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Musical Courier 1909-05-05: Vol 58 Iss 18, 1909
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1of the committee, presented Miss Everett with a beautiful ebony baton with tips of silver, these words being engraved on the end which is held in the conductor's hand: "Miss Marie Everett, from the Worcester Woman's Club, April 28, 1909." The latter responded with a bright speech. There were three numbers by the chorus: "Summer Wind" (MacDowell); "Fairy Lullaby" (Beach); "Behind the Lattice" (Chadwick); and in speaking of Miss Everett's excellent work the press states: "The delicate shading, clear enunciation and intelligent interpretation made an excellent impression." Miss Everett announces four separate recitals to be given this month by her pupils, Gladys Talbot, Grace Gilman, Alice Jewett and Marjory Bowersock, also several programs by her Worcester pupils.
3Katherine Ricker, contralto, sang at the May Breakfast given by the Home Club at the Vendome Thursday afternoon. The following songs were given: "May Morning," Denza; "The Little Fellow Dreaming There," Schmidt; "My Laddie," Thayer; "When the Roses Bloom," Reichardt; "The Nightingale Has a Lyre of Gold," Whelpley. Miss Ricker distinguished herself by singing to the delight of all who heard her. Miss Ricker will be heard in a recital at Dobbs Ferry May 13, when she will sing a program of several new pieces.
5In the regular course of pupils' recitals at the Faelten Pianoforte School, Thursday evening, Alice Fortin, a young Canadian girl, who has studied at the school for the past four years, graduating this June, played a program which might be emulated by those of greater professional claims. The chaconne of Raff for two pianos opened her program, Carl Faelten, her teacher, assisting at the second piano. Following this, the overture from twenty-eighth cantata (Bach-Saint-Saëns), andante from three part studies (Bach-Faelten), bouree from fifth violin sonata (Bach-Saint-Saëns), two Mendelssohn pieces, "Marche Militaire" (Schubert-Tausig), "At the Fountain" (Davidoff-Vogrich), "Etude de Concert," op. 64, No. 2 (Moszkowski); "La Fileuse" (Balakirew), a Chopin group and Liszt's "Hungarian" fantaisie, the orchestral parts being played by Mr. Faelten. It was an unusual recital in many ways, and showed Miss Fortin to have a knack for memorizing lengthy programs, a colossal capacity for work, and a technic and appreciation which will yet make for her a place among musicians. Her sense of contrasts must become more sure, and her use of temperament will have to assume much more delicacy, but she is a very young woman yet and has many valued qualities. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach was enthusiastic over the recital.
7The advanced pupils of the New England Conservatory of Music will be heard in a concert at Jordan Hall Wednesday, May 5, which will be the twenty-first concert. John Snyder, Reading, Pa.; Edwin Sawtelle, Cambridge; Otis Drayton, Boston; Gertrude Urban, Dorchester; Pearl Dillon-Woods, Chardon, Ohio; Emily Weeks, West Medford; Ethel Keach, Chestnut Hill and Clare Cormick are those who will appear in the program.
9The ever popular "Pops" begin this week at Symphony Hall. It will be the twenty-fourth season and fifty-five men from the Boston Symphony Orchestra ranks will be conducted in turn by Gustav Strube, Arthur Kautzenbach and Andre Maquarre. The program for the opening night will be this: "Marche Militaire," Schubert; overture, "Sakuntala," Goldmark; menuet, Lully; waltz, "Buergerweisen," Strauss; selection, "Pagliacci," Leoncavallo; "A Fairy Tale," Strube; "Indian Dance" from suite No. 2, MacDowell; overture, "The Bronze Horse," Aubert; selection from "Little Nemo"; "Dollar" waltz, Fall; march, "Nechiedil," Lehar.
11Sigrid Westerlind, a singer from Stockholm, will give a recital in Steinert Hall next Saturday evening.
13George Hills and Charlotte Williams were married Thursday at high noon, sailing for Europe the day following, to be gone until July. Mr. Hills is a promising lawyer and filled the position of secretary of the Cecilia Society during the past season, while the bride is a singer who has studied in Europe, filling the place at Union Church as soprano soloist, but recently being engaged for the First Church at Cambridge, where Gertrude Holt has been singing for several years. Their many musical friends extend congratulations.
15Thursday evening at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, the final concert of the season was given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Max Fiedler paying a most graceful tribute to one of the Harvard "boys," namely, Philip Greely Clapp—well known to the musical fraternity here for his genius in composition—by playing the latter's work—a tone poem called "Norge" (Norway), which won for the composer a great deal of commendation last year. This composition was selected from a number of others, and was later performed by the Pierian Sodality of Harvard, of which Mr. Clapp is the conductor. Its merits are very apparent, and of its purpose Mr. Clapp is said to have given the following: "Norge" is scored for a full orchestra, with piano obligato, the latter furnishing color. The music is not so pictorial as impressionistic and subjective"—and Mr. Clapp goes on to say that the hearer must imagine himself in Norway watching the midnight sun. The first part gives two themes at the beginning, one by the violin and the other by the full orchestra. The imagination of both players and hearers must be keenly alive, and if so the results are satisfying in the extreme. Mr. Clapp deserves hearty recognition for this really worthy composition.
17Bertha Cushing Child, contralto, sang with the Choral Society of Portland, Me., last Thursday evening, and hastened back to Boston to fill her place in the choir of Temple Israel in the special service conducted by Mr. Foote on the evening following. In May Mrs. Child will sing at the graduating exercises of the Deaconess' Training School; then at the concert given by the Copley Society; later at the "Café Chantant" of the Professional Woman's Club and in a recital at New Bedford, Mass; in a concert at the Malden Auditorium, which will be given for the benefit of the hospital fund; before the Men's Club in Dorchester; in a recital with Elizabeth Marsh, under the Tuesday Morning Club's auspices, and in a concert for the Young Women's Christian Association to raise money for making better homes for working women. Other bookings for June follow.
19A Debussy program is of special significance to the musically progressive just now, and when played by one as prolific in pianistic gifts as George Copeland, Jr., has shown himself to be, the interest is twofold, so on last Monday evening Chickering Hall held an audience of more than the average size to hear this musician, who has proved his standards to be among the highest and his determination good. There was verve and artistic swing, and there was also good technic, unusually fine rhythm and a delightful appreciation of Debussy himself; that is, fine tonal contrasts and the like were displayed in the playing of Mr. Copeland. Mrs. Graves, who gave assistance, sang several songs with a certain individual charm which made her a positive delight to hear. She had coached for some time with Madame Salisbury.
21Lilla Ormond, contralto, was the bright particular star at the final concert given by the Musical Art Club in Jordan Hall Monday evening of last week, carrying off most of the honors for her beautiful singing of these charming songs: "Les Berceuse," Faure; "Fetes Galantes," Hahn, "Down in the Forest," Ronald; "Flower Rain," Schneider. Always properly befrocked and with a most pleasing and unaffected personality, Miss Ormond has taken Boston literally by storm, which means much in this conservative city, where an artist generally has a long and circuitous route to find success. After each song there was enthusiastic clapping, and Miss Ormond gave a couple of encores. The program opened with Elgar's "Fly Singing Bird" and "Chœur de jeunes filles de Sandomir" (from the opera "Borus Godounow"), and given its first performance in America, with J. D. D. Comey conducting and Albert W. Snow accompanying. Following these Alwin Schroeder, cellist, played a group of pieces. Edith Thompson played some piano selections, and the chorus gave songs with harp and horns (opus 17), Brahms; Heinrich Schuecker, harp, and Messrs. Hess and Hain, horns. The final chorus was very impressively sung, and was Liszt's "One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Psalm," with Marie Sundelius furnishing the soprano solo, and Edith Jewell, Heinrich Schuecker, Mrs. H. P. Ballard and Albert Snow the violin, harp, piano and organ parts, respectively. The concert was one which drew a very representative audience, and was perhaps the most enjoyable of any given by this club during the season.
23Richard Platt, the teacher and concert pianist, has been busy this spring with various engagements here and there. Recently Mr. Platt played a program at Radcliffe College, and the week following he appeared before the Harvard Musical Association, when two of his own compositions, "Dusk" and "The Gulls," were played and proved very interesting, as these same pieces received special recognition when first heard on Mr. Platt's recital program during the winter. The other selections given at the Harvard Musical Association were a group from Chopin, Ravel's "Sonatine," Schumann's "Kreisleriana," opus 16, Nos. 1, 2 and 5, and others. Monday, May 3, this artist will be heard in Troy, N. Y. Mr. Platt's large following of piano pupils causes his time to be very much filled, and he is accounted as being among the finest, most painstaking and intelligent teachers of piano in the East.
25Caroline Gardner Clarke-Bartlett left Boston Friday morning for New York, stopping en route in Springfield, Mass., where for an entire day good-bys were in order, she having a large and interested class there which has received her instruction during the past season. The morning of May 4, on the steamship Wilhelm II, Madame Bartlett sets sails for London, England, in company with Madame Nordica. The studios of the former will be kept open by her assistant, Winburn Adams, until the latter portion of June, when the summer camp at Waterloo, N. H., will be the rendezvous until the first of the autumn months sets in. While in New York Madame Bartlett sang for several managers and conductors preparatory for next season's engagements.
27WYNA BLANCHE HUDSON.
29Harp Concert by Edith Davies-Jones.
31Edith Davies-Jones, the Welsh harpist, assisted by Steadman Jones, tenor; Leo Schulz, cello; Harry Rowe Shelley, organist, and Anna Jewell, pianist, gave what was undoubtedly one of the best concerts of the late season at Mendelssohn Hall Friday evening of last week. The program follows:
33Trio, Salve Regina, op. 88……………………………Karl Matys
34Harp, Cello and Organ,
35Songs—
36Last Watch……………………………………………..Pinsuti
37Beloved………………………………………………….Goring Thomas
38Harp solo—
39Plain of Rhuddlan (Welsh Melody)…………………John Thomas
40Valse de Concert………………………………………Hasselmans
41Cello solo—
42Aria………………………………………………………Bach
43Mensuet……………………………………………….Klein one of two readings
44Mensuet…………………………………………………Klein one of two readings
45Dance of Sylphs………………………………………Popper one of two readings
46Dance of Sylphs……………………………………….Popper one of two readings
47Songs—
48Where E'er You Walk………………………………..Handel
49Llau y Cariadau (Lover's Leap)…………………….R. S. Hughes
50Cello and harp, Nocturne de Chopin, op. 9, No. 2……..Servais
51Harp solo—Welsh melodies—
52Britain's Lament (Cwymfan Prycain)…………………Thomas
53Megan's Daughter (Merch Megan)…………………..Thomas
54Trio, Andante…………………………………………Thomas one of two readings
55Trio, Andante…………………………………………Thomé one of two readings
56Harp, Cello and Organ,
57Mrs. Davies-Jones, who is the wife of the tenor, plays the harp skillfully. She is an uncommon musician, and with her musicianship combines magnetism and womanly charm. As one encore of the evening she played with much feeling an arrangement of the old song, "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms." Mr. Jones has a voice of remarkable power and sweetness. He sings with that natural beauty and sympathy that are characteristic of Welshmen, who are born singers. He has style and dramatic ability, as well as vocal accomplishment. Miss Jewell once more proved her worth as a pianist in the accompaniments she played for Mr. Schulz. The popular cellist played with his usual finish and warmth, and added "The Swan," by Saint-Saëns, as an encore, Miss Jewell giving a particularly beautiful accompaniment. A fine audience applauded the concert.
59Jadlowker, the Russian tenor, will sing the chief role in the Metropolitan's production next season of Tschaikowsky's "Pique Dame."
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