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Musical Courier 1909-03-17: Vol 58 Iss 11, 1909
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1NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSICAL CLUBS.
2OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY, MRS. JOHN OLIVER,
3156 NORTH BELLEVUE BOULEVARD,
4MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 10, 1909.
6Grand Rapids will have a musical festival during the meeting of the National Federation, which will be held in that city May 24 to 29. The Theodore Thomas Orchestra has been engaged by the St. Cecelia Society, the entertaining club, and everything points to Grand Rapids, St. Cecelia Society and success.
8The following clubs have made recent contributions to the American Prize Composition Fund: Tuesday Musical, of Springfield, Mass.; Matinee Musical, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treble Clef, Newton, Kan., and two Mississippi clubs, namely, Biloxi and Greenwood.
10The annual Lenten concert of the Union Music Club, of St. Louis, Mo., will be given April 10 at the First Congregational Church. Mrs. Charles B. Roland will be the director for the evening. Miss Spencer, Miss Wirthlin, Miss Lowe and Mrs. Epstein will contribute to the entertainment. Mrs. George Frankel, a valued member of the board of the National Federation, is the president. Mrs. Philipp N. Moore is honorary president.
12According to the outline given in the year book for the Treble Clef Club, of Jonesboro, Ark., the next meeting will be held with Mrs. C. B. Gregg. The lesson for the day will be "Dudley Buck" and Mrs. Virgil Pettie will be the leader. A vocal solo will be given by Mrs. W. W. Cate. Mary Knight, the club's gifted pianist, will add several numbers. Mrs. C. B. Gregg and Mrs. J. H. Little also appear on the program, and Mrs. T. D. Warner will read a paper on the life of Dudley Buck.
14The Lake View Musical Society, of Chicago, announces the next musical for April 19. Mrs. James P. Houston is chairman of the program committee.
16The Chaminade Club, of Jackson, Miss., gave an organ recital at the First Baptist Church in that city March 3. Miss Gittner played a number by Bach and Mrs. Coleman sang "My Heart Ever Faithful," by Bach. Other numbers were from the works of Dubois, Handel and Liszt.
18The Afternoon Musical Society, of Danbury, Conn., celebrated the inauguration of President Taft with a concert of political and campaign songs. Bessie Wessells had charge of the program and a delightful afternoon was spent. March 18 the subject of the meeting will be "The Evolution of the Harp." Mrs. Charles Murphy and Dorothy Rider will be the program committee.
20The Ladies' Music Club, of Topeka, Kan., will give a program from Mendelssohn on March 24. March 10 the subject was "Our Modern English Composers." Miss Parkhurst had charge of the last program.
22March 1 the Matinee Musical, of Coffeyville, Kan., heard Professor Peters in piano recital. This was the last concert under the administration of officers elected for 1908. The election of officers for 1909 was held March 3, and a report will be given at an early date.
24Beginning with March 5, the Morning Etude, of St. Louis, Mo., will arrange programs for "symphony days." Mrs. Howard Watson was in charge of the program on the 5th, when a paper was read on "Mendelssohn's Characteristics and Their Influence on His Compositions." March 19, Ella Mackle will arrange the program, "Spring Symphony." A paper on "Schumann as a Tone Poet" will be presented.
26Mrs. Heber Knott, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has entire charge of the press work for the northern section, and Grand Rapids until after the biennial, which will be held in that city May 24 to 29.
28NOLA NANCE OLIVER.
30MUSIC IN THE MONUMENTAL CITY.
31BALTIMORE, March 8, 1909.
33Had it not been for the obtrusive reality that the Philadelphia Orchestra was appearing here for the last time this season the night of March 1, at the Lyric, would have been an unalloyed pleasure. Mr. Pohlig had returned to his place as the master builder of programs, and the one he presented was conducted by him and played by his men in a manner which left nothing to be desired. The audience was an improvement, in numbers, over the concert which preceded it, the medical and chirurgical faculty being a commission beneficiary upon this occasion, and it was well that a large number of new patrons should have heard this splendid orchestra play; for, when it comes to us next year, it will have just that many more friends in this city. The program included: "Les Preludes," Liszt; symphony in B minor ("Unfinished"), Schubert; concerto for piano and orchestra, in B flat minor, op. 23, Tschaikowsky, and overture, "Benvenuto Cellini," Berlioz. The orchestra played superbly, and it is an unusual thing for an audience here to manifest so much spontaneous enthusiasm as was exhibited. Mr. Pohlig was recalled so many times that he most graciously and fittingly motioned, upon three separate occasions, for the full orchestra to rise and receive, with him, the hearty plaudits. Harold Randolph was the soloist, and he was the recipient of an ovation from his townspeople. He played the concerto in a masterful manner and fully deserved the reception accorded him. It was again demonstrated, in Mr. Randolph's engagement, that the ancient provincialism, which bars a dweller in Baltimore from an appearance in any of the major affairs given here, was a ridiculous fallacy, and the thanks of the local profession are due this splendid artist for adding a spike to the coffin which encases this dishonored effigy of straw.
35Clara Ascherfeld, pianist, took with her to Havre de Grace, Md., upon the night of March 2, the following Baltimore musicians, who gave an extremely interesting concert under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, viz.: Elizabeth Albert, soprano; Bart Wirtz, cellist, and Merrill Hopkinson, baritone. The largest audience ever assembled in the building to hear a concert of a like character gave ample evidence of the pleasure they enjoyed.
37Dr. Ludwig Wüllner is to give this city the rare opportunity of hearing him a second time this season. Let every one who reads this announcement constitute himself or herself an individual advertising bureau, so that every one who went on February 23, and those who were so unfortunate as to miss hearing him upon that date, may be present upon April 6, and give this giant artist the royal reception he should receive.
39After a concert in Cambridge, Md., and Dover, Del., Nellie A. Seliman, contralto, of Brown Memorial Church, spent the balance of the week, beginning February 21, in New York, and while there met and sang for some influential people. She was entertained on Thursday, the 25th, at the residence of Mrs. C. W. Ray, 128 West Eighty-second street, and sang for a distinguished gathering, being assisted at the piano by Leonard Liebling. After her marriage, which will occur in the near future, she will reside in New York, and thus we shall once more lose one of our most promising singers.
41The recital, in Alumni Hall, of the Western Maryland College, on the night of March 5, was given by Mathilde B. Rimbach, soprano; Nellie A. Sellman, contralto; Ethel Garrett Johnston, at the piano, and Merrill Hopkinson, baritone. This song recital was in the regular winter course, and was attended by all the students of the college, and a goodly number of the residents of Westminster, at which place the college is located. Misses Rimbach and Johnston are members of the music faculty, are talented women, and are doing a good work there.
43The regular Saturday afternoon musicale at the Arundel Club was given on the 6th, by Harry Patterson Hopkins, pianist, and Edna A. Brown, soprano. Mr. Hopkins is a talented graduate of the Peabody, and appeared as solo pianist, composer, transcriber and accompanist, and in each of these rather considerable varieties of accomplishments he demonstrated his grasp upon many phases of the art of music. He is at this time a resident of Washington, D. C., yet he keeps in touch with this city, and is organist and choirmaster of the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church. Miss Brown, a pupil of Steinmuller, has an excellent voice, and will attain an enviable place in the art, if she is diligent and helps the future to develop the fine possibilities of the present. She is the soprano in the church in which Mr. Hopkins is the choirmaster.
45M. H.
47Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, the gifted young Polish composer, was killed recently during a landslide at Zakopane. Karlowicz, only thirty-one years old, had composed a serenade for orchestra, a violin concerto, a "Per Aspera" symphony, songs, and symphonic poems.
49SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL
50April 30th, May 1st
51Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Normal School
52CHORUS AT KIRKSVILLE, MO.
53Directors: D. R. GEBHART and EMIL OBERHOFER
55WERRENRATH
56Sole Management, WALTER R. ANDERSON
575 West 98th Street, NEW YORK Phone: 349-39th.
59SIGHT SINGING
60Paris Conservatory Method Used
61TRAINING OF CHILDREN'S VOICES A SPECIALTY
62MME. C. TROTIN, Carnegie Hall, (Tuesdays and Fridays, 1 to 8 P. M.) New York
63Residence, 730 West End Ave. Phone, 3410 River.
65FRANCIS ROGERS
66BARITONE
67DIRECTION LOUDON CHARLTON 45 West 45th St., New York
69From November 15th, 1908, to May 10th, 1909
70PETSCHNIKOFF Great Russian Violinist
71R. E. JOHNSTON, Manager, St. James Building, New York City
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