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Musical Courier 1913-11-12: Vol 67 Iss 20, 1913
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1MELBA AND KUBELIK GIVE A JOINT RECITAL AT PITTSBURGH.
3Famous Artists Draw Large and Enthusiastic Audience—Saudek Ensemble Program—Various Items.
5Pittsburgh, Pa., November 6, 1913.
7A large and enthusiastic audience attended the Melba-Kubelik concert at Memorial Hall, Thursday evening. Comment is hardly necessary regarding these two artists. Edmund Burke, baritone, also appeared on the program, displaying a splendid voice and good delivery. The program was as follows:
9Aria, Benvenuto Cellini………………………………………Diaz
10Concerto No. 2, D minor…………………………………….Wieniawski
11Song, Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark…………………………….Bishop
12(Flute obbligato, Marcel Moyse.)
13Mme. Melba.
15Songs—
16When Dull Care (Old English)……………………………Leveridge
17To Anthea………………………………………………………..Hatton
18Aria, Il re Pastore……………………………………………..Mozart
19(With violin obbligato.)
20Mme. Melba and Mr. Kubelik.
22Songs—
23Meeting of the Waters………………………………………Moore
24Minstrel Boy…………………………………………………….Moore
25(Irish melodies.)
26Mr. Burke.
28Song, Se Saran Rose………………………………………….Arditi
29Mme. Melba.
31Violin solos—
32Spanish Dance……………………………………………….Sarasate
33Humoreske…………………………………………………….Dvorak
34Witches Dance……………………………………………….Paganini
35Mr. Kubelik.
37The following is the program of the Saudek Ensemble which was given in the rooms of the Twentieth Century Club, Tuesday afternoon of this week. This organization is proving of splendid educational value to Pittsburgh, as they present many wonderful classics that would otherwise never be heard. Miss Harvard was the soloist and sang a miscellaneous group in her usual splendid style.
39Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon and piano (Allegro vivace)………………………………….Thuille
40Messrs. Saudek, Schultz, Caputo, Hennig,
41Nusser and Bernthaler………………………………………Brahms
42Trio for violin, French horn and piano…………………….Andante, Scherzo, Adagio, Allegro con moto. one of two readings
43Trio for violin, French horn and piano…………………….Brahms one of two readings
44Andante, Scherzo, Adagio, Allegro con moto. one of two readings
45Messrs. Malcherek, Hennig and Bernthaler.
47Songs—
48Im Herbst………………………………………………………Franz
49Romanza………………………………………………………Debussy
50Sylvain………………………………………………………..Sinding
51Standschen…………………………………………………….Strauss
52Sue Harvard.
54Quintet for flute, clarinet, French horn and piano..Rimsky-Korsakoff
55Andante, Allegro.
56Messrs. Saudek, Caputo, Hennig and Bernthaler.
58At the first concert of the Euterpean Choral, Ashley Ropps, baritone, will be the soloist.
60The Wilkinsburg Choral Society, under the direction of Charles N. Boyd, has prepared an unusually fine program for the first concert, November 11. The program will be made up of selections from Wagner, Verdi, Donizetti, Auber and Bizet. The soloists will be Blanche Hilliard, soprano of the First German Evangelical Church, and Daniel Jarret, tenor of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church.
62Thomas Morris, Jr., baritone, was one of the artists who appeared at the James Stephen Martin recital last week.
64Christine Miller, who returned from a five months' tour of Europe but recently, is preparing for a strenuous season. Among the most prominent organizations before which Miss Miller will appear are, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, New York Oratorio Society, St. Louis Apollo Club, Cincinnati Orpheus Club, Pittsburgh Art Society, Syracuse Arts Club, and Chicago Apollo Club.
66Rose Leader appeared with the Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra at the second of its series of concerts at Oakmont, Pa. Miss Leader scored a splendid success.
68Marjorie Keil-Benton will be one of the soloists in Debussy's "Blessed Damozel," which will be sung by the Tuesday Musical Choral, at the first concert of the Pittsburgh Male Chorus.
70Helen Heiner will be one of the assisting artists at the Cadman concert to be given in Carnegie Hall, next Friday evening.
72At the recent North Side concert of the Male Chorus, George J. Shaffer, baritone, sang splendidly in the "Lochinvar" solos.
74HOLLIS EDISON DAVENNY.
76RECOMMENDATION FOR MUSIC.
78New York World Magazine Discovers Many Good Things in the Well Known Tonal Art.
80An American gentleman came down the steamer's gangplank to greet his friends. He was ending a trip around the globe. On the other side of the pier a big liner was just departing, the band playing. "Listen," he said, calling attention to a new popular air from the musicians. "I have heard that very music in every land, on every sea. It has literally belted the world, that song." Of course, on the sea it has been played by the ships' orchestras, in the cities by various bands in places of amusement. But by one means and another it might be truthfully said it was sounding the old world around.
82It was first softly chanted in the brain of one man. One man has always set the whole civilized world to singing. Certain happy emotions first gave him a thrill of delight. He expressed it to his violin or piano. Then he wrote it, flung it on the air, as it were, and the melody began its joyous flight, an existence frequently immortal.
84There are certain hundreds, possibly a thousand original strains. The brilliant passages of Mozart, Beethoven and other masters are constantly reappearing in modern pieces. The stately hymns of cathedrals are bars from the operas of great composers. That inspiring military march was originally but a passage from some oratorio. There are now, rarely, if ever, perfectly original creations in melody. The combination may be new, but the whole world and the modern centuries have long been singing the heart of it.
86It may be a great thing to found a philosophy, to build a vast city like this New York, to cut a Panama Canal. But not all men believe the same philosophy as they all sing the same song. Not all men live in the piles of stone called New York, though they all enjoy the same music. Panama is but a necklace in comparison with the zone of minstrelsy girdling old earth's loins. Music is language for the emotions. There is no American music, no German, for in the highest sense music knows no nationality. Listen from your eastern windows in the morning, and if your ears could interpret the exquisite vibrations of the delicate glow you would exclaim, "I hear it coming, the wave of sweet sounds." Men are everywhere awaking at the sunrise. But the melody keeps pace with the advancing light. It is the common octave, the universal chords, the tune that you know. There is no other, no, not in heaven among the singing legions, than these fundamentals of all music. We have some harmonies so perfect, some melody so complete, that seraphs could not improve them except as they excel in instruments and voices. We mortals in this most imperfect world, where there is much sobbing and crying, have yet caught many a musical strain that is fit for a perfect world.
88Triumphant strains expressing the victory of mercy. Hallowed strains in honor of gentleness and self denial. Inspiring strains calling to heroic endeavor and a deathless courage. Ecstatic strains of comfort, in whose embrace the soul of man gains repose as on a bed of roses. The chorus of the morning stars, with which the world began, but which was lost awhile.
90Victor Wittgenstein's Program.
92Victor Wittgenstein, pianist, who has lately returned from Europe, will give a recital in Aeolian Hall, tonight, Wednesday, November 12, playing the following program:
94Sarabande…………………………………………………….Rameau
95Sonata, D major, op. 28…………………………………….Beethoven
96Sonata Tragica……………………………………………..MacDowell
97Mazurka………………………………………………………Chopin
98Berceuse………………………………………………………Chopin
99Scherzo, C sharp minor……………………………………Chopin
100Suite………………………………………………………..Debussy
101Paraphrase, Eugene Onegin……………………………….Tchaikowsky-Pabst
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