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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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January 5th, 1881.
STEINWAY HALL.
Mr. GEORGE HENSCHEL.
Mr. Henschel begs to announce two vocal recitals on the following dates :
Thursday Afternoons. Jan. 27 and Feb. 10, at 2.30—with the assistance of Misa
Lillian Bailey, soprano ; Miss Louise Homer, contralto : Mr. Charles It. Hayden,
tenor; Mr. William H. Sherwood, pianist; and Mr. Robert Thallen, Jr., accom-
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1881.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our friends and enemies ! May
JL\. our friends become more closely attached to us by the bond of
friendship and mutual interest, may our enemies become convinced
that life is short for hatred and ill feelings !
The year 1881 has come and with its arrival we close the first
half of one of the most prosperous winter seasons we can boast of
for many years. Business is reported good from every corner, and
j the whole land is in a prosperous condition. No wonder that
musical affairs protit from this prosperity. We have comparatively
few flaneurs in this country; the majority of the inhabitants of the
United States are hard-working, industrious people, and if they
make, they spend. They are generous, open-hearted, and open-
handed folks, and long for recreation after having toiled and worked
many hours a day. Musical
entertainments are among the most
refined recreations, and, as w r e are growing more refined every year,we
do not wonder that music in this country has so rapidly improved.
We have our hopes and wishes for the year just begun.
Whether our hopes will be fulfilled, whether our wishes will be real-
ized, time only can show. We hope that our operatic system may
be brought to a sound and solid basis, and that an end be made to
mean speculations on the part of managers, who make fine speeches
and give bad performances. We hope that the new Opera House
may be finished, and that the stockholders may come to a speedy
conclusion in regard to the site and location. We hope that the
year 1881 will be prosperous for English Opera, for in English
Opera alone we see our salvation. The language of the country we
live in must be respected, and as people cannot be expected to study
foreign languages for the sake of operatic entertainment, the opera
must be brought to the level of their understanding. Our concert en-
terprises, which are in full bloom at the present period, may, we hope
continue to prosper and grow. But let us beware of heavy and severe
programmes. Let us remember that the average listener wants to
be amused first, and instructed next- Never let an audience feel that
you are teaching them ; instruction will be derived from musical
performances, as long as the boundaries of common understanding
are not passed.
We wish happiness to our Choral Societies. We wish that all
those ladies and gentlemen, who undertake to give Piano Recitals
and Chamber Music Concerts, may find a substantial reward for
their courage and spirit of enterprise. We wish all our piano and
singing teachers hosts of pupils, who will pay them handsomely for
their labors; we wish that the frauds in the musical profession may
be extinguished for the benefit of those who work honestly and
strive to add their share toward the amelioration of the musical taste
of this country.
We wish happiness, health and wealth to all readers of the
MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, which will continue in 1881
to be true to its principles, to print its opinions frankly and fear-
lessly without regard to creed, color, or person.
register. Hofmann's set of vocal waltzes—"A Romance of Love"—was
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interesting, but somewhat too long; it is at no time trivial, and at times
Montreal, Canada.
beautiful; but seven numbers in waltz form are too much like a dinner with
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seven courses of soup. Caldicott's joke—" Little Jack Horner "—closed
Toronto, Canada.
the programme, and I wish its nonsense-music had come earlier. The popu-
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lar Cerberus needs some such sops, although I respect Mr. Lang's evident
Ask for t h « MUSICAL. CRITIC AND T R A D E KBVIEAV a t a n y News desire to educate his audiences.
Stand or Jluslr. Store I n a n y City.
As a corrective to so much satanic music as has been connected with the
All communications should be addressed to the editor, CHARLES AVBRY WELLES, 85:>
settlement of the affairs of " Faust," the Handel and Haydn Society are to
Broadway, N.Y. City.
Checks and Post-Office Orders should be made payable to CHARLES AVERT WELLES, Pro be thanked for a good performance of the "Messiah." Handel does not yet
prietor.
pale before the modern muse, although (whisper it softly), there are times
We are not responsible for the return of rejected manuscript.
Correspondence must always be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not when he seems a little prolix. I have heard better solos than some of those
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
Trade reports, items and communications, relating to the music trade, are solicited from of this performance (Dec. 26th), but it was so free from tangible faults that
it became an easy, enjoyable, reliable performance. Mrs. H. T. Knowles
all parts of the world.
was the soprano, and although at lirst she seemed to lack open tone, and had
that con sordine quality which some singers manage to acquire on high notes,
NEW YORK, JANUARY 5, 1881.
vet she soon changed to a more open and agreeable tone. This was espe-
cially noticeable and commendable in " But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul."
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In " I Know that My Itedeemer Liveth," there were a few flaws of intonation,
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and the notes above the two-lined G were unreliable, yet the aria was as a
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P e r q u a r t e r , $14.00 whole, well sung. Her phrasing was excellent. Miss Anna Drasdil was the
alto of the occasion, and the weakest of the quartet. Her voice was very
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$'4.OU throaty, and sometimes faulty in intonation ; especially was the varying
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quality of her voice noticeable when in the midst of throaty execution, she
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