The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
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nor gives such good satisfaction as cons
certs. The course will open Nov a with
an explanatory Wagner recital by Walter
Damrosch and David Bispham. The subs
ject chosen is Parsifal,' = and it will IN
deed be a great occasion to hear Mr.
DamrOsch analyze and describe this mas
ter music-drama and to hear Mr.. Bispham.l
interpret some Of its most important vocal
passages.
AS a Wagnerian lecturer Mr.. Damroschl
occupies a. field in which no one ap-s
proachesF him. Quite without any aid, he
{ is able to convey a wonderfully complete
idea Of the music dramas, fand with Mr..
Bispham's assistance thissis made rarely I
interesting as well as Instructive. Min.
neapolis has already had two much ap-S
preciated opportunities Of hearing Mr..
5Damrosch as a lecturer, and knows just
what a treat is in store in heaning "Par-tl
sifal."
Several of the club dates have been
changed since the first announcement, |
but Nine. SSuzanna Adams will give song
recital Nov. and Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield
sZeisler's piano recital will be about
Thanksgiving. Nine. schumann- Heink
will close the course March % with a
song recital.
Miss Magda Dahl will give recital
Wednesday evening in the Unitarian
church. Miss Dahl is one Of the younger
singers and has a soprano voice Of UNI
usual promise. She is planning to go
to New York to continue her studies, and
the recital is a benefit for that purpose,
She will be assisted by Mrs: Frank
O'Meara sof St. Paul. cpntralto; Carlo
Fischer, 'cellist; thesArnpIfon male quar-
tet, and Russell Patterson, pianist The
program will be as follows:
s. ~ !. Male Quartet. :
Romance Carlo Fsciei 1A''n0pn't
ARA Queen Il Miss sn Msgda Dahl " .eoon0o
po0nase Ai Rssseil Patterson: .A's1'
sp''ns i'ns Frank o Meara:
:AIghtInsa sene ;,Ssyia
= eseAsfk aIlss ' Magda Dahi,,' : 0iAs's
.Gsn ca hm6ro ell
'N.'.~ - :. Carlo Fischer. -
evening sons Male Quartet. ~
: : - 80 Miss Mss Magda Dahl. " :
! The Ladies' Thursday Musicale has
I. about completed its plans for the season
and the various committees are actively
at work, tho the opening meeting will not
be held until late in the month. The
: studio in the Metropolitan Music building
: is open and the clerk in attendance morn
ings from 9 until IL o'clock. Here tickets
:, may be renewed, applications for mem
!. bership will be received and any informa-
ton given. ALI who wish to join as
active members are advised to put. In
: their applications at once as there will
J be- an early meeting of the examining
committee. Y
= a study of the sonata form and modern
4 opera is the plan of work adopted for
( the year, and promises to be most inter-
$ esting w. M. Crosse, a leading local
Z pianist and a thoroughly equipped mu.
sician,T has been engaged to give series
5 Of explanatory talks on the sonata form
= = to help, the members to q proper appre.
= : citation and underHanHng of this mos
i important and nOblest Of all music forms
Mr.. Crosse has been most successful il
such work and will know how to make hi:
subject naost attractive as we'll as in
structive. g e. ~ -.
TO open the season the musicale will
give a treat to its members, and TO-
L. this purpose has been fortunate in Sc
t. curing the services eefsArthur Farwell, {
,e brilliant young American musician from
e. Boston. Mr. Mr. Farwelh has e! made an ex
s. lean Indiansfand will give a iecture-recita
= on this, subject Mr.. Farwe1 shows tina
20 while the: Indians have no, harmony, the
ID have melodies very beautiful and expires
of siXe.%l The recital win be given in tn
TX Unitarian church Thursday evening Oc1
29,g AS usual, members of the musical
= WILL Ue .,41HS, UuI uluSlttODldl
y tickets Of admfssion1 at the studio Other
of may attend on payment Of small ad
IA rnissionafee, and tickets are on sale atsth
ne studio and the Metropolitan Music store
d. Other t.treats" will be given by til
es club during the season. Later in the yea
n the club expects to be honored by Wis
ne from Arthur Foote, the eminent Amer
can composer. An evening of his ow
b. compositions will be given, comprisin
Of songs, piano numbers and chamber musl
'er The Wennerberg~ Memorial chorus
re preparing for its third annual concert. TT
.04 rehearsals are held every Tuesday ever
street S. The chorus this year .includ
two subdivisions, the: ladies and the ma
he chorus, which together constitute Il
led grand chorus. The latter and the ladie
me chorus are under the leadership Of Hja
Of mar Nilsson and the male chorus
If directed by A. E., Ogren. The saccor
sin paniment is played by ". Bodien. I
ue. entirely new program will be present
ac- this year which includes a choral selecti
on. from Wennerberg oratorio, "Jesu F
delse" (birth Of Jesus) with solo
ILL Theodore Bjorksten, the famous tenor
are New York. The ladies' chorus will si
o A Peasant Wedding March, by Soderma
are with English words. The membership
vor the chorus is fully as large as in previo
her years. Registrations will continue for t,
full chorus will number $50 voices.
a3S The Wennerberg chorus was organic
two years ago upon the invitation Of t
au Orpheus Singing society, with DR.. v. Nj
I'M son as president Since then it has civ
for in all three concerts which have nett
nch $4,000 for charity. This year the procee
the of the concert have been donated to I
ton Swedish Hospital toSform the nucleus
the a fund for the maintenance Of one or MI
and free beds.
The officers Of the chorus are: A
Anderson, PRESIDENT H. r. Youngren, v
president; G.. W. Olson, secretary; G.
wing johnson, treasurer.
eph,
bal Beethoven's last five piano sonat
which Hermann Zoch will play at his six
4, Re third recital Tuesday. Oct. 90, compr
and all the piano sonatas of the third period
~ his life, that Of his highest developm
and individuality. In spite of his be
completely deaf by this time Beetho,
was really whiting for half cent
ahead of his time, as he himself said
1ote his gigantic Op. 106 sonata. They w
scarcely played or known until the n
sicalIy omniscient and omnipotent List
,ndsl yealed them to the public. Since Il
hl1t. their difficulties Of execution and her