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Musical Courier 1897-11-24: Vol 35 Iss 925, 1897
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3Gotham Gossip
5NEW YORK, November 22, 1897.
7HERE is a chamber music program of such excellence and variety that I print it:
8Theme and Variations, finale and Coda, from trio, op. 50……………………………………………..Tchaikowsky
9Air and Gavotte (cello and piano)………………………………………Bach
10Trio, op. 18, F major……………………………………………..Saint-Saëns
11Miss Cornelia Dyas, pianist, assisted by Miss Maud Powell, violinist, and Paul Miersch, 'cellist, gave this model program last Friday morning at the Hotel Manhattan, the second of their three musicales. If their first morning was interesting, this one was more so. Probably twice as many people were there, and altogether the occasion was a most enjoyable one. Miss Powell played during the morning on two beautiful Strads, valued at $3,500 and $5,000 respectively. The third recital will be given on Thursday, December 2, at 11 o'clock.
13Here is another program of music, given under entirely different circumstances, the first of Organist Charles Heinroth's recitals at Ascension Church, Fifth avenue and Tenth street:
14Prelude and fugue, B minor………………………………………Bach
15Extase……………………………………………..Deshayes
16Rhapsody……………………………………………..Saint-Saëns
17Fifth sonata……………………………………………..Guilmant
18Vocal solo, O Divine Redeemer………………………………………Gounod
19Adagio……………………………………………..Katherine Bloodgood.
20From F sharp minor sonata………………………………………Rheinberger
21Grand chorus……………………………………………..Deshayes
23Heinroth and Hadley, these two youthful-appearing music men, are a continual surprise; Heinroth, because of his astonishing accomplishments as an organist, and Hadley because he swims in orchestration as a duck takes to water. Heinroth's amazing pedal technic strikes one at once, and was especially in evidence in the big Guilmant work (dedicated to Clarence Eddy). The vocal number was magnificently sung, as may be expected from Bloodgood, but I could not help thinking it was opera music set to sacred words. The next recital occurs on Wednesday afternoon, December 1, at 3:30.
25Conrad Wirtz's pupil, a youth named Gustave C. Wirtz, gave a piano recital last Saturday evening, playing these numbers, the house being filled:
26Sonata, op. 2, No. 1……………………………………………..Beethoven
27Tarantella……………………………………………..Loeschorn
28Spinning Song……………………………………………..Mendelssohn
29Venezia……………………………………………..Spindler
30Impromptu, op. 28, No. 1……………………………………………..Reinhold
31Titania……………………………………………..Weyl
32The Butterflies……………………………………………..Grieg
33The Birds……………………………………………..Schubert
34Violinist Enos Johnson assisted, and the occasion was pronounced a most interesting one by those present.
36Miss Julia Such possesses a sympathetic mezzo-soprano voice, of heavy quality and good range, extending from A below the staff to A in alt. Her method is the Italian one, and her enunciation is excellent. Major James B. Pond says of her voice:
37"I have heard Miss Such sing with great delight; she possesses a rare voice for church singing; I know of none better."
38Mr. Frank Hyde, choirmaster of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, speaks of her ability both as a singer and musician, in the following terms:
39"I take pleasure in recommending Miss Julia Such as a most excellent singer, reliable and true, and an accomplished musician."
41Last week Edward Bromberg sang with success in two concerts: on November 11, in Newtown, L. I., at the Reformed Church, and on November 14, at the Windsor Hotel. At Newtown he sang sacred selections; at the Windsor, selections by Schubert and Schumann, and was enthusiastically encored.
43Here is a press notice of that meritorious young Russian-American's singing, from a paper just across the river:
44Mr. Bromberg sang at a soirée in Westfield, N. J., and won an undeniable artistic success in Goetze's "Happy Days" and Brahms' "Cradle Song." The old favorites, Homer Bartlett's "Thy Dear Eyes" and Pinsuti's "Bedouin Love Song," were also received with every mark of favor. Mr. Bromberg's singing is notable for his fine delivery, artistic phrasing, his inborn sense of rhythm and appreciation of coloring, while his voice is one of the best placed we know of among basso-cantantes.
46Miss Emma Thursby has returned from the Cambridge Art Conference, which ended last Sunday with a concert by young American composers, which was a great success. She began her work in her studio in Carnegie Hall last week, but will also teach some days each week at her residence, 34 Gramercy Park, for the convenience of downtown and out of town pupils.
48William Edward Mulligan continues one of the busiest men in town, what with his monthly organ recitals at St. Mark's, his various out of town organ and piano recitals, his teaching and other musical work. Last year THE COURIER spoke in words of praise of this highly talented man as follows:
49Wm. Edward Mulligan's first organ recital of this season took place last Sunday at St. Mark's Church. Mr. Mulligan is one of Gotham's ablest and most conscientious organists. There is no trickery in his work, and his program never contains a thunderstorm, during which the lights of the church are extinguished for effect.
50His interpretation of Mendelssohn's sixth sonata was masterly, being characterized by lofty sentiment and rare artistic judgment. Technically, his playing is accuracy itself, while his work on the keyboard is smooth and sustained, a rare quality in one who is also a skillful pianist, as Mr. Mulligan is.
51If this was true then, how much more so is it now? For Mr. Mulligan is an earnest student, whose watchword is progress!
53Miss E. Genevieve Weaver is a young mezzo soprano singer, recently returned from some years' study in Paris. She sang last week for some musical folk at a Carnegie Hall studio these numbers:
54Chanson triste……………………………………………..Hahn
55Sondine……………………………………………..Franz
56Gute Nacht……………………………………………..Schumann
57Nugeduld……………………………………………..Wagner
58Traume……………………………………………..Nevin
59Three songs……………………………………………..Nevin
61The young lady has so much in her favor and she should certainly succeed. Youth, handsome appearance, excellent vocal organ, most astonishing correctness in German and French diction, the musical temperament—all these are
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