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Musical Courier 1894-10-03: Vol 29 Iss 760, 1894
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1Adele Margulies.—Miss Adele Margulies, the well-known piano virtuoso, has resumed private instruction on the piano and can be seen Mondays and Thursdays, between 2 and 4, at 128 East Seventeenth street.
3Johannes Miersch.—Johannes Miersch, the violinist, has accepted the position of inspector and professor at the Conservatory of Music at Athens, Greece, and has already sailed for that country.
5Maud Powell String Quartet.—The first concert given by the Maud Powell String Quartet takes place at Music Hall October 26, when Mr. Paul Tidden, piano, will assist in this program:
7Quartet, D minor……………………………………………..Mozart
8Quartet, E minor……………………………………………..Smetana
9Piano Quintet…………………………………………………Sinding
10Pianist, Paul Tidden.
12The place of viola player made vacant by the departure of Mr. Johannes Miersch for Greece, will be filled by Mr. Franz Kaltenborn, who was a member of the Schmidt-Herbert quartet.
14At Tarrytown.—An enjoyable concert was given at the Music Hall, Tarrytown, N. Y., last Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Hospital Association of that place, under the auspices of the National Conservatory of Music of America. The following was the program:
16Duet (for piano and violin), "Huguenots"……..Thalberg De Bériot
17Messrs. Louis Dannenberg and Henry Klein
18Hindoo Song…………………………………………………Hemberg
19Impromptu…………………………………………………….Chopin
20Song, "The Two Grenadiers"……………………………Schumann
21Mr. Harry T. Burleigh.
22Ballade, G minor…………………………………………….Chopin one of two readings
23Ballade, G minor……………………………………………..Chopin one of two readings
24Miss Bertha Visanska.
26Songs—
27"In the Woods"…………………………………………….MacDowell
28"Madrigal"……………………………………………………Harris
29Miss Annie Wilson.
31Piano soli—
32"Liebestraum No. 3"………………………………………Liszt
33"At the Spring"……………………………………………..Joseffy
34Miss Mabel Phipps.
35"Arioso"………………………………………………………Delibes one of two readings
36"Arioso"………………………………………………………..Delibes one of two readings
37Mr. Wilford Watters.
39Violin soli—
40Romanza………………………………………………………Wilhelm
41Mazourka……………………………………………………..Wieniawski one of two readings
42Mazourka………………………………………………………Wieniawski one of two readings
43Miss Josephine Emerson.
44Duo, "Don Giovanni"………………………………………Mozart
45Miss Wilson and Mr. Watters.
46Hungarian fantasia (with accompaniment of second piano)…..Liszt
47Miss Bertha Visanska.
48Mr. Joseph Pizzarello, accompanist.
50Artistically and pecuniarily the affair was a great success.
52Death of W. R. Arnold.—Mr. W. R. Arnold, the well-known manager and all-round theatrical man, died September 5 of gastritis. At the time of his death he was engaged in managing Remenyi, and was to have opened his season early in October. For the past four years he acted as advance representative for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau and Mr. H. B. Thearle's attractions. His death was very sudden, he having been confined to his bed only one week. Mr. Arnold was born in Le Claire, Ia., April 15, 1859. His nature was a peculiarly amiable one, and he had a host of friends both in and out of the profession. He was a member of several lodges and organizations, among which were the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In the latter order he enjoyed the distinction of Past Grand Chancellor. He was a singer of some note and possessed a remarkably strong, sympathetic baritone voice. The remains were taken West for interment.
54Dirk Haagmans' Return.—Dirk Haagmans, formerly with the New York College of Music, has returned from his trip abroad, and will teach hereafter at his studio, 168 East Sixty-third street.
56Lillie Berg's School.—As Miss Lillie Berg's school of singing includes conservatory advantages for classes and lectures, with private tuition from her faculty and from herself, she has secured new and spacious studios in the "Sherwood," 58 West Fifty-seventh street. Her school has thus the double advantage of being in the most exclusive and fashionable neighborhood, yet close to all car lines east and west.
58Walter Kaufmann.—Walter Kaufmann, the cellist, has just returned from Fleishman's, the well-known artist resort in the Catskills, to resume his teaching. Mr. Kaufmann is also available for concert work, and it is very likely that he may be heard frequently in concert this winter.
60Nina Bertini.—It is said that Nina Bertini Humphry, the soprano, may join the New York Ideal Opera Company, Charles A. Kaiser, manager for the coming tour. Miss Bertini was prima donna with the Hinrich Opera Company the past summer, singing with this organization in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Montreal, meeting with uniform success.
62The Carri Institute.—"The New York Institute for Violin Playing and School for Piano and Vocal Culture," 230 East Sixty-second street, Ferdinand and Hermann Carri, directors, is open to give pupils a complete musical education from the beginning to the highest perfection, not only to those whose object it is to perfect themselves as solo performers or teachers, but also to amateurs, who only wish to study for their own pleasure. The school has been established some years and enjoys unusual prosperity.
64Miss Yaw on Mrs. Bjorkstein.—In a recent interview with Miss Yaw we find her loyal to her native land. Among many interesting things she said: "Regarding my teachers I wish to say that it is Mrs. Theo. Bjorkstein, of New York, who has done the most for my voice; she is my true instructress. The old masters abroad have placed their seal of approval upon the manner in which my voice has been guided, and I am proud to say that I have received most of my musical accomplishments in my own native country. Let the genius of my home instructors be appreciated."
66Mme. Moyer at Worcester.—Mme. Francesca Guthrie-Moyer, the dramatic soprano, was accorded an ovation at the Worcester, Mass., Music Festival on last Thursday night, when she sang the aria "Dich theue Halle," from "Tannhäuser," and later the grand duet from the first act of "Die Walküre" with Herr Anton Schott.
68Herman Rakemann.—Mr. Herman C. Rakemann, the well-known violinist of Washington, and director of the Georgetown Orchestra, has returned after a three months European trip.
70Mr. Carl Fique.—Mr. Carl Fiqué, whose male chorus gained the second prize at the recent song festival in the Madison Square Garden, desires to accept the musical directorship of one or two first-class societies in New York or vicinity, either male, female or mixed choirs, English or German. Address 472 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn.
72A New Submarine Telephone.—The British Government is testing a new plan for signalling at sea, which has already yielded remarkable results. It consists merely of an ordinary gong fastened to the bow of the ship below the water line. This acts as a transmitter, and the receivers are gongs of exactly similar tone and rate of vibration, one on each side of the ship below the water line. The receiving gong will take up and reproduce the sound of the sending gong from a long distance. Signals already have been clearly transmitted 10 miles.
74Carl V. Lachmund.—Mr. Carl V. Lachmund, the well-known teacher and lecturer, has returned to town and reopened his studio, 262 Lenox avenue.
76The Clarkes.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert Clarke have returned to town, after a two months' sojourn at their country home in New Hampshire, and will begin teaching October 1 at Carnegie Hall, where they occupy a temporary studio until their new apartments at the hall are ready.
78Von der Heide.—J. F. Von der Heide, the well-known singing teacher, has returned to town and resumed teaching the voice and singing at his new music rooms in East Twenty-first street, near Gramercy Park.
80Rudolf King.—The Kansas City "Journal" speaks in the following warm terms of the second appearance of Mr. Rudolf King in that place:
82The feature of the evening was the playing of Mr. Rudolf King, a pianist whose début brought him into local distinction, but whose second appearance was even more auspicious. He played even better than before, perhaps because he had a better piano. His program numbers were a Schott gavot humoresque and a minuet from Raff's E minor suite, in both of which he again demonstrated exceeding delicacy and clarity of execution. For encores he played the Schumann "Traumerei" and a Schott waltz. The Schumann number illustrated better than anything else Mr. King has played that he is poetic to an extreme, and that he can be as mellifluous as delicate. By request he played the Chopin funeral march, which was the gem of his former program.
84THE first issue of the page devoted to "Wolfsohn's Musical Bureau Items" will be printed October 17. All artists desiring to avail themselves of this mode of advertisement please address HENRY WOLFSOHN'S MUSICAL BUREAU, 331 East Fourteenth Street.
86Marie Iaëll.—The Parisian pianist, Mme. Marie Iaëll, will tour in Germany the coming season. The first of her concerts will take place in Berlin on October 28.
88Rothmuhl at Stuttgart.—Baron Von Pretlitz, the director of the Royal Court Theatre, at Stuttgart, has notified Rothmühl's agent in Berlin that this artist has made great sensation as "Raoul," "Faust" and "Lohengrin," in consequence of which his engagement had been effected for five years.
90CORRESPONDENCE
92MUSIC IN THE TWIN CITIES.
94ST. PAUL, Minn., August 24, 1894.
96FORD'S elegant little Music Hall was crowded to the doors with music lovers on the evening of Thursday, August 23. Miss Harmon and Mrs. Weed Munro, of Minneapolis; Miss Stari, of Menominee, Wis., and Misses Farwell and Larkin and Messrs. Merrill, Hatch and Colville, of St. Paul, and Mr. Halfpenny, of New York, gave the program. It was a delightful affair, passing off with perfect smoothness and with great credit to those taking part. Miss Farwell (contralto) has a good voice, round and full, and she used it with much skill and taste. Miss Larkin, too, is to be commended for her good work. Again Miss Stari received the most flattering appreciations of her work with violin as well as voice. Mrs. C. B. Yale, the popular contralto, did not appear, much to the regret of her friends in both cities.
98MINNEAPOLIS, August 30, 1894.
100VERNA GOLDEN BENEFIT.
102Last evening a benefit concert was tendered to Miss Verna Golden, under the auspices of Calvary Baptist Church and Society, of which she is a member. The audience was a large one, and the varied program was most enthusiastically received. The orchestra, under the baton of C. H. Watson, director, showed some careful study and excellent training, and their work in accompaniment to the voice was very good. A piano and violin number, by Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Schlachter, was marred somewhat by the very poor piano in use. As a 'cellist Mr. Schlachter is certainly among the best in the country. The work of Mr. Porter was musically. Miss Josephine Jennings, soprano, sang delightfully. The ever popular Masoule Quartet (male) and Sappho Ladies' Quartet gave some very pleasing numbers, and were well received. The young lady for whom the concert was gotten up is a pupil of Mr. Schlachter's, and has been under his instruction for four years. It is at his recommendation that she is going abroad to pursue her studies with masters in the Old World. She has made rapid progress so far and her work is good. She handles the bow with skill and has a good tone. She is very earnest in her studies and does not slight any of her work. We shall expect to hear good accounts of her from her new school of study. I cannot forbear to notice in this connection the very laudable example given in the action of the Calvary Church people in aiding an ambitious music student to seek and gain the opportunity of a continued sojourn amid the artistic and the musical atmosphere of the foreign musical centres. Granted that we have on our own shores equal advantages for instruction, yet our musical atmosphere is but just beginning to gather.
104The Manning School of oratory, music and languages will open about the middle of September and under the most favorable conditions. The Manning School of oratory has been a well-established fact in our city for several years, and it has long been the intention of its founder to add music, languages and dancing. Yet not until now has Mrs. Manning seen her way clear to do so. Walter Petzet, formerly of the Scharwenka Conservatory, New York, is an old friend and companion in the plan for the present form of school. With his aid the school of music has been added and languages have been made a branch of instruction. With Mr. Petzet at the head of the musical department and a competent corps of assistants the Manning School begins its fourth year with very flattering prospects, the number of pupils in all departments being very large.
106ACTON HORTON.
108TROY.
110TROY, N. Y., September 8, 1894.
112TROY, like most other musical cities, is gradually awakening from the usual summer decline, and will shortly be fully aroused. The musicians, both vocal and instrumental, are returning from the mountains or seashore, and nearly every church choir was filled last Sunday, of course to the gratification of the congregations. Every choir in Troy and vicinity, with one exception, has the month of August for vacation, and you know how very acceptable it is. It is a short vacation, too, in comparison to that of many other towns, but the musicians here are not the politicians, and so can't kick. The outlook for a brilliant musical season is most auspicious.
114The Troy Vocal Society will commence its rehearsals for the season Tuesday evening, September 18, and will during the season give five of its excellent concerts. This society is rapidly approaching its twenty-fifth year, and when it does reach that age a gigantic feast of music will be the result to honor the occasion. Not having written anything during the summer, I must say something about the Vocal Society's annual summer excursion. They took a three day trip, as usual, to Hotel Champlain, leaving Troy on the morning of July 17 and returning on the
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