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Musical Courier 1895-10-16: Vol 31 Iss 815, 1895
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1Subscriptions for the British Edition of The Musical Courier should be sent to the London office, 15 Argyll street, Oxford Circus, W., London. Price: Single copies, 6d.; annual subscription, £1. 1. 0.
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415 Argyll Street, London, W., October 5, 1885
6The Sunday Afternoon Orchestral Concerts in Queen's Hall will be resumed at 3:30 p.m. on October 6 with a full orchestra led by Mr. Frye Parker, Mr. Howard Reynolds as solo cornet and Mr. Randegger as conductor. Mr. David Bispham will be the vocalist on this occasion. It will be remembered what high-class concerts Mr. Randegger gave last spring, and no doubt the public will give ample support to these deserving concerts.
8The National Sunday League series of oratorio performances commenced last Sunday in Queen's Hall, when The Messiah was given, with soloists and full choir and orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Churchill Sibley. For the next six months oratorio or grand orchestral performances will be given in Queen's Hall, Shoreditch, Battersea and Bermondsey town halls, "The Horns" Assembly Rooms, Kennington, and Myddleton Hall, Islington, every Sunday. The League's musical society, of which Sir Arthur Sullivan is president, has arranged an attractive program of oratorios, &c., to be performed during the coming season, and the services of many well-known vocalists have been secured.
10Mlle. Gherlisen, one of Madame Moriani's most successful pupils, has just signed an engagement for the winter season at Stockholm.
12I regret to hear that Mr. Berthold Tours is dangerously ill.
14An example of musical families is given in connection with the Leeds Festival orchestra, where there are five sons of the late Mr. Carrodus, four Hanns, two Earnshaws and two Oulds.
16Mr. Henry Stockwell, the Australian tenor, made a grand success at the Glasgow popular concert last week, following in the footsteps of Miss Ada Crossley, the contralto from the other side of the world, who also won great favor there. Mr. Stockwell meets with well deserved success wherever he sings, and this coming season we shall probably hear him frequently in London.
18Sir Charles and Lady Hallé have returned home from their South African tour, arriving at Plymouth early Friday morning. In the course of an interview Sir Charles expressed great pleasure at the reception given them by South African colonists, and stated that in all probability they would again visit the Cape next year. He added that his and Lady Hallé's health had been greatly improved by the trip. Sir Charles went directly to Manchester to resume his concerts, and Lady Hallé, after appearing in London, will tour through Denmark. They visited the principal towns at the Cape and performed at twenty concerts in all.
20I learn from Norman Neruda & Co. that M. Siloti will come over in December and give a piano recital in Queen's Hall, besides playing at the Beethoven Concert at the Crystal Palace and other leading concerts. Also that Mme. Carreño will come in November and play in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester, besides at the Crystal Palace, as already announced.
22Yet another pianist, Herr Alfred Reisenauer, will be in London this month, giving three recitals under Mr. Ernest Cavour, commencing on October 25, after which he will play in the provinces.
24Mr. Mark Hambourg has been re-engaged through Mr. Daniel Mayer for an additional month in Australia, and will not, therefore, return to England before December. He is having extraordinary success.
26The programmes for the Richter concerts are as follows: First concert, October 21 at 8:30—Wagner, Vorspiel to the Meistersinger; Tschaiikowsky, Symphonie Pathétique; Brahms, Academische Fest-Ouverture; Wagner, Charfreitagszauber; Beethoven, Overture, Leonore, No. 3. Second concert, Monday, October 28, at 8:30—Goldmark Overture, Sakuntala (first time at these concerts); Wagner, Vorspiel and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde); Smetana, three symphonic poems (a) Vltava, (b) Vyscrad, (c) Sarka; Liszt, First Hungarian Rhapsodie; Schumann, First Symphony in B flat. Third and last concert, Monday afternoon, November, 4 at 8—Weber, Overture, Der Freischutz; Wagner, New Venusburg Music; Berlioz, Overture, King Lear; Grieg, First Suite, Peer Gynt, and Beethoven, Symphony No. 8. Previous to these Dr. Richter will give a concert in Brighton under the auspices of Mr. Kuhe.
28Herr Hermann Levi, it is announced, will not be able to conduct the second Wagner concert, as originally intended. He is suffering from a nervous malady which will prevent his undertaking any work for some time to come. His place will be taken by Herr Mottl.
30Owing to Messrs. Plunkst Greene and Leonard Borwick having so little time together during the coming season—the former returning to America immediately after Christmas and the latter leaving for Germany early in November—they will only give one recital in London instead of two, as originally arranged. This recital will take place in St. James' Hall on the afternoon of November 8, when Schumann's Dichterliebe will be repeated.
32Miss Clara Butt, according to a contemporary, is obliged to forego her many engagements for the coming season and take complete rest for a considerable time, probably a full year. This has become necessary on account of her failing health, and it is hoped that a rest from public performance and change to another climate will lead to her complete recovery. During this time if Miss Butt could have competent instruction, so as to continue her studies, she would be able on recovery to use her grand voice to much greater advantage than heretofore.
34The Virgil Practice Clavier, which has been introduced into England by its inventor, Mr. A. K. Virgil, during the past few months, will take up its permanent abode at No. 12 Princes street, Hanover square, where Mr. Virgil has secured commodious premises for a long term of years.
36The large building is peculiarly adapted for the uses of the Virgil Piano School that will be opened there under his auspices. There are a number of class rooms and offices, besides a lecture hall, and Mr. Virgil should be congratulated upon securing such suitable premises so centrally located.
38One or two rooms will be used to display the Practice Clavier, where the public and intending purchasers can have ample opportunity to examine it. A prospectus now in the press will be sent out in large numbers, giving full particulars concerning the school and the method of instruction, with an announcement of their change of address from Berners street.
40It is gratifying to see how readily the musicians of England have taken up this system, which is such an aid in the development of the technic necessary to a pianist, and it will not be long before it is known all over Great Britain.
42On Lord Penrhyn's estate in Wales a grand performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah was given on September 28 in a spacious marquee, under the patronage of the Penrhyn family, Lord and Lady Mostyn, Col. Sackville West and many others. The choir was formed entirely of the quarrymen, with their wives and daughters, from Lord Penrhyn's famous slate quarries, and there was a full orchestra conducted by Dr. Roland Rogers, who deserves high praise for arousing the Penrhyn Choir sufficiently to study and practice such a work as Elijah with such satisfactory results. The soloists were Miss de Bouffleur, Miss Mary Thomas, Mr. Dyved Lewis and Mr. Ffrangcon-Davies, who gave a truly magnificent rendering of the rôle of the Prophet. The audience numbered about 2,500. If Dr. Roland Rogers is backed up by the nobility and gentry of the neighborhood, it would not be surprising if a quarrymen's festival were established under his auspices.
44I shall not be able to give you an account of the Leeds Festival, which is the musical event of this week, until my next letter.
46M. A. Pinfold, of metronome fame, will visit America shortly to introduce the metronomes manufactured by his company to the United States and Canada. These metronomes have been adopted in Great Britain at many of the leading schools of music, besides meeting with a large sale to both musical students and musicians generally.
48They are used by and have the highest indorsement here of such representative men as Sir Joseph Barnby, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Dr. Hubert Parry, Dr. Bridge, of Westminster Abbey; in fact, by a large majority of the leading musicians here. Mr. Pinfold has also established a large sale for them on the Continent, especially in Germany. I shall speak of these excellent instruments from time to time in my letters, and anyone having use for one cannot do better than try a Pinfold metronome.
50F. V. Atwater.
52Leipsic.—J. Hubay's Violin Maker of Cremona was given with success at the City Theatre September 22. The composer, himself a celebrated violin virtuoso, played the violin solo that occurs in the piece with immense applause.
54Pro Pudor!—Our old friend Heinrich Pudor has published some Lieder which have elicited the following criticism from the Leipsic Musikalisches Wochenblatt: "We are somewhat perplexed about the right word to characterize these poetical and musical utterances of Pudor. We have seldom seen such versified nonsense, and never in musical notation such printed idiocy."
56Vienna Concerts.—The program of the Concert Society for the next season has been published. In the ordinary concerts will be given Tinel's Franciscus and Massenet's Eve. At the third concert Reinecke, of Leipsic, will direct the symphony he has dedicated to the Society of Friends of Music, and will play a concerto of Mozart. At other concerts female choruses by Brahms will be sung, and either the Kleine Messe or the Te Deum of Bruckner performed. In the special concerts appear Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Kiel, Christus.
58Rubinstein.—A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse writes that the death of Rubinstein leaves a great gap in the conservatory. Among the reforms he introduced was a rule that the pupils must come to the institution in simple brown dresses, without ornament, and an order that the doors of the class rooms for female pupils must be partly of glass. He put down the bad habit of teachers coming when they liked, or not coming at all. The productions of the pupils took place every Wednesday, once before the staff of professors and once before an invited public.
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