The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-22
News and Gossip
Music and Musicians

pants: Misses Ethel Nickerson, verna Palm
er, DR.. and Mrs. B. NJ. Gundelfinger.
Cook, Ethel Ayres, Sadie Fritsche, Hazel
Viliet. Ethel Rowland. Ruby McMillen.
Mary Atheling Martin, Eloise Palmer. Mrs
Crosley Miss Beck and Miss Mckenna.
The programme also, includes five numbers
by the girls chorus. Miss Esther Swain
will play the accompaniment.
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The next concert of the Amphion Club
| with Petschnikoff the great Russian plan
list, Hamburg. the young Russian plan
| list giant, who was the soloist at the last
concert, and Lachaume, the talented
French pianist, will be given at Tomlinson
Hall on Saturday, May 10. The simultane-
Gus appearance of three such celebrities,
except at a May festival. is unprecedented.
and is in keeping with the enterprise in
musical affairs for which the Amphion
Club is justly noted Popular prices will
prevail, and by giving the concert Sat-
urday evening the club follows the ex
ample made popular by Eastern societies.
The musical programme to be given at
| the Second Presbyterian Church this even
ing includes the organ preludes, a, MIMI
ette tsaomeo
the organist, Mr.. Charles I. Hansen: bass
solo. 'Propecatis' (from Rossinis 'Stabat
Mater''), Mr. Louis j. Dochez; soprano and
tenor duet, MY Song Shall be Always
and Mr.. Miller; alto solo (aria from Saint
| Saens's Sampson and Delilah." adapted TO
sacred words by Mr.. Hansen). Mrs. Alice
Fleming Evans, and organ postiude in f
by Mr.. Hansen. Three of the best num-
bers from the Easter programme will also
be given.
Paul Dresser, the well-known Hoosier
Il
''The Pardon Came Too Late 1.-The Con-
Wet and the Bird" Just Tell Them That
You Saw Me-" and "On the Banks of the
Wabash, Far Away" are known from
ocean to ocean, was wont some years ago
| to deprecate the criticism he received from
| the "long-haired ones,"-as he facetiously
| termed music theorists-has at last, in
measure, felt the force of musical science,
and his recent songs show a marked inn
provement in style and treatment While
| his songs still cater to the unsteady un-
educated, they are better harmonized. In
| his latest song, "The Blue and the Gray
| idealizing an Indiana mothers threefold
sacrifice to war, two sons the Confed-
| crate side and her last in the trenches of
| Santiago-this fact stands out clearly, the
piano score being more carefully written
| The little part-measure interludes suggest
| ing Marching Through Georgia" Yankee
| Doodle and Down in Dixie are ingenu-
Gus and while the melody may not take"
| effort makes him more worthy.
The Maennerchor, under the direction of
Mr.. Fran. Bellinger, will give it's next
concert on Wednesday evening. The
Philharmonic String Quartet, as at the last
concert will assist with two numbers,
consisting of the Romanza and Salterelle,
| the second and fourth movements of the
| Grieg concerto, which was the principal
| number the quartet gave at its first con-
| cert two weeks ago, and a. ''Berceuse,"
by Renard. and b. "Canzonnetta," by God
dard. Mr.. Oliver Willard Pierce and Mr.
Hugh McGibeny will play piano and violin
solos including a. Les C., Cloc +, de Ge-
List, and the allegro from Paganini's
| first violin concerto with the famous
| Bezirkerski cadenza. The mixed choruses
been under rehearsal for some time They
| are Evening Song" by Frank Mueller,
/ and Springs Message" by Gade The
/, two male choruses to be given are 'Hark,
| How the Larks are Singing" by Prayon,
| and "Springtime," by Wilhelm. The piano
| accomplishments will be played by Mrs.
Hugh McGibeny and Mrs. Cecil Smith.
In contrast to the artist concert given by
| the Musikverein, recently, with it's six solo,
lists. the programme for Tuesday even
| ings concert includes the entire chorus,
| orchestra and the Boys Brigade Band.
The latter will assist the orchestra in the
Indian March, from 'LAfricaine." by
| Meyerbeer. The remaining numbers are
also taken from various operas. all of
| which are enjoyable and well selected. The
| orchestra will play the overture to "A
| Night in Grenada" (Kreutzer), Dance of
the Hindoos'' CBizet), 'Intermezzo" MAS
| cagni) The choruses will be "Kirmess,"
| from Faust" (Gounod), Chorus of Pris-
oners," from "Fidelio' Beethoven, and
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| Grenada The solo parts in the latter will
| be taken by Miss Lula A. Fisher and
Messrs. o. L. Kipp, Edward Nell. A G.
| Wocher and Frank Mas. The gem of the
evening will be the sextet from Lucia
| DonizettD, TO be sung by Miss Lula A.
| Fisher, Mrs. Robert Lieber and Messrs.
| Henry Raub. G.. A. Schnull, Oliver w.
| Isensee and Edward Nell The programme
| has been arranged and will be directed by
| Professor Ernestinoff.
| The indianapolis Liederkranz one Of the
oldest singing societies of this city, will
celebrate the twenty-ninth anniversary of
its organization this evening at st. Mary's
| Hall, on South Delaware street. 1t was
founded by Mr.. Ernst Knode, its present
director who--was succeeded at the end of
| the twelfth year by Prof. Ernestinoff,
| who made a mixed chorus of the society.
| After three years, Prof. Ernestinof went
| to st. Louis and the society lapsed for
| some time when it was reorganized as a
male chorus by Mr.. Knodel, and has been
| under his direction ever since. The society
| is in a fourishing condition. having an
| active membership of fifty, with passive
membership of three hundred, Twenty
| years ago the Liederkranz was the leading
| male chorus of the city, and covered itself
with deserved glory at the Saengerfest of
| the North American Saengerbund, held
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