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Musical Courier 1893-09-27: Vol 27 Iss 707, 1893
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1The Savages.—Last Thursday evening the first musicale given by the newly organized club, called the Savage Club, was held at the club rooms, 1469 Broadway. It was a grand success, this being the opening of the club. Among the talent that had kindly volunteered their services was Mr. Ovide Musin, violinist; Mr. Planton Brounoff, pianist; Mr. Joseph Lynde, baritone; Mr. Richie Ling, tenor; Mr. Kapp, violinist; Messrs. Plant and Thomson, humorous songs and recitations.
3This club promises to be a success, judging from the enthusiasm shown by its members and friends.
5Mr. John Kuehl, the secretary of the club, had charge of the musicale, and, with his artists from Steinway Hall, added much to the success of the evening's entertainment.
7The club confines its membership chiefly to art and science, the president being the popular Mr. R. A. Roberts, and the chairman the well-known Mr. Jesse Williams.
9Guilmant's First Eastern Concert.—Alexandre Guilmant will make his first appearance in the East at the recital at the Peddie Memorial Church, Newark, October 11. The attractive program reads as follows:
11Teccata in F………………………………………………………..Bach
12Offertory in D flat, op. 8………………………………………Salome
13Part song, "The Two Cupids"……………………………C. V. Stanford
14The Cecilian Choir.
15Sonata Pontificale……………………………………………..Lemmens
16Recitative Aria, "Yes, she flies from me still"………….Mr. James Sauvage.
17"Shelone charme my sadness"…………………………….Gounod
18(Queen of Sheba).
19Invocation in B flat…………………………………………..Mr. James Sauvage.
20Finale in E flat…………………………………………………Guilmant
21"Funeral March and Hymn of Seraphs"………………..Mr. Guilmant.
22Part songs—
23"The Knight's Tomb"………………………………………C. V. Stanford
24"There is music by the river"……………………………Ciro Pinsuti
25The Cecilian Choir.
26Canon in B minor……………………………………………..Schumann
27Toccata, in G…………………………………………………Dubois
28Mr. Guilmant.
29Folk songs—
30"My Slender Boy"…………………………………………..Welsh
31"Long, Long ago"…………………………………………..Hungarian
32"Where be going?"………………………………………..Cornish
33Mr. James Sauvage.
34Improvisation on a Theme to be given.
35Mr. Guilmant.
36March for a church festival……………………………….Best
37Mr. Guilmant.
39Denver Music.—Mrs. Cordelia D. Smissaert assisted by Paul Stoeving, gave a very pleasing recital at Denver on the evening of the fourteenth. The program was composed of compositions by Reinecke, Chopin, Schumann, Nachez, Liszt, Moskowski, Grieg, E. H. Sherwood, E. A. MacDowell, E. B. Perry, Ernst, Wieniawski.
41Seidl Sunday Concerts.—The Sunday evening concerts of Anton Seidl and his admirable orchestra will open at the Lenox Lyceum next Sunday evening.
43De Rialp.—Frank de Rialp has closed his summer school and will open his city studio, 15 East Sixteenth street, on Monday.
45An Erie Conservatory.—The Erie Conservatory of Music, at Erie, Penn., opened its fall term September 11, with an excellent attendance. The list of teachers embraces the following names:
46Piano, Harmony and the Theory of Music.—Mr. George W. Hunt, director.
47Voice Culture and Artistic Singing.—Miss Laura Carroll Dennis.
48Violin, Guitar, Mandolin and the Theory of Music—Miss Jennie E. Gratz.
49Piano.—Miss Esther Sterrett.
50Piano.—Miss Lena Ethel Wells.
51Piano.—Miss May E. Gannon.
52Piano.—Miss Frances E. Parke.
53Italian.—Miss Eda Camphausen.
54Accompanist.—Mrs. C. C. Colby, Jr.
56At Nyack There Is Music.—We reproduce extract from a Nyack paper giving an account of a musical evening there at the Country Club:
58The song recital by Mrs. Gertrude Luther, assisted by Mr. Carlos Hasselbrink, violinist, and Mr. Emilio Agramonte, accompanist, occurred last night at the Casino of the Nyack Country Club. The pretty house of this popular club never looked brighter nor proved more comfortable and pleasing to the friends of the singer, who came to pay a just tribute to merit, and to show substantial appreciation to a lady who has done much for the advancement of music in Nyack, and who has given largely of her time and talent in aid of many charities. The Casino was well filled and the simple decorations were effective and home-like, and a tiny cricket, which had found a warm place in the great hearth, chirped a merry approval of all that was going on.
60It was the purpose of Mrs. Luther to give the music loving people of Nyack a treat in song such as they had never heard before, and in this she was particularly successful, as a glance at her selections proves. Again, the assistance given her by Mr. Carlos Hasselbrink was one of the delightful surprises of the evening. His work on the violin was of an exceptional order, and if the audience, being in Nyack, was as far removed as usual from rapturous it yet exhibited strong signs of real pleasure.
62Emilio Agramonte was the accompanist, and the program was rich in famous names, such as Cowen, Sarasate, Brahms, Riez, Raff, Massenet, Henschel, MacDowell.
64The Detroit Conservatory of Music.—The regular Wednesday concerts were resumed on September 13, with a piano recital by Miss Ruth S. Putnam, assisted by Miss Carrie Williams, pupil of Mrs. Norton and soprano of the Simpson Methodist Church. Miss Putnam for several years was a pupil of J. H. Hahn, and but recently returned from a protracted course of study at the Royal Conservatory at Dresden. She delivered her music with scholarly appreciation. The young lady has entered upon a professional career, and will teach at both the conservatory and the State Normal School. The following well chosen program was presented:
66Sonata, in F major…………………………………………..Scarlatti
67Prelude and fugue, in B flat major………………………..Bach
68Impromptu, in F minor………………………………………Schubert
69Song, "From Youth's Happy Day"………………………..Raddeke one of two readings
70Song, "From Youth's Happy Day"………………………..Raddecke one of two readings
71Nachstuck, in F major………………………………………Schumann
72Prelude, in B flat major……………………………………Chopin
73Canzonetta (dedicated to Miss Putnam)…………………Hermann
74"Chants Polonais"…………………………………………..Chopin-Liszt
75"Valse Allemagne"…………………………………………..Rubinstein
76Songs—
77"Daphne"………………………………………………………Grover
78"Song of the Trees"…………………………………………Clayton Johns
79Piano concerto, in E flat major…………………………..Weber
80Orchestral accompaniment on second piano.
81Miss Frances Strong.
83Opening Concert of the N. Y. C. O. M.—The New York College of Music—Alexander Lambert director—has its opening concert in the beautiful hall of the college on Thursday evening, October 5. Besides Mr. Lambert himself Miss Jessie Shay, concert pianist, will play. Mr. Victor Clodio will be heard, and Mr. Sansheimer, a violinist from Berlin, will make his first appearance.
85Mrs. Blume-Arends Arrives.—The Edgeworth School at Baltimore has made an important acquisition in securing as piano instructor Mrs. Blume-Arends, an artist of high rank in Germany, a Leipsic and a Liszt pupil, who arrived on the steamer Darmstadt at Baltimore on Friday, September 22. It was through the efforts of Mr. Otto Sutro that this artist was secured by means of the Wolff Bureau in Berlin.
87Music in Maine.—Mrs. Ratcliffe Caperton, dramatic contralto, gave a recital at Portland, Me., September 14, assisted by Miss Agnes Morison, soprano; Miss Maivon Ottinger, contralto; Mr. John Zeyher, baritone, and Miss Mary Alice Cobb, accompanist.
89Jacobsen Weds.—Mr. Henry Jacobsen, the violinist, was married on August 30 to Miss Jessie Cotes, of Batavia, N. Y., and has removed to Buffalo, N. Y.
91The Peabody at Baltimore—The season of Peabody Recitals, at Baltimore, begins in October, and the sixth symphony concert season in January. A system of reserved seats will for the first time be introduced at the Peabody Symphony Concerts this season. Mr. Asger Hamerik has returned to Baltimore from his vacation.
93Marguerite Stilwell.—The pianist, Miss Marguerite Stilwell, who gave a concert at Utica on September 12, and who played on Tuesday night, September 19, at Bristol, R. I., with Prof. Julian Herreshoff, of the Providence School of Music, is a pupil of d'Ernesti and of Epstein, of Vienna. She left for Berlin on the 21st on the Fuerst Bismarck to study with Kullak. There is every indication that Miss Stilwell will be heard from among the coming artists on the piano.
95The Clarkes Return—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert Clarke have returned to the city after a three weeks' visit to the Chicago World's Fair. Mr. Clarke opens his studio, Carnegie Music Hall, October 2, and resumes vocal lessons.
97The Chicago Conservatory.—The suspicion that has been growing stronger for two or three years past, in Chicago musical circles, that the centre of musical culture in that city had moved from the neighborhood of the river down to the Auditorium Building, has ripened into positive belief with the opening of the present season of the Chicago Conservatory, whose home is in that celebrated structure. The suspicion strengthened with the growth and fame of the piano department, under Sherwood, and the vocal department under Mr. Carpi, ably seconded by Mrs. Boetti; now, at the very start of the new season the certainty is established by the extraordinary influx of pupils to the violin department, under Jacobsohn and his three worthy assistants, Ohlheiser, Schmidt and Rogers. For nearly ten years the interests of advanced violin study in the West have by common consent centred in Jacobsohn, and when he and all he represented moved down to the institution founded and fostered, to the point of undoubted success, by Director Samuel Kayzer, all doubt as to the musical centre of Chicago, considered from the standpoint of the student, was dissipated. Last week the Chicago Conservatory celebrated the beginning of its ninth year with the largest list of pupils it has thus far profited by.
99Miss Matteson.—Jessie Howard Matteson, contralto of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, has returned home from her summer vacation, which was passed at Richfield, N. Y.
101Miss Matteson will resume vocal instruction at her studio, 300 Fulton street, Brooklyn, on October 1.
103Carter.—C. Cawthorne Carter, organist of St. Luke's Church, Baltimore, has returned from England, where he has been spending the summer.
105Progress.—Visitor—So your brother is taking lessons on the violin? Is he making progress?
106Little Girl—Yes'm; he's got so now we can tell whether he is playing or tuning.—Good News.
108Liederkranz Concerts.—The orchestral concerts of the New York Liederkranz will be given on November 19, February 11 and April 15.
110Grau in Europe.—Maurice Grau is in Europe arranging the artistic details for the opera season. He is expected to sail for this country about October 7.
112Marie Decca Sues Her Husband.—Marie Decca's suit against her husband, Francis Leon Chrisman, for the possession of Villa Decca, has brought out at Harrisburg the allegation from the defendant that "cab, hotel, whiskey, beer and champagne bills ran away with the cash, and once, when they were short, she got $200 from a former admirer."—Recorder.
114A Snake Story.—Uncle Eph Plunkett, of Mirabella Falls, Tex., has taught a rattlesnake to shake his tail to music.—" Recorder."
116Fannie Bloomfield.—Fannie Bloomfield, the pianist, will sail for Europe next Saturday. She will play while abroad in Germany and possibly in England.
118Dodson with the Kendals.—J. E. Dodson, an excellent actor, is still with the Kendals, and will play an important part in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," when it is produced here.
120NOTICE.—Mr. Charles B. Hawley, having severed his connection with the Metropolitan College of Music in Fourteenth street, may in future be found at the New York School of Opera and Oratorio, 106 and 108 East Twenty-third street.
122Buffalo Music.
124BUFFALO, N. Y., September 23, 1898.
126FEW are the comic opera composers whose first work commands such instant success as "The Rainmaker of Syria," in two acts, libretto by Sydney Rosenfeld, music by Rudolph Aronson. Its first performance on any stage occurred Monday night before a house which included all the representative families of Buffalo. From the moment of the entrance of "Nitocris" (Kate Davis) interest awakened, and thereafter success was assured.
128Mr. Walter E. Hudson is now the resident manager of the Star Theatre, and had left nothing undone to contribute to the success of this first performance, which was a wonderfully smooth one.
130The "Rainmaker," Mark Smith, sings well, and in the duet with "Hatshepsin" (Katherine Germaine) his voice rang out sonorously. Of "Thesaurus" (Harry Davenport) and his calendar maker "Saklip" (Charles Hopper), it might be said that they got all the fun which was in their parts. Germaine as "King" looked right imposing, but she cannot sing, and has been succeeded since the opening night by Bertha Ricci, who, it is said, looks, acts and sings the part well. Kate Davis is the success of the operetta, however.
132Aronson and his pretty wife were interested onlookers, and later that happy man and his colaborer, Rosenfeld, were called before the curtain, the latter making some graceful remarks. "The Rainmaker" goes!
134F. W. RIESBERG.
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139FRANK H. TUBBS, Musical Director.
141New York German Conservatory of Music,
1425 & 7 West 42d St., near Fifth Ave., New York.
144THE LEADING SCHOOL.
145Among the faculty are: S. B. Mills, Minor C. Baldwin, M. D., Jul. E. Meyer, V. A. Benham, L. G. Parma, F. Tamburello, L. Ricca, S. Herzog I. Niedzielski, E. Scharwenka, &c. SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
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