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Musical Courier 1907-03-20: Vol 54 Iss 12, 1907
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1CHICAGO, March 15, 1907.
3The twenty-third program of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra was as follows:
5Prelude, Choral and Fugue………………………………………Bach
6Serenade, op. 95…………………………………………………Reger
7Fantasia and Fugue, for Organ……………………………….Liszt
8Suite, Ruses d'Amour, op. 61…………………………………Glazounow
10The Reger "Serenade" received its first American performance at this concert, and much discussion pro and con as to its relative musical value is now on the tapis. Reger, who is at the present time a figure for much heated argument in Europe, will now, harmonically and thematically, receive his American vivisection, pari passu.
12Wilhelm Middelschulte, the soloist, was, as always, the masterly, distinguished musician who has conquered all the technical difficulties of his instrument, and whose style and knowledge of registration is not surpassed by any living organist.
14Ossip Gabrilowitsch will be the soloist on March 22-23.
15Francis Macmillen will be the soloist on March 29-30.
17The Melba concert at the Auditorium this afternoon was a great ovation for both Melba and Campanari, both artists receiving many recalls. Fifty-five members of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra assisted, under the direction of Sam Franko.
19Ossip Gabrilowitsch's recital at Music Hall, on March 10, was a veritable triumph for this great Russian pianist. Not alone is Gabrilowitsch a technician of the first order, but he is a poet, and his interpretations sing and relate the dramatic side of the compositions receiving their full significance. For beauty of tonal quality Gabrilowitsch has no peer, and the splendid Mason & Hamlin piano used by him was equal to all the demands of this most finished pianist.
21Ernesto Consolo, pianist, scored a great success at his première Chicago recital at Music Hall, March 13, in one of the most interesting programs of the season. The principal number of his program was the Brahms F minor sonata (op. 5). This is one of the chefs d'oeuvre among modern piano sonatas, and it takes a mighty master of technic and one endowed with temperament to interpret it. Mr. Consolo's great technic, virility, breadth of conception and tonal coloring made this number a veritable narrative that will live long in the memory of the many Brahmsite devotees noted in the audience. Mr. Consolo's other selections were Bach-Liszt prelude and fugue, in A minor; Scarlatti, gigue; Sgambati, intermezzo and preludio e fuga; Chopin, scherzo, B minor; Cyril Scott, "Solitude" and "Pierrot"; Weber-Tausig, "Invitation to the Valse."
23In the Sgambati preludio e fuga, a tremendously difficult number, this sterling artist was heard to great advantage. This interesting composition in the fuga represents the harmonization of the "Hymn of John the Baptist," the old melody used by Guido d'Arezzo in his system of Solmisation:
25Ut quacum laxis Resonare fibris,
26Mira gestorum Famuli tuorum,
27Solve pollutis Labii reatum.
28Sancte Joannes.
30It is wonderfully harmonized, of the "grand mood," brilliant and proved one of the most effective compositions heard here this season. The two numbers by Cyril Scott, the young English composer, were welcome novelties and received much applause.
32In the closing number, the Weber-Tausig "Invitation to the Valse," the infallibility of this splendid artist's technic in the sparkling scales and the broad bravura work was truly fascinating. Mr. Consolo was most enthusiastically received by a very representative audience and repeatedly recalled.
34JOHN B. MILLER ENGAGEMENTS.
36November 7—Musical, Chicago.
37November 9—Concert, Chicago.
38November 12—Concert, Janesville, Wis.
39November 14—Concert, Racine, Wis.
40November 23—Concert, Chicago.
41November 29—"Messiah," Des Moines, Iowa.
42December 1—Musical, Chicago.
43December 7—Musical, Chicago.
44December 14—Recital, Grinnell, Iowa.
45December 16—"Messiah," Grinnell, Iowa.
46December 19—Sacred Concert, Chicago.
47December 20—"Messiah," Evanston Musical Club.
48December 23—"Saint-Saëns' 'Noël,' Oak Park.
49December 25—"Messiah," Apollo Club, Chicago.
50December 27—"Messiah," Apollo Club, Chicago.
51December 29—Musical, Chicago.
52January 1—Musical, Chicago.
53January 2—Recital, Oak Park Club, Oak Park.
54January 5—Musical, Chicago.
55January 7—Recital, Amateur Musical Club, Chicago.
56January 9—Concert, Chicago.
57January 15—Concert, Oak Park Club, Oak Park.
58January 19—Recital, Chicago.
59January 22—Concert, Chicago.
60January 27—Musical, Winnetka, Ill.
61January 27—Sacred Concert, Chicago.
62February 3—Sacred Concert, Chicago.
63February 5—Recital, Highland Park Club.
64February 12—Chamber Concert, Racine, Wis.
65February 17—Sacred Concert, Chicago.
66February 21—Staba Mater, Denver, Col.
67February 26—Recital, Woman's Athletic Club, Chicago.
68March 2—Concert, Austin, Ill.
69March 7—Verdi "Requiem," Alton, Ill.
70March 9—Recital, St. Louis, Mo.
71March 10—Concert, South Shore Club, Chicago.
73The concert given at Orchestra Hall on Sunday, March 10, under the auspices of St. Ansgar's Danish Church, was very successful, artistically and financially. The program was given by Dr. Louis Falk, organist; Louise Harrison, contralto; Bernhard Listemann, violinist; Herman Devries, baritone; Frederik Nelson, pianist; Harriet M. Smulski, Enrico Tramonti and the Swedish Ladies' Quartet, composed of Bergliot Allrud, Ida Linn-Cooley, Stephanie Heden and Margaret Dahlstrom. Bernhard Listemann's playing of the Hubay Hungarian fantaisie displayed his marvelous knowledge and mastery of violin technic. Mr. Listemann was enthusiastically recalled after this number.
75Bohumir Kryl and his band will begin their annual spring festival tour April 4, at the Milwaukee Hippodrome. The tour embraces Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Detroit, Chicago (three weeks), Louisville, Ky.; Indianapolis, and closing at San Souci Park, Chicago, in September. Mr. Kryl has some well known names among his "first chairs," including Henkelman, oboe; Battler, flute; J. Nirella, clarinet; Kuchynka, contrabass; J. Chimera, trombone. Mr. Kryl is negotiating with several prominent vocalists for this tour.
77The American Violin School, Joseph Vilim, director, announces a faculty concert on March 30.
79Frederik Frederiksen will be the violin soloist at the concert to be given by the United Swedish Singing Societies at Orchestra Hall on March 24. Mr. Frederiksen will play two movements from the Wieniawski second concerto, the romance and finale; the berceuse, Slav, by Neruda, and "Elftantanz," Popper-Halir. Mr. Frederiksen will be accompanied by Mrs. Frederiksen. This concert promises to be one of the interesting events of the season. Besides several numbers by the United Singers, Anna Lundberg, the noted singer of Swedish national folksong, will sing several numbers. The proceeds of this concert will go to the fund for defraying expenses to the general biennial meeting of the Western branch of the United Swedish singing Societies, to be held at Moline, Ill., in July. John R. Ortengren will be the conductor in chief at the biennial meeting in July.
81W. L. Bush tendered a banquet to the faculty of the Bush Temple Conservatory on Wednesday, March 6.
83Mrs. Stacy Williams will give a course of lectures on voice building and tone production at Austin, Tex., in April, under the auspices of the Texas Ladies' Musical Club. On April 16 Mrs. Williams will give a song recital at the Austin Bush Temple Conservatory.
85Emma Drought is meeting with great success in placing the many professionals now on her books. Florence Hobson, contralto, and Virginia Graham, soprano, are to fill Chautauqua engagements through Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. W. C. Boulton, tenor, has been placed with the Gary
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