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Musical Courier 1902-02-26: Vol 44 Iss 1144, 1902
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1COMING CONCERTS.
3The Brooklyn song recitals by Miss Margaret Goetz at the Montauk Club and the residence of Mrs. Lupton will be reviewed next Wednesday, March 5.
5The fourth recital of the season by Mme. Ogden Crane's pupils will be given at Genealogical Hall, 226 West Fifty-eighth street, on Friday, February 28, at 8:15 p. m.
7Miss Edith Noyes, formerly a pupil and now a teacher of the Morris Piano School, will give a recital at the school, 201 West Eighty-first street, Thursday afternoon, March 6, at 3 p. m. Miss Ruth Simonson, the contralto, will sing.
9At the fifth and last concert by the Mendelssohn Trio Club, at the Hotel Majestic, next Tuesday afternoon (March 4), the program will include the D minor Trio, by Mendelssohn, and the D minor Trio by Arensky. The last named is to be played by request, the club having performed it at the second concert. Miss Guttman, soprano, will be heard in songs, and the pianist and violinist of the club, Messrs. Saslavsky and Spross, will perform a sonata by Richard Strauss.
11The next private meeting of the Manuscript Society, which will be held at the Wanamaker Art Galleries on Thursday evening, February 27, will be occupied with an Italian-American program of music, which will offer a prize string quartet by A. Soismit Doda, aria from Pizz's opera "Gabriella," songs by Buzzi-Peccia, Eduardo Marzo and Paolo la Villa. The assisting artists will be the Venth String Quartet, George Shea, William G. Wheeden and Miss Blanche Duffield.
13Edgar C. Sherwood, organist at the Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont street and Monroe place, Brooklyn, a professional pupil of E. M. Bowman, of Steinway Hall, will give his third organ recital in that church this Wednesday evening. Mr. Sherwood's success in the preceding recitals warrants favorable expectations for this and the remaining recital, April 9. The recitals are given under the auspices of the church and are free to the public.
15Mr. Sherwood will have the assistance, in vocal numbers, of Mrs. Margaret Liddell Hegeman, soprano, and Floyd McNamara, tenor.
17Miss Liebling Prevents a Change of Opera.
19MISS ESTELLE LIEBLING, the young soprano, helped Maurice Grau out last Monday night and prevented a change of opera. Mme. Suzanne Adams, who was billed to sing the Queen in "The Huguenots," became ill in the afternoon, and at 2 o'clock Mr. Grau telephoned Miss Liebling, asking if she could undertake the role. There was no time for rehearsal, and Miss Liebling, while she had studied the part, had never sung it in public. The young singer did remarkably well under these circumstances, for she sang the difficult music brilliantly, and the public rewarded her with enthusiastic applause. Edouard de Reszké, Madame Homer, M. Alvarez and other artists of the company warmly congratulated the young singer.
21HOFMANN'S SECOND RECITAL.
23LAST week we published the San Francisco press opinions of Josef Hofmann's first piano recital. Here is the result of the second recital:
25It was an enthusiastic and cordially critical audience that filled the Columbia Theatre yesterday afternoon for the second piano recital by young Josef Hofmann, whose way from prodigy to mature years has been watched with genuine interest. Probably no name in the musical world has been so well, so popularly known, and, in a way, this long, impersonal acquaintance with the boy artist has been most helpful to him. Hofmann's concert of yesterday accentuated the impression made at his first appearance in this city on Tuesday last—that he is a pianist of sterling worth, and that he is a long way past the threshold of a brilliant career.
27The Weber Sonata, A flat major, op. 39, which followed, showed Hofmann at his best. This composition attested his technical mastery, his immense power and his convincing intellectual grasp. Equally enjoyable was the "Scherzo a Capriccio" of Mendelssohn. In the wild flights of this dainty musical conservé not a note was slighted. Its sweet rhythm gathered in velocity and brilliancy like Isole's veil, and Hofmann brought out all the beauty of this composition with a singular delicacy of touch.
29Hofmann followed this with a Berceuse and mazurka from his own portfolio. They had unquestioned merit, but in the mazurka there was the most logical and interesting development of the theme. The Chopin numbers, Polonaise, A flat major, and two Polish songs, were given a robust interpretation. The Rubinstein Barcarolle was a clean cut gem, played surely as the master teacher would have it. The second Liszt Rhapsodie concluded the delightful afternoon.—San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 1902.
31The second recital of Josef Hofmann at the Columbia Theatre brought out a large audience of music lovers, and in every way justified the promise of Tuesday. The young pianist proves himself not only a master of technic, but a poet of musical expression running the gamut of the literature of the piano, and interpreting both classic and modern composers with sympathy and mastery. His rendition of Rubinstein's Barcarolle was especially beautiful, given with perfect purity of tone and the languid grace that belongs to it. Hofmann is equally happy in translating the moods of the complex Chopin and in threading the mazes of Liszt's wonderful technicalities. Mr. Hofmann was cheered into giving three encores.—Bulletin.
33E. Loretta Flock's Piano Recital.
35MISS E. LORETTA FLOCK, who for several years has pursued her musical studies with E. M. Bowman, of Steinway Hall, will make her début in a piano recital at Chamber Music Hall, Carnegie Building, Wednesday evening, March 5. She will have the assistance of the well-known singer Dr. Ion Jackson.
37Miss Flock is said to be a rarely talented pianist, with a touch which reflects in high degree the methods employed by Mr. Bowman, who is one of the most successful teachers of piano touch in this or any other land. Miss Flock's technic is satisfactory, and as she is said to possess temperament and charming personality she will doubtless win success.
39THE MENDELSSOHN TRIO CLUB.
41ALEXANDER TASLAVSKY, violinist; Victor Sörlin, violoncellist, and Charles Gibbert Spross, pianist, constitute the Mendelssohn Trio Club, of New York. This club is giving, at the Hotel Majestic, a series of chamber music concerts which are attracting large audiences. The fourth concert in this series took place last Tuesday afternoon, when the following program was presented:
43Trio, op. 1, No. 1……………………………………………..Beethoven
44Song, O Del Mio Dolce Ardore……………………………….Gluck
45Cello solo, Kol Nidrei…………………………………………Max Bruch
46Songs—
47Wenn ich in deine blauen augen seh…………………….Schumann
48The Vow………………………………………………………..Meyer-Helmund
49Trio, op. 155…………………………………………………Raff
51The Beethoven Trio was played admirably from beginning to end. Evidently it had been studied diligently and rehearsed often.
53The club was assisted by Miss Marie Louise Gehle, contralto, who sang with taste, disclosing a good voice and an excellent method.
55Mr. Sörlin played his solo so well that the audience insisted upon an encore.
57The closing number was played with a finish which cannot be too highly praised. Mr. Spross deserves special commendation. His piano playing in the trios was artistic in the highest degree, and his accompaniments were excellent.
59The Mendelssohn Trio Club is doing a praiseworthy work.
61SOUSA AND HIS BAND
62Office: Astor Court Building, New York.
63Nineteenth Semi-Annual and Sixth Transcontinental Tour.
64Route February, 1902.
66<table>
67 <tr>
68 <th>Date</th>
69 <th>City</th>
70 <th>House</th>
71 </tr>
72 <tr>
73 <td>Thur. 27</td>
74 <td>Greenville, Tex.</td>
75 <td>Matinee, Opera House.</td>
76 </tr>
77 <tr>
78 <td>Thur. 27</td>
79 <td>Denison, Tex.</td>
80 <td>Evening, Opera House.</td>
81 </tr>
82 <tr>
83 <td>Fri. 28</td>
84 <td>Galena, Kan.</td>
85 <td>Matinee, Sapp's New Op. House.</td>
86 </tr>
87 <tr>
88 <td>Fri. 28</td>
89 <td>Joplin, Mo.</td>
90 <td>Evening, Club Theatre.</td>
91 </tr>
92 <tr>
93 <td>Sat. 1</td>
94 <td>Nevada, Mo.</td>
95 <td>Matinee, Moore's Opera House.</td>
96 </tr>
97 <tr>
98 <td>Sat. 1</td>
99 <td>Fort Scott, Kan.</td>
100 <td>Evening, The Auditorium.</td>
101 </tr>
102 <tr>
103 <td>Sun. 2</td>
104 <td>Kansas City, Mo.</td>
105 <td>Mat. and Eve., Compton Hall.</td>
106 </tr>
107 <tr>
108 <td>Mon. 3</td>
109 <td>Omaha, Neb.</td>
110 <td>Matinee, Sprock's Opera House.</td>
111 </tr>
112 <tr>
113 <td>Mon. 3</td>
114 <td>Lincoln, Neb.</td>
115 <td>Evening, Oliver Theatre.</td>
116 </tr>
117 <tr>
118 <td>Tues. 4</td>
119 <td>Omaha, Neb.</td>
120 <td>Mat. and Eve., Boyd's Theatre.</td>
121 </tr>
122 <tr>
123 <td>Tues. 4</td>
124 <td>Norfolk, Neb.</td>
125 <td>Matinee, The Auditorium.</td>
126 </tr>
127 <tr>
128 <td>Wed. 5</td>
129 <td>Chicago, Ill.</td>
130 <td>Evening, Moore's Opera House.</td>
131 </tr>
132 <tr>
133 <td>Wed. 5</td>
134 <td>Fort Dodge, Ia.</td>
135 <td>Matinee, The Midland.</td>
136 </tr>
137 <tr>
138 <td>Thur. 6</td>
139 <td>Des Moines, Ia.</td>
140 <td>Evening, The Auditorium.</td>
141 </tr>
142 <tr>
143 <td>Fri. 7</td>
144 <td>Chicago, Ill.</td>
145 <td>Evening, The Auditorium.</td>
146 </tr>
147 <tr>
148 <td>Sun. 9</td>
149 <td>Chicago, Ill.</td>
150 <td>Mat. and Eve., The Auditorium.</td>
151 </tr>
152 <tr>
153 <td>Mon. 10</td>
154 <td>Watertown, Wis.</td>
155 <td>Matinee, Turner Opera House.</td>
156 </tr>
157 <tr>
158 <td>Mon. 10</td>
159 <td>Fonddu Lac, Wis.</td>
160 <td>Evening, Crescent Op. House.</td>
161 </tr>
162</table>
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