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Musical Courier 1908-04-01: Vol 56 Iss 14, 1908
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1PHILADELPHIA, March 30, 1908.
3The musical week opened early on Monday with the Chaminade Club's morning musicale. The concert took place in the Acorn Club rooms, and included a talk on "Cecile Chaminade," by Elizabeth Patee-Wallach, who spent last summer with the composer. A program consisting entirely of compositions by women was given by members of the club. Those taking part were: Agnes Clune Quinlan, pianist; Marie Zeckwer, soprano; Marie Fischer, violinist, and Edith Mahon, accompanist. A large audience filled the rooms, and the morning hour of instruction and music passed quickly. The club's second morning musicale will take place on March 30.
5Monday afternoon witnessed the last concert of the season by the Kneisel Quartet at Witherspoon Hall. The concert opened with Schumann's A minor quartet, which is an uninteresting composition. This was followed by a really beautiful César Franck quintet in F minor, the piano part being excellently done by Heinrich Gebhard. Three shorter numbers by Glazounow, Raff and Hugo Wolff concluded the program.
7Tuesday afternoon the Metropolitan Opera Company made its weekly visit, presenting the third opera of the "Nibelungen" tetralogy. There was nothing of particular moment to note about the performance, the chief interest centering about Conductor Mahler, whose quiet taste and artistic reading were again noticeable. Fremstad, Kirkby-Lunn, Burrian and Van Rooy were all satisfying in their roles.
9Tuesday morning Carl Pohlig, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, sailed for Europe on the Kronprinz Wilhelm. Mr. Pohlig's sudden departure was due to the fact that his wife has been taken seriously ill at their home in Germany. The reception that had been planned by the Society of Arts and Letters, to be given to the director at the Academy of the Fine Arts this evening, has been postponed until fall. Before leaving Mr. Pohlig said: "With a continuation for another year of the improvement which has characterized the work of the Philadelphia Orchestra in the last few months, it will surely be second to none in America in any particular." It is expected that the orchestra will be increased from eighty to one hundred men next season. Practically all the present members will remain next year.
11Tuesday evening W. Palmer Hoxie's concert took place in Griffith Hall. Besides Dorothy Johnstone, Florence Dunlap, and Mahlon Yardley, a number of Mr. Hoxie's pupils were heard in operatic selections and German folk-songs.
13A violin recital was given on Wednesday afternoon at the Acorn Club by Charlton Lewis Murphy, assisted by Ella Day Blair, accompanist. Mr. Murphy's skillful performance of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" sonata, with the great cadenza by Fritz Kreisler, aroused the admiration of the audience. A song cycle of old Holland, two numbers by Bruch, and some smaller numbers of the modern French school completed the program.
15In the evening Edna Harwood Baugher and Tullik Bell-Ranske gave a concert at Griffith Hall. They were heard in solos and duets, and were assisted by Bertrand Austin, cellist, Rossi Gisch-Buck and Ellis Clark Hammann.
17A concert by the united choral societies of Olivet and Holland churches was also given on Wednesday evening in Holland Chapel. A number of part songs were given in spirited style. The following Philadelphia singers assisted with solos and concerted numbers: Emma Rihl, Elsie Baker Linn, Oswald Blake and George Russel Strauss.
19Thursday evening the Manhattan Opera Company gave its second and last performance in Philadelphia this season. Mary Garden was heard in Charpentier's "Louise." The opera was splendidly produced and thoroughly enjoyed by the audience that crowded the Academy of Music. Special enthusiasm was shown for the third and last acts. Musically this performance was a notable one, but it was the most important performance that has come to Philadelphia this year for another reason, and that is the announcement made by Oscar Hammerstein in a speech which he made at the close of the third act. Mr. Hammerstein took this opportunity to say that he would build a grand opera house in Philadelphia that would surpass anything of the kind in America, and not only that he would build it, but that he would do so at once, breaking ground this week, and completing the work next November, in time to give a season of opera here next year. Just how much this may mean to the city musically it would be hard to estimate. With orchestras and choral societies second to no city, a permanent opera has been the one thing lacking to round Philadelphia out as a truly musical city. And now, when it appeared as though any such idea would have to be deferred for some years at least, it seems that it will surely be realized, and right soon.
21The Hahn String Quartet gave the fourth concert of its series at Griffith Hall on Friday evening. The work done by this organization is excellent, showing the result of several years' careful work together. The four numbers that made up the program were: Quartet, No. 2, in D major, Alexandre Borodine; suite for violin and piano, Schütte; terzetto, op. 74, for two violins and viola, Dvorák; quintet for piano and strings, Schumann. The assisting pianist was Ellis Clark Hammann.
23Saturday afternoon, March 28, a piano recital was given by Stanley Addicks, assisted by Henry Schradieck, violin, of the faculty of the Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music. Mr. Addicks and Mr. Schradieck were given an opportunity for the display of their virtuosity in the suite for piano and violin, op. 61, by Schütt. Mr. Addicks played numbers by Schumann, Grünfeld, Leschetizky, Moszkowski, and two of his own compositions. His playing was admirable in every way. His technic, tone quality and general intellectual grasp of the compositions played were all that could be desired.
25William E. Stansfield was assisted by members of the boy choir at his Saturday afternoon organ recital at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church.
27The third of Walter St. Clare Knodle's Lenten organ recitals took place on Saturday at the Church of the Incarnation. John H. Cromie, tenor, assisted at this recital.
29At the recital given Saturday evening by Philip Carlson, organist of Gustavus Adolphus Swedish Lutheran Church, those assisting were John Detterer, John Swartley and Elizabeth Doerr, violinist.
31As there is seldom an opportunity to hear Grace Forbes Smith in public, her song recital, held at the Automobile Club, of Germantown, was an event of interest. Mrs. Smith has made a reputation for herself abroad as a coloratura soprano. She was assisted by Rossi Gisch Buck, violinist.
33Sunday evening the organ recital at the Church of the Holy Trinity consisted of a fugue by Bach on the letters B A C H, and the largo and finale from Dvorák's "New World" symphony, played by Ralph Kinder.
35The special music at the First Baptist Church, Frederick Maxson, organist and choirmaster, consisted of Rossini's "Stabat Mater," sung last evening by the augmented choir.
37George Barclay Latham, a promising tenor pupil of Perley Dunn Aldrich, has been engaged as tenor soloist at the First Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn.
39WILSON H. PILE.
41An American Violinist Abroad.
43Josef Meredith Rosencrantz gave his concert Monday evening, March 9, at Mozart Saal, Berlin, before a large and intellectual audience, playing a very interesting program, which embraced the Beethoven "Kreutzer Sonata," Bruch's G minor concerto, the "Witches' Dance," by Paganini, and one movement from the Paganini D major concerto. Augusta Zuckerman, the American pianist, played the "Kreutzer Sonata," after which both artists received an ovation. The remainder of the program was well rendered, with the exception of the last movement of the Bruch concerto, which was somewhat hurried. Mr. Rosencrantz possesses two essential qualities for violin playing—tone and temperament.
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