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Musical Courier 1902-02-12: Vol 44 Iss 1142, 1902
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1work enough to make it worth the while of really good singers to devote themselves exclusively to concert work apart from the opera. The song of students, the love scene, the duet of Faust and Marguerite interrupted by Mephisto's entrance, the different choruses, were all faithfully given and warmly received by a very large audience that filled the Châtelet Theatre.
3At the last Conservatoire concert a Moorish Rhapsody by Humperdinck was produced, but did not make much impression. The critics do not find that the work had anything Moorish about it except the name. Nor do they find it very original, one saying that if Wagner's method were to disappear, one could always get his technic from Humperdinck. In his knowledge of developing a theme and skill in counterpoint the composer, however, is placed without a rival.
5A very interesting conférence was given at the Schola Cantorum by Pierre Lalo, a well-known music critic, on Schubert. The difference between the musician's inner life and the grandeur of his compositions was made clear in a concise and interesting manner. Two of Schubert's songs were sung by Mlle. Bréval and two by M. Delmas. Risler played two impromptus and Marteau the Fantasia for Violin in C minor.
7At the last Conservatoire concert a Moorish Rhapsody by Humperdinck was produced, but did not make much impression. The critics do not find that the work had anything Moorish about it except the name. Nor do they find it very original, one saying that if Wagner's method were to disappear, one could always get his technic from Humperdinck. In his knowledge of developing a theme and skill in counterpoint the composer, however, is placed without a rival.
9If the symphonic concerts in Paris have taken upon themselves the active propaganda of Wagner, the New Philharmonic Society seems to be devoting itself just as assiduously to the cult of Brahms. The Dutch Trio of Berlin—so called on account of its being composed of three Hollanders, Bos, van Veen and van Lier—gave the C minor Trio of Brahms, and that of Mozart in B flat. Their performance was marked by unanimity and fidelity of expression. Van Lier, the 'cellist, who is professor of his instrument at the Berlin Conservatoire, played as his solo Adagio and Allegro, by Boccheffini, and the "Abendlied," by Schumann. The vocalist was Paul Darax (bass), who replaced Mlle. E. Blanc. He gave songs by Händel, Beethoven and the "Two Grenadiers" of Schumann.
11The excellent organization known as the Chaignau Trio has returned to Paris from Belgium. These clever artists are engaged to appear shortly at Madrid, in the month of March, giving three concerts, at which they will perform all Beethoven's trios.
13At the Opéra Comique the new work by Arthur Coquard is being rehearsed daily. It is called "La Troupe Jolicoeur." Also at the same theatre, a one act opera by Ernest Reyer, "Maitre Wolfram," and which was the first work for the theatre of this composer, being first produced at the Théâtre Lyrique, in 1854. As Mlle. Lucienne Bréval leaves on January 24 for America, her part in "Grisélidis," the opera of Massenet, will be taken by Mlle. Cesbrin, a pupil from the Conservatoire, who has, I think, not yet made an appearance. Program for the week: "La Vie de Bohème," Monday; "Grisélidis," Tuesday and Friday; "Carmen," Wednesday; "Le Juif Polonais," with Victor Maurel, Thursday; "Louise," Saturday.
15At the Opéra, "Siegfried" is being given twice a week with great success. Miss Bessie Abbott being indisposed, was replaced in the part of the Forest Bird by Mlle. Berthe Mendés, who made a good impression by her fresh voice and purity of diction. Program for the week: "Les Huguenots," Monday; "Siegfried," Wednesday and Saturday; "Les Barbares" and "La Korrigane" (ballet), Friday.
17A new opera in four acts and nine scenes has just been produced at Marseilles. It is called "La Belle au bois dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty"), and is the work of Charles Silver, a grand prix de Rome, and pupil of Massenet. The book is by Michel Carré and Paul Collin. The music, it is said, is quite modern in style, and bears traces of Massenet's influence, particularly in the first act, where a melody, "Tout repose, la nuit desseign," is of that smooth, easy flowing order so much affected by the composer of "Manon" and "Werther."
19Mme. Sibyl Sanderson has contradicted the report that she is to sing in operetta next winter. Her approaching marriage with Comte Henry Fitz-James, however, it is announced, will not necessitate her withdrawal from the stage. The public will be gratified to learn this. To a reporter who recently interviewed him on the subject, the Count is stated to have said: "I understand something has been said about my taking a wife from the stage. I would suggest that I am not marrying a Gaiety girl." (Isn't this rather hard on the Gaiety girl?) "Madame Sanderson is a great artist, well known the world over, and holds a high rank in the profession!
21"Will she leave opera after our marriage? No; I think she has no such intention. The life of an artist belongs
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