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Musical Courier 1909-03-17: Vol 58 Iss 11, 1909
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1April 6, five of Eleanor Everest Freer's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" will be sung by Mrs. John Sidney Burnett, accompanied by Mrs. Hess Burr. This will be the first Chicago hearing of Mrs. Freer's setting of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets and much interest is felt in musical circles to hear an interpretation. Numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, and 11 will be sung.
3The Chicago Madrigal Club was heard in its second concert of the 1909 season at Music Hall, March 11. The program was a more interesting one than that of its first concert, containing the "Prize Song," by Willard Emerson Keyes, of Boston, as the feature of interest. This is a pleasing number, but contains nothing specially noteworthy either thematically or harmonically. It received a fairly good representation by the club, which it would seem would be greatly improved if more spirit were infused into its interpretations and less of the lackadaisical were in evidence. The accompaniment work of the pianist was away below par. It is a great shame and one Chicago should blush to have to bear that there are no competent accompanists within her realm. Some day those young students with the virtuoso bee in their bonnets will wake up to the fact that the supply of accompanists falls far below the demand, and they will forewith prepare themselves for the niche they are needed in.
5Benjamin Paley, a very talented pupil in violin playing of Frederik Frederiksen, will be heard in recital at Music Hall, March 25.
7Axel Skovgaard, the Danish violinist, is meeting with great success on his Western tour. Mr. Skovgaard is closely booked for April and May through all the big Western towns. April 3, Mr. Skovgaard will give a recital in Des Moines, la.
9The series of recitals now being given by the pupils of the Walter Spry School are meeting with the heartiest endorsement of the parents of the pupils. These exercises are given by the pupils of the various grades to show the work being accomplished in solo playing.
11Edna Cunningham, pianist; W. C. Porter, basso; Genevieve Aiken, soprano, and Hans Hess, cellist, of the American Conservatory, will give a recital Saturday afternoon, March 20, at Kimball Hall. EVELYN KAESMANN.
13Glenn Hall Sings for Sacramento Club.
14Glenn Hall, the tenor, who is filling engagements in the East this month, gave a recital at the Clunie Theater in Sacramento, Cal., on the night of February 29, under the auspices of the Saturday Club of Sacramento. Frederick Maurer, Jr., was the assisting pianist. Mr. Hall's numbers were: "Celeste Aida," Verdi; "Du Liebst Mich Nicht," Schubert; "Der Juengling," Schubert; "Gestorben War Ich," Liszt; "Auftraege," Schumann; "Serenade," Brahms; "Der Schnur," Brahms; "Zur Johannisnacht," Grieg; aria from "The Creation," Haydn; "Spanish Serenade," Jenner; "Freundlich Vision," Richard Strauss; "So Soon Forgotten," Tschaikowsky; "Trinklied," Erich Wolff; aria from "Hiawatha," Coleridge-Taylor; "Phillis Has Such Charming Graces" (Old English), "Love Has Eyes" (Old English), "Mother o' Mine," Tours. one of two readings
15Glenn Hall, the tenor, who is filling engagements in the East this month, gave a recital at the Clumie Theater in Sacramento, Cal., on the night of February 29, under the auspices of the Saturday Club of Sacramento. Frederick Maurer, Jr., was the assisting pianist. Mr. Hall's numbers were: "Celeste Aida," Verdi; "Du Liebst Mich Nicht," Schubert; "Der Juengling," Schubert; "Gestorben War Ich," Liszt; "Auftraege," Schumann; "Serenade," Brahms; "Der Schnur," Brahms; "Zur Johannisnacht," Grieg; aria from "The Creation," Haydn; "Spanish Serenade," Jenner; "Freundlich Vision," Richard Strauss; "So Soon Forgotten," Tschaikowsky; "Trinklied," Erich Wolff; aria from "Hiawatha," Coleridge-Taylor; "Phillis Has Such Charming Graces" (Old English), "Love Has Eyes" (Old English), "Mother o' Mine," Tours. one of two readings
17No Pittsburgh Letter This Week.
18Pittsburgh, Pa., March 12, 1909.
19The Pittsburgh letter has been necessarily postponed until the next issue, when full reviews of the events of the week past and the coming week will be included. This will comprise the Exposition concert of the Pittsburgh Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Male Chorus, Metropolitan Quartet, Oakland Choral Society, Mozart Club concert and other events.
20CHAS. W. CADMAN.
22Gottschalk Lyric School
23A comprehensive, well-graded Musical Education. Instrumental and Vocal, by Teachers exclusively attached to the School. Catalog mailed.
24KIMBALL HALL, CHICAGO, ILL.
26Mrs. STACEY WILLIAMS
27VOICE
28STUDIOS: 406 KIMBALL HALL
29WM. H. SHERWOOD
30CONCERT PIANIST AND DIRECTOR OF SHERWOOD MUSIC SCHOOL
31725 FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO. WALTER KELLER, Mgr
32BEST MODERN PRINCIPLES OF ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL VALUE
33EMINENT TEACHERS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS
34ARTIST MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY CAN BE ENGAGED FOR RECITALS, CONCERTS AND MUSICALES
35For Terms and Catalogues Address: MISS ADA H. HOLMES, SECRETARY
37KARLETON HACKETT
38TEACHER OF SINGING
39Kimball Hall, Chicago
41ALICE GENEVIEVE SMITH
42HARPIST
43Instruction
44Recitals
45Musicals
46STUDIO:
47LYON & HEALY
48RESIDENCE:
49432 Douglas Boulevard
50Tel. Kedzie 7892
52ARTHUR M. BURTON
53BARITONE.
54Fine Arts Building.
56ARTHUR DUNHAM
57(P. A. G. O.)
58CONCERT ORGANIST
59Address: SINAI TEMPLE, INDIANA AVENUE
61Louise St. John Westervelt
62SOPRANO
63Concerts, Oratorios, Recitals
64812 Pine Arts Building
65CHICAGO
67MRS. REGINA WATSON,
68SPECIALTY: Repertoire work with Concert Pianists, and the training of teachers.
69297 Indiana Street.
70Chicago, Ill.
72FREDERIK FREDERIKSEN
73CONCERT VIOLINIST
74Instruction—Studio: Fine Arts Building
75Late of London, England
77GUSTAF HOLMQUIST
78BASS-BARITONE
79304 Kimball Hall
80CHICAGO, ILL.
82HARRISON M. WILD
83Concert Organist
84KIMBALL HALL, 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago
85INSTRUCTION
86PIANO ORGAN
87CONDUCTOR—Apollo Musical Club, Mendelssohn Club
89LOUISE SYBRONTE MUNRO
90COLORATURA SOPRANO
91Studio: 820 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
93CLARENCE DICKINSON
94CONCERT ORGANIST.
95LECTURE RECITALS.
96Auditorium Bldg., Wabash Ave.
98numbers by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Jackson, Thome, Buck, Wolstenholme and Guilmant. The next recital, to be given March 13, will also be played by Mr. Jenkins.
100A special song and organ service was given last Sunday afternoon at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, under the direction of Charles Galloway. An anthem by Hiles was sung.
102The third and last concert of a series of three will be given by Ottmar Moll, at Henneman Hall, on Friday evening, March 26.
104Julia Gordon, of Augusta, Illinois, a pupil of the Welter Conservatory, will give a piano recital Wednesday, March 10, at the Conservatory.
106The fourth in the series of Lenten organ recitals will be given March 19 by William R. Cornelius, organist of All Souls Church, assisted by Mrs. J. A. Michaelson, soprano.
108After an absence of six weeks occasioned by illness, William Porteous was able to return to his post as basso of the Second Baptist Church choir last Sunday. At the evening service the choir, under the direction of Arthur Lieber, sang Stainer's cantata, "The Daughter of Jairus." This was the fifth of the regular song services given on the first Sunday night of each month, and this greatest work of a master of English church music selected for that evening was sung in excellent fashion.
110The Missouri Athletic Club's glee club was heard for the second time last Wednesday night. The feature number of the chorus program was Dudley Buck's arrangement of "Annie Laurie." The soloists for the evening were J. Glenn Lee, tenor; Leslie Hodgins, baritone; and Edward F. Orchard, basso. E. PRANG STAMM.
112Florence Austin Pleases Duluth.
113Florence Austin, the violinist, must have pleased hearers in Duluth recently, to judge from the following excerpts:
115Seldom has a Duluth concert audience been so held under the spell of the performance as last evening, to hear Florence Austin. She had her audience from the first moment of drawing her bow across the strings of the violin in the Ries suite to the last strain of the encore demanded at the completion of the regular program. The four movements of the Vieuxtemps concerto were played with depth of tone, and simple and dignified musicianship. The second movement was one of the most beautiful bits of the evening. The lavish technic of the violinist was displayed in a number for violin alone, "Les Arpeges." Miss Austin graciously gave two encores in response to the enthusiasm of the audience.—Duluth Evening Herald
117The music lovers of Duluth who did not attend the Florence Austin recital missed a rare treat. Miss Austin is an artist and though it took a few technical pyrotechnics to awaken the audience to the fact, when once aroused, it most emphatically expressed its approval. In Ries' G minor suite, Miss Austin was content to stand purely on her splendid musicianship. There is neither marked melody nor flashy technic in this number, but Miss Austin's mastery of the violin, her artistic judgment and depth of temperament made it a thing of rare beauty to the discriminating music lover. It required the brilliant Vieuxtemps' concerto in D minor to fully awaken the audience, while the Prume "Les Arpeges," which was purely a technical display, was repeated after continued applause. Miss Austin's most marked characteristic is a certain reserve force, a strength and dignity that are masculine rather than feminine. Nevertheless she possesses all the grace and delicacy that are so distinctly a part of the successful woman violinist, but she combines with these a dignity and repose that could never mistake hysteria for temperament or an emotional spasm for abandon. She draws a strong and facile bow, eliciting a tone of unusual depth and richness. Her fingering is sure and clean cut and her chords and arpeggios are wonderfully handled.—The Duluth News Tribune.
119The Leipsic tenor, Jacques Urius, has been engaged for the Prague Opera Festival in May.
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