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Musical Courier 1903-02-04: Vol 46 Iss 1193, 1903
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1French, Arthur Keifer; training department for teachers in public schools, H. W. B. Barnes. The Piqua Choral Society's Spring Music Festival will begin the afternoon of April 17, 1903. The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra will assist at these concerts.
3At the Women's College, Frederick, Md., December 16, the annual winter recital was given by students of the Conservatory of Music, intermediate and advanced grades. The program included numbers by Liszt, Rheinberger, Liebling, Godard, Clough-Leighter, Nevin, Paul Ambrose, Grieg, Dennee, Bohm, Ellen Wright, Denza, Liszt, S. B. Mills, Raff, Leoncavallo, Tschaikowsky, Jeffery. Those taking part were Miss Anna Galt, Miss Miriam Crane, Miss Alice Upcraft, Miss Mollie Moberly, Miss Ella Johnson, Miss Ethel Whipp, Miss Bessie Smith Swindell, Miss Grace Haller, Miss Edna Mullinix, C. Will Fout and Miss Bertha Price; accompanist, Mr. Beckwith. The members of the chorus are Miss Rosa Birely, Miss Mary Cook, Miss Cora Carty, Miss Miriam Crane, Miss Alice Dill, Miss Rebekah DeLashmutt, Miss Beulah Dundore, Miss Edna Evans, Miss Margaret Eisenhauer, Miss Katharine Eisenhauer, Miss Lucy Eisenhauer, Miss Mary Faust, Miss Mabelle Gilbert, Miss Lulu Gall, Miss Bessie Hargett, Miss Mary Hay, Miss Alverda Hay, Miss Lydia Hay, Miss Myrtle Hershberger, Miss Edith Harner, Miss Maud Hunichen, Miss Estelle Kaster, Miss Lillian Kroebnke, Miss Beulah Lowe, Miss Mary McCarell, Miss Grace Morgart, Miss Roxie Mingle, Miss Helen Mingle, Miss Ruth Mohney, Miss Sadye Moyer, Miss Mabel Moyer, Miss Julia McCormick, Miss Bertha Price, Miss Grace Price, Miss Bessie Swindell, Miss Ethel Smith, Miss Susan Taylor, Miss Mabel Tabler, Miss Alice Upcraft, Miss Margaret Wilmot, Miss Ethel Whitmore, Miss Mary Wagner, Miss Minne Wick and Miss Sadie Zimmerman.
5At Mrs. Morrill's Studio.
7MRS. L. P. MORRILL'S studio at the Chelsea was filled with interested listeners, musicians and friends on the occasion of a fine musicale, Tuesday evening, January 27. Mrs. St. John Duval and Miss Alice McGregor contributed some interesting duets in perfect style and blending of voices. Each sang solos, the voices surprising all present by the great progress having been made. Mr. Duval sang the great aria from "Der Freischütz" with fine, artistic interpretation. Miss Helen Phillips, of Brooklyn, is a young contralto of great promise and already her voice is showing the firmness and surety which Mrs. Morrill's method always gives. Miss Virginia Truslow, of Santa Barbara, Cal., another new aspirant, has a contralto voice of breadth. She is preparing for concert and church work in the Pacific Coast, and is developing a refined style as the result of a most thoughtful season of study. She sings easily and with repose and finish. Miss Lillie Snelling is a delightful young musician, as well as a rare young artist. She has voice, temperament and ambition, and a fine result must follow. She sings at the Waldorf-Astoria the 7th of February. Mr. Shiel was the capable accompanist of the evening. Mrs. Morrill is having a most successful season, and expresses herself as perfectly satisfied with her fourth year in New York.
9There is always room at the top, and Mrs. Morrill's work is of the best.
11Electa Gifford in the West.
13MISS ELECTA GIFFORD left Saturday to complete her Western tour, which will occupy her during the month of February. She will give recitals and sing with choral societies in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Holland, Kansas City, Lawrence, Denison, Des Moines, Ames, Toledo, Cleveland and other cities.
15The months of April and May are entirely contracted for in the East.
17Richard Strauss and the Berlin Tonkünstler Orchestra will, in February and March, make a tour through Austria, Italy, Southern France and Switzerland.
19Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia has composed a ballet, "The Wonder of Spring," which will be performed in Brussels some time this year.
21Karl Wendling, a well known concertmeister of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, is appointed successor to the late Professor Singer as concertmeister of the Court Orchestra of Stuttgart.
23The piano evenings of Alfred Reisenauer at Leipsic have made a deep impression. Complaints, however, are heard that he has not given much attention in his program to the piano compositions of Brahms.
25A new symphonic poem by a young composer, Schulze Bresantz, was lately given at Bielefeld. It is described as a serious, well instrumentated work which augurs a brilliant future for the talented author.
27The seventh Stuttgart Music Festival will take place May 16-18 next, under the direction of Fritz Steinbach. At Mannheim the new music hall will be inaugurated on April 12-14 by a festival under the direction of Felix Mottl.
29In Cassel a new Christmas Oratorio by H. Muller was performed January 4. It was characterized by religious feeling and simplicity of expression. "Living figures arranged by the hands of an artist added to the effect of the work."
31The famous Leipsic Gewandhaus concerts probably are descended from the "Collegium Gellianum" founded by Caspar Ziegler in 1641. A portrait of Caspar Ziegler was lately obtained by the Manskopf Museum of Frankfort, and a copy of it is now hung in the room of the Leipsic directors.
33The Dresden Opera will produce a new work, "Im Liebswahn," by Adolph Gunkel. Strangely enough the composer was the unfortunate member of the Dresden Orchestra who was assassinated two years ago in a railroad car by a woman who was in love with him, and whose advances he rejected.
35A new dramatic work, "The Cross of Honor," by Cornelius Dopper, has been produced at Amsterdam. The scene is in the time of Napoleon. The music displays great skill, the composer obtaining remarkable effects by his peculiar instrumentation. In addition to strings, he used only one flute, one oboe, one clarinet, one bassoon, two horns and kettle drums. The public received it with enthusiastic applause.
37Helsingfors, in Finland, has celebrated the twentieth year of the existence of its Music Institute under Martin Wegelius and its Philharmonic Society under Robert Kajanus. Kajanus for the last twenty years has labored in the cause of music, as conductor of the greatest orchestra of the country, as teacher at the university, and as a gifted composer. The celebration took the form of a festival arranged by the Philharmonic Society in honor of Kajanus. The program consisted of Beethoven's C minor Symphony, "Snorfi," by Sibelius; songs by Sibelius and Kajanus, and a rhapsody on Finnish folk lieder, by Charles Gregorowitsch. Several concerts have been given for the relief of the sufferers from the famine in the country. One exclusively of songs by Sibelius brought into the treasury 2,000 marks; at another concert Frau Makki Järnefelt, supported by the orchestra under Kajanus, rendered songs by Sibelius and Järnefelt, while the orchestra gave "Finlandia" and the "Swan of Tuonela," by Sibelius; the symphonic poem "Aino" (from the "Kalevala"), by Kajanus, and "Korsholm," by Järnefelt.
39Saint-Saëns, who greatly admired the late Augusta Holmès, and frequently wrote about her, says as a girl she was very handsome. She resembled a goddess, a Rubens woman, with golden hair. As a girl she learned poetry from Alfred de Vigny. She traveled to Switzerland to talk with Wagner. The Boston Journal, in referring to Saint-Saëns' opinion of Holmès, states that he reproached her for desire to make others forget that she was a woman. "And then," continues the Journal, he would burst out in rhapsody:
41"Oh, those evenings at Versailles! The beautiful pythoness was not satisfied with cultivating art and preaching art; she caused it to flourish all about her. As Venus fecundated the world when she knotted her tresses, so Augusta Holmès shook over us her reddish locks, and when she was prodigal with the lightnings of her eyes and the brilliance of her voice, we ran to our pens, our brushes, and works were born, some of which have remained. She had unexpected enthusiasm, incredible fads. One day she had a violent passion for Kali, the East Indian Venus, goddess of love and death. She wrote an opera with Kali for heroine, and she excited us by howling: 'Kali, Kali, implacable goddess!' with furious accompaniment on the piano."
43Arthur Whiting.
45FEBRUARY 9 and 10 Arthur Whiting gives his song cycle, "Floriana," in Fitchburg, Mass., and in Portland, Me. February 11 he will give a concert in Boston wholly of his own compositions, including "Floriana," the duets, "Fair and Fair," "Oh, There's a Heart for Everyone," "Love Is Life's End" and "My Delight and Thy Delight." Also settings of Christina Rosetti's poems for soprano, and Kipling's barrack room ballads for baritone, and a suite for piano, "La Danseuse." He will be assisted by Miss Marguerite Lemon, Miss Marguerite Hall, John Young, Francis Rogers.
47Shanna Cumming in Montreal.
49MRS. SHANNA CUMMING, the American soprano, sang with remarkable success in Montreal, Canada, last week. She was recalled six times after singing her solo, and was immediately engaged for "Elijah" for the coming season. Mrs. Cumming has added Baltimore to her Western trip on which she starts this week, and later in the season she goes to Ann Arbor, Mich., and Syracuse, N. Y. In April she goes as far West as Alton, Ill., and may go as far as Denver, Col.
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