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Musical Courier 1898-01-19: Vol 36 Iss 933, 1898
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1very popular. Her friends find it pleasant to drop in, hear some good music and meet bright, clever people. On a recent Monday some of those who sang were Miss Helen Niebuh, Miss Kate Percy Douglass, Miss Effie Stewart, Frederick A. Chapman, J. Stanford Brown, and Miss Agnes Mathilde Dressler played a 'cello solo.
3Normal Course Lectures by Hans Schneider.
4Hans Schneider has begun a course of twenty-five lectures on "Music," ten on "Pedagogy," and five each on "Harmony," "Aesthetics" and "History." They will be given at his studio, Conrad Building, Providence, R. I.
6Meredith-Mulligan-McKinley-May.
7This combination of high class talent, with others to be announced later, will be heard in Assembly Hall on Monday evening, January 31, at a concert given by the New York City Nurses' Training School Alumni Association. It promises to be a notable affair.
9Powers' "Big Four" at the Chiropean Club.
10On Tuesday evening of last week Francis Fischer Powers and his "big four," Franklyn Van. R. Bunn, John Fredericks, Herbert Miller and Percy Stephens, with Victor Baillard, wended their way to our borough of Brooklyn and sang at the Chiropean Club dinner. "The Chiropean" is the Sorosis of Brooklyn, and Mr. Powers, who sings but too rarely these days, was himself heard at this function in conjunction with his pupils. His appearance and singing created an unbounded enthusiasm.
12Marcella Powell with Sousa.
13This singer, of whom we last week published a short sketch, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bacon, who are pioneer citizens of Colorado. She desires it known that she studied with Marescalchi for some time in Chicago. Bandmaster Sousa heard her sing recently, and she expects to sing in their Washington, Philadelphia and Boston engagements in March. The Powell is a coming singer, and ere many moons is sure to be known everywhere.
15Mattie Dorlan Lowe.
16Mrs. Mattie Dorlan Lowe, who has always been regarded as one of Brooklyn's most prominent and prosperous teachers, has opened a studio at 539 Fulton street. Mrs. Lowe has for some time taken up residence in New York, owing to the studies of her son then attending Columbia College; but now that he has passed through his work so successfully, it is with pleasure that she again takes up residence where she has such a large circle of friends and pupils.
18Kate Chittenden Lectures.
19A large audience of deeply interested people gathered in Assembly Hall last Thursday afternoon to hear Miss Chittenden's lecture on "The Relation Between the Poetic and the Musical Foot in the Scanning of Melodies;" the following illustrations being given, either by the quartet choir of Calvary Baptist Church or the separate members, Charles Mali, 'cellist, and Lesley Weston, pianist, also assisting:
20The Pentameter confined to four measures, The Friend Unseen………..Hymns Ancient and Modern
21Mrs. Macy.
22Alternate crescendo and diminuendo—
23Lord I Confess…………………….Hopkins
24Trusting…………………….Tufts
25Middle cadences, More Like Jesus………….Naylor
26Mr. Bushnell.
27The motive of acceleration, Fernando Po.—
28We May Not Climb…………………Chittenden
29Come My Soul…………………….H. B. Judd
30Mr. Young.
31Purer Yet…………………….Chittenden
32Illustrating Cretic and Amphibrach.
33An old Romance…………………….Mendelssohn
341. Come Stay with Me.
352. One Night.
363. Over Their Grave.
37The sixteen measure stanza, Aus Meinen Thränen
38Spriessen…………………….Schumann
39Miss French.
40The thirty-two measure stanza, My Little Barque…Ford
41The two small-stanza or antique binary piece, without rhymes; with syncopations, Themes from Variations Serieses…………………….Mendelssohn
42The two stanza, or modern binary piece with rhymes, Theme, op. 82…………………….Mendelssohn
43The two large-stanza, or binary piece, Nina….Pergolesi
44Mr. Mali.
45The three small-stanza, or ternary piece, Morning Song…………………….Gurlitt
46The three large-stanza, or ternary piece, with prologue and epilogue, Viola Melody……..Thalberg
47Mr. Weston.
48The five stanza, or rondo piece, with epilogue, Good Night…………………….Pinsett
49The three canto, or large ternary forms,
50Minuet…………………….Mozart
51Romance…………………….Davidoff
52Mr. Mali.
53Scherzo…………………….Chopin
54Mr. Weston.
56Frances Miller Busy.
57Miss Miller last week participated in a delightful musi- cale given in Baltimore, Md. She sang songs by Von Fielitz, Bartlett's "Love's Rhapsody" and Förster's "Ich Liebe Dich." She is engaged to give a recital at Peabody Institute January 28. Last week she sang in Montclair for the Choral Society, at which was given Mendelssohn's Forty-second Psalm, when the local papers commented as follows:
58The solo parts were taken by Miss Frances Miller, of New York, who possesses a clear and flexible voice of great power, and was heard to good advantage particularly in "Love's Rhapsody," by Homer Bartlett, which gained her an enthusiastic recall.—Montclair Times.
60Miss Miller met with a warm reception from the start. Her charming manner and delightful stage presence, united with her brilliant voice, which she uses to advantage, won for her much deserved admiration. The second part of the program opened with a soprano solo, "Love's Rhapsody," which called forth prolonged applause, to which she graciously responded.—Montclair Herald.
62Miss Miller pleased her hearers in Gounod's great cavatina. She has a beautiful voice, especially in the upper register. She sang Mrs. Beach's song delightfully, and had to respond.—Newark Sunday Call (correspondent).
64Miss Frances Miller sang the soprano role. Her work was very satisfactory. Faultless to a degree, her tones were clear and sweet, and her composure showed her to be a singer of more than ordinary experience.—Daily Register, Newburgh.
66A Jeanne Franko Pupil.
67A concert was given on Saturday evening last in Steinway Hall by Master William Shaevich, a child of seven and violin pupil of Mme. Jeanne Franko. The child is remarkably gifted, and showed most careful and skillful training. He was assisted by Miss Cora Le Bel, soprano; Miss S. Barth, mezzo soprano; Miss Jeanne Franko, violinist, and Eugene Bernstein, accompanist, in the following program:
68Aria con Variazioni (Harmonious Blacksmith)…Händel
69Master William Shaevich.
70Serenade……………………………Moszkowski
71Miss Cora Le Bel.
72Romance et Gavotte (Mignon)…………….Sarasate
73Jeanne Franko.
74Stance de Sapho……………………..Gounod
75Miss S. Barth.
76Venetianisches Gondellied No. 12………….Mendelssohn
77Valse, D flat major…………………Chopin
78Master William Shaevich.
79Duo, Guarda che Bianca Luna………….Campana
80Misses Le Bel and S. Barth.
81Ave Maria……………………………Bach-Gounod
82Master Shaevich and Jeanne Franko.
84Blue Mountain College Recital.
85A teachers' recital, embracing piano, violin, vocal and recitation numbers, was given on Friday evening, December 18, in the college hall at Blue Mountain, Miss. The program passed off smoothly and was a great success.
87Clara A. Korn Visits Chicago.
88Mrs. Clara A. Korn, the composer and teacher, will visit Chicago the last week of this month to attend the convention of the National Federation of Women's Musical Clubs. As Mrs. Korn has been requested to officiate on the Nominating Committee she will be obliged to leave New York one day earlier (January 22) than the majority of the delegates. She will return January 29.
90Van Yorx, Tenor, at Milwaukee.
91The Seebote, the leading German newspaper of Milwaukee, said this of his singing in "The Messiah" (translation):
92To W. Theodore Van Yorx, a singer as yet unknown here, was intrusted the tenor part. The gentleman is well known in the East, and his beautifully sympathetic and strong voice, excellent method and intelligent conception won him here as well many friends.
93Mr. Van Yorx sings a return engagement, in Hegar's "Manasse," in Milwaukee, early in February, singing the entire part in German.
95Mary Louise Clary.
96Mary Louise Clary sang in "The Messiah" with the Ottawa Choral Society, Ottawa, Canada, on January 11, with her customary success, as evinced by the following criticisms:
97Miss Mary Louise Clary, of New York, is a young contralto who has been less than five years before the public. Her rich, broad and sympathetic tones reveal an organ of uncommon power and excellence, and enabled her to do full justice to the pathetic beauty of such an air as "He was Despised and Rejected." There is probably no better contralto of her age in America.—Ottawa Citizen, Wednesday, January 12, 1898.
99Miss Mary Louise Clary, the contralto, was received with a great deal of enthusiasm. Her voice is deep, firm and well sounded, lacking in no sympathetic or magnetic quality. The contralto voice is very rare, and hers is distinctly commanding in its fibre. Her singing of "He Was Despised" was one of the most pleasing features of the program, and that other exquisite air, "He shall Feed His Flock," laden as it is with intense feeling, met with unqualified approbation.—Ottawa Daily Free Press, January 12, 1898.
101Miss Mary Louise Clary, heralded as she was by triumphs in every musical centre in America, proved at once in "O Thou that Tellest" how well deserved they were, an impression that was deepened by each subsequent solo—a voice of great volume, singular beauty of tone, combined with a sympathetic temperament, made her interpretation of "He Was Despised" one of the features of the evening.—Ottawa Evening Journal, January 12, 1898.
103Townsend H. Fellows.
104Townsend H. Fellows has not entirely given up his hours of teaching for business. His mornings are devoted to his pupils, and he continues instruction to a limited number. His intention is to finish the excellent work begun with some promising voices, and, through his extraordinary facilities for placing a singer, see that the worthy ones are properly launched upon a successful career.
106Synthetic Guild Affairs.
107The monthly meeting of the Synthetic Guild was held Tuesday in Miss K. S. Chittenden's studio, and was followed by piano selections by Harry R. Baker and Miss Maude Des Rochers. Charles M. Mali contributed five violoncello numbers, accompanied by William F. Sherman.
108On Saturday thirty-five little children gave an informal recital in the Guild Hall, Fifth avenue and Forty-second street.
109On February 19 the annual artists' recital will be given at the Waldorf-Astoria by the Kneisel Quartet. Albert Ross Parsons will play the C minor trio, by Mendelssohn, with Messrs. Kneisel and Schroeder, and also the Chopin Concert-Allegro, op. 46. There will be other numbers by the quartet.
111Leontine Gaertner.
112The success won by Miss Leontine Gaertner, 'cellist, at recent concerts in the provinces is quoted in the following criticisms:
113Miss Leontine Gaertner gave several 'cello numbers most brilliantly, the varied nature of her selections giving her full scope to prove her understanding of the different emotions to be expressed.—Toledo Commercial, December 29, 1897.
115Miss Leontine Gaertner, a 'cellist of great ability, pleased her audience immensely by her masterly handling of the difficult instrument. She was repeatedly called back.—Toledo Daily Blade, December 29, 1897.
117Fräulein Gaertner, the star attraction, found favor with the audience at once. She is said to be the finest lady 'cellist now before the public. To this her listeners of last night are ready to certify. Her playing was pronounced perfect in technic and expression. Miss Gaertner while performing seems entirely oblivious of everything but the work in hand, a fact that stamps her an artist for art's sake, and the silent and rapt attention given her during the rendition of every number was far more complimentary than the applause that followed, demanding encores.—Williamsport, Pa., January 15, 1898.
119Ferrari Dead.
120News of the death of Signor Ferrari, one of the best known impresarios in Europe, was received in this city Sunday. Signor Ferrari was the last Italian operatic manager of a kind that was familiar enough a quarter of a century ago. He was sixty-six years old at the time of death, two weeks ago, and forty-five years ago had gone from Italy to the Argentine Republic as a music teacher. Ten years later he formed an Italian opera company, and soon he became the leading impresario of South America. The sums which he paid to his singers were enormous. The singers were nearly always Italians. Every spring Ferrari went to Milan, where he formed his companies and secured new operas for the South American season, which began usually in July. Then he took his troupe to Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso. At one time Signor Ferrari took the direction of the Scala, in Milan, but his extravagant methods, which had made him rich in South America, were not adapted to Italy and he soon retired. Signor Tamagno was to have gone to South America under his management this spring and was to have received $100,000 for the engagement.—Sun.
122Torriani Dead.
123Carlo Torriani, the well-known musical director, died of consumption yesterday morning at his residence, 204 West Thirty-fourth street, after a lingering illness.
124He was born in this city in 1852, and was a son of the late Angelo Torriani, the composer and conductor, who at the time of the birth of his son was conducting grand opera at the Academy of Music here. Young Torriani at an early age evinced the possession of musical talent of a high order, and was carefully instructed by his father until at the age of sixteen he was sent to Stuttgart. He studied the piano under Liszt, and at the age of twenty became a musical director.
126Nicolini Dies Suddenly at Pau.
127[SPECIAL TO THE MUSICAL COURIER.]
128LONDON, Wednesday, January 19.
129SIGNOR NICOLINI, husband of Mme. Adelina Patti-Nicolini, died to-day at Pau, France.
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