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Musical Courier 1902-02-12: Vol 44 Iss 1142, 1902
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1CHICAGO, February 8, 1902.
3ME. FANNIE BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER will be the soloist at the Chicago Orchestra's concerts in the Auditorium on February 21 and 22.
4The eminent American pianist will play Chopin's concerto in F minor.
6Ella Dahl Rich will give a recital before the Woman's Musical Club, of Toronto, Canada, on February 24.
7Representative compositions for the piano will be included in the program.
9Frank Tobey has just been selected as successor to the late H. Stanley Davies, who was dramatic instructor at the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory. In making this appointment Frederic Grant Gleason and Roy Arthur Hunt have displayed excellent judgment. Mr. Tobey not only is a capable instructor, he is in special sympathy with the work which lies before him, having for years been a professional associate and personal friend of Mr. Davies.
11Mme. Schumann-Heink and Mrs. Johanna Hess-Burr will give a joint recital on April 30 in the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building.
13Paul Knapp, 'cellist, who has recently returned from a sojourn of several years' duration in Germany, will make his first public appearance here in a recital with Vernon d'Arnal at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Tuesday evening, February 18. Mr. d'Arnal is well known as a singer of German, French and English songs. Both artists are members of the faculty of the Chicago Musical College.
15Margaret Jeannette Loudon, pianist; Grace Whistler-Misick, contralto, and Otto Roehrborn and Hermann Dieskel, of the Spiering String Quartet, will give a recital before the Englewood Women's Club on Monday afternoon, February 10.
17On the evening of February 13, at 8.30 o'clock, the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory's School of Opera, with orchestral assistance, will present a program consisting of Vorspiel, "King Manfred," Reinecke; "Liebeslied," Taubert; introduction to "Otho Visconti," Act III. (by request), Gleason, and scenes from "Der Freischutz," Act III, Weber, in which the parts of Agathe, Anna and Max, respectively, will be taken by Rose Nusbaum, Mrs. Arthur K. Rouse and George Kitendaugh.
19BUREAU OF FINE ARTS ANNOUNCEMENTS.
20On February 20, a song cycle, "The Trend of Time," by Victor Kemp, will be produced for the first time in Chicago. The artists are to be Maude Lindon Wells, Adele Blauer, Holmes Cowper, Albert Borroff, Anne Shaw Faulkner-Reader, and Mrs. Hess-Burr, pianist. Among recent and future engagements reported by the Bureau of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Building, are the following:
21George Hamlin, Mrs. Sue Harrington Furbeck, Leon Marx, at Davenport, Ia., February 3.
22Miss Helen Smyser, Mrs. Bessie Fox Davies, Frank Hannah, Albert Borroff, at Michigan City, Ind., February 4.
23Leon Marx, March 6, with the Mendelssohn Club, and February 10, at Nashville, Tenn.
24Mrs. Sue Harrington Furbeck, February 27, at Chicago. Holmes Cowper, February 4, at Minneapolis, April 23, at Cincinnati, February 17, with the Apollo Club, Chicago. George Hamlin, April 4 and 5, with the Paur Symphony Orchestra, New York.
25Miss Helen Smyser, Henry W. Newton, Chas. W. Clark, May 7, in "The Creation," at Akron, Ohio.
26Mrs. Sue Harrington Furbeck, Miss Helen Smyser and Albert Borroff recently won an ovation at St. Joseph, Mo., in "The Messiah."
27The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is meeting with great success on its California trip, and a number of bookings have been made for festivals in April, May and June.
29The Chicago Auditorium Conservatory is furnishing a number of singers for George Ade's new opera, "The Sultan of Sulu," which is shortly to be produced at the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building.
31ALLEN SPENCER.
32Said the Daily Gazette, of Delaware, Ohio, in reference to a recent concert:
33The first number of the concert course in the Ohio Wesleyan School of Music for the winter term was a recital Thursday evening at Monnett Hall, given by the eminent pianist, Allen Spencer, of Chicago. The entire program was carefully selected, and presented in a thoroughly artistic manner. Mr. Spencer is a pianist of finished technic and excellent interpretation of the best in piano literature. His first group of compositions from the old classics was played in a clean style and with splendid knowledge of the works, while the second group, including numbers from Chopin and Schuett, was played with a rare, intelligent grasp of the works of two widely different composers. The entire suite of Schuett was played for the first time before a Delaware audience, and is a work of exquisite harmonies and beautiful tone coloring. Mr. Spencer has the work thoroughly under control, and the variety of shading given was a rare treat for all present. In his last group, which was compositions from the modern school, Mr. Spencer showed himself to be equal to the technical demands of compositions from Liszt and others. An appreciative audience gave the pianist very hearty applause at the close of the program, and he was obliged to respond to an encore.
35Herbert Mott, who took part in the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory's dramatic performance on February 6, died suddenly this week, much to the regret of the promising young student's many friends and associates.
37The Schumann Club has issued invitations for a musi- cale to be given by Emma Roelle, pianist, assisted by Francis Lieb, baritone, at Emma E. Clark's studio, Fine Arts Building, on Wednesday evening, February 12. The first of a series of six analytical "talks" upon church modes and fugues will be contributed by Mrs. M. E. Bigelow, Mus. Bac., and an informal reception will follow the program.
39As previously announced, Richard Burmeister, the eminent New York pianist, will give a recital at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on the afternoon of February 13. The hour is 3 o'clock.
41Mme. Margaretta Wunderle, the harpist, is contributing very valuable assistance to the Chicago Orchestra this season. Her playing on Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26, was especially worthy of high praise, the compositions presented in the Auditorium on those days requiring much service from the harp. Madame Wunderle should be decidedly successful in solo numbers.
43Next Monday evening's performance of "La Bohème," at the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building, will mark the 900th appearance of the Castle Square singers in Chicago. Souvenirs will be presented in honor of this anniversary occasion. "La Bohème" is to be the attraction throughout the week.
45Eunice St. Clair Martens, the gifted soprano, sang very effectively at Mrs. William Edward Bell's musicale on the afternoon of February 4, her numbers including "Où Vousalle Vous Aller," Gounod; "Pastoral," Old Italian. Veracini, and Romance, "Paul et Virginie," Victor Masse.
47Tartini, Spohr, Ernst, David, Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps were the composers represented in the Spiering Violin School's excellent program at the Assembly Room, Fine Arts Building, on Saturday morning, February 1. The talented performers, all of whom reflected much credit Theodore Spiering's able instruction, were Edith Stanton Brown, Alice Livingston, Hattie M. Haase, Ethel Chamberlain, Gertrude Housel, Fred Hunt and Kathryn Loomis.
49"Dolores" is the name of Hans S. Line's new comic opera, in which Helen Redmond may star next season. The author is a Chicagoan.
51Francis Hemington is being heard in an extensive series of historical organ recitals at the Church of the Epiphany.
53George Grossmith, the English entertainer, will be one of the attractions at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, early in March.
55A new organization is "The Northwestern University Woman's Glee Club," officers and members of which are: Manager, Miss Jessica Macfarland; director, Miss Myrta McKean; leader, Miss Alta Miller; secretary, Miss Christine Atwood; Misses Harriet Durham, Mary Ickes, Carrie Reeves, Marion Sterrett, Grace Bolster, Catherine Ammon, Atwood, Peichereau, Raymond, Norton, Scribner, Masters, Beeman and Craig.
57The Chicago Record-Herald recently printed the following interesting account of the career of a well-known Chicago pianist, Birdice Blye Richardson:
58Mrs. Richardson is of English extraction and was born in Sioux City, Ia. However, she spent so little time there and so much time
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