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Musical Courier 1901-01-23: Vol 42 Iss 1087, 1901
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1Harold Bauer.
2[SPECIAL TO THE MUSICAL COURIER.]
3INDIANAPOLIS, January 22, 1901.
4HAROLD BAUER scored tremendous success with Indianapolis Orchestra to-night. Enthusiasm ran riot.
6Baernstein in the West.
7BAERNSTEIN, the basso, left on Monday for his second Western trip this season. He will stop at Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago. Eastern engagements prevented him from going to Fargo, N. Dak., to give a song recital, and the engagement has been deferred until April.
9Mr. Baernstein will sing the following program before the Amateur Musical Club, of Chicago, on Saturday, January 26:
10Vulcan's Song, from Philemon et Baucis…………………Gounod
11Love's Rosary……………………………………………..Stenhammer
12The Sweetest Flower that Blows………………………….Van der Stucken one of two readings
13The Sweetest Flower that Blows………………………..Van der Stucken one of two readings
14To Anteche…………………………………………………Hatto one of two readings
15To Anteche……………………………………………………Hatto one of two readings
16Das Wanderer……………………………………………..Schubert
17Wohin………………………………………………………..Schubert
18Der Liermann……………………………………………..Schubert
19Aufenthalt…………………………………………………Schubert
20Indiesen heiligenhallen, from The Magic Flute………….Mozart
21Ich Liebe Dich……………………………………………..Grieg
22Im Walde……………………………………………………Miersch one of two readings
23Im Walde…………………………………………………….Miersch one of two readings
24Am Rhein und beim Wein……………………………….Ries
25Love Me or Not…………………………………………..Seechi one of two readings
26Love Me or Not……………………………………………Secchi one of two readings
27'Twixt You and Me………………………………………Jordan one of two readings
28'Twixt You and Me……………………………………….Jordan one of two readings
29Under the Rose……………………………………………Fisher
30Falstaff's Song……………………………………………Fisher
31Im Urmenschlichen Monat Mai……………………………Schumann one of two readings
32Im Urmenschlichen Monat Mai………………………….Schumann one of two readings
33Aus Meinen Thränen Flüssen……………………………Schumann
34Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne……………….Schumann
35Ich Grolle Nicht…………………………………………..Schumann
37Other engagements upon his return are: With Lyric Club, of Newark, N. J.; "Requiem," in Baltimore; second appearance this season with Arion Club, of Providence, R. I., with which club he also engaged to sing César Franck's "Beatitudes" in April; "The Elijah," in Plainfield, N. J.; with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; with Ladies' Choral Club, of Orange, N. J.; with the same club at Waldorf-Astoria, May 1; Englewood Oratorio Society, making the fourth successive season in which Mr. Baernstein has sung their annual oratorio, the works being "Elijah," "The Creation," "The Messiah" and Gounod's "Faust" as an oratorio.
39Baernstein was obliged to refuse the invitation to sing "Elijah" in St. Paul, on account of conflicting dates; for the same reason he had to refuse many engagements during the season.
41Between March 16 and April 20 Mr. Baernstein will make his third Western trip, where he will sing for the second time this season for the Amphion Club, of Indianapolis; also in several other cities in Indiana. This trip will doubtless also include Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Fargo, N. Dak.
43Dorothy Harvey.
44THE musical career of Dorothy Harvey, the talented young soprano, is being attended with success. This season she has appeared with the Tuxedo Club, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and with the Freundschaft and Arion clubs, of this city, being associated at their events with such well-known artists as Dohnányi and Fritz Kreisler.
46On January 16 she was one of the soloists at a concert given by the Phoenix Club, of Baltimore, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Fritz Kreisler being the other soloists. On this occasion Mrs. Harvey won an ovation, and after repeated recalls was compelled to respond to an encore. On January 6 the soprano sang at a fashionable private musicale given in honor of the Duke of Newcastle, Lady Cunard and other distinguished persons, and she has many engagements for similar affairs in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and New York.
48On February 7 Mrs. Harvey will sing in Buffalo, N. Y., at the Twentieth Century Club, the occasion being a joint recital with Hugo Becker, 'cellist, and on February 19 she will take part in one of Miss Abbott's notable Montreal recitals, under the patronage of the Governor-General and Lady Minto. Her appearance at the Brooklyn Institute in Liza Lehmann's "Daisy Chain" and "In a Persian Garden" also is a forthcoming occasion of special interest.
50Of the brilliant result of this vocalist's efforts last night at the Pittsburg Orchestra concert in Carnegie Hall a full account will be given in THE MUSICAL COURIER of January 30, the event transpiring too late to be extensively recorded in this week's issue.
52In Princeton, N. J., on February 11, she will again be associated with the same orchestra, and the many excellent engagements which will occupy her time from now until April confirm the belief that she will meet with increased success.
54Haydn String Quartet.
55A NOTE sent to all the newspapers a week ago explained the reorganization of the Kaltenborn Quartet, to be known hereafter as the Haydn String Quartet. The members of the new quartet are Carl Hugo Engel, first violin; Frederick Ortman, second violin; Erwin Bauck, viola, and Herman Beyer-Hané, 'cello. Messrs. Engel, Bauck and Beyer-Hané were formerly members of the Kaltenborn Quartet. Mrs. Louise B. Kaltenborn will act as manager of the newly organized quartet.
57The name is a most appropriate one for a string quartet, Haydn being commonly called the "Father of String Quartet Music," and, strange to say, this is the first club that has adopted the name.
59The bookings by the new quartet include January 17, New Britain, Conn.; January 19, 4 p. m., Democratic Club, New York, and to p. m., private musicale, in Philadelphia; January 20, 4 p. m., third of a series of ten Sunday afternoons at the Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn, where they will play the remaining seven, and at 8 p. m., with the orchestra, at the Educational Alliance. This week the Haydn Quartet will be heard in Potsdam and Kingston, N. Y., and in Greater New York, in both the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
61Mariner-Gallup Success.
62ON Thursday afternoon, January 17, Mr. Mariner presented his little protégé, Miner Walden Gallup, to a distinctively musical audience, taxing the seating capacity of the recital hall, Virgil Piano School, 29 West Fifteenth street.
64A recital entirely of piano music must be well arranged and better played nowadays to attract and hold the attention of such an audience as assembled to listen to Miner Gallup last Thursday. For this very reason Mr. Mariner and his protégé may well feel flattered at the results of this afternoon recital.
66Mr. Mariner in a few words told of Master Miner's short period of piano study and interested all in the musical history of the attractive little fellow, who proceeded to play a program printed in this paper last week.
68A Bach Prelude and Fugue from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord," served as opening number, and directly every music lover in the audience felt his whole interest go out to the little artist who could make Bach sing in such rich and beautiful tones. Beethoven followed Bach, and in the Allegretto from the Sonata, op. 10, No. 2, Master Miner found another vehicle for his already great command over tone color.
70Several Chopin numbers were played, of which the Prelude in C minor perhaps was the best, containing as it did every grade of tonal power from fortissimo to pianissimo. Such a reading of this beautiful prelude is seldom heard, except from artists. The Waltz in D flat shimmered at the fast tempo taken. To show his command over difficult trill work, Master Miner played the Hoffman arrangement, "Hark, Hark, the Lark!" by Schubert, and gave evident enjoyment to all, judging by the applause that greeted this selection. Mendelssohn was particularly represented dur-
72ing the afternoon, appearing early in the program and again serving to finish the program.
74The "Hunting Song" perhaps proved the gem of the recital. Taken at musical speed and in rhythm surpassing all other numbers, Master Miner gave an interpretation of this favorite tone picture that electrified his audience and credited him with pianistic ability beyond his years.
76It remained for the Rondo Capriccioso to give the little pianist his real opportunity to show his ability in big work. That he more than came up to expectations is needless to say; one must hear him in this composition to appreciate to what heights a child can achieve.
78It was brilliant. Trills in double thirds offered no difficulties. The passage work, arpeggio in form or chromatic, was passed over as if nothing, and all the octave work was tossed off with a bigness of tone and with such musical brilliancy that it was hard to believe the performer was but a little fourteen year old boy who had had but eighteen to nineteen months' instruction. A rousing encore brought forth a dainty gavot of some unknown composer, and served as a fitting end to an afternoon of genuine pleasure. Frederic Mariner has the molding of musical ability in this boy.
80Successful Bowman Pupils.
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82MRS. MARY B. SKILLMAN, a Musical Knight Templar. one of two readings
83MRS. MARY B. SKILLMAN, the leading piano teacher of historic Trenton, N. J., received the foundation of her musical training at the hands of Henry Harding, of Binghamton, N. Y., a loyal disciple of the method of his friend and master, Dr. William Mason. Later on she studied with Dr. Mason several seasons and drank from the fountainhead the tenets of the Mason system. Three or four years ago she came to E. M. Bowman, Dr. Mason's friend and pupil, the man who, next to the eminent author himself, has undoubtedly done the most of anyone in America, or elsewhere, in propagating the Mason system.
85With Mr. Bowman she is still studying both piano and theory, perfecting herself in the art of playing and in the science of teaching and of harmony. Mr. Bowman speaks in the highest terms of her talent and attainments. Under the Masonic influence of Henry Harding, William Mason and E. M. Bowman, Mrs. Skillman ought to be declared a Knight Templar.
87Even in her childhood she showed a passionate love for music and in her teens she had already reached sufficient technical skill to warrant high expectations as a pianist.
89Her enthusiastic nature and musical devotion were never more aroused than when afforded the opportunity to make others happy by playing for them. Endowed with dominating individuality, keen intelligence, personal charm and physical power, hers was a temperament and equipment for a virtuoso. Had she been able to avert an attack which partially disabled her left hand and arm she would without doubt have scored many triumphs as a concert pianist. She has played much in private circles and always with success. She has hosts of friends in Trenton in the Women's Club and outside of it, and wherever her playing is best known there it is most admired. The touch is the echo of her nature, warm and generous; the tone is big and mellow, the execution full of fire and bravura, the phrasing intelligent, the rhythms lucid and well balanced.
91But it is as a teacher that Mrs. Skillman has achieved her greatest success. She has trained many of the teachers in Trenton and vicinity and their success as such is iron-bound evidence of the value of the instruction which they received from her. Besides the professional part of
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