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Musical Courier 1899-10-11: Vol 39 Iss 1021, 1899
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1Boston Music Notes.
2BOSTON, Mass., October 7, 1899.
4MISS ANNA MILLER WOOD, of 165 Huntington avenue, Boston, will resume her work in teaching and singing on October 9. Development of the voice, study of classic and modern song, songs for church use and oratorio.
6Miss Wood's assistant, Miss Carolyn Boyan, will resume her classes in sight reading on November 1.
8Mrs. Marsh will be at her music rooms, 153 Tremont street, Boston, from 11 to 12 o'clock daily, on and after October 6.
10Heinrich Schuecker will assist Miss Fay Simmons at a concert on Wednesday. He will also play at Newburyport on October 13.
12Albert M. Kanrich, one of the faculty of the Copley Square School of Music, has a downtown studio at 164A Tremont street.
14At the marriage of Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott's niece in Cambridge, Van Vechton Rogers, harpist, played several fine selections.
16Horatio W. Parker's "St. Christopher" has been chosen for the opening of the Cecilia's season. It will be sung at the December concert.
18Among the musicians who have purchased seats for the Symphony concerts are B. J. Lang, Homer Norris, Mrs. S. B. Field, Norman McLeod, Fred Field Bullard and Madame De Angelis.
20E. W. Hanscom, composer and teacher, of Auburn, Me., has returned from his annual holiday in the Maine woods.
22The reception of the Friday morning Club of Worcester, during festival week, together with the first meeting of the club, inaugurated the sixteenth season of work for the club, which is one of the oldest of women's music clubs in New England.
24The Friday Morning Club program for this season begins with study of the life and works of John Sebastian Bach. At the meeting Miss Emma Pratt will read a sketch of Bach's life, Miss Georgie A. Bacon and Mrs. Carrie King-Hunt will play a concerto for two pianos, and there will be songs by Mrs. Henry F. Harris and Mrs. J. W. Mitchell. Miss Nellie Ingraham, Miss Frances C. Morse and Mrs. George M. Bassett will also take part. The program will end with the orchestral suite in D for two pianos, Mrs. C. H. Prentice and Mrs. F. E. Stimpson at the first, and Miss Mary L. Starr and Mrs. J. L. Brand at the second. The second meeting of the club, October 18, will be for study of fugues, Mrs. Brand having prepared a paper, which will be illustrated by other club members. The Friday Morning Club begins its season with about 225 members and a waiting list of sixty-five. It sprang from small beginnings, being suggested by Mrs. Charles A. Merrill and Mrs. Henry A. Stimson, being organized at the home of Mrs. Merrill, November 17, 1883, the club taking its name from its time of meeting. The original members were Mrs. Merrill, Mrs. Stimson, Miss Frances C. Morse, Mrs. Carrie King-Hunt, Mrs. J. A. Rice, Miss Nettie Day and Miss E. Cassandra Nason. Mrs. Stimson was the first president. The plans for the present year include study of German composers of the eighteenth century, beginning with Bach and ending with Beethoven. The club also plans to give two entertainments, probably concerts, with out of the city talent.
26This year's officers, who had charge of Thursday's reception, and have planned the year's work, are Miss Georgie A. Bacon, president; Mrs. George M. Bassett, vice-president; Miss Mary L. Starr, secretary; Mrs. Louie Erville Ware, treasurer; Mrs. J. L. Brand, chairman music committee; Mrs. C. H. Prentice, chairman house committee; these, with Mrs. Henry F. Harris, constituting the executive committee.
28Those who took part in the recent concert at Poultney, Vt., were Miss Salome E. Bixby, Miss Winnifred Jones, Hermon E. Sullivan, Edward Clark, Harry B. Rood, Miss Edna J. Ripley and Miss Adelaide Campbell.
30Miss Effie L. Palmer gave a musical last week at her studio in the Swan Building, Lowell.
32Among the artists engaged for the recitals at Gloucester to be given by George B. Stevens are S. Marcia Craft, soprano soloist of the Christian Science Church, Boston, and Hiram G. Tucker, pianist. Miss Craft will sing in Maine October 19.
34Miss Ray Corser was assisted by Professor E. B. Story, of Smith College, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Springfield at her recent concert in Holyoke.
36At an organ recital given in the Broadway Church, Norwich, Conn., by F. W. Lester, he was assisted by Miss Harriet C. Frisbie.
38A quartet choir consisting of Misses Lila Smith and Ella Utley, Messrs. Frank Rose and Clarence Parker, with Mrs. W. H. Dawley as pianist, assisted at a concert at Brewster's Neck, Conn.
40The following musicians from Norwalk, Conn., participated in a concert at Ridgefield last week: Miss Agnes Ross Gibbs, Miss Florence May Haviland, Harry Pepper, Miss Agnes Littlejohn, Jesse A. Hopson, Miss Grace Haviland and Edward B. Manville.
42Miss Elizabeth C. Gaffney sang at New Haven October 3.
44The Newburyport Choral Union has begun its fourth season's work, rehearsals having commenced October 2.
46Miss Margaret Bidwell, assisted by Frank H. Burnham, basso, of Hartford; Mrs. N. E. Gladding, of Essex; Miss Duella E. Gladding, of Hartford, and Mrs. F. M. Howard, organist, gave a concert at Deep River, Conn.
48The Millbury Musical Association has organized for the season with E. E. Howe, of Fisherville as director. These officers were chosen: President, E. C. Putnam; vice-president, George I. Stowe; secretary and treasurer, John F. Lee; executive committee, Mrs. George E. Lombard and Miss Edith Buck.
50An amateur opera company has been organized in New Bedford with the following officers: President, Ellis L. Howland; vice-president, George F. Maxfield; secretary, Ernest V. Alley; treasurer, Richmond Gordon; executive committee—the above and William B. Topham, James S. Macomber, Julia Bancroft, Elizabeth H. Cobb, Gillian Gordon, Charles S. Coombs.
52Important Bookings.
54Manager Thrane reports the following dates booked with the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore: Mark Hambourg, December 15; Alexander Petschnikoff, January 5, 1900, and Frances Saville, February 16.
56George Hamlin, the tenor, has been booked with the Mozart Club, of Pittsburg, to sing, November 28, the tenor role in the first act of "Lohengrin" and the "Swan and the Skylark."
58Elsa Ruegger.
60MISS ELSA RUEGGER, the young violoncello artist, arrived in New York from Europe October 3, accompanied by her mother. They are living at the Hotel Belvedere while in the city, and have pleasant apartments, where Miss Ruegger works and practices. Three or four hours a day are devoted to work on the 'cello, her only regret seeming to be that she was unable to play much on the steamer coming over.
62As has been stated in THE MUSICAL COURIER, Miss Ruegger was born in Switzerland, but her home is in Brussels now, where she has resided with her parents and sisters for the past twelve years, so that all her education has been gained in that city. It will not be until December 5 that Miss Ruegger attains the age of eighteen, so that her success has been phenomenal, particularly when the instrument she plays is taken into consideration.
64Miss Ruegger is a handsome brunette, with a lively, vivacious, girlish manner, which is very charming and attractive. She speaks English well, but French and German are her "mother tongues."
66Her first concert will be given with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 20, and her first New York appearance on November 5 at Carnegie Hall. Engagements have been made for her by her manager, Victor Thrane, that will cause her to remain in this country until next May. In coming here this season she gave up concerts already booked in Europe, but there was such a demand for her throughout this country that her return to Europe in January, as originally arranged, seemed inexpedient.
68The instrument that Miss Ruegger plays is a Gagliano, made early in 1700. This 'cello she has played for the past year, having purchased it in London more than a year ago, paying for it about $3,500. She is most enthusiastic when speaking of it, says it "is a beautiful instrument," and in fact whenever speaking of her work she at once shows that it is the great absorbing interest of her life.
70The Aeolian in the Far West.
72A private recital was given by the Aeolian Music Company, of Portland, Ore., to Prof. W. H. Boyer, his pupils and a few friends on September 21. The following excellent and varied program was a source of great enjoyment to those present:
74Fantaisie, Lucia di Lammermoor………………………………………Liszt
75The Pianola.
76Vocal solo, A Dream…………………………………………………Bartlett
77Mr. Hadrill. one of two readings
78Mr. Hadrill one of two readings
79Le Rouet d'Omphale, Poeme Symphonique…………………….Saint-Saëns
80Aeolian Orchestrelle.
81Ah Fors' e Lui (from Traviata)………………………………………Verdi
82Miss May Dearborn.
83Ballade………………………………………………………..Bartlett
84Hexentanz (Witches' Dance)………………………………………MacDowell
85Studie, Uber den Walzer, op. 64 (Chopin)…………………Rosenthal one of two readings
86Studie, Uber den Walzer, op. 64 (Chopin)…………………….Rosenthal one of two readings
87The Pianola
88Vocal solo, Because I Love You So……………………………Hawley
89Mr. Packard.
90Intermezzo, Cavalleria Rusticana……………………………Mascagni
91Sanctus, St. Cecilia Mass………………………………………Gounod
92Tannhäuser Overture……………………………………………..Wagner
93Aeolian Orchestrelle.
95Zangwill's play, "The Children of the Ghetto," is announced for next Monday evening at the Herald Square Theatre.
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