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Musical Courier 1901-01-23: Vol 42 Iss 1087, 1901
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1Paris Notes.
3MISS ELIZABETH ESHLEMAN, a pupil of Professor Combs, of the Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia, and sister of Mrs. Emma Eshleman, comes to Paris in a week or two to take up the study of vocal music.
5The baritone Oumiroff has just returned to Paris from Milan after making a study of Italian repertory.
7Madame Levenoff, the piano professor, is made happy by the engagement of her second daughter, Louie, at the Paris Bouffes Theatre. The other gifted daughter is with the Sara Bernhardt-Coquelin Company in the United States. Mlle. Louie is pupil, in voice and piano, of her mother, and her speedy engagement by the director of so prominent a theatre in Paris is a natural source of gratification. Madame Levenoff has many interesting piano pupils at present, and is happy and blithesome at her work as only a prosperous French artist can be.
9Mlle. Milande, who is the authorized representative of the Yersin method of French diction in Paris, recently gave a highly successful and very interesting lecture upon the system at the Salle Bodiniere. More later.
11M. René Papin, who in London is the system's representative, has already made quite a promising start, and will soon begin his lectures. Among his pupils are Madame Randegeger, wife of the eminent professor; Richard Green, the distinguished baritone, and Madame Obermer, a handsome and interesting sister of "Martha Morton," now in London.
13It seems that a Dr. Marage, of Paris, has constructed a mechanical apparatus for the teaching of French sounds. A sort of revolving disc, with slots, yields the sounds through vibrating air, which are given off through a rubber tube. The venture does not sound serious, but any measure which agitates the subject is welcome. There should be an apparatus for agitating the calm placitude of those who, while speaking exasperating French, imagine that they are doing it most beautifully.
15Meantime read in advertising columns the card of a new book out, by Dr. Kimon, of Paris, which is a practical system for conversing rapidly in French. It is made specially for the use of English and Americans, with whose defects and difficulties Dr. Kimon has had practical experience during many years of teaching. He gives lessons at 10 Rue Cambon.
17Miss Ada Crossley, one of the bright pupils of the Marchesi school, a contralto and a very beautiful girl, has achieved perhaps the most popularity of any of the students of her epoch. She is in constant request in London, having last week five "Messiah" performances and one "Elijah."
19Miss Edith Rounds, of Wisconsin, now in Paris, a student of organ with M. Widor, practices in an intelligent manner that might serve as an example to most American students in the city.
21George Nunner, of London, a leading professor of piano there, is in Paris on a visit. He is happy in the success of a morning concert given by one of his pupils, Miss Marjorie Lutyens, under the direction of that excellent manager, Miss Ethel L. Robinson.
23McCall Lanham, baritone, after a long and serious course of study in Paris, returns to active work in the States next autumn. He has, besides singing, been studying diction, interpretation, mise en scène and kindred subjects with eminent French masters, and is wonderfully improved in every way. Mr. Lanham is a skilled organist, and may take up the study of that instrument, once at home, for the sake of its broadening and helpful musical influence. As he truly remarks: "Bach is an education in himself!" Mr. Lanham is a charming young gentleman, and he is recommended to the attention of his country people, who will find details in regard to his work later on in this paper.
25One or two printers' errors crept into the names of pupils of Mlle. Marie Fournaise, the French diction teacher, in a recent copy of this paper. Miss Wade comes from Cleveland, not from Boston, and the name Marlord should read Marlowe, the owner being the charming actress, Julia Marlowe, who with many others have profited by the valuable lessons of Mlle. Fournaise.
27Verdi is asked to write the national Italian hymn. Who will write the American one? Meantime English people are complaining of the mirthless character of the music used at dances. One man asks why the music of Waldteufel and Chopin are not played for dancing! He should try to dance after Chopin to find out why.
29It is not only novelists who may be blamed for faulty fact stating in regard to music, a critic has been discovering flagrant errors in the works of eminent painters. For instance, a Rubens in the Luxembourg represents the Virgin Mary in conference with cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, assisted by the god Mercury! Again, an Adoration, by no less a painter of distinction than Brughel, has one shepherd presenting a vessel of Dutch manufacture, and another wearing boots and spurs. Also, among those witnessing the stoning of St. Stephen a saint is represented as a priest dressed to celebrate high mass. In a famous Lisbon gallery Adam is wearing blue knickerbockers, and in another is a view of an Arctic region having ships in full sail caught among the icebergs! Even Van Guyt has given Abraham a gun with which to sacrifice Isaac, while Daniel brandishes a pair of pistols to frighten the lions in the famous den.
31No farther off than on recent programs at the Châtelet was a music muse represented shouldering a violin as never maid or man did shoulder it. The reason has never been given for this needless carelessness of fact in imaginative work. But from the above, musical novelists have reason for congratulation, of which few imagined them worthy—of being in company with the really great in one trait at least.
33One reason given for the general so-called deterioration of Italian singing is the assumption of false Italian names by numbers of vocal teachers who do not hesitate to attack a "ne," "ni," "no," "na" to their names as one more means of trapping unwary pupils.
35There lives in London to-day a daughter of Napoleon's physician.
37Mrs. Florence Fox, the Philadelphia society lady and music lover, who has returned from Paris to her home, intended giving Harold Bauer a dinner when in that city.
39Relda has returned to Paris and is studying with Marchesi.
41At Madame Ram's soirée musicale this week a new concerto for piano and orchestra, by M. Lenormand, will be given on two pianos, the composer playing one.
43Another "novelty" will be the first hearing of a new piano composition sent up to Mrs. Ram by Léon Morcatt from the Balearic Isles, where he has made his studio home for the present. In January will be played a new trio by Henri Fevrier, by Jules and Madeleine Beuchert and Pablo Casals.
45This M. Jules Riviere, who has died in England, was born near Paris. Eugénie and her emperor attended his concerts. He was director at Covent Garden and wrote much. He had the peculiarity of facing the audience when directing.
47There is a hint for Mr. Sousa! By the way, people in Paris, delighted with his music when there, are looking with much interest at the pictures in this week's MUSICAL COURIER representing the famous band in different Paris views.
49Only this evening at table Germans were heard commenting upon the enthusiastic reception Mr. Sousa had in Berlin this summer. "Thousands of people," they said, "and never such enthusiasm." This, too, at an excessively high entrance fee for Berlin, 5 marks! They added their own tribute of praise for the music, instruments and players.
51Bridewell-Meyn Song Recital.
53A JOINT song recital by Miss Carrie Bridewell and Heinrich Meyn last Tuesday (January 15) evening attracted what was truly a fashionable audience to Mendelssohn Hall! Both of these singers are favorites with the public. Mr. Meyn is well known as a concert and recital singer, and Miss Bridewell, since her operatic début, has aroused renewed interest in her musical career. Madame Delhaze-Wickes, a Belgian pianist, who recently settled in New York, assisted the singers in presenting an attractive program.
55Miss Bridewell and Mr. Meyn were heard in a number of duets—"Letzer Wunsch," by Dvorák; "Wiedersehn," by Dietrich; "Es rauschen die Wasser," "Tritt Auf," both by Brahms. Their voices blended particularly well in the Brahms songs. Miss Bridewell sang two groups of songs, by Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Von Fielitz, Wagner, Stange, Grammann and Franz. Her rich voice was somewhat husky in the early part of the evening, but later on it sounded smooth as velvet, and the young contralto especially distinguished herself in the Wagner song, "Traume," and "Im Herbst," by Franz. As an encore after the first group she sang one verse of "My Laddie," by an English composer.
57Mr. Meyn, always a musicianly singer, made the best impression during the evening also in his second group of songs, and these were "Liebesrauschen," by Schubert; "Heinrich der Vogler," by Loewe; "Es blinkt der Thau," by Rubinstein, and "Zauberlied," by Meyer-Helmund. After this group he, too, was compelled to add an extra song. His other selections, sung in English and French, included "O Faster, My Steed," by Spicker; "Under the Rose," by Fischer; "Rosées," by May Catlin, and "Jean de Paris," by Boieldieu.
59Madame Delhaze-Wickes proved herself a finished mistress of pianistic skill. She played a Chopin "Fantasie Impromptu" and a concert etude by Martucci, revealing in the composition by the Italian a brilliant execution and refined musical touch. The fair performer was compelled to add an encore, and for this she played with characteristic grace Händel's "Musette."
61Miss Bridewell and Mr. Meyn closed their recital with a duet from "Samson and Delilah."
63The concert was announced to begin at the unusual hour of 9 o'clock, but this thoughtfulness to arrange a convenient hour for fashionable people did not prevent a continuous line of late comers. Some of the auditors arrived at the hall at 10 o'clock.
65Another essay on "Music and Manners" might help to correct the evil habit of extreme tardiness.
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