This Volume is for REFERENCE USE ONLY D OQD1 45L400 I43 fi THE OF % ^ ^ THE UNITE$p'gTATES. VOLUME VIII. Season of 1890-1891. .^ BY n H. WILSON, BOSTON. PRICE, ONE BY Street, Boston, Mass, Back numbers are for sale. *Wrt volumes, bound in boards, $6,00. i BY CHA^ttB^ HAMILTON, (ijable of (gon tents. PREFACE ; . Pa#e 3 * ** TABLE OP CONTENTS . 4 " CITIES . 5-9S GENEKAL RECORD BY .] MISCELLANEOUS RECORD " 98-101 " MUSIC TEACHERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION . 102 NEW " AMERICAN COMPOSITIONS ., 103 " AMERICAN MUSIC PREFORMED ABROA D . 104 PUBLISHED AMERICAN WORKS - 105 ^ STANDARD CHORAL WORKS PK UFO RME.D SOLOISTS " 100-107 IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ...... u 108 RETROSPECT " 109-1U j " A DIRECTORY OF SINGERS, PLAYERS <fe JTR ACH 1C Its H5-11S ADDENDA i. "119 " INDEX OF TITLES '. 123-140 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS :~ ARTHUK P. SCHMIDT, PUBLISHER . , . 2d Page<iw^r " CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF Music . * . .3d u MASON & HAMHN PIANOS AND ORGANS . - . 4th KNABE PIANOS I*a#e 120 F. A. OLIVER, VIOLINS 121 CH. C. PARKYN, MUSICAL AGENT .... "121 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY .... fck 122 &. SCHIRMKR, PUBLISHER , "HI BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA .... tk 142 M. STEINKHT & SONS PIANO COMPANY . "1^3 NATIONAL CONSERVATORY ...... ** 144-143 u H. B. STRVKNS fc Co., PUBLISHWKS 146 kk HENRY F. MILLER & SONS PIANO COMPANY . 147 " OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, PUBLISHERS . 14S CHICKBHING & SONS PIANOS ' HO CHICKERING HALLS 4< 150 " Bos i ON FESTIVAL ORCHKSTRA 151 NOVKLLO, EWJfiR *fe Co., PUH ALBANY, N. Y. SCHUBERT CLUB. Sixth Season. Male Chorus of 44. Bleecker Hall Conductor, AKTHUR MEISS. Dec. 4. "Gipsy Life," Schumann; "Love and Wine," Men- delssohn; Vesper Hymn, Beethoven; "By the Sea," Schubert; "Night in the Forest," Speidel; "When two fond Hearts must " "Battle from sever,*' Schwalm ; Marguerita," Jensen; Hymn" "Bienzi," Wagner Soloist, Mine. Camilla XJrso, Violinist. Feb. 26. An American program: "The Last Chieftain," H. N* Bartlett; "The Fisher Boy," MacDowell (sung by a quartette); " The Nun of Nidaros," Buck; "The Haunted Mill," Tempteton " Strong; "My Heart's in the Highlands," C. Walter; Radway's Beady Belief," J. K. Paine. Soloists, Mrs. C. Gerrit-SmHh, So- S. Contralto. prano ; Mrs. Barron-Anderson, " Final Concert. Important number, Frithjof Saga," Bruch. ANN ARBOR. UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, CHORAL UNION SERIES. Conductor, A. A. STANLEY. Secretary, A. H. HOPKINS. Organist, F. C. ALEXANDER. Pianist, A. S. WARTHIN. Second Season. Mixed Chorus of 230. University Hall. $Iov. l. Chamber concert Dy Miss Aus der Ohe, Pianist; Miss Mary Buckley, Contralto. Dec, 10. Chamber concert by the New York Philharmonic Club, and Miss M* S. Weed, Contralto. Work noted: Suite, Charles Ivurth. '* March 13. Christophorus," Rheinberger. SoloLsts, Miss N. A. Goodwin, Mrs. N. S. Hoff, Mr. Homer Warren, Mr. E. C. Crane; Aria, "With Verdure Clad," Haydn (Miss Goodwin); "The Flight of the Holy Family," Bruch; Serenade, Neidlinger; " March and Chorus from Tannhauser," Wagner. With Orchestra. May 5. The Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor, Arthur Nikisch; Overture, "Leonore," No 3, Beethoven; Aria from 44 A. Arthur Mignon," Thomas (Mrs. Nikisch) ; Symphony, No. 1, u in B flat, Schumann; Songs; Prelude, Lohengrin," Wagner; ct Siegfried's Passage to Briinnhilde's Rock, Morning Dawn and Rhine Journey," Wagner. " May 30. Redemption," Gounod; Soloists, Mrs. J. P.Walker, Mrs, J L. Stoddard, Mr. Jules Jordan, Mr. Arthur Beresford. Orchestra of 44. Juno 2fl, 1890. "The Litfht of Asia," Bud;. Soloists, Mrs. I. B. Winchell, Mr. Jult'W Joi ann, Mr. F. Campbell, Qrchestia of 44. BALTIMORE Oratorio Society (eleventh season) Conductor, Fritz Fiuckc. President, Otto Sutro. Jan. 9, "Israel in Egypt," Handel. Solo- ists, Mrs. C. Moore-Lawson, Miss Marion Weed, Mr. L. E. Auty, Or, B. M. Hopklnson, Mr. H. N. Smith. Nov. 25, March 23, two " concerts of miscellaneous selections. May 9, Mors et Vita," Gounod. Soloists, Mrs. Gertrude Luther, Soprano; Mr. L. JB. Auty, Tenor, Public rehearsals on Jan. 8 and May 8. Oratorio Hall, Peabody Institute Orchestral Concerts (twenty-ttftli season) Conductor, Asger Hamerik. Orchestra of 70, in part amateurs. Season of six evening concerts, Jan. 31, f'Symphonie Majcstueusc" in in Liszt No, 4, C. op. 35, Hamerik ; Concerto for Piano, W flat, TSstelle Miss E, * Over- (Miss T. Andrews) ; Songs, sung by Butler; ture, "Antony and Cleopatra," Rubinstein. Feb. 7, Symphony, No. 8, Beethoven; Concerto for Piano, No. 5, in E flat, Beethoven R. Miss " (Mr. Burmeister) ; Songs, sung by Marion Weed; Dance of the Sylphs," Berlioz; Overture, "The Corsair," Berlioz. Feb. 14, Overture, "Michael Angelo," Gade; Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Gade; March from "Thrymskviden," J. P. E. Hartmann; Berceuse for Strings and Harp, iu E, Emil Hartmann; "Over- ture Tragique," op. 25, Emil Hartmann; Introduction and Bridal " Music from Act Three of Lohengrin," Wagner. Miss Edna Gray sang songs by Grieg and Wagner's "The Rose, "Expectation" and "Slumber Sweet Child." March 7, Overture, "Alceste," Gluck; Overture, "King Lear," Berlioz; Concerto for Piano, in Rubinstein Harold * E flat, (Mr. Randolph) ; Symphonic Poem, " The Chase after Fortune," op. 2, R. Burmeister. Miss E. Berger, Soprano, sang an aria by Rubinstein. March 14, Symphony, No 4, " in Raff " for G minor, ; Rhapsodie d'Auvergne Piano and Orches- St. S. tra, Saens (Miss Feruow) ; Songs, sung by Miss M. Kunkel ; " Prelude to Fourth act of Tovelille," Hamerik; Overture, "Leo- nore," No. 3, Beethoven. March 21, Symphony No. 9, Beethoven " (orchestral movements only); Song Mignon," Liszt (Miss "Fantasie for Liszt Marion Weed) ; Hongroise" Piano, (Mr. S. M. " " Fabain) ; Siegfried Idyl," Good Friday Spell," "Kaiser March," Wagner. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Season of five concerts at Con- cordia Opera House. Dec. 12, Symphony (Heroic) Beethoven; Concerto for Piano, in G minor, op. 22, St. Saens (Mrs. Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler) ; Scherzo Capriccioso, op. 66, Dvorak; Sym- * " phonic Poem, Tasso," Liszt. Jan, 16, Overture, Prometheus," Goldmark; Adagio and Scherzo -from "Scandinavian" Symphony, Cowen; Symphonic Poem, "Danse Macabre," St, Saens; Overture, " Scherzo, Notturno and March, from Midsummernight's Dream," Mendelssohn. Mrs. Arthur Nikisch, Soprano, Soloist. Feb. 27, Overture, "Benvenuto Cellini," Berlioz; Concerto for Piano in F V. and minor, Chopin (Mr. de Pachmann) ; Andantino Scherzo from Symphony, No, 4, in F minor, Tschaikowsky; Symphony. (Im Walde) Raff. March 24, A Wagner program : Overture and Bac- c * chanale from Tannhauser" (Paris version); Lohengrin's Legend " Albumblatt for Violin (Mr. (Mr. Andreas Dippel) ; Waldweben"; "In Neuen Thaten" from "Die Gotterdiimmerung'' Kneisel) ; Duet, u to (Mrs. Antonia Mielke, Mr. Dippel); Siegfried's Passage Bninnhilde's Rock, Morning Dawn and Rhine Journey ;" Prelude and " Mrs. Closing Scene from Tristan and Isolde" (Isolde, Mielke). " Concerto for Piano, in B April 28, Overture, Oberon," Weber: "Nikia's flat minor, op. 23, Tschaikowsky (Mrs. Helen Hopekirk) ; " Dream," and In the Hammock" from Symphonic Orieutale," in Brahms. op. 84, Godard; Symphony, No. 2, D, The Baltimore Orchestra. (46 members) Second season. Con- orchestral con- ductor, Ross Jungnickel. Series of eight popular certs at Academy of Musie, Nov. 27, Dec. 30, Jan. IS, 29, Feb. 19, noted : Scherzo March 3, 17, 28. More important works Overture, for C. and finale, op. 52, Schumann; Concerto Piano, Grief? (Miss F. Concerto for Violin in G minor (Mr. Gaul) ; Gaul) ; Concerto Con- for Horn and Orchestra in E flat, Mozart (Mr. Xaver Keiter) ; certo for Piano, op. 72, Reinecke (Mr. J. P. Lawrence); March, " and Overture from Prince Igor," Borodin; Concerto for Cello, op. * Suite for Orchestra, 33, Volkmann (Mr. Paul Miersch) ; String P. Miersch; Concerto for Piano in D minor, Mozart (Mr. V. cle Pachmann). The fourth concert of the first season of the orchestra was given May 8. the Boston Festival Orchestra of May 15, in Lyceum Theatre, orchestral con- forty, Victor Herbert, Conductor, gave two popular certs, with the assistance of these soloists : Miss Rose Stewart, Soprano; Mr. M. W. Whitney, Bass; Mr. F. Winternitz, Violinist; Mr. V. Herbert, Cellist, and Miss Aus der One, Pianist, who played under the direction of the composer: Concerto in B flat minor, Tschaikowsky. The Kneisel Quartet of Boston gave two concerts under the auspices of the Taelten Music School. Jan, 17, Quartet in A minor, in op. 41, No. 1, Schumann; Quartet Movement C minor (Peters In Beethoven. Fob. No. 9) Schubert; Quintet for Strings C, op. 29, 23, Quartet in D, Mozart; Songs by Schubert and Schumann sung by Mr. Max Treumann, Baritone; Theme and Var., from Quartet in B minor, Schubert; Piano Quintet in E flat, op. U, Schumann (Pianist, Mrs. B. Paelten). BOSTON. ORCHESTRAL. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Tenth Season. Orchestra of 75. Music Hall. Conductor^ ARTHUR NIEISCH. Leader, FRANZ KNBISEL. Manager, C. A. ELLIS. Season of twenty-four Saturday-evening Concerts, each preceded by a Friday-afternoon Public Rehearsal. Get- 11. Overture, "Fingal's Cave," Mendelssohn; Concerto for two Violins (Mr. Kneisel, Mr. C. M. Loeffler) and string orchestra, in D minor, Bach; Symphony (Heroic) Beethoven. Program in memory of Otto Dresel. * Oct. 18. Overture to Shakespeare's "Richard III.," Volkmann; " " Aria, "Blick ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise from Tannhftuser," Theodor Wagner (Mr. Reichmann) ; *Andantmo and Scherzo from No. in F Symphony, 4, minor, Tschaikowsky ; Songs, " Immer leiser wird mein " Schlummer," Brahms ; Am Meer," Schubert (Mr. Reichmann) ; Symphony, No. 2, in D, Brahms. u Oct. 25. Symphony, in D (B. and H. No. 2) Haydn; A Faust Overture," Wagner; Symphony, No. 9, in C, Schubert. " Nov. 1. *0verture, Prometheus Bound," op. 38, Goldraark; Concerto for Piano, in G minor, op. 15, Sgambati (Mr. H. G. Tucker); Suite in F, Moszkowski; "Ride of the Walkiiries," Wagner. " Nov. 7. Overture, Ossian," Gade; Aria, from "Sappho," Gounod C. Scherzo (Mrs. W. Wyman) ; Capriccioso, op. 66, Dvorak; Songs, "Regrets," Delibes; "Bonne Nuit," Massenet; " A une Ferrari Fianc6e," (Mrs. Wyman) ; Symphony (Scotch) Mendelssohn. * Nov. 22. Symphony, No. 1, Beethoven; Concerto for Cello, in D, Haydn (Mr.