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Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907
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1MUSICAL PHILADELPHIA.
2PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 5, 1907.
4The song recital given by Mme. Adele Fabiani attracted a large and enthusiastic audience to Griffith Hall on Tuesday evening. Besides a strong dramatic sense, Mme. Fabiani possesses a flexible voice of very pleasing quality and is particularly happy in coloratura. As might be expected, she was at her best in the group of Italian songs. Her program included, as well, selections from German, English and French composers. Henry Gruhler, as piano soloist and accompanist, gained favorable comment, as did Vladimir Dubinsky, cellist.
6Before an audience that overflowed Witherspoon Hall, the students of the Von Sternberg School of Music gave a recital this afternoon which reflected much credit upon the instructors. A number of very promising pianists appeared, and Domenico Boré gave an excellent violin solo. The work of the string orchestra, under Mr. Hahn's direction was remarkable for ensemble and purity of tone.
8During April, S. Wesley Sears, organist and choir-master of St. Clement's Church, played at a number of recitals throughout the State, and has several more booked for May.
10Mary Smith, a pupil of W. Palmer Hoxie, gave a successful song recital at Griffith Hall last Monday evening. Katherine Rosenkranz and Frederick Hahn were the assisting artists.
12At the last meeting of the Melody Club, on Tuesday evening, Marie Zeckner sang a group of songs written by her brother, Camille Zeckner. Johan Grolle played a number of old Dutch folksongs and contra-dances. The other numbers included a quintet for piano and strings by César Franck, and some soprano solos by Mrs. W. H. Greene.
14The pupils of M. A. Groff will give a concert at Musical Fund Hall on Tuesday evening, May 14.
16W. Warren Shaw's song cycle, "Thomas Moore," was sung at the Majestic Hotel by sixteen voices on Tuesday evening.
18An analytical lecture on "Beethoven" was delivered by Philip H. Goep at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music on Wednesday evening.
20The Chaminade Club held its annual meeting on April 29 and elected the following officers for season of 1907-1908: Helen Pulaski, president; Susanne Dercum, vice president; Agnes Clune Quinlan, recording secretary; Mrs. S. Gittelson, corresponding secretary; Mrs. G. Loncheim, treasurer.
22A piano recital was given in Conservatory Hall on Tuesday evening, by Viola Jenny, assisted by Gertrude Landis, violinist, and Clarice Valletto, reader.
24The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind has issued invitations for a song recital by the pupils of Emma Suelke on Monday evening.
26The third public concert of the Chaminade Club will give an evening devoted to Philadelphia composers in Griffith Hall, Wednesday night, May 8. Works by Constantin von Sternberg, Louis Koemmerich, Ellis Clark Hammann, Clarence K. Bawden, M. van Gelder, W. W. Gilchrist, Agnes Clune Quinlan, Nicholas Douty and Edmund Schuecker. Longfellow's "Hiawatha," with incidental music by Frank G. Cauffman, will make up the second part of the program. one of two readings
27The third public concert of the Chaminade Club will give an evening devoted to Philadelphia composers in Griffith Hall, Wednesday night, May 8. Works by Constantin von Sternberg, Louis Koemmerich, Ellis Clark Hannmann, Clarence K. Bawden, M. van Gelder, W. W. Gilchrist, Agnes Clune Quinlan, Nicholas Douty and Edmund Schuecker. Longfellow's "Hiawatha," with incidental music by Frank G. Cauffman, will make up the second part of the program. one of two readings
29LILIAN B. FITZ-MAURICE
31Music Versus Farming.
33"Yes, I am now living on a farm. I am a Western born and reared man, which may account for my love of rural life, as I consider the Westerners generally nearer to nature than most of the American people," said John Crogan Manning, the Boston pianist and teacher, to a MUSICAL COURIER representative, after being asked as to the cause of his turning his spare thoughts toward farming. "Elmhurst," which Mr. Manning owns and has repaired to with his young family, is a beautiful farm of 60 fertile acres, thirty miles from Boston, in the Mansfield region, where limpid streams, a placid lake and fragrant pines prove ideal accessories to poultry, pigs, cows and horses, thus contributing to the artist's real home life after the several hours of teaching in his studios at Symphony Chambers, Boston.
35Mr. Manning was found in his garden, picturesque in blue "overalls" and straw sun hat, and on being approached by the representative, smiled and said: "If Ysaye can resort to country life, surely I may. It is a great recreation to me after teaching six hours in succession in Boston, and I tell you, I B flat after all of that until my train begins to sight the farm, where I feel ten years younger planting beans and digging in the earth. These pine groves—but can't you smell 'em?—furnish music in plenty when the breeze sets in. Oh, you ask what I think of Chopin? Why, as everybody knows who knows me, Chopin and farm life are kind of hobbies with me. I like them both," and the musician laughed heartily. "But, seriously, Chopin, in my opinion, should always be played alone—not in conjunction with other composers. He was the poet, and poetry cannot well be mixed with prose. Two years ago here in the East I gave twenty-five Chopin recitals for different musical clubs. I have played several times for the Harvard Musical Association, the Thursday Morning, the MacDowell, Chromatic, St. Botolph and Algonquin clubs, which are Boston organizations, as you know."
37"Do you endorse having many teachers?"
39"I certainly do. No one man has it all. I have had several excellent teachers in piano and from each I gathered ideas which have proved highly valuable assets in my work as a piano soloist, or ensemble player, as well as in my general teaching. There was MacDowell. As my teacher he was of tremendous benefit to me. His forte was in imparting enthusiasm. He was a most artistic reader. Carl Baerman gave me repose, and my sojourn in Paris with Isadore Philippe was one to be remembered. He made me individual, if you understand, and gave me rare ideas as to technic. I have not, as a friend once said, been baptized by Leschetizky. I came to Boston several years ago wholly unknown. Have I succeeded?" Here the artist-farmer stopped digging, coolly wiped his brow, smiled and said, "succeeded far beyond my expectations. From morning till night I am busy. Students have come to me from Maine to the Pacific Coast, and if you won't tell anybody, I've played in the same concert with Mmes. Melba, Blauvelt and Juch. Not that I mind—but, well, I don't want to use them as pulleys, for I must go on my own merit."
41"What organizations have you played with?"
43"Oh, I've always kept good company. The Kneisels honored me with invitations; also the Hoffmanns, and the old Boston String Quartet, in which was Fritz Gieze, called the finest of cellists. I gave some most successful concerts with Gieze. I have played with various members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, also with Prof. Willy Hess and Marie Nichols. I well recall playing the Saint-Saëns concerto in a special concert at old Music Hall with the Orchestra when Mollenhauer conducted. I hope I've grown a little since then. No, no, not in height—I'm 6 feet now—but in my art.
45"During the past season I had charge of the music department at Miss Chamberlayne's fashionable school, also Mrs. Delafield's, both of Boston, besides my private teaching. The coming autumn I shall tour for six weeks, and am booking engagements now. Here I have an ideal studio, as you see, overlooking the stream, and—listen to those pines, and listen to this," and the artist removed his big sombrero hat, sat down, blue overalls and all, and ran his fingers into the impromptu in F sharp minor, with which, somehow, the pines blended and sang. The Courier representative ere long bade good-bye to "Elmhurst" and its owner, thinking meanwhile, "the knowledge of music applies to farming as well. Why not?"
47Grienauer and Campanari Engaged.
49From Jacksonville, Fla., comes the news that Grienauer and Campanari will be the soloists of the great Southern Music Festival, to be held at Jacksonville in June. Grienauer has many enthusiastic admirers in Jacksonville, where he gave two recitals in February.
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