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Musical Courier 1903-06-24: Vol 46 Iss 1213, 1903
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1MISS GEORGIA E. BENTLEY, Miss Harriet Porter and Miss Carolyn Louise Willard, pupils and assistants of Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler in the piano department of Bush Temple Conservatory, gave a recital Tuesday afternoon, June 16, presenting the following program:
2Italian Concerto……………………………………………..Bach
3Allegro. Andante molto espressivo. Presto giojoso.
4Miss Willard.
5Sonata, op. 31, No. 2………………………………………Beethoven
6Allegro. Adagio. Allegretto.
7Miss Bentley.
8Ballade, op. 52……………………………………………..Chopin
9Miss Porter.
10Duo, Repos d'Amour………………………………………Henselt
11Will o' the Wisp……………………………………………Jensen
12Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 8…………………………….Liszt
13Miss Willard.
14A. D. 1620, Sea Pieces, No. 3……………………………MacDowell
15Shadow Dance…………………………………………….MacDowell
16Valse, op. 42……………………………………………….Chopin
17Miss Bentley.
18Toccata, op. 18…………………………………………….Sgambati
19Romanze, op. 28, No. 2…………………………………Schumann
20Fiedermaus Walzer, op. 10……………………………Strauss-Schitt
21Miss Porter.
22As was confidently expected from students of so eminent an artist, a technic and reading were evident in the work of all three which promise splendid development. Miss Willard sustained the most difficult place on the program, that of playing the opening number. She has good technic, an unusually strong left hand and nice feeling. The group Miss Willard played later in the program was much more satisfactory than the Bach number, as her government of tempi was more even and there were greater finish and surety of technic. Miss Bentley exhibited skill and talent in her reading of the Beethoven Sonata. There was a tendency to blur in the allegro, but she played the adagio with excellent temperament and a rare beauty of tone unusual in so young an artist. The allegretto, too, was firm and finished throughout. Miss Bentley's group also was most pleasing and satisfactory. Miss Porter proved the best exponent of Mrs. Zeisler's art. A slight lack of confidence marred the completeness of the Chopin Ballade, but the later numbers were played with an abandon that demonstrated splendid poise, speed and accuracy of technic and that well balanced interpretation so eminently gratifying.
23Friday afternoon, the third and last of the series of pupils recitals given by Jeannette Durno was played by Mrs. Mary Athena Mowery with gratifying success. Mrs. Mowery will concertize next season with the Central Lyceum Bureau.
24Tuesday evening the Chicago Musical College held its thirty-seventh annual commencement exercises and concert. The pupils who had been awarded the diamond medals for excellence in the different departments gave the program, assisted by a selected orchestra under the able direction of Bernard Listemann. The Auditorium was filled to its capacity and presented a brilliant scene with the hundreds of fair students in their snow white gowns and the profusion of flowers filling the parquette. The program was made up of masterpieces that were well handled by the young people, and proved a most satisfying exhibition of the work of the college and the excellence attained by the ambitious students.
25The Drake Orchestral Club, consisting of fifty players, gave the last concert of its season in Fine Arts Music Hall, Friday evening, scoring its usual success in a varied and interesting program.
26Trinity Church Choir gave a concert Tuesday evening, in Steinway Hall, with pronounced success. Among the soloists was Master Franklin Pfunder, first soprano, who enjoys the enviable position of being Chicago's best boy artist. His voice is remarkable in range and quality and has, together with his unassuming, modest manner, won for him unqualified praise and popularity. The boy has been an earnest student, ambitious and industrious, and is a source of delight and pride to his painstaking master, Mr. Carberry.
27William H. Sherwood, Chicago's noted pianist, has, in accordance with his usual custom, made an annual tour into Canada, and has, in accordance with his usual custom, met with fine success. The Toronto papers speak with enthusiasm of the artist's work. In reference to the Chopin standard Sonata in B flat minor the Mail and Express says: "During the past season the Funeral March has been played by Hambourg, by Joseffy and by Miss Helmer, but Mr. Sherwood's reading so differs from the others that it is specially noteworthy. He took the presto in very moderate tempo, but by this means instilled a weird, mournful effect that could not be even approached by the other artists mentioned. In the second part of the Funeral March, the 'heavenly melody,' as it has been called, Mr. Sherwood produced a velvety pianissimo that could be equaled only by Joseffy. It was the legato touch in excelsis."
28The Globe, Toronto, speaking of the Brahms Rhapsodie, op. 78, No. 2, says: "Apart from being a striking composition, it was the more welcome in that it had no suggestion of the hackneyed Hungarian style. A most delicate and fanciful effort was his playing of Raff's 'Fairy Tale,' op. 162, remarkable also for velocity and liquid clearness of technic. * * * Mr. Sherwood, since his first appearance in recital in this city, has developed in the faculty of making a direct appeal to his audience, and has lost much of that dreamy unconsciousness of his surroundings which was then noted in his playing. Many of his numbers last
29GEORGE CLARENCE JELL
30BARITONE.
31Address: Auditorium Lyceum Bureau,
32Auditorium Building, Chicago.
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