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Musical Courier 1905-03-08: Vol 50 Iss 1302, 1905
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1would have been all the better for a few more rehearsals. Some of the bigger choruses were well enough sung, but the chorus of sylphs suggested nothing daintier than a chorus of giantesses. The critic of one of the evening papers, by the way, made a quaint slip of the pen when speaking of this performance. "We praise with great legitimacy," he said, "last night's performance, at which the Margaret, the Faust, the Mephistopheles and the Brander were respectively taken by Ben Davies, Dan Price, Suzanne Adams and Harry Dearth." It only remains to be said, of course, that Mr. Davies' Marguerite was the very picture of sweet maidenhood, and that Suzanne Adams quite realized all the cynicism of the part of Mephistopheles.
3Strauss' "Symphonia Domestica" is to be produced at the Queen's Hall Symphony concert of Saturday next.
5The need of another concert hall, now that St. James' Hall is in process of demolition, will be partly met by St. George's Hall, Langham place. This hall, which has lately been practically reconstructed, used to be the home of the famous German Reed entertainments, of which Corney Grain was one of the shining lights. Lately it has been occupied by Maskelyne and Cook, the conjurors and illusionists. Its acoustic properties are excellent and it has a seating capacity of about 1,000. It will, however, only be available for concerts for a portion of the year. L. Rainbow has engaged it for a series of ballad concerts beginning on March 1.
7The death of Edward Dannreuther, which took place a few days ago, will be deeply regretted. He was not only a very gifted pianist and one of the most valued members of the staff of the Royal College of Music, but he also took a very active part in London musical life. It was very largely through his enthusiasm that Wagner's music became appreciated in England, and he was one of the leading lights in the old Wagner Society. He was born at Strasburg in 1844 and received his early training at the Leipsic Conservatory. When quite young, however, he decided to take up his abode in London and he made his first public appearance here at one of the Crystal Palace concerts in 1863.
9LONDON NOTES.
10Dora Bright (Mrs. Knatchbull) will give two orchestral concerts, assisted by members of the London Symphony Orchestra, on March 22 and April 3. The programs will include piano concertos by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Ferdinand Hiller. Landon Ronald will be the conductor and Edward German will conduct his "Gypsy Suite" at the second concert. A third concert of English music for piano and orchestra will be given later.
12Ivy Angove, a young violinist, will give a concert at the Queen's Hall on Wednesday, assisted by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Landon Ronald. She will play concertos by Paganini and Dvorák and Saint-Saëns' "Rondo Capriccioso." Miss Angove has studied under Wilhelmj at the Hampstead Conservatory and Prof. Hans Wesseley at the Royal Academy of Music. Lately her studies have been pursued at Prague under Sevcik.
14Alys Bateman, who has been meeting with great success on her provincial tour, will give a recital at the Bechstein Hall tomorrow evening, when she will be assisted by Dr. Theo. Lierhammer, Siegmund Beel and Dorothy Maggs.
16Emil Sauer will make his reappearance in England at the Queen's Hall Symphony concert on Saturday next, after which he will proceed to Spain to fulfill several engagements. He has recently been decorated by the King of Spain with the Grand Officer's Cross of Alfonso XII, and has also received from the King of Portugal the Cross of a Commander of the Order of Christ. Herr Sauer has lately been touring through Russia, Hungary, Roumania and Germany, and arrived in London from Paris today.
18Signor Mancinelli will again be at Covent Garden this year, but, by permission of the Opera Syndicate, he will leave London about the middle of June to fulfill an engagement to conduct an Italian opera season at Rio de Janeiro from the middle of July to the end of September. His new cantata "Saint Agnes" will be produced at the Norwich festival in October.
20It is said that Victorien Sardou has consented to write the libretto of a new opera for Mascagni, and that this will be a historical drama, the scene being laid in Venice at the time of the Renaissance.
22Concerts for the Week Ending February 25.
23MONDAY.
24Chamber concert, Leighton House, 5. Marion Coyle's vocal recital, Bechstein Hall, 8:30. Monday Subscription Concert (the Hotel Trio), Aeolian Hall, 8:30.
25TUESDAY.
26Marie Hall's recital, Queen's Hall, 3.
27Alys Bateman's second recital, Bechstein Hall, 8:30.
28WEDNESDAY.
29Royal Academy of Music students' chamber concert, Queen's Hall, 3:15. Leon Sametini's violin recital, Bechstein Hall, 3:15. Ivy Angove's orchestral concert, Queen's Hall, 8. Concertgoers' Club Discussion, Prince's Galleries, 8:30. Ethel Rooke's violin recital, Bechstein Hall, 8:30. Sibyl Noble's humorous and dramatic entertainment, Queen's (small) Hall, 8.
30THURSDAY.
31Harriet Solly's concert, Bechstein Hall, 3. Grand Chair Eisteddfod, Royal Albert Hall, 7. Broadwood concert, Aeolian Hall, 3.
32FRIDAY.
33London ballad concert, Queen's Hall, 3. Dohnányi's recital, Aeolian Hall, 3. Miss Grainger-Kerr's recital, Aeolian Hall, 8:15.
34SATURDAY.
35Symphony concert, Queen's Hall, 3. Alban concert, Crystal Palace, 3:30. Curtius Concert Club, Bechstein Hall, 3:30.
37THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA.
38PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 5, 1905.
39THE fourteenth concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra will be given at the Academy of Music next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. The program announced, with the exception of an early symphony of Beethoven's, bears the strong accent of modernity in thought and construction. The numbers to be given are Wagner's "Faust Overture," Beethoven's second symphony, Charles M. Loefler's fantasy for 'cello and orchestra, Lalo's rhapsody No. 1, a scherzo by Felix Draesecke, and Liszt's "Les Préludes." Alvin Schroeder will be the soloist.
41Tom Karl's Concert.
42TOM KARL, the well known tenor, gave a concert at the Waldorf-Astoria Tuesday afternoon of last week. A distinguished audience applauded him and his assisting artists in a program that embraced numbers from Schumann to Donizetti and from Gottschalk to Holmès. Besides three groups of songs, Mr. Karl sang in two duets and a trio. After Arthur Voorhis, a resident pianist, played the "Arabesque" by Schumann, and the almost forgotten "Tremolo" study by Gottschalk, and followed with Schumann's "Warum" as an encore, Mr. Karl appeared. The popular singer got a hearty reception. He sang in the course of the afternoon "Her Heart" and "The Rainbow," two clever songs by Mr. Voorhis; the Donizetti aria, "Una Furtiva Lagrima," three Irish songs, with harp accompaniment played by Josephine Sullivan; "All for You," by D'Harleldot, and "Over the Desert," by Kellie. It was in the Irish songs more especially that Mr. Karl was at his best. His voice responded well, too, in the old Donizetti aria. Mr. Karl remains a fine exponent of the old Italian style of singing.
44Lillie Birmingham, the contralto, sang the aria "Amour, Viens Aider," from "Samson and Dalilah," and two French songs, "La Fiancée," by René, and "Threnodia," by Augusta Holmès.
46Bertha Harmon, just back from an extended tour, sang with powerful soprano volume one of Dvorák's gypsy songs, "At Parting," by Rogers, and two Schumann songs, "Du bist wie eine Blume" and "Widmung." Mr. Karl and Mrs. Birmingham gave two effective duets, "Is it My Jean," by Maude Valerie White, and "La Notte," by Milliotte. Miss Sullivan played harp solos. The concert closed with the singing of a trio by Costa, "Vanne a Coleti," by Mrs. Harmon, Mrs. Birmingham and Mr. Karl.
48Let a good word be spoken for the accompanists; there were three. Mr. Voorhis accompanied for his own songs, Genevieve Moroney played for the contralto and Alice Bates for the soprano and tenor.
50New Post for Victor Harris.
51VICTOR HARRIS has been engaged to be the organist and musical director of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church, Madison avenue and Sixtieth street.
53ALEXANDER LAMBERT
54JUST PUBLISHED BY
55G. SCHIRMER,
56NEW YORK.
57PIANO PEDAL STUDIES, BY ARTHUR WHITING.
58Part I—ELEMENTARY USE OF THE DAMPER PEDAL.
59PRICE $1.50.
60Mr. Whiting is one of the most cultivated, thoughtful, and technically accomplished of American pianists and musicians. He has produced in his work something that has long been needed, but has only been hinted at vaguely by any of his predecessors.
61He undertakes in this volume to teach systematically a pedal technic based on the fact of the sympathetic overtones, bringing out the use of legato pedal, the "half release," the staccato touch with the pedal, and other uses. He has devised a special notation of the effects desired, and has written a large number of special études. It is an important contribution to the advancement of the piano technic.
63American Musical Directory
64LOUIS BLUMENBERG, Publisher,
65419 St. James Building, New York.
67A Handbook to
68CHOPIN'S WORKS.
69By G. C. ASHTON JOHNSON. 6s.
70This handbook will be found indispensable to all amateurs and students as an aid to a systematic and thorough knowledge of Chopin's works.
71LONDON: WM. HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford St., W. C.
72NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & Co., 34 Union Square.
74THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA,
75FRITZ SCHEEL, Conductor.
76A permanent orchestra of eighty musicians maintained for concert purposes exclusively.
77Available for concerts and oratorios.
781520 Chestnut Street.
79IN AMERICA from 15th November, 1905,
80AFTER AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR,
81Mr. Watkin Mills' Great English Quartette.
82Miss EDITH KIRKWOOD, Soprano.
83Miss GERTRUDE LONSDALE, Contralto.
84Mr. HAROLD WILDE, Tenor.
85Mr. WATKIN MILLS, Basso.
86Mons. EDOUARD PARLOVITZ,
87Sole Pianist and Accompanist.
88ORATORIOS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAMS,
89including Lisa Lehmann's Song Cycles,
90"The Persian Garden" and "Daisy Chain."
91The entire World's Tour under the sole management and direction of
92W. SPENCER JONES,
93Room 728 Fine Arts Building, CHICAGO, ILL.
95MARIE NICHOLS, Violiniste.
96R. E. JOHNSTON, Manager, St. James Building, Broadway and 26th Street, NEW YORK CITY
97EMILE LEVY, Traveling Representative.
98SOLOIST WITH BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA—Boston, February 10 and 11; Philadelphia, 13th; Baltimore, 14th
99New York, 16th; Brooklyn, 17th.
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