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Musical Courier 1900-10-31: Vol 41 Iss 1075, 1900
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1Boston Music Notes.
3Miss Louise Rollwagen has had the pleasure of hearing very complimentary comments upon her work from one of the well-known teachers of Germany. Last spring a pupil whose vocal training has been entirely conducted by Miss Rollwagen went to Dresden to arrange for lessons with Orgeni. Not only did this teacher admire the voice of her would-be pupil, but she spoke in the highest terms of the splendid training she had received in the art of singing, asked who her teacher had been and said it was seldom that any girl came to her with her voice so well placed or with such an assured method. Miss Rollwagen's pupils are many of them young "society" girls, who only learn singing as an accomplishment, so that it is a rare thing to hear one of them in public, but the indorsement and opinion of such an expert as Orgeni upon the result accomplished in the case of the young girl mentioned above, leaves no doubt as to the thoroughness of Miss Rollwagen's method.
5At Mme. Caroline Gardner Clarke's, on Tuesday afternoon, a few of her intimate friends had the pleasure of hearing Charles J. Dyer in a number of German songs. Mr. Dyer, who is an American and whose home is in Worcester, has lived abroad for the past twelve years, and this was his first appearance since his return to this country. Mr. Dyer will go to New York about the middle of November, where he will make his home during the winter, and will be heard in concerts and recitals in drawing rooms and before the public. Among the musical people present on Tuesday were Miss Agot Lunde, Miss Lena Little, Mrs. Clara Kathleen Rogers and George Edmund Dwight.
7Mrs. Stovall gave an informal talk at Miss Katherine Lincoln's studio on Wednesday afternoon. Miss Clara Munger, Miss Priscilla White, Miss Katherine Merrill, Mrs. Henry Haskell, Miss Louise Haskell, Miss Freda Haskell, Mrs. White, Mrs. Merrill, Miss Noyes, Miss Goodrich were among those who were present. Miss Emery, a pupil of Miss Lincoln, sang a couple of songs exceedingly well.
9J. D. Buckingham is now in the midst of a busy season, for in addition to his large class of private pupils in Boston and Quincy, he is at the head of the harmony and piano departments of the Y. M. C. A. School of Music, and director of the musical department of Woodward Institute for Girls at Quincy. Mr. Buckingham has many pupils of promise, but conspicuously so are Ralph Pendleton, of Philadelphia, who won unvarying favorable press notices in a recent tour through New York with a concert company, and Miss Louise Dunham, of Brockton, whose services are in constant demand for solos and accompaniments in her city and surrounding towns.
11Mrs. Louise Bruce Brooks has been engaged for her sixth year at Wheaton Seminary as head of the vocal department. Outside of the seminary engagement her time is full for teaching hours. Nearly all her open dates for recitals are now filled, her engagements extending as late in the season as next June. On October 29 she sings in "The Beatitudes" in this city, and on December 27 will sing in "The Messiah" with the Salem Oratorio Society. Mrs. Brooks is a pupil of Mme. Gertrude Franklin.
13Miss Adalia Levey will give her first concert in Boston on December 5, at Chickering Hall, when she will be assisted by Timothee Adamowski and Miss Hoitt, contralto. Miss Levey has a remarkably high soprano voice, singing G in altissimo. She will sing operatic numbers in her recital.
15A recital was given by Miss Jessie Davis, pianist, assisted by Mr. Codman, viola, and Mrs. Hamilton, soprano soloist, at the residence of H. H. Homer, Arlington, on Tuesday last.
17A recital by students of the advanced classes was given at the New England Conservatory of Music Wednesday evening, October 24.
19Mrs. Edith McGregor Woods is teaching with great success, and has a large number of engagements for October and November.
21That Carl Faelten's concerts are always up to his high standard may be judged by the following criticism:
23"Carl Faelten continues to delight his hearers by the purity and loitiness of his playing, and the audience which filled Steinert Hall to overflowing last Monday evening seemed to be exceptionally enthusiastic. Mr. Faelten's recitals are the more remarkable when it is considered that he gives six entirely different programs every season; that he has a large class of private pupils; that he conducts a large and successful school and that he plays in Faelten Hall every week for the pupils of his institution. He rendered the Beethoven 'Sonata Pathetique' in his usual masterly and thoughtful manner, while his playing of the Schubert pieces, and especially his tender vivacity in the rondo, were in the highest degree exquisite. The Liszt Polonaise, while it gave opportunities for the display of great virtuosity, gained in effectiveness under Mr. Faelten's dignified interpretation."
25Miss Anna Miller Wood, contralto of First Church, in Boston, will resume her work in teaching and singing on November 1. Development of the voice, study of classic and modern song, songs for church use, oratorio at 165 Huntington avenue.
27The well-known woman's orchestra, the Fadettes, Mrs. Caroline B. Nichols conductor, leaves Boston October 28 on its third annual concert tour. Miss Charlotte B. Lynn, of Wisconsin, is to be the vocalist of the company. She is a young woman with a well trained soprano voice, and has a large repertory of arias and songs. Mrs. Mary Renck-Wilczek, of Pittsburg, is the concert mistress. Mrs. Wilczek has been very successful on the lyceum stage as a violinist and is particularly favorably known throughout New York and Pennsylvania. She is a thorough musician and will be a great addition to the organization. The tour of the company opens in Glens Falls, N. Y., on Monday, the 29th. On the 30th they play in Montreal. In November they will play in Toronto and Hamilton, Canada.
29Edwin Klahre will give a piano recital at Steinert Hall on Thursday evening, November 1.
31At the request of many "In a Persian Garden" will be done by Caroline Gardner Clarke, Katherine M. Ricker, Herbert A. Thayer, Arthur W. Wellington and George A. Burdett at the Tuileries Monday evening, November 12. Introductory remarks on the poem and its author will be made by Rev. Edward L. Clark, D.D.
33The Landon Conservatory of Music, Dallas, Tex., after searching for three years for the most practical and scientific method of kindergarten music, has this autumn adopted "Kindergarten Music Building: The Science of Music for Children," by Mrs. Nina K. Darlington. The Columbus School for Girls, the best known and one of the largest in Columbus, has also introduced the intermediate treatment of Mrs. Darlington's method into the primary grades this season.
35Miss C. Aspasia Hockenhull, a pupil of Miss Marie L. Everett, who sailed in July for Paris to complete her study for opera under Madame Marchesi, has already received offers from the manager of the Opera Comique to enter upon an engagement with them at once and make her début in Paris this season. Although Miss Hockenhull has a beautifully trained voice of great richness and warmth, she refused this offer and continues her course of study already begun under Madame Marchesi. Miss Everett is in receipt of a letter from Madame Marchesi expressing a most favorable criticism on Miss Hockenhull's voice and with her best compliments to Miss Everett on the finely developed and beautifully posed tones of her pupil. Madame Marchesi has placed Miss Hockenhull at once in her opera class, considering her voice sufficiently well trained to begin, without preliminaries, the study of grand opera roles.
37Miss Gertrude Miller made a pronounced success at the Country Club, where she sang on Wednesday evening. She has been engaged by the Salem Oratorio Society for "The Messiah," on December 27, and will sing in the new oratorio version on Gounod's "Faust" in Providence, with Jules Jordan, on November 27.
39Clarence B. Shirley, tenor, will sing at Brockton, November 19, and in "The Messiah" with the Salem Oratorio Society December 27.
41James W. Hill has just accepted the position as a piano teacher at the Copley Square School of Music. It is Mr. Hill's intention to give, with the assistance of various artists and his advanced pupils, a series of recitals at the school on alternate Tuesday afternoons, beginning November 13. Miss Willey, one of Mr. Hill's advanced pupils, gave a recital in Exeter, N. H., recently with much success. She was assisted by Miss Victoria Johnson, contralto.
43Miss Sarah E. Thresher, formerly with the New England Conservatory of Music, has opened an agency for foreign and American teachers in this city.
45At the New England Conservatory of Music, Wednesday evening, October 31, the third evening in the faculty course will be a vocal recital by Miss Pauline Woltmann, Miss Estelle T. Andrews and Signor Augusto Rotoli assisting.
47There was a large audience at Steinert Hall on Thursday evening to hear the recital of songs by Miss Edith Viola Ellsbree and Miss Louise Ainsworth, pupils of Madame Edwards. The song cycle, "Sea Pictures," by Edward Elgar, which were given for the first time in Boston, proved interesting. The young ladies were in excellent voice and acquitted themselves well. Jacques Hoffmann, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, played a group of three violin numbers, as well as the violin obligato for the Mozart number, sung by Miss Ellsbree.
49Felix Fox announces a piano recital for November 10 in Steinert Hall.
51Heinrich Gebhard will give a piano recital in Steinert Hall on the evening of November 20.
53On the afternoon of November 22, Myron W. Whitney, Jr., will give a song recital in Steinert Hall.
55The violin recital by Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, has been set for the evening of December 4.
57The following artists have been engaged for the Apollo Club concerts: November 14, Miss Shannah Cumming, soprano; January 23, Mme. Josephine Jacoby, contralto; March 20, Miss Maud Powell, violinist; May 1, Mme. Charlotte Maconda, soprano.
59Last Tuesday evening at the Congregational Church, Sacramento, Cal., Anna Miller Wood gave an evening of song, assisted by Olivia Edmunds, accompanist. The Record-Union of that city says: "Miss Wood is brought here by the interest taken in her work on the part of numerous music lovers of Sacramento. No California singer has been more favored by the critics."
61The following soloists participated in the concert at Tremont Temple on Thursday evening: Mrs. E. Humphry-Allen, Miss Edna Goulaud, Miss Gertrude Edmands, Mrs. Ernestine Fish, George J. Parker, Lewis B. Canterbury, Stephen Townsend, Charles E. Boyd, Mrs. Emilie Grant-Wilkinson, the Albion Male Quartet, the Tremont Temple Chorus. Charles E. Boyd, director; Arthur Foote,
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