The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-22
THE FIRST SCHUBERT.
Eighth Season Of This Valu able
Club opened at the
Tabernacle.

LIS unnecessary 10 say LQAt
weather. arrived last night In time for
the first concert of the Schubert's eighsa
seaaon. In this respect, the club fully
maintained It's reputation.
The opening number was Muslle's
'The Wiutry Winds Are Blowing" a
spirited glee. well sung, especially the
frat part. About Young Werner's
any way. The Incidental quartstts-
Messrs.. T. ]. Adams. Jackson, Gillies
and YonmHns-sounded q rrids thin, but
that Is q minor matter. Hatton's Life
Boat" brought out u fine volume of tone,
and on the other hand. Mozart's ''SIesp
was still master of pianissino
effects-thanks to the conductor. The
singing of this and OF Kuscken's "Pfl-
grim's Evening Song" WAS characteristic
of the chorus-more so than any other
number.
The most preteutious, and at ths same
time most praiseworthy chorus. was
Schubert's "Great ia Jehovah" with
piano and organ accompaniment. and an
incidental tenor solo by Mr.. S. Fisher
Miller. The smoothness with which the
chorus took up the strain as che solo
was closing. was the most effective work
of the whole. Throughout, the chorus
showed careful training, that had givsn
it excellent balance and q satisfying full
ness of one. In RESPONSE TO a recall, Mr..
Miller sang Loves Philosophy" Z
Besides the glees. there were u trio and
a Qnartette by members of the club. The
first. Grlfin's Lady OF Beauty" must
have had good practice. Messrs. E. M.
Cockaday. L. j. Adams and John GIllies
sing together smoothly, and their voices
are such as 0 m0ine to good hi
The only trouble with The number wa.
not their fault. but the composers. IN
Introducing au entirely incongruous "Fa
IL la" passage in the midst OF the seren-
ade. The same singers. with Mr.. T. /.
Wiltshire. gave the Quartette, BridRe'$
humorous part song, "The Goslings."
In this. Mr.. Cockaday's melting tenor
changed TO an affecting falsstto. But In
this he did we'll. for 1t expressed MS no
other voice quality would, the mock
| pathos OF the composition.
| While the work of the chorus was In
nc way notably superior to that of last
| year, IL showed no general deterioration.
Mr.. Baier has his chorus wall In hand,
and there is no reason why this should
not be its most successful season..
AS for the assistants, 1t In hard to take
them seriously When the four Swedish
singers, Misses Maria, Sssphanie aud
Amalls Heden and Mas Hedwix Lia@
strom, sRng their Swedish folk>songs,
they pleased and interested the audieuce.
In ons, = cuck o song. there was some
CIcfeE SuauLuR. DuG III tu6 OlQSr num-
bers, SUCH az '.Rockaby Lullaby" aud the
Abt qusrtette, where, with the charm OF
nnfauftltarity removed, they stood for
Judgment on their merits as musicians. It
became apparent that not only The voices
metallic for all their youth-but their,
ragged blending, would bar tnem
from y place with artists. Regarding the
clarfonetisr, Siznor Eduardo Rluaidy,
it IS not SO much q question OF his pros
fieieucy as OF the suitability of the clarf~
onet for u solo instrument The regis
ters are too clearly defined. aud the
difference 10 their tone duality too mark
ed to make it satisfactory 10 "a selection
OF broad range, such as the fantasia from
Lucia" The break In the Jvne is ike
that In a boys voice when 1t is changing.
His second number. a set of variations on
Believe Me, II all Those Endearing
Young Charms" was bis best. Moszkow-
skis "~Serenata." arranged from the
4 piano setting, was better III the first slow
part b q IN the rapid runs of the inter-
Jude. The Scharwenka polish Dance
was q huRa Joke. He did not even pre-
tend TO play the notes correctly. The
eff ct of those opening chords was simply
ludicrons as transferred % a single
piercing tone. All, IL Scharwenka's
astral body had been anywhere near that
platform, where only a few snort mouths
ago ne PLAYED for us this self same dancs,
he would nave suffered the paugs OF
hearing his good pianoforte music wan
tonly manned ana Destroyed h
Mr.. Baier conducted as usual. To him
is due the most successful part OF the
evening. Mr.. w. w. Outwater played
the piano accomplishments wall, and Mr..
Charles Batter the organ part ia Schu-
bert's 'Omnipotence."
The club now numbers the following
active mambers:- rs
Messrs. Thomas J. Adams, J. Sidney
Adams, Varian Banks. Victor Baier, Il,
Brafthwaite, William H. Brown, Evan
X. Jones, John s.. Jackson, w.
n. H. Kase, Theodore w. Kennedy.
Robert Lsonard. G. e. McGowu,
Il. s. Carrick. j. H. Casteus. William ]
Collins, Marsham e. Cockadav, s. r.
Collins. w. Stagg Cerren. George Al.
Decker, Clarence J. Detwiller. Oberlfn
Dealing, Alfred Evans. M. r. McDermid,
Prestly S. M~acLaughliu, Frederick Il.
Morse. Cnas. T. o. Macgie, Wesley 5. Ne
gus, Emile A. Noltemeyer, Louis NASH, w.
w Outwater. A. N. Periee, +. e. Price,
Samuel s.. Eelis. J. EMS, Max +. Fac
kert, Charles Forster, George K. Garrett
son, john Gillies. Edwin GroesheI, Alfred
T.. Houifston, Eugene Hicks, Il M Pat
tersou. John Rich. w. e. Rogers, Edgar
s Smith, Oscar s.. Schmidt, George g
T~nuant, Alfred C. Tnompson. Thomas /,
wiltshire and Frank Youmaus.