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Musical Courier 1909-03-17: Vol 58 Iss 11, 1909
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1tontette Hall, had arranged a good program. The augmented chorus had the assistance of Mary Wight, soprano; Alice Louise Ward, contralto; Gustav R. Lens, tenor, and Butler L. Church, basso. Two more elaborate recitals were given at the Central Baptist Church, the regular choir being assisted by a chorus, with Mabel T. Potter, contralto, making up the program, and at the First Universalist Church, a chorus of fifty voices, under the direction of W. D. Stone, sang Spohr's cantata, "God, Thou Art Great." M. C. Ballou was the organist and the soloists were Mrs. C. H. Stone, soprano; Alice L. Ward, contralto; G. R. Lens, tenor; B. L. Church, bass.
3This (Saturday) afternoon, Hans Schneider was invited to lecture before the Philosophical Society of Brown University. His subject was "Richard Wagner and the Philosophers of His Time." Schneider succeeds admirably as a lecturer. A remarkable unanimity among the Providence critics is that Schneider is a Wagner lecturer par excellence. He has gained a reputation by his hard work and he deserves great credit. We German-Americans can be justly proud of such a fellow citizen.
5Quite a compliment has been paid to one of Providence's young singers. "Edith Alida Bullard, who has been the soprano soloist of the Central Baptist Church, has been engaged to sing in the future at the First Church in Boston, where Arthur Foote is the organist.
7Next week, Tuesday evening, March 23, Dr. Jules Jordan will lecture on "Schubert" before the Chaminade Club at the Churchill House. The lecturer will be assisted by one of his pupils, Walter Rogers, tenor.
9HERMANN MUELLER.
11Letters at Musical Courier Offices.
13The following letters are at the offices of THE MUSICAL COURIER: Miss Chevalier, O. J. Hackett, Oscar J. Ehrgott, Harry Lazenby, Joseph Hunsker, Mr. Duss, bandmaster; Marie Keller, Mrs. Mary Fairweather, Mme. L. Birmingham, Carl Klein, Mrs. Byrne Ivy, manager of the Aborn Opera Company; Grace L. La Pelle, Max Bachmann, Alice Shaw, Emma Calvé, C. A. Daniels, John I. McMahon.
15WANTED
17DEBUT CHANCES.—There is an opportunity for a number of singers if they wish to make debuts in Europe in opera to do so at a minimum expense, under splendid auspices, guaranteed. No arrangements made unless the evidence is given of their fulfillment in the most legitimate manner. Address "Opera," c/o MUSICAL COURIER.
19WANTED—Capital to go into the music publishing business. Twenty-five per cent. profit clear. Parties who put in the money can control the capital. No difficulties in securing the proper representation. Outlets all open. Cash business. Important copyrights can be acquired. Address "Old Hand," c/o MUSICAL COURIER.
21WANTED—A man with capital, acquainted with musical affairs or musical agency affairs, who can handle the interests of a number of European artists and also several American artists, who have combined to appear in this country during the coming season. The man must be possessed of some means, must have a business knowledge of managing, and must be a good organizer, discipline and business being requisites. Address "Manager," c/o MUSICAL COURIER.
23FOR SALE
25FOR SALE—Two fine old violins. Call at the office of THE MUSICAL COURIER by appointment, when the owner will exhibit them.
27BENEDICT
28ITALY.
29LUIGI AVERSA
30DEL. CONSERVATORIO DI NAPOLI
31Impartizione della Voce. Dizione Vocale. Repertorio
3274 Pore Bonaparte MILANO
33GIOVANNI CASTELLANO
34Maestro di Canto
35IMPOSTAZIONE, REPERTORIO, PERFEZIONAMENTO,
36VIA VINCENZO MONTI 49, MILANO
37VITTORIO CARPI
38VOCAL TEACHER IN FOUR LANGUAGES.
39Florence, Via dei Conti 7, Po. sdo.
41CONTRALTO
42Management
43WALTER R. ANDERSON
446 West 38th Street, New York
45Phone, 349 38th
47CAROLINE
48Hudson
49Soprano
50Management
51WALTER R. ANDERSON
526 West 38th Street, New York
53Phone, 349 38th
55TOO MUCH MUSIC IN SOCIETY.
56[FROM THE NEW YORK SUN.]
58New Yorkers who are in the habit of receiving invitations feel apprehensive nowadays as they open them. "Thank Heaven!" said a woman who took a card out of its envelope yesterday. "I'm glad to see there is no music about this. Whenever I see the word in the corner of an invitation I shudder."
60The musical accompaniment to social parties has been so overdone this season that invitations to musicales are no longer in demand. It is only when the invitation comes from a hostess that one cannot well offend or from one whose house is really too beautiful to be ignored that the word "music" does not cause some dismay.
62"I shall never forget a party I went to last week," said one of the younger set who does not relish serious entertainments. "I spoke to the hostess, who stood at the head of the drawing room, and then saw that the chairs had all been arranged as if we were in a theater, the seats in rows. 'I took a place after a few words with the hostess and found myself seated next to persons I did not know. Soon the seats about me were filled up, and I was just as much away from my friends as if I had been at a theater.
64"To my horror I saw enter the orchestra from an opera house which had been giving a concert than evening. I had been there for about two hours in a box with some friends, who dropped me at my hostess's house after the concert. Here I was to listen to it all over again.
66"The uproar of the band in a drawing room was something deafening. For two hours or more those men played, with the interruption of occasional performances on the cello by an old man with white hair, who must have played at least a dozen numbers. It was so appalling that I escaped so soon as the first number was over.
68"Do you wonder why New York people are beginning to look askance at anything that invites you to listen to music? Anybody could have heard such a concert under much more favorable circumstances in an opera house for a very moderate price. Why import it to a salon and deafen the listeners?
70"It was just the same way at a concert given by a hostess last week. She had a famous singer come to her house and he sang several numbers which most of the audience had repeatedly heard him sing much better at the Metropolitan Opera House. There seems, however, to be a rage this year for having the high priced opera stars."
72The engagement of the high priced opera artists is as a matter of fact thought to give distinction to a party. To realize that the prima donna or the tenor gets $2,000 or $3,000 adds a certain cachet to any festivity. Few hostesses are heroic enough, however, to engage the entire orchestra from an opera house and then supplement that heavy fare by an instrumental musician.
74"The engagement of singers is in a measure an admission of a certain lack of knowledge what to do for your guests," said a woman who has been at several of these entertainments this winter, "although there are certain circumstances under which music might be made very delightful. Chamber music, for instance, is intended for such use; but it is looked upon as too musical and lacks the excitement that the presence of the opera singers brings.
76"At a musicale last week the principal offering consisted of a series of choruses by eight well trained women's voices, which were a novelty. It is highly probable, however, that the guests invited as a rule to the musicales at which the high priced singers appear would have been very much dissatisfied at the performance of these musical pieces, which would probably have been over the heads of many of them.
78"One hostess who tried to make this sort of music popular had all the players dressed up in silk breeches with silk stockings and white wigs. That gave them a very interesting look of antiquity, but the men did not play well. When she tried to get the best of these players dress up in the period of the quartets of Haydn and Handel they declined. Men eminent enough in their profession to play this music well would not make monkeys of themselves by donning silk breeches and stockings."
80The musicians do not care much more for entertainments of this kind than the guests do.
82"I think I ought to charge twice as much for my services at a musicale," said an accompanist who follows many of the opera singers on their well paid progress through the drawing rooms of the wealthy, "for I have at least twice as much work to do. I always have to play the preludes over two or three times in order to stop the conversation, and I never have the glory of having my finales listened to, since the talk begins the minute the singing ceases. An accompanist ought to be paid just as much in excess of his regular fee as the singers are."
84Occasionally the leading vaudeville singers are engaged to appear in private, and they amuse the guests much more than the operatic big bugs, without costing nearly so much. The difficulty about them is that their contracts as a rule forbid appearances outside their theaters. So there are few of the private theatrical performances here that are always a feature of the entertaining during the London season.
86"One of the most successful parties I ever had," said a hostess who had grown weary of paying big prices to singers, "cost me only $25 for the entertainer, who kept sixty guests in roars for an hour. He was a very popular vaudeville performer. He was exceptional, too, in that his monologue was suited to a certain degree of refinement in his hearers. Few of the women in the music halls are available for private entertainments, because they are—well, they are not suited to private house entertainments."
88Strauss' "Electra" will not be given in Vienna this season.
90Lilli Lehmann will sing several times at the Vienna Opera this month.
92Rose Schoverling, of Brooklyn, has been engaged for the Wiesbaden Opera.
94Pablo de Casals, the cellist, had a tremendous triumph in Moscow not long ago.
96Bella Alten has been engaged for the Imperial Opera House in Vienna, to which Edyth Walker has returned after two years at Hamburg.
98Amadeo Bassi will create in Milan the title rôle in Mancinelli's "Francesca da Rimini," which is to be heard for the first time this year at La Scala.
100Chaliapine, the famous Russian basso, so a St. Petersburg newspaper asserts, has made up his mind to leave the operatic stage and devote himself to the spoken drama. In an interview printed in the Listok, he declared that he could no longer endure following the rigid traditions of the opera. In his opinion the conventional forms of the opera are antiquated and extremely inartistic. "In modern opera there is no improvement, everything follows the old paths, the only exception being Wagner."
102Ernest R. Kroeger
103DIRECTOR KROEGER SCHOOL OF MUSIC
104Pianoforte Recitals and Lecture Recitals
105Musical Art Building, ST. LOUIS, MO.
107WILLIAM JOHN HALL
108TENOR
109MR. AND MRS. HALL.—Joint Recital—"SONGS OF THE ORIENT"
110Suite 29-30, Musical Art Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
112MARIE OLK
113VIOLIN SOLOIST
114Pupil of Joachim, Berlin
1153642 LINDELL BLVD., ST. LOUIS MO.
117VON STEIN
118ACADEMY for PIANISTS
119Incorp. Nov., 1907
120HEINRICH VON STEIN, President
1211502 S. GRAND AVENUE
122LOS ANGELES, CAL.
124AMERICAN MUSICAL DIRECTORY
125Which gives the ADDRESSES of
126MUSICAL SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ETC.
127Price, $2.50 Delivered. 439 Fifth Avenue—Telephone: 4292 38th—New York
129BURROWES COURSE OF MUSIC STUDY
130(Kindergarten and Primary.)
131PERSONAL OR CORRESPONDENCE INSTRUCTION.
132Address by letter.
133MISS KATHARINE BURROWES,
134M. 502 Carnegie Hall, NEW YORK CITY or Dept. M., DETROIT, MICH.
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