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Musical Courier 1905-11-29: Vol 51 Iss 1340, 1905
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1School, opposite Symphony Hall. He was to have begun this work last Tuesday, but could not, owing to some concert dates which interfered.
3The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play the second concert of the Cambridge series at Sanders Theatre, Harvard College, on Wednesday evening of the coming week, November 29. Alice Cole will be the assisting vocalist.
5The Boston Symphony Quartet will be heard in the second concert of the season at Jordan Hall, Boston, Monday evening, November 27. The assisting pianist will be Raoul Pugno, the French virtuoso, who will play, with Professor Willy Hess, César Franck's sonata for piano and violin.
7Ernest Sharpe, basso, who successfully introduced the songs of Max Reger for the first time before an American audience at his studio recital a few days since, will be heard next Wednesday afternoon in his third song recital of the season, when he will present a program of old Scotch metrical ballads translated from lute scores in the British Museum. Songs by Tchaikowsky will also be included in the afternoon function, and it is believed that some of the Scotch ballads and Tchaikowsky works will be given their initial hearing in America. Mr. Sharpe's delightfully interesting and cozy song recitals are given in his lovely studio in the Providence House, 74 Commonwealth avenue, Chestnut Hill.
9Friday afternoon, November 17, Alvah Glover Salmon gave a piano recital in Memorial Hall, Bangor, Me., which was attended by a large and fashionable audience, consisting of the prominent musical people of the city. Mr. Salmon is one of the established pianists of Boston, and his specializing along the line of exploiting Russian musical works has brought him into a unique and conspicuous place among the Boston musicians. In speaking of Mr. Salmon's Bangor recital herein mentioned, the Bangor Daily Commercial devoted two columns to a most laudatory criticism of the concert. A return engagement of this popular pianist has already been planned for Bangor. Mr. Salmon played a program of Russian compositions by Glinka, Cui, Stcherbatchoff, Arensky, Ivanoff, Balakireff, Borodin, Glazounoff, Moussorgsky, Scriabine and Rachmaninoff.
11Frank Morse, the vocal teacher in Steinert Hall, has about all that he can attend to this season in his busy studio. Mr. Morse has the following reports to furnish relative to some of his prominent pupils: Edward Orchard, bass, and Margaret Wither, soprano, appeared in a concert Friday evening, November 24, before the Yale football team and the Woodland Park Hotel guests at Auburndale, Mass. Frederick Hastings, baritone, assisted by Bertha Cushing Child, contralto, and Alice Siever Pulsifer, accompanist, will give a concert at Steinert Hall on the evening of December 7. Adele Okie made a very successful appearance as Serpolette in the "Chimes of Normandy," given in Jordan Hall last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings by the Boston Operatic Society. Mr. Morse has a right to feel pleased with the work being accomplished by his pupils.
13Chickering Hall had the "standing room" sign displayed this afternoon on the occasion of the fourth Sunday afternoon chamber concert of the 1905-06 season. The artists were George Proctor, pianist, and Gwilym Miles, baritone. The program was very excellent and the numbers were:
15Piano Solos—
16Prelude and Fugue in A minor ………………………………………Each-Liszt
17Pastorale ………………………………………………………………………….Scarlatti
18Capriccio ………………………………………………………………………….Scarlatti
19Preludes, B minor, B flat minor ………………………………………Chopin
20Etude ……………………………………………………………………………..Chopin
21Scherzo ………………………………………………………………………….Chopin
23Songs—
24Ich grolle nicht ………………………………………………………………Schumann
25Befreit ……………………………………………………………………………..Strauss
26Zueignung ……………………………………………………………………….Strauss
27The Vagabond ………………………………………………………………Ralph Vaughn Williams
28On the Way to Kew ………………………………………………………..Foote
29Molly Malone …………………………………………………………………..Old Irish
30My Native Land ………………………………………………………………Kaun
31Pilgrim's Song …………………………………………………………………Tchaikowsky
32Don Juan Serenade ………………………………………………………..Tchaikowsky
33Der Sieger ……………………………………………………………………..Kaun
35Piano Solos—
36Barcarolle ……………………………………………………………………….Rubinstein
37Rustic Dance …………………………………………………………………..Clayton Johns
38Spinning Song from Flying Dutchman …………………………..Wagner-Liszt
39Military March …………………………………………………………………Schubert-Tausig
41Miss Davis, pupil of Gertrude Franklin, of Boston, sang the following songs at a recital given recently at Mount Pleasant Institute, in Pennsylvania, where Miss Davis has charge of the music: Aria, "Lusinghe piu care" (Alexander-Handel); cycle, "Summertime" (Ronald); "Ecstasy" (Beach); "Polly Willis" (Arne); "Absent" (Metcalfe); "A Song of Thanksgiving" (Allitsen). Another pupil of Madame Franklin is Miss Salter, who recently gave a recital at the Petersburg (Va.) Women's College, where she is in charge of the vocal department.
43The sixth rehearsal and concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was rendered in Symphony Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, and Hugo Heermann was the violin soloist. The program was:
44Comedy Overture (first time) ……………………………………………..Busoni
45Concerto for Violin ………………………………………………………..Brahms
46Fantasia, The Devil's Serenade ………………………………………Loeffler
47Symphony in B flat, No. 1 ……………………………………………..Schumann
49Says Philip Hale in the Boston Herald, in relation to Hugo Heermann's performance: "Mr. Heermann delivered an eloquent plea in behalf of the violin concerto of Johannes Brahms, a work which, as played by highly respectable men of routine and by too ambitious young women, reminds one of a New England boiled dinner, it is for the most part so prosaic and so filling. Mr. Heermann played with a breadth and dignity, with a purity of tone and with a musical understanding that would have vitalized even a more laboriously manufactured composition."
51Caroline Gardner Clarke Bartlett announces a song recital to take place at her home on December 11. She will sing a group of songs by Arthur Foote, and will be accompanied by the composer. H. I. BENNETT.
53More Recitals by Reisenauer.
55ALFRED REISENAUER'S success with the New York Symphony Orchestra, and his still greater triumph on the occasion of his Carnegie Hall recital have prompted his manager, Loudon G. Charlton, to arrange a series of afternoon recitals at Mendelssohn Hall. The dates for these are January 2, 8 and 16.
57The esteem in which Reisenauer is held in his native Germany is indicated by the following excerpt from the Berliner Borsen-Zeitung:
59It is pleasant to note how unreservedly Alfred Reisenauer, the giant among pianists, is accorded the well deserved applause of the critical public. His last recital of this season consisted of a varied program, which he rendered in a manner altogether superb. He played, among other pieces, Beethoven's C major polonaise, which is rarely heard. The phrasing could not have been rendered with more expression or with more harmony. Not less delightful was his rendition of the G major rondo of Beethoven, which was, in its simplicity, perfectly charming.
61The Berliner Post is equally lavish in its praise:
62The gigantic program, said the Post critic, contained original compositions, among them the D major sonata and transcriptions of Liszt. Such a task could only be accomplished by an artist of the very first rank, like Reisenauer, with an involuble technic and an almost inexhaustible quantity of shadings, vast intelligence and perseverance. No one has an equally voluminous tone in the cantilena and in the octave passages and chords. His crescendos also are admirable; he selects them carefully, and leads them up to a perfection that cannot be equalled.
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