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Musical Courier 1902-03-26: Vol 44 Iss 1148, 1902
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1CHICAGO, March 20, 1902.
3"THE Sultan of Sulu" continues to attract large and enthusiastic audiences to the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building.
5Already a change has been made in the cast. Mr. Beane, having retired to become stage director, Frank Moulan, of Castle Square Opera fame, is now Ki-Ram.
7The local press is slowly recovering from Kubelik-Paderewski articles with startling headlines of no importance. But, behold! the grand opera fever is at hand.
9In next Sunday's papers the first serious attack doubtless will make itself felt.
11Mr. Jessuron, of this city, entertained a number of musicians on Wednesday evening, March 19, the guests including Charles W. Clark, Glenn Dillard Gunn, Miss Margaret McKinney (of the "Sultan of Sulu" cast), Frank Hannah, Amy Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. Bush, Miss Mabelle Crawford, George McCutcheon, George Ade and Mr. Hawley. Songs were sung by Miss Crawford, Mr. Clark and Mr. Hannah.
13George Hamlin's sixth popular concert is to take place at the Grand Opera House on Easter Sunday afternoon. Mr. Hamlin will have the assistance of Harrison Wild, conductor of the Apollo and Mendelssohn clubs, who will direct a choir of sixteen voices.
15Much interest is centred in the recital which Miss Garfield, a violinist of exceptional promise, will give, with the assistance of Earl Drake, in Kimball Hall, on Tuesday evening, March 25.
17THE HINSHAW SCHOOL OF DRAMA.
19"A Noble Outcast" was produced on March 16 at the Steinway Theatre by the Hinshaw School of Drama. The little theatre was well filled with an enthusiastic audience, and the performers gave their lines intelligently, displaying talent and careful training. The cast included several of Marvin Victor Hinshaw's best pupils.
21The Choral Society of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory will give Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" at the Auditorium, Thursday, March 27, assisted by the Conservatory Orchestra, under the direction of Enrico Sansone.
23William A. Willett, the baritone of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory, returned Thursday from a week's tour in Ohio, during which he made a splendid success at Cleveland with the local orchestra.
25Frederick Warren, the popular young baritone of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory, sings in Stainer's "Crucifixion" at Highland Park, March 28. March 31 Mr. Warren leaves for a concert tour, supporting Jessie Bartlett Davis.
27The Chamber Music Society of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory gave its third concert of the season at Recital Hall, Thursday evening, March 20. The soloists were Enrico Sansone and Chev. Giuseppe Lo Verdi.
29Mlle. Beatrice M. Peixotto, soprano, who has won a great reputation as a teacher at the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory, left this week for an Eastern concert tour, during which she will be heard at Carnegie Hall, New York and also Boston.
31Mrs. Aida Hemmi, the popular soprano of the Sinai Temple, has been engaged for the vocal department of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory.
33FANNIE CHURCH PARSONS.
35Mrs. Fannie Church Parsons is giving a valuable series of studio lectures at her attractive headquarters in the Fine Arts Building.
37On Wednesday morning, March 19, I attended one of Mrs. Parsons' far famed lessons for teachers, and would that I might attend many of them.
39This musician possesses, in the first place, a thorough command of the English language, and she expresses her ideas with grace and simplicity.
41Then, too, her personality tends to arouse enthusiasm. While she convinces and teaches, she does not oppress by being overimpressive.
43The kindergarten devices, which Mrs. Parsons explained on Wednesday, appealed to reason and they stimulated the imagination.
45Who would not become familiar with the method which serves thus to lead one through music's labyrinthian mysteries?
47Mrs. Parsons' lesson dealt with acoustics. Sounds, and how they may be musically produced, constituted a topic which was treated so cleverly and clearly as to delight the mind of a child or to quicken the perceptions of older persons.
49Then the grand staff was introduced, and pausing, we made a curtsey to the claims of middle C.
51After an hour devoted to lines and spaces came the topic of tonality.
53And let me tell you that if your ear is not always true Mrs. Parsons will show you how to make it more constant.
55But pen and ink too feebly describe Mrs. Church Parsons' lectures; go and hear her!
57Then will you find benefit, and then—a greater blessing!—you will be better able to teach the children, who half the time are told to do things which to their unawakened understandings seem as remote and unattainable as is the bag of gold at the end of the rainbow.
59A Grieg program was presented by the Schumann Club, of which Emma E. Clark is the admirable president, at its meeting on Thursday evening, March 20. Helen Randall Packard read an able sketch of Grieg's life and Norwegian music in general, illustrating her remarks at the piano. Agnes S. Baldwin contributed several Grieg songs artistically.
61The club admitted several new members.
63That indefatigable and brilliant vocal instructor, Mrs. Johanna Hess-Burr, announces a series of interesting events. At her studio in the Fine Arts Building a recital will be given every other Wednesday, beginning the first week of April, by pupils of Mrs. Burr, whose selections will embrace compositions old and new. All persons interested in music will be welcomed, and no special invitations are required.
65This week the Bureau of Fine Arts is authority for an acceptable item of news to the effect that Sue Harrington Furbeck, the contralto, will give a recital in the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on April 24. The efficient accompanist, Bertha Smith Titus, will assist.
67The following appreciative comment is from the Peoria Journal of March 2, 1902:
69Another fine audience assembled at Music Hall last evening to greet the Spiering Quartet on their annual appearance here. The four concerts given by the Women's Club this winter have been superlatively fine ones, but the musicians are agreed that the last one was worth any two of the others. That may sound like extravagant praise to the many who prefer musicians to music, but in a strictly musical sense it is absolutely true. So much has been said and written of Mr. Spiering and his co-workers that admiration has exhausted its adjectives. The music written for a string quartet is so beautiful and Mr. Spiering, Mr. Roehorn, William Dietzel and Herman Dietzel come so near perfection in their rendering it that anything short of the highest praise would be absurd, especially in Peoria, where our opportunities of hearing such music are so restricted.
71RECITAL BY MRS. THEODORE WORCESTER AND PLUNKET GREENE.
73With the exception of Paderewski's recitals and the Chicago Orchestra's concerts no local event has this week created more interest than the recital given in the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building on Wednesday, March 19, by Mrs. Theodore Worcester, the pianist, and Plunket Greene, the basso. Society, the musical profession and the press were well represented, though the event followed closely upon Paderewski's long and heavy afternoon program.
75To their appreciative listeners Mrs. Worcester and Mr. Greene presented the following numbers, in addition to which encores were demanded:
77Rhapsodie in B minor…………………………………………..Brahms
78Komm' Suesser Tod……………………………………………..Bach
79Ein neues andachtiges Kinderwigen……………………………D. Corner
80Entendez-Vous le Carillon du Verre?…………………….Eighteenth century
81Feldeinsamkeit…………………………………………………….Brahms
82Vergebliches Ständchen………………………………………….Brahms
83Etude, La Nuit…………………………………………………….Glazounow
84Valse de Concert, op. 47………………………………………Glazounow
85(Transcribed by Felix Blumentfeld.)
86Mrs. Worcester.
87An Irish Idyll (Moira O'Neill)……………………………….Stanford
88Corrymeela.
89The Fairy Lough.
90Cuttin' Rushes.
91Johnnie.
92A Broken Song.
93Back to Ireland.
94(From The Songs of the Glens of Antrim.)
95Plunket Greene.
96The Lark………………………………………………………..Glinka-Balakirew
97Nocturne………………………………………………………..Tschaikowsky
98Prelude in C sharp minor………………………………………Rachmaninoff
99Mrs. Worcester.
100Traditional Melodies—
101The Dove and the Lily (Swedish).
102(Arranged by H. Reimann.)
103Speed On, Engine (Hungarian).
104(Arranged by F. Korby.)
105I've a Secret to Tell Thee (Irish).
106Trottin' to the Fair (Irish).
107Quick! We Have But a Second (Irish).
108(Arranged by C. V. Stanford.)
109Plunket Greene.
110Tarantelle, Venezia e Napoli…………………………………Liszt
111Mrs. Worcester.
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