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Musical Courier 1901-04-24: Vol 42 Iss 1100, 1901
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER. one of two readings
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4Peck-Ensworth Song Recital.
6MISS SARAH KING PECK, soprano, and George Ensworth, baritone, gave a joint recital last Thursday night in the Chamber Music Room of Carnegie Hall. Both of these young singers are progressing, and during their season have filled numerous engagements in and out of town. A large audience of fashionable people applauded the program, which was attractively arranged with English and German songs. The list certainly shows that Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth have studied faithfully, and that both young people take their art seriously, as art must be taken if the exponents hope to succeed.
8The program given by Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth follows:
10Duet, Come, Live With Me………………………………………Foote
11Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth.
12So Like Unto a Flower………………………………………Lucas
13A Barque at Midnight………………………………………Lambert
14Echo………………………………………………………..Lord Henry Somerset
15Daphne's Love……………………………………………..Ronald
16O For a Burst of Song………………………………………Allitsen
17Mr. Ensworth.
18Uebers Jahr…………………………………………………Bohm
19Nächtlicher Duft……………………………………………..Roeder
20Ailinde………………………………………………………Schubert one of two readings
21Ailende………………………………………………………Schubert one of two readings
22Ungeduld…………………………………………………Schubert
23Miss Peck.
24Adelaide………………………………………………………Beethoven
25Mr. Ensworth.
26Duet, O That We Two Were Maying………………………..Henschel
27Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth.
28Aria, Abschied der Johanna…………………………………Tchaikowsky
29Miss Peck.
30Marie………………………………………………………..Franz
31Ich große nicht…………………………………………….Schumann
32Heimliche Grösse…………………………………………Von Fielitz
33Anathema…………………………………………………Von Fielitz
34Mr. Ensworth.
35Crossing the Bar (first time)……………………………….A. R. Parsons
36Nymphs and Shepherds……………………………………Purcell
37A Song of Sleep…………………………………………..Lord Henry Somerset one of two readings
38A Song of Sleep……………………………………………Lord Henry Somerset one of two readings
39Cherry Ripe (seventeenth century)………………………..Horn
40O, Come With Me…………………………………………Van der Stucken
41Miss Peck.
42Duet, Parting……………………………………………..Niedlinger
43Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth.
45In the duets the voices of the young singers blended beautifully. Mr. Ensworth added "Loch Lomond" as an encore after his English group of songs. The baritone sang throughout with dignity and taste. Miss Peck, girlishly unaffected, sang with marked sweetness and simplicity. After her German group she added a pretty little German Cradle Song. The German accent of both singers is good, and they infused into their singing of the German Lieder the coloring or atmosphere that makes these classics effective.
47In his presentation of Beethoven's "Adelaide" Mr. Ensworth revealed depth and dramatic insight. Miss Peck's big number of the evening, the "Jeanne D'Arc" aria, by Tchaikowsky was delivered with breadth and full understanding of the significance of the tragic farewell of the immortal heroine led forth to her martyrdom. Very sweetly did Miss Peck sing Albert Ross Parsons' setting to "Crossing the Bar." The composer, who was in the audience, was one of the patrons of the concert, of which the following is a complete list: Mrs. Alling Alling, Mrs. C. E. Ellis, Dr. and Mrs. Holbrook Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis Demorest, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hess, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thornton Imbrie, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Palmer Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. James Warren Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre de Peyster Ricketts, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Root, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Stewart and Mrs. Estella Stimpson.
49Miss Peck and Mr. Ensworth are to be congratulated because they did not use the obsolete word "patroness." "Patron" means a woman as much as it does a man, and may or should be used same as the words artist or author, applied to either sex.
51Fritz Kreisler's Tour Finished.
52Returns in January.
54WITH the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Providence, Fritz Kreisler will finish his second American tour. It was successful, from a financial as well as an artistic standpoint, and the results have been gratifying both to Kreisler and his manager, Henry Wolfsohn. In some respects his tour has been almost sensational. He has played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in every city visited on their tours excepting Brooklyn. His success in Boston was so enormous that he gave seven violin recitals there, and then there were demands for more, but Mr. Wolfsohn was unable to give dates because of other arrangements he had made for Kreisler. This past week, Kreisler was one of the stars at the Syracuse and Springfield festivals, he being engaged especially to play the Beethoven Concerto.
56Kreisler will sail for Europe at the end of this month, and go direct to Berlin, though there is a possibility that he will touch London, to play at one of the Symphony concerts, for which Mr. Wolfsohn is now negotiating. Kreisler was heard will all of the large orchestral associations in the East and Middle West, as well as with the most important private societies. He was also heard in many entertainments given by the more prominent social clubs, both in this city and elsewhere. Kreisler is to return here in January next, under the same management. Although little has been done for the next season, Mr. Wolfsohn has already booked him for twenty concerts.
58Jessie Shay Plays in Paterson.
60MISS JESSIE SHAY, the brilliant young pianist, played recently in Paterson, N. J., before a large audience. Her success may be gleaned from the following newspaper reports:
62Miss Jessie Shay, a young woman of charming personality and admirable technic, gave at Orpheus Hall last night to the usual good-sized and musically representative audience the fourth and last of the series of piano recitals under the auspices of C. Mortimer Wiske's Paterson School of Music, Art and Language, and management of L. M. Ruben, of New York. The program has already been printed in these columns. Miss Shay was especially strong in numbers by Grieg, Raff and Saint-Saëns, and her execution of a left-hand study by Zichy earned great applause. She was twice encored, responding with a bourrée by J. S. Bach, and a dainty "Moment Musical" of her own composition.—Paterson Daily Press.
64Last evening witnessed the conclusion of the series of piano recitals which have been given during the winter at Orpheus Hall, on Broadway, and it was the universal verdict that the last performance eclipsed its predecessors both from a point of brilliancy and artistic effort.
66L. M. Ruben, assistant manager of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, introduced to Paterson music lovers Miss Jessie Shay. Miss Shay during a long and arduous program demonstrated her ability to be ranked high as a great artist. In expression, modulation and execution she was the thorough musician. In a bit of eccentric playing, with one hand, Miss Shay captured the hearts of her audience by a false movement by Zichy. The selections presented were of such variety as to test the ability of the player in many different schools. Chopin, Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Moszkowski and Nicode were all represented in the program, and it would be difficult to say in which author the artist was most at home. Miss Shay possesses great grace of delivery, and the purity and decision of her efforts were commented upon.—Paterson Morning Call.
68Gerardy to Return.
70JEAN GERARDY, the 'cellist, who recently left New York for an extended concert tour through Australia, is to return to America in November next under the management of Henry Wolfsohn. His tour will embrace trips through the South and to the Pacific Coast, though neither of these places will be visited until the spring. He will also make a trip through Canada.
72thoroughly musicianly interpretation. The Beethoven trio was particularly enjoyed on Saturday owing perhaps to its greater familiarity. Mrs. Dexter, whose recent return from New York has already been mentioned, sings in a most finished, artistic manner. She graciously sang two ballads after the program was concluded. one of two readings
74April 29 is the date decided upon for the next concert of the Alameda Orchestral Society. The soloist will be A. Rodermann, flutist. one of two readings
76Arthur Cunningham and Mrs. Grace Morei Dickman were the soloists at the Unitarian Church, Alameda, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Cunningham, who has just come to this city, has a good voice and has been engaged at the Tivoli. one of two readings
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79The Bach Festival.
81THE diagram of seats for the Bach Festival will be opened to the public at the Moravian Publication Concern on Wednesday, May 1. During the first five days the sale of seats will be for season tickets only. Mail orders received previously or during the period of sale will be attended to promptly in the order of their receipt. Diagrams open for the sale of tickets for single days (two performances) on Monday, May 6, 1901. Mail orders will be attended to on the same day in the order of their receipt.
83What will seem to many a novel feature of the festival will be the singing of the chorales by the entire audience, supported by the entire choral and orchestral forces and the organ. Some of these chorales are perfectly familiar to the congregation that assembles for worship in the Moravian Church. But to facilitate matters for those unfamiliar with them the melodies will be printed in the program books that will be used during the festival. It is needless to add that this participation of the audience in a part of the performance is quite in keeping with the original intentions of the composer, except that the audience was, more properly speaking, a congregation. For information in all matters relating to the festival, tickets, &c., address the Moravian Publication Concern, Bethlehem, Pa.
85Clara A. Korn's Compositions.
87THE compositions by Clara A. Korn are being used in conservatories and music schools in different parts of the United States. Adolph M. Foerster, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has given several recitals this season, and his programs included a number of Mrs. Korn's piano pieces. "Idyl" and a Gavotte by her, particularly pleased the audience. Mrs. Korn received a program last week from Miss Louise Lerch, head of a music school at Sterling, Ill., and one number was her Gavotte, played by Miss Natalie Wilbur. Mrs. Korn's songs are also becoming popular. "The Miller's Daughter" was sung at a recent musicale by Mme. Abbie Seldner Friedenberg and Mrs. Louis Schaup, has made a distinct success with "The Waltz Song," having sung it repeatedly before clubs and at private musicales.
89Gregory Hast.
91THE English Ladies' Field in its issue of March 23 says of Gregory Hast, the well-known tenor who is coming to America in the fall for the purpose of making a concert tour:
93Gregory Hast is one of the few singers we have who know the meaning of tone color—perhaps it is more correct to say that his power over his voice is such that he is free to use his imagination to the fullest extent. For it is a sorry fact that half the singers in the world with admirable voices who are condemned as ineffective and lacking in resource and expression are really, to use William Nicholl's words, "bursting with expression," and unable for lack of technic to give themselves full play. Certainly Mr. Hast's management of certain portions of Mrs. Bedford's "Daisy Chain" song cycle is a lesson to all young singers.
95BROAD STREET CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC,
96GILBERT RAYMONDS COMBS, Director.
971331 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
98ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE.
100FLETCHER MUSIC METHOD.
101Originated by Evelyn Ashton Fletcher, endorsed by Dr. Hugo Riemann, Leipzig; Frank Taylor, London; William Cummings, Antoinette Sterling, London; John Philip Sousa, Jaroslaw de Zielinski, Dr. William Mason, William Tomlins and many other prominent musicians in America and Europe. The aim is to eliminate the drudgery of music study and to give a fundamental, systematic and logical musical education in a natural and pleasurable way. The apparatus required in teaching is patented and obtainable only after taking the course of study. The demand for teachers of this method is very great. For particulars apply to MISS E. A. FLETCHER, 1125 Madison Ave., New York. one of two readings
102Originated by Evelyn Ashton Fletcher, endorsed by Dr. Hugo Riemann, Leipzig; Frank Taylor, London; William Cummings, Antoinette Sterling, London; John Philip Sousa, Jaroslaw de Zielinski, Dr. William Mason, William Tomlins and many other prominent musicians in America and Europe. The aim is to eliminate the drudgery of music study and to give a fundamental, systematic and logical musical education in a natural and pleasurable way. The apparatus required in teaching is patented and obtainable only after the end of the course of study. The demand for teachers of this method is very great. For particulars apply to MISS E. A. FLETCHER, 1125 Madison Ave., New York. one of two readings
104MAUD POWELL, Violiniste,
105ADDRESS HENRY WOLFSOHN, 131 East 17th Street, NEW YORK.
107LEOPOLD WINKLER, PIANIST.
108Address HENRY WOLFSOHN, 131 East 17th Street, or Steinway Hall, New York.
110EVAN WILLIAMS, Oratorio and Concert.
111TENOR.
112For Terms, Dates, &c. address WOLFSOHN'S MUSICAL BUREAU, 131 East 17th Street, City.
114ARTHUR BERESFORD, BASSO-BARITONE.
115STEINERT HALL, BOSTON, MASS.
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