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Musical Courier 1898-06-22: Vol 36 Iss 955, 1898
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1on some super-terrestrial target. Seemingly the very dregs of a man and yet a man to admire, because of his tremendous powers of plodding. He has not great natural gifts, yet he has taken himself seriously, and that is why every book he puts forth is violently liked or disliked. He will always be George Moore, strange, slightly inhuman, insincere, and in each new book his art will appear more chiseled; but he will never make a masterpiece, for it takes a sincere man as well as a cunning writer to do that, and George Moore is seldom sincere.
3Boston Music Notes.
5BOSTON, June 18, 1898.
7H. CARLETON SLACK, the well-known teacher of the Sbriglia method, leaves for Europe the 29th of this month to visit his friend and master, Sbriglia. Mr. Slack will be accompanied by one of his pupils, Sheafe C. Rose, and they will return home about the first of September. Mr. Slack's success as a teacher has been so great that he finds himself now at the end of the season with nearly all the time engaged for the next year, certainly the best possible proof of his ability.
9Anna Miller Wood leaves for New York and San Francisco the end of June, arriving in her California home about the middle of July. Miss Wood will, as she did last year, teach and sing in concerts in San Francisco until November, when she returns to Boston to fill her winter engagements. Both as teacher and soloist Miss Wood has been very busy during the past winter, and her list of pupils has been a constantly increasing one. Even during the spring months there has been no falling off in the number, and she has been obliged to come into town almost every day to meet the demands upon her time.
11Miss Wood and Arthur Foote gave a song and piano recital in the Unitarian chapel, New Bedford, on the evening of June 13 for the benefit of the New Bedford Choral Association, under the patronage of Mrs. Thomas M. Stetson, Mrs. Hosea M. Knowlton, Miss Louise S. Cummings and Mrs. Robert C. Ingraham. The program included "Verses from the Rubaiyata of Omar Khayyam," the music being composed for Miss Wood.
13An interesting recital was given at Association Hall on Thursday evening by the advanced pupils of the Daudelin School of Music. Van Vechton Rogers, harpist, assisted and the following program was given:
15Harp solo, Rondo Etude, in A flat major……Godefroid Van Vechton Rogers.
17Songs—
18 Hush-a-Bye Baby, Don't Cry………….Allen
19 No Kiss……………………………….Webber
20 Miss Frances Habern.
21Concerto for violin, in G major, op. 73……De Beriot
22 Miss Anna Warwick Clarke.
23Concertino for clarinet, op. 26…………..Weber
24 J. S. Leavett.
26'Cello soli—
27 Cavatina, op. 85………………………..Raff
28 Capriccioso, op. 24……………………..Goltermann
29 Harry G. Yeomans.
30Song, For All Eternity…………………..Mascheroni
31 (With violin and harp accompaniment.)
32 Miss Habern.
34Harp soli—
35 Fleurette (Petit Etude)…………………Rogers
36 Andante from Moise-Fantaisie…………..Godefroid
37 Van Vechton Rogers.
38 Miss Angelina P. Loveland, accompanist.
40The pupils did excellent work and maintained the high standard of the school. Mr. Rogers was at his best—and that means much. Miss Anna W. Clarke was awarded the school's medal.
42The Patriotic Concert of the Worcester Festival Chorus given for the benefit of the Volunteer Aid Association on Thursday evening was a great success in every way. Mr. Kennedy's new song, "Union and Liberty," written for the occasion, made a hit and was splendidly sung by Mrs. Dorothy McTaggart-Miller.
44B. J. Lang, who was indefatigable in his search for worthy novelties, is to give in Boston, during the coming season, a series of five concerts, at which there will be performed all the concerti of Sebastian Bach, for one, two, three and four pianos, with the full orchestral accompaniments, according to the scores of the composer. At each concert at least one concerto will be played upon a fine Paris copy of an old Erard harpsichord. The proceeds of these concerts will be used for the purchase of orchestral scores for the Ruth Burrage Library, to be used for home study by young musicians and students.
46This will fill a want that is not met in Boston by any library. The Harvard library is accessible only to college people, and the great Allen A. Brown collection must be used in the room devoted to it. Mr. Lang's plan thus takes on a twofold interest and promises artistic and financial success.
48There is a rumor in circulation that George W. Chadwick will be the next conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society.
50Bloomfield-Zeisler.
52FOLLOWING are criticisms from important German papers on the performances of Madame Bloomfield-Zeisler at the Netherhrenish Music Festival:
54Mrs. Bloomfield-Zeisler, the celebrated American pianist, known to Cologne from a Guerzenich concert, was the first of the soloists of the evening. In the field of brilliant technic it may be said that she has climbed the highest round in the ladder of perfection and is approached by few pianists, male or female, not excepting the very greatest. In Saint-Saëns' F minor concerto she could give play to her virtuosity to her heart's delight, and developed, though her execution was not always of the same value, a truly stupendous dexterity. The beauty of her touch, in which especial power is not predominant, though she has a perfectly enchanting p. and pp., was most charmingly evidenced in the short sustained movement. There is no opportunity for display of much warmth or poetry in this concerto, which is so full of passage work and etude-like figures. These qualities, however, were somewhat missed even in her subsequent selections, though she brought to the performance of the andante from Chopin's F minor concerto a transcendental beauty of tone, trills of most marvelous perfection and smoothness and delicacy of the highest degree. In Litloff's D minor scherzo, merely a virtuoso piece, whose chief theme of little significance is rehashed again and again, she developed a perfectly incredible dexterity of her fingers, which might be the envy not only of all pianists, but of all prestidigitators as well. As the audience made no secret of its boundless admiration, Mrs. Zeisler was compelled to play an encore, for which she chose Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song." But what a tempo! That was spinning by steam.—Koelner Tageblatt, June 1, 1898.
56Mrs. Bloomfield-Zeisler, most cordially received, like all artists who appeared in this last concert of the series, played first Saint-Saëns' fourth piano concerto (C minor), with the rendition of which she had enchanted her audience at the second Guerzenich concert in the season of 1894-5. For her second selection the German-American lady had chosen the andante from Chopin's F minor concerto and the scherzo from Henri Litloff's fourth symphony concerto, which the composer himself had played here in 1896 at the Casino Hall. In this scherzo, a perfect perpetuum mobile, with which the lady has created a furore at London, she showed herself a master of acciato playing, while in Chopin's andante we admired her art of legato playing. Yielding to a furious demand ("Auf rasender Verlangen," as Hans Heiling sings) she added Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song," the rendition of which could not excel her previous performances.—Kölnische Volkszeitung, June 1, 1898.
58Mrs. Bloomfield-Zeisler, of Chicago, played Saint-Saëns' fourth concerto, the largo from Chopin's F minor concerto, the graceful D minor scherzo of Litloff, and finally, as an encore, Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song." Her success at the Guerzenich concert four years ago has not been forgotten by the people of Cologne. Since then her virtuosity has even increased in splendor, in grace, so to speak, in the originality of her entire style. A technic, reliable in the highest degree; great power, combined with fragrant tenderness of touch, an interpretation lacking neither in warmth nor yet in piquancy, an enchanting élan withal, earned for her again approval as warm as it was unanimous, and with some astonishment one asked why this lady had never repeated her tour through our musical and certainly not ungallant fatherland.—Kölnische Zeitung, June 1, 1898.
60Dr. Ziegfeld.
62Dr. Florence Ziegfeld, president of the Chicago Musical College, left for Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse on June 7. This is in reply to an inquiry.
64Musicale in Honor of Francis Fischer Powers.
66A SPLENDID musicale and reception was tendered Francis Fischer Powers by Ex-Governor and Mrs. Routt on June 9 last, at their beautiful home in Denver, Col. Mr. and Mrs. Routt feel greatly indebted to the celebrated teacher for the vocal successes of their daughter, Miss Lila Routt, who was one of Mr. Powers' class last season at Carnegie Hall and who will continue her studies under him in Denver this summer, and gave this musicale in his honor as a token of their great esteem. As Ex-Governor and Mrs. Routt represent the highest social life of Denver and as Mr. Powers and other well-known artists took part, the affair was naturally of the highest social and artistic character. The program follows:
68Francis Fischer Powers will sing:
69Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer………………Brahms
70Meine Königen……………………………….Brahms one of two readings
71Meine Königen………………………………….Brahms one of two readings
72Der Hidalgo………………………………….Schumann one of two readings
73Der Hidalgo………………………………………Schumann one of two readings
74Der Erkönig…………………………………..Schubert one of two readings
75Der Erkönig………………………………………Schubert one of two readings
76Anathema………………………………………Von Fielitz one of two readings
77Anathema…………………………………………Von Fielitz one of two readings
78Bettler Liebe…………………………………..F. Burger one of two readings
79Bettler Liebe………………………………………F. Burger one of two readings
80Am Strande…………………………………….F. Ries one of two readings
81Am Strande………………………………………..F. Ries one of two readings
82Chanson Soir…………………………………..Pierre Oslet one of two readings
83Chanson Soir………………………………………Pierre Oslet one of two readings
84How Do I Love Thee…………………………..M. V. White one of two readings
85How Do I Love Thee…………………………….M. V. White one of two readings
86The Night Has a Thousand Eyes………………..Gerrit Smith one of two readings
87The Night Has a Thousand Eyes…………………Gerrit Smith one of two readings
88My Queen………………………………………Blumenthal one of two readings
89My Queen…………………………………………..Blumenthal one of two readings
91Miss Du Pre will play:
92Legende……………………………………….Wieniawski one of two readings
93Legende…………………………………………….Wieniawski one of two readings
94Scherzando……………………………………Marsick one of two readings
95Scherzando……………………………………….Marsick one of two readings
96Cavatina……………………………………….Bohm one of two readings
97Cavatina……………………………………………Bohm one of two readings
99Miss Lila Routt will sing:
100Ma Voisine…………………………………….Goring Thomas one of two readings
101Ma Voisine………………………………………..Goring Thomas one of two readings
102Tristesse………………………………………Guy d'Haedelot one of two readings
103Tristesse…………………………………………..Guy d'Haedelot one of two readings
104Ich Liebe Dich…………………………………Grieg one of two readings
105Ich Liebe Dich…………………………………….Grieg one of two readings
106Schlummerlied…………………………………Franz one of two readings
107Schlummerlied…………………………………….Franz one of two readings
108The Clover…………………………………….MacDowell one of two readings
109The Clover…………………………………………MacDowell one of two readings
110The Bluebell…………………………………..MacDowell one of two readings
111The Bluebell………………………………………MacDowell one of two readings
113Master Earl Gulick will sing:
114Serenade………………………………………Schubert one of two readings
115Serenade…………………………………………..Schubert one of two readings
116A May Morning………………………………..Denza one of two readings
117A May Morning……………………………………Denza one of two readings
118The Pigeon…………………………………….Neil one of two readings
119The Pigeon…………………………………………Neil one of two readings
120Ave Maria……………………………………..Bach-Gounod one of two readings
121Ave Maria…………………………………………..Bach-Gounod one of two readings
123Morris Powers Parkinson will play:
124Etude, op. 41…………………………………Reinhold one of two readings
125Etude, op. 41………………………………………Reinhold one of two readings
126Valse, op. 33…………………………………Chaminade one of two readings
127Valse, op. 33………………………………………Chaminade one of two readings
128La Fileuse…………………………………….Raff one of two readings
129La Fileuse…………………………………………Raff one of two readings
131Miss Routt and Mr. Powers will sing:
132Pine and Palm………………………………..M. K. Woo one of two readings
133Pine and Palm…………………………………….M. K. Woo one of two readings
134O, That We Two Were Maying…………………G. Henschel one of two readings
135O, That We Two Were Maying…………………..G. Henschel one of two readings
136Accompanist, Horace Kinney.
138Mr. Powers, always magnificent, held his listeners entranced with his wonderful voice and perfect art, and Marsick would have been proud of his pupil, Miss Du Pre, could he have heard her violin playing on this occasion and witnessed her great success. Miss Du Pre plays beautifully and will soon be in the very forefront. Miss Lila Routt, of whom so much was expected, had a perfect triumph. Her singing both in solos and duets showed most careful training and spoke volumes for her season in New York. Her improvement is of the remarkable kind, one finding it difficult to recognize in the beautiful soprano voice and artistic singing the voice of a year before. What shall we say of Master Earl Gulick, "that divine boy," someone has not inaptly called him? Simply that he carried everything before him. One is prone to applaud an unusually handsome boy of ten years, be his work meritorious or otherwise. Mr. Powers, however, doesn't believe in sentimental applause, and the result is that Master Gulick by dint of hard work possesses in addition to a beautiful face a very beautiful voice, which he produces with that artistic finish for which Mr. Powers is so great a stickler. His singing of Denza's "May Morning" brought down the house and caused the guests to congratulate him and his teacher by turns. Mr. Morris Powers Parkinson's piano playing was a feature of the occasion. This young man of seventeen is a nephew of Mr. Powers, who is educating him in New York; his teacher speaks most glowingly of his work and he bids fair to become as great a pianist as Mr. Powers is a singer. While the accompanist is necessarily spoken of last he is by no means least in this case; Kinney is an artist in his line and his work adds appreciably to every singer's success.
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