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Musical Courier 1902-03-05: Vol 44 Iss 1145, 1902
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127, with the following cast: Messrs. Affre, Noté, Gresse; Mesdames Marcy and Dereims.
2Program for the week: Monday, "Lohengrin"; Wednesday and Saturday, "Siegfried"; Friday, "Les Barbares."
4The Opéra Comique has revived "Maitre Wolfram," by Ernest Reyer, one of the pieces in the repertory of this theatre. It has not been heard there for twenty-five years. The story is very simple. Wolfram and Hélène, two orphans, are brought up together by an old professor who hopes they will marry. Hélène, however, prefers the soldier Fritz, leaving Wolfram, who is a musician, to seek consolation in his art. The music is charming, showing no traces whatever of time, being fresh, simple and melodious.
5Program for the week: Monday matinee, "Carmen"; evening, "La Basoche"; Tuesday matinee and Friday evening, "Grisélidis"; Tuesday evening, "Lakmé," "Maitre Wolfram"; Wednesday, "Le Juif Polonais" (changed afterward on account of illness to "Mignon"); Thursday, "Orphée"; Saturday, "Le Domino Noir."
7It is generally admitted that the production of "Siegfried"—one of the most difficult of Wagner's works to cast and stage—has been admirably done at the Paris Opéra. In Die Musik of Berlin appears the following: "After having been present at the first performances of the 'Cycle' at Bayreuth, after having heard 'Siegfried' more than fifty times—twenty times under the direction of Richter—I can state that at no other theatre, with orchestra exposed, could be given a better performance than the one in Paris of 'Siegfried.' Twenty-nine minutes of music comprise all the cuts made. The performance lasts four hours and twelve minutes, with an interval of twenty minutes for each entr'acte."
9Mme. Rose Caron has been giving a series of performances in Brussels at the Opéra. Her great success was in "Iphigénie en Tauride." She will return to sing Elsa in "Lohengrin" before proceeding to Monte Carlo.
11"Messaline," the last opera of De Lara, has been produced at the Grand Théâtre of Ghent, where it met with much success, at least so some of the papers say.
13The first performance in France of Wagner's "Rheingold" ("L'or du Rhin") will take place the end of this month at the Opéra of Nice. DE VALMOUR.
15Apollo Club Concert.
17THE Apollo Club gave its second concert of the season in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria on Thursday, February 20. The club had the assistance of Miss Elaine de Sellem, contralto; Miss Frieda Stender, soprano; Hubert Arnold and Miss Margaret Wilson, violinists, and Emil Levy, accompanist. The incidental solos were sung by Frederick W. Gunther, H. Briggs Drake and W. Glagow Greene.
18Few clubs can boast of better quality of tone, the same precision of attack and the same degree of general excellence. At times, it is true, the tenors were brassy in tone and predominant in volume, and the basses correspondingly weak, but as a whole the work was very good indeed.
19The club will give its third and last concert of the season on Thursday, April 10.
21MUSICAL PEOPLE
23The Peoria (Ill.) Conservatory of Music has arranged for a series of popular concerts.
24A vocal recital was given by Mrs. O. F. Kelsey in Watkin Hall, Dallas, Tex., on February 22.
25Master Frankie Richter, a blind boy pianist and composer, gave a program at Portland, Ore., recently.
26Mr. Barington, voice teacher in the Ohio Wesleyan School of Music, gave a complimentary song recital at Delaware, Ohio, on February 15.
27At Galesburg, Ill., February 20, Miss Florence Mabel Capron, of the Knox Conservatory of Music, gave her graduating piano recital before a large audience.
28Three musical recitals by the pupils of Mrs. J. R. Sharp and Miss Laura Sharp were given in the auditorium of the Northwest Normal School, Salem, Ore., in February.
29At the School of Music, Iowa College, Grinnell, Ia., a piano recital was given by pupils of Dudley L. Smith, on Thursday afternoon, February 20, Miss Olds, Miss Bracken, Miss Thomson, Miss Beyer and Miss Kellenbarger taking part.
30A violin recital was given by Robert D. Parmenter at Fort Smith, Ark., recently. Marx E. Oberdorfer was the accompanist. Both artists scored a success. Mr. Parmenter is a member of the faculty of the Bollinger Conservatory of Music.
31At Kingston, N. Y., on the 18th ult., an organ recital was given in the Wurts Street Baptist Church, under the direction of William Goldsworthy, organist of the church. Miss Virginia Gildersleeve, soprano, and Charles H. Eastman, basso, both of Poughkeepsie, were the soloists.
32At the Denver (Col.) Conservatory of Music, Oliver B. Howells, director, a faculty recital was given by Henry J. Kroesen, pianist, formerly of the American School of Opera, New York, and Avid Bergman, violinist, late of the Royal Conservatory, Stockholm, on February 24.
33A concert was given for the benefit of the firemen's fund by members of Baylor College at Belton, Tex., recently, those participating being Miss Dorothy Frew, pianist; Mrs. Louise C. Davis, soprano; Miss Jessie Dockum, contralto; Miss Tex Adams, soprano; Carl A. A. Meiners, violinist, and Eugene E. Davis, musical director.
34At St. Andrew's Church, Pittsburg, Pa., on February 23, evensong was sung by Miss Anna Gertrude Clark, Mrs. W. A. Lafferty, David Lloyd and E. L. Peterson, assisted by Miss Henriette Keil, Mrs. Gertrude Schumann Thomas, Thomas Reed and C. S. Niesen, the double quartet being under the direction of Harry O. Burkert, organist at St. Andrew's.
35Mrs. M. J. Nolan and her sister, Miss Nellie F. Ryan, two well-known singers of Columbus, Ohio, have been engaged by the Hibernians of Chillicothe to give a concert at the Masonic Opera House in that city on March 17. They sing the old Irish folksongs by Moore, Balfe, Lover and other composers. Vincenzo De Santis, harpist, acts as their accompanist.
36A piano recital was given by Mrs. S. S. Stearns' pupils, assisted by Mrs. Victor Duncan, vocalist, and Miss Helena Stone, harpist, at the residence of Oscar B. Wilmarth, Grand Rapids, Mich., February 21. Miss Josephine Brechting and Miss Lucile Wilmarth were the accompanists. Those taking part were the Misses Wilmarth, Collins, Alicent and Emily Hote Allen, Marguerite and Ruth Steglich, Simpson, Friedrich, Comstock, Brechting, Gibbs, and Master Harold Wilmarth.
37The Musical Festival for Wichita, Kan., next June has been postponed. The committee, consisting of James Allison, Charles Lawrence, Albert Van Zandt, J. F. Hocking, Dr. S. S. Noble, O. A. Boyle, Dr. W. A. Minnick, Bruce Griffith and Frank Payne, met recently and discussed the matter at length, and decided that it would be better to postpone it one year than to try to hold it this year. The reasons given are, first, that the time is now too short for large choruses to organize and prepare for contests by the second week in June. The second reason was that on the scale it is proposed to run the festival in Wichita there is insufficient seating capacity in any building now within the city.
39FELLA LITVINNE.
41MADAME LITVINNE has left Brussels after a series of triumphs in the "Götterdämmerung" for a visit to St. Petersburg. The Belgian critics are enthusiastic in her praise, and declare that as far as anyone can be so, she is the Brünnhilde, at once human and divine, that Wagner conceived. Her success was the happiest day of her artistic life. Some days before the première she said: "Sing Brünnhilde and then die!" Now she says: "Sing Brünnhilde again and then die!"
42There is no more conscientious artist than Madame Litvinne. She was always the first at rehearsals, ready to take any advice, provided it was competent, careful of the gesture that would underline each phrase. She has devoted years, M. Roland de Mares writes, to studying Brünnhilde. She read, to begin, the original poem, then studied all the serious studies of Wagner, and then returned to the poem. After this second reading she "saw" Brünnhilde, and not till then did she begin to study the score. Madame Litvinne, when a child, accompanied her sister to her music lessons, and hence came her taste and passion for the art. When quite young she made her début at the Italiens, where she sang the current repertory, and then went to Milan, Rome and Venice. Her first teacher was Mme. Barth-Banderoli, and then she studied with Maurel, but she still thought of Wagner whom her brother-in-law Eduard de Részke revealed to her, and to him she felt irresistibly attracted. She visited with the de Részkes the United States, and there she first appeared in Wagner roles. A Russian by birth, Madame Litvinne returns annually to her native country, and to her may be attributed the cessation of hostility to Wagner, and it was by the Emperor's personal request that she is now in St. Petersburg.
44JESSIE SHAY.—The critics in the large cities have accorded high praise to Miss Jessie Shay. Here are extracts from Philadelphia and Baltimore papers:
45Miss Shay is a charming pianist and plays with a firm, broad touch.—Philadelphia Telegraph, February 15, 1902.
46Miss Jessie Shay played so well that she had to respond to repeated calls. She is young and has excellent temperament.—Philadelphia Item, February 15, 1902.
47Miss Shay again proved herself a tasteful pianist, playing a bit of Bach and some more modern pieces with a bright touch and nice appreciation.—Philadelphia (Pa.) Times, February 15, 1902.
48Miss Jessie Shay was heard to good advantage in the Bach Gavotte, Waltz of Moszkowski and "Allegro Appassionata" of Saint-Saëns, as well as a staccato study as an encore. Her runs are beautiful, and she plays with much expression.—The North American, Philadelphia, Pa., February 15, 1902.
49Miss Shay's playing of Moszkowski's Waltz, op. 34, was brilliant and musically.—Baltimore (Md.) News, February 14, 1902.
50Miss Jessie Shay played in a graceful, refined manner a Gavotte by Bach, a Waltz by Moszkowski and "Allegro Appassionata," by Saint-Saëns.—Baltimore (Md.) American, February 14, 1902.
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