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Musical Courier 1905-03-08: Vol 50 Iss 1302, 1905
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1femininity, and her admirers found her voice as big and fresh as ever.
3Morena makes an ideal Sieglinde. Her wonderful beauty and the sweetness and pathos of her singing surround her part with an atmosphere of mythical poetry and glamour.
5Andreas Moers, of the Leipzig Opera, has an extremely good voice and proves himself possessed of versatile talent as an actor. His Siegmund was all that could be desired in this respect; and in the "Rheingold" his portrayal of Sage made the latter quite the most fascinating rogue in the opera.
7Alberich was excellently impersonated by Zador.
9In short, all the singers both looked and did remarkably well. As for the staging, it was magnificent beyond description. The highest praise is deserved by the orchestra for its splendid work under the leadership of Felix Mottl.
11"The Meistersinger" will be produced at the Royal Opera the first of next week. ETIENNE.
13New Cantata.
15MESSIAH VICTORIOUS," an Easter cantata, words by Rev. James M. Farrar, D. D., and music by William G. Hammond, has just been published by the John Church Company. The words of the cantata have been selected with skill and sympathy from the Holy Scripture and Hymns of the Church, and Mr. Hammond has succeeded in setting to the text a series of exceedingly beautiful melodies, harmonized with rare taste, and fashioned into an organic whole that has dramatic purpose in its arrangement and direction. The cantata is for solo voices, quartet, chorus, and organ, and Mr. Hammond shows in his disposition of these musical forces that he has an innate sense of form and tonal proportions. In every measure he makes for melodic beauty, and this unconscious striving will not be without its effect on the hearer of "Messiah Victorious." That composition is marked for early and lasting popularity. All choirmasters and choral society leaders would do well to look over the score before they set about the drafting of their Easter programs. Mr. Hammond equals in this cantata the best work done in his beautiful songs, and indeed surpasses some of them in the sustained melodic line and harmonic power to be found in "Messiah Victorious."
17THE MUSURGIA CLUB CONCERT.
18Waldorf-Astoria, Tuesday Evening, February 28.
19PROGRAM.
20Musurgia …………………………………………………Hatton
21The Happiest Land ………………………………………Hatton
22Serenade ………………………………………………….Kollner
23Sing, Sweet Bird ………………………………………….Baldamas
24Faust Fantaisie …………………………………………..Wieniawski
25Under the Rose …………………………………………..Fisher
26Autumnal Gale …………………………………………..Grieg
27Bessie May Bowman.
28Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind ………………………..Parker
29Heart Ache ……………………………………………….Dvorak
30Berceuse ………………………………………………….Beach
31Spanish Dance …………………………………………..Sarasate
32Bessie Collier.
33Nocturne ………………………………………………….Protheroe
34A Summer Lullaby ……………………………………….Gibson
35The Legend of the Bended Bow ………………………..Gilchrist
36(Incidental solo by Miss Bowman.)
37The Musurgia Club.
39The Musurgia Club has reached the legal age—twenty-one years. It's a proud record for a singing club in this city of musical fluctuations. The concert Tuesday night of last week was the second of the present season. Walter Henry Hall conducted and there were three piano accompanists—Robert A. Gayler, William H. Norton and Edward Morris Bowman—to assist the choral, violin solo and vocal solo numbers. Mr. Hall is one of our most competent and most conscientious choral leaders, and the singing of the club for this concert reached a high plane of excellence.
41Bessie May Bowman, accompanied by her father, sang with refined musical taste the romantic song "Under the Rose." In Grieg's "Autumnal Gale" the contralto penetrated the beauties of this wonderful song, intended by the composer for low pitched voices. Miss Bowman's voice has grown richer and fuller and at each appearance she demonstrates the poise and musicianly qualities that count for nearly everything.
43Bessie Collier's violin playing added variety to the program and there was much to commend in her performance of the smaller pieces by Mrs. Beach, and "The Bee," by Schubert, which she played as an encore. Mr. Gayler accompanied for Miss Collier and Mr. Norton in the choral numbers.
45Gilchrist's cantata, "The Legend of the Bended Bow," was sung in masterly style by the club and Miss Bowman in the incidental solo, but the music is not of the kind that arouses more than polite attention. Coming after Dvorák's lovely "Heart Ache," Horatio W. Parker's effective "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" and S. Archer Gibson's charming "Summer Lullaby," the cantata failed to make an impression.
47The officers and committees of the club for the year include:
48President—Samuel T. Carter, Jr.
49Vice President—William F. Quigley.
50Treasurer—Frederick D. Lincoln.
51Librarian—Charles C. Fern.
52Secretary—Frederick M. Frobisher.
53Conductor—Walter Henry Hall.
54Executive Committee—Edward M. Franklin, George G. Rockwood, Dr. Henry E. Hale, Jr.; C. W. Potter.
55Admission Committee—Charles G. Munro, Preston M. Selleck, William Henry Norton, Eric V. Goodwin, Millard W. Bath.
57People's Symphony Concert.
59OLIVE MEAD, violinist, is to play the Beethoven concerto, op. 61, at the fifth of the season's People's Symphony concerts, which is to occur at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening, March 17. Besides there will be the overture to "The Flying Dutchman," by Wagner; Mendelssohn's music to the "Midsummer Night's Dream," and Liszt's symphonic poem, "Les Preludes." The attendance at these concerts has become so large that admission to the stage will be sold at the box office on the night of the concert; besides, the seats left vacant after a certain hour will be thrown open to the public.
61A Successful Hinrichs Pupil.
63ABELLE McCONNELL, a pupil of Gustav Hinrichs, has been doing some fine work this winter. In January she gave a recital in Buffalo, and on February 13 sang in Stratford, Canada, with the Pittsburg Orchestra during their Canadian tour, winning several recalls and being heartily applauded. March 2 she was soloist with the Columbia University Philharmonic Society in their concert of that date in New York city.
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