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Musical Courier 1902-02-26: Vol 44 Iss 1144, 1902
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1Kendall interprets artistically, and the fine quality of her voice is being favorably commented upon. Recently, at a college concert she sang songs by Gounod and Glover very successfully.
3In a recent interview with Theodore Spiering, the eminent violinist, at his well-known school in the Fine Arts Building, it was learned that the Spiering Quartet's February engagements include appearances in Sandusky and Oberlin. This quartet has contributed much that is truly artistic to the season 1901-1902 in Chicago.
5Mr. Cable, a well-known vocal instructor, of Sioux City, Ia., visited Chicago lately. Several pupils of Mr. Cable are meeting with gratifying success, one of them having won a scholarship in Boston.
7RECITAL AT THE CHICAGO AUDITORIUM CONSERVATORY.
8In the Recital Hall of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory Errico Sansone gave the third of his violin recitals on the evening of February 20. The program was devoted to Tartini's works, and it is believed that two of the numbers, violin concertos in B flat and A major, were on this occasion heard for the first time in America. Miss Kate Williamson was the accompanist.
10F. Wight Neumann announces two farewell recitals by Jan Kubelik at the Auditorium on Thursday evening, March 13, and Saturday afternoon, March 15.
12Eduard Zeldenrust, the eminent Dutch pianist, will give his first Chicago recital at the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building, next Friday evening, February 28. The event is under the direction of Mr. Neumann, who announces the following program:
13Sonata, op. 31, No. 2……………………………………………..Beethoven
14Theme and Variations, op. 142, No. 3………………………..Schubert
15Prelude and Fugue, A minor………………………………………Bach
16Ballade, A flat………………………………………………………..Chopin
17Etude, op. 25, No. 7, E sharp minor………………………….Chopin
18Etude, op. 25, No. 1…………………………………………………Chopin one of two readings
19Etude, op. 25, No. 1……………………………………………….Chopin one of two readings
20Valse………………………………………………………..Chopin
21The Erlking…………………………………………………Schubert-Liszt
22Isolde's Liebestod……………………………………………..Wagner-Liszt
23On the Wings of Song………………………………………….Mendelssohn
24Polacca Brillante……………………………………………….Weber
26Miss Bertha Beatrice Lash, an exceptionally gifted reader, recently interpreted "The Sky Pilot," before a cultured and appreciative audience in the spacious Assembly Hall of the Y. W. C. A Building, Michigan avenue.
28Bruno Steindel's fine interpretations, artistic phrasing and superb bowing served to arouse the enthusiasm of his audience at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Tuesday evening, February 11. The representative program presented by the eminent and very popular 'cellist was printed in this paper's issue of last week. Mr. Steindel was ably assisted by Mrs. Steindel and Emil Hofmann, the baritone.
30"Aida" has been well-produced this week by the Castle Square Company at the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building. The improvement upon last week's performances has been satisfactory.
32The engagement will terminate on March 1, Saturday evening.
34MME. BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER PLAYS WITH THE CHICAGO ORCHESTRA.
35Mme. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler's appearance yesterday afternoon with the Chicago Orchestra at its seventeenth concert of the season, in the Auditorium, was a tremendous success.
37For, in the first place, the people thronged to hear her; and they gave her an ovation enthusiastic in its demonstrations and touchingly sincere.
39And, again, her artistic achievement was nothing short of a triumph.
41She played Chopin's F minor Concerto, filling it with dignity, poetry, grace and majesty.
43The sympathy which existed between Theodore Thomas, at the conductor's stand, and Madame Zeisler was remarkable.
45Encored, the greatest of women pianists in America, played Chopin's A flat major Polonaise, with much grandeur and effectiveness.
47And after the encore she was again recalled.
49The pianists flocked to hear Mme. Bloomfield-Zeisler play at the Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Among those whom I noticed were Mrs. Theodore Worcester, Mrs. Birkdice Blye Richardson, Mrs. Arthur Middleton Barnhardt and Howard Wells.
51Olive Mead, who appeared here last week at the Chicago Orchestra's concerts, won the respect of her audiences by her masterly interpretation of Goldmark's Concerto in A minor.
53But the local critics did not appear to care much for the concerto itself.
55GEORGE HAMLIN'S RECITAL.
56Chicago's concertgoers, including many musicians, attended the recital of Richard Strauss songs given by George Hamlin in the Grand Opera House last Sunday afternoon, February 16. Eminent critics of New York and Boston have filled THE MUSICAL COURIER with such full accounts of these songs, as sung by Mr. Hamlin, that it is necessary here only to indorse their many eulogies.
58Eleanor Scheib played the difficult piano accompaniments effectively.
60The Strauss Sonate in E flat major, for violin and piano, was interpreted in musicianly manner by Mrs. Lapham and Leon Marx.
62To George Hamlin must be given credit not only for a beautiful voice and essentially artistic temperament, but for the high intellectuality which has enabled him to discover, grasp and memorize the music of these Strauss songs, which is something which his many associates well may emulate.
64APOLLO CLUB CONCERT.
65At its part song concert in the Auditorium on Monday evening, February 17, the Apollo Club presented the ensuing program, under the capable direction of Harrison Wild:
66Judge Me, O God……………………………………………..Mendelssohn
67Aria, Adriano, from Rienzi…………………………………….Wagner
68Cantata, The Birth of Christ………………………………….Clarence Lucas
69(Composed for the Apollo Musical Club.)
70Tenor, Holmes Cowper.
71Ring Out, Wild Bells…………………………………………..Gounod
72(Arranged for the Apollo Musical Club by Frederic W. Root.)
73A Shadow………………………………………………………..Gollmick
74The Chase………………………………………………………..Edward German one of two readings
75The Chase………………………………………………………Edward German one of two readings
76Songs………………………………………………………..Dessauer one of two readings
77Songs……………………………………………………Dessauer one of two readings
78Sehnsucht………………………………………………………..Foerster one of two readings
79Sehnsucht………………………………………………………Foerster one of two readings
80Bolero………………………………………………………..Arditi
81The Lord Is My Light…………………………………………Parker one of two readings
82The Lord Is My Light………………………………………..Parker one of two readings
83The "star" of the occasion was, of course, Madame Schumann-Heinik.
85Holmes Cowper, the tenor, did some very artistic work, though his upper notes were occasionally somewhat forced. He was well received.
87The chorus sustained its enviable reputation.
89Special mention must be made of Arthur Dunham's admirable organ playing, which supported the club.
91In the next Chicago letter will appear an extended review of Clarence Lucas' new cantata, "The Birth of Christ," composed for this occasion.
93MAY HAMILTON.
95HOWARD WELLS.
96THE Chicago press paid the following tributes to Howard Wells' artistic piano playing at his recent recital at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago:
97Mr. Wells' selections were the Symphonic Studies, by Schumann, the same composer's "Romance" in F sharp major, the "Shadow Dance" of MacDowell, Liszt's "Nightingale," Grieg's second and third tone pictures, the Schmitt paraphrase of the Strauss "Vienna Wood Waltz" and Chopin's Andante Spianato and Polonaise. Only limited knowledge of piano music is needed to show that this program makes demand for technical facility, for broad, discriminating musical feeling and knowledge and the capacity for expressing the poetic side of music. These demands were met by Mr. Wells in an eminently satisfactory way, sometimes with a close approach to distinction. The poetry of the Schumann numbers appears to especially appeal to him, and was brought out with no little interpretative lucidness and beauty.—The Chronicle, February 5, 1902.
99Mr. Wells gave a very successful piano recital last evening in Music Hall. Mr. Wells' chief number was the Schumann Symphonic Studies, a most ambitious work for any pianist. He played it excellently, exhibiting control, technical skill and a very beautiful tone. His interpretation was artistic in detail and emphasized the aesthetic and intellectual sides of the composition.—The Journal, February 5, 1902.
101Mr. Wells is a pianist who, while he may not claim as his own those superlative powers that characterize the world's great virtuos, is none the less a player possessed of sufficient pianistic virtues to commend him to the consideration and approval of music lovers. His technical equipment is considerable; he is earnest and takes his art seriously, and he shows musicianship and thought in his work. His playing of the Schumann Etudes Symphoniques last evening proved that he has fingers that are not only strong, sure and fairly fleet, but are also capable of winning from the instrument tones that sing, that can be varied and shaded, and, when massed in climax, can be powerful and sonorous without being harsh or hard. In phrasing and pedaling his work was also commendable, and his reading of the famed studies showed thought and careful analysis.
103In the lighter style of work MacDowell's "Shadow Dance," the Liszt transcription of Alabieff's "Nightingale" and the Grieg "Tone Pictures," he discovered qualities that suggest the presence of poetic and imaginative powers.—The Tribune, February 5, 1902.
105SOROSIS MUSICALE.
106SOROSIS, one of the oldest and most prominent woman's clubs in the country, gave a musicale Monday afternoon (February 17) at the Waldorf-Astoria in aid of the philanthropic fund of the club. Among the artists who appeared were Mme. Josephine Jacoby, Anna Jewell, Franz Kaltenborn and Charles Russell. Madame Jacoby sang "Oh! My Heart Is Weary," from Arthur Goring Thomas' opera, "Nadeshda," in fine style, and later she sang two pretty songs, "Love Me or Not," Secchi, and "Violets," by Wright. Mr. Kaltenborn played as a violin solo a "Reverie" by Vieuxtemps, and he also played with Miss Jewell in a duet arranged for violin and piano from "Tannhäuser." Mr. Russell played four 'cello solos—"Liebestraum," von Blon; "Caprice Slav," Scharwenka; "Le Cygne," Saint-Saëns, and "Mazurka," Popper. As piano solos Miss Jewell played a Prelude by Rachmaninoff and a Barcarolle by Rubinstein. The solos by Messrs. Kaltenborn and Russell and Miss Jewell were much enjoyed. Mrs. Gertrude F. Hess, a member of the club, was musical director of the afternoon.
108Two series of concerts are announced for the spring season in Madrid—one to be conducted by Capellmeister Lohse, the other by Court Capellmeister Zumpe, of Munich.
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