The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-06
THE BIG MUSIC FESTIVAL
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tion, the latter demanding the dramat- ic considerat tiOn it received.
 Mrs. Haesche's brilliant soprano voice did much to present number Of com positions which. with one of smaller ex- perience would have been less success ful. In the German number the voice is apparently disregaTded and well as it was done was thank!ess. The noe turne was beautifully given. as was her encore. "A Dutch Lullaby proved novelty given as it was by what proved to be a most excellent quartet. Miss Merwin, who shared the hOnOrs with Mrs. Haesche. has a soprano voice which is rapidly coming forward. This lullaby is cleverly arranged for mixed quartet with a soprano obligatO which Mrs. Haesche did effectively. while the piano accompaniment is for four hands.
 It was a pleasure to many to see and hear Miss Merwin in the quartet. AL though a young woman bred in New Haven her fine musical talent up to the present has been devoted to out or town concerts and choirs. In her work yesterday she displayed voice of rare richness, roundness and resonance. It was unfortunate that the management could not see it's way clear to give her a solo part. She was perfectly at home with the fine artists with whom she sang, and would have added to their success had her voice been heard in solo. However, there are many that are hoping that Miss Merwin will soon
 kN her efforts to this city. In yesterdays s concert she displayed excellent concert presence, her voice was a fine, equal balance with the other singers, and her notes rang out clear and sweet. That a brilliant future awaits Miss MerWin is the expressed opinion of not only her friends, but many who had not heard her before until yesterday.
 The event of the festival thus far was the appearance of g wonderful child pianist. Miss Hattie Scholder of New York city at the o'clock event. The audience greeted this precocious girl cordially upon her entry, but grew wildly enthusiastic as the programme continued. This Is her third appear ance here this season, and still scarcely any of her auditors yesterday had yet heard her.
 A Bach fugue. the o4e in c minor. opened the concert. Then followed the Verdi-Liszt paraphrase to Rigoletto, with its complicated cord and octave progressions. In word, the execution was faultless. In the nocturne next was just the opposite. displaying such rare tone coloring and clean cut phras- ing one seldom hears from more matur- ed professionals. Her tempo is always equal to the markings and her remark able technique absolutely sure. The child not only possesses all these but a soul and temperament alas too seldom found in many public players.
 Liszts Hungarian rhapsody and the Schubert-Tausig "Marche Militaire'' were among the dozen or more standard works she performed.
 Miss Evelyn Frances Kellogg, soprano oe Hartford. was the vocalist. but was hardly adequate for the position she filled on the programme nor the vocal numbers she attempted. Here colorature needs much more schooling to become accurate; still she may not have sung in her best voice.
 Little Miss Scholder has a repertoire of fifty-five pieces, which she plays without the score before her and hel remarkable pianistic achievements are the result of five years study with S Eppinger of New York city.