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Musical Courier 1902-02-19: Vol 44 Iss 1143, 1902
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1the Holy Communion, Sixth avenue and Twentieth street, as follows, the hour being 4 o'clock:
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4February 16.
5The Sorrows of Death……………………………Coombs
6Ave Maria………………………………………Coombs
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9February 23.
10By Babylon's Wave…………………………….Gounod
11My Song Shall Be Alway Thy Mercy…………….Mendelssohn
12March 2.
13Hear My Prayer………………………………..Mendelssohn
14He Counteth All Your Sorrows…………………Mendelssohn
15March 9.
16The Sorrows of Death……………………………Coombs
17O Ye that Love the Lord……………………….Barnby
18March 16.
19Gallia…………………………………………..Gounod
20Air from Suite…………………………………Bach
21March 23.
22Hear My Prayer………………………………..Mendelssohn
23Behold and See if There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto My Sorrow………………………………………Händel
24The soloists at these services will be Master Albert Auty, soprano; Mrs. Charles Starr, contralto, E. Theodore Martin, tenor, and William Frederic Spence, violinist.
25Charles Whitney Coombs, organist and choirmaster.
27J. Warren Andrews plays at the Charleston Exposition March 4, and at the John B. Stetson University, De Land, Fla., March 6. His choir at the Church of the Divine Paternity gave Dubois' "The Seven Last Words of Christ" last Sabbath evening.
28To-morrow (Thursday) there will be an organ recital at his church, Seventy-sixth street and Central Park West, at 4 o'clock, by Miss Louise F. Thayer, assistant organist at St. Paul's Chapel; Miss Anna B. Foster, and Arthur Wilson, organist Church of the Holy Sepulchre, assisted by Mrs. Mary E. Cheney, soprano. The final number of the program will be the "Nuremberg Variations" for two players, organ duet, by Eugene Thayer, played by Miss Thayer and Mr. Andrews.
30Carl Hauser has had a series of violin recitals by pupils at his home studio on successive Sunday afternoons, the following students participating: Arthur Hauser, Arthur Neustadt, Albert Trageser, Julius Breitenbach, Romeo Manowitch, Albert Stirn, Louis Pallay, Howard Reiling, Dean Langmuir, Herbert G. Semler, Eric Hauser, Robert Toedt, Arthur Carroll, Max Reich, Walter Binger, George and Illa Kable, Sylvain Ortlieb, William Zinser, Walter Pach, Hanna Williams, William C. Macduff, Franz Obermann, and the Misses Lucille Hall and Irma Williams.
32Sibyl Sammis, that attractive concert singer, opened this week, Monday, with her company in Bethlehem, Pa., returning to New York Easter week for a brief stay. She sang last week at Roseville Avenue Presbyterian Church, and produced deep effect with Greely's "Come to the Land of Rest," sung with much emotion and depth of sentiment. In the duet, "The Invisible Land," by Leslie, sung with Beatrice Taylor, one of the best pupils of Miss Machin, there was beautiful unity, the latter, too, winning much praise. Robyn's trio, "Thou All Gracious God," with tenor Edward Strong, was an artistic thing, and many people took occasion afterward to say appreciative things of the singing to organist F. W. Riesberg.
34O. Heywood Winters, 8 East Seventeenth street, knows of a $1,500 soprano church position. This requires an experienced, exceptional singer.
36Alice Breen sails February 26 for a month in the Bermudas, singing on the way under the patronage of some English friends. She has sung at a number of private affairs, among them at Mrs. Fairfield's and Mrs. Astor's.
38Vivien McConnell, pianist (pupil of Brounoff), and H. Alphone Steiger, reader, announce a concert at Knabe Hall to-morrow (Thursday) evening.
40"THE PROFESSION."
42"THE PROFESSION," a magazine for music teachers and students, is issued by the International Society of Pianoforte Teachers and Players. We should call them piano teachers and players, because the word "pianoforte" is by this time obsolete in America. Many people who manufacture pianofortes do not make them for the purpose of being sold, but merely for the pleasure of making them, while the piano manufacturers make pianos to sell them.
44"The Profession" is published at 11 West Twenty-second street, in this city, at 50 cents a year, and is in the interest of the people who play and study the piano. Its January number has such important contributors as E. F. Barthomolew, A. J. Goodrich, Max Meyer, Mrs. Nina K. Darlington, and W. J. Henderson, of the Times, adds an article on the evolution of piano playing. Florence Dodd has an excellent article and a very beautiful half-tone of Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of the Clark University, Worcester, is among the illustrations. We select him because he is known as one of the most important contributors to psychology, and his article on the relation of psychology to music is important. Altogether, we must approve of this magazine as an excellent educational proposition, which should go before everyone interested in music, not only in piano playing but in piano pedagogy, for it is somewhat broader in its scope than mere piano playing. All the higher forms of piano playing are so thoroughly associated with the higher forms of music that it really becomes one great question of art. A. K. Virgil is the vice-president of the society, and an important article on the Clavier method is contributed by him. Music students should send for a sample copy.
46"The Flight of the Eagle"—The first production of "The Flight of the Eagle" will take place at Mr. Ruben's third morning, Friday, February 28, with Mr. Bispham, Ellison Van Hoose, and Miss Esther Palliser. The score is composed by Homer Norris, and the text is a selection of parts of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
48JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.
50THE extraordinary honor which King Edward conferred upon John Philip Sousa when he bestowed upon him the Victorian Order in recognition of his achievements as a conductor and composer, is now a matter of musical history. The distinction was so exceptional that the British press commented on it at great length, and reports were sent by the cable to all parts of the world.
52It was near 10 o'clock Sunday night, December 1, when Sousa and his band, in obedience to the "Royal command," appeared at Sandringham House and gave a concert to King Edward, the Queen and a small party of nobles. The audience was a royal assemblage of music lovers—the most august that orchestra or band ever played to, and about as enthusiastic.
54The concert had been secretly arranged as a delightful surprise for the Queen on the occasion of her birthday. The King showed that he was neither prejudiced nor narrow regarding Sunday concerts, for he did not even so much as suggest that only sacred selections should be given. As a matter of fact, the program was anything but "sacred." The conductor and his men were on their mettle. "God Save the King" was followed by patriotic American airs. So impressed were the royal auditors with Sousa's marches and the characteristic negro dances and rag-time melodies that they insisted upon their repetition. Mr. Sousa afterward declared that he never had played before a more appreciative audience.
56A signal honor had been reserved for the "March King." During a brief intermission near the the close of the entertainment, King Edward took from his hip pocket a small case which contained a medal—"the Victorian Order"—and this he gave to Mr. Sousa. The surprised recipient accepted the kingly offering as gracefully as he could and placed the package in his inner pocket.
58During his career as composer and conductor Mr. Sousa has had conferred upon him many honors. None of these, however, does he value more highly than this "Victorian Order," for it is expressive of royal appreciation. It is an honor that is valued by Mr. Sousa's friends everywhere and especially by his American admirers.
60The portrait of Mr. Sousa which embellishes the cover of this week's MUSICAL COURIER shows the medal of the "Victorian Order" which the King of England bestowed upon the "March King."
62ALICE SOVEREIGN AT THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE.—Supplementing the flattering press notices reproduced here last week we this week add one from the Brooklyn Times, as follows:
64Miss Sovereign made her first appearance as a concert singer in Brooklyn and justified sanguine predictions for her future. Hers is a noble voice, with the richness of the true contralto and with the possibilities of tone color not often heard in a voice of such body and volume. Her future as a public singer should be assured.—Brooklyn Times.
66And the Brooklyn Eagle, February 7, said:
67Miss Sovereign's full, round tones were admirably fitted to her two solos, "Lungi del caro Bene" and a love lullaby by Goring Thomas.
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