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Musical Courier 1907-06-12: Vol 54 Iss 24, 1907
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1MUSIC ACROSS THE HUDSON.
3Music is progressing in the Garden State. Many clubs in the pretty towns across the Hudson are studying and giving concerts that show commendable musical endeavor.
5Arthur D. Woodruff recently conducted the first concert of the Choral Club, of Cranford, N. J. The concert was well attended, and the program won for Mr. Woodruff and the artists many congratulations from music lovers in the vicinity. "Hear My Prayer," by Mendelssohn; Bruch's "Fair Ellen," and a vocal arrangement of the Boccherini "Minuet," were especially admired. Hortense Smith, soprano, and Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, were the soloists. A string quartet, and Emily Rice, piano accompanist, added to the musical instruction of the evening.
7May Vincent Whitney is a successful piano teacher in Plainfield. At her last pupils' recital William R. Scarles, basso of St. Paul's Church, Newark, assisted in a program of fifteen numbers. All solos were played from memory. Miss Whitney's concert was given at the Park Club House, of Plainfield. Eighteen pupils participated in the presentation of music of classic and modern composers.
9Mary L. Lockhart, of Jersey City Heights, has charge of the Frederic Mariner studios, in New York City, during Mr. Mariner's absence in Maine. Miss Lockhart gave a recital with her own pupils Friday evening of week before last, at the Mariner school. She has been highly successful with the younger students, and has been warmly commended by Mr. Mariner and other discerning masters.
11Ada Adams, a Marchesi pupil, has a class of vocal pupils in Montclair, where they have a Bach Choir and a large colony of artistic and musical people.
13Clara A. Korn and E. B. Kursheedt played a number of works for two pianos at a concert in the Bethel Presbyterian Church, East Orange, a fortnight ago. The concert was for the benefit of the Sunday School Extension Fund. The pieces played by these artists included the overture to "Coriolan" (Beethoven), "Faust Overture" (Gounod), and two Hungarian dances, by Brahms. Horace J. Goodwin and Mrs. George W. Jones were the assisting vocalists, and Carl Magdalin performed the "Carmen Fantasie," arranged for violin.
15Mehans Give Closing Musicales.
17John Dennis Mehan and Mrs. Mehan gave their closing musicale at their Carnegie Hall studios Monday evening, June 3. The artists presented were: Marie Louise Githens, soprano; Grace Munson, contralto; John Barnes Wells, tenor; Gwilym Miles, baritone, and Harry Nye Wieting, baritone. The assisting pupils included L. Isabel Irving, soprano; Helen Latham, contralto; Thomas Phillips, tenor, and John C. Wilcox, baritone. Florence Buckingham Adams and Lyman Wells Clary were the piano accompanists.
19The fine program was applauded by a representative company of music lovers. The quartet, consisting of Miss Irving, Miss Latham, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Wilcox, opened the evening with Faning's "Daybreak." The remainder of the program follows: "Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves," from "Scipio" (Handel), "I Am a Roamer" (Mendelssohn), Mr. Wieting; aria from "Aida," Miss Githens; aria from "L'Africaine," Mr. Wells; aria from "Rienzi," Miss Munson; "Hiawatha's Vision" (Coleridge-Taylor), Mr. Miles; "Spring Song" (Henschel), "Einen Sommer" (Schutt), "Twilight" (Massenet), "Chanson des Baiser" (Bemberg), Miss Githens; "Slumber Romance" (Gounod), "Down Among the Dead Men" (Hammond), "Ballad of the Bony Fiddler" (Hammond), Mr. Wieting; "Vergessen" (Franz), "Das Heidekind" (folksong), "Er Ist's" (Wolf), "Over the Heather" (German), Miss Munson; "Spring" (Ganz), "Hoffung" (folksong), "Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai" (Hammond), Mr. Wells; "Biterolf" (Wolf), "Molly Malone" (Old Irish), "The Three Comrades" (Hermann), Mr. Miles; sextet from "Lucia," Miss Githens, Miss Munson, Mr. Wells, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Wieting.
21The Mehan studios will remain closed until July 8, when the summer term begins.
23American Institute Students' Recital.
25The American Institute of Applied Music, Kate S. Chittenden 'dean, gave a students' recital Monday evening, May 27, embracing a variety of talent. Linda Chase opened the program with MacDowell's "Reverie" and Schumann's novelette in F major. Adelaide O'Brien sang several songs, including "Lungi dal Caro Bene," by Secchi, and was well received. Mrs. Robert Boville played Paderewski's polonaise. All showed progress. The rooms were well filled and the audience listened with pleasure to the piano, violin and voice.
27INEZ BARBOUR AT TWO FESTIVALS.
29Inez Barbour, the soprano, will be compelled to delay her vacation this summer to fill many engagements. She is an excellent illustration of the often heard comments of foreign artists who visit our shores, expressing their surprise at the readiness with which Americans recognize and applaud genuine artistic worth.
31During the month of May she sang at festivals in Morgantown, W. Va., and Keene, N. H. Her press opinions are appended:
33Inez Barbour, of New York, sang the soprano role, and the audience probably accorded her work the most hearty appreciation. Her expectant hearers were charmed with the first notes of her clear, sweet soprano, and awaited eagerly her parts throughout the oratorio. Her voice is wonderfully full and strong and trained to a degree that makes possible the attainment of perfect phrasing and full, rounded tones. It loses none of its natural sweetness in the highest notes and rings clear and true at all times.—Daily New Dominion, Morgantown, W. Va.
35Inez Barbour did excellent work. Her "Hear Ye, Israel," was finely done and she was applauded to the echo. She has a soprano of high range and power. "Very successful" was the general dictum as far as Miss Barbour was concerned.—Athenaeum, Morgantown, W. Va.
37Miss Barbour's voice is pleasing and of a quality at once pure and rich. She has command of the high notes which one would not at first look for, reaching and sustaining them easily. In her solo, "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," she made a decidedly good impression, and the solo was one of the best of the evening.—Keene Evening Sentinel, May 24.
39Miss Barbour sang "Wie nahte mir der Schlummer," from "Der Freischutz," by Weber, in a way that was heartily appreciated. She has a powerful voice and in this number it was at its best. She put more feeling into her work than was noticeable at the Thursday evening concert, and her reception was more enthusiastic. She responded to a loud call for a second selection, which was enjoyed quite as much as her program number.—Keene Evening Sentinel, May 25.
41Oscar Gareissen for Rochester.
43Oscar Gareissen has been summoned to Rochester, N. Y., for the summer, by his popularity as teacher of voice and as singer. Loving his Washington, D. C., and just established in a beautiful new studio there, his intentions were to pass the summer there in restful contemplation of his happy establishment. But among his enthusiastic pupils were those from the Rochester section. These constituted themselves a committee to get the singer to hold a summer class in that city. So the class already standing ready for teaching, thither Mr. Gareissen went June 10, to pass six weeks of teaching. Mr. Gareissen is an educator trained and enthusiastic, who knows how to teach as well as to sing, lecture and stimulate to correct music life.
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