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Musical Courier 1909-03-17: Vol 58 Iss 11, 1909
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1BROOKLYN, March 15, 1909.
3No soloist will appear at the final concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Brooklyn, Friday evening, March 19. The concert takes place in the Opera House of the Academy of Music. It will be Max Fiedler's farewell to Brooklyn. The program follows:
4Symphonic suite, Scherazade (After The Thousand Nights and a Night), op. 35…………………Rimsky-Korsakoff
5The Sea and Sinbad's Ship.
6The Story of the Kalendar-Prince.
7The Young Prince and the Young Princess.
8Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Goes to Pieces against a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior. Conclusion.
9Tone poem, Death and Transfiguration, op. 24………….Strauss
10Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun (After the Eclogue of Stephane Mallarme)……………………………Debussy
11Waldwehen (Life and Stir of the Forest), From Siegfried Act II……………………………………………..Wagner
12Overture to The Flying Dutchman………………………..Wagner
14Saturday evening, March 27, the Brooklyn Institute will present the New York Oratorio Society, Calvary Baptist Choir, from Manhattan, and the New York Symphony Orchestra in a double performance of Beethoven's ninth symphony. There will be an intermission of fifteen minutes between the two performances of the immortal work. Edward Morris Bowman is the musical director of the choir. The soloists include: Beatrice Fine and Josephine Schaffer, sopranos; Mesdames King-Arnold and Nobbes, contraltos; Reed Miller and John Bland, tenors, and Frederick Weld and E. A. Jalin, bassos. The performances take place in the Opera House of the Academy of Music.
16Dr. N. J. Eisenheimer will direct the concert of the Brooklyn Sängerbund at the Academy of Music, Thursday evening, March 25.
18The Brooklyn Institute will present Mischa Elman in recital at the Academy of Music, Wednesday evening, March 31.
20Dr. Ludwig Wüllner's postponed song recital takes place at the Academy of Music, Wednesday evening, April 14. This is another in the series of spring concerts by the Brooklyn Institute.
22"The Bartered Bride," the thirteenth opera in Brooklyn this season, is scheduled for performance at the Academy of Music tonight. The cast is the same as that appearing in the opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. "Aida" will be sung on the evening of March 24, and the series in Brooklyn will close Monday evening, April 5, with "La Bohème."
24Clarence Eddy played the following numbers at the second lecture recital at the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church last Wednesday evening: "Chromatic Fantaisie," Thiele; "The Curfew," Edward I. Horsman, Jr.; "Suite Gothique," Boellman; Communion in G, Batiste; "Fanfare," Lemmens; nocturne in G, J. Frank Frysinger; "Torchlight March," Guilmant. Mr. Eddy's playing preceded a lecture on "Tennyson," by the Rev. Dr. N. McGee Waters, pastor of the church. These recitals attract large audiences. Clarence Eddy is one of the few great organ artists who reside in this part of the world. Wednesday night of this week Mr. Eddy will give another recital as a prelude to Dr. Waters' lecture on "Gladstone." These highly instructive evenings are free to the public.
26A violin and song recital by Maurice Nitke, Cecilia Niles, soprano, and Harry McClaskey, tenor, arranged by Emanuel Schmauk, at the Y. M. C. A. Branch, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, March 9, proved interesting. A committee of prominent women saw to it that the hall was filled, and the artists were applauded and encored in several instances. Malcolm Maynier and Emanuel Schmauk served as accompanists.
28Bidkar Leete, pianist, pupil of Charles Lee Tracy, and Cora Remington, soprano, gave a recital at the Pouch Mansion March 9, which attracted an attentive and pleased audience. The pianist played the Bach-Liszt fantaisie and fugue in G minor, Chopin ballade, and other pieces. The youth played recently for Safonoff, and was highly complimented.
30Michele Guarini's European Conservatory of Music gave a students' concert at Memorial Hall, March 4, eighteen numbers making up a varied program consisting of vocal, piano, violin, elocution, harp, violin and piano ensemble numbers.
32Martha Gissel, soprano, assisted by Messrs. Winkler and Kaltenborn, Arthur Rosenstein, accompanist, gave a song recital at Memorial Hall, March 10. Miss Gissel, a young woman of graceful appearance, sang "Dich, Theure Halle" and songs by Brahms, Van der Stucken, Spross, Arditi and Bizet, winning encores. A large audience attended. The patrons were Joseph O. Amberg, Herrick C. Allen, Frank L. Butterworth, Emma Barends, Letta Burns, William Engelmen, Louise Freisem, Joseph Hecker, Mrs. Adam Kessler, Claude La Shelle, W. Pigot, Christopher J. Schmidt, Mr. Staelin and Francis Young.
34Albert Spalding Wins New Laurels.
36The large attendance that Albert Spalding is drawing to his special series of violin recitals is, after all, a marked evidence that grotesque foreign names, long hair and eccentric mannerisms are wholly unnecessary accessories to any real artistic endeavors. Spalding has demonstrated this fact on many previous occasions and he forcibly demonstrated it again during the course of his second recital at Mendelssohn Hall, Saturday evening, March 13. As at his previous recital, Spalding was assisted by Alfredo Oswald, pianist, the program for the occasion being as follows:
38Sonate in A major………………………………………Cesar Franck
39Mr. Spalding and Mr. Oswald. one of two readings
40Devil's Trill……………………………………………..Tartini one of two readings
41Mr. Spalding. one of two readings
42Devil's Trill……………………………………………..Mr. Spalding and Mr. Oswald. one of two readings
43Three Studies…………………………………………..Tartini one of two readings
44Three Studies…………………………………………..Chopin
45Mr. Oswald. one of two readings
46Air on the Fourth Corde……………………………….Bach one of two readings
47Air on the Fourth Corde……………………………Bach one of two readings
48Octave Study…………………………………………..Paganini-Hachez
49Berceuse……………………………………………….Gabriel Faure one of two readings
50Berceuse…………………………………………………Gabriel Faure one of two readings
51Polonaise in D…………………………………………..Wieniawski
52Mr. Spalding.
54Of paramount interest was the Cesar Franck sonate, a work that is seldom heard, owing to its abounding technical difficulties. Spalding's facile technic, abetted by his essentially musical temperament, resulted in a most beautiful interpretation of the sonate. In fact he was never heard to better advantage. His playing of the Tartini number was admirable in every way and led to an ovation such as few artists receive. Throughout the evening, Spalding held his audience as under a spell. Each performance of this young player confirms to a greater degree the opinion that he is a virtuoso of rare attainments and excellent schooling. His versatility was well tested by the concluding group of compositions so diverse in their character and when he had finished his last number the audience clamored for more, and an encore was gracefully given.
56Alfredo Oswald's playing, both as accompanist and soloist, was generally excellent. He selected as solos Chopin's etudes, op. 25, No. 6, in G sharp minor; op. 25, No. 3, in G major, and op. 10, No. 12, in C minor, and for an encore he gave a Chopin waltz.
58Schenck's Brilliant Conducting of "Elijah."
60Elliott Schenck conducted the Jersey City performance of "Elijah" recently, and in such successful fashion that a local paper gives forth the following interesting utterance:
62They sang well, the musicians played well, the soloists did splendidly and altogether last night's Mendelssohn Festival was one worthy the centenary of the great composer. But all this did not exactly happen, and before telling more about what pleased so many, it is but just to explain how it all came about.
63Men do not sing, nor women either, musicians do not play, nor soloists give their best, excepting they have the guidance and inspiration of just one person. So today when any in that large audience recalls with enjoyment the music of last night, the success of it must be given to Mr. Schenck, the conductor.
64One glance at the man who held the baton would have shown him tense, alert and alive to every sound. In one or two of the difficult choruses his face was set, his hand clenched and by sheer force he simply made them sing and, better yet, they all were glad to sing for him.
65You applauded the chorus and thanked them, but the audience has to thank the leader for what gave them so much pleasure.—Jersey City Journal.
67At the performance Mr. Schenck had the assistance of Dr. Carl Dufft, Grace Munson, Mrs. Talbot Chambers, Aimée Delanoix, and the New York Symphony Orchestra.
68Mr. Schenck's new choral compositions are forging ahead. The Mendelssohn Glee Club is at work on "If Wishes Were Horses" and "O, Lady Moon," while several women's choruses are taking up the secular cantata, "The Faint Little Heart."
70Hans Kötscher played the Reger violin concerto at a recent symphony concert in Basle, Switzerland.
72Concert by School of Music and Arts.
74Among the students' concerts recently given in New York none attracted a more musical audience than the New York School of Music and Arts, for its seventeenth pupils' evening at Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, Thursday, March 11. Ralfe Leech Sterner, the director, introduced seventeen of his vocal pupils, and these were assisted by pupils of the piano and violin departments. Extra seats had to be carried into the hall to accommodate the music-eager friends and patrons. The tickets were sold, therefore it was not an assemblage of "deadheads." The program was too long for review, but several of those who appeared are entitled to special mention. Martha Zschaebitz, coloratura soprano, revealed a voice of rare sweetness and excellent training in the waltz from Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" and three songs—"Summer" by Chamade, "Serenade" by Richard Strauss and Arditi's "Parla" waltz. Gertrude Bramson, another advanced pupil of Mr. Sterner, a soprano with a rich and well placed voice, sang delightfully "The Maid and Butterfly," by D'Albert; "O Santissima Vergine," by Giordani, and "A Song of Thanksgiving," by Allitsen. Charlotte Segler, another soprano, sang in good style the Michaela aria from "Carmen." Selma Lucile Manheimer, Victoria Myrtle Miller and Marie Louise Douglas were among the other worthy pupils of Mr. Sterner. Miss Miller sang arias from "Tosca" and "Gioconda," and all of the others gave songs or arias best suited to their voices and present stage of their development. The other singers were: Martha Seavey Garvin, Alice E. Hayward, Alice Davis Bennett, Nina Jackson, Helen A. Bandholz, Laura Hope Conrad, Jean Ellis and Dorothy Richter.
76The piano department was well represented by Charles Haubiel Pratt, who played the Rachmaninoff prelude in G minor and a fantaisie of his own. Dorothy Ebell, another young pianist, created a good impression by playing two movements from the Beethoven sonata, op. 31, No. 3.
78Louise Groff and Elizabeth McCartney, two young violinists, played Handel's "Largo," and the audience also heard a young violin genius, Max Rosenzweig, who is but eight years old, and already plays like a well equipped adult artist. Master Rosenzweig played a concerto by Accolay, disclosing the qualities that constitute violin playing at its best.
80The interesting concert closed with a Rubinstein quartet, "Voices of the Woods," sung by Nellie Pfortaer, Dorothy Richter, Alice Ellis and Lydia Becker. Florence Haubiel Pratt, of the faculty, played the piano accompaniments. As stated before, all the vocalists are pupils of Mr. Sterner.
82To give such a concert is no little achievement. The musical director has many things to consider, but he must above all strive to have the pupils appear in the best possible light, and in this respect the director and members of the faculty have cause for congratulation. Several of the pupils both played and sang, thus showing that they were proficient in at least two branches. Having mentioned all the singers, perhaps the names of the youthful pianists should also be recorded. The pianists included: Nina Jackson, Helen A. Bandholz, Max Weiss, Frances Cortwright, Mildred Martin, Kathryn O'Connell, Irene Clare Brady, Ruth Hazel Curry, Sylvia Brugnoli, Elsie Becker, Katherine Therese Murphy, and, as stated above, Miss Ebell and Mr. Pratt.
84The New York School of Music and Arts is located at 49 West Ninety-seventh street. Owing to the large increase of pupils, the school will remove to 58 West Ninety-seventh street May 1.
86Schnitzer's Recital Program.
88Germaine Schnitzer, the Viennese pianist, will play the following program at her recital in Mendelssohn Hall, Friday afternoon, March 19:
90Sonata, F minor, op. 5………………………………………Brahms
91Pastorale Variee…………………………………………..Mozart
92Symphonic Etudes………………………………………Schumann
93Wohn?…………………………………………………….Schubert-List one of two readings
94Wohn?………………………………………………………Schubert-List one of two readings
95Prelude, op. 104, No. 7…………………………………Mendelssohn
96Nocturne, op. 55, No. 1…………………………………Cho in
97Etude, op. 10, No. 12…………………………………..Chopin
98Etude, op. 25, No. 2…………………………………..Chopin
99Etude in form of a waltz……………………………….Saint-Saens
100Tarentelle……………………………………………….Mozkowsk one of two readings
101Tarentelle…………………………………………………Mozart one of two readings
102Walzer (Wienerisch)…………………………………..Pohle one of two readings
103Walzer (Wienerisch)……………………………………Pohl one of two readings
104Mazepa……………………………………………………Lort one of two readings
105Mazepa…………………………………………………….Lort one of two readings
107After her recital, Miss Schnitzer is to make two appearances in Boston with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is to be soloist at several of the music festivals of the West and South, both with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Symphony Orchestra.
109Deaths in Opera Circles.
111Last week, Rosina van Dyk, wife of Richard Hagemann, assistant conductor at the Metropolitan, received the distressing news that her mother and father had both died on the same day in Europe. Shortly after, Alfred Hertz received the cabled information of the death of his uncle, who has long resided in Paris.
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