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Musical Courier 1892-12-14: Vol 25 Iss 667, 1892
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1tistic level of the United States in music, the choral societies of the country will give their hearty co-operation without any expense to the exposition; but the Exposition, through the bureau of music, will arrange for railroad rates, which will probably not exceed one fare for the round trip from any city in the country, while through the Bureau of Public Comfort of the Exposition, the Bureau of Music can guarantee satisfactory and convenient lodging places for any number of singers, arranging varying rates from $1 upward per day, according to accommodations. These rates are for lodgings only. The importance of this guarantee is readily seen, and the bureau deems it necessary to urge upon all societies accepting this invitation an early response, giving the probable number of singers who will attend the exposition in the manner stated.
3While the bureau cannot undertake to furnish copies of the music to be performed by the August Festival Chorus, it will make an effort to aid, to some extent, those communities to whom this item of expense would be a barrier to membership.
5The bureau asks the widest publicity for this announcement, which, it is hoped, will give a stimulus to the practice of the greater choral works and create an efficient arm of exposition music.
7THOMAS, Musical Director.
8Bureau of Music: WILLIAM L. TOMLINS, Choral Director.
9GEORGE H. WILSON, Secretary.
11A Letter from Mr. Roeder.
12BOSTON, Mass., December 1, 1892.
13Editors Musical Courier:
15WITH regard to your notice about the tenor Rothmühl, I beg leave to say that he is a former pupil of mine, and for years he has been an ornament to the institution to which he belonged. There is not the slightest doubt as to his artistic capacity, for he is one of the best musicians among all the living tenors, and certainly the foremost tenor among all living musicians. But another and very unpleasant matter is the main motive of the difficulties he is now encountering at the hands of the intendant, Count Hochberg.
17Rothmühl is of Jewish belief, and Count Hochberg, as is well known, is among the most prominent anti-Semites of Berlin. Discussions were frequent between the two gentlemen, and though Mr. Rothmühl's artistic ability fitted him for such rôles as "Lohengrin," "Hans Sachs," and "Siegmund," he was prevented for a long time from singing these parts, owing to the unpleasantness referred to above.
19As it is not unlikely that Mr. Rothmühl may soon come to this country, I think it not unnecessary to call the attention of the editors of The Musical Courier to the strange obstacles an artist in Europe has sometimes to deal with.
21Very truly yours,
22MARTIN ROEDER.
24Baltimore News.
25BALTIMORE, December 2, 1892.
27IN the death of Henry M. Jungnickel, the celebrated cellist of this city, the music loving people of Baltimore lost one of the most accomplished professional aids they ever had in cultivating good music here. Mr. Jungnickel was known as a thorough artist on his instrument and a virtuoso in his younger days far and beyond the average players on this most difficult of difficult instruments, but he was also a musician of attainments, and so modest in demeanor that only those who knew him intimately knew how much he knew.
29He was the cellist of the Steyermark Orchestra, which came here a year or two before the Germania Orchestra, early in the fifties. The concerts were successful in Boston, New York and other cities. Carl Gartner, of Philadelphia, was one of the violinists. Mr. Jungnickel was married in 1860 to Miss Adelaide Willstorf, who survives him. He has one child, Mr. Ross Jungnickel, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra here.
31N. Edward Heimendahl has been elected conductor of the Haydn Musical Association.
33Miss Cecilia Gaul is among the busiest of our piano teachers. She is an artist of rare attainments.
35Prof. Asger Hamerik, Knight of the Danebrog, has dismissed his cook for good, and now attends to the culinary department of his household personally. He is an accomplished chef. He is a bachelor besides, and is conductor of the Peabody Orchestra.
37Another death must be recorded. Mr. George Schaefer, violinist and teacher of music, died at his home, 637 West Franklin street, aged thirty-five years. He had been ill seven weeks of typhoid fever and began to convalesce, but suffered a relapse. Mr. Schaefer was born in Baltimore and studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. After completing his studies he became a teacher of music in his native city. A widow and an infant daughter survive him. Mr. Schaefer was a Mason. Two weeks ago his father, Mr. Daniel Schaefer, died suddenly of heart disease.
39ROGER ASHAMED.
41Portland Music.
42PORTLAND, Me., December 2, 1892.
44THE past two weeks have been very quiet, musically, save for the Tavary-Del Puente concert last evening, at which the following concert was given to a large and enthusiastic audience:
46Piano solo, "Hungarian Rhapsodie No 6"…………………Liszt
47Mr. Isidore Luckstone.
48Duo, "All' alto," from "Favorita"…………………….Donizetti
49Miss Campbell and Mr. Del Puente.
50Violin solo, "Hungarian Airs"………………………..Ernst
51Mr. Leopold Lichtenberg.
52Grand aria from "La Traviata," "Ah forse e lui"………..Verdi
53Mrs. Basia Tavary.
54Aria, gavotte from "Mignon"………………………….Thomas
55Miss Helen Dudley Campbell.
56Toreador song from "Carmen"………………………….Bizet
57Mr. Del Puente.
58Duo for soprano and contralto from "Lakme"………….Leo Delibes
59Mrs. Tavary and Miss Campbell.
60Romanza, "Innamorato d'una Stella" (in love with a star)………..Randegger
61Mr. Del Puente.
62Song, "Shadow Dance," from "Dinorah"………………Meyer
63Mrs. Tavary.
64Violin soli—
65Romanzo……………………………………………..Beethoven
66Spanish dances………………………………………Sarasate
67Mr. Lichtenberg.
68Duo, "Gentle Swallows," from "Mignon"………….A. Thomas
69Mrs. Tavary and Mr. Del Puente.
70Mrs. Tavary's splendid soprano and artistic execution captivated her listeners at once. Her best selection was the "Shadow Dance" from "Dinorah;" and the pretty little morceau "No, Sir," delighted all.
72Del Puente was in excellent voice and rendered the "Toreador Song" with great brilliancy and effect. Lichtenberg played finely and won the appreciation of all. All numbers were encored and this made the concert a little long, but as all the artists were first-class, no one seemed discontented.
74A company of the younger singers of the city are diligently rehearsing "Fra Diavolo," under the direction of Montgomery, formerly with the Boston Ideals. The opera is to be given some time next month.
76A new male chorus was formed at St. Luke's parish house last Tuesday evening. The men of the cathedral choir form the members and W. H. Carter, the cathedral organist, directs the same.
78Octavia Hensel's Letter.
79LOUISVILLE, Ky., Thanksgiving Day.
81MUSIC during the past month has been of sufficient interest to make one thankful, even in Louisville, and, in the language of the immortal Cuttle, "worthy to make a note of." The last piano recital was especially so, for it was given by that cyclone of the piano (zephyrized at times), Constantine Sternberg.
83Years only make that man more intellectually strong, more technically gentle, head of bronze (because a mixture of valuables), heart of steel (symbolic of steadfastness), with hand and wrist of Saladin-like dexterity. Indeed, I suspect there is much of Coeur de Lion and Saladin the Magnificent combined in Mr. Sternberg's make up. Pure rhapsody, perhaps; but when Louisville has been musically starved for month after month, to hear such an artist is intoxicating. His programs even are inspirations. They possess an art physiognomy peculiarly their own. A program gauges the virtuosity, intellectual sympathy and musically apprehension of the artist; and only an artist can prepare a program.
85The one prepared by Mr. Sternberg began with the leaders of the romantic school, from the romancist Schumann through the idealist Chopin and the tone portrait painter Godard to the catholicity of Saint-Saëns, whose piano etchings give us all that is in and outside the world, from the Rouet d'Omphale to the Danse Macabre.
87Here it is:
89PROGRAM.
90Sonata, op. 22…………………………………………..Schumann
91Scherzo, B minor, op. 20…..
92Impromptu, F sharp, op. 36…
93Étude, F minor…………………………………………Chopin
94Étude, F major…………………………………………Chopin
95Rondo in E flat, op. 16…..
96"Chopin"…………………………………………….Chopin
97"Schumann"…………………………………………Schumann
98"Marcell, the Huguenot"…
99"Venetienne"…………………………………………Godard
100"Pan and the Flute"………….
101"Hindoo"…………………………………………….Godard
102Valse (10th)…………………………………………….Saint-Saëns one of two readings
103Valse (10th)…………………………………………….Godard one of two readings
104Mazurka, G minor………………………………….Saint-Saëns
105Kermesse (after Gound)………….Saint-Saëns
106The Schumann sonata, especially the andantino, was exquisitely
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