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Musical Courier 1898-01-05: Vol 36 Iss 931, 1898
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3Will Sing In "Olav Trygvason."
5Miss Clary has been engaged by the Albany Musical Association to sing both the contralto and mezzo soprano roles in Grieg's "Olav Trygvason," which is to be produced by that society on January 20.
7Success for a Dossier Pupil.
9Master J. Grandin, soprano soloist of the Church of the Epiphany, at Lexington avenue and Thirty-fifth street, has won a well-merited success. During the Christmas services at the church he sang "The Christ Child," by Warren, with so much expression that a request was made to have him repeat it on the following Sunday, and again on the first Sunday of the new year.
11Master Grandin is a pupil of Frank G. Dossier, and his voice, method and style are evidence of the excellence of his training.
13Philharmonic Society.
15M. Henri Marteau, the French violinist, will be the solo performer at the third concert of the Philharmonic Society next Saturday evening. The concert will be preceded by the usual public rehearsal Friday afternoon. The program will consist of the introduction to the third act of Cherubini's "Medea," Siegfried Wagner's symphonic poem, "Sehnsucht" (after Schiller); Dvorák's violin concerto and Brahms' second symphony in D major.
17Kathrin Hilke.
19Miss Kathrin Hilke was heard in "The Messiah" with the Philharmonic Society of Montreal, on December 23, and at the Midwinter Music Festival of the Philharmonic Society in Cohoes, N. Y., on December 28, where she appeared instead of Mme. Eleanore Meredith, who was ill. The other artists at this concert were Miss Clary and Messrs. McKinley and Dufft. In both events Miss Hilke won the highest praise. Criticisms of her work will appear in these columns later.
21Mary Louise Clary.
23Miss Clary Captivates a Large Audience in Memorial Hall Which Heard Her Recital—America's Greatest Contralto No Idle Title—It Is Hers by Rights.
25Under the above heading appeared recently the following notice of Mary Louise Clary.
27An audience carried away captive by a single vocalist is not an ordinary occurrence, even in Painesville, but Miss Mary Louise Clary accomplished that feat by her magnificent recital in Memorial Hall Wednesday evening. All that has been said of the remarkable power and richness of Miss Clary's voice was verified in this recital. From the opening aria from "Les Huguenots," it was evident that no contralto voice like it had ever been heard in Painesville. Its marvelous range and majesty, its sweetness and flexibility carried everything before it, and the singer and the song absorbed every thought. The oratorio numbers, particularly from "The Messiah," revealed the special adaptation of such a magnificent contralto.
29It was worth the price of admission to hear Miss Clary sing "The Lost Chord." It was also arranged with Miss Clary that she should return next spring; so that many who missed this great opportunity offered by the Seminary may yet be able to hear the greatest American contralto since the days of Cary.—Painesville, Ohio, Evening Telegraph, December 16, 1897.
31The People's Choral Union.
33An interesting performance of "The Messiah" will take place at the Metropolitan Opera House January 15, when more than a thousand singers will take part. If quality compares well with quantity on that occasion, and violin concerto and Brahms' second symphony in D there are some reasons to believe that it will, the performance will be a welcome musical event. The soloists engaged are Emma Juch, Josephe Jacoby, Evan Williams, Charles W. Clark.
35Recital at Hotel Windsor.
37Miss Isabel Conant, soprano; Miss Louise Boyce Tyler, violin, and Miss Mabel Madison Watson, piano, will give a recital at the Hotel Windsor, Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth street, on Thursday afternoon, January 13, at 2:45. Miss Florence Manchester will be the piano accompanist. The program is a prettily made one and the concert promises to be interesting. The affair has much fashionable patronage.
39Alice Garrigue Married.
41The following account of the marriage of Miss Alice Garrigue is a clipping from the daily press:
43A wedding that created special interest among musical people was that of Miss Alice Garrigue, the well-known soprano and vocal teacher, and Prof. Lewis Freeman Mott, who is at the head of the English Department in the College of the City of New York. The ceremony was performed at 8 o'clock last night, in the bride's music room, in the home of her sister, Mrs. Ettore Montecchi, at the Strathmore, Fifty-second street and Broadway. The Rev. Dr. C. Armand Miller, pastor of the German Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, at 47 West Twenty-first street, officiated.
45The bride is the daughter of Rudolph Garrigue, who was president of the Germania Fire Insurance Company at the time of his death. Her brother, Rudolph Garrigue, of Chicago, gave her away. Mrs. Montecchi, under whose auspices the wedding was held, attended her sister as matron of honor.
47Palms, smilax, laurel, and roses of all sorts were used effectively to decorate the music room, where the wedding took place beneath a bower of plants. Ricci's Quartet of violin, violoncello, flute and piano played the "Lohengrin Wedding March" as a prelude to the ceremony, and Schumann's "Träumerei," while it was going on. The bride wore white corded silk and Valenciennes lace, and a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley fastened at her left side. She carried a bouquet of the same flowers and of bride roses, and wore lilies of the valley in her hair. She was without a veil, but wore a diamond comb, the gift of the bridegroom. The matron of honor, who carried orchids, wore an imported gown of iridescent camel's hair and silk, with a yoke of ivory satin. Prof. Mott was unattended.
49At the conclusion of the wedding Signor Giuseppe Del Puente, the baritone, who sang with Mme. Sembrich in Mr. Bagby's last "musical morning" at the Waldorf-Astoria, gave a solo in honor of the bride, "Il Balen," from "Il Trovatore." It was intended as a compliment to the "radiance" of her eyes. A bridal musicale, reception and supper followed. Signor Del Puente sang the "Toreador" song from "Carmen" and Mme. Garrigue Montecchi, as the bride's sister is known professionally, gave a contralto solo, Gounod's "Ave Maria." The quartet played Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" at the close of the evening.
51Dr. Evelyn Garrigue, Mrs. Frederick Leypoldt and Mrs. Henry Ferguson, sisters of the bride; Mrs. Louis Osborne, Mrs. John Mott, mother of the bridegroom; Alexander Garrigue of Brooklyn, and Signora Giuseppe Del Puente, known professionally as Mme. Helen Campbell, were among the guests.
53Prof. Mott is a graduate of the College of the City of New York, and has been teaching there since he took his baccalaureate degree. His recent appointment to the English professorship caused considerable interest. He has taken the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University. He and his bride will made their home with Mrs. Montecchi.
55A Severn Musicale.
57On January 2 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Severn entertained among other musical guests Herr Xaver Scharwenka, his wife and two daughters. During a delightful evening the Serenade, by Scharwenka, was played, with Scharwenka himself at the piano and Mr. Severn with the violin. The Sonata Romantique, for piano and violin, by Mr. Severn, was also given, Mr. Severn playing violin and his accomplished wife presiding at the piano.
59Dr. Hanchett's Musical Readings.
61Dr. Henry G. Hanchett has announced a course of his sonata readings, to be given in his studio, 136 Fifth avenue, New York, on Monday afternoons, at 3 o'clock, beginning January 10. The full course is as follows:
62January 10, 1898—Organ Fantasie and Fugue in G minor, John Sebastian Bach. (Arranged for the piano by Franz Liszt.)
63January 17—Fantasie in C major, op. 15 ("The Wanderer"), Franz Schubert. (Edited by Franz Liszt.)
64January 24—Second Sonata, B flat minor, op. 35, Frederic Chopin.
65January 31—First Sonata, F sharp minor, op. 11, Robert Schumann.
66February 7—Symphonic Etudes, C sharp minor, op. 13, Robert Schumann.
67February 14—Fantasie, C major, op. 17, Robert Schumann.
68February 21—Tragic Sonata, G minor, op. 45, Edward A. MacDowell.
69February 28—Fantasie Sonata, B flat minor, op. 5, August Saran.
70This is identical with the course which he is to give before the Brooklyn Institute on Tuesday afternoons at the Art Building in Montague street.
71Dr. Hanchett has had a very successful season, so far having given more than twenty-five recitals and Sonata readings since October 1, and having twenty-seven dates already arranged for similar appearances between now and March 1, including three recitals at Norfolk, Va., two at Vassar College, one at New Haven, and a number in
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