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Musical Courier 1906-06-13: Vol 52 Iss 1368, 1906
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1KANSAS CITY.
2KANSAS CITY, June 4, 1906.
4Mildred Langworthy gave her first recital since her return from New York in the auditorium of the University Building the evening of May 28, assisted by Virginia Bradley, pianist, and accompanied by Mrs. W. T. Johnson. The program follows:
6Polonaise, from Mignon ………………………………………Thomas
7Piano, Sonata, Quasi Una Fantasia, C sharp minor ……Beethoven one of two readings
8Piano, Sonata, Quasi Una Fantasia, C sharp minor …….Beethoven one of two readings
9Der Nussbaum …………………………………………………Schumann
10By Moonlight …………………………………………………Schumann
11Frühlingsnacht ……………………………………………….Schumann
12The Maids of Cadiz …………………………………………..Delibes
13Aria, from Herodiade ………………………………………Massenet
14Piano, Etude, op. 25, No. 2 ………………………………..Chopin one of two readings
15Piano, Etude, op. 25, No. 2 ……………………………….Chopin one of two readings
16Consolation …………………………………………………….Arensky
17Prelude, op. 28, No. 16 ………………………………………Chopin
18Nina ………………………………………………………..Pergolesi
19Caro Nome, from Rigoletto ……………………………Verdi
20When Celia Sings ……………………………………………..Moir
21June ………………………………………………………..Beach
22Miss Langworthy.
24Miss Bradley.
26Gertrude Concannon, pianist; Margaret Fowler, violinist, and Frederick Wallis, baritone, will give a concert in Coffeyville, Kan., on June 12, under the auspices of the Music Club.
28Lionel Gittelson, violinist, leaves this city July 1 to visit his home in New York.
30Jessie Claire Palmer, who has just returned from New York, will probably be heard in recital a little later in the summer.
32Pearl Collins, soprano, is now studying with Frederick Wallis.
34Maybelle Burrows has returned from a vacation of several weeks, spent in visiting in Little Rock, Ark.
36Minnie Merine, pianist, is now sharing the studio of Mrs. McKinney, in the Hoffman Building.
38Alfred Hubach is preparing for a pupils' piano recital June 14.
40The music lovers of Kansas City who were fortunate enough to hear W. H. Donley, the organist, of Indianapolis, who gave a recital here last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, are still enthusiastic in his praise.
42Josephine Rea leaves today for her home in Baker City, Ore., where she will take a long rest, part of the time in the mountains. She will return to this city October 1, and will take up her class again.
44There will be a benefit for the Women's and Children's Hospital on June 5 in the auditorium of the University Building, in which Allee Barbee, soprano; Marion Hartley, contralto; Dudley Eaton, tenor, and Edwin House, baritone, will take part, with Jennie Schultz at the piano.
46Peter Karsgaard, who has been violin instructor at the Liberty Ladies' College, Liberty, Mo., for the past two years, has just been engaged for the third year.
48Percy Hemus, baritone, of New York, who is going to give a series of recitals in this section of the country, assisted by Rudolf King at the piano, will give his first recital in the auditorium of the University Building the evening of June 15.
50Madeline Horyer, of Hutchinson, Kan., is in the city to study piano with Geneve Lichtenwalter.
52Mrs. Carl Busch has sent out invitations for the annual June concert of the Busch Pianists' Club, which will be given in the Casino the evening of June 7.
54Marion Elvira Jones, contralto, of Sedalia, Mo., is to have a musicale this evening at the home of S. B. Robertson, assisted by Mrs. E. C. White, pianist, and Margaret Fowler, violinist. Miss Jones recently returned from a three years' stay at the London Academy of Music. The institution honored her with an associate membership. She will also sing at the South Side Christian Church next Sunday.
56The first of 107 band concerts in the city parks was given this week. The concerts drew large crowds from the very first.
58Maude Rockwell, operatic soprano, who is now singing with Weil's Band in Chicago, is to be at Electric Park in this city next week.
60The Wyandotte Choral Society, of Kansas City, Kan., will sing the cantata "Hiawatha" next Thursday night in the Auditorium Hall, for the benefit of the associated charities.
62The Jo-Shipley Watson Piano School, of Emporia, Kan., will have a ten weeks' summer session.
64F. A. PARKER.
66Gertrude Peppercorn's Plans.
68The young English pianist, Gertrude Peppercorn, will make her second tour in the United States next season. There are appended some London press notices of her recent London successes:
70The second of these series of concerts took place on Monday night at the Aeolian Hall. The evening opened with Beethoven's sonata in A, for piano and 'cello, a spirited performance of which was given by Gertrude Peppercorn in conjunction with Hugo Becker, the second movement being especially noteworthy. For her solo Miss Peppercorn chose Chopin's "Fantasia," which she played with intense poetical feeling and true artistic refinement, while subsequently she was heard to great advantage in Liszt's "Liebestraum," and the same master's "Gnomenreigen."—Musical Standard, London.
72Gertrude Peppercorn gave a fine exhibition of her skill at Aeolian Hall on Saturday. She is one of the finest performers now before the public, possessing extraordinary technic, and her playing is invariably marked by earnestness and intellectuality which compel the attention of thoughtful admirers of the great masters. Her rendering, for instance, of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata was the best heard in London this season, and well deserved the hearty applause of the large audience.—Daily Chronicle, London.
74Gertrude Peppercorn, who gave a similar recital in Aeolian Hall at the same time, has long been deservedly esteemed as a pianist who rightly holds a high place among contemporary players of her sex. Her program—an interesting one and sufficiently varied—began with Tausig's transcription of Bach's toccata and fugue in D minor, and Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata, and ended with a group of Liszt's more attractive pieces—"Waldersauschen" and "Liebestraum," for example—and the terrific paraphrase by Pabst on airs from Tchaikowsky's "Eugene Onegin," while in between was a group of familiar pieces by Chopin, which included four of the studies and the ballade in A flat. At first Miss Peppercorn seemed slightly nervous, but later she played superbly, and made it easy to understand the reason for her successes on the Continent.—The Times, London.
76Gertrude Peppercorn's playing at her recital on Saturday fully displayed the gifts of this brilliant young artist, and quite justifies the great reputation she has gained at home and abroad. Her performance is convincing on account of an attractive personality, brilliant technic and a command of varied tone color. She evidently has a highly emotional temperament, which occasionally tempts her to be impetuous and forcible. Her rendering of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata was distinguished by breadth and sincerity.—London Standard.
78By the time Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto was reached, however, they were in more appreciative humor, and the enthusiastic applause was only what was to be expected after such a superb performance of this glorious work by both the orchestra and the brilliant young pianist, Gertrude Peppercorn, who essayed the solo part with such signal success. One could not desire to hear a more excellent interpretation of this great masterpiece, which makes so many and such varied demands upon the soloist intrepid enough to essay its performance. Miss Peppercorn plays not merely with most unfailing accuracy and with marked intelligence, but her execution is quite marvelous, while the rare attribute of power without apparent effort and with an entire absence of obtrusive mannerism, is here present and cannot but be appreciated. Later in the evening Miss Peppercorn played Chopin's prelude in A flat and Liszt's "Waldersauschen" so acceptably that the admiring audience clamored for more, and an encore piece was given.—Liverpool Courier.
80For her second piano recital at St. George's Hall yesterday afternoon, Gertrude Peppercorn selected for her principal works Beethoven's thirty-two variations in C minor and Chopin's sonata in B flat minor, op. 35, two compositions that demand almost opposed modes of treatment. This was manifestly perceived by the young artist, albeit more sympathy was shown with the Polish than with the German master. That this should be so was natural, for Chopin's music appeals with peculiar force to those whose summers are quickly counted. Equally consistent was it that Miss Peppercorn's reading of the sonata should make prominent the feminine rather than the masculine elements in the music; but that which, in consequence, the work lost in strength and depth of expression, it gained in charm, particularly in the beautiful melody that forms the central portion of the scherzo, which was played with true womanly tenderness. The earnestness of the reciter was most shown in her interpretation of the "Funeral March" movement. Miss Peppercorn's interpretation of this famous number was essentially reverent. The note of grief rang true in unaffected sincerity. Of smaller pieces may be mentioned an intermezzo in A by Brahms, and Saint-Saëns' "Etude en forme de Valse," the poetic dreaminess of the former being beautifully expressed, and the brilliant writing of the latter making plain Miss Peppercorn's executive command of the keyboard.—Daily Telegraph, London.
82Too high praise is hardly possible to give to Gertrude Peppercorn for her really splendid rendering of Rubinstein's piano concerto in D minor. Miss Peppercorn has long been a pianist of great promise. Now she has achieved much, and will, no doubt, go on to very much higher things. She fully deserves success alike for her ability and her artistic conscientiousness.—Globe, London.
84Eleanor de Cisneros at Covent Garden.
86Here follow some London press notices of the eminent contralto's singing:
88Madame de Cisneros gave a beautiful and moving interpretation of the Ortruda music; the long second act passed all too rapidly, leaving us deeply impressed with the possibilities of the part. The singing was worthy the best traditions of Covent Garden, and the acting had a high personal quality that sought and found a new aspect of Ortruda—one explanatory of much that the harsher interpretations leave incomprehensible.—Illustrated London News.
90As Azucena, Signora de Cisneros was seen quite at her best, and she was excellent both as a vocalist and as an actress.—Morning Advertiser.
92Signora de Cisneros created great enthusiasm by her exceedingly fine performance as Amneris.—St. James' Gazette.
94Signora de Cisneros, another artist who has won golden opinions, was forcibly dramatic and convincing as Amneris.—Morning Post.
96The Cassel Opera gave a "Ring" cycle end of May.
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