The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-24

The F~ortnightly MuSlcales pubs tne nour
8:15 on its cards and then sweetiy dlsregaros
it. This custom of beginning anywhere
| from an hour to two hours after the APP
pointed time made it possible for a number
of the members-qtoruna parS Jua-to leave
| Hasbrouck Hall at the close of the Corot
| lecture n reach the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. Hunter Brown, at No. 9 Clinton avenue,
| in time to hear all the musical programme
Mrs. Lyle read biographical notes ON Felix
| Mendelssohn- Bartholdy, as the first number.
Two movement from the Scotch Symphony
| followed, arranged for four hands n
| PLAYED by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Lyle. Miss
Turner appeared on the regular programme
for the first time since her enforced
| silence. and sang 1.-THE First Violet" with
a true poetic conception. Mrs. Frank
Cavall1 played Nos 70, 81 and 81 OF the
| Iieder ohne Worte. [ CHANGED just before
going to the Fortnightly to happen upon
Robert Schumann's review of these songs
written when they had just been published,
and as it may not be familiar quote from it
| here. It appeared in the ''Neue Zeitschrift
| Fuer Musik.a stWho has not sometimes sat
| alone at twilight before his pianoforte, and
| unconsciously. while improvising, has not
| softly sung a quiet melody to himself! Fro
| vided one is, above all, a Mendelssohn, and
| that one occasionally unltes the melody 10
! the accompaniment with the hands alone,
| fine finest of songs without words will be
| the result. He who has sung u a song
may hone to live long, before and after
| death. We simply point to this book, with
| out supposing that it needs the recommends
ton of words. No one doubts the meaning
| of a rose bush that sheds bloom and perfume
around it, or of an eye that gazes happily
| towards the moon
Mr.. William F. Brown sang sit Is
Enough from Elijah. most admirably, and
Mrs. Brown played ~coquettish little scherzo
that brought her loud applause.
The Schubert part OF the programme began
with a reading by Mrs. Lyle, and included
six songs-'Omnipotence !" by Miss Nelson;
eSThe Mock Suns and THE Post" by. Mr.:
William Hunter Brown; "Impatience" and
the delicious "Who Is Sylvan who that
heard the chorus sing that in Days Twelfth
Night can ever forget itl,, sung by Miss
Turner, and the "Serenade;n by MISS Ifeen,
The late hour at which the programme be-
oau prevented an after-musicale. The next
neetng will probably be held at the resi-
dence of Miss Carrie Chesley, on Clinton av-
enue. next Friday evening, March Z. h
programme will represent the musicians OF
the time of Robert Schumann.
Miss Lucy F. Nelson will sing at the Taber-
nacle tomorrow night. The music here is
under the direction of Mr.. Victor Baier,
organisti and conductor, who maintains q
high standard of merit. Miss Nelson will
SING in Montclair, April 2, in a ballad con-
cert. whose programme Will pIoSeue Daiiauo
of ali nations-an idea which is decidedly
worth bearing in mind
The lecture by Mi. Silas G.. Pratt of New
York City, called Musical Metempsychosis, y
which was reviewed at some length in this
column two weeks ago, will be given in Has
brouck Hall, with s~tereopticon views, prob
ably lust after Easter. l do not know
whether it will be under the auspices of the
Fortnightly, but they are interested them
selves in the matter.
In future. the Fortnightlies will be held on
the first and third, instead of the second and
fourth Fridays of the month.
The Bradford Trio has been playing at the
Bergen Reformed Church during the special
| meetings there. The young people play well,
and make many friends.
Mr.. M. A. Davies, of Crawford was the
| guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Walker at
fhe Ladies' Night Dinner at the Cosmos Club
last Thursday night, where she sang "My
Heart is Sair for Somebody" and a recall
number.
The Mozart Society is dead, but upon its
ashes has arisen a new society in Bayonne.
The members comprise two %violins, a flute, a
| cornet, a drum, and several other instru-
ments. They have not yet taken unto them
selves a name. III. b. L..