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Musical Courier 1903-02-04: Vol 46 Iss 1193, 1903
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1UBIN GOLDMARK, of New York city, who has just returned from a lecturing trip to the University of Illinois, gave a lecture recital recently at Montreal, Canada, under the auspices of the Ladies' Morning Musical Club. Following out every detail of the plot in its musical expression, and clearly explaining them and performing the finer passages at greater length, Mr. Goldmark held his audience to the end.
3The Musical Club, of Corning, N. Y., recently met with Mrs. R. H. Curtis.
5The Woman's Century Club gave a musicale recently at Seattle, Wash., under the direction of Louise C. Beck.
7The Harmonie Musical Society, composed of well known Germans, had a Daman Abend recently at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
9The Schubert Glee Club, of Asbury Park, N. J., is said to have surpassed all previous efforts at the concert of January 21.
11The date for the joint concert of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Club has finally been set as Saturday night, February 7.
13The Tuesday Morning Musical Club, of Great Falls, Mont., was recently entertained by W. W. Lauder with lecture recitals or "Talks on the Piano."
15The Fortnightly Musical Club introduced to Cleveland, Ohio, the Chicago pianist Miss Blanche Sherman at its Chamber of Commerce recital, January 27.
17At a recent meeting of the Wednesday Morning Musical Club, New Castle, Pa., the hostess was Miss Matilda Ritchie, and the composers studied Dudley Buck and Brahms.
19The monthly musicale at the Church of the Holy Trinity, West Chester, Pa., included a half hour organ recital by Mrs. William A. Brooke and Prof. Joseph H. Wiley, professor of music at Tome Institute.
21Mrs. William A. Stone, who is extremely fond of music, recently entertained the Wednesday Club and some of her personal friends at a piano recital by Dingley Brown, organist of St. Stephen's Church, Harrisburg, Pa.
23The Orpheus Club, of Columbus, Ohio, gave the second concert of the season's series Thursday evening, January 22. The club has decided to give the opera, "Chimes of Normandy," by Planchette, for the closing concert.
25The Wednesday Musical Club, of Johnstown, N. Y., had an enthusiastic meeting at Miss Heagle's January 14. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President and musical director, Miss Grace Wells Heagle; vice president, Mrs. William C. Hutchens; secretary, Mrs. A. T. Hallock; treasurer, Miss Grace Raymond.
27The first rehearsal of the Saginaw, Mich., May Festival Chorus took place January 20. Owing to the fact that there is no auditorium in that city with seating capacity large enough to accommodate the patrons of the Saginaw May Festival without crowding and discomfort, it has been decided after great deliberation to limit the sale of tickets for the coming May Festival to the comfortable seating capacity of the Masonic Temple.
29The eighteenth season of the Treble Clef of Philadelphia, Pa., finds it in good musical form under the direction of S. L. Herrmann, and its first concert this year took place January 28, at Horticultural Hall, with Miss Ellen Scranton Stites, a young violinist, and Herbert Witherspoon, basso, as assisting artists. The chorus prepared a number of part songs, "The Wights," by Gilchrist, and several lieder by Brahms in German and English, and Chadwick's "Thistledown." Mrs. H. H. Darby, a member of the chorus, also assisted in solo work; also Miss E. D. Blair, the club's accompanist, and Ellis Clark Hamman at the piano.
31The Vendredi Musicale, Mrs. Frank Hollowell, president, met recently at Nashville, Tenn. A musical program was given by Misses Bessie Bullock, Annie Green, Laura Banks, Lillian Bank and Jennie Wheeler. The additional members present were: Miss Ethel Carr. Mesdames Kendrick Hardcastle, Robert Orr and Arthur Campbell. The guests present were: Misses Margaret Howell, Weta Acker, Jessie Hollowell, Louise Hall, Martha Stokes, Martha Bowling, Mary and Sara Gaut.
33The Pueblo, Col., Choral Society has been organized with a membership of forty prominent local musicians. The society was organized at the First Presbyterian Church and will be under the direction of Arthur Ridgeway. An Easter festival is being planned. The officers elected are: Robert Sword, president; Miss Lena Fletcher, vice president; Jesse R. Wood, secretary and treasurer; Scott Peterson, librarian; Miss Charlena Young, accompanist; Arthur Ridgeway, director.
35The Euterpean Club, of Philadelphia, Pa., gave their first musicale of the present season in the Orpheus Clubrooms on January 22. The program was given largely by the soloists who are to appear in the club's midwinter production of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, "The Gondoliers," at Mercantile Hall, Monday evening, February 16. Among those who assisted were Miss Alice Greims, Miss Mary E. Newkirk, Miss Clara A. Yocum, Messrs. Ezerman, Knox, Hindemyer, Dumont and Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl.
37G. A. Sievers, concert violinist and instructor, of Austin, Tex., organized a string quartet some six months ago and has succeeded in making the quartet a permanent affair. The members are: William Linberg, first violin; F. Lomberg, second violin; C. T. Widen, violoncello, and G. A. Sievers, viola and director. Mrs. G. A. Sievers, piano accompanist. This club desires to confine itself exclusively to classic works and has already appeared at a number of concerts with success. A recital in the very near future is being arranged.
39The Apollo Musical Club, of Seattle, Wash., held its first rehearsal after the holiday season January 13. There was a large number present, there being fifteen new members received. The study of Haydn's masterpiece, the oratorio of "The Creation" was begun under the direction of D. Carlos McAllister, and will be continued until June 1, when the work will be sung in that city and Tacoma jointly with the Philharmonic Club of that city, with the best soloists obtainable. There will be a full orchestral accompaniment. The society now numbers nearly 150.
41The Holding Quartet scored a decided triumph at the second St. Agnes recital, given at Graduates' Hall, Albany, N. Y., January 15. The quartet consists of Claude J. Holding, William J. Holding, Gabriel Califano and Arnold R. Janser. The concert was of special interest, as Claude J. Holding, the son of William J. Holding, one of the best known orchestra leaders of the State, an organizer of the quartet, on this occasion made his first public appearance before Albany musical circles. Mr. Holding has for the past six years been doing work in New York, during which time he has been a member of the Emil Paur Quartet and of the Richard Arnold Sextet, and has been head of the violin department of the Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, N. J.
43Officers of the Matinee Musical Club, of Fremont, Ohio, are: President, Miss E. Eleanor Dryfoos; vice president, Miss Lulu V. Bowman; second vice president, Mrs. Will Esch; recording secretary, Mrs. Charles E. Waggoner; corresponding secretary, Miss Maud Anderson; treasurer, Miss Marie Gottron; official accompanist, Miss Corinne Grund. Program committee—Mrs. Byron E. Dudrow, chairman; Mrs. George W. Haynes, Mrs. R. W. Deemer, Mrs. Charles E. Waggoner, Miss Lulu V. Bowman, Miss Nelle Grapes.
45At the first public concert of the Toledo (Ohio) Epworth League Musical Union, Haydn's Oratorio, "The Creation," was given at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, January 14. The soloists were Mrs. Eleanor M. Stock, soprano; E. C. Towne, tenor; Bertram Schwahn, basso; Charles H. Thompson, director. Accompanists, Miss Alice Schroeder, organ; Frederick W. Church, piano.
47The program for January 30 at the Friday Morning Musicale at Tampa, Fla., was "Gounod," paper, by Mrs. John Wall; piano duet, Miss Ball and Mrs. Hart; vocal solo, Mrs. Conoley; piano solo, Miss Phillips; violin solo, Mr. Turner; piano solo, Mrs. Oppenheimer; vocal solo, Miss Richardson. On February 13, miscellaneous: Paper music, Mrs. Berry; piano trio, Miss Ball, Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Ferris; vocal solo, Mrs. Carter; violin solo, Mr. Turner; piano solo, Miss Macfarlane; vocal solo, Miss Richardson.
49On Tuesday, February 3, at the Washington Club, Washington, D. C., the Lyric Quartet, Mrs. Charles Bayly, Jr., first soprano; Miss Elizabeth Wahly, second soprano; Mrs. Belle Carpenter Henney, first contralto; Mrs. D. Olin Leech, second contralto, and the Ladies' String Quartet—Miss Marie Bastianelli, first violin; Miss Mabel Montgomery, second violin; Miss Jessie Bloomer, viola; Miss Helen Bastianelli, violoncello; director, Ernest Lent, will give a program of music that includes as composers: Gade, Schubert, Hofmann, Lent, Nevin, Haydn, Mislan, Haworth, Hawley, Ten Have, Bailey, Lacome.
51There was an unusual program at the meeting of the Matinee Musicale January 14 at Indianapolis, Ind. The miscellaneous numbers were by the members of the first division. Miss Pearl Randall, Mrs. F. T. Edenharter, Mrs. Harry Christian, Miss Verle Davidson, Miss Josephine Robinson, Mrs. Littell, Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Albert Lieber, Mr. Kiser, Miss Eunice Jameson, Mr. Winterhoff, Mr. Michelis, Mrs. S. L. Kiser, Miss Kipp, Miss Emy Martin took part. The special soloists were Miss Helen Swain, who recently returned from a course of study in New York; Miss Grace Porterfield, a new member of the club, sang, with accompaniment by Mrs. Kiser, pianist; Miss Grote, harpist, and Mrs. Lieber, violinist. Miss Alice Halpin, one of the prominent pianists of the club, was the only soloist for that instrument, and she played a Novelette by Schumann and an Etude of Chopin.
53The second subscription concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Reading, Pa., Chorus, Fritz Scheel and Edward A. Berg, conductors, took place January 8. The program was:
55Overture, Der Freischutz…………………………………………..Von Weber
56Allegretto Scherzando, from Symphony No. 8…………………Beethoven
57Rhapsody No. 1………………………………………………………..Edward Lalo
58Mazurka, from Suite, op. 103………………………………………Godard
59Waltz, Donauweibchen…………………………………………………Strauss
61PART II.
62Stabat Mater………………………………………………………..Dvorak one of two readings
63Stabat Mater………………………………………………………..Dvorák one of two readings
64For solo, chorus and orchestra.
66Anita Rio, Florence Mulford Hunt, Harry B. Gurney, Ericsson F. Bushnell were the soloists: S. W. Unger, organist. Part first was under the baton of Fritz Scheel, while Edward A. Berg conducted part second. The local press praised the concert highly, saying, "Conductor Berg must feel more than gratified with the successful and inspiring singing of the Reading Chorus in 'Stabat Mater.'"
68Mr. Speaks' Engagements.
70OLEY SPEAKS, the basso, sang in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust" with the Mendelssohn Club, of Orange, N. J., last week. February 3 he sang in Rossini's "Stabat Mater" in Woodbridge, N. J., and February 13 he will be heard in a musicale at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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