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Musical Courier 1902-01-01: Vol 44 Iss 1136, 1902
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1Greater New York.
3New York, December 30, 1901.
5LANCHE DUFFIELD was soloist recently for the Madrigal Society, of Bloomfield, N. J., Walter S. Young, conductor; their eleventh season, twenty-second concert, Robert Hosea, baritone, and Hubert Arnold, violinist, also assisting.
7On short notice Miss Duffield prepared Jensen's "The Feast of Adonis," which, though not long, is "catchy," and sang the solos so well that she received many congratulations. "In the Grove" went especially well. In Part II, she sang Donizetti's "O luce di quest anima," which received a hearty encore, so that the fair singer had to sing again, "A Fair Exchange," a pretty encore song.
9Conductor Young was much pleased, and certain persons present in the audience saw her with reference to singing again in the vicinity. She also sang the solo part in Adams' "O Holy Night!" with the high B flat.
11Arthur Voorhis' Chickering Hall recitals of a few years ago are remembered with pleasure, for in them the pianist played many standard works, along with some modern and lesser known, particularly Martucci, the graceful Italian composer. Last season Voorhis arranged a chamber music concert at Jersey City, on a subscription basis, with the Kaltenborn Quartet, and it was so successful that a demand for more of the same quality arose. Hence his 1901-02 three chamber music concerts, the first of which was most successful, mentioned in a recent Musical Courier. The Jersey City papers give considerable space to this concert, and here follows an excerpt from the News:
13Arthur Voorhis contributed two pieces, one a Barcarolle, by Moszkowski, and Liszt's popular Tarantelle, "Venezia e Napoli." That the artist is a skilled technician was amply shown in both numbers.
15His touch in the softer passages of the Tarantelle was extremely light, and he exhibited some charming tone painting in the legato phrases. Mr. Voorhis was loudly recalled and responded with a dainty little morceau, th best thing on his program. Schumann's Quintet, op. 44, made a fitting close to an excellent program, at the end of which Mr. Voorhis received the congratulations of his friends on the success of his first concert.
17At the Marble Collegiate Church, of which Richard T. Percy is organist and director, a Christmas Day morning service was held, the choir participating as follows: Mrs. Etta Miller Orchard, soprano; Mrs. Adele Laeis Baldwin, alto; Mortimer Howard, tenor; Dr. Carl Dufft, bass. The Dannreuther String Quartet assisted, and there were five anthems sung, by Praetorius, Foote, Davies, Klein and Parker, as well as various solos by Bach and Saint-Saens.
19The music at this church is highly important and attracts many resident New Yorkers as well as strangers.
21To-morrow, Thursday, at 4 o'clock, the second of the Students' organ recitals by advanced pupils of J. Warren Andrews will be given at the Church of the Divine Paternity, Seventy-sixth street and Eighth avenue, by Arthur L. Collins, who is organist of the Church of the Good Shepherd and the Jewish Synagogue, Newburgh, N. Y.
23He will play the Bach Toccata in F, Guilmant Pastorale, Mendelssohn Fourth Organ Sonata, Buck's "At Evening," Boellman's "Suite Gothique," Bach's Trio Sonata (first movement), and Mrs. H. B. Wilson, violinist, will assist, playing the Menuet from the Sonata by Grieg, op. 13, and uniting with Mr. Collins in the first two movements from Rheinberger's Suite, violin and organ.
25The next recital will be given by Miss Clara M. Beale, Louis Weitzel and Henry W. Smith, assisted by Miss Henrietta Wilson, contralto, Thursday, January 16, at 4 o'clock.
27Mr. Andrews' own Lenten recitals will begin Thursday, February 27, a series of four; well-known artists will assist.
29A complimentary concert is announced, tendered to Mrs. Jocelyn Horne, next Monday afternoon, January 6, at 3 o'clock, at the Waldorf-Astoria, when the following artists will participate: Mrs. Dore Lyon, soprano; Lyman Ward, baritone; Mrs. Hadden-Alexander, piano; Alfred E. Drake, violin, and Mlle. Jeanne Yersin, reciter, with H. S. Briggs, accompanist.
31Mrs. Horne's principal number will be the "Ballade du Desesperé," by Bemberg, and she will also sing a brace of songs. A feature of the concert will be the piano solos by Mrs. Hadden-Alexander, who will play the Valse Etude, op. 52, by Saint-Saëns, and the F minor Ballade, by Chopin. Mrs. Alexander is extremely occupied with her pupils, who hail from all parts of the country, but she nevertheless finds time to keep her technic in such condition that she is always ready to play important solos. one of two readings
32Mrs. Horne's principal number will be the "Ballade du Desesperer," by Bemberg, and she will also sing a brace of songs. A feature of the concert will be the piano solos by Mrs. Hadden-Alexander, who will play the Valse Etude, op. 52, by Saint-Saëns, and the F minor Ballade, by Chopin. Mrs. Alexander is extremely occupied with her pupils, who hail from all parts of the country, but she nevertheless finds time to keep her technic in such condition that she is always ready to play important solos. one of two readings
34The Mollenhauers, Josiah B. Zellman and J. Warren Andrews united in a concert at the Park Avenue Reformed Church, Jersey City, last week, in which a program of organ music, violin solos and baritone solos was given. I notice the name "Vieniowsky" on the program.
36Mrs. Mary Coburn, recently of Denver, Col., was the special star at an "at home" at The Beresford, Eighty-first street and Central Park West, last week, at Mrs. Lyon's, when she sang for a company of musical folk. She has a voice of excellent quality, high range, is experienced as a church and concert singer, and should in time find her place here. She sang some sacred and secular songs in a manner which showed much experience and the confidence which comes only from public work.
38Alexander Howell, tenor, a pupil of Walter John Hall, sang some love songs with much expression; Mr. Pascal, the pianist, played the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodie, No. 2, with lots of dash, later adding some of his own poetic piano pieces, and a Mr. Landson, baritone, also sang agreeably. Mrs. Lucille Morris Smith played some piano piec.
40Virginia Bailie's studio musicale last week had a varied program, consisting of piano solos by a talented pupil, Miss Marshall; Mrs. Borden-Low sang, Miss Erwin also Mr. Ridgeley and Mr. Andrew Brooke also contributing vocal numbers. Messrs. Belknap and Loomis gave musical-dramatic selections.
42Miss Bailie and Mrs. Low gave a recital at Vassar College, with this program, December 18:
44Gavotte …………………………………………………….Bach-Saint-Saëns
45Novelline in E major ………………………………………Schumann
46Pensée d'Automne ………………………………………Miss Bailie.
47Narcisse à la Fontaine ………………………………………Massenet
48Sérénade du Passant ………………………………………Massenet
49Mrs. Borden-Low.
50Cracovienne ……………………………………………..Paderewski
51Intermezzo ……………………………………………..Brahms
52Miss Bailie.
53Aria, Vainement j'ai parli, Le Roi d'Ys …………………Lalo
54Mrs. Borden-Low.
55Andante Spianato ………………………………………Chopin
56Etude …………………………………………………….Moszkowski
57Orpheus With His Lute …………………………………Sullivan
58Sing Heigh-ho! …………………………………………Henschel
59Mrs. Borden-Low.
61Their visit at Vassar was most delightful, Prof. George C. Gow, the director of the music, making them feel much at home.
63At the Church of the Divine Paternity last Sunday there was a special program of Christmas music, including the anthem, "The Vigil of the Shepherds," by Blumenschein. Miss Estelle Harris, the solo soprano, sang "O Holy Night," by Adam. At the offertory next Sunday she will unite with Gwilym Miles in Dossert's duet, "The Holy Night."
65In the evening the Christmas cantata, "The Holy Night," was given, in which all the singers participated, the choir being enlarged.
67Mr. Andrews played as the organ numbers: Offertoire of Two Christmas Hymns, Guilmant; "Coronation March," Meyerbeer; Christmas Offertoire, Grison, and Fugue in G minor, Bach. The music at this church is always of high quality.
69Miss Roosevelt-Scovel, whose father, the Chevalier Scovel, sang here for some years in English grand opera, was recently heard here in a Fifth avenue studio; she is on a brief visit to this country, singing socially. A brief visit to their cousin, President Roosevelt, will round out the stay of Mrs. and Miss Scovel.
71The music at the Brick Presbyterian Church, under S. Archer Gibson, is always varied and interesting, last Sunday having Tours' "Sing, O Heavens," two Old English carols, and for offertory, "It Came Upon the Midnight
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