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Musical Courier 1894-11-21: Vol 29 Iss 767, 1894
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1pani and a piano instead of a harp, recently gave its first matinée concert, under the baton of Mr. Couture, at the Windsor Hall. Miss Maud Burdette, contralto, and Mr. B. Gérôme, bassoonist, were the soloists.
3The program included "Jubel" overture, Weber; symphony in C, op. 21, Beethoven, and three small pieces for orchestra by Dubois; "Flirtation" (for strings only) by Steck; Rubinstein's "Bal Costumé" (first suite), op. 103. A fashionable audience was present and the concert was a pronounced success. The symphony was played with delicacy and sympathetically, and was well characterized. The performance of "Bal Costumé" was almost faultless; after the third movement the audience demanded its repetition.
5Miss Burdette was in good voice, and sang the "Prayer" from Sullivan's "Golden Legend" most satisfactorily. Mr. Gérôme's solo on the bassoon was a novelty, no one ever having before played a solo on that instrument in this city. He was enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Gérôme came from Liège. He was many years a member of Lamoureux and Colonne's orchestras in Paris. After he arrived in this city Mr. Nikish offered him a position as soloist for the Boston Symphony, but on account of his wide acquaintance here he declined the offer.
7Of Mr. Couture's conducting, I can say that he is the hardest working musician I ever met. He is rehearsing the Philharmonic Society in five different works, and the Montreal Amateur Operatic Company in a light opera. He is leader of the choir in St. James' Cathedral, professor of harmony in the High School, and gives private lessons in his own studio. Notwithstanding all these duties he undertook more work this season. His readings were broad. A word of praise is due to Mr. Silverston for managing the affair with ability. The next concert will be given November 22.
9The following operas were given last week at the Theatre Francais: "Le Grand Mongol," "Mamzelle Nitouche," "Madame L'Archiduc" and "Les Cloches de Corneville." H. B. COHEN.
11KANSAS CITY.
13KANSAS CITY, Mo., November 12, 1894.
15ONE of the recent important musical events was the fourth recital given by the Kronberg Conservatory of Music, an institution which is making rapid headway and gaining a firm foothold. It evidently has come to stay. The classes in all the branches are rapidly filling, and pupils are being booked not only from Kansas City, but from many smaller cities in other States.
17At the recital François Boucher, a violinist recently engaged to take charge of the violin department of the conservatory, made his initial bow before a Kansas City audience, and it may be said that he made an instantaneous and great success. Mr. Boucher is an artist in the real sense of the word. His selections were the G minor concerto by Max Bruch, a romanza of his own composition, Hungarian airs by Hubay, and the Wieniawski "Faust" fantasia. Without doubt Mr. Boucher is the finest violinist who ever resided in Kansas City, and is the best teacher we now have.
19He was assisted on this occasion by Mr. and Mrs. Kronberg, whose selections were the "Di Provenza," by Verdi, and the grand aria from "Ivanhoe," by Sir Arthur Sullivan. They acquitted themselves, as usual, with great honor, and in a trio by Saint-Saëns they were assisted by Miss Daisy Stowell, a contralto and one of Mr. Kronberg's most promising pupils.
21Mr. Rudolph King, the pianist, on this occasion strengthened the good impression he made at his last two appearances. He played in grand style a Romance by Rubinstein, and a brilliant concert étude by Leschetizky, a composition bristling with technical difficulties.
23The Detroit Philharmonic Club, with Ludwig Bleuer as leader, played to a good house last Friday, and made a fine impression. Mr. Bleuer is a finished and brilliant player. In fact his playing has not been equalled in Kansas City, except by Sarasate and Marteau, who hardly surpass him. He was enthusiastically received, especially after an artistic and spirited performance of Sarasate's "Zigeuner Weisen."
25The club playing was also brilliant.
27Miss Florence Stevens and Mrs. Carolino Von Weber, sopranos, who recently arrived in Kansas City, gave recitals lately, with a fair measure of success.
29One evening recently at Mr. Kreiser's organ recital at the Grand Avenue M. E. Church, Dr. Mitchell, the pastor, in speaking of some composition which Mr. Kreiser was about to play, said that when he first heard the selection played upon the organ by Mr. Kreiser, he was accompanied by his favorite dog, which began to howl lamentably after a few opening chords had been struck. Thereupon Dr. Mitchell argued thus: "How grand a composition must this one be, and what a profound impression it must make on an audience, if it could move the afore-said canine to such expressions of approval!" and Dr. Mitchell was entirely serious.
31Mr. Kreiser, after having "tried it on the dog," felt fully justified in presenting it to his audience.
33J. F.
35BUFFALO.
37BUFFALO, N. Y., November 12, 1894.
39JOHN, surnamed Lund, conductor, and President William Lautz, of the Buffalo Orpheus, must have been proud and happy men those early days of last month, which were given up to a royal celebration of the society's twenty-fifth anniversary. Arrangements had been made for a three days' festival, and fine weather and efficient committees combined in making the whole affair a great success. Of the ride about the city, the excursion and the supper at the Falls, when 725 men sat at the festive board (it was reported that 725 kegs were consumed in that flow of soul), and other social matters, I will only make passing mention, but the celebration concert proper deserves special space. The following was the program:
41Männerchor and orchestra, "Des Liedes Heimat"……Pache
42Aria, "Le Roi de Lahore"……………………….Massenet
43Mr. G. W. Fergusson.
44Männerchor, "Heimkehr"………………………….Gelbke
45Aria, "Jeanne d'Arc"……………………………Bemberg
46Miss Gertrude May Stein.
47Fistanz und Stunden walzer…………………….Coppelia-Delibes
48Mazurka…………………………………………Orchestra.
49"Du bist wie eine Blume"………………………..Chadwick
50"Ich will meine Seele tauchen"…………………Raif
51"Widmung"………………………………………Franz
52Mr. Fergusson.
53Männerchor, "Das Grab im Busento"…………..Zerlett
54"Willst du mein Schatz sein"…………………..John Lund
55"Jugendliebe"…………………………………Van der Stucken
56Miss Stein.
57"Pierrette," ballet music……………………….Renaud
58Orchestra.
59Männerchor and orchestra, "Germanenzug"………John Lund
60"Amerikanische Phantasie"……………………..Herbert
61Orchestra and General Chorus.
62Conductor, John Lund; accompanist, F. W. Riesberg.
63Of the various chorus numbers, the difficult "Grab im Busento" (the Orpheus prize winning song in New York last June) and Lund's own noble, broad phrased "German War Song" were sung the best, the orchestra also contributing to the pleasure of the program by their dainty genre pieces. Miss Stein and Mr. Fergusson were both in fine voice, and both made many new admirers. The large Music Hall was filled with an appreciative audience, and the various flags and gay decorations lent to the event a festal character.
65Mr. Coerne—whose name should be pronounced "Kern"—the new conductor of both the Vocal and Liedertafel societies, has begun rehearsals, and has impressed all with his thorough and earnest musical abilities. He conducted his "Columbian Festival March" at the Innes Band concert, and evidently knows what he wants and knows how to get it.
67The Guard of Honor Orchestra, thirty-five strong, recently gave a reception in its building, and presented a program of modern and other music with fine verve and style. Miss Mulligan, the busiest woman in Buffalo, conducts her orchestra "as to the manner born." "The Heavens Are Telling" and the "Liberty Bell March" were particularly well played.
69Neighbor Rieger, of Niagara Falls, recently advertised a "grand musical event"—"Tannhäuser," with full (?) orchestra of eighteen men. My! oh, my! oh, my!
71I wish the sign man who paints for the Scott Sign Company would follow his text more closely. Here is Mrs. Francesca Guthrie-Moyer announced as "Gutine Moyer," and Anton Schott's name narrowly escaping being spelled "Scoot." Scalchi's name appeared as "Schalchi," and so on ad infinitum.
73And while I am finding fault I want to speak of a recent "Harper's Monthly," in which appears Brander Matthews' story, "The Royal Marine." On page 586 of the September number you may read: "Her smile is like the 'Moonlight Concerto,' and her laugh like a wedding march." The laugh is all right, Mr. Matthews, but beware when you wax musical that your waxer is in order! What is the "Moonlight Concerto"? Possibly you mean "Moonlight Sonata."
75At a recent professional visit to Bradford, Pa., where I gave a piano recital, at the Du Bois music store I saw a badly demolished upright piano, labeled "Played (?) on with an ax." It seems that the woman who did this George Washington act would not or could not pay for the piano, and when the dealer went to take it away she seized an ax and smashed every panel and hammer. The piano movers fled for their lives.
77Dr. Miller, of Berlin, Germany, dentist, who with his father-in-law, Dr. Abbott, dispensed such graceful hospitality at their residence in the Hausvoigtel Platz, back in the eighties, and who will be recalled by many Americans of that time, was here recently on a visit.
79A fine three-quarter length oil painting of Mr. John Lund by Peiderer is attracting considerable attention. It was a gift of Mr. Lund to the Orpheus at their silver jubilee.
81Miss Alice Whelpton, erstwhile my pupil and more recently with Scharwenka, has gone to Vienna, where she will imbibe at the fount the music of Leschetitzky.
83F. W. RIESBERG.
85NEW HAVEN.
87NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 14, 1894.
89MRS. A. HEATON ROBERTSON, wife of Judge Robertson and formerly Miss Ridgeway, the operatic singer, recently gave an enjoyable musicale at her residence, 128 Temple street, to introduce Miss Mary Dudley Burk, a talented young elocutionist, whose recitations were well given and with dramatic effect. Mr. Frederick H. Cheesewright, the organist and choirmaster at Trinity, was heard to advantage in two piano solos, and Miss Loomis, a pupil of Mrs. Robertson, sang. Many society people were present, and the house was handsomely decorated for the occasion.
91At the Howard Avenue Congregational Church a fine concert was given, which gave Mr. Ericson Bushnell's many friends in the city the opportunity of hearing him again in concert. Mr. Bushnell sang an aria from "Hora Novissimo" and some German folk songs, and the choir of the United Church was heard in quartet and solo work. The same evening, at Marquand Chapel, Dr. Horatio Parker, the new musical director at Yale, gave an organ recital, assisted by Mr. Isadore Troostwyck, the violinist, who has but recently been appointed to the chair of violin instruction at Yale. The program was well arranged, and served to introduce Mr. Parker to the musical set of the city. His playing was exquisite, and he was warmly complimented by the local press.
93A new musical society under the direction of George Chadwick Stock, the tenor of the Apollo Quintet and teacher of voice culture, has recently been organized for musical advancement. The society is limited in membership to forty, and is called the DeKoven Society, in honor of Reginald DeKoven, who is a Connecticut boy. The chorus is rehearsing choruses from "Robin Hood," the "Fencing Master," and also male choruses from Dudley Buck's "Don Munio." The club meets each week for rehearsals in Mr. Stock's studio, and is doing excellent work.
95The members of the club are: First tenors, G. Chadwick Stock, A. J. Gurney, Harry J. Stock, James A. Howarth, J. S. Ostenburg, Edmund Dinnan, John I. Jacobs; second tenors, Frank Lum, H. E. Adt, B. B. Broadbent, Charles Warner, Jean Willis, Roy Clark, Walter J. Smith; first bass, Messrs. Gilhut, Dayton, Edwards, Hamilton, John O. Osborn, Olie Warner, Frank Smith, Albert Mattoon, L. Benham; second bass, George E. Avis, Luther Jerome, F. Ellsmer, Wallace Ritter, F. Buckingham and Charles Lincoln.
97The Mendelssohn Quartet is at work arranging for its concert to be given next month at Warner Hall. The quartet is being trained by Charles Bonney, the voice teacher and choirmaster at St. Thomas', and the members sing beautifully. At the concert Mrs. Charles Bonney, the popular soprano, will sing the "Angels' Serenade," with violin obbligato played by Mr. Max Fonoroff, of New York; Mr. Bonney will give a tenor solo. There will also be a piano selection by Mr. Cheesewright, a string quartet and recitations by Miss Burk.
99The New York Ladies' Quartet, assisted by William Howland and George DeVoll, gave a concert at the Hyperion last Tuesday evening.
101It is reported that Yale is to have a new musical building which will cost over $600,000, the gift of Mr. Sanford, of Bridgeport, the father of Mr. Sam Sanford, who is at the head of the musical department at Yale.
103The Seidl concert, at the Hyperion October 30, was heard by a select musical audience. Miss Blauvelt sang the "Sicilian Vespers," and to a recall repeated the same dainty bit. She is much more pleasing in concert work than in oratorio, and her light, flexible voice was used with excellent taste and judgment. The hit of the evening was the singing of Campanari, who gave "Valentine's" song from "Faust" and for an encore the prologue from "I Pagliacci." Mr. Seidl will give two more concerts during the season.
105A concert was given on the 1st inst., at Warner Hall, under the auspices of the ladies of Christ Church. Charles Mann, the baritone, sang; Miss Edith Barr recited and the Mendelssohn Quartet gave two numbers.
107The recent Melba concert was a treat and was thoroughly enjoyed by all lovers of good music. It was the first opportunity
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