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Musical Courier 1908-01-15: Vol 56 Iss 3, 1908
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1The program included Loeffler's quintet for strings and Beethoven's trio, op. 97, in B flat major.
3Schumann-Heink is announced by Louis H. Mudgett for a song recital on January 18. Katharine Hoffman is to be the accompanist.
5Heinrich Gebhard, the eminent pianist, will be heard with Geraldine Farrar at Symphony Hall in a concert program on January 27. The concert will be given by the Students' Association of Miss Hersey's school for their charitable work.
7Charles W. Clarke, who has a fine reputation in Europe as a singer, gave an interesting program in Chickering Hall last week. The program numbers were: Brahms' "Die Mainacht," "Wie Melodien zieht es mir," "Klage," "Auf dem Kirchhofe," "Meine Liebe ist gruen," "Verrath"; Marty, Toast; G. Faure's "Adieu"; Duparc, "Invitation Au Voyage" and "La Vague et la Cloche"; Handel's "Where'er You Walk"; Purcell's "Ah! How Pleasant" and "I'll Sail Upon the Dogstar"; Leveridge's "When Dull Care"; Dvorak's "Gipsy Melodies"; Lehmann's "With a Woodland Nosegay"; Blair Fairchild's "Grief Song"; V. Harris' song from "Omar Khayyam" and "Lady Spring"; S. Homer's "How's My Boy?"; Ferrari's "Joy"; W. Rummel's "Ecstasy." Jules Wertheim was the accompanist.
9The Boston Musicians' Protective Association announces its fourth annual band concert in Mechanics' Hall on Sunday evening, February 16, for the benefit of the charitable fund of the association. Ernest S. Williams will be the solo cornetist and Emil Mollenhauer will conduct.
11Riccardo Lucchesi, who gave us a most agreeable evening of his compositions at Jordan Hall, early in November, is arranging for a conferenza musicale to be held at a Commonwealth avenue residence and has charge of the music. The affair is in honor of Baron and Baroness Tosti.
13February 12 Anna Miller Wood will give a recital in Chickering Hall. Bessie Bella Collier, violinist, will assist and Malcolm Lang will be at the piano. Miss Wood has not appeared in recital for some time, and as she is an assured favorite here, her program is looked forward to with pleasure.
15Thursday evening, January 30, in Steinert Hall, a song recital by Katharine Melley, soprano, is announced. Miss Melley will have the assistance of Carl Webster, cellist; Charles K. North, flutist, and Mary Vincent Pratt, pianist. Miss Melley has been endorsed by some of our best musicians as a singer of ability.
17Two of the musicians appearing at the White House, Washington, on January 10 were from Boston. They were Lilla Ormond, contralto, and Mrs. Charles White, accompanist.
19The coming Friday afternoon and Saturday evening pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present this program: Haydn's symphony in G major and Beethoven's symphony No. 4, in B flat major.
21WYNA BLANCHE HUDSON.
23Constantino's Triumph.
25Constantino, the Spanish tenor, is a revelation in the possibilities of vocal art. He sings with all degrees of force and expression, with full sustension of tone and true intonation even in his highest pianissimo work, and with resonant dramatic power throughout his entire compass. His method is of the Garcia kind, which improves rather than degenerates as years go by. Constantino is still a young man, and his greatest triumphs are yet to come. He is easily the equal of Caruso in his art, and quite surpasses him in sympathetic and musical quality of tone. He always arouses great enthusiasm in his aria, "Cielo e Mar," from "Gioconda," as well as in his ensemble work with the San Carlo Opera Company.
27to join the New York Symphony Orchestra in the first performance in Philadelphia of Tschaikowsky's opera, "Eugene Onegin," on February 24.
29HELEN W. HENDERSON.
31Sousa Delights Hippodrome Audience.
33Sousa and his band delighted an audience of about 5,000 people at the huge Hippodrome last Sunday evening, this being the second concert given by the "March King" and his superb aggregation of instrumentalists this season in New York. The audience was a typical Sousa following, and the genial conductor was, as usual, most generous with his encores in the form of his own inimitable marches, beside standard works. One of the dainty encore bits of the evening, and which served to show the remarkable string effects produced by Sousa's Band, was Mendelssohn's "Spring Song," played by the reed choir and the lighter brass sections, the immense double B flat Sousaphone forming an organ-like bass foundation. The following program was the offering of the evening, in addition to which were fully twenty encore numbers:
35Symphonic Poem, Les Preludes……………………………Liszt
36Cornet Solo, Queen of the Sea (new)…………………….Clarke
37Suite, Three Quotations…………………………………Sousa
38Soprano Solo, Waltz Song from Romeo and Juliet……….Gounod
39Nocturne, Kammenoi Ostrow……………………………Rubinstein
40Intermission.
41Suite, Peer Gynt………………………………………Grieg
42Idyl, Pan Pastoral (new)…………………………….Godard
43March, Powhatan's Daughter (new)……………………Sousa
44Violin Solo, Irish Fantasy……………………………Vieuxtemps
45Hungarian Dance from Suite The Nations………………Moszkowski
47The soloists were: Lucy Allen, soprano; Jeannette Powers, violinist, and Herbert L. Clarke, cornetist. The superb cornet tone of Mr. Clarke won for him a veritable volley of enthusiastic applause. Miss Powers and Miss Allen were both obliged to respond to insistent demands for encores, the former rendering as a second recall the ever popular Moszwowski "Serenade," to harp accompaniment.
49Liszt's "Les Preludes" made a dignified and imposing opening number. This is a selection which serves to show the magnificent tonal qualities of Sousa's Band. Six trombones were employed to assist the bass and heavy brass departments. In connection with this selection the fine legato effects by the French horn quartet should be mentioned especially. The Grieg "Peer Gynt" suite was another offering which showed the capacity of this great band. The "Anitra" dance was bewitchingly tripped off by the reed choir and harp.
51Altogether, it was a most attractive program throughout, and the audience filed out at the conclusion wearing the regulation smiles of contentment, ever an aftermath of a Sousa band concert. Apropos, it is the best aggregation of players which has ever composed the Sousa organization.
53The next concert will be given at the Hippodrome, Sunday evening, February 23, which will practically mark the closing of the band's season for three months, after which preparations will be made for the summer appearance at Willow Grove and the Pittsburgh Exposition.
55Sousa's new comic opera is to make its appearance in the spring.
57The Heidelberg Bach Association will give ten subscription concerts, with Dr. Philip Wolfrum as conductor. The repertory contains, among other orchestral works, some by Debussy, Grieg, Von Hausegger, Liszt, Pfitzner and Reger.
59PHILADELPHIA, January 14, 1908.
61The most important and interesting feature of the thirteenth program for the season of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as presented at the Academy of Music last week, was the symphony in C, by Balakirew. Its charm, symmetry, variety and abundant local color presented not a dull moment to the well filled house. The symphony played last week holds the attention of the listener by reason of its refreshing unconventionality and originality, and in spite of its divergence from the classic standard won admiration even from the most illiberal and orthodox. Mr. Pohlig conducted with his characteristic personal and most contagious enjoyment of the work. For the rest the concert was without distinction. The other orchestral numbers included Tschaikowsky's overture, "Romeo et Juliette," and Goldmark's overture, "In Italia." The assisting artist was Katharine Goodson, who played Arthur Hinton's colorless concerto for piano and orchestra, in D minor, op. 24.
63The concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra announced for this week promises unusual interest in the presentation of Mr. Pohlig's symphony, "Per Aspera ad Astra," a symphonic poem in four movements. This work had its first hearing in December, 1902, at the Christmas concert of the Royal Court Orchestra in Stuttgart, Germany. The performance was repeated in Stuttgart the following month. It was played also in Dresden and Wurzburg and was published by Leukart, in Leipsic. It received most flattering notices from the German press. The program includes also Schumann's overture, "Manfred," and Liszt's symphonic poem, "Tasso." There will be no soloist.
65W. S. Townsend, a pupil of Perley Dunn Aldrich, has been appointed tenor soloist and choir director of the Forty Street M. E. Church. He has also been appointed teacher of singing at the Aesthetic Conservatory of Music. Florence A. Burleigh, also a pupil of Mr. Aldrich, is teaching singing at the Hyperion School of Music.
67Luther Conradi will give a recital at Witherspoon Hall on Thursday afternoon, January 30. His program will include numbers by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Burmeister and Liszt. Mr. Conradi will be assisted by David Bispham, the popular baritone.
69The Philadelphia Operatic Society will give a performance of "Faust" on Thursday evening, January 30. The cast will be as follows: Marguerite, Edith Virden Rice; Siebel, Beatrice Walden; Martha, Florence James; Faust, William H. Paglin; Mephistopheles, Henri G. Scott; Valentine, George Russell Strauss; Wagner, Howard F. Story. A chorus of 200 voices will assist, and the Philadelphia Orchestra of eighty musicians has been engaged. Siegfried Behrens will conduct.
71The Choral Society of Philadelphia, has been invited
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