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Musical Courier 1894-11-21: Vol 29 Iss 767, 1894
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1Morgan, accompanist. There will be three more concerts given this season at which other prominent artists will assist. The club is supported entirely by patrons, among whom are Hon. Judge David Dean, Hon. Judge Noonan, Mr. Leon H. Hurtt, Mr. F. W. Devoe and many others.
3California Conservatory.—The California Conservatory of Music at Oakland, Cal., James Hamilton Howe director, is showing much energy and ambition for so young an institution. Six concerts have already been given this season, including a piano recital by the director, the program of which is appended, and three of a series of five recitals by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Kelley:
5Gavot in B minor …………………………………………..Bach
6Gavot and Muset in G minor …………………………….Bach
7Minuet in E flat ……………………………………………..Mozart
8Funeral March (sonata in E flat) ………………………..Beethoven
9Melody in F ………………………………………………….Rubinstein one of two readings
10Melody in F …………………………………………………Rubinstein one of two readings
11Chaconne in A minor ………………………………………Durand
12"From Flower to Flower" …………………………………Kullak
13"Moments Musical" ………………………………………Moszkowski
14Polonaise in A ……………………………………………..Merkel
15"Songs Without Words" ………………………………….Mendelssohn
16Fantasia Impromptu ………………………………………Chopin
17Funeral March (sonata B flat minor) …………………..Chopin
18Polonaise in C sharp minor ……………………………..Delibes
19Waltz in E flat …………………………………………….Delibes one of two readings
20Waltz in E flat ……………………………………………..Delibes one of two readings
21Novelette in F ……………………………………………..Schumann
22"Autumn" ………………………………………………….Howe
23"Gondoliera" ……………………………………………..Liszt
24Tarantelle …………………………………………………..Liszt
26The Carl Organ Concert.—The third recital of Mr. Carl's fall series will be devoted to selections from the works of his master and friend, Mr. Alexandre Guilmant, and below is the program for next Monday, November 26, at 4 o'clock, at the First Presbyterian Church:
28Premiere Sonate, en ré mineur.
29Largo e Maestoso.
30Allegro.
31Prelude en sol majeur (new.)
32(Written especially for Mr. Carl during M. Guilmant's recent American tournee, and published by Arthur P. Schmidt.)
33Marche aux Flambeaux.
34Aria, "Ce que dit le Silence."
35(With accompaniment for piano and organ.)
36Miss Bertha Gallatin.
37Noël Ecossais.
38Allegro Giscoso. op. 74 (new.)
39Violin—
40Romance sans Paroles.
41Melodie en sol.
42(Piano and organ accompaniment.)
43Miss Geraldine Morgan.
44Caprice, op. 29.
45Marche Funèbre et Chant Seraphique.
46Ecce Panis, op. 66.
47Missa Bertha Gallatin, Mrs. Antonia Sawyer, Mr. G. L. P. Butler, Mr. Luther Gail Allen, Miss Geraldine Morgan and Mrs. Eleanor Morgan-Neely (harpist).
48Finale, Sonata IV.
50The Burmeisters.—Professor and Madame Burmeister at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, November 9, gave an interesting recital of compositions for two pianos, including Mr. Burmeister's own arrangement of Schumann's op. 13. The Baltimore press was unanimous in indorsing the work of these two artists. The program follows:
52"Etudes Symphoniques" in C sharp minor, op. 13,…..R. Schumann
53Arranged for two pianos by Richard Burmeister.
54Piano sonata in C major, for two pianos ……………W. A. Mozart
55The first piano renders the original part, the second piano harmonic and melodic treatment added by E. Grieg.
56"Don Giovanni Fantasia" ……………………………….F. Liszt
57Composed on the statue scene, duet and drinking song from Mozart's opera, "Don Giovanni." Liszt edition for two pianos.
59Pratt's New Allegory.—The first hearing of "America," an allegory of "American History in Music, Picture and Song," by Silas G. Pratt, will begin at Chickering Hall next Saturday evening. The program will give an idea of the plan of the work:
61The Voyage of Columbus and the Discovery.—Music selected from "The Triumph of Columbus," chorus and orchestra. Twenty-five views shown during the performance, chiefly selected from the works of Count Roselly de Lorgues and Marquis de Bellow.
62The Colonial Period.—The Virginians, the Dutch in New Amsterdam and the Puritans. Quaint, antique music, vocal and instrumental, and sixteen historical views shown, preceding the performance.
63The Revolution.—"Struggle for Freedom," "Paul Revere's Ride." The new tone pictures for grand orchestra, especially composed for this production. Forty views shown during the performance.
64Martha Washington's Court.—The minuet and an old folk song. Music preceded by one view.
65The War of 1812-14.—Perry's victory, battle of New Orleans. Music, "The Star Spangled Banner." Six views preceding the music.
66Westward Ho!—The American folk songs. Favorite songs of the time and "Arkansas Traveler," preceded by three typical scenes of emigration.
67"Allegory of the Civil War"—Including the sensational "Battle Fantasia," for orchestra and band, and illustrated by fifty views, representing the "Uprising at the North" and great battles.
68Apotheosis of Peace at Columbian Exposition.—Music, "The Processional March" from "The Triumph of Columbus." Views of American miracles of the Nineteenth Century and the Columbian Exposition.
70Silvie Riotte.—Miss Silvie Riotte has returned from her tour through Germany and has resumed her duties as soloist at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, N. J. She sang at a concert there last Wednesday evening and was rapturously applauded. Miss Riotte has resumed her studies with Mme. Florenza d'Arona.
72Fannie Hirsch.—The fine soprano of Fannie Hirsch was much applauded at a benefit concert given at Jaeger's Hall, New York city. She sang "Botschaft," by Paradies, and "Widmung," by Schumann. She had three recalls after singing Gounod's "Ave Maria," in which she was well supported by Louis Schmidt, Jr., violin; C. Stout, organ, and Leop. Winkler, piano.
74Fannie Hirsch is singing Sundays at the Temple Emanuel, with which she has been identified for a number of years.
76A New Contralto.—Mrs. Anna Taylor Jones, of this city, who has a contralto voice of great breadth, power and dramatic force, is attracting much attention and getting some valuable engagements. She has artistic taste and temperament and a fine stage presence. She is now studying voice and oratorio with Edmund J. Myer, with the view to ultimately studying for grand opera.
78Mira Heller.—Mlle. Mira Heller, a young Polish prima donna, arrived last week on the steamship Aller. Mlle. Heller is attractive in appearance and is very likely to earn considerable favor with the opera going public of New York and other American cities. Her career in several European cities has been marked by many triumphs, especially in St. Petersburg, Warsaw (where she became a popular favorite), Odessa and Venice. She is a pupil of Mme. Pauline Lucca, a songstress with whom most old opera goers in the palmy days of the Academy of Music are familiar. Both Jean and Edouard de Reszke evince a great interest in their young countrywoman. Mlle. Heller will make her American début in "Mignon."
80Utica Conservatory.—A lecture and concert will be given at the Utica (N. Y.) Conservatory next Monday evening. I. V. Flagler will speak on the "Development of the Piano," and this program will follow:
82Chorus, "O'er Blooming Meadows" ……………………..Weckerlin
83Piano solo—
84Scherzo, B flat minor …………………………………….Chopin one of two readings
85Scherzo, B flat minor ………………………………….Chopin one of two readings
86Etude, op. 23 …………………………………………….Rubinstein one of two readings
87Etude, op. 23 …………………………………………..Rubinstein one of two readings
88Song, "Thistledown" …………………………………….Leonard Liebling one of two readings
89Song, "Thistledown" …………………………………..Leonard Liebling one of two readings
90Bianca Holley.
91Duets—
92Waltz Caprice …………………………………………….Jensen one of two readings
93Waltz Caprice …………………………………………..Jensen one of two readings
94"Italy" …………………………………………………….Moszkowski one of two readings
95"Italy" ………………………………………………….Moszkowski one of two readings
96Miss Mabel Lewis and Mr. Liebling.
97Song, "Mia Piccirella" …………………………………..Gomes one of two readings
98Song, "Mia Piccirella" …………………………………Gomes one of two readings
99Bianca Holley.
100Piano solo—
101Romance (published by G. Schirmer) …………………L. Liebling
102Valse Petite (new) ………………………………………L. Liebling one of two readings
103Valse Petite (new) …………………………………….L. Liebling one of two readings
104Air de Ballet ……………………………………………..Moszkowski one of two readings
105Air de Ballet …………………………………………..Moszkowski one of two readings
106Leonard Liebling.
107Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 6 ……………………………Liszt
108(By request.)
109Leonard Liebling.
111Kneisel Quartet.—The Kneisel Quartet gives its first concert in this city at Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall, Tuesday evening next. The program will be as follows:
113Quartet, B flat major, op. 18 …………………………..Beethoven
114Quartet, D flat major, op. 17 …………………………..Sgambati
115Quartet, G major, op. 77 ………………………………..Haydn one of two readings
116Quartet, G major, op. 77 ……………………………….Haydn one of two readings
118A Dire Calamity.—A dire calamity has befallen Chicago. A mandolin on which Adalina Patti had taken lessons was stolen, and its owner refuses to be comforted. The papers have devoted much space to the theft. The "Inter Ocean" has the following description:
120While in Chicago last January Mme. Patti took lessons on the mandolin from Signor Cesare Valisi. The instrument placed at the disposal of the diva was one of the most costly ever manufactured. Its fittings were of gold, and an ivory tablet under the sounding board was engraved with a picture representing the landing of Columbus. The commercial price of the instrument was $400. Because it had been played on by the Queen of song the Valisis treasured the instrument as something that they would not part with for money.
122Clara Poole's Success.—Mme. Clara Poole met with great success November 1 in "The Elijah," at Albert Hall, London. She sang delightfully, the words being delivered with a distinctness and softness of tone that was touching. Prior to her important solo, "Oh, Rest in the Lord," news of the death of the Czar of Russia was received; the oratorio was interrupted and the entire orchestra impressively played the "Dead March" from "Saul," while the audience of over 6,000 persons stood with bowed heads. The scene was wonderful and affecting.
124Mme. Poole is meeting with much success in London, and is consequently in great demand. She has been specially invited to sing at the Green Park Club, an aristocratic organization, numbering among its members Countess of Radnor, Lady Clanmorris, Lady Arthur Hill, &c.
126The Emperor Again. The foreign dispatches of Friday announce the completion of a one act opera by the Emperor of Germany. The title and plot are to be kept secret for the present.
128Buenos Ayres.—At the Teatro San Martin, Buenos Ayres, the Italian Opera Company lately produced "The Jewess," "Rigoletto" and "Lucia." In "The Jewess" Othon, Ghilardini and Silvestri undertook the principal parts. In "Lucia" Luisa Tetrazzini was much applauded, as well as Zerni, the tenor. The operas announced to come are "La Giaconda" and "Il Guarany."
130Saragossa.—As "La Giaconda" the renowned Kupfer-Berger had great success; Signora Montelcone, as "Laura," Signora Reina, as "Cieca," the tenor, Pellegrino Garibaldi, and the baritone, Tabuyo, sang their parts in faultless manner. one of two readings
131Saragossa.—As "La Giaconda" the renowned Kupfer-Berger had great success; Signora Montelcone, as "Laura;" Signora Reina, as "Cieca;" the tenor, Pellegrino Garibaldi, and the baritone, Tabuyo, sang their parts in faultless manner. one of two readings
133Music in Brooklyn.
134BROOKLYN, November 19, 1894.
136THE opening of the Seidl Society's season was accomplished under manifest advantages on the night of the 13th inst. The audience was large and well behaved—except in its greed for recall pieces—and the stage was a thing of beauty. Upon it were palms, placed at the bases of the columns in the Hall of the Grail, which is a property of the Seidl Society and forms the setting for all of its concerts. In front of the stage was a royal display of chrysanthemums. The lights of the Academy are bad as to arrangement, the lamps being placed so as to throw their rays into the eyes of the public, but in no other concert room is an effort made to obviate this defect as it is by the Seidl Society. As soon as a number is to be played the lights in the auditorium are turned down, and calcium lights in the wings increase the illumination on the stage. The stage, with its floral decorations and Mr. Seidl, thus becomes a picture, and in the beams of electricity and oxy-hydrogen Sam Bernstein becomes seraphic. He does not have to do much becoming, anyway, to be that. Without him at the drums what would a Seidl concert amount to?
138"The Preludes" was—or is it were?—fitly placed at the top of the program, the unfinished symphony came in the middle, and the "Parsifal" vorspiel and glorification came at the end. They were played irreproachably, unless it is worth noting that a horn broke once
140Between times came César Thomson, who played smartly through the fourth concerto of Vieuxtemps, the "Non Piu Mesta" variations of Paganini and Sarasate's "Gypsy Dance," evoking a hurricane of applause, and winning the ratta from the members of the string band. It was wonderful technic, but poor music.
142Mrs. Julie L. Wyman sang an aria from "The Prophet" smoothly and agreeably, and extended the program by just so much longer than it should have been extended, because it was 11 o'clock when they let us out.
144The Misses Rose and Ottilie Sutro, two charming maids in spotless white, with manner as clear and simple as their raiment, and a touch so pure that it seemed to be emblematized in their appearance, made friends and admirers at once. They have revived, or introduced, ensemble playing, and gave a performance of Bach's C minor piano concerto (the third) that was admirable for neatness, refinement and precision. They play as one, and it is a very charming one. Some carpers will have it that as it is hard to be expressive on one piano it is twice as hard to be expressive on two pianos; but these engaging virgins have practiced shading as they have practiced their scales, and they secure a remarkable unity in their performance. On being called out they played Heller's "Tarantella" with a gem-like sparkle, and took it at a speed that made one's fingers ache. If the fair and industrious president of the society, Mrs. Holloway-Langford, expressed the feelings of the audience toward the Misses Sutro, she did not let them go home without the biggest kind of a bunch of chrysanthemums from the collection in the front row.
146A word, too, as to the activities of the Brooklyn Institute. This unique organization, composed of something like 3,000 citizens, and devoted to the study of everything under the sun, from ancient coins to modern politics, has a department of music that is probably more popular than any other of its various branches. You see, a good many people will not go to worldly concerts as such, but they will if they can tell their friends and relatives that these concerts are educational. Such has been the rush to hear these concerts that all of them this year are repeated; that is, the same program is given in the afternoon as in the evening. It is a little hard on the voices and fingers of the artists, but look at the effect on their pocketbooks!
148Last Wednesday Miss Adele Aus der Ohe was to have played, but her illness in London compelled the substitution of Mr. Xaver Scharwenka, who was associated with Mrs. Carl Alves on the bill. From one person in the audience I received a new light on the functions and possibilities of Mr. Scharwenka. "You see," he said, "these people"—and I deeply regret that he did not call them people, but chumps—"think that music is all right as an art, but rather 'off' as a calling. They think that it is something for moonstruck youths and Dutchmen with long hair. Now this man Scharwenka looks like a big, healthy traffic manager for a railroad company, who could make a good living in several other ways than this, and they say to each other that if such a man can make music for a living it must be all right." So Mr. Baxter Perry's injunction to eat good food and plenty of it, and each musician's tendency to wash it down with Hofbrau should be heeded, at least in Brooklyn.
150But, of course, this does not let you into the fact that the concert was not only attended by an enthusiastic multitude, but was really more than pleasing. Mr. Scharwenka was in uncommonly good form and played a half dozen things with style, dash and expression. The bill included some work of his own and the audience was perhaps more approbative after those pieces than after any other. Mrs. Alves sang broadly and authoritatively songs by Schumann, Grieg, Schnecker, Goldmark, Foote and Mrs. Beach, and was applauded with equal warmth.
152On the night of this concert Mr. Paul Tidden and Mrs.
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