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Musical Courier 1904-05-18: Vol 48 Iss 1260, 1904
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1BUFFALO.
3BUFFALO, May 13, 1904.
5LAST week an entertainment in aid of a charitable object was given in the Elmwood home of Mrs. Joseph Wilkinson. The literary and musical program was a success, owing to the talent of the participants—Harry J. Fellows, tenor; Miss Chase, soprano; Oscar Wenborne, baritone; Mrs. Harry House Griffin, contralto; William J. Gomph, organist; Mrs. Burton Fletcher and Allen E. Day, readers; Miss Lillian Burns, whistler; Miss Belle Phylis Cohn, violinist.
7At Olean last week Jaroslaw de Zielinski gave a recital in his school of music. The Olean Times praises very highly the piano playing of Marion Ehlers, a young girl who for six years has studied with Mr. De Zielinski. Harry Garden Davis, baritone, of Buffalo, is also commended.
9Madame Wienzkowska, the well known New York exponent of the Leschetizky piano method, has been induced to spend the summer in Buffalo by three of her pupils, two of whom, Miss Grace Horton and W. S. Jarrett, went to the metropolis last spring and stayed several months to have the benefit of her teaching. Miss Mary Mitelski is another resident pupil.
11Mrs. J. G. Marvin, of West Utica street, announces a piano recital by her pupils May 14. The program will be varied by readings given by Mrs. Jennie Milman Westcott. The piano pupils are the Misses Stein, Heeman, Hobson, Black, Wright, Reutti, Hubbell, Maynard, Watson, Daly, Hall, Weber, Heimerle, Master Randolph Watson and Mrs. Belle Lawson.
13On Tuesday night, when Mrs. Jennie Milman Westcott graduated from Miss Leila O. Hume's school of practical elocution, she was assisted by Adam Federlein, violinist, and Oscar Wenborne, baritone. The latter gentleman is doing splendid work and one hears on all sides only favorable comments concerning the beauty of his voice and his good method.
15When I was in Rochester a few weeks ago Ludwig Schenck told me that he thought seriously of going abroad again for further study, but he did not wish the fact mentioned until his plans were matured. Now I am told that he will go to Europe to study with Sevcik. Mr. Schenck, who is already a fine violinist, has met with success in Buffalo and Rochester as a teacher of violin.
17Another teacher of the violin, Otto Duppernell, announces his third recital at the hall of the Y. M. C. Association for next Tuesday night, May 17. The composers to be interpreted are Mozart, Duppernell, Paganini, Beethoven, Dancla, Chaminade, Moszkowski and Wieniawski. The following gentlemen and one lady will play: Violinists, O. Duppernell, W. Hoffmann, L. Pabst, H. Brandt and George Hoffmann; pianist, Miss Nina Davis.
19On the 18th and 19th of May the Garret Club (a social organization of young women) purpose giving two performances of a Japanese operetta, "The June Maiden," at the Twentieth Century Club, for the benefit of the local District Nursing Association. Rehearsals have been conducted by Andrew D. Webster, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral. Dr. Peter C. Cornwell acts as stage manager and Frederick Truscott assistant stage manager. The cast is as follows: O Haru San, the June Maiden, disguised as a flower peddler, Miss Julia Agnes O'Connor; Kofugi, a fisher maiden, betrothed to Urosima, Annie Shipman; Urosima, Miss Adsit; the Tycoon, Emperor of Japan, Mrs. Laura D. Minehan; Matzakasa, a peasant girl, Louise Griffin; three maids of honor, O Tatsu San, Mrs. George D. Morgan; O Tori San, Mabel Wright; O Kiku San, Marjorie Howard; three dancing girls, Mrs. Morgan, Miss Evelyn Rumsey and Miss Howard; court ladies, fisher girls, peasants, chorus, Mrs. Archibald Hazard, Mrs. James How, Mrs. Clinton Wyckoff, Mrs. Ralph Hillman, Mrs. George Davidson, the Misses Dart, Wheeler, Taylor, Sawyer, Benson, Scatcherd, Walbridge, Lewis, Mackaye, Holland, Keating, Hotchkiss and Georger. Being a society event, the elite will present a large audience; besides the music is bright, catchy, tuneful. The geisha girls will sustain Buffalo's reputation as the home of beautiful women. one of two readings
20On the 18th and 19th of May the Garret Club (a social organization of young women) purpose giving two performances of a Japanese operetta, "The June Maiden," at the Twentieth Century Club, for the benefit of the local District Nursing Association. Rehearsals have been conducted by Andrew D. Webster, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral. Dr. Peter C. Cornwell acts as stage manager and Frederick Truscott assistant stage manager. The cast is as follows: O Haru San, the June Maiden, disguised as a flower peddler, Miss Julia Agnes O'Connor; Kofugi, a fisher maiden, betrothed to Uroschina, Annie Shipman; Uroschina, Miss Adsit; the Tycoon, Emperor of Japan, Mrs. Laura D. Minehan; Matzakasa, a peasant girl, Louise Griffin; three maids of honor, O Tatsu San, Mrs. George D. Morgan; O Tori San, Mabel Wright; O Kiku San, Marjorie Howard; three dancing girls, Mrs. Morgan, Miss Evelyn Rumsey and Miss Howard; court ladies, fisher girls, peasants, chorus, Mrs. Archibald Hazard, Mrs. James How, Mrs. Clinton Wyckoff, Mrs. Ralph Hillman, Mrs. George Davidson, the Misses Dart, Wheeler, Taylor, Sawyer, Benson, Scatcherd, Walbridge, Lewis, Mackaye, Holland, Keating, Hotchkiss and Georger. Being a society event, the elite will present a large audience; besides the music is bright, catchy, tuneful. The geisha girls will sustain Buffalo's reputation as the home of beautiful women. one of two readings
22Mrs. Wilbor Quincy, the new soprano at Westminster Church, is warmly welcomed in musical and social circles. Previous to Mrs. Quincy's coming here as a bride she had resided for fifteen years in Boston and was well known there as a remarkably good church singer. Mrs. Quincy tells me she "longs for the musical atmosphere of Boston," but I hope, as do others, that she will learn to love Buffalo.
24The "Dansk Aften" Tuesday night at Mrs. George J. Sicard's finished the series of interpretative recitals of Russian, Scandinavian and Danish art and music. A very large audience filled four spacious rooms, and all seemed to enjoy the brilliant program. The drawing room, which is like a great picture gallery, was very attractive with the additional beauty of palms and flowers back of the stage and piano. Miss Spencer talked well on Northern art. Madame Sicard and Madame Brazzi, as usual, charmed their listeners by the perfection of their instrumental and vocal selections. Another series interpreting the music and art of other countries would surely be well patronized. Certainly the field from which to glean further instruction and enjoyment is almost limitless, and only awaits these artistic reapers.
26VIRGINIA KEENE.
28American Federation of Musicians.
30THE ninth annual convention of the American Federation of Musicians is in session in New York this week. The first meeting took place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Amsterdam Opera House, No. 344 West Forty-fourth street. Some 235 delegates answered to their names when the roll was called. Joseph W. Weber, of Cincinnati, who is president of the association, was in the chair. He made a short address, which was responded to by President Fornes, of the Board of Aldermen, who welcomed the visiting musicians. A business meeting was held yesterday and a number of routine matters were disposed of. Last night there was a banquet, which was tendered to the delegates and their friends. At the meeting today there will be an election of officers for the next year. Tomorrow the delegates and a number of friends will go on an excursion down the bay. The convention will not adjourn before midday Saturday. The present officers of the association are:
31Joseph W. Weber, president, Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles H. Ross, first vice president, Albany, N. Y.; George W. Bope, second vice president, Columbus, Ohio; Owen Miller, secretary, St. Louis, Mo.; Otto Ostendorf, treasurer, St. Louis, Mo.
32Delegates are present from every State in the Union and from Canada.
34De Lara is busy with a new opera, "Siddhartha," for which Paul Millet has written the libretto on an Indian legend.
36THE MUSICAL COURIER.
38THE WEEK IN NEW YORK.
40Wednesday evening, May 11—Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. Hanchett, musicale, 40 West Eighty-fifth street.
41Wednesday evening, May 11—Miss Amy Grant in Tennyson-Strauss recital of "Enoch Arden."
42Saturday afternoon, May 14—Von Ende-Fabian violin and piano recital, Clavier Hall.
43Sunday afternoon, May 15—Young Men's Symphony Orchestra, Belasco's Theatre.
44Monday evening, May 16—Concert pupils Virgil Piano School, Metropolitan Temple, Seventh avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
45Tuesday afternoon, May 17—Mme. Rosa Linde, song recital, 148 West Thirty-sixth street.
47ORATORIO AT PORT JERVIS.
49PORT JERVIS, N. Y., May 5, 1904.
51QUITE a stir has been created in musical circles in our village as a result of the efforts of the Port Jervis Choral Society to raise the standard of music here by introducing methods and taking up a class of music that would compel some attention being paid to sight reading, tone production, phrasing, breathing—in short, to take up the study of vocal music in a thoroughly scientific manner and on a basis calculated to produce singers who could read.
53The society started out by securing the services of N. Coe Stewart, who hails from Ohio, where he was twice president of the National Music Teachers' Association, besides holding many other positions of distinction in the musical world, but who is now located at Fort Washington Park, New York city, to conduct the chorus.
55Mr. Stewart is a man who has no sympathy or patience with slipshod methods, and is a firm believer in the principle that art in music, as in every other field of honorable endeavor, can only be attained by hard work and strict conformity to scientific principles and correct methods. Accordingly, each session of the society was begun with a half to an hour's drill in rudimentary exercises and instruction, the remainder of the session being devoted to the practice and singing of standard choruses.
57About the first of March the society took up the study of the oratorio "The Creation," and on April 25 closed its winter's work with a concert in the First Reformed Church here, rendering the first two parts of the above famous oratorio. The attempt to give a production like "The Creation" entirely with home talent was regarded by many as a hazardous undertaking, and not a few predicted failure. The word failure, however, is not found in Mr. Stewart's vocabulary, and when the night of the concert came, and one chorus after another was taken up in a spirit and with a vigor that gladdened the hearts of all lovers of good music, all doubts vanished into thin air, and on all sides Mr. Stewart's work was acknowledged to mark an epoch in the line of musical endeavor in Port Jervis.
59Mr. Stewart had a few private pupils during the winter, among them being Mrs. Christopher Graebner, who has for some time been regarded as one of the leading sopranos in the community. The manner, however, in which she handled the two leading soprano solos, "With Verdure Clad" and "On Mighty Pens" was a revelation to Port Jervis singers and a source of pride to her faithful and competent instructor, for she surprised and charmed her friends, and silenced her critics, by the fullness, sweetness and purity of her tones, the flexibility and power of her voice and the compass of her range, and while winning new laurels for herself, furnished indisputable evidence as to the value of Mr. Stewart's methods in voice training and sight reading, and showed plainly what could be accomplished if his plans were followed and his instructions practiced.
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