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Musical Courier 1898-04-27: Vol 36 Iss 947, 1898
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1cert will be given by Mr. Marescalchi, Robert Stevens and Rudolf Berliner. Several of the vocal students will also assist. Mrs. Amey Major is the accompanist.
3The Liebling amateurs have issued invitations for a soirée to be given next Tuesday. They will have the assistance of Mrs. E. C. Francis, Miss Anna Griewish and Messrs. Burnett and Drott, and the valuable aid of I. H. Kowalski, as accompanist. The following program is to be given:
4Piano quartet, The Merry Wives of Windsor……Nicolai
5Misses Catlin, Adams, Crozier and Marshall.
6Piano duet, Sonata in A flat…………………….Hummel
7Misses Sloman and Talcott.
8Piano solo, Barcarolle, op. 123…………………Kullak
9Miss Bertha C. Crozier.
10Vocal, aria from Huguenots…………………….Meyerbeer
11Mrs. E. C. Francis.
12Piano duet, Spanish Dances…………………….Moszkowski
13Misses Kramer and Bing.
14Piano solo, Polonaise in E major……………….Liszt
15Miss Zella L. Marshall.
16Piano solo, Rondo Brilliant, op. 29…………..Mendelssohn
17(With second piano).
18Miss Belle Adams.
19Vocal, Song of Thanksgiving…………………….Allitsen
20Miss Anna Griewish.
21Piano solo, Man lebt Nur Einmal………….Strauss-Tausig
22Miss Bertha A. Perry.
23Piano duo, Rondo in C major…………………..Chopin
24Messrs. Heilbronner and Grun.
25Vocal duet, The Sailor Sighs…………………..Balfe
26Messrs. Burnett and Drott.
28Miss Mabel Crawford, one of the prominent contraltos of Chicago, has been re-engaged this year for three weeks at the New York Chautauqua.
30Miss Julia Officer is kept busy these months engaging artists for the coming exposition at Omaha.
32Miss Ella Clark, a pupil of Emil Liebling, has arranged a very satisfactory concert for Friday of next week. She will have the assistance of several well-known musical people. Miss Clark is director of the Clara Schumann Club chorus, which she has successfully conducted at several recent entertainments.
34The Chicago Musical College gave the last of the Saturday afternoon concerts at Handel Hall to-day. Bernhard Listemann received an ovation for his performance of Bazzini's Fantaisie, which showed that the great violinist was as great as ever. Mr. Rosenfeld, Mr. Ortengren and Franz Wagner were also enthusiastically applauded for their performances.
36The following is the program:
37Piano, Fantaisie, op. 49………………………..Chopin
38Maurice Rosenfeld.
39Vocal, Recitative and Aria from Don Carlos……Verdi
40John R. Ortengren.
41Violin, Fantaisie……………………………….Bazzini
42Bernhard Listemann.
43Piano, Spring Song…………………………….Douillet
44Improvisation………………………………….MacDowell
45Etude……………………………………………..Schütt
46Maurice Rosenfeld.
47Vocal, When Legions of Stars are Shining…….Korling
48John R. Ortengren.
49Violoncello, Polonaise………………………….Popper
50Franz Wagner.
52The owners of the Studebaker music halls and studios are working like Trojans to get the building completed, and it looks as if May 1 will see everything in order to house the numerous tenants—musical, artistic and literary—who have resolved to make this new building their headquarters for their various pursuits. Among the first to enter into occupation will be the Chicago Musical College, which will likely have one of the most perfectly appointed institutions of its kind in America. FLORENCE FRENCH.
54Fourth Kaltenborn-Beyer-Hane Quartet.
56THE last concert of this excellent quartet was, in spite of the rain, attended by a large audience, which was well repaid by a capital performance. Haydn's F major Quartet opened the evening, the merry comicality of the menuett, in strict canon form, exciting mirth. In this there was much ensemble perfection. The Spohr solo-quartet displayed violinist Kaltenborn's manifest qualities of taste, tone and ear, and it was a particularly unfavorable evening for that delicate instrument.
58But for an over-abundance of youthful enthusiasm in the Dvorák Quintet pianist Zwintscher played with good taste and unity. He should guard his fortissimo, however.
60The program was as follows:
61F major Quartet…………………………………Haydn
62Op. 61, Solo Quartet…………………………..Spohr
63Op. 81, Piano Quintet……………………………Dvorák
65Harold Randolph.
67Harold Randolph, the new director of the Baltimore Peabody Conservatory of Music, was in Boston and New York last week. Mr. Randolph has been visiting the conservatories of music in these cities and investigating the various systems.
69Italian Opera to Be Heard.
71The Bagetto Italian Opera Company may visit this city and give a series of performances at the Broadway Theatre, beginning on Monday evening, May 16. It is a genuine Italian article such as is heard in Italy, in Costa Rica, in South America and in Mexico. Many of its members never heard a Richard Wagner opera and most of them never heard a Beethoven Symphony. But there are some singers among them, and when we go to hear Italian opera it is singing we want to listen to; never mind chorus, orchestra, mise-en-scène, or logic. Mr. Grau has given us the article on a larger scale at the Metropolitan.
73Must Be False.
75A NUMBER of letters and other inquiries have been put to us in reference to a musical paper projected for publication, and we are asked to give the name or names of the piano firm or firms which, the projectors claim, are "backing" the enterprise. No piano firm is "backing" any proposed musical paper and there is none "backing" any existing musical paper. Piano houses have not been doing very profitable trade since the panic, and most of them are husbanding their resources, and not one of these firms would be so foolish as to identify itself in any way with a musical paper, existing or to exist. There are no such stupid people in the piano trade, and if it is maintained that such firms do exist, the persons addressed should ask for the names of the firms; no names will be given, for no such scheme exists.
77The only commercial concern that is "backing" a musical paper is the Oliver Ditson Company, which owns the monthly Record, chiefly to advertise the Ditson publications. No music publisher ever succeeded in conducting a successful musical paper, because such a publisher is "interested" and cannot help it or avoid it. Papers published by "interested" owners can never flourish except as advertising mediums for their own wares. The Record is a good advertiser for the Oliver Ditson wares, but that is just enough to kill it as a valuable musical publication, for it is "interested" instead of being "interesting," and those musicians who are criticised by the Oliver Ditson Company will cease to patronize that company.
79No; there is no piano firm interested in any proposed new musical paper, and the persons who say so tell a falsehood. They will not mention the name of the piano house, and if anyone should have the temerity to do so, the information should be sent to this office at once.
81Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar Concert.
83A mandolin, banjo and guitar concert was given at Carnegie Music Hall Tuesday evening, April 26, by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kitchener, assisted by Carl Windrath, mandolin virtuoso; Joseph Gerbel, zither soloist; Viola Pratt Gillette, contralto; Columbia University Mandolin Club and St. Paul's School Banjo and Mandolin Club, H. Zur Nieden accompanist.
85Forrest D. Carr, Basso.
87Mr. Carr was the guest of honor at the Southern Society, which met at Delmonico's on Saturday evening last.
89Mr. Carr will fill the following dates: Brooklyn, April 27, Prospect Heights Choral Society, "Wreck of the Hesperus"; Miss Gray's recital at Sherry's, April 30, and May 20, Brooklyn Teachers' Association concert.
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