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Musical Courier 1894-02-14: Vol 28 Iss 727, 1894
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1very hard in the Wagner excerpt, and he really sang very well. Withal, his conception lacked characterization and virility. After the pompous entrance of "Wotan's" motif in the orchestra—(can any conductor alive but Mr. Seidl make this theme of more heroic stature?)—Mr. Plancon's very suavity of utterance sounded too genteel, savoring too much of the Parisian salon. As singing, pure and simple, however, it was delightful, and the French artist had to respond with "O Isis und Osiris" from the "Magic Flute." The fifth concert occurs March 10, at which Victor Herbert will play his new concerto for violoncello.
3St. Valentine's Day.
4[Note.—I, St. Valentine, recognizing The Musical Courier as the preferred medium of communication with disciples of my sister saint, Cecilia, select it through which to make offerings, culled from Erato's album, expressive of my appreciation of the genius and attainments of a number of them. I have to regret that I did not undertake this pleasing task in time to have made the list longer, as it so well deserves to be.
5Done on this my own day of 1894, A. D.
6ST. VALENTINE.]
8FRANZ LISZT:
9Lord, what music hast Thou provided for Thy saints in Heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
10IZAAK WALTON.
12ANTON SEIDL:
13Who ran
14Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all.
15MOORE, on Sheridan.
17IGNACE PADEREWSKI:
18Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
19Like a Colossus.
20SHAKESPEARE—"Julius Caesar."
22ADELINA PATTI:
23Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
24Her infinite variety.
25SHAKESPEARE—"Anthony and Cleopatra."
27ADELE AUS DER OHE:
28How doth the little busy bee
29Improve each shining hour.
30WATTS.
32WALTER J. DAMROSCH:
33And the night shall be filled with music,
34And the cares that infest the day
35Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
36And as silently steal away.
37LONGFELLOW.
39MAX ALVARY:
40He sung, and hell consented
41To hear the poet's prayer;
42Stern Proserpine relented,
43And gave him back the fair.
44ALEXANDER POPE.
46JULIE RIVE-KING:
47Her touch lent glee to the voice of the piano; it was as playful as a child, and laughed and sang with delicious abandon.
48RUSSELL.
50ANTON DVORÁK:
51He has character sufficient, even without ability; and ability sufficient, even without character.
52SERGEANT S. PRENTISS.
54AMALIA MATERNA:
55Oh, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.
56SHAKESPEARE—"Othello."
58DUDLEY BUCK:
59Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn.
60DR. JOHNSON, on Goldsmith.
62CAMILLE D'ARVILLE:
63I can sing
64And speak to him in many sorts of music.
65SHAKESPEARE—"Twelfth Night."
67VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN:
68You shall hear
69A fearful battle rendered you in music.
70SHAKESPEARE—"Henry V."
72FANNIE BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER:
73A great pianist is a great artist.
74STEDMAN.
76HARRISON MILLARD:
77He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes.
78SHAKESPEARE—"Winter's Tale."
80OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN:
81What a wonderfully versatile mind he has!
82LORD BROUGHAM.
84MAUD MORGAN:
85What fairy-like music steals over the sea,
86Entrancing our senses with charmed melody.
87MRS. C. B. WILSON.
89ANTON RUBINSTEIN:
90None but himself can be his parallel.
91THEOBALD.
93CHRISTINE NILSSON:
94I have heard the nightingale herself.
95AGESILAUS II.
97LOUIS LOMBARD:
98I am obliged to keep that young gentleman in my eye.
99FREDERICK THE GREAT.
101DIGBY BELL:
102A careless song with a little nonsense in,
103it does not misbecome a king.
104HORACE WALPOLE.
106FRANK VANDER STUCKEN:
107The right man in the right place.
108SIR A. H. LAYARD.
110MAX MARETZKE:
111In order to do great things one must be enthusiastic.
112SAINT-SIMON.
114ZELIE DE LUSSAN:
115Hanging upon her notes like a bee upon a jessamine flower.
116DE QUINCEY.
118ARTHUR NIKISCH:
119Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
120And we are graced with wreaths of victory.
121SHAKESPEARE—"Henry VI."
123ADOLPH BRODSKY:
124The fighting winds would stop there and admire,
125Learning consent and concord from his lyre.
126COWLEY.
128EMMA CALVÈ:
129The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store,
130Enlarged the former, narrow bounds
131And added strength to solemn sounds.
132DRYDEN.
134EMIL PAUR:
135To say you are welcome would be superfluous.
136SHAKESPEARE.
138EMIL FISCHER:
139That mighty orb of song.
140WORDSWORTH.
142RICHARD BURMEISTER:
143Charmed by these strings, trees starting from the ground
144Have followed with delight the powerful sound.
145ROSCOMMON.
147JEAN DE RESZKÉ:
148Veni, vidi, vici.
149JULIUS CÆSAR. one of two readings
150JULIUS CAESAR. one of two readings
152MADAM MELBA:
153She sung and caroled out so clear,
154That men and angels might rejoice to hear.
155DRYDEN.
157WILLIAM C. CARL:
158Some to church repair,
159Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
160ALEXANDER POPE.
162MAUD POWELL:
163As sweet and musical
164As Apollo's lute, strung with his hair.
165SHAKESPEARE—"Love Labor Lost."
167EDWARD M. BOWMAN:
168An honest man, close buttoned to the chin,
169Broadcloth without and a warm heart within.
170COWPER.
172LILLIAN RUSSELL:
173Beauty is always queen.
174EMPEROR JOSEPH II.
176EDOUARD DE RESZKÉ:
177Of singing thou hast got the reputation
178Good Thyrsis; mine I yield to thy ability.
179SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
181EMMA EAMES:
182Her every tone is music's own, like those of morning birds,
183And something more than melody dwells ever in her words.
184EDWARD C. PINKNEY.
186ALEXANDER LAMBERT:
187Of good discourse, an excellent musician.
188SHAKESPEARE—"Much Ado."
190MARIE TEMPEST:
191Bright gem, instinct with music, vocal spark.
192WORDSWORTH.
194WILLIAM R. CHAPMAN:
195A man he was to all the country dear.
196GOLDSMITH.
198LILLIAN NORDICA:
199I'll tell you plain,
200She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
201SHAKESPEARE—"Taming of the Shrew."
203THEODORE THOMAS:
204A thousand twanging instruments
205Will hum about mine ear.
206SHAKESPEARE.
208JOHANNES BRAHMS:
209I would applaud thee to the very echo
210That should applaud again.
211SHAKESPEARE.
213WALTER ROGERS:
214Give it breath with your mouth and it will discourse most eloquent music.
215SHAKESPEARE—"Hamlet."
217GEORG HENSCHEL:
218A trip hammer with an Æolian attachment.
219RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
221LILLIAN BLAUVELT:
222Whose accents flow with artless ease,
223Like Orient pearls at random strung.
224SIR W. JONES.
226RAFAEL JOSEFFY:
227Not to know me argues yourself unknown.
228MILTON.
230MASTER ALEXANDER FIEDMAN:
231The neighbors sighed and stared and blessed the lad.
232BEATTIE.
234DORA V. BECKER:
235It is the height of art to conceal art.
236SARGENT.
238REGINALD DE KOVEN:
239Time, place and action may with pains be wrought,
240But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
241DRYDEN.
243W. J. HENDERSON:
244Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
245Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
246BUCKINGHAM.
248HARRY ROWE SHELLEY:
249An inborn grace, that nothing lacked
250Of culture or appliance.
251WHITTIER.
253LEOPOLD GODOWSKI:
254The force of his own merit makes his way.
255SHAKESPEARE—"Henry III."
257LOUIS R. DRESSLER:
258He is complete in feature and in mind,
259With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
260SHAKESPEARE—"Two Gentlemen of Verona."
262GEORGE FREDERICK BRISTOW:
263Such a man
264Might be a copy to these younger times.
265SHAKESPEARE—"All's Well."
267VICTOR HERBERT:
268One thing is forever good—
269That one thing is success.
270RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
272C. WHITNEY COOMBS:
273Describe him who can,
274An abridgement of all that is pleasant in man.
275GOLDSMITH.
277MRS. JEANNETTE M. THURBER:
278All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit—almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.
279SYDNEY SMITH.
281Campanini's Concert.—Calvé, Edouard de Reszké and Jean Lassalle, by kind permission of Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau, have volunteered to sing at Mr. Italo Campanini's concert at Music Hall on Tuesday evening, February 20. Other eminent artists will also appear, and the Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conductor, will play.
283Contributed by Emil Liebling.—Mr. Emil Liebling, of Chicago, has just contributed, by invitation, two new compositions to the new publication by the J. B. Millet Company, of Boston, entitled "Half Hours With Famous Composers," a work which is to be a companion to their "Famous Musicians and Their Works." These two compositions are entitled "Momento Appassionato" and "Momento Scherzando."
285Georg Friedrich Händel's Spinnet (Klaviachord) will now be sold to the highest bidder.
286FRANZ KRUG,
287Halle a/S, Rannischestr. 12, GERMANY.
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