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Musical Courier 1903-02-04: Vol 46 Iss 1193, 1903
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1MUSIC IN MINNEAPOLIS.
3MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., January 24, 1903.
5ERMANN E. ZOCH, pianist, will give his sixty-first recital at the Unitarian Church, Tuesday evening, January 27. Mr. Zoch is a pianist of fine capabilities and high standing. The program will include Mozart's Sonata in A major, Beethoven's Thirty-two Variations in C minor, Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," four Chopin selections, Grieg, Schubert and Schumann numbers, and Liszt's "Consolation No. 5" and Polonaise in E major.
7At the next monthly musicale to be given by the St. Mark's Church Choir on Sunday evening, February 1, Mr. Normington has decided to give the entire composition of "The Woman of Samaria," Sir Sterndale Bennett's greatest work. The tenor and bass solo parts will be given by local artists.
9An important event of the winter for music lovers will be the entertainment to be given by Mrs. Charles W. Rhodes, of Chicago, who will appear at Plymouth Church, February 7, in the New Century course. Mrs. Rhodes' lecture is on "Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival," and is illustrated by stereopticon pictures and music. Mrs. Rhodes attends all of the Wagner festivals at Bayreuth. She sketches the musical career of the composer and describes the actual performance of the entire "Ring" series and of "Parsifal" at Bayreuth. The musical setting is performed by Adolf Glose.
11The Ladies Thursday Musicale gave their last meeting Thursday morning in the First Unitarian Church. The program given was from the works of Brahms and Saint-Saëns. Misses Blanche Strong and Jean Wakeman played the opening number, a piano composition by Saint-Saëns, and Mrs. C. W. Gardner and Miss Myn Stoddard gave the Saint-Saëns vocal selections. One of the very interesting Brahms numbers was the Sonata, op. 100, for violin and piano by Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Scott. Miss Edith Wines gave a Brahms piano composition, and Mrs. Edna Chamberlain Randall a group of his songs. Mmes. Elizabeth Brown Hawkins, T. D. Bell, Floyd S. Muckey and Miss Mabel Otis sang the quartets by Brahms and Goldberg. Mrs. Ricker, president of the club, spoke of the lecture on "Wagner and His Work," which will be given in the Plymouth Church by Mrs. Charles Rhodes, under the auspices of the New Century course. Also of the open meeting of the Musicale, which will be given Friday evening, February 6, in the First Baptist Church. The program will be very interesting, and the artists taking part this year will be Mrs. George Lang, organist; Mrs. Verna Golden Scott, violinist; Mrs. A. M. Sheldon, Miss Margaret Drew, Mrs. Donnelly, pianists; vocal solo will be given by Mrs. W. N. Porteaus, Mrs. Maud Ulmer Jones, Miss Esther Osborn and Miss Gertrude Hale. A concerted number with chorus and solo by Mrs. Charles Chadbourn will be given.
13Mrs. Maud Ulmer Jones has been filling a number of concert engagements throughout the State recently. At Mankato last week she received most persistent encores, and her beautiful voice has won great favor everywhere. Miss Gertrude Sans Souci, pianist, was highly praised. Mrs. Jones goes this week to Eau Claire, Wis., to sing.
15There is much interest in musical circles over the private reading of Willard Patten's latest composition, "Footstones of a Nation," which the composer calls a lyrical meditation, the words of which are written by G. E. Bertrand. Mr. Patten's oratorio, "Isaiah," has given him considerable reputation as a composer of decided musical ability. Mr. Patten regards his new work the best that he has yet composed. The Commercial Club has invited Mr. Patten to give the first reading of the work in the clubrooms under their auspices. The reading will take place Wednesday evening, January 28, and the prominent musicians of the Twin Cities have been invited to be present. The soloists will be the Misses Clara Williams, Alberta Fisher and Esther Osborn, J. Alvin Davies, J. Austin Williams and Frederic Fayram. The accompanists will be Misses Edith Abell, Gertrude Sprague and Will S. Marshall. The choruses will be sung by two double quartets; the first will include Misses Mabel Rounge, Edna Patterson, Myn Stoddard, Mrs. Francis King Russell, J. Alvin Davies, H. A. Stewart, Frederic Fayram and Alfred Wiley. In the second quartet will be the Misses Mae Williams, Gertrude Sprague, Augusta Schacht, Mrs. E. W. French, O. T. Morris, J. Austin Williams and George Lugsdin.
17Students of the Northwestern Conservatory of Music will give a quarterly recital in St. Mark's Guild Hall Thursday evening. The Conservatory orchestra of twenty-five will make its début on this occasion. Pupils of Mrs. Porteaus, Mr. Ober-Hoffer and Mr. Christiansen will give vocal, piano and violin selections.
19The Misses Constance and Esther Osborn gave a concert at Litchfield, Friday evening, with great success.
21Burton Holmes, the travel lecturer, gives two lectures on Sweden and Norway in the New Century course at the Plymouth Church next Friday and Saturday evenings.
23Mrs. Frederic Klapp will give a class lesson Thursday evening at her studio in the Medical Block. Those who will take part are Mrs. W. E. Haskell, Mrs. Klapp, Misses Ima Porter, Kathleen Bowen, Freda Klapp, Florence Buck, Master Leslie and George Carleton.
25The Norsemen's Musical League of the Twin Cities held its first meeting at St. Mark's Church, Saturday evening, and several hundred Norwegian music lovers were present. A delightful musical program was given. Miss Helga Olsen, one of the most talented of local pianists, gave Grieg's "Holberg" suite, and for an encore gave "Carnival" by the same composer. Miss Olsen plays with much spirit and musical feeling, and her work is always delightful. Miss Francesca Bendele and Miss Constance Osborn gave Grieg's Sonata for violin and piano. Jacob L. Hjoit sang two groups of Norwegian and Danish songs, and the Fram Singing Society, of St. Paul, gave several numbers. The league is planning to bring noted Norwegian artists to the city to be heard in concert. The first is Olaf Paulos, one of Norway's finest organists, who will be heard in March.
27A very interesting affair of Saturday afternoon was the piano recital by the pupils of Mrs. George A. Henry, which was given in the Hampshire Arms. Nearly all of the numbers were played from memory, which showed Mrs. Henry's skill as a teacher.
29Mrs. Josephine Dyer Johnston, soprano, who has recently come here from New York, will sing two selections at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning.
31C. H. SAVAGE.
33THE MENDELSSOHN TRIO CLUB.
35TRIOS by Haydn and Tschaikowsky were played at the fourth concert by the Mendelssohn Trio Club. This series of concerts given at the Hotel Majestic are musical events in society on the upper West Side and large audiences have been the rule. Three more concerts are to be given before the season ends. So far the programs have been very interesting, and from what is known of their work in the past the members of the club may be relied upon to arrange equally attractive music for their forthcoming dates.
37Always at these concerts subscribers hear music that suggests the contrasts that divides the past from the present. No two works could be more unlike than the joyous Trio by Haydn, No. 5, with that by Tschaikowsky, op. 50, written, it is said, by the Russian composer to reveal the life of the late Nicholas Rubinstein. It was Anton Rubinstein who once upon a time declared that his brother Nicholas was a greater pianist than he (Anton) himself. It is characteristic of some brothers to belittle themselves in order to elevate their kin, but the public in the case of the Rubinstein brothers did not accept the verdict of Anton, who was five years older than Nicholas. Nicholas Rubinstein, however, was a very remarkable pianist and composer of ability, but the greater glory of his brother Anton must necessarily dim the lustre of his fame.
39The members of the Trio Club performed both the Haydn and Tschaikowsky works with delightful art, for the playing combined warmth with technical skill and correct reading of the more intricate and pathetic parts in the Tschaikowsky Trio. Victor Sörlin, the 'cellist of the club, with Charles Gilbert Spross, the pianist, played in excellent style a Fantasiestücke by Verhey.
41Mrs. Lilian Carlsmith, contralto, gave pleasure by her songs in French, German and English. She sang "An die Musik," by Schubert; "There Was an Ancient King," by Henschel; "Bonjour, Suzanne," by Delibes; "She Roamed in the Forest," by Leary; "O Bid Your Faithful Ariel Fly," by Thomas Linley, Jr. The latter song, from "The Tempest," was written in 1776. Miss Carlsmith's voice is very sympathetic and unusually flexible for a contralto. A light soprano could hardly have executed the florid passages in the old English song with greater ease. In the matter of diction, too, Miss Carlsmith is happy, and, above all, her singing is marked for intelligence.
43February 16 is the date of the next concert.
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