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Musical Courier 1902-03-26: Vol 44 Iss 1148, 1902
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1Mrs. Worcester displayed a brilliant technic, some fine tone coloring and much interpretative ability. While she is to be commended for introducing numbers comparatively novel, inasmuch as they have seldom been heard here, there are other compositions which doubtless would have appealed more strongly to devotees of that which is popular. Her most successful contribution was the last, Liszt's "Tarantelle," which proved to be both brilliant and inspiring. Greater assurance and perhaps a trifle more of sentiment would not come amiss in Mrs. Worcester's playing. Though seldom heard in public as yet, she certainly is destined to be one of the best known pianists in the State. As regards talent and stage presence, she has been generously dealt with by nature.
3Owing doubtless to the fact that he is accustomed to singing in a larger hall, such as the Studebaker or the Auditorium, Mr. Greene was at a disadvantage, especially at first. Later he sang with better effect, and he finally succeeded in arousing much well deserved enthusiasm, though he did not always keep strictly in time. "Trottin' to the Fair" won for him an ovation, and it had to be repeated.
5George Grossmith amused and delighted a cultured and fashionable audience at the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Monday evening, March 17. His program included "A Few Idle Thoughts" and "Somebodies and Nobodies." Mr. Grossmith has made many friends in Chicago this season. He was present at Paderewski's concert in the Auditorium on Wednesday afternoon, March 19.
7GLENN DILLARD GUNN.
9The playing of Glenn Dillard Gunn, the clever pianist, has been favorably commented upon by two well-known Western journals, as follows:
11The pianist (on a miscellaneous program) is seldom appreciated as he deserves. Therefore the storm of applause with which Mr. Gunn, a pianist of the first rank, was received, was something unusual, and proved that the public recognizes true merit. He gave a splendid interpretation of Beethoven's classic "Andante favori" (Widmung), by Schumann-Liszt; two etudes and the Variations, op. 14, of Chopin, exhibiting remarkable technic and bravour.—Illinois Staats Zeitung.
13Mr. Gunn's piano numbers included three Chopin pieces (Impromptu, op. 66; Etude, op. 25, No. 3, and Variations, op. 12), the Paganini-Liszt Caprice, Campbell-Tipton Minuet and Schumann-Liszt "Dedication." These were given with Mr. Gunn's well-known skill and musicianship, and the recital, which had a large attendance, offered one of the most attractive short programs of the season.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
15Mr. Gunn is a member of the Chicago Musical College faculty and music critic for the Chicago Evening Journal.
17CONCERT AT THE CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE.
19Assisted by Alma Cole Youlin and Karl Cochems, the Chicago Musical College Orchestra gave a successful concert at the college on the evening of March 18. The ensuing program was creditably interpreted, Felix Borowski directing the orchestra:
21Overture, Mireille………………………………………Gounod
22Valse-Caprice……………………………………………..Kretschmar
23Vocal, Sogno d'Amor…………………………………….Gregh
24Miss Alma Cole Youlin.
25Symphony (Unfinished)…………………………………Schubert
26Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge……………………………Massenet
27Funeral March of a Marionette…………………………..Gounod
28Vocal, aria, Jesus of Nazareth………………………….Gounod
29Karl Cochems.
30Mazurka, from Coppelia…………………………………Delibes
31Czardas, from Coppelia…………………………………Delibes
33The Euterpean Quartet has filled a number of engagements in the West this season. Its talented members are Annette Pangborn, soprano; Florence Muir, mezzo soprano; Berthe Christin de LaMothe, contralto, and Mme. Christin de LaMothe, contralto.
35Edna Earl Crum, one of the most gifted pupils of Joseph Vilim, director of the American Violin School, Kimball Hall, recently played for the Bohemian violinist Kubelik. Her first selection was the Rondo from the First Violin Concerto, by Vieuxtemps, and Mr. Kubelik accompanied her at the piano. After she finished he clapped his hands, crying: "Brava, you play well!" Miss Crum also played the Chaconne, by Bach, and the eminent violinist complimented her upon her beautiful tone.
37Another of Mrs. Hess-Burr's pupils is to enter the professional field in Chicago. Miss Jessie Lynde Hopkins has been engaged to sing Verdi's Requiem with the Evanston Musical Club in April. Miss Hopkins has studied with Mrs. Hess-Burr during the past four years, appearing frequently at private functions, and she has directed the vocal department at Waterman Hall, Sycamore, Ill., for a number of seasons.
39MARCH 22, 1902.
41MRS. ANNETTE R. JONES.
43Chamber music concerts which are delighting Highland Park concert-goers this season have several times been referred to in these columns.
45The events are under the efficient direction of Mrs. Annette R. Jones, and the admirable programs have been representative of the finest classics.
47Chamber music, with its tendency to cultivate the ear, refine the taste and display the rare and subtle charms of harmony and phrasing, cannot be heard too frequently.
49The people of Highland Park therefore owe Mrs. Jones a special debt of gratitude. She is the pianist at these "Trio concerts," and her playing, like her teaching, exerts an influence which is valued in artistic and social circles. Mrs. Jones is a founder and charter member of the Chicago Amateur Musical Club. She reads at sight with remarkable ease, and her knowledge of the "art divine" is extensive.
51Mary Wood Chase, the eminent Chicago pianist, gave a most successful piano recital before the Caruthers Normal School of Piano Playing on Thursday evening, March 20.
53The program which it is announced that David Bispham will give in the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Easter Sunday afternoon, includes songs by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann.
55The Lake View Musical Club met on March 17 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Adams, Belden avenue.
57SHERWOOD AT ST. PAUL.
59Local criticisms in reference to William H. Sherwood's recital at St. Paul, Minn., are of interest:
61Mr. Sherwood gave two recital programs yesterday before audiences of unusual size and enthusiasm. The lecture that accompanied the recital in the afternoon was full of information of value to the student or teacher of the piano. The evening concert was notable for its brilliancy. There were fourteen numbers in all, and, to be sure, they were splendidly performed. Mr. Sherwood has rare technical equipment, and his conceptions are irreproachable. There are few pianists that St. Paul likes better than Sherwood, and few could have refused to yield to his charm of touch and flowing cantilena in the Polish Song (Chopin-Liszt). The "Erlking" was striking and beautiful, and in "Autumn," one of the pianist's own compositions, there was an unexpected wealth of melody and descriptive phrases.
63To students Mr. Sherwood represents all they are striving for. His musical scholarship is exceptional, and the very absence of an overwhelming individuality, at once the cause and excuse for the liberties taken by many virtuosi with pianistic rules, makes of Mr. Sherwood a safe guide for students and teachers.—St. Paul Dispatch, March 7, 1902.
65William H. Sherwood, the great pianist, gave two brilliant programs yesterday afternoon and evening before most appreciative audiences. Mr. Sherwood's brilliant technic, his rare interpretative ability and his artistic personality all combine to make him an artist whom it is always a pleasure to hear. He is no stranger to St. Paul's music-loving public, for he has been heard here before both in recital and as soloist with orchestra. Even since his last appearance here his art has broadened and his interpretations have become more artistically rounded. His Chopin numbers and MacDowell's "Witches' Dance" were brilliantly rendered, and he was recalled many times.—St. Paul Globe, March 7, 1902.
67RECITAL AT THE SHERWOOD MUSIC SCHOOL.
69A recital was given in the Lecture Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Friday morning, March 14, by pupils of the Sherwood Music School. The program was a worthy successor to that of the preceding month:
71Song Without Words………………………………….Mendelssohn
72Reveli…………………………………………………….Chaminade
73Adagio, from Sonata No. 1, op. 10……………………Beethoven
74Lottie Yantis.
75Moonlight Ride…………………………………………Bendel
76Elsie Thomas.
77Witches' Dance………………………………………..MacDowell
78Irene Gault.
79Romance in F, op. 50…………………………………Tchaikowsky
80Mary Preston.
81Berceuse, op. 57………………………………………Chopin
82Addie Beatty.
83Song of the Trappist…………………………………Meyerbeer
84Julian Worthington.
85March in D flat, op. 39………………………………Holländer
86Mrs. Frank Blymyer Siddall.
87Aus dem Carnival, op. 19…………………………..Grieg
88Edith Foristall.
89Kammenoi Ostrow, No. 22……………………………Rubinstein
90Gertrude Carlyle.
91Harp solo, Andante…………………………………Rossini
92Camille Lonstorff.
93Cascade du Chaudron, op. 130………………………..Bendel one of two readings
94Cascade du Chaudron, op. 130……………………….Bendel one of two readings
95Edna Paine.
96Gavotte, op. 2, No. 4……………………………….Sapelnikoff
97Harriet Webster.
98Funeral March………………………………………..Beethoven
99Des Fleurs……………………………………………..Delibes
100Mrs. Junius Hoag.
101Caprice Espagnole…………………………………..Moszkowski
102Bertha Stevens.
104The various pupils displayed much talent, and reflected great credit upon the school and its able director. In particular I was very favorably impressed by Bertha Stevens' brilliant playing and Julian Worthington's promising voice.
106Frederic John Maguire, who is the happy possessor of a musical temperament and much pianistic ability, will play at the Colonial Club on April 18. Mr. Maguire is making an interesting specialty of Wagner programs, which he will present before musical clubs and kindred organizations.
108THE TWENTIETH ORCHESTRAL CONCERT.
110This week, under Theodore Thomas' direction, the Chicago Orchestra presents its twentieth program of the season at the Auditorium. The numbers include Tchaikowsky's "Marche Slave," a very popular feature, as interpreted by Mr. Thomas and his musicians; Edward Elgar's "Variations"; the Love Scene from Richard Strauss' "Feuersnot"; "Morceau Symphonique," from César Franck's "Redemption," and Dvorák's "New World Symphony."
112With Paderewski's recital this afternoon and the orchestra's concert to-night it cannot be recorded that there was a dearth of music at the Auditorium on March 22, 1902.
114Last week the orchestra was without a soloist, owing to the absence of Mr. Breitner.
116Rita Lorton Schmidt, soprano, was the assisting soloist at W. C. E. Seeboeck's recent "composers' recital" in the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. The program contained much of interest to artist and amateur.
118GEORGE HAMLIN'S POPULARITY.
120Notwithstanding the fact that Sunday is Sunday, concerts given on that day are flourishing this season in Chicago.
122At the Grand Opera House enthusiastic audiences greet
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