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Musical Courier 1897-11-03: Vol 35 Iss 922, 1897
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3Gotham Gossip one of two readings
4Gotham Gossip. one of two readings
6NEW YORK, November 1, 1897.
8"GOIN' to the festival? Me? What for? Didn't I buy me a flute five year ago, and hain't that enough music fur ennyone?" Mrs. Antonia H. Sawyer relates this as a conversation overheard in a Bangor, Me., street car, when an old gentleman was asked if he intended going to what folks there called "the Chapman festival." However, about 5,000 people thought otherwise, and so he was not missed.
10Look at this: isn't it original?
11THE "OLD FIRST" PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, FIFTH AVENUE AND TWELFTH STREET.
12NEXT SUNDAY MORNING.
13The Music will be
14Organ: Postlude in E flat……………………………Drifffield
15Allegretto Grazioso………………………………….Hopkins
16Choir: Awake, Awake, Put on Thy Strength………….Stainer
17Master, What Shall I do?……………………………Bowers
18The Sermon will be
19The Gate Beautiful.
20The People will be
21Glad to see you.
22NEXT SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
23The Music will be
24Organ: Andantino in B flat………………………….Salomé
25Aria (tenth concerto)……………………………….Händel
26The Temple March…………………………………..Vincent
27Choir: Psalm XLVI…………………………………..Foote
28The Sermon will be
29The Book of the Pilgrimage.
30The People will be
31Cordial and hospitable.
32Howard Duffield, D.D., pastor.
33John C. Whiting, lay assistant.
34Wm. C. Carl, organist.
35Does this pay?—the great American query. Of course it does. A thousand of these, more or less, were distributed at the close of Carl's organ recital last Friday.
37Jessie L. Gardner, a Scharwenka pupil for three years, and now teacher at the Conservatory of the same name, has, with Miss Julia Such, a beautiful ground floor studio at 572 Park avenue. When Miss Gardner recently gave a concert at Hoosick Falls the Standard said this:
38The piano recital given by Miss Gardner in the parlors of Mrs. L. B. Ball was a rare musical treat for those who attended. The numbers of the program were rendered in an artistic manner. Miss Gardner is a pianist of rare ability, and this was her first public recital in Hoosick Falls. The difficult and beautiful compositions of Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and others which she gave were interpreted skillfully and with an evident appreciation of the composers' meaning, which so many musicians fall short of. She is to be congratulated upon her success.
39Miss Such has taught at St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N. C. She is a pupil of P. S. Rivarde, and has sung in churches and at concerts in New York and Brooklyn, besides many prominent cities North.
41A. L. Barnes, organist, composer, teacher of harmony, is a newcomer here; an old acquaintance of yours truly, however. For ten years organist of the Dutch Reformed Church, Utica, N. Y., where he had the best organ and choir in the city. He has been since May organist of the Central Presbyterian Church of Summit, N. J. His early teachers were Flagler and Buck, and his compositions are making their way. Last week he was elected a member of the Manuscript Society; November 11 he gives an organ recital at his church. This betokens talent and energy; and here's hoping that Brother Barnes may soon find himself on top in this greedy Gotham!
43A correspondent of Miss Katherine Ruth Heyman in this city tells of very gratifying news received not long since. It was of a concert given by Miss Heyman in Chicago. Unknown to the young pianist, Madame Zeisler was present, and after the performance hurried back to the dressing-room, and, taking Kitty by the hands, congratulated her warmly upon her work. Those who have heard Madame Zeisler speak and know her estimate of true worth in her branch of the arts know this means much, and Miss Heyman's friends cannot but feel pleased that she is meeting with such artistic approval.
45Howard Brockway, composer-pianist, was recently in Norwich, Conn., where he was associated with Mr. Mannes, the violinist, in concert, and the following press excerpts will interest his many friends:
46The assembly room at the Norwich Club was not large enough on Monday evening to hold all those who attended the delightful concert.
47The program was varied and well arranged, and was almost doubled by reason of the continuous and unrestrained signals of approval on the part of the audience.
48Naturally great interest was manifested in Mr. Brockway's rendering of his own compositions. During his stay abroad he has won praise from the most exacting critics, and his playing on Monday evening was a revelation as regards technic and finish, breadth of style and evenness of tone. Whether in his own poetic "Dance of the Sylphs" or in the selections where more dramatic and serious effort was required of him, his playing was marked by consummate delicacy, ease and skill.—Norwich Bulletin.
49If one may judge from the first hearing of Mr. Brockway's music he is destined to take a high place among contemporary composers. These pieces are highly poetic in conception and thoroughly artistic and clear in expression. The themes are wholly original and spontaneous, and the harmonies are full of color, never muddy, but clean cut as a cameo. He is strongly romantic in style, and his music has the distinction and grace vouchsafed only to the chosen few.
50Of his two compositions on the program we much preferred "Dance of the Sylphs," from the Sylvan Suite; in fact, it was the most interesting number on the list. It is imaginative, fanciful and polished; it has the sharpness of an etching, and does not contain a single superfluous phrase. Mr. Brockway is prepossessing in appearance and modest in demeanor. He has ample technical ability, but in his playing the virtuoso is sunk in the interpreter. As a pianist he is, above all, poetical.—Evening Record.
52Samuel Moyle's pupils continue to achieve distinction. His pupil, Mrs. Mary E. Brooks' sang at a Ladies' Night of the New York Scottish Society on Monday night, and created quite a sensation. The Scottish-American paper states that she has a "rich contralto voice, of fine quality and sympathy, and is sure to become a favorite with New York audiences."
54The fourth concert by pupils of the Froehlich School of Music (2117 Madison avenue) occurs to-morrow, Thursday evening, in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, Harlem. At this concert the following will appear: Misses Henry Moore, Cranbrook, Von Ludwig, Herzog, Schomber, J. Froehlich; Messrs. Deutsch, Spiro, Evans, Lewis, Glaesel, Winkler, Dietz, H. Kral, all violinists, and Misses Brintzinger, Meyer, Selma and Josie Froehlich; Messrs. Bernstein, Rosenbaum, McLaury, Herzig, and Miss Louise Marguerite Moore, who will play a "Carmen Fantasia," written by her teacher, Mr. S. Froehlich, and dedicated to her.
55The Froehlich School of Music instructs its students in piano, singing, violin 'cello, flute, organ, harp, orchestra playing, chamber music, harmony and composition, accompaniment, sight reading, &c. All students are instructed in the most systematic and thorough manner under the personal supervision of its director. The school refers to the eminent musical conductor, Anton Seidl, who testifies to the artistic ability of its director, Prof. S. Froehlich, also to its numerous students, who, by the effective methods of the school, make greater progress under its teachings than during many years before under the ordinary methods. Many accomplished musicians, who have been personal pupils of the director, bear witness to the thoroughness of his methods and conscientious efforts to accomplish the highest results.
57Mr. Edward Bromberg, the basso cantante, sang in one of the musicales given at the Windsor Hotel last week. The parlors of the hotel were crowded. He sang with great success, and had to sing an encore after every number. After the musicale some of the guests spoke to him, and expressed a wish to hear him frequently. This is from a local paper:
58Ed. Bromberg is a young basso, and no doubt the career of this talented singer and musician will be noteworthy. Mr. Bromberg received his musical education at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory and was a pupil for a number of years of the famous vocal master,
60Musicales.
61Concerts.
63Oratorios.
64Festivals.
66MISS JOSIE HARTMAN, Pianist.
68LITTLE DYNA BEUMER, Soprano.
69(Niece of the former.)
71PAOLO GALLICO, Pianist.
73EMILIO DE GOGORZA, Baritone.
75DYNA BEUMER
76FIRST CONCERT IN NEW YORK,
77Astoria Hotel, Tuesday, Nov. 9=8:30 P. M.
78WILL BE ASSISTED BY
79HERR ANTON SEIDL AND AN ORCHESTRA OF SEVENTY.
80EXCLUSIVE DIRECTION OF
81The Herlof Concert Bureau,
8211 East Twenty-second Street, NEW YORK.
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