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Musical Courier 1902-01-29: Vol 44 Iss 1140, 1902
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1CHICAGO, Ill., January 23, 1902.
3CLARENCE DICKINSON is to play at the Auditorium on February 22 for the Union League Club's celebration of Washington's Birthday.
5Clara G. Trimble, soprano, who is under the direction of Dunstan Collins, of the Fine Arts Building, has been singing with success, as the following press comments illustrate:
7The Apollo Club gave a concert at the First Baptist Church last night, and the program was enjoyed and applauded by a large audience. The club was assisted by Clara G. Trimble, soprano, who gave a number of songs. Her clear, rich voice and her happy selections captivated her hearers, and she was frequently recalled.—Denver Republican, January 10.
9Mrs. Clara G. Trimble is one of the best "lieder" singers that has ever been heard in Denver. She limited herself to the small class of songs, with the single exception of the aria, "Plus de Tourments," from Massenet's "Cid." She also gave one of the best renditions of Schumann's "Mondnacht" ever heard here. And all these songs were delivered with a superb vocal art and a keen attention to detail.
11The other Schumann and Rubinstein songs were given a memorable rendition. The faculty for such lieder singing is rare as it is delightful. Few possess the taste and delicacy for these small and perfect songs.—Denver Times, January 10.
13Mary Dennis Manning, teacher of dramatic art at the Sherwood Music School, Fine Arts Building, will read her "Historical Trolley Ride" before the Daughters of the American Revolution on February 20. Mrs. Manning's engagements are under the direction of Charles R. Baker.
15The second act of "Der Freischütz" will be presented by the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory's School of Opera, in the Auditorium Recital Hall, on the evening of February 13. An orchestra is to assist, and pupils of H. Stanley Davies will take part in the program.
17MABELLE CRAWFORD AND ELIZABETH BLAMERE ENGAGED.
19Charles R. Baker has arranged a three weeks' Chautauqua (N. Y.) engagement, beginning August 7, for Mabelle Crawford, contralto, and Elizabeth Blamere, soprano.
21ESTHER FEE.
23Miss Esther Fee, the violin soloist, is an exceedingly pleasing artist. She plays with dash and fire and with a certain magnetic quality that carries her audience with her. She is delightful in recital work, and it is in such programs that she is eminently successful. She was warmly received by the audience.—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, January 15, 1902.
25Miss Fee closed the Pfister recital program with three numbers. Owing to conflicting reports regarding her work, the audience was most happily disappointed, and greeted her with enthusiastic applause.—Milwaukee Sentinel, January 15, 1902.
27The above recent estimates of Esther Fee's playing will be read with interest. Miss Fee interpreted an artistic program before 100 guests on Sunday evening, January 19, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry Lanyon, Ellis avenue, and she played last week for Governor and Mrs. Yates at the residence of J. H. Strong, Indiana avenue. Shortly this young American violinist will be heard in a number of Western recitals, beginning at Leavenworth, Kan., on February 10.
29William A. Willett's pupil, Bertha Agnes Amet, has been singing with success this season. Mr. Willet teaches a large and flourishing class of vocal students at the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory.
31Pupils of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory will give a matinee program at the Auditorium recital hall on March 1.
33Miss Hattie Summerfield's classes will give a musicale in the afternoon of January 26, at Washington Park place.
35ELECTA GIFFORD'S CONTINUED SUCCESS.
37Miss Electa Gifford, who will soon appear with the Chicago Orchestra at the Auditorium, has been engaged by the New York Philharmonic Society for two events early in April. Miss Gifford sang in New York on Saturday night, January 18, at the Press Club banquet. Her engagements during the present season have been remarkably numerous and important. Of her recent success with the Paur Symphony Orchestra, at Scranton, Pa., the Tribune, of that city, said:
39Miss Electa Gifford sustained the truth of all the pleasant things that have been said about her both in Europe and America. The sweetness of her voice is seldom equaled. Its power and quality were tested in the Mad Scene from "Hamlet," the aria being superbly sung. Her upper notes were like crystal, with none of the chill implied by this term. Rippling, tender and faultlessly true, she sang just as some bright bird sings on a summer's day. Miss Gifford is entirely satisfying in her personnel as well as in her voice. As an encore she sang a charmingly dainty song, "No One Saw It All," by Loewe. Every tender, faintest trill of her tones could be heard in the uttermost corner of the hall.
41HOWARD WELLS' RECITAL.
43Howard Wells, who is recognized as one of the most gifted and accomplished pianists in this city, will give a recital under the auspices of the American Conservatory at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Tuesday evening, February 4. Elaine De Sellem, contralto, will assist, and the program has been arranged as follows:
45Etudes Symphoniques, op. 13………………………………….Schumann
46Why Are the Roses So Pale?……………………………Tchaikovsky
47Die Junge Nonne……………………………………………..Schubert
48Parting………………………………………………………..Schubert
49Miss Elaine De Sellem.
50Romance in F sharp major………………………………….Schumann
51Shadow Dance…………………………………………………MacDowell
52The Nightingale……………………………………………..Liszt
53Poetic Tone Pictures Nos. 2 and 3………………………..Grieg
54Paraphrase on the Waltz, From the Vienna Woods…Strauss-Schmitt
55Mr. Wells.
56Cuttin' Rushes……………………………………………..Willeby
57On the Way to Kew………………………………………….Foote
58Dainty Dorothea…………………………………………….De Koven
59Miss De Sellem.
60Andante Spianato and Polonaise, op. 22…………………Chopin
61Mr. Wells.
63Mrs. Karleton Hackett will be the accompanist.
65DR. HANCHETT'S LECTURE RECITAL.
67Under the auspices of the Sherwood Music School Dr. Henry G. Hanchett, of New York, gave an interesting analytical piano recital in the Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall on Tuesday morning, January 2.
69"The Classical and Romantic Schools of Composition. Their Development and Contrasts," was the subject treated by Dr. Hanchett in scholarly and entertaining fashion. Illustrations which he played were G minor organ Fantaisie," Bach-Liszt; Dussek's "Consolation," Sonata in E flat (first movement), Beethoven; Chopin's Ballade, op. 38; "Bird As a Prophet," No. 7, from Schumann's "Forest Scenes," op. 82; "Lohengrin's Reproof to Elsa," Wagner-Liszt; "Feu Follet," Prudent, and Liszt's "Galop Chromatique." Dr. Hanchett's artistic interpretations aroused genuine enthusiasm. The program was of much educational value. In passing it may be mentioned that if some of the heavier numbers, including the Bach-Liszt Fantaisie, had been heard in a larger hall, the effect would have been more satisfactory. Under existing conditions the tone, on several occasions, was too ponderous. The performer, therefore, would have been heard to better advantage in the Music Hall of the same building.
71Many pupils who are studying at the Sherwood Music School were present, as were also the director and secretary, William H. Sherwood and Charles R. Baker.
73The Hinshaw School of Drama presented "A Modern Ananias" at Steinway Hall, on the evening of January 21. Considerable talent was displayed by members of the cast, which included the following pupils: David Clifford, Walter Tewksbury, Don Cameron, Palmer H. Gillette, Sadie Carson, Sadie Sandmeyer, Emma Reich and Celia Rogers.
75In a short and graceful address Marvin Victor Hinshaw, stage director, stated that his school now comprised six dramatic companies, which would present plays at Steinway Hall on Tuesday evening of each consecutive week until June.
77Though "A Modern Ananias" served to exhibit unquestionable dramatic ability on the part of the performers, and to illustrate how careful is Mr. Hinshaw's training, it cannot be classed as a literary gem. The Hinshaw School
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