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Musical Courier 1904-06-01: Vol 48 Iss 1262, 1904
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1BOSTON MUSIC NOTES.
3Boston, May 28, 1904.
5BRUCE W. HOBBIS is still in the midst of a busy season. He has sung at a large number of concerts, private and public, during the winter, and on May 26 and 27 sang in "The Creation" and "Aida" at two matinee recitals. On May 18 he took part in an organ recital with A. T. Davison, Jr., of Harvard, at Dorchester Temple, singing songs by Salter, Denza, De Vere, Mrs. Beach, Margaret Lang and Victor Kemp. Mr. Hobbs sang two new songs by Mrs. Beach "Shena Van" (Welsh) and Miss Lang's "Day Is Gone." In fact all the songs on his program were new. Last Sunday evening he sang at the Wellesley College vesper service at 7 p. m., and at 9:30 of the same evening in Boston again, where he sang for the German-American Singing Society, giving both German and English songs.
7Miss Mary Carson Kidd, who made her debut in Florence, Italy, recently, was, according to the Fiera Mosia, warmly applauded and in a very special manner distinguished herself in the execution of the arias from "Lucia" and "Don Giovanni."
9Hallett Gilberte, the young tenor and composer, has just returned from a two weeks' visit in New York city, where he has been singing successfully at a number of musicales, receptions and club concerts, awakening much interest among many of the leading vocalists and teachers in behalf of his songs, four of which are "The Land of Nod," "Youth," "Singing of You" and "Spanish Serenade." Next season these songs will be included in the repertory of many of the leading concert singers. A few of the musicians and singers to assist Gilberte in getting his songs before the public are: Mme. Luisa Cappiani, teacher; Mme. Eugenie Pappenheim, teacher; Dudley Buck, Jr., tenor; Perry Averill, baritone; Paul Savage, baritone; Mme. Ruby Cutter Savage, soprano; Mrs. Rollie Borden Low, soprano; Mrs. Henry Linock Boice, teacher; McCall Lanham, baritone; Horace Horton Kinney, teacher; Miss Sallie Frothingham Akers, soprano; Heinrich Meyn, tenor; Reed Miller, tenor; Percy Hemus, baritone; Edward Brigham, basso; Mme. George Lyman and many others.
11At the Colonial Theatre on Monday night there was an operatic concert by the pupils of Mme. Vinello Johnson, with Jacques Benavente as conductor; Roberto Vanni (late of the Grau Opera Company), director of dramatic action, and the Carl Behr Orchestra, and assisted by Jerome F. Hanshue, Signor Vanni and John Zegor, tenor, and L. Willard Flint, bass. The program consisted of selections from "Mignon," "Don Juan," "Faust," "The Marriage of Figaro," "Aida," "The Magic Flute," "Il Trovatore," "Carmen" and "The Flying Dutchman." There will be a pupils' song recital at Huntington Chambers June 2 and 3, at 8 p. m. Madame Johnson will be assisted by Miss Matilda Rimbach, Miss Helena Flagg, Miss Olga Brandenburg and J. T. Whelan.
13The recital given by Miss Louella Witherill Dewing Thursday evening at Huntington Chambers Hall was a pronounced success for the young artist, who showed an unusual amount of genuine musical and interpretative talent, and also for the school, which has brought out and developed her ability and talent. The young lady played a fine program, which gave ample opportunity to show her pianistic achievements. The clear and precise manner in which she treated the Bach "Prelude and Fugue"; the feeling of proportion, phrasing and contrast which she displayed in the Schumann sonata; her effective manner in the nocturne and valse of Chopin, and the "Campanella" by Liszt; the artistic warmth and brilliancy with which she interpreted the concerto by Saint-Saens, are valuable characteristics to possess at the outset of an artistic career. If Miss Dewing continues as she has begun she will certainly make a name for herself in the musical world.
15Miss Helen Wetmore, soprano, is now convalescent from a severe illness.
17Everett E. Truette gave a very successful organ recital in the First Congregational Church in Whitinsville, Mass., May 13. He was assisted by Miss A. M. Stanaway and Oscar Leonard Hogan.
19An organ recital by the advanced students of the New England Conservatory of Music was given May 18.
21It is announced in the June playing test at the Faelten Pianoforte School there will be in addition to the private tests which take place before the director and faculty eighteen recitals in Faelten Hall, to which the public will be admitted. Evenings at 7:30, May 25, 27, 31; June 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14. Afternoons, May 28, June 4. June 11.
23May 19 Miss Laura Henry, a pupil of Everett E. Truette, gave an organ recital at Berkeley Temple. The program was an interesting one.
25A piano recital was given by Miss Edith Currie at Chickering Hall Wednesday afternoon, May 18. Scarlatti, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Henselt, Schumann, Liszt, Poldini and Schubert-Tausig were the composers represented in the program.
27An invitation lecture on "Scientific Tone Production" was given Wednesday evening by Mrs. M. Ingles James at Chickering Hall.
29Pupils of Madame Duchena gave a song recital in Steinert Hall last week. Miss A. Lillian Brown, Miss Florence Lovejoy, Miss Evelyn Prendergast and John Creighton took part, assisted by Miss Charlotte Gemmel and Stanislas Kenclmij.
31The Mendelssohn Club, H. A. Shedd conductor, gave a concert in Huntington Chambers Hall last week. The program included the cantata, "The Gypsies." The soloists were Miss Marion A. Knight, Miss Anuita Lester, Miss Lillian Goldston and Clarence H. Wilson, baritone.
33The members of the Bostonia Sextet Club, C. L. Staats director, are William H. Capron, A. E. Ordway, E. J. Schiller, M. Belinski, Alfred Rheinhart and C. L. Staats. In their programs they are assisted by Miss Millicent Brennan, soprano.
35Those who took part in the concert by the New England Conservatory Orchestra and advanced students on May 27 were Miss Winifred Byrd, Salem, Ore.; Miss Hilda Swartz, Albany, N. Y.; Miss Georgina Nelson, Roxbury; Miss Mary Gailey, Marion, Ohio; Miss Grace E. Browne, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Mary E. Williams, Waterville, N. Y.; Arthur D. Babcock, San Diego, Cal.; Richard A. Tobin, Virginia City, Nev.; Fred Lyman Wheeler, Gardner; Oscar L. Hogan, Watertown; Russell G. Randall, Medford. On the 28th there was a recital given by pupils of the piano normal classes.
37THE MUSICAL COURIER.
39CARL L. PERIN.
41HE portrait on the front page of THE MUSICAL COURIER this week is that of Carl L. Perin, president of the Perin Amusement Company, which has just been incorporated under the laws of the State of New York with a capital of $100,000, with executive offices at Room 414 St. James Building, Broadway and Twenty-sixth street, New York city.
43Among the special features of this newly organized corporation, of which Mr. Perin is the head, will be the exploitation in this country of musical and dramatic artists at home and abroad, for Mr. Perin, from wide experience in the past, entertains the opinion that in America there are vocally and instrumentally gifted artists whose ability and capacity to please the public are equal to those of artists from any other country, and it is his design and aim to promote and encourage particularly the development of native American genius and talent in both musical and dramatic lines. The plans upon which this is to be operated will be fully discussed later, but the principle is kept strictly in view that whenever opportunities arise the Perin Amusement Company will throw its influence and work in the direction of American artists preferentially.
45Mr. Perin is a man of large experience in the artistic and financial worlds and has been all over the globe. He is master of half a dozen languages and possesses managerial qualifications of an exceptionally high order. He has an extended acquaintance all over the United States with people of the highest standing, and the amusement company of which he is the head has determined to treat the subject of musical and dramatic entertainment on the widest and "most liberal principles."
47William L. Whitney International School of Music.
49ON Tuesday afternoon, May 17, at the Boston Theatre the second examination of the opera classes took place. Those taking part were Miss Melley as Ophelie and Mr. Rosenstadt as Hamlet, in "Hamlet"; Miss Noyes as Chimene, in "Le Cid"; Mrs. Brackett as In- tante and Miss Patterson as Chimene, in "Le Cid"; Miss Duff as Aida, in "Aida"; Mr. Gorrell as Bertram, in "Robert le Diable"; Miss Morse as Alice, in "Robert le Diable"; Miss Morse as Alice and Mr. Gorrell as Bertram, in "Robert le Diable"; Mrs. Brackett as Gil'a and Mr. Rosenstadt as Rigoletto, in "Rigoletto," assisted by Mr. Willis and Mr. Gorrell; Miss Patterson as Schika, in "Africane"; Miss Fox as La Reine and Mr. Flint as Hamlet, in "Hamlet," assisted by Mr. Gorrell; Miss Amsden as Mignon, Mr. Canterbury as Wilhelm and Mr. Willis as Lohario, in "Mignon," assisted by Mr. Rosenstadt as Antonio. The teachers represented were Mme. Gertrude Franklin Salsbury and Wm. L. Whitney. Accompanist, Miss Mabel Adams Bennett.
51The Guilmant School Commencement.
53THE third annual commencement exercises and concert of the Guilmant Organ School will be held in the Old First Presbyterian Church, Fifth avenue and Twelfth street, New York, Monday evening, June 6, at 8 o'clock, under the direction of William C. Carl. The diplomas will be presented by the Rev. Dr. Howard Dufield, chaplain of the school. The public is invited. No tickets are required. The following students will be graduated: Vernon Clair Bennett, Katherine S. Anderson, Bula C. Blauvelt, Bessie Brown, Frederic Arthur Mets, Fannie Lois McCormack, Mary Adelaide Liscom and Mary Hendrick Gillies. The post graduates are Wesley Ray Burroughs, Gertrude Elizabeth McKellar and Henry Seymour Schweitzer. A reception will be tendered the school by Director Carl, after the exercises in the church, and the alumni dinner will be held the following day.
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