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Musical Courier 1902-02-19: Vol 44 Iss 1143, 1902
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1Music in Brooklyn.
3Concert by the Venth-Kronold Quartet.
5FOR the fourth time this season a large audience assembled at Wissner Hall to enjoy a concert by the Venth-Kronold String Quartet. As at the previous concert, the program for last Monday evening (February 10) included compositions by Carl Venth, the first violinist and leader of the quartet. These compositions, entitled by the composer character sketches, and named respectively "Christmas Adoration," "Reverie," and "Scherzo," were played between two favorites in the literature of chamber music, namely, the Rubenstein Quartet in G minor and the noble Piano Quintet by Schumann. Mr. Venth's new works, written for string quartet and piano, although played consecutively at the concert, are disconnected, but performed as they were they fitted well together and afforded a good contrast in theme and style. The part for the piano is of a minor character, but what little was required was sympathetically played by William E. Bassett, a teacher in the Berta Grosse-Thomason School for Piano. "Christmas Adoration" would be heard even to better advantage if the piano part was played upon the organ. The themes are churchly and in writing the composer was inspired by sublime ideals, for the thoughts of ecstatic worship of the Redeemer are strongly set forth. The second piece, "Reverie," is a little work of totally different style, still showing some originality and charm in construction. The "Scherzo" is a dazzling little bit, and it was withal brilliantly played. These pieces were received with great applause, and the composer was recalled several times.
7Messrs. Venth and Kronold and their associates performed the Rubenstein Quartet like the excellent musicians that they are. August Arnold, a veteran pianist and teacher, played the piano part in the Schumann Quintet, and the audience sat again under the spell of this masterpiece. "A world of music in itself," as Mr. Kronold, the cellist, remarked to a friend after the concert.
9Mr. Venth, by the way, is coming into his own at last. Although a German by birth, he has lived in this country for twenty-three years and is an American citizen, and it is as an American citizen that he was first introduced as a composer. Here in Brooklyn, where Mr. Venth has resided for many years, his talents are being recognized. The Brooklyn Institute, thanks to the director, Franklin W. Hooper, will present next autumn Mr. Venth's song cycle, "Hiawatha's Wooing." The text has been arranged by Henry E. Hard, principal of Public School No. 109, from Longfellow's poem. The cycle is for four voices—soprano, contralto, tenor and basso, and is dramatic in character. Mr. Hard has also written the libretto of a one act opera from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' tragic story, "Jack the Fisherman." Mr. Venth is the composer of the score. The librettist and composer have not yet agreed upon a title for the new opera. "Jack the Fisherman" will hardly be selected. When the matter of a title is settled, Messrs. Venth and Hard will endeavor to have the opera performed. This is not Mr. Venth's first venture into the realm of operatic music, he having written a comic and also a romantic opera. His music is marked for it spontaneity and strong Northern coloring. As a teacher of the violin Mr. Venth belongs in the front rank. Miss George, a daughter of the late Henry George, is among the pupils at the Venth Violin School this winter.
11APOLLO CLUB CONCERT.
13The midwinter concert by the Brooklyn Apollo Club attracted the usual invitation audience to the Academy of Music last Tuesday night (February 11), Shrove Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Hissem de Moss and Leo Schulz were the soloists. Mr. Brewer conducted. Doubtless moved by the criticisms of the songs sung at the December concert, Mr. Brewer was determined to put some decent works upon the program for the February concert, and he is to be congratulated for two such choruses as Joseph Mosenthal's setting of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" and "Land Sighting," Grieg. Both the Brooklyn Arion and Brooklyn Saengerbund have sung the Grieg chorus at concerts in Brooklyn. "Thanatopsis" was written by Mr. Mosenthal for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Mendelssohn Glee Club, of New York. There is an incidental solo for baritone, and this at the Brooklyn concert was sung by Henry S. Brown. William L. Richardson sang the incidental solo in Grieg's "Land Sighting." Hugh E. Williams sang the baritone solo in the old Welsh air, "All Through the Night," which Mr. Brewer harmonized for the club. The other choral numbers of the evening were "The Close of Day," Nessler; "Sunday On the Ocean," Heinze; "The Streets of Rome," Baldamus. and "The Legend of Heinz von Stein," by Thayer. The incidental solos by members of the club were well sung, that by Mr. Williams being particularly fine.
15Mrs. de Moss sang two groups of familiar songs, "Mein Lieb ist Grün," Brahms; "Songs My Mother Taught Me," Dvorák; "Spring," Tosti; "Aus Meinen Grossen Schmerzen," Franz; "The Thrustle," Maud Valerie White. In addition she sang two encores. Her sweet, pure voice and refined style made her singing as enjoyable as ever. Mr. Schulz played the beautiful, devotional "Kol Nidrei," by Bruch; a Berceuse, by Aleneff, and "At the Fountain," by Popper. He, too, was compelled to add extra numbers, and he played them, as well as his program selections, with that finish and musicianship we expect of an artist of his rank. Bruno Huhn played highly musical and sympathetic accompaniments for Mr. Schulz.
17HOADLEY MUSICAL SOCIETY.
19Among other interesting entertainments given in Brooklyn on the evening of Shrove Tuesday the writer includes the concert at the Germania Club by the Hoadley Musical Society. An amateur orchestra, under the direction of Theodore John, played selections by Grieg, Czibulka, Lentner, von Suppe, Halévy and Thomas. William King played violin solos by Vieuxtemps, Thomé and Bohm.
21Pupils of Madame Berta Grosse-Thomason, assisted by William Goeringer, violinist, played this program at the fourth musical meeting in Brooklyn:
22Scarf Dance…………………………………………..Chaminade
23Gussie Ohly.
24Menuet…………………………………………………Mozart-Schulhoff
25Dora Brennecke.
26Piano, Barcarolle………………………………………Edith Burnham
27Vocal, Love's Calendar……………………………….Edith Burnham
28Mrs. E. Burnham.
30Ich Liebe Dich…………………………………………..Grieg
31Adele Koch.
32Song to the Evening Star……………………………..Wagner-Low
33Daisy Woods.
34Violin and piano, Romanze………………………….Edith Burnham
35Mrs. Burnham and Mr. Goeringer.
36Menuet de la Mariée………………………………….Thomé
37Edna Shepard.
38Romanze in E flat…………………………………….Rubinstein
39Louise T. Ditmas.
40Violin and piano, Two Movements from Sonata, op. 8……..Grieg
41Belle Perkins and Mr. Goeringer.
43The meeting was held at Madame Thomason's residence, 61 Tompkins place, corner of Degraw street, and was enjoyed by the usual select company.
45TROETSCHEL ORGAN RECITAL.
47Three new compositions were played by Hugo Troetschel at his last organ recital in the German Evangelical Church on Schermerhorn street on the evening of February 10. The new works were "Fantaisie Dialoguée," by Boëllman; the Intermezzo from an unfamiliar Sonata by the late Josef Rheinberger, and a melody in B flat by Jonas. The Boëllman proved quite effective and melodious. The Intermezzo is from Rheinberger's Twentieth Sonata, and from what was heard of this one movement the Sonata is one of the profoundest and most beautiful of the German composer's published works. The Jonas melody is rather pretty, and the accompaniment is one all good musicians will enjoy playing. The remainder of selections heard at the recital were from the compositions of Bach, Wagner, Neustedt, Mendelssohn and Widor, a good list and harmoniously arranged. Throughout the evening Mr. Troetschel played with skill and musical feeling. Mrs. Katherine Noack-Fiqué, the assisting vocalist, sang "With Vengeance Clad," from Haydn's "Creation"; "Thou Art My All," by Brodsky, and a Rhenish Serenade (Old German). This charming singer was in good voice and delighted the large congregation with her sincere and sympathetic singing. Mr. Troetschel's next recital will be given on March 10, and on that occasion he will have the assistance of Mrs. Alexander Rihm, soprano, and Arthur Melvin Taylor, violinist.
49VON KLENNER PUPIL SINGS AT THE MONTAUK CLUB.
51Miss Kathleen Howard, the young and talented contralto from Buffalo, sang at the musicale given at the Montauk Club last Thursday evening. Miss Howard is spending the winter in New York, studying with Mme. Evans von Klenner. She has sung at several important concerts, and from all sides one hears flattering reports of her singing, her voice and her presence.
53Reports of the Young People's Symphony concert last Saturday afternoon and the concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last Monday evening will be found in other columns. Augusta Cottlow was the soloist at the Saturday concert, and Fritz Kreisler at that by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Both concerts were given at the Academy of Music, under auspices of the Brooklyn Institute.
55MARCH A MUSICAL MONTH IN BROOKLYN.
57March is to be a musical month in Brooklyn this year. Besides the final visit from the Boston Symphony Orchestra for this season there will be concerts by the Brooklyn Arion, a piano recital by Paderewski, and a performance of Paderewski's opera "Manru." The opera is announced for Thursday evening, March 20, and piano recital Monday evening, March 31. All of these events will be given by the Brooklyn Institute. As "Manru" is the first opera ever performed under auspices of the institute, it will be inter-
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