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Musical Courier 1894-08-29: Vol 29 Iss 755, 1894
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1Gotham Gossip
3Dr. and Mrs. Gerrit Smith are now at Cazenovia, N. Y., where they gave one of their charming organ and vocal recitals on August 16 at the Presbyterian Church. The audience refrained from applause, but only because silence was emphatically requested on the program. Mrs. Smith is teaching and sailing, and Dr. Smith is working on his cantata and playing tennis. They expect to be in New York in a few days for the season.
5Miss Marguerite Hall, the contralto, who made such a favorable impression here last winter, has just been engaged at the South Church, Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry's, in place of Mrs. Clara Poole King, who will remain abroad indefinitely. She will reside in New York, and will begin her duties at the South Church on October 6.
7Reinhold Herman will return from Europe the latter part of November, and will give most of his time to coaching artists in oratorio, opera and general good style in singing. Anyone contemplating a course of study under his instruction can learn particulars at the New York Musical Exchange, 18 East Twenty-second street.
9George Whelpton, musical director of the Lafayette Street Church choir, Buffalo, was in Gotham last week hearing sopranos, with a view to engaging a soloist for his choir.
11John Lund, conductor of the Orpheus Club of Buffalo, has been leading an orchestra at Saratoga Springs this summer.
13Harrison Millard, the composer, and his daughter Miss Marie Millard, the well-known soprano, sailed for Europe early in August, and will return October 7. They will spend the time mostly in London and Paris, and Miss Millard will study a while with Madame De la Grange.
15Joseph Mischka, conductor of the Liedertafel of Buffalo, has recently been appointed superintendent of music in the public schools of that city.
17Miss Alice Beavuet, the charming soprano, has left the Fox Opera Company and signed as prima donna with Thatcher's "About Gotham" Company.
19Mr. and Mrs. Regnar Kiddé gave a pleasant musical last evening at Castleton Hotel, St. George, Staten Island, assisted by George F. Bauer, accompanist. A feature of the evening consisted of recitations by Mrs. Kiddé, which were most artistically given. Her contralto voice was especially suited to a number of creole songs. Mr. Kiddé gave a fine interpretation of some of Max Spicker's songs, and also rendered some chansons by Chaminade very beautifully.
21Dr. E. S. Kimball, the well-known vocal instructor of Baltimore, arrived from Europe August 19. He went abroad simply for the voyage this time, and intended to be on English soil but two days; but some friends quietly went to the steamship office and postponed his return trip one week. The doctor may settle in Gotham soon, and there is always room here for such as he.
23Miss Maud Welch, the pretty contralto of Dr. Behrends' church, Brooklyn, is summering at Black Rock, Conn., as the guest of Mrs. Calvin E. Hull, of Brooklyn.
25Theodore Peet, who has been substituting at the South Church for Gerrit Smith this summer, is now doing similar work for Charles T. Howell at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, West End avenue and Ninety-first street.
27Miss Selma Rothstein has recently returned from Richmond, Va., where she sung most successfully with the Mozart Association. She is now going to Stamford for a short rest.
29The Rev. and Mrs. Robert B. Clark, of Goshen, N. Y., are sojourning at Indian Lake. Mr. Clark is the conductor of the Goshen music festivals.
31Dr. S. N. Penfield's "Summer Reverie" was played last Thursday by Sousa's Band and was well received.
33Edward J. Groebel has been substituting this summer for Dr. Penfield at the organ of the Broadway Tabernacle.
35Miss Jessamine Hallenbeck, the popular soprano, is taking a brief outing at New Marlboro, Mass. She gave a successful concert on August 14 at the New Marlboro Inn, assisted by Miss Marion Simms, contralto, and C. Thomas, tenor. The following evening Miss Hallenbeck sung at an organ recital in great Barrington, given by the famous S. P. Warren, of New York.
37H. R. Humphries, the well-known vocal teacher, tenor and leader of the Banks' Glee Club, is spending the summer at "Hillcrest," New Canaan, Conn., where he bought a beautiful place a year ago.
39John P. Lawrence, organist of St. Matthew's R. C. Church, Washington, D. C., has been spending the summer with his relatives at Cottage Park, Winthrop, Mass. After visiting friends at Riverdale, N. Y., he has just returned to the Federal capital. While at Winthrop he appeared in public twice as a solo pianist, and made the acquaintance of S. B. Whitney, the eminent Boston organist, who took Mr. Lawrence to his organ at the Church of the Advent and heard him play.
41A grand concert was given last Friday evening at Gibson Hall, Phelps, N. Y., by John Francis Gilder, the composer-pianist, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lee, baritone and contralto, and Master Charles Meehan, the wonderful boy soprano, soloist of St. George's Church, New York. It was a truly magnificent program, most artistically rendered. Among the selections played by Mr. Gilder were six of his own compositions, which were most enthusiastically received.
43The Union Choral Society, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., a new organization conducted by H. R. Humphries, of New York, gave a fine summer night festival on the lawn of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that town on the evening of August 2, assisted by Hubert Arnold, violinist; W. F. Spencer, baritone, and Emil Levy, accompanist. The society contains forty-four sopranos, twenty-one altos, twenty-three tenors and ten basses. John E. West's cantata, "Seed Time and Harvest," is in preparation for the next concert. The officers of the society are Bradford Rhodes, president; Spencer H. Cone, Jr., secretary, and Will am E. Lyon, Jr., treasurer.
45The Spring House, Richfield Springs, has rejoiced this summer in a series of matinée musicals and evening concerts under the management of Purdon Robinson, the popular baritone. Mr. Robinson has been assisted by Miss Jennie Dutton, soprano; Barclay Dunham, tenor; G. B. Van Santvoord, flutist; Charles L'Orage, violinist; Miss Eva M. Clarke, accompanist, the Spring House orchestra and other talent of like merit.
47The engagement is announced of Miss Blanche Taylor, the prominent soprano, to Charles Gregg Dumont, of St. James place, Brooklyn. They are at present at the Edgewood Club, Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands, with Mrs. Will E. Taylor and Mr. Dumont's family. We most cordially congratulate Miss Taylor on the good news.
49Will E. Taylor has returned to town after a pleasant fortnight's vacation at Saratoga Springs.
51One of the features of the Saratoga season has been the delightful singing of Mrs. Walter Henry, soprano, a pupil of Errani. She is the soloist at the Washington Street Methodist Church, Saratoga, and is a great favorite in social and artistic circles.
53A pleasant musical was recently given at the Huestis House, Saratoga, by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gerome. The artists were Mrs. Walter Henry, soprano; Gerald Gerome, tenor, and Will E. Taylor, organist and pianist. Mr. Gerome, formerly of the Marie Tempest Opera Company, has just been engaged as leading tenor for next season with Chicago Opera Company, and will leave very soon for rehearsals in that city.
55Miss Minnie Kellogg, who used to be the solo contralto of St. Ignatius' Church, has been studying music in Paris under Signor Vianesi, Mme. Leonard and Mme. Delaquerrière de Minamont, and recently sang at the house of Lady Jeune in London. The "Court Journal" says of her: "Miss Kellogg gives promise of gaining in a very short time a prominent position in this country, and those who have had the opportunity of hearing her will endorse the judgment of Signor Vianesi, who persuaded her to leave New York in order to follow in Europe a profession for success in which she possesses many rare gifts."
57Musical Items.
59Fannie Bloomfield to Sail.—Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, the piano virtuoso, is in the city to-day, and sails to-morrow on the Normannia for Europe, where she will appear in concert in Germany, France, England, Austria, Hungary, and perhaps Italy, under the direction of Hermann Wolff.
61Marie Louise Bailey.—Marie Louise Bailey will make her American début at Music Hall October 30, in conjunction with the Damrosch Orchestra.
63Ellen Beach Yaw.—Miss Ellen Beach Yaw returned to New York last Thursday. She has been spending several weeks in Newport, and sang at a number of musicales. Miss Yaw was in great demand socially, and on her departure was escorted to the boat by a large contingent of her admirers.
65A Successful Pupil.—The following is an extract from a letter just received from Miss Silvie Riotte pupil, of Mme. Florenza d'Arona, who it will be remembered went to Europe in June to concertize through Germany. She says: "Every day I realize more and more what I have learned from you the past year, my dear Mme. d'Arona, and daily I grow more grateful to you. My friends in Carlsruhe were more than amazed. The very ones who four years ago saw no promise in my voice are those who now urge me to go into grand opera. They will not believe I have only studied one year with you, notwithstanding I usually tell the truth. Dear madame, I could write for a week without eating, drinking or sleeping, and even then I could not express my gratitude to you." Miss Riotte will return to continue her studies with Mme. d'Arona, who predicts for her a great future.
67Edmund J. Myer.—Edmund J. Myer has had a very successful season at his summer school of music at Round Lake, N. Y., about forty pupils being in attendance from many different States. Round Lake is fast gaining a reputation as a musical centre. The musical season has just closed with a concert by the School of Music in the great auditorium. The principal soloists were: A. Hobart Smock, tenor robusto, New York; Hilda Clark, soprano, New York; Beulah Harris, soprano, Sedalia, Mo.; Anna Taylor James, contralto, New York; Winifred Williams, contralto, Brooklyn; Cara E. Luer, pianist, Elmira, N. Y., and others.
69Mr. Myer will reopen his studio at 36 East Twenty-third street October 1.
71News from Germany.
73Mrs. Alma Powell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., pupil of Mme. Anna Lankow, with whom she is at present in Germany, has been engaged for the Opera at Frankfort-on-the-Main by Director Emil Claar to sing during the season of 1895-96 first coloratur parts. This is a great triumph for her teacher and is another evidence that America can supply the voices for European opera houses.
75At Bayreuth during the last week of this year's performances, which closed with "Parsifal" on August 10: Chas. Lamoureux and G. Sbriglia, Paris; Otto Sutro, Baltimore; Hermann Wolff, Berlin; Eugen d'Albert; Maurice Grau and family; James A. Douglas, Elmira; Ashton Ellis, London, and Marc A. Blumenberg, THE MUSICAL COURIER, New York.
77Zoltan Doeme sang "Parsifal" for the first time on August 15, with Malten as "Kundry," Reichmann as "Amfortas," and Grengg as "Gurnemanz," and made a favorable impression, receiving the most flattering encomiums from Frau Cosima Wagner and young Sigfried Wagner.
79Lillian Nordica, whose triumphs at Bayreuth are now well known throughout the musical world, will remain during September at Lucerne, Switzerland, and in case she does not sing with Abbey & Grau's Company, she will appear in opera in German cities.
81Maurice Grau is at Carlsbad, and remains there until September 10, when he returns to Paris.
83Scalchi will be one of the quartet of singers in the Melba Concert Company.
85A season of performances may be given at Bayreuth in 1895.
87Sibyl Sanderson to Wed.—Miss Sibyl Sanderson has formally announced her intention to marry Antonio Terry, son of the late Don Tomas Terry, of Cuba and New York, as soon as the pending divorce suit brought by Mrs. Terry frees him from his present ties.
89Mr. and Mrs. Terry have long lived apart, but the divorce suit was only filed on August 3. Mrs Terry was Grace Dutton, of New York, and her husband was one of three or four heirs to Don Tomas fortune of many millions. His sister is the wife of Baron Blanc, long Italian Minister to Washington, and now Finance Minister of the Crispi Government.
91The marriage of his brother, Juan A. Terry, to the wife of Bullard, the bank burglar, was the sensation of the day in New York some eight years ago. She recently died, having, with her little daughter, inherited about $4,000,000 from her husband.
93Mrs. Antonio Terry has lived in Paris with her daughter since the separation, as also has her husband. At her apartments in Rue La Pérouse to-day she said she would consent to a quiet divorce if proper settlements were made upon herself and her daughter. She names two correspondents in the suit. The next hearing is set for August 31.
95Miss Sanderson has been spending her vacation in Switzerland and on the French seacoast, and will be in Paris but a short time before sailing for America. If the divorce suit is concluded she says that she will marry Mr. Terry before leaving for her New York engagement.—"World."
97New York College of Music
98128 & 130 EAST 58th STREET,
99ALEXANDER LAMBERT, Director.
100Re-opening of the College for Season 1894-95.
101MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3d.
102Among the new features next season will be
103AN ORCHESTRA CLASS under the direction of
104FRANK VAN DER STUCKEN.
105The Orchestra Class will be FREE OF CHARGE to professionals and amateurs.
106All departments under personal supervision of Mr. ALEXANDER LAMBERT.
107The College offers: unusual advantages for a complete musical education. Catalogue sent free on application.
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