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Musical Courier 1909-05-05: Vol 58 Iss 18, 1909
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1ist for the Theatergoers Club, at all times greatly pleasing his hearers.
3Zilpha Barnes Wood gave a musical "At Home" April 28, at her residence-studio on Washington Heights. Some of her professional pupils sang.
5The first private concert of the Women's Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Margaret Moore, conductor, took place May 4, at the Berkeley Lyceum.
7Amy Fay, pianist, and Elizabeth K. Patterson, soprano, will give a joint recital at the Chapter Room, Carnegie Hall, May 12. The program will consist of a "Piano Conversation" by Miss Fay, and a program of classic and modern songs, sung by Miss Patterson.
9The Default-Roy recital, Mendelssohn Hall, is necessarily reserved for detailed notice until next week.
11Clara Bernetta, the vocal teacher, has removed her studio to The Douglas, 357 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street. Miss Bernetta's music rooms on the sixth floor overlook Morningside Park, and will be pleasant for the students who continue their lessons during the summer months.
13Malvina A. Herr, a talented pupil of Gustav L. Becker, and Dora Becker, the gifted concert pianist, were heard at the recital given at Mr. Becker's studios, 11 West Forty-second street, Wednesday evening, April 28. Miss Herr, the young pianist, played with much charm and technical finish, a group of Chopin numbers—preludes op. 28, Nos. 21 and 23; etudes, op. 25, Nos. 3 and 5; nocturne, op. 62, No. 1; ballade in F, op. 38; valse in G flat, op. 70, No. 1; polonaise-fantaisie, op. 61. After the Chopin pieces, Miss Herr gave further evidences of her talent and training in the performance of numbers by Grieg, Liszt, Brahms and Schumann. The program was closed with a masterly presentation of the sonata in B minor for piano and violin by Philipp Scharwenka the players being Madame Becker and Miss Herr.
15Max Wertheim, formerly distinguished as a leading tenor on the operatic stage and equally noted as a concert singer, presented a number of his pupils at a recital at the Carnegie Lyceum, Tuesday evening of last week. The voices of the pupils all disclosed flexibility and purity in production. That the training was correct and beautiful was evident after hearing each pupil sing. Those who participated were Lucile Brocker, Sadie Lechner, Pauline Lowenfeld, Martha Lewis, Ingeborg Wank, Leonora Levy, Lulu Dorothy Hahner, Mrs. Peter MacDonald, Herbert Smith and Joseph D. Price. The piano accompaniments were played by Mr. Wertheim and Henry D. Loesser. The program was varied and interesting.
17Pupils of Ferdinand Carri, the violin master, gave an excellent account of themselves at the annual concert of the Carri School in Mendelssohn Hall, Saturday evening, April 24. A quartet of young violinists, Isabelle Rackoff, Josef Lucatorto, Esther Goodman and Paul Formont, opened the program with a sarabande by Handel and a gavot by Bach. Other players who made a good impression were Rebecca Enklwitz, George Kohlmeier, Maidi Sprunk, Willie Monaghan, Ida Sundel, J. C. Kicherer, James Isold, Anderson Campbell and Michael Franz.
19Mr. Monaghan performed the difficult fantaisie "Moise" by Paganini. The concert closed with a fine performance of Handel's "Largo," played by the following violinists, assisted at the piano by Hermann Carri and Henry Koendig at the organ: Maidi Sprunk, Rebecca Enklwitz, Sally Curry, Miss E. MacGinness, Willie Monaghan, Samuel Friedman, Josef Allegro, Michal Franz, Master Paul Formont, Master D. Scotelaro, Master Harry Weis, Isabelle Rackoff, Esther Goodmann, Mollie Greenberg, Miss C. Smith, J. C. Kicherer, James Isold, George Diehl, T. Brancaccio, Master A. Glasser, Master Walter Vogel, Master Willie Madden, Josephine Graa, Ida Sundel, Roslyn Johnson, Florence Coughlin, Anderson Campbell, D. Intiso, Rudolph Hosek, Master Josef Lucatorto, Master George Kohlmeier and Master Louis Sattler.
21Manfred Malkin, a young French pianist, who now lives in New York, assisted in making successful a musical tea held at the home of Mrs. William A. Crane, 46 Franklin avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island. Thursday afternoon, April 29. Mr. Malkin played the first movement from the Rubinstein concerto in D minor; the Chopin ballade in F; Liszt's twelfth "Hungarian" rhapsody and a number of encores. The orchestral part in the Rubinstein excerpt was played on a second piano. The affair, which attracted a brilliant audience, was for the benefit of the piano fund of the Unitarian Sunday School of New Brighton.
23Musical Soiree at Madame Fisk's Paris Studio.
24Paris, April 19, 1909.
26Madame Katharine Fisk gave her last reception on Sunday, April 18, in honor of Mrs. William Hammond, who is about to return to America. Her daughter, Elisabeth Hammond, one of the most remarkable pupils of Touche, added by her wonderful cello playing to the interest of the occasion. In spite of her youth, one feels a maturity in her work that places her in the ranks of older artists. She has recently given a debut recital in Paris and made a most decided and surpassing success.
28Madame Fisk's studio theater in the Rue Chaptal, where the well known contralto has been most successfully teaching this winter was filled with friends who enthusiastically applauded the singing of her pupils. Alyse Gregory was chiefly remarked. The brilliancy of her execution and the crystal-like quality of her voice give great promise. She rendered with admirable finesse and charm the "Shadow Song" from "Dinorah" and her interpretation of the "Solveig's Song" by Grieg, delighted her hearers. Miss Gregory has been three years a pupil of Mme. Fisk, and followed her from New York to Paris to continue her work. She couples with a natural beauty of tone fine schooling, great refinement of delivery, neatness of diction and a dignity of bearing, all of which give proper setting to her beautiful voice, which, though not large, has been likened to a miniature perfect of its kind.
30Minnie Tracey, who has just returned from an engagement at Geneva, where she sang with the greatest success Elizabeth in "Tannhäuser" and Isolde in "Tristan," kindly offered to sing a few selections, which she rendered in her usual finished and musicianly manner.
32Gustave Ferrari, who is already well known to the public as a composer, accompanied with great skill and sympathy, and also consented to sing some of his own composition.
34Pfitzner's "Rose vom Liebesgarten" and Debussy's "Pelleas and Melisande" were the operatic novelties at Prague this winter.
36GABRILOWITSCH'S FAREWELL RECITAL.
38Ossip Gabrilowitsch, now grown to be one of the most popular recital pianists before the American public, gave his farewell New York recital at Carnegie Hall last Saturday afternoon. If any doubt had remained regarding the measure of favor he enjoys in this city it was dispelled decisively by the huge audience which braved the bad weather and by the loud and lasting applause which his hearers bestowed on every number—and a few extra ones—of the Gabrilowitsch program, which read as follows:
40Sonata, E flat, op. 31 ……………………………………… Beethoven
41Sonata, B flat minor, op. 35 ………………………………. Chopin
42Moment Musical, A flat ……………………………………. Schubert
43Menet, B minor …………………………………………….. Schubert one of two readings
44Menant, B minor …………………………………………….. Schubert one of two readings
45Ballade in Variation Form …………………………………. Grieg
46Nenien, from Character Sketches (new) ……………….. Josef Hofmann
47Etude de Concert, A flat ………………………………….. Schloezer one of two readings
48Etude de Concert, A flat ……………………………………. Schloezer one of two readings
49Melodie, op. 8 (by request) ………………………………. Gabrilowitsch
50Caprice, Burlesque, op. 3 ………………………………… Gabrilowitsch one of two readings
51Caprice, Burlesque, op. 3 …………………………………. Gabrilowitsch one of two readings
53This was an array of compositions thoroughly worthy to test the mettle of a great artist, and it is hardly necessary to add that Gabrilowitsch conquered them convincingly, eloquently, and brilliantly. He was in his usual good form and exhibited his customary sympathy with every mood and style of piano music. The Beethoven and Chopin sonatas represented the two extreme poles in that form of writing, but Gabrilowitsch gave to each of the works its proper atmosphere, color and contour. The pastoral charm and vivacity of the Beethoven sonata were reproduced with as much fidelity and faithfulness as the passion, the gloom, and the mystery of the thrilling Chopin masterpiece. Nothing finer ever has been vouchsafed our local musical public by Gabrilowitsch than this interpretation of the two numbers just mentioned, and in them he demonstrated conclusively his arrival near the topmost peak of pianistic art.
55The Schubert selections had all the limpidity of touch, soulfulness of tone and straightforwardness of delivery which we are wont to associate with the best performances of the immortal melodist's music.
57The Grieg ballade, all too rarely played (for it represents the finest piano composition in the Norseman's list), was a graphic musical picture in the Gabrilowitsch reading, dramatic, poetical, descriptive.
59The Hofmann morceau had little to recommend it except the manner in which the player performed it. Gabrilowitsch's own compositions revealed much more imagination, melodic resource, and grace of contour and construction.
61Almost endless demonstrations on the part of the listeners forced the recitalist to play liberal encores and established his success at this last concert as the most pronounced that ever fell to his lot here. He was one of the luminous appearances of our New York musical season, and it is to be hoped that not too long an interval will elapse before he comes again to delight all lovers of finished pianism with the refinement, dignity, and plastic beauty of his art.
63Florence Austin in Tenafly.
65Tenafly, N. J., has a "Neighborhood Glee Club" (now in its fourth season, Charles W. Potter, conductor), and Florence Austin, re-engaged for the fourth time as soloist, made her usual success there April 22. A hearer said: "It looks as if Miss Austin has a life engagement with the club." Demonstrations of pleasure from the audience gave reason for an encore piece, Ethel Barnes' "Swing Song."
67Hugo Becker, Frieda Hempel and Julia Culp gave concerts with success at Königsberg.
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