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Musical Courier 1898-06-01: Vol 36 Iss 952, 1898
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1her recital at St. James' Hall she excited the greatest enthusiasm. I have never heard such beautiful pianissimos, and while her fortissimos may not have the clash and bang of Menter, they are sufficient to give the proper effects of light and shade.
3One of the best concerts given the past week was that of Aldo Antonietti in the Queen's (small) Hall. He is a young violinist, born in Italy of an English mother and Italian father. He has lived most of his childhood in Chili, and came to London to study with Sauret, the French master at the Royal Academy of Music, which certainly ought to make him cosmopolitan, if these different experiences have any effect in forming the character of a young man. He stands about 6 feet 2 inches, is well proportioned and has the carriage of a "grand seigneur," and a temperament equal to that of any artist I have met. His playing is simply magnificent; I have seldom heard anything like it. He is rather too romantic for Beethoven, but the Lento from Lalo's "Concerto Russe" took one quite out of this weary world. Even some friends of mine, not musical, had his spell cast upon them and said they had never experienced so soothing a feeling. His technic is wonderful, clear in tune and of good tone. I consider his tone quite large enough, but probably that has something to do with his violin. The D string struck me as weak, and I noticed he invariably played upon the G string. In the show pieces his harmonics were wonderful. He is as yet only eighteen, but is a violinist who will be widely heard.
5Herr Theodore Werner gave the second of his historical violin recitals on Monday evening, May 9. The intent of the performer to illustrate the development of violin music was carried out satisfactorily. This series of concerts, intended to have an educational value, are being well patronized by students and others interested in the violin.
7Whitney Tew gave his second vocal recital at Queen's Hall on Tuesday, when his program was varied and interesting. He was assisted by William Shakespeare, with whom he has been studying for the past three years. Mr. Tew's rich bass voice shows that he has had the intelligence to make practical use of the instruction he has received, and in songs like "Mein Lieb ist Grun" and Mendelssohn's "When a Rose I Gathered Here," &c., were given with charming effect.
9The closing performance of the Royal Choral Society took place on Thursday evening at the Albert Hall. Sullivan's "Golden Legend" was preceded by Sir Frederick Bridge's setting of "The Flag of England." Detailed criticism of this performance is hardly called for here. The artists included Miss Pallister, Signorina Giulia Ravogli, Mr. Lloyd, Chas. Ackermann and Andrew Black. Personally I do not think Sir Frederick Bridge has kept the standard of the chorus up to the point at which Sir Joseph Barnby left it. He has done good work, however, and the society, which some prophesied was on the verge of disintegration, is progressing in the even tenor of its way.
11F. V. ATWATER.
13Alice Verlet Deparis.
15Miss Alice Verlet, the soprano, returns to Europe today on the Westerland to Antwerp.
17Summer Entertainments by Aronson.
19Rudolph Aronson has decided to give summer entertainments at the Lenox Lyceum, Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue, on an extensive scale, and he believes that the venture will be an immense success. While the Bijou Theatre is closed Mr. Aronson will give his entire attention to the management of this new venture and has arranged to give popular promenade concerts nightly by the most prominent American and foreign bands and orchestras procurable. These concerts will be similar to those so popular at the Palm Garden, Frankfort; the Palais de Glace, Paris, and Covent Garden, London. The first of the series will be conducted by Serrentino and his famous Banda di Rossa. Under the main hall a Hungarian band and a troupe of Tyroleans will play light music. The Lyceum will be cooled by enormous electric fans. Refreshments will be served, and the general admission will be 25 cents. The date of opening is set for Saturday, June 4.
21JOSEPH S. Baernstein, BASSO. Concert, Oratorio, Opera. For Terms and Dates address 49 East 61st St., or Henry Wolfsohn's Musical Bureau, NEW YORK.
23From Paris.
24PARIS, May 3, 1898.
26A n important musical work is being accomplished here by M. Prod'homme, namely, a publication treating of the works of Berlioz, a volume being devoted to each work. The "Damnation of Faust" has already been finished, and now comes "l'Enfance du Christ," "La Symphonie Fantastique Lélio," "Romeo et Juliette," "les Troyens," "la Prise de Troie," "Benvenuto Cellini," "Beatrice et Bénédict," "Harold en Italie," "la Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale," "Te Deum" and "Requiem" are to follow. The analyses are being made with the greatest care and conscience.
28One never wishes more for a sentient future than in the case of Berlioz, that the poor man may, by consciousness of his posthumous fame, have some reparation made to him for his bedamned life.
30M. Colonne gives a representation of "The Damnation of Faust" next Thursday evening at popular prices, 1 to 5 francs.
32It is impossible to express in cold words the intense enthusiasm of the ovation given to M. Raoul Pugno on the occasion of his first appearance at the Colonne concert on his return from America. After playing Scarlatti and Bach, he played a Liszt rhapsody in a manner to awake the dead. The effect upon the hosts of very living friends who had assembled to welcome him may be imagined. The devil or the Lord was in his fingers or in his heart or in his blood. He played superbly. He played a second time at the same society the week later.
34Another pianist that will enchant Americans if ever he gets to the country is Edouard Risler. His style is essentially different from Mr. Pugno's, but exquisitely effective. It is impossible to give any idea of it. His playing remains like the effect of a dream for days after one has heard it. That is saying much for the music of the piano, the most ungrateful and most abused instrument in music life.
36M. Hugo Heerman, the well-known German violinist, who has been heard with success at the Lamoureux and Opéra concerts, was the artist of honor at a charming musical reception given by Mme. Roger-Miclos this week at her lovely home, Avenue MacMahon. The Kreutzer sonata and a Beethoven romance were played by the violinist and the gifted hostess. A large and elite audience was present. M. Heerman is one of the most simple and modest of men as he is an enthusiastic musician. He could not speak sufficiently highly of the superb playing of fragments from the Schumann Carnaval by Madame Miclos. Poems and songs varied a fine instrumental program. Chopin's A flat Polonaise closed the delightful séance. Voila, another artist who should be heard in America, Mme. Roger-Miclos!
38The celebrated violoncellist Hasselmans gave a very interesting concert this week. Among the numbers were a part of Widow's second symphony, the orchestra directed by himself, and a violoncello fantaisie, by Massenet, given for the first time at Paris.
40M. Paul Viardot gave another highly successful violin concert this week. The Mezza-cappo quartet of mandolins and guitars will be heard to-morrow evening in works by the leader of this ever popular company. The Petites Auditions gave another concert, the fifth of their second year, this week. Mme. P. de Levenoff was pianist. Compositions by M. Richard Mandl and M. Chevillard were on the program. Also a trio by Constantin von Sternberg.
42The second of M. Gigout's organ pupils' (young men) concerts was a splendid success, as was the other for young ladies spoken of last week. The teaching of this eminent and conscientious organist continues to give the best results, the playing being characterized by the qualities of precision, justness and sincerity, which mark the master's own playing. The works played were all of strict musical dignity of the best style for the formation of truth and sincerity in musical art. Many of the young men from the Gigout organ school are filling valuable organ positions in this country and in America.
44Edward Baxter Perry, of Boston, renewed here in Paris the honest success he scored in German cities. He had an excellent house, and enthusiasm grew as he played, which is always a good sign for a pianist. He played "Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses," Liszt; "Chœur des Dervishes Tourneurs," Beethoven-Saint-Saëns; Staccato Etude, Rubinstein; "Dryade," Jensen; of Chopin a scherzo, two studies, a nocturne and polonaise, and two charming compositions of his own, "l'Ile Dernière" and "Etude Æoliennes," which were most flatteringly applauded. Mr. Perry, on account of his auditors being French, did not give his charming conferences which have at home been such a musical education and pleasure, but his fingers said what his tongue did not. He says he does not think that music loses anything by having a clear and intelligent outline of its general meaning before the mind at the time of hearing it. In general too much is taken for granted with audiences. People forget and many people do not know many helpful things. one of two readings
45Edward Baxter Perry, of Boston, renewed here in Paris the honest success he scored in German cities. He had an excellent house, and enthusiasm grew as he played, which is always a good sign for a pianist. He played "Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses," Liszt; "Chœur des Dervishes Tourneurs," Beethoven-Saint-Saëns; Staccato Etude, Rubinstein; "Dryade," Jensen; of Chopin a scherzo, two studies, a nocturne and polonaise, and two charming compositions of his own, "l'Ile Dernière" and "Etude Æolienne," which were most flatteringly applauded. Mr. Perry, on account of his auditors being French, did not give his charming conferences which have at home been such a musical education and pleasure, but his fingers said what his tongue did not. He says he does not think that music loses anything by having a clear and intelligent outline of its general meaning before the mind at the time of hearing it. In general too much is taken for granted with audiences. People forget and many people do not know many helpful things. one of two readings
47While in Paris Mr. Perry played before his Royal Highness Prince de Lusignan and in the salons of Madame Chapman, of the Westminster Review. He was everywhere repaid by the warmest enthusiasm. In technic and expression this pianist had been certified to in Berlin, Stuttgart, Mayence, Munich and other Continental cities, and now the circle is made complete by the approval of Paris.
49William F. Bentley, director of Knox Conservatory, Galesburg, Ill., and Miss Cary, one of his teachers, sang at Mr. Perry's concert and both received applause. They are here studying with Delle Sedie.
51The 7th of May, at 9 a. m., the candidates for the prix de Rome write for the prize. All papers must be in for the first verdict by the 14th. A second competition takes place on the 21st, the hearing of them on the 1st of July at the Conservatoire and the reading of the judgment at the Institut, July 2.
53A. Daudelot, a collaborator of special merit of the Monde Musical, Paris, has written a work on "La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire," since its foundation to the day of transfer of the concerts to the Opera Building, a period of seventy years! No easy task to collect and classify all the salient and valuable points in this long and active musical life. Congratulations and best wishes.
55It has already been told that Mlle. Victoria Cartier, of Montreal, Canada, one of the most distinguished pupils of the Gigout Organ School at Paris, is descendant of the celebrated explorer, Jacques Cartier. She has been making a visit to the land of her forefathers in Bretagne, and returns proud of the fact that a monument is to be erected to the memory of the ardent explorer at Saint Malo. The Society of Exploration and Geography at Rennes has been instrumental in this merited demonstration of patriotism.
57M. Léon Jancey held a most interesting audition of his diction and declamation pupils this week. He had the remarkable good sense and good taste to arrange a program wholly for the exhibition of the work of his class without all of the extraneous and dragged-in material which makes a nightmare, and a long, drawn-out nightmare, too, of the average studio séance. Interest was further accentuated by the presentation, also by the pupils, of an admirable little play entitled "Chez la Grande Artiste," written by M. Jancey himself. A gentle take-off on studio affectations, the play was bright, witty and highly interesting.
59Mlle. Baldwin sang in her usually attractive style and brought down the house, as she always does. Mme.
61Mme. Katharine Evans—VON KLENNER,
63Vocal Instruction. VIARDOT-GARCIA METHOD. Private Studio: 40 Stuyvesant St., 10th St. and Second Ave. NEW YORK.
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