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Musical Courier 1898-01-19: Vol 36 Iss 933, 1898
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1Boston Music Notes.
2January 16, 1898.
4Miss Muriel Palmer, the contralto, made a fine impression at the Cecelia concert on Thursday evening, and received great applause for her work as well as fine notices from the critics, one of which, from the Herald, is appended:
6Miss Palmer showed the possession of a voice of delicious quality, rich, warm, smooth and abounding in pathos. Her singing, in its purity, its legato, its sincerity of feeling and its breadth of style was worthy her voice.
8Mrs. L. B. Robinson has been giving a series of "Mornings of Music and Readings," one being at the residence of Mrs. William Atherton, Commonwealth avenue. On Friday the entertainment was given at the Tulleries.
10The students of the advanced classes at the New England Conservatory of Music gave the recital on Wednesday evening in Sleeper Hall.
12Mrs. A. N. Reece and Miss Franc Reece, of Chicago, were the guests of honor at Mrs. L. P. Morrill's reception on Wednesday. Miss Reece is a very beautiful girl, possessing a fine contralto voice, and has come to Boston to reside with Mrs. Morrill while studying music with her. Another pupil, Miss Grace Burnap, contralto of the leading church of Malden, sang two very difficult songs, one by Jensen, and "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings" from "The Messiah," in a broad and dignified manner, showing a true oratorio style and spirit. She is only nineteen years of age and has, it is believed, a fine future before her. Henry Taylor again charmed all by a fine reading of "The Pilgrim," by Adams, and also in two duets with Mrs. Morrill. In passing it may be said that Mrs. Morrill's voice is in fine condition, and she sang most delightfully—better than ever, if possible. Other pupils assisting were Mrs. H. M. Faxon and Miss Grace Turner, both singing finely.
14There are, as usual, to be several changes in Boston choirs the coming year. Already the Harvard Church, in Brookline, has engaged a new tenor from Minneapolis for its quartet, and rumors are in the air of similar changes in some of the city churches.
16After considerable study of the question the Twentieth Century Club has decided to continue the free organ concerts as given last year. Up to January 3 the number of applications for tickets exceeds 4,700. (It must be remembered that these concerts are free.) An elaborate and complicated system of tickets has been evolved which is expected to overcome the crowding of last Winter, and only tickets for the seating capacity of each church will be given out.
18Two of Arthur Hubbell's pupils, Miss Louisa Guzman and Miss Hattie Goddard, have just scored a pronounced success in the production of the "Chimes of Normandy," at the Bijou Theatre, this city, recently, both by their fine singing and graceful acting.
20The Boston Globe says:
22The honors of the evening were evenly divided between Miss Hattie Goddard, who essayed the part of Germaine, and Miss Louisa Guzman, whose Serpentine, the village hoyden, was a charming bit of work, full of fun and frolic, that made her a favorite from rise to final fall of curtain. Of Miss Goddard's beautiful voice too much in praise cannot be said, for its power does not detract from its sweetness and brilliancy, and the pleasure of the audience was manifested in strongly requested encores and floral gifts.
24These young ladies are away this week filling engagements in Amherst, Rockville and Worcester with the Boston Operetta Company, of which they are members. The two contraltos, Miss Jennie Paine and Helen Day, bassos Willard Flint and William Nye, and tenor Jerome Hanshue are all pupils of Mr. Hubbard. They give a fine program—ballads, operatic selections and operettas, and have made a hit wherever they have appeared.
26The Worcester Spy has the following to say about Miss Aagot Lunde's concert:
28Following is the program of the recital to be given by Miss Aagot Lunde in Colonial Hall on the evening of the 27th:
30Heart's Springtime………………………………………Wickede
31Swan Song…………………………………………………Hartmann
32The Vain Suite……………………………………………..Brahms
33Andante…………………………………………………….Tschaiikowsky
34Rondo………………………………………………………Bocherini
35The Eichberg String Quartet.
36Die Lorelei…………………………………………………Liszt
37A Madrigal…………………………………………………Harris
38I Cannot Help Loving Thee……………………………Clayton Johns
39For a Dream's Sake………………………………………Cowen
40You'll Love Me, Won't You? (Manuscript)………….Woolf
41Norwegian Suite…………………………………………..Olsen
42Humoreske,
43Serenade,
44Papillons.
45Eichberg String Quartet.
46Up on the Mountain………………………………………Kjerulf
47To the Queen of My Heart……………………………Graendahl
48My Sweetheart……………………………………………Kjerulf
49Good Night……………………………………………….Lassen
50Miss Lunde.
52The program is extremely interesting, including as it does several songs which are new to Worcester, a number of Norwegian selections and the new song by B. E. Woolf. This latter is still in manuscript, and Miss Lunde will give it its first public rendering.
54The Eichberg String Quartet of ladies is the only organization of its kind in this country. Its members, pupils of Mr. Eichberg, completed their musical studies at the Royal High School of Music in Berlin, and have given nearly 500 concerts in all parts of this country. Mr. Elson says in the Advertiser: "Their playing is charming for its accuracy, precision and general unity of ensemble. Miss Shattuck, first violin, and Miss Laura Webster, violoncellist, are both marked by the individuality of treatment and artistic rendering of their work."
56Of Miss Lunde's singing it is not necessary to speak. Her rich, sympathetic voice is always very pleasant to hear. She is an artist by instinct, an artist of feeling and of rare intelligence.
58Berlin News.
60THOSE concerned, and even disinterested superficial observers, do not see the tragedy that is constantly being enacted before our very eyes here in Berlin by the legion of foreign students who come here each autumn, remain a year or two, cast a glance into the crowded world of music, strive frantically to become inhabitants of the exclusive sphere, realize its inaccessibility, sigh from the depths of a sickened heart, sink helplessly into the quagmire of disappointment and mediocrity, and fade from out the throng that stumbled on blindly, only to meet a similar fate in the end.
62The poor, dazed moths flicker about the light until they are singed. What youth, energy, health, enthusiasm, love, hope and money are wasted each year in the never-ceasing, gigantic struggle! Thousands working to reach in eminence on which only four or five can stand, on which not more than a dozen or so have stood since music first became an art.
64Doting mothers, fond fathers, loving brothers and sisters are left behind and half forgotten, in order to gratify an ambition which, in most cases, might be constituted as nothing more than the mere selfish desire to shine forth from the rank and file of our fellow-creatures, as the desire to taste of seductive notoriety. How few of us feel the heat of the sacred flame, an inner spur, driving us, forcing us to play, sing or compose.
66Those who feel no such impulse commit a crime against their family and themselves by devoting their life to a profession which can offer them nothing but the leavings of others, of greater ones than they. Let them become good wives and intelligent mothers; striving merchants and sensible citizens. Why follow a pursuit in which there is hardly any money to be gained, which demands continual sacrifices without returning any benefits? Some of us are not fit to do anything but bask in the sunshine and dream. The possession of those proclivities does not always denote that we are geniuses. They denote that either our parents or we deserve severe and constant whippings.
68There are some students here, hollow-eyed, haggard, gaunt, broken, who always make me think of Lowell's expressive lines: "It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with s many broken purposes, and lives left in the rough."
70Last year two young Americans, who had been studying music in Germany, resorted to suicide as a remedy for disappointed hopes. What selfishness, what enviousness, what ingratitude toward surviving relatives! They bear all suffering, disappointment, unhealing grief and life-long self-reproaches.
72If circumstances are such that no other line of work is open to you, content yourself with learning as much music as you can, but do not despair if that should be little. Genius shows itself very early. Were you a genius, neither your friends nor you would long be unaware of it. If you have talent, and nothing more, be content with
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