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Musical Courier 1903-01-28: Vol 46 Iss 1192, 1903
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1"Women in Music" was the subject discussed at the regular meeting of the Music Study Club, held at the residence of Mrs. F. H. Smith, Newark, N. J., January 5. Mrs. S. S. Batlin reviewed at length the work of the women who have been and are active in the field of musical composition, and presented a list, surprising in its length, of American women who have won wide recognition as able and creative musicians. Among these is Miss Elizabeth H. Marsh, of Newark.
3The regular concert of the Mendelssohn Club was given at Rockford, Ill., January 15.
5The Schumann Choral Society, of Schenectady, N. Y., will give a concert January 29.
7The Neapolitan Musical Club met with Miss Maude Clark January 13, at Canandaigua, N. Y.
9The third concert in the course given by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra took place January 26.
11A recent program of the Matinee Musical, Lansing, Mich., consisted mostly of selections from Grieg's compositions.
13A musicale was given at the home of Miss Parker, of Troy, Kan., on the evening of January 1 by the Troy Musical Club.
15Mrs. W. E. Wolfe and Miss Tillie Loos entertained the Chaminade Musical Club of Wheeling, W. Va., when it met for its third recital of the season.
17The Woman's Musical Club, of Wheeling, W. Va., gave its fifth musical matinee January 9. The program was in charge of Miss Gertrude McConnaughy.
19The members of the Ladies' Afternoon Musicale were entertained January 9 by Mrs. Walter McCulloh at Niagara Falls, N. Y., it being the first of this season's regular meetings.
21The Chaminade Music Club met January 7 with Miss Helen Ruth Ingalls at Washburn College, Topeka, Kan. An interesting paper on Chopin was sent by Miss Fe Waters, who is in Silver City, N. M.
23The Crescendo Glee Club, of the First Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Mich., is preparing a program of music for the evening of February 24. The club consists of about sixteen members, with P. A. Tenhaaf as musical director.
25The Woman's Musical Club, of Burlington, Ia., held its regular fortnightly meeting January 5. In the absence of the president, Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Thomas Wilkinson presided. The program was given by Mrs. Chas. Drain, of Evanston, Ill.
27The second public concert by the members of the Fortnightly Club was given at St. Joseph, Mo., January 21. Among the chief features of the program were the solos by Miss Newby and also the Clef Club's singing of the "Sword of Ferrara."
29The directors of the Hosmer Hall Choral Union, Hartford, Conn., have engaged the services of N. H. Allen as the conductor for this season. It has been decided to produce April 15 Verdi's opera "Aida," with full orchestra, chorus and soloists.
31The first meeting of the Matinee Musicale following the Christmas intermission was held at Lincoln, Neb., January 12. The program was in the form of a piano recital by Miss Emily Perkins, prefaced by three concerted numbers. The director of the club is Mrs. Raymond, Miss Michener, Miss Mary Smith and Mrs. C. E. Sanderson took part, assisted by a quartet of ladies.
33A musicale was given January 7 by the Quadriga Club at their house, Baltimore, Md., under the direction of Mrs. Pearce Kintzing. The program was devoted entirely to Brahms' compositions.
35The regular meeting of the Fortnightly Musical Club was held at Zanesville, Ohio, recently. The meeting was enjoyable, Miss Hope Mershon and Miss Xema Dorsey rendering the program. Mrs. D. T. McWilliams was taken in as a new member.
37The following officers were chosen for the new Beethoven Choral Club, of Auburn, N. Y.: President, Charles G. Adams; vice president, Mrs. Charles A. Wright; secretary, Clarence E. Goodrich; treasurer, A. L. Hemingway; pianist, T. M. Osborne.
39A song recital was held by the Clef Club at Lewiston, Me., January 9, at the home of Miss Grace Barker. The program was opened with a sketch of the lives of famous prime donne, including Patti, Nordica and Eames, written by Mrs. Abbie Emmons, and read by Grace Barker.
41The Schumann Club gave the fourth recital of the season at Bangor, Me., January 8. The program was devoted to the works of Mendelssohn, H. N. Bartlett, Whelpley and Svendsen, under the direction of Miss Grace Bramhall, Miss Alice Barbour and Miss Frances Drinkwater.
43The Young People's Club of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Spokane, Wash., has perfected its organization by electing the following officers: President, J. E. Harding; vice president, Miss Lillie Smith; secretary, Miss Carrie Knipe; treasurer, Miss Arlie Geesey; business committee, Lisle Sherwin, Miss Katie Haffron and Miss Annie Blair.
45On Saturday afternoon, January 3, at Boise City, Idaho, the younger pupils of Charles Bassett Brendel met at the home of Refugio Sloan and organized the Brendel Juvenile Music Club. Twenty-one members were enrolled. Officers elected: President, Ruth Creed; vice president, Lela Rhodes; secretary, Grace Jackson; reception committee, Marie Cain, Emma Bowen, Louise Lemp and Ruth Rhodes; program committee, Alice Waldahl and Gladys Houtz.
47At a recent meeting of the Wednesday Morning Club, at New Castle, Pa., a sketch of the two composers, Charles Gounod and Ignace Paderewski, was read by Miss Edith Jordan, and the following members of the club rendered the program: Miss Lyde Norton, Miss Clara Seigle, Miss Mary Jordan, Miss Mame Thompson, Miss Florence White, Mrs. A. L. Hadley, Miss Maude Sankey, Mrs. S. D. Forkum, Miss Ruth Lehmer, Miss Helen Urmsen and Miss Emma Bauman.
49Mrs. G. A. Dudley was unanimously elected to the presidency of the Beethoven Club at the meeting of the executive board January 5, at Sioux City, Ia. Mrs. Dudley is well acquainted with the workings of the club, having acted as secretary for the past season. Mrs. Horace Barr was elected secretary, and with Mrs. Abe Davidson as vice president and Mrs. W. A. Dean treasurer the club feels that the balance of the season's work is in competent hands. The four pupils' recitals will be quite a feature of the club's work this season, which will allow all of the teachers of the city to bring forward two of their advanced pupils for these concerts. Mrs. Dudley and Miss Florence Lewis are arranging programs. The next concert of the Beethoven Club will be given by Mrs. H. F. Dow. It will be devoted to sacred music. Mrs. Dow will be assisted by Mrs. Helen Hamilton, Miss Birdie Kieler, Mrs. Tyler and the full St. Thomas Episcopal choir.
51The Musical Club, of Louisville, Ky., announces five concerts for the season. The first will be given on February 19, in which George Hamlin and others will be heard. Another will be given on March 26, when "Elijah" will be given with full orchestral accompaniment and good soloists. The associate members are as follows: Mayor Charles F. Grainger, Mrs. Charles P. Ballard, I. W. Bernheim, B. Bernheim, Gilmer S. Adams, Bishop T. U. Dudley, Dr. Carter Helm Jones, W. E. Ambrose, Samuel L. Avery, J. A. Boyd, Mrs. J. W. Bellstein, F. P. Bush, Heyback-Bush Company; Mrs. Helm Bruce, George Braden, Mrs. Claude R. Barnes, Charles S. Budge, S. R. Chambers, Lee E. Cralle, the Rev. Peyton Hoge, Charles Earle Currie, A. R. Cooper, George P. Kendrick, Lee Callahan, S. M. Cutler, Dr. H. A. Cottell, Junius Caldwell, Newton G. Crawford, C. C. Early, H. W. Dohrmann, H. F. Donigan, R. W. Donigan, Mrs. Emily Davison, E. Drevantsedt, Harry Dumesnil, F. Erpeldinger, E. H. Ferguson, Charles W. Fitch, W. C. Garland, J. W. Gaulbert, S. P. Graham, Dr. Henry Hueser, Aug. Hollenbach, Theo. Harris; C. F. Huhlein, R. G. Dun & Co.; H. H. Hughes, Mrs. E. Kessler, Alvah H. Terry, John F. Kellner, F. W. Keisker, Jr.; Charles H. Keisker, W. L. Lyons, F. N. Lewis, Hubert Levy, M. Muldoon, John Maas, Jr.; W. H. May, George F. Meldrum, W. J. McConathy, Claude Matlack, J. Wheeler McGee, George A. Newman, Sr.; George C. Norton, F. C. Nunemacher, C. M. Robertson, J. C. Robbert, R. E. Ryan, R. A. Robinson, C. P. Robinson, H. S. Ramey, C. C. Stoll, C. G. Strater, Llewellyn Smith, J. L. Smyser, Henry Strater, J. D. Stewart, J. Lithgow Smith, H. B. Tieston, Robert Tyler, J. J. Telford, Charles Francis Wood, Thomas J. Wood, I. F. Whiteside, J. T. Williams, George B. Woodward, A. B. Wingfield, A. B. Weaver, Walter Walker, Julius Winter, Jr.; Louis Zapp, Oscar Fenley, W. C. Williams, George L. Danforth, Allen R. Carter, D. Meshendorf, J. S. White, William Ruedeman, John R. Boyd, S. Zorn, Charles J. Doherty, M. P. Washburn, H. J. Stone and Julius Wanner.
53ADA CROSSLEY'S RECITAL.
55MISS ADA CROSSLEY, the distinguished Australian contralto, will give a song recital at Mendelssohn Hall, Friday evening, February 6. Isidore Luckstone will be at the piano, and the following program will be presented:
57Intorno all' idol mio…………………….Antonio Cesti (1660-66)
58Hark, the Echoing Air…………………….Purcell (1692)
59(Arranged by Alfred Moffat from the opera of "The Fairy Queen.")
60Caro mio ben…………………………….Giordani
61Se Florindo è fedele……………………..A. Scarlatti (1659-1725)
62Die junge Nonne………………………….Schubert
63Paysage………………………………….Reynaldo Hahn
64Allerseelen……………………………….R. Strauss
65An das Vaterland………………………….Grieg
66Liebestreu…………………………………Brahms
67A Garden Song…………………………….Charles Willeby
68(From the Hawthorne and Lavender of W. E. Henley.)
69Philis et Corydon (minuetto)…………….Giovani Martini (1706-84)
70Oh, That We Two Were Maying……………..Ethelbert Nevin
71Battle Hymn……………………………….C. Villiers Stanford
72Since We Parted…………………………..Frances Allitsen
73New Year's Song (seventeenth century)…….Albert Mallinson
75Miss Crossley's debut in America, at Mr. Bagby's musicale at the Waldorf-Astoria, was made Monday, January 19, the day after her arrival in New York, and in spite of a rough and tedious journey across the ocean the great Australian contralto won so immediate and pronounced a success that several important private engagements have since been booked for her. She scored another triumph in Toronto two days later. Miss Crossley sang at a smart drawing room recital here last night, and leaves today for an appearance in Detroit, January 29, after which she returns to New York for her recital.
77Elise Reimer's Popularity.
79THERE is no more popular woman in all Carnegie Hall than Miss Elise Reimer, whose specialty is vocal coaching and accompanying. She is known in all musical circles, a welcome guest everywhere, such is the power of a winning personality, allied with unusual ability. She has played in two important concerts recently, and spent a portion of last week visiting kinsfolk in Philadelphia.
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