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Musical Courier 1899-10-11: Vol 39 Iss 1021, 1899
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
2MUSIC IN CANADA
3CANADIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
5THE MUSICAL COURIER,
686 GLEN ROAD, ROSEDALE, TORONTO,
7October 6, 1899
9A N essentially musical audience assembled to hear the Kneisel Quartet play in Association Hall on the evening of October 4, when this program was presented:
11Quartet in C major, op. 76, No. 3 (Kaiser Quartet)………….Haydn
12Sonata for 'cello, without accompaniment………………………..Bach
13Herr Schroeder.
14Andante from quartet, op. 1……………………………Tchaikowsky
15Soprano solo from Samson and Dalila………………………..Saint-Saëns
16Miss Margaret Huston.
17First movement from the suite Le veilles de l'Ukraine, for violin and piano………………………………………Loeffler
18Herr Kneisel.
19(Piano, Mrs. Fannie Sullivan Mallon.)
20Quartet in B flat major, op. 18, No. 6………………………..Beethoven
22The quartet amply sustained the enviable reputation which it has won; the tone produced was exquisite and the ensemble as perfect as discriminating ear demands. Harmony, rhythm, dramatic fire, tenderness, vivacity, defiance, united—with a thousand defined and undefined component parts—to form this strange alloy we know as music.
24After each appearance the performers were compelled to bow their acknowledgments of the enthusiastic and genuine applause, and thus the intelligent appreciation of the musicians present compensated for what they lacked in numbers.
26The violin and 'cello solos were artistically played, the former being accompanied by Mrs. Fannie Sullivan Mallon, a well-known and gifted local pianist. Though suffering from a cold, and in spite of being at a disadvantage, apparently through a want of sympathy between the accompanist and herself, Miss Margaret Huston, a popular and talented soprano, won a recall and floral tributes.
28Among the literary and artistic persons present were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mason, Henry Mason, J. D. A. Tripp, Miss Ada Hart, Miss Evelyn Street, Dr. Edward Fisher and his pupil, Napier Durand, Mrs. Cecil Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Torrington and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Austin. The concert was under the patronage of the Women's Chamber Music Association of this city, an organization which deserves every possible encouragement.
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32The Toronto Conservatory of Music offers for "open competition" $1,600 in scholarships under the following prominent members of its staff:
33Piano—Dr. Edward Fisher, A. S. Vogt, W. J. F. Harrison, W. J. McNally, Donald Herald, A. T. C. M.; Miss Maud Gordon, A. T. C. M.; Miss S. E. Dallas, Mus. Bac., F. T. C. M.
34Voice—Rechab Tandy, Albert Ham, Mus. Doc., Dublin, F. R. C. O. and L. T. C., soprano or tenor; Mrs. Norma Reynolds-Reburn, Mrs. J. W. Bradley, Mrs. H. W. Parker, A. T. C. M., and Miss Annie Hallworth, A. T. C. M.
35Organ—William Reed and T. Arthur Blakely.
36Violin—Mrs. B. Drechsler Adamson.
37Composition—J. Humfrey Anger, Mus. Bac. Oxon, F. R. C. O., England.
39Applications will be received until October 16, after which time the dates of the examinations will be arranged, and the many candidates for these very valuable scholarships duly notified. As has frequently been stated, these annual offers furnish rare opportunities, a fact which in past years earnest students have not failed to appreciate.
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43M. L. Atkinson has been appointed organist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Toronto. Mr. Atkinson won Dr. Albert Ham's organ scholarship for the season 1898-99, at the Conservatory, and substituted with success at St. James' Cathedral during Dr. Ham's absence this summer.
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47Gilbert Parker has arrived in Canada, and is at present in Ottawa. In Toronto he will give a reading in Association Hall and will also receive an honorary degree from Trinity University.
49MONTREAL.
50OCTOBER 3, 1899.
52With commendable patience Montreal has been waiting many months for "something to turn up." Beginning with this week there comes a period when rewards are to be meted out. Alice Neilsen started it by producing here last night for the first time on any stage Victor Herbert's new opera "The Singing Girl." The music is as delightful as anyone could desire, but, unfortunately, the libretto is execrable. The first night drew many well-known critics and musicians from outside the city, and their unstinted praise should have made it easier for Mr. Herbert to bear up under the realization of his yoke-fellows' failure.
54Friday night of this week the French opera season opens, a financial success having been guaranteed by liberal subscriptions. "La Juive," "Les Huguenots" and "Robert le Diable" have been selected to introduce the three chief tenors of the organization—Ansaldi, of the Opéra, of Paris, and Prevost and Defy, who have all achieved a reputation in France. Others on the roster of the company are Mesdames Talexis, Doiska, Badilia and Telba, and Messrs. Grommen, Froidurot, Salvator and Berriel, all from more or less prominent French theatres.
56Among the less frequently produced operas which this company intend to present may be mentioned "Thais," "Manon," "Lakmé," "Hamlet," "Samson et Dalila," "Mireille" and "Moise." Already expectation is at a high pitch, and the musical colony is looking forward with keen interest to the engagement.
58The success or failure of the company is more closely concerned with the interests of the people across the border than is the case with the majority of productions here. If the Montreal season is a success, as from every indication it will be, the gospel of grand opera at popular prices will be preached through several of the larger cities of the United States. Messrs. Nicosias and Durieu, who are behind the enterprise, are both firm believers in the expediency of presenting good music with competent people, and at prices not above the average theatrical scale.
60The second week of their engagement here will see the value of their theories strictly tested, for Maurice Grau and his company are booked for four nights at Her Majesty's, beginning October 16. If Nicosias, offering good music at $1.50, can hold his own against Grau, offering no better music at $5, the first battle will have been won. The Grau engagement opens with Sembirch in "Traviata," with "Carmen," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Faust" following. one of two readings
61The second week of their engagement here will see the value of their theories strictly tested, for Maurice Grau and his company are booked for four nights at Her Majesty's, beginning October 16. If Nicosias, offering good music at $1.50, can hold his own against Grau, offering no better music at $5, the first battle will have been won. The Grau engagement opens with Sembach in "Traviata," with "Carmen," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Faust" following. one of two readings
63Of other fields of music there is little enough to be said. Both De Pachmann and Joseffy are to play here later in the year. Presumably to prepare us for their coming, a pianist named Emiliano Renaud gave a recital last week. Mr. Renaud is not acceptable, even as a curtain raiser for the musical treats which we expect later in the year.
65J. S. LEWIS.
67Clara Butt
69Clara Butt, the English contralto, who comes to this country under the management of N. Vert, of London, will make her début at Mendelssohn Hall on Thursday evening, October 26, upon which occasion she will be heard in a number of songs. The concert will be under the management of Henry Wolfsohn. Miss Butt's first appearance with orchestra will be at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday evening, November 12.
71We are in receipt of Jaroslaw de Zielinski's card announcing that he has resumed teaching at his home, 762 Auburn avenue, Buffalo. Mr. de Zielinski is widely known as a pianist of ultra modern propensities, as a teacher, composer and literary writer. An article of his on "The Characteristics and Value of the Piano Works of Edward Schuett and Ludwig Schytte," in a recent number of the Musician, deserves the attention of all musicians interested in the modern school of piano writers.
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