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Musical Courier 1902-05-28: Vol 44 Iss 1157, 1902
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3SAN FRANCISCO
5727 EMMA SPRECKELS BUILDING,
6SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 1902.
8HE second song recital of Mrs. M. E. Blanchard was given on Saturday afternoon in the parlors of the First Unitarian Church, under the auspices of the Channing Auxiliary, and was attended by a very appreciative audience. The program was as artistic as any Mrs. Blanchard has ever given here. Mrs. Blanchard has a contralto voice of beautiful warmth of tone, and her phrasing is delightful. Her program consisted of some twenty numbers, which were enthusiastically applauded. "The Secret" and "Who Is Sylvia?" were taken from Schubert; "Seeligkeit," by van der Stucken; "The Water Lily," Richard Strauss, and other numbers taken from Franz, Brahms, MacDowell, Haydn, Secchi, Parker, Hermann, German, Needham and Cocquard, and a number of lovely old French balads made up the afternoon's program.
10Louis H. Eaton will give his fourth organ recital at Trinity Church on Thursday evening next, with a program selected from Widor (the Fifth Symphony), the Thiele Concertsatz in C minor and other numbers not quite as important. J. F. Veaco, the tenor, will give the vocal numbers, and Hother Wismer will be heard on the violin.
12Speaking of Trinity Church reminds one of Dr. Stewart, of Trinity Church, Boston, who, report has it, is about to return to us, Trinity Church having decided to inaugurate a boy choir, with which Dr. Stewart is not at all in sympathy, his work having been done entirely among mixed voices. Had this decision been made in the first place Louis Eaton would have been elected to Trinity Church, Boston, as boy choirs are his particular hobby, and he has had large experience in the work.
14Friday evening the second concert of the Philharmonic Society will be given at Metropolitan Temple. Mrs. M. E. Blanchard will sing and Mr. Minetti, the conductor, has outlined an interesting program for his orchestra.
16Samuel Bollinger has moved his piano studio from O'Farrell street to Room 37, Mercantile Library Building, with reception hours Wednesday and Saturday from 1:30 to 2:30 p. m.
18The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, E. S. Bonelli director, will give an invitation recital Wednesday evening, May 21, at Metropolitan Temple. An extensive program has been prepared, in which numbers will be given by the pupils of all classes.
20Thursday evening, May 22, is the date of a recital announced by Mrs. Cecilia Decker-Cox, the contralto, to be given in Recital Hall of the von Meyerinck School of Music. As Mrs. Cox is a great favorite in the musical set of our town, and is a conscientious and artistic vocalist, the recital will doubtless be largely attended.
22The fourth concert of the twenty-fifth season of the Loring Club will be given in Native Sons' Hall on the evening of Tuesday, the 20th inst. The club has arranged to have the support of an orchestra on this occasion, in addition to the piano and organ, which are always used with the choruses, and two numbers will be heard for the first time here, Johannes Pache's "Spring and Autumn," and Zoeiner's "Young Siegfried," the latter requiring the accompaniment of a full orchestra and embracing themes from Richard Wagner's "Siegfried." The other new number on the program will be given its first hearing at this concert, having been especially written for the Loring Club by Arthur Foote, the well-known composer, of Boston, several of whose works have been successfully sung by the club in previous concerts. Mr. Foote has most gracefully expressed his appreciation of this fact by setting Tennyson's "Miller's Daughter" to music and dedicating it to the club. This number will be heard with great interest. Other important numbers are Rubinstein's "Morning," which has not been heard here for years; Grieg's "Discovery," and "Frithjof's Return," by Max Bruch. The soloist will be Dr. S. Schalchammer and W. E. Dwyer, the pianist Miss Ruth Loring, and the concert under the direction of David W. Loring, conductor of the club.
24Mr. Tolmie, the pianist, gives an informal musicale this afternoon at his studio, 727 Sutter street. Mr. Tolmie is a finished pianist, and his programs are always listened to with the greatest possible pleasure by his audiences.
26A farewell reception and musicale was given Mrs. Mariner Campbell at her residence, 1820 Turk street, on Friday evening, of which I will give further particulars next week, also an account of the ensemble class recital at the California Conservatory of Music at Sherman & Clay Hall.
28MRS. A. WEDMORE JONES.
30MORRISSEY ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY.
32HE James W. Morrissey English Grand Opera Company began a spring and summer season at the Grand Opera House Monday, May 26. Mr. Morrissey's experience in musical matters is quite extensive, and the public will, no doubt, benefit by his knowledge.
34The first opera for production was "Carmen," which will be given the entire week and at the matinees Wednesday, Friday (Decoration Day) and Saturday. This will be followed by "Mignon," and then, in the order named, each opera for one week, "Faust," "Martha," "Il Trovatore," "The Bohemian Girl," "Lucia" and "Romeo and Juliet."
36The cast for "Carmen" includes Miss Rose Cecilia Shay, Miss Julia Allen, Miss Harriet Packard, Miss Eugenie Barker, Miss Etta Bigelow, Miss Helen Johnson, Miss Emily Townsend, Miss Grace Wheeler, Barron Berthald, Thomas Boyd, Achille Alberti, Frank Belcher, Arthur Seaton, T. Sinclair Gore and the chorus from the Metropolitan Opera House.
38Miss Rose Cecilia Shay, the leading prima donna, has sung with success in Venice, Rome, Naples and other cities in Italy, and achieved considerable triumph in the Western and Southern cities recently at the head of her own company. She is the daughter of Thoms F. Shay, one of the most eminent practitioners in criminal law in Cincinnati, and traces her family directly to the lineage of Sir Robert Steele and the Elders of Maryland, who came over to this country with Lord Baltimore and with the first settlers of the State.
40Barron Berthald, who will be remembered as the leading tenor of Walter Damrosch's Opera Company, has just returned from a two years' engagement in England.
42Miss Harriet Packard is a native American of French ancestry, and possesses all the verve and temperament of that volatile race. Her operatic work was begun in this country and finished in Italy. Miss Julia Allen hails from Binghamton, N. Y., and when she was fourteen years old she started out alone for Boston, where, in due time, she graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music; she received her operatic training from de Macchi, of this city. Miss Eugenie Barker comes direct from the Carl Rosa Royal English Opera Company, London, where she sang in a repertory of some forty operas. Miss Isabelle Underwood, Miss Helen Johnson and Miss Etta Bigelow complete the list of sopranos and contraltos.
44Thomas Boyd, Achille Alberti, Signor Abramoff, Frank Belcher, Arthur Seaton and T. Sinclair Gore have all sung in English grand opera for many years in this country and abroad.
46The chorus from Maurice Grau's Metropolitan Opera House Company have been taught the English language by William Parry, for many years at the Metropolitan Opera House, and now Mr. Morrissey's stage manager.
48WOLFSOHN PUPIL GIVES A RECITAL.
50MISS EDITH C. MILLIGAN, a youthful and highly gifted pianist and pupil of Leopold Wolfsohn, gave a recital at Wissner Hall, Brooklyn, last Tuesday evening, May 20. Miss Milligan a mere girl yet in short dresses, showed by her playing that her teacher is a man of discrimination. There is, to be sure, immaturity in her work, but her beautiful liquid touch, expression and temperament raised her performance to a plane where even the indifferent and satiated found enjoyment. Miss Milligan was assisted by Miss Edith Helena, soprano; Mr. Barenblatt, tenor; Mr. Ulanov, violinist, and her teacher, Mr. Wolfsohn. The hall was crowded to overflowing, and applause was given without stint. Here is the program:
52Sonata, op. 31, No. 2, D minor………………………………….Beethoven
53Aria, Ah fors e lui (Traviata)………………………………………Verdi
54Rosamunde, Variations, op. 144………………………………….Schubert
55Concerto, D minor…………………………………………………….Kreutzer
56Ballade, op. 23, G minor…………………………………………..Chopin
57Waltz, op. 42, A flat…………………………………………………Chopin
58Flower Song (Carmen)……………………………………………..Bizet
59O Come With Me in the Summer Night………………………..Van der Stucken
60Spinning Wheel…………………………………………………….Mendelssohn
61Bird Study………………………………………………………..Henselt
62Waltz, op. 34………………………………………………………..Moszkowski
63Aria, Michaela (Carmen)………………………………………..Bizet
64Hungarian Fantaisie……………………………………………….Liszt
65(With second piano accompaniment.)
67Miss Milligan's numbers represented the classical, romantic and modern composers. The young girl revealed a good conception of the different schools, and particularly her interpretations of the Schubert Variations, the Chopin Ballad and the group by Mendelssohn, Henselt and Moszkowski were delightful. Many an adult might have learned something from the beautiful ballad by the Polish composer as she played it, for it was a reading in the best acceptance of the word. Mr. Wolfsohn played the second piano part of the Hungarian Fantaisie, by Liszt, and at the close he and his pupil were greeted by a whirlwind of applause. Miss Milligan was recalled after each number and presented with bouquets.
69Mr. Wolfsohn played the accompaniments for the singers and the violinist. These interval numbers added greatly to the attractiveness of the concert. The recital was the second one Miss Milligan has given, and already a third is announced to take place at the Waldorf-Astoria next October. There have also been applications for private musicales and recitals. Mr. Wolfsohn has received many congratulations upon the success of his gifted pupil.
71Claassen and the United Singers of New York.
73ARTHUR CLAASSEN, the conductor of the Brooklyn Arion, and formerly conductor of the United Singers of Brooklyn, may be the new conductor of the United Singers of New York (Manhattan). The position has been offered to Mr. Claassen, and he may accept after certain changes are made in the by-laws of the United Singers.
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