncommon sweetness, and when he sang "The Song that Reached My Heart," as an encore, the audience was loud in its expressions of delight. Miss Fanny Cliff Berry's accompaniments were an entertainment in themselves. The varied program was excellently rendered throughout.
94The most important musical event this week will be the organ recital to be given at the First Congregational Church, February 8, by Prof. G. E. Whiting, of the New England Conservatory. Over 1,500 invitations have been issued, and organists from Cleveland, Detroit, Fostoria, Fremont, Adrian and other cities will be present to hear the professor, who is an organist of extended reputation. Local talent will assist.
96The Walter Emerson Concert Company will be heard at the Wheeler Opera House on February 10, the entertainment being an extra in the Y. M. C. A. Star course.
98The Oberlin Glee Club recently gave an enjoyable concert before a large audience at the Central Congregational Church. The program was a pleasing one, doubled in length by responses to encores. The club numbers sixteen voices, several of which are notably fine.
100The vacancy in St. Paul's Church choir caused by the resignation of Miss Bessie Doolittle has been filled, and Mrs. W. A. Willett installed as permanent soprano.
102A complimentary concert was lately given at Whitney & Currier's Music Hall, at which appeared Mrs. Agnes L. Regal, contralto, and Mr. Albert F. Bennest, tenor, both of Detroit. Mr. Bennest sans "Come Unto Me," Denza, and recitative, "Comfort ye My people;" aria, "Every valley shall be exalted," from "The Messiah." In the latter selection Mr. Bennest gave a good exhibition of his ability as a vocalist. Mrs. Regal first sang "Romanza de Gioconda," Ponchielli, followed by "Lehn deine Wang an Mein Wang," Adolf Jansen; "Sandmännchen" and "Standchen," Johannes Brahms. Mrs. Regal was not in good voice, and neither did justice to the selections nor to herself. The finale, the duet, "Children, pray this love to cherish," by Spohr, was nicely given by Mr. Bennest and Mrs. Regal. In addition to the vocal numbers classical selections were rendered on the eolian by Mr. C. W. Hickok, and included "Tancrèdi" overture, Rossini; "Preludio e Siciliana," from "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni; fifth symphony, andante, Beethoven; "Ungarischer Tanz," Brahms; "Sortie Recessional," De Mouchel, and "Tannhäuser" overture, Wagner.
104The Mathias Orchestra, of this city, will give a concert at Monroe, Mich., on the evening of February 3.
106An effort is being made to organize a military band and orchestra here, something that is sadly needed in Toledo.
108The Toledo Harmonic Society (vocal) is adding the finishing touches in preparation for the first concert, to be given February 17. In addition to the selections from the works of Gounod, Bellini and Fanning, "Dream Pictures," an exquisite composition by Prof. G. E. Whiting, of Boston, will be sung. Miss Bessie Doolittle (Detroit), Mrs. Johnson (Adrian), the Whiting Male Quartet and the Amphion (ladies) Quartet will assist. The society's début will be the event, locally, of the season.
110At St. Paul's M. E. Church, on the evening of January 22, the advanced pupils of Miss Rose Clouse gave a musicale and rendered this program in a highly creditable manner:
112"Faust" Fantasie…………………………………………..Leybach
113Miss Anna Adams, of Fostoria.
114Song, Serenade…………………………………………..Gregh
115Polonaise………………………………………………….Chopin
116Miss Florence Curry.
117"Millwheel"……………………………………………….Sydney Smith
118Miss K. Cornelia' Colton.
119Violin, Mazurka…………………………………………..Wieniawski
120Helen Wilkin.
121Gavotte…………………………………………………….Liebling
122Miss Perla Bowman.
123Song, "My Love Is Late"……………………………….Cowen
124Miss Curry.
125Nocturne………………………………………………….Chopin
126"Chanson de Burrie"……………………………………Kuhe
127Miss Gertrude Bateman.
128Violin, "Scène de Ballet"………………………………..De Beriot
129Joe Fisk.
130"Invention"……………………………………………….Bach
131Impromptu……………………………………………….Chopin
132Polka impromptu…………………………………………Strelezki
133Miss Leonie Schuck.
134"At the Spring"…………………………………………..Bendel
135Miss Nellie Bash.
137The Mrs. Fry Concert Company, of Boston, gave a concert at Memorial Hall, January 29, under the auspices of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the First Baptist Church. The music was of a high order and excellently rendered. The program reads:
139Andante and allegro from "The Mill"……………………..Raff
140Mrs. Fry and Daughters.
141Reading, "Fra Giacomo"…………………………………Robert Buchanan one of two readings
142Reading, "Fra Giacomo"………………………………..Robert Buchanan one of two readings
143Mr. George J. D. Currie.
144Flute solo, Fantasie on French airs……………………..Lax
145Miss Lulu Fry.
146Vocal quartet, "A Maiden's Defiance"…………………..Vierling
147Mrs. Fry and Daughters.
148Reading, "Anatomical Tragedian"………………………..Geo. Kyle
149Mr. Currie.
150"Tacca la Notte Placida," from "Il Trovatore"………….Verdi
151Miss Eugenie Fry.
152Allegro from Seventh Concerto………………………….De Beriot
153Miss Alta Fry.
154"Summer Sunshine"…………………………………….Strauss
155Mrs. Fry and Daughters.
156String quartet, Andante Cantabile, from quartet op. 11…..Tschaikowsky
157Mrs. Fry and Daughters.
158Reading, selected……………………………………….Mr. Currie.
159"The Daisy," arranged by Weston……………………….Arditi
160Mrs. Fry and Daughters.
162During the reunion here last week of the Scottish Rite Masons of Northwestern Ohio one of the excellent features of the program was the superb rendering of the music by the quartet of Toledo musicians, consisting of Miss Bessie Doolittle, soprano; Mrs. F. R. Williams, alto; Mr. W. A. Howell, tenor, and Mr. F. R. Williams, baritone. Mr. Theodore Ecker was the efficient accompanist. Some of the numbers rendered (and which show the high order of the selections) were: "By Babylon's Waters," H. Smart; "Lift up thy soul" ("Belshazzar"), Butterfield; "From afar, Blessed Lord" ("I Lombardi"), Verdi; "While we hear the wondrous story," Canthal; "O Rest in the Lord," Mendelssohn-Cornell; "God Loveth a Cheerful Giver," Schilling; "The Strain Praise" (Alleluiah), D. Buck; "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," Goldbeck.
164An evening service of scripture and song is given regularly on one Sunday evening each month at the First Congregational Church. The last one, given Sunday evening, January 24, was elaborate and enjoyable. The special musical numbers on the program were:
166Organ prelude—Offertoire……………………………….Wely
167Mr. Scammell.
168"Hear My Prayer"………………………………………Mendelssohn
169Solo (Mr. W. H. Currier) and chorus.
170"O For the Wings of a Dove"…………………………..Mendelssohn
171Solo (Mrs. W. H. Currier) and chorus.
172Organ pastoreale…………………………………………Gregh
173Mr. Scammell.
174Trio, "On Thee Each Living Soul Awaits"………………Mendelssohn
175Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Currier and Mr. Howell.
176Postlude, "Chant de Victoire"…………………………..Roeckel
177Mr. Scammell.
179H. CROSBY FERRIS.
181Columbus Letter.
182COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 1, 1892.
184THE usual holiday dullness in musical matters has been followed by events, recently past and to come, sufficient to fill out a brilliant season.
186The Sunday Pops, under the direction of Prof. Fred. L. Neddermeyer, are given every fortnight, and, while not as successful financially as they deserve, are doing much toward cultivating a class of people not usually seen at "fashionable concerts."
188Prominent features of the Ohio State University oratorical contest on Friday evening, January 29, were the musical attractions furnished by the O. S. U. Glee Club, under the leadership of Mr. Charles T. Howe, and the selections by the Metropolitan Sextet Club.
190Both organizations were enthusiastically received. A local critic writes in the highest terms of the performance of Miss Mary A. Ellsworth, of
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