The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-18

IHe secoAu uay or the connecticut MUSIC Teachers Association festival is over. It was busy and nerye-exhausting day and those faithful and persevering souls who at- tended from early morn till dewy eve must have repaired to weary couches about eleven o'clock last evening. It is great strain, no matter how enjoyable each indi- vidual concert may be.
 At nine o'clock yesterday morning a busl- ness meeting was held at Warner Hall At 9:30, MT. Carl G. Schmidt of New York read paper MT. Schmidt's subject was: Musical Literature; Its Necessity 70 Mu- siea Study;'' and 1t was treated in most interesting manner. AS the lecture was fully reported yesterday afternoons press we, will not take space further. At eleven o'clock there was u miscellaneous concert of more than usual Interest.
 MT. Hugo, the Bridgeport pianist who re- has spent many, years in study, made a very favorable impression. He Is excel- lently equipped technically and has had sound sound, musical training. His playing was warmth and color. Miss Bryant has a pleasing soprano voice of some fexibility and exhibited an unusual amount of style in singing. Miss Holmes, the violinist, who is well known here, was well received. She performed Sarasate's difficult Faust | Fantasie' in an admirable manner and was | obliged to respond to an encore. She played, an arrangement of Popper's Spin, s "Resverie9 Miss Beers, See r''fs the contraito of this city, sang two songs in pleasing man Miss Wigmore aimed little too high in her selections, but she has good voice and | sings. intelligently She was accompanied | by MT. Cooke.
 l ture of the days concerts took place. This | was the song-recital by Mrs. Katherine was assisted by Miss Elavis Van der Hen s accompanist. Mrs. Bloodgood's recital was | attended by a very large audience and much enthusiasm was displayed. Mrs. as one of our best contratos She has voice of good range and of particularly lus- eious quality She Is an enthusiastic l II artist and beautiful woman, and with this unu- sual combination of gifts 1t Is easy to un- derstand her success and prophecy bril- liant career for her Her programme in- eluded songs of many schools: Grieg, | Brahms, Becker, Salo, Pessard, Macdowell, and Nevln were among the, names repre-; scented on her programme and all were well done. Of especial interest were the two songs from Liza Lehmann,s Persian Gar den" cyclus and two of Francis Korbay's s Hungarian melodies. The last two were perhaps the best things Mrs Bloodgood did. She gave one encore song, Hensehers sch J, played Mrs. Bloodgood's accomplishments in masterly style his extraordinary gifts as an accompanist have frequently been com mented upon in these columns. His play I ing contributed largely to the pleasure of | the afternoon. Miss Flayie Van der Hende played nieces by Goddard, PoppeL, and Da- | vidoff, also some obligatos for Mrs. Blood. Sympathetic feeling. She was obliged to give encore numbers. She was accompanied l by MT. filling.
 l At four o'clock came the chamber-music nnpt vhn nsfn 1nI htr the following artists: Franz .Kaltenborn, violin; Jacob Altschueler. viola; Paul Miersch, violoneello; Ludwig D. Namely, | Miss Cornelia Dyas, pianist. The works performed were tne famous Beethoven sep tes which was repeated this year by gen op. S7. MT. Katenborn, the first violin. Is the leader of the Kaltenborn- -Beyer- Hane l quartette and was new to this city. Mr. 1 Kaltenborn did splendid work and created a desire to hear uis quartette, play. They ought to be heard here in the University course. The men played the septet beauti- | fully, although the minuet could have been | taken proitably at slower tempo. The quartet was also well played and Miss Dyas did excellent ensemble work, although no better than local artists have done on pre-
 Last evening Flotow's Martha" was Esung by the Whitney Opera Company before a very large audience Signor Montegritfo, whom we supposed had been gathered to of MT. Stephens, and Mrs Hinrichs sang Nancy. It was a most uneven performances and perhans the best way to deal with 1t formance. MT. Pruebte as Plunkett did excellent work He was last heard here ill His Wedding Day. with Lillian R Russell, etc Next to MT L Prgette & came Annie An hca Sa voice Is worn and she suffers from an ex- cessive vibrato,. still the intonatton was good and she displayed. great facility at last with the Emma Juch Opera Company as Don Jose" in "Carmen." His high notes are still vibrant and true, but aside
 9m n af as nseS sns9g her has ew M e YFge o o The performance was surely worth the price charged for it.
 Yesterdays business meeting, though of very poorly attended. It was held in War ner hall Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, MT. A.
 FogwPer of Sew Haven programme committee Thomas G; Shepard of New Haven, George A. Kies of Norwich and k. P. Paine of New Britain.
 It was also decided to hold the composers concert next year, at which time both the published and unpublished compositions oi residents of the State who are not behind for compositions will be given in future years.
 PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY.
 To-days programme follows:
 9:30 a. m.
 Piano Solo-Papflon .Grie:
 Miss Clara Asher
 Song-Springs Awakening ........... Bucl Miss Idella Leavitt. Accompanied by George Brown. Song-Awake to Love. e............ .Hawley William E. Morgan, Jr. Accompanied by Willis H. filling. Aria-Mon occur s'ouvre a ta voix Samson and Delilah) .................S .Saint-Saen Miss G. Grace Smith. Accompanied by MT. filling. l Sixth Grand Solo for Flute. ..Demersemanl Frederick Guilford. Accompanied by Louis Felsburg Song-Before the Dawn. ..,..... .Chadwicl Miss Louise Battersby. Accompanied by MT. filling.
 Piano Solo-Rhapsodie No. 40. ...... .Lisz
 Miss Clara Asher.
 Song-Patria :.......... Matte
 Miss Levitt.
 Song-The Silver Cup p...............A Adam