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Musical Courier 1903-07-08: Vol 47 Iss 1215, 1903
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1Years of Concerts," which is dedicated to the Artistic Association of the Colonne Concerts, being a chronicle of its activity from 1873 to 1903. From the first concert given at the Odéon Theatre, in 1873, we learn that 809 concerts have been given up to the present date. Two hundred and seventy-seven composers have been interpreted, native or foreign; Berlioz has had 448 performances; Beethoven, 374; Wagner, 366; Saint-Saëns, 338; Mendelssohn, 169; Massenet, 166; Schumann, 136; Mozart, 108, &c. Thirty-six conductors have at different times occupied the conductor's desk; 174 female singers and 150 male vocalists, mostly well known, have also been heard during the same period.
3At the Opéra, still the stock repertory with the younger singers in the principal roles, or débutants on trial for the coming season. Mme. Jane Noria made her third trial appearance in "Roméo et Juliette," with the new tenor, Scaremberg, in the part of Roméo.
5Program for the week: "Henry VIII"; Wednesday, "Roméo et Juliette"; Friday, "Tannhäuser."
7Miss Courtenay, the American prima donna, has been heard in some of her best roles since her return to the Opéra Comique, and whether as Mireille, Traviata, Lakmé, Manon, or any other of her portrayals of lyric heroines, has been most cordially acclaimed. Massenet, the composer of "Manon," is in town, and although very busy superintending the installation of his household gods in another part of Paris, found time to visit the Opéra Comique for the sake of hearing his opera of "Manon" with Miss Courtenay in the title role. (One of the items of Massenet's possessions is a library of over 6,000 scores, musical works and books treating of music.) I was at this theatre last week during a performance of the ever popular "Lakmé," and was pleased to hear for myself the generous and continuous applause showered on this popular singer. And what a multitude of Lakmés there have been since the appearance of the first Lakmé, the exquisite Van Zandt, since married happily, and now living retired from stage life in Moscow. One hears of jealousy among professional artists, and yet it is a matter of history that when Patti first heard Van Zandt sing Lakmé, the famous diva, who never made the furore in this role as in some of her others, hastily scribbled the following words on one of her cards, which she sent round to the Van Zandt: "Tu as chanté comme un petit ange" ("You sang like a little angel"). Miss Courtenay's Lakmé had many original and cleverly realized ideas. The voice is of more richness and volume than many of the light sopranos heard in works of this type, and being a very graceful and finished actress, Miss Courtenay is enabled to present finished conceptions of her numerous characters. Her success on this particular evening was very great, and she was recalled many times by the audience. I also heard "Werther," by Massenet, which has been specially mounted this season. The costumes, scenery and stage setting generally are really beautiful and in the most artistic taste. The principals were, with the exception of Bezle, the tenor, very mediocre, having very little voices and less knowledge how to use them. But they were all good and experienced actors, and this is the prevailing hobby nowadays for opera singers. The orchestra was also, as usual, very good, the delicate, dreamy music of Massenet being delightfully played. Still the opera, as a whole, interests me perhaps less than any of Massenet's works, and I like it no better now than I did the first time I heard it, which I remember was in New York, when Grau produced it at the Metropolitan Opera House, with Mme. Emma Eames, Sigrid Arnoldson and M. Jean de Reszké in the principal characters.
9Program for the week: Monday, "Carmen"; Tuesday, "Manon"; Wednesday, "La Petite Maison"; Thursday, "Werther"; Friday, "La Vie de Bohème"; Saturday, "Louise."
11DE VALMOUR.
13THE TEMPLE CHOIR.
15DWARD MORRIS BOWMAN, musical director of the Temple Choir, of Brooklyn, will spend his vacation at his summer home, Squirrel Island, on the coast of Maine. John V. Pearsall will play the organ at the Baptist Temple during July and August and for the first half of September, when Mr. Bowman will resume his duties. Individual members of the choir will sing at the Sunday services through the summer, but the choir as a whole has a vacation until September 13.
17Fine programs were given at both Sunday services, June 28, when Mr. Bowman conducted for the last time. At the morning service the choir sang "But the Lord Hath Raised One" and "Cast Thy Burden on the Lord," both by Mendelssohn. At the offertory Mr. Bowman played the "Larghetto," from Beethoven's Second Symphony. The evening service was unusually elaborate. Miss Besse Bowman, the contralto soloist, sang Mendelssohn's beautiful aria "O Rest in the Lord." The choir sang Stanford's "Te Deum," written for and sung at Westminster Abbey on the occasion of King Edward's coronation. The choir gave other selections by Mendelssohn. The basso, Alfred Dey Jackson, sang an aria from "The Messiah." The hymns were in keeping with the high order of the other music. As the postlude Mr. Bowman played the Bach fugue in G minor.
19Miss Bowman and Mrs. Bowman have gone to Maine with Mr. Bowman.
21Americans in London.
23THE New York Sun speaks of several Americans who have been successful in London during the present musical season. First of all, there is Miss Rosa Samuels. Of her the Sun's English correspondent says: "Rosa Samuels, a young New York violinist, has to live up to the proud title of 'the little Ysaye,' given to her by her musical friends. She has studied with Ysaye in Brussels for five years, and when the great violinist gave up teaching he kept her as his only pupil. Her playing is praised for its full rich tone, exquisite technic and classic style. On hearing her play Patti at once engaged her for her American tour of thirty weeks next autumn. As Miss Samuels' appearances in London have really only been semi-public she will make her first appeal to the general public in her own country." Other successful Americans mentioned by the Sun are Miss Jane Reed, a California violinist; Mme. Louise Ormsby, a singer from Nebraska; Mrs. Eleanor Cleaver, also a vocalist; Charles W. Clark, a baritone, from Chicago, and Richard Platt, the brilliant young pianist, at whose concert Mengelberg conducted the orchestra.
25Some Calve Plans.
27M ME. CALVE will appear for the first time at the Orange Theatre, Orange, South of France, this summer. She will sing selections from Gluck and Handel on August 1 and 2. She will also declaim the "Romancero Populaire du Midi" and has already been heard in private in this elocutionary effort, which is said to be remarkably effective.
29CHARLES R. BAKER (late Manager of Sherwood), Fine Arts Building, CHICAGO, ILL., for next season announces the exclusive management of the PIANO and SONG RECITAL TOUR of the distinguished German Artist.
31Head of Department of Interpretation at Chicago Auditorium Conservatory.
33"Herr Felix Heink as Composer, Singer, Pianist, occupies on the concert platform the same enviable reputation as Mme. Schumann-Heink does on the operatic stage. The marvelous emotional power of these two artists has made the name 'Heink' famous throughout the musical world. Heink's Recitals consequently prove a strong drawing card everywhere—unique, original in the order of those of Grossmith, Henschel—attracting and fascinating alike the general public as the musical profession."
35JESSIE DAVIS, PIANIST, CONCERTS—RECITALS—LESSONS. 163 Massachusetts Avenue, BOSTON, MASS.
37Bush Temple Conservatory, NORTH CLARK ST. AND CHICAGO AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. KENNETH M. BRADLEY, Director
39Music, Oratory, Acting and Languages. COMPETENT INSTRUCTORS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
41BOARD OF EXAMINERS:
42Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, George H. Crampton, Clarence Dickinson,
43Dr. Chas. E. Alham, August Hyllested, Kenneth M. Bradley,
44Johanna Hess-Burr, Adolph Roesenbeker, H. M. Super (School of Oratory).
45The management announces the exclusive teaching engagement of MADAME JOHANNA HESS-BURR (Voice Culture).
46SUMMER TERM BEGINS JUNE 29.
47Write for Catalogue. Address M. C. SCHMIDT, Secretary.
49THE MOODY-MANNERS PRIZE.
51THE winner of the Moody-Manners prize Opera Competition is Colin McAlpin. He receives $1,250 for his opera and ten per cent. on the net receipts. The Moody-Manners Company is to give the opera at Covent Garden in September.
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