. Programme . n March 27, 1915, by Elena Gerhardt with the accompanimentorchestrated by Max Keger. Brahms had written to Miss Spies in November, 1886: I actuallydreamt that I heard you skip half a bars rest, and sing a quarternote instead of an eighth. She replied: It is very kind of you to * Hermine Spies, a celebrated contralto concert singer, was born at LohnebergerHiitte, near Weilburg, on February 25, 1857. She died at Wiesbaden on February 26,1893. Having studied at Wiesbaden, she took singing lessons of Ferdinand Sieber andJulius Stockhausen, and in 1882 began to sing in public. She was
. Programme . n March 27, 1915, by Elena Gerhardt with the accompanimentorchestrated by Max Keger. Brahms had written to Miss Spies in November, 1886: I actuallydreamt that I heard you skip half a bars rest, and sing a quarternote instead of an eighth. She replied: It is very kind of you to * Hermine Spies, a celebrated contralto concert singer, was born at LohnebergerHiitte, near Weilburg, on February 25, 1857. She died at Wiesbaden on February 26,1893. Having studied at Wiesbaden, she took singing lessons of Ferdinand Sieber andJulius Stockhausen, and in 1882 began to sing in public. She was especially noted asan interpreter of Brahmss songs. In 1892 she married W. A. Fr. Hardtmuth, Doctorof Jurisprudence in Wiesbaden. Her sister Marie wrote her life (1894—third editionin 1905). When I heard her in 1883—84, she was an intense, explosive singer, with animposing voice. She often made her effects without regard to beauty of tone or therules of song, nor was her intonation faultless. SUITE209-210. ,^^ BERKELETBtllLDING ST 420 BOVLSTON STREET THE MAKANNA SHOP TAKESPLEASURE IN PRESENTING TOYOU THEIR NEW LINE OF HAND-MADE CREPE-DE-CHINE ANDGEORGETTE DRESSES, BLOUSESAND A SPECIALTY. 420 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON CAROLINE :. Milliimer] Many of her Exclusive Models have now reachedthe Department $ , . AND . $ NO TWO ALIKE IN FORM OR COLOR 480 BOYLSTON STREET (BLOCK OF BRUNSWICK HOTEL) 746 BOSTON dream only that I am unmusical. I have not only dreamt it, butknown it for ages. In a letter written by Brahms from Berlin,December 2, 1886, Elisabet Herzogenberg, having seen the two songsabove mentioned, objected to certain successive chords of the six-fourin Immer leiser. I, know of no other passages to equal it forharshness in the whole of your music, and flatter myself you willfind some other means of expressing the passionate yearning of thepoem at that point. It is quite clear what impression you wish togive, but the actual result is so much less
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