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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 11-1-1892 Volume 10, Number 11 (November 1892) Theodore Presser Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship 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 10, Number 11 (November 1892)." , (1892). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/366 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]. SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, OR MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, SEND FOR ANYTHING IN TO THE PUBLISHER OF “THE ETUDE.” NO. 11. VOL. X. PHILADELPHIA, PA„ NOVEMBER, 1892. At a recent concert in Genoa the following celebrities Mr I V. Flagler, the concert organiBt, will con¬ were present: Mascagni, Hastreiter, and Teresina lua. tinue, in New York City, this season, his lectures on THE ETUDE Wagner, Beethoven, and the organ, with musical illus¬ Dr. Hans von Bulow opened the new Bechstein trations. Concert Hall in Berlin with a piano recital, on October PHILADELPHIA, PA„ NOVEMBER, 1892. 4th. The Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York, Walter Damroseh, leader, will give ten evening con¬ Sir Arthur Sullivan will re-write his opera, “Ivan- certs (with an afternoon rehearsal on the preceding day) hoe,” and its production in Berlin has been postponed a A Monthly Publication for the Teachers and Students of Music. during the season. year. The copyright of “Parsifal” will soon expire as Subscription Rates $1.50 per year (payable in advance). The Chicago Orchestra, under Thomas, opened the j regards Vienna, where it may soon be given without Single Copy, 15 cents. second season at the Auditorium on Saturday evening, October 22d. The-season will consist of nineteen bn- ' hindrance. The courts have decided that all subscribers to newspapers are A school for dramatic vocalism is to be opened in held responsible until arrearages are paid and their papers are day afternoon and twenty Saturday evening concerts. ordered to be discontinued. Bayreuth on November 10th, for the purpose of edu¬ Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, whose sudden death at cating singers for future festivals. THEODORE PRESSER, St Louis, on September 24r.h, startled his many ad j mirers, achieved much fame for the monster undertak¬ The managers of the Bohemian National Opera, in 1704 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. ings which he successfully prosecuted. He had a peculiar Prague, have been invited to go to the Chicago Colum¬ aptitude for large things. bian Exhibition with their singers. A statue of Music is to be placed in the foyer of the Dr Antonin Dvorak (pronounced Dvor-shak), who i Bohemian National Theatre, in Prague. It is by the arrived in New York early in October, will devote him¬ Bohemian sculptor, T. Myselbach. Ittujsical self almost entirely to the teaching of composition andI the organization of an orchestra among the students ot London Figaro is authority for the statement that the National Conservatory of Music, of which institution Mrs. Wagner will open the Bayreuth Opera House, and he is director. He will lead his D minor symphony at give at least eight performances of “Parsifal. It is said that, owing to impaired health, Joseffy will one of the Philharmonic concerts. not play this season. Permission has just been given a Russian music pub¬ lishing house to publish certain posthumous works ol The Kneise Quartette propose to give a series of ten The plans for music at the World’s Fair include, with orchestral and other concerts, choral concerts in which Chopin- A sister of Chopin’s had disputed the title. concerts this season. societies from all parts of the country have been invited An organ with special imitative orchestral stops, on Conductor Frank van der Stucken is very busy inau¬ to participate. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Arthur which he will try over his compositions, has been gurating his Academy of Opera. Nickisch, conductor, and the New York Philharmonic placed in Mascagni’s apartments. It has six hundred Orchestra, Anton Seidl, conductor, have also been The Scharwenka Conservatory of New York °Pens ,n pipes, two keyboards with one hundred and twelve keys. new quarters and is in a prosperous condition. asked to take part in the Exposition music, lhe com¬ mittee to examine American compositions consists ot Plunkett Greene, the Irish baritone, has been the following eminent musicians : Camille Saint-Saens, THE RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC. engaged to sing at the Damroseh concerts this season Paris ; Dr. A. C, Mackenzie, London ; Asger Hamenck, The Manuscript and the American Composers’ Choral Baltimore; Carl Zerrahn, Boston ; B J. Lang, Boston ; BY RAFAEL JOSEFFY. Societies have consolidated, and will hereafter work in Wm. L. Tomlins and Theo. Thomas, Chicago. Johannes Brahms and Joseph Joachim were invited to be present unison. There is but one proper way to teach the piano or and take part in the presentation of orchestral and other any other instrument—the pupil must be taught the Dr. H. A. Clarke will deliver a course of six lectures works, but,- on account of the distance, were compelled rudiments of music. When these have been mastered, on the history and construction of music, in the Univer¬ to decline. sity Extension Course. FOREIGN. she must be taught the technique of her instrument; and if it is the piano or violin, the muscles and joints of her The thirty-fifth annual festival of Worcester, Mass., It is said Handel’s birthplace is to be soon offered for was held September 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th. I hands and fingers must be made strong and supple by sale. Carl Zerrahn was conductor. j playing scales and exercises designed to accomplish that A younger brother of Franz Schubert has recently ' end ; and she must, at the same time, by means of simi¬ Madame Fursch-Madi, the dramatic soprano, and died. Miss Jeanne Franko, the violiniste, have resumed their lar exercises, be also taught to read music rapidly and Anton Rubinstein has decided to publish his com¬ professional duties in New York. plete memoirs. accurately. When this has been accomplished she should render Mr. William H. Sherwood has recently returned “ Lohengrin” was performed sixty-four times during from a very successful trip through the extreme West, herself thoroughly familiar with the works of the mas¬ its first year in Paris. where his reception was most enthusiastic. ters ; not by learning them from her instructor, but by Marie Ritter-Goetze, the contralto, has recently j studying them for herself; by seeking diligently and The New York Philharmonic Society, Anton Seidl, appeared in Berlin. conductor, will give six concerts, with public rehearsals patiently for the composer's meaning, playing each preceding, at Music Hall, during the season. Great preparations are being made to celebrate the doubtful passage over and over again in every variety ot third centenary of Palestrina’s death. interpretation, and striving most earnestly to satisfy There will be no opera in New York this season, as Hans Richter conducted the first concert of the herself as to which is the most ki harmony with the the Metropolitan Opera House will not be rebuilt and Berlin Philharmonic on October 17th. composer*8oomnnspr r spirit.snirit. _ , . .. the Carnegie Music Hall cannot, be gotten ready in time. When at last she has arrived at what seems a satis¬ The death of Emil Behnke. the eminent writer on factory conclusion, she should listen to various rendi¬ Mr. James M. Tract, formerly of Boston, Mass., has vocal physiology, is announced from Ostend. tions of the same works by skilled artists, comparing accepted the position of director of the musical depart¬ | her interpretation of it with theirs, and comparing the ment of Highland Park Normal College, Des Moines, A memorial tablet has been placed on the house in Weimar in which John Sebastian Bach was born. arguments in favor of each. Iowa. 210 THE ETTJHE. THE ETUDE 211 clearness of the piece, and as a result the correct percep¬ Villoing, the boy undertook a concert tour to Paris. rate at which the tones in the music move, as measured MODERN PIANISTS. revolution, and took a lively interest in the political forth the most bewitching sounds, it seems as if he were Here, amid the perfumed inspiration of the glittering tion of it, is severely impaired. One gets the impression against the background of pulsation and meter. The movements. When he heard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” having a secret conversation with the tone-spirits that BY FERDINAND PFOHL. parlors, where it was more natural to indulge in extreme as if one sat in the railroad train running at its greatest treatment of these exercises brings into view both these speed, and then were asked to count the grains of sand he came to the conclusion to make music his profession. were slumbering in the instrument until then. D’Albert elements. The suue arpeggio, commencing in quarter Translated from the German by C. W. Grimm. ecstacies and pathetic exclamations than to excel in deep along the track ! Yet who would get angry at Rubin¬ After he had stayed with the then banished Wagner in is a genuine artist. This would be still noticeable even notes, at the rate of perhaps 70, is played with a strong and true art enthusiasm, the words of Franz Liszt, the accent, in common time.