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Musical Courier 1905-11-29: Vol 51 Iss 1340, 1905
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3cluded in the choir anniversary were the prelude and fugue dedicated to Mr. Dickinson by Alexandre Guilmant, the Bach organ fugue in D, a Te Deum in C, dedicated to St. James choir by P. C. Lutkin; a Gloria Patri by Choirmaster Emeritus Smedley, a Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis in B flat, written by Mr. Lutkin for a diocesan choir festival in St. James Church, 1894; a Gloria Patri by the present assistant choirmaster, Ernest Sumner; a memorial anthem from Spohr's "Last Judgment," this being a number from the first service list, November, 1885; and a group of three pieces for organ, a Norwegian war rhapsody by Christian Sinding, a lullaby by Mr. Dickinson and the triumphal march by Dudley Buck, who was organist and choirmaster 1869-71. A very complete resumé of the work of former and present choir and musicians at the church was issued in commemoration of the time. The list included over 500 anthems by 191 composers and twenty-five complete oratorios. Gaul's "Passion Music" was first given in America by this choir in 1887, and Stainer's "Crucifixion" had also its first American presentation here in April, 1889.
5The young pianist, Helen Barton Kennedy, a pupil of the Crosby Adams school, played a recital November 21 in the Blue Parlor of Handel Hall. Her program had many good selections, the first and second movements of the Mendelssohn G minor concerto being first in importance. Four numbers from the Haberber "Poetical Studies" were also in the list. In conjunction with the violinist, Ethel K. Holladay, and 'cellist, Hans Hess, Miss Kennedy also played the first movement of the G minor piano trio by Arthur Foote. Miss Kennedy played always with good taste and kept a tone of warmth throughout. When she gets her development of temperament along with the growth of technic, she will give great pleasure, as her work is now entitled to respect. The playing of the trio was enjoyably accomplished by the three young performers.
7Mrs. Adams has just published, by the Clayton F. Summy Company, "Twenty Christmas Time Songs and Carols," composed to text by Edith Hope Kinney. The selections are classified for Christmas Eve, songs for the night watches, the Christmas song of the ages, and for Christmas morning and Christmas day. The music is well suited to its respective purposes, and some of the numbers are especially characteristic, as the piano number entitled, "Circling the Tree." Mrs. Adams has also compiled a "Little Talk About Christmas Verses and Carols," which is published by her husband, Crosby Adams, as a pamphlet of twenty pages. The pamphlet comments on carols of various origin and quotes liberally from them.
9Pupils of the Columbia School of Music gave a recital Saturday afternoon in Cable Hall. The vocalists, Grace G. Humphreys and Virginia G. Estill, and pianists, Belle Hallanger, Rudolph Lawton and Anna Chinlund, participated. Mr. Lawton's playing of the first movement of the Tchaikowsky B flat minor concerto was mentioned in a recent report. Miss Hallanger, who played the Grieg sonata, opus 7, and pieces by Chopin, is one of the talented young pianists whose work is beginning to earn attention. Miss Chinlund, who played the E minor nocturne and the d'Albert scherzo, is another who has already established a fine school and is playing enjoyably. Mrs. Dickinson's art lecture for the school, November 20, continued the critical discussion of the art of the Renaissance, and gave views of Giotto's series, the "Life of St. Francis." Concluding, she spoke of the renaissance in song, mentioning "St. Francis' Hymn to the Sun," Giovanna da Verona's "Heaven and Hell," the "Dance of Death," and the various versions of the "Stabat Mater."
11The F. Wight Neumann announcements for early appearances are the song recital by David Bispham in Music Hall, Sunday afternoon, December 3; the only appearance of Madame Calvé and her company, in the Auditorium, Saturday afternoon, December 9; and on Sunday afternoon, December 10, at Music Hall, the recital of Rudolph Ganz. Mr. Bispham's program of twenty-one songs represents but seven composers: Schubert, Loewe, Clara Schumann (three), one each by H. H. Wetzler, Arthur Foote and Charles Gounod, and ten by Eleanor Everest Freer. The first five by Mrs. Freer, entitled "Songs of Nature," are new. The other five are settings of Austin Dobson's poems, "Rose Leaves."
13The pianist, Marx F. Oberndorfer, and the bass-baritone, David Hantsch Grosch, gave a recital in Bradbury recital hall Friday evening, November 24. There was no sonata nor aria, but miscellaneous selections from many composers. A piano etude by A. Oberndorfer was among the new material given.
15A number of other impending concerts are as follows:
17Three twilight musicales on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, at the Virginia Hotel. The first is a recital, December 3, by George Hamlin. The second, December 10, by the Bruno Steindel Trio and Ada Adams; the third, December 17, by Mrs. Fred Upham and Chris Anderson.
19Marie Edwards will be presented by Jeannette Durno-Collins in a piano recital in Cable Hall, December 7. The Schumann G minor sonata, and Mendelssohn, Chopin, Moszkowski, Schuett and Liszt compositions will be played. The violinist, Max I. Fischel, and the soprano, Florence M. Butler, will assist.
21The distinguished piano virtuoso, Brahms van den Berg, now a resident of Cincinnati, will play a recital in Music Hall, December 12, when he will present a most ambitious program of compositions.
23Younger pupils of the Walter Spry Piano School will give a recital in Cable Hall, Saturday afternoon, December 2.
25THE PERSISTENT INTERVIEWER.
27Alfred D. Shaw's Engagements.
29The tenor, Alfred D. Shaw, who is coming more and more into prominence in the West, is singing December 5 at Fond du Lac, in a production of "St. John's Eve." He is also engaged to sing in "The Messiah" at Dallas, Tex., December 28, and with the Chicago Apollo Club, February 12.
31Garnett Hedge in Oratorio.
33The tenor, Garnett Hedge, has been engaged to sing December 12 in a performance of "The Messiah," to be given by the Beloit College Choral Club, under Ray Tyler. On December 14 he will sing in another performance of the same work at Tabor, Ia., by the Tabor Oratorio Society, under George L. Pierce.
35Glenn Dillard Gunn at Indianapolis.
37Glenn Dillard Gunn recently played at Indianapolis under the auspices of the Männerchor. Press notices on his work were as follows:
39Mr. Gunn, a Chicago pianist, played here for the first time. He displayed splendid technic, independent conception, style and convincing individuality. A large audience received his efforts with great applause.—Indianapolis Sentinel.
41With the engagement of the piano virtuoso, Glenn Dillard Gunn, the Männerchor made a fortunate choice. In his selections, the etudes, Nos. 1 and 2, op. 25, and the B minor scherzo by Chopin, as well as in the superb performance of a Liszt second balade, he showed that he had attained to complete mastery.—Täglicher Tageblatt.
43Miss Westervelt's Recital in Davenport.
45The soprano, Louise St. John Westervelt, gave a recital November 17, at Davenport, when she had the assistance of the pianist, Henrietta Weber, and the reader, Anna Irene Larkin. Miss Westervelt's program was headed by the "Traviata" aria, "Ah Fors e Lui," and she sang songs by Berger, Wolf, Hahn, Bruneau, Massenet, Cowen and Liza Lehmann. The Davenport Democrat and Leader reported as follows:
47"Miss Westervelt was in very fine voice and sang with the artistic finish which always characterizes her work and gives her audiences such pleasure."
49A New MacDowell Movement.
51To The Musical Courier:
53A "MacDowell Club" has been formed in New York city with the following objects in view:
55The organization of an effort to study, faithfully interpret and promulgate the tendencies and ideals embodied in the compositions and known aesthetic convictions of Edward MacDowell. In the first instance, to meet on selected dates to hear performances of his compositions, as well as those of gifted composers with kindred aims and ideals whose works are not as yet widely known. In the second instance, to discuss the generic principles and vital motives of the correlated arts—music, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and criticism; a correlation felt, declared and championed by Mr. MacDowell. In the third instance, to arrange for and manage at least one annual public concert, soloists to be selected from the club membership if possible, and the proceeds to be held as a fund for the ultimate establishment of a permanent club home and for the promulgation of the arts.
57The following persons have signified their willingness to serve as an advisory board to the club:
59John W. Alexander, W. D. Howells,
60John Burroughs, Seth Low,
61Henry T. Finck, Robert Underwood Johnson,
62Daniel C. French, Frederick Macmonnies, one of two readings
63Daniel C. French, Frederick Macomnies, one of two readings
64Henry Fuller, William Mason,
65Philip Hale, Mrs. Howard Mansfield,
66Mrs. John L. Gardner, Charles McKim,
67Hamlin Garland, Emil Paur,
68Richard Watson Gilder, Wassily Safonoff,
69Lawrence Gilman, Augustus St. Gaudens,
70Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin, Templeton Strong,
71Henry L. Higginson, Owen Wister.
73The first regular meeting of the club will take place on Tuesday evening, December 5, in Room 708, Carnegie Hall.
75THE SECRETARY,
76Per G.
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