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Musical Courier 1900-10-31: Vol 41 Iss 1075, 1900
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1centre, in Paris, has just completed a drama, "tout petit," he acknowledges in his modesty, but of sufficient worth that Saint-Saëns has written incidental music for it.
3Mr. Raymond, a relative of Marie Roze, is he who has till within a month or two arranged the incidental music for the Shakespearian plays given in London under the direction of Mr. Tree.
5Mrs. Mae Priem-Russell, mezzo soprano, is in Paris studying. More anon, as she is a promising singer and attractive personality.
7The French Academy is discussing the subject of reform in the orthography of the French language.
9Classes of violin, 'cello and declamation in the Paris Conservatoire find themselves, for one reason or another, without professors at the opening of the school year.
11Weather glorious, town lovely and everybody as cross as two sticks—Paris. A spirit of general animosity seems to imbue especially those whose interests would seem necessary to each other—between coachmen and coachmen, coachmen and police, police and people, clerks and clients, employers and clerks; the men on the box and those inside the carriage, the bus conductor and all that therein is, the post and the people who write. After London's brooding calm, the hysteria is most marked.
13Mme. Ogden Crane's Patriotic Musicale.
15THE "Musical and American Tea" given by Mme. Ogden Crane at her studio, 3 East Fourteenth street, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon was a delightful affair. The studio was tastefully decorated with flags and bunting. All the ladies received souvenir programs and McKinley pinks, tied with red, white and blue ribbon. About seventy-five were present. The musical program, which follows, was printed in red and blue on white paper:
17"Star Spangled Banner," Miss Alice Richards; "Dreamy June," May Bouton; "Violets," Mrs. C. M. Ward; Reading, Marie Newman; "Life's Lullaby," Mrs. Eugene Fries; "Love Tyrant," "I Cannot Help Loving Thee," Miss Hattie Goldstein; "Song of Triumph," Miss Georgiana Burhans; "Madrigal," Mrs. W. V. Loss; "For This," Miss Grace Underwood; "The Red, Red Rose," William Georget; "'Twas But a Dream," Mme. Ogden Crane; "When the Heart is Young," Mrs. Roth; "In the Dark in the Dew," Miss Marie Newman; "Lullaby," "Sing On," Miss Edith Hutchins (with Francis Wilson's Opera Company).
19Madame Crane sang (by request) "'Twas But a Dream," by Louise Tunison, and in response to a general demand for an encore she sang "Daisies," by Hawley. At the close of the program light refreshments were served and a social hour enjoyed.
21Notice.
23ON account of the number of people in Paris, London and the United States who pretend to teach the Yersin method and are unable to do so, the Mlles. Yersin are obliged to warn Americans to insist upon being shown the diploma, in order to avoid being deceived. All those competent to teach the Yersin method hold a diploma, in which the Mlles. Yersin give them the right to call themselves authorized teachers of the Yersin method.
25The representative of the Mlles. Yersin in Paris is Mlle. Marion Nilande. The representative of the Mlles. Yersin in London is M. René Papin.
27News of the Musical Clubs
29On October 10 the Women's Musical Club of Columbus, Ohio, held its first meeting of the season, the program consisting of selections by French composers. Mrs. Brown, Mr. Mason, and Miss Hertenstein were the soloists.
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33The following persons have been admitted to the Tuesday Musical Club of Denver, Col.: Chorus, Misses M. J. Calkins, T. Mussey, Cora Walsen, and Eleanor Young; vocalists, Mrs. J. Jenkins, Mrs. Fraser, and Miss Gertrude Hallock.
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37A Derthick Musical Federation Club was organized on October 9 at the studio of Prof. B. E. Riggs, Bellows Falls, Vt. Officers were elected as follows: President, Prof. Riggs; vice-president, Mrs. D. L. Sanford; secretary, Miss Mary H. Baker.
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41The Arion Club of Victoria, B. C., which has completed its eighth season, prints on its programs and announcements this felicitous motto:
43"Ecce quam bonum,
44Quamque jucundum,
45Habitate fratres in unum."
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49The newly appointed officers of the Ladies' Matinee Musicale, Muncie, Ind., include: President, Miss Nannie C. Love; vice-president, Mrs. J. M. Maring; secretary, Mrs. M. E. Phinney; treasurer, Mrs. C. L. Bender; executive committee, Mrs. Loan Franklin, Mrs. George F. McCulloch, Miss Zulena Wilcoxon, Mrs. George A. Ball and Mrs. Hal C. Kimbrough.
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53The officers of the Woman's Music Club of Georgia are: Mrs. Anne Sanford Cochrane, of Gainesville, president; Mrs. Belle C. Dykeman, of Atlanta, first vice-president; Mrs. Rhodes Browne, of Columbus, second vice-president; Miss Mary Kiolin, of Columbus, third vice-president; Miss Alida Printup, of Rome, secretary; Mrs. Sourie Lee Van Hoose-Polhill, of Macon, treasurer.
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57The piano department of the Women's Philharmonic Society, of New York, has issued the following scheme of work for the present season: Tuesday, October 2, at 8:15, initial program: "Bagatelles," op. 126, Beethoven, Miss Amy Fay, and lecture-recital, "The Walküre," Mrs. Raymond Brown; Tuesday, November 6, at 3:30, modern Scandinavian music; Tuesday, December 4, at 8:15, modern French music; Tuesday, January 8, at 3:30 modern Italian and Slavonic music; Tuesday, February 5, at 8:15, modern Russian music; Tuesday, March 5, at 3:30, modern German music; Tuesday, April 2, at 8:15, modern Polish and Hungarian music; Tuesday, May 7, at 8:15, American music.
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61The Ladies' Morning Musical Club, of Montreal, has arranged the ensuing program for 1900-1901: November 8, miscellaneous; November 15, Schubert, Liszt; November 22, Mendelssohn; November 29, Scandinavian; December 6, miscellaneous, modern English; December 13, Beethoven, Franz; January 10, Mendelssohn; January 17, miscellaneous, modern French; January 24, Mozart; January 31, Slavonic; February 7, Mendelssohn; February 14, early composers; February 21, miscellaneous, American; February 28, Schumann; March 7, Mendelssohn; March 14, annual meeting, Brahms; March 21, Bach, Jensen; March 28, concert.
63E. Ellsworth Giles.
64Shares Triumphs with Other Artists at Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Festivals.
66ELLSWORTH GILES was associated in the festivals with such artists as Schumann-Heink, Signor Campanari, Charlotte Maconda, Richard Burmeister, Gwilym Miles, &c. Being the only tenor soloist of the company, he returns with laurels won by singing his way into favor—not only with the press and public, but with his associate artists. His success with the public was instantaneous and most pronounced, while the press was unanimous in every city in praising his voice and method. Mr. Giles received many inquiries for return and future engagements, simply as a result of his work.
68The local papers all shared in proclaiming his success, their headlines bearing such words as "Triumph shared by Giles," "Giles' Triumph," "A Young Tenor Creates Sensation," &c., all most flattering to him. Here are a few press excerpts:
70As to Mr. Giles, the unheralded tenor, who came into view in the last part of the program and sang "Lend Me Your Aid" so well that people forgot Evan Williams as he once stood there in another festival—he shared the triumph of Blauvelt and scored one of the sensations of the festival history. Mr. Giles was absolutely unknown to Maine; he came out amid the stock plaudits of the chorus and faced an unsuspecting audience with courage in his eyes. When he finished there was a roar which rivalled Blauvelt's own, and the audience, discovering that it had found a gem of purest ray serene, decided to place its clutches on him, and wring another note before he escaped. Thus he came again and sang a ballad, sufficiently simple and very cleverly done.—Bangor Commercial.
72Now as to his voice: it is beautiful, very, very beautiful, high, wide, mellow like a baritone, with a sort of mezzo somewhere lurking all through it and giving it a depth of tone which stamps it with the mark of the great. * * * It is good to know that he is to sing again during the festival. By all means he is one of the finest heard in Maine, and thanks are due to Mr. Chapman for bringing him here this year. The Festival Association must insist on programing him again next year.—Bangor Commercial.
74Last night's performance of "Elijah" was better than that of 1898, when Gadski, Evan Williams and Davies sang. * * * E. Ellsworth Giles sang the role of Obadiah in a manner stamping himself as one of the most promising tenors before the American public. His singing of the great aria, "If With All Your Hearts" left little to be desired in voice or interpretation. He sang "Ye People, Render Your Hearts" in classic recitative with telling dramatic force.—Portland Telegram.
76The concert was noteworthy for the singing of Mr. Giles, an unheralded tenor, who shared Blauvelt's triumph and created one of the features of the festival history in Bangor by outshining his reputation.—Bangor Daily.
78Etta C. Keil.
80Miss Etta C. Keil, soprano, will be one of the soloists at the concerts to be given in Duquesne Garden Monday evening, October 29, for the benefit of the Pittsburg, Pa., police pension fund.
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