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Musical Courier 1892-05-04: Vol 24 Iss 637, 1892
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1performance of Max Bruch's "Arminius" at the Tremont Temple on Monday evening, May 9. Carl Zerrahn will conduct the orchestra of fifty performers, the solos will be sung by Miss Olive Fremstad as the "Priestess," Whitney Mockridge as "Siegmund," and Max Heinrich as "Arminius," and the choir will consist of 300 voices, comprising the New Bedford Choral Association, enlarged by acquisitions from the Southeastern Massachusetts Festival Association. Allen W. Swan will be the organist, and Franz Rummel will play one of Liszt's Hungarian fantasies with orchestral accompaniment.—"Transcript."
3Eugen d'Albert was in Boston to-day, after completing a limited tour through the Eastern section.
5In the course of conversation he stated to your correspondent that he was more than gratified with the success of his recent visit to America. He sails from New York the 17th, and will probably spend the summer in Switzerland, devoting more or less time to the completion of several compositions already well under way.
7The Music Hall "promenade concerts" begin Wednesday evening June 1. The same general plan, so successful last season, will be followed this, and although the name of the conductor has not yet been announced, the public need have no fear but that Manager Ellis will procure the services of the best available man.
9Tuesday evening, May 17, Mr. C. L. Staats, assisted by Mr. Arthur Foote and Mr. Fritz Giese, will give a concert in Mason & Hamlin Hall. Mrs. Virginia P. Marwick, of Hartford, Conn., will contribute songs.
11A Brahms trio for clarinet, 'cello and piano will have its first American hearing on this occasion.
13Mr. H. G. Tucker, the well-known pianist, has rented a cottage on Lake George for the summer.
15The Virgil Concerts.
17ANOTHER PRONOUNCED SUCCESS.
19STEINWAY HALL was again filled to overflowing on last Friday evening to hear the pupils of the Virgil piano school, who, as announced on the program, appeared for the purpose of demonstrating results from the use of the practice clavier. They did their work, one and all of them, in a manner which spoke volumes in proof of the superiority of the clavier training.
21Note.—It has already been proven over and over again that superior executive skill is acquired by the use of the clavier and in a fraction of the time required at the piano.
23In addition to the musical numbers of the following program a few technical studies are introduced for the purpose of proving that technical exactness, accuracy, does not, as some imagine, necessarily induce unmusical playing.
25We hope also to show that separating the mechanical and musical elements according to the method of the clavier is as much to the advantage of the learner musically as technically.
27Capriccio……………………………………………..Gade one of two readings
28Capriccio…………………………………………………….Gade one of two readings
29Scherzino……………………………………………..Büchner one of two readings
30Scherzino…………………………………………………….Büchner one of two readings
31Serenade……………………………………………..Rubinstein one of two readings
32Serenade…………………………………………………….Rubinstein one of two readings
33Tarentelle……………………………………………..Heller one of two readings
34Tarentelle……………………………………………………Heller one of two readings
35Two etudes in velocity……………………………….Köhler one of two readings
36Two etudes in velocity…………………………………….Köhler one of two readings
37Tarentelle……………………………………………..Loeschorn one of two readings
38Tarentelle……………………………………………………Loeschorn one of two readings
39Air de Ballet…………………………………………..Chaminade one of two readings
40Air de Ballet…………………………………………………Chaminade one of two readings
41Danse Caprice……………………………………….Grieg one of two readings
42Danse Caprice……………………………………………..Grieg one of two readings
43Staccato Etude……………………………………….Hause one of two readings
44Staccato Etude……………………………………………..Hause one of two readings
45" Butterflies" (Schmetterling)………………………..Spindler one of two readings
46" Butterflies" (Schmetterling)……………………………Spindler one of two readings
47Miss Hyacinth Williams.
49Note.—This number will be performed first on the clavier and then repeated on the piano. Miss Hyacinth has never played this piece on the piano and has never heard it played. She will go to the piano with it for the first time before the audience.
51This will show how well children can learn and memorize pieces at the clavier without tone.
53Sonata, op. 31, No. 2 (Largo et Allegro)…………….Beethoven one of two readings
54Sonata, op. 31, No. 2 (Largo et Allegro)…………………Beethoven one of two readings
55Miss Estelle M. Norton.
57"Loreley"……………………………………………..Seeling one of two readings
58"Loreley"……………………………………………………Seeling one of two readings
59Miss Helen Palmer.
61Scale FF and PP—cres. and dim. Showing how tone shading may be studied on the clavier.
62Major and minor scales, similar and contrary motion—similar and wrist staccato.
63Legato major, melodic and harmonic minor scales—similar and contrary motion.
64Irregular arpeggios.
65Barcarolle……………………………………………..Jensen one of two readings
66Barcarolle……………………………………………………Jensen one of two readings
67Miss Julie Geyer.
69Note.—The above number will be performed first on clavier, then on the piano. Miss Julie Geyer has never played this piece on the piano, and has never heard it played. She will go to the piano with it for the first time before the audience.
71This will illustrate an important truth; namely, that the player can reproduce to himself on the clavier the entire content of a composition as well as at the piano.
73"Soirée de Vienne"…………………………………Schubert-Liszt one of two readings
74"Soirée de Vienne"………………………………………Schubert-Liszt one of two readings
75Mr. John Brady.
76Chopin
77Miss Julie Geyer.
79Every number of the above program was given in a manner which would have done credit to players much longer in the business than these performers have been. That the exact methods of the clavier have the effect to develop in a learner the power to interpret as well as to execute was clearly demonstrated. The concerts by this school are not only enjoyable musically, but they present educational features which are both instructive and interesting.
81This journal on several occasions has spoken in high praise of Miss Julie Geyer's playing. We must say that the masterly rendering which she gave of the Chopin B flat minor scherzo on last Friday night surpassed by far any playing we ever heard from her before, or in fact from anyone of her age who had been the short time under training that she has; her progress is truly phenomenal. That great composition presents no technical difficulties to her at all. The fortes were given with great power and breadth of tone, and the pianissimos with exquisite delicacy and finish. The execution throughout was remarkably clear, accurate and brilliant, and what was better she displayed true musical feeling. Seldom do we hear the second subject of the scherzo given with the fervor, tone and artistic finish with which she gave it. If she perseveres and keeps the level head she now has she is going to be heard from.
83The next concert was announced for May 19 at Berkeley Lyceum.
85Musical Brooklyn.
87DRIFTS FROM THE CITY BY THE SEA—THE MUSICAL COURIER IN ITS NEW FIELD—BROOKLYN MEN AND WOMEN CELEBRATED IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND SONG.
89BROOKLYN, April 30.
91THE difference between New York and Brooklyn so far as music and singers is concerned is this: That while in New York Continental singers come and go and change with each succeeding year the musical interest in Brooklyn is deeper and more steadfast, from the fact that in the great city of homes and churches and choral societies local talent is developed to an extent utterly unknown in New York.
93When Vitale plays it is no more necessary for him to go abroad to get a reputation than it would be to shift Niagara to the other side of the water in order to make it famous. Niagara is here and the world will come to it. Vitale is here in Brooklyn. And if, as his friends claim for him, his violin turns a cascade of wonders, his greatness will loom out at last in all its majestic proportions. And this is precisely what is happening to him every day. The same is true of singers. There are plenty of nightingales in the bushes of Long Island if THE MUSICAL COURIER will only lend its efforts to bring them out and make them known. In doing this it will have the sympathy and support not only of the intelligent musicians of Brooklyn, but of a great multitude of poor people who never feel too proud to pay for a benefaction that benefits their kind. To discover one radiant voice and bring it clearly out before the public eye and ear through the lens of an authoritative organ like THE MUSICAL COURIER is an infinitely far grander discovery than to discover a new star in the heavens through a Lick telescope.
95Consider the number of people in Brooklyn interested in music!
97There are in Brooklyn some thirty or forty choral societies, aggregating in membership several thousand singers.
99Add to this number of singers the children trained in the public schools by musical instructors in song.
101Add to this the choirs of the city, each one being made more and more into a choral society itself, as evidenced by the New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, referred to in last week's sketch.
103Add finally to this the far greater fact of the growing demand in almost all the homes of the city for a musical instrument of some sort with which to cultivate the talent of music in their sons and daughters. All this fondness for music in the homes of the people finds its choicest expression in the music of the churches, for which Brooklyn is justly noted. Whether the churches are waning or not depends upon whether the music in such churches is made to satisfy the wants of the people or not. And that the tendency is toward larger choirs certainly seems apparent. I will have more to say of this in my next.
105W. D.
107AELIONS.
109Brooklyn is the home of many distinguished musicians. Vitale is the greatest capricious genius in the world. If he scorns rules, if he laughs at tempo, he puts his ear to nature's heart, and as he hugs his violin up above his head and gloats over it, as if he were tossing his babe in the air, he makes his audiences laugh, hold their breath and cry, with the tears running down his own cheeks.
111Carl Venth, that splendid technician, while not nearly so great, furnishes a model of nice observance in all the rules of his art and appeals to the finest sense of musical criticism.
113Dudley Buck as a composer has transcended his native city and is favorably known throughout the musical world.
115Emma Thursby has sung before kings and queens. And closer in, Arthur Claassen, leading the German Arion and Monday Night Club most ably; Neidlinger, the accomplished conductor of the Amphion and the Caecilia, as well as the leader of more than one orchestral body of musicians, whose tasteful and graceful compositions have been recognized and rendered throughout the country; Mrs. Edwards, the exquisite soprano of the Universalist Church; Jennie Hall Wade, Francis Fischer Powers, John F. R. McMahon, Renata Wolff, Lena Bungert, Mrs. Grant, Miss Poole, Alice Groves, the alto; William Baird, W. H. Thomas, John Dempsey, Dr. Edward Gammage, Stephane, George Warrenrath, Laura B. Phelps, Miss Hooper, Professor Hoople, John Cheshire, Mrs. Daniel Northrup.
117A NEW DEPARTURE IN MUSIC IN BROOKLYN.
119At the last meeting of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Club, held last Saturday evening in the Bedford room of the Arcanum Hall, three important steps were taken which will mark the progress of that society. First, it was decided to hold the meetings of the club in the large room of the Avon Hall; second, it was decided by a unanimous vote to change the name of the organization from the Brooklyn Philharmonic Club to the Brooklyn Symphony Society, to be conducted on precisely Mr. Damrosch's plan for Brooklyn; third, it was further decided that feeders or branch societies should be established in all the different parts of the city. To that end Miss Hebert, of 206 Garfield place, a competent note reader and teacher, was appointed at the recommendation of the director, the Rev. Miller Hageman, to chaperon such an attempt.
121Forty invitations to good singers have been sent out by Miss Hebert, and but one regret received. The pastors of all the different churches in that section of the city gave out a notice for the first meeting from their pulpits last Sabbath. The meeting is called to take place in the hall now occupied by the Universalist Church, corner Seventh avenue and Eighth street. Many of the leading sopranos, tenors and basses of the churches in that section of Brooklyn, including such singers as Renata Wolff, Marie Hebert, Edith Burrill, Mrs. Scindin and others well known, have joined enthusiastically in the movement. Similar branch societies in other part of the city will immediately be established. All such branch societies will be counted into the sum total of the central body and will all join with that body the June festival concert to be tendered to the conductor in Avon Hall on the 15th of that month.
123W. D. M.
125John Towers for Utica and New York.
127Editors Musical Courier:
129BY way of explanation of the apparent contradiction in the paragraph concerning me in your last issue, allow me to say that with the fall term I shall devote the first three days of each week to the Utica Conservatory of Music and the last three to the Towers' School of Vocal Music, New York.
131Yours, &c.,
132JOHN TOWERS,
133Pupil of Pinsuti, Kulak and Marx.
135The Burmeisters in Europe.—Richard Burmeister and his wife, Mrs. Dory Petersen-Burmeister, of Baltimore, will leave this city on June 4 on La Champagne for Europe, to be absent about fifteen months. Mr. Burmeister has received leave of absence from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and will spend most of the time in Paris. Mrs. Burmeister will concertize in England, France, Germany and Austria. Mr. Burmeister's last concert prior to his departure will be given at the Peabody, Baltimore, on May 31.
137Mrs. Ida Bond Young's Vacation.—The dramatic soprano Ida Bond Young, of this city, leaves for Europe next Saturday on La Champagne, to be gone during the summer. She will return in the early autumn to resume her professional engagements here.
139N. Y. PHILHARMONIC CLUB,
140FIFTEENTH SEASON.
141Eugene Weiner, – Director.
142THIS renowned organization with
143MISS MARION WEED, Prima Donna Soprano,
144Will make a concert tour through the United States during the season 1892-3. Managers and societies desiring to make engagements with the club please address
145Eugene Weiner,
146Care of Edw. Schubert & Co., 23 Union Square, New York.
148NEW YORK COLLEGE OF MUSIC.
149128 and 130 EAST 58th STREET.
150ALEXANDER LAMBERT, Director.
151Mme. FURSCH-MADI, Principal of Vocal Department.
152ALL BRANCHES OF MUSIC TAUGHT.
153Faculty comprises the most eminent instructors.
154NOTICE.—The New York College of Music will remain open during the entire summer.
156THE FAMOUS
157New York Conservatory of Music,
158ESTABLISHED 1863—CHARTERED 1865.
159Removed from Fourteenth Street to the Large and Elegant Building,
160112 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET,
161Between Fourth Avenue and Irving Place.
162THE EMERSON PIANO IS USED.
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