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Musical Courier 1897-05-12: Vol 34 Iss 897, 1897
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3A HOME
5Dead.—Prof. Karl Wilhelm Alfred Ebert, a musician, born in Leipsic, Germany, and a former resident of New York, died suddenly yesterday in the home of Albert Drewitz, in Newburgh, N. Y.
7S. P. Fachutar.—Mr. S. P. Fachutar, the mandolin virtuoso, was in town last week on a visit from Milwaukee. Mr. Fachutar contemplates bringing the Mexican typical orchestra to New York next season.
9Carl Again in Ohio.—Mr. Carl goes to Ohio for his fifth concert trip this season next week. To-night he plays in Chickering Hall at the Kronold concert, and Friday he will play in Bloomfield, N. J., assisted by Miss Maud Morgan, the harpist.
11Townsend H. Fellows.—At the concert given by the Montclair Choral Club on Tuesday evening, May 4. Mr. Townsend H. Fellows, who was engaged by the club to do the solo baritone part in Max Bruch's Fair Ellen, created a sensation by his wonderfully dramatic reading of the part. He received an ovation.
13American Symphony Orchestra.—The American Symphony Orchestra, Sam Franko conductor, has been engaged for the commencements of Packard's Business College on May 11, and Columbia University on June 9, in Carnegie Music Hall. We indorse most heartily the sentiment of Professor MacDowell in making the latter engagement; it is due to this orchestra of native musicians after the excellent work which they have done in the past three seasons.
15Powell String Quartet.—The Maud Powell String Quartet filled its last engagement of the season on Thursday last, at a musicale given in the home of Mrs. E. J. Delehanty. An interesting program was played, including the Brahms G minor piano quartet in which the club had the assistance of Jacques Friedberger, pianist. Among engagements closed for the Powell Quartet for the season of 1897-8 are three private subscription concerts, in which the quartets of Beethoven will be given especial attention.
17Mrs. Bloodgood Busy.—Mrs. Katherine Bloodgood's dates speak volumes for the busy and gifted contralto. She sang with her usual great success in Baltimore on April 29, at the Annapolis United States Naval Academy on April 30, at Hartford on May 3, at Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, on May 5; in Richmond, Va., on May 7; in Williamsport on May 10, in Pittsburg on May 11, in Cleveland on May 10. Mrs. Bloodgood is also booked to sing in Ann Arbor on May 13, in Minneapolis on the 17th and 18th, in Madison on May 19 and in Milwaukee on May 20.
19Laura Crawford's Success.—One of the features at the forty-fifth Carl recital was the organ playing of Mrs. Laura Crawford. Her numbers were Pastorale in E major, Edwin H. Lemare, and the allegro from Händel's Tenth Concerto (with cadenzas, by Guilmant). Mrs. Crawford's work at the organ is most musicianly. She plays with thorough understanding of the works, and with a clear, crisp touch delightful to hear. The large audience received her with every mark of approval, which she so justly deserved.
21Lambert Sails.—Mr. Alexander Lambert, director of the New York College of Music, left for Europe on May 11. He goes on business connected with the college, and will return on June 8, in order to direct the special summer course.
23Nita Carritte's Success.—Nita Carritte, as the prima donna soprano of the new opera 1999, now running in Philadelphia, has achieved a great success. The public and the critics are unanimous in praise of her singing, her acting and her charming personality.
25Reception to Albert Lockwood.—The Association of Teachers' Alumni, Morningside Heights, Harlem, gave a reception to meet that graceful gentleman and superior pianist, Albert Lockwood, last Friday afternoon. Besides numerous encores, the large and always enthusiastic audience when Lockwood plays were treated to this very interesting program:
27Sonata, E minor…………………………………………………Grieg
28Ballade, A flat…………………………………………………Chopin
29Barcarolle………………………………………………………..Chopin
30Polonaise, A flat……………………………………………..Jeffery
31Gavot………………………………………………………..Brahms
32Two Hungarian Dances………………………………………Brahms
33Benediction de Dieu…………………………………………Liszt
34Rakoczy March……………………………………………..Liszt
36Mr. Charles E. Mead.—Mr. Charles E. Mead, the well-known church organist, after a period of over thirty years' service in New York churches, viz., seventeen years in the Harlem Presbyterian, eleven years in the Lexington Avenue Baptist and six years in the Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church, has accepted the position of organist and director in the Congregational Church at Greenwich, Conn. This is Mr. Mead's native town and the good wishes of many New Yorkers go with him. Mr. Mead's father and mother sang in the choir of this church before their marriage. Miss Elma Leona Robbins, the talented soprano and graduate of the Utica Conservatory of Music, who has been the soloist in the quartet of the Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church for five years, has also been engaged in the church at Greenwich as leading soprano and soloist.
38Clementine de Vere.—This artist has recently met with a repetition of her usual big success. See the following:
40(PEORIA CHORUS)—Clementine de Vere made her first appearance to a Peoria audience, and was rapturously received. She is an artist of magnificent stage presence, and has perfect control of a beautiful and superlatively cultivated voice. In Donizetti's aria she achieved a genuine triumph. Three encores were demanded, to each of which she generously responded.—Peoria Herald, April 23, 1897. one of two readings
41(Peoria CHORUS)—Clementine de Vere made her first appearance to a Peoria audience, and was rapturously received. She is an artist of magnificent stage presence, and has perfect control of a beautiful and superlatively cultivated voice. In Donizetti's aria she achieved a genuine triumph. Three encores were demanded, to each of which she generously responded.—Peoria Herald, April 23, 1897. one of two readings
43While the chorus work was unusually fine and up to the standard of that organization's previous efforts, the great interest of the evening centred about Clementine de Vere. Truly she was the bright particular star, and Peoria extended to her a royal welcome.—Peoria Journal, April 23, 1897.
45Madame de Vere has a remarkable soprano voice of great range, and with a mellow sweetness in its lower register that vied in beauty with the bird-like clearness and sweetness of her high notes. It has been many years since Peoria has listened to so finished a singer, and the audience showed its appreciation with the heartiest applause and repeated encores.—Peoria Daily Transcript, April 23, 1897.
47(CLARA SCHUMANN SOCIETY).—The annual concert of the Clara Schumann Society was held last evening at the Opera House and was thoroughly successful from beginning to end. It is seldom that the city has an opportunity to hear an artist of the standard of Madame de Vere, and such an opportunity is duly appreciated. Her singing last evening has never been surpassed hereabouts, her wonderful voice thrilling the audience through and through with its surpassing splendor.—Wilkesbarre Times, April 20, 1897.
49De Vere was heard last evening in a number of fine songs, some being purely emotional and others of the type that the coloratura sopranos dote on, and in each number she worthily sustained her reputation as a great artist. She sang Liszt's well-known Loreley in the broadest artistic manner, infusing it with the deepest feeling and finest dramatic fervor. In Weber's Bells in the Valley she also showed her training as an opera singer of the first rank, singing always with fine intensity and with lovely feeling. Her tones are not only pure and flawless, but her voice is one of remarkable breadth and power. When she sang softly and daintily and gradually increased her tone volume until one marveled at such strength of voice, the audience was aroused to intense enthusiasm. In the more powerful passages, as well as in all the other quantities of tone, her voice lost none of its sweetness.
51A group of MacDowell's songs was rendered with absolute perfection, and her performance was especially interesting.
53De Vere, of course, roused the house with her flexible songs, wherein she sang so exquisitely as to recall Sidney Lanier's well-known thought: "The bloom and beauty of her voice somehow suggest that a rose might be a throat." Her scales at times were as dainty as a string of pearls and her trills were dazzling in their brilliancy. She sang Gounod's Slumber Song in French, and her runs were so clear and dainty that the house thought it about the gem of the evening, but that was not so. She also sang very brilliantly a number of her husband's songs, who, by the way, played her accompaniments with the touch, skill and sympathy of an artist.—Wilkesbarre Record, April 20, 1897.
55It has been quite generally acknowledged that for floridity of style and brilliancy of method Clementine de Vere stands at the head of contemporary sopranos. Eminently powerful and resonant, too, is her voice, though she held a fine reserve always, and never seemed to any limit of power. Her piano realm is her most engaging characteristic, and she almost seemed to hold her auditors in thrall with it in the ballads and in the delightful Wiegenlied.—Wilkesbarre Evening Leader, April 20, 1897.
57Rieger in Providence.—W. Rieger, the tenor, has recently earned the following notices:
59Mr. Wm. H. Rieger, in The Flying Dutchman, was happily cast as Erik and the Steersman: his clear and pure tenor was one of the delights of the concert. He has been heard in this city a number of times, but he seemed to get a firmer grasp on the affection of music lovers than he ever did before.—The News, Providence, R. I.
61With Mr. Rieger, the responsibilities of the rôles of Erik and the Steersman were in absolutely safe hands. He sang the music in surpassingly fine style, and charmed his legion of admirers here by the well-known mellowness and brilliancy of his voice.—The Telegram.
63Mr. Wm. H. Rieger sang the rôle of Siegmund, and his artistic work was the feature of the concert.—The Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis.
65Mr. Rieger's performance was marked by the greatest intelligence and fervor. The solo Ah, Once Again Would I Behold Thee deeply moved his listeners.—The Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
67Mr. Wm. H. Rieger is always a welcome visitor to the city, and seems by reason of his frequent appearances here quite an old friend, and is accorded treatment worthy of such a friend. He was
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