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Musical Courier 1905-03-08: Vol 50 Iss 1302, 1905
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1NEW PUBLICATIONS.
3Popular Piano Music.—"All work and no play," &c., is a proverb that applies as much in music as everywhere else. Symphonies, sonatas and string quartets are beautiful and noble forms of art, we all know, but they are too stern as a continuous diet for the layman. He must have some lighter manner of music for his ordinary moods. And it has been the aim even of great composers to supply this demand for merely melodious music, and they have all written works in the simplest styles and forms for piano, for voice, and for violin, and other instruments. Wm. A. Pond & Co., a house that is in touch with every American musical movement, has long devoted a part of its widespread energy to putting on the market a superior grade of light, pleasing instrumental music, suitable particularly for salon and teaching purposes, and the latest batch of the Pond output brings several interesting contributions to the "layman's literature" of music, as it might be termed. First and foremost there is J. Christopher Marks, with a clever and characteristic morceau entitled "The Jester." It is catchy in rhythm, genial in melody, and so made that there are in it no technical scarecrows to keep away the more timid pianists. "My Darling," a polka impromptu, by G. W. Ulrich, is an excellent teaching piece, of the sort that interests the pupil and does not act as a soporific on the instructor. "Eeblee," a march two-step, by Ione Hoiles Marston, has rhythm and movement. "Twinkling Stars," an intermezzo, by Charles J. Wilson, is a pleasant little salon piece, light, graceful and easy to play.
5Gustave Kobbé is an indefatigable contributor to musical literature, and being eclectic and liberal and free from the influence of any school, tendency or chauvinism, he succeeds in giving an unprejudiced account of the events he describes or the personalities he discusses. The latest from his pen on a musical matter comes from the Oliver Ditson Company and is an illustrated composition called "The Opera Singers," a pictorial souvenir, with biographies of some of the most famous singers of the day. The illustrations are excellent and the text of Mr. Kobbé interesting, and as a souvenir volume the book will certainly find a large sale.
7A handbook to Chopin's works, by G. C. Ashton Jonson, has just been published by William Heinemann, London, for the use of concert visitors, pianists and Pianola players. This latter feature of the purpose of the publication is one of the recent reminders that the Pianola player has become a fixed institution in the modern musical household, in which art in its highest form is cultivated. This handbook should be in the library of every musician and particularly of every aspiring pianist, and for those who are using the Pianola player it is of exceeding interest. In all respects it is a useful volume.
9Boice-Woods and Allen.
11LUCIE BOICE-WOOD and Rusling Wood, soprano and baritone, and Emily Blanche Allen, violinist, took part in the last of the series of Cecilian Club recitals in Freehold, N. J., February 7. Two criticisms follow:
12It was a recital given by Lucie Boice-Wood, soprano; Rusling Wood, baritone, and Emily Blanche Allen, violinist. All these musicales have been of a high order, both as to selections and artists, a rare treat to the music lovers of this town as well as to the club members. It is seldom we hear more beautiful, highly cultivated voices than was our privilege in listening to both Mr. and Mrs. Wood. Mrs. Wood has a high soprano, all her tones being equally pleasing, and wonderful breath control. The cavatina, "La Reine de Saba," Gounod, was most beautifully rendered, but her other songs, some of which were familiar, were just as enjoyable. The "Ave Maria," by Bach-Gounod, with violin obligato, also "Spring Song," Weil, were exquisite and charmed even the most careless listener.—Freehold Transcript.
14Mrs. Wood delighted Freehold audiences a few years ago when she was a girl, and her performances Tuesday night exhibited a great deal of artistic development. She sang fourteen songs so varied in character that it would have been hard to find one in the audience who was not pleased at some one of them. Most of them were pleased with all of them, and wondered at her versatility.—Democrat.
16Becker Pupils' Musicals.
18THE third of the present series of musicales was given by Gustav L. Becker for his pupils and their friends at his home, 1 West 104th street, Saturday afternoon. The following pupils played: May Price, Leila Hatch, Charlotte Gribbon, Edyth Alexander, Grace Peckham, Emma Stentz, Cora L. Moshier, Lucile Arnold, Marguerite Watson, Everett Blyth, Ruth Wright, Edna Wilkinson.
20Mr. Becker departed from his usual custom of giving a lecture-musical, to permit more of his pupils to appear. Several of these are quite young; two, Miss Wright and Miss Wilkinson, are concert pianists, but the tone of the performance was high throughout, marked with unusual musical feeling and adequate technic. Esther Luce, a ten year old violinist, assisted the pianists.
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