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Musical Courier 1902-04-09: Vol 44 Iss 1150, 1902
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1NOTICE.
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4Musicians and people interested in musical affairs who are going to Europe can have all their mail sent, care of this office, and it will be forwarded to them. Musical people generally, who are visiting New York, or who are here temporarily, can have all of their mail addressed to them, care of this office, where it will be kept until they call for it, or redirected, as requested.
6that she might visit Omaha again and give a recital. Miss Shay had the pleasure of playing at Kubelik's first recital in New York city. Asked if the violinist objected to her decided popularity, she laughingly said "no." As to his music she said it was a delight to hear him so often, and she now knew all his pieces by heart backwards. The beautiful waltz which she played with the left hand, she added, was written by Zichy, who lost his right arm, and determined to keep up his music with but one, and that the left.
8Miss Shay is a charming young woman, graceful in word and action, and wonderful in that so much fire, an emotion and forcefulness can exist in such a slender physique. After the tour with Kubelik she resumes her work in concert and studio in New York.—Evening World-Herald, Omaha, March 11, 1902.
10DIVIDED HONORS WITH KUBELIK.
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13One of the pleasant surprises of the recent Kubelik concerts in Omaha was the unannounced appearance and performance of Miss Jessie Shay. All the preliminary notices and advertisements by the local committee had been of Kubelik, but as a piano soloist Miss Shay may justly be said to have divided the honors with the great violinist.
15Her youthful beauty and grace commended her to the appreciative audience the moment she appeared upon the stage, and her brilliant and artistic execution elicited storm of applause. The personal charms of the artist undoubtedly won the sympathy of the audience in an unusual degree, but had she lacked them, her artistic and pleasure giving interpretation of the most classical music would have fully entitled her to the applause she received.
17Miss Shay has never before visited the West, and she will at any time receive a hearty welcome should she return to Omaha. After the close of the Kubelik engagement in the United States, Miss Shay has accepted an engagement for a summer's season on a concert tour of Norway and Sweden.—Omaha World-Herald, March 16, 1902.
19Roger-Miclos.
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22THE interest of the Concert Molière continues. These performances are specially consecrated to hearing some virtuoso. Yesterday it was Madame Roger-Miclos, the eminent pianist, who was heard in the 'Africa' of Saint-Saëns, a Scherzo of Chopin and a Rhapsodie of Liszt. The famous artist received a triumphal greeting from the public."—Journal, Monaco, March 4, 1902.
24"At the Concert Molière last Monday, before a full house, Madame Roger-Miclos had enormous success. The admirable pianist played with incomparable mastery the 'Africa' of Saint-Saëns, a Scherzo of Chopin, an Ariette by Haydn, and a giddy Rhapsodie of Liszt, in which her virtuosity aroused enthusiastic applause."—Figaro, Paris, March 9, 1902.
26Georges Chais.
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29THE rapid increase of managerial appreciation of the solid artistic qualities of Georges Chais, the baritone, may be judged from the fact that in addition to several engagements already made in this city he has just been engaged for the Spartanburg, S. C., annual May festival, at which he will sing the role of Valentine in a production of "Faust" in concert form.
31Mr. Chais had partly decided to return to Europe this spring, but so successful has he been that partly through the efforts of George W. Stewart, of Boston, Mr. Chais has been prevailed on to remain here for some time longer.
33Jean Felix Dead.
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36THE cable of yesterday announces the death of Jean Felix, the tenor singer. Felix died at Dresden on Monday. This singer sang at the Irving Place Theatre during the seasons of 1897 and 1898 in comic opera roles.
38New York College of Music,
39128-130 East 58th Street.
40ALEXANDER LAMBERT, Director.
41Private Instruction in Piano, Singing, Violin, 'Cello and all branches of music, by a faculty unsurpassed for its excellence.
42SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR BEGINNERS.
43All instrumental and vocal students receive free instruction in harmony, counterpoint, vocal sight reading, ensemble playing and free admission to concerts, lectures, etc., etc.
44Students received daily. Catalog sent on application.
45GWILYMMILES,
46BARITONE.
47THE WOLFSON MUSICAL BUREAU,
48131 East 17th Street, NEW YORK.
49Personal address: 65 Morningside Ave., New York.
50FELIX FOX, Pianist
51Address HENRY WOLFSON, 131 East 17th St., NEW YORK.
53Obituary.
55Helen Dellenbaugh Tretbar.
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58MRS. HELEN DELLENBAUGH TRETBAR, wife of Charles F. Tretbar, died last Thursday, April 3, at her home at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. She was sixty-five years old. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock from St. Barnabas' Church. The interment was at Buffalo, N. Y.
60Mrs. Tretbar was a woman of exceptional literary ability and a musician, and was possessed of a cultured critical faculty. At the time of her activities she was a constant attendant at all of the important musical events of this city in Steinway Hall, then the centre of musical productivity so far as concerts and recitals were concerned, and she was, at the same time, interested in the translation of song texts. Her name can be found to-day in some of the best editions of classical compositions. As a translator of the German text her work is accepted as standard to-day. She had an amiable and loving disposition, but during the last years of her life she retired from the more active association in the musical world. An admirer of nature, she preferred the country to city life. Her death is universally regretted by a large number of friends and admirers.
62Thomas Dunn English.
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65DR. THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH died at the age of eighty-three years at his home, Newark, N. J., on Tuesday, April 1. As a poet Dr. English became famous long before the Civil War. "Ben Bolt," by no means his best poem, was written in 1843, when he was only twenty-four. No one was more surprised than the author over the stir these sickly sentimental verses made in this country and England. In later years Dr. English detested the song which made him famous. He was a man of good taste in things literary and fully realized that the so-called poem written when he was only twenty-four was stupid stuff. Once he threatened to leave a concert because it was announced that "Ben Bolt" would be sung in his honor. The poem which so excited English speaking peoples everywhere was first published in the New York Mirror. The editors at that time were George P. Morris and N. P. Willis. Dr. English himself wrote a musical setting for "Ben Bolt," but neither he nor anyone else admired the music. The score which finally made the song popular was written by Nelson F. Kneass, after a German melody. Mr. Kneass was a vocalist and he helped to make the song known by singing it himself. This was several years after the poem was published. "Ben Bolt" was forgotten, as such songs will be, until the "Trilby" craze, when the song once more became popular. Dr. English was born in Philadelphia, June 29, 1819. The University of Pennsylvania made him a Doctor of Medicine in 1839. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. In 1876 William and Mary College made him a Doctor of Laws. Besides medicine and law he tried politics. He served in the New Jersey Legislature during the Civil War and was a member of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. Dr. English wrote for the papers and magazines almost continuously for sixty years. He also wrote plays and novels. Dr. English is survived by one son and one daughter. The daughter's name is Alice.
67David Philander Horton.
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70David Philander Horton, an old music teacher of distinguished ancestry, died at his home in Southold, L. I., on April 1. He was seventy-four years old. Mr. Horton taught music in the Brooklyn public schools for over thirty-five years, from 1856 to 1892. In his earlier years he filled the position of soloist in church choirs. He had a tenor voice. Composing was another of his accomplishments. Mr. Horton's wife, who was Miss Caroline Rushmore, of Hempstead, L. I., died last January. The deceased is survived by three adult children, Mrs. William C. Billard, of Brooklyn; Mrs. Charles Hommel and George Ellis Horton, of Southold, L. I.
72Paul Bulsz.
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75Paul Bulsz, for over twelve years the leading baritone at the Royal Opera in Berlin, died recently at Temesvar, in Hungary. Bulsz had independent means, and therefore took an extended furlough last year in order to make a concert tour. He was planning to visit the United States next year. The singer had a big repertory. Bulsz was a pupil of Engel, and before his engagement for the Berlin Opera he had sung at theatres and opera houses in Lübeck, Cologne, Cassel and Dresden. He made his début in opera in 1876, when he was twenty-nine years old. He was born at Birkholz Manor, in Priegnitz, December 19, 1847. He leaves a widow and one son.
77George Streit
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80George Streit, a musician who made a name in New England as a teacher and orchestral and band leader, died at his home, 18 East 111th street, New York, last Sunday, April 6. The funeral was held yesterday, and the burial was at New Haven, Conn., Mr. Streit's former home. Mr. Streit had played the clarinet in the Metropolitan Opera House and Herald Square Theatre orchestras. He was a member of the Aschenbroedel Verein.
82Grace Driscoll.
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85News was received in St. Louis last week of the death of Miss Grace Driscoll, at Spokane, Wash. Miss Driscoll was a well-known musician, a native of St. Louis. She played the violin, and as soon as she entered her teens joined the Amateur Orchestra of St. Louis. Miss Driscoll passed away on March 24.
87Klein-Paderewski.
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90HERMANN KLEIN, the well-known vocal maestro, will tender Ignace Paderewski a reception at Sherry's April 29.
92FOR SALE—The only incorporated music school in the State of New Jersey. The charter and good will of a first-class music school, ten years old, will be sold at a reasonable price if applied for at once. The school has an A1 credit, and has always done a profitable business; good reason for selling. For further particulars address M. E., care R. E. Johnston, St. James Building, New York city.
94Pears'
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99SPECIAL COURSE OF TEN WEEKS
100AT THE
101GUILMANT ORGAN SCHOOL
102Beginning Tuesday, April 8th, 1902.
103SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND FULL PARTICULARS.
10434 West 12th Street,
105NEW YORK.
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