The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-26
music ON THE HEIGHTS
Mr.. Moritz Schwartz Gives An
other Reeital-Hasbrouek's
Good Showing.

1t is evident that the playing OF Mr..
'Moritz E. Schwarz has appealed to the gen
eral public, for, in his series of organ re-
citals given during the season in different
churches, the attendance has always been
large. St. Johns Free Church was filled
last night to the limit of its capacity.
The feature of the concert, which made it
especially noteworthy, was the production
of four numbers from Schwarz's recently
published Communion Service" in B fiat;
the ssCredo," ssBenedictus," 'Agnus Dei'
and "Gloria in Excelsis," of which the
''Credo' was the most elaborate. 1t is for
full chorus, with one incidental solo Iof
soprano. The real beauty OF the composition
deserved much stricter treatment from the
chorus, which lost some of the best effects
from sighting the marks of expression, es-
pecially in paving insufficient attention to
the dynamics, for example, in the passage,
"Whose kingdom shall have no end, ana
II look for the resurrection of the dead"
The composition itself has undoubted
merit The melody and harmony have the
spirit of the contrapuntal period, but the
composer takes the privilege OF modern
methods and does not carry out his counter
point to the point of imitation or canon
The voice-leading is smooth, and there is
good climax. The organ part is not inter
esting in itself, serving only to reinforce the
voices 1t would seem that the pedal notes
at s'whose kingdom" might be brought out
more clearly with good effect, but Mr.
Schwarz probably knows his own compost
ton. OF the other numbers, the Agnus De4
has smooth, flowing theme, well handled.
The organ numbers were the Bach A
Minor Prelude and Fugue, the nocturne
from Midsummernight's Dream, Rhein-
berger's Sonata Pastorale, of which the
second movement was admirable; Gull
mant's beautiful ''Marche Funebre ct Chant
Seraphique," and a concert piece by Ihlele
Mrs. Schwarz sang the aria .'Mon occur
souvre ia voix,n from Saint-Saens ''Sam-
son ct Delila," somewhat too coldly for an
aria, whose chiefest charm lies in its
warmth and color This was perhaps due
to the building in which the concert was
held, but it would have been wiser course
to substitute a more ecclesiastical number
rather than to tone down this beautiful love
song.
The following ladies and gentlemen as
Underhill, NJ E. Schwarz, the Misses Ag-
mes Sweeney, Alice Ward, Lillian Scott,
Boiling, Frances Houghtaling, Lucy Kent,
Lillian Dale, Mrs. Florence Ford, Messrs.
Eugene Hicks, Fl. V. Piaget, Jr., Edwin
Groeschel, w. P Underhil, Edward Dale,
Jr.
HAsBRoucK's MUSICALE.
The semi-annual musicale of the pupils
of Hasbrouck School of Music was held last
night at Hasbrouck Hall, which was COM
fortably filed. The audience was composed
mainly of young people, whose enthusiasm
was expended chiefly upon the quartette for
banjos and guitar, for the Misses Helen
Bray, Annie Weeks and Netta Thompson
and Master Eugene Newkirk. OF the piano
pupils. the best work was done by Miss
Maud Conway, Miss Margaret Eye, Miss
Belle Newkirk and Miss Nellie Holbrook.
Miss Conway's playing of Seeling's "Lurllne"
was brilliant and accurate. Miss Ege's play
ing of Bendels beautiful arrangement OF
Walther's Preislied was marked by admir-
able breadth and poetry and interpretatlon,
and Miss Nellie HolbrOOk gave Sherzo
waltz of Godard's with much spirit. Miss
Newkirk succeeded to an unusual degree in
giving the spirit of Paderewski's Minuet
Antique, bracketed with a reverie by Mr.
Gustav L. Becker, with whom she studied it.
Other interesting piano numbers were the
Aragonaise from Massenet's ballet music by
Miss Nellie Gumbs, the "Ras des Amphores'
from Chaminades ballet music by Miss Lii
lian NJ Morse, and Saint Saens' Premiere
Mazurk, by Miss Mildred Till.
The soprano solo of Miss Grace Winans
was the only vocal number of the evening.
1t was Anton Strelezke's "Happy Days.
with Mr.. Becker at the piano, and flute
obligato Miss Winans' singing was in the
nature of surprise, it was mucn in advance
of what one would expect from first public
appearance, at pupils concert. Her voice
is not large, but of good quality, her tone
production admirable, and her method ex-
cellent. Her singing has an atmosphere of
art that is unusual for student. 1t is to be
hoped that she may be heard again without
the flute obligato, which was unpardonably
bad.
The violin numbers were unusally prom
Using, Mr. Robert Post played Berceuse
of Grieg, Miss Alice Scudder Hollaenders
'sWellenspiel" and Miss Ada Cadmus a TO
nance and prelude from Ries's Second Suite
in E. Mr. Baier opened the programme
with an allegro synphoniq,te of Salome,
PLAYED in his usual excellent manner, and
Messrs. Baier, Case and Withers closed 1T
with serenade by Herbert, for piano, VIC