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Musical Courier 1905-11-29: Vol 51 Iss 1340, 1905
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1PHILADELPHIA.
2PHILADELPHIA, November 24, 1905.
4THE Philadelphia Orchestra at its fifth rehearsal and symphony concert of the season, gave the most enjoyable concerts with Jean Gerardy, the violoncellist. The program was:
5Symphony, Rustic Wedding op. 26………….Carl Goldmark
6Wedding March—Variations.
7Bridal Song—Intermezzo.
8Serenade—Scherzo.
9In the Garden—Andante.
10Dance—Finale.
11Symphonic Variations for Violoncello and Orchestra…L. Boellmann
12Jean Gerardy.
13Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Tone Poem, op. 24……………………………Richard Strauss
15The symphony of Goldmark is a remarkable example of romantic music, and unusually well orchestrated. The orchestra was in perfect shape; in fact, it has not played so well before this season. The final number on the program was the Richard Strauss tone poem, exquisitely done, especially in the largo, the harpist doing exceptionally good work.
17Gerardy once more proved himself the great artist that he is. In his clever reading of the "Variations" of Boellmann he certainly is one of the most satisfying violoncellists of the day.
19Gerardy played on a Stradivarius, which he bought from George Hart, the celebrated London dealer, for $10,000.
21The Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first out of town concert in Wilmington at the Grand Opera House on Thursday evening, November 23. The Delawareans crowded into the Opera House and offered as high as $2.50 a ticket before the concert began. The symphony was the fourth by Tchaikowsky. Alfred Saul, the leader of the 'cellos, was the soloist, and the reception he received proved his merit and delighted the orchestra men. His numbers were the "Elegie," by Van Goens, and the showy "Gavotte" of Popper. As an encore he played a "Cradle Song" with muted strings that brought the house to its feet. The orchestra's other numbers were: "Evening Song" of Schumann's for strings only; the scherzo from "Midsummer Night's Dream," and the "Overture to Tannhäuser." A number of the orchestra's friends went to Wilmington with them to hear them play.
23Calvé's appearance in concert last Saturday afternoon at the Academy of Music was a noted musical event. Calvé was Calvé, and will always be the great Calvé to her Philadelphia admirers, whether she sings with a flute accompaniment, a piano accompaniment or an orchestral one. Alas! that we cannot hear her this season in opera as Marguerite and Carmen.
25The Junger Maennerchor gave a most creditable concert at their large and beautiful hall last Sunday evening. Koemmenich is a wonder with the results that he gained from a small orchestra of sixteen strings. The soloists of the evening were Dora Fillipe, soprano, from the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco, and Charlotte Sissler, pianist.
27The third of the series of chamber concerts that are being given at Acorn Club by Selden Miller, pianist, and Charlton Murphy, violinist, Tuesday mornings, will be held this week. The program includes sonatas of Beethoven, Gade and Vincent d'Indy. These concerts have grown in interest, and it is hoped another series will shortly be arranged.
29The soloists have been announced for the concerts by the Philadelphia Choral Society under the direction of Henry Gordon Thunder. December 27 "The Messiah" will be sung, with Anita Rio, Kirkby Lunn, Charles Fremantel and Herbert Witherspoon as the soloists. February 15, "Israel in Egypt," with Mrs. Zimmerman, Katherine Fiske and Ellison van Hoose; April 18, "Elijah," with Anita Rio, Gertrude May Stein, W. H. Pagdin and Giuseppe Campanari. As usual, the society has gone to New York for their artists.
31Katherine Bloodgood Kipp, the well known contralto, is in Philadelphia after a sojourn of a year in Panama, and is the guest of Eleanor Mayo Elverson. Mrs. Kipp, as she wishes now to be known, will shortly start her season of the vaudeville circuits, her first engagement being Christmas Day in Pittsburg. Her voice is more beautiful than ever and she is now working hard every day with Edith Mahon, the celebrated Philadelphia accompanist, to get up a fresh repertory.
33Tuesday evening of this week, at the South Broad Street Theatre, Louis C. Elson will give the second of the lecture concerts under the auspices of the Philadelphia Orchestra committee. The subject will be "Program Music and Its Development."
35The Manuscript Society met at the Orpheus Club rooms on Wednesday evening, when some interesting numbers were given by the different members.
37Chief in interest was the playing of his recent compositions by Constantin von Sternberg—a prelude, bourée, impromptu, and "Caprice Hippique" (Peters Edition) that he composed while on his annual automobile trip with Josef Hofmann last summer. The "Caprice Hippique" is a unique piece of writing, with a swing to it that is irresistible. Others who performed were Phillip Goep, with his lullaby, Rollo Maitland and his romance. A march by Frederick Hahn for string orchestra gained him much applause. A suite for piano and violin was played by Frederick Hahn and Ellis Clark Hammann and composed by W. W. Gilchrist.
39The American Guild of Organists began their twelfth season last Saturday evening at St. Andrew's Church. The choir sang a most difficult "Magnificat," written by S. Tudor Strang, the organist of the church, and performed by his chorus choir. S. Archer Gibson, of New York, and Frederick Maxson were the organists of the occasion.
41Saturday evening of this week will be given at Horticultural Hall for the benefit of the University Hospital. The soloists will be Florence Hinckle and Mrs. James Elverson, sopranos; Charles Fremantel, tenor; William Beatty, basso, and Edith Mahon at the piano.
43William Sherwood, the celebrated pianist and teacher, will give a piano recital at Griffith Hall, on Monday evening, the 27th, in the interests of teachers and students. It is not generally known, but Sherwood was the first pianist to play the Grieg concerto in this country with the late Theodore Thomas in New York, and was also the first soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under George Henschel.
45Following is the program that Mr. Sherwood will play:
46Fantasie in C minor………………………………………Bach
47Gigue in G minor………………………………………Mozart
48Prelude from Etudes Poesies……………………………Haberhier
49Organ Fugue in D………………………………………Guilmant
50(Arranged for the piano by Julie Rive-King.)
51Dedicated to Mr. Sherwood.
52Chorus of Dancing Dervishes (from Ruins of Athens), Beethoven-Saint-Saëns
53Maiden's Wish (Polish Song)………………………….Chopin
54Arranged by Liszt.
55Prelude in B flat minor, op. 28, No. 16………………Chopin
56Barcarolle, op. 60………………………………………Chopin
57Etude, op. 60, No. 11, Arpeggio Chords…………….Chopin one of two readings
58Etude, op. 60, No. 11, Arpeggio Chords………………Chopin one of two readings
59Rhapsodie, op. 79, No. 2…………………………….Brahms
60Ethelinda, op. 14, No. 2……………………………..Sherwood
61Soirée de Vienne, No. 6……………………………..Schubert-Liszt
62Maestoso, Semper Energico……………………………Schumann
63From Fantasie in C, op. 17……………………………
64Staccato Etude, op. 43………………………………..Rubinstein
65Dialogue, op. 72………………………………………Tchaikowsky
66Märchen (Fairy Tale), op. 167………………………..Raff one of two readings
67Märchen (Fairy Tale), op. 167…………………………Raff one of two readings
68March from Suite, op. 91……………………………..Raff
70The Tuesday Matinee Club has started in for its twelfth winter's work under the direction of Mrs. E. M. Burgin, president, who has held the office since the inauguration of the club. The club went into the Federation last spring, Mrs. Burgin and one of the members going to Denver, Colo., to attend the meeting there. They were charmed at the reception that they received from the Western clubs. The Tuesday Matinee Club, which numbers 120 members, will entertain the Federation of Musical Clubs in 1909.
72FRANCES GRAFF SIME
74Janpolski as Abraham.
76DECEMBER 7 the Harlem Oratorio Society is to give Molique's "Abraham" under the direction of A. Y. Cornell at Calvary M. E. Church, and Mr. Janpolski has been specially engaged to sing the title part, this being the first complete performance of the work in New York. It is melodious, the part of Abraham being on the order of Mendelssohn's "Elijah."
78Corinne Welsh, the contralto, is to be the soloist of the Mendelssohn Glee Club concert, directed by Frank Damrosch, in the Mendelssohn Hall, December 5.
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