The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-01
OUR TUNHFUL TOWN.
A Ye ar of Musical Effort
IN Jersey City
Reviewed.
SOLOISTS AND COMPOSERS
Excellent Work Done By the Fort
nightly Musicales-Social
Notes.

HDOut OGISSy S1lJe ~ any 80
of a surprise. When a New Yorker de-
liberately states that JERSEY City i III ad-
vance of the metropolis in any particular,
it Is evident that he is either making the
sarcastic effort of his life or else that he
is forced to his conviction by overwhelm-
ming evidence. When. therefore, a PROM
inent New York musician, of his W
accord, makes the statalent that there
are more music. better music and more
music lovers in Jersey City than New
York, in proportion TO the size." as was
actually the case last week, IL Is time to
investigate.
The influence that has been brought to
bear on Jersey City's music public is
largely exerted by the Schubert. the
de opoia, the Fortnightly Musicaies, aud
In another direction by tue two amateur
oputatic companies. A BRIEF review OF
the work of these organizations for the
past year will be the best means OF PROV
Tag the claim of our city to rank as a
musical community, il not n musical
centre, The Schubert Glee Club began
its rehearsals early IN the autumn, Ii
heid the last of its usual three concerts
| April 10. III all the six years or It's lie,
| the society never presented more sincere.
| conscientious work, or used 10 such an
extent its power 10 elevate the puDtlc
taste Instead of follo wing il. Its concerts.
| attended 10y u throng that crowds the
| Tabernacle three times a Year., aud IS by
| no means compo-ed OF MUSICIANS. or even
| students OF music, have the power TO
| reach the greater part of Jersey Guys
thinking population, and undoubtedly
| set the tone To general musical sen6lIneht
in the community. When the pro-
| Cramme OF the closing concert was made
! public, it was evident that the Schubert
| had realized its responsibility as a public
| educator, and proposed to live up TO 1t.
Instead of pretty part songs ana gentle
| gtees, such as a schoolboy's singing So
ciety need not be afraid 10 attempt, they
| introduced orchestral Accomplishments,
and gave their audience two numbers
| that preserved the uDities as few perior-
| mances nave done. The first was Dudley
Bucks "Bugle Song" with strings from
the New York Philharmonic Society, and
a cornet from the second story OF
| the Tabernacle. where he chortled pla-
cidIy through a window, in imitation of
| the "horns of elf-land family blowing"
| The second was Hermann Mehr's cantata
40 the Genius of Music" with Nine.
| Lillian Blsuvelt, soprauu s~otoist. Mr..
Charles Baier at the ryan. Mr.. w. w.
| Outwater, piano, and the string orches-
TIA. 1t is safe TO say that d more artistic
piece of work could not be produced by
auy similar society on this side of the
| Continent at leRsE. Nine. Blauvel5 is a
native of New York. who studied in Mu-
| nich with several jersey City students,
| remarkable voice. The list of composers
| from whose works the Schubert has
chosen its numuers includes Farmer,
Caidecott aud the English gleeineu, De
Koveu, Abt, aud even Wagner. So much
for its work. Tn workers are, first and
foremost, the interchangeable Victor Batter.
conductor, and Messrs. 4. J. Adams.
E. G. Boys, r. Braithw ate.
j. H. Castens, William j. Collius, S. h.
| Collins, G. A. Decker. G. j.. Detwiller,
Oberlin Dealing, G. b. Doggert. Alfred
Evans, Max Fackert. Charles Forster, G.
4. Garre,son, John Gillies, E; Groesehel,
nedy. Robert Leonard. Fernand
Marlotti, NJ. r. McDermid. p S.
| Mclaughlin, f. R. Morse, U. Il.
Negus. E. A. Noltemeyer, W. w. Out.
water. A. N. Perlee. +. 4. Price, W. E.
Rogers, E. s. Smith, g.. G. Tenant, A.
/. Wiltshire. The officers are:-Mr. &C.
| Stimets, President; Mr., Chas. Forster,
First Vice President; MIR. w. j. Collins,
| Second Vice President; Mr.. h. Il. Morse,
Treasurer, aud MIR. Z. l. Wiltshire, SecreA
tary. ss
THE
The influence OF the Melopia, the cor
responding chorus of women's voices is
more circumS, ancial, not only because its
audiences are practically composed Ct
| personal friends. but because the chorus
lacks the capacity for great work that SUI
perior age and training have given the
Schubert. The Me1opoia has gained dur
ing the past year in balance. and that ex-
Quisite shading Tor which both clubs are
noted. 1t has doue no great work badly.
nor has it frlGtered away its time i'll me-
lodious %trifles; 1t has simply kept mp to
its limit Of capacity. Il given jersey
City the honor of a wouian's musical so-
| ciety that i~ntellixently iuterpretS what
ever it attempts. Its soloists have beer
exceptionally good. especially MIR. William
son, aud Miss Flarie Van der
Haende. 1t has given Schuinaun's "Im
Schatten des Walaes," selections from
Pontet-Edwards, De Koven, Schube rt
Bohm and Las Gu. and part songs VIII Use
name Is legion, but in The opinion OF nine-
tenths OF the critics. the finest WORK of
the year came III the DaMrosch-Lassen
Song of the Spanish Gypsy Girl" at
the third CONCERT. April 81. Th weird
sweep of the eerie melody and the pas
s oaale rubato OF its refrain came rrun
The chorus OF twenty six voices as if from
one, and that tuned aud trained. The
club is fortunate in possessing So many
members available for solo WORK, such as
Misses Katrina Green, Jennie Clerihew,
lear Toffey, Jessy E. Smith, Florence
Turner and Josie Manson. The other
members are Misses Maud Brett. Ger
irude Garland, Jessie Per Lee. Mabel
Rodger, Frank Steel, May Smith, Lillian
Pearsall, Heloise hamilton. Maude Hill
1ier, Emma Kennedy. TITLE MacBride,
Kate Moore, May Miller. Fannie Cross
man and Nora Forster. Meslames w.
Hunter Brown, William A. Durrfe, Jr.,
II. E. Niese, j.. ID. SMITH and q. G..
Stimets. Inc officers are Mr.. j., f. Nc
Coy, President; Mrs. H. e. Niese, Fist
Vice-Pre-iuent; MISS Jennie NJ. Cae1inem -,
Second Vice President; Mr.. T'neodore w.
Kennedy, Secretary; Miss Jessie Per Lee,
Treasurer; Mrs. w. Hunter Brown,
Pianist; Conductor, MIR. Vic or Baier.
THE FoRTN1GHTLY MUsICALEs,
The most important step III a musical
direction taken during the past year in
Jersey City has been without doubt the
formation of the Fortnigltly Musicales.
The existence or a society whose object Is
the earnest study of music, shows
that there are those in tue city
who hnve gone beyond the show off
stage'' iuto the purer artistic atmosphere,