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Musical Courier 1902-08-20: Vol 45 Iss 1169, 1902
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1CHAUTAUQUA
3CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., August 16, 1902.
5TRADITION hath it that a fine hotel here, meant especially for women patronage, was a miserable failure; why, was for a long time a mystery. The school ma'ams, music learners, the summer culture girls, came to this hotel all right, remained one night, and sought other habitation. No one complained. They did worse—just left. The hotel was equipped throughout with electric lights, and no gas. Now it was in the days when all women must needs wear their hair in frizzles, whether or no nature so intended, and as there were neither kerosene lamps nor gaslights, the hair perforce had to go unfrizzed.
7The manager installed gas.
9EDWARD J. MYER SCHOOL CONCERT.
11A concert, alluded to as beautiful by all who heard it, was given last week in the Amusement Hall of the Grand Hotel, Point Chautauqua, by a few of the pupils of Mr. Myer's summer school, with this program:
13Until God's Day…………………………………………..Buck
14Ariette………………………………………………………..Vidal
15A Memory……………………………………………………Park
17Mrs. Harriet Welch Spire.
19Song Cycle, Eililand………………………………………A. von Fielitz
20Silent Woe.
21Frauenwörth.
22Roses.
23Secret Greetings.
24On the Shores of the Lake.
25Child Voices.
26Moonlight.
27Dreams.
28Anathema.
29Resignation.
30Alfred Y. Cornell.
31Analytical remarks by Edmund J. Myer.
32Waltz Song, Romeo and Juliet……………………………Gounod
33Mrs. Harriet Welch Spire.
34Song Cycle, Captive Memories………………………….Ethelbert Nevin one of two readings
35Song Cycle, Captive Memories……………………………Ethelbert Nevin one of two readings
36Love is the Way to Arcady.
37Admiration.
38Enchantment.
39Devotion.
40Aspiration.
41In the Soft Still Night.
42Entreaty.
43Marriage.
45Soprano, Mrs. Edith Risser McKay, of New York; contralto, Miss Anna C. Gulbrandsen, of Brooklyn; tenor, Everett B. Carder, of Lincoln, Neb.; baritone, Isaac Beecher Clark, of Waterbury, Conn. Reader, Mrs. Clara B. Dawson, of Detroit, Mich. Howard I. Kirkpatrick, of Lincoln, Neb., and Frank P. McCormick, of Boston, at the piano.
47Mrs. Spire is the well known Buffalo soprano, pleasing greatly with her singing. Mr. Cornell is so busy with the extensive musical work of Calvary M. E. Church in New York, and with his own teaching in Carnegie Hall that he sings solo far too seldom in the metropolis. On this evening he sang the entire "Eililand" cycle with artistic finish and beauty of tone. The graceful but little known quartet work by Nevin closed the concert, and this was especially well done.
49This school for singers and teachers (fifth season) has this year some forty students from fifteen different States, and there is special interest in the normal course for teachers. "Assembly Day," once a week, is a new feature, the students gathering to listen to and take notes on the sixteen private lessons for that day. Mr. Myer remains until August 20, when he takes his annual rest of a month.
51MADAME VON KLENNER AT LAKEWOOD.
53Wherever this wideawake and cultured woman goes she is a force. At the Glens Falls meeting of the New York State Music Teachers' Association a year ago her paper on the voice and her participation in discussion were prominent features of that meeting. Early in the present summer she spent some weeks in North Carolina, where again her professional proceedings created interest from the very first. At Lakewood, on Chautauqua Lake, 15 miles from the Chautauqua Assembly, or as it is now called, the Chautauqua Institution (her second season), she has attracted to herself a mass of pupils from various portions of these United States. Naturally enough, most of these are themselves teachers, combining summer study with this prominent metropolitan authority and the change and spiritual refreshment incident on a stay at this place. Madame von Klenner has a fine studio at the Congregational Church, and here she is busy at stated hours.
55Now why is this woman such a force? The answer is simple: because she has brains and achieves results. What results? Well, her pupils sing, obtain positions—in a word they "get there." Where? Thousand dollar church choir positions, school and seminary positions, place in opera, concert appearances.
57And then she does not hide this from the public; this paper chronicles anything achieved, and as with her there is always "something doing," she and her pupils are read about.
59Of her pupils she mentioned the sopranos, Misses Alta Moyer, of Meadville, Pa.; Charlotta Willingham, of Rochester, N. Y.; the alto, Edna Banker; Mr. Record, of Texas, and others.
61At the finish of her course she will give a concert end of this month, originally intending to close middle of the month, she is urged to continue to September 1.
63It is safe to say that Madame von Klenner will the coming season enjoy a great vogue in Western New York and Pennsylvania especially.
65SHERWOOD-MARCOSSON-DUFFT RECITALS.
67The pianist, violinist and baritone have united in a series of eight artists' recitals, of which one was a "request program," and one, excepting two numbers, an "American program," the latter as follows:
68Sonata in A for piano and violin……………………………Franck
69Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Marocsson.
70Songs………………………………………………………..American composers
71Dr. Dufft.
72By the Frog Pond………………………………………Seeboeck (Chicago) one of two readings
73By the Frog Pond………………………………………….Seeboeck (Chicago) one of two readings
74Prelude, Chasonette and Finale from Suite Moderne………….Whiting (New York)
75Le Crepuscule…………………………………………..von Mickwitz (Dallas, Tex.) one of two readings
76Le Crepuscule……………………………………………..von Mickwitz (Dallas, Tex.) one of two readings
77Scherzo, op. 41…………………………………………..Mason (New York) one of two readings
78Scherzo, op. 41……………………………………………..Mason (New York) one of two readings
79(Dedicated to Mr. Sherwood.)
80The Headless Horseman…………………………………Edgar S. Kelly (New York) one of two readings
81The Headless Horseman…………………………………….Edgar S. Kelly (New York) one of two readings
82Witches' Dance…………………………………………..E. A. MacDowell (New York) one of two readings
83Witches' Dance…………………………………………….E. A. MacDowell (New York) one of two readings
84Mr. Sherwood.
85Airs Hongrois…………………………………………….Ernest one of two readings
86Airs Hongrois……………………………………………….Ernest one of two readings
87Mr. Marocsson.
89That these recitals are much enjoyed is evident from the following bit, clipped from the Assembly Herald of August 5:
91The Artists' Recital in Higgins Hall yesterday was, to musicians, one of the best of the series. It is, however, a peculiarity of these choice hours of music that the last recital seems the best. The program was a long one, but although lasting until after 6 o'clock, but comparatively few were willing to forego even the very last number.
93In closing comment on the program of yesterday, the great merit of the recitals and the important part they fill in musical affairs at Chautauqua should be mentioned.
95A pupil and assistant of Mr. Sherwood is Miss Georgia Kober, of whom the same paper said:
97Miss Kober showed her command of the instrument and received the closest attention of the audience. She was recalled and received a bouquet of flowers.
99VISITING SOLO SINGERS.
101The season at Chautauqua is divided into three periods, during which groups of solo singers appear. Earlier in the season there appeared Sarah King Peck, soprano; John Young, tenor; Oley Speaks, bass, with others less known.
103Miss Peck, at each successive appearance, pleased her hearers more and more; she was there two weeks. A genuine ovation was hers on her last appearance when she sang the two old ballads "Mary of Argyle" and "Comin' Thro' the Rye."
105The applause was splendid, and an immense bunch of American Beauty roses was presented her with a card "From many friends and admirers." Here are two brief Herald comments:
107"Miss Peck sang Luckstone's Waltz Song, which requires technic as well as a flexible voice, with good effect."
108"Miss Peck won many good opinions and much applause by her treatment of the soprano part in the 'Persian Garden.'"
110Tenor John Young is a level headed chap, educated as a business man, but who has recently found his singing vastly more important than his business; so he has dropped the latter, excepting as he applies it to his musical career. That he filled an important place at Chautauqua is evident by perusing the appended:
112John Young has a lyric tenor voice of superior quality, and has pleased Chautauqua audiences.—Assembly Herald, Chautauqua, N. Y., July 15, 1902.
114John Young chose the favorite "Salve Dimora," from "Faust,"
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