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Musical Courier 1901-12-11: Vol 43 Iss 1133, 1901
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1WETZLER'S MUSICAL SERVICE.
3HERMANN HANS WETZLER gave a musical service last Monday night in the Collegiate Church, Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street. He was assisted by the quartet of the church—Mrs. Marie Kunkel Zimmerman, soprano; Mrs. Gertrude Stein-Bailey, alto; Dr. Ion Jackson, tenor, and Julian Walker, basso. The vocal numbers of the program comprised Mozart's "Ave Verum"; three excerpts from the Bach cantata "O, Ewigkeit, Du Donnerwort," and the terzetto from Saint-Saëns' Christmas oratorio. Mr. Wetzler played Liszt's "Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine"; "Benediction Nuptiale," Saint-Saëns; Prelude, Fugue and Variation, César Franck, and Prelude and Fugue in A minor [Book 2, Peters edition], J. S. Bach.
5Despite his virtuosity, and it is considerable, Mr. Wetzler always suggests the musician first, the organist afterward. His control of his instrument is unmarred by the too familiar mannerisms of many organists. There is no sense of pedantic interpretation, and his phrasing, crisp accentuation give a plastic quality to his play. His registration for each number was apt and illustrative of this musician's individuality. Eschewing violent, so-called orchestral effects, he made his organ speak its own idiom, yet with much richness of color and tonal fullness. The Saint-Saëns is a happy piece of writing, in texture melodic and thoroughly idiomatic. Of more interest, because more original, were the Franck selections. Full of the shimmering mysticism, saturated with churchly atmosphere, Franck always appears at his best in his organ compositions. The Prelude was like a Gothic arch and the Fugue free from the dusty formalism that makes most organ fugues things of horror. It need hardly be said that on pedals and manuals Mr. Wetzler's work was clear, effective, musical. His Bach playing deserves separate praise. It was vital and full of power.
7MRS. PENNINGTON HAUGHEY.—Townsend H. Fellows has taken the sole management of Mrs. Pennington Haughey, the sweet voiced singer, who has taken the soprano position at the West Presbyterian Church (Dr. Paxton's).
9She is already booked for a large number of affairs this season, including an engagement at Chicago to sing "The Messiah" on December 18, as well as a number of private affairs during the month of December. At Huntingdon Woodman's recital at Greenwich, Conn., she scored a big success, and was several times recalled. Mrs. Haughey will be heard at the Lotus Club "Ladies Day," in January.
11MADAME LIPPA'S MUSICALE.—Mme. Ockleston Lippa and her pupils gave a musicale on December 4 at her residence in Ellsworth avenue, East End, Pittsburg. A large audience applauded the distinguished pianist and several of her pupils. The vocal numbers were contributed by Miss Henrietta Keil. A social hour followed the musicale.
13HOCHMAN PLAYS SCHARWENKA'S CONCERTO.—The important novelty of the concert given by the Brooklyn Saengerbund at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Monday night was the Scharwenka Piano Concerto. The work was performed by Arthur Hochman with rare skill. Mme. Louise Scherhey, contralto, was the other soloist. An extended criticism of the concert will appear in the next number of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
15VOORHIS AND THE KALTENBORN'S.—Arthur Voorhis, the pianist, assisted by the Kaltenborn Quartet, will give three concerts at the Jersey City Club on December 17, February 11 and April 15.
17CARL G. SCHMIDT,
18PIANIST—ORGANIST.
19Illustrated piano lectures. Organ recitals.
20Organist and Choirman.
21St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church.
22276 West 94th Street, or Steinway Hall.
24W. A. HOWLAND,
25BARITONE.
26Address: University School of Music,
27Ann Arbor, Mich.
29J. LEWIS BROWNE,
30Concert Organist—Pianist,
31Atlanta, Ga.
33Mesdemoiselles YERSIN,
34Authors of the
35PHONO RHYTHMIC FRENCH METHOD.
36Winter address:
37465 Lexington Avenue, NEW YORK.
38Summer address:
39Newport House, Bar Harbor, Me.
41SARAH KING PECK,
42SOPRANO,
43CONCERTS AND ORATORIO.
4455 West 85th Street, New York.
46Breitner Pronounced as Teacher.
47NEW YORK, December 9, 1901. one of two readings
48New York, December 9, 1901. one of two readings
49Editors The Musical Courier:
50"I N order to discontinue any controversy, I wish to state that my teacher is Ludovic Breitner, to whom I owe whatever I may have accomplished as a pianist. I did state to you that I intend visiting my relatives this summer in Germany, and incidentally to study with various masters while abroad. Thanking you in advance for making this correction,
51ANNA JEWELL"
53Mendelssohn Trio Club Concerts.
54THE Mendelssohn Trio Club organized this autumn will give a series of five afternoon concerts at the Hotel Majestic. The dates are December 17, January 7 and 28, February 11 and March 4, all Tuesday afternoons at 3 o'clock. The members of the club are Alexander Saslavsky, violin; Victor Sörlin, 'cello, and Charles Gilbert Spross, piano. The program for the first concert next Tuesday afternoon will include the Mendelssohn Trio in C minor and the Gade Trio, op. 42. M. Saslavsky will play Wieniawski's Concerto No. 2, and Albert Quesnel, tenor, will sing two groups of songs.
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