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Musical Courier 1909-06-02: Vol 58 Iss 22, 1909
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1CHICAGO
2CHICAGO, III., May 29, 1909.
4Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday the much advertised June Music Festival, under the auspices of the Chicago North Shore Festival Association, will be held in the new University Gymnasium at Evanston. The programs covering the three days are exceedingly interesting. The first concert, Thursday evening, June 3, has been titled "Festival Inauguration Night," and aside from orchestral numbers by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, a festival chorus of 500 voices will sing Handel's "Dettingen" Te Deum. The second concert will be Friday night and is titled "Artists' Night." Schumann-Heink, David Bispham and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra will furnish the entire program. Saturday there will be a Young People's Matinee and a children's chorus of 1,000 voices, singing as the finale of the afternoon the cantata "Into the World," by Benoît. Margaret Keyes, contralto, and the orchestra have a part in this program. Saturday night is called "Oratorio Night" and Mendelssohn's "Elijah" will be performed by the chorus of 500 voices with the assistance of David Bispham as Elijah, and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. The evening performances begin promptly at 8:15 and the single matinee at 2:15. For the convenience of the musical public of Chicago the Northwestern Railroad will run a special train direct to Davis street, Evanston, without stop, leaving the Wells street station at 7:20 each evening, returning directly after each performance. The Northwestern Elevated Railway runs to within three blocks of the Gymnasium Building.
6Manager M. H. Hanson, who was a caller at the Chicago office of THE MUSICAL COURIER this week, announces the bookings of Dr. Ludwig Wüllner and Tilly Koenen for next season, as surpassing all expectations.
8Dr. F. Ziegfeld arrived in Liverpool the latter part of the week and went directly to Paris, where he expects to spend some time before journeying to Berlin. He will return to America during July.
10Axel Skovgaard, the Danish violinist, is meeting with tremendous success this season throughout the West. Mr. Skovgaard played 126 concerts from October 1, 1908, to April 1, 1909. From April 11 to July 2, Mr. Skovgaard will fill seventy-three engagements in the large cities of the West, and later, during July, he will fill twenty-six engagements through the Far West. August and September Mr. Skovgaard will spend at his home in Copenhagen, Denmark. For next season, beginning in October, Mr. Skovgaard has been engaged for 120 appearances.
12Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Morley, and their six months old daughter, Jean Isabel Morley, will spend the summer abroad, sailing on the Lusitania June 30, and returning by the Mauritia September 4. Much time will be spent by Mr. and Mrs. Morley with the latter's parents in London, and Mr. Morley will spend several weeks in the Tyrol.
14The Cecilian Chorus, Ida Linn-Cooley, director, was heard in the cantata "King Rene's Daughter," by Henry Smart, in Lincoln Hall, South Chicago, May 21. Mrs. Cooley has her chorus exceedingly well trained and the program was of interest throughout. Preceding the cantata Emil Liebling gave two groups of soli, and the Reincke "Manfred" impromptu for two pianos, with Clara J. Rubey. An audience of about six hundred assembled. The three leading characters in the cantata, Iolanthe, Marta and Beatrice, were sung by Maida Lewis, Hazel Peterson and Marie Reich-Biossat. The Cecilian Chorus is composed of the following singers: First sopranos—Mabel Lewis Ayres, Evalyn Bowker, Irene Palmer, Hazel Petersen, Mabel Gray, Agnes Caprez, Veta V. Peterson, Golda Steinberg, Augusta H. Brandt, Agnes Henderson and Jessie Duggan. Second sopranos—Sadie Sax Berman, Lorena Luchr, Vesper Bell, Eva Addesom Dusman, Albertine E. Kriewitz, Frances McFarland, Anna Petermann, Marion R. Steinberg, Anna Kaiser, Viola Hagar Beck, Mary Ruskowsky, Maida Lewis and Viola S. Martin. First altos—Bertha Kriewitz, Rose Palmer, Elsie Kriewitz, Mabel Edman, Ida L. Davis, Dorothy Fennel, Marie Reich Biossat, Florence Anna Wink, Emma Dankert, Edna Watkins, Edna Krossher and Rose Edman. Second altos—Anna Evans Blackwood, Marguerite Marion Wink, Ethel Vandenberger, Laurel Donahue-DeLaney, Sallie Forsaith and Elsie Mewes-McGregor. Accompanist—Marie Crandall.
16Beautifully engraved invitations have been issued by the Walter Spry Piano School for its annual commencement exercises to be held in Assembly Hall June 8. The graduates are: Ethel Brakefield, Cozella Corbitt, Ethel Keen, Nellie Kouns, Charlotte Silverson, Katherine Watson and Jesse V. Wing.
18The next faculty concert to be given by the Cosmopolitan School will be a program by Marion Green, basso, and Day Williams, cellist.
20The twenty-third annual commencement concert and exercises of the American Conservatory will take place in Orchestra Hall Thursday evening, June 17. An orchestra under the direction of Adolf Weidig will assist.
22The Scandinavian Harmony Festival gave two concerts of Scandinavian music in Orchestra Hall, May 26 and 27. The soloists were: Gustaf Holmquist, basso; Mr. and Mrs. Frederik Frederiksen, in ensemble violin and piano numbers; Bergliot Aalrud, contralto; Clara Jensen, Ragna Linné, soprano; Emil Larson, and several others. Some excellent choral singing was accomplished by both Norwegian and Swedish male choruses. Of the soloists, especial mention is due Madame Linné, always the finished artist, but especially so and exceedingly interesting in songs by composers of her own native land. Madame Linné was accorded generous applause. Gustaf Holmquist, who possesses a bass voice of much smoothness and resonance, was another great favorite with the audience. Bergliot Aalrud, who has been for several years a pupil of Louise St. John Westervelt, is a contralto whose voice is of exceptional loveliness. Miss Aalrud was accorded generous applause for her several numbers. It is planned to hold an annual festival hereafter, and to use the funds in helping singing societies and individual musicians of the Scandinavian nationality.
24The senior grade pupils of Frederik Frederiksen were heard in recital in Auditorium Recital Hall May 28. Some excellent material is under the guidance of this efficient teacher, and good work is always put forth on the occasion of his pupils' recital. The opening and closing numbers on Friday evening's program were by the ensemble class in compositions by Grieg and Sauret, good intonation and precision characterizing this work. The first solo number was the andante and allegro vivo by Paganini-Sauret, played by Pearl Hinkel, a young pupil of much promise, who is very musical and who has a very good bow arm. The first movement from the Saint-Saëns B minor concerto was played by Emma Will, another young girl who has much temperament and phrases excellently. The first movement from the Mendelssohn concerto Clarence Evans played with splendid accuracy and poise, Arthur Uhe, one of the most serious of Mr. Frederiksen's pupils, played the Ernst "Airs Hongroise," bringing out its many harmonic tones with a surety and clearness not often heard in a student. Susie Hammond, the last pupil on the program, who played the first movement from the Vieuxtemps concerto in F sharp minor, has perhaps more of that supple, pliant, flexible temperament that easily grasps and then imparts to others without restraint. Miss Hammond's work was especially good.
26Edward Ehrhardt, one of Emil Liebling's advanced pupils, was heard in recital in Kimball Hall May 24. Mr. Ehrhardt has a very pleasing personality, and plays with much taste.
28The third recital in the series arranged by the Mary Wood Chase School of Piano Playing was given in Cable Hall May 29 by twenty-six little pupils, ranging in ages from seven to twelve. These pupils were all students of Miss Chase's assistants, Gertrude Gane, Clara Kramer, Ruth M. Burton and Grace Seiberling.
30Arthur Dunham, F. A. G. O., organist, played the following program at the dedication opening of the new organ recently installed in the Northwestern Gymnasium: Prelude and fugue in D major, by Bach; "Meditation," by Klein; canon in B minor, by Schumann, and "Etude Symphonique," by Bossi; pastorale and caprice, by Dunham; "Funeral March" and "Seraphic Song," by Guilmant, and "Fanfare," concert etude, by Shelley. A group by Widor consisted of andante cantabile from the fourth organ symphony, scherzo from the same work and toccata in F from the fifth organ symphony.
32Louise St. John Westervelt will spend the summer in Europe traveling, leaving for Naples on June 26. Miss Westervelt will be accompanied by her mother.
34EVELYN KAESMANN.
36Dempsey's Pupils in "The Mikado."
38The John C. Dempsey Comic Opera Company, made up of pupils of Mr. Dempsey, held the boards at the Richmond Theater in Stapleton, S. I., last week, giving nightly and three matinee performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, "The Mikado." The cast follows:
40The Mikado of Japan………………………………………W. G. Shelly
41Nanki-Poo, his son, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and in love with Yum-Yum………………………………………Fred Davis
42Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu…………………J. W. Musgrove
43Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else…………………….John C. Dempsey
44Pish-Tush, a noble lord………………………………………Louis FitzRoy
45Yum-Yum…………………………………………………Jessica Henson
46Pitti-Sing…………………………………………………Three Sisters—Margaret Harper Millward
47Peep-Bo…………………………………………………Wards of Ko-Ko—Berenice Bartlett
48Katisha, an elderly lady, in love with Nanki-Poo……..Tillie Claire Spencer
49Nee-Ban, the Mikado's attendant………………………….Al. Merry
50Chorus of school-girls, nobles, guards and coolies.
52The singing of all the principals was very artistic, and one and all entered into the spirit of the work with zest that is often lacking in companies that advertise themselves with considerably more noise. The love episodes and the popular songs were as charming as ever. The perennial freshness of these fascinating melodies made the thoughtful listener wish that more such operettas were written in this day.
54Mr. Dempsey, as Pooh-Bah, carried all before him. His mock dignity and his singing put in the shade many of those who have attempted this role. The audience clamored for encores at each performance, and usually these encores were granted.
56This week the company is giving the same opera in Wilmington, Del.
58The Altenburg Opera gave performances recently of "Faust" and the "Ring" cycle—a proof of the small town's musical versatility, and of the wide resources of its opera ensemble.
60CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE
61Founded 1867 DR. F. ZIEGFELD, President
62College Building, 202 Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, III
63No school of its kind offers such comprehensive advantages. Has the strongest Faculty ever assembled in a College of Musical Learning.
64Investigation will demonstrate the superiority of this institution.
65SCHOOL OF ACTING MUSIC ELOCUTION OPERA
66MODERN LANGUAGES
67BOARD OF MUSICAL DIRECTORS DR. F. ZIEGFELD
68DR. LOUIS FALK HUGO HEERMANN
69HANS VON SCHILLER ERNESTO CONSOLI
70WILLIAM CASTLE HERMAN DEVRIES
71FELIX BOROWSKI MRS. O. L. FOX
72J. H. GILMOUR, Director School of Acting.
73HUGO HEERMANN, the world renowned Violinist and Instructor, of Germany, will continue to direct the Violin department.
74ERNESTO CONSOLI, the eminent Italian Pianist, has been re-engaged and will accept a limited number of pupils.
75STUDENTS ENROLLED AT ANY TIME
76ILLUSTRATED CATALOG MAILED FREE
78ELVYN
79MARY A. COX
80MARION GREEN
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