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Musical Courier 1905-11-29: Vol 51 Iss 1340, 1905
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1GREATER NEW YORK.
3New York, November 27, 1905.
5The American Academy of Dramatic Arts gave the first performance of the twenty-second year November 22, at the New Empire Theatre, four plays making up the program. Margaret Wise, in "The Piper's Play," was a very good Mrs. Burton, Frances Hare being of handsome appearance; they had good support. Norrie Laub, as Maud, in the second play, an altogether strong piece, simulated a homesick young woman who goes mad in the loneliness of the far West, and did it with unusual skill and naturalness. Lillian Newman and H. D. Benson shared honors in the depiction of East Side toughs, in "The Best Man Wins." Louisa Reed looked the sweet colonial maid, and Edward G. Longman has a fine speaking voice, of much promise. Others assisting in the casts were well up in both text and stage business, combining to give very enjoyable performances.
7Mabel Besthoff, Helen Sherman, Islay Macdonald, Marjorie Kilpatrick and Ethel Peckham were the young pianists associated in the American Institute of Applied Music recital November 24. Helen Todd and Miss Melville sang, and Elizabeth Chaskin played a violin solo. The recital rooms were well filled. Friday, December 1, from 4 to 5 p. m., Florence P. Houghton, pupil of Mary H. Gillies, pianist, and Marian Van Duyn, alto, unite in a recital at this institution.
9A musicale at the home of Mrs. Alex. Rosenthal, of 237 West 113th street, November 25, arranged by Leo Liebermann, had as artists of the occasion Mrs. McGuane, soprano, who sang Mrs. Beach's "Song of Love"; Margaret Keys, alto; Andreas Schneider, bass, who sang the prologue to "I Pagliacci"; Herr Mühlmann, of the opera, and Mr. Liebermann, who sang a group of songs by Schubert. A duet for tenor and soprano, "Le Souvenir," by Pinsuti, was an enjoyable feature, and Mrs. Rosenthal, the hostess, who has a fine alto voice, also sang.
11Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson, the Baltimore baritone, was the vocal soloist at the Aeolian concert of November 22. He sang Handel's "Why Do the Nations Rage" with splendid enunciation and fervor, and a love song by Mrs. Beach with sentiment. It was in "Danny Deever," that he celebrated his greatest triumph, for this he sings with a swing and temperament quite thrilling. He repeated it this year by request, having sung it last year in the same place. Hatton's "Bid Me to Live," that old fashioned English love song, was his encore song.
13A few interested listeners gathered at Nora Maynard Green's studio last week to hear May Nevin Smith, Mrs. Irving M. Pierson, sopranos, and Mrs. Ernest Farmer, alto, sing a few songs, and felt well repaid, for all three sing with much style and finish. Mrs. Smith's voice is brilliant, Mrs. Pierson has much sympathy and sings perfect German, while Mrs. Farmer's voice is noble, with plenty of temperament. All three have studied with Miss Green some years. Fanny M. Spencer played sympathetic accompaniments.
15Mary Henry, violinist, is attracting attention through her exceptionally good playing. At a recent concert she played the "Prize Song" with much expression and later Drdla's "Serenade" with dainty effect. Van Goen's "Scherzo" is also effective, as she plays it, her tone and technic well developed; she is a young artist of present attainment as well as future promise.
17Eva B. Deming's sight-reading lessons result in the singer gaining the ability to read the most difficult music with ease. Perfect intonation is attained through interval and chord study, and the system of dictation trains the ear so that music can be listened to with intelligence. Rhythm is developed and a perfect understanding of meter is gained. Difficult combinations of rhythm are mastered, the staff notation is presented at the outset, and learned so that students can read in all keys, major and minor, with freedom.
19Bessie Tudor, who is becoming known as a soprano of merit, sang in Dayton, Ohio, not long ago, when the Sunday Press of that city, said:
21Miss Tudor's soprano is clear, sweet and finely trained, and those who had never heard her before, except in recitals, were surprised at the facility and power with which she sang the difficult recitatives and solos of "The Messiah." Although so widely different in their characteristics, the sang "Rejoice Greatly," with its difficult runs, as well as the smooth legato air, "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth." Miss Tudor sang herself into the hearts of the Dayton people, and will always be welcome here.
23Abbie Clarkson Totten, the soprano, arranged a very successful concert at the Twenty-fourth Street M. E. Church, November 23, when the artists were: Madame Totten, Augusta O. Schnabel, pianist; Carl H. Tollesen, violinist, and Agnes S. Geer, reader. Madame Totten calls the above combination of artists "The Abbie Clarkson Totten Concert Company." Last month she gave a concert at Staten Island, and this week she has one at Grace Church, Port Richmond, S. I.
25Florence Gale, pianist, played at Dobb's Ferry last week, November 21, the Lotos Glee Club also taking part. She played pieces by Moszkowski and Liszt, and received warm appreciation and encores.
27Arthur Philips, the baritone, and conductor of the Amateur Glee Club, finds this a busy season. November 13 the club appeared at the Seawanahaka Yacht Club, and November 29 sings at the Knickerbocker Club, with Flora Finley, violinist, soloist. This week he gives a song recital at Northfield Seminary, as for nine years past at Thanksgiving time. December 9 he has a studio recital, and December 20 the Amateur Glee Club gives the first concert at Aeolian Hall, with Edward Johnson, tenor, soloist.
29At the Topping-Brown studios, where many leading voices are heard, a series of students' recitals will be inaugurated this season.
31Arthur Griffith-Hughes, the baritone, expects to sing at Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and arrive in New York about December 8.
33Henrietta Beebe, the most artistic and refined singer in her day, met with an accident some weeks ago, hurting herself severely by a fall. Her friends will be glad to know she has quite recovered, and although not busy as she would like to be, she looks well, seeing all things optimistically She deplors the modern rush and tendency to overdo or underdo all things. The sisters Frances and Grace Hoyt are perhaps her best known pupils.
35Eduardo Bosco, the 'cellist who was introduced here by Heinrich Meyn, played at Mrs. Gertrude Winthrop's November 28, F. W. Riesberg at the piano.
37F. Flaxington Harker, organist, formerly of Biltmore, and Mrs. Harker, contralto (née Edith Clarke, of Boston), are now located in Jersey City. Schirmer has recently issued several new anthems and a Christmas cantata, "The Star of Bethlehem," composed by Harker.
39Katharine Heath, soprano of the West End Presbyterian Church and of the Temple, Fifty-fifth street and Lexington avenue, is much admired. She has a voice of unusual color, has temperament and experience, and presents an attractive stage picture, of the tall, blonde type.
41Leo Liebermann's tenor solo, in Shelley's "The Soul Triumphant," a sacred cantata, text by Anne P. Field, is notable. The work will be heard at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Sunday evening next, December 3.
43Frank Miller began November 6 a series of organ recitals at the Washington Square M. E. Church, on West Fourth street. The others are to occur December 4, January 8 and February 5, Mondays, assisted by the solo singers of the choir.
45As the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ninety-sixth street and Central Park West, the music, under the direction of Charles Herbert Clarke, is attractive. The organ is one of the largest and best in the city.
47At the Wirtz Piano School there is to be a Beethoven evening next month.
49At the Church of the Divine Paternity, Seventy-sixth street and Central Park West (J. Warren Andrews, organist and director), Sunday evening, December 3, G. Garretti's "The Two Advents" is to be given. The Hackensack Republican of November 23 speaks in most flattering terms of Mr. Andrews' playing at the inauguration of the new organ.
51Olga Samaroff, pianist, will play at Harriet Ware's third and last musical morning, at Ardsley Hall, Saturday morning, December 2.
53Emma Carroll, soprano, assisted by Theodor A. Hoeck, pianist, is to give a recital at College Hall, Saturday, December 9, at 3.30 o'clock.
55Some of Louis Arthur Russell's pupils occupy prominent places as teachers, among them Florence Biechele, of Canton, Ohio, where she sings in church and concert also.
57Susan Douglas Edson announces a song recital in the Myrtle Room, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Saturday, December 2, at 4 o'clock. Liza Delhaze-Wicke, pianist, and Carolyn B. Taylor, accompanist, will assist.
59H. Loren Clements' choir gave Adam's harvest cantata, "The Rainbow of Peace," at the Elmhurst Reformed Church November 26.
61Il Conte Cavarossi, the Italian dramatic tenor, is a newcomer and has begun teaching in Carnegie Hall.
63Giuseppe Randegger gave a musicale November 22 at the Fosdick studio, assisted by a tenor and violinist.
65Karl Klein in London.
67The London Times has the following to say about the recent successful London debut of Karl Klein, violinist (son of Bruno Oscar Klein, of New York):
69Of Mr. Klein there can be no two opinions, to judge by his first performance. He is young and exuberant, and his playing is full of the exuberance of youth, and, as the works chosen for his first appearance here were Tchaikowsky's concerto, Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole," Bach's so called "Air," in Wilhelmj's transcription, and Wieniawski's polonaise, there was no reason why this quality should not be paramount. Mr. Klein has a fine, broad and round tone, a splendid technic and a rare warmth of style, and all of these, combined with his splendid freedom and infectious high spirits, make him an extremely interesting violinist. In fact, his manliness, even in Bach's "Air," which so often is made mawkish, and in the lovely "Canzonetta," from Tchaikowsky's concerto, was superb, and Mr. Klein quite carried his large audience away with him, and made a genuinely successful first appearance here. This in itself is something of a triumph, seeing that London has been almost overdone with "new" violinists these twelve months past. Mr. Klein, too, is to give a general recital, when a still better opportunity of judging his versatility will be afforded.
71The recital alluded to in the foregoing notice from the Times will offer the following interesting program. The date is December 11:
73Sonate, No. 2, B minor………………………………………B. O. Klein
74Parsifal Paraphrase………………………………………Wagner-Wilhelmj
75American Folk Song………………………………………Wilhelmj
76Dialogue…………………………………………………….Klein
77Scherzo, Tarantelle………………………………………Wieniawski
78Le Bavolet Flottant………………………………………Couperin
79Tambourin………………………………………………….Leclair
80Introduction, Theme and Variations…………………Paganini-Wilhelmj
81Othello, Fantasie…………………………………………..Ernst
83Edward Wilson, baritone, will give a song recital in the New York Institute of Music, 500 West End avenue, next Friday evening.
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