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Musical Courier 1911-03-22: Vol 62 Iss 12, 1911
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1CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 18, 1911.
3The coming season will witness no tours by an "abbreviated" Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Heretofore, and including the present season, the orchestra management has adopted the accommodating habit of allowing the cities in which the orchestra was to play to decide how many musicians they could afford to have. In this way the orchestra at times was cut down by from ten to fifteen men in order to meet these conditions. But it will be so no more. In the future an announcement that the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will give a concert in any city will mean that the full force of the organization will be among those present and in action. No more cutting down the strings, shaving the woodwinds or shrinking the brasses because some management away from the city desires to save a few dollars. Art will be served in all its courses in the future, and those who pay to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, be they in Cincinnati, Connersville or Cohokus, will hear the full complement of between seventy-five and eighty men, not including Conductor Leopold Stokovski and Manager Oscar Hatch Hawley. The work of booking the orchestra for next season is well under way, more dates being asked for than can be granted, so that the tours of 1911-1912 promise to be more satisfactory in every way than any season's engagements ever booked for the orchestra.
5Madame Schumann-Heink and Boris Hambourg have been here this week. Madame Schumann-Heink, as usual, sang to a large and enthusiastic audience. In an interview before her recital she made known the fact that she was creating a fund out of her own earnings for the establishment of a home for aged singers—a place where they might spend their declining years amid homelike surroundings, with their comforts properly looked after. The noted contralto declared that she would see that the members of her family were properly provided for in her estate, and after that her earnings would be devoted to the singers' home project. As yet the plan has not taken definite form, but it is being worked out so that announcement of the proposed details will be made shortly.
7It is doubtful that the audiences at the Symphony Orchestra concerts this week were prepared for the offerings arranged for them by Leopold Stokovski and the management. The Brahms symphony, No. 1, which usually is somewhat of a task for a mixed audience to sit through, was given with more dash and life than conductors usually lend it, with the result that it lost its somewhat tiring moments and was converted into a thing of more than ordinary musical beauty and interest. The "Faust" overture by Wagner, with which the concert opened, was played with spirit and made quite an impression. Boris Hambourg, who made his first Cincinnati appearance at these concerts as soloist, disappointed those who expected to hear him play the strings off his cello in an effort to make the rafters of Music Hall ring with the tones of his instrument. However, the Dvorák concerto, which he selected for his solo number, is not scored for pandemoniumlike noises, and so we were given only the perfect bowing, the delicious expression, the faultless interpretation which belong to this composition. In the Bach number, which Hambourg used as an encore, he easily demonstrated that he had not exhausted the tone of his instrument in his original performance. Really, we like Hambourg very much, and are going to like him more when he comes again.
9The final concert of the "popular" series of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be given next Sunday afternoon in the Grand Opera House. The program appears to be the most attractive of the entire series, and there is every reason to believe that hundreds will be turned away, as has been the case at all previous popular concerts this season. The soloist for this concert will be Douglas Powell, baritone, who will sing the "Evening Star" song from "Tannhäuser" and the Toreador song from "Carmen."
11The Symphony Orchestra will go on its last tour of the season Monday morning, playing engagements at Oberlin, Ohio, Toledo, Bay City and Detroit on successive nights. The orchestra will return to Cincinnati on Friday.
13The second Saar-Hahn chamber musical was given Thursday evening in Memorial Hall, the principals being assisted by Corinne Moore-Lawson, soprano; Joseph Elliott, clarinet; Walter Werner, viola, and Ignaz Argiewicz, cello. Both in the arrangement of the program and in the performance the greatest artistic skill was observed, making the concert one of the most enjoyable of the many that have been offered our music lovers during the present season.
15The concert of the Heermann-Adler-Sturm Trio in Memorial Hall on Wednesday evening brought the season of this successful combination to a close. During the year the work of this organization attracted much attention from music lovers, both because of its virtuosity and because of the unmistakable evidence of growth that places it in the front ranks of musical combinations of this kind. The program of the final concert included the trio in E major by Haydn; Beethoven's sonata in F for piano and violin, and Arthur Foote's trio in B flat, which was performed for the first time in Cincinnati on this occasion and made a decidedly favorable impression.
17Edwin W. Glover delivered an interesting lecture on "The History, Evolution and Instruments of the Modern Orchestra" before the Ladies Musical Club of Wyoming on Monday afternoon.
19Ada Zeller and Gertrude H. Dalton, two of Cincinnati's foremost pianists, will give a duo recital in the ballroom of the Sinton Hotel on Friday, April 7.
21An organ recital of modern compositions will be given by Lillian Arkell Rixford, assisted by Joseph O'Meara, reader, of the College of Music faculty, in the Odeon the evening of March 28. An attractive program will be presented, and these well known artists will be prepared to furnish the usual treat which has ever been expected from them upon the occasions of their public appearances. Admission will be by invitation. The date of the third concert by the College of Music Chorus and Orchestra has been set for April 4, and for this time will be given in the Odeon instead of Music Hall. The reason for this temporary change is the difficulty of securing the necessary professional for the performance of many of the ultra-serious works which is always expected on these programs. The performances in costume of the second act of "Carmen" and the Garden Scene from "Mephistopheles" by the Springer Opera Club of the College of Music will be given in the Odeon April 6, under the musical direction of Romeo Gorno, and the stage direction of Joseph O'Meara. The College of Music will present pupils from the class of Romeo Gorno in a piano recital in the Odeon, April 3. A successful recital was given at Lexington, Ky., Wednesday afternoon, under the auspices of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, by Myrtle Kesheimer, pianist, and Joseph A. Panther, tenor, both of whom have been frequently heard in College of Music recitals. Miss Kesheimer is at present located in Lexington, where she has a large class of students. Augustus O. Palm, the talented young pianist and composer, whose excellent progress has been a matter of keen satisfaction to his instructors at the College of Music, has just completed two songs for soprano, a berceuse for string orchestra with violin obligato, and a setting of a Shelley poem for tenor, male chorus and piano accompaniment, besides a sketch for piano and orchestra on themes gathered while in Egypt a few years ago. That his work has decided merit is attested by the favorable opinions from those who heard the public performance of his "L'Arlesienne" suite for string orchestra and several of his songs. There is a charming well defined melody in his new songs, well brought out by an elaborate accompaniment of an attractive and graceful style. An affair of interest to students of elocution and dramatic art will be offered by the College of Music, School of Elocution and Acting, under Joseph O'Meara's direction, on Monday evening, March 27, in the Odeon, when a few of the students will be heard in an evening of acted readings. The following is the program: Scene from "Rip Van Winkle," Helen Nesbit; "Merely Mary Ann," Ruth Bickley; "Creed Carrier," Helen Gellenbeck; "Married Life," Jane Applegate; scene from "Romeo and Juliet," Margaretta Lindsey; "Jack's Late" and "Poor Little Lamb," Vera Wood; "The Littlest Girl," Louise Ford; "King Robert of Sicily," Iva Cochran. A piano recital will be given by advanced pupils from the class of Albino Gorno, principal of the piano department, next Tuesday evening, in the Odeon. Vocal assistance will be given by Mary Green Peyton, soprano, and Herman L. Gantvoort, bass, from the class of Lino Mattioli. The College of Music will present pupils from the class of Lino Mattioli in the first of a series of evening song recitals in the Odeon on Thursday evening of this week. A number of excellent voices will be heard in an interesting program.
23The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music announces John A. Hoffmann in a song recital in Conservatory Concert Hall next Thursday evening, March 23. Assisting Mr. Hoffmann will be George A. Leighton, who will accompany as well as contribute a group of piano soli. The program will present several interesting novelties. Rarely has a concert of chamber music attracted the attention of the one given last Monday evening under the auspices of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at the Woman's Club, when three well known artists, Hans Richard, Bernard Strum and Julius Strum, of the conservatory artist staff and Max Schultze, viola, of the Symphony Orchestra, offered a program of little known modern works. Particular interest centered in the E major quartet of Scheinflug. This quartet makes overwhelming demands, both technically and interpretatively, and was given with an artistic inspiration and enthusiasm which was at once communicative. The burden of the quartet falls to the piano part, which in Mr. Richard's hands was invested with plasticity, exquisite nuance, temperamental charm and virtuosity, which combined with the participating artists in the making up of an incomparable performance. Musical activities at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music will this week open with the violin recital Monday evening by Gertrude Isidor, Signor Tirindelli's talented young pupil, who at the age of thirteen is already well known to concert goers. She will be assisted by another very gifted conservatory pupil, Grace Portune, of Frederic Shailer Evans' class. Helena Lewyn, who recently returned to her native land after a period of study abroad, and is making her home in this city during the present season, will give a piano recital in compliment to the faculty, students and friends of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music next Wednesday evening. The annual appearance of the Conservatory German Dramatic Club will occur Tuesday evening, March 28. The club is under the able instruction of Olga Louise Sturm, who is also the authoress of the two comedies to be presented—"Zum Ersten Mal" and "Ein Neuer Bismarck." Between the acts music will be given by Frances Wilson, soprano; Abby Bradley, violinist, and Walter Chapman, pianist.
25C. H. ZUBER.
27A Musical Sunday in Chicago.
29CHICAGO, Ill., March 19, 1911.
31The Auditorium Theater once more this afternoon harbored a large "operatic" audience, which came to greet an array of popular singers of all nationality, who represented the music of their own country in an international program. The sextet was made up as follows: America, Carolina White; Poland, Jeanne Korolowiecz; France, Marguerita Sylva; Germany, Rosa Olitzka; Ireland, John McCormack; Italy, Nicola Zerola. An international concert is no more a novelty in Chicago, Manager Dippel having created that innovation during the regular season of grand opera here, and no doubt the success accorded then to his artists prompted him to a repetition. If such were the views of the astute impresario the ovations accorded his stars today must have been gratifying to the general manager, as seldom have Chicagoans manifested more buoyantly their appreciation or the popularity of the enterprise.
33Olitzka Korolowiecz and Sylva repeated their former triumphs, likewise McCormack and Zerola. Each one came in individually for a share in the afternoon's pleasure. Carolina White, a new comer in the battlefield of international songs, held her own among the coalition of "old timers" and triumphed, where her predecessors nearly failed, and the verdict, had it been rendered, would have been an even draw between the six nations, thus interpreted by six great artists. This afternoon was the farewell of the operatic singers on our stage for this season. Spencer Clay played excellent accompaniments for the singers.
35RENE DEVRIES.
37American Institute Recitals.
39A piano recital on March 14 by personal pupils of Kate S. Chittenden, dean of the American Institute of Applied Music, brought forward well advanced pianists in works by standard classic and more recent composers. Miss Chittenden expressed herself as well pleased with the progress and playing of May Newcomb Hanford, Ruby True, Agnes Franklin Keyes, Anastasia Nugent and Elsie Lambe, the participants. March 17 an informal recital of ten numbers was heard with pleasure, eight young women and one youth playing modern works, one violin solo adding interest to the affair. It is interesting to the close observer to note the progress of pupils, and equally satisfactory to teacher and parent as well. Those who played were, in the order of their appearance, Mamie Rosenbluth, Frances Greene, Benjamin Abarbane (violin), Katherine Quackenbos, Walter Lowenfels, Barbara Clark, Frederika Riesberg, Adele Fortin, Elizabeth Price Coffey and Annabelle Wood.
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