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Musical Courier 1905-06-21: Vol 50 Iss 1317, 1905
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1MUSIC IN HOLLAND.
3THE HAGUE, June 1, 1905.
5A WAGNER concert, a Dvorak concert and a Kubelik concert were the principal features of the last week of the past season. Though fragments of Wagner dramas performed by ladies and gentlemen in evening dress have something bordering on absurdity, they always draw. And so did these fine fragments of "Tannhäuser" and "Götterdämmerung," in which the principal parts were sung by an excellent artist engaged in Germany (Mrs. Kaschowska, from Darmstadt). The Residence Orchestra and the Wagner Choral Society, under direction of Mr. Viotta, were quite up to the mark, and so the evening was a success.
7The Dvorak evening was arranged by the Cercle of Art, and on a modest scale, without orchestra and chorus, but it was a very good thing for all that, because it proved Dvorak's greatness in smaller works. The Mährische duet for soprano and contralto, the Bagatelle for two violins, violoncello and harmonium, the Romantische Stücke for violin and piano, the sonatine for the same instruments are delightful compositions, and I recommend them earnestly to the dilettanti. The Austrian ambassador assisted to the end. The program gave a very good reproduction of a photo of Dvorak.
9Kubelik's concert took place on an afternoon and that was the reason the public was not very numerous and warm, for day concerts are exceptions still in this country. The delivery of Beethoven's concerto proved to the full that Kubelik is as faithful an interpreter of the classics as he is a brilliant interpreter of virtuoso music.
11The new season has begun at Scheveningen with a very good performance of Brahms' first symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and of the concerto for two violins of Bach by Witen and Gesterkamp. Next Sunday Weingartner will begin the series of his concerts at The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (only works of Beethoven and Berlioz are to be performed), and then Amsterdam will be the magnet on account of the two "Parsifal" performances by the Wagner Society. Mme. Litvinne will be Kundry, the only great Wagner part she never sang before.
13Dr. J. de Jong.
15Recitals by Beardsley Pupils.
17MRS. WILLIAM E. BEARDSLEY closed a successful season with a series of pupils' recitals at her studio in Carnegie Hall. The first day, May 20, Mrs. Benjamin Bergen, Mrs. Beardsley's professional pupil, presented a number of her young students. The young pianists were: Marie Dingee, Isabel Cooper, Grace Van Campen, Marjory Eddy and Ella Foley. George Le Fort Buys, baritone, was the assisting singer.
19The second day, May 27, Edith A. Bosworth, Mrs. Beardsley's private pupil, gave a recital, assisted by Jack McDonald, boy soprano; Harold Carter, violinist, and Mrs. Snow, accompanist.
21Alice M. Ray, another professional pupil of Mrs. Beardsley, presented pupils the third Saturday, June 3, and the assisting singer for that date was Gretchen Heidelang, soprano. Mrs. Beardsley and Mrs. Ray opened and closed the program with duets, and the solo performers were Dorothy Williams, Elvira Calleson, Harold H. Ray, Alma Calleson, Marie Flory and Myrtle Nelson.
23Saturday, June 10, the closing recital was given by Gladys Rudolph, a daughter of William Rudolph, of Brooklyn. Young Miss Rudolph had assisting her Genevieve Brady, soprano; Alma John, violinist, and Gustav Fillman, 'cellist. Both Miss Rudolph and Miss Bosworth are remarkably talented and both showed the result of excellent training. And the pupils' pupils, too, displayed the skill and musicianship of a method that is sane and beautiful.
25Winkler's Birthday Celebration.
27LEOPOLD WINKLER, the distinguished pianist, celebrated his birthday Thursday, June 15, by inviting a number of friends to his home, 61 East 120th street, to enjoy an evening of music and bountiful Winkler hospitality. Mrs. Winkler assisted her gifted husband in receiving the guests. The host and Robert Schuyler, an excellent amateur violinist, performed the Beethoven sonata in E flat major, op. 30, No. 3. Paolo Gallico and Mr. Winkler played Saint-Saëns' variations for two pianos on a theme from Beethoven. After the supper there was music of a more rejuvenating kind, when Alexander Lambert, described by an admiring friend as the "Moszkowski of New York," played his own version of the "Tannhäuser" overture, and Messrs. Gallico and Winkler a new edition of "The Blue Danube."
29The guests who felicitated Mr. Winkler on this pleasant occasion were Mr. Schuyler and Mrs. Schuyler, Robert Schuyler, Paolo Gallico and Mrs. Gallico, A. W. Lilienthal and Mrs. Lilienthal, Helen Lilienthal, Alexander Lambert, Mrs. Neuer, Berthold Neuer, Lulu Helmkow, H. R. Hirsch and Mr. and Mrs. Amort.
31August Spanuth and Arthur Claassen were among those who sent letters and telegrams.
33Closes Busy Season.
35MARGARET GOETZ is one of the busiest singers in New York, as her past season of fifty-six concerts and recitals shows, yet she finds time to teach and coach a large class of pupils.
37Among the professional singers who have studied German or French diction with her the past season are Ruby Cutter Savage, Marguerite Liotard, Mrs. Alfredo Lobo, Mrs. Louis Lancon, Helen Irwin, Eugenia Cabler, Mrs. L. G. Garse, Romeo Fenton, of the Metropolitan Opera, and John W. Nichols, of the Savage Opera. Next season Miss Goetz will give monthly recitals of German lieder at her Carnegie Hall studio for the benefit of her student. Miss Goetz will spend two months in the mountains and at Lake George, returning to the city October 1.
39Wright Is Coming Home.
41GUSTIN WRIGHT, organist of the Passy Church, Paris, who has been living in France for the last ten years, sails on the Deutschland from Cherbourg for America July 6 to spend a few weeks in his native city, Detroit. Mr. Wright returns to Europe in September and goes direct to Rome for two concerts and afterward to Roumania and Hungary for a long tour. During his brief stay in Detroit Mr. Wright will have a class of his old pupils who formerly studied with him in Paris, and also a number of other organists from Canada and the Northern and Eastern States.
43FLORENCE.
45FLORENCE, May 30, 1905.
47THE famous tenor Bonci, maestro del bel canto, has been having an immense success at the Pergola Theatre in the opera "Faust." The large audience was enthusiastic.
49Madame Bensberg-Barracchia gave an interesting recital at the Filarmonica. She is an American lady, pupil of Mme. Marchesi, successfully known on the stage. She has a beautiful voice, and she sings with authority, temperament and good style.
51Faculty Engaged for Loeb School.
53AS previously announced in THE MUSICAL COURIER, the new School of Musical Art will be opened in the autumn on lower Fifth avenue. Frank Damrosch, who is to become the director of the institution, is abroad engaging the faculty. The position of first teacher in the piano department was offered to Godowsky, of Berlin, but it is said that that distinguished master wanted a salary of $25,000 a year and that, as a matter of course, ended the negotiations. In Berlin Mr. Godowsky has an annual income from his classes of $15,000, or 60,000 marks, and, naturally, when the cost of living in New York is compared with Berlin, he would not leave there to come to New York. For the vocal department, Mr. Damrosch has engaged Etelka Gerster, who since 1896 has conducted a vocal studio in Berlin. Georg Henschel was also engaged by Mr. Damrosch for the vocal department. Edgar Stillman Kelley, of California, but for some time a resident of Berlin, will head the theory department. The name of Sigismund Stojowski, of Paris, has been mentioned as the possible head of the piano department. Mr. Stojowski is a pupil of Paderewski.
55The School of Musical Art is also known as the Betty Loeb Endowment, and was established through the gift of half a million dollars by James Loeb, of New York.
57Simon Buchhalter's Season.
59SIMON BUCHHALTER, the pianist and teacher, will soon close his studio on East Fifty-ninth street near Fifth avenue, and with Mrs. Buchhalter will pass a restful summer in the mountains. This has been Mr. Buchhalter's first season in New York since his return from Europe. Besides his recitals he has taught an interesting class of pupils. As an artist Mr. Buchhalter is ranked with the most distinguished and as a teacher he is destined to make a great reputation. Someone who has observed Mr. Buchhalter's artistic growth declares the artist is by far too modest. Few piano recitals in New York the past season equalled his in the things that are counted supreme in the pianistic world. As a performer Mr. Buchhalter combines depth with poetry and phenomenal technical skill. His programs were not arranged on the usual wearisome plan, and that was another factor in making his appearance a delight to those invited to hear him.
61Before the summer ends some definite plans for Mr. Buchhalter's next season will be announced.
63Sir Edward Here.
65SIR EDWARD ELGAR and Lady Elgar arrived on the Deutschland last Thursday, and are now the guests of the Sanfords at Bridgeport and New Haven.
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