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Musical Courier 1901-12-11: Vol 43 Iss 1133, 1901
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1Prof. C. M. Selling is director of the Minnesota State Band.
3Miss Jeanette Durno gave a concert at Minneapolis recently.
5A concert by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra was given on November 29, in City Hall.
7Mrs. Florence Brown Shepard took part in a recent concert at Binghamton, N. Y.
9Recently at Toledo, Ohio, a testimonial concert was given to Miss Alexandria Baer.
11Miss Lottie Demuth, pupil of Henri Marteau, gave a recital at Oberlin, Ohio, week before last.
13John Prindle Scott, assisted by W. Carlton James and Frederick Stiven, gave a concert recently at Saginaw, Mich.
15On Friday evening the faculty of the School of Music in the Nassau Building, Burlington, Ia., held an informal reception.
17At Mt. Vernon, N. Y., a musical service was given at the Baptist Church, under the direction of Alfred Hallam, while F. G. Shattuck presided at the organ.
19Herbert Whitney is the name of a young Lewiston (Me.) composer who has lately written a march which is highly spoken of by several music lovers who have heard it.
21The second "Twilight" recital to be given at the Ohio State University will be in charge of Mrs. Charles Bradfield Morrey, pianist, who will be assisted by Mrs. William King Rogers, soprano.
23The last of the recitals in the series of four which Harry Woodstock has been giving at New Haven, Conn., on Tuesday afternoons in November, took place on Tuesday, November 26, at St. Paul's Church.
25Arthur C. Koerner has been appointed organist at the First German M. E. Church, St. Paul, Minn. He has just completed a song cycle on "The Birth of Christ," which will be produced in the church at Christmas.
27Prof. Samuel B. Belding gave his twenty-seventh complimentary organ recital to the faculty and students of the State Normal College at the First Reformed Church, Albany, N. Y., recently. Miss Mayo Cunningham, alto, assisted.
29At Galesburg, Ill., music lovers and critics were treated to a song recital at the Presbyterian Church, November 19, in which Mrs. Blondelle Pollock Tenney was the prima donna and in which the Knox College Glee Club, Mrs. L. H. Jelliff and William H. Cheesman assisted.
31The weekly free organ recitals at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg, will be given Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon by William K. Steiner, of Pittsburg, in response to an invitation from the trustees of Carnegie Institute. Mr. Steiner is a native of Pittsburg and received his early education in music in that city.
33A chorus of seventy-five voices, under the direction of R. Fletcher Nevins, gave a concert Thanksgiving night in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church on 118th street. The program consisted of madrigals and glees and Mendelssohn's Forty-second Psalm. The soloists were Miss Pauline E. Crosby, Miss Isabelle M. Price, Herbert C. Hardy and William H. Kennedy.
35Preparations are being made for a choral concert to be given in Patten, Me., some time in December, which will, it is said, be the musical and social event of the season. The project is under the auspices of the Ladies' Circle connected with the Congregational Church. N. W. Littlefield, of Bangor, has charge of the rehearsals. Already over forty voices are being trained for the concert.
37Elizabeth Hulbert and Sherman Jamieson have handed to the music committee of the Westminster Church, Troy, N. Y., their resignations as soprano and bass in the choir.
39Some seventy-five singing societies have signified their intention of sending large delegations to the twentieth biennial Saengerfest of the Saengerbund of the Northwest, which will be held at Peoria, Ill., June 21 to 24 inclusive. There were about sixty societies represented by active singers at the Burlington, Ia., Fest. Of course Burlington will send a large delegation to Peoria, and practice work on the songs for the Fest has begun.
41The first concert of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Symphony Orchestra took place at the Pabst Theatre on Thursday evening, December 5. The soloist was Hans Bruening, the Milwaukee pianist. An announcement of the plans of the Symphony Orchestra has been issued, signed by Edward P. Vilas, John H. Frank, William H. Upmeyer, Louis Gimbel, James H. Ilsley, D. S. Rose and Casimir Gonski.
43On November 17 a large audience gathered in the Jewish Temple, Wilkesbarre, Pa., to listen to a recital, the principal feature of which was the violin solo work by Herman Heller, son of Rabbi Heller, of that city. Mr. Heller was assisted by Miss Elsie Cohen, Jared Stark, Professor Hansen, Miss DeMois and Miss Munzesheimer. The former accompanied Mr. Heller on the piano and she also played a solo, as the introductory number, delighting all. Miss Munzesheimer, whose home is in Texas, but who is spending some time there with friends, and is now taking vocal instructions under Dr. Mason, gave the second number on the program.
45At a gathering of musical lovers at the Brown Palace, Denver, Col., it was decided to have an annual festival. The dates of the first festival are to be January 23, 24 and 25. The main features of the plan adopted are the establishing of a large chorus and a symphony orchestra. The chorus work is under the charge of Henry Houseley and Harry Baker. The members of the committee that is looking after the affair are Grant Weber, chairman; P. C. Fisher, president of the Denver Athletic Club; Dr. G. C. Baker and Harry Baker, of the Apollo Club; Mrs. J. H. Smissaert, Miss Hilda Gottesleben, Miss Florence Taussig, Fritz Thies, Henry Houseley, E. S. Cullis and Wardner Williams. Others are to be added to the committee.
47One of the finest musical entertainments given in Dubuque, Ia., for a long time, was the concert given at Saengerbund Auditorium for the benefit of the Holy Ghost Church. The audience was a large and cultured one, and included many representative citizens and nearly all the singers and musicians of the city. The concert was under the immediate direction of Prof. Joseph J. Dreher. The chorus taking part were Mrs. B. Jestel, Miss Louisa Adam, Misses Lizzie Hartmann, Lena Holz, Lizzie Grode, Bertha Brede, Veronica Lierheimer, Lonia Weitz, Mary Kaiser, Emma Schyerrer, Emily Richter, Anna Luthmers, Martha Eisert, Mamie Oser, Margaret Huekels, Marie A. Zwack, Josie Deckert, Carrie Eberhardt, Lena Frommelt, Matilda Phillips, Margaret Beckius, Bertha Rhomberg, Mrs. Wm. Grode, Mrs. Jos. Schradie, Misses Kate Schrup, Dorothy Adam, Tillie Lorenz, Josephine Scherr, Louisa Frommelt, Lou E. Rhomberg, Margaret Streuser, Josephine Geishecker, Pauline Graessli, Adeline Klauer, Margaret Weitz, Mathilda Lorenz, J. A. Zillig, P. Ilg. F. Witter, J. Hemmi, J. Bertsch, J. Buechele, M. Blasi, H. Henker, L. Witter, P. Kusche, W. Kleis, M. Koch, A. Koester, M. Mueller, C. Willy, A. Leiser, G. Candler, A. Mueller, C. Klein, J. Schradie, Chas. Tenhaaf, W. Stotz, E. Wesselhoft, F. Henker, W. Witter, W. Fischer, Carl Ziegler, A. Roeber, Sr., E. Geishecker, C. Koester, C. Buechler, J. Michel, T. Oster, G. Unmacht, A. Roeber, Jr., W. Meuser, C. Lungwitz, G. Mohr, G. Holl, F. Graenberg, P. Geishecker, C. Goebel, W. Geishecker, W. Schaffhauser, G. Lorenz, J. Kaiser, Guido Beck, C. Baumann, Dr. L. Engelken, Prof. A. Manger, G. Scheuer, A. Ehmer, E. Heuchlin, E. Brielmaier, G. Luck.
49Henriette Weber's Success.
51CONSIDERING that this is only Henriette Weber's second winter of professional work in New York, her success has been remarkable. In addition to a growing class of pupils, who are studying piano, German or French diction, or are being coached in repertory, she is filling many engagements as accompanist and pianist. Among the recent concerts where Miss Weber has appeared in one or both capacities are: A recital with Oley Speaks, the basso, at Huntington, L. I.; a concert at Wallkill, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio, with Minne Humphryes, where the papers had the following to say in regard to this pianist:
53Miss Henriette Weber, a charming pianist, accompanied Mrs. Humphryes, and played three numbers on the program. She was also compelled to respond to encores, and gracefully responded. Her playing was most artistic and she shared in the triumph materially.—Mansfield Shield, November 23.
55Mrs. Humphryes divided the honors with Miss Weber, and every number that each rendered was received with high appreciation. * * * Miss Weber's piano selections included among others Rachmaninoff's Prelude, Sinding's "Frühlingsrauschen" and Marche Grotesque, Rubinstein's Valse Caprice, and as many others in response to recalls. She played with great expression and skill, and was gracious in her responses to the appreciation of her hearers.—Mansfield News, November 23.
57Other concerts at which Miss Weber has recently appeared were Pittsfield, Mass.; the concert and reception tendered the "Baldwin" artists by Arnold Somlyo, of Carnegie Hall; a reception at the studio of the well-known artists Miss Lufkin, and last evening the concert given by Minne Humphryes in Brooklyn.
59Some of this pianist's dates for the near future are: New York Press Club, December 12; Madame Newhaus' musicale, December 15; Church of the Divine Paternity concert, December 18, and with Dr. Carl E. Dufft, at Trenton, N. J., December 19.
61FLORENCE RANSTEAD.—Miss Florence Ranstead, the young Baltimore contralto, who recently made her début at the Waldorf-Astoria, was the soloist at the first concert of the new Peabody Symphony Orchestra, given at Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Saturday evening, November 30. The Baltimore papers published extended criticisms of the concert. We reproduce the paragraphs about Miss Ranstead:
63Miss Florence Ranstead, of this city, who made her first appearance at a symphony concert here, sang a recitative and air from Saint-Saëns' "Samson and Delilah," with orchestral accompaniment, and "Sea Slumber Song," by Edward W. Engral, and "Noël Païen" and "Fensée d'Automne," by Massenet, to piano accompaniment by Miss Clara Ascherfeld.
65* * * Miss Ranstead's voice has been carefully cultivated. Its range is good, being better in the middle register, and she sang last night with intelligence and care. There was, however, evidence at times of effort. All the songs were well sung, but the best effect was in the Massenet selections. She was rewarded with beautiful flowers, and was several times recalled.—Baltimore American.
67It was apparent from the start that principal interest was manifested in the appearance of the talented Baltimore vocalist, Miss Florence Ranstead, who for the first time was given the opportunity to display in this city those musically accomplishments which brought her so much favorable comment in New York city as well as in foreign musical centres.
69Of a splendid stage presence, and possessing a great, big contralto voice, of excellent range and agreeable mellowness, she proved a delight to the audience, who gave her an ovation after her singing of Saint-Saëns' recitative and aria from "Samson and Delilah." This dramatic number was well adapted to the soloist's vibrant lower register notes and was sung with a fine nerve suggestive of the operatic stage rather than concert work.
71For her second numbers Miss Ranstead arranged a series of three songs, with piano, which, though trying for a contralto, were presented in a manner that elicited the sincere approval of the critics present.—Baltimore Herald, December 1, 1901.
73ROGERS SONG RECITAL.—The Francis Rogers song recital at Mendelssohn Hall yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) will be reviewed in THE MUSICAL COURIER next Wednesday.
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