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Musical Courier 1905-10-18: Vol 51 Iss 1334, 1905
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3NEWARK.
4NEWARK, N. J., October 14, 1905.
6NEWARK is an ideal city for the development of music. Scores of churches, comfortable concert halls, theatres and pleasant studios, and a half million people right at hand for those professionally engaged to draw their patronage from. In illustration of the above, I cite the presence of the Savage Opera Company in this city for a week, all of the separate operas being sold almost entirely out before the opening performance. For nearly twenty-nine years Newark has not had an opera company within her gates.
8The University of Music opened the season last month. Frederic C. Baumann is director, Michael Banner principal of violin department, and A. Buzzi-Pecchia vocal specialist. The University is on Fulton street, near Broad street.
10The College of Music begins its twenty-first season with Louis A. Russell musical director and the usual faculty. The college is a branch of the New York schools. Mr. Russell is not only an instructor, but a writer and composer as well. His works are much in use.
12"Old First" Church is fortunate in having as organist and choirmaster L. Carroll Beckel. For Wednesdays in October he has arranged a Bach musical service, besides the regular church service. He has a quartet choir, composed of Mrs. L. Carroll Beckel, soprano; Mrs. Theodore G. Staats, contralto; Frank B. Sayer, tenor, and George H. Simonds, baritone. The soloists for the Bach organ recitals will be Mrs. Arthur Oliver, contralto; Alice Richardson, violinist, and the Lotus Male Quartet.
14A valued contralto and teacher of voice production and the art of singing is S. Christine MacCall, who has had unusual advantages. She has profited by study with and the advice of James Sauvage. Miss MacCall is well and favorably known throughout the entire country, filling engagements as solo contralto in the Schubert Octet and Metropolitan Concert Company, of New York. She is a church singer of wide experience. She has returned from a summer in Toronto, and has resumed teaching at her studio, 179 Sumner avenue.
16A brilliant vocalist, pupil of Pizzarello, who has recently returned from a trip to Paris, is Elizabeth Schaup, of East Orange. She returns convinced that study abroad offers no advantages in itself over the best training that this country affords. There is a career before this talented singer, and flattering engagements have already been made.
18Lillian Jefferys Petry is an able concert pianist and teacher who has studied abroad. She has a studio in New York and Newark.
20Paul Petry, pupil of Pizzarello, possesses a baritone of exceptional qualities. He sings in the quartet "The Minnesingers." The other members are Ramond Wheeler Smith, first tenor; Sourmant Young, second tenor, and Charles Powelson, second bass.
22Two other male quartets of prominence are the Lotus, composed of J. F. Thomas, tenor and director; F. M. Crane, second tenor; Stacy W. Page, baritone, and G. H. Ord, bass. Frederick J. Kastner, Charles R. Morse, E. S. Campbell and Roland F. Randolph form the other. Roland F. Randolph is also choir director of the Roseville M. E. Church.
24W. Otto Poleman, teacher of singing, from Trenton, has a studio in Newark. JESSIE BRUCE LOCKHART.
26Rachmaninoff's American Visit.
28ONE of the striking figures in the American concert field this season will be Rachmaninoff, the young Russian composer, who is hailed across the water as the successor of Tchaikowsky. Just after leaving the Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninoff wrote his "Preludes" for piano. Since then his symphonic works have found eager acceptance with Europe's greatest conductors. His tone poem, "The Cliff," has has a sensational success at the past two seasons' concerts of the Russian Symphony Orchestra in this city.
30In his thirtieth year, Rachmaninoff is the director of the Imperial Opera, at Moscow, and the recognized leader of the Neo-Russian school of composers. Among his fellow pupils at the Moscow Conservatory was Modest Altschuler, now conductor of the Russian Symphony Society of New York, and it is at Mr. Altschuler's invitation that Rachmaninoff is coming to New York to direct a concert of his own compositions, with New York's Russian players. He will appear also as a piano soloist, playing his own concerto and a group of solos, including his "Preludes." He is to be heard likewise in an ensemble concert devoted to his chamber compositions.
32Following his New York appearances, John Warren, manager of the Russian Symphony Orchestra, is arranging a tour for Rachmaninoff, on which he will be assisted in giving chamber recitals by Marietta Bagby, mezzo-soprano; Modest Altschuler, 'cello, and J. A. Altschuler, violin. The programs of these concerts will include Rachmaninoff's sonata for piano and 'cello, his trio for piano, violin and 'cello, "In Memory of a Great Artist" (Tchaikowsky); songs for mezzo-soprano and a group of piano solos.
34Bauer's Noble Art.
36"Is there any pianist whom one would so gladly hear in so many different things as Harold Bauer?" asks the Springfield Republican, commenting upon Bauer's Worcester performance. "His technic is colossal—equal to the best. His style is broad and simple, yet remarkable for the perfection with which every detail is brought out. Measure, balance, proportion—these are the things that emphasize themselves in his music. He plays as the Greeks would have played if the piano had been known in the days of Phidias or Sophocles. There is no other pianist who so inevitably and so beautifully does the right thing." Bauer is now in the West. His tour, under Loudon G. Charlton, will include the principal cities and many im-
38JERSEY CITY.
39JERSEY CITY, N. J., October 14, 1905.
41MRS. FRANK CAVALLI, founder of the Afternoon Music Club and an active or associate member of the several musical organizations, is a moving spirit in music matters. Her charming home has been the scene of many delightful musicales, thereby giving to her friends the pleasure of listening to the distinguished artists of this country. Mrs. Cavalli is a pianist of ability, and in her travels abroad has benefited by the stimulus of the musical atmosphere of Europe, besides studying with the best instructors in New York. There are many others in social life interested in musical art who are readers of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
43Louis R. Dressler, a large factor in Jersey City musical circles, and for many years conductor of the Schubert Glee Club, in celebration of the club's twentieth anniversary is making successful efforts so that this season in Jersey City may be remembered. The club has increased its membership to nearly seventy-five. At the first concert Madame Boxall, harpist, and a soprano will be the talent. April 17. Corinne Rider-Kelsey, Campanari and the Woman's Choral Society are to unite in the program.
45Moritz E. Schwarz, for ten years organist of St. John's Episcopal Church, this city, now assistant organist in Trinity Church, New York, is one of our prominent teachers, being engaged as instructor for piano at Hasbrouck Institute. At a recent recital his pupils reflected much credit upon their teacher. Mr. Schwarz is a member and valued accompanist of the Schubert Glee Club, and also has had successful experience in oratorio work as conductor. An account published in THE MUSICAL COURIER of Mr. Schwarz's work in one oratorio brought correspondence from San Francisco, and, after two years, also from Chicago, referring to the previous work. This emphasizes the far reaching influences of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
47George A. Coffin, teacher of piano and harmony, has returned and resumed his duties.
49Single copies and back numbers of THE MUSICAL COURIER may be bought at Stile's, 127 Monticello avenue. News and announcements will be received and promptly forwarded by the correspondent.
51JESSIE BRUCE LOCKHART,
5217 Brinkerhoff street.
54Marie Hall's Program.
56MARIE MALL, the English violinist, is to play concertos by Tschaikowsky and Paganini and the "Rondo Capriccioso" by Saint-Saens at her New York debut in Carnegie Hall, Wednesday evening, November 8. It was in these works that Miss Hall made her memorable debut in London in 1903. The young artist will sail for this country with her suite October 28, and the party is expected to arrive at this port November 5. Miss Hall is now making an extended tour of Great Britain.
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