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Musical Courier 1907-11-20: Vol 55 Iss 21, 1907
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1BOSTON
2HOTEL NOTTINGHAM,
3BOSTON, Mass., November 17, 1907.
5The Handel and Haydn Society gave its building fund concert on Sunday night at Symphony Hall. Its purpose is to increase the amount already accumulated for building a hall of its own, with proper rehearsal rooms and library. The program has been twice given in these columns and the list of singers also announced.
7"The First Walpurgis Night" was revived last winter, but well deserved repetition. Madame Bouton, George Hamlin, Emilio de Gogorza and Oscar Hunting, and an orchestra with Mollenhauer conducting, made an excellent effect. The miscellaneous part, in which Miss Barrows sang, was interesting. A review of program and singers' work will appear in THE MUSICAL COURIER next week.
9Augusta Cottlow is a pianist of unusual technical, mental and emotional ability. Her Boston program included the "Tragica" sonata of MacDowell. Miss Cottlow has played MacDowell numbers in many cities during the past year and has won much renown through her interpretations. Her technic is broad and virile, and her emotional side is poised by her intellect. In a word, Miss Cottlow is a fine artist.
11Virginia Listemann, soprano, and widely known through the South and Middle West, is the daughter of Bernhard Listemann, and was born in Boston. Miss Listemann possesses marked personal beauty and charm, besides a voice which has given her a name at twenty-four years of age it being a pure and vibrant soprano. She and her father will be heard in a joint recital in Jordan Hall in December, when musical Boston will have the opportunity of renewing its acquaintance with its symphony orchestra's former concertmaster and of hearing his daughter in her initial Boston work. Miss Listemann has already joined her parents here, and was immediately booked to open the Tremont Temple Star Course, besides singing with the Choral Society in Hartford, and other engagements. The outlook, although late in the season, seems very propitious for this young singer.
13Effie L. Palmer, soprano, announces a morning with Grieg, consisting of a "paper" and songs, to be given at the Pierce Building Studios, on Tuesday, December 17. Miss Palmer's first morning of songs, recently given, gave promise of even better things to come. Her ability as a singer is apparent, although Miss Palmer has applied her forces and energies chiefly to teaching. She is amply equipped for public singing, and will be more than ever heard from this on. The Grieg morning will comprise some of this deceased master's songs, which will be prefaced by a highly interesting paper on the composer, to be read by Miss Palmer. This young singer possesses a winning and attractive personality, fine stage presence, and has all things in her favor.
15Rudolph Ganz's novel yet interesting program at Chickering Hall on Wednesday afternoon was:
16First Year of Pilgrimage—Switzerland, Nos. 1, 2, 4.
175, 8, 9, 6. …………………………………………….. Liszt
18Sonata, A flat major, op. 26. ……………………….. Beethoven
19Sad Birds and Bark on the Sea. ……………………. Ravel
20The Railroad ………………………………………….. Alkan
21Polish Song …………………………………………… Chopin-Liszt
22Mephisto Waltz ……………………………………… Liszt-Busoni
24Mr. Ganz's elegance of phrasing, his native appreciation of Liszt, as both man and writer, and the charm and poignancy with which he read Ravel, even without further pianistic qualities of worth, showed him as an admirable player. It is consummate art to do even a so called simple thing well. Mr. Ganz's imagination does not run riot, for he is a pianist who possesses himself; in other words, controls his moods instead of letting them have sway. The program choosing cannot always please all. However, Mr. Ganz still dominates music lovers with his individual conception of what he tells them. The audience was most enthusiastic.
26Fritz Kreisler's performance in Jordan Hall on Monday afternoon filled it to the doors, and seats were placed upon the stage for the overflow. There was a prolonged demonstration when the violinist appeared upon the stage after a comparatively long absence, and the enthusiasm continued throughout the entire program, which was made up of these numbers:
28Sonata, A major ……………………………………… Handel
29Sonata, G minor, No. 1 (violin alone) ……………… Bach
30Andantino, F major ……………………………………. Martini
31Siciliano and Rigaudon ………………………………. Francoeur
32Minuet ……………………………………………………. Porpora
33Variations ………………………………………………. Tartini
34Canzonetta …………………………………………….. Dvorák
35Caprice ………………………………………………….. Wieniawski
36Twenty-fourth Caprice ……………………………….. Paganini
38Would it not be the better wisdom to discard from our latter day programs some of the earlier writings which are largely intellectual, and hardly give the maker of the divinity of tones a chance to tell us all he knows of passion and romance? Mr. Kreisler's powers as a violin player have been already established. His technical fluency, his admirable fettle for fine reading, and the details to which he devotes his mind, showed him still a great violinist. Mr. Kreisler appears again on the 19th and in an entirely new program. He is assisted by George Falkenstein, pianist.
40The Denghausen evening of songs in Steinert Hall on Friday evening was an admirable showing of ability in several directions on Mr. Denghausen's part. There were old songs of 1460, 1475, 1523 and 1546, after which several classical numbers by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms were rendered. There were modern selections by Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf and Kaun, and the program ended with the three songs, "Pilgertied," "Was Klappert im Hause" and Berger's "Trutzlied." Carl Lawson accompanied. one of two readings
41The Denghausen evening of songs in Steinert Hall on Friday evening was an admirable showing of ability in several directions on Mr. Denghausen's part. There were old songs of 1460, 1475, 1523 and 1546, after which several classical numbers by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms were rendered. There were modern selections by Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf and Kaun, and the program ended with the three songs, "Pilgernlied," "Was Klappert im Hause" and Berger's "Trutzlied." Carl Lawson accompanied. one of two readings
43Ruby Cutter Savage, soprano, and that admirable tenor, Theodore van Yorx, are to appear in a joint program of songs in Jordan Hall on November 29. It is refreshing to hear other than our own singers, and the coming of Ruby Cutter Savage and Van Yorx should be highly welcomed, as Madame Savage is recalled for her artistic career in Paris and the various tours in America. Mr. Van Yorx is well known in Boston for his admirable work with the Handel and Haydn Society. The coming program includes the aria from Mancinelli's "Ero and Leandro," to be sung by Madame Savage, besides many attractive songs from Mozart, Thomas, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Haile, Hildach, Arthur Foote and others.
45Monday, November 25, at Jordan Hall, a concert of compositions by Riccardi Luceschi will be given. The assisting artists will be Frances Dunton Wood, soprano; Anna Miller Wood, alto; Clarence B. Shirley, tenor; John Whorisky, baritone, and C. Pol. Plançon, baritone, and the Hoffman String Quartet. The program includes these songs of Mr. Luceschi: "Ritornerà," "Duolo" and "Rapture," all to be sung by Mr. Whorisky; "Soave Melodia," "A Te," "The Flight" and "The Rose," all written expressly for Mrs. Wood and to be sung by her; "T'Amo," "Serentella," "Unchanged" and "The Question," to be given by Mr. Shirley, and "Recollection" (written for Miss Wood), "Canto d'Autunno," "Foglia Gialla" and "Illusion," to be sung by Anna Miller Wood. "Gloria" and "Benedictus," from Missa Brevi's op. 85, will be given by the Quartet and a chorus of mixed voices. The quintet in C major, op. 47, written in 1888, will be played by Mr. Luceschi and the Hoffman String Quartet.
47A star course at Tremont Temple begins on Monday evening, December 16, followed by five successive Monday evenings. The management announces a list of excellent artists and organizations, opening with Bernhard Listemann, violinist; Virginia Listemann, soprano; Laura A. Tolman, cellist, and Frank Luker, pianist. The Adamowski Trio, the Tolmanina Trio, the Fantasia Woman's Orchestra of twenty-two musicians, assisted by Cyril Raper, the boy soloist of the
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