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Musical Courier 1895-05-15: Vol 30 Iss 793, 1895
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER. one of two readings
3An English supplement to The Musical Courier is printed and published each week from our British office for special circulation in Great Britain. It contains complete reports of musical matters in London and the chief cities of the British Isles. Copies can be obtained upon application at the New York office. one of two readings
5BRITISH OFFICE OF THE MUSICAL COURIER, one of two readings
615 ARGYLL STREET, LONDON, W., May 3, 1894. one of two readings
8THE most interesting event of the past week was the reception given in honor of Mr. August Manns at the Grafton Galleries. This was in connection with his attaining his seventieth birthday, and the completion of forty-one years of serious work at the Crystal Palace. This is not the first time that Mr. Manns has been honored, for on several previous occasions he has been presented with tokens of esteem, once with a purse containing 700 guineas. All that was best in the musical world gathered to give Mr. Manns a hearty reception, and I do not remember attending a more brilliant assembly in London than that on Tuesday night. Some 700 invitations were sent out to the leading lights of the musical world, and nearly all were accepted. Among them I might mention the following: one of two readings
9Sir G. Grove, Sir A. Sullivan, Sir J. Barnby, Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Sir W. Parratt; Professors Bridge, Stanford and Prout; Doctors Hubert, Parry, Creser and Turpin; Messdames Albani, Fannie Davies, Mary Davies, Frickenhaus, Janotha, Marian Mackenzie, Palliser, Lemmens, Sherrington, Salmond, Samuell, Trust, Anna Williams, Rosa, Hilda Wilson and Zimmermann; Messrs. Gye, Barrett, Barry, Berger, Oscar Beringer, Bird, Borwick, Bispham, Carrodus, Chappell, F. Cliffe, Cowen, Cummings, Curwen, Dannreuther, Frangcon-Davies, Edward German, Manuel Garcia, Otto Goldschmidt, Ganz, Henschel, Hipkins, Hartvigson, Kuhe, Stanley Lucas, W. Macfarren, Daniel Mayer, Nachez, Randegger, Santley, Sauret, Schönberger, Shakespeare, Franklin Taylor, John Thomas, Tosti, Vert and Visetti. one of two readings
10THE most interesting event of the past week was the reception given in honor of Mr. August Manns at the Grafton Galleries. This was in connection with his attaining his seventieth birthday, and the completion of forty-one years of serious work at the Crystal Palace. This is not the first time that Mr. Manns has been honored, for on several previous occasions he has been presented with tokens of esteem, once with a purse containing 700 guineas. All that was best in the musical world gathered to give Mr. Manns a hearty reception, and I do not remember attending a more brilliant assembly in London than that on Tuesday night. Some 700 invitations were sent out to the leading lights of the musical world, and nearly all were accepted. Among them I might mention the following: Sir G. Grove, Sir A. Sullivan, Sir J. Barnby, Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Sir W. Parratt; Professors Bridge, Stanford and Prout; Doctors Hubert, Parry, Creser and Turpin; Messdames Albani, Fannie Davies, Mary Davies, Frickenhaus, Janotha, Marian Mackenzie, Palliser, Lemmens, Sherrington, Salmond, Samuell, Trust, Anna Williams, Rosa, Hilda Wilson and Zimmermann; Messrs. Gye, Barrett, Barry, Berger, Oscar Beringer, Bird, Borwick, Bispham, Carrodus, Chappell, F. Cliffe, Cowen, Cummings, Curwen, Dannreuther, Frangcon-Davies, Edward German, Manuel Garcia, Otto Goldschmidt, Ganz, Henschel, Hipkins, Hartvigson, Kuhe, Stanley Lucas, W. Macfarren, Daniel Mayer, Nachez, Randegger, Santley, Sauret, Schönberger, Shakespeare, Franklin Taylor, John Thomas, Tosti, Vert and Visetti. one of two readings
12The Duke of Saxe-Coburg decorated Mr. Manns with the Order of Art and Science of Saxe-Coburg, and two congratulatory telegrams were read from the Glasgow Choral Society and Mr. Henry Irving. Sir George Grove then read an illuminated address in which due recognition of Mr. Manns' service to music, and full appreciation of what he has done to help art in England, were inscribed for all time. Sir George Grove added a few remarks referring to their association at the Crystal Palace, and Mr. August Manns, amid great applause, rose to reply. He acknowledged the expressed good wishes of his many musical friends in a very courteous manner, interspersing his more serious remarks with anecdotes connected with his experiences at the Palace.
14Mr. Manns' annual benefit concert took place at the Crystal Palace last Saturday afternoon, when a large audience testified in no uncertain manner their appreciation of the veteran conductor. The novelty brought forward was Richard H. Walthew's choral ballade, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The vocalists were Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Edward Branscombe and Mr. Santley, Miss Edith Byford, a pupil of Sauret, making her début in Max Bruch's violin concerto in G minor.
16While the company was assembling, a selected band from the Crystal Palace Orchestra played a program of music formed of the lighter pieces of English composers, some of whom Mr. Manns has been instrumental in helping to public recognition. After his speech, Mr. Manns took the baton and conducted a performance of his Smiff in the Highlands, the rest of the evening being taken up with conversation and general good wishes. A souvenir program was distributed, with a strikingly life-like portrait of Mr. Manns, and some eloquent lines from the pen of Mr. Joseph Bennett, besides the regular address and list of the Committee.
18Last Saturday afternoon Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch gave another of his lecture recitals on old English music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, at the Royal Institute. In the illustrations Mr. Douglas Powell was specially successful, entering into the spirit of the music, and giving his excerpts with a particular charm.
20The fourth concert of the Philharmonic Society took place on Wednesday evening. There was nothing of special interest in the orchestral portion of the program, which consisted of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Wagner's Walkürenritt and the prelude to the second act of Sullivan's Light of the World. Miss Frida Scotta played Max Bruch's violin concerto in G, and Mr. David Bispham gave an exceptionally fine interpretation of Lysiant's scena from Euryanthe, winning a double recall.
22On the previous evening at Queen's Hall the London Choral Union gave St. Paul for their last performance this season.
24Mr. Frederick Bevan gave a concert at St. James' Hall on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Bevan is a composer of ballads, as well as a member of the Dilettante Vocal Quartet, and several of his compositions were brought forward. Among the artists were Mme. Clara Samuell and Mme. Belle Cole.
26Mr. Alfred Izard gave a concert at the Queen's (small) Hall on Friday evening, when he introduced a sonata for piano and violin by Herr Gernsheim, director of the Stern Conservatoire, Berlin.
28The Stock Exchange Orchestral Society brought their tenth season to a close on Monday night with a concert at Queen's Hall. The novelty was a Scottish Suite by J. Moir Clarke, a young Scotchman.
30Miss Edith Green gave an orchestral concert at St. James' Hall on Tuesday, April 30, when two compositions from her own pen, a symphony in D and sonata for violin and piano, were given. These latest additions to the works by women composers I do not think will ever attain any degree of success.
32Miss Stella Brazzi, the young American contralto from Brattleboro, Vt., who has been having such success at Nice, has signed an agreement with Sir Augustus Harris to appear at Covent Garden this season. The Carl Rosa Company were last week in Glasgow, this week in the north of Scotland, and they go to Edinburgh for their season.
34Herr Willy Burmester will arrive in London to-morrow, and at his orchestral concert on Monday next will play Spohr's No. 7 Concerto, the Faust Fantasie of Wieniawsky, Saint-Saëns' Rondo Capriccioso, Air by Bach, and the Hexentanz (Paganini-Burmester).
36At the Misses Eissler's orchestral concert Miss Clara Eissler will introduce a new Legende for harp by Thomé.
38Considerable satisfaction is expressed by publishers with the recent decision of the American Court of Appeals in sustaining the judgment of the lower court in the case of copyrighting music in America.
40I learn from the Continent that young Mark Hambourg, who has up to the present been known as Max, has had great success at several performances at Vienna recently. At the second concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, given in Vienna, he replaced Mme. Sophie Menter, who was ill, and played Liszt's Hungarian Fantasie with the orchestra without a rehearsal, creating a sensation. Another appearance was with the Quartet Rose in Hummel's Septet on March 3, and the papers said that he played like a giant. On March 28 he gave a recital at the Salle Bosendorfer, playing from Bach, Beethoven, Raneau, Scarlatti, Brahms, Paderewski, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Leschetizky and Rubinstein. During the performance he had sixteen recalls, and the critics wrote that his execution, interpretation and technic are so good that he is destined to rank among the first pianists of the day. Hanslick, the great German critic, said of this performance that it was long since he had heard a pianist who had given him so much pleasure, and that the young man possessed every quality to make him as nearly as possible a perfect pianist.
42The Hambourg family seems to be a very talented one, for Mark's little brother, Jakoff Hambourg, who will be thirteen in August, now plays the violin with the facility of an artist of many more years. Professor Wilhelmj, under whom he has been studying for some time, predicts great things for him, and says he surpasses any violin prodigy he has ever heard. Young Jakoff will make his début on the 18th of this month at St. James' Hall, in a concert given by Miss Laura Burnham and Miss Ada Crossley, spoken of before in these columns.
44Prof. Michael Hambourg, the happy father of these young musicians, is an esteemed and distinguished piano teacher, and the best indication of his qualities is to be found in the opinion of him expressed in a letter by Leschetizky, which reads as follows:
46VIENNA, WAHRING, Carl Ludwigstrasse 42.
47AUGUST 7, 1894.
49DEAR MR. HAMBOURG—In thanking you cordially for sending the finger exercise for the piano arranged by you, I avail myself with great pleasure of the opportunity of stating that I am glad to be perfectly agreed with you in your views as to finger training and technic. You have also satisfactorily proved, by the excellent teaching which you bestowed on your talented son Max before he commenced his more advanced studies with me, that a firm and singing touch, power of expression, as well as precise rhythm and clearness, must be taught and can be attained in youth. I have seldom taken in hand so carefully prepared a pupil, and hope for your sake as well as for my own to gain this result, viz., that he is not only a brilliant virtuoso, but also a true artist, so that our mutual endeavors, united with his efforts, may receive their due. I can only congratulate the capital of England upon possessing such a teacher, and beg you to accept the expression of my particular esteem.
51Yours faithfully,
52(Signed) THEODOR LESCHETIZKY.
54Mme. Vanderveer Green, the popular contralto, gave a musical at home last Sunday week in the afternoon, when the following artists contributed to the musical program: Mr. Hugo Heinz sang Grieg's Ich Liebe Dich, Gute Nacht (Franz), Schumann's Ich Grolle Nicht, and Schlesinger's Si Tu Voulais, the composer accompanying. Miss Frances Allitsen gave her popular song Love is a Bubble, and Mme. Belle Cole Gounod's Entreat Me not to Leave Thee. Mr. Raymond Roze played a piano selection from Chopin, and some of the accompaniments. Mr. Dwight Edward's songs were Bemberg's Supir, Pfeiffer's Malgre Moi, and Denza's May Morning; Miss Regina de Sales contributed Guy d' Hardelet's A Vous, Mr. Van Rensselaer Wheeler Star of my Heart (Denza), Mme. Stone-Barton Elle et Moi (Beach), and the hostess, Mme. Vanderveer Green, sang Lalo's L'Esclave and Bemberg's Chant Arabe. Other guests were Miss Bessie Waugh, Miss Gordon Scott, Miss Ogulsby, Mrs. Kennon, Signor Perugini, Mr. Cole, Mr. Barton, Mr. Henry Wood, Mr. Kenneth Stewart and Mr. Whiting. Last Sunday Mme. Green sang at Queen's Hall and I take pleasure in recording the fact that she made a great hit in He was Despised (Messiah) and Gounod's The Worker, responding to an encore after the latter with Tosti's Ave Maria. Mme. Vanderveer Green's magnificent voice and most artistic style is meeting with full appreciation in London.
56The celebrated Strauss Orchestra will give its first performance for the summer season at the Imperial Institute on Saturday, May 11, personally conducted by Edouard Strauss, director of music to the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Court.
58M. Zultan Döme has just been engaged as one of the leading tenors at the Paris Grand Opéra, where he will
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