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Musical Courier 1903-02-25: Vol 46 Iss 1196, 1903
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1Thursday night. Many prominent clergymen and musicians were among the congregation. An eloquent address on music was delivered by the Rev. Dr. C. F. J. Wrigley, rector of Grace Church. The music at the service was led by the choir of Trinity Church, the soloists being Mrs. Jennie Walke-Lowe, soprano; Miss Olga McAlpin, contralto; Charles Stuart Phillips, tenor, and W. Stanley Grinstead, basso. S. Archer Gibson, of the Brick Church, Manhattan, played the prelude, and H. Brooks Day, of St. Michael's Church, Brooklyn, the postlude.
3Monday next, March 2, the Brooklyn Oratorio Society will repeat Henschel's Requiem, with the same soloists and orchestra that assisted at the Manhattan performance. The singers will be Miss Helen Henschel, Miss Pauline Woltmann, Ellison van Hoose and Herbert Witherspoon. The composer, Georg Henschel, will direct the performance.
5A concert in aid of the Packer Jubilee Fund will be given at the Academy of Music Tuesday evening, March 3. Mrs. Dorothy Harvey, David Bispham and other soloists will assist a women's chorus of 150 and an orchestra of forty players from the New York Philharmonic Society, with R. Huntington Woodman, conductor. "Midsummer Night's Dream" music, by Mendelssohn, and the "Song of the Norns," by Heinrich Hofman, and attractive solo numbers will be included in the program.
7A concert announced by the Brooklyn Institute to which there should be a universally cordial response is the one which the Adamowski Trio will give at Association Hall, Wednesday evening, March 11. The Adamowski Trio includes Timothée Adamowski, violinist; Mme. Antoinette Szumowska, piano, and Josef Adamowski, 'cello. The program for the concert follows:
9Trio, op. 63…………………………………………..Schumann
10Soli for 'cello—
11Serenade……………………………………………..Saint-Saëns
12Gavotte No. 2………………………………………Fitzenhagen
13Soli for piano—
14Nocturne in B major……………………………….Chopin
15Impromptu in G flat major………………………..Chopin
16Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto…………………Liszt
17Solo for violin, Paraphrase from Paderewski's opera.
18Manru……………………………………………..Schelling T. Adamowski
19Andante and Scherzo from Trio in F major……..Saint-Saëns
20The Adamowski Trio.
22Carl Venth's professional pupils will give a recital at Wissner Hall Saturday evening, February 28. The program will be:
23Ave Verum…………………………………………..Mozart
24Passe Pied…………………………………………..Gillet
25String Quartet.
26Miss Marie G. Hyde, first violin; Edwin Huntington, second violin; Richard H. Palmer, viola; Miss Lena Burkey, 'cello.
27Hungarian Rhapsodie……………………………….Hauser one of two readings
28Hungarian Rhapsodie…………………………….Hauser one of two readings
29Master Clarence Nelson.
30Berceuse from Jocelyn……………………………..Godard one of two readings
31Berceuse from Jocelyn…………………………….Godard one of two readings
32Allegro……………………………………………..Edwin Huntington.
33Allegro……………………………………………..Dont
34Quartet for four violins.
35Miss Ethel C. Phillips, Miss Georgia Adams, Miss Maude Wheeler, Miss Laura Hutton.
36Allegro from Concerto in G………………………..Venth
37Miss Marie G. Hyde.
38Adagio and Rondeau from Concerto No. 9………..De Beriot one of two readings
39Adagio and Rondeau from Concerto No. 9……..De Beriot one of two readings
40Master Nicholas Arlando.
41Music of the Spheres……………………………….Rubinstein one of two readings
42Music of the Spheres……………………………..Rubinstein one of two readings
43String Quartet.
44Miss Marie G. Hyde, Richard H. Palmer, Edwin Huntington, Miss Lena Burkey.
46Fantaisie Appassionata…………………………….Vieuxtemps
47Hungarian…………………………………………..Haesche
48Minuet……………………………………………..St. George
49Gigue……………………………………………..St. George
50String Quartet.
52Sunday evening, March 1, a special musical service will be given at the German Evangelical Church on Schermerhorn street, to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Hugo Troetschel as organist of the church. The musical program will include: Organ prelude, "Concertstücke," in G minor, by E. W. Degner; "Die Ehre Gottes," Beethoven; organ interlude, Fantaisie-Fugue, by Rückert; duet, "Quis est Homo," from Rossini's "Stabat Mater," Mrs. E. Martin and Miss Anna Winkopp; oratorio, "The Marriage at Cana," by Robert Schalm, for soloists, chorus and organ. The oratorio solos will be sung by Andreas Gardthausen, Franz Louis Berger, Mrs. E. E. Martin, Alfred van Guelpen and Dr. W. John Schildge. A new "fest" march by Henry J. Koenig will be played as the organ postlude. The organ numbers will be performed by Mr. Troetschel, and all three, prelude, interlude and postlude, were dedicated to him by the composers.
54The Mendelssohn Trio Club.
55At the fifth concert by the Mendelssohn Trio Club, at the Hotel Majestic, Monday afternoon, February 16, trios by Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn were played. The one by the French composers, op. 18, in no way suggests the German school, and that is saying a good deal for the creative talent of the man in Paris. Saint-Saëns is never dull, and in his serious works high aims are ever his, and thus musicians the world over faithfully study what he has written.
56The Mendelssohn Trio, op. 49, the one in D minor, is a model in form and spontaneity. Too suave for some listeners, it will nevertheless appeal for all time to those who prefer sunshine to shadow. Mendelssohn wrote for optimists, and Heaven be praised for optimists. As Emerson says, to will a thing is to gain it. It is hope and not doubt that saves men. The club played both trios in a highly finished manner, and thereby gave great pleasure to the audience.
57Mr. Saslavsky played as a solo the adagio from the familiar Violin Suite by Franz Ries, and the performance was one that showed good schooling on the one hand and sympathetic tone and musical feeling on the other. The vocalist of the afternoon, Edward F. Barrow, tenor, sang songs by Chadwick, Cox and Newton, and two by Charles Gilbert Spross, the pianist of the club. Mr. Barrow's voice is agreeable, but whether due to nervousness or some other cause, he sang with exaggerated expression. Mr. Spross' songs, settings for a nocturne and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," are neatly written, and at a second hearing will doubtless win even more admirers.
58The members of the club, Mr. Saslavsky, Mr. Sörlin, and Mr. Spross, announces the sixth concert for Monday afternoon, March 9.
60Zudie Harris' Songs.
61Miss Zudie Harris, the gifted American pianist and composer, now living in Berlin, is meeting with unabated success abroad. Recently six of her new songs were sung at a recital in Berlin, and both the public and the critics honored the young American with their warm approbation. Miss Harris is just about to complete her concerto for piano and orchestra. It will be played in the spring by the composer.
63HONOR TO MR. KITSON.
64GRAND HOTEL, 12 BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES, PARIS,
65February 2, 1903.
66To The Musical Courier:
67In one of your issues published last year you give an interesting account of a May Musical Festival held at Dubuque, Ia. It will be of interest to many of your Western readers to know the origin of these annual Iowa musical festivals. In 1882 a young Englishman—Arthur Kitson—was sent to Iowa by the late Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago, to manage the Western telephone business. Mr. Kitson—a graduate of King's College, London, and a pupil of Sir Frederick Bridge, of Westminster Abbey—conceived the idea of inaugurating an annual festival in which the local talent of Dubuque should be employed. He accepted the position of organist of St. John's Episcopal Church, and with the choir as a nucleus built up a choir of some 300 voices, and in 1883 gave the first musical festival ever given in the State of Iowa. Mr. Kitson, who was but twenty-two years of age, backed the enterprise financially and with the assistance of Professor Peters drilled the chorus, and "The Messiah" and Mozart's Twelfth Mass were performed very creditably. This was the beginning of the musical education of Iowa, which has been continued ever since with extraordinary success.
68Mr. Kitson is now a successful inventor and a rich man, living in London, but hundreds of his friends in Chicago, Iowa and the West will, I am sure, read this with great pleasure and join me in ascribing to him the credit for these annual performances, which I am assured are a credit to the State. ALBERT G. WEBER.
70The Educational Alliance.
71ALEXANDER SASLAVSKY, the violinist of the Mendelssohn Trio Club, and Mrs. Beatrice Fine, soprano, were the soloists last Sunday night (February 15) at the concert given by the Educational Alliance. Mr. Saslavsky performed with the orchestra the Romanza from Wieniawski's D minor Concerto, and he played it so well that the audience compelled him to repeat the number. A most interesting feature of the concert was Mozart's Symphonie Concertante, written for violin and viola. This beautiful and rarely heard composition was beautifully played by Mr. Saslavsky, violin, and Jacob Altschuler, viola.
72Mrs. Fine sang charmingly and was received with marked favor by the large and friendly audience.
74Hochman's New York Recital.
75ARTHUR HOCHMAN will give his first New York recital this season at Mendelssohn Hall, Thursday afternoon, March 5. This will be his program:
76Rondo, op. 51, No. 2………………………………….Beethoven
77Sonate, op. 120………………………………………Schubert
78Theme and Variations……………………………….Tchaikowsky
79Melody……………………………………………..Brahms
80Mazurka……………………………………………..Chopin
81Nocturne, op. 32, No. 9…………………………..Chopin
82Polonaise, op. 40, No. 1…………………………..Chopin
83Etude……………………………………………..Emil Sauer
84Rhapsodie No. 6…………………………………….Liszt
85Tomorrow evening (Thursday) Mr. Hochman will give a recital at Hasbrouck Hall, Jersey City, at which he will be assisted by Miss Electa Gifford, soprano.
87A Correction.
88WILSON G. SMITH is not, as stated in a recent Musical Courier editorial, the music critic of the Toledo Press. Mr. Smith's erudite articles appear in the Cleveland Press.
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