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Musical Courier 1913-12-10: Vol 67 Iss 24, 1913
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1DR. KUNWALD APPEARS AS CONDUCTOR AND SOLOIST
3Third Pair of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Concerts Teeming with Interest—Ovation for Kunwald, Who Reveals Technical Skill and Purity of Tone in Beethoven Piano Concerto—Eight Sunday Popular Concerts This Season—Pavlowa Dances at Music Hall—Orpheus Club Opens Its Season with Christine Miller as Soloist—David Bispham Makes Big Hit in Vaudeville.
5Cincinnati, Ohio, December 6, 1913.
7A classic program embracing three numbers only, Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms, constituted the offering at the third pair of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts, December 5 and 6. The Haydn symphony in D ("London"), rich in thematic beauty, opened the concert and from the slow, impressive adagio to the spirited finale was an unalloyed delight. The orchestra did the best work of the afternoon in the menuetto and final movement of this number, but it was not the Haydn symphony nor yet the Brahms No. 2, in D major, which Dr. Kunwald interpreted in a scholarly manner—the orchestra throughout playing in splendid style—which made the third set of concerts remarkable. Dr. Kunwald in the dual role of conductor and soloist, playing the Beethoven piano concerto No. 3, in C minor, proved to be the great event. It is safe to say that no other American orchestra could duplicate such a performance as that of Friday afternoon at Emery Auditorium. Even to his most ardent admirers Dr. Kunwald showed himself in a new light. His technical skill and purity of tone are too well known to need mention; and on this occasion Dr. Kunwald seemed to be inspired, playing with a bravura and elan that quite brought down the house. In the first movement he played his own cadenza, a clever arrangement of the various themes of the movement, meeting the demands of modern pianism and yet harmonically within the general character of the concerto. The largo was especially beautiful, Dr. Kunwald's delicacy of touch and poetic qualities heightening the general effect. In the last movement, rondo allegro, the distinct statement of the principal theme and fine tonal shading gave an individual stamp to the reading, which was broad and noble throughout.
9The series of popular concerts by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will begin a little earlier this year, as there are to be eight concerts instead of six. The dates are December 28, January 11, January 25, February 8, February 22, March 8, March 22 and April 12. The list of soloists has not yet been announced. The concerts will take place, as usual, on Sunday afternoons at Music Hall. The sale has been very large and there is every indication of sold out houses as was the case so many times last season.
11Anna Pavlowa, assisted by Novikoff and a large company of dancers, gave one performance Tuesday night at Music Hall. The program was most artistic, only marred by long waits and very slow progress in the first part, "The Magic Flute," which was otherwise most delightful, the scenery, costumes, music and dancers being very good. The "Invitation to the Dance" was quite picturesque. In the divertissements which made up part three were discovered some artists worthy of the laurels bestowed on Pavlowa herself, notably Mme. Gashevska and M. Zajlich, who did the "Calabraise" in a very realistic manner. The "Danse de Printemps" and Schubert's "Moment Musicaie" as well as the "Rose et Papillon" of Mlle. Plaskowwiecka and M. Kobelev were bits of lovely color floating on waves of lovely sound. Pavlowa's "Gavotte Directoire," in which one suspects a sly satire on society dancing, was acclaimed with shouts of laughter and she very obligingly repeated it. The "Hungarian Rhapsodie," with its terrific tempo and wealth of color, was one of the most beautiful numbers.
13The Orpheus Club opened its season Thursday night at Emery Auditorium, an audience of generous proportions turning out to greet the singers and Christine Miller, the soloist. Edwin Glover's work as chorusmaster has brought forth fine results in the training of this large body of male voices, and the club was never heard to better advantage. "The War Song of Gamelbar," by F. F. Bullar, opened the program in heroic style and several a cappella numbers served to show the technical ability of the chorus. A cantata by Gilchrist, "Legend of the Bended Bow," was given, with Miss Miller as soloist. "Who Sails with Drake?" by C. F. Chudleigh-Candish, was by far the most effective chorus number given, being especially suited to men's voices, which the petite poem, "Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden," by A. Herbert Brewer, is not. Two Dvorák numbers and Randegger's "Strike the Anvil" completed the choral numbers. Christine Miller, always a great favorite here, sang Debussy's aria for Lia from "L'enfant Prodigue" and a group of Mahler's songs, and several numbers by Whiting, Carpenter and Grant-Schaefer. In the last group was very fine, her lovely mezzo soprano being warm and sympathetic and capable of many shades of emotion.
15There was much comment in musical circles last week because of the announcements in all of last Sunday's leading Chicago papers of the season of grand opera in that city. Of local interest was the publicity given to the Cincinnati singer with the company, Cyrena van Gordon, who last season was heard so frequently in the College of Music recitals. Miss van Gordon is very highly thought of by Director Campanari, whose attention was called to the upon a visit to this city. It has also been stated that she is popular with the experienced principals of the company, who have been attracted by her magnificent vocal development and her youthful, confiding personality. Very few American singers have been given the recognition that Miss van Gordon has in grand opera, and it is with considerable local pride that it is pointed out that she is entirely a Cincinnati product who never studied anywhere else but in the College of Music, where she was a pupil in the class of Louise Dotti. Viola Foote, the talented young soprano who has been frequently heard in public before and since her graduation from the College of Music last June, has been engaged for a two weeks' tour in Ohio, which will include, Zanesville, Dayton, Canton, Springfield and Columbus. Dorothy Kirkpatrick, the brilliant young violinist from the class of Johannes Miersch of the College of Music, gave a very successful recital at Eaton, Ohio, last week. Walter Giliewicz, the newly engaged pianist and teacher of the College of Music, has made an excellent impression upon his colleagues and all with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Giliewicz has demonstrated the fact that he is a pianist of tremendous power, and should duplicate his great concert successes of Germany and Russia during his residence in this country. Music lovers will be pleased to know that Mr. Giliewicz will give a recital in the near future.
17The chamber music concert by Wilhelm Kraupner, pianist; Bernard Sturm, violinist, and Julius Sturm, cellist, fixed for Monday evening, December 8, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, will be one of the events of foremost importance in musical circles this week. They have chosen to open the evening with the sonata, C major, for piano and violin, of Sinding. The second portion of the program will be devoted to Tschaikowsky's trio, A minor. The large number of requests for cards of admission indicates a capacity audience for the evening. The next symphony lecture by Edgar Stillman-Kelley, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, will be given Saturday morning, December 13, at eleven o'clock. The Messrs. Theodor Bohlmann, Bernard Sturm and Julius Sturm are arranging an evening of French chamber music, to be given early in January. An interesting mixed program was given at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music yesterday afternoon by students from the classes of Marcian Thalberg, Leo Paalz, John A. Hoffmann, Bernard Sturm, Harold Morris, Mrs. Theodor Bohlmann and Ida Jenner, those participating being Irvin Rosenbaum, Isabel Rosenbaum, Pearl Besuner, George Beever, Mrs. Henry T. Hunt, Florence Roth Evans, Bettie Besuner, Margaret Evans, Margaret Rosenthal, Bessie Bryan, Chester Moffett, Nelle Shields, Freda Roesche. Dr. Fery Lulek, the Austrian baritone, will give a liederabend in Buffalo, December 8, and the following evening will appear in Columbus as soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
19Students of expression of the College of Music, under Joseph O'Meara's direction, are in demand for recital engagements. Helen Campbell is to give a program of readings for the United Brethren Church. Leonora Allard has been engaged for an evening by the Ladies' Musical, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Martin Finn will contribute to the K. of P. program to be given at Memorial Hall.
21With the growth of the Conservatory Orchestra, its sphere of activity has become enlarged, and Signor Tirindelli is this season interspersing the regular series of concerts with evenings devoted to bringing out soloists with orchestral accompaniment. The first of these was Wednesday evening, December 3, when three talented young men from the student body of the artist department were presented. The program opened with the D minor violin concerto of Vieuxtemps, played in a brilliant manner by Edwin Ideler, whose strides in the field of art have commanded attention for several years past. Young Ideler has superb natural gifts which have been carefully guided and nurtured by Sig. Tirindelli until he is prepared to enter the professional lists, of which his fine performance of the Vieuxtemps concerto gave ample evidence. Harold Morris proved himself a pianist in command of a brilliant technic endowed with a poetic nature, sensitive to the slightest detail, and was in full command of all his resources in the distinguished rendition which he gave the Beethoven "Emperor" concerto. Mr. Morris is a member of the master class of Marcian Thalberg. The concluding number on the program was the Saint-Saëns B minor concerto played by Robert Schenk, a young violinist new to Cincinnati audiences. Mr. Schenk is richly endowed and at the same time a fine scholar, and Sig. Tirindelli is to be warmly congratulated upon the splendid results achieved. The accuracy, temperamental richness and technical facility which are his in rich measure made his playing a joy and caused his hearers to speculate upon a decided future. Under Sig. Tirindelli's baton the Conservatory Orchestra captured honors by accompanying the above soloists in a wholly professional manner. In many respects the concert was one of the finest exhibitions of student work given at the Conservatory, and artistic results were achieved such as any institution the world over would be proud to claim.
23Hazel Swann, pianist, and Mabel Dunn, violinist, prominent members of the artist classes of Marcian Thalberg and Signor Pier Adolfo Tirindelli, at the Conservatory of Music, achieved unusual success in a joint recital at Fostoria, Ohio, last Tuesday evening.
25A program of artistic proportions marked the opening of the music department, of which Mrs. Thomas W. Allen is chairman, at the Woman's Club, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Adolph Klein and Gustave Albrecht, of the Symphony Orchestra, opened the program with the seldom heard Beethoven's sonata in F major, op. 17, for French horn and piano. Elsa Marshall-Cox sang Liszt's "Die Lorelei" with much dramatic force. She was at her best, however, in two charming French songs, "Bon jour, Suzon," by Delibes, and Nevin's "Dites-Moi." Mrs. Cox's
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