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Musical Courier 1913-05-28: Vol 66 Iss 22, 1913
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1BALTIMORE MUSIC.
2Baltimore, Md., May 16, 1913.
4On Wednesday night, May 14, a concert was given at the Parish Hall of St. Michael's and All Angels' Church for the benefit of the choir boys' outing fund. Those taking part were Abram Goldfuss, violinist; Adolf Torovsky, pianist, and Dr. Merrill Hopkinson, baritone. Abram Goldfuss, who is a Peabody Conservatory student, is master of his instrument. His technic is excellent and his tone rich and beautiful. Mr. Torovsky, also of the Peabody Conservatory, is a composer as well as a pianist; his "Romance," played by Mr. Goldfuss, was warmly received, and the two did delightful ensemble work. Dr. Hopkinson, who has a bright, rich, baritone voice, sang two short groups, which were applauded to the echo; he was forced to sing again.
6The program was as follows: Sonata, op. 24, No. 5, violin and piano (Beethoven); baritone solos, "Boat Song" (Ware) and "To Anthea" (Hatton); piano solo, "Caprice Espagnol" (Moszkowski); violin solos, "Romance" (Torovsky) and "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Houser); baritone solos, "Westward by the Devon Sea" (Eöhr) and "Oh, for a Day of Spring" (Andrews); piano solo, concert etude in A flat.
8Eleanor Chase, soprano, who sang so well last week in the Peabody production of "Faust," is to sing in Philadelphia, at the Orpheus Club Rooms, May 27. Miss Chase will sing "The Cry of Rachel," by Mary Turner Salter; a group by Haydn Wood, entitled "September," "May" and "March," and two songs, "The Sea Sobs Low" and "Er-muntering," by Otto Ortmann. Mr. Ortmann is a Peabody student, and acquires his musical inheritance naturally, as he is the son of Mrs. Richard Ortmann, who for many years has been Baltimore's leading soprano.
10The fourth exhibition concert of the Peabody Conservatory took place Friday evening, May 16, with the following program:
11Organ Symphony, first movement, for organ………….Widor
12Alice Carpenter (Baltimore).
13Piano concerto (Coronation) in D major………………Mozart
14(First movement.) With second piano accompaniment.
15Elizabeth Pattillo (Georgia).
16O God, Have Mercy, from St. Paul, for baritone……Mendelssohn
17Walter G. Johnson (Baltimore).
18Hungarian Rhapsody, for violin…………………….Hauser
19Abraham Goldfuss (Baltimore).
20Impromptu in F minor, for piano…………………..Schubert
21Ethelyn Dryden (Maryland).
22Andante from cello concerto………………………..Klengel
23Helene Broemer (Baltimore).
24Marche Pontificale, from first symphony, for organ……Widor
25Mortimer Browning (Baltimore).
26Mondnacht, for soprano……………………………Schumann
27Gretchen am Spinnrade, for soprano…………………Schubert
28Rachel Aldridge (Baltimore).
29Ballade in F major, for piano……………………….Chopin
30Frederick Weaver (Pennsylvania).
31Lied Maritime, for soprano…………………………D'Indy
32Fleur Jete, for soprano…………………………..Faure
33Nellie A. Norris (Baltimore).
34Liebeslied…………………………………………..Kreisler
35Scherz, for violin…………………………………Arens
36Eli Kahn (Baltimore).
37Piano concerto in D minor, second and third movements..Rubinstein
38With accompaniment of a second piano.
39Esther Cutchin (Baltimore).
41D. L. F.
43Detroit Philharmonic Course.
45Paderewski will open the 1913-14 season of the Philharmonic Course, Detroit, Mich. Other artists and dates are: October 28, Louise Homer, contralto; November 13, Madame Nellie Melba, soprano, and Jan Kubelik, violinist; December 9, Madame Gerville-Reache, contralto, and Fritz Kreisler, violinist; January 12, Flonzaley Quartet; February 10, Madame Marie Rappold, soprano, Madame Ottilie Metzger, contralto, Franz Egenieff, baritone (negotiations are pending for a famous tenor); March 26, Madame Clara Butt, English contralto, Kennerley Rumford, baritone; April 17, Madame Alma Gluck, soprano.
47This is equal to twelve concerts in eight evenings, for several concerts in this series are joint recitals by artists who usually appear in individual recitals only. These combinations, including the operatic quartet, have been secured at much additional expense, making it an unusually brilliant course.
49Carl Flesch at Home.
51Carl Flesch, the famous violinist, is happy because a great part of this season's work is finished, and devotes himself entirely to home life in Berlin, which he knows how to make as interesting as possible. First of all, there are his books, of which he possesses a splendid collection, and to which he is continually adding, and he is so fond of them that he never travels without taking a few with him. He is chiefly interested in French literature and makes a specialty of collecting books concerning the first part of the nineteenth century. The dramatic literature also appeals greatly to him.
53Carl Flesch usually spends his summer holidays in Rindbach, a little village in Austria, near the Traunsee, one of the loveliest lakes of the world. A small colony of musicians is assembled there, among them the noted pianist Arthur Schnabel, one of Flesch's best friends and partner of many chamber music concerts. It is there they work out a large part of the programs of the many sonata recitals they give during the winters, and last year they even made a new edition of the Mozart violin sonatas for Peters. The pianist's wife, Therese Schnabel-Behr, and Jeanette Grombacher de Jong attract a great many vocal students to the little village, and Julia Culp, who this winter so successfully made her first appearance in America, spent three summers there. It is only natural that, however remote it may be, Rindbach would be crowded with foreigners and students if Mr. Flesch were to accept everybody who wants to study with him. In fact, he refuses nearly all demands; yet there are several fellow artists who come to see him and who want to work with him for some time. The American violinist, Macmillan, spent two summers with him, and Mr. Zinsheimer, of New York, who made the journey from Paris to make Mr. Flesch's acquaintance, was so interested in his methods that he stayed for six weeks to do some work with him. Also Sir Henry Wood, the conductor of the London Queen's Hall Orchestra, went to Rindbach to see his friend, Madame Culp, and was delighted with the beauty of its surroundings. Really, tiny as it is, Rindbach has seen a great many famous men, not only recently either, for it was a favorite spot of Joachim and of Brahms.
55No wonder that a great artist like Carl Flesch likes to go there for a complete rest after his tiring and harassing season. He devotes himself as much as possible to his family, as he is very fond of his children, a little girl and a pair of twins, with whom he plays for hours in the garden of his villa, and who seem to have inherited some of the musical talent of their father. One of the boys, at least, long before beginning to talk, sang everything he had once heard with the purest possible intonation. A genuine musician's son!
57This summer Mr. Flesch will not take any pupils with him at all, because he wants to take a more complete rest than usual, as next season will be a very hard one. From October up till the end of December he will concertize in Europe, and during this period a great many concerts have been booked already.
59The second part of the winter Carl Flesch will spend in America, where he pays his first visit. So, no doubt, he needs a good holiday, which he intends to enjoy thoroughly, so that he may be able to introduce himself to America in the best possible form.
61"Merry Wives of Windsor" and "The Flying Dutchman" were recent performances at the Braunschweig Opera.
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