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Musical Courier 1897-11-24: Vol 35 Iss 925, 1897
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1some of the greater ones being out. The poetical and musical quotations are refined, and altogether this little volume deserves to meet with ready sale.
3The first Arion concert of the season was given to a large audience at the Academy of Music on Wednesday night. Leo Stern was the soloist, and was heard here for the first time. He had a hearty reception, and his playing received the stamp which is only accorded to art of a high degree. The air by Bach was beautifully orchestrated, but was not smooth and finished in presentation. The Bojaren March is a brilliant thing and went well. There is much good material well handled in the male chorus of the Arion Society. This program was given:
5Overture, Carneval Romain………………………………………Berlioz
6Forest Harps (dedicated to the Arion)………………………..Spicker
7Arion Singing Society.
8Im Walde (suite)…………………………………………………….Popper
9Leo Stern and orchestra.
10Serenade, Sweetheart Mine, for double chorus………………Kremser
11Arion Singing Society.
12Introduction (Act III.), Clare Dettir (new)…………………..Meyer-Olbersleben
13Orchestra.
14Death Dirge (new)……………………………………………….Von Othegraven
15The Combat (new)……………………………………………..Von Othegraven
16Arion Singing Society and orchestra.
17Air (arranged from John C. Beitzel)……………………………Bach
18Einzug Marsch der Bojaren (by request)…………………….Halvorsen
19Mother Love (new)……………………………………………..Voigt
20Arion Singing Society.
21Spinning Song (from opera The Witch)………………………..Enna
22Dame Cuckoo………………………………………………………Hiller
23Arion Ladies' Chorus and orchestra.
24Gypsy Life………………………………………………………..Schumann
25Arion Singing Society. Arion Ladies' Chorus and orchestra.
27Incidental solos were sung by Mrs. Marie Rappold, Miss Annie Winkopp, Wilh. Bierschenk, William Lohr. Arthur Classen was the conductor.
29At the same time, not to the detriment of the size of the audience, however, the song recital of Max Heinrich was occurring in Association Hall. Mr. Heinrich has not lost any of his splendid art since he was last heard in recital; indeed he seemed to have been inspired last Wednesday night. Merely as a matter of personal taste he took the Schubert "Ständchen" a shade too fast to suit me; but he was finished and artistic throughout. Mr. Heinrich did a very daring thing in putting on the program a group of "Four Serious Songs," op. 121, of Brahms.
31To the musicians, and to the true musicians only, these songs were interesting. The others in the audience, even those who heretofore believed themselves musicians, felt free to say that they were intensely bored and longed for Mr. Heinrich in his romantic work. Miss Bertha Bucklin, who returned from Europe the day previous, where she had been studying with Halir, assisted in making the recital a success. Miss Bucklin has broadened very much since last she was heard by the same audience.
33Technically she has gained very much, as also in interpretation and musical feeling. Isidore Luckstone played her accompaniments delightfully. She gave a dainty berceuse as encore, without which she could not satisfy her insistent audience. This program was presented:
35Die Post (The Post)……………………………………………..Schubert
36Die Tauben Post (The Carrier Pigeon)………………………..Schubert
37Staendchen (Serenade)………………………………………….Schubert
38Auf dem Wasser zu Singen………………………………………Mr. Heinrich.
39Adagio and Moto Perpetuo, from Third Suite…………………Ries
40Miss Bucklin.
41Invocation to Sleep……………………………………………..Tschaikowsky
42Minnesong………………………………………………………..Brahms
43When Through the Piazzetta………………………………….Schumann
44Row Gently Here, My Gondolier……………………………….Mr. Heinrich.
45Hungarian Dances……………………………………………..Brahms-Joachim
46Four Serious Songs, op. 121…………………………………..Miss Bucklin.
47Gitarre………………………………………………………..Moszkowski
48Mr. Heinrich.
49O Let Night Speak of Me………………………………………Chadwick
50Spring Song…………………………………………………….Mackenzie
51It Is Not Always May…………………………………………Gounod
52The Rose Leans Over the Pool………………………………..Chadwick
53Mr. Heinrich.
55On Saturday night in an evening with Eugene Field's poems, delightfully given by Mary French Field, Charles Stuart Phillips, the tenor, gave some vocal numbers beautifully. H. E. H. Benedict played the accompaniments.
57At the piano recital given by the pupils of Mrs. E. H. Gamenans the soloists assisting were Chauncey Parsons Knight, solo flutist of Sousa's band, who delighted his hearers immensely by the finish and virtuosity of his performance, and Mrs. Georgiana Gooding, his sister, who is the possessor of a sweet, pure, soprano voice.
59On Wednesday night the Spiering String Quartet will make its initial appearance before a Brooklyn audience. The quartet will be assisted by Hugo Wittkenstien, of Seidl's orchestra.
61On December 1 Mr. and Mrs. Henschel will give another song recital, and on December 8 Lillian Blauvelt and Purdon Robinson will appear in recital.
63Ysaye is announced for December 29.
65Cards have been received at this office announcing the marriage of Miss Florence G. Knight, of Portland, Me., to Frederic H. Palmer, to occur on Wednesday. Miss Knight will be remembered as the very efficient soprano of the Tompkins Avenue Church. The Courier extends good wishes.
67The concert given on Sunday night by the Brooklyn Sängerbund at the Montauk Theatre was in every way a magnificent success. Miss Florence Terrell, who plays with the finish and authority of an old pianist, gave the last movement of the G minor Saint-Saëns with orchestra.
69Miss Terrell is not only very young in the profession, but very young in years, and yet she interprets with such maturity that she is always interesting. Technically she has great control over the keyboard, and Alexander Lambert has every reason to feel proud of his pupil.
71Mr. Koemmenich's composition, "The Magic Minstrel," a male chorus with soprano solo, is essentially in the German style, very virile, melodious and yet not burdened by suavity of melody. It is really good and the Sängerbund is to be congratulated upon having so talented a conductor.
73A very pretty number was a polonaise of Halfdan Kjerulff, which was orchestrated by Alex. Rihm in a masterly way. Mr. Rihm is another talented man from whom we hear too little.
75The chamber music concert of Mme. Bertha Grosse Thomason, Miss Powell and Miss Gaertner, coming as it does on Tuesday night, will be reviewed next week. Before closing I want to say to our musicians of New York, and Brooklyn of course as well, that if they appear before Brooklyn audiences and send me word I will certainly go and give them all the attention in my power; but as my letters are the results of personal attention to the different affairs, I never cull what has been done from other sources.
77Through the last week Theo. Van Yorx appeared with great success. As I did not know of it until afterward I cannot give detail.
79EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
81Lillian Blauvelt.—The charming young American prima donna Lillian Blauvelt is in the midst of a busy season. In the latter part of this week she will sing in St. Paul and Minneapolis; in St. Louis, on December 1; Cincinnati, December 2; Wheeling, December 3; and in Brooklyn, December 8. She is also engaged for the fifth Seidl concert at the Astoria.
83The Henschel Recital.—The program of the Henschel recital, which takes place in Chickering Hall on the evening of December 2, will be as follows:
85Duet, from Giannina e Bernadone…………………………….Cimarosa
86Mr. and Mrs. Henschel.
87Sacred song, Wait Thou Still (1680)……………………………T. W. Franck
88Serenata from Agrippina………………………………………Händel
89Aria from Almira……………………………………………..Mr. Henschel.
90Canzonet, My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair…………………Haydn
91Songs—
92Nymphs and Shepherds………………………………………Purcell
93Where Be Going?……………………………………………..Old Cornish
94Mrs. Henschel.
95Cantata, Vittoria……………………………………………..Carissimi
96Song, Wohl…………………………………………………….Schubert
97Romance, So Willst Du des Armen…………………………..Brahms
98Mr. Henschel.
99Die Loreley…………………………………………………….Liszt
100Der Nussbaum……………………………………………….Schumann
101Tausendschon, op. 56, No. 8…………………………………Henschel
102Mrs. Henschel.
103Duet, Oh. That We Two Were Maying………………………..Henschel
104Mr. and Mrs. Henschel.
105Song, Auferstehn (Resurrection), op. 57, No. 3………….Henschel
106Ballads—
107The Ruined Mill……………………………………………..Loewe
108Henry the Fowler……………………………………………Mr. Henschel.
109Songs—
110Midi au Village……………………………………………..Goring Thomas
111Margoton………………………………………………………Old French
112Spring………………………………………………………..Henschel
113Mrs. Henschel.
114Duet from De Nouveau Seigneur de Village…………………Boieldieu
115Mr. and Mrs. Henschel.
117Remington Squire, Manager for Leading Musical Artists, . . 125 East 24th Street, New York.
118SOLE CONTROL:
120Kathrin Hilke, Soprano
121J. H. McKinley, Tenor
122Mary Louise Clary, Contralto
123Carl E. Dufft, Basso
124Eleanore Meredith, Soprano
125E. C. Towne, Tenor
126Chas. A. Rice, Tenor
127Lilian Carllsmith, Contralto
128Clemente Belogna, Basso
129Heinrich Meyn, Baritone
131The New York Ladies' Trio—Dora Valesca Becker, Violin; Flavie Van den Hende, 'Cello; Mabel Phipps, Piano—Each a Soloist!
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