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Musical Courier 1893-06-21: Vol 26 Iss 694, 1893
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1Street Baptist Church, is organist; Mrs. Alice Beem, soprano; Miss Alice Lincoln Dean, contralto; Mr. Harper, baritone, and a man who sings Mr. Lynes' "Sweethearts" heartbreakingly is tenor.
3Mr. Taylor's brother is organist of Dr. Barthol's church in Cambridge, Mass., and in a few weeks Miss Blanche goes on there to attend a garden party given in her honor. Her delicate blonde style is to be set off by lavender crépe, silk and illusion.
5Mr. Taylor owns an ideal home on West End avenue, a perfect bower of refined tranquility, where the breezes of the Hudson catch the perfume of roses in the rear. Love, contentment, ambition and art are about as evenly balanced in this home as one finds on earth. Dogs are his pets. A small ball of white silk on the piano mat becomes animated in response to the call of "Judy," while a graceful terra cotta Irish setter looks on at the pattings given without a trace of jealousy in her great affectionate eyes. Mr. Taylor expects to remain in New York during the summer.
7At the last special service of St. Andrew's Church, where Mr. Mallinson Randall is organist and choirmaster, Gounod's "Unfold Ye Portals" and "Hail Gladdening Light," written specially for the choir by the well-known English composer, Field, were sung. Mr. Odell sang Stainer's "My Hope Is Everlasting" beautifully, and the choir boys, Krickle and Fox, sang particularly well. Mr. Ferris Tozer, composer of the communion anthem, "Come Weary Pilgrims," is to dedicate a harvest anthem to this choir. Five of the boys were invited to sing at the consecration services of the Church of the Heavenly Rest last month. The rector here has promised a gold medal to the choir boy having the best record for the month of June, and competition is very keen as to who will receive it.
9Mr. Henry Carter is happy, contented, and doing good work in his new position, which he speaks of as "charming," in the Episcopal Church at Morristown. He has a quartet of ladies and men, all good material.
11Mrs. Lillie Mahon Siegfried has just completed an arrangement for the familiar words, "Oh! Wert thou in the cauld blast?"
13Although rather a bold undertaking, the sweet song does not suffer in comparison with its established predecessor. It is simple and touching, with nice harmonies and a touching refrain. At a dinner given in her honor recently this sentiment was placed at her plate, and the sight of the words brought like a flash the strains in which she has caught them. She does not know in what this lyrical quantity of words consists. Mr. Mary Knight Wood, Mrs. Emma Marcy Raymond, Josephine Gro, Fannie Spencer, Miss Ida Benedict, Mr. Frederick Brandeis and Horatio Parker are all equally in the dark on the matter. Who will solve the problem?
15Another of Mrs. Siegfried's recent compositions is the setting of a Japanese lullaby, of Mr. Eugene Field's "Sweet Little Pigeon" and "Fold Your Wings." She has received a nice letter of recognition from the poet.
17In Mystic, Conn., lives Mr. John Rathbone, a prominent composer of that district. Strange to say, although wholly unacquainted with each other, there is a strong similarity between his writing and that of Mrs. Siegfried, undiscovered by either till recently. The same rhythm frequently occurs.
19In an anthem of his, "Christ, the Lord is Risen Today," the closing strain of the Japanese lullaby is apparent. Yet the lullaby was written three years ago, and he had not seen it at the time of his writing.
21FANNY EDGAR THOMAS.
23Paris Letter.
2427 AVENUE DU MAINE, PARIS, June 6, 1883.
26A N attack of "la grippe" prevented your correspondent sending you the Paris musical news in the time desired, so I shall hasten to mail same without delay. First of all the concerts of importance I will mention the one given at the Salle Erard by Miss Marie Duport, violinist and first prize of the conservatory. The program opened with the Haydn string quartet in D major, played by Miss Duport and Messrs. Tracol, Pélat and Choinet. It was admirably rendered; elegant coup d'archet, brilliant execution and correct intonation were displayed by Miss Duport. The other numbers were: Fantaisie appassionata, Vieuxtemps; "Souvenir de Haydn," Leonard, and "Perpetual Motion," by Ries. The young lady's success was not limited to her violin, since as a pianist she executed the "Pas des Cymbales," for two pianos, with the valuable assistance of Miss Chaminate, the composer and pianist, who also played several of her compositions. Mr. Alvares, tenor, and Mrs. de Berni, soprano, added to the program a few selections, and the young wonder boy harpist electrified the large audience with the harp solo, "Fantaisie sur Moise," by Parish-Alvars.
28Mr. T. Marsick, the celebrated violin virtuoso and professor of the Conservatory of Music, ended a most glorious season with his string quartet at the Salle d'Harcourt. They played the seventeen quartets of Beethoven.
30At the Institut Rudy a series of fine concerts has taken place. Among the principal were the ones of Miss Ronzi, Mrs. Saillard-Dietz, Charles René, Lenorman, and also conferences were given each week on different topics by the army of teachers which belong to the academy. Miss Kayser-Kayser, of Philadelphia, before her departure, was heard at the Théâtre d'Application, not only as a violinist of talent, but also as a dramatic reader, having been a pupil of Mr. Dupont-Vernon, of the Comédie Française, who so successfully teaches at the Rudy Academy. This celebrated school has for more than thirty years formed pupils who have circulated its reputation to every portion of the globe. We can mention a few of them as Misses Nikita and Foote, and Messrs. Paderewski and Behmann, who have been in the United States.
32Mr. M. Marmontel, ex-director of the conservatory, who directs the cours supérieur of piano of the Institute Musical founded by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Comettant gave a most successful audition of his pupils at the Salle Pleyel.
34Miss Marie Panthés, one of the best French pianists, gave an exceedingly interesting program at the Salle Erard. Selections by Beethoven, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Fissot and Liszt were alternately played en main de maître by this wonderful artist. Miss Panthés expects in the near future to make une tournée en Amérique.
36By the kindness of Mr. Alliod, the French impresario, we had the pleasure to have an audition to listen to three cornetists (one was formerly pupil of Arban and professor in the Conservatory of Paris). They performed the most difficult compositions, including the "Carnival of Venice," with variations played in unison, with such a perfection that it seemed impossible that the execution was played by three persons.
38At the concert of the Jardin d'Acclimatation the works of the celebrated organist and composer, Mr. Widor, were most enthusiastically applauded by the large audience; first was a new Suite Espagnole, which was finely played by the orchestra. Mr. T. Philippe executed with immense success the piano concerto in A and the "Conte d'Avril," a most interesting and beautiful composition, which ended this excellent concert.
40Mr. César Casella, one of the best cellists of the capital, gave an excellent concert at the Salle Erard. Besides numbers by Saint-Saëns and Boccherini, he performed several of his compositions, which were exceedingly interesting and pleasing.
42Mr. Chas. de Beriot, professor of the Conservatory of Music, gave a private piano recital with his pupils; a few of them showed considerable talent.
44Miss Sophie Jaffé, a Russian lady, first prize of the Paris Conservatory and also a pupil of Mr. Berthelier, the eminent violin teacher, gave a concert at the Salle de Géographie. Miss Jaffé's execution was not only that of an artist but one of a virtuosa. She performed the second sonate by Raff; the fourth concerto by Vieuxtemps; introduction and rondo by Saint-Saëns and Airs Russes by Wieniawski in a marvelous manner. She was ably assisted by Chas. René, the pianist, and Miss Yvel, soprano.
46À une autre fois.
48C. M. V.
50Saint-Saëns.—The "Ménestrel" states once more that after his return from Cambridge Mr. Saint-Saëns will sail for America and direct several concerts at Chicago.
52Sybil Sanderson.—A late review of Mr. Saint-Saëns' two act "Phryne" describes Miss Sanderson as excellent, "both vocally and histriionically, while her fine physique made a somewhat risky plot at any rate plausible."
54A Festive Number.—Mr. C. F. Kahnt, in Leipsic, the publisher of the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik," founded by Robert Schumann in 1893, has issued a festive number on the occasion of the twenty-ninth musicians' meeting, which this year took place in Munich from May 26 to 30. It contains "Peter Cornelius in Munich," by Dr. Paul Simon; "The Première of the Barber of Bagdad," by Richard Pohl; "The Twenty-ninth Musicians' Meeting in Munich," by Hospes; instrumental music, correspondence from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Prague and Vienna, and miscellaneous.
56'Twas the Other Sullivan.—An entertaining story of Sir Arthur Sullivan is related in Charles Willeby's new "Masters of English Music." When the composer was traveling by stage in a rather wild part of California and was about to stop in a mining camp for lunch, he was gratified to hear the driver say, "They expect you here, Mr. Sullivan." The announcement was confirmed when, coming across a knot of prominent citizens at the whisky shop, the foremost of the group came up to a burly bystander and inquired, "Are you Mr. Sullivan?" "No," replied the burly man, while he pointed to the English traveler. The citizen looked at the stranger rather contemptuously and said, "Why, how much do you weigh?" This seemed a curious method of gauging the powers of a composer, but he received the prompt answer, "About 162 pounds." Well," returned the man, "that's odd to me, anyhow. Do you mean to say that you gave fits to John S. Blackman in Kansas City?" "No, I did not give him fits," was the reply. Conferring further, it proved that the person expected was Sullivan the prize-fighter. It appeared, however, that the musician's fame had nevertheless in a dim sort of way reached that remote settlement, for this "prominent citizen," in an outburst of cordial hospitality, finally exclaimed: "Oh, Arthur Sullivan! What, are you the man that put 'Pinafore' together?"
58Rudolf King.—Mr. Rudolf King, the Vienna correspondent of THE MUSICAL COURIER, will as usual spend his summer vacation at Potsdam and Berlin.
60Weber's "Oberon."—Next season the Paris Opéra Comique will produce "Oberon," and Messrs. Jules Barbier and Philippe Gille are translating the libretto.
62Verdi.—Giuseppe Verdi, the great composer, is a spare built man of nervous manner, with curly white hair and a pointed beard, and, though rising nine-and-seventy, is still vigorous, both mentally and physically. He leads the life of a pampered recluse. He has for years cut himself off entirely from the world, his only appearance among his fellow-men being on the occasion of the production of one of his new operas. He lives in solitary state at his castle near Busseto, which is situated in the midst of a wild and desolate landscape and surrounded by a triple row of lofty walls. His only companions are two enormous Pyrenean hounds, and his entire days are spent in his study, which is quite shut off from the rest of the castle, and from which he emerges only to eat and sleep.
64No one is admitted to his presence except those who come by special invitation, so that often a distinguished personage will make his way over to the guarded stronghold only to be met with the information that there is no admission. Four years since he celebrated the jubilee of his career as a composer, which began in 1839. It is interesting to note that his two most popular operas, "Trovatore" and "Traviata," were brought out in the same year, 1853. He has naturally been "decorated" beyond endurance. Thirty years ago he was a member of the Italian Parliament.—"Lippincott."
66A Chicago Ode.—Prof. Villiers Stanford's Chicago ode, "East to West," which preceded a late performance of "Elijah" by the Royal Choral Society, London, is a brief work, occupying not more than a quarter of an hour in performance; but it is well worthy of the composer, and it is difficult to perceive how Mr. A. C. Swinburn's lines could have been more appropriately set. The music is for chorus and orchestra only, and is in several sections, which follow each other without break, the final return of the solemn opening theme giving the impression of symmetry to the whole. In his illustration of the concluding lines:
68And the sons of the lords of the world wide seas
69Be one till the world's life die.
71the composer divides his voices into eight parts, with singularly imposing effect. The ode certainly merits the attention of choral societies generally, for it is by no means difficult, the vocal part writing being beautifully clear and of equal interest for all the voices. It was of course splendidly sung by Sir Joseph Barnby's matchless choir, and was very warmly received.—"Athenaeum."
73Raoul Koczalski.—Mr. Shedlock writes in the "London Academy" respecting the wunderkind Raoul Koczalski, "The child is simply wonderful; he has extraordinary technic, vigor and, when required, delicacy. In his rendering of Mozart's fantasia in D minor and of the larghetto from Chopin's concerto in F minor he displayed thought and feeling quite beyond his years. He also played some promising pieces of his own; and it may be noted that this youthful composer has already arrived at opus 46! He is an undoubted phenomenon—more won-
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