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Musical Courier 1898-05-18: Vol 36 Iss 950, 1898
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1Boston Music Notes.
2BOSTON, Mass., May 14, 1898.
4MISS HELEN WRIGHT leaves this week for the Cincinnati Festival, and before her return will sing in oratorios in New Jersey and New York. Miss Wright is considering a very flattering offer to join one of the best concert companies next season.
6The laurel wreath which was presented to Mr. Zerrahn at the last concert of the Handel and Haydn Society was the gift of Mrs. M. D. Shepard, who has been associated with Mr. Zerrahn at the State musical festivals in New Hampshire as pianist for thirty years.
8Mrs. L. P. Morrill announces a pupils' recital to take place at Pierce Hall on Thursday evening, the 26th inst.
10The thirty-ninth recital of the Virgil Clavier School of Boston will be given on Monday evening by Miss Eliza Lothner and her pupil, Miss Laura Anderson, assisted by Miss Helen L. Trickey, violinist. A delightful program has been arranged for this recital.
12Walton Crocker has resigned his position as tenor in the choir of the First Church, on Berkeley street.
14The following is the program for Arthur Hubbard's pupils' recital to be given in Association Hall on Wednesday evening, May 25:
16Violin Solo……………………………Carlo Ondricek.
17Villanelle……………………………Dell' Acqua
18Angel's Song………………………….Ruby Cutter.
19Ave Maria, violin obligato………………Mascheroni
20Lorelei……………………………….Chas. L. Hill.
21Duce di tanti eroi, Maometto secondo………..Rossini one of two readings
22Duce di tanti eroi, Maometto secondo…………Rossini one of two readings
23Ave Maria, violin obligato………………Mascheroni
24Spring Song…………………………..Becker
25O cieli azzurri, Aida……………………Verdi
26Dreams………………………………..Hattie Goddard.
27Che faro, Eurydice……………………..Glück
28Ah fors è lui, Traviata………………….Verdi
29Cujas Animam, Stabat Mater………………Rossini
30Hear Ye, Israel, Elijah………………….Mendelssohn
31Quintet from Meistersinger…………………Wagner
32Miss Maxim, Helen Day, Mr. Hill, John Dyer, William Nye.
34The closing exercises of the Faelten Pianoforte School for this season will be held in Steinert Hall June 20 and 21, afternoon and evening. Besides numerous private rehearsals, eleven public recitals have been given by pupils of the school this winter. Seventy-eight students played at these recitals, and with the exception of a few ensemble numbers the entire programs were performed from memory. Two students, Miss Nellie Dean and Wm. Dietrich Strong, each gave a whole evening's program. A recital by pupils will take place this afternoon in Steinert Hall.
36Miss Muriel Palmer made a great success of the contralto solos in "The Messiah" at the Sherbrooke festival, her deep, rich voice being exactly suited to the music of "The Creation," which so many singers find so trying.
38Miss C. Marcia Craft has been engaged for the festival at St. Johnsbury, Vt., on the 19th and 20th. She will sing the soprano part in "Elijah," "Dich Theure Halle," from "Tannhäuser," Elsa's Dream from "Lohengrin," in the septet from "Lucia," and in the trio from the last act of "Faust." Miss Craft, who is studying with Charles R. Adams, has made rapid progress in her art during the past year.
40The pupils of Miss Clara E. Munger gave their annual recital on Thursday evening in Steinert Hall, when they sung the following program:
42Through the House Give Glimmering Light……..Beach
43Come Unto These Yellow Sands………………..Beach one of two readings
44Come Unto These Yellow Sands…………………Beach one of two readings
45Mrs. Rice, Miss Richardson, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. Austin.
47La Libellule…………………………..Saint-Saëns
48Aria, Jeanne d'Arc………………………..Bemberg
49Quis est homo (Stabat Mater)………………Rossini
50Aria, Samson et Dalila…………………….Saint-Saëns
51Chanson d'Amour………………………….Beach
52Jewel Scene (Faust)………………………..Gounod
53Quartet, Little Brown Bee………………….Beach one of two readings
54Quartet, Little Brown Bee…………………..Beach one of two readings
55Mrs. Rice, Miss Richardson, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. Austin.
56Indian Bell Song (Lakme)…………………..Delibes
57An Autumn Storm………………………….Grieg
58L'Esclave………………………………..Lalo
59Die Nachtigall…………………………..Wallnöfer
60Blätter lässt die Blume fallen………………Franz
61Frühlingsstrost……………………………Brahms
62Weg der Liebe…………………………….Brahms
63Die Meere………………………………..Brahms
64Die boten der Liebe………………………..Brahms
65Le Papillon……………………………….Logé
66Réverie……………………………………Massenet
67Tu me dirais……………………………..Chaminade
68Les Filles de Cadix………………………..Delibès
69Meine Liebe ist grün………………………Brahms
70Dich Theure Halle (Tannhäuser)…………….Wagner
71Mrs. Barnes.
73Jerome Hanshue is engaged with the Castle Square Opera Company in Brooklyn, N. Y., this week of May 23.
75There was a grand festival concert at the West Medford Baptist Church on the evening of May 3, when a chorus of twenty-five voices and a stringed orchestra of twenty pieces from the Daudelin School of Music appeared. The chorus was under the direction of E. N. Saville. William E. Crosby, organist, and J. Daudelin, director.
77The annual meeting of the Handel and Haydn Society takes place on May 23, and it is expected there will be lively balloting. The Boston Daily Record has the following to say of the present condition of affairs in the society:
79Some of those members of the Handel and Haydn Society who suffered defeat at the last annual meeting, when a board of government antagonistic to Mr. Lang's conductory was elected, have not accepted defeat gracefully, but propose to make an endeavor to reinstate the former board of government.
81Last night a meeting of these members was held at the rooms of the Harvard Musical Association, 1 West Cedar street, in response to a circular which read thus:
83"If in sympathy with a movement to restore the control of the Handel and Haydn Society to the gentlemen who were so long identified with its management, and who were forced into a position last season whereby they considered it their duty to resign, you are requested to meet at the rooms of the Harvard Musical Association, 1 West Cedar street, corner of Chestnut street, Tuesday evening, May 10, at 8.
85"J. D. ANDREWS,
86"G. H. MEADER,
87"R. J. ELDER."
89The meeting was, of course, secret, but it is understood that those present discussed the plan of making another fight at the coming annual meeting, and if successful in electing their ticket, which will be practically the board of two years ago, to reinstate Mr. Lang as conductor.
91Of the former officers E. B. Hagar, vice-president, has publicly announced that he was out for good, and that he should never enter a meeting of the society again. A. P. Browne, president, and C. W. Stone, secretary, have not been as pronounced in their statements.
93One notable fact in connection with the present movement is that with hardly a exception the fifty-six members who withdrew have not attended the rehearsals of the society during the past year, and retain their membership only because they hold twenty-year membership tickets.
95If the old board can rally to their support enough of these former signers, who still retain a voice in the administration of affairs, though having none in the actual work of the chorus, they may precipitate an interesting fight.
97There is no question as to the feeling among the working members of the society, and they will undoubtedly resist any attempt to restore the old order of things.
99A number of new members equal to those who withdrew have been admitted during the past year, and naturally they have never met.
101National Congress of Musicians.
102OMAHA.
104THE following official information reaches THE COURIER, and is published for the purpose of making clear the difference and distinction between a scheme called the National Congress of Musicians, to be held in Omaha, and the official musical event of the Omaha Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, which is directed by Mr. Willard Kimball. The information we refer to is sent by those who are interested in the National Congress of Musicians, and reads:
106TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
108BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
110OFFICERS.
112MRS. WINONA S. SAWYER……………………President
113MRS. THOS. L. KIMBALL……………………Vice-Presidents
114MRS. KITTIE L. DUTTON……………………
115MRS. FRANK JOHNSON……………………….Secretary
117EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
118MRS. WM. P. HARFORD, MRS. D. C. GIFFERT, MRS. JENNIE E. KEYSOR, MISS KATE McHUGH, MRS. EDITH M. REED.
120OMAHA, Neb., May 11, 1898.
122Editors The Musical Courier:
124Will you please print the following in order to correct a false impression:
126The engagement of lecturers and artists for the National Congress of Musicians, to be held in Omaha, has nothing whatever to do with the musical department of the exposition. All congresses held in Omaha during the exposition are under the Bureau of Education, which is a separate department. The musical department is under the direction of Willard Kimball, whose agent Miss Julia Officer is. The congress is being organized by Homer Moore for the Bureau of Education. The two departments have nothing in common, each being supreme in its own sphere.
128Dr. Gerrit Smith has accepted a place upon the executive committee and will represent New York. The following essays will be read: "The Soul of Beethoven's Music," by Albert Ross Parsons; "Music as a Factor in an American Education," by Geo. C. Gow, Vassar College.
130From the same source this additional information has come to hand:
132Preparations for the National Congress of Musicians, to be held in Omaha in the near future, have progressed far enough to render it possible to submit an outline of the work to be presented and a partial list of those who are to take part in it. Much remains to be done perfecting the programs for the recitals and concerts, the details of which will be announced later on.
134The Congress will begin its sessions on the morning of Thursday, June 30, and will close on the evening of Monday, July 4. The days will be devoted to essays and recitals, the evenings to concerts. The Trans-Mississippi Exposition has very generously placed at the disposal of the Bureau of Education, for these concerts, the Thomas orchestra and the Auditorium upon the Exposition grounds. It may be truly said that there is no finer concert room in the country than this Auditorium, and the great orchestra, organized and drilled by America's leading conductor, needs no word of commendation.
136As the first step in the organization of the Congress, the Bureau of Education appointed Homer Moore chairman of the executive committee of the Congress and authorized him to select six gentlemen to constitute the remainder of the committee. Five have already accepted the positions offered them. They are as follows: Louis C. Elson, Boston; William H. Sherwood, Chicago; Ad. M. Foerster, Pittsburg; Ernst R. Kroeger, St. Louis, and John C. Fillmore, California. These gentlemen are representative musicians of national reputation, leaders in the advancement of arts in their sections of the country. Mr. Elson, musical editor of the Boston Advertiser, is a writer, lecturer and teacher second to none in the United States. Mr. Sherwood is universally characterized as "America's greatest pianist" and is moreover a composer of marked ability. Mr. Foerster is one of the most original of our native composers and is especially successful in the clas-
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