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 opera 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 operas 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 tenor, 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 wtenors as Ponte, assoctted with Rivafin- credit mund C. Stanton, who figured a'- direc¬ in His Personal Vanity chestral pieces will include a new crat, combined wiith the determination .m vhich pi oduced men; "they are a disease," was his oli the management of the first pri; was the "Ocean conducted restless of the self-made \ ¦.-. rie has p" tor, executive administrator house built for in For business reasons, however, Rhapsody." by the and energy was insti¬ d urn. ...'.. of the early days proud opera New * for the owners of the opera honue, and was a and Mr. Hammerstain was not ashamed composer, Frank E. Ward, and num¬ man. Amt-rica Speaking j we wish gated by a ¡a weapon i :' the Academy of Music, was musical, York, poet the author of the Walter Damrosch was his musical ad¬ bers by Svendsen, Wagner, Rubinstein, He was born in India in 1886. His him hospitality a v-"-«h w Mr. Hammei 1 think, and Thalberg, his associate in librettos of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" to put forth claims to much viser, as well as the assistant direc¬ Dvorak, Desormes, Rhnsky-Korsakoff one disastrous season, sur..y was, for and "Le nozze di Figaro." Saechi and greater efficiency. I recall, as an tor and assistant conductor of the Porto were under and Brahms. enth Street. The is devoted to Recent Accessions at M'» -ü Al. INSTRUCTION he was one of the greatest pianoforte singers', thtfm Italian instance of his go«;d opinion of himself, gallery th" company. Mr. Conried's taste m music in New York Emil Oberhoffer, conductor of the a small collection of foreign handcrafts virtuosi that ever lived. They were opera went to the wall that once I met him in a Broadway Metropolitan Museum of Art Infallible of may be judged by the fact that ne and was kept there ten car. wan on a Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, will held over from the very succes-ful Method Memorizing" before my time, however.that is be- years by Eng¬ trolley I the way to The entrance porch ol iir.nw* '. chose German operettas, like ''Der lish companies. Don Francisco Marty rehearsal at the be the guest conductor Thursday night June exhibition. The rooms arf aper. foro I became a writer for the news¬ Metropolitan Opera with Hou-«', at New Haven PIANO Zigeuncrbaron" and "Die Fledermaus" y Torrens, of Havana, who had the House. It was before he Marjorie Church, pianist, who will free to the public daily (except »Satur¬ ^¿^lARMONY papers. Henry E. Abbey, was genuine¬ long opened Hoadley. 1800-'03, ras ::«- for his special benefit performances comedian J. H. Hackett as in play Rachmaninoff's Concerto in C and Sunday), from ii to 6 o'clock, CONCENÎRA ION Sï fi ly fond of rnu.-:ic and played the cornet partner the Manhattan. I had been absent from day to the tan Mu A rt DEVElCPEU after "Parsifal'' became impracticable his Now York was, if Mare- Minor. Mr. Oberhoffer's choosing in¬ until September 20. Metroi by ¡n the band of his native town, Akron, enterprise, the city, when what he called an opera now .>r cludes the are of Cass Gilbert, and is exh TII.Í630 Ua p,.rL Qtnrlme »39 EHMhA».. to that end. Oldtimers like Fryer and tzek i.s to bo believed, a pirate mate of his own- "Mignon" overture, Tschai Original illustrations rightly Ohio; but, like Ilammerstein, Conried -"Faust and Marguerite," I in '. Room of -1.7 De Vivo have disappeared from the who betrayed his to kowaky's Symphony No. 4 F Minor, Si- interest to all who are alive to and others, he was drawn into trie captain death, got think, was the title.was brought out great Other memory of all but aged gossips of the rich enough by piracy to buy a mon¬ belius's "Finlandia" and Strauss'; the needs of books and maga¬ obj operatic maelstrom by other theatrical at one of his then new Broadway Thea¬ pictorial exhibition In t - T e operatic press rooorn. Mr. Gatti was opoly of the fish trade in Cuba, turned "Blue Danube." zines, and here tht-y are shown not ».«».^ ART MUSIC STUDIO ventures. tres. In my absence, my assistant, Mr. ar" a bust of H- educated as a naval engineer. from trading in fish to trading in Verdi's "Aída," given in concert fonr merely as illustrations but as work.. Grau be said to have W. H. Frost, a gentle, kind soul and a B. a::il a Maurice may 19th Yucatan lud.ans and African negroes, last Tuesday, will be repeated nex' of art. C, Century Managers graceful writer, wrote The Tribune's a Aida" To Be for "Life."' Wood (tn l im * it\ ILBEKl WINSTON G! .KNN STARK'S ally a bookseller and theatrical ticket humor and the Sung drawings prepared at the Club the fashionable good kindliness of its are Tod Linden- STEIN« \\ »AH.. NEW VORK. Advice to Vocal Students agent. Benjamin Lumley, who lasted home of Italian opera block prints shown by Am'ing the p.,-, :'r"' !;'"' Ot until the criticism. Just then we approached the In Air Next »rotP.# n'.'.' rtrware of cheap alnsint: also wrote a was the Academy of Music was built, Open Saturday muth. THEODORE LESCHET1ZKY. »re l"sincr time longer and book, ¿ion at th«' City Clu nchers; you was Edward ft. who Mare- .'»D'tropo.itan. The open air performance of Verdi': T!.e handicraft exhibit con- ir.il u oney: pay the prl< e and son of a Hebrew merchant named Levy, Fry, brought foreign \as depictii g the «¦t I .¦.¦ "Aída" for the of the sufferer: «ARl¿ results'. puiirant tzek to New York, and was the brother "Won't you come xn?" I asked. benefit sists of work done by the craftsmen '" n prove your voice 509» In became a solicitor and, like the late -"nee by Pr« Voleo« of W. H. musical critic of The« "No!" was his answer, and tiien, with of the recent earthquake in the Floren and includes fifteen na- ¿ mUllHAY Heatarla« n lessons; no charse for John McAull, was dragged into operatic Fry, of foreign birth Palais p i;r. sting your voice, ('.ill at anv and tine districts of will take d'Orsay after the Tribune, composer sixty year3 ago ill-disguished vanity: "I was in there Italy plao tionalities. Among the objecta ihswn .' ai rvaiory ol Mu .. Mr. STARK. StUdtO. management through looking official painter of the 1 ren I W WEST last was to-night at Sheepsîiead Bay 78TH ST., NEAR BROADWAY. 162 \\. "tin ST. Tel. Col. 8454. interests of a client. Ros- Wasi Hnmmcrstein Musical? night. The opora 'Meistersinger' Speedwa; are hand woven bags, hand dyed t r- of houses at memory lured me to the Evidently at that moment Hammer- fashions, embroider¬ The National manager opera Naples, question: Waf At this pottery, jewelry, shal Foch, b Svensson, ar« .UKlToNR.TEACHER»» Ol ilM.l.Mi. Conservatory Vienna and elsewhere, but owner of the Mr. Hammerslein musical? His talks su:in was not averse to the thought evening's performance Marie ies, blouses and HEa'l autti ST. T-! Ill\er »02» will the lingerie. ure» at th of Music of America in the Neapolitan with me were about It's that, if aot a greater, he was, at least, Rappoid sing title rôle: Cyrene gambling monopoly performances Van Gordon wiii be the The only School of Music In the Ü. S. Kingdom, and of him I wrote long ago his singers, his conductors.nevel t more popular opera composer than Amneris, while . chartered by Congress. Marie will Sale at Galleries (on whose authority I do not now re- about the merit of the operas which h< Wagner. But I imagine that if I had Tiffany sing the music of Walpole MOMOTTPf/«.UOft#Nr**û»/ AS KiNGMAN "%3¡aT J E A -V NETTE M TI U' R n E R, the Priestess. Manuel Salazar will be from libraries of AN 1ST. Pounder & Près. member) that "after animating his ac- produced. But he talked to his audi¬ recalled the incident to him in later Books the private m^flso^X^ IS6« l-.iu. the At#,M^îrô Enrollment Sept. 24tli to Oct. 1st. quaintances with music and singing ences about the high order of th< years he would have laughed at it as Radames, Riccardo Stracciari will J. Clyde Oswald, George French and 3r>th y>'ar opens Ort. 21. their with the silk works and his aims. as I did at the be heard as Amonasro and Andres de riJ CONSERVATOR) OF FINE ART A-l. Pec. 126-128 W 79th St., N. T. City. ¡and diverting eyes !ofty This was fo; heartily time. others will be sold at auction at the ADEÄtAfßL Hn »TTMI-WH. I) m:lor fleshings and short muslin jupons of the benefit of the public. It was Hammerstein was led into the giving 'Seguróla as Ramris. Natale Cervi will aRlUKI III WESTs*¡ 133d ST. "goo< be Walpole Galleries next Thursday af¬ "'-' his fleeced them at his and of the king and Luciano Rossini the PAÍHT BOX 1'l.UI .. dancers, gamb- advertising" the' newspapers French opera by the force of cir- G.*LUttr..Jj% «.^."îiii; SiWohoM. eic Lar«u Pedal 0.no lor pfactlei». ling houses and became richer than the always kindly disposed toward him be cumstances in his second season. He messenger. ternoon and evening. AmoDjr the items Maestro ¡cause of his gcod humor and witt; was quick to recognize the potentiali- Giorgio Polacco, recently re¬ to be included in the sale are first edi¬ SCHOOL OF PIANO institute of HDusícal turned from his Mexican U II fi M AMUSEMENTS sarcasm, which made "good reading, ties in the project, and the energy successes, will tions of modern authors, books on art, w "¦ '28 ot tbe , l'JO Clttieiuuut Ave.. "ilulrlletor.. Baritone. Why ho never told me anything abou to keep his memory green. "American Theatre," Henry Irv.ng's N.Y.Ciiy Knipst Davis. Tinor. Practical cont %e. SOPRANO these things. 1 cannot even ¡ruts*, fo i\eicark Concerts of "The Life of Keats" and auto¬ Booklet 00 rt 'i7 Vlvinn .. TE*CME.LOTT6F.LU0TT Uolt, ?v>pruno. « copy ltM,.ER ,0F SINGING. CHILDREN S -H^ES STAU.UM StAPHONY he always seemed uncommonly fran Joseph A. Fuerstman has arranged for of Roosevelt and H. FRANCIS WINTER til W..I S9tb 8t 1*1. Clr#l# «7lt. graphs Stevenson, 35-37 39th New J»Ml« ORCHESTRA with nie in talking about his affairs an Only Two More Weeks a second series of concerts in Newark others. W. St.. York ARNOLD VOLPB. Conductor. next season. Phrasing & Tone Color l!!.h. never had a word of even mild protea Among the artists who VAN Y ORX tenor taught Monday. T"E?vOCAL by Reoognlxed Piano Specialist. Pirk Pock. Guest Conductor. I wrote about him an Remain Concerts at will appear are Mme. Galli-Curci, John STUDIO. 22 WEST 39TH ST. .«Klin will op n about Sept. l.r,ili Vera Baratow, Violinist. against'what of AT 6<)7-tí(.o CUiM-iOllO IIM.l, N. V, Frederick «lunster. '1'eiior. his doings. When, in one of my arti McCormack, Jascha Heifetz, Alma Gluck THE BU.SH TERMINAL COMPANY Tuesday. 12th. cles on the a Lewi&ohn Stadium and Efrem BROOKLYN *orAM7i«lÄr" G. RAPISARDA operatic rivalry of de Zimbalist, Rachmaninoff, R»M3'jeita the honor of your pr*/i*m e .' si Home studio, 25» Main St., Now Rochelle, George Reimherr, Tenor. cade I said that he had Pablo Carolina Korhclle. Ern st Davis. Tenor. ago, attempte Two more weeks remain of the con¬ Casals, Lazzari, Percy N. V. Telephone .">>Ü New Kar! Tu¦ kermnn. Baritone. to evade his contract with the Grainger, the New York Philharmonie Meile Patterson, Soprano. Metre cert scries at the Stadium. Exhibition of Batik Art A.FRECKELTÖN,>3ï¥2S Conductor of Lillian Eubank. Mezzo Soprano. ;politan Company, he sent me a Ion and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Work 314 A»». LIEP15 cKliANZ N. T Wednesday, 13th. This Sunday's "miscellaneous night" I4J '."¡"( °*Umj Studio« Artirjton letter of denial and but in - defer.ee, ._' UB«w A»c. tte*ld a . KU6EriKLEEi^-urucfr in V.iriU Art. Alice Moncrleff, Meazo Soprano. Until Coaching a specialty 'The' Northern," Koli-rt Maitland. Basso Runtone. stated the facts so accurately that brings Arthur Middleton, basso; Vivian Open Daily August 1 5, U)S ANtiF.I.KS. CAL. «51 WEST IH1-.I BT. Tel St Nlcta, »»14. «. il'. PiOBO CSid. Interesting Exhibition ».000 Seats 85c, COe. S 1.00 needed but to tell him that my charg Holt, soprano, and Ernest Davis, tenor 1. N- 10 A. M. to 5.30 P. M fm BWISOH was substantiated by his own words, an *s the soloists. Mr. Middleton will At Art Alliance lT STILLMAN he never complained more. When A very comr>ie*e !oan exhibition THE DftHM-PETERSEN PUPILS' RECITALS MONTHLY.ML. j sing the "Largo al factotum" from Book illustrations and decorations b> showing Batik Work 148 W. 72d i'.:r,b «Viumbus. wanted confirmation of a state-ter in Screens, Hangings, Gowns. »^carfs. In¬ St. 'Phone Stadium "The second members of the Art Alliance and co¬ Haberdashery, Miss Holt the of the College of the City of New York, about one phase of the controversy b« Barber," terior Household and otiv-r decorations. Academy of Music HARRY SCHOOL at i:<7th operating publisher», together with ; St. and Amsterdam Av. twecn him and act aria from and Mr. Davis (ir»n«l A»*.. 1,0% Cat. A ob- IN the Metropolitan Con* "Louise," <-¦ . ioiT'l; Angrlr«. I.Ai RA Mr sic. CASE OK RAIN Concert takes few pieces of sculpture, are beinj BUSH TERMINA' THsiAA PIANO, VIOLIN, ORGAN, PRAMPEN place in Great Hall. 140th at. and Con¬ pany he gave me many valuable fact th« Romanza from The RT?TT.DING »/."¦«K*. "What D.ihm-IVlrrwn »ive« la All band in .utnmu taught. Theory of Music. vent av. "Rlgoletto." shown in the galleries of the Art Alii- 130 W 4ii Stfwet. I.*.«: af B.-*«d*u Nu» tjrk .*". 41» W. 3ÖU» 'Phone 2S37 touched with his auala,"..iirica..Haas« plume ton*. ST. Orecley. '* up peculiarly mai ¡orchestra will play tha "Boy Bias" anco of America at 10 East Forty-«»-