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Musical Courier 1892-09-28: Vol 25 Iss 657, 1892
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1Something About Barth.
2Prof. Heinrich Barth, who recently returned from his trip to Switzerland, Italy and Kissingen, gave the first matinée of the season at his home, Kurfürsten strasse 112, Berlin, September 11.
3Professor Barth played on this occasion, Beethoven, sonata, op. 7; Schumann, op. 20, Humoreske; Chopin, op. 59; Moszkowski, octave etude; Rudorff, etude in thirds, and Schumann, fantasia and presto, G minor.
4Professor Barth played as usual with masterly perfection. His audience, which consisted of American, Swedish and German pupils, was filled with admiration and enthusiasm, elicited by the wonderful interpretation as well as the brilliant technic of their master.
6Get a Good Teacher.
7Editors Musical Courier:
8New York, September 9, 1892.
9WHAT course would you advise one to take to learn to play on the piano in the shortest time? I am a piano salesman, and want to learn to play well enough to show off a piano to good advantage. I understand music very well, but cannot execute. It seems to me the more I practice a piece the worse I play it, until I have almost despaired of ever learning to play. Would you advise me to keep practicing alone or to practice under the direction of some professor? Any advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated, for I am extremely anxious to learn to play. I have a good ear for music. My only trouble is I cannot execute. Very truly, CONSTANT READER.
11The Casino's New Departure.
12THE Casino began its new life as a music hall, vaudeville entertainment, or whatever you choose to call it, last Monday night. When from the long program there will be eliminated a lot of tiresome people who can't dance, sing or play, the show is bound to be a tremendous success. This was proved by the unequivocal success of Fougère (the result of her equivocal singing) and also of the two pretty ballets, "Chione" and "Orange Blossoms," which were staged in a charming manner and, considering a first night, well enacted. The audience was large and representative Monday night, and the general feeling was that the Casino under the new régime will be a go if more care is devoted to the variety part of the program, which was woefully stupid.
14Musical Items.
15New "America."—The above is the title of a new musical setting of "My Country, 'tis of thee," by Herbert Leslie Keyes and published by Geo. Molineaux, 10 East Fourteenth street.
16Sails for Home.—Ovide Musin will sail from Australia on October 3 and begin his sixth American season at Toledo on November 7. It is said that his visit to the antipodes has been extremely successful and next season he will go to South America.
17Brooklyn.—Last year the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences added a department of music to its many agencies for disseminating knowledge. The department was successful beyond all expectation, and received so much encouragement from the members of the institute and general public that it has planned a course of twelve concerts and lecture concerts for the coming season. The course will be opened on October 26 with an illustrated lecture on "Chamber Music," by Mr. H. E. Krehbiel. On November 23 Mr. W. H. Henderson will lecture on "Musical Form;" on December 28, Mr. Louis C. Elson, of Boston, on "Seven Centuries of English Song;" on January 25, Mr. R. Huntington Woodman, on "The Development of Church Music;" on February 8, Mr. Charles H. Morse on "Chamber Music;" on March 1, Mr. Henry E. H. Benedict on some branch of the same subject; on March 16, Mr. John Hyatt Brewer on "Church Music;" on April 26, Mr. Perlee V. Jervis on a subject not announced. All these lectures will be illustrated. There will also be an orchestral concert, a glee and madrigal concert and a choral concert, under the direction of Mr. William H. Neidlinger. Members of the institute who are entitled to attend these entertainments may purchase reserved seats for $2.50. Non-members can have the twelve for $10.—"Tribune."
18Sigmund Deutsch Has Resumed.—Sigmund Deutsch, the violinist (pupil of the late Jacques Dont), has resumed his teaching at his studio, 98 Fifth avenue.
19The Sapios.—Mr. and Mrs. Romualdo Sapio have returned from their pleasant vacation abroad. Mrs. Sapio (Clementina De Vere) is in as much request for concerts as ever, while Mr. Sapio has been actively engaged during the past week examining applicants for admission to the vocal classes at the National Conservatory.
20In the City.—Otto Singer, of Cincinnati, is at present in the city.
21Tayau, Not Tayan.—It was Marie Tayau, not Tayan, the violinist, whose death was chronicled in last week's issue.
22The Clarkes.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert Clarke have returned from Europe and opened their studio in Music Hall for the season. Mr. Clarke has also taken a studio at 141 Montague street, Brooklyn, where he will teach on Mondays and Thursdays, Mrs. Clarke teaching in the New York studio on those days. Mr. Clarke sings in "Moses in Egypt," Act 3, at Goshen, N. Y. The orchestra will consist of members of the Philharmonic Society of this city.
23Dvorak Has Arrived.—The distinguished composer, Antonin Dvorák, who comes to this country under contract to act as director of the National Conservatory of Music for the next three years, at a salary of $15,000 a year, arrived on the Saale on Monday evening. If the vessel is released promptly from quarantine Mr. Dvorák will be informally welcomed to-day by a number of musicians and by delegations from the Liederkranz and Arion societies. He will be formally welcomed at a concert to be given at the Carnegie Music Hall on October 21, when the new cantata which he has written in honor of the Columbian festival will be sung under his direction. A formal reception will be tendered him November 15.
24Nearly all of the leading choral societies in and around New York have been asked to take part in this concert, and it is expected that the cantata will be sung by several thousand voices.
25Camilla Urso Injured.—The chivalrous gentleman who whirled down the boulevard on one of the big old-fashioned bicycles, without either light or bell, on Saturday night, knocked down a lady and gentleman and then sneaked away without inquiring how much they were hurt, will be pleased to learn perhaps that he almost succeeded in ruining the bow arm of one of the world's great violinists, Mrs. Camilla Urso. A little more and that charming mistress of the most divine of instruments would never have played again.
26I called last night on Mrs. Urso, who in private life is Mrs. Frederick Luere, and found her still suffering from the effects of the wheelman's cowardly blow. She was bruised from head to foot and said she was very lame and sore all over. Her left arm was in a sling, but it was the right wrist, which was tightly bandaged, concerning which she was chiefly solicitous.
27"There is no broken bone, thank heaven!" she said, "but the wrist was forced out of joint. It is very painful, of course, but my doctor tells me I shall be able to use it again in two weeks, and that, naturally, is what I am most anxious about. If it were broken I should be done for, and I would be broken hearted if an accident were to deprive me of the power to play my violin.
28"I was unwilling to let my identity be known while the result of my injuries was uncertain, but now that I am promised the use of my arm in two weeks I shall be glad to let my friends know that I am doing so well."
29Mrs. Urso is preparing for three chamber concerts, to be given at Chickering Hall December 1, January 19 and February 23, and a grand orchestral concert, with Anton Seidl for conductor, on April 6. She has engaged four eminent singers, Mrs. Marie Decca, Miss Emma Juch, Miss Kaschoska and Mrs. Tavary, to appear at these concerts, and every day's loss of practice now she feels as a serious deprivation. This is the fourth time in her career that she has been forced to lay down her violin and receive the attention of a surgeon.—"Herald."
30A Chance for a Choral Society.—Mr. John Towers, who has recently arrived from London to open the Towers School of Music in this city, would take the direction of a choral society or church choir, a position for which he is well fitted. He has organized and directed several of the leading English societies, and was for three years connected with the Berlin Sing Akademie.
31Are We to Lose Cappa Now?—Tacoma, Wash., September 26.—Director Cappa, of the New York Seventh Regiment Band, has submitted a proposition to a Tacoma syndicate to sell it the band for a $100,000 guarantee that the syndicate will pay all expenses and salaries for a period of five years, the fund to be used for that purpose. The idea is to make Tacoma the band's headquarters, and keep it on the Pacific Coast a part of each year.
32The band consists of sixty-five pieces. A company is being organized by business men to carry out the proposition. Half the $100,000 of stock was subscribed to-day. Cappa dislikes to sever his connection with the Seventh Regiment, of which he is a member, but says he will do so on a five year guarantee. The band would be known here as the First Regiment Band.
33Cappa starts for New York Sunday. His understanding with the local company is to be ready for business January 1. It will manage all tours, leaving Cappa to devote his entire time to the band and composition. It is expected that he will spend the winter seasons in New York. Cappa is paid a salary of from $8,000 to $10,000 a year.—"Times."
34Gilmore's Funeral.—Mr. Edward O'Mahony, the basso, received a telegram last Monday evening from Mrs. Gilmore, dated at Cleveland, Ohio, in which she said that the private funeral at the house would be held early this morning and that a public service would be held at 10 o'clock at St. Francis Xavier's Church in Sixteenth street.
35St. Louis, September 26, 1892.—At a meeting of the military band led by the late P. S. Gilmore, it was unanimously decided, with the approval of Mrs. P. S. Gilmore, to continue the organization under its old name, with Charles W. Freudenvoll as director and Mrs. and Miss Gilmore as proprietors. The band will, under Mr. Freudenvoll, complete its engagements at the St. Louis Exposition and will also carry out the plans of Mr. Gilmore for its winter concert tour.
36Lost Music.—The little clavichord of past times needs that a present day pianist should put his ear to it in order to hear it. Its delicate, miniature gradations of tone would be lost indeed on a modern audience. Yet Bach's forty-eight preludes and fugues were written for it. Were they intended for a single hearer? String quartets still hold their own, but the day is not far distant when they, too, must disappear from public life before the myriad headed audiences of the immediate future. They will retire into private circles, and become again what they were originally intended to be—chamber music. Some day—may it be a distant one!—they may be revived by the curious in those things, as specimens of a charming but obsolete form of art.—The "Nineteenth Century."
37No Love in Hers.—A young girl with a sweet voice went to her music master for a song to sing at her graduation, with the entreaty that he should give her a simple song "without a word of love in it." The good taste of her request is worthy of comment in these days, when we hear girls scarcely in their teens singing songs of emotion and passion, many of them songs that are without sentiment or poetry, even when sung by those of more years.
38To those looking for ideal songs for young girls a musician of much refinement recommends some of the songs of Stevenson; two little songs called "Clear and Cool," and "I Once Had a Dear Little Doll, Dears," by George Henschel; Cowen's music to "Snowflake," by Longfellow, and an old song by Osgood, called "A Flower May Hide Its Lovely Face," "Resignation," "Morning Song," "Evening Song," "There Is a Reaper," "Mourn Not," and "In Distant Lands" are some of the songs of Mendelssohn said to be admirably adapted to thoughts of girlhood. Other songs of high musical rank, with poetic texts, are "The Water Party," "The Complaint of the Rose" and "Eventide," by Robert Franz.—"Evening Post."
39He Makes Good Music.—Mark A. Levy will furnish this year the same high-class order of music for parties, balls, receptions, private and public entertainments of all sorts. He may be addressed at 92 Fifth avenue.
40This Snake Was Real.—Bremen, Ind., September 25.—While services were being held at the German Lutheran Church this morning a snake began crawling out of the pipe organ. George Wamagans, the organist, was horrified to see the reptile crawling out upon the keyboard. He motioned to Philip Stockinger to come to the organ, which he did, and upon his approach he, too, saw the reptile, and taking his pocket handkerchief he seized his snakeship and flung him to the floor. Hardly a person in the large audience was aware of the new visitor's presence until services were over. The snake was what is known as a milk snake, about 2 feet in length, black and white spotted. How it got into the church and then into the organ is a mystery.
42THE FAMOUS
43New York Conservatory of Music,
44ESTABLISHED 1863—CHARTERED 1865.
45Removed from Fourteenth Street to the Large and Elegant Building,
46112 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET,
47Between Fourth Avenue and Irving Place.
48THE EMERSON PIANO IS USED.
50Season of 1892-93.
51Mrs. CARL ALVES, Soloist Contralto.
52Address McGrath Musical and Lyceum Bureau,
53EDWARD J. McGRATH, GENERAL MANAGER,
54Agents in all the Principal Cities of Europe and the United States.
55Headquarters of the Beethoven Concert Company.
57THE VIRGIL PIANO SCHOOL, 26 W. 15th Street, Near Fifth Avenue. one of two readings
58THE VIRGIL PIANO SCHOOL. 26 W. 15th Street, Near Fifth Avenue. one of two readings
59Devoted exclusively to the study of the Piano upon the rational methods of the PRACTICE CLAVIER.
60By this system artistic results are far more surely and quickly secured than by any other. The Training of Teachers a Specialty.
61Fall Term begins Sept. 26. Sept. 23 and 24 are examination and enrollment days.
62ADDRESS THE VIRGIL PIANO SCHOOL, 26 W. 15th St., New York.
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