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Musical Courier 1902-05-14: Vol 44 Iss 1155, 1902
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1CHICAGO, May 7, 1902.
3GEORGE ADE'S "Sultan of Sulu" is having a remarkably successful run at the Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building, where the production is entering its third month. Many improvements have been made since the "first night" performance.
5Managers of the new Bush Temple of Music announce a special season of light opera, beginning with Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore," on Monday evening, May 12. "Pirates of Penzance," "The Geisha," "Patience" and "The Mikado" are included in the repertory.
7Eighth Sunday Concert at the Grand Opera House.
8George Hamlin, the eminent Chicago tenor, assisted by Eleanor Scheib, pianist, and Alex. Krauss, violinist, presented the following program at the Grand Opera House last Sunday afternoon, May 4:
9Vittorio mio core…………………………………………..Carissimi
10Fruehlingssied……………………………………………..Schoenfeld
11Das Sternlein……………………………………………….Schoenfeld
12Du bist wie eine Blume………………………………….Schoenfeld
13Licheslied…………………………………………………….Dvorak
14Sonata, piano and violin………………………………..Henry Schoenfeld
15'Twas April………………………………………………….Nevin
16When the Land Was White With Moonlight………….Nevin
17Irish Folksongs–
18Heigho! The Morning Dew.
19The Kerry Cow.
20(Arranged by Charles Wood.)
21Love Was Once a Little Boy…………………………….Cowen
22The First Love Song…………………………………….Grammann
24Mr. Hamlin sang with his accustomed finish and expression, and the various interesting songs which he introduced were well-received.
26A particularly attractive feature was the piano and violin sonata of Henry Schoenfeld played by Miss Scheib and Mr. Krauss.
28This was the eighth event in Mr. Hamlin's special series of popular Sunday afternoon concerts at the Grand Opera House.
30D. A. Clippinger, of Kimball Hall, returned to Chicago on May 3, having conducted a successful performance of "Elijah" at Joliet, Ill., on the previous evening.
32William Wegener, the gifted New York tenor, formerly of Chicago, is now a member of an excellent quartet, of which Katherine Howard, a leading pupil of Madame von Klenner, of New York, is the contralto.
34Prof. Alfred Cabel, vocal instructor, of Sioux City, Ia., has sent a number of his pupils to large musical centres for the purpose of continuing their studies. Among such singers may be mentioned Clara Moran, in the class of Charles Gauthier, at the Chicago Musical College; Katherine Gemmill, pupil of Herman Devries, at the Chicago Musical College, and Miss Hall, who recently was so fortunate as to win a scholarship in Boston.
36Miss Lois Davidson, an exceptionally talented pupil of William H. Sherwood, will give a recital, with Mr. Sherwood's assistance, at Joliet, Ill., on the evening of May 7. Much local interest and enthusiasm is centred in this event.
38Katharine Hoffmann's ability as an accompanist has won for her the endorsements of Madame Gadski, Watkin Mills, Frangcon Davies, Gwilym Miles, Joseph Baernstein, William Ludwig, Sydney Biden, Genevieve Clark Wilson, Glenn Hall, Theodore Spiering, Chas. W. Clark, Gregory Hast and other artists. Mrs. Hoffmann's engagements are under the direction of Dunstan Collins, Fine Arts Building.
40Sue Harrington Furbeck, assisted by Bertha Smith Titus, at the piano, gave a very artistic recital in the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, on Tuesday evening, May 6. The program, which was ably interpreted by Mrs. Furbeck, included compositions by Gluck, Schubert, von Fielitz, Thomas, Robert Batten, Mary Knight Wood, Chadwick, Chaminade, Alitisen, Lambert, Lehmann and Gertrude Normand Smith.
42Bertha Smith Titus again proved to be an efficient accompanist.
44Sue Harrington Furbeck is the Fine Arts Bureau's leading contralto.
46Mrs. Luella Clark Emery, the well-known piano instructor, has had a successful season, and will fill important summer engagements.
48"Florodora" comes to the Illinois Theatre next week for a long run, which may continue, according to the local press, until the fall.
50Julia Marlowe will return to Chicago for her last appearance of the season as Mary Tudor.
52Under the direction of Hart Conway, twenty-seven pupils of the Chicago Musical College school of acting will appear in four one act plays at the College Hall, on the afternoon of Saturday, May 10.
54It is estimated that a sum of between $28,000 and $30,000 will represent the amount of the Chicago Orchestral Association's deficit this season. This amount, says the Tribune, while the largest the guarantors have been called upon to meet in the last three seasons, is not, as one report had stated, "the most disastrous deficit the orchestra has had since its establishment eleven years ago." Two years ago the sum to be made up was $16,400—the smallest of the eleven seasons—and last year it was $20,000. Previous to that time, however, the deficits were larger than the present one—$40,000 being the sum reeved in April, 1899, and the shortages of the preceding years ranging from that amount to $51,000. one of two readings
55It is estimated that a sum of between $28,000 and $30,000 will represent the amount of the Chicago Orchestral Association's deficit this season. This amount, says the Tribune, while the largest the guarantors have been called upon to meet in the last three seasons, is not, as one report had stated, "the most disastrous deficit the orchestra has had since its establishment eleven years ago." Two years ago the sum to be made up was $16,400—the smallest of the eleven seasons—and last year it was $20,000. Previous to that time, however, the deficit were larger than the present one—$40,000 being the sum reeved in April, 1899, and the shortages of the preceding years ranging from that amount to $51,000. one of two readings
57The enlarged deficit this year is attributable to the giving of forty-eight concerts instead of forty-four, as heretofore; to unfavouring weather conditions—seven of the last eight public rehearsals having fallen on stormy days—and to the increase in the tendency of fashionable people to spend the late winter and the spring months away from Chicago. The first twelve weeks of the present orchestral season showed an increase of $4,000 over the corresponding weeks of any previous one, so the falling off has been since the middle of January.
59In honor of Mme. Anna Weiss a testimonial concert is to be held at Steinway Hall on the evening of Wednesday, May 28. Carl Bunge and Carl Bronson have charge of the program.
61Francis Hemingway is giving a series of four organ recitals in the Church of the Epiphany. Gail Ellsworth Martin, a boy soprano, assisted in the program of May 5.
63The Chicago Orchestra will give twenty-four public rehearsals and a similar number of concerts during the season 1902-1903.
65Louis Evans, secretary and treasurer of the Bureau of Fine Arts, returned to Chicago this week from Cynthia, Ky., where he conducted a large chorus at a Christian Endeavor convention.
67Philip A. Laffey will organize and direct an orchestra which is to play at the Coliseum Gardens this summer. It will include musicians from the Chicago and Rosenbecker forces, and a number of artists from Cincinnati and Detroit. Concerts will begin on Saturday evening, May 31.
69AMERICAN CONSERVATORY RECITAL.
70At the American Conservatory there are a number of students who possess much talent for original composition. By Mr. Weidig these natural gifts are being cultivated and developed to such an extent that the following program of compositions by members of his class, presented at the American Conservatory on the afternoon of May 3, proved to be very interesting to the appreciative audience present, and a great credit to the conservatory:
71Concerto for Organ and String Orchestra………….A. Cyril Graham
72Mr. Barry.
73Piano–
74Barcarolle…………………………………………………Myrtle Levy
75Valse Caprice…………………………………………….Myrtle Levy
76Miss Levy.
77Songs–
78Orchard Gossip………………………………………….George Colburn
79Leave Me Not…………………………………………….George Colburn
80I Should Know What God and Man Is………….Mrs. A. O. Mason
81Miss Goodwin.
82Suite for piano, Prelude……………………………….John Mokrejs
83Mr. Mokrejs.
84Romance for violin………………………………………Howard Eis
85Mr. Eis.
86Songs–
87I Love My Love………………………………………….Myrtle Levy
88Our Share of Night to Bear…………………………..Myrtle Fisher
89The Years at the Spring………………………………..Myrtle Fisher
90Miss Levy.
91Improvisations in form of a suite, Theme…………….Myrtle Levy
92Miss Levy.
93Second and first movements of a trio for piano, violin and 'cello……………………………………………..Neff Huyette
94Miss Robyn, Mr. Weidig and Mr. Kalas.
95The event was under the able direction of John J. Hattstaedt, musical director.
97Olive Schreiner's "The Hunted," with a musical setting by Louis Campbell-Tipton, will be presented next season
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