San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW April 21, 1900 C ill 111 : mm LOCAL NOTES NATIONAL UNION ENTERTAINMKNT Monday evening the National Union Social and Literary Club gave a pleasant entertainment at Odd Fellows' Hall that was attended by the usual large audience. Bernhard Walther's violin solos were a special attraction. Miss Millie Flynn, Harry Wood Brown and Frederick Purdy contributed vocal numbers. Sichel's orchestra, Prof. Henry and Miss Carita also lending their aid in making the evening a success. W. W. Healy, E. A. Kidd, F. H. Hastings and J. N. Bunting constituted the committee. HENRY HEYMAN'S CONCERT Under the direction of Henry Heyman a concert was given Thursday of last week at the Mark Hopkins' Institute of Art. Mr. Emil Cruells rendered organ overture La Dame Blanche [Boildieu], Con Amore [Beaumont], Prayer [Meyerbeer], and a march of Handel also accompanying the singers. Mr. and Mrs. G. Cadenasso rendered duet L'Addio [Nicolai], and Una Notte a Venezia [ArdittiJ. Angels' Serenade was sung by Mrs. Cadenasso with violin obligato by Mr. Clement, Mr. Cadenasso giving solo AriosoPagliacci [Leoncavallo]. Mr. Jabish Clement and Miss Clement played Rubinstein's Sonata op. 13 for violin and piano, Mr. Clement also giving violin solo Preislied, from the Meistersingers. SONG RECITAL Miss Jessie Foster gave a song recital in her studio last week before an audience of invited friends. The program was, Who is Sylvia-Impatience [Schubert], Across the Dee [Coombs], He Loves Me and Nocturne [Chadwick], A Lovely Evening, The First Primrose [Grieg], and Nymphs and Fawns [Bemberg]. Mrs. Arthur Lewis was the pianist and Mr. L. Waterman rendered solos on the violincello. OAKLAND CONCERT Miss Fern Frost, pianist, pupil of Elizabeth West gate, and Mr. W. Finkeldey, violinist, gave a concert at the First Methodist Church of Oakland on Thursday evening. The piano numbers were Valse op. 70 No. 1, Etudes op. 10 No. 3 and op. 25 No. 9 of Chopin, Campanello [Liszt]. Album Leaf [Mss.] John C. Walling; Cascade du Chaudron [Bendel;] violin solos, The Swan [St. Saens], Alia Mazurka [Palaschko], Introduction and Polonaise [Chas. Allen]; violin and piano, Two Spanish Dances [Moszkowski], Aus der Heimat No. 2 [Smetana]. Miss Mabel Gray, contralto, rendered Sweet and Low [Wallace] and Who Knows [Tosti]. Miss Alexander Elliott was the accompanist. HAMBOURG AND PETSCHNIKOFF The Russian celebrities Mark Hambourg, pianist, and Petschnikoff, the violinist, assisted by Lachaume, who made such an excellent impression here when appearing with Marteau, gave a concert Monday afternoon in the California Theatre that was a musical feast, the violinist especially creating little short of a sensation. Aside from his masterly style and superb technical excellence there is a warmth and beauty in his tones that holds the listener's deepest admiration and interest. Tschaikowsky's D Major Concerto was exquisitely rendered and the applause most genuine and prolonged. Hambourg is a player of force and character and excelled in his rendition of Liszt's Rhapsodie No. 2, giving also some Chopin Etudes and Nocturne in G, and appeared in his first number with Rubinstein's Concerto in D minor. The concertos of both players were rendered with orchestral accompaniment, Lachaume coming in for his share of praise with the gifted young artists. ADELAIDE RODDY' S CONCERT Miss Adelaide Roddy's concert in Sherman Clay Hall Tuesday evening passed off very successfully before a good audience. The young girl is a singer of much promise, her voice clear, sweet and well placed, Mrs. Fanny Dam-Hilton having devoted much care to her training and she shows a musical temperament that will awaken to its oroadest possibilities with the experiences of life. One must know real joy and the softening influences of sorrow to be a truly soulful musician. The voice is only a mirror, after all, in which the emotions of the heart are reflected. In the years to come, with the development of char acter, Miss Roddy's voice will gain an added charm that cultivation and musical talent cannot alone supply. It was a pleasure to hear the correctness and grace with which she sang, and perhaps the presence of Mrs. Hilton was an inspiration to the success she achieved, and she has certainly broadened in her work of late. Mallinata and Spring of Tosti were her first num • bers, in which she showed taste and feeling. Haydn's On Mighty Pens from the Creation, contained many delicate and lovely effects and was artistically rendered. One of her numbers, sung with flute obligato by Mr. Rodeman, created a favorable impression and an encore was demanded, when she rendered Bird in the Wood. Ave Maria [Gounod] with violin obligato by Bernhard Walther, was perhaps one of her best efforts, for she sang that with increased fervor and very good interpretation, and again her audience asked an encore number. Bernhard Walther, violinist, was as usual a favorite with his careful tasteful renderings. He and Mr. Roscoe Warren Lucy played Greig's Sonata in C minor op. 45, for violin and piano, showing particular warmth and grace especially in the second movement. The Sarasate Romance is always welcome to Mr. Walther's audiences and I never heard him play it so beautifully as upon this occasion for power and poetry were band in hand. Mr. Walther is an earnest musician and his easy refined manner wins friends wherever he appears. Roscoe Warren Lucy proved himself an ideal accompanist and many were the expressions of praise for his artistic and graceful support to Miss Roddy's voice and Mr. Walther's violin. MUSICAL ECHOES One morning lately I spent a pleasant half hour with Elizabeth Regina Mowry, and we had a delightful chat over her scrap book containing many charming notices of her career as a singer, and letters of congratulation. In addition to her voice, Mrs. Mowry has a fine presence and a manner so winning and sweet that one is drawn to her immediately. She is devoting all her time to her profession now and will doubtless be a favorite in concert and at the prominent clubs next season. The San Francisco Conservatory of Music will give a concert at Metropolitan Temple next Thursday evening, for which an excellent program has been arranged. Several piano pupils of Prof. Bonelli will appear and the String Orchestra and Mandolin Club will render selections, violin and vocal solos will be given, an interesting feature of the evening being an original sketch, The Studio, by Cyrus Brown lee Newton, in which several of his pupils will participate. Miss Margaretha Brunsch was the contralto soloist at St. Francis de Sales Oakland, Easter Sunday. Cimarosa's Military Mass was sung. Samuel Adelstein rendered some solos at the special services at the Congregational Church of Alameda, Easter Sunday evening. Elizabeth Westgate's bright pen in the Alameda Argus says that Mr. Putnam Griswold, a singer who was highly thought of across the bay, is meeting with success in London. Interesting services were held two Sundays ago at the Unitarian Church of Alameda, when Mrs. Edith Klock, pupil of Mrs. Marriner-Campbell, and Mr. Hugo Herzer sang. The death of Chevalier Anton De Koutski, the celebrated pianist and composer of some three hundred compositions, among them the Awakening of the Lion, is a matter of widespread regret to many, among them Madame Spitzy of San Francisco, in whose voice he showed much interest dedicating to her his beautiful composition, Ave Verum, which was sung by her recently at the Spanish Church creating a splendid impression. Madame Spitzy also contributed a solo at the special Easter services of the Church, her sweet voice being an added attraction to the Choir. The first piano manufactured in America was made by John Behrent, on Third Street, below Brown, in Philadelphia. He advertised in 1777 that he had "just finished an extraordinary instrument by the name of piano-forte, made in mahogany, being in the nature of a harpsichord, with hammers and several changes." Subscribe for The Dramatic Review.