The Carrion Crow. Humorous Part-Song for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass by W. W. Pearson; Ben Bowlegs. Humorous Part-Song for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass by Edward Oxenford; W. W. Pearson The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 30, No. 552 (Feb. 1, 1889), p. 107 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3359994 . Accessed: 10/01/2015 01:40

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The Carrion Crow. Humorous Part-Songfor Soprano, FOREIGN NOTES. Alto, Tenor,and Bass. Words froman Old Rhyme. Ben Bowlegs. Humorous Part-Songfor Soprano, Alto, THE BayreuthFestspiele will be resumedthis year on Tenor, and Bass. Words by Edward Oxenford. July 21, and will continue until August 18 following, Composedby W. W. Pearson. [Novello, Ewer and Co.] " Parsifal," " Tristan und Isolde," and " Die Meister- " the works selected for THE of singer being performance.The composer thesePart-songs has alreadymade a name Prince of Bavaria has, it is his ofhumorous words for and the Regent announced, informed by setting choirs, certainly Frau Cosima Wagner that he will act as patron to the two under notice show no sign of waning power. " The institution. CarrionCrow " is as comic in the music as the Bayreuth quaintly in A new Sonata for violin and pianoforte,by Johannes rhyme,an excellent effectbeing gained by the frequentBrahms, has been at of the and the whole has a recentlyperformed privately Vienna, repetition words, composition and is pronouncedby connoisseurs,including Dr. in it which cannot fail to Ben Joachim, merryring please. " Bow- to be one of the most charmingproductions from the pen legs" is equally funny,but so delicatelyhandled as to of thateminent master. commend itself even to the most critical listener. The A season of Italian Opera is to be opened nextmonth at reiterated" bow, wow, wow" is ingeniouslywoven in with the Kroll'sche of when the Theater, Berlin, Ldo Delibes's morequiet portionsof the song, and the harmoniesare " Lakm6" will be introduced,for the first to and neverobtrusive. time, German always good, audiences. Mdlle. Van Zandt,the giftedprimadonna who, some yearsago, met withsuch ungallanttreatment in the Original Compositions for the Organ. By Walter H. No. 6. G Frenchcapital, will be the "star" of the undertaking. Sangster. Prelude and Fugue in minor. No. 7. At the Munich Overturein G. and Hof-Theater166 performancesof opera [Weekes Co.] took place during the past year, the most important EVEN in these days of activityin organ compositionwe novelties produced here having been Verdi's "Otello," do not oftenmeet with works equal to these in pretence. Weber's "Die drei Pintos," and Wagner's early opera Dr. Sangsterdoes not writefor amateurs; his Preludeand " Die Feen." Fugue are, in point of difficulty,on a par with the most The Athenanumsays: " The Berlin journals speak very arduous of Bach himself,and-the Prelude especially-- favourablyof the new works by Dr. Villiers Stanford,per- distinguishedby muchboldness and freedomof treatment.formed in the PhilharmonicSociety's Hall of thatcity, on The Fugue is treatedon an attractivesubject, and is effec-the I4th ult. The Symphonyespecially is described in tively,if not very strictly,worked out. We cannot speak glowing terms,the KreutzZeitung declaringthat thereis in such high termsof the Overture. It is verylengthy and not a weak momentin the entirework, while theBerliner complex, but rather vague in outline, and much of the Reichsbotesays thatit ' sets himin the frontrank of the writingis moresuitable for the pianofortethan the organ. composers of our own day.' Other papers are equally The composerwill do well to put a slight curb to his flattering." ambition; his talentis considerablyabove the average. According to the Berlin Allgemeine Musik Zeitung there have been duringthe past year thirty-ninenew operas first Daybreak. Part-song for mixed voices. Words by introducedto theworld of music-viz., sixteenItalian works, Longfellow. Music by C. A. Macirone. seven German, five French, four Dutch, three English, [J.and J. Hopkinson.] two Russian, one Danish, and one Croatian. To these should be added thirtycomic operas-viz., thirteenFrench, THIS unpretentiouslittle composition forms No. io of the and nine Italian. In the of GrosvenorSeries of eight German, production " Part-songs,"and is writtenthrough- operettas the year has been theirnumbers out withthat refinementand artistic which especiallyprolific, feeling charac- being no less thanseventy-three, whereof twenty-four are of terise all Miss Macirone's choral pieces. Longfellow's Italian, of German,and nineteenof French words are treated most twenty-three sympathetically,the music,in E origin. minorand major, being as spontaneousas the poetry,and A " " of from" Rienzi " to the no cyclus Wagner's operas, consequently presenting sign throughoutof over- "Nibelungen," will be given next month at the Hof- elaboration. The running semiquaver accompaniment,Theater of Darmstadt. is before occasionally introduced, extremelyeffective; but, An AustrianLadies' Vocal Quartetis just now making a concluding, we must call attentionto bar io, page 5, successfulConcert tour in whencethe fair in highly Germany, which we imagine the bass voice, instead of dipping vocalistswill to Switzerlandand France. down to shouldhold or the G. proceed E, on, repeat, Wagner's "Tannhauser," in the versiongiven it by the forthe ill-fatedParis of that is The Artist's Series of Easy and Attractive Duets. For composer performance work, Violin and Pianoforte. Michael Rice. shortlyto be producedat Carlsruhe,under the directionof By Herr Felix Mottl. The same is to be ere [Beare and Son.] opera performed long at Prague,for the firsttime in theBohemian language. IN the thirteennumbers of the serieswhich have reached A Symphonysuperscribed " Aus Italien," by the gifted our hands,there is much that is most commendableand youngcomposer Herr Richard Strauss,first performed at a useful. The charm and piquancy of the melodies call recent Giirzenich Concert at Cologne, has produced a forththe first qualification,the knowledge of what is highlyfavourable impression, and is consideredby connois- requiredto excite the attentionof young playersjustifies seurs to be an importantaddition to symphonicliterature. the second. The duets are well arrangedand fullycarry Herr Franz Rummel,the excellent and ubiqui(ouspianist, " out theirown descriptionas being easy and attractive." havingjust completeda verysuccessful series 6f Chamber Concerts at Berlin, has left that capital fora tourneein Favourite Melodies for Violin and Pianoforte. Arranged southernGermany and Austria,after which he will pay a by FrederickWeekes. [Weekes and Co.] visitto thiscountry, previous to his departureupon another artistictour in the Scandinaviancountries. THE thirty-firstnumber of the series contains Braga's writtenfor voice with Having regardto the factthat Mendelssohncontributed "Serenata," originally violinobbligato. not a littleto his own fameby writingthe popular "Wed- Here a combinationof the violinand voice partis arranged, and the result is a charming little solo, which should ding March," a young Teutonic aspirant to similar dis- by no means be beneath the notice of the most advanced tinction is (a fastidious German contemporary assures us) players. just now engaged upon the composition of a correspond- ingly elaborate " Divorce March." Come, fill ye right merrily. Bacchanalian Part-Song. Herr Albert Niemann, the famous Wagner tenor, has By C. E. Stephens. (The Orpheus,No. 212.) retired from the personnel of the Berlin Opera, with which [Novello, Ewer and Co.] establishment he had been associated fortwenty-two years. MALE Niemann is now in his fifty-ninthyear, and is in the full voice choirs should make acquaintancewith this possession of his fine voice. excellent of It is in the piece writing. interesting several The Viennese Minnergesang Verein has just given its parts,and the variedrhythms give it an additionalpiquancy five hundredth this excellent Institution and effect. public performance, having been founded some forty-fiveyears ago.

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