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March 20th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
Scherzo in C sharp, minor, played by Baermann,
and Mendelssohn's "Buy Bias" overture comprised
the programme.
SEVENTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
Dr. Louis Maas, the very talented director of
the society, presented the following programme
on March 1(3: Overture, "The Water Carrier,"
Cherubini; scena ed aria, op. 58, Rubinstein;
symphony No. 1, C minor, J. K. Paine, Allegro
con brio, Allegro Vivace, Adagio,
Allegro Vivace;
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ABROAD.
The Carri brothers, Ferdinand and Hermann,
well known in New York, where, during their pro-
tracted residence, they made many friends, gave a
concert in Steinway Hall, London, on February
23. They performed the following works, which,
according to English musical papers, were favora-
bly received :
1. Sonata for piano and violin, D minor, op. 21,
Gade; 2. First Grand Concerto for violin, Paganinl;
Cadenza by Ferdinand Carrl; 3. Fantasia, "Lucia di
Lammermoor." for piano, Liszt; 4. Walthers Prize
Scherzo, Goldmark; a. Gretchen at the Spinning
Wheel, Schubert; b. Spring Flowers, Reinecke;
Song from Die Meisterainger von Nilmberg, for violin,
oyerture, "The Vampire," Marschner. Soloist,
Wagner; 5. Transcription for the pianoforte of "O
Mrs. E. Humphrey Allen.
Du mein holder Abendstern, ' L'Etoile du solr, from
AT HOME.
Wagner's Tannhiiuaer, Liszt; Etude, "Erocia," Hen-
The programme for the eighth concert on April
party of gentlemen at a club the other even- Belt; and Gavotte for the left hand alone, Bach; 6.
13 is as follows: Overture, "Iphigenia," Gluck; ing A were
to decide what professional Fantasia, "Othello," for violin, Ernst; 7. Polonaise,
concerto for piano, A minor, Schumann; symphony, people are endeavoring
the most likely to disparage one an- A flat, for piano, Chopin; 8. Sonata for piano and
"Jupiter," Mozart; andante from string quartette, other. A lawyer
suggested journalists. A journ- violin, G major, op. 13, Rubinstein.
Chadwick, arranged for all the strings; overture, alist suggested artists.
An actor claimed that
"Ein Feste Burg," Raff. Soloist, Dr. Louis actors were not to be counted.
Finally it was Von Biilow was to give three concerts in Leipsic
Maas.
decided
that
the
honor
belongs
to
musicians.—N. this month, devoted respectively to Beethoven,
The first of Mr. Arthur Foote's trio concerts, Y. Herald.
Mendelssohn, and Schumann and Brahms.
which was to have taken place March 18, was to
include Raff's trio, op. 112, and Rheinberger's new The Standard Quartette Club played the following Fraulein Mannsfeldt made a success as a harpist
trio, op. 121.
programme in Steck Hall, on March 14, in one of at one of the February Gewandhaus concerts in
Mr. Ernst Perabo will give a piano recital at their series of Chamber Music Concerts: Schu- Leipsic.
Chickering's Rooms April 4. Beethcven's "Moon- mann Quartette, op. 41, No. 1, A minor; Beeth- Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust" was produced
light Sonata," and the Sonata, op. 106, are in- oven Sonata, op. 69, A major, for piano and vio- on Sunday, February 26, under M. Collonne's di-
cluded in the programme.
loncello; Haydn Quartette, op. 77, No. 2, B flat rection, at the Theatre du Chatele"t.
Th« Grand Concert for the Russian Jewish Re- major.
Emma Thursby sang in Marseilles on February
fugees, at Mechanics Fair Building, March 27, will
At the Wilhelm Mueller Benefit Concert, held in 23 to a large audience. She sang a Mozart aria,
be one of the musical events of the season. It is Steinway
Hall on March 3, the following pro- Mme. Willy de Rothschild's "Si vous n'arez rien
expected that a large amount of money will be gramme was
presented: String Trio, op 8, Beeth- a me dire;" Taubert's "Bird Song;" a Romance
raised.
Marcia, Allegro, Adagio, Allegretto alia from Leo Delibes's "Jean de Nivelle" and Prodi's
Miss Adelaide Phillips, Miss Marie Stone, Miss oven,
Messrs. Roebbelen, Risch, and Mueller; '' Variationes de Bravoura.'' She was complimented
Geraldine Ulmer, Miss Lizzie Burton, Mr. Tom Polacca,
Caro
Nome,
Verdi, Miss Katie Nuffer; Fantasia in the highest terms by the press.
Karl, Mr. M. W. Whitney, Mr. W. H. McDonald, Hongroise, Karl
Mueller Berghaus, pour violon-
and Mr. Geo. Frothingham have all been re-en- eelle avec accompagnement
Carlotta Patti sang in Amiens, France, on MarGh
de piano, Mr. Wilhelm
gaged for next year with the Boston Ideal Company. Mueller; Cavatina Der Rosina,
from the opera 7, at a grand concert for the benefit of the poor
The sale of seats for next week's Patti Opera, at "Barbier von Sevilla," Rossini, Fraeulin Anna of the city.
Mechanics Fair Institute, which is at popular Schuetz; Andante Quasi Adagio, Allegro Risolute,
M. Werybolowitch, a violoncellist, made a suc-
prices, is very large. The sale takaa place at the Rubinstein, pour piano et violoncello, Miss Lina
Park Theatre, and a long line of people fills the Anton and Mr. Wilhelm Mueller.—Intermission. cess at the Concerts Populaires, Paris. He per-
vestibule and street, waiting their turn to purchase —Serenada, Schwenke, for five violoncellos, double formed Davidoff's Concerto, a work of great diffi-
tickets. The speculators have secured a large bass and kettle-drums, Messrs. Mueller, Jonas, culties.
number of seats.
Schroeder, Gemuender, Uthoff, Loewe and Master Rubinstein's "Damon" has been performed with
Martin Blumenthal; Rita-Serenada, Mattel, Miss great success in Moscow. The composer, who con-
Katie Nuffer; Souvenir Des Montagues, Karl ducted, and the principal performers were received
IS THIS TRUE, GEORGIE ?
Mueller-Berghaus, pour violoncello avec accom- with lively enthusiasm. Rubinstein was to have
rr^HE manner in which the daily papers of Cin- pagnement de piano, Mr. Wilhelm Mueller; Vor- conducted his new symphony at the Leipzig Gew-
_L cinnati were subsidized in the interest of Col. satz, Lassen; Die Botschaft, Kuecken, Fraulein andhaus on the 12th of Januarj- next.
George Ward Nichols and the Opera Festival, re- Anna Schuetz; Allegro Brillante from quintette E
flected great credit upon that gentleman's capacity flat, op. 44, Schumann, the New York Quintette Massenet had arrived at Milan during the last
week of February to conduct the rehearsals of his
as a show manager. The musical writers on the Club.
Opera "L'Erodiade," which was to be produced at
English dailies were, without exception, openly
hired by the college management, which seems to The Urbana Choral Society, 'of Urbana, O., was La Scala. "Simon Boccanegra" follows "L'Eroi-
have controlled all critical opinions. An effort to have given a Mozart Chamber Concert at Ly- dade." The celebrated tenor Mierzwinski will ap-
was made to purchase the Musical People also, ceum Hall on March 20. The following was the pear in Verdi's Opera.
but it failed. Has honest criticism departed from programme: Symphony, No. 8, D, piano, for four
ErdmaDnsdorfer has been appointed professor
Cincinnati since Mr. Krehbiel's exit?—Cincinnati hands, Mozart, Miss Niles and Miss James; selec- at the Imperial Conservatory, Moscow, and also
tions from the Requiem, Mozart, chorus and quar- director of the Moscow Musical Society.
Musical People.
[A touching exhibition of virtue on the part of tette—Mrs. Chas. G. Smith, soprano; Mrs. Frank
The Musical People. Would that there were more Sewall, alto; Mr. Henry Helps, tenor; Mr. Frank
David T. Keiller wedded Miss Alice, the daugh-
such truly good folks in this wicked, wicked Sewall,bass; concert aria, "Mentre ti lascio," Mozart, ter of Captain Cafferty, of the firm of Dodge Mr.
Walter
Small;
duo
from
Titus,
Mozart,
Mrs.
world.—ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.]
Calkins and Miss Ganson; reading of biographical Meigs, lumber merchants, in Jersey City, some
sketch of the composer, Prof. Philip B. Cabel; years ago, and they lived in handsome style in
ARONSON'S SUCCESS.—A cable from Vienna states quintette in E Major, arr. for piano, Mozart, Jersey City, in apparent happiness. Keiller,
positively that Johann Strauss has been engaged Mr. Frank Sewall; soprano solo, "Dooe sono," through his influence with New York politicians,
for the new Casino in this city. Rudolph Aronson, from the Nozze de Figaro, Mozart, Mrs.JR. G. Horr; secured employment in the Dock Department in
the prime mover in the project to build the Casino selections from the Requiem, Mozart, chorus and this city, and received a good salary for his ser-
at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, went to quartette, (a) Hostias, (6) Sanctus, (c) Benedictus, vices. Mrs. Keiller developed exceptionally fine
powers as a cantatrice, and finally became, and
Europe recently to negotiate with Strauss for the (d) Hosanna.
still is, a member of the Emma Abbott Opera
directorship.
Under the auspices of the Society of Ethical Company. Keiller became acquainted* three or
ANNIE LOUISE OAKY'S PREDICAMENT.—Col. Maple- Culture, a concert was given in Steinway Hall on four years ago, with a daughter of ex-Policeman
son says he is tired of denying the rumor that March 9 in aid of the charities connected with the Armstrong. She was a young girl of unusual
Miss Annie Louise Cary is to be married this fall, society—namely, the Free Kindergarten, Work- beauty, who had been wedded and abandoned
and that Miss Cary has written denials so often ingman's School, and District Nursing Section. within two weeks by Thomas E. Hewitt. Keiller
that she has become wearied, and decides to let it The attractions offered were an orchestra of about became infatuated with the deserted wife, and
go on indefinitely. The original report was that forty pieces, conducted by Dr. Damrosch and led Mrs. Keiller asserts, made her the occupant of a
Miss Cary was engaged to a Mr. Lorillard, but by Mr. Richard Arnold; Master Michael Banner, house in this city. He afterwards divided his
that lady insists that she has never even had the the boy violinist, and Miss Anna Drasdil, contralto. time between the home of his wife and that which
pleasure of meeting the gentleman, much less of
The fifth musicale of the Arion Society was he had provided for Mrs. Hewitt. Lately he lost
being engaged to him.
given in the Piano Parlors of the "Palace of his position in the Dock Department, and accepted
Music," No. I l l Snininit street, Toledo, O., on an offer of employment in Ohio. He was without
money enough to pay his expenses to the scene of
Blanche Roosevelt gave a concert in Chickering March 14, by Messrs. Whitney & Currier. The his labors, and was given $25 by his wife. After
Hall on March 8, assisted by Signor Montegriffo, Arion was assisted by Mrs. Frank I. Young, so- he had gone she discovered that he had used the
tenor; Signor Lencioni, buffo; Mr. Carlos Hassel- prano; Mrs. W. H. H. Smith, soprano; Miss Mary money to take Mrs. Hewitt with him, and she
brink, violinist; Mr. W. Russel Case, pianist, and E. Spencer, contralto; Mr. Alfred H. Pease, of made application to the Court of Chancery for
Mr. Charles E. Pratt, accompanist. Miss Roose- New York, pianist; Mr. J. E. Ecker, pianist; Mr. divorc*. A decree was granted by the Vice-Chan-
velt was recalled after her rendering of "Bel Rag- Theo. Ecker, pianist; Mr. G. W. Andrews, pianist; cellor in Newark, N. J., on February 20.
gio," from "Semiramide." She then gave the Mr. C. P. Doolittle, 'celloist; Mr. Fred. G. Doo-
waltz song from "The Pirates of Penzance," and little, violinist.
later, Benedict's pretty ballad, "The Bird That
The New York Times endeavors to show why
Came in Spring;" and in response to an encore Messrs. Thomas and Maretzek left Cincinnati.
gave "Robin Adair." She also sang in a buffo The reasons given are plausible, and are bristling
SOPRANO,
duet with Signor Lencioni, from "Crispino" with porcupine proofs. But The Time* forgets
(Ricci). Signor Montegriffo gave "QuesteoQuella," that the reason why these worthy musicians left Desires engagements for Opera* and Concert*,
Oratorios, Ktc.
from "Rigoletto." Signor Lencioni caused much the Piggery Paris of America was giyen in the
amusement by his buffo aingingof Tossini's "Tar- famous despatch that they refused to beat time Address, 60 West 16th Street, New York City.
antella. "
with a ham.—N. Y. Herald.
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