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Musical Courier 1897-11-24: Vol 35 Iss 925, 1897
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1Boston Music Notes.
2BOSTON, November 20, 1892.
4MRS. THOMAS TAPPER'S first class for the season met last Wednesday, with a large attendance, both of pupils and visitors. Several of the pupils took part in the program, which consisted of Mozart's C minor concerto, Mendelssohn's G minor concerto, Mozart's D minor concerto, Beethoven's sonata, op. 2, No. 1, and pieces by Grieg. The Rubinstein D minor sonata, for piano and 'cello, was played by Mrs. Anthony and Leo Schultz. The highest grade of ensemble performance will take place at each meeting. The next class will be a normal. Mrs. Tapper's pupils will bring some of their pupils, who will play, and thus show what their teachers are doing in method, interpretation, &c.
6Mr. Tapper's book "Child's Music World" is now ready, after several unavoidable delays. He has recently lectured before the Massachusetts Kindergartens, at the Girls' High School, in this city, and to the Norfolk County school teachers, in Tremont Temple. Mr. Tapper has just returned from a lecture tour South and West.
8U. S. Kerr's recital, given at the Tuileries on Monday evening, November 10, was a success both artistically and financially. Mr. Kerr came to Boston three years ago from Minneapolis, to study with Charles R. Adams, and he should certainly be well satisfied with the result, for besides his position as basso in Mr. Chadwick's choir at Dr. Minor's church, he has good concert engagements booked. His voice is basso cantante, of an unusually beautiful quality, and he sings with great skill and expression and with a charm which never fails to win the audience. His program on Monday evening was made up of songs by Händel, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, as well as some by our local composers.
10Miss Lena Little and Mrs. Emil Paur announce that their two recitals will take place in Steinert Hall on the evenings of November 23 and 30. The programs for these recitals will consist of songs by Tschaikowsky, Balakireff, Korsakoff, Robert Kahn, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Franz, Cornelius, Widor, Gabriel Fauré and C. M. Loeffler, and piano solos by Smetana, Arensky and Robert Kahn. The songs by Mr. Loeffler will have in addition to the piano viola accompaniment, played by the composer.
12One of the most interesting of the Sunday services is the vesper service at the Central Church. Last Sunday a whole Rheinberger service was given—one number being a quintet in which Stephen Townsend assisted. Next Sunday there will be a special Thanksgiving service. Mr. Burdett, the organist, is ably assisted in the music by the choir, Miss Caroline Gardner Clarke, Miss Katherine Ricker, Arthur Wellington and Mr. Thayer.
14Felix Fox announces a piano recital to take place in Steinert Hall on the evening of December 2. The program will be made up of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Heller, Liszt, Brahms, Lacombe, Philipp and Balakireff.
16The recital given in Steinert Hall on Thursday evening, November 18, by Miss Whittier and Mr. Manning was very enjoyable. In spite of a cold Miss Whittier sang delightfully, and with a grace and daintiness that was most attractive. The warmth of her reception was a great satisfaction to her friends, of whom Miss Whittier has many, for the beauty of her character has endeared her to all who know her. Musically her position is also an enviable one, for she enjoys the respect and admiration of the profession. In addition to her church and concert work, she has a large class of pupils, and also conscientiously continues her study with her old master, Charles R. Adams.
18Mr. Manning's playing displayed to advantage the talent which he has worked so faithfully to develop—first with Mr. Faelten and later with Mr. McDowell. The lullaby of Mr. Manning's, which was one of Miss Whittier's numbers, certainly was a most favorable introduction of Mr. Manning as a composer.
20Mrs. Alice Bates Rice is to sing the soprano part of "Attalie" (music by Mendelssohn) at Saunders' Theatre, Cambridge, at the concert given under the auspices of the Cercle Français of Harvard. The work is all to be sung in French. The soprano role is elaborate, and well suited to Mrs. Rice. The Cecelia and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will assist.
22Mrs. Rice will also sing at the second of Miss Orvis' concerts for the young in Chickering Hall on December 11.
24The recital hall of the Virgil Clavier School of Boston was filled to overflowing at a piano recital by Mrs. Ellen Berg-Parkyn on Monday evening, November 15. This was the program:
26Fantaisie, C major, op. 17, first movement………….Schumann
27Variations Serieuses………………………………….Mendelssohn
28Barcarolle………………………………………………..Chopin
29Scherzo, C sharp minor……………………………….Chopin
30Contrasts…………………………………………………Ludwig Norman
31Dream—Reality.
32Past—Present.
33Church Bells.
34Waldesrauschen………………………………………….Liszt
35Gnomenreigen…………………………………………….Moszkowski
36Scherzo Waltz…………………………………………….Moszkowski
38Mrs. Parkyn played this interesting and ambitious program in an intelligent and artistic manner, showing remarkable clearness in her technic. Especially was this noticeable in the Mendelssohn variations and the Liszt numbers. The short numbers by Ludwig Norman were very interesting and characteristic of Scandinavia. This recital was the first of a series of four to be given at the school before the holiday season. The next will be on November 29 by Miss Adeline W. Raymond.
40Richard Blackmore, Jr., has been engaged at the Boston Training School and will teach there two days in the week.
42The Clementine De Vere Concert Company will sing at one of the concerts of the New Bedford Star Course.
44A meeting of the board of management of the New Bedford Choral Association was held this week, when the plans for the winter were freely discussed.
46It was definitely decided that there will be no three days' festival, as has been the custom for several years past.
48The question of whether to give a festival of one day only, afternoon and evening, at the close of the season, or to give one concert in midwinter and one at the end of the season, was debated, and the matter was left in the hands of a committee, of which Allen W. Swan is chairman.
50This committee will meet and decide the question and report at a meeting of the board of management to be held later.
52The second season of four private recitals of chamber music will be given by Arthur Whiting and members of the Kneisel Quartet, A. Hackebarth and others, at the Grundmann studios, on Sunday afternoons, at 3:30 o'clock, November 28, December 12 and January 16, February 13, 1893, and on the week following these dates at the American Fine Arts Building, New York. Tickets will be sold by private subscription only. The programs are selected from ensemble works for strings and piano, and include the G minor quartet, E flat horn trio, F minor quintet, songs, piano solos and movements from the violin and 'cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms; violin solo, No. 10, and 'cello sonata, D major, Beethoven; quartet, E flat, Schumann, and quartet, G minor, Mozart.
54Louis C. Elson lectures this week as follows: Monday afternoon, New England Conservatory, "The Minne-
56singers;" Tuesday evening, Worcester, "The Music of Shakespeare;" Thursday afternoon, conservatory, "The Clarinettes and the Bassoon," and Thursday evening, Peabody, "Old Scottish Music."
58At the Allen Club rehearsal, Worcester, Tuesday night, it was announced that Miss Jessie Mabel Downer, pianist, a pupil of B. J. Lang, of Boston, has been engaged as the soloist of the first club concert.
60The following is the program of the piano and song recital given in Saundersville at the residence of Mrs. Frederick A. Dodge:
61Piano solo, Fantaisie Dramatique………………………..Moscheles
62Ivers S. Paine.
63Tenor solo, Romance, from Euryanthe…………………..Weber
64William Little.
65Piano solo—
66Lied………………………………………………………..Mendelssohn
67Valse (posthumous), A flat…………………………..Chopin
68Soprano solo—
69The Silver Ring………………………………………..Chaminade
70The Flight of Ages………………………………………Bevan
71Mrs. H. M. Goddard.
72Piano solo, Caprice………………………………………Raff
73Mr. Paine.
74Tenor solo—
75Ritournelle……………………………………………….Dennée
76The Garden of Roses………………………………….Beaumont
77Mr. Little.
79A San Francisco paper says:
80We are all sincerely sorry to part with Miss Anna Miller Wood, who will leave to-day for Boston. Miss May Little, who Madame Rosewald placed in Miss Wood's care, will accompany the latter and will study with her during the winter. The mezzo-contralto, though so strongly urged to remain here, is obliged to go East at once to fulfill her concert engagements. She will sing in Manchester, N. H., at one of a series of chamber concerts at which the Henschels and Ondriczek, the violinist, are soloists, later in Brunswick, Me.; Providence, R. I.; Cambridge, Lawrence and Haverhill, Mass. In Cambridge she will be the soloist with the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra and Miss Wood also intends giving a concert in Boston during the winter. She will teach all the winter, resuming the classes she gave up when coming to the Coast in the summer. Several of her pupils come each week from Providence an Newton Centre. It is good news to learn that Miss Wood intends spending the months from July to November every year in San Francisco and will during that period continue her classes here.
82Miss Bertha W. Swift will give a song recital in Steinert Hall Wednesday evening, December 1, assisted by Miss Laura Webster, 'cellist; Mrs. S. B. Field and Edmund Grinwell, accompanists.
84Miss Caroline Gardner Clarke, soprano, and Miss Harriet Shaw, harpist, gave a concert at Wellesley College last Monday evening.
86Heinrich Schuecker, the harpist, played in Cambridge last Wednesday evening, and will play there again next Tuesday evening.
88The Fidicinia Orchestra.—The Fidicinia Orchestra (Louis Melcher conductor) will give a concert in Steinway Hall on Monday, November 29. Viola Pratt-Gillett, contralto, and S. B. Mills, pianist, will assist.
90The Harlem Philharmonic Society.—The first "morning musicale" of the Harlem Philharmonic Society, of New York, was given on Thursday, November 18, in Y. M. C. A. Hall, on 125th street. The program was as follows:
91Quartet, op. 63, in A minor…………………………….C. C. Muller
92(Dedicated to the ladies of the Harlem Philharmonic Society.)
93Air and Gavot…………………………………………….Bach
94Quartet, op. 41, in A major…………………………….Schumann
95Quartet, op. 106, in A flat major………………………..Dvorák
96The able director of the society, Henry T. Fleck, had engaged the services of the Dannreuther Quartet, whose finished work in the various numbers proved the wisdom of his choice. A delightful concert—delightfully performed.
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