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Musical Courier 1909-03-17: Vol 58 Iss 11, 1909
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1portrait painter, Jean Paul Selinger, and who is said to possess a very temperamental nature, doubtless inheriting this from her gifted uncle. The singers were assisted by Mary Shaw Swain, pianist; Hildegarde Brandegee, violinist, and Irene Osborne, accompanist. There were many guests present to hear the interesting program.
3The recital by Karl Barleben, violinist, and May Belle Hagenow-Furbush, pianist, is booked for Friday evening, March 26, at Steinert Hall. This is the program to be given: Grieg's sonata in C minor, for piano and violin; Sibelius' violin concerto, op. 47; impromptu in F sharp major, prelude in F major and etude, op. 25, No. 9, Chopin; chaconne, Bach, and "Faust" fantaisie, Gounod-Sarasate. Mr. Barleben is a well known member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while Mrs. Furbush is remembered for some excellent playing in two or more recitals last year. She is from the West, and has been studying in this city with the best teachers for several years, and is the wife of Nelson Furbush, of the Mason & Hamlin Company's Boston warerooms.
5A recital by what is known as the Oxford Trio, with the personnel of Mabelle Pierce, pianist; Annah Hunting, cellist; William Traupe, violinist, with Madame Poole, contralto, assisting, will be given at Steinert Hall on the evening of March 23. The program is: Mendelssohn's trio, op. 66; Tchaikowsky's trio, op. 59, and these solos: "L'Esclave," Lalo; "Habanera," Bizet; "In My Sleep," Alice Bateman; "Ballatina," Luigi Caracciola; "Wiegenglied," Hans Harthan.
7"An Afternoon With the Composer and His Works" was recently given by the Ladies' Musical Club of Taunton, Mass., when Arthur Foote was the composer so honored and Frances Dunton Wood, soprano, and Anna Miller Wood, contralto, were the singers who so beautifully interpreted the vocal part of the program. The local press said of the affair: "It was one of the most pleasing musical programs ever presented in the city, and was received with delight and appreciation." Mr. Foote was at the piano, both as soloist and accompanist. The songs sung by Miss Wood were: "On the Way to Kew," "Ashes of Roses," "A Song of Four Seasons," "Once at the Angelus" and "The Eden Rose," joining Mrs. Wood in four duets: "Summer Night," "It Is the Voice of Spring," "A Song from the Persian" and "I Fly Like a Bird." Mr. Foote's piano pieces were: Suite in D minor, op. 15; two poems after "Omar Khayyam"; prelude in D minor for the left hand, op. 37; romance from suite in C minor, op. 30, and "Exaltation," op. 62. An enthusiastic pupil of Miss Wood, writing to her, says: "A prominent club member telephoned me yesterday that yours was the most beautiful mezzo-contralto voice she had ever heard, and that if I pattern after you I shall certainly be all right. Every one was completely charmed with the program. You are a wonderful woman and teacher."
9The annual Lenten series offered by Wilhelm Heinrich, tenor, shows the following programs and assisting singers: March 22, a morning with the Mohammedan poet, Hafiz, Virginia Listeman, soprano; March 29, a morning of Hungarian Gypsy, C. Pol Plancon (of Boston), baritone; April 5, Italian historic songs, Sicilian and Calabrian melodies, Marguerite Palmeter, of New York, assisting; April 12, composers' morning, songs of Blair Fairchild, Emily Wardwell assisting.
11Madame Noyes gave a recital in her studio Saturday afternoon which was very much enjoyed by those who attended. Lillian Fortorella, a young Italian singer, another of Madame Noyes' "finds," sang excerpts from three operas, "Carmen," "La Boheme" and "La Tosca," with great beauty. She has been placed with Charles White by Madame Noyes. A piano pupil played MacDowell's "New England Idylls" and other pieces. There were trios and original compositions by Madame Noyes, a new piano group being among the number, and altogether a program of merit. Natalie and Marjory Patten assisted with violin and cello.
13The program announced for Mischa Elman to play here next Saturday is this: Concerto, B minor, Saint-Saëns; chaconne, for violin alone, Bach; "Faust" fantaisie, Wieniawski; paraphrase, "Preislied" ("Meistersinger"), Wagner-Wilhelmj, and "Habanera," Sarasate. Waldemar Lachowsky will preside at the piano, and the recital takes place in Symphony Hall.
15The forthcoming operas, Charpentier's musical romance, "Louise," and Debussy's music drama, "Pelleas and Melisande," are anticipated by H. L. Gideon, organist and choir-master of Temple Israel, as he announces two talks, with musical illustrations, on "The French Opera of Today," to be given, as stated in these columns last week, at Whitney Hall, Symphony Chambers, opposite Symphony Hall, on Huntington avenue, Monday, March 22, and Wednesday, March 24, and as this hall's seating capacity is limited the sale of tickets is entirely by subscription. The circular makes known that this will be Mr. Gideon's first public appearance in Boston in lecture-recital since his return from Paris, "where, as holder of the John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship awarded to him for music study in Europe by Harvard University, he fitted himself peculiarly for this field of musical activity." These well known people endorse Mr. Gideon's claim to recognition: Arthur Foote, Ernest Schirmer, Edwin Dreyfus and Rabbi Charles Fleischer, besides several prominent patronesses.
17Thursday evening, March 18, the Flonzaley Quartet will play its third and last of this season's chamber music concerts at Chickering Hall. The program is a superior one, and the organization one which has honored this city with very superior playing. The program includes three works, those by Boccherini, Hugo Wolf and Dvorák.
19The eighth social meeting of the Harvard Musical Association will be held at the Association House, 57A Chestnut street, West End, Friday evening, March 19, when the Flonzaley Quartet will give a program. April 2 the Apollo Club will sing and be entertained, and April 16 will be Ladies' Night.
21It has been announced that Max Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will remain here in his same capacity for another year.
23An attractive musicale, in the interest of charity, was the third in the series given by Mrs. Kehew at her handsome music room on Chestnut street (a house made famous because Edwin Booth once lived there), when several members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Mr. Mahn, played popular airs and melodies so well that one really wondered if they had ever been heard before. Mrs. Covell, a pupil of Albert Prescott, was to sing two groups of songs, but her illness was announced, much to the regret of all. However, Louise Bruce Brooks filled her place, and sang several songs very well. This music room is softly lighted from above, suggesting a tinge of dawn, with the walls done in greenish gray, and commodious enough to prevent being too near the music. Very large windows, besides those of quaint Queen Anne style, and a little canopied platform for the performers, make a most artistic rendezvous for music and its devoted patrons, especially in a private house. WYNA BLANCHE HUDSON.
25Tecktonius Annual Concert.
26Leo Tecktonius will give his annual concert in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Plaza, next Tuesday evening, March 23, when Charlotte Maconda will assist vocally. Mr. Tecktonius, known as one of our best pianists, makes this annual affair a musical and social event of importance. Spending last summer in the West, he went on a concert tour in the early autumn, playing in Warren, Pa., immediately before coming here. The list of patronesses for his Hotel Plaza concert is large and influential.
28Janpolski in Washington, Madison and St. Paul.
29Albert Janpolski, the Russian baritone, sang Russian songs at a musicale at the home of Mrs. Lars Anderson, in Washington, Saturday, March 6. Madame Gerville-Reache, from the Manhattan Opera House, New York, was the other singer. Thursday, March 11, Mr. Janpolski gave a song recital at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wis., and Sunday, March 14, he was a soloist in St. Paul with the St. Paul Symphony Orchestra.
31BUFFALO MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.
32BUFFALO, N. Y., March 12, 1909.
33The Bull-Goold Quartet made a fine impression in the city of Washington. Under the patronage of Miss Wetmore, this fine musical organization played at noon, February 20, for Mrs. Roosevelt and her guests at the White House, and the same afternoon at the home of Emily Tuckerman, 1712 H street, Northwest. The Washington press was unanimous in its praise of the music presented, and the scholarly and finished manner of its interpretation. The seventh Sunday recital given in Buffalo occurred February 28 at the home of Mrs. Carleton Sprague, West Ferry street. The program was as follows: Quartet, op. 29, Schubert; menuetto (a), "Erklarung," Raff, (b), serenata, "Alla Spagnola," Borodine; quartet, op. 51, Dvorák; "Allegro ma non troppo," Dunka (andante con moto, vivace); romanzes, finale.
35Evelyn Choate will give a series of lecture-recitals during Lent in private homes, and has chosen for her subject, "Music in Italy."
37Rudolph von Liebich will give lecture-recitals about nine distinguished men, whose centenaries occur this year.
39Tracy Balcom is arranging a recital at Aeolian Hall for March 22, and is to be assisted by Mrs. George G. Davidson, Mrs. A. H. Prentiss and William J. Gomph.
41The evening of March 16 the Clef Club will present a splendid program, under the direction of Alfred Jury, and Emil Paur will direct the Pittsburgh Orchestra. It is a foregone conclusion that this choral and orchestral concert cannot be surpassed.
43Assurance is given that the Buffalo Orchestral Society has come to stay as a permanent orchestra. Next season Louis W. Gay is to become its general manager.
45Emil R. Kenchen gave a complimentary piano recital on Thursday evening at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Fifteen pupils participated, and a Rochester baritone, Albert Cirotzki,
47A former pupil of Harry J. Fellows, a tenor named Crankshaw, is winning praise for his excellent singing in Bethlehem, Pa. The repetition of the cantata, "The Rose Maiden," by Cowen, attracted a larger audience than at its first presentation. One of the choir tenors of the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church had the pleasure of hearing his new musical setting of "Abide with Me," sung by the quartet of this church. Mr. Lipphard is to be congratulated.
49At the regular meeting of the Musical and Academical Club a fine program was presented by eight of Charles Armand Cornellis' piano pupils.
51Dr. Hermann Schorch, of New York, comes once a week to rehearse the Teutonia Liederkranz, which is preparing a fine program under the direction of its accomplished conductor. The concert will be given at Convention Hall the last of April.
53The Bull-Goold Quartet gave the following fine program at the Buffalo Orpheus parlors Thursday evening, the last of a series of four, in combination with Julius Lange: Quartet, op. 29, Schubert; quartet in E flat, Beethoven, and quartet in C minor, Rauchenacker. The Schubert number, with the exception of the andante and menuetto, was given in a rather lifeless manner, but in the Beethoven number the ensemble was fine, for Julius Lange's work at the piano was an inspiration. He surpassed even himself in the dash and brilliancy of his beautiful reading. The Rauschenecker quartet was well received. The audience was a large one, generous in its applause.
55VIRGINIA KEENE.
57Petschnikoff in the West.
58Alexander Petschnikoff played at concerts in St. Paul March 13, in Minneapolis on the 14th, and at Milwaukee March 21. The artist is booked for appearances with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, including concerts in Detroit, Cincinnati, Knoxville and New Orleans.
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