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Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907
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1in London, where the pianist will play at a number of concerts. He will go to Wilhelmshöhe, near Cassel, for July and August.
3Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Goodrich have a summer class for serious music students, at Carvel Court. After the term these musicians may go to their summer home on Lake George.
5Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holden Huss, who own a cottage at Lake George, will doubtless pass a part of their "resting" weeks in this picturesque spot.
7William C. Carl will not be able to settle upon his summer travels until after the commencement of the Guilman Organ School the first week in June.
9Frederic Martin is making a tour in the West.
11Anna E. Ziegler, president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, may go to the mountains after she closes her New York studio.
13THE MUSICAL COURIER will be glad to hear from all its readers who have decided upon their programs for the summer months.
15A new-born python at the Bronx Zoo has been called Salome, a circumstance which suggests considerable sly humor on the part of the keepers there.
17EMIL PAUR sailed for Europe yesterday, May 7. It is said that he will engage abroad the new concertmaster and first cellist for the Pittsburgh Orchestra as well as some of the lesser players. The Pittsburgh Musical Union does not view the prospect with favor.
19FRITZI SCHEFF, Farrar, Scotti and Fremstad sailed for Europe last Thursday on the Lorraine. Weed, Burgstaller and Goritz departed yesterday (May 7) on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Sembrich will leave May 14 aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Calvé left on May 2 by the Pannonia.
21The kind words printed in "Variations" two weeks ago about skylarks, thrushes, roundelay, sunshine, boat rides and decoy verdure are here-with recalled until the North blast stops blowing and the frost melts from the window panes. The "spring songs" sent here for review last week will be returned to the composers with contumely.
23VIENNA is a "wide open" town, but it is doubtful if the Männerchor from the Austrian capital now visiting New York ever saw anything to approach the marvels of Coney Island. Tonight (Wednesday) the United Singers of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Newark, Hudson County, N. J., and Long Island City are to entertain the Austrian guests at Luna Park. No one will venture to predict the quantity of liquid refreshment that will be consumed at this unique jollification between twilight and morning.
25Musical anniversaries for the second week in May: 9th, Giovanni Paisello, born in Tarento, Italy, 1741; Julius Rontgen, born in Leipsic, in 1855; Dietrich Buxtehude, died in Lübeck, in 1707; 10th, Claude-Joseph Rouget de L'Isle, born in Montaigne, in 1760; Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, died in Kannstadt, in 1869; Ferdinand von Hiller, died in Cologne, in 1885; 11th, Alexander Nicolai Seroff, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1820; Kaspar Fürstenau, died in Oldenburg, in 1819; Otto Nicolai, died in Berlin, in 1849; 12th, Adolf von Henselt, born in Schwaback, Bavaria, in 1821; Jules Emile Frédéric Massenet, born in Montaud, in 1842; Bedrich Smetana, died in Prague, in 1884; 13th, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, born in London, in 1842; John Sullivan Dwight, born in Boston, in 1813; Paul V. Klengel, born in Leipsic, in 1854; Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, died in Paris, in 1871; Herman Levi, died in Munich, in 1900; 14th, Johan Fedor Emil Hartmann, born in Copenhagen, in 1805; Beethoven completed his seventh symphony, in 1812; Alphons Czibulka, born in Szepes-Varallya, Hungary, in 1842; Ferdinand Beyer, died in Mayence, in 1863; 15th, Claudio Monteverde, born in Cremona, in 1567; Michael William Balfe, born in Dublin, in 1808; Stephen Heller, born in Pesth, in 1814; Giovanni Croce, died in Venice, in 1609.
27"Salome" in Paris.
28(By Cable.)
29PARIS, May 7, 1907.
31To The Musical Courier:
32"Salome" was a real and overpowering success in Paris at the first production last night. House sold out. Strauss and Destinn given sensational ovation.
33B.
35OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN sailed for Europe yesterday, May 7, on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
37The following news item was published recently by a London newspaper, without comment or emotion: "Mr. Ebenezer Clark, of Colchester, went home after attending a concert and hanged himself in the dining room." The fact that this can happen in England shows that Landon Ronald's lecture not long ago, "Is England Musical?" could be answered affirmatively. At any rate, the suicide, being after the concert, was not preconcerted. But why in the dining room? And whose concert was it, and what the music played there? These questions must be answered before anything more can be said on the subject now.
39An article that appeared some weeks ago in the Chicago Inter Ocean, discussing a question of piano technics, raised the following point: "In the musical world it is not uncommon for the man who steals the ideas of another to go unpunished." Oh, no, not at all. A jury is very apt to award money damages to him if he sees fit to sue where he can get money. We have heard of such cases. We have never heard of any punishment for the practice. Look at old Handel. He took the ideas of others as a winegrower snatches grapes—by the bunch—and yet he is not yet punished, and never will be, and had this paper been published then and said so; no doubt, notwithstanding the truth of the utterance, a jury would have awarded him thousands of dollars as damages to his wounded feelings. Look at the hundreds of cases of actual bodily musical thefts and no punishments dreamed of. Does any one suppose that a newspaper can afford, after experiences such as this paper has had, to assume judgment on a question of that nature? Why, the pirates would get money to boot, and it is our opinion that the very article in the Chicago Inter Ocean from which we quote gives to the musician referred to as a pirate a fine opportunity to sue for libel, which no doubt he will avail himself of, as he can collect the money. It is seldom that a musical pirate gets punished; it is in the interests of the pirates that he should escape, and, more than that, that he should be paid in the bargain for being called a pirate.
41Leipsic Notes.
42Though Leipsic has but one conservatory, there are many private music schools in the city, generally termed music institutes. The Julius Nestler Institute, established 1878, is among the oldest and largest of these private schools. At the exercises closing the school year in March, three student programs were given on successive evenings. These programs were given in the concert hall of the Bonorand, and a total of thirty-two students took part. There was no orchestra to accompany in the concertos, but these parts were played on second piano, supported by a string quartet.
44The first program brought forth only easier teaching compositions for various instruments, played by fifteen students. The second program also contained much easy teaching music, movements from easy violin concertos, piano sonatas by Haydn and Mozart, also movements from a Mozart piano concerto. The third program brought the Beethoven E flat and movements from the Mendelssohn D minor piano concertos, parts of a Vivaldi concerto for three violins, the Vieuxtemps ballade and polonaise and the second concerto, besides songs and arias. The pupil nomenclature represented Johanna Neumann, Else Oehme, Hans Zimmermann, Wilhelm Schneidt, Fritz Sartorius, Siegfried Landau, Hans Herbold, Dora Fuhrmann, Auguste Bartenstein, Bernhard Bartfeld, Max Fischer, Leni Krieger, Hans and Theodor Valentiner, Eva Schröder, Erika Fischer, Johannes Flotow, Walter Bennewitz, Marguerite Lohse, Walter Richter, Otto Macht, Hans Gottschalk, Elisabeth Stellwagen, Alma Nicklisch, Margarethe Seyffarth, Gunther Bennecke, Georg Schopper, Curt Obst, Hans Riemann, Fritz Bunge, Gertrud Harassowitz and Gertrud Marx.
46The Leipziger Signale für die musikalische Welt, published by Bartholf Senff, has issued its volume for the year 1906 in book form. The year had brought seventy-seven numbers under the editorship of Dr. Detlef Schulz. The volume is carefully indexed with respect to the contents of each number and with respect to the new works reviewed, while an alphabetical list shows the names of composers whose works are reviewed. Among the mass of several hundred pages of material an occasional article may be found to have value for reference.
48The Leipsic mezzo-soprano, Elly Schellenberg Sacks, gave a recital of songs composed by her husband, Walde-mar Sacks, who played her accompaniments on this occasion. A number of the songs were composed to original texts. The entire program showed the composer possessed of a mind for melody, which is a tendency very much needed in the German song literature of today. These songs generally contained the plainest forms of counterpoint, yet considerable suggestion and invention in deference to phrases of the texts. But in looking for the melodious, the composer has in some instances approached dangerously near the popular, and only the general good taste of his works saves them from such a classification. Among the titles represented were: "Sehnsucht," "Der Sandmann," "Verborgene Liebe," "Hochzeitslied," "Nach dem Abschied," "Es ist ein Herz versunken," "Rococo" (MS.) and "Dämmerstunde," the last of which was probably as valuable as any on this program. A number of the songs were repeated in response to applause. E. E. S.
50An Interesting Song Recital.
51The little concert hall of the Institute of Musical Art overflowed with appreciative music lovers Saturday night of last week, the occasion being a song recital by Matja von Niessen-Stone, the distinguished singer and teacher. The program consisted of three parts. Part first was made up of a group of songs by Schubert; part second by eight songs, constituting the cycle, "Frauenliebe und Leben," op. 42, by Schumann, and part third, of four songs by Brahms. All of these were sung in German. Mme. von Niessen-Stone disclosed a very high artistic style. Her pronunciation and enunciation are above reproach, and her phrasing is excellent. She sings with correct expression and never strives after exaggerated effects. A most intelligent interpretator, she brings out the beauties of the songs she sings. The program afforded much variety and there was nothing monotonous about the recital.
53The accompaniments were skillfully played by Anna Lockwood. It was a delightful entertainment, keenly enjoyed by all.
55Birdice Blye's Engagements.
56Birdice Blye will give a piano recital before the biennial meeting of the Federation of Musical Clubs, at Memphis, May 11. She will then fill engagements in the Middle West, returning to the South for some festivals in June. Mme. Blye will then go East for some recitals,
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