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Musical Courier 1895-02-27: Vol 30 Iss 781, 1895
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1held her breath and shut her eyes, as one who awaits a blow; Fabio understood, and the blow did not fall.
3'Twas a fine autumnal day. Fabio had finished the picture of St. Cecilia. Valeria was seated in front of an organ. Her fingers wandered over the keys. Suddenly, without the consent of her will, her hands played that Song of Triumphant Love which Muzio had played, and at the same moment, for the first time since her marriage, Valeria felt in her the throbbing of a new life awaiting birth. Valeria shuddered, stopped * * *
5What did this mean?
6That * * *?
7With this word the manuscript stopped. PHILIP HALE.
9Boston Music Notes.
11Edward A. MacDowell has just returned from a tour in the West. It might be said that he had just returned from two tours, for he was at home so short a time between the two trips that it was almost like being en route. Some of his experiences were unpleasant, such as being sixteen hours getting from Cleveland to Buffalo, with no dining car, but that was during a blizzard.
13The last tour was a couple of weeks, when Troy, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Oberlin and Akron were visited. At all of these places large and enthusiastic audiences were the rule, the people showing in every way their pleasure and satisfaction at hearing Mr. MacDowell.
15When in Boston Mr. MacDowell teaches most of the day and does little in the way of composition during the winter. It is in the summer that he finds time to work uninterruptedly, and for two months he writes, doing what he calls his serious work. It can be stated with authority that Mr. MacDowell is not writing an opera. He has had many libretti under consideration at different times, but none has inspired him. Some time ago he began to work on an opera, but was not satisfied with the words, and it has been untouched for a year or more.
17The programs for his Lenten recitals in New York have not been fully decided upon, but will be announced in THE MUSICAL COURIER as soon as arranged.
19Priscilla White has just returned from a most successful Western tour. In Omaha and Burlington, where she sang return engagements, the papers spoke most enthusiastically about her. The programs were exacting, to say the least, the light, airy French songs, the sweet English ballads and the more tragic Italian and German music serving to bring out all the skill and temperament of the artist. Miss White received such an ovation as must have compensated in a marked degree for all the hard study and years of preparation.
21Mrs. Wm. H. Sherwood and her daughter Mary were present at the annual February reception on the 22d, given by the Misses Eastman, principals of Dana Hall School, Wellesley. Mrs. Sherwood is at the head of the piano department of this school, and has several assistants, who are her pupils. This reception is always one of the most elegant of the season.
23On the 23d and 27th of this month Mr. Fred H. Butterfield will give demonstrations of the steno-phonetic system (invented by May Florence Smith) at his studio, 62 Boylston street, when a class that began study on the 22d of December last will sing exercises at sight. Teachers are requested to be present with such of their pupils as are interested in sight reading.
25At the César Thomson concert, which was given on the afternoon of Tuesday, a marked peculiarity of the audience was the large number of men present, they being greatly in the majority.
27At matinées it is expected that the audience will be principally women, and especially is this true of Boston and other New England towns, but the fact remains that at the César Thomson concert the men greatly outnumbered the women.
29Carl Stasny will leave next week for a fortnight's concert tour in the South and West, playing every night. He has selected the artist grand made by Henry F. Miller as the piano he will use.
31Walton L. Crocker, who has sung with the Immanuel Church quartet for four years, leaves that church to take the position of tenor with the First Church, Arthur Foote organist.
33The Pine Tree State Club will give a reception Friday, March 1, at the Brunswick from 4 to 7, in honor of Annie Louise Cary Raymond, Lillian Norton Gower (Nordica) and Emma Eames Story. Miss Ethel Hyde, of Bath, will sing, Elise Fellows will give a violin solo and Harriet Shaw a harp solo. Is it necessary to say that the Pine Tree State is Maine and that all the artists are natives of that State?
35Miss Suza Doane gave a piano recital in Salem at the residence of Mrs. George E. Percy last week, when a large and fashionable audience was present and testified its approval of Miss Doane's playing by hearty applause. In response to an enthusiastic recall she played a composition of Liszt. Miss Doane was a prize pupil at the Leipzig Conservatory, and has played since her return to this country with the Boston Symphony and Arion Society under Van der Stucken in New York.
37The Herald on Thursday morning outlined the operatic situation by saying: "Everything now is opera, opera. Boston is never more provincial than in its rapture over the brief opera season accorded it once a year; but that is nothing against Boston, only it shows that as a city we cannot outgrow the very youthful period of flutter."
39Owing to the demand for seats for Les Huguenots on Monday evening next, it has been announced that there will be an extra performance of this opera on Thursday afternoon, also that an extra evening performance on Saturday will be given, when Romeo and Juliet will be heard. One great improvement has been made in Mechanics' Hall for this season of opera. The entire balcony has been reseated with commodious upholstered opera chairs, a change that will be appreciated by the public, for it was formerly the most uncomfortable place imaginable.
41There has recently been formed a guild of gentlemen bell ringers in this city to study the art of bell ringing, and they will soon begin practice in Christ Church tower.
43A year ago there was an organization of pealers formed who have been practicing on hand bells all winter. On Friday they will begin practicing on the tower bells. At first it will be "dumb practice," as it is called, but it is expected that on Easter Sunday their first peal will be rung.
45The College Club held a reception at their rooms in the Hotel Bellevue on Friday evening, when about 500 guests were present. The Germania Orchestra furnished the music for the occasion.
47Mrs. Emil Paur will give two piano recitals in Steinert Hall on the evenings of March 11 and 25.
49Mrs. A. F. Sheardown will read a paper before the Parker Memorial Science Class to-morrow noon on "The Human Voice."
51The Euterpe Mandolin, Banjo and Harp Club, assisted by John F. Gilder, pianist; Charles Williams, humorist; Miss Grace Eldredge, reader; Miss Hattie G. Goddard, and the Arion Ladies' Mandolin Club, gave their fifth annual concert at Association Hall this week.
53At the popular concert at Union Hall to-morrow will be Mrs. Nathan Matthews, Jr., Mrs. G. H. Stoddard, Mrs. Frederick Vinton and Mr. Frank Jackson. Duets for 'cello and piano will be given by the Misses Breed.
55A Noble Musical Enterprise.
57MISS E. JEAN NELSON, who came from a wealthy Greencastle, Ind., family, is the originator of what is know as the Musical Aid Guild of the State of New York, an institution having five studios, the head vocal studio being located at No. 224 West Fifteenth street, in charge of Mrs. Harriet R. Darling, principal; Miss La Vancia Parkhurst, assistant, and Mr. Herbert W. Green, of the University of the State of New York and of the Metropolitan College of Music, director. The head piano studio is at No. 218 West Fifteenth street, Miss Jessie Hillman, principal; Miss Caia Aarup, graduate of the University of Copenhagen and of the Paris schools, director. There is a branch at No. 301 East Nineteenth street, Miss Cecile Stollberg, principal; one at 131 West 108d street, Mrs. John Moore, instructor; and one at No. 162 Livingston street, Brooklyn, Miss Charlotte Mead, principal, and Miss Hattie Simpson instructor on the piano. Mr. R. E. A. Olmsted is the associate instructor for male voices, and Miss Alden has charge of the violin department.
59The object of the Musical Guild is to give free musical instruction, and the enterprise is backed by Miss Nelson from her private purse. She came to New York with the view to cultivating her voice, and while pursuing her studies was impressed with the fact that there was a vast number of young men and women who possessed vocal talent and were anxious to pursue their studies, but were without the means to do so.
61Miss Nelson at once resolved upon doing all in her power to aid her fellow beings, and the establishment of the studios in question proves to what extent she has satisfied her commendable ambition. By her plan pupils in these free schools may have the advantage of some of the best masters. A nominal fee is charged at present, but this will be refunded in all cases in a short time, and the branches of vocal and instrumental music will be taught free. It is said that over 500 pupils have made application for instruction, while about a dozen scholarships have been pledged to Miss Nelson for the present year. The plan has received the endorsement of many wealthy patrons of music, who will come to Miss Nelson's aid in case she should find the drain upon her bank account too severe.
63Mrs. A. B. Jury, Toronto.—Within the last two years this lady has taken a foremost place among Canadian vocalists. Her voice is a well cultivated, rich, full and telling soprano, admirable in its qualifications for oratorio, church or concert work, and her personality and the ease with which she sings suggest any amount of reserve power. Mrs. Jury in her recent student days, under good English and Italian masters, was remarkably brilliant, winning medals and diplomas with ease. At present, besides being in great demand for concert work, Mrs. Jury is building up a fine reputation as a vocal instructor on the staff of the Metropolitan College of Music, Toronto.
65New Boston Music Hall.
67THE annual meeting at Boston of the stockholders of the new music hall on last Wednesday afternoon was slantly attended, only eight or ten of the 400 subscribers being present in Bumstead Hall when Mr. Henry L. Higginson called the meeting to order. No decision was reached on the question as to what the company had better do in regard to building a hall. Three courses were suggested. One was to go ahead and build now and take the chance of a deficit, for it is doubtful if a new hall could be made to pay while the old one was in use. Building could be done cheaper now than later, probably, and perhaps enough would be saved to make it wise to stand a deficit until the old hall should be sold or torn down.
69The second plan was to wind up the affairs of the corporation, sell the real estate and divide the proceeds, this action to be taken in view of the changed conditions since the subscription was made.
71The third course was to let matters rest as they were until something should happen to make it clear what it was best to do.
73The last course was the opinion of Mr. Higginson, who explained the circumstances of the corporation being formed and the land bought. He believed that the value of the land was likely to increase enough to pay the expenses of carrying in case it should be thought wise to sell it later. As no one else spoke, the matter was left in the hands of the directors.
75Mr. Charles E. Cotting was re-elected clerk and treasurer, and the following were chosen as board of directors: Henry L. Higginson, Edward W. Hooper, Henry F. Sears, William S. Bigelow and Charles E. Cotting.
77The statement of the treasurer showed that the capital stock of the corporation was $200,000; the real estate account, $183,711; taxes account, $2,688; architectural account, $3,517.39; organization account, $8,457.49; office account, $119.82; expense account, $535.73, and cash, $5,969.91.
79Of the architectural account $2,000 was for the fee of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White for preparing plans, &c., and of the organization expenses $2,600 was a commission paid Mr. T. D. Boardman for getting subscriptions.
81Mr. Edward W. Hooper for the subscription committee reported that 406 persons had subscribed $402,500. In response to the call for one-half of the subscriptions, all but twenty-one had paid all that was asked for, the amount received being $207,450. Those who had not paid represented one subscription of $10,000 and smaller ones, making up a total of $24,700 in arrears.
83On motion of Mr. Charles P. Curtis it was voted that the directors should take advice of counsel as to what could be done to secure payment of delinquent subscriptions.
85Route of Boston Festival Orchestra.
87Date. Place. Pianist.
88April 5. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Sherwood
896. Laconia, N. H. " "
907. Sunday. " "
918. Fall River, Mass. " "
929. " "
9310. Leominster, Mass. " "
9411. Keene, N. H. " "
9512. Bellows Falls, Vt. " "
9613. Rutland, Vt. " "
9714. Sunday. " "
9815. Glens Falls, N. Y. " "
9916. North Adams, Mass. " "
10017. Athol, Mass. " "
10118. Rockland, Mass. " "
10219. Sunday. " "
10320. New Bedford, Mass. " "
10421. " "
10522. " "
10623. " "
10724. " "
10825. " "
10926. Waterbury, Conn. Sieveking
11027. Sunday. " "
11128. Meriden, Conn. " "
11229. Springfield, Mass. " "
113May 1. " "
1142. " "
1153. " "
1164. Greenfield, Mass. Sieveking
1175. Sunday. " "
1186. Providence, R. I. No pianist
1197. Hartford, Conn. " "
1208. " "
1219. Ithaca, N. Y. Sherwood
12210. Rochester, N. Y. " "
12311. Cleveland, Ohio. Sieveking
12412. Sunday. " "
12513. Indianapolis, Ind. " "
12614. " "
12715. " "
12816. " "
12917. Ann Arbor, Mich. No pianist
13018. " "
13119. Sunday. " "
13220. Columbus, Ohio. Sieveking
13321. " "
13422. Toledo, Ohio. Sherwood
13523. Elmira, N. Y. Sieveking
13624. Williamsport, Pa. " "
138E. Mollenhauer is the director of this orchestra. The Mason & Hamlin concert grand is used.
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