The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-01
WITH MUSICIANS AND
MUSICAL PEOPLE.

sINHk FEOFLE.
hearing DeReszke. This short tour,
the grand opera season in New York,
will be the first concert tour that Ed
Guard DeReszke has made in America
Zeisler will be the next artist to be
presented by the Music Club this sea-
son. and will play here on March II.
Mr.. A. c. Meyer conductor of the
Music Club orchestra. is getting the
programme to be given at the first
meeting of the club in March we'll
worked up, and another like successful
and entertaining evening will be had
as when the orchestra appeared in De-
cember. Like that evening, the first
part of the programme will be given
by the orchestra and the second by
the chorus. In addition to the prepar-
alton for this programme. the orches-
tra,at its next rehearsal, will commence
work on a portion of Bartholdy's
"Athalie," which it will give at the
annual May concert of the club in
conjunction with the chorus.
The ballad. There Was a Time"
composed by Mr.. Pierre N. Hoist, and
sung by Miss Saidee King on last Mon
day night, is destined to a most sue
cessful popularity. 1t was we'll receiv-
ed by the large audience who heard it
Tor the first time, and there have al
ready been many calls for it, The first
publication OF it is daily expected. By
special request Mr.. Hoist will make
a manuscript copy of it in a higher
key than it is being published in and
send it to Nine. Blauvelt who admired
it so much when here recently.
The new concert grand Mason g.
Hamlin piano ordered out from the
factory by Macarthur & Sons Co. for
the Music Club has arrived and has
been placed in the Lawton Memorial.
1t will be used by the club for the first
time at its regular meeting next Thurs
day night. t@t
The Music Club may give fourth
artist concert this season. The man
agement wishes to present the famous
Kneisel String Quartette, If they can
be secured. IN addition to negotiations
which are pending for their appear
ance here, negotiations are also on
for the appearance of Paul Stein, the
famous 'Cellist, for man years the
solo 'cellist Of the Royal Stuttgart
Opera House orchestra, one of the
most celebrated orchestras in Europe.
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The next meeting OF the Music Club
VII be held next Thursday night At
the conclusion. of the programme for
the evening the chorus rehearsals I'M
der the direction of Miss Coburn wi |
be resumed. Several small works Will
be taken up feF' pt>A antatlon at the
first meeting of the, Cub in March, and
rehearsak of BartholdS,s "Athalie," to
be given atlthe annual May concert,
will also be commenced. Rehearsals OF
the chorus will henceforward be held
on every Thursday evening at the Law
ton Memorial, and every member of
the club who wilp take part in this
work will be expected to attend regu-
larry. ,
Mrs. w. H. Teasdale will give her
regular monthly musical tea on next
Saturday afternoon at her studio. IS
Oglethorpe avenue, east, assisted by
Miss Edith Teasjale and her mando-
In class. These teas have been made
interesting and g entertaining by Mrs.
Teasdale, and have become very pop
ular. A short musical programme is
given at each of them by the more adj
vanced. vocal pupils of Mrs. Teasdale
and the mandolin class of Miss Teas
dale, and a number of new and inter-
esting voices have been presented and
heard there for the first time.
The following appeared in the Chicago
Evening Post of thes24th of this month
in reference to Fannie Bloomfield Zeis-
or ns-frs
Thomas celebrated orchestra in Chi
cago the evening before 1.-THE emf
nent pianist, always popular in Chi
cago, was never more thoroughly APP
preciated by her own countrymen. The
Schumann concerto is composition OF
exquisite beauty and charm. In one
sense it Is decidedly grateful The
loneliness of its themes renders it dear
even to the superficial concert-goer,
and any toleTable Interpretation will
evoke applause. But it is by no means
easy to please the artist, the musician
of insight and taste and appreciation
of musical values, in this quiet mid
dle-tint concerto, so free from vain ex-
hibitions of virtuosity. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that Nine. Zeisler
played 1t with remarkable delicacy,
finish and regard for its poetic and
emotional significance. There was ad-
mirable brilliancy and breadth I'm the
first movement, and all the romance
and color which 1t demands of the in
terpreter. The second movement was
deliciously rendered, and in the third,
the least obvious of all, spirit, speed
and dash were not permitted to pre-
vail over the more essential qualities
of artistic pianism. Mrs. Zeisler was
enthusiastically applauded and com
PEELED to play an encore-~another beau
has given us many splendid concerts
this season, but this weeks programme
has hardly been surpassed. The fea-
ture,' of course, is the great Schumann
concerto for the piano, interpreted by
Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
Miss Pauline Meyer has accepted a
position with the choir of Trinity
Methodist Church.. effective March 1.
Miss Meyer has a very sweet alto
voice which gives much promise.
There are in the Southern states, says
the North Georgia Citizen, so far as we
have been able to learn. forty-three
publishers Of vocal music books. OF
these, five are denor1inationaI publish
ing houses. the largest of them being
the Southern Methodist Publishing
House, located at Nashville, Tenn, the
majority of whose music books were
written by r. NJ. Mcintosh of Geor-
gia. OF the thirty Eight independent,
or undenominational publishers twelve