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Musical Courier 1896-03-04: Vol 32 Iss 835, 1896
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1An Offer to Paderewski.—Chicago, Ill., February 24.—The Chicago University is making an effort to secure Paderewski for its Conservatory of Music.
3Jessie Shay Will Play.—Miss Jessie Shay, who is busy with a round of piano engagements, will play in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, New York, on next Friday afternoon, March 6.
5The Oratorio Society.—The third public rehearsal and evening concert of the present season of the Oratorio Society will take place on March 13 and 14, when Haydn's oratorio The Seasons will be given.
7Wallian Benefit Concert.—A benefit concert was tendered by her friends on Monday evening, February 24, in Steinway Hall, to Miss Helen Wallian, a vocal pupil of Mme. Murio-Celli. Miss Wallian was assisted by some well-known professional artists, and also by some fellow pupils.
9Jeanne Franko Plays.—Miss Jeanne Franko played with immense success recently at two important Aeolian concerts, and won repeated encores and any number of recalls. The following were her solos: Romance, Svendsen; Fantaisie Caprice, Vieuxtemps; Walter's Prize Song, Wagner-Wilhelmj; Pierné's Serenade and a cavatina of Bohm.
11The Musical Art Society.—The next concert of the Musical Art Society, of which Mr. Frank Damrosch is conductor, will take place on Thursday evening, March 19, in Carnegie Hall, when an interesting program, including Palestrina's Improperia, will be given. The Kneisel Quartet will assist at this concert.
13Dannreuther Quartet Concert.—The third concert of the Dannreuther Quartet, originally announced for March 12, will be given in Chamber Music Hall next Thursday evening. Arthur Whiting, piano, and Ernst Wagner, flute, will help the club, and the program will consist of a quartet in D, by Mozart; Beethoven's serenade and Brahms' piano quartet, op. 29.
15Don't Like Certain Places.—It seems to be a new fad among women artists to hate a certain city. Duse hates Chicago, and Calvé hates London. "No, no, no," says the famous impersonator of Carmen, "not for the crown of England and all the wealth the country contains would I consent to live in London. Ten times rather would I be a peasant, with a little cottage on the slope of the Apennines and the beautiful sunshine of Italy all about me."
17A Wierum Concert.—A concert was given on Monday evening last in Memorial Hall, Brooklyn, by Miss Grace Wierum, soprano, assisted by Miss Martina Johnstone, violin, and Mr. Carl Naeser, tenor. The accompanists were Miss Hertz and Mr. Alexander Rhim. Miss Johnstone played with admirable taste and finish some Scandinavian melodies and dances by Grieg, pieces of Sarasate and Wieniawski and some song obligatos. Her success was wholly artistic.
19Philharmonic Society.—The fifth Philharmonic concert will take place next Saturday evening in Carnegie Hall, preceded by the usual rehearsal on Friday afternoon. The program is as follows:
20Third Concerto, G major, strings………………………..Bach
21Overture, From the Scottish Highlands (new)………….F. Lamond
22Concerto No. 2, for violin……………………………….Bruch
23M. Achille Rivarde.
24Symphony No. 9…………………………………………..Schubert
26Oratorio in Harlem.—The Harlem Oratorio Association, Samuel A. Baldwin musical director, will give its second concert on Tuesday evening, March 10, in the Harlem Presbyterian Church, 125th street, near Madison avenue. The program will be composed of part songs and shorter choral works, with Achille Rivarde and Aimé Lachaume as soloists.
28Founder of Massey Music Hall Dead.—Mr. Hart A. Massey, of the agricultural implement manufacturing firm, the Massey-Harris Company, Toronto, died on February 18. He built at a cost of $225,000 Massey Music Hall, Toronto, and donated it, in trust, for the benefit of the residents of the city wherein he resided. He was a public spirited man, and gave largely of his wealth for religious and educational purposes.
30Kallwitz Soiree Musicale.—Mme. Adolphe Kallwitz and her pupils gave a soiree musicale on Saturday evening last, February 29, at the residence of Mrs. John C. Meyer, 763 Fifth avenue. Miss Lena Doria Devine assisted with some songs of Jensen and Grieg which were sung sympathetically. Mme. Kallwitz herself played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and several shorter modern pieces, as well as assisting at a second piano with some pupils. Among the pupils who played were the Misses Jeannette Müller, Edna Doughty and Hermine Clark. The affair was fashionable and successful.
32An Interesting Talk.—To-morrow (Thursday) morning at 11 Mrs. Bermann will give a short talk at the Waldorf on Love Songs of Great Writers. The musical illustrations will be by Miss Marguerite Hall and Mr. Nicholas Douty. Mr. Victor Harris will accompany.
34Anton Hegner Recitals.—Anton Hegner will give two cello recitals in the Hotel Waldorf on the afternoons of March 25 and 28, at 3 o'clock. Mr. Hegner will be assisted by Miss Margaret Hall, mezzo soprano; Mr. Mackenzie Gordon, tenor; Mr. Max Bendix, violin (concert master of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra), and other artists.
36Walter J. Hall.—A beautiful praise service of song was given in the Brick Church, Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh street, on Sunday afternoon, March 1, under the direction of Walter J. Hall, the organist and choir master of the church. The regular quartet choir was augmented to a triple quartet by the addition of eight solo singers taken from the choirs of prominent churches.
38A Bach Examination.—Mr. A. Victor Benham held an examination in his studio on Saturday, February 29, for several of his advanced pupils in works by Bach. Miss Helen Lang carried off the honors by her playing of the chromatic fantasia and fugue, and received a bust of the master in recognition of her achievement.
40The Italian concerto, A minor prelude and fugue, arranged by Liszt, and the F major toccata, arranged by Mr. Benham, were among the other works played.
42Lilli Lehmann May Return.—It was reported Sunday on excellent authority—that of one of her friends—that Mme. Lilli Lehmann had been engaged by Messrs. Abbey & Grau for their next season of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House.
44The celebrated German prima donna was last seen here during the season of opera given at the Metropolitan just before it was burned. She was taken ill with grip in February, 1892, and for a time it was feared that she would not recover, the disease being aggravated in her case by a predisposition to heart failure. She did recover, however, but was not able to sing again during the season.
46After her return to Europe she retired temporarily from the operatic stage, but only a few months ago it was announced that she would make her reappearance at Bayreuth during the coming season there.
48That there is a prospect of her return to America will be welcome news to her many admirers in this city.—New York Herald.
50A Morning Musicae.—The fifth morning musicae in the series given by Mr. Gustav L. Becker at his home studio, 70 West Ninety-fifth street, for his pupils and their friends, was held last Saturday, when, in spite of the pouring rain, the pretty parlors were well filled. The program follows: Introductory sketch of Mozart and Von Weber; fantasia from C minor sonata, Mozart, with second piano part by Grieg; Momento Capriccio, Von Weber; Das Veilchen, Mozart; Moto Perpetuo, Von Weber; romanza from D minor concerto, Mozart, orchestral part on second piano; romanza and aria from Der Freischütz; fantasia on themes from Figaro, two pianos, eight hands. The object of these musicales is to acquaint the pupils with the lives of famous musicians and the development of the principal art forms, as well as to accustom them to appear in public. They are held twice a month. For the next, on March 14, the regular plan will be set aside and a general program substituted. The plan of these musicales is altogether commendable.
52A Letter from Calvé.—The following communication has been received from Mlle. Calvé:
54To the Editor of the Herald:
55I see in the New York papers that I am supposed to have refused an engagement which Mr. Hammerstein is said to have offered me. May I beg you to insert this letter to contradict all these false reports? I have never seen Mr. Hammerstein, consequently have never refused any offer of his, and I have not as yet signed any engagement for next year.
56Thanking you in advance, believe me, yours very truly,
57EMMA CALVÉ.
59BRUNSWICK HOTEL, BOSTON, Mass., February 28, 1896.
61Just before Mlle. Yvette Guilbert closed her engagement at the Olympia Music Hall Mr. Oscar Hammerstein wrote to Mr. Henry Wolfsohn, the musical agent, that he was willing to pay Mme. Melba any amount of money she might ask for a series of concerts at the music hall. Mr. Wolfsohn replied that Mme. Melba had declined to entertain any such proposition, but that he was about to begin negotiations on Mr. Hammerstein's behalf with Mme. Calvé.
62"I haven't heard anything more from Mr. Wolfsohn," said Mr. Hammerstein yesterday, "and I don't expect to. Of course I never thought that either Mme. Melba or Mme. Calvé would sing at the Olympia, although I was and am perfectly willing to make good my offer if they will accept it. My real object in making the offer was just to worry Mr. Maurice Grau a little if I could, because I thought he treated me rather shabbily in inducing Mlle. Guilbert to leave my management after I had gone to so much expense to bring her over. I presume Mr. Wolfsohn thought I was joking, and answered me in the same spirit. Somebody heard the story, though, and it got into print in a very exaggerated form."—New York Herald.
64Joseffy's Course Approved.—To the Editor of the Tribune—Sir: No person in the enthusiastic audience at Carnegie Music Hall on Saturday evening was more disappointed than I when Joseffy refused an encore after his magnificent performance of the Brahms concerto. I was particularly anxious to hear him play something like Schumann's Warum or a Chopin nocturne, in which genre, I think, he stands almost alone as a pianist. But after my first intense disappointment had passed away, and upon the explanation by Mr. Damrosch that Joseffy didn't wish to play anything after the Brahms concerto, I fully appreciated the situation. I then realized his feeling that he considered it a sacrilege, from his high artistic point of view, to attempt the rendering of anything after this poetic work.
66Now that I have bravely got over my sense of loss in not hearing him play what I had hoped to, I want to thank him for the courage he displayed. If this is to be the beginning of the end of the encore nuisance at classical concerts, which is appropriate only to minstrel shows and opera bouffe, then Joseffy will have rendered an invaluable service to the real lovers of good music.
68New York, March 1, 1896.
69A Layman.
71Sousa's Big Success.—Nothing but the two great oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadas bound the long tours of Sousa and his great concert band. Just now he is peering through the Golden Gate upon the waters of the Pacific, and in a few weeks he will have recrossed the continent and be gazing on the Atlantic at Halifax, N. S. His route to California has been a series of genuine and continuous ovations. In thirty of his fifty dates between Washington and Los Angeles his receipts were, in round numbers, $50,000, the average being between $1,600 and $1,700 per day. We believe we betray no restricted confidence in giving the following receipts from a private letter of Manager Blakely: Philadelphia, in two days, $5,600; Chicago, $3,300; Portland, $3,450; Los Angeles, $5,000.
73In single days, Albany gave $1,500; Troy, $1,752; Milwaukee, $1,400; Minneapolis, $1,600; St. Paul, $1,400; Butler, $1,550; Helena, $2,165; Spokane, $1,750, and Seattle, $1,985; and so it goes. Sousa is always delighting the public in some section of the country, and is always rewarded by constantly increasing popularity and success. All this time the royalties on his music are equally profitable with his concerts. We should call Sousa fortunate if his success were not the legitimate result of undoubted ability and conscientious and continuous effort, supplemented by a management that never sleeps, and never loses an opportunity.
75Germania Orchestra Concert.—The usual Friday afternoon concert given at Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, by the Germania Orchestra, under direction of Mr. Wm. Stoll, Jr., took place February 28, and was well attended. The orchestral program consisted of a rather uninteresting suite, Idyllen, op. 32, of H. A. Lange's, and Beethoven's beautiful symphony in C major, No. 1, which was admirably played. An interesting and enjoyable feature of the concert was the performance of Mendelssohn's capriccio for piano and orchestra, the soloist being Miss Alva Clarke Lochhead, of Aspen, Col., a pupil of Gilbert R. Combs, the director of the Broad Street Conservatory of Music. Miss Lochhead plays like all of Mr. Combs' pupils, in a thoroughly artistic manner, and with an abandon that is seldom found in amateurs. She has a clear liquid touch, her technic is admirable and her true conception of the composition was evidenced by her excellent interpretation. There was a pardonable evidence of nervousness, doubtless arising from the fact that this was her first performance with an orchestra, and also the unfortunate circumstance of her having no rehearsal with the orchestra, owing to the late arrival of her piano.
77The morning papers in commenting on the performance say: "Her playing showed that she had been well taught and possesses much natural ability. She phrases well, has a good touch, and plays with feeling and intelligence." "She has a clear touch and her fingering is skillful. This was seen most in the andante. She, however, was at her best in the second (the march) theme, and gave it brightness and color."
79Answers.
80MUSICIANS residing out of the city or State are, we understand, eligible to membership in the Manuscript Society. As to the requisites for admission, we advise "Western Musicians" to write to the society's secretary.
81No, Emma Eames has no children and her married life is a happy one.
82We do not know Christine Nilsson's address.
83Patti is the real, not the theatre name of Adelina Patti. She was born in Madrid in 1843. Her present husband's name is Nicolini, a variant of his real name, which was Nicolas. He is a Frenchman.
84The orchestra which Mr. Fritz Scheel conducted in San Francisco was called the Philharmonic Orchestra.
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