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Musical Courier 1903-06-24: Vol 46 Iss 1213, 1903
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1BOSTON, Mass., June 20, 1903.
3ARTHUR BERESFORD, who will take up his residence in Chicago early in September, has accepted the position as bass of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Mr. Beresford came to this city in 1892 and immediately took the position of bass of Trinity Church, where he has remained for the past eleven years.
5Miss Viola Davenport, a talented young woman, who is under the instruction of Clara Munger, will sing at a concert in Fitchburg the last of next week.
7Henry Lowell Mason is writing articles on "The Modern Artistic Pianoforte and Its Construction."
9Charles A. Williams presents for the season of 1903-4 the following artists: Sopranos, Miss Viola Davenport, Miss Maud Reese Davies, Miss Elsa Heindl and Miss Laura van Kuren; contraltos, Miss Eleanor Allen, Miss Alice Robbins Cole, Miss Marguerite Hall, Miss Anna Miller Wood (except California tour, spring 1904) and Julie Wyman; tenors, Eliot Hubbard and Ernest H. Page; bassos, Frederic L. Martin and George L. Parker; the David Mannes String Quartet, of New York; violinists, Karl Ondricek and Miss Mollie Dodge Ripley; violoncellist, Ralph Smalley; pianists, Miss Alice A. Cummings, Miss Edith Thompson and Mme. Julie Rive-King; reciter, Mrs. Waldo Richards, and musical lecturers, Miss Mary Phillips Webster and Hans Schneider.
11The commencement exercises at the New England Conservatory of Music takes place Wednesday, June 24. The class of 1903 consists of Geo. Albert Anderson, Ernest Stanley Andrews, Arthur Dwight Babcock, Lilli von Baumbach, Wilford J. Bryant, Elizabeth Divine Burtt, George Powell Chatterley, William Thomas Clennon, Agnes Ward Gannon, John Gerling, Jessie Grover, Henry Hayden Hall, Mary Alice Hopkins, Charles Lockwood Hoyt, Edgar M. Hughes, Una Jennie Kelley, Emma Hulda Koller, Lena Augusta Leach, Rena Belle Leech, Frederic Percyval Lewis, Elizabeth Hanna Link, Abbie Luella Merrill, Sara Spang Miller, Mary Lincoln Moore, Sarah Arvilla Nye, Ella May Reed, Sophia Augusta Rhein, Eliza Perrigo Simmons, Grace Beatrice Stansbury, Edith Dickinson Stiles, Alvin Drew Stokes, Susanne Eullilian Tait, Alice Josephine Whitcomb, Blanche Nanette Williams, Ida Corinne Wilson. Meta Egleston White, special certificate.
13Stephen Townsend, the well known baritone, will remain in Boston the entire summer and will be at his studio daily to receive pupils.
15Among the recent publications from C. W. Thompson & Co. are some simple pieces for beginners: "She Dances with a Tin Soldier," George Lowell Tracy; "The Contented Fairy," "The Arrival of the Fairy Queen," E. M. C. Ezerman; a violin romanza and songs, "O Be Joyful in God, All Ye Lands," J. E. Trowbridge; "Cradle Song," Mrs. G. E. Aiken; "The Big Round Moon," Geo. Howland Cox, Jr.; "The Sailor's Cradle," S. Everett Haskell; "When You Are Here, Love," Kate Vannah.
17For this last week of the "Pop" Concerts in Symphony Hall many special features have been arranged. On Friday evening, June 26, a testimonial will be given to Conductor T. Adamowski. The program will be made up entirely of alternate selections from Wagner and Tschaikowsky as follows:
19Polonaise …………………………………………….. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
20Polonaise ……………………………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
21Overture, Rienzi ……………………………………… Wagner one of two readings
22Overture, Rienzi ………………………………………….. Wagner one of two readings
23Andante from Quartet ………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
24Andante from Quartet ……………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
25Ride of the Valkyries ……………………………….. Wagner one of two readings
26Ride of the Valkyries ……………………………………… Wagner one of two readings
27Overture, 1812 ………………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
28Overture, 1812 …………………………………………….. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
29Albumblatt …………………………………………….. Wagner one of two readings
30Albumblatt …………………………………………………… Wagner one of two readings
31Violin solo, Karl Ondricek.
32La Belle au Bois Dormant …………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
33La Belle au Bois Dormant ………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
34Overture, Tannhäuser ………………………………. Wagner one of two readings
35Overture, Tannhäuser …………………………………… Wagner one of two readings
36Suite, Nut Cracker …………………………………… Tschaikowsky one of two readings
37Suite, Nut Cracker ………………………………………… Tschaikowsky one of two readings
38Finale, Act III, Lohengrin …………………………. Wagner one of two readings
39Finale, Act III, Lohengrin ………………………………. Wagner one of two readings
40Waltz from Onegin ………………………………….. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
41Waltz from Onegin ………………………………………. Tschaikowsky one of two readings
42Tannhäuser March ………………………………….. Wagner one of two readings
43Tannhäuser March ………………………………………. Wagner one of two readings
45Composer Married.
47EARLY last week, Raymond Hubbell, composer of the music in "The Runaways," denied that he intended to marry Miss Helen Lord, the prima donna of the company. Next day Mr. Hubbell admitted that he had been mistaken, for the evening before, Miss Lord and he were united in the ancient and honorable and holy bonds of matrimony. Miss Lord's father is connected with the coupling department of the Erie Railroad.
49JULIAN WALKER, BASSO.
50THE ONLY "LESCHETIZKY"
51Named after PROF. THEO. LESCHETIZKY, of Vienna, by his special permission.
52Mme. DE WIENZKOWSKA, DIRECTRESS AND FOUNDER.
53PROF. LESCHETIZKY'S Sole Principal Assistant in this country, formerly in Vienna; also Concert Pianiste.
54CARNEGIE HALL. Address Communications: 147 W. Eighty-second St., NEW YORK CITY.
55LESCHETIZKY—"Madame Wienzkowska's success as a piano virtuosa and teacher is eminent."
56PADEREWSKI—"Madame Wienzkowska is a missed pianiste and possesses an extraordinary ability of communicating to others a complete knowledge of her art."
57HANS RICHTER—"I consider you an artist of finest esprit and taste, and a representative of a most solid school."
59ADDRESS:
60150 West 94th Street,
61NEW YORK.
63SCHOOL OF PIANO PLAYING IN AMERICA.
65Mrs. Willard S. Bracken,
66CONTRALTO.
67Mgt. DUNSTAN COLLINS,
6855 Auditorium Bldg., – – CHICAGO.
70MARION GREEN,
71Basso Cantante.
72Management: DUNSTAN COLLINS, 55 Auditorium Bldg.
74THE MUSICAL COURIER.
76MRS. WILLARD S. BRACKEN.
78IN no profession does the "genius of labor" occupy such an exalted position as in that of the musician; and when it is united with the gift of a rare musical talent the effect cannot be other than unusual. The subject of our sketch is a woman in whom both of these highly desirable factors are blended with a most admirable result.
80Possessed always of high ideals and the artistic unrest which has not permitted her to be satisfied short of the highest attainment, we have today in Mrs. Bracken an artist not alone of local value but one whose merit is fully realized in musical circles wherever she appears, and whose reputation for honest, reliable work is rapidly spreading; her name has become synonymous with good musicianship and all that the term implies.
82Her naturally forceful, vibrant contralto voice has been broadened and enriched until today its quality can stand the test of comparison with the best of its kind.
84The best of home instruction was employed before Mrs. Bracken found in Mme. Pauline Viardot, of Paris, the teacher whose ideas she has followed ever since so successfully, not only in her own career but in the development of the many voices that have been placed in her charge. Madame Viardot's interest in Mrs. Bracken was shown in many substantial ways; among other kindnesses the latter remembers that her teacher refused to accept any remuneration for lessons during her last year in Paris.
86The extensive experience of Mrs. Bracken in church music makes her services invaluable for oratorio and large choral works. Her repertory includes all the modern and classical oratorios and cantatas, and is unusually large, as the range of her voice makes mezzo soprano as well as contralto roles possible; while her fine artistic temperament lends the variety and grace inseparable from successful recital and program work, in which she draws freely from all schools of composition.
88In all that Mrs. Bracken does one feels that back of the magnificent voice, fine presence and artistic success, the noble strong womanhood speaks, giving to her hearers a sincerity of interpretation seldom heard.
90Autocrat in Art.
92EVEN in art the Kaiser is an autocrat. Leoncavallo, whose new opera, "Roland of Berlin," has been composed upon a commission from him, is now in Berlin collaborating with his German translator, Herr Bock, and he has submitted for the Kaiser's selection two endings—one tragic and one, in the hackneyed phrase, "happy." The latter is that of the real German legend, which bestows upon the plebeian hero, Henning, a noble maid to wife. Leoncavallo bestows upon him the golden spurs of knighthood, and makes him fall in the service of the Great Elector. The composer hopes to win the Kaiser to this ending as the more artistic.
94The Klingenfeld Conservatory.
96THE annual concerts at the Klingenfeld Conservatory of Music, 108 Hancock street, Brooklyn, will be held tomorrow evening, June 25, and Monday evening, June 29.
98Season 1902-1908
100FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER
102Applications for Terms and Dates should be sent to
103ALINE B. STORY, 5749 Woodlawn Ave., CHICAGO.
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