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Musical Courier 1902-04-09: Vol 44 Iss 1150, 1902
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1Music in Brooklyn.
3Sousa at the Academy of Music.
5OUSA gave his admirers an eclectic program on Easter Tuesday evening at the Academy of Music. The famous bandmaster and composer was most cordially welcomed. Besides the regular program, encores were given without stint. When one listens to the excellence to which this band has attained in playing such numbers as Liszt's symphonic poem, "Les Preludes" and excerpts from the Wagner operas, the triumphs made by Sousa in musical Germany are no longer surprising. Too much praise cannot be given to the wind players among the Sousa musicians. The numbers especially good at the Easter concert in this borough were the symphonic poem by Liszt, selections from "Siegfried" and the "Sylvia" suite by Delibes. "The Night Owls," a new waltz by Ziehrer, and "Dance of the Gnomes," another novelty by Cowen, also pleased. Great enthusiasm was aroused by the playing of the two-steps and Sousa's latest march, "The Invincible Eagle." Solos were given by Miss Maud Reese-Davies, soprano; Miss Dorothy Hoyle, violin, and Arthur Pryor, trombone.
7CONCERT BY THE KLINGENFELD COLLEGE OF MUSIC.
9The Klingenberg College of Music and School of Elocution gave a concert Tuesday, April 1, at Avon Hall, Bedford avenue, for the benefit of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. A varied and excellent program of nineteen numbers was given as follows:
11Easter Greeting………………………………………Miss Louise Gibson.
12Welcome to Spring Chorus……………………………Rubinstein
13The Misses Comlossy, Lins, Jausz, Casy, E. and G. Tenzer, Swain, Gibson, Hendrickson.
14Mandolin solo………………………………………Selected
15Arthur Vernon Bunker.
16Recitation, Leetle Yacob Strauss……………………Master Hans Klingenfeld.
17Piano solo, Norse Song……………………………..Schumann
18Miss Beatrice Ball.
19Vocal solo, A Soldier I Would Be…………………..Otis White
20Master Royalstone Adams.
21Recitation, The Joy of the Hills……………………Edwin Markham
22Miss Barbara Lamont.
23Violin solo—
24Lullaby……………………………………………..M. Hauser
25Villanelle…………………………………………….D. Alard
26Master Eduard Christensen.
27Comic song, Old Maids Are Willing to Please……..Victor Herbert Beauchamp B. Tesseman.
28Piano solo, Old French Dance……………………….Adele Lewing
29Miss Meta Christensen.
30Wireless Telegraphy.
31Mme. Max O'Kill.
32Children's Trio, violin, 'cello and piano…………….Klengel
33The Misses D. Sanborn, B. Ball and Mr. M. Herzberg.
34Comic song, O, Fudge!……………………………..Paul Schindler
35Mr. Tesseman.
36Recitation, A Prayer……………………………….Edwin Markham
37Miss Barbara Lamont.
38Harp solo…………………………………………..Selected
39Frank M. Fosdick.
40The Fairy and Her Bouquet of Flowers………………The Misses Comlossy, Hendrickson, Swain, E. and G. Tenzer, Casy, Jausz, Lins, Gibson.
41'Cello solo—
42Romanza…………………………………………….Becker
43Abendstern, from the opera Tannhauser……………..Kummer
44Max Herzberg.
45Ventriloquism.
46Prof. Max O'Kill.
47Vocal duet, The Angel……………………………..Rubinstein
48Miss Katie Jausz and Master Brett Langstaff.
49With Tableau.
50The Misses A. and E. Lins, Maud Meek and Edith Todd.
52CONCERT BY THE AMATEUR MUSICAL CLUB.
54Ericsson F. Bushnell, basso, and Franz Wilczek, violinist, were the soloists at the spring concert of the Brooklyn Amateur Musical Club. This club is a social rather than a musical society. The members are women, most of them prominent in the borough, and a number of them have excellent voices. The concert was given Tuesday evening, April 1, at Memorial Hall, on Schermerhorn street. The program follows:
55Lohengrin's Advent………………………………….Wagner
56Cavatina (from Carmen)……………………………..Bizet
57Gesangscene…………………………………………Spohr
58Franz Wilczek.
59Othello……………………………………………….Verdi
60Animal Song (from Santa Claus)……………………Shelley
61Ericsson F. Bushnell.
62Fugue………………………………………………….Verdi
63A Morning Song………………………………………Shelley one of two readings
64A Morning Song…………………………………….Shelley one of two readings
65Words by Anna Alice Chapin.
66Bendemeer's Stream…………………………………Moore-Mildenberg
67My Heart's in the Highlands………………………..Peuschel
68Prelude from Sonata No. 6………………………….Bach
69Andante……………………………………………..Spohr
70Polonaise…………………………………………….Wieniawski
71Franz Wilczek.
72Oh, Night of Joy……………………………………Strauss
73In Questa Tomba……………………………………Beethoven
74Les Larmes…………………………………………Reyer
75Serenade from Don Juan……………………………Tschaikowsky
76Ericsson F. Bushnell.
77Estudiantina…………………………………………P. Lacome
79VENTH-ARNOLD RECITAL AT WISSNER HALL.
81Between 500 and 600 music lovers attended the recital given by Carl Venth and August Arnold, at Wissner Hall, last Tuesday evening. The program is appended:
82Sonata I., op. 21, violin and piano……………………Gade
83Piano solo—
84Serenade…………………………………………….Rubinstein
85Rustle of Spring……………………………………Sinding
86Tarantella…………………………………………..Moszkowski
87Violin solo—
88Air…………………………………………………….Bach
89Morceau de Salon………………………………….Vieuxtemps
90Mazourka…………………………………………….Wieniawski
91Sonata No. II, A minor, violin and piano…………..Rubinstein
93Both artists were obliged to add encores after the solo numbers, but the most enjoyable number was the Rubinstein Sonata, one of the Russian composer's most beautiful works. Particularly the slow movement, as performed on the violin by Mr. Venth, moved the musicians in the audience to great applause.
95Mr. Venth, by the way, will give a concert at the Hotel Majestic, Manhattan, on April 22, at which the entire program will be devoted to his compositions. During this season the following compositions by him were played and sung in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Morristown, N. J.:
96Sonata for violin and piano.
97String quartet.
98Three quintets for strings and piano.
99Dramatic cantata, Hiawatha's Wooing.
100Romance for violin.
101Swedish Fantaisie for violin.
102Suite for violin and piano.
103Scotch Rhapsody for violin.
105LAST OF THE SATURDAY SYMPHONY CONCERTS.
107A Wagner program, by request, was given at the last of the Saturday Symphony concerts at the Academy of Music last Saturday afternoon. Frank Damrosch conducted. The works performed were Overture to "Rienzi"; "Waldweben," from "Siegfried"; Prelude to "Die Meistersinger"; "Liebestod," from "Tristan and Isolde"; "Kaisermarsch."
109ANNOUNCEMENTS.
111This evening (Wednesday) Arthur Hochman will give a recital at Wissner Hall. The program was published last week.
113To-morrow (Thursday) evening Josef Hofmann, Jean Gérardy and Fritz Kreisler will give a joint recital at the Academy of Music under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute. The program was published last week.
115Next Tuesday, April 15, the Brooklyn Apollo Club will give its final concert at the Academy of Music.
117The Choral Art Society will give a concert under Institute auspices, at Association Hall, Thursday evening, April 17.
119A new work by Kriegeskotten, a "Te Deum," entitled "The Choral of Leuthen," and Schumann's cantata, "The Pilgrimage of the Rose," will be sung at the concert, which the Brooklyn Arion will give at its clubhouse, Sunday evening, April 20. Arthur Claassen will conduct. The soloists for the concert will be Mrs. Marie Rappold, soprano; Mrs. Anna Winkopp, contralto; Leo Liebermann, tenor, and Alfred Gramm, basso.
121Wednesday evening, April 23, the Prospect Heights Choral Society will give its closing concert of the season at the First Reformed Church, Seventh avenue and Carroll street. Arthur Goring Thomas' cantata, "The Swan and the Skylark" will be sung. The chorus will be assisted by an orchestra and the following soloists: Hubert Arnold, violinist; Mrs. Shanna Cumming-Jones, soprano; Miss Kathleen Howard, contralto; B. M. Chase, tenor, and Dr. Victor Baillard, basso.
123Liszt's oratorio "St. Elizabeth," will be sung by the Brooklyn Oratorio Society Friday evening, April 25. The concert will be given at the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute. Walter Henry Hall will conduct, and the soloists announced are Mrs. Jessica de Wolf, soprano; Miss Marguerite Hall, mezzo soprano; Georges Chais, baritone, and Ericsson Bushnell, basso.
125THE LATE F. H. DANIELS AND HIS DOGS.
127In the reports in the daily papers about the funeral of the late Frank H. Daniels pathetic reference was made to the death of the deceased musicians' pets, two dogs. The Eagle published almost a column about the demise of one of the faithful animals a day after his master. The other dog died a few days later. It was reported that both dogs died of grief.
129The great English novelist, the late Charles Dickens, was far from being a pessimist, but it was he who once wrote: "The more I see of dogs, the less I think of men."
131HERBERT WITHERSPOON'S WESTERN TOUR.
133HERBERT WITHERSPOON, the basso, is now in the West filling engagements in Akron, Ohio; Belvidere, Ill., and Chicago. Mr. Witherspoon has booked a large spring season and has had the novel experience of being sought after for the date of April 24 by no less than four different parties, namely, the Rubinstein Club, in Cleveland (accepted); Apollo Club, Pittsburg; Orange Oratorio Society, and A. Y. Cornell for "The Creation" in Harlem. This shows the increasing popularity of this successful artist.
135Mr. Witherspoon is now contemplating an extensive tour to the Pacific Coast and the Southwest for next year, owing to the numerous offers of engagements in that part of the country which he has been obliged to refuse this year. He has made himself famous this season for his song recitals.
137Last week he sang with the Temple Choir at their annual concert in Brooklyn; E. M. Bowman conductor.
139The Brooklyn papers spoke of him as follows:
140Mr. Witherspoon was heard in Handel's great aria, "Arm! Arm! Ye Brave!" not often seen on modern programs. He sang it with fine intelligence, but with not quite his usual power, owing to a slight cold. He acquitted himself well in the solo part of "The Forging of the Anchor." Sir Frederick Bridges' new cantata.—Brooklyn Eagle, March 28, 1902.
142Herbert Witherspoon, who is the happy possessor of a sonorous basso voice, sang a recitative and an air from Handel's "Judas Maccabeus," and received much applause. * * * Mr. Witherspoon again sang his solo parts with great credit to himself.—Brooklyn Standard-Union, March 28.
144The work is a commendable one, and it was ably interpreted with the assistance of Mr. Witherspoon.
146The latter was much enjoyed in his solo, the recitative and air from "Judas Maccabeus," by Handel, "Arm! Arm! Ye Brave!" His encore was the popular encore introduced here by Bispham, "My Poor Nell."—Brooklyn Citizen, March 28.
148Mr. Witherspoon's fine voice was displayed advantageously in the "Arm! Arm! Ye Brave!" aria from Handel's "Judas Maccabeus," and he also sustained the solo part in the cantata, "The Forging of the Anchor," a new work by Sir Frederick Bridges, the well-known British composer, and sung for the first time in America at last night's concert.—Brooklyn Times, March 28.
150HAARLEM PHILHARMONIC MUSICALE.
152THE Haarlem Philharmonic Society gave their final musicale of the season in the Astor Gallery of the Waldorf-Astoria last Thursday morning. All the musicales this year have been given in the forenoon and have been brilliant affairs. Jean Gérardy, the Belgian 'cellist, and Emma Juch were the artists engaged for last Thursday. Isidore Luckstone was the accompanist. The 'cellist opened the program by playing two movements of Boccherini's Sonata. He also contributed five solos, "The Swan," by Saint-Saëns; "The Butterfly," by Popper; the familiar Bach air; Schubert's "Cradle Song," and "At the Fountain," by Davidoff. Gérardy played beautifully, with feeling, with good intonation and with that velvety, full, rich tone that is ever his to command. This young and gifted man plays equally well the works of all composers, classic, romantic and modern. Even the compositions not written for 'cello he vitalizes and makes interesting. His personality, too, is a factor in his success.
154Madame Juch sang songs by Schubert, Schumann, Dvorák, Brahms, Massenet, Lane Wilson and Rubinstein with her usual taste and regard for art. Mr. Luckstone's accompaniments were appreciated by everyone who understands how difficult are the piano parts of most of the music heard at the musicale. The chairman of the music committee of the society is Mrs. Orison B. Smith.
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