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Musical Courier 1897-11-24: Vol 35 Iss 925, 1897
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1besides articles of standard value (as Le Duc "Bohèmes" of this week), news of musical doings in all Europe, movements of musicians and artists, and criticisms. Alessandro Fano is editor.
3Miss May Kenney, of Roxbury, N. Y., is in Paris with her father and mother. She is a pupil of Madame von Klenner, of New York, and is studying here with Mme. Artot, an apostle of the same Garcia school. She is applying herself to the study of French.
5At the recent wedding of Mlle. Emma Leduc, of Paris, a very beautiful hymn was performed by soloist, choir and orchestra. It was written by the well-known composer and pianist M. Henri Ravina, grandfather of the bride.
7Miss Rose Ettinger is singing in Germany with marked success. She began at the Gewandhaus, under Nikisch, and the public, though a critical one, was most appreciative. She also sang before their Majesties on the occasion of the birthday of the Empress, who expressed her pleasure most graciously, and again in Frankfurt at an orchestral concert. A busy season is planned ahead. After two concerts in Russia she returns to sing in Cologne and other German cities, and in Holland in March.
9Clarence Eddy expects to reach Berlin in January, and will doubtless play in Paris in the spring. His specimen programs are composed largely of new compositions by composers of all nations, music spiritual and emotional, classic and modern.
11Singing voices lose by singing words in all languages except Italian.
13Mr. and Mrs. Ebeling are still in Vienna. They are hearing much of the best music given. They remark on the difference in attention to music there and in Paris. Here they say they could never enjoy the music for the talking all around them. They were astonished at this unmusical trait among the French. Many musicians visiting Germany say the same thing about Paris.
15Margaret Reid has been engaged to sing in "Faust" at Saint-Quentin and in "Traviata" at Versailles. She will also sing Mignon and Zerlina in Dieppe in the summer of 1898. She has already sung in "Faust" in Versailles, where the papers were most enthusiastic about her.
17Many of the Americans who were studying in Paris last season are teaching at home this year. Mrs. Etta Edwards, of Boston; the Hibbards, of New York; Miss Hyde, of Cleveland; Mrs. Anderson, of Boston, and Miss Snyder, of Cleveland, are among them. Miss Clara L. Petre has established a studio in Prospect street, Cleveland. Miss Breen also has a studio in New York, I believe; Miss Helen Fleming in Steinway Hall, Chicago.
19Miss Della Rogers is to sing in Palermo in several roles of her repertory. She sings roles in all the leading operas, French and Italian, and has had the indorsement of the press in many of them.
21M. Bouhy has for teacher in his operatic class M. Valdéjo, an accomplished actor, who gives sole attention to gesture and interpretation. Miss Sturmfels, the regular accompanist, is a fine musician and one of the best of friends to the pupils. She is never too weary to help and correct or aid the singers in any way. "Romeo et Juliette," "Hamlet," Rigoletto," "Samson and Dalila," "Les Huguenots," "Lakmé" and "Philemon and Baucis" have been given the past season.
23Miss Regina de Sales sails from England this week for America, where she has been called to sing. This singer studied two years in Paris with Madame de la Grange and M. Pluque. Going to London, she received the first prize for the best oratorio singing, and has since been studying with Randegger the traditional interpretation of oratorio. She has an immense repertory, and has sung in London and in the provinces with success.
25The d'Harcourt concerts of Paris, so summarily closed last season, will commence again in January. The Count Eugène d'Harcourt, the head and director of these concerts, has since been married. It will be seen what effect his happiness has had upon his musical progress.
27The Pall Mall Gazette, of London, speaks well of Miss Maud Roudé's singing of Venus at Covent Garden recently. It says she was a great deal above the average even of that to which they have been accustomed to at Covent Garden in the summer season.
29Among the best concerts given in Paris are the Concerts Rouge, given in the Latin Quarter by a company of young musicians. Nothing but classic chamber music is played. Although refreshments and smoking are features of the place, the strictest attention and silence are observed during the playing of the music. The following program gives an idea of the quality of the selections: Beethoven's Seventh Quatuor in F major and Sonata in F major, Mendelssohn's Sonata in D major, Tschaikowsky's Quatuor (Andante and Scherzo), Schumann's Quintet, Wieniawski's Polonaise for violin, and a Morceau de Concert, by Servais, for violin, with quatuor accompaniment.
31The musicians are all young, first prize laureats of the Conservatoire, who are engaged in the city orchestras, but have banded together for the express propaganda of the classics.
33M. Haas, pianist; Thibaud, violinist; Comas, second violin; Gretry, alto; Touche, violoncello, are among them. M. Haas is a remarkable pianist, with immense repertory, and has wonderful magnetism in playing and in teaching. He is already established as a very popular coach.
35Clapisson, the musician, was a great collector of buttons. He had 7,750 when he died.
37M. Ezio Ciampi and Mme. Cecile Ritter-Ciampi have opened their studio at 66 Rue de Rome, Paris, with two supplementary classes elsewhere in the city. Their unique work with the Choral Society, for female voices, continues under the direction of M. Ciampi.
39The Schola Cantorum, or Society for the Study and Propagation of Sacred Music, anticipates a treat this season in the presence of a celebrated abbé pupil of the real Gregorian service, who will deliver a series of lectures before the society. The professors for this year are M. Guilmant, M. d'Indy, Abbé Vigoureil, Dom Chauvin, De la Tombelle, Ed. Risler and M. Ch. Bordes.
41Mme. Teresa Tosti, the concert singer and professor, who has just returned from a tournée in the German cities, is preparing to return to London, where she, with her husband, will give three concerts in Steinway Hall, and later others in the provinces. Her address in Paris is changed to 236 Faubourg St. Honoré. She has given over 500 concerts in Europe. She will resume teaching on her return to Paris.
43M. Guilmant plays both violin and violoncello. He adores Shakespeare's writing, and is irritated by discussions as to the author's identity with the great work. "What difference does it make," he says, "whether the writer's name was 'Shakespeare' or any other name, as long as the writing is there for us?" He frequently quotes Shakespeare in conversation, always with a tender reverence, similar to the manner of Mr. Robert Ingersoll when speaking of his idol. The French organist is extremely stirred up in regard to the drinking of absinthe in France. He claims that the Government should prevent it. "When I see our men in rows along the boulevards soaking in the noxious stuff," he says, "I feel like going and overturning the tables!"
45M. Paul Seguy, the French singer and professor, claims that a great part of the lack of success in vocal teaching is due to lack of science in its conceptions and progress by professors. Acoustics, medicine, language, philosophy and psychology are some of the things he holds necessary in the teaching of singing, and he maintains his position by wise argument. Trained himself in a scientific atmosphere, at sixteen he had already won medals for inventions in electricity, and has since been an ardent student of this science side by side with his music. Passing by theatrical and declamatory experience, he arrived at the professorat with the recommendation of his professor and friend, the baritone Faure, and with absolute faith in the application of electricity to the treatment of the throat weakened or abused by bad treatment. This faith had been strengthened by three years' attendance on a clinique for throat troubles and the reading and study of all known authority on the subject.
47M. Seguy has been asked to unite to his regular vocal teaching a series of lectures on this important subject, and it is not at all improbable that he may yet reach America to teach and practice after his experience and discoveries.
49M. Harold Bauer has started on his Continental tournée, preparatory to his series of recitals in Paris. Madrid, Holland and Vienna will be visited.
51One of the first concerts of the season was that given on the occasion of the opening of the Bonnet School of Music at Auteuil. The head of the school is Mlle. Bonnet, who is a graduate of the class of George Hesse. Her two sisters and a young vocal teacher unite with her in the work, comprising solfège, harmony, musical dictation, singing and piano, primary and superior. Mr. Hesse will direct the superior classes till the young people get well out to sea. The effort deserves encouragement. M. Henri Ravina and friends were present at the opening and lent close attention and kind words to the enterprise.
53The attention of people attending the Colonne concerts is attracted to the presence in the orchestra of a very little girl with big eyes and hair à la Liszt, who plays first violin. She is a Mlle. Dellerba, yet in her teens, pupil of the Conservatoire and also of M. Rémy, the esteemed first violin soloist of the Colonne Society. This latter fact possibly aided her exceptional talent in arriving at the unique position. That this novelty is not to be taken as a precedent is evident from the fact that others equally desirous and equally talented who have since presented themselves in competition have not been admitted. Mlle. Dellerba remains then for some time to come—a curiosity.
55Loie Fuller is having what may well be called "success" at the Folies Bergères. What she does (and it is certainly wonderful as it is beautiful) seems to be just the thing for Paris. People howl and throw flowers and fill the hall every representation and cry for more. A lengthening of her engagement has been called for; also of the figures of her "appointment." She has taken an apartment here till after the Exposition. Sara Bernhardt sent her a splendid bouquet on Sunday afternoon. Calvé and Marie Roze are among her "best friends." All classes go to see the sight. The exhibition has its disadvantages in point of view of the health of the performer.
57Better yet even than the performance is the fact that the little creature got away from rut and routine and irritation and created something which she could do so well that no one else could do quite as well. She deserves even more credit than she gets for the idea and for the persistence of carrying it to its present perfection. She carries the whole complicated illumination apparatus with her and directs its installation. She gets 25,000 frs. a month, and "stables," if you please, were part of the necessity of the "apartment" ordered. She is kind and gentle to all people and has hosts of friends here. She has a regular manager this year, an American, who sees that she gets—out of the fire.
59Ædipe à Colonne, by Sophocles, with lecture and musical adaptation, given by forty musicians, was the first of the lecture classic series of plays at the Odéon. The lecture was given by a Madame Dieulafoy.
61Over 1,500,000 frs. are given annually by France to the
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