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Musical Courier 1897-11-03: Vol 35 Iss 922, 1897
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1Brooklyn
3Brooklyn Office The Musical Courier, 539 Fulton Street, November 1, 1897.
5On Monday night the Banda Rossa played to a large house, and enthusiasm reigned. The young violinist, Carlotta Stubenrauch, created a deep impression, and people have been speaking of the brilliancy of her work ever since she was heard. The work of the band has been well reviewed in our New York columns, and in no way did it fail to come up to what was expected of it, and applause was long and loud. A notable fact was that in answer to a demand for an encore Sorrentino graciously accorded one of Sousa's marches, and the audience shrieked with excitement and delight.
7Mr. Isidore Luckstone played the accompaniments in the superb manner which makes him notable. He has played the accompaniments during the entire series of successful concerts given by the Banda Rossa. I have not been informed as to whether he is going on tour with them, but judging from the fact that he has almost every hour filled with lessons, and his pupils consist of most of the prominent singers and violinists before the public today, whom he is coaching on style and repertory, there is little danger that he will accept any of all of the flattering offers which pour in upon him.
9On Wednesday night the second song recital was given in Association Hall by the Brooklyn Institute. The participating artists (and I mean artists) were David Bispham, the baritone, and Miss Maude Powell, violinist. The program was perfectly given. Never has Miss Powell played with more breadth of style and feeling. How many women are capable of such virility? Very few; in fact very few players have the power to work an audience up to such a degree of enthusiasm as did Miss Powell on Wednesday night. How delightful it would be to hear her with the Boston Symphony or with Seidl and his orchestra, for that girl must have a wealth of violin literature that needs the orchestra to show her power.
11After the fine sonata by Rust she played an encore which I wish she had not; but not what she played it superbly, but personally I dislike arrangements, and I should rather have heard something written for violin than a Schubert song, but she played it beautifully, and the audience appreciated it.
13Mr. Luckstone played the accompaniments for Miss Powell, which added materially to the artistic finish.
15Mr. Bispham's magnificent voice was heard for the first time in Brooklyn, that is, before a large audience, and here, as everywhere else, he met with immense success. He sings in that finished style that is so rare and so delightful. Most of his numbers were charming, but I have never been able to bring myself back far enough into the atmosphere of the past to enjoy "Mad Tom" or "Young Richard," but I guess they must be good, or Mr. Bispham would not sing them.
17He gave a group of five songs by young Englishwomen. "To Daffodils," by Dora Bright, and especially the very masterly composition "King Henry to Fair Rosamond," by Liza Lehman, are gems of composition. Mr. Bispham, in answer to the insistence of his audience, granted "To Sylvia," which exquisite bit he sang superbly.
19His accompanist was Mr. Harry Waller, a young playwright who will have a play produced at one of the Astoria entertainments this season. By inadvertence, or error, or whatever may have been the cause, the names of the accompanists did not appear on the programs.
21The great topic of conversation in musical circles at present is the concert of the Seidl Society, which is to occur on Friday night and which will be the first brilliant society affair of the season. The tickets have been sold and, as the following of the Seidl Society is well known to be composed of prominent society people, the expectation is that this concert will be a noteworthy one and one which will be a fitting tribute to Mr. Seidl.
23Mme. Helene Hastreiter will make her first appearance here, as will the great Dutch pianist, Sieveking, whose successes in Boston and other cities are sufficient to guarantee his merit and to foretell the reception that he will get from Brooklyn, where merit is recognized.
25Mr. Seidl will bring a larger orchestra than he has ever brought heretofore and I append the program:
27Overture, Ruy Blas……………………………………………..Mendelssohn
28Poème Symphonique, Rouet d'Omphale…………………Saint-Saëns
29Arfa, Orfeo…………………………………………………….Gluck
30Heart Wounds…………………………………………………Grieg
31Madame Hastreiter.
32Andante cantabile……………………………………………..Tchaikowsky one of two readings
33Andante cantabile……………………………………………..Tschakowsky one of two readings
34Piano concerto…………………………………………………Saint-Saëns
35M. Sieveking.
36Dreams………………………………………………………..Wagner
37Mignon………………………………………………………..Liszt
38Madame Hastreiter.
39Overture, Carnival…………………………………………….Dvorák
41An interesting note I will divulge by reproducing a couple of letters, but I must prelude them by stating that ever since the beginning of the Seidl Society Mr. Otto Wissner's piano warerooms have been its headquarters, and no one knows better than Mr. Wissner what this ambitious body has accomplished for music in Brooklyn. On appreciation of this Mr. Wissner presented one of his new style pianos accompanied by the following note:
43Mrs. Langford, President Seidl Society:
44Brooklyn, N. Y., October 7.
46Dear Mrs. Langford—You and the ladies associated with you in the Seidl Society have worked so nobly for music in Brooklyn all these years that I desire to show my personal appreciation of your efforts, and to give you encouragement at the beginning of your twelfth season. I have selected a piano which I now present to the society through you, and I ask that the ladies will accept it, and permit me to send it to your club rooms. The instrument awaits your pleasure, and I trust you will receive it in the spirit it is presented. The society deserves the encouragement of every lover of fine music. Please accept, personally, my assurances of esteem and good will.
48Very respectfully yours,
49O. Wissner.
51Brooklyn, N. Y., October 28, 1897.
53Dear Mr. Wissner—For your many kindnesses to the Seidl Society we are under great obligations to you and now your gift of a piano for the use of its members is another—and an exceptional proof—of your interest in our work. Gratefully I accept your present, but will not put it to the use you suggest. With your consent we will place the piano on exhibition and vote it, at the end of the season, to the woman who has sold the largest number of tickets for the six concerts. There many young musicians—school teachers and other music loving women—who work unselfishly for the society each year, and this is an opportunity to reward at least one of them. We will appoint a committee of ladies and gentlemen to examine our books, decide the question, and present the piano to the woman who wins it by her successful work. In case any of the officers of the Seidl Society earn it the instrument will remain the property of the society.
55By such a course the Seidl Society will be doing better service for music than it would were it to apply your beautiful gift to the purpose you name. Again I thank you for your appreciation and generosity.
57Sincerely yours,
58Laura C. Langford,
59President of Seidl Society.
61The piano will be on exhibition next week.
63The Arion Singing Society has engaged Mr. Leo Stern, the celebrated violoncello virtuoso, for the public concert on Wednesday, November 17, at the Academy of Music. Mr. Leo Stern was received with great enthusiasm in London. He made his American début at the Philharmonic concert in New York, and will appear in a number of concerts this season.
65The arrangements for the musicale and reception to be given at the Hotel St. George on Friday evening, November 12, are so far completed that it is definitely announced that Madame de Levenoff, the magnificent Parisian virtuoso, will give a piano recital in which she will have the assistance of Mr. Elizabeth Northrup, who while on tour with Sousa last season won applause and enthusiasm in every State in the Union. Mr. Frank Downey, a local singer of merit, will also appear, and Miss Josephine Mildenberg will play the accompaniments.
67Mr. Herman Dietman, the baritone, of whom I spoke often last season, will give a song recital at the home of Mrs. Theodore Dreier, on Montague terrace, Monday November 8.
69Mr. Henry Austin Adams, a most fascinating and intelligent speaker, gave a lecture at the Bijou Theatre on Sunday evening in aid of the Sisters of Mercy. He made a great deal out of the subject, "Defenders of the Faith." The efficient quartet from the Church of the Holy Rosary furnished the music. The personnel is Mrs. A. Butler,
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