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Musical Courier 1900-04-11: Vol 40 Iss 1046, 1900
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1Boston Music Notes.
3BOSTON, April 7, 1900.
5Frank E. Morse, director of the Bay View (Mich.) Summer University Conservatory of Music, is to have associated with him Allen Spencer, pianist, of Chicago, and Walter Logan, violinist, of the Northwestern University School of Music.
7Pupils of the Faelten Pianoforte School gave a very interesting recital in Steinert Hall Wednesday evening. A large audience was present, and was very generous in its applause of the students' efforts. The next recital will take place Saturday afternoon, April 14.
9The program for the last Symphony rehearsal and concert was:
10Overture, Sapho, op. 44………………………………………Goldmark
11Concerto for piano, C sharp minor, op. 45…………………Beach
12Ballet Suite…………………………………………………….Rameau-Mottl
13Symphony No. 1, E flat major……………………………….Borodin
15Miss Gertrude Walker gave a song recital in Academy Hall, Salem, on Monday evening, when she was assisted by Frank La Raine Chamberlain, flute soloist, and Joshua Phippen, pianist. Miss Walker sang delightfully as usual, and was commended for her work by all present. Her recitals are greatly enjoyed.
17Polonaise from Mignon (Je suis Titania)…………………..Thomas
18Impromptu in E flat………………………………………….Schubert
19Nocturne in F…………………………………………………Schumann
20Scherzo in E minor………………………………………….Mendelssohn
21Du Bist die Ruh……………………………………………..Schubert
22Die Forelle…………………………………………………….Schubert
23Vergebliches Ständchen………………………………………Brahms
24Recitative and aria, With Verdure Clad……………………Haydn
25Le Babilard……………………………………………………Terschak
26Polly Willis……………………………………………………Dr. Arne
27Lullaby………………………………………………………..Phippen
28One Spring Morning……………………………………….Nevin
29Boat Song…………………………………………………….Schubert-Liszt
30Krakowiak…………………………………………………….Paderewski
31Aria Gratias Agimus Tibi (with flute obligato)…………..Gugliem
32Miss Walker.
34Antonia Sawyer, who has many friends in this city, will give one or two recitals in Maine this spring, one of which will probably be in Lewiston and the other in Waterville. Mrs. Sawyer is at present making a special study of German and German songs.
36On Wednesday evening Philip Dalmas, baritone; Victor da Prato, violinist, and Mr. Gilberte gave a musicale at the Puritan Club on Beacon street. Friday evening Mr. Gilberte sang in Nashua, N. H. During Easter week he will give a couple of recitals in New York with Mrs. Jennie King-Morrison, contralto, when she will sing three of his latest songs entitled "Youth," "Singing of You" and a "Mother's Cradle Song."
38The pupils' musical rehearsal will be given at Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, on Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
40A. E. Prescott sang among other numbers "The Song of the Sword of Ferrara," by Frederic F. Bullard, at a concert in Association Hall on Friday evening.
42Edward F. Searles, of Methuen, has signified his intention of presenting to the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, San Francisco, Cal., one of the largest organs manufactured in America. Boston musicians are familiar with the history of this organ.
44A vocal recital was given last week at Gould Hall, Chelsea, Mass., before a fashionable audience by Miss Adelaide Louise Hutchins, assisted by Carl Peirce, Misses Bertha and Leila Cautna and Miss Bertha Bingham.
46Harriet Shaw played at a concert in Pittsfield on Thursday.
48The Copley Square School of Music gave a recital Monday evening. The program was given by twenty-one children, who played or sang in a manner which showed excellent training. A large audience was present, and applauded heartily the efforts of the children.
50J. C. Bartlett has been engaged as tenor of the Arlington Street Church choir, succeeding James H. Ricketon.
52Mme. Alexander Marius has taken a studio at 367 Boylston street.
54About forty of the private pupils of Mrs. Nellie Evans Packard gave an informal musical in Brockton the last week of March. Each spring Mrs. Packard, assisted by her pupils, gives a public recital, and it was for the formation of the plans for this occasion that the gathering was held.
56A musical was given at the residence of J. L. Bradlee last week. Mr. Bradlee has written several songs which were sung by Mrs. William F. Whitney, soprano. Mrs. Emelie Grant Wilkinson accompanied. Many musicians were among the guests, including Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Lang.
58Miss Minnie E. Little, the pianist, played the Liszt E flat Concerto at the meeting of the Chromatic Club in Chipman Hall on Friday evening.
60A concert is announced for Saturday afternoon, April 21, at Music Hall. The soloists to appear are Madame Brema, Henri Marteau and De Pachmann, together with an orchestra, Emil Mollenhauer, conductor. The seats have been placed on a popular scale of prices.
62The Handel and Haydn Society will sing "Elijah" in Music Hall next Sunday evening, Easter.
64The Belmont Musical Club gave a pleasing entertainment at the residence of J. M. Hernandez, Pleasant street, Belmont, on Monday evening. The program was: Orchestra, "Marionette's Wedding Procession," Jonas; "Polish National Dance," Scharwenka; piano solo, Scherzo, Napravnik, Miss Myrtle Walcott; aria, "Ah! Perfido," Beethoven, Miss Edith F. Nassau; piano duet, "Spanische Tanza," Moszkowski, Miss Mary J. Bygrave and Miss Helen W. Ball; Rondo from Quatuor, op. 16, Beethoven, piano, violin, viola and 'cello, Miss Elizabeth H. Frost, Miss Emily F. Hunt, Richard B. Horne, Geoffrey C. Horne. There were solos by Miss Mattie M. Hough, Miss Alice B. Diaz and Mrs. Amos E. Hill. The orchestra ended the program with the ballet music from "Faust."
66The Saint Johnsbury (Vt.) Choral Union will give a music festival on April 23 to April 27.
68The Springfield Republican says in a recent issue: "The board of government of the Hampden Musical Association has engaged Frank E. Wheeler to solicit contributions to make up the deficit caused by the poor attendance at the May festivals in the last few years. He will begin work at once. The amount to be raised is now about $2,000. The whole debt of the association is about $3,500, but an attempt made last year raised part of this, and about $1,500 has been pledged up to date. The members of the board of government, however, are too busy people to give their attention to this matter, and it has been thought best to secure a man who will give his whole attention to it. The management of the association wishes it understood that there is no reason to suppose that the May festivals are to be given up permanently; indeed, if the deficit is cleared up there is every reason to suppose that there will be a festival next year. The association is organized, has a chorus trained and a musical library which has cost some $2,000. It is felt that the intimations that the financial trouble has been due to poor management are unjust; that the arrears have been accumulating for some time, and have been the result of a too ambitious policy in the past. The festivals have cost as high as $9,500, and from that to $7,500, and it is felt that this has been too much. Possibly it will be found wise in the future to give a two days' festival costing somewhere about $5,500, and it is felt that this would pay."
70Mr. and Miss Heinrich gave their third concert on Thursday evening.
72Mrs. Edward Dudley Marsh gave a lecture recital last week in Masonic Hall, Newoprt, R. I., consisting of a tale on Wagner's opera, "Parsifal," and piano selections.
74Heinrich Schuecker will play at Miss Snow's concert in Brockton on Tuesday evening.
76Maud Powell in Liverpool.
78MISS MAUD POWELL, the American violinist, met with such instantaneous success upon the occasion of her appearance with the Liverpool Philharmonic Society on the evening of March 6 that she was immediately re-engaged for a concert on December 4 of next season. The Liverpool press spoke in complimentary terms of Miss Powell's playing as the following paragraph illustrates:
80The penultimate concert of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society last night was of the agreeably miscellaneous order, and it was of considerable importance in that it served for the introduction of Miss Maud Powell, an American violinist, who fairly took the audience by storm. She selected as her chief contribution the Third Concerto of the brilliant French composer, Saint-Saëns (op. 61), and from the outset it was apparent that the newcomer, of whom we have hitherto heard but little, was a wonder-worker—a veritable magician of the bow. Lady Hallé had originally been engaged for this occasion, and Miss Powell proved a worthy substitute indeed. The Concerto is a show piece, truly, but it is much more than that; it is a work which calls for a display of the highest virtuistic attributes, as well as of mere executive skill. And there is no single direction in which Miss Powell is not highly accomplished. She is, to use a colloquialism, an artist to the finger-tips, and her magnificent performance of the exacting music served to rouse the enthusiasm of the audience to an unwonted degree, a double recall to the platform showing the gifted young lady how greatly her efforts were appreciated and how successful was her début at these concerts. In the second half of the program Miss Powell played three movements from Bach's Sixth Sonata, unaccompanied, and here the audience were able to gauge still better how talented a violinist she is. The demand for an encore which followed her masterly interpretation of these purest gems of violin music was quite undeniable.—The Liverpool Courier, March 7, 1900.
82Composer Minkowski a Benedict.
84Giacomo Minkowski, the critic and composer, was married on April 8 to Miss Wanda Galland. The nuptials were celebrated at San Francisco, where the bride's family reside. The Rev. Dr. Jacob Voorsanger performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Minkowski are spending their honeymoon in Southern California. In a fortnight they will leave and come to New York.
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