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Musical Courier 1897-05-12: Vol 34 Iss 897, 1897
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1Foerster, Miss Pinkham, Mr. J. Skenk, Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun, Mr. J. Arthur Bromwell, Miss Rosalinde Billing, Mrs. Amanda Simon, Miss Sanders, Mr. Jean Simon, Mr. John J. Benhem, Mr. F. S. Bellevue, Mr. Sawyer, Dr. Hector de Marchena, Dr. A. L. Castillo, Miss Florry, Mr. George Von der Hiyde, Mr. Paul Swolfs, Mr. Paul De Marcier and Victor Thrane.
3Society was well represented in the large audience present at the Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall when Miss Marie Seymour Bissell gave her ninth annual musicale for her pupils. Among those present were Miss Grace Allan, Miss Mary Beach, Miss Fannie Foote, Miss Edith Hosen, the Misses Williams, Mrs. Leila Wood, Mrs. G. H. C. Ensworth and Mrs. Fred Hovey. one of two readings
4Society was well represented in the large audience present at the Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall when Miss Marie Seymour Bissell gave her ninth annual musicale for her pupils. Among those present were Miss Grace Allan, Miss Mary Beach, Miss Fannie Foote, Miss Edith Hozen, the Misses Williams, Mrs. Leila Wood, Mrs. G. H. C. Ensworth and Mrs. Fred Hovey. one of two readings
6Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Huntington Gardner, of 607 Fifth avenue, gave a musicale and reception to the members of the Emma Willard Association on Friday afternoon last. The president of the association is Mrs. Russell Sage, and among its officers are Mrs. Charles H. Gardner, Mrs. J. Romeyn Mallory, Mrs. Hiram Schoonmaker and Mrs. John P. Munn. Among its members and invited guests were Miss Helen Gould, Miss Bashford Dean, Miss Christine Terhune Herrick, Miss Kate Upson Clark, Miss Margaret Sangster, Miss Margaret Welch, Mrs. Austin Flint, Mrs. Eastman Johnson, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
8The following musical program was given:
9Piano solo, Sorrentina………………………………………Lack
10Mrs. Mary H. Metcalf.
11Song, All Through the Night……………………………….Miss Lottie G. Langstaff.
12Piano solo, Minuet…………………………………………..Paderewski
13Miss Inez E. French.
14Piano solo, Air de Ballet……………………………………Chaminade
15Miss Gladys Vivian.
16Waltz Song…………………………………………………….Torry
17Miss Kate Laimbeer Abbott.
18Piano solo, La Naidé……………………………………….Thorne
19Miss May C. Hueston.
20Song, Doris…………………………………………………….Nevin
21Miss Martha B. Caldwell.
22Piano solo, Song of the Brook……………………………..Lack
23Miss Inez R. Levy.
24Song, Sognai………………………………………………….Schira
25Miss Alice G. Price.
26Violin solo, Fantaisie……………………………………….J. Daube
27Miss Helen G. Forsdick.
28Piano solo, Spring Dawn Mazurka………………………..Mason
29Miss Sarah T. Shepherd.
30Recitation, Selections………………………………………Miss Maud Mather.
31Duet, Le Grace……………………………………………..Bohm
32Eleanor M. Cox and Ethel F. Havens.
34Among the delightful receptions given recently was that which Mrs. Alfred Mills Judson, president of the National Society of New England Women, gave to its members at her residence, No. 302 West Eighty-ninth street. About 250 were present, and the feature of the afternoon was the singing of Miss Blanche Duffield, who gave Dell' Acqua's Vilanelle, and other selections. This young lady received enthusiastic praise for her charming, unaffected manner joined to a lovely voice. Mme. Doria Devine accompanied her songs, and was warmly congratulated upon her pupil's success.
36Quite the most quaintly attractive and novel entertainment for many a day was that given by the Young People's Club on Saturday last at the house of Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones, No. 222 Madison avenue. Following are the members of this artistic organization, and when it is considered that the oldest member is barely fourteen years old their work seems really marvelous:
37First Violins—Phebe Bogart, Oscar Roos, Henry Rossiter Worthington, George Jones, Gilbert E. Jones, Jr.
38Second Violins—Margaret Judson, Dorothy Perry, Charles Worthington.
39Cellos—Miss Helen Collins, E. W. Putnam.
40Emil Gramm, director.
42It is an encouraging sign of the times to know that these youngsters are encouraged to develop the artistic side of their natures, and it may mean that in time a race of critics will spring up to displace entirely the blase' or stupid audiences too often found in fashionable circles.
44After the tableau Christmas Music within Monastery Walls," the long white monk's cloak was retained by the performers, and the effect was indescribably quaint and pretty. This bit of costuming seemed to accord well with their evident earnest spirit.
46Orchestra—
47Volksliedchen……………………………………………..Komzak
48Märchen…………………………………………………….Tableau, Baggage de Croquemitaine………………………………………Paul Chapin, F. Kirkland, Tom Kirkland, Gilbert E. Jones.
49Quartet, Canzonetta………………………………………George Jones, H. Rossiter Worthington, E. W. Putnam.
50Tableau, I Am Grandpapa……………………………….Miss Elsie Schefer, Eleanor Lee.
51Musical tableau, Christmas Music within Monastery Walls…Tableau, Blanchisseuse………………………………………Miss Gertrude Smith.
52Violin solo, Mignon Fantaisie……………………………..Singelee
53Master Alex. Hackel.
54Tableau, My Sister Is Out………………………………..Cornelia Lee, Margery Curtis, George and Gilbert E. Jones, Jr.
55'Cello solo, Berceuse………………………………………Godard
56E. W. Putnam.
58Tableau—
59The Two Gourmands…………………………………….Bouguereau
60Spring Flowers……………………………………………Gilbert E. Jones.
62Orchestra—
63Babilage…………………………………………………….Gillet
64Au Moulin………………………………………………….Gillet one of two readings
65Au Moulin…………………………………………………Gillet one of two readings
67Among the mothers and friends who applauded were Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones, Mrs. Charles C. Worthington, Mrs. George Andrews, Mrs. H. S. Kingsley, Mrs. Reginald Wenshaw Ward, Mrs. Leon Marié, Miss Julia Henry, Miss Von Stade, Miss Bessie Bradhurst, Miss Frances Ogden Jones and Mr. Peter Marié.
69Nordica in Bayreuth.
71JANE WHITCOMB desired to know, in the last issue of this paper, who sang Lohengrin to Nordica's Elsa in Bayreuth in 1894, and we publish a few statements in reply:
7324 West Seventy-Fifth Street, City, May 6.
74Editors The Musical Courier:
75I see one of your correspondents wants to know who sang with Nordica in Lohengrin at Bayreuth in 1894. We heard her sing with Van Dyk and I have the program before me. A. HENRICKS.
76Mrs. Charles H. Kloman, Montclair, N. J., mails to us a Lohengrin program of Bayreuth, dated Friday, July 20, 1894, with the following cast:
77Heinrich der Vogler………………………………………Herr Grengg
78Lohengrin………………………………………………….Herr Van Dyk one of two readings
79Lohengrin…………………………………………………Herr Van Dyk one of two readings
80Elsa von Brabant…………………………………………Frl. Nordica one of two readings
81Elsa von Brabant………………………………………….Frl. Nordica one of two readings
82Friedrich von Telramund…………………………………Herr Popovic
83Ortrud………………………………………………………Frl. Brema
84However, on this program it is stated in lead pencil: "At short notice and without a rehearsal Emil Geerhäuser sang in Van Dyk's place." We have returned the program to Mrs. Kloman.
86Defending Reszke.
87Editors The Musical Courier:
88In The Musical Courier, of the 14th of April, 1897, I found quite a few remarks pertaining to Mons. Jean de Reszke and his salary. The writer of those lines indulges to call the salaries paid, to that noted singer, by the Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau Co., a fraud.—Why, who pays him the money, the Opera Co., or the writer of those lines?—If it does not go out of his pocket, what business is it of his?—I thought, the pages, of The Musical Courier, were devoted to Art criticisms?! It is more interesting, to the music-loving people, how a singer sings, than what his salary is.
90The Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau Co. endeavored to give us Opera performances of a first class character and have succeeded admirably, for the performances were, with a very few exceptions, very good, some even most excellent and the thanks, they receive from, I am glad to say the minority of the press, consists in offenses and attacks, against the salaries paid to their first tenor.
92Jean de Reszke does not need America, he can find audiences, that will recognize the excellency of his singing and acting, on any part of the European continent. Furthermore it is not the foreigner Jean de Reszke who was paid, but the singer, and where is the American singer who can but reach him?! Find him, if you can!
94On page 19, of the same number, it is mentioned, that Herr Doeme, Mme. Nordica's husband, sang "Parcival," at Bayreuth, a few years ago, but with no word, the manner of his rendering the rôle, is mentioned. Well, Mr. Doeme sang "Parcival" in 1894, but, luckily for the hearers, only once, and why did he sing it? Not because he was invited, to do it, but because Mme. Nordica threatened to leave Bayreuth, if Mr. Doeme would not be allowed to sing "Parcival." Ask some one, who heard him and see, what you will hear about his singing. Not very much, that will sound complimentary; I am sure.
96That the management was bankrupted, was not the fault, of the singers, but that of the ignorant American audiences, that do not know a good thing, when they see or hear it.
98True greatness will always cause the knownothingdom to rise against it and Jean de Reszke does not need to be afraid of those enemys, who only work, in the dark and haul, from their save corners; who are afraid, the light cast by genius may hurt their eyes and may show their envy, which they conciel, under the glittering cloak of a tribune of Art. Jealous little creatures, who attack every body and every thing, that stands above them and treat every body, as an enemy, that has to much honor, as to associate, with such dwarfs, who dwell, in the perpetual darkness of intellectual poverty; their highest ambition being to calumniate.
100H. B.
102IT is no one's business what Reszke's salary is. The press has no business to exist. If a paper tells the truth, its motive should at once be assailed by all who differ with it. Jean Reszke does not need America; that's the reason he comes here every year when a contract is offered to him. He can earn more in Europe than he earns here, but they pay him less there because they do not appreciate a great artist over there as we do here. Europe is not in it with Reszke, and that's the reason he comes here, particularly because he wants to learn how to spell English and vote with Tammany against gold if he can get more silver than he gets gold now, and turn around and sell that silver at a price that will bring him more gold net in Europe. Nit?
104Yes, the opera company paid Reszke the salary, and then it busted. That is very good, because it always happens just that way in God's own country. Why shouldn't it? We can increase our tariff rates when we are Republicans, and when we are Democrats we can sell bonds to raise the money. We are the chumps of the age, and we ought to be happy, and we believe we are.
106David Mannes' Success.—Godard's Concerto Romantique was Mannes' chief number, played with orchestra at the Sunday night people's concert, Carnegie Hall, Mr. Frank Damrosch, conductor. He received three recalls after his performance of this seldom heard work, and two enthusiastic encores following the Prize Song from The Meistersinger. Mr. Mannes will spend the summer in study in Germany, and on his return will be heard with some of our large musical societies.
108Albert Lockwood Is Busy.—Mr. Lockwood hurried from the last Musurgia concert to play at the Joseph Jefferson supper at the Union League Club. May 1 he played these numbers at the Bartenweffer concert, Steinway Hall:
109Sonata in E minor………………………………………Grieg
110Ballade, G minor………………………………………Chopin one of two readings
111Ballade, G minor……………………………………….Chopin one of two readings
112Polonaise, A flat……………………………………….Chopin
113May 4 he played at the Bloomingdale Nursery Charity Concert at the Majestic, and he has filled a number of private engagements recently, his services as pianist for musicales and matinee soirées being in constant demand.
115Dr. Dufft and Miss Gaertner in Plainfield, N. J.—The Midmer Glee Club, of which Mr. W. E. MacClymont is musical director, had a very successful concert last week. The Daily Press said:
116Dr. Dufft was at his best. His selections had been well chosen to show his clear and powerful voice. Miss Gaertner had perfect command of her instrument, and the full, rich tones were greatly appreciated by the many music lovers present.
117William E. MacClymont, musical director of the club, played two piano solos, one of which, Polka Caprice, was his own latest composition. It was well received.
118The club itself met with an enthusiastic reception. Its selections were of different styles and showed well the versatile talent of the club. The number Hushed in Slumber Deep, by Dr. Dufft and the club, was particularly well rendered.
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