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Musical Courier 1913-12-10: Vol 67 Iss 24, 1913
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1selections also included "Allah," by Metcalf, and Oscar Weil's "Spring Song," for which Emil Heermann played the violin obbligato. Emil Heermann, who is concert-master of the Symphony Orchestra, played the Wagner-Wilhelm arrangement of the "Preislied," his complete command of his instrument and beautiful tone bringing forth fervent applause. Mrs. Klein, Emil Heermann, and Gustave Albrecht then played the Brahms trio in E flat. The splendid playing of Mrs. Klein, who has not been heard in public for years, was the surprise of the afternoon. In technic, tone, and clarity of phrasing she proved herself a pianist of professional calibre, and it is hoped she will be heard more frequently in the future.
3Manager Royale, of Keith's Theater, has received many inquiries from David Bispham's loyal supporters in Cincinnati, hoping for a return engagement. When Bispham appeared at Keith's several weeks ago, there was a rush for seats and those who had enjoyed this singer's art as a grand opera star filled the theater nightly to hear him in vaudeville. While singing at Keith's, Mr. Bispham varied his program from time to time, interpolating such favorites as "Danny Deever" and "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes," between the "Pagliacci" prologue, which he sings superbly, and other gems from the operas. A particularly pleasing feature of Bispham's engagement was the little résumé he gave before singing operatic selections, thus enabling the public to follow him intelligently.
5JESSIE PARTLON TYREE.
7Dubinsky-Dimitrieff Recital.
9Nina Dimitrieff, the Russian soprano, and Vladimir Dubinsky, the Russian cellist, gave a joint recital in Aeolian Hall, New York, Sunday evening, December 7.
11This was the program:
13Concerto for cello, op. 33……………………………Saint-Saëns
14Vladimir Dubinsky.
15Ivan Eisenberg, accompanist.
16Aria by Tamara from opera Damon……………………Rubinstein
17Night…………………………………………………Rimsky-Korsakov
18I Said Why? (first time)……………………………Dargomisky
19Hopak…………………………………………………Moussorgsky
20L'heure Exquise………………………………………Hahn
21Mentèuse Chérie…………………………………….Massenet
22Lullaby from Jocelyn (with cello obbligato)………….Godard
23Nina Dimitrieff.
24Cantabile, op. 36……………………………………César Cui
25Serenade Espagnol, No. 2, op. 20 (first time)………….Glazounoff
26Romance Sans Parole………………………………..Davidoff
27Hungarian Rhapsody, op. 68………………………….D. Popper
28Vladimir Dubinsky.
29An Impression (new)………………………………..Egon Putz
30(Dedicated to Mme. Dimitrieff.)
31Longing (new)………………………………………Egon Putz
32You Ask Me Why I Love You So?…………………….Egon Putz
33The Return of Spring……………………………….A. Walter Kranger
34Oriental Song (new)………………………………..Gretchaninoff
35Sirene…………………………………………………Gretchaninoff
36She Was Thine (with cello obbligato), new…………..M. Ivanoff
37Nina Dimitrieff.
39Ivan Eisenberg accompanied the Dubinsky numbers and Egon Putz those of Madame Dimitrieff.
41Mr. Dubinsky's understanding of the possibilities of the cello and his admirable technic quickly brought him into favor with his audience and encores were demanded after each appearance.
43Mme. Dimitrieff is not unknown to New York music lovers, judging from the good sized and friendly audience which finally assembled. Mme. Dimitrieff sang in Russian, French and English, showing much temperament and a voice of pleasing quality. The soprano understands well how to produce a delightful piano tone as well as legato, evident in Hahn's exquisite "L'heure Exquise."
45Encores and repetitions were demanded in no uncertain manner, and Mme. Dimitrieff graciously responded in most instances.
47The soprano has spent some time recently in Russia, singing and gleaning new songs in Russian for the program, several of which she gave on Sunday evening with telling effect.
49For the National Institute Members.
51The immortals, who recently met in Chicago, voting women ineligible as members, might read the following (translated) with interest and benefit, as showing what an older nation does for woman:
53The title of Royal Professor has been conferred upon Fräulein Dr. Rahel Hirsch, many years assistant in the Second Medical Klinik, Berlin; another link in the chain of women's rights. Fräulein Hirsch is the first German woman doctor to be thus distinguished.—Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.
55The following cablegram has been universally published in American papers, showing the progress of woman in Germany:
57Dresden, Saxony, December 2.—The Saxon war ministry has been testing a powder recently invented which produces stupefaction. It is claimed the gas from a single bomb has thrown several hundred men into a deep sleep lasting seven or eight hours. The inventor is a woman, Ida Boehm, and the Prussian military authorities have asked her to go to Berlin to demonstrate the efficacy of her invention.
59MOZART SOCIETY PROGRAM
60COMPRISI OF CADMAN WORKS.
61Popular American Composer Again Reveals His Splendid Gifts in the Presence of a Distinguished Audience at Hotel Astor.
63Charles Wakefield Cadman furnished the program at the New York Mozart Society second musicale, held at the Hotel Astor, New York, Saturday afternoon, December 6. Ann Ivins, soprano; Corinne Welsh, contralto; Franklin Lawson, tenor; J. Louis Shenk, baritone; Ida Divinoff, violinist; Paulo Gruppe, cellist, were the able assistants.
65It is interesting to note that just 122 years after the death of the great Austrian composer (Mozart died December 5, 1791), at the musicale of a society bearing his name, the program should be entirely devoted to the works of one of America's best known composers, among which appeared a group of characteristic "Indian songs."
67For his adaptation of the Indian melodies to songs alone, however, Mr. Cadman's reputation as a composer is not based. One who has followed closely the columns of the MUSICAL COURIER "Progress of American Music" page cannot but have observed the widespread popularity of the Cadman compositions.
69As the opening number of the Saturday afternoon program a new trio in D major, opus 56, appeared. This work, which is full of melody and rich in harmony, was excellently played by Miss Divinoff, Mr. Gruppe and Mr. Cadman. Only two of the three movements were heard on this occasion. It was performed in its entirety on Monday evening of this week, before the New York Manuscript Society and evoked great enthusiasm. This new Cadman trio will be reviewed in the report of the Manuscript Society concert, to appear in next week's MUSICAL COURIER.
71Two groups of songs, "The Sea Hath a Thousand Moods," "At Dawning," "The Sun of Love," and "I Found Him on the Mesa," "The White Dawn Is Stealing," "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water," "The Moon Drops Low," were given effective interpretations by Mr. Shenk.
73Good tonal balance and unity of delivery made the song cycle "The Morning of the Year" (part two of the program) very pleasing. This work, based upon words selected from works of the modern parts by Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, is made up of piano prelude and intermezzo between parts one (March and April) and two (May), recitatives and solos as well as the quartet. In this Mr. Cadman has well caught the spirit of spring with its varying moods.
75Again the members of the Mozart Society, of which Mrs. Noble McConnell is president, proved their good taste in the selection of artists and their reputed hospitality in their entertainment of the afternoon.
77Search in California.
79Frederick Preston Search, the American cellist, played in Santa Barbara, Cal., December 4. Regarding this concert a notice has been received by the MUSICAL COURIER stating that the recital given in the Potter Opera House was a brilliant success. The audience was large and most enthusiastic; the Dvorák and Klughardt concertos were wonderfully played; the MacDowell numbers were well received, and Search's latest composition, minuet in D major, played for the first time, elicited enthusiastic applause.
81A GREAT ARTIST—A SUPERB RECITAL
82KATHARINE GOODSON
83At her New York Recital on December 3rd, the critics wrote as follows:
84H. E. Krehbiel in the Tribune: "A pianist who brings a beautiful message and proclaims it with intense seriousness whenever she appears before our public."
85Max Smith in the Press: "Some of the most enjoyable piano playing heard thus far in a season overcrowded with experts of the keyboard."
86Richard Aldrich in the N. Y. Times: "She brings a fresh and individual point of view to the music she interprets. She rose at once to a lofty stature from these child-like things in Brahms F minor sonata."
87W. Henderson in the Sun: "She plays with much spirit, with something like masculinity of style, with an excellent technic and, above all, with musical intelligence."
88Charles H. Meltzer in the American: "Few pianists of the day could have interpreted this work with the fine poise and lofty style which made her rendering of it worthy of the applause that it received."
89Henry J. Fine in the N. Y. Eve. Post: "Simply superb, worthy, indeed, of Paderewski himself, was her playing of the most popular of polonaises as an extra, at the end of the recital, when devotees crowded to the stage and demanded more."
90Sylvester Rawling in the Eve. World: "Unfolding them (Kinderscenen) with all the simplicity and tenderness and self-effacement that could be wished. Next she gave Brahms' sonata in F minor, op. 5, the playing of which she infused with poetic imagination as well as fire."
91MANAGEMENT: ANTONIA SAWYER
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