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Musical Courier 1905-10-18: Vol 51 Iss 1334, 1905
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1Mary Florence Stevens, and violinist, Charlotte Demuth-Williams, will appear. Miss Kellogg will play the Liszt "Hungarian Fantasy," Miss Johnson, the Haydn F minor variations, and Miss Kellogg and Mrs. Williams will play the Grieg G minor sonata, for piano and violin.
3The school's lectures on "The History of Art" and "Philosophy of Music," by Helen A. S. Dickinson, will begin Monday evening, November 6, in the school studios. These lectures, briefly outlined in THE MUSICAL COURIER's catalogue reviews of some weeks ago, are one of the requirements of the school's Artist Course. But they are open to others who wish to arrange to hear them. Florentine Art, Venetian Art, Art of the Netherlands and German Art will be considered. Schopenhauer, Wagner, Thoreau and others will be noted in the discussion of the philosophy of music.
5George Hamlin's first song recital since his return from abroad will constitute also the opening of F. Wight Neumann's busy season of Chicago attractions. The recital will be given in Music Hall, Sunday afternoon, October 22, and the entire program to be sung is submitted here as a sample of the artist's practiced hand:
7Recitative and aria, Love Sounds the Alarm, from Acis and Galatea ……………………………………………………. Handel
8Der Musensohn ……………………………………………………. Schubert
9An eine Quelle ……………………………………………………. Schubert
10Nacht und Träume ……………………………………………………. Schubert
11Lachen und Weinen ……………………………………………………. Schubert
12Gesang der Geister ……………………………………………………. Schumann one of two readings
13Gesang der Sirenen ……………………………………………………. Schumann one of two readings
14Stille Tränen ……………………………………………………. Schumann
15Provenzalische Lied ……………………………………………………. Schumann
16Zueignung ……………………………………………………. Strauss
17Heimliche Aufforderung ……………………………………………………. Strauss
18Feinsliebchen, du sollst ……………………………………………………. Strauss
19Die Sonne schaut nicht mehr ……………………………………………………. Brahms
20Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund ……………………………………………………. Brahms
21Wer sein holdes Lieb verloren ……………………………………………………. Hugo Wolf
22Der Musikant ……………………………………………………. Hugo Wolf
23Gesellenlied ……………………………………………………. Hugo Wolf
24On the Hill ……………………………………………………. From Tennyson's Cycle
25At the Window ……………………………………………………. The Window or The Songs of the Wren.
26Gone ……………………………………………………. Sullivan
27Marriage Morning ……………………………………………………. Sullivan
29Pupils of Karl Reckzeh and Glenn Dillard Gunn, of the Chicago Musical College extension, played the first program of their third season Tuesday afternoon, October 10. In a few remarks Mr. Gunn explained to the audience that the extension is a term applied to the organization of the Reckzeh and Gunn pupils, who are in this manner furnished additional opportunities to appear in practice recitals. The programs of the club are held in Kimball rehearsal hall as a matter of convenience, but it is to be always understood that the Chicago Musical College has no branch schools. The student representation on last week's program was four pupils of each teacher. Mr. Reckzeh's representatives were Mary Garrettson, in the Schumann symphonic etudes; Belle Tannenbaum (age eleven), in a Clementi sonatine; Mrs. Snyder, in the Schumann F sharp romanza and the twelfth Liszt rhapsody; Bessie Ryan, in the romanza and rondo from the Chopin E minor concerto. Mr. Gunn's pupils were Jessie Willy, in an allemande and gavotte from a d'Albert suite; Harry Wehrheim, in the "Witches' Dance" and a polonaise by MacDowell; Miss Murray Auer, in a Tchaikowsky nocturne in C sharp minor and the Liszt "Liebestraum," No. 3; Prudence Neff, in three lyric studies by the Chicago composer, Mrs. Freer, this being the first public performance of the studies in Chicago.
31The above eight constituted a most creditable delegation of young pianists. They went through their program with the minimum display of nervousness and with no memory slips or other unfortunate occurrences to mar the general success of the occasion. The tendency of all was to play with a full musical tone and to observe proper phrasing of the material in hand. The clearness of the playing was only disturbed occasionally by hurry incident to youth, but one does not expect pupils to have the poise of routed artists.
33The next meeting will be a recital for November 7 by Mr. Reckzeh, and it is announced that hereafter the meetings will occur on the first Tuesday of every month.
35The baritone, William Beard, is one of the many who has his autumn work well begun. His first public appearance was October 4 in a musicale by the Women's Song Club, given for the Chicago Women's Club. He will give a recital at Fairbury, Ill., October 26, and his managers of the Bureau Agency of Music have just closed with the A Capella Chor, of Milwaukee, for Mr. Beard's appearance with the Chor in a production of Bach's "St. Matthew" passion music. In midwinter he will have a tour in the South.
37Besides the concert singing and the teaching in Kimball Hall, Mr. Beard has teaching each week at Bloomington and Pontiac, Ill. Some of the pupils at Bloomington have now had two years' work, and the results are showing well. Edwin Knapp, a young baritone, of Bloomington, was in Chicago a few days last week and sang for friends in Mr. Beard's studio, producing his fine voice easily and naturally.
39Mr. Beard's selections for the Woman's Club October 4 were "L'heure exquise," by Reynaldo Hahn; "Thou Art Like a Flower" and "True Love is a Bonnie Flower," by Grant-Schaeffer, and the "Heimliche Aufforderung," by Richard Strauss.
41The Woman's Song Club, noted above, is an organization which Margaret W. Salisbury brought together last season. The membership numbers now about thirty, but Miss Salisbury would like to raise it to fifty good voices. The club meets every Tuesday evening in Room 610, Fine Arts Building. While the object of the organization is primarily to study compositions adapted to a ladies' chorus, there is the probability that public appearances may be arranged for. The musicale of October 4 was the occasion of presenting four groups of compositions. They were four miscellaneous songs, four cradle songs, five folksongs and two anthems by the Chicago composer, Eleanor Smith; "The Earth is the Lord's" and "List! the Cherubic Host." The last number had incidental solos by Miss McDevitt, Miss Gilson and Mr. Beard.
43At the meeting of the Amateur Musical Club, October 23, a manuscript song story by Adolph Weidig, text by Charles Noble Alden, will be presented for the first time in public. The baritone, Chris. Anderson, will be the singer. The work, entitled "The Buccaneer," has six musical numbers, "The Sailing," "The Meeting," "The Wooing," "The Marriage," "In the Sunrise" and "The Parting." The thread of the story is supplied by the song texts and by spoken sentences between the songs.
45Georgia Kober, who has been for some years chief assistant to William H. Sherwood in the instruction at the Sherwood School and at Chautauqua, will begin at Bloomington, Ill., October 23, a three weeks' tour with the Hahn Festival Orchestra of Cincinnati, under the direction of Adolph Hahn. She will play the Grieg A minor concerto, or alternate with the Chaminade concertstück and the Godard concerto in A minor. Her other engagements with the same organization are a matinee at Normal, Ill., October 23; Mount Pleasant, Ia., October 24; Kewanee, Ill., October 25; Red Oak, Ia., October 26; Newton, Ia. (matinee), October 27; Grinnell, Ia., October 27; Iowa City, October 28; Cedar Rapids, October 30; Manchester (matinee), October 31; Cedar Falls, October 31; Marshalltown, November 1; Mason City, November 2; Rochester, Minn., November 3; La Crosse, Wis., November 4; Wausau, November 6; Racine, November 8; Illinois University, at Champaign, November 9, and Franklin, Ind., November 10.
47The Sherwood Music School is preparing a faculty recital for an early date, when Arthur Beresford, Holmes Cowper, Lillian French Read and Dr. H. K. Schussler, of the vocal faculty, will appear. The piano department will be represented by Georgia Kober, Bertha Stevens, Edith Bane, Amanda McDonald and Francis Moore; second piano parts of concertos to be played by Mr. Sherwood. It will be observed that all the members of the piano faculty under Mr. Sherwood are his pupils, and that this fact secures for the work of the school the greatest possible uniformity in matters of interpretation and the general treatment of the piano.
49A concert of musical miscellany was given October 11 in Libuse Hall, West Twelfth street, by Joseph Vilim, a number of his pupils and other talent. Gertrude Murdough, pianist, and John Kalas, cellist, assisted Mr. Vilim in a first Chicago performance of the Suk trio, "Elegie," op. 23, and the Dvorák "Slavonic Dance," No. 11. A
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