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Musical Courier 1902-01-29: Vol 44 Iss 1140, 1902
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1Greater New York.
3New York, January 27, 1902.
5IBYL SAMMIS is here for a few weeks studying with Max Decsi, preparatory to resuming her concert tour under the management of the Chicago Lyceum Bureau. It will be recalled that Miss Sammis made a pronounced success in the Vermont and New Hampshire festivals, and that this tour is the second annual one resulting from that success. The company will do the Middle and Western States up to the spring, and Miss Sammis already anticipates singing with Tenor Williams and Baritone Miles in some of them. Later she will return to New York for continued study, and inasmuch as the singer combines handsome personality with beautiful voice and a lot of good sense there is no end to her possibilities.
7Miss Bisbee, of Carnegie Hall, gave one of her enjoyable musicales last Friday in her interesting and well-appointed studios. She played piano pieces of varying character, with much finish and artistic taste, a MacDowell Polonaise and Grieg Valse especially well. Mrs. John S. Stanley, of Kansas City, one of the best of the Francis Fischer Powers' pupils (and this is saying much), contributed vocal numbers, to the delight of all, for she has a really beautiful soprano voice, of high and clear quality, and a Gibson-girl personality, which added much charm. She put much feeling into Schubert's "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and "Du bist die Ruh."
9Henry Gaines Hawn gave additional interest by his personation of darkly life and character, which he certainly hits off to perfection. Maud Boone, a pupil of Miss Bisbee, played the accompaniments right well, and an audience, which quite filled the roomy studios, listened and applauded appreciatively. Punch was served about midnight. This was the complete program:
10Polonaise Etude…………………………………………MacDowell
11Valse in A minor…………………………………………Grieg
12Im Herbst…………………………………………………….Franz
13Gretchen am Spinnrade………………………………….Schubert
14Character Recitations…………………………………….Mrs. John S. Stanley.
15Liebestraum…………………………………………………Liszt
16Norwegian Bridal Procession……………………………Grieg
17Berceuse…………………………………………………….Chopin
18Prelude………………………………………………………Rachmaninoff one of two readings
19Prelude……………………………………………………..Rachmaninoff one of two readings
20Dich Theure Halle……………………………………….Wagner
21Du Bist Die Ruh…………………………………………Schubert
22Recitations…………………………………………………Browning, Lanier and Aldrich
23Mr. Hawn.
25The third of the series of "Musical Hours for Piano Students" was given at the Wirtz Piano School last Friday evening, January 24.
27The "rondo form" was analyzed, and illustrations from Mozart, Weber and Chopin were played. Then followed Seeling's "Loreley," played by Miss Grace Stryker, a pupil of the school; also the "Lark," Glinka-Balakirew; "Menuetto Scherzando," Stavenhagen; "Löse, Himmel meine Seele," Liszt, and Impromptu, Poldini, played by Mr. Wirtz.
29These "Musical Hours" are most helpful to earnest students of the piano, and all who are interested in this work are invited to attend the series. The next will be given on Friday evening, February 21, when counterpoint and fugue will be discussed.
31Next Saturday afternoon the fourth regular Children's Recital of the season will be given.
33J. Harry Wheeler gave a delightful vocal recital with several of his artist pupils at his residence, 841 West End avenue, Friday evening. The program began with selections from "Elijah," with the widow's solo, "What Have I To Do With Thee," sung by Mrs. L. A. Rudrauff and Lee McClure, followed by the singing of the principal bass solos by Mr. McClure and Geo. B. Wick; also the contralto solo, "O Rest in the Lord," sung by Mrs. Alma Westlin, who possesses a grand contralto voice. W. A. Hemphill, who has an excellent tenor voice, sang, in a scholarly manner, "Comfort Ye" and "Every Valley," from "The Messiah." A prominent feature of the evening was the rendition of an effectively written quintet, "Rock of Ages," composed by J. Harry Wheeler, the obligato being sung by Mrs. Rudrauff. A Swedish song, "Soft, Soft," by Munkle, sung in the native language, by Mrs. Selma Cook, was a delightful number, charmingly sung. Chaminade's "Promise" was especially interesting, sung with warmth and dash and beautiful tone quality by Mrs. Rudrauff. Mr. Wick sang a double number, Buck's "Until God's Day," and "For Love of You," by Frank Seymour Hastings, these contrasting selections in a truly artistic manner, exhibiting extraordinary tone coloring. Händel's "Timotheus" was grandly sung by Mr. McClure, and Mrs. Wheeler played some difficult piano pieces with fine technic and exquisite musical expression. Mrs. T. E. Hines played the piano accompaniments with skill and sympathy.
35Mr. Wheeler has a fine class this season, as usual, and among New York's leading vocal teachers he is to be reckoned as one of the first. His pupils have unbounded confidence in him, and this is founded on his success as evinced in the work done by students who are scattered all over these States.
37High class chamber music was that heard at the Breitners' last Monday afternoon. This was the program:
38Trio for piano, violin and 'cello, op. 65……………………Dvorák
39Mr. and Mrs. Breitner and Leo Schulz.
40Sonate for piano and 'cello, op. 32……………………Saint-Saëns
41Messrs. Breitner and Schulz.
42Suite for piano and violin……………………………….Schütt
43Mr. and Mrs. Breitner.
45The long parlors were well filled, and a most attentive and appreciative audience listened to this program with evident satisfaction. Mrs. Breitner's dash and beauty of style, Mr. Schulz's broad and beautiful 'cello tone, and Mr. Breitner's musician mastership of all he played were conspicuous features of a delightful hour.
47There was a soirée musicale by pupils of Mme. Cornelia Meysenheym in the small ballroom of the Waldorf last Saturday evening, in which the following students appeared: Mrs. Clarissa Alcott-Thorn, Miss Jo. Bouvier, Miss Gerty Betts, Miss Florence Cohen, Mrs. Seraphine Fowler, Miss Gussie Fisher, Miss Lillie Heidelbach, Miss Alma Katz, Miss Elizabeth Long, Miss Josephine Kien, Miss Clara Long, Miss Mabel Legare, Mrs. Lottie Pyle, Mrs. Anna Smith, Miss Leona Schultze, Miss Celia Stiner, Miss Lydia Templeton, Miss Ethel Templeton, Miss Estella Weil, Mrs. Colwell-Suplee. After the opening chorus, Rubinstein's "Evening," sung by the united voices named above, there were solos, duets, trios, a quartet, piano solo by Miss Jo. Kien, and Mr. Avitabile played the accompaniments.
49Adelaide C. Okell gave a pupils' musicale at her studios last Wednesday afternoon, with this program:
50Sonata Quasi una Fantasia, op. 27, No. 1…………………Beethoven
51Miss Lichtenauer.
52Prelude, D flat major………………………………………Chopin
53Miss Ralli.
54Idyll, op. 39, No. 7………………………………………MacDowell
55March Grotesque…………………………………………Sinding
56Miss Tiftt.
57Concerto, G minor…………………………………………Mendelssohn
58With second piano accompaniment.
59Miss Wilson.
60Liebestraum…………………………………………………Liszt
61Miss Katharine Schley.
62Sonate, op. 53 (Waldstein)……………………………….Beethoven
63Miss Quimby.
65Miss Tiftt played the "Idyll" with delicacy, and the Sinding March with much vim. Miss Wilson had an important number in the Mendelssohn Concerto, and into it she infused great variety of tone effects. Miss Katharine Schley played with genuine musical feeling and poetic conception the Liszt "Love Dream," while Miss Quimby's playing of the "Waldstein" Sonate showed a good technic and earnest musicianship.
67A hundred or more invited guests attended the musicale, and at the close, during the reception which followed, Miss Okell received many congratulations and compliments on the manner in which her pupils played. Miss Okell is a fervent disciple of Madame Carreño, and her teaching is based on the method of that distinguished pianist.
69Lucille Jocelyn is one of the artist pupils of Francis Stuart, who sings with most finished and refined style; especially is her control of breath remarkable—and without it there is no singing. She recently sang Buck's "Fear Not Ye," with breadth of style, in devotional manner, and a sad little song of Grieg's with intense feeling, and the height of expression of that feeling.
71The Froehlich School of Music junior class gave a recital last Friday evening at the West Side branch, a dozen numbers being performed by a like number of violinists and pianists.
73BAERNSTEIN RESIGNS.—Joseph Baernstein, the basso, has resigned his position at the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, in Brooklyn. Baernstein was a great attraction, and on many Sunday evenings from 100 to 300 people were turned away, not being able to find even standing room in the great edifice. The church members all deeply regret the leaving of Mr. Baernstein.
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