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Musical Courier 1902-03-05: Vol 44 Iss 1145, 1902
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1wonderful child violinist, who is possessed of a talent that has enabled Norah Brandt in two years and a half to teach her to play Mendelssohn, de Beriot, Vieuxtemps and the finest violin composers with intelligence, will make her initial bow to the public. She is really a wonderful child, and possesses the virtue of being exactly the age she is represented to be. Her work is clean, strong and full of musical intelligence; besides which she has the gift of absolute pitch, and names instantly the tone of a bell, a glass tumbler, a piano key, or anything that has a clear musical sound. In the same way she names chords without hesitation. Her progress is the more marked that till two years ago she had no opportunity to study at all, having lived all her life in the country. She will be supported in her concert by eminent local talent.
3On March 6 Henry Holmes, the English violinist, is to have a testimonial concert. Mr. Holmes a few weeks ago was thought to be at death's door with pneumonia.
5On March 7 Madame Rosewald's pupils give a recital. Madame Rosewald is in so delicate health a trip to Marienbad is prescribed for her. Her departure, though so necessary to her recovery, will be the cause of much regret and real sorrow, as she has a host of friends in our midst who will not know how to give up her beloved presence even for a time. March 17 the Von Meyerinck School of Music holds a recital by the dramatic department in Sherman-Clay Hall, and on March 25 Joe Greven's pupils appear in a costumed recital.
7Friday evening, February 21, a piano recital was given by Belle Clair Chamberlain, the recently returned pupil of Zeisler and Carreño. Although it was a miserable night, there were those enough interested in superior work to brave the elements and attend. And they were well repaid. The work was that of an artist. Miss Chamberlain has the rare quality of making one feel perfectly that she will carry the program to the end without a break, and it adds greatly to the enjoyment experienced. In the Scarlatti-Tausig Pastorale and Capriccio she showed the refinement of her understanding, and in the Twelfth Rhapsody of Liszt the passion and force of her technic as well as the romance. The "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" was a dream of poetic meaning, and the "Magic Fire Scene," Wagner-Brassin, magically Wagnerian. Miss Chamberlain is one of the most talented of all our young pianists, and probably has more individuality than any one of her class, whom we have heard as yet. Teresa Carreño said of her that it lay only with her own desires whether or no she became world renowned.
9The last of the Hofmann concerts on Sunday night was an ovation. Nothing more nor less, and even the artist himself seemed to catch the contagion of enthusiasm, and was very generous with his encores.
11Word comes from Fresno and Los Angeles that the people are fairly wild over Hofmann's playing.
13John R. Lewis, the talented violin pupil of Sir Henry Heyman, plays on Saturday before the Saturday Club of Sacramento. The young man is but nineteen years of age, but already shows the mark of genius, and Sir Henry predicts a career for him. His work before San Francisco audiences certainly proves his talent to be of a very high order.
15Miss Hjerleid Shelley, a young pianist lately returned from study in Berlin, has opened a studio in Room 410 Yosemite Building, Stockton. We wish her success in her new enterprise. MRS. A. WEDMORE JONES.
17A WORD FOR AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
18BY CARL FIELD.
20DR. WILLIAM MASON'S recent work, entitled "Memories of a Musical Life," is attracting the attention of the best music critics and musicians, and will do more to place the work of American teachers and composers on a just and acknowledged plane of excellence than anything that has happened to them in a long time, both in this country and in Europe.
22Dr. Mason himself being of the broadest knowledge, musically and intellectually, and ranking with the best composers and performers, speaks with authority.
24He comes of a musical family, his father before him being a writer of hymn tunes and sacred melodies.
26Dr. Mason thinks the time has gone by when it is needful or desirable to study music—in fact, he says, "America for Americans"—as our teachers get better results, understanding the characteristics of the American pupils, their national temperament and capabilities. Another reason why it is not necessary for the American student to go to Europe is this: The very best European teachers are themselves coming to America and with marvelous adaptability adding to their European experience the needs as shown them in America necessary to their pupils; while for the composer who comes here from a foreign land there is every resource to draw from. Among the people so markedly national there has not yet arisen one among them to write or to create their folksongs. Perhaps an "outsider" will write them, "seeing them as others see them."
28For the writer of opera—for our American grand opera has not yet been completed, though doubtless on the way—perhaps in embryo in the American composer's brain or already flowing from his pen.
30What superb incentives the composer in America has—the free, untrammeled life of the people; the magnificence of her rolling prairies; her lofty mountains with pine-clad heights or crowned with everlasting snows; her mighty rivers, and, in fact, a landscape that in itself should fill the mind to produce musical inspiration unsurpassed.
32Are our composers of the strictly American, and therefore, perforce, the "modern" school," satisfied to only write a goodly number of scores of dainty ballads and sacred hymns? Does a little fame with them go a great way, or is it that they fear the scribes if they undertake larger works?
34Some half-dozen of them have plunged into the realism of orchestral work.
36Some of our best song writers are seemingly content with a little recognition, or is it that they find the enthusiasm of the work of composition dampened by the grudging praise of their own countrymen?
38But perhaps it is they do not like hard work, for the composer who wishes to tread "the heights" must not linger too long among the foothills; nor is there any turning back. The more they have done the more is expected of them.
40It seems to us that the great danger threatening the American composer is that they are too easily satisfied with a mediocre allotment of success.
42What a misfortune it would be just on the eve of real success for some of our best song writers to give up as fame and fortune are just within their grasp.
44Broad Street Conservatory of Music.
46A VOCAL recital was given Wednesday evening, February 26, in the concert hall of the Broad Street Conservatory, 1329 and 1331 South Broad street, Philadelphia, by Miss Louise DeGinther, who is studying under Herbert W. Greene, of New York, head of the vocal department at the conservatory. The program was an exceptionally interesting one, including most difficult selections which were rendered most creditably. Miss DeGinther has natural qualifications for a singer, and uses her voice with skill, her enunciation and phrasing were particularly good, and the program throughout showed sincere application to study. Miss Ada Moyer accompanied. The program follows:
48With Verduce Clad…………………………………………………Haydn
49Longing………………………………………………………..Hoffman
50Madrigal………………………………………………………..Victor Harris
51Fairy Lullaby…………………………………………………….Beach
52La Sposa dei Sace Cantici………………………………………Chiaovomonte
53Quando M'en Vo Soletta per la via (La Bohème)………….Puccini
54Saphic Ode…………………………………………………….Brahms
55Ich Grolle Nicht…………………………………………………Schumann
56Irish Folksong…………………………………………………Foote
57Love Me if I Live……………………………………………..Foote
58Tranison………………………………………………………..Chaminade
59Nymphs and Fauns…………………………………………..Bemberg
61AUGUSTA COTTLow.—Miss Augusta Cottlow, the gifted young pianist, scored an immense success last Thursday night, when she gave a most brilliant performance of the Grieg Concerto, in the concert given by the Society for Ethical Culture. Miss Cottlow has left for the West on an extended tour and will appear with Kreisler and Gérardy in Chicago March 8. They will play the Rubinstein Trio, op. 52, and soli.
63Direction for Concert, Opera and Drama, JOSEPH SMITH, 5 Via Rondinelli, FLORENCE, ITALY.
65The Eminent Pianist
66EUGEN d'ALBERT
67has arranged with Mr. JOSEPH SMITH for a Tour of FORTY CONCERTS ONLY, during the months of January, February and March, 1903. Those organizations and managers who may be desirous of arranging one or more concerts are requested to make immediate application.
69MR. JOSEPH SMITH HAS THE HONOR TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE HAS ARRANGED FOR A TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES, CONSISTING OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF CONCERTS ONLY, DURING JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1903, OF THE CELEBRATED
71Kaim Orchestra of Munich,
72DIRECTED BY
73FELIX WEINGARTNER.
75THE FAME OF MR. WEINGARTNER AND OF THE ORGANIZATION WHICH HE HAS UNDER HIS PERMANENT DIRECTION DISPENSES WITH ANY COMMENT WHATEVER AS TO THE ARTISTIC IMPORTANCE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT……………………..
77Kindly address all communications to
78Concert and Theatrical Direction JOSEPH SMITH,
795 Via Rondinelli,
80Florence, Italy.
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