IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND ART Oscar Hammerstein Dirk Fock, Hollander I..- By H4 E. Krehbiel and his French campaign. I cannot Hammerstein began life toll, because ( do not know what was By Katharine Wright father and :-. f .- - aain, *'ñ Oscar in the minds of Mr. Kahn and back of h!m s .«" Whether < Mr. When wo set out to interview Dirk «'.urdv, a« ¦ cigarmaker. Catti in the America Bummer of 1908; but two Fock, the young Dutch conductor who conservative burg< he live«! a few years longe not, had things are obvious now.the inclusion will make his second appearai.cc at rere written his name of in the a musical caí h» wou! have hig English Metropolitan's the Stadium to-morrow evening, the wh was essential to the fi be less , v >cs- the Hst of operatic managers policy interna¬ undertaking threatened to be as diffi¬ vulgsi rig jn tional ideal which had been tion and told 1 ttl« pj<.*n made phenomenal shipwreel proclaimed cult as catching the proverbial bird isre by the establi: hment years before, and with the salt. m H. liai .-p> < ra- I»-«« Ebers, Delafiold, Taylc its proverbial H»ncially. presence there now is a direct At Mr. Fock's hotel we learned in r" ,,n l-ondcn, and his earl fruit of the war. the H« st n ¿ Mar <.* With sound of turn that the young man was not York, as we the German become hateful ut n New language stopping there and that his room tele¬ predecessors in American ears, a substitute had to H Hcnr;. E Abbey, who lived to se phone did not answer. TViis magnifi¬ be found, either in French or becom of his mnnagcrie English. cent display of accuracy on the pi rt ^e leginnings Common sense, tact, he was successful A »»« practicability and of the left us a telephone operator . forever remain p. matte ¦x h O r i wrcfr. must patriotism combined to suggest the choice. As the last verdict seemed the Göteborg cl He made in adoption of the latter. Hence we shall in Sweden ¦¦ rchaa- 0; mere conjecture. the more hopeful we decided to abide now have Italian and French tra. al The Hague, and w.m other dia- fortunes in the course o by this. We left a note and were loit MTcra in their origi.ta! tongues and German with the theatre and h; rewarded with an appointment. fc:s dalliance In the vernacular-.let us hope, also, When we arrived at the same hotel, venture was utterly disastrous the additions which bo made to final may with the un¬ Dirk Fock never been convinced tha the Russian list. scrupulous punctuality bat 1 have seldom our with th fortunately appreciated by h« was ru n rivalry Was Mr. Hammerstein musical? I friends, the clerk pointed a fat firmer In tha do not know. that he ever ye;. ra C mpany. Nothing said at a man seated in the lobby, entirely tc me in the -:'¦'« him victor. Wha many years of our ac¬ concealed by a morning paper. idver.:..- quaintance indicated that ho had "That is Mr. he said. «»s : carried off th« Fock," there knowledge of music or f< ndness for it The gentleman rose to greet us and no! only in money bu field of combat, in any form except the operatic. Whtn bowed with a puzzled look on his in presume. He never said so to mo o In talked to mo about opera it was face. sional talk. His ob- in my presence; the conclusion is o profe ¡showman's "Aren't you Mr. Fock?" we de session to produce opera.an obsession "and name own mal ng ai I s« ems to me i manded, if that is your my which he was fond of proclaiming, are you the one?" " fact tha right logier«: perhaps because it was good adver¬ The young man shook his head and «f ruin he sold hii when on th« tising stuff, and the odor of printer's looked more and more puzzled. We propert.es n id» phia and re¬ ink was as incense to his nostrils.¦ explained the circumstances and cursed nounced his ] ges in New Vori ciime upon him as it has come upon a the hotel clerk. The real Mr. Fock, multitude of men of all classes of who was other cai country foi however, hovering expectant¬ ixii society since opera >an aristocratic in the overheard rtake hid mac ly neighborhood, part enough mone; from its birth) has had a of our Ion. plaything recriminations and dashed up enter;.- upon th<:- Noble- to save the situation. Yet almost im¬ .¦.. place public stage. M brou him His nu-n have yielded to it and so have mediately he increased our confusion. a largi ai p. indeed, thai valets, waiters and cooks. The p*yt "You know John Powell, don't you?" _so ar¡ chology involved is comprehended he asked, and the first young man I do not fonder that a few the of ath, and largely by psychology specula¬ bowed again. nior.t' perhaps tion and gambling. The instances in Now for an American not to recog¬ to his is breath, he up which men have been led into the nize one of this country's most dis¬ the v. the belief, cherished career by solely artistic paths are few tinguished musicians must indeed have in year h« would again that and are more often found in com¬ seemed astonishing to a for¬ batí Metropolitan forre?. visiting »¡ve binations of men inspired by sú».ial eigner. However, we have an excel¬ do not that he would ¡ aims or public spirit (like the Metro¬ lent alibi. We are outrageously near¬ been ab e to d~i it, becaufs have politan Opera Company' than in in¬ sighted, and an emotional friend, who th.!-.: it the end ef his dividual entrepreneurs. Of the impre¬ insisted upon embracing us entries.- res« d the ability to Giovanni Zenatello financial sarios whom I have know",, astically in the had jf-nt thos had eparted only subway, just enlist Maurice Strakosch and our of to a hin : in the Maretzek, Maple- only pair glasses ghastly from apital si n were r« Y.-ional musicians. '1 overture, "Cavalleria Rusticana" fan- doom. We have listened to Mr. Powell will oí NTew York that good public do not count Dr. be¬ ?asy, Delibes's "Sylvia" ballet ¡--irte, a hundred but we doubt if we not the meritorious Leopold Damrosch, times, remembered cause he was the administrative Beethoven's ''Leonore'' overture, Liszt s could a member of our ii I asons of French only recognize things a : the owners Rhapsodie No. G, and Lacorne's "March in similar circumstances. sea¬ of of the opera house, family cpera. but of those . or Walter Damrosch. because his wis¬ Tzigane." When everything was finally straight¬ tingnished fore His sons U] i company's On ability as a -. ther The achieve¬ dom saved him from being long en- Monday, "symphony night," Dirk ened out and Mr. Powell felt reas- perforrr.ar'" in managerial snares.! Ma¬ Fock, the young Dutch conductor, will sured that no gushing adm-.rer had perien« nceri halla ments of tl re his chief and 'i- retzek became a composer and con¬ make his second appearance. He will attempted to pick him np, Mr. Fock o] malry claim iry. Mr. F ¦.-. deter ductor in his native Austria because conduct Beethoven's "Leonore" overture settled down to tell U3 all about hirn- actor, 1 ha-. I that the en- und to he could not endure the horrors of the No. 3. Brahms's Symphony No. 4, De¬ self. Unfortunately we were on our gral uud.ed Metropolitan wii S'il room when the bussy's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune" and vacation and mi.ssed his first appear¬ only tompany has ded to American dissecting he began Cïeofonîc Campauini the "Tannhäuser" overture. Vera Bar- ance in America at the Stadium sev¬ The ra in th« vernacular study of medicine, which he had orig¬ compo- - his stow, violinist, and Frederick Gunster, eral weeks ago. Not even a genius self: Cor luct must i- Vlr. Hammerstein, inally chosen to be vocation, tfcra- story whose wife said he never bought , will be the soloists. from Holland could have u« Festival but 1 can in the facts of kopch wr.s a pianist who had studied dragged hing books, only made them, Mr. Grau never will the restful first c an as. ai the Vienna Conservatory; hs v/a:' a Tuesday's "opera night" feature away from contemplating made music, only bought and fold as soloists Olive Nevin, soprano; of a cow mourning for her phony Orel île gave if rformances teacher in Xew York until he went to picture those who made it. As a small George Reimherr, and the a resentful and «Choral tor of need that he had Europe :'.-; agent for his slster-ig-law, bey tenor, Sta¬ calf and chewing cud, he sold librettos at i the performances dium Ide'.Ie Pat¬ other rural entertainments. But if to write an » Patti. As an operatic manager. Quartet, including his Mariette Mazarin as Elektra r of the S to« i Mr. 1 believe, he began when, with his managed by uncle, Jacob Ginu, but terson, Lillian Eubank. Ernest Davis it is not yet possible for us to echo :- Amen :an Dippel after from the Col¬ and Earle Tuckerman. from who bi forward with brother, Max, he took charge of the being graduated Selections from the pa;ans of praise foreign lege of the City of New York and be¬ the operas of Weber, Verdi Mozart a"d critics and musicians, a th-- Koi Phi im y.not Apo.io Theatre in Rome. Mapleson was a King of Naples himself." Manel Gar- but humor. I distinguished tíe pan ginning the of law. he abandoned j eious, always amusing, will be Mr. has tra. The Elague and A Lerda ir -'ore Mr. student at ;he Royal Academy in Lon¬ study cia, who brought the f.rst Italian that he had Wagner included in the pro¬ portion of which Fock brought Mr. Hammei Dippel that and his opera fancy sufficient command it is times c« don in was a profession began theatri¬ to New York in was a gramme. with him by way of credentials, ga^c it, ther eon sei i.'U.s con¬ his youth and public sing 1325, singer and of the^ rudiments of muäic to writ« a ches- ra, Ï'he 1 cal career as manager of tue Aimee The Wednesday night sol-oists will very easy to nay that personally the sidérât' Mr Gatti, and even or for a while and also an orchestral composer. His successor, Montrcssor, melody, and that he was not a little '.. opera bouffe troupe. He handled mus¬ be Robert Maitland, and man makes a most convincing Scheveningen, : of its acts viola I ought to in¬ was also a singer (the tenore of vain bass-barytone, young â trial one player. Perhaps ical from primo of this ability. Why not? Many Alice Incidental M i the clude in this list, but enterprises the beginning. his own but Ferdinand Moncrieff, contralto. The former impression. je Mi tropolitan Opera Dippel lingers company«, of the popular songs of the day are .¦.¦. chiefly travelling virtuosi and French will sing an aria from Wagner's "Fly¬ M. Fock is tall and slight. He wears Holland Si :. tet, of : House > Mr. Gatti w