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Musical Courier 1902-02-12: Vol 44 Iss 1142, 1902
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1other night Kubelik's necktie was torn off by ladies who were endeavoring to kiss him and clip off a lock of his matchless hair. When the policeman finally got him into his carriage he imprudently waved his hand from the window. It was at once grabbed and almost wrenched off. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt invited a couple of hundred ultra-exclusive guests to hear Kubelik play. At the conclusion the ladies wept and mobbed him till he fled.' We credit the society women of New York with better manners and more modesty. It is a fact that Kubelik is attracting crowds of the unmusical, but the Morning Leader man quite forgot to state that the violinists who have made real, legitimate successes in America this season are Fritz Kreisler and Charles Gregor, vitsch.'"
3Ere this news has probably reached you of the great success in Prague of Paderewski's "Manru."
5This is from the German Times of to-day: "Otto Floersheim's 'Consolation,' symphonic movement for orchestra, was performed with great success at a recent concert in Neu-Ruppin. A leading critic characterizes Mr. Floersheim as a master of orchestration, and a composer whose future works one must await with the greatest interest."
7At a musicale given not long ago by Consul-General and Mrs. Mason, Miss Lucille Marcel, of New York, created enthusiasm with her artistic singing of several songs.
9In further explanation of the unsavory affair that happened recently at a local conservatory of music, and which I reported in this column, the director of the institution requests me to say that the person guilty of the misdemeanor is not a regular teacher, but a free pupil, who was acting as instructor pro tem. He has apologized to the young lady, and is threatened with instant expulsion on the slightest repetition of his disrespectful conduct toward his American female fellow pupils.
11A local journal suggests that practical notation is the ability to turn musical notes into bank notes. Our students will eagerly scan future issues of this journal for ways and means.
13Hans Richter has been engaged as a leader for the Wagner performances in Paris next spring.
15A number of American boys went over to Leipsic last week to attend Arthur Hartmann's second concert there. They corroborate the stories of the young violinist's tremendous success, and of his being forced to respond to five encores. Hartmann's tour is now taking him south. He will give a second orchestral concert in Vienna, then push on to Budapest, Bucharest, Cettigne, Belgrade, Constantinople, Rome, Florence, Milan and Naples. In April Hartmann is booked for several London concerts.
17In London they do not have five concerts on one evening as in Berlin. But with other methods they arrive at the same results. Read this notice, clipped from an English exchange: "The St. James' Hall ballad concert on the afternoon of the 29th inst. promises the following list of artists: Mmes. Hortense Paulsen, Raymond Roze, Alice Gomez, Helen Pettican, Edith Serpell, Florence Venning and Ben Davies, Wm. Green, Kennerley Rumford, Denham Price, Maurice Farkoa, William Backhaus and Johannes Wolff." Only thirteen soloists, thank you!
19Miss Elizabeth Patterson, of Pittsburg, who is shortly to give a concert here, sang on Sunday at the evening service in the American Church. Miss Patterson's voice was greatly admired.
21Miss May Hamaker, of New York, who has been filling vaudeville engagements, is in town, preparing for her season at the Theater des Westens, where she will fill the position of first coloratura soprano. Miss Hamaker originally came to Berlin to study violin, and was for some time a pupil of Joachim at the Royal High School of Music.
23The great American Minstrel Show that has so long been agitating Berlin's social and musical colony, will take place on February 14 at the aristocratic Künstlerhaus, in the Bellevue Strasse. Our Ambassador and his wife, as well as members of the other embassies, are to occupy the first three rows of the parquet. An invitation has been extended to Emperor Wilhelm. Some days after the Berlin performance the company will go to Dresden, in a special car, and repeat the show there before the extensive English and American colonies. Moving spirits in the enterprise have been Consul-General and Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Derrick, Mrs. O'Hara Murray (formerly Nikita, the famous soprano), Wm. C. Dreher, of the Associated Press; Fred. Wile, of the Chicago News and Record-Herald; Leonard Liebling, of The Musical Courier and the German Times; E. E. Roberts, of the Associated Press, and C. A. Luhnow, of the New York Herald and Boston Transcript.
25This is the program of the first part:
26Opening chorus, Merry Minstrels.
27By the company.
28Kentucky Babe. Miss Daily.
29Brown October Ale. Mr. Dougall.
30Lam, Lam, Lam. Mr. Veil.
31Oh, Mr. Dingy, Don't Be So Stingy. Miss Woodbury.
32Asleep in the Deep. Mr. Derrick.
33Coon, Coon, Coon. Mr. Wile.
34Rosey, My Posey. Miss Wright.
35Mamie. Mr. Hirsch.
37These may be "chestnuts" to you, but we haven't heard them here. Remember, we are lumbering along about two years behind the times.
39The second part of the show is to consist of sketches, duos, solos, comedy turns, &c., by talented members of our student colony. The vocal soloists are to be Miss May Hamaker, Miss Germaine Ames, Miss Emma Ramsey, and Mr. Schalk, Mr. Towns and Mr. Reed. Miss Daily and two partners will sing "Three Little Maids"; Miss Lunn, Miss Wright and Leonard Liebling will do a satirical comedietta by the latter; twenty-four young musicians will perform a "program symphony," with apologies to Richard Strauss; Messrs. Beerman and Lohmann are down for a "farmer turn," and a male quartet will sing plantation melodies. The amateur orchestra is under the leadership of Mr. Beerman.
41Mario Fumigalli, the famous baritone, who left the operatic stage some time ago and became a real actor, is planning a tour through Germany. He will appear in Shakespearean roles.
43Franz Wüllner, director of the Cologne Conservatory, and leader of the famous Gürzenich concerts, celebrated his seventieth birthday on January 28. The popular professor was the recipient of many hundreds of telegrams and presents.
45St. Petersburg has invited Alfred Bruneau, of Paris, to direct an orchestral concert of French works. Bruneau has selected this rather curious program: "Impressions d'Italie," Charpentier; Symphonic Variations, Franck; Overture to "Gwendoline," Chabrier; "Marche Troyenne," Berlioz; Overture to "L'Ouragan," and scene from "Messler," Bruneau, and Violin Concerto, B minor, played by Thibaud, Saint-Saëns.
47Richard Strauss conducted his symphonic poem, "Heldenleben," at a recent concert in Carlsruhe. On the same occasion d'Albert played Beethoven's E flat Concerto. It was a treat to read the Carlsruhe papers. The critics realized that it was a case of two big men. With apologies Strauss was acknowledged to be the bigger.
49Hugo Heerman, the celebrated Frankfort violinist, contemplates concerts in Madrid of Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin.
51The Leipsic Signale tells of Carreño's success in Amsterdam. The same paper say that Ansorge is a dynamic exaggerator and that Reisenauer's playing lacks clarity.
53Three famous composers died in 1871, Auber, Maillart and Tausig. On January 1, 1902, the German copyright on their works expired.
55The Munich Royal Opera not long ago announced a long-standing deficit of 200,000 marks. The Prince Regent of Bavaria at once paid the amount out of his privy purse. The minor cities of the United States probably need a Prince Regent.
57Sigrid Arnoldson opened the St. Petersburg season of Italian opera with a splendid performance of "Mignon." Arnoldson is exceedingly popular in Russia, and received an ovation.
59Director Eduard Lassen, of the Weimar Opera, has been elected a member of the Brussels Royal Academy, in place of the deceased Maestro Verdi.
61President Charles M. Schwab, of the Steel Trust, was in town for two days. At the opera I asked him: "Is it true that your piano playing helped you to win influence with Andrew Carnegie?" "Beyond a doubt," replied Mr. Schwab. "I am hard at work again on my 'gradus,' and 'School of Velocity.'"
63McCall Lanham Pupils.
65MR. LANHAM'S pupils at the American Institute of Applied Music are progressing favorably. A number of them are most apt in their understanding of the Sbriglia method, of which Mr. Lanham is so capable an exponent, he having been under that great maestro for a number of years. He is peculiarly fitted for interpretation, style and diction, having made these a specialty with the well-known teacher Granier, of the Paris Conservatory. Some of Mr. Lanham's pupils who are worthy of special mention are Miss Adele Essertier, who has a beautiful dramatic soprano voice, which she uses with much taste and good method. James Mr. Schapiro, a young Roman, has a splendid lyric tenor, which is destined to make its mark. Miss Hulda Stumpf, of Pennsylvania, a mezzo-soprano, is accomplishing good results in method and style. Lawrence Sammis, of Long Island, has a big, resonant, deep bass voice, which he is learning to use with good method. Miss Ashcraft and Miss Purtell, two contraltos, are showing much intelligence in their work. They both have voices of beautiful quality. Miss Ochs and Miss Saxton are making progress in their work, and more will be heard of them anon. Of the beginners, Mr. Conrad Meyer, Miss Carpenter, Miss Perry and Miss Larrabee have accomplished good results. Mr. Lanham has cause to feel gratified over the work his pupils have done thus far.
67Eleanor Cleaver.
69THE many friends of Mme. Eleanor Cleaver, the contralto, will welcome the news that she will soon be heard here again. She will make her first appearance here this season in Mendelssohn Hall, on Wednesday evening, March 12, assisted by Ingo Simon, baritone, with Bruno S. Huhn at the piano. Madame Cleaver made a great reputation for herself before going abroad, and her return to her native land will be a valuable acquisition to the ranks of American artists.
71"Zaza" in Opera.
73LEONCAVALLO'S opera "Zaza" was produced in Antwerp on the 6th, and achieved a great success. The opera follows the lines of the play closely.
75HENRY THOMAS FLECK.—Henry Thomas Fleck, who for nearly two years has been professor of music in the Normal College of New York, and whose service was in a sense probationary, has been reappointed and his position made permanent. Since taking charge of this work Mr. Fleck has accomplished very gratifying results. He has demonstrated executive ability of a high order. His ripe musicianship long ago received recognition.
77BOSTON QUINTETTE CLUB
79North American Tour Begins
80October, 1902.
81South America, 1903.
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