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Musical Courier 1900-10-31: Vol 41 Iss 1075, 1900
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1MUSIC IN BROOKLYN.
3ASSISTED by Mrs. Katharine Fisk, the Kneisel Quartet will give a concert at Association Hall to-night (Wednesday). This will be in the Brooklyn Institute series, and as it is the first of the serious concerts of the season, students and the discriminating members will be expected to fill the hall. Mrs. Fisk is a favorite with the Institute audiences and managers. An appearance invariably secures a re-engagement for her. As an interpreter of classic songs Mrs. Fisk has few equals on the concert stage in this country, or, for that matter, in Europe either. Outside of Germany there are few European artists who can sing the immortal Lieder of Schumann, Schubert, Franz and Brahms. While some of the German singers do give the correct poetic interpretations, their vocalization too often falls short of the requirements, and hence their efforts too leave the listener unsatisfied. The sane and far-seeing musical mind believes there are two branches of the musical art that will outlive the evolution in the tone world—the orchestra and the classic song. For the singer of the future there will be nothing higher than the Lieder, many of them composed generations ago.
5Last season Mrs. Fisk at one of the Institute concerts sang, in one of her groups, "Der Asra," Rubinstein's setting to Heine's poem. Although she sang in English (an excellent English translation, by the way), she made a profound impression, the noble quality of her voice and intensely realistic delivery of the text seemed to this writer, who heard her then, just to be in harmony with the ideas of both the poet and composer. The words of Heine's Oriental, austere but beautiful poem are a welcome contrast from the feverish "I Am Dying for You, Love" sort of rubbish too frequently inflicted upon concert audiences.
7At the concert to-night Mrs. Fisk will sing two groups of songs, as follows:
9La Cloche…………………………………………..Saint-Saëns
10Death and the Maiden……………………………….Schubert
11Vergebliebtes Standchen……………………………..Brahms
12Meine Liebe ist Grün………………………………..Brahms
13Thy Beaming Eyes…………………………………..MacDowell
14Two Folk-Songs—
15 Love and Joy…………………………………….Chadwick
16 The Northern Days……………………………….Chadwick
17Love is a Sickness…………………………………..Horatio Parker
19The Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, co-operating with the Brooklyn Institute, has issued the following appeal:
21To the Patrons of the Philharmonic Concerts:
22LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—The board of directors of the Philharmonic Society take pleasure in announcing the series of five concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra during the coming season which opens on November 9.
24Announcement was made to you in June last that certain changes in the arrangements for the concerts would be made during this year. Among these changes are: The giving of more interesting programs; the placing of the symphony or principal composition of the evening in the early part of the program; the engagement of better soloists; the granting of an intermission for social intercourse and the decoration of the stage.
26The board of directors respectfully invite you to renew your subscriptions for the season if possible by November 5, four days before the opening of the concerts.
28For full particulars with regard to the concerts you are respectfully referred to the eight page circular issued by this society in conjunction with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Enclosed please find blanks for the renewal of subscriptions.
30Very respectfully yours,
31(no line here) one of two readings
33HENRY K. SHELDON,
34HENRY W. WHITNEY,
35JOHN S. FROTHINGHAM,
36Committee.
38The above suggests the "mountain and Mahomet" fable. Anyhow, everything is being done to attract large audiences to the Brooklyn concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The dates of the five concerts are: Friday evening, November 9; Friday evening, December 14; Friday evening, January 18; Monday evening, February 18, and Friday evening, March 22.
40Charles M. Skinner, the able and esteemed music critic of the Brooklyn Eagle, prefixed his report of the concert in Brooklyn by the Strauss Orchestra with these amiable words on the conditions prevailing at the Academy of Music:
42"It was quite like old times in the Academy of Music last evening. There was the same crowd struggling through insufficient doorways, the same shortness of programs, the same eager representatives of the syndicate prowling through the corridors, and the same Bowery barkers going up and down the aisles peddling programs."
44Mrs. Eleanor Hooper-Coryell contributed several violin solos at the social meeting of the Brooklyn Public Library Association held recently at the residence of Mrs. Isaac H. Cary, on Pierrepont street.
46Paul Du Fault, tenor; Miss Margaret V. Cobb, soprano, and Mrs. Mattie Dorlon-Lowe, three of the soloists of the choir of the Church of the Pilgrims, furnished the music at the public greeting to the new pastor of the church, the Rev. Dr. Henry Pinneo Dewey. The welcome to Dr. Dewey was arranged by the Brooklyn Congregational Club, and was held last week at the Pouch mansion. As Dr. Dewey is the successor to the late Dr. Richard Salter Storrs, his coming to Brooklyn was naturally marked as an important event. Henry Eyre Browne, organist of the church, played the piano accompaniments for the singers.
48Elizabeth Northrop, who sang Sunday night a week ago at the Sousa concert in Brooklyn, was heartily received by the public, and reports in the local papers commented favorably upon her singing.
50Mr. and Mrs. William W. Fitzhugh, of 147 Gates avenue, invited about two hundred of their friends and neighbors to attend the piano recital by their daughter, Miss Ethel Fitzhugh, last Thursday evening. The young woman recently returned from Berlin, where for nearly three years she studied with Dr. Ernst Jedliczka. As a performer, Miss Fitzhugh shows the healthfulness of the German school. She phrases well, and especially in the smaller numbers by Rubinstein and Sinding reveals a limpid and sympathetic touch. Her most noticeable fault is a too frequent use of the pedal. Miss Fitzhugh at the recital was assisted by William Davol Sanders, the violinist and head of the violin department at the Lachmund Conservatory of Music. Charles Gilbert Sprass accompanied for Mr. Sanders. This was the program for the evening:
52Chromatic Fantaisie and Fugue………………………..Bach
53Introduction and Andante from Scotch Fantaisie………..Bruch
54Canzonetta from Concerto Romantique…………………Godard
55Tanzweise…………………………………………….Sanders
56Melodie in B major………………………………….Rubinstein
57Frühlingsrauschen……………………………………Sinding
58Berceuse……………………………………………..Chopin
59Etude, op. 25, No. 10……………………………….Chopin
60Romanze……………………………………………..Wilhelmj
61Moto Perpetuo……………………………………….Ries
62Légende (St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots)……Liszt
63Ethel Fitzhugh.
65A reception followed the recital, and the host and hostess, as well as their talented daughter, received the congratulations of their guests.
67The first of the Hotel St. George musicales for this season was given last Friday evening in the ball room of the Hotel. E. Adolf Whitelaw directed the musical program.
69Special music was a feature at the golden jubilee celebration last Sunday of the Fleet Street M. E. Church. The soloists were Miss Marguerite Whiting and Christian A. Dwyer.
71Dr. and Mrs. Victor Baillard are back in Brooklyn after spending fourteen weeks in the Adirondacks. The Bailards will give a series of "at homes" next month and then resume their musical Saturday evenings at their Washington avenue residence.
73The Klingendel College of Music and School of Elocution at 108 Hancock street will soon send out invitations for a series of recitals by members of the faculty and other artists.
75Dr. Hanchett gave the third of his autumn musical lectures at Adelphi College last Monday afternoon. "Phrases and Themes" was the subject, and the illustrations were from the following compositions: Chopin—Ballade, G; The Maiden's Wish, G. Schubert—Impromptu, C. Beethoven, Sonata, A flat, three movements. Mason, Silver Spring, A.
77Two Italian Artists.
79CAVALIER PIETRO LOMBARDI, tenor, and Signora Anita Occhiolini, soprano, are to arrive in this city the middle of next month from Italy to do some concert work and give some recitals. Lombardi has sung at the Scala, Milan; at the Fenice, Venice; at the Liceo, Barcelona; at the Royal, Madrid, and two seasons at the National, Mexico, and two seasons at the Royal, Havana. He has a repertory of seventy-three operas.
81Signora Occhiolini has sung at the Pagliano, Florence; at the Scala and at the Lirico, Milan, as well as at the Dal Verme; at the Argentina, Rome; at the Carlos Felice, Genoa; at the Comunale, Trieste; at the Reale, Madrid; at Valencia and Barcelona, and at Buenos Ayres and Santiago, Chili. As to the dates, &c., we have no notice as yet.
83It Is George B. Luks.
85George, and not John, is the Christian name of Luks, the artist. Mr. Luks and his wife were guests at the first meeting of the Tonkünstler Society, and in the report of the affair, published in THE MUSICAL COURIER last week, there was a slight error in the list of names.
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