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Musical Courier 1893-06-21: Vol 26 Iss 694, 1893
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1either, dear Dr. Dvorák. But that is a horse of another color, as Rudyard did not say.
3Miss Hannah F. Smith, solo soprano of the First Collegiate Reformed Church, of Harlem, will spend the summer at Rapidan and Norfolk, Va.
5Miss Jennie Dutton went to Chicago last Saturday for a six weeks' stay, after which she will travel with the Seidl Orchestra.
7A flourishing amateur organization known as "The Thespians" gave an enjoyable if not strictly perfect performance of "The Mikado, or the Town of Titipu," at Melrose Lyceum, Third avenue and 150th street, on the evening of June 13. The cast was as follows: "Mikado," O. F. Schader; "Nanki Poo," E. M. Henshaw; "Ko Ko," Alexander Cameron, Jr.; "Pooh Bah," W. P. Bugbee; "Pish Tush," S. H. Seeley; "Yum Yum," Miss Henrietta Speke; "Pitti Sing," Miss N. W. Ashmall; "Peep Bo," Miss Gertrude S. Turner; "Katisha," Miss Kate Lurch. The orchestra consisted of Miss Irene E. Wright, pianist. I was unable to be present, but my representative sent me a program, on the back of which he had hastily penciled the following comments: "Large and brilliant assemblage, composed of the élite of Bungtown. After an inspiring overture played on the piano by two demigelli, the curtain rose upon a vision of beauty. The chorus, composed of twenty-four scions of the F. F. V.'s, did themselves proud. 'Ko Ko' was by all odds the finest of the bunch. Pity it is that 'Pitti Sing' should have been 'Pitti Sing' and not 'Yum Yum.' The Mikado's shadow, dressed in a sable skin with a torn gown, captured the audience from entrance to exit. We humped ourselves that we had not seen it before." My deputy further states that the "Mikado" was bad, but a good kisser; that "Ko Ko" was a better actor than singer; that "Pooh Bah" was too animated to act; that "Pitti Sing" was a sweet blonde, and that "Katisha" wanted to be touched up. Well, his criticism must stand.
9Miss Grace Reals, formerly of the Bostonians, is at present on a visit to Toledo, Ohio.
11I. V. Flagler, of Auburn, N. Y., was in town last Friday on a flying visit, to buy a piano for some wealthy resident of the "loveliest village of the plain." He will begin his usual summer duties at Chautauqua on July 1. Mr. Flagler recently visited the World's Fair, and while there played on a new three-manual organ built by Pilcher, of Louisville, which he considers the most unique instrument he has ever seen. It possesses certain new mechanical contrivances which greatly facilitate the organist's performance.
13Miss Ruth Davenport is by far the best singer in the present cast at Koster & Bial's. Her voice is a high soprano, strong, rich and well placed. So few really good singers are heard at vaudeville entertainments that it is a genuine pleasure to record Miss Davenport's triumphs.
15Our enterprising and very much alive friend Will E. Taylor, organist and choirmaster of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, has just been appointed instructor in vocal and instrumental music at Rutgers College for next year, and the honorary degree of Master of Music has been conferred upon him by this well-known institution of learning. Hurrah for Billee Taylor!
17John Francis Gilder will spend the summer in nomadic fashion, giving piano recitals wherever he goes.
19E. S. Cragin, of C. H. Ditson & Co., and Mrs. Cragin will summer at Spring Lake, N. J.
21Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lee are at New Hartford, Conn., for the summer months.
23Sumner Salter's many friends sympathize deeply with him in his sudden affliction. His father and mother were driving at Burlington, Ia., about a week ago, when a tree fell upon them, instantly killing Mrs. Salter, and injuring Dr. Salter so that his life at last accounts was hanging by a thread. Sumner, on receiving the terrible news by wire, at once started for Burlington, which is his old home, and he is still there. Louis C. Jacoby, of the Middle Collegiate Church, took Mr. Salter's place at the organ in the new Collegiate Church on West End avenue last Sunday evening.
25ADDISON F. ANDREWS.
27Buffalo Press Club.—A concert was given at the rooms of the Buffalo, N. Y., Press Club last Sunday week, when the following named gentlemen participated in a very enjoyable program: Mr. Geo. N. Brothers, Mr. Raymond O. Riester, baritones; Mr. Will. C. Busch, bass; Mr. Henry, M. Marcus, violin; Mr. Carl H. Smith, piano; Mr. J. de Zielinski, piano and musical director.
29Cortland Musical Festival.—On Thursday and Friday evenings, June 8 and 9, the festival at Cortland, N. Y., was closed with two grand concerts. The artists participating were: Mrs. Clementina de Vere-Sapio, soprano; Miss Maud Powell, violinist; Mrs. Clara Dutton-Thompson, contralto; Mr. William H. Rieger, tenor; Mr. Alexander S. Thompson, baritone, and the Misses Keyes, duettists. On Friday evening "Clarice of Eberstein," by Rheinberger, was given. The cast included Mrs. De Vere-Sapio and Mrs. Thompson. The festival was in every respect a great success, and Dr. H. R. Palmer, the able conductor, and Mr. Alexander Mahan, who has sustained these festivals for so many years successfully, are to be congratulated.
31A musical person has got to go to Europe to study, to get the conceit taken out of him.—WILL TAYLOR.
33"Yes, it is a most satisfactory arrangement. Everything is certain, unstrained, easy. There is no discontent, no hazard, no complaint. Thrift, forethought and management by a few competent heads make everything satisfactory for the many. Much of the want and trouble of life might be averted by intelligent forethought, such as that exercised by the Collegiate Church organization."
35So speaks Mr. Will Taylor of his new and pleasant position as organist of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Boulevard and Sixty-eighth street, of which Rev. Madison C. Peters is pastor.
37Mr. Peters' name is a familiar one in New York, owing to a happy combination of personality and godliness that that brings him in contact with many sets of people. He is called the musicians' friend, loves the drama and appreciates worthy actors, understands the laws of trade and their bearing on human happiness, is well up on all topics of the day, and has a distinctive manner of expressing himself upon them. His lecture sermons are gladly followed by many folk who do not usually affect church going. A series of "musical evenings," to be continued through the winter season, accents this and brings unusually large gatherings to the pretty, gray stone edifice that seems more like a street ornament than a church.
39The organ loft here is fortunate in having for its contralto Mrs. Anna Bulkey Hills. She will sing here for a few weeks until her departure for Elberon, where she goes every summer. Her little daughter, a miniature of her beautiful brunette self, has a wonderful contralto voice of quality similar to her own. Mrs. Baldwin, now of the Church of the Holy Spirit, will succeed her here. Mrs. Blossom, of Minneapolis, a prime favorite, is in her home in Minneapolis.
41Miss Alice Purdy, a young, sweet, spirituelle girl, a protégée of Mr. Silas Pratt, to whom he has dedicated many of his songs, is the regular soprano. On Sunday she sang "I will extol Thee," from "Eli," with evidences of unusual talent; that, too, with but little rehearsal. She is a pupil of Mrs. Sara Baron Anderson.
43The tenor, Mr. Chas. Bower, is from Columbus, Ohio, a pupil of Mr. Fritch there. The possessor of a "big voice," he has been singing in St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Hosford, the basso, a basso profundo indeed, has been with the church ten years.
45There is a church committee here, but everything is left in Mr. Taylor's hands, with carte blanche for supplementary talent, &c.
47Four anthems are given each Sunday, the selections from the best schools. The compositions of Mr. Peter Schnecker are great favorites with the church and choir.
49The first of the four Sunday evening services given was "Eli," by Costa. Some seven or eight of its most melodious gems were sung. An addition to the choir was Mrs. Korony, née Miss Carrie Burton, who may be remembered as the charming "Patience" in "Pinafore" given at the Standard Theatre some years ago. She sang "No evil shall befall me," with Miss Helen Ashmead, who sang in Mr. Carl Walter's 48th and 5th avenue church when Ella Earle, now Mrs. Toedt, of St. Bartholomew's, was there doing her first organ-loft work. The second service was Mendelssohn's "St. Paul," at which Mrs. Ida Gray Scott, of Grace Church, assisted, with Mrs. Ashmead and Miss Inez Carusi, the harpist. Handel's "Largo" and Gounod's "Ave Maria" were given. "Elijah" will next be given, and last "The Holy City," when Miss Blanche Taylor, soprano of The Church of the Covenant, and Mrs. Lizzie McNicholl-Vetta will sing.
51Mrs. Vetta, contralto of the Hinrichs' Opera Company, is a personal friend of the Taylors, and finds in the care-free, tasteful, jolly home, relief from the sad memories of her rather disastrous young life.
53The organ of the church Mr. Taylor finds a good one, a 35 stop, and the acoustics are perfect. The church spirit is wholly helpful musically.
55Miss Blanche Taylor, the only child in the Taylor household, has the pretty little pin sum of $1,500 a year as soprano of Mr. Walter Hall's organ loft.
57Miss Graves is also here in place of Katherine Fleming, and Dr. Dufft has Grant Odell's place as basso. The choir is harmonious and happy, and the voices merge nicely. There is talk of uniting the Church of the Covenant and the "Brick Church." The relations between the two are extremely friendly, and this seems a wise way of utilizing the expense necessary to placing the East side building in proper modern condition. In the "Brick Church" Mr. Schilling, father of Mr. Schilling, of the Seventy-ninth
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62FRANK H. TUBBS, Musical Director.
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