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Musical Courier 1902-02-12: Vol 44 Iss 1142, 1902
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1and his breadth of sonorous tone in the andante movement well illustrated the facility and the strength and purity of the violinist's art.
3Bach's grand fugue in A minor for violin alone showed Kreisler at his best. His precise fingering and flawless intonation merited the applause that brought him twice to the stage to bow in acknowledgment.
5Gluck's charming andante in D minor, with its depth of sympathy, the quaint "Tambourin" of Leclair and the Tartini Variations on a Theme of Corelli, calling for most dexterous fingering, were contrasting selections that showed the versatility of the player.
7His is a performance to excite admiration in the student of the violin and to win appreciation from anyone that has even little knowledge of music.—Globe.
9NORDICA.
11MADAME NORDICA'S characteristics—pluck, perseverance, energy and conscientious fulfillment of every obligation—are nearly as well known over two continents as are her wonderful musical gifts and her exalted rank as an artist.
13It was no surprise, therefore, when in reading of the recent railroad accident in the South the public learned that Madame Nordica resolutely made light of the shock and the bruises she had sustained, and not only succored, in her own private car, those who had suffered more serious injuries, but had coffee made and served, and otherwise did all in her power to help her fellows in misfortune.
15More, Madame Nordica, by sheer force of her indomitable will, pushed on to Nashville, Tenn., gave her recital there the following evening, according to contract; kept the succeeding Alabama dates, and sang at Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, Tex., immediately afterward, on consecutive evenings.
17Then she went direct to California, and there, in Los Angeles, she also sang her engagement at the time set; but even her superb constitution and iron will were unequal to the strain thus made upon them, and the reaction set in that would probably have resulted, with any other prima donna, in an abandonment of the tour.
19Not so, however, with Madame Nordica. The immediate dates were, of necessity, cancelled, and conscientiously she devoted herself to as speedy recovery as possible, with the successful and gratifying result that on February 13 the Nordica recital tour will be resumed at Portland, Ore. The three dates in San Francisco will follow, and then after Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane, Wash., the engagements booked in Colorado, Kansas, and Iowa will be filled, and so on East in time for four dates with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other recitals in Eastern cities, which will fill the time until Madame Nordica sails for England in April, to rest and recuperate for her Covent Garden dates during the Coronation season.
21"Manru" at the Musical Salon.
23PADEREWSKI'S opera was the principal subject at the meeting of the Salon last week, excerpts being given by Miss Martha Henry, Miss Freda Busing, Paul Volkmann and Andreas Schneider, with a chorus of village maidens, Reinhold L. Herman conductor, and students of the American School of Opera participating.
25The opera undoubtedly presents too great difficulties for the average singer, and of those who took part Mr. Schneider won the honors. Preceding this there was a miscellaneous program, given by James Liebling, cellist; Miss Helen Koelling, soprano; Mr. Schneider and Louis V. Saar, the latter playing a series of his own piano pieces. A large and fashionable audience attended. On the program we notice such errors as "Listz," "Rubenstein," "Kömte" and "Springbrunner."
27The third meeting occurs March 6, when Sarah K. Hadley's song cycle, "Hiawatha's Wooing," and selections from Rubinstein's "Christus" are to be given.
29BAERNSTEIN'S ENGAGEMENTS.—In addition to the long list of festivals and spring engagements booked for Joseph Baernstein, the Kansas City Festival, May 6 to 8, has been added. Mr. Baernstein will sing "Mephistopheles" in Gounod's "Faust" in concert form, and the bass parts in Rossini's "Stabat Mater." Mr. Baernstein made a most profound impression at the Kansas City Festival last year when he sang an aria from Weber's "Euryanthe" and bass parts in "The Creation," and his re-engagement is the result.
31MR. HERMANN KLEIN.
32Studio for Instruction in Singing,
33120 West 71st Street, New York.
34Among those artists who have at various times honored Mr. Klein by studying with him, &c., &c., with him are the following:
35Madame Adelina Patti, Miss Ida Russell,
36Madame Gacki, Miss Esther Packer,
37Miss Marquise Macintyre, Madame Alice Esty,
38Madame Schumann-Heink, Mlle. Olitzka,
39Mr. Ben Davies, Mme. Clara Poole-King,
40Mr. Joseph O'Mara, Mr. Eugene Oudin.
42COMING CONCERTS.
43A piano recital will be given by Hélène Augustin in Mendelssohn Hall on February 21.
45Albert Gérard-Thiers will deliver his lecture "Elieland" at the studios of Mrs. Babcock and Mrs. Ingersoll, Carnegie Hall, on Thursday, February 13.
47Edward Reuss, the pianist, will play the first Concerto of Liszt, at one of the "Pop" concerts, at the Metropolitan Opera House in the near future. Last week he played in Trenton, N. J.; Lawrenceville, N. J., and Bridgeport, Conn.
49Major Pond, who has charge of the Florizel-Gates concerts, has arranged for five consecutive violin and song recitals at the Waldorf-Astoria (Astor Gallery), Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, at 11 o'clock in the morning. Each recital will have a different program.
51Miss Marjorie Parker will play a recital at the Virgil Piano School, 29 West Fifteenth street, on Friday evening, February 14.
53A good program has been prepared for the occasion. Persons musically interested are requested to write for tickets.
55Miss Adah Campbell Hussey, the young Boston contralto, has been added to Mr. Ruben's list of artists, and will appear at the first of his operatic and dramatic mornings in the grand ballroom in the Waldorf-Astoria, Friday, February 14, at 11:30, together with Miss Amelia Bingham, who will perform in a dramatic sketch; Mlle. Fritz Scheff, of the Metropolitan Opera House; Heath Gregory and Jean Gérardy.
57Augusta Cottlow, the gifted young pianist, will be the soloist at the Young People's Symphony concert to be given in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, on February 15, and on February 27 will have her third appearance with orchestra in New York this season, in the concert given by the Society for Ethical Culture in the Metropolitan Opera House. Miss Cottlow will be in the West during the month of March, filling important engagements.
59Miss Frieda Stender is kept exceedingly busy filling her numerous engagements. Her New York appearances thus far booked for February will be: February 11, Carnegie Hall, benefit concert Buyers' Association; February 18, Mendelssohn Hall, Women's String Orchestra (Carl Lachmund conductor); February 20, Waldorf-Astoria, Apollo Club, and February 28, Waldorf-Astoria, Dramatic and Musical Mornings (management of L. M. Ruben).
61The second concert by the Women's String Orchestra will be given at Mendelssohn Hall, Tuesday afternoon, February 18. Mr. Lachmund, the conductor, has arranged a special Lenten program, including a Suite for organ and strings by Rheinberger (who died in November); Otto Floersheim's "Gesang für die G Suite de Vio-line" (to be played on twenty-one violins in unison, with organ accompaniment), and a Threnody composed by Carl V. Lachmund in memoriam of Mme. Camilla Urso, who was honorary president of this society.
63Ludovic Breitner, the pianist; Mrs. Breitner, the violinist, and Leo Schultz, the violoncellist, have planned to give in Knabe Hall two chamber music recitals. The first of these will take place to-morrow night, when this program will be presented:
64Dumky Trio, op. 90………………………………………Dvorák
65Sonate, op. 121…………………………………………..Schumann
66Trio, op. 101……………………………………………..Brahms
67For piano, violin and 'cello.
68For piano and violin.
69For piano, violin and 'cello.
71In compliance with numerous requests F. X. Arens, conductor of the People's Symphony concerts, now in progress at Cooper Union Hall, has rearranged the program heretofore announced for the next concert of the series on Friday, February 21, and the orchestral numbers will include Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Happy Voyage" Overture, Mozart's E flat Symphony, Grieg's "Peer Gynt" Suite and the "Lohengrin" Vorspiel and "Tannhäuser" March of Wagner. Miss Susan Metcalfe, soprano, will assist at the concerts, offering songs by Händel, Brahms and Schubert.
73The third recital in the series which Ferdinand Carri, the violinist, is giving this season will take place next Tuesday evening in Knabe Hall. Mr. Carri will resuscitate several works of the early writers for the violin, and will play, by way of contrast, compositions by the modern masters. He will be assisted by his brother Hermann, and his program will be:
74Sonata…………………………………………………Francesco Maria Veracini
75Prize Song, from Die Meistersinger…………………Wagner-Wilhelm
76Gavotte, No. 1………………………………………Bohm
77Nocturno……………………………………………..Chopin-Carri
78Le Labyrinthe de l'Harmonie………………………..Pietro Locatelli
79Adagio and Rondo, from the E major Concerto……..Vieuxtemps
80O Willie, We Have Missed You……………………..Vieuxtemps
81St. Patrick's Day……………………………………Vieuxtemps one of two readings
82St. Patrick's Day…………………………………….Vieuxtemps one of two readings
83Carnaval de Venise…………………………………Ernst-Paganini one of two readings
84Carnaval de Venise………………………………….Ernst-Paganini one of two readings
85Cavatina……………………………………………..Ferdinand Carri
86Airs Hongroise………………………………………Ernst
88HERMAN COLELL Dead.
90HERMAN COLELL, treasurer of the Bedell Leaf Tobacco Company and prominent in musical circles, died at his home, 171 South Ninth street, Brooklyn, last Sunday night. Mr. Colell was born in Berlin seventy-six years ago. He came to this country in the memorable year of 1848, the year that Carl Schurz and other Germans who became eminent left the Fatherland to seek their fortunes in the United States. Mr. Colell was a man of force, and was very successful. He first went to Cleveland, Ohio, but returned to New York in 1852. For forty-two years he resided in Brooklyn. Under the administration of Mayor Frederick A. Schroeder, one of the best mayors the old city of Brooklyn ever had, Mr. Colell was appointed excise commissioner. As a patron of music and a true lover of art, Mr. Colell's praise and sympathy were never withheld. William Sennacher brought Rafael Joseffy over to this country in 1879, and that great pianist's first tour in America was made under Mr. Colell's management. Mr. Colell himself brought over to this country Louis George Julien, the composer and conductor, from London, and later he was instrumental in the coming and subsequent tour of the great violinist, Teresina Tua. One of Mr. Colell's most important and most beautiful efforts in the advancement of music was the first concerts at Brighton Beach by Anton Seidl and his orchestra. General James Jordan, president of the Brighton Beach Railroad, was police commissioner of Brooklyn at the time when Mr. Colell was serving his time as excise commissioner. Their relationship resulted in the introduction of these enjoyable orchestral concerts during the summer at popular prices.
92Mr. Colell was a charter member of both the New York and Brooklyn Arion. For many years he never missed a concert or operatic performance of importance. Mr. Colell leaves four children; the three by his first wife are Mrs. John M. Fuchs, of Bedford avenue, Brooklyn; Mrs. E. J. Zimmerman, of Greene avenue, Brooklyn, and Edward H. Colell, manager of Wissner Hall, Brooklyn. The fourth child is a little girl of seven, by his second wife, who survives him. Mr. Colell's first wife, who was a Miss Spier, died in 1891. The funeral services were held last evening (Tuesday) from the residence of the deceased.
94MORGAN STRING QUARTET.—Six chamber music concerts are being given by the Morgan Chamber Music Club, on Wednesday afternoons, at 5 o'clock, on the following dates: January 22, February 5 and 19, March 12, April 2 and 23, at the homes of Mesdames Robert Abbe, J. West Roosevelt, Henry Wm. Poor, J. W. Miller, Stanford White.
96The club will have the assistance of Fritz Kreisler, H. H. Wetzler, Elliott Schenck and other artists. At the first concert the program consisted of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" Sonata and the Beethoven Quartet, op. 18, No. 5, the former played by Mr. Kreisler.
98MAX DECSI AT CARNEGIE HALL.—This vocal teacher has just taken handsome studios in Carnegie Hall, eleventh floor. The good work done by him is bearing fruit, for among his pupils are many of the most prominent singers of the day—Anita Rio, Sibyl Sammis, Agnes Paul, Alice Nielsen, de la Paz, Julian Walker, Ion Jackson, Geo. Stevens and others.
100ELEANOR CLEAVER,
101CONTRALTO,
102Will make her FIRST APPEARANCE IN CONCERT
103Wednesday Evening, March 12, at Mendelssohn Hall.
104Tickets now on sale at Schuberth's, 23 Union Square, New York.
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