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Musical Courier 1903-01-28: Vol 46 Iss 1192, 1903
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1SHERMAN, CLAY & Co.'s.
2SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 1903.
4McDOWELL has been the centre of attraction this week, and an extra concert was given on Thursday afternoon, which drew as large a crowd as the former ones. Saturday afternoon Mr. MacDowell and his wife were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bendix, of the California Conservatory of Music, at the Bendix residence on Sutter street.
6One has to thank Mrs. Emelia Tojetti for the gracious acknowledgment of encouragement given the efforts of the California Club through these columns. It is the aim of the Pacific Coast department of THE MUSICAL COURIER to encourage all effort toward broadening and enlarging musical possibilities, but it is not always one receives the courtesy of gratitude and it is greatly appreciated.
8Rose Relda sang before a large audience at Steinway Hall on Friday night. Miss Relda has had the most flattering success in the Opéra Comique of Paris, and her work improves wonderfully from year to year. She has a voice of bell-like quality, sweet and very flexible, and it has been so beautifully trained she manages it with the utmost ease and with perfect control. Her concert won for her the most flattering comments of press and people.
10The regular monthly musical service was held at St. Dominic's Church last night, when the following excellent program was rendered:
11Organ prelude, Fantaisie in F minor…………………….Callaerts
12Praise Ye the Lord………………………………………Randegger
13Solo, Come Unto Me…………………………………….Coenen
14Miss L. C. Stone.
15Quartet, Sub Tuum………………………………………Dubois
16Solo, Come Unto Me…………………………………….Coenen
17Mrs. Lily Roeder-Apple.
18Organ soli—
19Moderato, Gothic Symphony……………………………Widor
20Andante Grazioso in A (first time of performance)….H. J. Stewart
21Allegro from Sixth Symphony………………………….Widor
22William B. King
23(Organist of the First Congregational Church, Oakland).
24Selection from The Last Judgment……………………..Spohr
25Solo, Abide With Me………………………………….Liddle
26Miss Ella V. McCloskey.
27Solo, Remember, Lord (Fall of Babylon)…………….Spohr
28T. G. Elliot.
29Ave Verum……………………………………………..Gounod
30At Benediction, O Salutaris……………………………Stewart
31Tantum Ergo……………………………………………Dethier one of two readings
32Tantum Ergo…………………………………………..Dethier one of two readings
33Organ Postlude, March in C……………………………Spohr
34Dr. H. J. Stewart
35(Organist and director of the choir).
37Apropos of Dr. Stewart, whose compositions are already widely known and recognized, a concert is to be given by this eminent musician which will be somewhat out of the ordinary run of musical affairs. The concert is to take place on February 3 at Steinway Hall, and the program, which will be rendered by many of our best local artists, is to be made up entirely of Dr. Stewart's own compositions, many of which are novelties, some recently published and some as yet in manuscript. There will be part songs, violin solos, piano solos, songs, &c. Dr. Stewart's compositional ability is too well recognized to render comment necessary. He is known as the author of several operas that have been performed with success, oratorios, part songs and solos that have all been heard in public and their ability recognized. The concert will be of especial interest, and will doubtless draw a large audience.
39The Adelphian Club, of Alameda, which is quite a large and enterprising body of women, divided into different educational sections through the efforts of the musical section, gave a successful musical afternoon Saturday. The musical section, which has some thirty members, though the club at large numbers about 300, aims at the advancement of music as an art, in Alameda, and to this end, making Saturday's musicale the initial effort, intends engaging superior talent from abroad to perform before the club, and, furthermore—listen with shame you women of other clubs whose books mark the legend "no music to be paid for"—they intend to recompense all talent. "Of course," as Mrs. Laura Dray Perry, one of the prime movers in this ambitious and worthy effort, remarked, "we are not able to pay all it is worth yet, but we pay all we can, and in time expect to pay all it is worth. At least we are started on the right idea." This is work on the same lines with the Saturday Club, of Sacramento, and they are the only women's clubs within my knowledge that consider musical effort worthy of compensation, "the laborer worthy of his hire," and is worthy of all the support and commendation we can give it.
41Saturday afternoon at Adelphian Club Hall, a very cozy and comfortable room, one of a large suite belonging to this club, Hugo Mansfeldt gave a recital, and the affair was successful beyond the club's best hopes. The hall was crowded, even the stairs to the gallery being filled with people who could find no other accommodation, and many were forced to stand. Mr. Mansfeldt plays so seldom of late many friends and pupils crossed the bay from San Francisco to hear him. When asked why he did not appear in public oftener he quoted this story: "When Rubinstein was last in New York concertizing an enthusiastic lady admirer at the close of a performance said to him: 'Oh, Mr. Rubinstein, if you would but come to New York to stay! Could you not consider it?'"
43"'Pardon, Madame,' replied the great artist, 'but I fear that should I find it possible to comply with your gracious invitation I should forget entirely how to play!'"
45Mr. Mansfeldt says that in Germany an artist gains in favor as he grows older. In America the fickle taste clamors for something new. However, the gentleman in question had on this occasion nothing to complain of. He played magnificently, rendering all technical difficulties with the graceful ease for which he is noted, and was applauded to the echo.
47Listz's beautiful "Campanella" was an especially fine number. Mr. Mansfeldt often takes the written single runs in thirds and octaves of his own arranging, thereby enhancing both the brilliance of execution and the difficulty of rendition. The program was as follows:
49Sonata, C minor, op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight Sonata)……..Beethoven
50Minuet, B minor………………………………………Schubert
51Nocturne, A major……………………………………Field
52Perpetual Motion………………………………………Weber
53Nocturne, B minor, op. 9, No. 1……………………..Chopin
54Air Allemend, Varied, op. posthumous…………………Chopin
55Ballade, B major………………………………………Mansfeldt
56Redding Gavotte………………………………………Mansfeldt
57Romance……………………………………………….Mansfeldt
58Campanella (the Little Bell)…………………………..Listz
59Consolation, E major………………………………….Listz
60Gnomenreigen (Gnome Dance)………………………..Listz
61Romanza from Tannhäuser…………………………..Listz
62Wedding March and Fairy Dance………………………Listz
64Miss Vera Michelena, the seventeen year old dramatic soprano, whose talents I have spoken of before in these columns, is now doing the prima donna part in "The Princess Chic." Miss Michelena is the daughter of Fernando Michelena, the well known operatic tenor, who has trained her himself for the operatic stage, though grand opera is the prime object of her education. Miss Michelena has everything to aid her in achieving ultimate success. Beauty of face and figure, youth, energy, perfect health and, above all, a glorious voice, which has not attained its full scope. It is a matter of certainty that cannot fail that this youthful prima donna will yet attain first place in the highest form of vocal art.
66Wenzel Kopta gives his first violin recital at Steinway Hall on January 27, under Will Greenbaum's management.
68The Zech Symphony concert did not take place on Thursday afternoon, but was postponed to enable subscribers to attend the MacDowell recital.
70MRS. A. WEDMORE JONES.
72Charlotte Maconda Goes South.
74MME. CHARLOTTE MACONDA left last Sunday, after having made a brilliant success in Philadelphia, on a special engagement to give a recital for the Ladies' Musical Club at Galveston, Tex. Madame Maconda was engaged especially to make the trip for this important recital which takes place this week.
76A Matter of Taste.
78LAST Monday morning there was a slight fire in Madame Nordica's apartments at the Collingwood. The singer ran into the street and escaped unhurt. An onlooker remarked that Madame Nordica evidently preferred a "frost" to a "roast."
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