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NEW vo~~· ST. llOUIS. CHICAGO. --------·-==== --=--=-- = --=-:-- Volume 1. APRIL, 1898. Number 8 /_ PHOTO BY STRAUSS niss Georgia Yager, Dramatic Soprano. ST. LOUIS. Stra.s.sberger's Cons~rvatory of riu.sic ALEXANDER HENNEMAN: :2:200 ST. LOUJ:Ef. ~"V::E;:NUE. ... DRAMATIC TENOR ... Acknow:Iedged as the Open Day and Night, (LATE FROM EUROPE.) largest and best Music Summer and Winter, Operra, Orratottio, Conee:rrt and Churreh School in the West. in all its Branches ITALIAN METHOD TAUGHT. Terms liberal. '-F'COACHING ~-' with 24 of the Reparation of Public Speakers Voices a Specialty. Catalogues - Studio: 3713 Olive Street. CLARA STUBBLEFIELD, TEACHER OF PIANO, Mason.,. System of Technic. 3932 PAGE AVENUE. Following a:rre some of .the sueeessfal and rnost p:rrominent Teaehe:rrs. QTHMAR A. MOLL, :r...ouJ:s COJ::-:r:E...A.T::s:. I a UJ:Do F ..A.:E.J:s:r. TEACHER OF PIANO, TEACHER OF PIANO, TIIEORY AND TEACHER OF VIOLIN, ---~-0:\UOSlllU.\f. SOLOS, TRIOS, QUARTETTE, Etc. Concert Pianist. Studio: 4205a EVANS AVE :l?..A. UL ~ ....... :E.:r, ::O:r. :r. ::E?. :N"E~OUE.S, TEACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN A~D THEORY OF MUSIC, TEACHER OF VIOLIN, ELMORE CONDON,_-=~ C1gr.nist of St. George's Espisc. Church. 1.p8 s. 18th St. SOLOS, TRIOS, <2UARTETTE, Etc. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, X .A.TIE :J"OC:S:"'"J::v.t, BRUJSfO STRASBBERG-::C...t.... , TEACHER OF PIANO, SfNGLE AND CLASS. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, 395_8 WESTMINSTER PLACE, 1903 LAMl STREET, ST. LOUIS. - -- MANDOLIN, EUPHONIUM. ~ILLJ:..A.~ EOECX. ~iss L. C. ~J:L.E::r:Ns, MRS. EMILy BOEDDECKER, TEACHER OF VIOLIN CELLO, CULTURE OF TilE SPEAKTNG VOICE, CLARTNETTE AND ZITHER, CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, AND DRAMATIC WORK. 806 HICKORY STREET. Private Studio: H O TEL NORMANDE. Teacher of ------:E.O:SE:E.T- :SuEC::S:EL,--------- LANGUAGES AND SHORTHAND WRITING, TEACHER OF FLUTE, VIOLIN C.HARLES SEY.:MOUR., 1310 SIDNEY STREET. AND MANDOLIN£, TEACHER OF CORNET, Music arranged at moderate prices. 1314 St. Ange Ave. SINGLE AND CLASS. 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LOUIS, MO. Berry, Mis;:; ,l\-iary VoicE' Culbure. -- - -------- ------- Vocal Teacl)er ab Sbra~?ben~er's Col);:;erv. p.eademy of JT\usie,~ Dibble, Horace 1!., V vjcE:', 1 ialJo, Or9al). 2030 .HulCE .HVE~UE. 3536 Olive Strreet. Giraldo!), Mlle., - FialJO, Voice C'nlbure. TEACHER OF VOIC'E AND PlAl:\0. H. H. DARBY, Director, . Voice Culture and Organ. f .- Gr.i'ffibl), M1Hol) 13. Voice. THEODoRE COMSTOCK: •. Pianist and Accompanist. Miss GEORGIA YAGER, ARNOLD PESOLD, • . • • . • . • • Violin. Pial)o. !!Dramatic ~oprano. Open{o1• E 'n(Jfl(Jfmerd.~ {o1·: A Two Manual Organ for use of Students and Organists OPERA, CONCERT, ORATORIO at Reasonable Ratt:s. Perl)eb, Mlle., J\L L .. and SONG RECITALS.~ 5cl)oo1 of F rel)cl) lai)9ua9e VOCAL IN&TRUCTIONS GIVEN. The Garc1a Method also the celebrated Murate Method GERTRUDE ED1v1ANDS, used for !bose who have lost their high notes from harl Tl:,ral)er, Miss At l)CI H , Pial)o, training. The Progressive Art of Singing. TEACHER OF MUSIC, HarD)m)y, Coll)po~ibiot), C'oul)berpoil)~. PUPILS PREPARED FOR CONCERT, OPERA, + Music Studio at 160 Boy ls t o n St. + ORATORIO AND CHURCH 511\GING ..._. BOSTON, MASS. Piat)O. Studio, 1709 N. GRAND AVENUE. MUSICAL NEWS. Oevoted R monthly musiea1 to the JoutTna1. A:trt of musie. VOLUME 1. ST. LOUIS, APRIL, .1898: NUMBER 8. Death, the relentless tyrant who makes no distinction between and found him ready to take up the task. In Sept. 1885 he came the great and small, nor conditions and station in life, has robbed to New York and his great talents were soon recognized. Under the musical world of one of its great lights who had no superior as his direction were produced for the first time in America the fol a musical director, especially of Wagnerian music and operas. The lowing music-drama of Wagner: ''Die Meistersanger, Tristan and telegraph brought us the sad news that Anton Seidl expired in New Isolde, Siegfried, Die Gotterdammerang und das Reingold." The York, March 28, at 10:15 p. m·. Apparently in good health he left first complete cyclic performance of the ''Nibelung'' tetralogy were home shortly after dinner and went to the house of his business given in1898. Through all his time he was engaged in concert work. agent, Mr. F. Bernstein, where he was suddenly seized with pain. For the past eight years he was the conductor of · the world-known The attending physician diagnosed the case as ptomaine poisoning Philharmonic Society of New York, the Seidl Society of Brooklyn, and that the poison came from the fish which Mr. Seidl had eaten and the Permanent Orchestra 'of New York. for dinner; nothwithstanding- the An offer from the Royal Opera efforts of attending physicians, which in Berlin, which Mr. Seidl received had been called in, Mr. Seidl died at short time ago, was declined by him the hour mentioned, surrounded by as he decided to stay in New York. his wife who had been summoned and The press was unanimous in other friends. praise of him; a prominent New York · Anton Seidl was born in Pesth, critic, speaking of one of his Concerts, the Hungarian Capital, May 6, 1850. said: Mr. Anton ~eidl is among con His musical studies took him to the ductors an im'pressionist, if one may Leipzig Conservatory. 1870 he was be permitted ·to add. to the bold Chorusmaster in the Vienna Opera, . -~ nomenclature of musical jargon of which position brought him into in ) t~e art schools. He dAlights in music timate relation with the farr:ous con . in which the pictorial element pre- ductor, Hans Richter, an ardent :. dominates, in which strong dramaiJic friend of Wagner. Through a recom contrasts may be found. Color first n:andation of Hans Richter, Anton for him, then form. Of the brilliancy Seidl came in 1872 to Richard Wag of his conducting, of the vivid feel ner who engaged him as a Private ing he has for rhythms, of his enor Secretary. mous dynamic contrasts, little need Wagner's influence was such that here to amplify. Give Mr. Seidl an he soon resigned his position and re immense canvas, over which surge turned to Leipsig to devote himself a.nd sweep elemental passionate entirely to the study of music under figures, and he is great - great is the direction of Hans Richter. The exactly the word. That his Hunga musical world at large knows how rian origin accounts for this is highly Wagner appreciated Seidl's understood, but it must not be for abilities a::; a musical director by con gotten that our Capellmeister has in fiding to him the direction of some his veins good old German blood, of his operas, and that after his death that and his great experience have Cosima Wagner, the wife of the great aided him immensely In the develop tone-master, engaged him in a similar ment of what might be with pro capacity for the Bayreuth Operatic priety called his classical conduct- festivals. ing." In 1879 Seidl obtained his first permanent post as conductor, Those who heard the New York orchestra in St. Louis about through Wagner's own recommandation, at the Leipzig Stadt four months ago at the Olympic Theatre will undoubtedly remem Theater. Here he was associated with Arthur Nickisch, who ber the intelligent reading he gave not only of Wagnerian music . was at that time the assistant conductor. Three years after he but also of the classical work. was engaged by Angelo Neumann. In 1883 he accepted an· offer That the ..musical art has lost in Mr. Seidl. cannot be easily from the Bremen ·Opera House and here he met and married Fraeu lein Krauss, a prominent and admired soprano singer. A great explained in a few words; it was the art of conveying to his fire destroyed the Theater in 1885 and Seidl lost through this his audience the poetical, intellectual side of classical works by distin position. But in the same year Ed. E. Stanton, the Manager of guishing the essential from the unessential, through dynamic effects the Metropolitan Opera Company of N. Y., came to Europe to look whereby the tone-colors became more prominent and the composi for a successor to the lamented Dr. Leo.Damrosch, he met Anton Seidl tions more appreciated. T:S:E ~"t.TSJ:C.A.L NE'7\T"S. to his efforts it was due that Miss Kalkmann gained con sors of the conservatory. Here he ap_Plied Tb~ musi~al D~ws. siderable in tone production. Previous to her going to himself particularly to the study of the German Europe, Miss Kalkmann was a pupil of Mrs.