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Musical Courier 1908-01-15: Vol 56 Iss 3, 1908
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1January 26, February 23, March 29, and April 26. Rudolph Ganz will be the assisting artist at the first concert, when the Quartet will play Mozart quartet, D minor; Strauss sonata, F major, for piano and violoncello, and Smetana quartet, E minor.
3Silvio Scionti, of the American Conservatory faculty, will give a piano recital Tuesday evening, January 21, at Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. Mr. Scionti's program will include the Schumann symphonic etudes, nocturnes in C minor and F sharp minor and the A flat ballade by Chopin; two Brahms numbers, two rhapsodies by Dohnányi, and the "Spanish Rhapsody," by Liszt.
5This was the Paderewski program, at Orchestra Hall, January 11:
7Variations and Fugue, op. 23 (first time)………………Paderewski
8Sonata, op. 27, No. 1, E flat……………………………Beethoven
9Auf dem Wasser zu Singen……………………………Schubert-Liszt
10Soirée de Vienne, A major……………………………Schubert-Liszt
11Erlking…………………………………………………….Schubert-Liszt
12Nocturne, F sharp major, op. 15……………………..Chopin
13Etudes Nos. 10 and 5, op. 10………………………….Chopin
14Scherzo, B flat minor…………………………………Chopin
15Chant d'Amour………………………………………..Stojowski
16Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 13…………………………Liszt
18F. Wight Neumann announces Teresa Carreño in her last piano recital this season in Chicago at Orchestra Hall, Sunday afternoon, January 19.
20David Bispham will appear in a song recital Thursday evening, January 23, at Music Hall, under the direction of F. Wight Neumann.
22Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler will give her annual piano recital at Orchestra Hall, Sunday afternoon, February 2, under the direction of F. Wight Neumann.
24Vladimir de Pachmann will give his second recital Saturday afternoon, February 1, at Orchestra Hall, under the direction of F. Wight Neumann.
26Katharine Goodson, the English pianist, who a few weeks ago appeared with great success with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, has been engaged by F. Wight Neumann for a recital to be given Wednesday evening, February 5, at Music Hall.
28F. Wight Neumann has arranged for one appearance of the Flonzaley Quartet, which ranks among the most brilliant of European chamber music organizations, for Tuesday afternoon, February 4, at 3 o'clock, in Music Hall.
30EVELYN KAESMANN.
32THE BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.
34The third concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra took place last Thursday night before a well filled house. (The usual winter blasts and draughts of Carnegie Hall included.) The important number on the program was the symphony, op. 16, by Hermann Bischoff. Who is Bischoff? He is one of those many young Germans who are ardent in their devotion to modern music and competent to write the most involved orchestral scores. After all, there is no country on the globe that can approach Germany in music making. The program stated that this symphony was produced at the convention of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein at Essen (where the Krupp guns are made) in May, 1906.
36The symphony has many exceedingly interesting moments, and shows the influence of Wagner more than Strauss, whose pupil Bischoff is said to have been. Much can be expected of Bischoff, should he continue to compose. There is exhibited remarkable virility in the workmanship of the symphony, and it keeps within conventional lines. Evidently the composer is a man of talent and learning, but there are no special signs beyond these. Dr. Muck deserves thanks for introducing us to Bischoff; we feared a plethora of Brahms again, and this was a relief.
38Carreño played the second MacDowell concerto splendidly, and was obliged to bow repeatedly after the piquant scherzo, which she did charmingly. This piano concerto is worthy of being in the repertory of all pianists and it confirms Edward MacDowell as a composer of extraordinary merit. Just at this time, when MacDowell is having the sympathy of all American music lovers, Madame Carreño's playing of his concerto is a particularly fitting tribute.
40Dvorák's "Carnival" overture closed the program, and was played beautifully, with ravishing tone such as only an orchestra of that kind can produce. Oh! ye Russian Symphony, ye Damrosch New York Symphony, why will ye inflict thyselfes upon us in ye same blasty, chilly halls? Oh! Oh!
42The Saturday afternoon concert attracted a strikingly small audience, due, no doubt, to the singularly ill balanced program which Doctor Muck offered his hearers. It consisted of Handel's concerto grosso in F (arranged by Kogel) for two wind choirs and string orchestra, MacDowell's suite for orchestra in A minor, op. 42 (substituted in place of the Mozart violin concerto, which had to be abandoned owing to the illness of Concertmaster Wendling), and Hermann Goetz's symphony in F. Handel's concerto was heard here a few weeks ago in excellent presentation by the New York Symphony Orchestra, and there was no reason for its repetition by an organization that travels all the way from Boston to New York for the purpose of regaling this town with the pearls of symphonic literature. Handel was a mighty composer, but he never would have gained that reputation on this concerto grosso alone. It is a conventional piece of part writing containing the usual thorough contrapuntal treatment of which nearly every composer in that day was master. Muck and his men delivered the work with refinement in tone and dynamics.
44The MacDowell suite—for which, many thanks, Doctor Muck—again showed itself capable of holding its own on any program of miscellaneous works by European composers.
46While not MacDowell's best effort, this suite nevertheless is full of interesting episodes, all of them orchestrated with uncommon command of color and conceived with keen appreciation of the romantic spirit they are expected to set forth.
48The Goetz symphony was an old friend, but one somewhat faded and threadbare and trodden down at the heels. It is hard to believe that this work at one time was as popular as any of the great symphonics by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert or Schumann. Goetz wrote more or less in the style and melodic school of Mendelssohn, and therefore his music is not without grace and a certain sweetly appealing quality, but on the other hand it lacks virility and dramatic directness and variety in harmonic expression. Are these programs really the best that Doctor Muck is able to set up from all the treasure trove of orchestral music past and present?
50American Institute Students' Recital.
52Students of the American Institute of Applied Music gave the following program Friday evening, January 10:
54Harp Sounds…………………………………………..Mayer
55Theme and Variations…………………………………Gaynor
56A Violoncello Solo……………………………………Gaynor
57French Serenade………………………………………Grieg
58Toccata in G…………………………………………..Bach
59Humoresque……………………………………………Dvorák
60Passepied, Fifth English Suite………………………..Bach
61Prelude, op. 104, No. 2……………………………….Mendelssohn
62Romance……………………………………………….Tschaikowsky
63Barcarolle Militaire……………………………………Reinhold
64Silhouette………………………………………………Dvorák
65Prelude……………………………………………….Rubinstein
66Mildred Loomis.
68Two new compositions by Paul Scheinflug, entitled "Blissful Nights" (arranged for male choir, double quartet and solo violin) and "Eider," have just had a first performance by the Bremen Lehrergesang Verein. Another new composition by the same composer, a violin sonata, was also recently heard for the first time in Bremen, ably interpreted by Professor Bromberger and Konzertmeister Kolkmeyer.
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