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Musical Courier 1907-11-20: Vol 55 Iss 21, 1907
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1Gay of course playing the heroine. Saturday evening brought the first appearance of Madame Tretrazzini, who sang "Traviata," making an instant success. Other evenings were repetitions of operas already heard, and with the usual casts.
3There will be three meetings this winter of the Folk-song Society at Broadwood's Hall, when papers will be read and discussed. The first one took place on October 25, when J. A. Fuller-Maitland read a paper on "Harmonic Suggestions in Folk-song." He illustrated his paper with several examples, and in order to show how simple tunes could be disfigured and spoiled if chromatic harmonies were introduced, played the St. Ann's tune and the Old Hundred elaborately and fantastically harmonized. At the December meeting Mrs. Lawrence Gomme will read a paper on "Singing Games."
5Eduard Parlovitz announces that as numbers of her friends were unable to obtain admission to her recent recital Alys Bateman has arranged for another concert at Aeolian Hall on December 12. There was not even "standing room" at her last concert, every available space being occupied.
7Little Miss Voorzanger, who made her first appearance in London on October 30, is only eleven years of age. She is the daughter of musical parents, her father being a bandmaster and her mother is well known as a vocalist. The child has been studying for the past two years with Wilhelmj, who considers hers a wonderful talent. At her recital she showed fluency of technic quite remarkable for her age. She was assisted by Madame Menzies and Cyril Towsey.
9The Wessely Quartet began its seventh season last week, giving the first one of the four chamber concerts arranged for the winter. The quartet is composed of Mr. Wessely, Spencer Dyke, Ernest Tomlinson and B. Patterson Parker.
11It is intended to commemorate the residence of Charles Dibdin, the nautical song writer, by affixing a memorial tablet to the house in Arlington Road, Camden Town. The London County Council wished to commemorate the residence in London of George Romney, the painter, but no house could be found on which a tablet could be appropriately placed.
13Two Americans, Dora Gibson and Henri Zay, gave a vocal recital last week, making their first appearance in London. Miss Gibson made a favorable impression with a pleasant mezzo soprano voice, singing among other things, Tschaikowsky's "Air des Adieux" and "Voi che Sapete." Mr. Kiddle accompanied.
15The Birmingham Concert Society, with George Halford as musical director, has commenced a series of eight orchestral concerts in the Town Hall of that city. The programs are attractive and include symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Tschaikowsky, and overtures by Beethoven, Sterndale Bennett, Cherubini, Hermann Goetz, Humperdinck, Mendelssohn, Wagner and Weber, as well as pieces by modern composers. There will be a number of soloists during the course of the season.
17The new season of the Queen's Hall symphony concerts began on Saturday afternoon of last week, the principal work of the program being Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony. The "Namouna" suite by Lalo was also played, and the prelude and "Liebestod" from "Tristan and Isolde." Julia Culp, who was the vocalist, sang a Handel aria in a manner that brought much applause from the large audience present. The playing of the orchestra was just what was expected of it after the long season of rehearsing and playing just ended.
19At the recital given by Roswby Woof, the young English violinist, at Bechstein Hall, there was an audience that filled the building in every part. Associated with him was York Bowen, with whom he played the Brahms sonata in G. Later in the evening Mr. Woof was joined by Hans Wessely in Spohr's concerto in B minor for two violins, and he ended his program with two African dances by Coleridge Taylor and a mazurka by Zarzycki.
21Just previous to her departure for America Madame Kirkby Lunn gave a recital before a very enthusiastic audience. Her program was composed entirely of German and French songs, the latter in the minority, only four out of the eighteen. The five Wagner songs, which were his studies for "Tristan," were the feature of the program.
23The second Hamburg String Quartet concert on Saturday evening, was of much interest. The program began with Brahms' sextet in B flat and was finely played, with assistance from Henri de Shostac and Joachim Sametini.
25Then came three solos for violoncello played by Boris Hambourg, two of them by Sinding, and the first one the "Waldesruhe" of Dvorák. Mr. Hambourg was obliged to add another solo to this group from the persistent demands of the audience. The second part was devoted to Grieg, Tita Brand reciting "Bergliot" accompanied by Miss Bucktrout. Grieg's only quartet (that is, the string quartet in G minor) brought the program to a close, and applause, congratulations and compliments were in abundance. This quartet devotes much time to rehearsals, eighteen or twenty being given to one number, until the correct ensemble is reached.
27At his lecture at the Cripplegate Institute recently on "Pepys as a Musician," Sir Frederick Bridge pointed out the esteem in which music was held at that time, and spoke of Pepys as critic and composer. The lecture was illustrated by songs composed by Pepys and his contemporaries.
29Among the works to be performed by the Richmond Philharmonic Society during their eighteenth season, are Elgar's "From the Bavarian Highlands," Handel's "L'Allegro," Schumann's "The Minstrel's Curse" and the symphony in D minor, Harriss' "Pan," Jensen's "Feast of Adonis," Delibes' "Coppelia" suite, Dvorák's "Legende," Bach's overture in D and Schubert's "Fierrabras" overture. The conductor of the society is Dr. C. E. Jolly.
31Among those engaged to appear during the coming season at the Edinburgh classical concerts are Lady Halle, Elena Gerhardt, Mrs. Henry J. Wood, Ysaye, Pugno, Georges Enesco, Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot, Sauer, Siloti, Victor Maurel and the "New Trio."
33F. R. Spark, for fifty years the honorary secretary of the Leeds Festival, has been presented with a check for a thousand pounds by Archibald Ramsden for the benefit of the Leeds Workpeople's Hospital Fund, founded by Mr. Spark twenty years ago. Mr. Ramsden is well known in the piano world.
35Walter Wheatley, the young American tenor who made his début at Covent Garden last summer, is now on tour with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and is making a great success in the different roles that he is singing. It was expected that Mr. Wheatley would sing at the autumn season in Covent Garden, but his contract with the Carl
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