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Musical Courier 1902-05-28: Vol 44 Iss 1157, 1902
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1Boston Music Notes.
3BOSTON, MASS., May 24, 1902.
5THE vocal pupils of Madame Sargent-Goodelle gave a recital Thursday evening at Huntington Chambers Hall before a large and appreciative audience, which included many persons prominent in musical circles. Madame Goodelle studied a number of years in Italy under Sangiovanni, and the results of her training were evident in the methods of those who sang. Especial mention is due to Mrs. Andrews for her singing of the difficult "Se Saran Rose," the style and ease with which she took the difficult ending being delightful, and she was compelled to respond to an enthusiastic encore. Mr. Adams, Miss Carter and Miss Daniels were also distinctly effective. This was the program:
7The Thrastle…………………………………………..White
8Miss Elizabeth Whittier Patten.
9Duet, The Gypsies………………………………………Brahms
10Miss Lena Martin and Miss June Smith.
11Im Kahne…………………………………………………….Grieg
12The Yellow Daisy……………………………………….MacDowell
13The Blue Bell……………………………………………..MacDowell
14Miss Helen Huntington.
15Under the Rose…………………………………………..Fisher
16O Love, Stay By and Sing…………………………….Foote
17Robert Adams.
18Se Saran Rose…………………………………………..Arditi
19Mrs. S. A. Andrews.
20Supplication……………………………………………..Mildenberg
21Out in the Open Meadow……………………………..Stewart
22Frank Cummins.
23Constancy……………………………………………….MacDowell
24Mighty Lak' a Rose……………………………………Nevin
25Miss Anne Carter.
26Im Walde…………………………………………………Miersch one of two readings
27Im Walde…………………………………………………..Miersch one of two readings
28There, Little Girl, Don't Cry………………………….Homer Norris
29Miss Mildred Daniels.
30Concert waltz, Voci di Primavara…………………….Johann Strauss
31Miss Martin.
32Herbert W. W. Downs was the accompanist.
34A concert was given Tuesday evening in Huntington Chambers Hall by pupils of Carl Sobeski, assisted by the Mendelssohn Trio; May Barden McGowen, violin; H. Evelyn Kendall, piano, and Walter E. Kendall, violoncello. The program was long and varied, showing the abilities of the several students. Each pupil gave evidence of careful training and study. Particular mention should be made of Miss Elise Worthley, who sang with good effect a group of songs and Massenet's air from "Le Cid," "Weep. My Grief Worn Eyes." M. Sobeski gave selections from Helmund, Scudari, a slumber song of his own composition, from manuscript, and the scene and air from "Tannhäuser," "Evening Star," by request. Charles W. Turner, bass, has a broad voice of good quality and under excellent control; in fact, all those who appeared had fine voices and hold positions of importance either as teachers or singers. The names of those appearing follow: Wm. Gray King, Alice Josephine Hicks, F. Paul Welsch, Miss Georgia Harding, Lillian Owen, John Channell, Miss Elise Worthley, Allan Haycock, M. Sobeski, Miss A. M. Edwards, Chas. W. Turner, W. W. Hicks (violin obligato), Miss Evelyn Kendall, James Ratigan, Miss Margaret Coveny and W. E. Kendall.
36Miss Annie F. Hardy's recital in Huntington Chambers Hall, on Wednesday evening, was an enjoyable affair in every way, and was attended by a large and enthusiastic audience. Miss Hardy is a member of the graduating class of 1902, Faelten Pianoforte School. She performed her difficult program entirely from memory, and with such ease and confidence as to indicate that she thoroughly understood and appreciated her task, both musically and technically. Two numbers on the program consisted of the seldom heard "Oriental Pictures," by Schumann, performed on two pianos by ensemble classes of the school. Miss Hardy received many beautiful flowers from her friends. Her part of the program was as follows:
38Prelude and Toccata, D minor…………………………..Lachner
39Sonata, B flat major, op. 22……………………………Beethoven
40Tarantella, A flat major, op. 43………………………..Chopin
41Huntsman's Evening Song, D flat major………………..Schubert-Faelten
42En Route, Caprice, B flat major, op. 107, No. 12……..Godard
43Humoreske, D flat major……………………………….Schütt
44Liebestraum, A flat major………………………………Liszt
45Valse Brillante, D major………………………………..Gallico
47At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Oliver Ditson fund for the relief of needy musicians, held recently, at the late residence of Mr. Ditson, these officers were chosen: President, B. J. Lang; treasurer, C. H. Ditson; clerk, F. Smith; trustees, B. J. Lang, A. P. Browne, Arthur Foote.
49The fund, it will be remembered, had its origin in a bequest by Mr. Ditson of $25,000; its income has been largely drawn upon during the last year, to give aid to infirm and otherwise helpless musicians who had fallen upon evil days.
51The fund exists solely for the temporary succor of such, and not (as is sometimes supposed) to aid in the musical education of anyone, however deserving.
53Miss Julia Shewell, pupil of Miss Priscilla White, sang recently with great success at a musicale given by Mrs. Murray Kay in Brookline.
55A public performance of the New England Conservatory of Music School of Opera took place in the Boston Theatre on Friday afternoon, May 23, under the direction of Signor Oreste Bimboni.
57A vocal recital by the pupils of Frank E. Morse was given Thursday evening in Steinert Hall, before a large and fashionable audience. Besides a chorus of forty-five voices the following appeared in solo numbers: Misses Frost, Antrobus, Schofield, Wishman, Jaynes, Clapp, Hale, Bodeemer, Newman and Drake, and Messrs. Hastings, Skeer, Martin, Lyman, Orchard and Wilson. The program was an extended one, including choruses and solo numbers by representative composers of the various schools.
59The various participants showed results of careful and systematic training, and their efforts gave much pleasure to the audience. The chorus numbers were also sung with precision and with excellent quality of tone, the voices being well balanced in every way. In all it was one of the most pleasing of the many pupils' recitals that have been given this season.
61The members of the chorus are Kate Antrobus, Mary E. Ayres, Rosa Baitler, Elizabeth Burke, Katharine Bodeemer, Louise Dexter, Lula J. Drake, Charlotte A. Hood, Maude Houghton, Grace le Bosquet, Elizabeth E. Morris, Gertrude Newman, Katharine Patten, Mabel Proctor, Elizabeth Richardson, Edith R. Sanderson, Adelaide Wishman, Leila Wishman, Nora Burke, Effie M. Hatfield, Sadie Jaynes, Nelly E. Long, Katheryn Schofield, Julia Talbot, Alma Woodcock, Bernice Wright, Fred M. Bates, J. Frank Hayward, W. A. Kimball, C. Burton Lyman, Robert C. Martin, Walter C. Mooney, Vincent Pinkham, Malcolm Seymour, James Antrobus, David F. Choate, W. A. Corcoran, George O. Gibson, Fred P. Hastings, C. B. Johnson, A. Leslie McCormack, Nat M. Morse, Edward Orchard, Leon P. Richardson, Charles O. Skeer. one of two readings
62The members of the chorus are Kate Antrobus, Mary E. Ayres, Rosa Baitler, Elizabeth Burke, Katharine Bodeemer, Louise Dexter, Lula J. Drake, Charlotte A. Hood, Maude Houghton, Grace le Bosquet, Elizabeth E. Morris, Gertrude Newman, Katharine Patten, Mabel Proctor, Elizabeth Richardson, Edith R. Sanderson, Adelaide Wishman, Lelia Wishman, Nora Burke, Effie M. Hatfield, Sadie Jaynes, Nelly E. Long, Katheryn Schofield, Julia Talbot, Alma Woodcock, Bernice Wright, Fred M. Bates, J. Frank Hayward, W. A. Kimball, C. Burton Lyman, Robert C. Martin, Walter C. Mooney, Vincent Pinkham, Malcolm Seymour, James Antrobus, David F. Choate, W. A. Corcoran, George O. Gibson, Fred P. Hastings, C. B. Johnson, A. Leslie McCormack, Nat M. Morse, Edward Orchard, Leon P. Richardson, Charles O. Skeer. one of two readings
64Mr. Morse announces for next autumn a practical course in four-part singing for church and concert singers.
66Membership in the classes will be limited to six or eight students. Mrs. Isadora Smith Bussey will direct the classes.
68There will be a piano recital in aid of the scholarship fund of the Faelten Pianoforte School by the Bach Club, assisted by members of the Beethoven Club, in Huntington Chambers Hall, May 28.
70Theodore van Yorx.
72THEODORE VAN YORX gave a second recital at Springfield, Mass., and the popular tenor achieved even greater success than at the first affair. Some of the criticisms were:
74There is a very universal feeling that the second enjoyment in the same line of experience can never equal the first, but this belief was not only overthrown but was utterly inverted last evening at the song recital given by Theodore van Yorx. The program was even more of a delight to the audience than that of last week. In fact, we are all ready to welcome a third. Mr. van Yorx is in nothing more rare than in his possession of a voice which is undeniably tenor. This is saying a great deal, for his art is as great as his voice, and his program last evening brought out many sides, both of his nature and of his art. The gifts pile up as we grow more retrospective, for on a par with these may be placed his unique tact in program making. The more we hear this singer the more we realize that there are many sides to his nature. A subtle humor, a strenuous passion, a delicate sentiment, at times the last characteristic becomes more than delicate and a bit ultra, but rarely, and even so the art is always beautiful, so that much may and must be forgiven. The first number of last evening's program was Mendelssohn's aria, "If With All Your Hearts." This was beautifully sung with grace and a religious seriousness and yearning. It was followed by Schubert's "My Sweet Repose," a most Schubertian song, and one whose climax is a real one, seeming to realize and individualize the whole song. That van Yorx believed this he proved by keeping all the first gentle pleading, and by bursting into a passion of beseeching in the wonderful phrasing, "Let Thy Pure Light." "The Monotone," by Cornelius, is cleverly written and is also a "lovely song," in which the voice takes but one note, while the accompaniment weaves very pretty harmonies around it. It would be an extremely easy thing to make this monotone too much of one, a monotone ending in a "y" instead of an "e," but Mr. van Yorx steered successfully clear of the musical Scylla and Charybdis and neither overdid nor underdid this difficult artistic trick. Grieg's well loved "Ich Liebe Dich" came next and was sung with an abandon reached only one other time perhaps during the evening—in the Song Cycle by Ronald. This set is charming. It is difficult to say in which one of the songs Mr. van Yorx was at his best. Dvorák's Gipsy Song Cycle is a set of wonderfully original songs, the "Hark, How My Triangle," and "Silent and Lone" being particularly good, and Mr. van Yorx's singing of these two was exquisite. In "Love's Rhapsody," a song written for and dedicated to Mr. van Yorx by Homer N. Bartlett, we caught the milder romance of the singer; in the old Welsh, old English and old Irish songs, especially in the latter, the quaint humor was simply irresistible. It all sounds as though we liked it very much, and we did, and the applause showed that, too, for here is a beautiful singer. It is an art rarely equaled, yet with only flashes of that so possessed and overwhelming temperament which makes less delicate the web, yet more striking the pattern; who shall say which is the greatest music maker, this or that? However that may be, this one is a beautiful singer and weaves his web with rare results.—Springfield Union, May 20, 1902.
76The song recital by Theodore van Yorx in High School Hall last Monday evening was a surprise to all who were not familiar with the singing of this capable tenor; those who knew him expected much, and they were in no degree disappointed, for without a doubt it was the best recital of the season, and thoroughly delighted the large audience, the largest audience that has attended one of these affairs this season, by the way. Mr. van Yorx had already been heard here with satisfaction in an Orpheum concert and at program, such as the recital afforded the recent music festival; but a varied one served to show off his powers to greater advantage, and even his admirers found new pleasure in listening to him. His voice is remarkable for its smoothness, and he rises to climaxes with perfect fullness and with excellent control. The program included a variety of music and in each of the songs he
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