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Musical Courier 1913-12-10: Vol 67 Iss 24, 1913
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1inent artists who will give a program of Christmas carols in Orchestra Hall, Sunday, December 21, under the management of F. Wight Neumann.
3Teresa Carreño, the famous pianist, will include compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and MacDowell in her program to be given December 28 at the Studebaker Theater under the management of F. Wight Neumann.
5The Chicago Mendelssohn Club will give its first annual concert on Thursday, December 11, in Orchestra Hall. The soloist will be Reinald Werrenrath and Leonora Allen assisting.
7Mrs. Theodore Parsons announces a series of Twilight Recitals beginning the second week in December. Ernest Voitier, French pianist, will appear the first evening, giving a group of musical miniatures.
9The seventh Sinia orchestral concert to be given Sunday evening, December 7, enlists for soloist Rose Blumenthal, soprano. The orchestra, under Arthur Dunham, will play the overture "Il Guarany," by Gomez; suite "Gitanilla," by Lacome, bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" and "The Entrance of Spring" by Von Blum.
11The next Saturday afternoon recital of the American Conservatory will be on January 10. With the new year a number of interesting musical events will take place in which the leading artists of the conservatory will participate. Among those who will appear may be mentioned: Adolf Weidig, Herbert Butler, Robert Ambrosius, Heniot Levy, Silvio Scionti, Mrs. Herbert Butler, and others. Eric Delamarter, the able critic of the Inter-Ocean, will deliver a series of lectures on the Art Song.
13Louise Hattstaedt-Winter has returned to the city after a protracted sojourn in the South. This accomplished young artist will be prominently identified with musical events, such as song recitals and concerts.
15Sibyl Sammis-MacDermid was the vocal soloist at a private recital in Highland Park on December 3, winning the success that is always hers wherever she sings. The last group of songs was from the pen of her gifted husband, James G. MacDermid, and won much praise. Mrs. MacDermid was the soloist at the initial concert given by the newly organized symphony orchestra at London, Ont., last month, and scored a great success. Mrs. MacDermid was engaged for this concert immediately following her recital in that city in May last. The following criticisms appeared in the local papers:
17London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Roselle Pocock and assisted by Sibyl Sammis-MacDermid, dramatic soprano, of Chicago, in the Grand, Thursday night, presented a program, the excellence of which promises a great deal for the musical future of the city. Enthusiastically greeted by an appreciative audience, the members of the orchestra, director, soloist and all, acquitted themselves nobly, the concert being truly a credit to London. Mrs. MacDermid has long been known to music lovers as a soprano of the first rank, and her work was highly pleasing throughout the program.
19Mrs. MacDermid's opening number, the aria, "Hear Ye, Israel," from Mendelssohn, was sung in a fine, rich voice of brilliant tone and quality. It was well received by the audience, but the following shorter numbers were, perhaps, more delightfully charming. Schubert's serenade and Wolf's "It Is the Spring," rendered in the German, and Gounod's waltz song from "Romeo and Juliet," sung in the French, showed MacDermid peculiarly at home. Other numbers of unusual beauty sung by Mrs. MacDermid were "Sacrament" and "If I Knew You," both by her husband, James G. MacDermid, formerly of London; barcarolle by Johnson; "May, the Maiden" by Carpenter, and "Heart o' Me," the words by Herbert Vanderhoof, editor of Canada Monthly, and the music by Mr. MacDermid, the latter song proving a very delightful encore number. MacFadyen's "Cradle Song," a lullaby of surprising beauty, was one of the finest numbers by Mrs. MacDermid.
21Mrs. MacDermid graciously responded with a number of encore numbers which seemed all too few to the delighted audience.—London (Ont.) Advertiser, November 7, 1913.
23Sybil Sammis-MacDermid, who assisted the orchestra, is a dramatic soprano of wide range, brilliant execution, and rich and luscious vocal tone. The grand aria, "Hear Ye, Israel," Mendelssohn, was sung with dramatic force and fervor, and received with favor and applause. In fact, Mme. MacDermid was an unqualified success with her auditors. Everything she sang was well received, while two and three encores were not at times considered too much in the way of popular testimony.—London (Ont.) Free Press, November 7, 1913.
25Titta Ruffo, accompanied by his brother and Signor Parelli, of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, visited the Chicago Musical College last Thursday, and inspected this old school from the stage of the theater to the recital hall on the sixth floor. They visited the studios, rehearsal halls, and renewed acquaintance with Leon Sametini, Maurice Rosenfeld and numerous other members of the faculty.
27Saturday morning, December 6, in the Ziegfeld Theater, pupils of the Chicago Musical College School of Acting, presented two offerings, a one act play, "Love's Awakening," by H. J. Roumlig, under the direction of J. H. Gilmour. Immediately following the dramatic production, students of the School of Opera, under the direction of Adolf Muhlmann, gave three acts of "Freischütz." The Ziegfeld Theater was filled to the last row, and a more praiseworthy duo of offerings were never previously given under the direction of the Chicago Musical College. The students acquitted themselves with the success of professionals, and both entire productions were handled in a manner worthy of artists.
29Rosemarie Blaine, who has received her entire musical education in the Chicago Musical College, was engaged last week to understudy Emma Trentini, in "The Firefly." She made her first appearance at the Studebaker last Saturday, in Chicago, and her next appearance will occur in Cincinnati, whither Mme. Trentini and her singers went from here. Miss Blaine was engaged after she had sung one song for Mme. Trentini, and was immediately given the leading understudy part. She will sing twice a week during the tour, in order to let Mme. Trentini rest her voice.
31The December dinner of the Ziegfeld Club was postponed and a buffet lunch was served in the Savage Club Rooms, after the Chicago Musical College faculty concert in Orchestra Hall, last Tuesday evening. Among the guests were a number of operatic stars now singing here with the Chicago Grand Opera Company.
33Concerts by the preparatory departments of the Chicago Musical College will be given in Recital Hall each Wednesday evening during the month of December, with the exception of Christmas week.
35The Chicago Musical College faculty concert last Tuesday evening brought forward a number of artists of rare talent, including Burton Thatcher, baritone; Rudolph Reuter, pianist; Mabel Sharp Herdien, soprano, and Leon Sametini, violinist. The orchestral numbers under Karl Reckzeh were skilfully done and a new composition of Adolf Brune was heard here for the first time, making a good impression. The soloists were excellent, particularly the singing of Mabel Sharp Herdien, an artist of the highest order, is deserving of special mention. On this occasion she rendered the Ave Maria from Bruck's "Das Feuerkreutz" with skill.
37Della Thal, pianist, will be heard frequently during the current season in Chicago and elsewhere. She has been engaged to give recitals before the Woman's Club of Sioux City, Ia., on December 27; in Monmouth, Ill., on January 20, and in Chicago, January 15th, for the Johanna Club, one of the oldest organizations in the city. A number of engagements now pending will be announced later.
39David Bispham, who appeared at the Majestic Theater here the week of September 8, made a profound impression with the audiences that crowded that house.
41Hemus Pupil Sings Well.
43Ethel Kinnamon, contralto, a pupil of Percy Hemus, New York, must have been astonished when she arrived at "The Clinton," 253 West Forty-second street (the Hemus studios), for upward of two thousand people were crowding about the entrance, as if eager to hear her recital. First impressions are frequently wrong, however, which was the case this time, for the crowd was drawn thither by the report of a fire inside, which however had been promptly subdued. Miss Kinnamon braved the smoke, and was soon singing a program of eleven numbers, including the Saint-Saëns "Samson" aria, Tschaikowski's "Farewell" ("Joan of Arc"), and songs by various modern composers. Her voice has wide range and power, and she sings with understanding of the text; the right word describing her singing is "beautiful."
45Joseph Stoopack Plans for "Lambs."
47The Lambs' Theater, New York, was crowded to overflowing on Sunday evening, November 30, on the occasion of the Lambs Thanksgiving Gambol. The program presented by the members received the enthusiastic applause which inevitably greets the well known talent and accomplishments of this celebrated club.
49One number on the program, however, created a decided surprise, when Joseph Stoopack, a pupil of Ovide Musin, appeared with his violin and showed that although but a youth of thirteen, he has all the poise, brain power, genius and technical strength and facility of a full grown man and artist. Added to a depth of feeling and quality of tone full of color there was the mangetism of a poetic and very seriously modest personality, combined with a sturdiness of physique which warrants the belief in a great career for young Stoopack. He caught and held his audience from the first measure, and no artist could find anywhere auditors of greater understanding and ability to appreciate him than that which the Lambs afforded, composed as the club is of actors, artists and musicians, professional and amateur.
51Distinguished members of the club flocked about Mr. Musin to express their wonder and appreciation of his pupil, and of Musin's success in developing the natural gifts of young Stoopack. Their praise was unqualified, and pride was manifested that this perfection should have been developed right here in our own New York.
53Joseph Stoopack's numbers were: Concerto No. 3 (andante); Saint-Saëns; oriental, César Cui; "Valse de Concert," Ovide Musin.
55Adele Krueger Sings for German Press Club.
57It was on "Ladies' Day" at the German Press Club, of New York, where Adele Krueger was heard during the first year of her professional career. Wednesday of last week, December 3, Mme. Krueger's charming voice was heard again on the afternoon set apart by the German journalists for the annual musicale and reception in honor of their fair guests.
59The popular soprano received a cordial welcome and was showered with flowers. First she sang "Un bel di," from "Madama Butterfly"; then she interpreted "In dem Schatten Meiner Locken," by Hugo Wolf. She was recalled, and by special request of several guests sang "Zueignung," by Richard Strauss, a song, by the way, which was in her group when she made her previous appearance at the club house down at 21 City Hall place.
61Sunday afternoon, November 30, Mme. Krueger sang at a musicale given by Mr. and Mrs. August Stumpf at their residence in Stapleton, Staten Island, for which the Bruchhausen Trio also was engaged. Mme. Krueger's numbers for this engagement were Massenet's "Elégie" (sung with cello obbligato) and the Santuzza aria from "Cavalleria Rusticana."
63Mme. Krueger has several bookings in New York State for the early winter, one a joint recital in Poughkeepsie with Mme. Rider-Possart, the pianist.
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