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Musical Courier 1901-01-23: Vol 42 Iss 1087, 1901
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3cognizant of the masterful manner in which he plays. The Concerto in G minor of Saint-Saëns lost nothing by his conception of the work, but seemed to gain added musical charm. The performance of this pianist and of Mr. Drake were well the best of the evening. The Metropolitan Orchestra, under the competent direction of Carl Bunge, added greatly to the interest of the faculty concert.
5A piano recital by Mr. Balatka will be given Wednesday, January 30, at 3 p. m., at Handel Hall.
7Whether classical selections, one of his own compositions, or a genuine Southern plantation melody, Thomas Preston Brooke is the exception among competent conductors, in universal repose of manner and employing fewest gestures discernible to an audience; and yet with all this quietude he succeeds, comparatively without an effort, in arousing an abundance of interest and musical enthusiasm in the audience as well as players.
9The Brooke's Chicago Marine Band concert of the afternoon of January 13 contained every style of composition. The audience, however, was as catholic in its tastes as the program in its selections, resulting in enthusiasm, which compelled so many encores that the program was almost twice its original length.
11Mr. Brooke's band is unusually well balanced, and so well trained that they respond instantly to the leader's slightest signal. The Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony was given in a finished manner, and the descriptive numbers, especially "Scenes in a Clock Store," were given in a decidedly realistic manner.
13Mr. Brooke has the following route outlined: Thursday, January 17, Menominee, Wis.; Friday, January 18, St. Paul, Minn.; Saturday, January 19, Redwing, Minn.; Sunday, January 20, New Elm, Minn.; Monday, January 21, Man'kato, Minn.; Tuesday, January 22, Albert Lea, Minn.; Wednesday, January 23, Waterloo, Ia.; Thursday, January 24, Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Friday, January 25, Muscatine, Ia.
15An entertainment for the benefit of the Champlain Memorial Home for Boys will be given in University Hall, Fine Arts Building, January 31, at 8:30 o'clock.
17The program will consist of an evening with "David Harum," presented by Augustus F. Howells, and instrumental and vocal solos.
19This Memorial Home for Boys was organized four years ago by Rev. John M. Chattin with a household of four boys. It is entirely free from "institutionalism," and today shelters forty-three young lads, of whom three are too young to attend the public school.
21The soloists will be Miss Bertha M. Kaderly, soprano; Wm. A. Willet, baritone, and Paul G. Beeber, 'cellist.
23Leopold Godowsky, who for years has been numbered among Chicago's ablest pianists, gave a concert in Berlin last month, at which he played the Brahms D minor and the Tschaikowsky B flat minor concertos. The Berlin papers have been unanimous in pronouncing his recital the best of the season, and consider him one of the greatest technicians. He receives the verdict from the critics as playing pure Brahms and pure Tschaikowsky.
25Leopold Schmidt, the conservative critic of the Berliner Tageblatt, writes: "Since Moriz Rosenthal's time such phenomenal technic has not been heard. Leopold Godowsky reminds one of him by his absolute mastership, only that everything is done with more surety, more clearness, and with less effort."
27The new organization for chamber music, which has taken the name of Heinze Trio, composed of the well-known musicians Victor Heinze, pianist; Emil Bare, violinist, and Bruno Steindel, 'cellist, on January 15 received a hearty welcome upon their first introductory concert. They had an appreciative audience, who knew well the ability and cultivated taste of the musicians who compose the trio. The program contained works of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven. Of the Brahms Trio in C minor, op. 101, the interpretation of the Andante grazioso-Allegro molto was especially melodic and artistic. There is very little that can be added in praise of the delicate, clear touch and singing tones of which it is well known Mr. Heinze, the pianist, is the master. Beautifully represented in music, like some rare picture, was Schumann's "Warum" and Schubert's "Moment Musica," F minor. Chopin's Fantaisie in F minor, op. 49, was marred by an over-impatient person with squeaky boots, who felt obliged to leave in the middle of this number, the noise resounding through the hall and being distinctly heard through the corridor and down the steps, ceasing only when the street door of the Fine Arts Building closed. All of the audience perhaps was not composed of the most serious musicians, and it was hard not to let intrude upon one's thoughts, even in the midst of the most beautiful passages, that those shoes had the loudest squeak ever heard. one of two readings
28The new organization for chamber music, which has taken the name of Heinze Trio, composed of the well-known musicians Victor Heinze, pianist; Emil Bare, violinist, and Bruno Steindel, 'cellist, on January 15 received a hearty welcome upon their first introductory concert. They had an appreciative audience, who knew well the ability and cultivated taste of the musicians who compose the trio. The program contained works of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven. Of the Brahms Trio in C minor, op. 101, the interpretation of the Andante grazioso-Allegro molto was especially melodic and artistic. There is very little that can be added in praise of the delicate, clear touch and singing tones of which it is well known Mr. Heinze, the pianist, is the master. Beautifully represented in music, like some rare picture, was Schumann's "Warum" and Schubert's "Moment Musicales," F minor. Chopin's Fantaisie in F minor, op. 49, was marred by an over-impatient person with squeaky boots, who felt obliged to leave in the middle of this number, the noise resounding through the hall and being distinctly heard through the corridor and down the steps, ceasing only when the street door of the Fine Arts Building closed. All of the audience perhaps was not composed of the most serious musicians, and it was hard not to let intrude upon one's thoughts, even in the midst of the most beautiful passages, that those shoes had the loudest squeak ever heard. one of two readings
30The last meeting of the Sherwood Club, which is composed of advanced pupils of the Sherwood Musical School, was given Friday evening, January 11, fourth floor, Fine Arts Building. The program was as follows:
32Two-Voiced Inventions, Nos. 1, 9 and 14. Bach
33Miss Effie E. Jack.
35Gondolier, op. 25, No. 2. Nevin
36Venetian Love Song, op. 25, No. 3. Nevin
37Good Night, op. 25, No. 4. Nevin
38Mrs. Alice B. Marshall.
40Nocturne. Leschetizky
41Lena M. Svensen.
43Barcarolle. Moszkowski
44Miss Zella Marshall.
46Songs. Mr. Perce, accompanied by Mrs. Perce.
47Berceuse, op. 57. Chopin
48Norwegian Bridal Passing By, op. 19. Grieg
49Miss Edith Bane.
51Exhilaration, op. 14, No. 3. Sherwood
52Murmuring Zephyrs. Niemann
53Ballade, G minor, op. 23. Chopin
54Valzer (from Carnival di Milano), op. 31. Von Bülow
55March (from Tannhäuser). Wagner-Liszt
56William H. Sherwood.
58This is the seventh season of the Sherwood Club.
59A special feature of Mr. Sherwood's work is his interpretation classes, which meet from 10 to 12 o'clock every Wednesday morning. Among some of the compositions and works revised by Mr. Sherwood for the piano may be mentioned: Moszkowski, "Musical Moment," op. 7, No. 2; F. G. Gleason, Gavotte from "Otho Visconti"; and especially Theodor Kullak, seven octave studies, op. 48, Vol. 11, with critical notes regarding interpretation and explanations of modern methods of technical training as applied to chord and octave playing. This Mr. Sherwood has found most helpful in his own teaching.
61March 19 has been arranged as the date for the fifth in the series of piano recitals given by pupils of Victor Heinze in University Hall, Fine Arts Building. Miss Ada Hill will be the pianist, and the program will be:
63Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Bach-Liszt
64Six Polish songs. Chopin-Liszt
65Staendchen. Schubert-Liszt
66Fire Scene. Wagner-Brassin
67Sonate in A minor. Schubert
68Capriccio in E major. Scarlatti
69Sonate in A major. Scarlatti
70Symphonische Etuden. Schumann
72These piano recitals are given from memory, and considering the numbers contained in this and former programs the accomplishment is of no small merit for pupils and master.
74Extracts from Chicago papers relating to the appearance of Carolyn Louise Willard in recital at University Hall, Fine Arts Building, December 4, 1900:
76The large audience which assembled at University Hall in the Fine Arts Building to listen to a piano and song recital by Miss Carolyn Louise Willard, pianist, and Mrs. Lillian French Read, soprano, was well repaid by a most artistic vocal and instrumental performance. The occasion was the début of Miss Willard as a professional pianist. She has been a hard student in this country and abroad. In the rendition of this diversified program, the young woman displayed a brilliant technic and a sympathetic and effective interpretation of the compositions.—Record.
78Miss Willard proved that she has studied to good purpose. * * * She does most things cleanly and clearly, and a full, healthy tone, already capable of considerable gradation and variation in quality and power, lends warmth and roundness to much of her work.—Tribune.
80Her interpretation of Schumann was most pleasing and artistic.—Chronicle.
82Her technic was perfect and her touch excellent.—Chicago American.
84Considerable poetic feeling and musical appreciation was shown in the Brahms Intermezzo, op. 117, No. 1.—Post.
86Miss Willard, who has studied abroad for a number of years, and also under Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, made what was really her first appearance here as a professional. The program chosen was ambitious, including compositions by Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin and others. * * * Miss Willard has certain abilities that make her playing very agreeable. In the lighter numbers, where delicacy and accuracy were required, she was interesting. She is musical, painstaking and straightforward in manner.—Times-Herald.
88The death of Miss Belle Fremont Bartlett, prima donna soprano of the Bostonians, occurred January 4 at Denver, Col. This little singer was stricken with pneumonia during the engagement of her company in Denver and was only seriously ill three days. Miss Bartlett was exceedingly popular with the opera company and had promise of great success in the future in the musical world. She was a niece and adopted daughter of Jessie Bartlett Davis, former contralto of the Bostonians. Miss Davis discovered the talent of the young girl and generously gave her an education, which was to have been completed abroad.
90As special soloist, W. A. Willett sang at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner Rush and Superior streets, Sunday evening, January 13, with good taste and intonation, "Thus Saith the Lord," from the "Holy City," Gaul, and "O God, Be Merciful," Bartlett.
92Miss Bertha M. Kaderly, a comparatively new soprano on the American concert stage, although well known in Europe, announces a concert at University Hall, Fine Arts
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