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Musical Courier 1913-05-28: Vol 66 Iss 22, 1913
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1GREATER NEW YORK
2New York, N. Y., May 26, 1913.
4Mr. Adair, organist of the Episcopal Church, Bernardsville, N. J., paid a visit to the Ziegler School last week, and after hearing several voices, engaged Isa Macguire, Charles S. Floyd and James Briggs to sing at the special musical service, May 22, when "The Daughter of Jairus," by Stainer, and "King All Glorious," by Barnby are to be sung. Mrs. Homer T. Brookins, soprano, a Ziegler pupil who will also take part, has been the soloist of the church for five years. On the evening of June 5, at the Berkeley Theater, the Ziegler Quartet will give the entire second act of "Martha" in English, with costumes and scenery. Charles S. Floyd will sing "M'appari" from "Martha" and Linnie Lucille Love will sing "Ah fors e lui" from "Traviata." The occasion is a benefit for James W. Morrissey, the former manager of many world famous opera stars. On the evening of May 15, at Bernardsville, N. J., Isa Macguire, contralto, and Charles S. Floyd, tenor, sang at the opening concert given in the new Parish House. Miss Macguire sang "I Am Thy Harp," Woodman; "A Disappointed Serenader" and "Sapphic Ode," by Brahms, and "Till I Awake," by Finden. Mr. Floyd's numbers were "Before the Dawn," "Allah" and "Thou Art So Like a Flower," by Chadwick, and "At Dawning," by Cadman. Mrs. Brookins was at the piano. The opera class is very busy preparing for the public performance which the school gives at the end of each year. It will present the entire first act of Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel," also the second act of Flotow's "Martha," both acts being given with costumes and scenery, and sung in English. Emma C. Nagel will be the Gretel; Linnie Lucille Love will be Hänsel; Blanche E. Hines, the Mother; and James Briggs, the Father. Miss Love will sing Martha; Miss Macguire, Nancy; Mr. Floyd, Lionel, and Mr. Briggs, Plunket. Gardner Lamson, the eminent opera coach and singer, is coaching the affair. Hermann Spielter is coaching the Ziegler chorus of mixed voices and Winifred Palmer has the dancing class. Miss Love is teaching a special eccentric dance which she will give with Mr. Floyd and Miss Macguire in costume at the school's public performance. Some of Madame Ziegler's pupils who have graduated as teachers are: Bernita Earl, Jersey City, N. J.; Elsie Rae Eddy, Brooklyn; Esther Kendig, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ella Phillips, Lebanon, Pa.; George Kreykenbohm, New York; Miss C. Pyle, Brooklyn, and Blanche E. Hine, assistant voice teacher at the Ziegler School. One of the features is a summer school, at Brookfield, Conn., where each pupil has a private lesson every day, besides numerous class lessons, under the supervision of Madame Ziegler, with opportunities to sing in church and recital. All examinations are in the form of public performances for all pupils. one of two readings
5Mr. Adair, organist of the Episcopal Church, Bernardsville, N. J., paid a visit to the Ziegler School last week, and after hearing several voices, engaged Isa Macguire, Charles S. Floyd and James Briggs to sing at the special musical service, May 22, when "The Daughter of Jairus," by Stainer, and "King All Glorious," by Barnby are to be sung. Mrs. Homer T. Brookins, soprano, a Ziegler pupil who will also take part, has been the soloist of the church for five years. On the evening of June 5, at the Berkeley Theater, the Ziegler Quartet will give the entire second act of "Martha" in English, with costumes and scenery. Charles S. Floyd will sing "M'appari" from "Martha" and Linnie Lucille Love will sing "Ah fors e lui" from "Tra- viata." The occasion is a benefit for James W. Morrissey, the former manager of many world famous opera stars. On the evening of May 15, at Bernardsville, N. J., Isa Macguire, contralto, and Charles S. Floyd, tenor, sang at the opening concert given in the new Parish House. Miss Macguire sang "I Am Thy Harp," Woodman; "A Disappointed Serenader" and "Sapphic Ode," by Brahms, and "Till I Awake," by Finden. Mr. Floyd's numbers were "Before the Dawn," "Allah" and "Thou Art So Like a Flower," by Chadwick, and "At Dawning," by Cadman. Mrs. Brookins was at the piano. The opera class is very busy preparing for the public performance which the school gives at the end of each year. It will present the entire first act of Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel," also the second act of Flotow's "Martha," both acts being given with costumes and scenery, and sung in English. Emma C. Nagel will be the Gretel; Linnie Lucille Love will be Hänsel; Blanche E. Hines, the Mother; and James Briggs, the Father. Miss Love will sing Martha; Miss Macguire, Nancy; Mr. Floyd, Lionel, and Mr. Briggs, Plunket. Gardner Lamson, the eminent opera coach and singer, is coaching the affair. Hermann Spielter is coaching the Ziegler chorus of mixed voices and Winifred Palmer has the dancing class. Miss Love is teaching a special eccentric dance which she will give with Mr. Floyd and Miss Macguire in costume at the school's public performance. Some of Madame Ziegler's pupils who have graduated as teachers are: Bernita Earl, Jersey City, N. J.; Elsie Rae Eddy, Brooklyn; Esther Kendig, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ella Phillips, Lebanon, Pa.; George Kreykenbohm, New York; Miss C. Pyle, Brooklyn, and Blanche E. Hine, assistant voice teacher at the Ziegler School. One of the features is a summer school, at Brookfield, Conn., where each pupil has a private lesson every day, besides numerous class lessons, under the supervision of Madame Ziegler, with opportunities to sing in church and recital. All examinations are in the form of public performances for all pupils. one of two readings
7Geraldine Holland, soprano, pupil of Elizabeth Kelso Patterson, assisted by the well known violinist, Florence Austin, united in a well attended recital at the Patterson residence-studio, May 20. A program of eight numbers, twelve compositions in all, besides several encores, made up a very satisfactory concert. Miss Austin began with a broad interpretation of the Vitali "Chaconne," full of singing tone, following it with Wieniawski's concerto in D minor. The romance of the latter work was played with much sympathetic tone, and the last movement fairly caused the audience to dance, because of its rhythmic spirit. Flowers were lavished on the violinist at this juncture. Miss Holland sang the "Faust" aria and three songs by American composers, which pleased her hearers. Nevin's "Maying" had in it much pathos; "Will o' the Wisp" went crisply, and each number was loudly applauded. Following her singing of "Rejoice Greatly," Miss Holland had to sing an encore, well deserved, for the difficult coloratura number requires much vocal virtuosity to render it well. Miss Holland, under Miss Patterson's tutorship, is developing finely and is heard with growing frequency in concerts and recitals. She has a pleasing personality, as well as a sweet voice. Miss Austin won resounding applause for her soulful playing of the "Preislied"; John Adam Hugo's "The Swan" is a beautiful piece of music, emphasized by the artistic performance of Miss Austin. Musin's "Valse de Concert" is a taking morceau, and the violinist won recognition for her playing, followed by prolonged applause for Mr. Musin, who was in the audience. Gypsy spirit was in her playing of the Sarasate work, after which the audience applauded until Miss Austin played "The Bee," and still another encore. An altogether finished ensemble was the closing "Ave Maria, for soprano, violin and piano. Madame Hallby-Merson and Barbara Derb furnished sympathetic accompaniments, and the large salons were crowded.
9The annual banquet of the Musicians' Club, a "dollar dinner," held at the Hotel Gerard, May 22, was a most successful affair, 200 diners appearing and enjoying an excellent dinner and much good fellowship. The organization covers so many musical circles, all classes represented, that these affairs are sui generis in the musical life of New York. At 9.45 Chairman Burdett made an announcement, introducing the new vice-president, John Lloyd Thomas (Mills Hotel man), who, thereafter managed the affair. This was followed by some witty remarks by the said Thomas, who is a genial Welsh-American. He said, among other things, that in the autumn the club proposed to give a comic opera; that the club had "a new cook" named "Hannah," who was a genius, and recommended that every one sees if it were not so. Then he asked the Criterion Quartet to sing, which brought forth three varying male quartet selections, serious and gay. They sing with entire unity, from memory, and are good actors. Chairman Thomas here proposed a silent toast to the memory of Richard Wagner, born 100 years ago on that date. To some of us who witnessed the squabbles over his "music of the future" in the early 80's, perused the many booklets for and against the man, followed Impresario Angelo Neumann's triumphant Wagner tour through Europe, and were present at his funeral in Bayreuth in 1883, this silent toast meant much. Percy Hemus was called on to sing, but Wolstenholme, Foote and Handel. The program for Wednesday, June 4, 12.20 noon, follows: "Jubilate Deo," by Silver; andante, second symphony, by Widor; flute concerto, by Rincke; cantilene, F minor, by Marchant, and toccata, by Faulkes.
11The class for vocal training at Columbia University, under the direction of John W. Nichols, the tenor, will end this week for the season. Mr. Nichols will later conduct a special spring term for students and teachers at his private residence studio, 330 West Fifty-eighth street.
13Winifred Santer, soprano, was the vocalist at the Brooklyn Lodge Theosophical Society, which gave an "Evening With the Pleiades" on Wednesday, May 14, and sang delightfully.
15The 350th dinner of the Hungry Club (Mattie Sheridan president) took place May 24, at Hotel Marseilles, with these artists: Lillian McCandless, original monologues; Madame Vota, songs in costume, among them "The Boys of the United States," by Seismit-Doda, with the composer at the piano; W. Guilford Howard, tenor, and Jane Britton, in a "Cobra Dance," music by Emil Gramm, the composer at the piano. The coming Saturday evening, May 31, "Women Composers' Night" will be celebrated, Caro Roma being chairman; she is the well known composer of "The Garden of My Heart." Among composers whose works will be interpreted by themselves or others are Fay Foster, Litta Grimm, Sadie Harrison, B. Margaret Hoberg, Anita Owen, Lily Strickland and Madame Roma. The annual meeting and election of officers took place May 27.
17Eva Emmett Wycoff left for the West May 19, to sing in concerts and recitals in Erie, Pa.; Detroit, Mich., and elsewhere. She has been engaged to sing during June at Central Baptist Church, and one of the summer chautauquas is negotiating for her services as soloist.
19Frederick H. Haywood, pupil of Edmund J. Myer, a member of the faculty of the National Summer School for vocal teachers, is busy with many fine voices at his studio in the Clinton. He began his sixth season in the metropolis last September, and gives frequent recitals at the Majestic Hotel, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, etc. He teaches voice culture, interpretation, and preparation for opera, concert and church.
21Gertrude Marchant is soprano soloist at the First Presbyterian Church of Montclair, N. J., the position once held by Blanche Duffield, Ethel Crane and others. At a recent Masonic concert, in New Haven, she sang as soloist, winning favorable newspaper comment.
23Henrietta Speke-Seeley's vocal pupils united in an enjoyable hour of music at her Metropolitan Opera House studio May 24, singing music by modern composers to her accompaniments. Jennie Jackson-Hill, coloratura soprano, and Audrey Lauder, contralto, are very artistic in all they do, showing beauty of voice coupled with ease in singing, a special characteristic of the singing of all Seeley pupils; there is no forcing. Anna Harris, Helen Stapleton, Alice Campbell, Vyvyan Donner and Mildred Bigoney all bore their share in a program of much variety, singing operatic arias from "Mignon," "Samson and Delilah," "Tosca," and songs by modern European composers, with these eight Americans represented: Mary Turner Salter, James H. Rogers, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, R. Huntington Woodman, Oley Speaks, Charles Wakefield Cadman and Julian Edwards. Some of these pupils already occupy prominent positions as church and concert singers, and others are sure to achieve similar distinguished places. Marie Valentine contributed several brilliant piano solos.
25The Lambord Choral Society's second subscription concert took the form of a Wagner Centenary, with choral, orchestral and incidental solo numbers, May 22, at Earl Hall (Columbia University), a place most unsuited to such a combination. Either the hall is too small or the acoustics so bad that texts are not to be distinguished. The chorus tried hard, under Benjamin Lambord, but prompt attack did not distinguish their efforts. Clarke Gibson Dailey, baritone, deserves special mention, and artistic singing was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler and William A. Wheeler, soprano and tenor, in "Die Meistersinger" excerpts. The Wheelers have well trained voices, excellently suited to the music, making this number altogether the best. The orchestra played nicely in everything, the violins conspicuously so in the "Siegfried Idyl." An audience completely filling the hall, every one seeming to know his neighbor, applauded with more vigor than discrimination. The society plans two subscription concerts for the coming season, at which some important new choral works are to be performed, by an augmented chorus, with orchestra, and in conjunction with eminent soloists; also a second series of musicales, preceded by explanatory illustrated lectures.
271913—1914
29MR. PADEREWSKI
31MR. KREISLER
33AND
35MISS FARRAR (Oct. only)
37DIRECTION: C. A. ELLIS,
38SYMPHONY HALL,
39BOSTON.
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