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Musical Courier 1900-11-28: Vol 41 Iss 1079, 1900
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1Miss Olivia Weller's music scholars gave two recitals last week at Boyertown, Pa.
2At Daphne, Ala., Professor Green, Mrs. Harker, Mr. Harker and Miss Jessie Coates gave a concert recently.
3The first of Miss Frances Pearlade Prescott's musical matinees was given on the 10th at Unity Church, Topeka, Kan.
4Jaroslaw de Zielinski sent out cards for a studio musical at his home in Auburn avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., on the 17th.
5Mrs. Anna Ellis Dexter made her third appearance before a Franklin, N. H., audience Thursday evening, November 22.
6On the 9th, at her home on Burnett street, Fort Worth, Tex., Miss Henrietta Hendrick entertained a large number of her friends with music.
7Frank Walker gave a song recital on the 15th at Johnstown, Pa. Miss Wakefield, Miss Kerr, Mrs. John Thomas, Jr., and Mr. Black participated.
8Miss Frances Mosby, a talented New York dramatic mezzo-soprano, will shortly spend a month or six weeks at her home in Memphis, Tenn.
9Miss Madge Lyons, assisted by Miss Moore, Mr. Newbold and Mr. Morrison, gave a concert in the Masonic Hall, Bel Air, Ind., November 21.
10Miss Mary Hallock and Julian Walker gave a recital in the Auditorium, Utica, N. Y., on the 13th, under the direction of Miss Eleanor G. Shults.
11The New World School of Vocal Art, for the studying of the perfect singing voice, Haydon Till and F. Warington directors, has just opened at Detroit, Mich.
12The second lecture in the series given by Miss Estella Neuhaus was given last week at the home of Miss K. A. Folsom, Lakeville place, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
13The first of the series of chamber concerts by the Philharmonic String Quartet was given Monday evening, November 19, at Association Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.
14Miss Martha Chenault Estill was assisted by Percy Frazier, Mrs. Thomas D. Chenault, Jr., and Prof. R. de Roode, pianist and accompanist, at her recent concert at Paris, Ky.
15The members of the Rakeman Quartet, of Washington, D. C., are H. C. Rakeman, first violin; William E. Green, second violin; Joseph Finckel, viola, and Mr. Villalpando, 'cello.
16There are 160 pupils in Professor McClellan's class in sight singing at the university, Salt Lake City, Utah. A glee club, composed of members of the U. of U., will soon be organized.
17The society event of the season at the Opera House, Rome, Ga., was the song-piano recital of Edward G. Warner and J. Lewis Browne, which occurred on Thursday evening, November 20.
18Miss Clara Stearns, organist; Miss Isabella Ten Eyck, soprano, and George W. Franklin, tenor, participated in the recital attending the dedication of a new organ at Ticonderoga, N. Y., on the 16th.
19Professor Steele and members of the choir of Calvary Church, Conshohocken, Pa., and August Englund, Theo. W. Trewendt, Mrs. Alice Goodwin and Miss Josephine Crowley appeared in a recent concert.
20At the Conservatory of Music, Troy, N. Y., arrangements are being advanced for the first pupils' musicale of the season. The date of this, although not accurately decided, will be late in November or in early December.
21Lee G. Kratz is organizing a chorus of twenty voices and a male quartet for Westminster Presbyterian Church, Omaha, Neb. He will make a specialty of the Sunday evening music.
22November 15 a benefit concert was given at the Central Christian Church, Terre Haute, Ind., under the auspices of J. H. Kowalski and Miss Margaret Evans, organist of that church.
23Charles G. Washburn, now of Birmingham, Ala., son of C. C. Washburn, Quincy, Ill., recently sang at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
24At the Teck Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., on the 11th, the first of the ten Sunday night concerts was given under the direction of Mr. Joseph Karl Hartfiuer. The soloists were Mrs. Clara Barnes-Holmes and Mr. Joseph Ball.
25A song recital was given by the Unity Quartet, Mrs. Harriet Welch Spire, Miss Neenah Lapey, Carl Stephan and Percy G. Lapey, with Miss Mary Howard director, at the Parkside Unitarian Church, Buffalo, N. Y., on the 16th.
26Mrs. Francis A. Smith, Mrs. V. P. Marwick, H. L. Maercklein, Elbert L. Couch, Mrs. Martha Roulston, and Mrs. Nellie Carey Reynolds, with Mrs. Harriet Crane Pitblado, accompanist, took part in a recent concert at Hartford, Conn.
27Through the collaboration of Valentine Abt, violinist; Miss Charlotte H. Van Cleve, soprano soloist, and Prof. G. B. Craig Stevens, accompanist, Larkin Craig Chandler was able to present a program at Malta Hall, Gloucester, Mass., on the 15th.
28Misses Mary Webster, Kathleen Price, Elizabeth Stewart, Rosa Kinser, Leona Smith, Estella Wallis, Mary Lee Hill, Mary Carden, Edna Stevenson, Messrs. Hickman, Parham and Pilcher gave a recital at Sullivan College, Bristol, Tenn., on the 12th.
29The third in the series of organ recitals at the First Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., was given on the 14th. Besides the organ numbers by Mr. Driggs and L. B. Hawley, organist of the church, vocal selections were given by Ernest Ehlers.
30Prof. George W. Andrews, of the Oberlin Conservatory, gave an organ recital at the First Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, on November 14. Professor Andrews was assisted by Miss Winnifred G. Kinney, of Montana, and Miss Kate M. Ashmun, of Cleveland.
31William J. Sheehan will give a series of four song recitals at Catholic Institute Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., on December 6, January 9, February 20 and March 20. Mr. Sheehan will be assisted by Richard Fricke, Joseph A. Ball, Miss Elizabeth Mayo and Mrs. Nellie M. Gould.
32A song recital was given in Commonwealth Hall, East Orange, N. J., on the 16th, by Kenneth Bingham, who was assisted by Mrs. J. H. McKinley at the piano, Miss Mary Henry, violinist, and Miss Neva Fennon, soprano. There were ten numbers on the program.
33Liza Lehmann's song cycle, "In a Persian Garden," was sung by Prof. Richard G. Calthrop, Everard Calthrop, Mrs. John A. Nichols, Jr., and Mrs. Marie Lindemer Davis, with Mrs. Blanche Atherly Calthrop as accompanist, at a private musical in Oswego, N. Y., recently.
34Here are the newly elected officers of the Ellsworth (Me.) Festival chorus: President, John O. Whitney; vice-president, Mrs. C. I. Welsh; secretary and treasurer, Harry L. Crabtree; conductor, F. W. Rollins; directors, President Whitney, Mrs. J. A. Cunningham and Miss Kate Laffin.
35A song recital was given at New Haven, Conn., on the 14th, by Richard B. Gordon, a local tenor, assisted by Miss Margaret Hogan; George H. Mahl, of Hartford; James McGovern, of Meriden, and P. J. McCarthy. Mr. Gordon is a New Haven pupil of E. A. Leopold, as is Mr. Mahl, one of his Hartford pupils.
36A testimonial concert to Miss Doris Goodwin, a young Baltimore singer of promise, who has been a pupil of Miss Carrie Rosenheim for the past four years, and who is soon to go abroad to study, was given at Lehmann's Hall last week. Miss Goodwin was heard in a recitative and aria from "Carmen," and in a duet from "The Flying Dutchman," with Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson. Besides Dr. Hopkinson, Natorp Blumenfeld, violinist, and S. Monroe Fabian, pianist, assisted.
37At Dexter, Me., the following pupils of J. K. Springall took part in a recital: Miss Helen M. Smith, Miss Marion H. Taylor, Miss Angie Ryan, Guy I. Flagg, Miss Edith J. Hall, Clarence P. Keene, Miss Nelly Rand, Chester Baker, and Mrs. John H. Wilson, of Cambridge.
38After a summer of thorough preparation the Ionic Male Quartet, of Cleveland, Ohio, opened the season of 1900-01 with a concert at the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church, November 13. The quartet has reorganized with the following personnel: H. Warren Whitney, Vincent V. Woboril, T. George Protheroe, Byron W. Willard. The quartet was assisted by Rial Roberts, Miss Charlotte Norton, Miss Grace Curtiss and A. F. Arthur, Jr.
39A student recital was held at the Cleveland (Ohio) School of Music on the 10th. Those taking part were: Edward and Agnes Tracy, Lena Moyer, Helen Peckinpaugh, Grace Curtis, Amy Federman, Mr. Spengler, Ettie Freedlander, Alice Rickards, Miss Edna Dailey, Rial Roberts, Amy F. Page, Ada Marks, Alice L. Kilbourn, Mabel Einig and Myrtle Skeel. The first quarterly concert of the School of Music was held Wednesday evening, November 14.
40"Overlook," the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hermon D. Hopkins, on College street, Montpelier, Vt., was the scene of a thoroughly enjoyable musical. The selections included pieces by the Orchestral Club, songs by Miss Williams, songs by Mr. Miller, solos by Mr. Wilder and Mr. St. Clair, and the decided novelty, in concert programs given in that city, of a Suite for piano and violin, by Goldmark, performed for the first time in Montpelier by Messrs. Webster and Stockbridge, Miss Rugg and Miss Alice L. Nash. Among those present were: Governor and Miss Stickney; Miss Gibb, of Montreal; Miss Lucia Skinner, of Royalton; Mrs. D. K. Stevens, of Boston, and Silas Hopkins, of East Berkshire.
41The interest in the recital series of concerts at Wheeling, W. Va., is steadily increasing. According to the prospectus the first concert will be given Friday evening, December 14. The performers will be Miss Rachel B. Frease, soprano; Mrs. W. A. Lafferty, contralto; S. T. Beddoe, tenor; David T. Moore, baritone, and a pianist. The last concert will be given May 3 by the Kunits String Quartet, of Pittsburg, composed of soloists of the Pittsburgh Orchestra, and led by Luigi von Kunits, the violin soloist and concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Orchestra. The series of recitals which this quartet has given in Pittsburg each season for several years past has been one of the features of the musical year there, but few towns outside of Pittsburg have had the opportunity, so far, of hearing this fine organization. The soloists at this concert will be Messrs. Von Kunits, violin, and Henri Merck, 'cello.
42Arthur M. Raymond, organist at Mt. Vernon Church, Boston, gave a recital in Porter Church, Brockton, Mass., November 20. He was assisted by Miss Celestine Cornelison, Andrew B. Potter and Miss Louise B. Dunham.
43The following is a list of some of the subscribers to the Albany Orchestra, Albany, N. Y.: Fred S. Arnold, George B. Allen, Will Benjamin, Joseph H. Blatner, Mrs. O. M. Benedict, E. J. Bonney, James Blocksidge, A. S. Brandow, Samuel W. Brown, John J. Callanan, Mrs. F. L. Curtis, Frank B. Combs, John R. Carnell, C. M. Culver, Mrs. M. Bendell, George N. Collier, Cluett & Sons, Thos. A. Cavanaugh, Wm. P. Davis, Bradbury Dyer, Wm. S. Dyer, Melvil Dewey, Curtis N. Douglas, Stephen C. Dermott, Frank H. Evory, Harry Eyres, Guy W. Ellis, John B. Finn, F. L. Fancher, E. H. Flagler, Frank H. Fellows, John J. Gallogly, Mrs. Wm. C. Gomph, Frank P. Husted, John S. Hoy, Samuel S. Hatt, E. N. Huyck, James W. Hine, Edward F. Hackett, James Norton, Frederick C. Ham, Andrew B. Jones, Mrs. E. J. Knowles, C. A. Kinsley, Jr., William Keeler, Mrs. J. A. A. Lamoreaux, J. B. Lyon, Jos. A. Lawson, Geo. C. Lee, Jr., Gardner C. Leonard, R. L. M. McEwan, T. E. McGarr, Misses MacNaughton, John W. McNamara, Donald McDonald, James Gregory Mahar, Seiden E. Marvin, C. O. Mann.
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