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Musical Courier 1907-12-04: Vol 55 Iss 23, 1907
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1Nichols has made a genuine stride in her playing was at once apparent, for the first number showed it. Miss Clemens was pleasantly received. Charles Wark gave valuable assistance as an accompanist.
3Mary Fay Sherwood, soprano, who assisted Felix Fox in his first chamber concert at Steinert Hall, sang charmingly, yet with the limitation of the average young singer in that certain abandon which characterizes the more ripened artist. Her songs interested the audience very much. There were fresh numbers by Ganz, Paderewski and Felix Fox, included with Schubert, Bizet, Debussy and MacDowell numbers. Miss Sherwood, temperamental and by nature a musician, gave the pleasure seldom felt, even from singers of far more experience and renown. Her singing of Felix Fox's beautiful composition, "Thou Art Like a Flower," had to be repeated.
5Riccardo Luceschi, for many years of the Pacific Coast, but now making his home in Boston, and a member of the New England Conservatory of Music, gave an evening of his compositions in Jordan Hall. The singers were Frances Wood, Anna Miller Wood, contralto; Clarence Shirley, tenor; John Whorisky and C. Pol Plançon, baritones. The Hoffmann Quartet assisted and Homer Humphrey was at the organ during the last numbers. Signor Luceschi presided at the piano during the concert. There were Italian and English songs, well written, some especially for the singers, and a quintet for piano and strings, the scherzo being an especially well built and musically interesting movement. The songs were tuneful, and Anna Miller Wood's singing of a group was the par excellent effort of the evening. Her voice is rich, sonorous, and strong. Mr. Shirley gave much pleasure with his singing, and the last numbers finished a program which shows unusual versatility.
7Concerts announced with their dates are as follows:
8Monday, December 3, Jordan Hall, De Pachmann's first piano recital.
9Tuesday, December 4, Jordan Hall, Mark Hambourg's only piano recital.
10Thursday, December 6, Steinert Hall, Richard Buhlig's third piano recital.
11Saturday, December 8, Jordan Hall, De Pachmann's second recital.
12Monday, December 9, Edith Thompson, pupil of Madame Hopekirk, in piano recital.
13Tuesday, December 10, the second Kneisel Quartet concert, with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist.
14Wednesday, December 11, Fritz Kreisler's concert in aid of Lincoln House; and Stephen Townsend's first song recital.
15Thursday, December 12, De Pachmann's third recital.
16Friday, December 13, and Saturday, December 14, rehearsal and concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
17Tuesday, December 17, Cecilia Society concert in Symphony Hall.
18Wednesday, December 18, the Boston Singing Club, H. G. Tucker, conductor, will give its first concert of the season in Jordan Hall. Nellie Wright, soprano, and Giuseppe Picco, baritone, assisting.
19Laura Hawkins, pianist, will give a recital. Carl Wendling, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony, will assist. Herbert Witherspoon will be heard in a song recital, assisted by Bertha Swift.
21Sunday evening, December 22, the Handel and Haydn Society will perform "The Messiah," and also on December 25.
23E. Cutter, Jr., has certainly established himself as a conductor of unusual ability, which fact the recent Amphion concert proved conclusively.
25His power to obtain spontaneity from a group of both old, middle-aged and young men, was in itself a feat of musicianship and proved his possession of that unnameable something which the born conductor must possess.
27He controls without any violent gymnastics—another quality of the artist. The Amphion Club is a chorus founded sixteen seasons ago by Mr. Cutter, and now in a little city of about 17,000 people, it is maintained substantially, expenses paid, and has the power to fill at each public performance a hall seating 1,300 people. The recent concert opened the season, and Mr. Cutter won new laurels for his superior readings, his powerful magnetism as a conductor in giving most beautifully finished work. "Shandon Bells," "King Olaf" and Bruch's "War Song" were memorable numbers. The Boston Festival Orchestra assisted.
29Richard Platt was the pianist November 20 at one of the regular musical affairs at Harvard University, instituted by W. R. Spalding. Mr. Platt is proficient in program making, and gave an admirable performance of three Brahms numbers, one by Schumann, two of his own compositions, i. e., "The Gulls" and "Dusk," and closed with Chopin's scherzo, in C sharp minor. December 12, Mr. Platt will give a recital at a Fenway residence. His large class of pupils, who have registered this season, allow Mr. Platt comparatively limited time for recitals, nevertheless he is always the student, and is constantly freshening his repertory with additional piano numbers of interest.
31The Philharmonic Society, Benjamin Guckenberger, conductor, is an organization of amateur musicians. The expressed motive is to give serious students the opportunity to play at concerts, and singers a chance to sing arias with orchestra. This organization purposes to give three concerts this season and to bring out works not frequently heard, yet within the capacity of an amateur orchestra. The first concert will be given by the orchestral section on Wednesday evening, December 11, in Huntington Chambers Hall, with Margaret Gerry Guckenberger, contralto, and Frank Tucker, pianist, assisting. The chief orchestral pieces will be Rubinstein's "Music of the Sph. res" (from op. 17, No. 2); Gillet's entr'acte gavotte; "Rigaudon," by Rameau-Gevaert, and "Notturno," by Jensen.
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