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Musical Courier 1897-01-13: Vol 34 Iss 880, 1897
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1BEECHER used to say, "You can't get a quart in a pint measure," referring to man's mental (in) capacity, and this applies as well to the problem which here confronts me.
3My editor says "Only two columns this week, Mr. G. G." (which the same stands for the above caption, just as we write pup for "pupil," &c.), and here I have at least four columns of "stuff" (no, not stuffing), as ye printer calls these literary gems of mine!
5Writes K. M. R. to me from Buffalo: "I never enjoyed a journal as I do THE MUSICAL COURIER, and feel at the end of the week that I have not half devoured it! I have the most intense yearning, after reading your RAconteur column, Gossip, &c., to 'pack up and git' to Gotham. It is no wonder, after these many years of reading your paper, that musicians move to New York!" Exactly.
7Mr. J. Frank Leve is a talented and energetic young American pianist and teacher, for four years a pupil of the late Neupert; with twenty of his pupils he gave a concert in Chickering Hall last Tuesday, which drew a full house. Sundry persons of various ages, ranging from eight to twenty years, participated in a very varied and interesting program. Miss Bessie Bernstein, played Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu brilliantly; Mr. Frank Cohen, excelled in his performance of the Liszt E major Polonaise Héroïque; young Eli Nathan played Serenade, Jensen; Melodie in F, Rubinstein; Träumerei, Schumann, surprisingly well for a twelve year old, and little eight year old Hilda Lewin showed what talent and practice together can accomplish in the Prelude No. 5, by Chopin, and a Mozart andante. Another important number was the Moonlight Sonata, played by Miss Estelle Schlesinger, with individuality and understanding. Apart from those just mentioned, the following also participated, either in solo or ensemble numbers: Misses Dorothea von Bremen, Hedwig Wormen, Lillian Arnstein, Lillian Jacobs, Helen Hildesheimer, Bertie Stein, Gertrude Cohen, Mabel Siegel, Gertrude Mayer, Lillian Dorman, Sadie W. Satenstein, and Sydney Ballin. Miss Minnie Louise—I once knew a girl who persisted in writing this name "Lousie"—Miss Minnie Louise Wittkowski, soprano, and Mr. Chas. W. Saacke, violinist, assisted, the former singing a Samson and Dalilia aria, and the latter playing the violin part in a Beethoven sonata duo. Mr. Leve should refuse to pay the printer who printed his large posters. That personage printed "Grand Pupil Concert, Giving by ***" &c. His studio residence is 54 East Eighty-ninth street. Run in there some time and hear his precocious little daughter play!
9" Bright and energetic" certainly applies to the qualities possessed by Mrs. Florence Buckingham Joyce, accompanist, who came here from Utica two years ago, and has limited herself to her one specialty. The degree of success she has achieved may be judged from the following list of artists for whom she plays: Mrs. Sawyer, Mrs. Bloodgood, Kate Percy Douglass, Miss Nora M. Greene, Miss Bucklin, Charles Herbert Clarke, George W. Fergusson, David Manes. Said the Middletown Daily Times:
11Many complimentary remarks were heard regarding the delightful manner in which the piano accompaniments were played.
13Mrs. Joyce exhibited unusually good taste and judgment in the discharge of her duties as accompanist, and contributed in no small measure to the success of the soloists.
15Said Mr. Angelo De Prosse to a university which wanted to give him the Mus. Doc. title: "No, thank you, I don't care to have my music doctored!" Mr. De Prosse is a cosmopolite, speaking German, French, English equally well. He came here from Chicago a year ago, and is now at 13 West Twenty-second street. Said the Chicago Evening Post:
17* * * For twelve years Angelo De Prosse has been the organist and musical director at Sinai Temple, and in all that time he has given perfect satisfaction. He has not only delighted the members of the congregation with his fine organ playing, but he has raised the standard of musical performance in the choir to the highest point. * * *
18Mr. De Prosse came to Chicago in 1879, and soon after became the director of the musical department of Perry Hall, Lake Forest. While here he did excellent work, and many of the leading society ladies of Chicago received their musical education from him. * * * While Mr. De Prosse holds an enviable position as a pianist and instructor, he is equally well known as an organist and composer.
20Madame Louise von Feilitzsch needs no better advertisement of her ability and discernment than the mention of the fact that she "discovered" Evan Williams. (See the Williams sketch on another page.) This lady spent some years in Cleveland, Ohio, as vocal teacher, where she was fairly swamped with pupils. A couple of years ago she went abroad, and returning last fall established herself at the Grand Hotel, Broadway and Thirty-first street. Her musical enthusiasm knows no bounds, and as she is as bright, energetic and attractive an American woman as you ever see (her husband was, as the name implies, of the German nobility), I prophesy for her much success. Mr. W. Henry Zay, baritone, now assistant to Shakespere in London, was her pupil and assistant in Cleveland. He is also a composer of promise. Mrs. Blanche Stone Barton (sister of Marie Stone, of the Bostonians) is another pupil.
22One of his promising pupils is Bertha Shalek, a young soprano. He is at work on a comic opera, Diana, libretto by Fralick. I was pleased to meet Mr. Edward Cary, a Stuttgart pupil, now organist of the Church of Eternal Hope, at Mr. De Prosse's.
24Stuttgart reminds me that there Miss May Brown, violinist, of 121 West Seventy-first street, studied for several years with Edmund Singer; she was also a pupil of the late Clifford Schmidt. She teaches in Mrs. Hicks' school at Summit, N. J., and played last summer at the Earlington musicales, Richfield Springs. Miss Brown and Miss Foster, pianist, arranged a concert at Park Hill club house, Yonkers, recently, which was successful. Next season she expects to appear more on the concert stage.
26The following is part of a letter from a former pupil of Madame Eugenie Pappenheim (studio, The Strathmore, corner Broadway and Fifty-second street):
28"For most students of vocal music Paris seems the Mecca, the only place where there are good teachers, and where their slumbering talents may be awakened and fully developed. One of Mme. Pappenheim's pupils caught the Paris rage last season, and the following is an extract from a letter which a sister of the young lady, who also studies with Pappenheim, received a few weeks ago:
30"'As far as my vocal studies are concerned, my teachers tell me that I am getting along very nicely, but I feel differently. Teachers in Paris are so different to what I thought them to be; their only object seems to be to make as much money as possible out of their 'victims,' their pupils from America. Oh, that I only had a lesson from Mme. Pappenheim again. I have not found a teacher like her in Paris.'
32"This is a great compliment for Mme. Pappenheim, and a warning at the same time to all those who imagine that good teachers can only be found by going abroad. We have as good teachers in every branch of music right here in New York city as anywhere in Europe."
34Mr. Gwilym Miles, the baritone, of 259 West 122d street, a cousin of tenor Evan Williams, received many complimentary notices of his singing in The Messiah, in Buffalo, last week. He came here from St. Louis, Mo., not long ago, and is singing in church and concert constantly. These Welshmen are chock full of music: There's Williams, Ffrangcon-Davies, Miles, James Sauvage—a whole nest of them here in New York! Said the Brooklyn Times of recent date: "Mr. Miles is possessed of a magnificent voice, was recalled twice after singing Schumann's Two Grenadiers, and even then the warmth of his welcome scarcely abated." And the Orange News: "Mr. Miles made the hit of the evening. His delivery of Schumann's noble song was thrilling, and he had to come back and sing another song. Again a storm of applause called him out, but he contented himself with bowing."
36Mr. George Francis Bauer has a young brother, a boy of sixteen, named William, who has been studying the violin in Germany for the past four years. He returns this spring, and expects to appear in concert next season.
38Mr. Alfred Hallam's Mount Vernon Musical Society gave The Messiah recently, and this is what the Record said:
40The central figure, of course, was Conductor Hallam. He perhaps never worked harder, certainly never before was more enthusiastic, with his heart wholly in his work—a splendid inspiration in making the whole the grand success in every way it undoubtedly was.
42Mr. Hallam was warmly congratulated at the conclusion by enthusiastic admirers, who pressed forward to shake his hand.
44Miss Marie Bissell, is pretty nearly the busiest woman in New York! Seventy vocal lessons weekly, now and for twelve years past soprano of the Broadway Tabernacle, conductor of a Bridgeport women's chorus of sixty voices (two concerts each season), member of various prominent local organizations, she has her hands full. Her pa has just finished thirty years' service as organist in New Hartford, and her mother was a prominent singer there, so you see Miss M. B. comes by her talent naturally! Her studio is 133 East Sixteenth street.
46Here's a conundrum for you: Why is New York like Holland? Because it has a Lotta Mills in it! Yours,
47F. W. RIESBERG.
49Lambert Musicale.—A musicale will be given at the New York Musical College of Music, Alexander Lambert, director, on Sunday afternoon, January 11, at 3 p. m. The following artists will appear: Mme. Emma Juch, Messrs. Alexander Lambert, Ericsson Bushnell, Hans Kronold and George Lehman.
51MONTEFIORE, . . .
52Dramatic Soprano.
53Concerts and Oratorios. Write for reference and repertory care of THE MUSICAL COURIER, Union Square West, New York.
55SOUSA AND HIS MEN
56ASSISTED BY
57ELIZABETH NORTHRUP,
58Soprano.
59and
60MARTINA JOHNSTONE,
61Violiniste.
62are on their 21,000 mile journey
63Watch for them.
64Home Office: Carnegie Hall.
66FRANZ WILCZEK,
67The Austrian Violinist.
68MR. and MRS. WILCZEK,
69Violin Duets.
70Bach, Sarasate, Godard, &c., &c.
71ADDRESS WOLFSON'S MUSICAL BUREAU,
72New York.
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