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Musical Courier 1902-02-19: Vol 44 Iss 1143, 1902
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1MUSICAL PEOPLE
3George S. Bush announces the removal of his studio from Norfolk, Va., Conservatory of Music to 100 Granby street.
5Miss Ida M. Morse gave a pupils' recital last week at Omaha, Neb., to about 100 friends and parents of her pupils.
7The regular monthly studio musicale by Samuel Richards Gaines and pupils was given at the studios, Detroit, Mich., January 29.
9Miss Viola Sontag, assisted by Miss Ella Leonard, contralto, pupils of Albert S. Kramer, gave a piano recital at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee, Wis., on February 11.
11A musicale is being arranged at Omaha, Neb., to take place early this month. The artists will be Joseph Gahn, Mr. Gareissen, Mrs. Neely, Mr. Manchester, Mr. Wright and Edward Gareissen.
13The third of a series of concerts under the management of Mrs. E. E. Baker was given in the Whigam-Schubert Hall, Barberton, Ohio, recently, to the largest audience that had yet assembled.
15A concert was given by Signor F. d'Auria and his pupils, assisted by Madame d'Auria, Mrs. Fitz-Gibbons, Miss Mae Elizabeth Stephens, Miss Thekla M. Pleins, Sol Hein and Allen F. Mason.
17At Galesburg, Ill., on January 31, a large and appreciative audience greeted Miss Forrest Horrell, when she gave a vocal recital in Beecher Chapel. Miss Horrell is a teacher in the Knox Conservatory of Music.
19The piano recital given by Miss Bessie Taylor Mellor at Marietta, Ohio, on the 1st, in which she was assisted by Prof. George Kruger, of the Cincinnati Conservatory, Harry Hart and Miss Myrtie Sibley, was a success.
21Under the direction of Miss Julia Plumb, assisted by Mrs. Greenleaf, Mrs. Alice Drennen Robinson and other artists, supplemented by a carefully drilled chorus, a concert was given at Des Moines, Ia., last week. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Jones was accompanist.
23A musicale was given at S. N. Noyes', West Newbury, Mass., recently. The participants were members of the Adelphi Orchestra, of this city, and the Pentucket Orchestra, of Haverhill. The program included numbers by Haydn, Schubert, Bendix, Grieg, von Weber and Mozart.
25Some of the music class of Miss Hamme gave a recital January 30 at Wilmington, N. C. They were: Miss Olive Quince, Miss Louise Corinth, Miss Louise John, Misses French, Catlett, Parsley, Fishblate and Worth, Miss Ida Evans, Miss Margaret John, Miss Virginia Bailey and Miss E. Hall.
27Mrs. Carrie A. Baily gave a class recital February 1 at Sioux City, Ia. Those taking part were Frank Trenery, Ella Bogen, Meta Gallagher, Mrs. L. L. Gable, Connie Yates, Jessie Kistle, Harry Howard, Isabel Cramer, Mabel Kueny, Grace Redmon, Miss Werni, Miss Mayhew, Mae Louise Bailey, Edwin Buehler, Ella Kueny, Clarence Conway, Mrs. W. Boyd and Mildred Hammond.
29The music pupils of Ida A. Bundy held a meeting in her home at Grand Rapids, Mich., in January. The class selected the following officers: President, Charlie Blackford; vice-president, George Kahn; secretary, Vere Keeler; warden, Mabel Williams. Piano numbers were given by Hazel Green, Frankie Miller, Florence Campbell, Ada Hoogerhyde, Mabel Bank, Frances Millard and George Kahn.
31Miss Alice Jane Roberts' piano pupils, Elmira, N. Y., assisted by R. T. Warlich, basso, and Miss S. C. Hoffman, soprano, gave a program on February 8. Mrs. Charles Frydenborg, Miss Emma Van Ness, Miss Sue Winifred Smith, Miss Florence Davis, Miss Emma Haviland, Miss Georgianna Palmer and Miss Martina Kenrick took part.
33The New York Newsdealers' and Stationers' Protective and Benevolent Association held a John Swinton memorial meeting February 16 in the University Settlement Assembly Rooms. The Haley Singing Society, L. Kramer, director; Joseph Dorn and Mrs. Elizabeth Daly were the soloists on the program.
35At Seabreeze, Fla., a musicale under the direction of Roy P. Barker was given on February 7. The large and appreciative audience present was loud in its applause. F. H. Landolt, T. B. Hollinger, J. J. de Pool, Miss Spaulding, Miss Gertrude Stephens, Miss Genevieve Hesser, Miss Devereux, Miss Jones, Miss Etta M. Butz, Mrs. Spangler and Roy P. Barker took part.
37The first of a series of studio recitals for solo work by her advanced pupils was given by Miss Louise Parker on February 7 in her studio, Kansas City, Mo. An audience of friends gave a cordial reception to the soloist of the day, Miss Sarah Elsa Reed, and the musicians assisting—Miss Beth Boright, 'cellist, and Miss Mildred Langworthy, soprano, pupil of Mrs. W. G. Hawes. The accompaniments were acceptably performed by Mrs. W. B. Nickels and Miss Parker.
39The management of the Conservatory of Music, Ithaca, N. Y., received the following acceptances from directors of conservatories throughout the country to attend the anniversary day exercises on February 11: Ossian E. Mills, treasurer of the New England Conservatory of Music, and founder of the Sinfonia Fraternity; Gilbert Reynolds Combs, director of the Broad Street Conservatory of Music, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Eberhardt, director of the Grand Conservatory of Music, New York; E. C. Sterling, director of the College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ralph H. Pendleton, of Boston, Mass., grand secretary of the Sinfonia Fraternity.
41Breitner-Schulz Chamber Music Concert.
43LUDOVIC BREITNER, pianist; Mrs. Ludovic Breitner, violinist, and Leo Schulz, 'cellist, gave the first of two chamber music concerts at Knabe Hall last Thursday evening. The program, a charming one, included Dvorák's "Dumky" Trio, the Schumann Sonata, for piano and violin, op. 121, and the Brahms, op. 101. As the "Dumky" Trio is op. 90 of Dvorák's published works, it will be noted that the compositions were written by the composers when they had reached the full powers of maturity. The Dvorák Trio is one which both the musician and the layman may enjoy together, for in it the composer resorts to no technical intricacies, but tells a simple story, rather many simple stories, in which the folklore of the people abounds. The Breitners and Mr. Schulz performed the trio delightfully, throughout enhancing the plaintive, appealing melodies.
45Mr. and Mrs. Breitner played the Schumann Sonata with that sympathetic insight that has made their playing so agreeable to their admirers. Particularly Mr. Breitner, at the piano, gave a strong and at the same time a highly artistic performance. The Brahms Trio, played by the three artists, is one of that composer's strongest works, a work it may be said in which he reveals both scholarly workmanship and symmetry. There is not a bar too much in one of the four movements. The next concert in the series is announced for Thursday evening, March 6.
47THE WETZLER SYMPHONY CONCERT.
49LAST Sunday afternoon Carnegie Hall was very well filled to hear the first Sunday Symphony concert conducted by Herman Hans Wetzler. This was the program:
50Overture, Le Nozze di Figaro………………………………………Mozart
51Aria from The Seasons……………………………………………..Haydn
52Mr. Bispham………………………………………………………..Liszt
53Symphonic Poem, Orpheus………………………………………Liszt
54Orchestra.
55Kennst du das Land?……………………………………………….Liszt
56Mrs. Black.
57Quand ero paggio, from Falstaff………………………………..Verdi
58Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes……………………………Old English
59Kiliccrankie………………………………………………………..Wetzler
60Mr. Bispham.
61Vorspiel and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde………….Wagner
62That Wetzler has the powers of a conductor of large instrumental numbers was proven at the very outset. There was in his attitude and beat a thorough command of his forces which he never allowed to escape him.
64The Mozart overture was gracious in phrasing and winning in interpretation, with all its daintiness kept fresh; the accents were carefully placed, and altogether the Stimmung was the treasured one, "Aus dem Zopf."
66Liszt's stirring symphonic poem, "Orpheus," sounded the big note, and here the climaxes were carefully graded and very effective. And in the "Tristan und Isolde" Vorspiel and "Liebestod" the several emotional points were made with great care and no hesitation of meaning. Wetzler does not believe in hurrying through the prelude as it is so often done, but at a more moderate tempo he achieves climaxes and with much more clarity of thematic exposition. Throughout he kept the tone of his orchestra well balanced and never forced it to strident results.
68His song "Kiliccrankie" was so well received that it had to be repeated. It is very effective and unconventional.
70The orchestra played very well, and its conductor made the most of all his opportunities. In addition to his other commendable traits Wetzler is happily free from all mannerisms which mar the movements of most conductors.
72ARTHUR HARTMAN IN LEIPSIC.
74THE greatest violin success of the year was achieved by young Hartman in his two concerts here, and against such men as Sauret, Sarasate and Berber. Hartman played Tchaikowsky and Lalo at his first concert, at which Winderstein and his orchestra furnished the somewhat unequal accompaniments. Technical finish, power, passion and intimate knowledge of tonal contrasts were absolute in the opening allegro of the Tchaikowsky Concerto. The "Canzonetta" was sung with charming purity, and the finale did not suffer because of judicious cuts, as the constantly recurring D major theme is treated rather meagrely as regards variety, and the movement is spun out to unseemly lengths. The Lalo Concerto in F major received a dashing reading, and here the soloist had good support from Winderstein, who would do well in explaining to the brass the various definitions regarding that elusive term known as piano.
76The second concert brought Hartman such an ovation as is seldom witnessed in Leipsic. He played concertos of Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps (both in D minor), Bach, Prelude and Fugue (violin solo), and lesser compositions by Guiraud, Halvorson, Auer, &c. After this taxing program four encores were responded to, and finally let it be said, that with such a rare combination of qualities, embracing technic, tone, temperament, and, above all, fine musical sensibility, Arthur Hartman should be assured of a position of the highest distinction. Berlin, Vienna and Budapest gave the young artist a like reception as was accorded him here.
78Leipsic, January 23, 1902.
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