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Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907
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1Pittsburgh.
2Pittsburgh, Pa., May 2, 1907.
3Genevieve Wheat, contralto, gave a successful recital at the Hotel Schenley, May 1. Harry G. Stratton, pianist, assisted, and Elizabeth C. McNally played the singer's accompaniments. Miss Wheat has a beautiful, clear voice, under perfect control. She was heard in a well arranged program of songs and arias in Italian, German, French and English, by Secchi, Bach, Meyerbeer, Holmes, Wade, Whelpley, Ronald, and two Russian folksongs and an old French chanson.
5Great interest is displayed in the re-appearance of Fidelius Zitterhart, one of Pittsburgh's composers and pianists. After years of retirement, Mr. Zitterhart will be heard in joint concert with Autumn Hall, the young girl violinist, at the new lecture hall of the Carnegie Library Building, on May 10.
7One of the important concerts of this week was that given by the Pittsburgh Male Chorus, James Stephen Martin, musical director, on April 30. The club was assisted by Katherine Ellis, soprano; the Mendelssohn Trio, consisting of Franz Kohler, violinist; Fritz Goerner, cellist, and Carl Bernthaler, pianist; Carl Malchereck, violin; Jean de Backer, viola; Fred d'Angelo, oboe; Pasquale Pagano, clarinet; Carl Nusser, bassoon; Richard Klinitz, contrabass, and Harry W. Stratton, organist. The club soloists were David Stevens, tenor; D. J. George, baritone; C. Norman Hassler, baritone; John A. Hibbard, bass; J. Gordon Jones, bass, and F. R. Kunkel, bass. J. Harry Jones was the accompanist.
9Autumn Hall, the young girl violinist, who has made such a favorable impression throughout western Pennsylvania, was the principal soloist at a concert given in the Friendship Avenue Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening of this week. Curtis Clark, one of Pittsburgh's good bass singers, gave two groups of songs.
11A special piano recital was given before the Tuesday Musical Club, by Mr. and Mrs. Lhévinne in the auditorium of the German Club this afternoon. It seems almost unnecessary to add that the concert was a delight to the audience and was merely a renewal of the triumphs already won here this season by Mr. Lhévinne.
13The Apollo Club will give its third and last concert for this season at the Carnegie Institute of Music this evening. Herbert Witherspoon, the well known basso, will be the soloist. Ad. M. Foerster's "Song of May," written for and dedicated to the Apollo Club, will be sung for the first time in public on this occasion.
15The Mozart Club will close its season with a concert at the Carnegie Institute Hall of Music on Friday evening, May 10.
17E. L. W.
19New Orleans.
20New Orleans, May 1, 1907.
21Paul Bergé, at first a pupil of Mark Kaiser, the distinguished local teacher, and later of César Thomson, was heard in a very interesting recital last Monday at the Tulane Theater. The young violinist has every reason to feel pleased at the cordial reception given him. Eda Flotte, well and favorably known as a pianist, assisted Mr. Bergé.
23The Philharmonic Society of New Orleans, the new musical organization which has to its credit the engagements of the Adamowski Trio, Rudolph Ganz and the New York Symphony Orchestra, is busily engaged in maturing its plans for next season. Although no official announcement has been made, it is rumored that one of the greatest prime donne and two of America's most famous orchestras will be the offerings. The officers are the same as last year: J. V. Dugan, president; Harry T. Howard, vice president, and Harry B. Loëb, secretary-treasurer.
25After a year's silence the St. Cecilia Choral Society was heard in Goring Thomas' "Swan and Skylark." Victor Despomnier, its leader, conducted with his usual authority, and Violet Hart and Bentley Nicholson, who sang the leading soprano and tenor parts, respectively, were heartily received.
27Marguerite Samuel gave another of her delightful musicales last Tuesday. Her two advanced pupils, Berthe Olivier and Lizette Wehrman-Moore, both sopranos, confirmed the good impressions previously made by them.
29Fred Foxley was the cello soloist at the Algiers Choral Society's concert, Monday night.
31HARRY B. LOËB.
33Buffalo.
34Buffalo, May 3, 1907.
35Madame Sembrich and Ellison van Hoose sang familiar numbers at their concert in Convention Hall Monday night. Frank La Forge was the assisting pianist.
37Mr. Van Hoose will give some recitals at Chautauqua Assembly, N. Y., this summer, and the tenor will also have charge of the vocal instruction for the six weeks' session.
39Comment on the Nordica-Fagnini concert is reserved for the next issue.
41There is a big demand for tickets for the concert by the Vienna Männerchor, at Convention Hall, May 13. The visiting singers are to be the guests of the Orpheus Society during their stay in Buffalo.
43Madame Nordica was here this week and sang the following program: "Dichtheure Halle" ("Tannhäuser"), "Now Sleeps the Petal" (Quiller), "Ariette" (Vidal), "Im Kahn" (Grieg), "Serenade" (Strauss), "Waldgespräch" (Schumann). The encores were: "Im Wunderschoen Monat Mai" (Hammond), "Mighty Lak' a Rose," and the song "Alas! It Was My Heart." Assisting were Emma Showers, pianist; Guglielmo Fagnini, baritone, and the child soprano, Mary Fuhrmeyer, a little girl of eleven who has a phenomenal voice for such tender years. She sang very prettily and was accompanied by her teacher, Harold Adlauft, who was also the local manager of the successful concert. one of two readings
44Madame Nordica was here this week and sang the following program: "Dichtheure Halle" ("Tannhäuser"), "Now Sleeps the Petal" (Quiller), "Ariette" (Vidal), "Im Kahn" (Grieg), "Serenade" (Strauss), "Waldgespräch" (Schumann). The encores were: "Im Wunderschoen Monat Mai" (Hammond), "Mighty Lak'a Rose," and the song "Alas! It Was My Heart." Assisting were Emma Showers, pianist; Guglielmo Fagnini, baritone, and the child soprano, Mary Fuhrmeyer, a little girl of eleven who has a phenomenal voice for such tender years. She sang very prettily and was accompanied by her teacher, Harold Adlauft, who was also the local manager of the successful concert. one of two readings
46VIRGINIA KEENE.
48Atlanta.
49Atlanta, Ga., May 3, 1907.
50The first two concerts given in Atlanta for the benefit of the Edward MacDowell fund, were those of the Masters' Club and the other by the Theodore Morgan and Erwin Müller violin schools.
52So sanguine are the hopes of the May-June Musical Festival Company, that application for charter was made April 6, by Dr. J. Lewis Browne, F. A. Akers and W. C. Humphries. It is for the promotion of yearly festivals. The capital is $5,000, with the privilege of raising it to $25,000.
54BERTHA HARWOOD.
56Birmingham.
57Birmingham, Ala., May 1, 1907.
58The first concert of the Treble Clef Club of Birmingham, took place at the Majestic Theater. Adolf Dahm-Petersen, the conductor, was highly praised by the Birmingham press and public for his work in training the singers. Mercedes Hamilton, a pupil of Mr. Dahm-Petersen, was the accompanist. Johannes-Magendanz, a young German pianist, was the assistant soloist. The club sang numbers by Mendelssohn, Rubinstein and Neidlinger.
60Ann Arbor.
61Ann Arbor, April 30, 1907.
62Herbert Witherspoon, the basso, and Leopold Kramer, violinist, are the soloists announced for the opening concert of the Ann Arbor Music Festival, which is to take place May 8, 9, 10 and 11. The first program will include numbers by Wagner, Floridia, Thomas, Debussy and Glazounow.
64"The Messiah" will be given at the second concert, with Corinne Rider Kelsey, Janet Spencer, Edward Johnson and William Howland as soloists.
66Janet Spencer, contralto, and Albert Lockwood, pianist, are the soloists for the third concert, the matinee, and the works will be a Schumann overture, Elgar's "Sea Songs," the Rubinstein piano concerto in D minor, and Beethoven's seventh symphony.
68The fourth concert will again enlist Mrs. Kelsey, Miss Spencer, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Witherspoon in a delightful program devoted to Mozart, Wagner, Berlioz, Elgar, Puccini, Massenet, Smetana, Richard Strauss and Verdi.
70Saint-Saëns' "Samson and Delilah" will close the festival, and these artists are to have the principal roles: Delilah, Madame Schumann-Heink; Samson, Theodore van Yorx; High Priest, Signor Campanari; Old Hebrew, Mr. Witherspoon; Messenger, Mr. Killeen.
72Wichita.
73Wichita, Kan., May 1, 1907.
74At a recent concert in the Crawford Opera House the Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Theodore Lindberg, played the prelude to "Die Meistersinger," Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony, two intermezzos, and the overture to "The Marriage of Figaro." Selmar Janson performed the solo part in the Grieg piano concerto.
76The Lindberg Quartet, assisted by John Hermann, organist, gave a concert at the First Christian Church on April 17. The program included works by Mendelssohn, Haydn and Grieg. Mr. Hermann, who made his debut in Wichita at this concert, performed a Guil mant allegretto and a finale by Franck. The personnel of the quartet includes Mr. and Mrs. Lindberg, first and second violins; Feo Nauman, viola, and Earl M. Bright, 'cello.
78Winnipeg.
79Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 1, 1907.
80Madame Schumann-Heink received an ovation at her recital in Winnipeg. The great contralto was in splendid voice and her usual good humor. The program was made up of numbers presented in other cities, and in addition to these the singer added several encores.
82On Tuesday evening, April 23, the pupils of Ethel Lawson, violin teacher, gave a very successful recital, displaying to good advantage the ability of the instructor.
84Esther Fillmore, graduate of Northwestern Conservatory, Minneapolis, nad now a pupil of Nixon Kitchen, was heard in a piano recital at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, April 25. She was assisted by Miss Bull, mezzo soprano. Miss Fillmore was heard in thirteen numbers, which included a group of five compositions, by Chopin. "Hark! Hark! the Lark!" and "The Erlking," by Schubert-Liszt, were rendered exceptionally effective. Mr. Kitchen assisted her at the second piano in the Henselt number—romance—"If I Were a Bird." Mr. Kitchen has every reason to be proud of the success achieved by his talented pupil.
86R. F. O.
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