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Musical Courier 1903-02-25: Vol 46 Iss 1196, 1903
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1and for an encore responded with Hawley's song, "Mollie's Eyes." Mr. Barnes has just accepted a position as one of the quartet of Westminster Church. His fine training is due to his admirable teacher, Mrs. Frances Helen Humphrey, formerly associated with Victor Capoul, when he taught vocal music in New York.
3There is ample evidence in Mrs. Humphrey's cozy studio at the Buckingham of an artistic atmosphere, everything proving that in beauty lies harmony. Besides gems of art and bric-à-brac acquired in Europe, the autographed photographs adorning her walls are tokens of her friendship with famous musicians, among whom are the de Reszkes, Calvé, Plançon, Melba, Mantelli, Scotti, Pandolfini and many others, Victor Capoul occupying the post of honor. His endorsement of Mrs. Humphrey's capabilities as a teacher of the voice and Italian and French diction is very strong; however, her own magnetic personality is winning hosts of friends, and her many pupils think she has no equal in voice production, the greatest of all arts. Wagner says truly, "The human voice is really the foundation of all music."
5VIRGINIA KEENE.
7"Lohengrin" in Concert Form.
9WAGNER'S "Lohengrin" was sung in concert form by the Arion Club, of Providence, R. I., recently, and musicians and music lovers of that enlightened city were greatly delighted with the performance. It was probably the first time that the opera was given in that form. Credit for the success of the experiment is due to Jules Jordan, the able director of the club. All of the Providence papers published extended reviews, all of them highly complimentary to Dr. Jordan, whose zeal and musicianship are generally recognized.
11The concert was given at Infantry Hall, and spacious as is that auditorium, the seating capacity proved inadequate to the demands. The manager said that 500 more seats could easily have been sold. Providence is to be congratulated upon its awakened musical activity.
13The soloists for the concert included Mrs. Marie Kunkel-Zimmerman, Mrs. Isabelle Bouton, Ellison van Hoose, Stephen Townsend, Frederic I. Martin and Robert Pollar. There was a big orchestra and A. H. Ryder was at the organ, and all under the leadership of Dr. Jordan.
15Madame Devine's Pupils.
17MISS ETTA PATTERSON, of Key West, Fla., a pupil of Mme. Doria Devine, sang with much success at a concert given in Hancock Hall, Brooklyn, last month. The New York Sunday Democrat referred as follows to Miss Patterson:
19"A pleasing event was the début of Miss Etta Patterson, a young Southern singer, who has just completed her musical studies. She has a remarkably sweet voice, carefully trained, and she won the favor of her audience to such an extent that a triple encore was necessary to allay their enthusiasm."
21Miss Patterson's numbers were "Daisies" and "You and I," by Liza Lehmann.
23Another pupil of Madame Devine, Miss Minne Minck, who made her début recently at the Saengerbund concert, sang at a concert February 10, given in Arion Hall, Brooklyn, by St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, Brooklyn. The young singer greatly distinguished herself, and after a group of songs sang as an encore Nevin's "Woodpecker."
25Mme. MACONDA, SOPRANO.
27ORATORIO, FESTIVAL, CONCERT AND RECITAL DATES NOW BOOKING.
29Management:
30LOUDON G. CHARLTON, Carnegie Hall, New York.
32GEORGE DEVOLL, Tenor, OF LONDON, ENG., and BOSTON, MASS.
33EDWIN ISHAM, Baritone,
35Returning from notable ARTISTIC SUCCESSES in LONDON'S most EXCLUSIVE SMART SET.
37REPERTOIRE: Solos and duets of the very best ancient, modern, classical and popular songs.
39ORATORIO, CONCERT and RECITAL ENGAGEMENTS now booking.
41"AT HOME" MUSICALES A SPECIALTY.
43SOLE DIRECTION: LOUDON G. CHARLTON, Carnegie Hall, NEW YORK
45CURIOS example of the difficulties of giving opera in the vernacular was lately seen at Vienna. The opera was "Don Giovanni," the libretto of which was written by Da Ponte, and in accordance with the fashion of Mozart's time was in Italian. When the fashion of using the vernacular came in several translations of the Italian text were made in various cities in Germany for the local troupes of singers. In the late Vienna performance Ottavio (Herr Schrödter) sang the Kalbeck translation; Leporello (Mantler) used the Frankfort version, while the role of the wicked hero was rendered by Demuth in the Hamburg text. In the dialogue the result was ludicrous, for as each translator had taken liberties with the original text to suit the company for whom he made his translation, the answers and questions were very bad misfits. All this took place in a series of "model" performances of Mozart's works under the direction of Gustav Mahler, at the Court Opera House, Vienna. The execution of the vocal part by the singers was equally bad.
47In the Paris Conservatoire a class for the chromatic harp has been formed.
49At Leipsic the Klinger monument of Beethoven has been on exhibition since January 25 in the city museum.
51The English Moody-Manners Company produced at Budapest Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" and "Lohengrin" in the English language.
53The new opera, "Michel Angelo and Rolla," by Buongiorno, had its first performance at Cassel. The work is rich in melody and characterization. The composer was called out repeatedly.
55Conrad Ansorge has had immense success in his concert tour through Germany. In his first Berlin concert, February 13, he was announced to perform a new revision of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C major.
57The celebrated Wagnerian singer Therese Malten will not renew her engagement at the Royal Opera, of Dresden, but as an honorary member of the establishment will appear once every year in her brilliant roles.
59Lilli Lehmann began her "Gast" engagement at the New City Theatre, of Leipsic, before a house nearly bought out, with a performance of "Fidelio," and made a great impression. She will close her engagement February 3 by appearing as Isolde.
61The report that the Italian tenor Grani would make a tour with a company through Germany, for the purpose of giving the "Nibelungenlied" in Italian, is doubted by some German papers, that characterized it as an objectless and senseless undertaking. At Trieste an Italian company has been singing "Die Meistersinger" in German, or perhaps, as Il Trovatore suggests, it was sung in Italian by a German company.
63Plans are being made at Vienna for a new popular opera house. It is to be on a smaller scale than the Court Opera, and the prices of admission are to be lower. On January 16 a society was formed for carrying out the plan and to decide on the situation of the new house. At the meeting considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at the neglect of the old masters by the Court Opera. Mozart was only given when there was a centenary celebration or a monument inaugurated.
65At a late performance of Handel's "Joshua" by the Singing Society of Dusseldorf, Chrysander's version was given. Chrysander cuts out much of the work as commonly performed, and this reduces it to the time of an ordinary concert. He returns also to the original orchestration with organ and cembalo, instruments which in earlier editions were represented by wind instruments. The cembalo part was played on this occasion by Professor Buths, and the organ by Herr Hempel.
67The People's Symphony Concert.
69THE spacious auditorium in Cooper Union was too small to hold all who wished to hear the third concert in the series of popular concerts at cheap prices. The concert took place last Tuesday night. Every seat in the hall was taken, and several hundred persons were glad enough to stand during the entire performance. The program included Humperdinck's Overture to "Hansel und Gretel," Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, Saint-Saëns' Symphonic Poem, "Phaeton," an arrangement for orchestra of Schubert's "Marche Militaire," "It Is Enough," from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," and two Welsh songs, with accompaniment for harp, and David Mannes played Wilhelmi's arrangement for solo violin of the "Good Friday Charm," from "Parsifal."
71The large audience enjoyed keenly the program, and was discriminating in its applause. These concerts bring within the reach of the masses good music, and are of genuine educational value. It is a good scheme to give these entertainments under such conditions, and the project deserves commendation.
73Lionel Gittleson's Return.
75LIONEL GITTLESON, the violinist, who has been in Germany for several years studying with Joachim and Witek, returned home last week. He has developed considerably since he went abroad, having acquired a solid and musicianly style and a polished technic. Mr. Gittleson will be heard in public in New York before long.
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