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Musical Courier 1897-09-15: Vol 35 Iss 915, 1897
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1teacher, Mme. Desiree Artôt. Madame von Klenner traveled through France, Spain, Italy, and made a delightful little stay at Morocco. She returns looking in buoyant health and spirits and with the air of happiness and content which befits a deservedly successful woman. one of two readings
2teacher, Mme. Desiree Artot. Madame von Klenner traveled through France, Spain, Italy, and made a delightful little stay at Morocco. She returns looking in buoyant health and spirits and with the air of happiness and content which befits a deservedly successful woman. one of two readings
4Henrietta Edica Engaged.—Mlle. Henrietta Edica has been engaged as prima donna soprano of the Clara Schumann Ladies' Orchestra for the season of 1897-8.
6Van Yorx Resumes Teaching.—Mr. W. Theodore Van Yorx has resumed teaching at his vocal studio, 6 East Seventeenth street, this city.
8Florence Terrel with Orchestra.—Miss Florence Terrel, the well-known pianist and pupil of Alexander Lambert, will give an orchestral concert in Carnegie Music Hall, this city, in October.
10Miss Mary Merrill.—Miss Mary Merrill, of the South Georgia College, situated in Thomasville, Ga., returned to that institution September 1, after a summer's course of vocal study with Madame Devine.
12Ludwig Marum's New Studio.—Mr. Ludwig Marum, the popular violinist, will return on the 20th inst. from Far Rockaway, where he has been spending the summer, and will occupy his new studio at 1242 Madison avenue, this city.
14Siegmund Deutsch in New Quarters.—Mr. Siegmund Deutsch, the well-known violin instructor, who has been sojourning in the country during the summer, has returned to the city and opened his studio in Carnegie Hall, Rooms 803 and 804, as his class has so increased that he is obliged to have larger quarters.
16Georg Henschel.—Mr. Georg Henschel will be in New York during a considerable part of the fall and winter, and in response to many requests has made special arrangement with the Metropolitan College of Music to teach at its studios in October, December, January and February. This is the first opportunity offered to students for several years to meet Mr. Henschel for any but the briefest instruction, and will doubtless attract many whose professional engagements preclude a season in London.
18Mr. Tubbs' Pupils.—Quite a large number of the pupils of this favorite teacher have been engaged in colleges and seminaries as vocal teachers this summer. Miss Anna V. Peebles takes a position at Visitation Convent, Georgetown, D. C.; Miss Georgia Hall Jones, Baptist College, Lexington, Mo.; Miss Elizabeth Kinney, Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky.; Miss Anna L. Johnson, at Elmira, N. Y.; Mr. Bertrand H. Riggs, Waco College, Waxahachie, Tex.; Miss Sarah Manly Smith, State Normal, Milledgeville, Ga.; Mrs. C. A. Sheridan, at Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. Frank E. Rebarber, at Savannah, Ga., and Mrs. Clifford E. Williams, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Six of Mr. Tubbs' pupils have made recent engagements in opera companies and several in choir positions in New York and vicinity.
20Isidore Luckstone at Manhattan Beach.—Last Sunday ended the fifth season that Mr. Isidore Luckstone has played the accompaniment for the soloists who appeared with Sousa at Manhattan Beach.
22Mr. Luckstone has been of more than ordinary value in so far as knowledge of repertory goes, he having played the accompaniments for most of the great artists who have appeared in this country. Mr. Luckstone has played most of the accompaniments without rehearsals and at sight, and has acquitted himself in such a manner as to elicit the thanks and enthusiasm from all those fortunate enough to sing with him.
24It is a matter to be remembered that at a moment's notice Mr. Luckstone is ready for any emergency, and his widespread reputation is of such a nature that his intention to remain permanently in New York will be received with much pleasure, as there is always room for men of his calibre.
26Loud's Organ Recitals.—The following are extracts from press notices of two organ recitals given last month in Erie and Rochester by Mr. John Hermann Loud:
28Mr. John Hermann Loud, a concert organist of great ability, gave an enjoyable organ recital at the First Presbyterian Church Friday morning. Mr. Loud is a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant, associate of the Royal College of Music, and organist and director of the First Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass. His artistic performance was greatly appreciated. Mr. Loud is a composer as well as a player, and one of the most exquisite selections played was the Largo and Scherzo, D flat major, arranged by himself, in which the charm of his style, perfection of finger play and expression were manifested. Chopin's Funeral March, C minor, displayed the passionate wail and sadness personified of the Polish composer. Wagner's Pil-
30grims' Chorus arose to the grandeur and majesty of that sublime production.—Sunday Messenger-Graphic, Erie, Pa., August 20, 1897.
32It was a decidedly musical audience that assembled in the First Baptist Church yesterday afternoon to listen to a recital by John Herrmann Loud, organist and choir director of the First Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass. Mr. Loud is a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant. To his presence in Rochester as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Vickery is due one of the finest organ musicals ever given on the grand Roosevelt instrument of First Baptist Church.
34In his playing Mr. Loud betrays his Guilmant training, especially in the sweeping climactic effects so characteristic of the great French master. Indeed it was in the playing of the Guilmant numbers and of his own compositions that Mr. Loud was heard to best advantage. He is especially strong and even powerful in the handling of his finales, and there were several times when he seemed as if he were calling into life every voice in the great bronze throat in one tremendous, breath-taking torrent of sound.—Rochester Herald, Rochester, N. Y., August 31, 1897.
36Mr. Loud will probably begin his free organ recitals at Springfield, Mass., about September 27.
38Gwyllim Miles.—Gwyllim Miles sang with sensational success at Manhattan Beach during the last days of Sousa's festival. His audiences broke into cheers several times, and after he had sung three times called for The Palms, which he sang in a most finished, artistic manner. In conjunction with his voice of unusual beauty he has finish and intelligence of interpretation which would fit him for any stage.
40Rachel Hoffmann.—Every Month publishes a very good portrait of the Belgian pianist, Mlle. Hoffmann, with the following remarks:
42The young Belgian pianist who is to tour America this coming winter, is one of the youngest of the world's brilliant pianists, and heretofore in Europe and her own country has carried enthusiasm and success with her, eliciting the highest praise, and proving so much desired drawing card for her managers. Miss Hoffmann is a pupil of the famous Conservatory of Music at Brussels, and from her entrance at the age of eleven attracted general notice because of her markedly artistic value. In 1889 August Dupont, the late great professor of the piano, presented his pupil Rachel Hoffman to the Concours, and the young pianist not only carried off the first prize, but by her playing awoke such enthusiasm, both in the jury and the public, as to cause the same to be recorded by the newspapers as a "musical furor." The same year Miss Hoffmann carried off three prizes offered by the Conservatory for proficiency in harmony, written and practical, and chamber music. The next year Miss Hoffmann received a gold medal from the Conservatory of Brussels, which was awarded in person by Leopold II., King of Belgium. Miss Hoffmann is only twenty-three years of age, and of a decidedly prepossessing appearance.
44Geneva Johnstone-Bishop.—Here are some of this successful Chicago artist's press notices. It is a pleasure to watch the career of such a vocalist:
46It may be safely asserted that no musical event of the season has given more pleasure than the second concert in Music Hall last night of the Musical Club. Mme. Geneva Johnstone-Bishop as Galatea gave great satisfaction with her even rendition of songs that were artistically given, although evidently too light a character for her voice, which was easily capable of greater efforts, and it was not until she sang the aria from Massenet's Le Cid that her magnificent soprano had an opportunity to display its power and beauty. She has a clear dramatic soprano of unusual purity, great range and volume, under fine control as the delicate shading of light songs of Galatea evinced; it was delightful in the more dramatic song in which the voice had full sweep to rise to its highest range and to its fullest volume. She sang as an encore Zingara, by Donizetti, but the aria from Le Cid, Massenet's new opera, which has never been sung in this country, was her best work.—Louisville Commercial.
48The Musical Club in Acts and Galatea was conceded by the large audience at Music Hall last evening to have put forth its best efforts. The music to a great extent is lyrical. Mme. Geneva Johnstone-Bishop scored a great hit in the oratorio. She is a dramatic soprano and was not at her best in the solos of the oratorio. In the intermission she sang two solos that showed her full dramatic voice and artistic training. The grand aria Le Cid, by Massenet, brought her an ovation, and she sang as an encore La Zingara, by Donizetti.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
50The people of Nashville who failed to attend the recital of Mme. Geneva Johnstone-Bishop at Ward Seminary last evening missed one of the treats of the season. Mme. Geneva Johnstone-Bishop is unquestionably the best soprano that has appeared here since Madame Nordica was in Nashville. It is impossible to do justice to her wonderful voice, clear and sweet as the Shandon Bells. Not only is Madame Bishop a wonderful singer, but she is a beautiful woman as well. When she sings it is plain to all who hear her that her soul is in the song. Her expression is as marvelous as her voice, and to say she held her hearers spellbound last night with the combination is expressing it very mildly indeed.—Nashville American.
52What a treat those fortunate enough to be present at the recital given last night by Mme. Geneva Johnstone-Bishop, the wonderful soprano, assisted by Miss Nellie Cook, pianist, had! A more delightful affair has not entertained a musical loving audience for a long time. Mme. Johnstone-Bishop's voice is one of the most powerful as well as the most sympathetic heard on the concert stage in America, and possibly no soprano voice in the country possesses so great a range. Added to th's a queenly personality and an indescribable charm of manner and you have all that is required to make a beautiful song a joy forever. The performance was classical, and every rendition was lovely. If there is any choice probably the aria from Massenet's Le Cid required the best work and was the most enjoyable. Mme. Johnstone-Bishop will probably sing here during the Centennial.—Nashville Sun.
54The London Orchestral Player.
56IN London alone it is calculated there are close on 1,200 orchestral players, and of these there are probably not more than a hundred, if indeed the number is so great, whose income from orchestral work is over £250 a year.
58The ordinary pay of the player at concerts is a guinea per performance, one rehearsal being thrown in gratis, the leaders and soloists receiving extra. But no bandsman could hope to secure 250 concerts or performances a year, so that a post on a permanent day orchestra is really one of the prizes of the profession. How the fees have fallen as the result of competition, especially foreign competition, can easily be determined.
60At the Royal Italian Opera, for example, during Sir Michael Costa's time, the "principals" were paid from 9 to 12 guineas a week, and others from 4 to 5 guineas. Now these salaries are represented in many instance by 8 guineas and 2 1/2 guineas, respectively. The case, no doubt, is extreme; but the same process on a smaller scale is constantly going on. The orchestral player himself is explicit on the point. Here is a quotation from a statement made recently in the columns of the Orchestral Association's official Gazette. We read that:
62"Where formerly it was possible for a player to make a fair income by adding a few concerts to his fairly paid teaching, he must now be in everything to make ends meet. This necessitates his attendance at rehearsal after rehearsal by day and concert after concert by night, until he is worn out at an age when men in business are at their prime. He cannot at such high pressure remain at his best more than a few years. When he shows signs of decay he is cast off like an old glove, with no more consideration than would be bestowed on a broken down cab horse."
64These remarks are unhappily too true. Yet the orchestral player is taught by the press to recognize the giver of cheap concerts as the benefactor of his species, because the lowering of his prices brings the divine art within the reach of the great public, and creates a demand for more (and still cheaper) instruction; the fact, of course, being that the cheap concert giver is merely a commercial speculator, as much concerned about his own profit as is the vendor of cheap boots.—National Review.
66Her Career of Tragedies.—Miss Julia Perlroth, a violinist of high local repute and a beauty of natural celebrity, killed herself in Budapest early in the month after a career full of tragedies. She was the daughter of a royal official and studied for the concert stage despite the protests of her parents. She made her début five years ago, and at once her pictures were sent broadcast over Continental Europe, spreading her reputation for beauty to Berlin, Vienna and other cities where her art remained long unknown. one of two readings
67Her Career of Tragedies.—Miss Julia Perlroth, a violinist of high local repute and a beauty of natural celebrity, killed herself in Budapest early in the month after a career full of tragedies. She was the daughter of a royal official and studied for the concert stage despite the protests of her parents. She made her debut five years ago, and at once her pictures were sent broadcast over Continental Europe, spreading her reputation for beauty to Berlin, Vienna and other cities where her art remained long unknown. one of two readings
69For two years Miss Perlroth was successful on the stage. Then she fell in love with an Hungarian baron, retired, and lived with him. When he tired of her she resumed her playing in public, but not with artists of her class. She appeared in music halls. Two years ago a volunteer private, who was studying in the Vienna University, shot himself for love of her. Six months later a cashier of a Vienna bank embezzled $20,000 to buy her jewelry. When she cast him off he drowned himself in the Danube. Seven months passed and a second lieutenant in a Magyar regiment in the Hungarian capital shot himself dead in a café chantant where she was playing. She had refused to marry him. He had been buried but eight weeks when a volunteer private in Graz took his life because she rebuffed him repeatedly. Next she herself fell in love with a broker in Budapest, and after a tempestuous intimacy of ten days opened a vein in her wrist. The broker thought she was about to die and so opened a vein in his wrist, but they both recovered.
71A rich Viennese was her next friend. He supported her in style in Vienna while she played first violin in a female orchestra. She had about everything that the first violin in a Vienna orchestra could not afford to buy—diamonds, a house, carriage and pair, and so on—and achieved widespread notoriety by her magnificence of attire and her beauty.
73When her engagement in Vienna closed she and her rich friend went to Budapest for an outing. There she was overcome by her weariness of a misspent life. She shot herself in her room, and her Viennese friend found her dead body when he returned from a jeweler's to whom he had gone on an errand for her.—Sun.
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