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Musical Courier 1893-10-18: Vol 27 Iss 710, 1893
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1A New Contralto.—Miss Carlotta Desvignes, the contralto, who for the last three years has taken part in the principal music festivals in Great Britain and France, and has appeared in high class concerts, has arrived in New York, under engagement to sing in oratorio and concerts during the coming season.
3Anna Burch.—Anna Burch has been engaged by the Händel and Haydn Society, in Boston, for the performance of the "Messiah," to be given during December.
5An Aschenbroedel Concert.—A chamber music concert will be given at the Aschenbroedel Club House on Sunday evening, in which a number of well-known performers will take part.
7His Vacation Probably Over.—Theodore Thomas, who has been at his summer home at Fair Haven, Mass., reached New York end of last week.
9Scharwenka's "Mataswintha."—There is a prospect that Xaver Scharwenka's opera "Mataswintha" (published by Breitkopf & Härtel) will be produced here, in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston under some particular and special auspices warranting the mounting and production of the work on the most elaborate scale.
11A Cable to Slivinski.—Manager A. M. Palmer, who has engaged Slivinski, the pianist, for a series of performances here, cabled to him a few days ago not to have his hair cut. Slivinski's hair is rather short, and it will never do to come over here unless the locks are long enough to come within the regulation length.
13Zippora Monteith.—Zippora Monteith, a soprano whose specialty is oratorio singing, has arrived in the city from the Northwest, where she has been giving concerts.
15John Marquardt.—Mr. John Marquardt, one of the first violin players of the Thomas Orchestra, Chicago, and well known among musicians, has come to New York to reside here permanently. This is an important acquisition to our local orchestral forces.
17Earl Brown.—Mr. Earl Brown, who has been studying with Lamperti at Dresden for several years, has come home. He and Lamperti contemplate starting a school for vocal culture in Berlin next winter.
19Clarence Eddy's Fourteen Recitals.—Mr. Clarence Eddy began his fourteen organ recitals that mark the end of the music scheme at the World's Fair on Monday at noon in Festival Hall. Mr. Eddy will play every day until the close of the Exposition.
21Japanese Music.—The appreciation of Japanese music can scarcely prove an easy acquirement to Europeans. Apart from the feebler quality of the tone of the instruments and its singular character, Japanese music takes extremely complicated forms, and demands the most delicate phrasing to express its individuality. "My own experience," remarked Mr. Pigott, "has been that even in the first-grade tunes it required twenty or thirty lessons to enable one to grasp the delicate nuances of many of the passages." He expresses the opinion that unless Japanese musicians come and play to us in England, accurate knowledge of their art and appreciation of their craft can only arise in the West very gradually.
23The best way to appreciate Japanese music is to hear it performed by native musicians, without prepossessions of any kind or the prejudices of travelers, and to hear it with ears undeceived—as an Eastern critic might put it—by the modern orchestra; for custom in this matter as in others is somewhat of a tyrant. It is hardly possible indeed that the music of the Samisen, heard for the first time in Japanese streets, should be appreciated by the tourist accustomed to such street harmonies as are afforded by the cornet soloist, the piano-organ or the German band.
25Japanese music should be studied in fact as the youthful Japanese learn it, by the ear only and experience of the instrument. For it is one of the many paradoxes of the art that it is taught entirely by rote and chiefly by blind professors. Women and blind men comprise the musical profession in Japan. It is odd that a people cultivating music on these terms should possess music books at all, or be at the pains of devising a system of notation.—The "Saturday Review."
27A Barber Recital.—Prof. Wm. H. Barber, a member of the faculty of the Grand Conservatory of Music, will give a piano recital at Chickerling Hall this evening.
29Guilmant at St. Agnes.—Alexandre Guilmant played his "Messe Solemnelle" at high mass at St. Agnes' Church last Sunday morning, on which occasion the choir was greatly enlarged, Miss Rose Schottenfels, soprano, and Mrs. Luckstone Meyers, contralto, being the soloists. At the conclusion of the services Mr. Guilmant expressed himself as highly pleased at the manner in which his work was sung under the Rev. Joseph Graf.
31Symphony Society Soloists.—The following are announced as soloists at the concerts of the New York Symphony Society this season: Amalia Materna, soprano; Mr. Vladimir de Pachmann, pianist; Mr. Henri Marteau, violinist; Mr. Adolph Brodsky, violinist, and Mr. Plunket Greene, basso.
33Ford's Organ Recitals.—Mr. Sereno R. Ford gave the initial recital of his third series of organ recitals at the Methodist Church, Stamford, Conn., on October 9, when this well chosen program was given before a large audience:
35Sonata II……………………………………………..Mendelssohn
36Gavot…………………………………………………….Scharwenka
37Aria, "My Heart Ever Faithful"…………………Bach
38Miss Lowther.
39Toccata, D minor (Doric)………………………….Bach
40Overture, "Martha"……………………………….Flotow
41Cantilene Pastorale………………………………..Guilmant
42Fanfare (final movement—Sonate Pontificale)……Lemmens
43Songs—
44"Der Tod und das Madchen"……………………..Schubert
45"The Sun's Bright Beams"………………………..Lassen
46"Sunset"……………………………………………..Grieg
47Miss Lowther.
48Idylle, "At Evening"……………………………….Buck
49"Tannhauser March"……………………………….Wagner
50An "Ave Maria" by Novara.—Mr. F. Novara, the well-known basso, has composed an "Ave Maria" with 'cello obligato, which he has dedicated to Caroline Östberg and Louis Blumenberg. The composition is said to be excellent, and will be heard for the first time on the tour of the Blumenberg Concert Company.
52Reeves Will Resign.—Bandmaster D. W. Reeves will resign as leader of the Twenty-second Regiment Band next Saturday, although his contract extends to January 1. He does this to facilitate the official election of his successor, Victor Herbert. Mr. Reeves, as heretofore stated, returns to the leadership of Reeves' American Band, Providence.
54Miss Lindley-Thompson Engaged.—Miss Mabel Lindley-Thompson has been engaged by the Young Men's Hebrew Association, of Newark, to sing for it on October 25.
56Taft Taps the Organ.—Frank Taft's series of organ recitals at the World's Fair last week was very successful, and attracted the largest audiences of the season. Mr. Taft's manipulation of Festival Hall organ is spoken of in the highest terms. His playing made a decided hit, and he was obliged to respond to several encores.
58Callers.—Miss Kate Percy Douglas, soprano; Miss Emma Heckle, Miss Jeanne Franko, violinist; Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop and Miss Lucy Osborne, Mrs. Isaac Ashmead and Mrs. E. A. Osgood, Xaver Scharwenka, Rafael Joseffy, Frank Van der Stucken, Clarence Eddy, the Chicago organist; Geo. Wm. Warren, Alfred Ernst, formerly director of opera at Coburg, Germany; Wm. H. Barber, pianist; C. F. Daniels and Everett E. Truette, of Boston, Editor of the "Organ," E. M. Bowman and Katherine W. Evans, the soprano, were among the callers at this office last week.
60Balagua Dead.—Joseph Antonio Balagua, a singer, who made his first appearance in this country with Jenny Lind in 1849, when she sung at Castle Garden, died on Saturday at his home at Bayonne, N. J., and was buried Monday. He was born at Barcelona, Spain, April 12, 1816, and notwithstanding his age had held his voice and sung in opera and concert up to last spring. He sang the second part with Patti at her first appearance in this country, and had appeared here under the management of Strakosch, Mapleson and Max Maretzek.
62Reopening of Miss Burnham's School.—Miss Mary H. Burnham's music school for resident and visiting pupils will open October 14. For terms and particulars address 106 East Seventy-fourth street, New York city.
64Lamperti Method.
65Editors Musical Courier:
66HAVING just arrived in New York from a six years' study in Europe, I am surprised to learn of the conflicting and false ideas concerning Lamperti the younger, of Dresden, with whom I have studied for a number of years. Here are some facts which will put him in a proper light.
68Giovanni Battista Lamperti studied for many years at the conservatory in Milan, under his father's instruction. During a long illness of the father he took charge of the classes in the conservatoire. He received a diploma from his father, certifying to his proficiency as "Maestro di Canto" and acknowledging his "excellent services" as substitute in his father's place. This paper hangs on his walls in Dresden.
70It is not more than absurd that a master who has educated such voices as Stagno's, Bellincioni's, Agnes Hunting-ton's, Helen Hasterter's, Frau Pierson's and Marcella Sembrich's should be called a "charlatan?" That Sembrich owes all her success to Giovanni Battista Lamperti's teaching is proven by the many letters overflowing with gratitude which she wrote to her "Caro Maestro," G. B. Lamperti. These letters I have seen. one of two readings
71It is not more than absurd that a master who has educated such voices as Stagno's, Bellincioni's, Agnes Hunting-ton's, Helen Hasteire's, Frau Pierson's and Marcella Sembrich's should be called a "charlatan?" That Sembrich owes all her success to Giovanni Battista Lamperti's teaching is proven by the many letters overflowing with gratitude which she wrote to her "Caro Maestro," G. B. Lamperti. These letters I have seen. one of two readings
73I will not say that the son is as great a master as was the father; but as the elder Lamperti is no more, his son, who is in the prime of life, must be acknowledged the greatest teacher living. Last winter when Mrs. Hasterter was in Dresden to "brush up" a little, she was still as enthusiastic over her maestro as ever. one of two readings
74I will not say that the son is as great a master as was the father; but as the elder Lamperti is no more, his son, who is in the prime of life, must be acknowledged the greatest teacher living. Last winter when Mrs. Hasteire was in Dresden to "brush up" a little, she was still as enthusiastic over her maestro as ever. one of two readings
76I am not advertising myself, but to show that I speak with authority I will say that I return soon to Europe to accept a position in the school for singing to be established by Lamperti in Berlin.
78EARL BROWN.
80Guilmant Plays in Public.
81ONE of the greatest of living organists, Alexandre Guilmant, played for the first time in public in this city last Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the South Church, Madison avenue, corner Thirty-eighth street. The church was crowded to the door by an enthusiastic and representative musical audience. The town literally turned out to do homage to its distinguished visitor, and applause was both hearty and discriminating. The program was the following:
83Fantasia and Fugue, G minor (Bk. II. Peter's Ed.)………….Bach
84Cantabile, A flat………………………………………Rosseau
85Sonata, No. VI………………………………………Mendelssohn
86Chorale (Andante Sosteputo).
87Allegro Molto.
88Final (Andante).
89Cantilene Pastorale, B minor……………………….Guilmant
90Fugue, D major………………………………………Guilmant
91Allegro, F sharp minor…………………………….Guilmant
92Funeral March and Hymn of Seraphs………………..Rheinberger
93Suite for organ, violin and 'cello, op. 149………………Rheinberger
94Theme and Variations.
95Sarabande.
96Assisted by Mr. Dannreuther and Mr. Herbert.
97Tenth Organ Concerto……………………………….Händel
98Adagio.
99Allegro.
100Arranged with cadenzas by Guilmant.
101Pastorale, E major………………………………….Tombelle
102Improvisation on a given theme……………………..Guilmant
103Grand Choeur, D major…………………………….Guilmant
105The instrument upon which Mr. Guilmant played was worthy of his mettle, and he gave us a superb exhibition of his powers and of the varied resources of that wonderful collection of instruments called the organ. The most abiding impressions one carried away after hearing Mr. Guilmant were those of his nobility of style, chasteness of technic, clearness of touch, exquisite phrasing, and of his remarkable objectivity. This latter characteristic was most marked and is doubtless temperamental. The organ is the most impersonal of instruments, but the severity of conception, Hellenic in its quality, lent to Mr. Guilmant's performance a grandeur that was classic and the very antipodes of the restless, feverish music made by modern virtuosi. One may then call Mr. Guilmant's style objective.
107– SOUSA'S – CONCERT BAND
108During the Season of 1893.
109World's Fair until July 1.
110Manhattan Beach until Sept. 4.
111St. Louis Exposition until Oct. 22.
112After that a Concert Tour throughout the country, including California.
113Address at the above points during the pendency of the engagements specified.
114D. BLAKELY, Manager.
115As this is a purely Concert Band, no parade engagements are desired.
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