The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

Mrs ]. J. Gaudry, Mrs. w. H. Teas
! dale. Miss May VonGundell, Miss AL
berta deFour and Miss Rose PutzeL
This music was written by Mendels-
sohn and adapted to the work of the
great French author, Racine, in 1910,
when the composer was Kapellmeister
of King Frederick William " of Prus-
STA. At about the same time he COM
! posed the music to Mid Summer
| Nights Dream" and he was then but
81 years of age. Mendelssohn was born
| in Hamburg, Germany on Feb. 3, 1909,
and died in Leipsic Nov. 4, 1S47, but
81 years Of age The next rehearsal
of the chorus will be held at Lawton
| Memorial on next Wednesday evening,
and the final rehearsal will be held on
! Wednesday evening. May 6, the night
before the concert.
There are many people here who
| knew and well remember the now well
known tenor, Mckenzie Gordon, when
! he lived here as plain George McKen-
2ie, and who recall what a beautiful
, voice he then possessed. 1t was then
| sweet, clear lyric tenor, and he has
doubtless. improved it wonderfully by
the training he has received in the
musical atmosphere of New York dur
| ing the ten years of his residence there
! he studied in that city, and he also
| went to Paris where he studied for
! six months. Then he returned to New
| York TO continue the successful career
! he had already entered upon as a
singer. But on that occasion he did
not restrict himself to singing. He
! then commenced to give lessons, also,
at $l5 per half hourl Before he knew
u ne was simply overrun by applicants
| for instruction from among the veal
! thy and fashionable set of New York
| society. They madly rushed ever each
| other in their eagerness to secure les
sons from the great-from Mckenzie
Gordon. 1t was not long before he
found 1t necessary to commence to turn
applicants away. Then did the craze
increase. and the wealthy set watch
ed eagerly for a vacancy among his
pupils. When one occurred, the lucky
person securing the privilege of filling
1t heralded the good furtune around
triumphantly. And, after all, the
amount of teaching that Mckenzie
Gordon does is said to consist in his
reclining comfortably in an easy
chair and permitting his wealthy pu-
pills to sing to him at SIS per half hour.
When their thirty minutes is up, he
criticizes their work and, of course,
tells them how well they have sung.
Mrs S. Brice Durham, who will play
| the orchestral accompaniment to Ru-
binstein's D minor concerto at the May
concert of the Music Club with Mrs.
Clarence Lilienthal at the first piano,
has offered the use of her handsome
Steinway grand piano for that occa-
sion. This will be the first occasion
on which the club has had the use of
two Steinway pianos, and a brilliant
performance can be expected.
Nv 6
been placed at the head of the Phillips
and Crewe Piano Companys local
house in this city, has fitted up at
tractive parlors at No. IL Perry street,
west, for the exhibition of the high
grade pianos which that company han
dies. It is some time since the Stein
way piano has been represented in this
city, and that Mr.. Banks should have
been selected to represent that instru-
ment here, the highest grade piano on
the market in any part of the world,
is tribute to his ability. For a num-
Der of years he has been in the piano
business here, having been associated
with the Macarthur & Sons Company
and with Ludden & Bates, and there
is no doubt of his making a success
for the house with which he is at pres
ent associated. The Phillips and Crewe
Company, who are the authorized rep
resentatives of the Steinway piano in
large territory of the South, were,
no doubt, tempted to open a branch
house here by the recent purchase of
a Steinway concert grand piano by the
Savannah Music Club, now recognized
throughout the country as the leading
musical organization south of New
York.
1t is announced that Jean de Reszke
has offered to come to America next
season for twenty farewell appearances
at $4,000 each. Evidently he has been
greatly tempted by Nine. PATHS $4,000
per night engagement for next season.
By his last contract in America with
Mr.. Grau, Jean de Reszke received
81, $50 a night for twenty-five nights.
which was good money in itself. M
de Reszke may be exceedingly anxious
to sing another season in America, and
at $4,000 per night doubtless is, but
it is very doubtful if he can find a man
ager who will take him on any such
contract as that.
The New York Evening Sun recently
paid the following high tribute to Mons
Pol Plancon of Metropolitan Grand
Opera fame
Pol Plancon, the chief of baritones,
will sing in London during the opera
season of May and June and July
I'VE regret to announce to-day that
NJ. Plancon's mother, whose failing
health kept him at home for two sea-
sons. has lately died He lost his faith
er at the time of his last American
engagement. whe he absented himself
from the stage Tor a month at the
hight of the season.
IN. Plancon is the last of his race
And in the words of a Victorian anth-
ology. may he long be the last will
be the hearty wish of his admirers in
New York"
The choirs of the First Presbyterian
and Wesley Methodist Churches will
give a concert Tuesday evening,
May s, for the benefit of the organ and
! piano fund of the First Presbyterian
Church. Choruses from 1.-The Creation"
/ and THE Rose Maiden" are being
studied and will be sung by the fol-
] lowing. Mrs. S. r. Smith, Mrs. John
I Hopkins, Mrs. c. E. Crittenden, Mrs
J Alice Rowe, Messrs. Fowler, Banks.
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