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Musical Courier 1907-03-20: Vol 54 Iss 12, 1907
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1BOSTON.
3The Handel and Haydn in a New Work.
5The Handel and Haydn Society will present "Belshazzar," Handel's oratorio, in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening, the 31st, with Emil Mollenhauer conducting, as usual.
7This, it is stated, is the first time this oratorio has been performed in America. The solo singers will be Evta Kleski-Bradbury, Isabelle Bouton, Emily Stuart Kellogg, George Hamlin and Watkin Mills. Mrs. Kellogg is the contralto soloist of St. Bartholomew's Church, in New York, and will be heard for the first time in this city.
9Choral Art Society's Final Concert.
11On account of Wallace Goodrich having been made the new conductor of the Cecilia Society for next season, the Choral Art organization, admirable as it is, must be suspended. This is regrettable. It has sustained the highest of standards in its programs, and the singers are splendidly trained. The program on Thursday evening, given at Trinity Church, included Lotti's "Crucifixus," Palestrina's "Stabat Mater Dolorosa," Allegri's psalm, "Miserere Mei, Domine," Parker's "Jam Sol Recedit," and motets by Victoria, Ecard, Schentz and Leising. In the psalm the alternate verses were intoned by Mr. Morowski. The Palestrina numbers were sung by two choirs. All of the works were unaccompanied. A program of ecclesiastical music, and one of high standard as that presented on Thursday evening, shows indeed the tendency of the musical age. To interest an audience, outside of regular church services—and this Wallace Goodrich has achieved with the programs of a religious order—means that music is on a good basis in this city. The singers showed excellent training, and it was with close interest the large audience sat through what might have otherwise proved a most tiresome evening.
13Katharine Goodson's Recital.
15Katharine Goodson again charmed a large and demonstrative crowd of representative musicians and laymen at Jordan Hall on Thursday afternoon. Her program included:
17Faschingsschwank aus Wien……………………………Schumann
18Allegro, Romanzo, Scherzino, Intermezzo, Finale.
19Nocturne, C minor………………………………………Chopin
20Mazurka, B minor………………………………………Chopin
21Ballade, A flat…………………………………………..Chopin
22Meditation (new; dedicated to Miss Goodson)……..Arthur Foote
23Etude, Espenlaub………………………………………Sauer
24Barcarolle……………………………………………….Rubinstein
25Etincelles……………………………………………….Moszkowski
26Valse Impromptu………………………………………Liszt
27Polonaise, E major……………………………………Liszt
29The numbers were alive with interest, as Madame Goodson invests each with a definite originality of interpretation, which is one of the secrets of her brilliant success. Arthur Foote's "Meditation," dedicated to this piquant artist by the composer, brought its due amount of applause from the large audience. Madame Goodson's technical attainments positively dazzle; her intelligence is always judicious and she is always and ever the true poet. Crowds of adoring friends and strangers flocked to the artist's room after the recital to congratulate Madame Goodson.
31The Eighteenth Symphony Concert.
33The eighteenth concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Muck, conductor, took place as usual, Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. The program was: Symphonic poem, "The Steppe," Noszkowski; symphonic poem, "Vysehrad," Smetana; dramatic overture, "Husitska," Dvorák; Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic," Tschaikowsky. The initial performance was given Noszkowski's symphonic poem in the form of an overture. "The Steppe," a most beautiful tone painting of a battle scene, was given an original and realistic treatment by Dr. Muck, and his reading of the "Pathetic" was thrillingly dramatic, and the entire concert was memorable for its fine and distinctive work.
35E. Russell Sanborn's Engagements.
37E. Russell Sanborn, the organist, has booked several important engagements through Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and other centers, and is at present on a concert tour. A Cleveland, Ohio, program for dedicating a large church there, where a magnificent four manual organ had been installed, had to be postponed or annulled for the present on account of conflicting dates in the East. Reports come from the West that in every instance where Mr. Sanborn is playing at present, return engagements are being solicited by the committees. Plans for a Western Coast series of concerts are being made for the early fall by Mr. Sanborn, who is strongly equipped for concert work, always having fresh and desirable programs ready for the public.
39Lucia Gale Barber's "Rhythm."
41An event of interest to fashionable and literary Boston is that of Lucia Gale Barber's afternoon of "Rhythm" at the Tuileries, on Commonwealth avenue, on April 2. This should, and doubtless will, attract music lovers also, as it pertains to the highest fundamental laws of music expressed in and by the body. Elmer Gates, Dr. Stanley Hall, Dr. Brodie Patterson and other equally representative men recognize Mrs. Barber as America's exponent of art in this particular line.
43BOSTON BREVITIES.
45B. J. Lang, as has been his custom for several seasons, is presenting Bach's "Passion Music" at King's Chapel vesper service during Lent. These services have always been attended with special interest, as Mr. Lang is the pioneer in this particular line of music in the East. His long term of activity in the leading events of Boston's musical life causes his pending retirement from the conductorship of the Cecilia to impress a wide circle of friends and pupils in this and other cities.
47Cecil Fanning, the young baritone, of Columbus, Ohio, is at present singing socially in and around Boston. At a recent drawing room musicale, promoted for the cause of charity, Mr. Fanning was heard by about 200 guests.
49A farewell concert by Alwin Schroeder, the 'cellist, so long associated with the Kneisel Quartet, assisted by his daughter Elfriede, is announced for April 23 in Chickering Hall, prior to his departure for Germany.
51Madame Samaroff, the pianist, played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Worcester last week with brilliant success. She has been entertained by Boston friends at various times through the winter season.
53Etta Edwards' advanced pupils will be heard on March 28 at a Waldorf-Astoria recital in New York.
55Elizabethan music is being essayed by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon for the production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle." A. M. Hurlin has the collecting and adapting of the music, his intention being to find the original tunes so far as they have been preserved.
57Katharine Ricker, contralto, sang for the Musical Club at Fall River, Mass., on Saturday afternoon. Timothee Adamowski and Max Zach also appeared on the program. Miss Ricker was heard to splendid advantage in a Saint-Saëns aria and songs by Chaminade, Haynes, and in a Von Fielitz cycle. She responded to an encore with Mrs. Beach's "The Year's at the Spring."
59A new children's opera, "Ganzita," has been written by Milo Benedict, of Concord, N. H., and will be given there by local talent soon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Benedict (Gladys Perkins Fogg) have been heard in Boston to advantage, the latter being a pupil for several years of Wilhelm Heinrich, the blind tenor.
61Clara Tippett's Portland pupils held a reunion on Tuesday evening at the Baxter Building, in that city, when they were given a thorough examination by Mrs. Tippert, who thinks that all pupils should be able to give and recognize a just criticism of singing; that criticism, to prove helpful, should be relative, and from two points of view. Invariably, instead of the usual destructive, fault finding squibs nowadays, and called by the novice "criticisms." Mrs. Tippett has frequent reunions of her large classes.
63The Amphion Club's program, given at Melrose, under the direction of E. Cutter, Jr., proved the best success of the season in that town. Part I consisted of a quartet, "Awake, Awake, 'Tis Morning" (Kirchle), and sung by Messrs. Fitz Gerald, Beal, Toby and Clark; an aria by Mozart, sung by Mr. Plançon, and a number of choruses interspersed by solos by Mrs. Cabot Morse, whose reputation is already known. Part II was made up of songs by Mr. Plançon and the male chorus, with Chadwick's "Ecce Jam Noctis," sung by the men with splendid spirit and tempo. It was a successful event.
65A recital of old French music by Arnold Dolmetsch, Mrs. Dolmetsch, Laura Kelsey, W. Adams and Madame Marius took place in Chickering Hall on the 12th. To hear old French tunes so well played and interpreted in song was an evening well spent, and Mr. Dolmetsch again demonstrated his wealth of information regarding old time instruments and their music. It was educative, instructive, interesting and artistic. Madame Marius has a way all her own, as far as inimitable interpretation of songs goes, but her vocal equipment belongs to the past. Nevertheless, it was a program of intense interest to all who attended.
67The Verdi Orchestral Club, John M. Flocoton, conductor, gave its annual concert at Chickering Hall. Marie Sundborg-Sundelius, soprano, and a pupil of Madame Franklin Salisbury and Olga Lyche, assisted.
69Maud Powell, the violinist, will give a recital in Steinert Hall on April 23.
71WYNA BLANCHE HUDSON.
73Katharine GOODSON
74The English Pianist
75Who has made her American Debut this Season will tour the United States in 1907-08
76ENGAGEMENTS NOW BOOKING, NOVEMBER, 1907, TO JANUARY, 1908
77Managers, Clubs and Musical Organizations are cordially invited to correspond with
78HENRY L. MASON, 492 Boylston Street, Boston
79Regarding Dates, Terms and all particulars
81I have known many artists in my life, many soloists, but the true musician-artists I can count on the fingers of one hand; d'Albert, Ysaye, Paderewski—to these I now add Miss Goodson.—Arthur Nikisch.
83In Miss Goodson the technical and interpretative qualities are balanced to an uncommon degree.—New York Times.
85From the very first phrase the performance was full of authority. There was a remarkable breadth and a display of wrist action such as rivaled d'Albert himself. The wildest applause and recall after recall followed.—Boston Daily Advertiser.
87Her performance was one of rare brilliance. She was recalled again and again.—Boston Herald.
89Dr. Muck smiled as though he enjoyed the storm of appreciation bestowed upon the English artist.—Boston Globe.
91She has a technique at her command which obeys her sovereign will as if it were a matter of course.—General Anzeiger, Dusseldorf.
93Throughout her performance of Schumann she showed a fine sense of tone color and artistic taste.—Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten.
95In everything there was revealed a highly developed and remarkable technical power combined with healthy musical feeling and finely educated taste.—Musikalische Wochenblatt.
97She has a rare power of emotional expression which never degenerates into affectation.—London Times.
99Miss Goodson is a young artist of remarkable temperament and her playing of Beethoven's great sonata in A flat was an astonishing performance.—Musical Courier.
101THE MASON AND HAMLIN PIANO AT ALL GOODSON CONCERTS.
103FELIX FOX
104PIANIST
105Address RICHARD NEWMAN
106Steinert Hall, Boston, Mass.
108HEINRICH GEBHARD
109PIANIST
110Direction: HENRY L. MASON
111493 Boylston St., Boston
112MASON & HAMLIN PIANO
114FAELTEN Pianoforte School
115CARL FAELTEN, Director
116Professional Training for Pianists and Music Teachers. Send for free booklet on the Faeltten System Tenth Season.
11730 Huntington Ave., Boston
119Frederick N. Waterman
120Baritone and Teacher of
121OPERA, ORATORIO, CONCERT, RECITAL
122VOICE
123PALMER SBRIGLIA METHOD
124Teacher of Winnifred Spaulding, Soprano with the Hap Ward Co.; Lillian Salmon, Soprano Kirk St. Church, Lowell, Mass.; Madam Geline, Contralto Universal Church, Lowell, Mass.; Selma Gibson, Instructor in Red Wing Seminary, Minnesota; Elizabeth Crawford, Soprano, Dallas, Texas; Norma Drexel and others.
125STUDIOS: Swan Bide., Lowell, Mass. PIERCE BUILDING, Better Exchange, Providence, R. I. BOSTON, MASS.
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