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Musical Courier 1902-02-19: Vol 44 Iss 1143, 1902
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1are under way to secure her for the coming Worcester Festival.—Worcester Telegram, February 8.
3Mrs. Harvey, who did not belie her reputation as a great beauty, sang the difficult rôle of Delilah intelligently and artistically. Her voice, not only big and powerful, is rich, sweet, brilliant and true, while her phrasing is good and her enunciation perfect. Her final solo, "Let the Bright Seraphim," with trumpet obligato, closed a highly pleasing and creditable rendition of her part of the work, and won for her prolonged applause.—Worcester Evening Gazette.
5ALBERT WEINSTEIN'S DEBUT.
7ALBERT WEINSTEIN, a young New Yorker of pronounced musical talents, who has had the benefit of a long course of study with Leschetizky in Vienna, made his début in Carnegie Hall last Thursday evening, in connection with an orchestra under Emil Paur. A very large audience gave the young pianist so warm a welcome that at the outset it made him somewhat nervous. This nervousness in a sense marred the performance.
9This program was presented:
11Overture Anacreon…………………………………………..Cherubini
12Concerto, F minor……………………………………………..Chopin
13Nocturne and Wedding March, Midsummer Night's Dream……………………………………………..Mendelssohn
14Nocturne, op. 27, No. 2………………………………………Chopin
15Cracovienne Fantastique, op. 14, No. 6…………………Paderewski
16Soirée de Vienne, D major………………………………….Schubert-Liszt
17Traumerei………………………………………………………..Schumann
18Anitra's Dance…………………………………………………Grieg
19Hungarian Fantaisie…………………………………………..Liszt
21This writer has ever held the opinion that it is as much the province of a critic to hunt for and commend the beauties in a work or performance as it is his duty to condemn sins of omission and commission. In making up a verdict in accordance with this principle it is a pleasure to give Mr. Weinstein his meed of praise. In presenting such a program the pianist essayed no mean task, for, be it remembered, this was his first public appearance since his boy-wonder days, when his playing gave such bright promise. That this pianist has studied diligently and worked incessantly under the guidance of a great teacher was early manifest, yet his technic at present is not always controlled by musical intelligence, for the left arm is entirely too strenuous for the right.
23Mr. Weinstein was at his worst in Chopin, and at his best in Liszt, his playing of the "Hungarian Fantaisie" being particularly brilliant and forceful. The Schumann-Liszt number was likewise given with power and finish. Mr. Weinstein was so insistently recalled after each performance that he might have given several encores without doing violence to the good humor and appreciative spirit of the audience.
25It is Mr. Weinstein's purpose to give a recital in a few weeks.
27TO EUROPE.
29THE steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse yesterday had among its passengers Otto Floersheim, the representative of THE MUSICAL COURIER in Berlin, who returned to Europe after a visit to this country; also, Lilli Lehmann and Rhinhold Hermann. The steamer Patricia, which sailed on Saturday for Hamburg, had on board Barron Berthald.
31FLORIZEL ILL.
33FLORIZEL, the young violin virtuoso, has been very ill for the past week. He caught a severe cold, which developed into a gathering in the ear. On the advice of his physician, Dr. W. Searle, Major Pond, Florizel's manager, has postponed his five Waldorf-Astoria recitals, which were announced for February 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, for two weeks.
35Astoria Choral Union.
37THE second concert of the Astoria Choral Union was given in the Trinity M. E. Church last Tuesday evening. This organization has made rapid headway and gained much artistic ability through the efforts of Conductor Daniel H. Wilson, who is also teacher of harmony in the National Institute of Music, of which William M. Semmacher is the director. Miss Paula Semmacher, his daughter, who now takes rank among our professional pianists, and who is one of her father's best pupils, distinguished herself at this concert. After her "Spanish Caprice," by Moszowski, she was recalled three times and had to respond to an encore.
39MR. HERMANN KLEIN.
40Studio for Instruction in Singing,
41120 West 71st Street, New York.
42Among those artists who have at various times honored Mr. Klein by studying with him are the following:
43Madame Adelina Patti, Miss Ella Russell,
44Madame Gadski, Miss Esther Palliser,
45Miss Marguerite MacIntyre, Madame Alice Esty,
46Madame Schumann-Heink, Miss Olive Ockels,
47Mr. Ben Davis, Miss Clara Poole-King,
48Mr. Joseph O'Mara, Mr. Eugene Oudin.
50ANITA RIO, SOPRANO.
52THE recent success of this charming young singer in Boston, with the Handel and Haydn Society, with which she sang "The Messiah," has attracted much attention, though she was previously known as a successful church and concert singer.
54She has always sung from early girlhood, her rise to prominence being, however, unusually rapid. Possessed of a lyric soprano voice, winning personality and the capacity to work, Miss Rio is fast making a name for herself second to none.
56In the spring she sings with the Boston Festival Orchestra, and in March she will sing Bach's "Passion she sang simply and intelligently, and while not yet possessed of sufficient breadth of style to do full justice to "Rejoice," or, possibly, to "I Know that My Redeemer Liveth," she sang both arias musically and tastefully, and "Come Unto Him" she sang very beautifully indeed, never sentimentally, but with true, tender feeling, truly devotionally. She has plenty of authority for murdering the time in the last two bars, but it would be better if she would sing the music as Händel wrote it. Miss Rio made a great, well merited success, and it is much to be hoped that we shall soon have another opportunity of hearing her here, for sopranos who can sing in oratorio are rare.—Boston Evening Transcript.
58One of the soloists who appeared for the first time in Boston, scored an unmistakable triumph, which will insure her an enthusiastic welcome should fate bring her back again, and that was Miss Anita Rio, the soprano, who is a native of California, educated in the musical circles of New York city.
60Her whole evening's work was beyond the pale of reasonable criticism, her singing showing an unwavering musical quality and sustained power rarely found save in the greater artists. Her voice is pure, of wide range and capable of infinite expression, especially of the tender, sweet and pathetic order, and she was last evening declared by a high authority to be a legato singer of rare quality.
62Not the least among her pleasing qualities were her attractive, thoroughly feminine personality, youthful appearance, graceful figure and modest, unassuming demeanor. The audience demonstrated, by liberal and always hearty applause, that it had taken the fair stranger to its heart at the outset, and retained her there till the end.—Boston Globe.
64As far as the soloists are concerned, the honors of the evening must be given to Miss Anita Rio, the soprano, who, it is believed, made her first appearance in Boston on this occasion. She has a remarkably pure quality of voice, not above the average in volume, but very pleasing, and in the phrasing and enunciation shown in her various numbers she was admirable. Miss Rio made a most favorable impression, and in the numbers "Come Unto Him" and "I Know that My Redeemer" she did the best singing of the evening.—Boston Post.
66"SPECTRE'S BRIDE," IN ORANGE, N. J.
68Miss Rio, as she is professionally known, made an attractive bride, both in appearance and in voice. She is pleasant to look upon and she is delightful to hear. Her vocal powers are considerable, and her registers are so even that the transition from lower to upper is not marked by any disagreeable change. Her top notes are extremely effective, being clear and of bell-like quality. She grips her tones finely and sends them out in commendable manner. The tonal color is bright and effective. Her rendition of the trusting maiden's prayer, after the opening chorus, was very good, but it was far exceeded later in the simplicity and delightful exquisiteness of the supplication, "Oh, Virgin Mother, Gracious Be," sung in the charnel house. Miss Rio also did well in the love duets during the hapless flight with Spectre, Van Hoose.—Orange Chronicle.
70Miss Anita Rio, the soprano, possesses a rich, fresh voice of wide range, a fine presence, and her training is manifestly in full accord with her natural gift. She imbued the trying recitatives and lyric passages with strong dramatic fervor and sympathetic quality, the latter being the most markedly shown in the prayer the potency of which is the cause of her release from the influence of the evil spectre. Few singers have been heard here possessing better style than Miss Rio, and she bids fair to rise to the summit of her art.—Newark Sunday Call.
72Miss Anita Rio was the unfortunate Bride and Ellison Van Hoose was the Spectre. Their solos and duets were also very difficult, but they were splendidly sung. Miss Rio was very brilliant. Her delivery of the "Prayer to the Virgin" was so impressive that it narrowly escaped a repetition. * * * Miss Rio not only possesses a soprano remarkable for its range and the beauty, richness, sympathetic quality and power of its tones, but a dramatic and musical temperament that enables her to so color them as to convey the meaning of what she sings in a very luminous and convincing manner. This ability is supplemented by a knowledge of vocal art that results in such a number as the "Bride's Prayer to the Virgin" and the duets with the spectre in beautifully finished performances, the artistry of which arouses the enthusiasm of the critical.—Newark Advertiser.
74SANCHEZ RESUMES.—Carlos N. Sanchez, the well-known vocal teacher, has resumed work at his studio, 138 Fifth avenue.
76Saint-Saëns during his first visit to Moscow became a close friend of Tchaikowsky. One day they called on Nicolas Rubinstein, and in the course of conversation all three confessed to passionately love the ballet. In their enthusiasm they determined to rehearse on the spot "Pygmalion and Galatea." Saint-Saëns "danced" the statue with painful conscientiousness, Tchaikowsky "did" Pygmalion and Rubinstein at the piano was the orchestra.
78Mme. Matja von Niessen-Stone
79MEZZO SOPRANO.
80VOCAL RECITALS—
81in English, French, German, Italian and Russian.
82For terms and dates address
83ALICE, F. JOSEPH, 74 Hanover St., London, W., England.
85ELEANOR CLEAVER,
86CONTRALTO,
87Will make her FIRST APPEARANCE IN CONCERT
88Wednesday Evening, March 12, at Mendelssohn Hall.
89Tickets now on sale at Schuberth's, 23 Union Square, New York.
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