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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 1889 Volume 07, Number 12 (December 1889) Theodore Presser Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Presser, Theodore. "Volume 07, Number 12 (December 1889)." , (1889). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1889. Sgambati; 32 Variations in C minor, Beethoven; Etude PUBLISHER’S NOTES. THE ETUDE. de Concert in F sharp, Carl Tausig, and “ Tanz Ara¬ besque,” No. 1, Rafael Joseffy. We are now in the midst of the teaching season, which PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1889. is proving to be above the average in activity. The Mr. H. E. Krehbiel gave a series of four lectures on prosperity of a country can be judged by the attention “ Richard Wagner and His Lyric Dramas,” in Brooklyn, A Monthly Publication for the Teachers and Students of paid to music. Music is one of the first things curtailed Music. daring November. He was assisted in the way of illus¬ if times grow hard, and indulgence in it begins with Sobscbiftion Rates,-§1.60 pbb Yea a (payable in advance). trations by Anton Seidl, piano; Miss Mary Van, Single Copy, 15 cents. prosperity. We hear good reports from teachers from soprano; W. R. Williams, tenor, and Robert Thallon, all parts of the country, not only that more activity is The courts have decided that all subscribers to newspapers are held accompanist. responsible until arrearages are paid and their papers are ordered to be shown but better mnsic is being used and more earnest¬ discontinued. The First Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State ness shown in its study. The quality of, works issued by THEODORE PRESSER, Music Teachers’ Association will be held in this city our publishers is another sign that music of a high order 1704 Chestnut Street. PHILADELPHIA, PA. during the holidays. The officers have succeeded in is being appreciated. The public demand even a high EDITOR© W. 8. B. MATHEWS, ' ' JOHN 8. VAN CLEVIS, creating quite an interest among the professors of the order of light music. A waltz now must contain real JOHN C. FILLMORE, E. E. AYRES, State, arid a large attendance is expected— musical sentiment to pass muster. The popular writers Mes. HELEN D. TRETBAR. of easy music of the present produce much better music Managing Editor, THEODORE PRESSER. The first Sarasate-d’ Albert concert at the Metropoli¬ than those of twenty years ago. Mack, Grobe and Kin- (Entered at Philadelphia Poai Office as Sectmd-clam Matter.) tan Opera House, New York, gathered together an kel are vastly inferior to Bohm, Lichner and Gurlitt. immense and enthusiastic audience. The orchestra was The taste for the modern writer like Moszkowski, Schar- nnder Mr. Dam roach’s leadership, and the two artists wenka, De Wilm, Rubinstein, Grieg, etc., is transcen- MUSICAL ITEMS. have been represented as force and grace; d’Albert all dentally above, in a musical if not a technical sense, energy, Sarasate elegance and grace. The pianist chose such popular writers of twenty years ago as Herz, Goria, for his initial programme, Chopin’s E minor concerto; Beyer, Ketterer, Cramer, etc. In every direction we - [All matter intended for this Department should be addressed to Humoresque, Op. 6, No. 2, Grieg; Barcarolle, No. 5, Mrs. Helen D. Tbetbab, Box 2920, New York City.] turn our view signs of progress are to be seen. The Rubinstein, and a Stranss-Tansig Waltz. Sarasate was elementary works are everything that can be desired. Home. heard in the Mendelssohn violin concerto and a Fantasia The popularity of the cheap classical editions of Peters, on “ Carmen,” by himself. At the second concert, on Mme. Anna Lahkow gave her first song recital of the Litolff, etc., speaks volumes for musical progress. The Nov. 22d, d’ Albert played his own Don Juan Fantasia age of elegant editions—good paper, fine printing, close season at New York on Nov. 21st, assisted by her pupil, and a Liszt concerto. Miss Mallie Beck. fingering, etc.—is a sign that earnest study is in progress. Arthur Foote, of Boston, was the pianist at the first The prosperity of such a journal as The Etude, which The testimonial tour of Theo. Thomas proved a series Beethoven String Quartette concert in New York on has always been high in its standard, is notrunworthy of of ovations for that conductor. Mr. Joseffy also carried Nov.. 21st. The programme included Brahms’ piano mention in this connection. off a large share of the honors. quartette in G minor, and Miss Emily Winant sang sev¬ The teachers, publishers and journalists have great eral songs. Arthur, Nikisch, the conductor of the Boston Sym¬ power in shaping the musical tastes of the people and phony, has a magnetic power over his orchestra, and has Foreign. may each assist in doing a part toward the continued already been the recipient of mnch honor and attention. Mr. and Mrs. Henschel are singing in Hamburg, elevation of the good and worthy in music. The New York Symphony Society’s first concert was and arousing much enthusiasm. We have published in neat pamphlet form the two given on Nov. 23d. D’Albert was the soloist, and played Massenet is in Brussels, where his “ Esclarmonde ” essays “On Teaching and Teaching Reform,” by Beethoven’8 fourth concerto. is to be given at the Theatre de la Monnaie. Albert R. Parsons and Constantin Sternberg, read at M. T. N. A. meeting last summer., These essays are Mr. Richard Hoffman was the pianist at the Philhar¬ Saint-Saens is hard at work on his opera, Ascanio,” strikingly original and were considered by many the monic Club’s first concert. He played in Brahms’ Trio, to be given early next year at the Paris Grand Opera. finest ever read' before the Association. They are emi¬ Op. 101, and Beethoven’s sonata for violin and piano, Op. nently practical, dealing with matters of interest to every 47. ® Mme. Viardot-Garcia has bequeathed the original score of Mozart’s “ Don Giovanni ” to the Conservatoire teacher. We deem them worthy to be classed among Frederick Grant Gleason has composed a cantata Library. the permanent musical literature. Let every teacher for tenor, chorus, orchestra and organ, called the “ Audi¬ who has not read these lectures procure them at once. torium Festival Ode.” This work is to be performed at _Gounod intends visiting Russia this winter for the They sell for 26 cents, under one cover. the opening, of the Auditorium, Chicago, December 9th. purpose of giving concerts of his own works at St. The success of the, “Musical Mosaics,” by W. F Petersburg and Moscow. The Clinton (Iowa) Conservatory of Mnsic sends us its Gates, is unprecedented. The first edition is entirely circular. Eugene Wonrth, the general director, who A new piano concerto by Anton Rubinstein has just exhausted and the second edition is now on the market. teaches the piano, barmpny and languages, is assisted been published. Its three movements—in A flat, E flat The work is unique. It is at once inspiring, instructive by Guilyn Miles, vocal culture, and Fred Mills, violin and G flat, respectively—flow into one. The work ex¬ and entertaining. It is filled with the wisest sayings on hibits Rubinstein’s,gift of melody and powerful fancy. pHisic, covering every conceivable topic. The book is The New York German Opera Season will commence pnisof the handsonrestrever issued. The paper, print- on Nov. 27th, with the “Flying Dutchman,” in which The Queen of Italy has brought about th (^transcription inland binding are of the very best. 'As a Holiday Reichmann will make his dtbut in the title r61e. “ The and publishing of several ancient musical MSS. existing Present it cannot be excelled. It will please a teacher, Queen of Sheba” will follow, with Lilli Lehmann as the in a Venice library.' They are by Stradella, Clari and pupil or lover of music. In selecting yonr Christmas queen. others. gifts include this handsome volume; it will surely Bay City, Michigan, possesses a phenomenal contralto The tenor Alvary has signed a ten-years’ contract please. (boy) in young Master Moore, of the Trinity Church with Manager Pollini of Hamburg. He is to sing three ■ This is the time to get up clubs for The Etude. The' choir. Mr. F. E. Childs is the organist, and the sing-^ months of every year at Hamburg, and travel the.rest of prospectus, which we print in this issue, will give fall ing of this choir is said to rank very high in thp stand the year under Pollini’s direction. details. It must be remembered that any one can pro¬ of excellence. cure their subscription free by sending four subscriptions The fiftieth anniversary of Verdi’s first opera was Miss Alvina Friend, a young New York pianist, at- full rates. Scarcely a teacher, by canvassing among celebrated on November 17th, at Genoa. A new musical his or her class, could not^send this many. It is shown who has spent the last few years abroad studying nnder institute, to which the composer’s name was given, was by-experience that those pupils who take The Etude Leschetizki, played at a recent sociable evening of the inaugurated on the occasion.