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Musical Courier 1895-10-16: Vol 31 Iss 815, 1895
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1Kangamoff, and Nymphs and Shepherds, by Purcell. The audience was a representative musical one, not overly large, but appreciative. The second of this series will occur October 22.
3Home Again.—Mme. Emma Roderick, after a restful summer at her cottage, Oakcliffe, New Milford, Conn., has resumed vocal instruction at her residence, 118 West Forty-fourth street.
5Jeanne Franko Trio.—The Jeanne Franko Trio, composed of Miss Jeanne Franko, violin; Miss Celia Schiller, piano and Hans Kronold, 'cello, will give its first concert in Steinway Hall on Tuesday evening, November 12.
7Emilio Belari.—The vocal teacher Emilio Belari has returned to New York in the best of health after a restful summer spent among his friends in Troy and Buffalo, and has resumed teaching at his residence, 118 West Forty-fourth street.
9Melba's Book.—Mme. Melba, it is said, is going to add some very interesting and valuable matter to musical and technical literature. She is writing a book upon operatic singing and voice culture, which will be eagerly read both by amateurs and professionals. It is to be published in English, French and Italian, and will, it is understood, be completed before the next Italian opera season.
11Pennington Recital.—Mr. J. Alfred Pennington gave a successful organ concert in Elm Park Church, Scranton, Pa., recently, assisted by the Elm Park Church Quartet, Miss Winifred Sullivan, soprano; Miss Elsie Van Dervoort, contralto; Mr. Alfred Wooler, tenor, and Mr. Richard Thomas, bass, on Friday evening, October 11. Works of Bach, Haydn, Händel, Mendelssohn, Guilmant and others were performed.
13New Opera Club.—The replacement of the Vaudeville by the New Opera Club has attracted a largely increased membership to the Metropolitan. The club, which will occupy the same box, is to be on the plan of the old Vaudeville, only with the vaudeville left out. This has been omitted by request, but the grill room will continue as savorily as heretofore. All arrangements, financially and otherwise, are said to be highly satisfactory to Mr. Abbey.
15Death by Accident.—Brussels, October 9.—William Frisque, of Green Bay, Wis., who was among the 104 persons wounded in the collision between a crowded passenger train and an engine near Mousby on Sunday, has succumbed to his injuries at Ottignies, to which place he was taken after having been removed from the wreck.
17Young Frisque was a well-known musician of Green Bay, and was studying at the Brussels Conservatory of Music. He was the son of F. V. Frisque, of Green Bay.
19Brooklyn Philharmonic.—Five concerts are to be given in the Academy of Music by this society, which since the departure of Thomas for Chicago has held no performance under its own name. These are the dates: November 12, December 20, January 24, February 28 and March 27. The solo performers who are to take part in the concerts so far as engaged are Mmes. Melba, Clementine de Vere-Sapio, Blauvelt and Scalchi, and Messrs. Ben Davies, d'Aubigne, Campanari, Joseffy, Kneisel, Adamowski and Schroeder. Mme. Melba and her associates in her concert company (Scalchi, d'Aubigne and Campanari) will sing in the first concert.
21Proposed Harlem Choral Society.—A circular is issued by Mr. Samuel A. Baldwin, director, inviting a meeting of singers at the Harlem Y. M. C. A. Hall, West 125th street, on Tuesday evening, October 15, at 8 o'clock, with the view to organize a choral society in Harlem. The project has the indorsement of several musicians, divines and people of social standing, among whom are Carl E. Dufft, J. H. McKinley, John D. Shaw, Albert J. Holden, Carl V. Lachmund, Mallinson Randall, Wm. Justin Harsha (pastor Second Collegiate Reformed Church), William C. Bitting (pastor Mount Morris Baptist Church), Joachim Elmendorf (pastor First Collegiate Reformed Church), Charles J. Young (pastor Church of the Puritans), Samuel H. Virgin (pastor Pilgrim Congregational Church), Emory J. Haynes (pastor St. James' M. E. Church), George R. Van de Water (rector St. Andrew's Church), A. B. Kendig (pastor Calvary M. E. Church), Frank A. Ferris, Henry C. Fuller, A. P. Ketchum, E. G. Selchow, Wm. A. Martin.
23A Rivarde Hoax.—Rivarde, the young French violinist, who will make a tour of America this season, has often been compared to the immortal Paganini. Apropos of this comes the following article from an Italian newspaper: "A few month ago, while Rivarde was in Italy at the tomb of the great Paganini, he was presented to the son of the maestro. After spending a pleasant time together Rivarde was requested by Paganini junior to play some of his father's compositions, which he did, and the son was deeply affected, saying that he recognized many of the peculiar qualities of his poor father; Rivarde afterward played on a number of Paganini's violins (which the son treasures highly), and he was presented with one of them. He then played one of Paganini's grand concertos, and the son, in a paroxysm of generosity, went immediately to the trustees of the cemetery, and implored them to open his father's tomb, that Rivarde might have the honor of being the only violinist who had ever enjoyed that sacred privilege. On beholding the bones Rivarde wept (all violinists can weep). On leaving the cemetery he was assessed $5, and on his return to the village found that he was the 4,855th violinist who had 'wept' at this shrine, and was further surprised on learning that it was not Paganini's son nor Paganini's bones at all."
25Piano Recital.—Miss Cora E. Luer, a pupil of Miss Alice Jane Roberts, gave a recital at Cook Academy, Montour Falls, on the evening of October 11, assisted by vocal soloists. Miss Luer played from memory and with much success, especially six Chopin preludes.
27Conductor Dead.—Prof. Thomas A. Coates, a music composer and instructor of brass bands and orchestras, died of heart disease at his home in Easton, Pa., a few days ago. He was bandmaster of the Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment during the late war. He was nearly eighty years old and active to the last.
29Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Bjorksten Baek.—Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Bjorksten have resumed their teaching at their residence, 71 East Fifty-second street. These successful teachers are widely sought by ambitious students, who find with them invariably encouraging results. Mrs. Bjorksten arrived from Paris on La Touraine on Saturday, October 4.
31Frieda Simonson.—Frieda Simonson will not return to this country this season as announced, and she has been forced to cancel some engagements and decline two excellent offers for tours here in order to carry out her lengthened tour in Russia, where she is meeting with great success. Arrangements have been made for Frieda to play before the Czar.
33James Fitch Thomson.—James Fitch Thomson, the Scotch-Canadian baritone, seems to be in great demand this season for oratorio work, song recitals and concerts. Mr. Thomson has placed his business in the hands of Messrs. Johnston & Arthur, and is already booked to sing in a number of important oratorio works in this country which are soon to be given by some of our best societies.
35Apollo and Rubinstein.—The Apollo Club and the Rubinstein Club, both among the leading musical societies of the United States, and composed of some of the best voices in New York, are to give a series of subscription concerts in Madison Square Concert Hall on the following dates: Apollo, December 17, February 25, April 28; Rubinstein, December 19, February 7, April 16. Mr. W. R. Chapman will conduct both clubs.
37New York Musical Society's First Concert.—For the first concert of the New York Musical Society, to be given in Carnegie Hall on November 30, the following artists have been engaged: Mr. William Rieger, tenor, and Signor Clementi Bologna, baritone. At this concert Saint-Saëns' The Deluge, and the new American cantata, The Lily Nymph, by George W. Chadwick, will be performed. At the second concert, which will take place on February 15, 1896, the program will include Massenet's cantata Eve, and the soloists will be Mme. Clementine de Vere-Sapio and Signor G. Campanari.
39Galloway College Recital.—The seventy-second recital of the School of Music, Galloway College, Searcy, Ark., was given on Monday evening, October 7, by members of the faculty. This was the program:
41Piano, concerto in G minor, third movement, Moscheles, Mrs. Emma Warde Hoffman (the orchestral part accompanied on second piano); violin, Cavatina, op. 85, No. 3, Raff, Miss Blanche Winfield; aria, Hark! 'tis the linnet, from Joshua, Händel, Mrs. Marguerite Carter; recitation, Ledie Dutch Baley, J. W. Riley; The Night Wind, E. Field; negro impersonation, C. Vaughan, Miss Lucy Hearn; piano, polonaise, op. 26, Chopin; Scherzo, op. 4, X. Scharwenka, Miss Thekla Burmeister; pantomime, Where are you going, my pretty maid, A. Crawford, Miss Jessie Wardlaw; violin, fantasia on G string, Guido Papini, Miss Blanche Winfield; songs, All through the night, Old Welsh Melody; Sunrise, Wekerlin, Mrs. Marguerite Carter; piano, Ventecico Murmurador, Jensen-Niemann; Staccato Etude, X. Scharwenka, Mrs. Emma Warde Hoffman; recitation, An Old Sweetheart, J. W. Riley; The Gossips, E. W. Wilcox, Miss Jessie Wardlaw; piano duo, Galop Chromatique, Liszt-Burmeister, Misses Thekla Burmeister and Stella Strain.
43Opera Subscription Closed.—The subscription list of Italian opera closed on the 15th, and never, it is said, has there been such a demand for seats and boxes. There are few changes on the grand tier, as most of the boxes are occupied by stockholders, and this season many who have been absentees for several years have returned and will be seen in their accustomed places. Among these are Mr. Wm. C. Whitney and Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Goelet, while Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt and Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry have leased their boxes for the season. Mr. Henry Barbey has rented his box for two nights in the week to Mrs. Dimock; and Mr. G. L. Rives, Mrs. W. D. Sloane and Mrs. H. McK. Twombly will occupy the same box on alternate nights. Dr. W. Seward Webb and Mr. H. Mortimer Brooks have made a similar arrangement. Governor Morton, George Bliss and Austin Corbin will share one box among them, and Elisha Dyer, Jr., W. F. Burden, C. T. Barney and Stanford White have gone into partnership for a parterre box. Mr. Thomas Hitchcock has rented his box for Wednesdays to Mr. J. Stickney, and for Fridays to Mr. J. J. Wysons. Mr. George Peabody Wetmore and his family, who have been spending the summer abroad, will be missed at all social functions, as their winter home will be in Washington for the next six years, where Mr. Wetmore, now United States Senator from Rhode Island, has taken Governor Morton's house.—Sun.
45Burmeister in Town.—Richard Burmeister, the pianist, is in the city on a brief visit.
47Miss Yaw's Manager.—Mr. Victor Thrane, manager of Ellen Beach Yaw, the soprano, arrived in town Monday last and expects to remain several weeks.
49Antoinette Sterling's Tour.—For Miss Antoinette Sterling's American tour this season Managers Mayer and Leeburger have engaged Tividar Natchez, a prominent Hungarian violinist; Mlle. Janotha, pianist, and Orlando Harley, tenor.
51Maurice Kaufman.—Master Maurice Kaufman will make his first appearance in New York at a concert on October 29 at Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall. Master Kaufman will be assisted by Miss Marguerite Hall, mezzo soprano, and Mr. Tonzo Sauvage, pianist.
53G. Waring Stebbins.—Mr. G. Waring Stebbins has returned to town after ten weeks at the mountains and seashore, where he has regained the strength which was depleted by his year of hard work in Paris. He has returned to his organ at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn, ready for the work of the year, and is already preparing programs for a series of recitals.
55Louis Lombard.—Prof. Louis Lombard is in town.
57Hesselberg's First Concert.—Eduard Hesselberg, the Russian pianist, made his first appearance this season in Philadelphia on Tuesday, October 8, with great success. He was assisted by the young violinist Miss Clara Kleeberg, who played with Mr. Hesselberg a polonaise of his own for the violin, which was well received. Miss Kleeberg also played several solos, with which she created much enthusiasm.
59St. Ambrose Choral Society.—The St. Ambrose Choral Society, organized last April, resumed rehearsals for the present season last Tuesday evening. The object of the society is to teach its members sight reading and promote an interest in choral music. The society expects to produce Dudley Buck's cantata, The Coming King, and a number of other selections on Christmas Eve, with a chorus of 100 voices, soloists, pipe organ and orchestra.
61German Opera Scenery.—Walter Damrosch says that the scenery he will use this winter in the presentation of Wagner's opera will be as fine as anything in that line that has ever been seen here. While Manager Marguelies was abroad this summer he had photographs taken of scenes in Die Wartburg in Thuringia, and from them the scenery for the opera has been constructed in Vienna.
63Oratorio Society.—The prospectus of the Oratorio Society of New York, just issued, presents an interesting forecast of their season, consisting of four afternoon and four evening concerts in Carnegie Hall, at which the following works will be performed: First concert, Händel's L'Allegro et il Penseroso; second concert, Händel's Messiah; third concert, Haydn's The Seasons; fourth concert, Henschel's Stabat Mater, and the finale, Act I., Parsifal. The Penseroso has not been given for several years. The soloists for this will be Miss Lillian Blauvelt, Mrs. Vanderveer Green, William H. Kieger and Heinrich Meyn. Among the soloists for the other concerts are Mr. and Mrs. Henschel, Miss Marguerite Hall and Mr. Ffrangcon-Davies. Owing to Walter Damrosch's absence in the West with the Damrosch Opera Company, the first two concerts will be conducted by Frank Damrosch. The dates of the concerts are as follows: Afternoon concerts, November 22, December, 27, March 13 and April 24. Evening concerts, November 23, December 28, March 14 and April 25.
65FRANK TAFT ORGANIST
67A BOOKLET containing 11st of 70 new organs inaugurated by Mr. Taft, giving names of builders, number of manuals, etc., mailed upon application.
69ADDRESS
70Chickering Hall
71New York
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