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Musical Courier 1905-09-06: Vol 51 Iss 1328, 1905
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1Musical People.
3Atlantic City, N. J.—Miss Irvin presented four artists from Philadelphia at a recent concert at Sea Rest, the summer home of the Philadelphia Y. W. C. A. Minnie T. Wright, pianist; Mary T. Thompson, soprano, and Messrs. Leman and Trein, violin and 'cello, united in an exceptionally attractive program.
5Nyack, N. Y.—Professor Prochazka's historical lecture recital, "From Ancient Data to Mozart," proved a highly instructive evening. Jean L. Prochazka read the lecture, Jenny Sloat was piano soloist, and the incidental illustrative music was performed by Caroline Meyer, May G. Lynch and Professor Prochazka. Before the lecture, Miss Sloat performed Schumann's concerto, the orchestral part on a second piano being played by Miss Lynch.
7Scranton, Pa.—Advanced pupils of Grace Atherton, pianist and teacher, were heard at a recital last month at the home of Miss Atherton's parents. Ruth Beddoe was the assisting singer. The pupils who appeared during the evening included Ivy Millican, Sadie Halfpenny, Edna Latcham, Anna Hughes, Bertha Linney, May Simms, Blanche Atherton, Anna Kelloway, Ruth Gregs, Dora Bidleman, Helen Scharar, Alvirna Winters, Florence Bexon and Arline Millett.
9Albany, N. Y.—Subscriptions for the Dudley Park Concert Fund have been received from E. J. B. Murray, Jerry J. Maher, James Ackroyd, Thomas Martin, Michael J. Hayden, Thomas F. Maher, John Franey, Michael F. Dollard, Richard Hughes, Daniel T. Nolan, Commerford Dolan, John H. Rea, F. F. Crannell, Jr., Walter van Guysling, Mary M. D. Vosburgh, John J. McGeough, Cox Brass Manufacturing Company, Thomas J. Laughlin, James Brennan, Roswell P. Flower, Michael F. Cantwell, E. V. Fitzgerald, William H. Delaney, Luke J. Kelly, Charles H. Rogers, Adolph Picard, Dr. D. B. Comstock and Thomas J. Mullen.
11Lake Placid, N. Y.—Ben Franklin, a well known singer from Albany, was heard at a recital here last month in the parlors of the Stevens House.
13Reading, Pa.—Florence L. Beaver, pianist, and Emma H. Howe, singer, appeared last month at a joint recital at the Grand View Sanitorium.
15Chippewa Falls, Wis.—Ruth Regan and Anita A. Alvarez recently united in a concert at the Presbyterian Church. The young artists were assisted by Gladys McBain, Mary Regan and Charles Mandelert in a program of piano, violin and vocal numbers.
17Blighamton, N. Y.—Frank Beman, organist of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, gave a recital on the new organ.
19Elman's Playing.
21APPENDED are new London press notices of Mischa Elman, the violin prodigy:
23The majority of his hearers listened spellbound to his wonderful playing. Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" contains many themes of really fascinating sweetness, and these the little fellow lingered over with a tenderness unprecedented in one so young. Wieniawski's "Faust" fantasia includes some of the loveliest gems of Gounod's opera, and these were delivered with exquisite beauty of tone and keenness of artistic perception, the extra embroideries affording the player ample opportunity for a technical display in which he showed that he was among the greatest of the world's violinists.—Modern Society.
25The recital of Mischa Elman made one wonder still more how it is possible for such things to be. It is not so much his rare beauty of tone and dazzling technic that move astonishment as the depth of sincere feeling he puts into his playing. It is as if the tragedy of a whole people spoke through his fiddle.—World.
27Mischa Elman has proved that he is a genius pure and simple, and not a prodigy. His phrasing, execution and general feeling are each of them points to wonder at, and he stands unquestionably as one of the great violinists of the day, young as he is.—Black and White.
29TOURING, 1905-1906.
3031 weeks of daily concert triumphs as the Official Band World's Fair—May to December.
31Grand Concert Tour, principal cities and towns of the country, beginning Oct. 6.
32WEIL'S BAND
33ST. LOUIS—NEW YORK.
34WILLIAM WEIL, Director.
35A Modern Organization for a Modern Public!
36FIFTY PLAYERS AND SOLOISTS.
37SOLOISTS—Prima donna soprano, corset, trumpet, clarinet, trombone, saxophone, piccolo, baritone, special features: French horn quartette, trombone quartette, cello, etc.
38ST. LOUIS, MO.: Suite 512 Security Building. WILLIAM WEIL, Director. WEIL AMUSEMENT COMPANY. Address for business matters to band, articles, music, etc.
39(no line here) one of two readings
40HIGH CLASS—SPIRITED—ENGAGING—POPULAR! one of two readings
41NEW YORK CITY: 301 Knickerbocker Theatre Bldg. 38th St and Broadway. GEO. N. Loomis, Gen'l Manager. Address on business matters, dates, etc. one of two readings
42Open for Proposals for Summer Engagements—Parks, Resorts, Expositions, Etc.
44Queen's Hall echoed through and through with the clapping of thousands of hands. In the centre of the large platform a schoolboy in a cream sailor suit is standing. It is Mischa Elman, the wonderful boy violinist. We listen first in expectancy, but that soon turns to wonder, and after a little close our eyes, for somehow we want to forget that it is the schoolboy in the cream suit who is playing the music to us. Surely no child can express what he expresses by the touch of his fingers! and we look again. Yes, there he is on the huge platform, a small boy with rapt expression, his head now resting lovingly on his violin; now jerked suddenly away at some more spirited passage. Truly his is the touch of a master!—M. A. P.
46There are some qualities, the chief, perhaps, of those which go to make a fine artist—which we have always imagined could only be gained by experience. Yet Mischa Elman seems to have them by nature, and his playing is already informed with a tenderness and poetry such as few violinists acquire in a lifetime. His reading of Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" was absolutely one of the best that we have heard here, and there are many mature violinists with big reputations who make the music less interesting than did this boy of fourteen.—Globe.
48About Harold Bauer.
50HAROLD BAUER'S current London criticisms make interesting reading:
52Harold Bauer, although he does not advertise himself in the prevailing fashion, is recognized as one of the most gifted pianists of the day. His noble rendering of Bach's chromatic fantasia and fugue at his recital on the 30th ult. made me wonder if he has any rival of his own age and standing.—London Lady.
54During the last two or three years Harold Bauer has made his way rapidly to the front, and he must now surely be considered one of the finest pianists of the day. In him the powers of an artist and a virtuoso are combined in a degree that is positively unique. Many pianists who have succeeded in obtaining the strength and suppleness of fingers and wrists which he possesses are prone to force their accomplishments upon one's attention in season and out of season. This, however, is a fault of which Mr. Bauer is never guilty. For him the interpretation of the music is always of primary importance, and self is kept decently in the background. He has never given us a finer display of his great gifts than at his recital at the Aeolian Hall on Tuesday, May 30. In his program Beethoven was represented by the "Waldstein" sonata, Bach by the chromatic fantasy and fugue, Schumann by the romance in B flat minor, the novelette in D and the arabesque, and Chopin by the barcarolle and the polonaise in A flat—a somewhat hackneyed selection, to which, however, he succeeded in imparting a new interest. His readings throughout were sane, thoughtful and musically.—London Ladies' Field.
56Harold Bauer again proved himself to be one of the most brilliant of the younger pianists of the present day. Apart from his faultless technic, he succeeds in imparting to his readings of the various works which he essays an individuality of interpretation which is not only forcible, but also invariably artistic.—London Queen.
58Our Opera.
60"You see that woman up there in the first tier of boxes? That's Mrs. Giltsoaker."
61"How can you tell? Her face is turned the other way."
62"I know her voice."—Life.
64Another Tribute to Wolle.
66OFFICE OF DIRECTOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC,
67ANN ARBOR, Mich., August 28, 1905.
68To the Editor of The Musical Courier:
69DEAR SIR—Permit me to add to your appreciative words regarding the appointment of J. Fred Wolle to the Chair of Music in the University of California. Possibly no other man could be found in whom combine more happily the essential qualifications for success in such a position—scholarship, enthusiasm, perseverance and tact—than Professor Wolle, and there exists in no other community, within my knowledge at least, more of inspiration for such a man than in Berkeley. Professor Wolle's achievements in Bethlehem are prophetic of the future. There can be no doubt that under his guidance there will develop an artistic atmosphere that will be unique and of inestimable value in the advancement of the highest artistic standard, not alone in California, but also in the whole country. Therefore it is a happy augury that the interests of music in one of our greatest universities are placed in the hands of such a master as Professor Wolle. Very sincerely,
70ALBERT A. STANLEY,
71Professor of Music, University of Michigan.
73A Word From the West.
74(From the Los Angeles Graphic.)
76ORDINARILY I think that culling is a pretty cheap way of making up a signed column. But there are two shining exceptions to the rule—one when the quoted writer has you beaten on your own ground, the other when the story is too good not to have the benefit of your own distinguished circulation.
78This Joseffy scherzo twinkles out joyously from both ends of the piano—Leonard Liebling, prince of chattists, doing primo honors as the tale teller, with the story itself playing no mean secondo:
80"On one of the very warm days during the recent extra hot spell, Joseffy was giving a lesson at his hill home in Tarrytown. The pupil droned through a Beethoven adagio and started a Chopin nocturne. Perhaps because of the sultry heat, perhaps because of the drowsy music, Joseffy allowed his gaze to wander away from the piano and to rest dreamily on the green vista that framed itself alluringly in the open window. He saw the lovely hills of Pocantico, and he seemed to look through and beyond them, far into Westchester, past the Harlem Bridge, down Broadway, into a still, small house near.—At that moment Joseffy remembered the pupil, and caught her trying to climb over a C minor scale with an A flat major fingering. 'Put three on the red,' he said wearily; and then, correcting himself, sharply, 'Third on the black. I mean.' Oh, oh, Joseffy, what else do you play besides the piano?
82MRS. BYRNE-IVY, CONTRALTO.
83Oratorio, Concerts, Recitals.
84Address Room 324, 1133 Broadway, New York.
86FRANK ORMSBY TENOR.
87Oratorio, Concert, Recital.
88MANAGEMENT
89FITZHUGH W. HAENSEL,
90St. James Building, NEW YORK
92LILLIAN PRAY, SOPRANO.
93Management
94HENRY WOLFSON, 131 East 17th Street, New York
96Mme. BIRDICE BLYE, Pianist
97Address 5328 Washington Avenue, CHICAGO.
99CAROLINE MIHR HARDY
100…DRAMATIC SOPRANO…
101Management HENRY WOLFSON, 131 East Seventeenth Street. NEW YORK.
103ELSAS RUEGGER
104THE GREAT BELGIAN 'CELLIST
105Trans-Continental Tour Beginning January 1st.
106Direction: Loudon O. Charlton.
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