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Musical Courier 1897-07-14: Vol 35 Iss 906, 1897
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1notes, as well as in his use of leading motifs, a discipleship of Wagner; but it is a discipleship, not an imitation. He is fitted to sing Ebling's Lobgesang auf die Harmonie. In his setting of this poem he has used a soprano and baritone solo with male chorus and orchestra. The harmonic structure throughout is superb in all the various virtues ascribed to harmony. The ending is magnificent.
3Mr. Gleason has had an unusual schooling. He was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1848. His parents were musical, and, when at sixteen he wrote a small matter of two oratorios without previous instruction, they put him to study under Dudley Buck. From his tuition he graduated to Germany and such teachers as Moscheles, Richter, Plaidy, Lobe, Raif, Tausig and Weitzmann. He studied in England after that and returned again to Germany. When he reappeared in America he remained awhile at Hartford, Conn., whence he went to Chicago in 1876. He has lived there since, working at teaching and composition, and acting as music critic of the Chicago Tribune. An unusually gifted body of critics, dramatic, musical and literary, is at work upon the Chicago newspapers, and Mr. Gleason has been prominent among them.
5Among other important compositions of his are a symphonic cantata, The Auditorium Festival Ode, sung at the dedication of the Chicago Auditorium by a chorus of 500; sketches for orchestra, a piano concerto, organ music and songs.
7Mrs. Luella Clark Emery, who came to Chicago only one year ago, has been one of those fortunate people who succeed as they deserve. Mrs. Emery, after being engaged six consecutive seasons at Spirit Lake Chautauqua, has signed for next season. She has also been engaged for other Chautauquas and during her short residence in Chicago has been accompanist for Madame Linné and Mrs. Clark Wilson, who, by the way, sings at Bay View this year. Mrs. Emery also plays for Miss Sammis and several of our well-known local artists. But her accompaniments have not been confined solely to our singers and violinists, as she has been frequently in request for visiting artists.
9Mrs. Clark Emery is not only a remarkably good accompanist, but also an organist of exceptional ability. When she first came to this city she succeeded in obtaining the post of organist at the Fifth Presbyterian Church, at which church she gives a recital every Sunday. Her concert engagements have been very numerous and very favorably spoken of, both the city and out of town critics making admirable mention of her work.
11She also played in the May Festival chorus in the Chicago Auditorium. Mrs. Clark Emery has a large class of organ and piano pupils, and while people have been crying "dull times" she has been wondering where they are, as her time has been entirely occupied, her only vacation being the Chautauqua engagements.
13Franz Wagner, the violincellist, who has won a good reputation in this city as concert artist and instructor, has signed a contract with the Chicago Musical College. Mr. Wagner is fully deserving of the compliment implied in being engaged by our leading institution.
15Mr. Wagner came here after a successful concert tour of this country, to join the Chicago Orchestra. He held this position for some time, winning hearty approval from press and public. His pupils and concert engagements, however, became so numerous that in 1895 he decided to resign his position with the orchestra and devote his entire attention to teaching and to his work as soloist. His progress has been steady, and no one will deny him a place among the foremost 'cellists.
17Mr. Wagner will commence his duties at the Chicago Musical College with the opening of the fall term, September 6.
19FLORENCE FRENCH.
21Carl Faelten.—Carl Faelten, the well-known piano teacher and director of the Faelten Pianoforte School in Boston, is spending the summer at Sunapee, N. H., with his family. He spends two days of each week in Boston, and this time he devotes to the instruction of pupils who cannot attend the school during the regular session.
23Henri Marteau.—If present indications go for anything Henry Marteau, whose finished and magnetic violin playing roused our audiences to the wildest enthusiasm a few years ago, will have an unusually successful season. His manager, Henry Wolfsohn, has already booked him over twenty concerts, and applications for Marteau dates are coming in daily. He will make his American r'entrée with the New York Harmonic January 8; then he will play with the orchestral associations in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Boston.
25He will give a number of recitals in Brooklyn, Rochester, Hartford, Milwaukee, Oberlin, St. Paul, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities. Marteau will play for the first time here a number of compositions by Wormser, Massenet and Saint-Saëns, all of which have been dedicated to him.
27JOHN C. DEMPSEY,
28Bass-Baritone.
29Returned from Tour with Nordica.
30Henry Wolfsohn Musical Bureau,
31131 East 17th Street, NEW YORK.
33ELEANORE Oratorio, Concerts and Song Recitals.
34MEREDITH, SOPRANO.
35Address: 9 West 21st Street, New York.
37SERENA SWABACKER,
38Lyric Soprano, of Chicago.
39Address June, July, August,
40Care MADAME BELLOT,
4141 Rue Galilee, Paris, France.
43B. Sinsheimer.—Mr. B. Sinsheimer left June 30 for Europe, to visit Paris, Brussels and Switzerland in company with some artist friends. He will return about September 10.
45Notice.—Parties who have been doing business with one Joseph Mitter, who represents himself as a musical agent, may learn something to their advantage by communicating their experiences to the editor of this paper.
47Dyna Beumer to Sing at the Vieuxtemps Memorial.—Mme. Dyna Benmer, the famous Belgian soprano, has been engaged to sing at a concert to be given in Spa, Belgium, on August 2, the proceeds of which will be devoted to a monument to be erected in honor of Vieuxtemps, the celebrated Belgian violinist. Many other musical celebrities of Belgium will also appear at this concert, which will be a great musical event.
49Blauvelt's Leipzig Offer.—Lillian Blauvelt has just had a most flattering offer from the management of the Gewandhauskanjute in Leipsic to sing there on October 21. The arrangement has been made by Henry Wolfsohn, and our charming young American prima donna may justly be proud of this invitation on many grounds.
51Madame Blauvelt will accept the Leipsic date if it can be changed to some time in January, 1898; she will then remain in Europe for an extended tournée. During the first part of the season she will sing in the United States.
53Aus der Ohe in London.—At Adele Aus der Ohe's recent appearance with the London Philharmonic Society the pianist scored an immense success. The following criticism is from the London Times of Saturday, June 19:
55The other work in concerto form was the masterpiece of Schumann, the piano part of which was played with consummate beauty of style by Fräulein Adele Aus der Ohe, who amply confirmed the excellent impression of her first appearance here in November last. She then chose a concerto by Liszt, in which nothing but virtuosity was required; on Thursday night the higher qualities of beautiful phrasing, tone gradation and fine conception were fully manifested and the young artist made an emphatic success.
57The Henschels' Tour.—The Henschels will have a very busy season in this country this coming season. They will make quite an extended tour in the early fall, beginning October 18 in Brooklyn, and reaching as far West as San Francisco, in which city they will give six song recitals. On the way they will be heard in almost every important city in the United States and Canada.
59This tournée will terminate in the middle of December, when Mr. Henschel will teach in Boston until the beginning of March, and during that time Mrs. Henschel will accept concert and oratorio engagements. The Henschels will again be under the management of Henry Wolfsohn.
61A New Firm.—Mr. J. H. Alpuente begs to announce that Mr. E. G. Gottschalk (prominently connected for fifteen years with Messrs. Chickering & Sons, and later secretary and treasurer of the Gildemeester & Kroeger Piano Manufacturing Corporation) has purchased the interest of Mr. J H. Phipps, in the firm of Phipps & Alpuente.
63Mr. Alpuente wishes further to announce to all his friends and patrons that the firm hereafter will be known as Gottschalk & Alpuente, and that renewed efforts will be made to furnish to all those desiring them the services of artists whose entertainments appeal directly to the most refined and critical audiences.
65More Success for Baernstein.—Jos. S. Baernstein has been singing at a number of concerts recently with much success. At Everett E. Truette's recital in the Old First Church, June 24, he sang Honor and Arms (Samson), Händel, and Se Pel Rigor (La Juive), Halévy, with a richness of tone and breadth of style that were heartily appreciated by the audience and as warmly applauded.
67At the recital by George E. Whiting, in the Marble Collegiate Church on the 25th ult., his numbers were Patria, Mattei, and But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming, from The Messiah, which were superbly sung. He made a decided hit in Hoffman's Schöne Melusina at the Grand Central Palace June 28, and repeated that success in Mt. Vernon the following evening. At a recent concert in Montclair the Montclair Times had this to say of his work:
69"Mr. Baernstein fairly captivated the audience with his magnificent voice and established himself as an artist of high order."
71Jeanne Franko.—Jeanne Franko, the celebrated violinist, will go to Long Branch to take a long needed rest, and will later sojourn in the mountains.
73Elliott Schenck Re-engaged in Albany.—Mr. Elliott Schenck, who won such triumphs in Albany last season, has been re-engaged as conductor of the Musical Association of that city.
75He is now on the lookout for interesting choral works which will be new to the Albany public. Among others Mr. Schenck has under consideration Grieg's Olav Trygvasson, Tinel's The Bell of Roeland and Saint-Saëns' Requiem. Nothing yet has been definitely decided, as the committee is scattered at present, and as is well known Mr. Schenck is conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra at Willow Grove.
77Mr. Schenck hopes to broaden the scope of the Albany Association, giving, if possible, in addition to the May Festival, The Messiah at Christmas, and possibly The Passion music on Good Friday.
79Last year the concerts were as follows:
81Midwinter concert, January 21:
82Saraband and Bourée………………………………………Bach
83Orchestra.
84Madrigal from Scarlet Letter……………………………….Damrosch
85Chorus.
86Three Pictures from Tower of Babel………………………..Rubinstein
87Chorus and orchestra.
88The Christ Child……………………………………………..Tschaikowsky
89Chorus.
90Two melodies for strings………………………………………Grieg
92Interspersed were vocal numbers by Mr. Evan Williams and Miss Roselle. At the three festival concerts in May Mr. Schenck gave Bruch's Arminius, excerpts from Samson and Tannhäuser; also a symphony concert. These events have been so recently reviewed that they are still fresh in the minds of our readers. We are delighted to hear of Mr. Schenck's re-engagement and wish him the continued success he so thoroughly deserves.
94Successful Ogden Crane Pupils.—Miss Ella Fletcher, of Kenton, Ohio, who sang recently with such marked success at the Music Teachers' National Association Convention, and who is a member of the choir of the First Presbyterian Church, William C. Carl organist, is a pupil of Madame Ogden Crane. Madame Crane has received many congratulations on the excellence of this pupil's tone production and general work.
96Miss Stella L. Bligh, recently a pupil of Madame Ogden Crane, now located at Oneonta, N. Y., has also been winning golden opinions, as the following extract from the local press will testify:
98A music critic, who had the good fortune to hear the musical programs at the First Methodist Episcopal Church last Sabbath morning and evening, sent the following to the Star. Its publication has been delayed, on account of pressure of matter:
99"Miss Bligh sang next the solo The Holy City, by Adams, as announced, with orchestral accompaniment. Her voice has been put to a severe test the past week in constant musical work, but rang out clear and full in this beautiful song. We were delighted with the strength and purity of her voice, which thrilled the audience as it rang out full and clear above the full force of the orchestra in the concluding triumphant burst of song, Hosanna for Evermore. Miss Bligh sang entirely from memory, and we wish that all singers could do the same. Great effects in vocal music can best be produced in this way."
101George Fleming, Baritone.—Mr. Fleming has just returned from Canada, where, among other engagements, he sang The Messiah with Mrs. Bloodgood, Miss Hilde and Mr. William Lavin at the Diamond Jubilee Festival given at Brantford, Ont., from the musician's standpoint the most notable event of the Canadian celebrations. Mr. Fleming scored a notable triumph, as the appended notices prove:
103Mr. Fleming's rendering of the bass solos in The Messiah last night was a perfect revelation. In the aria Why Do the Nations he scored a signal triumph, the house surrendering to him and applauding again and again with genuine enthusiasm.—Brantford Expositor, June 24, 1897.
105Mr. Fleming's appearance in The Messiah constituted the most ambitious effort of his experience as an artist, and he is to be heartily congratulated upon the success with which he emerged from the ordeal. His first recitative, Thus Saith the Lord, and aria, But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming, imposed very heavy demands upon him, which he met most successfully. In the aria Why Do the Nations he was splendidly effective, and at the close in the recitative Behold! I Tell You a Mystery, and in the aria The
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