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Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907
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1studing in London, a contralto of good voice. Olga Alvita played some piano pieces and Master Lustig was the youthful violinist.
3N. Vert announces that he has arranged with the Société Internationale de Musique of Paris for the first appearance in England of Suzanne Morival, the young French prima donna, pupil of Jean de Reszké. Edouard de Reszké and other well known artists will appear in conjunction with Miss Morival. She is the possessor of a complimentary letter from her teacher, who also subscribes himself as her friend, and she is to be heard at many private as well as public functions during her stay in London.
5Vecsey will make his reappearance here on the afternoon of May 4, under the patronage of the Queen.
7Under the direction of T. Arthur Russell an evening concert was given at Aeolian Hall on Tuesday evening by Jessy Frankland, soprano. Miss Frankland sang "Nobil Signor," by Meyerbeer, and an air from "Samson and Delilah." She was assisted by Phyllis Castelle, contralto; Neils Gade, bass, and members of the London Euphonic Orchestra, under the direction of Alexander Benck.
9Vladimir de Pachmann, previous to his departure for America, is to play a Chopin recital at Queen's Hall, on the afternoon of May 8.
11There is to be a performance of the "Medea" of Euripides at the Botanical Theater, Cambridge, under the direction of Prof. Ernst Gardner. Maud Aldis is to compose the music for this performance.
13The Mozart Society, conducted by Herr Bonawitz, gave a concert at the Portman Rooms last Saturday. The feature of the occasion was a new quartet by Ada Petherick, for piano and strings. Mozart was represented by his quartet in E flat; and the program included pieces by Buononcini, Scarlatti, Locatelli and Chopin.
15The foundation stone of the new St. James Hall was laid on Saturday by the Lord Mayor in the presence of a large gathering. The speech of the Lord Mayor was in a vein that caused much laughter. Sir Thomas Brooke-Hitching, Mayor of Marylebone, proposed a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor and the sheriffs, to which the Lord Mayor returned thanks, and the ceremony was over.
17Norah Drewett has a tour booked for the autumn in the English provinces and it is expected that she will give some recitals in Germany next winter.
19A. T. King.
21Concerts of the Week.
23SUNDAY.
24Queen's Hall Orchestra, Albert Hall; London Symphony Orchestra, Queen's Hall; National Sunday League, Queen's Hall.
26MONDAY.
27Elena Gerhardt's recital for students; Eleanor Cleaver-Simon and Ingo Simon's song recital.
29TUESDAY.
30Concert for Lord Mayor's Cripples' Fund, Glenn Hall's vocal recital, matinee concert of the "Entente Cordiale," Portman Rooms; Adelina de Lara's concert, Jessie Frankland's concert.
32WEDNESDAY.
33Feilding Roselle's vocal recital, Grainger-Kerr's recital, Royal Amateur Orchestral Society, Queen's Hall; Else Gipser's piano recital, Lucy Murtagh's vocal recital, Batt Mills' vocal recital.
35THURSDAY.
36Marie Stark's vocal recital, Mary Layton's Ladies' Choir, Queen's Hall; Hilda Barnes' violin recital, Kate Brooks-Wood's vocal recital.
38FRIDAY.
39Sibyl Keymer's violin recital, Margaret Adela's vocal recital, Valerie Knoll's violin recital.
41SATURDAY.
42London Symphony Orchestra, Queen's Hall; Madame Halvorsen's song recital, Sylvia Hastings' song recital, Alexander Palace and Choral Society in Bach's D minor mass.
44Paris Admires Gottfried Galston.
46Gottfried Galston's first series of concerts in Paris have been a triumphant success for the young artist. A reverent lover of his art, Mr. Galston is also a pianistic poet! To interpret Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Brahms with unvarying skill in itself bespeaks an artist of uncommon gifts, and that he has done so may be seen from the criticisms of his performance which have appeared.
48Some press cuttings follow:
50Gottfried Galston's two first piano recitals given at the Agricultural Hall on March 2 and 6, brought him extraordinary success. Thanks to his wonderful interpretation, the artist completely hypnotized his large audience. He masters the instrument to the point of making it entirely disappear, his superb art only remaining in evidence. Technic, virtuosity, pianistic effects are not foremost with him; by degrees an atmosphere of beautiful sound pervades the hall and in these surroundings—self-created—the compositions interpreted assume a freshness, an aspect as of improvisation. On these occasions there was a rare feeling as of being present at the blossoming forth of the greatest works of Bach and Beethoven.—Le Guide Musical, Paris, March 17, 1907.
52Gottfried Galston, the great pianist, has achieved triumph after triumph during the course of the four recitals which he has just given, and which he has in turn devoted to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. The choice of the programs and the incomparable style and technic of the virtuoso astonished the numerous musicians and others who thronged to these highly artistic performances.—Le Gaulois, March 20, 1907.
54Gottfried Galston made his debut at the Figaro yesterday. Happy debut! Mr. Galston is of Hungarian origin. A pupil of the Vienna Conservatory, he made his first public appearance seven years ago, when twenty years of age, at Leipzig. From there he went to Australia and America where he made a great success, thence to England, returning to Germany some three years ago. A Parisian success was still lacking, but with his three recitals given in the Agricultural Hall, the young master has been received with an acclamation such as he could hardly wish surpassed. * * * Mr. Galston had a no less brilliant reception at the "Figaro five o'clock." In the interpretation of a Chopin prelude and polonaise he displayed a virtuosity and expression and fine sense of feeling which proclaim the master. Mr. Galston is a great artist.—Le Figaro, Paris, March 21, 1907.
56The Air Apparent.
58Tonic—What made Pluto let Eurydice go when he heard Orpheus' music?
59Dominant—Couldn't stand the strain, I suppose.—Yale Record.
61A WOMAN'S WEEK OF MUSIC IN BROOKLYN.
62BROOKLYN, May 6, 1907.
64Superfluous man was compelled to take a back seat in the musical happenings of the past week in Brooklyn. At the closing concert of the Brooklyn Institute, Thursday night, two song cycles by women were given—Grace Wassall's Shakespearean cycle and Liza Lehmann's "In a Persian Garden." As women, as a rule, neither sing tenor nor baritone, the institute was obliged to engage Theodore van Yorx and Francis Rogers for certain parts, allotted by the considerate composers to the male voice. Ruby Shotwell-Piper was the soprano and Alice Sovereign the contralto. A woman, Ethel Cave-Cole, was the assisting pianist. This music, now so familiar that no comment is required, was beautifully presented by these favorite concert vocalists.
66Electa Gifford, soprano, and Jessie Shay, pianist, co-operated at a recital in the Hanson Place Methodist Church on Tuesday night. The program, made up of many choice offerings, delighted the audience from first to last. Miss Shay's numbers included two of her own compositions—an "Arabesque" and "Moment Musical."
68Alice M. Judge, whose enthusiasm for music in the public schools amounts to a passion, directed a concert by middle grade seniors from Public School No. 15, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute. The assisting artists, both women, were Kate Lurch, contralto, and Bertha O'Reilly, pianist. The music was from the works of Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Silcher, Denza, Arne, Rodney, Gatty, Spross and Ronald.
70Madame Szmowska, from Boston, will assist at Alwin Schroeder's farewell tonight (Wednesday) at Association Hall, under the auspices of the institute.
72Herbert C. Corduan, George Hochsprung, Henry Klingenberg, Walter Haan and J. B. Heitmann, were the musicians who combined in the program for the Tonkünstler meeting last night (Tuesday). The works played were a sonata for piano and violin, in C minor, by Hans Huber, and a trio for piano, violin and cello, in F major, by Gouvy.
74FIDELIA.
76Concert by the Rochester Symphony Orchestra.
78Maud Lee Bissell, a resident pianist, and Watkin Mills, the English basso, where the soloists, at the last concert of the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, which took place at the Lyceum Theater, Rochester, N. Y., Monday evening, April 29. Mrs. Bissell played the first movement from Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto, and a group of pieces by Chopin, Liszt and Debussy. Mr. Mills sang favorites from his repertory—an aria from Gounod's "Queen of Sheba," and songs by Tchaikowsky, Franz and Chutsam. Both artists were highly commended by the Rochester press.
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