The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
WITH MUSICIANS
AND MUSICAL PEOPLE.

The May concert Of the Music Club
! Thursday evening has been the gem
| eral topic among music lovers since
| then, and was the most brilliant and
successful concert ever given by the
club. 1t was a fitting close to a sea-
son fraught with so many and such
good results. Among these results one
OF the greatest has been the organiza-
ton and successful work of the or
chestra, under Mr.. A. C. Meyer. The
seasons work OF this would have
been unmarried but for the absence
from the ranks of some Of the perform
ers. Mr. Julian Hexter. who plays
the mi, was unable to be present,
and for some reason Mr..
Richart Tanant, Mr.. ]. Kucera and
Mr. James Caccia failed to be on hand.
They were all present at the compll-
mentary performance the week before.
But the orchestra number was a cred
itably close to the programme and
those furnishing it received the appre
citation of the audience in a round of
hearty applause. The orchestra will
during the summer seasons work.
There is a possibility that two con-
certs may be given by it at the Thun
derbolt Casino during this summer. Its
splendid successes are attracting notice
in every direction, and there is moth
ing to prevent it from becoming, in
the course of time, the leading orches-
ira of the South.
The esteem in which Miss Emma E.
Coburn is held by those who have been
working in the chorus of the Music
Club under her was shown on Thurs
day evening by a spontaneous burst
of applause from them, as she appear
ed in their midst. The audience also
Immediately took it up. and for some
seconds continued it, requiring Miss
Coburn to bow her thanks in different
directions before taking her place at
the piano. With her thorough musical
knowledge and remarkable capacity for
Interpretation, together with her exec
utive ability, Miss Coburn presented
to a Savannah public chorus work
which has never before been equalled
in this city, and doubtless not in the
South. The work given was not an
easy one, and has required great study
and careful preparation. Efforts at
| forming a chorus here have been re-
| peatedly made on former occasions, but
Miss Coburn is the flrst person who
has accomplished it. She started it
four years ago, and one less interested
| or more easily discouraged than she
/ would have abandoned the project long
since. Alone. she has carried the bur-
dens of organizing it and holding 1t
| together, and at last she sees her la
bors crowned with success. She has
made the chorus and she has estab-
| llshed It on a foundation from which
II will never totter and fall so long as
she is with it. Aside from the chorus,
Miss Coburn is, it might almost be said
| the backbone of the Music Club. One
of the organizers of it seven years ago,
| she has worked for its interests with
an unabating zeal. and it was she
alone who held it together and prevent
| ed it's going to pieces at one time in
| its career. If to any one person the
credit of having such an organization
In this community is due, that one is
| Miss Coburn.
Mr.. John r. Rebarer of this city has
again been honored by two important
| engagements in New York city. On
| the End of this month he played at a
concert at the Endicott Hotel there,
| and on last Tuesday, at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, he appeared at a benefit
for the Confederate veterans.
As was anticipated, Mrs. Clarence
Lilienthars playing Of the Rubinstein
d minor concerto Thursday night sur
| passed all of her former performances
The moment that she seated herself at
/ the piano she drew the full attention
| of her audience, and held 1t firmly
throughout the performance of the two
1 at~ ~ Il.
| showed all the full strength and power
that have characterized her former ap-
| pearance, and her execution was bril-
| liant to a degree. She displayed per-
| feet ease and a repose, showing the
utmost confidence in her own work, as
| we'll as in that of the second pianist.
| who furnished the orchestra accom-
paniment. About this, let it be said
that Mrs. 8. Brice Durham, all of this
time an unknown quantity in musical
| circles here, was probably the surprise
of the evening. Her work at the sec :
| ond piano was all that could have been
| desired by the soloist or the listeners.
Her touch is clear, firm and mellow. A
most difficult part is that of second
| pianist in such a number as the Ru-
| btnstein concerto, and together with
| the work of the soloist, results were
| produced which sounded like the play
| ing of but one person. There is no
question of the addition that Mrs. Dun
ham has thus proved herself to be to
musical circles here. Together with
such an able assistant, Mrs. Lilienthal
has but added one more laurel to the
wreath which she already holds among
the music lovers of this section.
Mrs. N. j. Ackermann of this city
who is at present in New York taking
a course in vocal studies under Oscar
Sanger, recently sang in a concert Civ
en- at Hotel Martha Washington.
Mr.. George w. Beckett, who has
sung bass in Mickva Israel Synagogue
4 choir for several years, has resigned
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