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Musical Courier 1907-03-20: Vol 54 Iss 12, 1907
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1PHILADELPHIA.
3PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 16, 1907.
5In the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion the final services over Fritz Scheel, late conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, were held this afternoon. The church, made fragrant by the mass of flowers, was crowded and there was scarcely a dry eye among the huge throng of people assembled to pay him tribute, as his orchestra, the men with whom he had been so constantly associated, began that noblest of all funeral marches, from the "Eroica."
7Two eulogies were delivered, one in English by the Rev. Mr. Sandt, and the other in German by the Rev. Adolph Spaeth. During the service the Orpheus Chorus sang Sullivan's "The Long Day Closes," and "Holy Peace," by Abt, while the French Horn Quartet played Mozart's "Ave Verum" at the final resting place, in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
9The honorary pallbearers included representatives from the executive committee, guarantors, business office, orchestra members, Philadelphia Symphony Society, Orpheus Club, Eurydice Chorus, Mendelssohn Club, Choral Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia newspapers and Philadelphia musicians.
11Charles Augustus Davis, business manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, announces that, with a few exceptions, the orchestra will next year be composed of the same members, and while there are several men under consideration to fill the vacant leader's chair, there has been nothing definitely arranged.
13The Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music, on account of its affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania, will tender the second of the series of concerts to the pupils of the music department of the University and the pupils of the Conservatory, in Houston Hall, Wednesday evening. The concert will be given by the Pupil's Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory, under the direction of Gilbert Raynolds Combs, assisted by Paul Volkmann, tenor, and Earle E. Beatty, pianist.
15Marie Kunkel Zimmerman is filling engagements in Ypsilanti, Mich., and in Toronto and Ottawa, Ont., Canada, as soloist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alexander von Fielitz, conductor. Following this, Mrs. Zimmerman will tour the West for ten weeks with the same organization, touching at San Francisco, Cal., and San Antonio, Tex.
17W. W. Gilchrist is supplying the place of the late Mr. Scheel as musical director of the Orpheus Club and Eurydice Chorus.
19Among the appointments of Henry Hotz the following may be noted: At St. Luke's Church, Germantown, in Dvorák's "Stabat Mater," on March 14, and on March 21 at Mercantile Hall, in the better known Rossini setting of this ancient hymn of the church.
21The spring concert of the Teachers' Chorus, under the direction of Helen Pulaski, will be given at the Academy of Music on April 12. The work to be produced is Saint-Saëns' "Night," preceded by a miscellaneous program by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
23Harold Mason and William Hatton Green will give an invitation piano recital by the pupils of the intermediate grade at their Leschetizky School of Piano Playing on March 20. This will be followed by one for the advanced players at the Acorn Club on the afternoon of March 27.
25The initial meeting of the Society of Arts and Letters was held on March 14 at the Plastic Club rooms. The aim of the society, which will meet bi-monthly, is to produce original work in the various arts. Men and women are eligible as members.
27Edward Shippen van Leer will sing several of Agnes Clune Quinlan's songs at next Wednesday's meeting of the Manuscript Society, of which Miss Quinlan has been recently elected a composer member.
29May Walters will be the soloist on Good Friday in Dudley Buck's "Story of the Cross" at Blockley Baptist Church. On April 4 Miss Walters is to sing Shakespearean songs in conjunction with Emily Krider Morris, reader, at the New Century Drawing Room, with Helen Pulaski at the piano. At the concert performance of "Aida," given by the Strabbridge & Clothier Chorus in the Academy of Music, on April 17, Miss Walters will sing the role of Amneris. She will also be heard in the same role in Stamford, Conn., on June 1.
31Henrietta Groeneveld, pianist, assisted by Ada McIntire, vocalist, gave a recital at the hall of the Philadelphia Musical Academy on March 14.
33Gertrude Peppercorn, Alexander Petschnikoff and Anton Hekking were the three stars who played in the Wanamaker store on Tuesday last in honor of Founder's Day of the American University of Applied Commerce.
35A talented Philadelphia girl who has been recently studying in Boston with Morawski, Sophye Barnard, will give a song recital at Musical Fund Hall on Wednesday evening, March 20, at which she will be assisted by Dorothy Johnstone, harpist; Mary Woodfield Fox, pianist; Mabel L. Stone, accompanist.
37A mixed choir is to sing the "Stabat Mater" next Sunday afternoon at St. James' Church, under Wassili Leps' direction, with Marie Nassau, Kathryn McGuckin Leigo, James A. Preston and William J. Ringeisen as soloists.
39At the Melody Club meeting on Tuesday evening last, Bertha Brinker, Agnes Morison, Noah H. Swayne and Charles F. Griffith were the vocalists heard, while Domenico Bove played two violin numbers, accompanied by Rollo F. Maitland. Miss Rossmässler and Mrs. White played the Saint-Saëns arrangement of the Beethoven theme for two pianos and the "Sakuntala" overture by Goldmark, arranged as quartet, was played by Mrs. Fitz-Maurice and the Misses Clark, Sutor and Beaver.
41LILIAN B. FITZ-MAURICE.
43NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.
45With a program devoted to Haydn and Beethoven, the New York Philharmonic Society closed its subscription series of concerts at Carnegie Hall, Friday afternoon and Saturday evening of last week. These were the numbers:
47Symphony, C minor, No. 9, B. & H………………………..Haydn
48Aria, With Verdure Clad, from The Creation…………….Haydn
49Corinne Rider-Kelsey.
50Scene and Aria, Ah perfido!……………………………Beethoven
51Corinne Rider-Kelsey.
52Symphony, No. 3, Eroica, E flat major, op. 55………….Beethoven
54The audience at both concerts taxed the capacity of the hall, and there was much enthusiasm showered upon Mr. Safonoff, the conductor, and Corinne Rider-Kelsey, the soloist. As before stated in THE MUSICAL COURIER, the first half of the program was arranged to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Haydn's birth. Weather conditions being favorable, the tone quality of the orchestra was unusually fine. Mr. Safonoff conducted both symphonies with every regard for detail and tradition, and thus the happiest results were obtained. Mrs. Kelsey's beautiful, sustained singing of the aria from "The Creation," an aria which no one has ever sung more beautifully, filled the listeners with rapture, and afforded for young students of vocal art a number of valuable lessons. In the "Ah, Perfido" aria, too, Mrs. Kelsey demonstrated also that shouting is not singing. In her delivery of this marvelous work of Beethoven the young soprano revealed the dramatic warmth demanded in the part, but her conception was wholly free from exaggeration. Two extra concerts are announced for Friday afternoon April 5, and Saturday evening, April 6, with Lhévinne as soloist, and this program: Symphony, "Pathétique," Tschaikowsky; piano concerto, E flat major, Rubinstein; overture, "Tannhäuser," Wagner. The program will be the same for both concerts.
56Lillia Snelling's Program.
58Lillia Snelling, the contralto, will sing an aria from Rossini's "Mitran," an aria from "Rienzi," classic and modern German Lieder and English songs, at her recital in Mendelssohn Hall, Friday evening next.
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