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Musical Courier 1892-09-07: Vol 25 Iss 654, 1892
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1certs he devoted himself chiefly to modern works of the French and German school, ignoring the generally accepted works for the violin, such as the concertos by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. This innovation did not prove to be to the taste of his London patrons, and this time his program will be of a more classical character.
3The Queen has again taken the royal box at the Olympic for Lago's opera season. Lago has secured the services of Albani and two sopranos who are famous in Italy and Sweden. He has made a change in his plans as they were announced in the preceding cable letter of this series. Instead of producing Tchaikowsky's "Mazeppa," he has decided to present the same author's "Eugene Onegin."
5Sir Augustus Harris now talks of opening the Covent Garden Theatre for Italian opera at the same time Lago opens the Olympic. Included in the operas Sir Augustus will present is "Cavalleria Rusticana."
7An Odessa Program.—Under the direction of R. Helm the Orchestral Society of Odessa, Russia, recently gave a symphonic concert with the following program: "Don Juan" overture, Mozart; B minor symphony, Schubert; "A Sketch of the Steppe," Borodin; "Souvenir d'Hapsal," by Tchaikowsky, instrumented by Erdman-dörfer; "Ave Verum," Mozart, and variations for two pianos on a Beethoven theme, by Saint-Saëns.
9Berlin Philharmonic Concert.—The Philharmonic concerts, Berlin, begin October 17. Bronislaw Hubermann, the eight year violinist, will appear at one of them.
11The Trilogy at Munich.—There was a change of dates for the representation of the "Nibelungen Trilogy" at Munich on account of additional rehearsals, so that "Rheingold" will be given to-morrow night, "Walküre" Friday night, "Siegfried" Sunday night (September 11), and the "Götterdämmerung" not until September 30. The reason of this last gap is not given.
13"Cimbelino."—"Cimbelino" is the title of a new opera recently produced with success at the Teatro Argentino, Rome, by a Neapolitan composer, Niccolo Van Westerhout.
15HOME NEWS.
17Josephine C. Reilly.—Miss Josephine C. Reilly, of Philadelphia, who for some years occupied a prominent position in that city as a church singer, has been under the instructions of Marchesi for the past nine months.
19Her progress has been such as to inspire her friends with the idea that she is destined to become a capable artist.
21Marchesi complimented her ability and progress by placing her on the program of a matinée, a distinction rarely accorded a pupil of such short duration.
23Miss Reilly has been in this country some six weeks, spending her vacation, and will return on the City of New York, sailing September 14, to continue under Mrs. Marchesi.
25Her voice is a pure, strong soprano, the higher notes being especially clear and musical. She contemplates grand opera.
27He Will Manage.—Louis Blumenberg, of the International Bureau of Music, will manage this coming season the concert tour of Maud Powell, the distinguished young violinist. Also the tour of Novara, the favorite basso, at present with the Adelina Patti Company, and Cornelia Dyas, the talented young pianist.
29The Seidl Concerts.—Anton Seidl and his orchestra began a series of thirteen concerts at the Madison Square Garden last Sunday night, which will certainly prove successful judging by the large and enthusiastic audience gathered on that occasion. Mr. Seidl's band never played better.
31Grant Brower.—Mr. Grant Brower, director Brooklyn Banjo Society, has returned from his summer vacation and will resume professional instruction at his studio, 9 East Seventeenth street, on September 15.
33Opera at the Music Hall.—Cable advices received from Morris Reno, who is now in Scotland consulting with Andrew Carnegie, intimate that the great Carnegie Music Hall at Fifty-seventh street and Seventh avenue will be the home for grand opera performances in the near future. Ever since last winter the directors have contemplated making many additions to the building, and plans have already been formulated for the erection of additional stories and extensions on the Fifty-sixth street side.
35Through the recent purchase of the northeast corner of Fifty-sixth street and Seventh avenue the Music Hall Company has acquired a valuable piece of property. It gives them 25 feet additional frontage on Seventh avenue and 150 feet on Fifty-sixth street. This 3,750 square feet of ground level allows ample room for the necessary stage requirements, which, with the present stage facilities, will meet all the possibilities demanded by grand operatic productions. With these changes the Music Hall can be readily transformed into an opera house superior to any now in this country, and equal to the leading opera houses abroad.
37The auditorium in its present style is perfect in all its appointments. There are sixty-four boxes with anteroom connections, and these, with the orchestra and balcony chairs, permit a seating capacity of 3,000. It is estimated that the changes can be made in ninety days.
39Morris Reno, the president of the Music Hall Company, is expected back from Europe by September 15. On his return it is said that immediate steps will be taken by the directors toward the execution of these plans. As a matter of fact the Music Hall Company is splendidly equipped for grand opera. The directors are gentlemen of wealth and culture who promote musical enterprise for the love of the art rather than pecuniary gain. Many of them are associated with the Symphony and Oratorio societies and the New York Symphony Orchestra, organizations which have contributed greatly to the musical culture of this city.
41They Have Resumed.—Atlanta, September 3.—This notice was published to-day: "Mr. and Mrs. Alfredo Barili will resume their classes in piano, voice culture and harmony, September 1, 1892, studio in Y. M. C. A. Building, Room 3."
43Northampton, Mass.—Dr. B. C. Blodgett has added to his force of piano teachers for the coming year, at the Smith College School of Music, Miss Emma Bates, of Holyoke, graduate of 1885, and Miss Helen R. Bliss, of New Haven, graduate of 1890. Miss Bates has achieved unusual success as pianist and teacher in our neighboring city, and Miss Bliss is just returning from a year's study with Raif in Berlin. Both ladies are well known here, in college and city circles, and they will add greatly to the musical constellation that centres about our college school.
45Made War on the Organist.—Pottstown, Pa., September 3.—A church quarrel over the employment of an organist has convoluted St. Stephen's Reformed congregation here for several weeks. Last Christmas Prof. J. C. D. Koch entered into a contract with the church consistory to act as organist for one year. Not long afterward the consistory grew dissatisfied with the quality and character of music he furnished and asked him to resign.
47On the strength of the contract he refused, whereupon a new organist was secured, selected by the pastor, the Rev. C. H. Herbst. The new organist was Prof. H. F. Lamb. The choir stood by their old leader, Professor Koch, but Pastor Herbst steadily ignored him and has recognized Professor Lamb instead, supplying the latter with the customary weekly list of hymns to be rendered on Sundays. The choir, when accompanied by Professor Koch, have not been permitted to enter the church building on practice night.
49Recently Professor Koch and the choir, after an ineffectual attempt to gain admittance to the church for practice, on Saturday night forced open the doors. For this offense the consistory had Professor Koch arrested, and on the next day stationed three uniformed policemen inside the church to prevent him from taking possession of the organ during the service. The professor made no effort to do so, merely requesting the new organist to please vacate the organ.
51Last Sunday the trouble culminated in the presentation of a petition to Pastor Herbst by the Koch faction, signed by eighty-seven members of the church, calling for the pastor's resignation. This action has so alarmed the consistory that they have yielded to the demand of the Koch party for a congregational meeting to be held on Monday afternoon, when a vote will be had on the question of expelling the pastor or of supporting him in his war on Professor Koch and the choir.—"Sun."
53Klauser Music Institute.—The Klauser Music Institute is located at 573 Cass street in Milwaukee, Wis. It is a new school of music education founded on the principles set forth in Julius Klauser's remarkable volume "The Septonate," a book, by the way, that every musician should study.
55Ann Arbor School of Music.—This is the music faculty of the Ann Arbor (Michigan) University:
57Composition, Orchestration, Advanced Theoretical Work, Harmony, Organ—Albert A. Stanley, A. M., Director (professor of music in the University of Michigan).
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60Piano and Ensemble Playing—J. Erich Schmaal (late of Hamburg, Germany; pupil of Riemann and of Gründler).
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63Singing and Voice Culture—Silas R. Mills (pupil of Lamperti, Shakespere, and Stockhausen).
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66Violin and Ensemble Playing—Frederic Mills (pupil of Jacobsohn).
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69Violoncello—Frederic L. Abel (pupil of Cossmann, Urspruch and Raff).
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72Flute—Frederic McOmber.
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75Brass Instruments—Gerald W. Collins.
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78The names of other teachers will be announced later.
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81Albert Stanley is a host in himself.
83Otto Hackh's New Compositions.—Otto Hackh, the composer, has been hard at work all summer at new compositions for the piano. He will soon issue them through Schubert & Co. Some four hand piano pieces, a "Marche Triomphale," "Canzonetta Mauresco," "Menuet Fantastique," "Alla Espagnola, Danse Caractéristique," are written in Mr. Hackh's well-known happy style. He has also composed some solo pieces, a "Barcarolle Andalouse," "Chanson d'Amour," "La Piquante," "Polka de Concert," "Dance of the Nixies" and an "Alla Minuetto." Mr. Hackh's compositions are distinguished by a graceful, melodious style and are all extremely playable.
85WANTED.—A thoroughly educated musician in all branches desires position as director of a male or mixed chorus society in New York city or suburbs. Address W., care of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
87A RARE CHANCE.—A musician of universal gifts, one who has been educating young musicians of advanced culture and fitting them for important positions, can be secured as a music teacher in a college or university or in a conservatory of music. Specially adapted for courses in musical aesthetics and literature, lectures, and in the departments of harmony, counterpoint and composition. Address, care of this paper, "University."
89From Berlin.
91MR. RUDOLF DOLGE, eldest son of Alfred Dolge, arrived in Berlin from Stockholm, Sweden, in best health, and intends to return to America, after one year's absence, about November.
93Mr. Carl Gaertner, of Philadelphia, for some weeks in Berlin, will arrange concerts in Berlin and some other German cities with his own compositions and works of his son Louis.
95Messrs. Ernst and William Knabe, sons of Ernst Knabe, of Baltimore, will arrive in Berlin from Brunswick on August 26.
97Spencer F. Eddy, son of Augustus N. Eddy, of Chicago, and a famous amateur on the banjo, is going to Ragaz, Switzerland.
99Misses Rose and Ottilie Sutro, daughters of Otto Sutro, of Baltimore, are at a village near Bayreuth.
101Mr. Rudolf King, pianist, of Boston, is at present in Potsdam.
103Schlesinger's new music store in Berlin, Germany, proprietor Mr. Robert Lienau, will be reopened in a new large building at 23 Französische strasse on September 1. THE MUSICAL COURIER will be found there in the reading room; also a great number of German and foreign papers.
105Peter Thelen, music dealer of Berlin, Germany, and treasurer of the German Wagner societies, intends to establish a branch house in Chicago this fall.
107Philipp Scharwenka and Dr. Hugo Goldschmidt announce that they took charge of Xaver Scharwenka's Berlin conservatory of music.
109The new German Opera, Berlin, will be opened in the Belle Alliance Theatre on September 1, with operas by Theod. Hentschel ("Die Schöne Melusine"), Ed. Kretschmar ("Heinrich der Löwe"), Pacius ("Loreley"), Von Woyvach ("Weiberkrieg"), Franz Schubert ("Fierrabras"), Rheinberger ("Thürmers Tochterlein"), Emil Kaiser ("Rodenstein"), Fuchs ("Guttenberg"), — ("Pfeifer von Hardt"), Auber ("Das ehrne Pferd"), Ambroise Thomas ("Der Cadi"), Umberto Giardono ("Mala Vita"), Spiro Samaro ("Flora Mirabilis"), Gretry ("Richard Löwenherz"). Three ballets, "Pandora," "Electron" and "Columbia," are also on the list. Wilhelm Hock is the artistic technical leader, C. A. Raida the musical leader; Giovanni Ambrogia, ballet master of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, directs the ballet, and Detlev Tramsen, of the German Opera, of St. Louis, is among the singers.
111The Berlin Free Musical Union has arranged to publish works by W. Freudenburg, opera composer and royal musical director; Frank L. Limbert, of New York; Hedwig Rosenfeld, Moritz Scharf, of Pirna, Saxony, and Robert Thieme, director of the Haydn Conservatory of Berlin. The composers remain the proprietors of their works.
113The Berlin Concert Haus, Leipziger street, will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary on December 23. Karl Meyer is the present musical director. Mr. Franz X. Arens' American composer concerts took place in the same concert hall.
115Heinrich de Ahna, Joachim's partner on the famous quartet evenings, is ill and will probably retire from concert life.
117Hofkapellmeister Kahl, orchestra leader of the Berlin Royal Opera, is dead. Felix Weingartner will direct the nine symphony concerts of the Royal Orchestra, taking place on October 3 and 18, November 16, December 2 and 16, January 7, February 9, March 9 and 22.
119The ten Berlin Philharmonic concerts will be conducted by Hans von Bülow, Raphael Maszkowski (not Moszkowski) and Dr. Hans Richter.
121(Inc. May 1, 1891.)
123NEW YORK VOCAL INSTITUTE.
124FRANK HERBERT TUBBS, Musical Director.
12597 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
126COMPLETE EDUCATION IN VOCAL MUSIC.
127Singers naturally prefer study where Voice Culture and Singing receive chief attention. All the teachers use the same method. Homes selected for pupils. Circulars sent on request.
128NEW YORK VOCAL INSTITUTE, 97 Fifth Avenue.
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