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Musical Courier 1897-05-12: Vol 34 Iss 897, 1897
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1Brooklyn
3Brooklyn Office The Musical Courier, 539 Fulton Street, May 10, 1907.
5WHO was it said that accompanists are born, not made? Well, it's too bad that more of them are not born, or that the manufactured ones don't go out of the profession. Singers! violinists! just imagine the joy of never having any other than a born accompanist! Audiences, just fancy the delirious joy of listening to a singer or a 'cellist or a violinist where the ensemble is not a case of "if you get there before I do, tell them I am coming too"; where the accompanist doesn't throw in accents, staccatos, sforzandos and things where they will do the most harm; where he doesn't bang out the minors and hush up the majors; where just as the singer is going to work up to a dramatic climax he makes a largo and ritard because,
7Like the pianist from Rio,
8Who attempted a Beethoven trio
9His technic was scanty,
10And he played it andante
11Instead of allegro con brio.
13It was this beautiful poem, by the way, that first attracted me to The Musical Courier all of—well, a great many years ago.
15No, I'm not done yet. I want to say a few words about the other kind of accompanist. I mean the man who knows it all and who wants to show you that no singer is worth more than a mere obligato to his virtuosity, where his personality is obtruded upon you above all possible charm that the singer may possess. Then there is the accompanist who would rather dispense with the keyboard than with the pedals. Yes, indeed, when it comes to manufacture accompanists they come in assorted styles and sizes. To use a Raconteurism, I feel better now!
17The affair of great prominence this week was the service of the American Guild of Organists given at the New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday evening. The elaborate program was magnificently given, with the exception of the Palestrina Processional Hymn, in which the choir pulled hard away from the organ for a few of the opening bars, after which everything ran very smoothly. This was the musical program given:
18Voluntary, Preludium and Andante………….Rheinberger
19Mr. Herve D. Wilkins, of Rochester.
20Services and anthem, Venite Exultemus Domino……Arthur Foote
21Mr. Abram Ray Tyler, Brooklyn.
22Anthem, Holy Redeemer………………………..Fauré
23Mr. Charles H. Morse, Brooklyn.
24As It Began to Dawn……………………………Dudley Buck
25Mr. G. Waring Stebbins, Brooklyn, with solos by Mrs. Etta Miller Orchard, soprano; Mrs. Tirzah Hamlen-Ruland, contralto, and Mr. Chas. Stuart Phillips, tenor.
26Offertory…………………………………………Tours
27Congregational hymn…………………………….Monk
28Voluntary Grave, allegro maestre e vivace (Sonata II.). Mendelssohn
29Mr. Richard V. Percy, New York.
30Recessional………………………………………Dykes
32(no line here) one of two readings
33The chorus was formed from the choirs of the Emmanuel Baptist, First Presbyterian, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian, New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal and Plymouth churches, the personnel of which is: Sopranos, Miss Minnie E. Gaylord, Miss Mabel Mackenzie, Mrs. J. C. Newkirk Mrs. Etta Miller Orchard, Miss Julia E. Terrell; tenors, Mr. Fred A. Grant, Mr. Vernon Hughes, Mr. George Semour Lenox, Mr. George Leon Moore, Mr. Sidney L. Taylor; contraltos, Miss Agnes Anderson, Miss Antoinette Cooke, Miss Miriam Gilmer, Mrs. Tirzah Hamlen-Ruland, Miss Hattie T. Sweeney; bassos, Dr. J. Frederic Gillette, Mr. Henry Allen Price, Mr. Frederic Reddall, Mr. Royal Stone Smith, Mr. Edwin J. Webster.
35Dr. Lyman Abbott gave the address. The officers for 1897-8 are: Honorary president, Dudley Buck; warden, Gerrit Smith, Mus. Doc.; sub-warden, R. Huntington Woodman; chaplain, Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, D.D.; secretary, Henry G. Hanchett, M. D.; registrar, Will C. Macfarlane; treasurer, Walter J. Hall; librarian, Sumner Salter; auditors, John S. Camp, Frank Taft.
37On Wednesday night the first concert of the Central Glee Club of the Y. M. C. A., with Mr. Clarence T. Steele as director, gave a concert in Association Hall. This club is formed from the sight-singing class which was established by Mr. Steele this fall, and in point of this fact the work done was highly creditable in every sense. Mr. Steele had the assistance of Miss M. Louise Mundell, contralto; Chevalier J. Niedzielski, violinist; the ladies' Tuesday night class, and Mr. Joseph Loerman, accompanist.
39Miss Mundell, whose delightful and well trained voice cannot be heard too often by those who appreciate a beautiful natural voice under high cultivation, sang with her customary success:
40Now Thou Art Mine…………………………….Meyer Helmund
41Cradle Song………………………………………Homer-Norris
42Thy Beaming Eyes……………………………….MacDowell
43If I but Knew……………………………………Wilson G. Smith
45Mr. Steele sang in an agreeable light tenor Trotére's Asthore.
47Chevalier Niedzielski gave some violin numbers that wrought the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. The accompaniments were inadequate. The audience was large and appreciative.
49On the same evening the New England Society of Brooklyn gave an evening of readings and music from the works of New England authors and composers to an invited assembly. The success of the evening was unqualified, due to the charming hospitality of the prime movers in this affair, and the excellence of the program presented.
51Mr. Frederic Reddall gave as prelude some interesting historic notes. The chorus, composed of Miss Ethel Anne Chamberlain, soprano; Miss Hildegard Hoffmann, soprano; Miss Gertrude Black, contralto; Mrs. Tirzah Hamlen Ruland, contralto, and the Dudley Buck Quartet, whose personnel is: Mr. H. E. Distelhurst, Mr. William Luton Wood, Mr. Everett S. Swalm, and Mr. Frederic Reddall, sang some ancient church music, Lift Up Your Heads, Hopkins, and O Lord Our Governor, Marcello. Miss Grace D. Rider read selections from James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier and Edmund Clarence Stedman. The Dudley Buck Quartet sang Speed Away (L. H. Sigourney), The Old Oaken Bucket, J. B. Woodbury, Katydid(Oliver Wendell Holmes), J. H. Brewer, The Old Granite State, of Hutchinson, was sung by Miss Chamberlain, Mrs. Ruland, Mr. Distelhurst, Mr. Swalm. The ladies of this quartet, in addition to Miss Black and Miss Hoffmann, sang a group of dainty songs by Margaret Deland and Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. The West Wind, Bryant, J. C. D. Parker, was beautifully given by Miss Chamberlain, Mrs. Ruland, Mr. Distelhurst and Mr. Reddall. The solos sung were: My Lady, J. G. Whittier, George Osgood, by Mr. Distelhurst. Raft Song, M. Deland, E. Nevin; Burst Ye Apple Buds, Long, Stephen Embry, by Miss Chamberlain; The Three Singers, Longfellow, Tours, by Mrs. Ruland, in a voice of superb quality and with great delicacy of interpretation; The Creole Love Song, Stedman, Buck, by Frederic Reddall. The hymn, The Song of the Landing, Hemans Brown, by the chorus and the audience closed a most delightful program.
53On Tuesday evening Mr. Hugo Troetschell, of the German Evangelical Church, gave a fine organ recital, in which Miss Hildegard Hoffmann participated, to the pleasure of all present. The great educational work, however, is shown by the appended program, which was the first of a series of free recitals in which Mr. Troetschell presents organ works from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries: 1419-1473 (German school), Conrad Paumann.—Andante from the Fundamentum organisandi.
541510-1586 (Italian school), Andrea Gabrieli.—Ricercara (Doric).
551514-1594 (Italian school), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.—Crucifixus, from the Missa Pape Macelli.
561583-1604 (Italian school), Claudio Merulo.—Toccata del Terzo Tuono.
571588-1623 (English school), William Byrd.—Pavane, the Earl of Salisbury.
581663-1683 (French school), Jean Titelouze.—Verset, de l'Hymne Exsultet Coelum.
591588-1644 (Italian school), Girolamo Frescobaldi.—Fantasia about the Cuckoo's call.
601587-1654 (German school), Samuel Scheidt.—Prelude, Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund.
611685-1707 (German school) Georg Muffat.—Toccata.
621685-1695 (German school), Johann Jacob Froberger.—Capriccio.
631687-1707 (German school), Dietrich Buxtehude.—Choral, Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzgleich.
641658-1706 (German school) Johann Pachelbel.—Ciacona.
66If students in the field of music would watch for these bits of intellectual food they could themselves improve the musical atmosphere, which would be vastly more advantageous than bemoaning the cruelty of fate which keeps them in crude America. The next recital will occur on Saturday at 4:30 and is well worth public attention.
68Mr. Abram Ray Tyler, assisted by Miss M. Louise Mundell, also gave another of his delightful organ recitals to an audience appreciative of his talent.
70Dr. R. W. Crowe, ex-organist of St. Agnes' Church, has decided to reside in New York, although he retains his organ at the State Street synagogue. As Dr. Crowe is a man of deep musical knowledge and attainments it is a source of regret to lose him from the ranks of Brooklyn musicians. The choir of the synagogue has been dismissed for the present, but will resume with the same personnel in the fall
72The following flattering notice is worthy of mention: In its review of the concert of the Brooklyn Quartet Club of May 3 the New York Staats Zeitung says:
73Mr. Fiqué's reputation as a choral director of the first rank is well established. In yesterday's concert, however, he has proven himself to be an orchestral conductor of equal skill. His orchestra was composed of artists from the Metropolitan Orchestra and the numbers performed included Weber's Jubel Overture, Siegmund's Love Song, Ride of the Valkyries and Magic Fire Scene, a Lovely Fantasia, by Nesvadba, Gavotte Humoresque, by Fiqué (which was redeemed and repeated), and the William Tell Overture, by Rossini. In these selections, as well as in the accompaniment of the soloists, Mr. Fiqué held his forces firmly in hand.
75Mrs. Katherine Noack-Fiqué appeared as vocal soloist, rendering the cavatina from Gounod's Queen of Sheba, and evincing excellent method. Her voice is a mezzo soprano of broad quality and carrying power, and her singing was expressive and sympathetic. Mrs. Fiqué is a pupil of Carl Duft.
77At a recital given by the pupils of Mrs. Laura Phelps-Crummey she had the assistance of two piano pupils of Mrs. Berta Grosse Thomason, whose work showed beyond doubt the absolute mastery that Mrs. Thomason has over her pupils.
79Grant Burns played an arietta by Lack, in which he brought enthusiastic applause from the large audience and in the gigue of Godard Grace Pinney, a young miss, played with remarkable musical intelligence and an enviable tone and technic. Mrs. Crummey also showed some good results through her pupils, many of whom were very tiny ones, which made their earnestness the more amusing and interesting. The program was closed with the adagio and allegro of Schumann, beautifully given by Mrs. Phelps-Crummey, violin, and Mrs. Berta Grosse Thomason, piano.
81Mrs. Grace Haskell Barnum and Dr. Henry G. Hanchett gave the pupils and guests of the Adelphi the benefit of their musical abilities, which in both cases are known to be very great.
83Mr. Walter S. Carter, president of the department of music of the Brooklyn Institute, will tender a complimentary organ recital to the department. As the recital is to be given by one of the most popular organists in America, Mr. Harry Rowe Shelly, the compliment is the more appreciated.
85Next week the era of light opera begins, and the Boston Company, including Clara Lane and J. K. Murray, will be at the Montauk, and at the Academy of Music under Max Freeman will be a company with Helen Bertram, Miss Shorter and other equally attractive names.
87EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
89Edmund J. Myer's Buffalo Summer Vocal School.—Mr. Myer will open his school in Buffalo by a song recital and lecture on July 7. The school will be especially for teachers and singers; frequent lectures and song recitals will be given, and for two months Mr. Myer proposes to make it lively, musically, in the Queen City. Mr. Myer is a well-known authority on vocal music, his books, Position and Action in singing, Truths of Importance to Vocalists, The Voice from A Practical Standpoint, Voice Training Exercises, Vocal Reinforcement, having created a decided stir in the vocal world. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Myer will attract a large class of student-teachers in the beautiful city by the lake.
91NINA RATHBONE
92DRAMATIC SOPRANO.
93Opera, Concert and Oratorio. Vocal Instruction.
94Studio: HOTEL EMPIRE, NEW YORK CITY.
96GERTRUDE MAY STEIN,
97The Contralto.
98ADDRESS:
99THE HENRY WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU, . . . 131 East 17th St., or 965 Park Ave., New York.
101WILLIAM C. CARL.
102Fifth Tour of Organ Concerts in the State of Ohio this season, week of May 16. . . .
103ADDRESS: 9 West 22d Street, New York.
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