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Musical Courier 1897-09-15: Vol 35 Iss 915, 1897
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1Eleanor Meredith Convalescing.—Madame Meredith is slowly recovering from her accident, and is able to be about, aided by crutches. She expects next week to lay them aside, however, on this her second appearance at the Worcester Festival. Her health is superb, and the voice never clearer nor more beautiful. She is planning a song recital for early in the season.
3Gustave L. Becker Back.—Gustave L. Becker has returned from Raymond, N. H., where he has been since July 1. He taught last winter the largest class in his experience, working all day and finding himself at the end of the season too tired to receive pupils at his summer home. Content, as heretofore. As aids to recreation, he took with him a piano and a dry goods box full of music. He will begin teaching at his home studio, 70 West Ninety-fifth street, as soon as its redecoration is completed.
5Richard Burmeister Returns.—Richard Burmeister returned Monday on the steamer Spree from a summer sojourn in Europe.
7Handel and Haydn Society.—A special meeting of the society will be held in Bumstead Hall, Boston, on Thursday evening, September 16, 1897, at half past 7. The business will be to fill vacancies in the board of government caused by the resignation of the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer and to fill any other vacancies that may occur in the board.
9Wm. H. Lee Back to Work.—Mr. Wm. H. Lee, the baritone, is in town and has resumed lessons at his studio, 1025 Lexington avenue (corner Seventy-third street). The popular singer and teacher is in greater demand than ever.
11M. J. Sheehey Home.—Mr. M. J. Sheehey, the successful vocal teacher, has returned to town and resumed work at his studio in Gramercy Park.
13Hans Kronold's Recitals.—Hans Kronold will give a series of violoncello recitals this season, the first of which will take place on October 28 in Wissner Hall, Newark. In the same week he will give a recital in Brooklyn and one at the New York College of Music, where he is first teacher of his instrument.
15W. H. Barber.—Mr. W. H. Barber, the graceful pianist who has made himself such a favorite in social, artistic drawing rooms, gave a recital on Tuesday afternoon, the 7th inst., at the summer residence of Mr. J. Hampton Webb, Southampton, L. I. The program was choice and was appreciated by a large fashionable audience.
17Another Woman Violinist.—Jennie Hoyle, the young English violinist, who has been engaged by the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau during Mr. Wolfsohn's recent stay in London, played at Manhattan Beach last Saturday and Sunday. She had such a pronounced success that she was at once secured by Mr. Sousa for his tours in October and the spring in this country.
19Charles Meehan, Soprano Soloist.—Among young Meehan's recent engagements were Mrs. Calvin Brice's, Newport, a swell musicale, and as a soloist for a month past at St. George's, where his singing drew many auditors who knew him in his boyhood days. He sings in New Haven twice next month, at Trinity Church, and later will be heard in Toledo, Ohio.
21Siloti.—Alexander Siloti will come to America. Many of the Liszt pupils, of whom there are quite a number in this country at present, will remember the tall, languid eyed, olive complexioned youth who lived for many years with the great master and acted as his secretary. Since that time Siloti has played all over the world, and belongs to the great pianists of the present day. He will arrive in January, and remain for the balance of the season. Siloti will be under the management of the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau. His début in New York will very likely be with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
23Charles Jerome Coleman.—After a two months' rest this well-known vocal teacher has returned, and is already teaching the largest number of pupils he has ever had so early in the season. His comfortable studio in East Sixteenth street is the scene of considerable activity, auguring well for the future.
25Quintano.—Quintano, the Italian violinist, has a successful season before him. Here are two of scores of his press notices:
27Signor Quintano gave the last of his four violin recitals yesterday afternoon. Signor Quintano is very young in years, but a most proficient violinist.—The Morning Journal.
29A young Italian violinist yesterday afternoon made his bow to an American audience composed of a number of well-known society women. His name is Giacomo Quintano, and he is about twenty years old. He obtained his musical education at the Royal Conservatory in Naples, where he was the ablest pupil of Professor Dvorak. The young artist rendered an interesting program, varied enough to show his mastery of technic. He played with good understanding, and showed a well developed musical temperament in his reading.—Morning World.
31Guilmant, the Organ Master.—Alexandre Guilmant, one of the world's great organists, will make a recital tour in the United States this season. He will arrive in the beginning of December and remain here until the beginning of April. Judging from the furore this great artist created in 1893, he will duplicate the success of that tour. He is already booked for a large number of concerts in New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Milwaukee and Western cities. The Wolfsohn Musical Bureau has engaged M. Guilmant.
33Dora Valesca Becker Home.—Miss Dora Valesca Becker, our gifted young soloist and first violin of the New York Ladies' String Quartet, had returned to town for the winter after a summer passed in Swatara, Pa., as the guest of Mrs. H. W. Balsbaugh and Mrs. Pfaffin. Already Miss Becker is getting into harness for the season's busy work.
35Lillian Blauvelt Home.—Lillian Blauvelt returned from Europe last week. She was engaged to sing at the Bergamo Donizetti festival, but could not attend, the dates having been changed from September 12 to 15. She preferred to return and sing at the Worcester Festival. In October she will be heard at the Maine festivals in Bangor and Portland. Madame Blauvelt has been engaged for a number of concerts with the Boston Symphony and Theodore Thomas orchestras. She will again be under the management of the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau.
37Wm. Edward Mulligan's Success.—Mr. Wm. Edward Mulligan is day by day making better known and in consequence appreciated by the artistic public his talent as a solo organist. He has just returned to town from Cooperstown, N. Y., where he gave his last successful recital on September 10 and will resume his duties as organist and choir director of St. Mark's. So delighted has the Cooperstown audience found itself with Mr. Mulligan's work that "subscription" affairs are already on the tapis for the winter, in which Mr. Mulligan may perform some of his choice and favorite programs.
39The Bjorksten Classes.—Mr. and Mrs. Theodor Bjorksten resumed their vocal classes at their residence, 69 West Fifth-fourth street, on September 6. Private classes in sight singing and harmony, with classes in French, German and Italian, will form a supplement to their vocal training for those desirous to become more intimate with musical theory and to understand fully the interpretation of the different schools of song in their separate languages. A Bach class for the highest forms of ensemble singing meets weekly under the direction of Mr. Bjorksten. The Bjorksten curriculum is admirably devised with the view to a sound vocal and generally musical education.
41Edward Baxter Perry.—Edward Baxter Perry, the lecture-recital pianist, of Boston, has been spending the summer on the coast of Penobscot Bay, at Camden, where he is building a summer cottage. He sailed on Saturday last from this city for Genoa by the steamer Ems, North German Lloyd line, for a season of professional work in Europe.
43It may not be generally known that the poem entitled The Blind Pianist, printed in the Boston Transcript of July 6, was written for Mr. Perry, as a note from the author, Mr. I. Edgar Jones, states. Mr. Jones is president of the International Society of Writers, which numbers among its other officers John Ruskin, Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Ibsen, Bjornson, Tolstoi, Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and other noted names in literature. There is room for such an international society in the world of music with the same motto, which reads "To promote fraternity, mutual helpfulness, international copyright, just laws, improved conditions and wider opportunities for mind workers throughout the world."
45We reprint the verses below:
47THE BLIND PIANIST.
48Men call him blind because his eyes are sealed,
49Forgetting that to him hath God revealed
50A thousand things by outward ills unmarr'd,
51A million tones by evil sights unjarred;
52Within what men see with the outward eye—
53The haggard views which make deep discords lie—
54Harsh sights may turn glad songs to sob or sigh.
56The blind musician revels in a world
57In which the haggard pictures all are furled;
58There panoramas undisturbed unroll
59In rapturous visions for his tranquil soul,
60Where outer discords of all kinds are stilled,
61Where melodies unfold as he hath willed,
62His listening heart with rarest raptures filled.
64Thus shrined, rich tones for him paint gorgeous scenes
65Of autumn gold, of summer grays and greens;
66Grand sunsets, glory tinted, framed in pearl,
67Cloud scrolls designed by angels curve and curl;
68All these interpreted in sensuous sound,
69Tones light as mist, tones resonantly round,
70With echoes answering from vast deeps profound.
72And touching lightly then the ivory keys,
73He gives us glimpses and swift views of these,
74Growth and creations of his inner life,
75Shut out to some extent from outward strife,
76But not from passion, purpose, feeling strong,
77Which his true art may widen and prolong
78To dramas grand, interpreted in song.
79He is not stricken, nor is this man blind;
80His vision keen and far is with the mind
81By God's kind recompenses well endowed
82To search the deeps or soar above the cloud;
83Things hid or half discerned in gropings dim
84To our dull sight, are clearly shown to him;
85He grasps the whole where we but touch the rim.
87His soul serene dwells mid the tranquil calms
88Where undisturbed it listens to the psalms,
89Rich, tender tones, the whispered message sweet
90Conveyed from God to his twilight retreat.
91What though the outward sight with him hath failed,
92There at God's inner shrines, a prophet veiled,
93He dwells unchoked by chains on us entailed.
95I. EDGAR JONES.
97Miss Blenner Well Again.—Miss Minnie Blenner, the charming young soprano, has completely recovered from her severe illness of last spring, and is now singing again with her voice in even better condition than before. She sang recently in Titusville, Pa., with Dr. Carl Dufft and other artists, and scored an emphatic success. The following is a brief excerpt from the lengthy critique of the Morning Herald, which writes with glowing enthusiasm of the singer's charming personality and magnetism allied to her lovely voice:
99Miss Minnie Blenner, of New York, made her initial appearance before a local audience. Her selection was the Jewel Aria from Gounod's Faust. Miss Blenner captivated the audience from the beginning. Added to a soprano voice of beautiful timbre and exquisite cultivation she has a charming presence. Her selection brought out all the velvety smoothness of her voice, which is delightfully mellow and of great sweetness and purity.
101Marie Louise Todd.—Miss Marie Louise Todd, pianist, has returned to town from her summer vacation and opened her studio in Harlem. Miss Todd's monthly musicales, which were given throughout the past year in the afternoons at her studio, have proved so successful that in response to many requests to give them in the evenings instead she has decided to do so. This will give many people an opportunity to attend these very interesting evenings who could not do so otherwise.
103Madame Von Klenner Home.—Mme. Katherine Evans von Klenner has returned from her annual visit to Europe, and already, in compliance with the urgent request of pupils, has taken up work at her studio in New York. Madame von Klenner accomplished while abroad her primary purpose, having a long and satisfactory consultation with Madame Viardot-Garcia, her teacher, of whose method she is the sole authorized exponent in America, and having also enjoyed a delightful talk with her earlier
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