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Musical Courier 1896-12-23: Vol 33 Iss 877, 1896
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1tion, and that a man, she most nearly approaches the artistic ideal.
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5I notice that mention of a very good concert which occurred December 5 was omitted. Under the auspices of the Chicago Musical College some exceedingly talented members of that famed institution gave a most interesting program. Gertrude Bishop Baker improves wonderfully and played Liszt's Petrarch Sonata and Saint-Saëns' Ker-messe Scene from Faust with great effect. She is a splendid example of Hans van Schiller's teaching. Mr. Harry Truax, lately returned from the East, a pupil of Mrs. Orwin Fox, sang well, in fact establishing himself a favorite with the audience, which, as is usual at these concerts, blocked all passages, and Miss Catherine Hall, the young violinist, who is making enormous strides in her art, and interpreted Lipinski's Military Concerto to the satisfaction even of Bernhard Listemann, who was her accompanist. This gifted girl has a fine career before her, for indeed I have heard only one other young violinist of late who is so naturally dowered musically. Other interesting numbers were given by Ida Belle Field, Adelaide Zick, Edith Jackson, Henrietta Kendrick and Bernhard Niemann and Lewis Blackman. Genevieve Clark Wilson has been engaged for a number of concerts and sings in The Messiah at Racine, December 17; Chicago, 21; Milwaukee, 22; Louisville, 29; Madison, January 21, and has several other dates still under negotiation. She sang at the Illinois Club, December 10, and is to be heard with the Apollos next Monday.
7Grafton G. Baker, the tenor, has been engaged for The Messiah at Madison, Wis., January 21.
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11Mme. Dove Boetti, who was obliged by legal necessities to go to Italy, writes that she hopes to return to America shortly. She says: "I still wish to return to Chicago because I am convinced there are the voices and the talent, which only require proper development." Mme. Boetti is surrounded by artists who were her old companions in art years ago, and as many of her old pupils recommence their studies January 1 there is rejoicing at Mme. Boetti's presence in Milan once more.
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15To-day the Chicago Musical College inaugurates its Saturday concerts in Händel Hall in place of Apollo Hall. This is the program:
16Sonate for flute and piano, op. 17, Meyer-Olbersleben
17Curt Baumhack and Hans von Schiller
18Violin, Ballade et Polonaise, Vieuxtemps
19Piano—Franz Hladky.
20Petrarca Sonett, E major, Liszt
21St. Francisus Walking on the Waves, Hans von Schiller.
22Vocal, Sing, Smile, Slumber, Gounod
23Edna M. Crawford.
24(Violin obligato, Franz Hladky.)
25Piano—
26Nocturne, Chopin
27Islena, Paladilhe-Saint-Saëns
28Hans von Schiller.
29Vocal, Rect. ed Aria A te riede, Il Crociato in Egitto, Mercadante
30Mabel F. Shorey.
31Violin—
32Spanischer Tanz, Sarasate
33Biene, Schubert
34Franz Hladky.
35Vocal, duet, The Gypsies, Brahms
36Edna M. Crawford and Mabel F. Shorey.
38The college closed to-day until the 26th and the next matinée will be January 1.
39FLORENCE FRENCH.
41Harlem Philharmonic Society.
43MR. HENRY THOMAS FLECK was a proud and happy man last Thursday evening, and no wonder, for the first concert of the Harlem Philharmonic Society, with an orchestra of fifty men (and one woman harpist) and Mlle. Camille Seygard, soprano, soloist, was a success. The opera house music hall was filled with the crème de la crème of our uptown society, and the occasion must have been gratifying to the many enterprising women who have organized and so successfully carried on this complex musical society. The officers are: President, Mrs. Thomas H. Newman; first vice-president, Mrs. Jarrett Blodgett; second vice-president, Mrs. Ashbel P. Fitch; secretary, Mrs. Seabury C. Mastick; treasurer, Mrs. Isaac Mills; executive committee, Mrs. Charles R. Treat, chairman; Mrs. George W. Best, chairman music committee.
45Birdice Blye.
47MISS BIRDICE BLYE, the gifted young pianist, who recently returned from Europe, is meeting with great success in concert. Miss Blye has been prominent in musical circles both here and abroad for a number of years.
49Miss Blye's musical gifts were so pronounced even in childhood that it was deemed advisable to give her a thorough musical education. When ten years old she appeared in concert in London and other European cities. She aroused great enthusiasm, and her wonderful talents won her marked attentions in leading musical and society circles. She studied at the Academy in London, and at the examinations won two medals for the piano and four certificates for harmony and composition. She then concertized for a time, and before she was yet in her teens had won a reputation as one of the most talented and promising young artists of the time.
51After a short tour in this country Miss Blye resumed her studies with Edmund Neupert, who wrote expressly for and dedicated to her one of his best compositions, the only pupil to whom he ever accorded such a distinction. After his untimely decease she studied with Joseffy, and is no doubt indebted to him for that facile technic and that delicate grace and charm of expression that make her playing so attractive. After concertizing in the principal Eastern cities Miss Blye returned for the third time to Europe and entered the Berlin Royal High School for a course of three years, taking piano with the director, Professor Rudorff; composition and ensemble with Dr. Bargiel, half-brother to Mme. Clara Schumann, and musical form with Dr. Philipp Spitta, director of the Royal School of Arts and lecturer at the University, and who became one of her warmest friends and admirers.
53Hearing of Miss Blye's talents Rubinstein invited her to play for him, and he was so impressed with her many musical qualities, her wonderful technic and poetical interpretations that at his suggestion she went to Dresden and continued under his instruction for some time. He took great interest in her, and always introduced her as "the coming great American pianist."
55Miss Blye was that kind of a pupil whose conscientious work and perseverance call forth the best inspirations of a teacher, and her talent and winning personality won her the warmest sympathy and friendship of all her instructors. Miss Blye has written very entertainingly of the famous masters under whom she has studied; the article on Rubinstein and von Bülow appeared in THE MUSICAL COURIER some time ago. It attracted the attention of prominent authors, and she was invited to rewrite it in a more extended form and read it at their annual convention, June, 1895. They afterward published it in a leading periodical.
57Last winter Miss Blye made an extended tour through the principal Western cities, where, according to the press, her "triumphs were the most pronounced and remarkable of any artist who had ever concertized in the West."
59Miss Blye has a large clientele of friends in leading society circles in New York city and has already many engagements for musicales and concerts in and out of the city, and has promise of a busy season.
61Second Becker Musicales.
63THE second of the series of lecture-musicales on Dance-forms given by Mr. Gustav L. Becker for his pupils and their friends was held on Saturday morning on the subject Court Dances.
65The program was almost entirely made up of piano numbers and was divided into two parts by the dancing of the minuet in costume by a graceful young lady. The music room, in which the dance was executed, was lighted by candles, and the picture presented was one not soon to be forgotten. Mrs. Becker gave a brief description of the dances played, considered historically and from the standpoint of the composer. The program follows:
67Minuet, Boccherini (two pianos, eight hands); minuet, Chaminade; minuet in modern style, G. L. Becker; minuet danced to the music in Don Giovanni; gavot in G. Bach; gavot, Gluck-Brahms; gavot in E. Bach-Joseffy (left hand alone); saraband, Couperin; saraband, Bach; courante, Händel; gigue, Bach; gigue, Mattheson; polonaise: Bach; Polka Bohême, Rubinstein.
69The rooms were filled to overflowing with an interested audience. The next and last of the series of lectures on dance forms will be on the subject The Waltz, and the program will be made up entirely of waltzes, vocal and instrumental, to show the versatility possible within the limits of this form. After this series the regular course of lecture-musicales will be resumed.
71English Humor.—Under the curious heading of Jean de Reszké, Angel (Limited), it is authoritatively announced that the eminent tenor has headed a syndicate of fifteen people, at £200 each, formed by his brother-in-law, Mr. Willie Schultz, to produce Daudet's L'Arlésienne in English, with Bizet's music, Miss Agnes Booth playing the chief part.
73Another Discovery.—Georg Mäschel, of Dresden, makes a revelation to the Leipzic Tagblatt that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was not composed by Beethoven, but by Georg's papa, Carl Ernst Mäschel, when he attended school at Grimma in 1818-24.
75CARL RECITAL TOUR.
77DATES NOW BEING FILLED:
78December 10—Lynchburg, Va.
79" 11—Bridgeport, Conn.
80" 12—New York.
81" 14—Wilson College for Women (Pennsylvania).
82" 17—Musical Art Society, New York (Mr. Frank Damrosch).
83" 18—Mrs. Antonia H. Sawyer's Musicale, Hotel Waldorf, New York.
84" 18—Lenox Choral Society, New York.
85" 19—Recital, First Presbyterian Church, New York, 4 p. m.
87ADDRESS:
889 West 22d Street,
89NEW YORK.
91HEINRICH MEYN,
92BARITONE.
93Concert, Oratorio, Opera.
94Address PHIPPS & ALPUENTE,
9521 East 20th Street, NEW YORK.
97ANTONIA H.
98SAWYER,
99Contralto.
100ADDRESS:
101218 West 44th Street,
102NEW YORK.
104SECOND RECITAL
105—BY—
106Mr. PERRY AVERILL, Baritone,
107Mr. ORTON BRADLEY, Pianist.
108Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall,
109THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, at 8:30 P. M.
110CONCERT DIRECTION H. M. HIRSCHBERG.
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