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Musical Courier 1902-02-12: Vol 44 Iss 1142, 1902
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1Boston Music Notes.
3JOHN JEWETT TURNER, baritone, and George S. Dunham, organist, are giving a series of song and organ recitals, and have already booked many engagements. Their programs consist of standard works for organ and voice from the classic and modern schools. At the recital in Somerville on February 4 they were assisted by Miss H. Marion Perkins, who is a pupil of Mr. Turner. During the month Mr. Turner and Mr. Dunham will give a recital in Quebec.
5One of Mme. Etta Edwards' pupils, Miss Helen Wetmore, who sang at the concert of the Lowell Orchestral Society, January 26, received high praise from the critics for her work. The Lowell Sun said: "Miss Wetmore made a good impression. She has a sweet soprano voice, and sings with clear, bird-like tones. Her voice is very pliable, and in the highest notes loses none of its purity." The Morning Citizen had equally pleasant words to say. On February 11 Miss Wetmore is to sing again in Lowell before the Middlesex Club. It is to be a French evening, and all her songs will be from French composers and sung in that language.
7Miss Adah Campbell Hussey's first appearance with the Oratorio Society in Malden was a great success, and her beautiful voice and artistic singing added greatly to the pleasure of the concert.
9Miss Anna R. Hickish, a Western girl who formerly studied with Frank Morse, of Steinert Hall, is singing successfully with the Moody-Manners Opera Company in England, Scotland and Ireland. Dublin papers give her excellent notices for her singing Marguerite in "Faust," and Edinburgh papers, commenting on her performances in "Carmen," say: "Her voice is fresh and pure, and she has a fine, full method in singing."
11Miss Edith F. Torrey gave a program of songs at President Hazard's reception at Wellesley College last week, on Tuesday evening, and at Mrs. Henry M. Whitney's in Brookline on Wednesday evening.
13A recital by Miss Alice Julia Riche, assisted by ensemble classes of the Faelten Pianoforte School, will take place at Huntington Chambers Hall, Wednesday evening, February 12.
15Carl Sobeski gave his first evening musicale of this season at his studio, Tuesday evening, February 4, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Sobeski's pupils furnished a most delightful program, consisting of songs and arias by Gounod, Franz, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms; also an unpublished song of Mr. Sobeski's, called "In Exile," which was rendered by H. E. Whiting, who possesses a beautiful baritone voice of great compass.
17The others assisting were Miss Elsie Worthley, Miss Evelyn Kendall, sopranos; W. W. Hicks, tenor, and Charles Turner, basso cantante. Mr. Sobeski also introduced a young student, John Channel, with a phenomenal bass voice, who made a great success.
19Mr. Sobeski had the assistance of the Mendelssohn Trio, Miss May Barden, violin; Walter E. Kendall, 'cello; Miss Evelyn Kendall, piano, who rendered three numbers most delightfully. Each member is a soloist, and the combination is a very artistic one.
21Mr. Sobeski rendered two numbers by Grieg and Schumann, and, as usual, sang admirably.
23Supper was served at 10.30, completing a most enjoyable evening.
25Mme. Gertrude Franklin has a number of pupils now before the public, who are appearing with great success. Miss Elsa Heindl sang Brahms' "Love Waltzes" at Cambridge on January 30, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was vigorously recalled three times. It is probable that she will sing them at Providence with the Symphony Orchestra, at some one of their concerts. Miss Heindl has many concert dates, among them being Hyde Park, March 5.
27Mrs. Helen Allen Hunt, whose recent concert will be remembered, has engagements at Andover, February 26; Bradford Academy, February 27, in the afternoon, and Somerville on the same evening.
29Another of Madame Franklin's pupils, Mrs. Brackett, sang at Rockland on the 5th, with the Rubinstein Club. She was down for eight songs, but really sang seventeen, she had so many encores. She will give a song recital in Boston in the near future.
31Mrs. Idalia Levy Ide is to be the soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Buffalo during the month. She will sing the "Indian Bell" song, as well as a group of songs.
33Representatives of the Handel and Haydn Society have been before the committee on mercantile affairs asking for amendments of their charter in order that the society might hold more real and personal estate than is now permitted them. It was a move for the establishment of a temple of music in Boston where the Handel and Haydn might permanently reside.
35W. B. Loomis, George F. Daniels and ex-President Boynton favored the petition. There was no opposition.
37Miss Lora Holmes, of Lincoln, Neb., is at present at Providence, R. I., studying vocal culture under Jules Jordan. Miss Holmes is the possessor of a remarkable alto voice of great depth and volume.
39Municipal concerts were given February 3 at Lowell School Hall, Jamaica Plain, and February 4 at the Dorchester High School.
41A violin recital is announced by a new boy violinist named David Robinson, to take place in Steinert Hall on Wednesday evening, February 12.
43Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles' third concert at the Hunnewell Clubhouse in Newton occurred Wednesday, and was by Mrs. Ruggles' pupils from Newton, Boston and Worcester.
45The Thursday Morning Club gave a concert last week in Pilgrim Hall. The program was given by Caroline Gardner Clarke, Mrs. Scudder, Ray Finel, Miss Alice R. Cole, Miss Marie Schumacker, and Elena De Olloqui. The next concert will take place February 13.
47At the New England Conservatory of Music, on February 5, the eighth evening in the faculty course was a piano recital given by Edward D. Hale, assisted by Emil Mahr. On the 12th there will be a chamber music recital by Miss Estelle T. Andrews, piano, and Alexander Plaess, violoncello, assisted by Henry Eichheim, violin.
49Mr. HENRY WOLFSOHN begs to announce that he has engaged
51ESTELLE LIEBLING,
52Opera and Concert SOPRANO,
53FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON
54WITH KUBELIK IN NEW YORK.
56LENA DORIA DEVINE
57TEACHER OF
58BLANCHE DUFFIELD, Coloratura Soprano;
59MARY LOUISE GEHLE, Contralto;
60JOSEPHINE MILDENBERG, Soprano;
61FRED'K BUTTERFIELD ANGELL, Baritone,
62And other prominent singers now before the public.
64Vocal Instruction.
65136 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK.
67"The Flight of the Eagle."
69THE new musical work by Homer Norris, of Boston, which will be brought out at the Waldorf-Astoria on the morning of the 28th inst., under the direction of L. M. Ruben, has attracted much attention among musicians. The text is selected from various parts of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and united under the above title. The title is Mr. Norris' own, and grew out of his devotion to Whitman's philosophy. To him Whitman is the one great representative American poet, and as the eagle is our national emblem of freedom, the title seems a happy inspiration. It suggests, too, something of the free, upspringing character of the music. Mr. Norris believes that Whitman demanded perfect freedom in the matter of melodic contour, harmonic sequence, &c., and so has allowed himself to choose anything from the world of tone which seemed to best express the import of the text. The work is based on a scale of whole steps. In thus discarding the "half steps between three and four, and seven and eight," the composer has done away with the confines and partitions of "keys," and given himself one big universal key. The music may be best described as "untonic." The open key of C is preserved in signature throughout the score. The music is full of novel and startling effects, and yet we are told does not in the least sound chaotic. There is a sense of proportion which justifies all seeming excesses.
71The baritone part represents the Whitman of the poems, the "I" meaning humanity itself. This part makes announcements, affirmations, proclaims themes regarding which the other voices sing. The tenor's is a distinctly lyric part, while the soprano represents music in the abstract. The work is not at all in the form of the popular "song cycle." Mr. Norris himself chooses to call it "an improvisation on a scale of whole steps, for soprano, tenor and baritone."
73Mr. Norris believed that Americans ought to sing Whitman's lines, and with that thought Mr. Ruben has engaged three of the most prominent American singers before the public. The work will be sung by Miss Esther Palliser, Ellison Van Hoose and David Bispham. Mr. Ruben has arranged to dispose of single seats on the morning of the performance.
75Kathleen Howard a von Klenner Pupil.
77MISS KATHLEEN HOWARD, the young contralto from Madame von Klenner's studio, appeared at the benefit given for Miss Laura Burt at the Casino on Thursday, February 6.
79The rich quality of this singer's voice was heard to better advantage in the large auditorium than in the studio. Miss Howard has acquired a breadth of tone and a firmness of attack that are surprising in so inexperienced a singer, and show the excellence of the vocal training she is receiving. She interpreted the aria from Goring Thomas' "Nachesda" with great finish and style, and received an enthusiastic recall.
81Miss Howard has a fine stage presence and appears to be exceptionally well equipped for an operatic career, which is, we understand, the goal of this young woman's ambition.
83Concert at a Girls' School.
85ALBERT MILDENBERG, pianist and director, assisted by Franz Kaltenborn, violinist; Miss Josephine Mildenberg, soprano; Miss Dye, dramatic reader; E. A. Lockhart, basso; Louis Blumenberg, cellist, and Miss Magdalen Worden, accompanist, appeared at a concert last Saturday evening given by the department of music of the Classical School for Girls at 2042 Fifth avenue.
87New Hotel Bellevue.
88NEW, MODERN, FIREPROOF HOTEL.
89BEACON STREET (near Tremont Street),
90BOSTON, MASS.
91Central Location. European Plan.
92HARVEY & WOOD.
94ERSKINE PORTER
95EIGHT YEARS OF AGE
96BOY SOPRANO
97CHURCH AND CONCERT.
98For Terms, &c., address
99Mrs DAVID PORTER,
10073d St. and 2d Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
102HOLMES COWPER
103TENOR
104Address Kimball Hall or Bureau of Fine Arts, CHICAGO.
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