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Musical Courier 1910-03-02: Vol 60 Iss 9, 1910
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1DALMORES ENGAGED FOR COVENT GARDEN.
2(By Cable.)
3LONDON, March 1, 1910.
4To The Musical Courier:
5Charles Dalmore, the great French tenor, now singing at the Manhattan Opera House, has been engaged for a part of the season at Covent Garden beginning early in June and extending into July. The fee, it is reported, is one of the largest paid to a tenor in many seasons. Dalmore, as THE MUSICAL COURIER announced some weeks ago, has "guest" appearances in Germany for the month of May; he is to sing at the Opera in Hamburg, the Royal Opera in Berlin, and the Royal Opera in Wiesbaden.
7MUSIC IN MONTGOMERY.
8Montgomery, Ala., February 22, 1910.
9The pupils of the Eilenberg-Linder Conservatory of Music gave their one hundred and fiftieth recital Saturday evening, February 12. The fine program drew a large audience. The students showed the results of earnest and solid teaching as well as the proficiency of the faculty. Special mention should be made of the piano playing of Cecil Davis, who is only fourteen years old and a pupil of Mrs. Eilenberg. He played the "March Militaire" by Hollaender with spirit and precision and a clear cut technic worthy of greater years than his.
11Next week we are to have a concert by George G. Lindner, violinist; Mrs. Hugh Brown, soprano, and William Bauer, pianist.
13The first of a series of the four organ recitals by William Bauer was given Sunday afternoon, February 20, at St. John's Episcopal Church. The program showed pleasing variety in arrangement. Mr. Bauer's work on the manuals is very smooth, on account of a finely developed legato. His pedaling is clear and his registration shows a musicianly intellect combined with good taste properly applied.
15T. C. Calloway.
17DULUTH MUSIC.
18Duluth, Minn., February 24, 1910.
19Bessie Parnell Weston, pianist; Marie McCormick, soprano, and Ina Grange, accompanist, members of the Schubert Club of St. Paul, presented the second of the reciprocity programs this year before the Matinee Musicale, Monday afternoon, February 7. The program was one of the most delightful heard this season, and the assembly hall of the Y. W. C. A. was completely filled with members and their guests. An informal reception, complimentary to the visitors, followed the program. These exchange programs have proved very interesting to all the members of the local club.
21Stella Prince Stocker, whose lecture recitals are receiving much favorable comment and attention in the musical world, lectured on "Pelleas and Melisande," Wednesday evening, February 16, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Warner, of Hunters Park. Mrs. Stocker will repeat the lecture at the residence of Mrs. E. Frank Barker, the first Wednesday in March.
23The High School Musical Society, under the direction of A. F. M. Custance, gave its annual mid-year concert, Friday evening, February 4, at the High School assembly hall. Each year this chorus has shown a continuous improvement, and this year was no exception to the rule. The solos given by Marion Merritt, Loretta O'Gorman, Frances Dickerson, Don Cole, Myrtle Hobbs and Charles O. Applehagen were delightful, and the chorus, which was augmented by Flaaten's concert orchestra, did some splendid work.
25The free concerts at the Masonic Temple, Sunday afternoons, continue to win public favor, and the large auditorium is generally filled with an enthusiastic audience. The program given January 30 introduced Mrs. H. C. Anderson, a new comer to the musical circles of Duluth. She is a well known church singer from Indianapolis and created a very favorable impression. Sunday, February 6, Florence Hyland, one of Duluth's popular singers and the possessor of a brilliant soprano voice, was the soloist, and presented her numbers with refinement of feeling and originality.
27The regular program of the Matinee Musicale, February 21, was devoted to the works of American composers represented by Donna Louise Riblette, Ruth Brown, Katherine Pearson, Clara Stocker, Mrs. Louis Dworshak, Alphin Flaaten and Roy Flaaten.
29A concert which created more than the usual amount of interest in local circles was that given by Juho Koskelo, Finnish tenor and cellist, at the Odd Fellows' Hall, Sunday, February 13, and which brought out an audience which filled the hall. The local papers speak very enthusiastically of his fine dramatic tenor and the rich sympathetic tone of the cello.
31Mischa Elman will appear in concert at the Lyceum Theater, March 15.
32Mabel Fulton.
34BIRMINGHAM MUSIC.
35BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February 22, 1910.
36The second artist concert of the Treble Clef Club series was given at the Jefferson Theater on the evening of February 14 with Albert Janpolski, the Russian baritone, as soloist. The club, under the able direction of William Gussen, and with Carrie R. Handley, accompanist, was assisted by Mrs. C. D. Dunham, Mrs. E. C. Wells and C. R. Klenk, violins; Dr. Levy, flute, and Mr. Reitman, cello, in the following numbers: "Legend of Miana," H. de Fontenailles, Elise Jones, soprano soloist; "The Primrose Gavotte," Scharwenka; "The Bonds Are Fall'n," Liszt. Mr. Janpolski furnished the remainder of the program and was greatly enjoyed in every number from the "Eugene Onegin" aria to the Russian folk songs, which elicited rounds of applause. The club's next concert will be in April with Alice Lakin, contralto, as soloist.
38The first rehearsal of the choral work in "Eugene Onegin," to be sung at the Spring Festival, was held last week. Fred L. Grambs is the conductor and Mrs. Robert Newman is the accompanist.
40In connection with the lecture on "Goethe as a Lyric Poet," by Chiles Clifton Ferrell, on Sunday evening, February 13, at Temple Emanuel, the following music (settings of Goethe's poems) was rendered under Mrs. Gussen's direction: "Mignon," Liszt, Mrs. M. Fies; "Erlkönig," Schubert, Mr. Schaddick; "Sehnsucht," Tschaikowsky, Mrs. Newfield; "Idylls" (arranged for piano), MacDowell, Mesdames Lenk and Block.
42Piano pupils of Evelyn Heine and Daisy Rowley were heard in recital last week at their respective studios in the Watts Building.
44Sara Mallam, soprano and teacher of voice culture, who has one of the most attractive studios in the Watts Building, is giving a series of informal receptions on Saturday mornings during February.
46Clarence Klenk, cellist and violinist, has recently taken more spacious studio quarters in the Watts Building.
48Monetta Stribling, pianist, and Annie Lou Woods, soprano, who occupy quarters in the Forbes Building (which they call the Mendelssohn Studio), gave an interesting joint recital there on February 17.
50Laura Jackson Davids.
52Success of Fergusson Pupil.
53One of Georg Fergusson's German pupils, Fräulein Schwarz, who is now singing at the Dortmund Opera, is meeting with brilliant success. Appended are criticisms on her appearances in "The Magic Flute" and "Carmen":
55The role of Pamina ("The Magic Flute") was this time in the hands of Fräulein Schwarz. This artist must indeed be considered as a most valuable acquisition. One must admire the manner in which she handles her voice, over which she exhibits complete mastery. Her pianissimo high tones are as completely under her control as the forte passages.—Tremonia.
57Fräulein Schwarz as Micaela in "Carmen." This artist has had splendid training and knows well how to handle her sympathetic voice. That was demonstrated in the duet already referred to and not less in the beautiful prayer in the third act.—Dortmunder Zeitung.
59Vocally Fräulein Schwarz as Amelia ("Masked Ball") gave great satisfaction. Her expressive voice was employed in the portrayal of the leading role with the greatest success. Her conception of the role left nothing to be desired.—Tremonia.
61Of Fräulein Schwarz as Eva ("Meistersinger") we have only good to report. She impersonated the role of the goldsmith's daughter with refined intelligence, and showed, especially in the third act, at the close of the first scene, that she played the part, not simply as a role, but entered into the character with sympathy and understanding. Vocally the artist was at her very best.
63Paulo Gruppe in Detroit.
64The following are two interesting notices regarding Paulo Gruppe's recent appearance in Detroit:
66Herr Gruppe, the renowned cellist, who was the star attraction at the Artist Series at the Church of Our Father, on Monday evening, proved to be a player of distinguished merit. His tone was rich and full, and he displayed much brilliancy.—Detroit Saturday Night, February 12, 1910.
68Gruppe is a modest appearing young man of great ability and abundant technic. He has acquired a mastery over the mechanical difficulties of the instrument which many veterans are striving for. The charm of his playing and his personal winsomeness gained him an instant hearing with the audience.—Detroit News, February 8, 1910.
70COLUMBUS MUSIC.
71Columbus, Ohio, February 26, 1910.
72The benefit concert given Wednesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce for the Florence Crittenden Home was a decided success both musically and financially.
74An eisteddfod will be given next Tuesday night at the Welsh Presbyterian Church, East avenue and Long street, in memory of St. David's Day. The arrangements are in charge of Stephen Morgan.
76The first of the series of two concerts by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be given Monday evening. There is a tremendous advance sale. The second concert takes place March 28. The new director, Leopold Stokowski, profoundly impressed the Columbus people when the orchestra played here in December, hence the phenomenal advance sale. The program is to be a fine one, including the fifth symphony of Beethoven.
78The Women's Music Club's members' concert Tuesday afternoon presented five new members in the persons of Mrs. Thomas Humphreys, soprano; Lyda Sayre Norris, mezzo soprano; Mrs. Henry Pirrung, mezzo soprano; Edna Paine Fenimore, pianist, and Grace Chandler, organist. These members acquitted themselves so creditably that they were voted a decided acquisition to the club. The other members appearing on the program were well known local musicians: Ann E. Hughes, soprano; Mrs. Wilbur Thoburn Mills, organist; Hazel Swann, pianist; Jessie E. Crane, pianist, and Katherine Gleason, pianist. The matinee concerts are invariably opened by the singing of "America" by the audience (averaging two thousand) standing, with accompaniment on the great Memorial Hall organ.
80Ella May Smith.
82Busoni Applauded by 3,000.
83At Convention Hall, Kansas City, on February 24, Ferruccio Busoni was greeted by three thousand enthusiasts. The following notice is from the Kansas City Times of February 20:
85It is significant of the growing interest in music in Kansas City that more than three thousand persons were present at the Busoni recital in Convention Hall last night. Busoni's playing is not iconoclastic as some critics would have us believe. If he has one outstanding quality it is his wonderful shading in staccato passages, part of his great power of dynamic gradation. As an interpreter of Chopin his playing is perhaps too reminiscent of his devotion to the preciseness of Bach. But the sentimentalizing of Chopin's music is a thing well behind us and the delicate treatment Busoni gave it—endowing it almost with the air of extemporizing—is a new and welcome definition of its beauty.
87The opening group of four transcriptions by the pianist himself would have been better received if they had been heard later in the program. One was scarcely prepared for the evanescent beauty of their form and interpretation. But in one way their precedence was fortunate. They were an opportunity to resolve at once some doubt raised by the German and English critics as to Busoni's right to transcribe, edit and embroider upon the works of the masters. Editing and transcribing would indeed be fatal if attempted by any but a master hand. Such a one Busoni seems to be.
89Busoni's playing gives one a sense of a broad and comprehensive personality. His technic, truly, is brilliant to the point of being beyond the interest of the average pianist. Certainly Busoni obtains from the piano something more like the sound of a crashing agony than any other pianist.
91Nothing has been said of his playing of Beethoven's "Waldstein" sonata. Yet this number probably dominated the general impression of many of his hearers. His interpretation of this sonata alone would put Busoni on a pedestal apart from all merely brilliant virtuosos.
93Spalding Busy in Europe.
94J. Walter Spalding arrived February 26 on the Mauretania, and stated that his son, Albert Spalding, the American violinist, had a very prolonged and successful Russian tour, playing at no less than twenty concerts, the final on February 23, and that he was now on his way to England, where he has half a dozen engagements, after which he will appear at Berlin on March 10. Upon leaving Berlin he will fill other important engagements, which will take him as far as Cairo, Egypt.
96Extended Concert Tour for Gerville-Reache.
97Madame Gerville-Reache, the distinguished contralto of the Manhattan Opera Company, will make an extended concert tour, which may take her as far West as the Pacific Coast, before the opening of the next opera season. This tour will take place under the management of Haensel & Jones, of New York, who will also arrange for her spring tour, which will begin immediately after the close of the opera.
99Otto L. Fischer's Engagements.
100Otto L. Fischer, pianist, was the accompanist at a banquet given at the Lotos Club on February 23. At the grand opera matinee concert to be given in the Belasco Theater on March 3 he will appear as soloist and accompanist. Edward Bromberg and Griffith Hughes have engaged Mr. Fischer for their song recitals in March. Katherine Hilke has engaged him as her regular accompanist.
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