Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
CONCERT PROVED
A MUSICAL TREAT
kOSS-ErnSt Affair Delighted
Audience at Masonic
Temple.

The concert given by Miss Frieda
Koss of Milwaukee and Miss Elizabeth
Ernst of this city at Masonic Temple
October 20, was a decided music
al success and proved a rare treat for
the appreciative audience present. 1t
was one of the most enjoyable ever
heard here. The program was as
taStefully selected as it was artiStical-
| ly rendered. Miss Koss made her de-
but with an aria from Mendelssohn's
st. Paul, followed by a song by
Brahms, both of which she sang with
| such stately expression that her con-
sumate mnsicianship was at once es-
tablished in the minds of her audience
| The following number introduced Miss
| Ernst as an artist of unusual excel
| lence. Her rendition of BeethOven'S
difficult D Minor Sonata was a revela-
ton in forcefUl expression, both in
| forte and piano. She deserves special
credit for succeeding in making this
composition interesting, since the ton
al ideas embodied therein are absolute
| ly foreign to the current attitude of
mind. The next number on the pro-
gram which consisted of several short
songs by Hugo Wolf and Amy Wood
| ford Finden, was so finely rendered by
Miss Koss that the appreciative tenn
Iperature Of the audience was consid-
erably increased, until it reached the
elimination point in response to Miss
Ernsts brilliant performance of the
famous piano capriccio by Edward
| Schuett. The concert was fittingly
closed with two songs of Schumann
which in their classic simplicity defy
all attempts at description. They must
| be heard as Miss Koss rendered them
with deep reverent feeling free from
all display Of voice and gesture. These
wonderful Subdued tones of the lower
register left a lasting impression
which no subsequent concert incident
can efface. Mr.. Erich SchmaaI was
the assisting" third party of the en-
semble. The writer heard someone
remark that he Cor rather she) could
listen to such piano accompaniment
playing all night. This was certainly
a high compliment gwen as it was with
such gushing spOntaneity, but it was
well deserved by Mr.. Schmaal, who is
one of those unassuming German mu-
sicians whose playing suggests deep
fund of undisclosed musicianship be-
hind what they actually present. 1t
can not be truthfuly said that every
body" was there-not even unsteady
speaking. The progressive" spirit of
Watertown is evidently more manifest
in shop window displays than in those
forms of wealth which moths and rust
cannot destroy. Following is the pro-
gram:
Aria from ST. Paul, But the Lord
is Mindful. .......M endelssOhn
Die Mainacht .........Br Brahms
Miss KOss
Sonata, OPP. 81, No. 2, D Minor, AL
legro, Adagio, Allegretto. Beethoven
Miss Ernst
a Gesang Weyla's. ....... Hugo Wolf
b Auch Kleine Dinge. go. Hugo Wolf
Indian Love Lyrics
a Pale Hands l Loved. ..............
b The Temple Bells. ...........
............ Amy Woodford-Finden
Miss Koss
| Capriccioso ............ Ed. Schuett
| IlOI1h .IIlSS
Intermezzo en- Octaves. .Leschetizky
| Miss Ernst
a Waldesgespraech ....... .Schumann
| b Die Fruehlingsnacht. -. .Schumann
Miss Koss
The list of patronesses of the con-
cenrt included the following ladies:
Mesdames Edward Brandt J. G.
Conway, H. T. Eberle, E. Green, o. c.
Hahn, E. ]. Hoermann, G. c. Lewis,
G. Miller, S. S. Mullen, J. H. OFT, L. L.
Parks, Max Rohr, Eward Rack, E. L.
Schempf, William Sproesser, w. c.
Stone, c. F. Viebahn, F. &c. Woodland,
| w. F. Whyte, H. D. Winkenwerder.
Prof. A. F. Ernst was visitor in