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BLIND TOM TRIES OLD CHURCH MUSIC, Never yet has he played any of the larger pieces so place, he realizes that it is as senseless as it is tire­ often heard in American churches; these are for some, to ask a miscellaneous audience to sit two concert use. There are few changes in registra- hours and listen to one instrument. In the next, ~LIND TOM sat at his piano yesterday tion; even less as a rule than are indicated, and he claims that his own personal likes and dislikes afternoon in the high, square room of these are never introduced in a way to destroy the are of secondary importance, and that the people the old-fashioned house in St. Mark's smoothness or break the rhythm. We hear the whom he invites to come and hear him are worthy ·place where he makes his home, and for sentence begin and flow smoothly on to the end. ·of some consideration. His finely selected pro­ over three hours amused a little party Guilmant is very outspoken against the excessive grammes are arranged to bring voices and instru­ with selections from the musical stores use of registration characteristic of the :English. ments into sharp contrast; they" compose," as of his memory. The Very Rev. Father Rely more upon the mind, he says, rather than ~ the art-student would say, and each piece takes its Bonaventura, Father Wenzel, Father upon a constant change of tone-colors; be sure place well prepared by what precedes and empha­ Stanislaus, Abbot of St. Meinhard's, lnu; Mr. that you first choose a piece with a clearly ex- sized by that which comes after. There has been Anthony Spiller, one of Tom's sureties, and Mr. A. pressed thought, then grasp and control it by the an average of twelve numbers to each concert and J. Lerche, his. attorney, had come to hear one of mind; do not depend on theatrical effects. the organ has never been heard alone in consecu- Tom's recitals, and especially to see how he would His selections for Easter morning were a little tive numbers. A small but carefully chosen or­ be affected by church music of the older style, a communion, in G; an offertoire (the one in mem- chestra of thirty pieces, under the direction of kind which has hitherto been almost unknown to ory of Wely), and a closing improvisation. This Colonne, has been an important factor, especially Tom, and which it is proposed shall be introduced simple programme will surprise those who are in- in the Handel concertos. There have also been into his programme when he goes out next month clined to measure the me'rlts of a performance by two vocalists at each concert, besides either a vio­ on his tour. Professor Breuer, the organist of the the number of technical difficulties presented. linist or other soloist, and at the last, there was in Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, in Third street, There is, however, in Guilmant's playing some· addition, a boy choir. Each programme has offer­ played a German choral and a "Dies Irre," which thing besides notes. Nearly every service at La ed a new organ composition by either Guilmant, were repeated by Tom in the same key, but not Trinite closes with one of the masterpieces of Salome, La Tombelle, Gigout or Dubois; but the with the precision which marks his playing of mu­ Bach. It must be borne in mind, that a lofty Bach most thoroughly enjoyable numbers have been the sic in more familiar styles, such as" The Man With fugue, played upon a magnificent organ by a man Handel concertos. The greatest success of the the Cinder in His l£ye," or "We Won't Go Home to whom technical difficulties are nothing, is a series was the Aria from the lOth Concerto, played Till Mornin~,'' played with two fingers, the perform­ vastly different thing from the same piece played by M. Guilmant alone. None but a great artist er's back bemg turned to the piano. by a Y.oung student. He claims that few young could play so simple a melody in a manner that Tom's latest instrumental piece, not yet publish­ people can sufficiently comprehend Bach to play would keep a large audience perfectly quiet. En­ ed, is a polka, which came to him in a dream. He his compositions before an audience, and had bet- joyable as the organ solos have been, no selections tells in his well-know stagy manner, how he dream­ ter choose something less intricate. He does not have been more instructive to the crowds of at­ ed that a certain little boy of his acquaintance favor the established boy choir, and much prefers tending students than his remarkable accompani­ went to the warerooms to choose a piano, and in our American choir of m~n and women. In nearly ments. Every solo, whether for string or voice, testing one of the instruments played an airy little every case the children comprehend neither words has been accompanied by the organ, sometimes polka. Tom is very comfortably housed in the big nor music, and the man's mature mind is needed supplemented. by piano. brick mansion which has become his New York to give any meaning to t)le service, save, possibly, home, and the little piazza at the back of his room an resthetic one, which from ~his utilitarian stand- is as far as he cares to venture out of doors. From point, should be the last consideration in a church two o'clock until five he played yesterday after­ service. WHAT IS NECESSARY IN A SINGING TEACHER. noon for his guests, and when they left he turned If Guilmant has any art-creed to which he would again to his music, at once his only resource for have his pupils pin their faith, it may be well ex­ work and for rest.-&un. pressed in English, by Keats' "Truth is beauty, N a brief article written for our valuable and beauty is truth." Art is at its best when it contemporary, The Voice, Sir Morell Mac­ seeks to give the highest expression to the highest kenzie, the famous laryngologist, thus truth. There are two ways of realizing a truth: by ably deals with the question whether a GUILMANT. seeing it and by feeling it. Profoundest truths are singing teacher should necessarily be able felt out. Sensitive souls must shrink at some of to sing. "Teachers," says he, "regard that dreadful realism in Art which leaves nothing this question from the standpoint of their CORRESPONDENT of the Musical Herald to the imagination. In the gallery of the Louvre personal qualification. At a first view, it thus chats, pleasantly and instructively, are hung many paintings by Rubens and by Murillo. iwould appear as though a singing teacher who about Guilmant, the famous Parisian In the former there is always a huge frame full of could not sing must resemble Swift's dancing mas­ organist: faces with everything carried out in exasperating ter, who possessed all possible requisites for his It may not be uninteresting to your fulness; faces, figures, dresses, furniture-every­ profession except that he was lame. This opinion, readers to know something of one, who, thing worked out in tiresome detail. Opposite however, is as incorrect as it would be to think as a church organist and composer, takes hang Murillo's. With one strong, central figure, that all those who would drive fat oxen must, nec­ perhaps first rank among the musicians he leaves us to carry out the- detail as we will. essarily, be stout themselves. The vocal teacher of this age-Guilmant. While considered by many Rubens insists that we shall see everything as he must, it is true, be able to sing sufficiently well the greatest organist living, there is certainly no. saw it, Murillo gives us the credit of possessing an that he may illustrate his instruction by example, modern writer for the organ, whose name is so artistic insight. and demonstrate how one should sing and how one widely' and so gratefully known. He has already Every great teacher's art is that of Murillo's. He should not sing. It is not essential, though, that given to the world an immense repertoire, both for can allow no pupil any great work till the inner he be a brilliant singer; for, according to my church and concert use, and we may expect much truth is realized; till something is seen and felt experience, many of those who have developed more from his busy pen. There are few living besides notes. Play the simplest things well, says the most admirable voices, have themselves pos­ church organists of any prominence who }lave not Guilman t, and soon the stronger and larger will sessed little or nothing of the divine gift of song. felt the inspiration of his genius, and any word appeal to you and to your reason. If young organ­ Yet though it may be permitted a vocal teacher respecting him and his church work will prove ists and church singers could only realize this, it that he possess but a mediocre voice, he must, on stimulating and helpful to them. would be much better for them, for their art, and the other hand, have a thoronghly fine musical His organ-in La Trinite, a church in the latest for the congregation. How often that congregation hearing. He must be governed by an exclusive Renaissance style-although not the ' largest in pleads for something simple, something that it can taste, developed by the best that the world has Paris, is perhaps the best, and contains all the understand. If the choir could only see that the sung and written, and his artistic cultivation must modern improvements of the famous firm of Ca.- fault is not with the music, but with the interpre­ not be restricted to his own branch of the art, but vaille-Coll. The choir·gallery at La Trinit~, repre- tation; if they realized the inner "beauty and must extend over the whole wide domain of music sents a most interesting and unique appearance on truth," the congregation would feel it also. and its fundamental laws. He must, furthermore, Sunday mornings, when the master's few pupils His Eleventh Annual Series of Concerts, was be endowed with unbounded patience, in order are grouped about him. These are all serious given in the Palais du Trocadero, on the four Thurs­ that he may be able to endure the boundlessness young men, who have come to listen, look and day afternoons of April. The programmes have that is ever associated with genius, and to obtain learn. His playing of his own compositions in filled the tremendous building, holding six thous­ an exact knowledge of his pupil's capacities, so church is confined almost wholly to the simple and people. It is not at all difficult to understand that he may further the progress of all good quali· "communions," ''prayers," "offertories," etc. why people attend these concerts. ·In the first ties and nip the bad in the bud." 324 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL RE\TtEW, Sl!lPTEMBER, 1888.

"original" works. Imitation is not a proof of other so rapidly that they necessarily leave but a lack of talent, though, when it is too constant, it blurred image in the mind. is a sign of immaturity. The early works of the You are astounded, sometimes, to hear what great iconoclast of modern music, Wagner, are full amount of ground has been gone over in a few KUNKEL BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS, of imitations of other composers. That did not, months-and upon a little further inquiry you are however, prevent his becoming later a thoroughly even more astonished that the learner has gone 812 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS. original writer. over so much, and yet has really learned so little. If we said nothing, wrote nothing, composed One page of Mozart or Beethoven thoroughly stu­ . I. D. FOULON. A.M., LL.B., EDITOR • nothing, some part of which at least had,not been died, patiently analyzed, well understood, will bring said, written or composed by others before, speech, the student into closer sympathy with these geni­ SUBSCRIPTION. writing and composition would soon be numbered uses,will do more to enable him to become a worthy among the lost arts. In music as in other things, interpreter of their works than hasty "railroad­ One Year, • 82 00 it is neither possible nor desirable that we should ing" through all of their master-pieces. The Six Months, 125 free ourselves from the influence of those who homely adage that" haste makes waste" is no­ Single Copy, 25 have gone before. The musical language which where truer than in the study of music. Careful, Thia includes postage on paper, to all points except St. Louis. the great masters have used is the existing language earnest, detailed study, even though it may seem St. Louis aubscribera must add at the rate of 25 cents per year to of musical art, and from that as a basis subsequent slow,is the only sort of study that is worthy of the their subscriptions when they wish to receive the REVIEW by mail. This is due to the peculiarity of the postal Zaws, which prevent composers must necessarily start, however much name, and will in the end be found to be that monthZypublicatlons' being sent at second-class rates in the vlace they may afterwards enrich its vocabulary. which will lead most rapidly to worthy success. where thev are published. Nor is imitation necessarily a confession of in- At the opening of another scholastic year, it is feriority. The Greek temple had as its original the well, we think, for both teachers and pupils to bear in mind the homely truths we have briefly ex­ Subscribers finding this notice marked will understand that log buildings of the primitive inhabitants of Hallas. their subscription expires with this number. The paper will Year after year, the ancient Greeks imitated, but pressed above, and to determine to always avoid be discontinued unless the subscription be renewed promptly. in imitating improved their log cabins, until in the unmitigated evil of" railroading" in music. their stead there stood forth such structures as the Parthenon. And right here is the distinction be­ T may have been ''good business" for the tween that imitation which is a confession of in­ THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. Stein ways to wine and dine a weak-mind­ feriority, and that which, on the contrary, is an man until they bad persuaded him in to assertion and a proof of superiority: that in the overstocking himself with their excellent HE St. Louis Exposition, which will open first case the imitation is inferior to the original, on the 5th of September, continuing until but unsaleable pianos, and it may have while in the latter it is superior. In the latter been "good business" also to press him the 20th of October, will in nowise be case indeed, we lose sight of the chronological inferior to any of the preceding ones, and for payment as soon as his notes became order of the productions, and the later seems the due and when payment was delayed to brow-beat in several of its features will surpass them original; the old has been absorbed and recreated all. Liberati's Band will open the con­ and bulldoze him into surrendering to them his in new beauty, and the new beauty makes us for­ entire establishment, though his assets far ex­ certs and will be followed by Gilmore and get the old material. These are true and brave his world-famed phalanx of a.rtists. The concerts ceeded his liabilities-but the public of St. Louis words of Lowell: think it was very poor morals for the Steinways alone are worth more than the moderate price of to hound poor Jacob Moxter to his death, as they "Though old the thought and oft exprest, admission (25 cts for adults-children 15 cts) and 'Tis hil at last who says it best- did, and we predict that the returns from their St. should be well patronized by our readers both in !' 11 try my fortune with the rest." city and country. The secretary, Mr. Johnston, Louis agency, hereafter, will show the Steinways, has proven himself to be emphatically" the right practically, that the feeling of indignation against A more or less erratic talent explores new paths man in the right place" and has made the success them is neither superficial nor transient. to eminence; it seeks out the strange in order to attain the striking; but genius, conscious of its of this mammoth enterprise. He has been ably own powers, disdains to turn aside because others seconded in the art department by Mr. Mills, whose 00 many students of music wish to reach have gone before·, and only thinks of surpassing its skill as a journalist and art-critic is recognized both the top rounds of the ladder without predecessors. well knowing that if it be first in in this country and Europe. You cannot spend having climbed the lower ones. They de­ rank, few will care whether it was first in time. an evening more pleasantly than at the St. Louis sire, endeavor, and sometimes expect to Exposition. become distinguished artists before be­ Just as we are about to return the proof of the coming good scholars. Unless they are "RAILROADING" IN MUSIC. above article to the printer, we receive a sketch of . __ this enterprise from the able and facile pen of Mr. endowed with wonderful genius, they, of 1 course, fail ignominiously, and, in a few years, find ITIZENS of this great republic need not be I George Mills, which we append: their proper level among the ten thousand hum­ told what is meaht by the term" railroad- "This great institution of the West has a peen­ drum music-makers. It is not given to every one ing" when it is applied to legislative mat-,liar history, one that differs from all other similar ' . . . . institutions in the country. It has been a steadily to become a brilliant artist, but it is within the ters. But It IS not on.1 Y 1egi~lative halls growing affair, growing in financial success as well reach of every one who has good, ordinary intelli­ that are the scene of mconsiderate rush as in industrial and artistic value with each year. gence and is willing to perform the necessary labor, and hasty action forthe sake of dishonest Other such institutions have had their periods of to become a sound musician, and sound musician­ gain. In matters of education and in triu~ph an?- .their. periods of failure, but the St. . . · ' Loms ExpositiOn, hke Tennyson's brook,' goes on ship is the only sure stepping-stone to permanent ~us.IC pe~ha~~. oftener than ~n other branches, forever.' Every year, of course, there are carpers success even as an executive artist. At any rate, ra1lroadmg IS a common evil. and prophets of evil, who predict disaster for the sound learning, even when it fails to obtain for its We Americans have frequently complained, and year ensuing, but each year these cheerful souled possessor a high rank among artists, secures for with good reason of the presumptuousness that pessimists have been disappointed. The great test . ' . . in such matters is the cash results. The first year, him the respect of both musicians and the public, has led foreign tourists to wr1te sketches of our so- 1884 the St. Louis Exposition yielded a net profit and-more important still-enables him to respect cial and political life after a visit of a few weeks, or of about $47,000. In 1t185, the net profit had grown himself. even days, to our shores, the most of their views to $54,000. The following yearit reached close upon having come through the windows of the cars in $58,000, and in 1887 the net profit excee~ed $67,000. . . " . . , These remarkable results are due entirely to two IMITATION. which they were bei.ng ra1~1oaded from place to causes, namely, the popular character of the insti- place. We have said, and JUstly too, that there- tution, and the low, uniform price of admission. MITATION is the first and na~ural method snltant pictures were so distorted as not to be even The Exposition is popular because its stock is of the beginner. Every child who learns passable caricatures. (It may be said parenthet- O!V?ed by over tw? thousand sm~ll stockholders, . . ' . citizens of l::)t. Loms, and because Its profit-s are all to speak does so as an imitator. The ICally, t~at ~ur tourists have returned t~e comph- expended in improvi~g the building and its conve- young student of music is no exception to ment With mterest.) But even more Imperfect niences. Starting With a capjtal stock of $400,000, the rule. He must, at first, be satisfied to than the views of men and things which one can subsequently raised to $600,000, and adding thereto be an imitator. It will be time enough, obtain from the windows of an express train must $140,000 borrowed on ~ per cent. bonds, the profits . . . ' made from the Exposition and from rents of the ss later, if be has the gift of originality, to of necessity be the views which the student can great Music Hall and Entertainment Hall have all gradually develop it, beneath the critical eye of his obtain of any art while being" railroaded" over its been expended after paying off $60,000 of the teacher, whose duty it will be to distinguish be­ vast domains. Yet, daily, almost, we see students bonded indebted~eset, in improvements .. As a co!l­ of music who are being whisked past beauties of seque~ce1 there I~ ov.er $1,100,000 now mvested ~n tween intelligent originality and mere whimsical­ . . . the bmldmgs and eqmpments of the great St. Loms ity. This is true alike of the manner of performing detail, wh1ch they do not even suspect-while, Exposition, and it does not have any floating debt the works of others and of the composition of even the larger features and contours follow each whatever."

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THE EXPOSITION PICTURES. dice. I advise you strenuously to spend at least one her make up, something attractin~, yes, compelling winter in Paris; for there you will learn more of attention, that is not found in any other city. She taste, expression and rhythm from hearing French is not dressed loudly, she does not wear startling S a piece de resistance the managers of the soloists and the orchestras of Colonne, Lamoureux colors, her clothes are adapted to her face and fig­ St. Louis Exposition exhibit Michael and the Conservatory than you can in any other ure and they fit h.er. In other wo~ds, she displays cities. Study, if you will, first at Berlin or Vienna, taste. So, too, With the pretty guls who in the de Munkacsy's world famous painting of and then stay as long as you can in Paris. creameries cut butter with a thread. And, to sing the crucifixion, known as ''Christ on But first you must throw away some of the ideas of higher things, this taste is seen in everything; Calvary/' We print on this page an en­ that will be pounded into you in Germany. You in the proper location of :public buildingst in the graving of the principal group in this must discard the idea that music is necessarily care taken of shade trees, m the constant oeauti­ music provided it be correctly written; you must fying of their city in the statues and fountains picture, the three crosses with the three Marys at not condemn the writer of a cantata or an oratorio erected, in the glories1 of their school of art, in the the feet of the Savior. Space will not permit any­ because his work may not contain a fugue, you public encouragement and recognition given to all thing more than a bare reference to this matchless must learn that the cutting of a cameo shows the men who create something beautiful, whether it work, which is 32 feet long by 34 feet high, and artist's skill just as the carving of a colossal statue; come& from work of head or hand. you must learn that even if a composition be in There hae~ for a long time been a discussion as to which contains over fifty life-size figures. It must dance measure it is not necessarily frivolous; you the proper group or statute to be placed upon the suffice, therefore, to say that the "Calvary," which must learn that in writing for the voice the voice Arc de Triomphe, and a few years ago a colossal was painted after, and as a historical pendant to should be treated as the human voice and not as group by Falguieres was placed in position; but as the "Christ Before Pilate," is it was only put there for the pur­ pose of seeing the effect, only a pronounced by the greatest cast was erected, which has since critics to be the best and cer­ been taken down. I heard, one tainly the most effective picture day, two laborers working in the that Munkacsy ever painted. streets discuss flravely as to whether the design was worthy We also print two other cuts of the arch, judging from an ar­ of great paintings that are in the · tistic standpoint. Would such a general art collection, which Mr. scene be possible in Germany? George Mills bas selected from True, the Germans are senti­ mental and they talk much about the studios and art centres of the "beautiful nature," but nature world. One is known as "Riche­ often means to them nothinfl lieu's F~te Day," a wonderful more than a walk in the country painting by Louis Alvarez, the where the goal is a garden adorn­ ed with green tables and benches greatest of the Spanish-Roman where these sensitive souls can school of painters, and the other commune in quiet, their spirits is an East Indian scene, the soothed by unlimited beer and raw ham. ''Rajah of Gevalior," going on a There has for years been a hawking expedition, by Edwin standard of taste in France,modi­ Lord Weeks. This latter artist fied by the time; bad, as in the is a gold medalist of the Salon, days of Louis XIV; admirable, as it has been for the last thirty and a most famous artist. The years; but, with all the changes, two cuts are simply printed as there bas been for years a stand­ examples of the high character ard. And this has been of great of the works now in the galleries value to music. To-day as in their painting, so in their music, of the Exposition. There are "frankness" and" strength" are hundreds of equal merit and the first qualities demanded. The value. Indeed, there has never question asked of a composer is been gotten together in this part not" How much has he studied?" but "Is be a born musician,who, of the world a collection of by proper study, knows when to painting so full of genius and curb and when to flive the reins so little disfigured by poor pic­ to his flenius ?" I shall not dwell _ tures. upon this subject. You differ in one respect from the majority of young musicians in that you have read considerably and are ac­ PARIS AS A MUSICAL CENTRE. quainted with the history of mu­ sic and the great influence exert­ HERE has existed in ed upon your art by France dur­ this country for many infl the last 100 years or so; an years a curious preju­ influence felt by such foreigners dice against French (who sojourned there) as Gluck, music writes Mr. Henry Cherubini, Spontini, Rossini, Weiss in the Albany Ex­ Meyerbeer, Liszt, Wagner, Cho­ press, a prejudice con­ pin and Stephen Heller, who ceived in ignorance and show in their works the effects fostered by Germanized Ameri­ of French elegance and grace. cans who have studied only in Do you ask me in what the Germany and know absolutely French teachers of to-day excel? nothing of the present condition It is in insisting upon the predom­ of music in Paris, who judge inance of song, no matter what French organists by BatiRte, and the instrument may be. Every Fren<'h composers by Offenbach melody, whether it be played up­ and Audran. They will tell you on the violin, the piano or · the that the pianists and violinists CHRIST ON CALVARY. organ, should be sung. In Ger­ of Paris are brilliant and amus- manywhen a pianist is heard the ing tricksters.; that harmo~y and counterpoint are an instrument in an orchestra; you must know that first criticism is over the performer's technique; in slurred over m the educatiOn of a pupil, and they what the Germans call "deep and profound'' is Pari.s technique is taken for granted. I ~>nee beard constantly employ two stock phrases in their chat- too often merely stupid.; and above all you must an American say to a vutuoso aftet h1s concert, ter and abuse, viz.: (1) The French strive only for learn the flreat truth, forgotten by so many of the "What wonderful execution you have I" to which efft>ct; (2) The French are frivolous. Unfortunate- modern Germans, that music provokes purely the Frenchman in perfect good faith replied, ly this opinion prevails in America, and we seldom physical emotions, and that, to use the words of "Why not?" The player is supposed to have mas­ hear of our young musicians going to Paris to the immortal Mozart, music must ever sound and tered the mechanism of his art before he attempts study . the profession. They may pass through appeal to the ear. This the French musicians as a to play in public. The song, the song is everything. that c1ty as they return from Germany but it is class have never forgotten. Whatever have been The moment there ceases to be well-defined, well usu~lly m the summer long after the m~sical sea- their faults, they have never mixed metaphysics sung melody, the compositio:J?- ceases to be m~si­ son IS ?Ver; they go to the Grand Opera, which is with music nor darkened music by words without cal. Wagner, whom none will accuse of bem.g ~ndemably bad '(almost as bad in fact as the .Ber- knowledge. prejudiced in favor of the Fr~n.ch, BP.eaks of this hn 9Pe:a); they hear a few ordinary orchestras The first thing that strikes one roming to Paris characteristic of French musicians m Ueber daa playmg m gardens, and they come home and con- after a sojomn in Germany is the taste displayed Dirigiren. Having said that the finest performance fidently say:. "op.. there's nothing in Paris, you by the French, and this is seen on every side. The of the ninth sympbonyofBeethoven he ever heard know; Ger~any IS the only place where you can Ipoorest shop JZirl presents a more llleasing appear­ was from the Paris Conservatory orchestra under lea.,.n anytbmg." ance in the street than any lady of the Berlin Ha~ eneck in 1839, he remarks: "The orchestra bad And now, since you have consulted me as to court. She may not be pretty, her dress costs but thoroughly learned in each measure the Beethoven what you had better do, in the face of this preju- a song; but there is an indefinable something about melody, and the orchestra sang it. The French 326 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEPTEM:UER, 1888.

musician has been in this respect admirably influ-1 wrote the piece, this Doctor or Professor, may without grumbling, that they may buy the colors enced by the Italian school, in that for him music thereby obtain pasture. for their pictures for the Salon. You will see mu­ is only comprehensible through song; an instru- But with the French it is not so. These men, ac­ sicians going without dinner to buy for twenty ment that is good to play upon is for him one that cused by their neighbors of seeking effects, seek cents a ticket of admission to a Colonne concert. he can sing upon. And only the correct compre- only one thing, and that is to play simply and You will imperceptibly begin to think, to talk, to hension of the melody can gi.t e the proper tempo frankly the work of the composer, whoever he may dream of nothing but art, and you will see hun­ of the composition." be. If it be a selection from Gouperin or Bach, dreds working day and night for what -money? This brings me 'to the second point in which they attention is paid to the age when it was written, No, that poor thing, glory. You will meet with excel-the sense of rhythm. I heard all the great and if to modern ears in some of the antique music representatives of all nations and will not grow orchestras of Germany before I went to Paris, and there are passages whose harmonies sound thin, one sided and narrow in your profession. there for the first time I saw what precision~ these Frenchmen play them as written and do not And last but not least. you will learn to love and rhythm, ensemble meant. Now this rhythm cannot improve upon Scarlatti, Mozart, et al., after the respect that great people, the French, to whom the be explained; it can only be felt. · lt may come manner of Von Bulow and other renovators and world owes so much, to whom America owes so from an absolutely perfect technique combined restorers. They have no royal road to success. much and whom we have treated so shabbily; we with a keen sense of the" melos," as Wagner calls They demand :first that the pupils have talent, and forget her aid in the revolution; we forget that it; it can best be learned, however, by repeated then that they work. And tile two words always Jefferson was saturated with French ideas ofliberty bearings, and were it only to listen to the three in the teacher's mouth are "sing" and" rhythm." and self government. We see France to-day a re­ orchestras I have named, a long stay in Paris But I hear you say: "If I go to Parie I shall -be public, standing alone in Europe, a menace to the would be of incalculable value to you. There you given nothing but French music." You speak as existing kingdoms, and to our shame we look upon would hear the symphonies of Beethoven given in the fool. Not only will you hear and be given all of her without sympathy. Is it because the Germans a manner that compelled even Wagner to give un- modern German an

and if we have no ear we could not get them acting for Steinway and Gabler, found that the as­ includin~ fully nine octaves, the whole of which anyway. sets exceeded the liabilities by from $15,000 to are distmctly audible to most ears. His expres­ But the best way for you is to stick to the nat­ $20,000, and thereupon Mr. Moxter was, by contract, sion, "the highest known cries" of insects, sug­ ural touch; at least that is my advice. If you permitted to retain all of his property and given gests a curious thought. There are few insects want a foreign name for it, call it staccato; that the right to" take the business back at any time who have to our ears any cry at all; the humming comes as near to it as anything; and as a means before January 1, 1889." Mr. Lindemuth claims that that we hear is not made with the voice but with of cultivating the ear and :finge1·s to a staccato Mr. Moxter was perfectly solvent, but that the un­ the wings. But insects, as well as birds and even habit, you might make it a rule to repeat to your­ toward result of his attempt to obtain an exten­ quadrupeds, are often seen, especially the latter, self several times before each lesson the following sion, and the publicity given to his business diffi­ apparently communicating with one another, when bit of real staccato from the" Mikado:" culties, completed the wreck of his tottering reas'Jn they are evidently to us silent. For instance, ants, and led to his self-destruction. when they meet, lay their antennre across one an­ other; but this may be no more than sbaking "To sit in solemn silence in ad ull, dark dock. hands, as with us, they may also' be able to talk. In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock, AUDIBLE COMPASS OF THE HUMAN EAR. There may, in fact, be no dumb animals. Only Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock · their voices may be out of the range of our ears. From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block." It must be supposed that small creatures, includ­ ~can do a great deal to cultivate the ear. ing quadrupeds, hear sounds much more acute than By observing these few and simple lines you will But we can do nothing to alter the are audible to us, but none of the lower notes of our in a remarkably short time acquire a mastery of pitch or extend the range of sounds scale. This is, perhaps, the case with cats and dogs, the piano and a way of penetratmg to the deepest which the tympanum can receive. In who can obviously communicate with one another recesses of the human heart tbat would delight other words: the ear may have the ad­ but making no sound audible to us. Thus there is evt-~n a Fiji Islander, and we suppose those happy vantage of great keenness of percep­ not such a confusion of noises as there would be children of Nature are about as hard to please with tion, may hear sounds extremely small, otherwise. The vast difference of pitch heard by the divine art of music as anybody .-New Orleans distant and faint, and yet be always different great tribes of creatures causes us and Morning Star. deaf to any noise, however loud and near, if it is them to have, so to speak, the world to ourselves.­ lower or higher in pitch than the tympanum is Good Words.

RIOHELIEU'S FETE DAY.-After a Painting by Alvarez.

JACOB MOXTER'S SUICIDE. made for. Various experiments which have been THE JEW'S HARP. made show that about the lowest, or what in a musical instrument would be called the deepest E are in receipt of a communication of bass sound, consists of 12! undulations in the some length from Mr. Aug. C. Linde­ second, and the highest or most acute, or rather HE manufacture of this musical toy was muth, lately with J. Moxter, the Stein­ more than 6,000. It should be reffiembered that until recently one of the most flourishing way agent who recently committed sui­ human ears have not all the same compass. A industries in the town of Valsesia, Ger­ cide in this city. This communication party of young people, all with excellent hearing, many. At present their manufacture is shows that Mr. Lindemuth is justly may go into the meadows, and some will hear the chiefly carried on in Nuremberg. aggrieved at the statement which he shrill note of the common grasshopper, and some says has been madfdn certain quarters will not hear it even faintly, but simplyhear noth­ It is interesting to note that this odd that he was the person who was sent to New York ing at all. Dr. Wollaston, a great authority on little instrument-if such it maybe called by Mr. Moxter to arrange for an extension with tb1s subject, believes that "human bearing never ~ -was in use as early as the 16th century. Stein way and others, upon an incorrect statement IThis is proved by a document still in existence extends more than a note or two above the cry of of Moxter's liabilities. Mr. Lindemuth states that the common Gryllus campestris." The word "cry" dated 1524 which stated that a certain Andrea the statement in question was prepared in his ab­ is not correct, as the insect does not make the Gualcia of Otrosesia purchased from Giovanni sence by the book-keeper, under Mr. Moxter's dic­ sound with the voice, but with a little saw-like Arienta, a wood at a place called Ovago di Ourgo tation,and taken to New York by Mr. John O'Grady, scraper at its side. He gives a scale of sounds for" donzenas sexaginta de rebebbis." It may be an attorney-at-law, who alone negotiated unsuc­ which he found to be inaudible to some ears. He explained here that the toy is still known· in Ger­ cessfully with the New York creditors. Mr. Linde­ found that some people could not hear the cry of many by its ancient name "ribebbe." When and muth further asserts (and his opinion is corrobo­ the bat, 110r the chirp of the house cricket, nor the for what reason it was designated a "Jew's harp " rated by those who knew Mr. Moxter best) that chirping of sparrows, which is four octaves above is a question that baffles research. Moxter's brain had been affected for some time and the Fin the middle of the pianoforte. Not to be During the last century a vast number were manu­ that he was undoubtedly somewhat insane when able to hear this last note he considers to be very factured at the village of Boccorio averaging nearly he framed the statement whose transparent incor­ rare. He believes the whole range of human hear­ 5000 daily. rectness led the Steinways to take possession of ing to be compressed between the deepest notes of Simple as it is in construction no less than twen­ Moxter's business. On taking stock, examining the organ and the highest known cries of insects, ty tools are employed in its manufacture involving books, etc., Mr. Lindemuth says that Mr. Ambuhl, another, coming so close as to almost touch noses, twenty-five operations at the forge and vice. 328 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBE.lt, 18S8.

ROSSINI'S METHOD.

E lived then in the Rue Basse du Rem­ part, a street which has nearly disap­ peared now, but he soon settled down in those larger apartments at the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue de la Ohaussee d' An tin, in which he lived to the dav of his death. I must, for a clear understanding of what follows, give a slight description of these apartments. From the ante-room you entered the dining room, a moderate-sized oblong table to seat fourteen peo­ ple filling it nearly wholly. To the right of it was the drawing-room, where on Saturday nights the famous soirees were given, which brought together OUR MUSIC. celebrities of every class or section of ~olitics, art, science, or finanCial position; to the left was his studio-in fact, his bedroom-a square little place, ''HER EYES" (Mazurka-Caprice) ...... Jean Paul. containing a bed, a writing-table, a Pleyel piano, This is an unusually graceful morceau de salon; a and a wardrobe full of perishable linen and his im­ perishable manuscripts. worthy companion of Ketterer's <'Argentine,'' which ALMOST AS PALA On the little table m his bedroom he wrote them has made the round of the world. Fair amateurs AS MILK. -on the big dining-room table the copyist copied will find this piece within the reach of their tech­ li1P !li·li7-- The oil is so disguised that them, because he never allowed a manuscript to go nical attainments and unusually grateful. out of his house. It is certainly incredible that he the most delicate stomach should have written the" Barber of Seville" in "NovELLETTE" No.4, Op. 21 in E major .. . Schumann. can take it without the fifteen days, not that there can be the slightest slightest repugnance. doubt about the spontaneity of the melodies This is one of the most famous of Schumann's streaming quicker into his pen than out of it, but famous "novellettes." It is one of the issues in REMARKABLE AS A precisely because, although writing very fast, he Kunkel's Royal Edition, and attention is called FLESH PRODUCER had a way of rounding the head of the notes, which took time, and writing a whole operatic score in a here specially to the care with which fingering and phrasing have been indicated. To many the edi­ P~RSONS GAIN RAPIDLY WHILE TAKING IT. fortnight does not allow of many wasted minutes. SCOTT'S EMULSION Yet another instance of quick slow writing was tor's work in this respect will open the leaves of a Js acknowledged by numerous Physocians in the U'ntted Stat~s and tnany Alexander Dumas (I mean the father). He wrote book hitherto unknown to them. foreagn countnes to be the Fl N ES r and BEST preparation of its clas~ his novels on long half-sheets, and he was beside FOR THE RELIEF OF, AND IN MOST CASES A CURE FOR himself with happiness when I brought him some "BIRDS IN THE FOREST WALTZ" (Duet) ...... • Sidus. CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, GENERAL DEBILITY, WASTING DISEASES large English blotting paper, in sheets bigger than OF CHILDREN AND CHRONIC COUGHS. his own writing paper, which he had only to turn The birds whose waltz Herr Sidus has here over to dry it at once. He wrote a wonderfullJ transcribed with great fidelity bad evidently heard SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. handsome hand, very long letters, and seemingly Chopin's Bl?- minor sonata (Op. 31) since they have slowly, as if printed, yet one leaf was covered after utilized it in part for the introduction to their syl­ another in next to no time. "CROWN" Donizetti wrote quickly, to such an extent that van revel. These birds are birds of good taste, and when I saw him write for the first time I did not the warbling with which they close shows that ORGANS think he was writing music. He had a knack of they have considerable musical ability of their AND PIANOS. covering the pages with dots like a telegraph strip, own. Our young friends will find this a very grate­ My advt. is small, and so are and when he had done so he added the tails and my prices, but big value for lines. Rossini used to set to work at ten o'clock in ful piece. all and liberal treatment of customers brings me a large the morning, havin2 got up at nine. His toilet "WILLIAM TELL FANTASIA" .. , ...... Sidus. took half an hour, h[s breakfast, house gossip, etc., trade. Send for big circulars another half-hour; then he took his pen and wrote This excellent fantasia or potpourri treats the GEO. P. BENT, continuously. From ten to twelve,while he wrote, famous horn quartette, the well-known Styrienne MANUFACTURER, numbers of people came; some with letters of in­ and the ever-popular galop of the overture in a 289 WABASH AVENUE troduction; or old friends, and so on. He was very CHICAGO, ILLS. glad to make the acquaintance of talented young way to delight our young friends. It is withal an artists; he received them with immense kindness, excellent teaching piece. We herewith present )'OU the valuable giving them advice, and sometimes letters. But notice that we sell the so higl:ily celebrated El­ what he absolutely hated was to be stared at as one "PICTURES OF HoME " ...... Pepper. dredge & Diamond Machines extremely cheap at retail in unoccupied terrritory. Sent on trial of the si~hts of Paris. This song was recently sung by the composer, if desired. Special inducements and protection Once h1s old friend Oaraffa came and told him : to good dealers. Liberal discount to ministers. "There is a Russian Princess on the Boulevard the well-known tenor Harry Pepper, on the occa­ Singer machines cheap. Circulars and infor­ who waited two hours yesterday to see you pass; sion of his benefit. The stage was in complete mation free. J. C. GEITZ, Gen'l West. Agent, 1317 and 1319 North Market St., St. Louis, Mo. Mention this she wants so much to make your acquaintance. darkness, and as each picture was called up by the paper. What shall I tell her? " "Tell her," said Rossini, song the picture was projected upon a curtain by " that I am excessively fond of asparagus. She need only go to Potel et Chabot and buy the finest stereopticon. The effect of the voice of the unseen bunch she can get and bring it here. I shall then singer and the pictures coming up like dreams was get up, and, after she has well inspected me in magical. The song, however, does not need these front, I shall turn round, and she can complete her paraphernalia to make it a favorite. We feel surA inspection br taking the other view, too, and then she may go.' it will please many of our friends. He was rather fond, not only of asparagus, but The music in this issue costs, in sheet form, of anything good to eat, and whenever he was sent MANUFACTURER a delicacy in that line he enjoyed it in ad vance by "HER EYES" (Mazurka-Caprice) ...... Paul, .75 unpacking it himself, and then he used to say with "NOVELLETTE" (No.4, Op. 21) ...... Schumann, .50 delighted looks:" Voila a quoi la gloire est bonne.'' His visitors gone or not gone at twelve, he put on "BIRDS IN THE FOREST WALTZ" (Duet) .. . Sidus, .60 his wig, which until then lay quietly on the table, "WILLIAM TELL FANTASIA" ...... Sidus, .35 his big bald head being covered with a · towel for "PICTURES OF HoME" ...... Pepper, .40 the time being; then he dressed, and by one o'­ clock ev~ry day he was out; he took the first cab Total ...... •.. $2.60 G ARJY.LENTS_ he met and asked him : "Est-ce que vos chevaux sont fatigues f" ("Are your horses tired?") When the unfortunate driver said," Non, Monsieur," he never took him; he would never trust himself to other but the tired horses, and during all his life never NEWBY & EVANS, Flnbh•d 1n had he entered a railway carriage. Then he usually ~E.~~~. StaYS I drove to the Palais Royal, in the latter days to the Thread, Cloth and Satin Covered. For sale everywhere. Passage de l'Opera, and walked up and down in the shaded galleries, meeting a number of friends and up R IG HT pI AN 0s I Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness and Hay Fever. hearing with great interest all the newest gossip Sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are about singers, composers and operatic chat in gen­ GIVE UNEQUALED SATISFACTION. contageous, or that they are due to the presence of living par­ isHes in the lining membrane of the nose and eustachian eral. THEY ARE DURABLE AND WELL FINISHED. tubes. Microscopic research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result is that a simple remedy has been East 13Gth Street & Southern Boulevard, - NEW YORK. formulated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay TH-m musical section of the Paris Exposition of 1889 has de­ fever are cured in from one to three simple applications made cided to ·open an international prize competition for brass at home. 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THE TIMBRE OF VOCAL TONES. difficult to correct the faults which occasion a gut­ tural quality are advised to sing the syllable "koo" several times rapidly on the same note, then "oo­ HE vibrations produced when a given note oh-ah," always maintaining the pitch and gliding ARTISTIC FRAMING. is sounded are, with few exceptions, of imperceptibly from one vowel position to the next. such a nature that we do not hear a sin­ The exercise is to be repeated on e 1 ch note of the NO FALSE REPRESENTATIONS .. gle tone, but a number of tones. The scale, within an octave chosen from a middle first member of the series is the loudest register. and has the pitch of the particular note sounded. It is called the primary tone. A nasal twang results from inadquate action on The remainder, of higher pitch and di- the part of the palate. During phonation (except minishing intensity, are known as the secondary when sounding a nasal consonant), the palate tones or harmonics. They always stand in fixed ought invariably ascend upwards, and meet the relation of the primary tone, forming with it defi­ back of the throat, so as to form a complete par­ nite intervals of the scale. The number of secon­ tition between the cavities of nose and mouth. dary tones, together with their relative intensity, The mobility of this flesh curtain may be exercis­ determines the timbre of musical sounds. The ed by alternately drawing in the air through the vibrations of a tuning fork, for instance, give rise nose, while the lips remam firmly closed and then to no harmonics at all, while the sounds of a piano­ expiring through the open mouth. forte contain several which again differ in strength Whenever vocal sounds require for their produc­ from the secondary tones audible in the sounds of tion the narrowing of some portion of the buccal a trombone. cavity, the place of constriction should be made as The physical explanation of the timbre of far forward as is consistent with preservation of sounds applies, of course, as much to the human the sound's identity. The melodiousness of speech voice as to any tone.producing aparatus. Varia­ is materially heightened by pursuing this course. tions in the number and intensity of harmonics R, K, G and L are the sounds to which the injunc­ account not only for the unique quality of vocal tion particularly applies. For L, the tip, and for sounds, but also of the great diversity of voices. G and K, the root of the tongue presses against ARTISTS'· MATERIALS. Nay more, these variations supply most of the pe­ the palate. The further forward the point of ap­ culiarities which distinguish the separate elements proximation is situated the better for the timbre of articulate speech. The secondary tones, which of these elements as well as of those with which HOPPER ARTISTS' SUPPLY CO., stamp voice sounds as such, are in part incidental they happen to be connected. Similarly, the to the vibrations of the vocal ch01·ds. The majority quality of the voice is benefitted by habitually as well as the most characteristic of the harmonics, using no other but the lingual R, formed by vibra­ 312 N. 6th St., · OPPOSITE BARR'S. however, arise in the upper air-passages, whose tions of the tip of the tongue raised against the structure and configuration alter the form of the front of the roof of the mouth. The English "oo" laryngeal sound-waves. . and the German "li" are striking examples of An important adjunct of the acoustic function of sounds which literally enforce, by their forward this part of the respiratory tract is its adjusta­ formation, an absolutely pure tone. The syllables DEALERS bility. The movements of the lips, cheeks, tongue, "doo" and "dii'' are therefore excellent for the soft palate and pharyngeal walls render possible practice of vocal studies. ARTLARGEST Sl OCK the most manifold change in the shape of the As the timbre of the voice depends so much Of STUDIES and ARTISTS' MATERIALS in St. Louis. Prices lower than any cavity formed bv the throat, mouth and nasal upon the dexterity with which adjustment of the bouse in the West. IIJLUSTIU.TED chambers. With each new shape corresponds a upper air p.assages is effected, it Is important to CA.1'ALOGUES of Studies and Artists• Ma­ new pitch of resonance and a new arrangement of secure skill and rapidity of movement of this por­ terials sent free. Special discount to harmonics, tion of the vocal tract. A most efficient way of teachers. From the preceding considerations, it is evident reaching this end is by diligent, persevering drill GL~ ~ ~R & FINKENAUR, 302 & 304 N. lOth St., St. Louis. that the quality of every individual's voice in great in pronunciation. It will be found very advanta­ 9 1 measure depends upon inherent organization. A geous to practice exercises in articulation by a voice is thus fine or poor by nature. On the other conscious utterance of the separate elements; that hand, it is clear that the timbre of any voice will is to say, with mental recognition of the positions be influenced by training; for the organ of speech necessary to the formation of each element. In­ and song is built up of living tissues capable of deed, attention may, for a time, be exclusively development, and includes muscular parts directly directed to the practice of correct positions, with­ controlled by the will. A voice can therefore be out actually producing the related sounds. improved by art. The manner of perfecting the In sequence to the remarks just made, it will be quality of vocal sounds obviously consists in endow­ well to note that the combined study of singing ing them only with those secondary tones which and elocution, among other advantages, has the impart beauty by their presence. How shall this recommendation of being better calculated to be done in practtce? The teachings of experience benefit the qu"ality of the voice than the pursuit of assist the solution of this problem by affording either art separately. In fact, any methodical ex­ numerous useful hints. ercise of the organs of voice having for its object The first requisite for the formation of beautiful their physiologiCal development will of necessity tones in singing and speaking is a normal condi­ tend indirectly to beautify the timbre of vocal tion of the vocal machinery. All its parts are tones. C. SHATTIN&ER, M. D. needed in their integrityw An absent tooth may spoil pronunciation; an enlarged tonsil damage vocalization. Persistent irritation of the throat with dust, pulverized spices; hot drinks or strong THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC. alcoholics, is not consistent with the preservation of its healthy activity. Straining the voice be­ yond its range, power or working capacity is very T has of late become the custom to speak apt to destroy the charm residing in Its tones. of a "Science of Music," and composers Forced or otherwise unnatural efforts of breathin~, and virtuosi are often sternly reproved finally, not rarely entail complete loss of all musi­ for being unacquainted with the scientific Send for Catalogue. cal attributes of the voice. basis of this art. They may plead i:rr ex­ From the foregoing summary of hygienic princi­ cuse that the number of vibrations by ples, we may pass at once to the statement of such which a tone is produced is a matter of pedagogical precepts as aim to enhance the timbre total indifference to those who can string Many of the Best Music Teachers, of vocal sounds. such tones together into melody and harmony, or An observation which deserves special empha­ play them on any instrument. Neither is the in­ Singers, Players and Composers sis in this connection is that the quali­ tonation of a singer improved by his minute knowl­ Have qualified themselves for their profession in ty of vocal tones is much favored by an ab­ edge of the larynx and its anatomical qualities. rupt attack, precise intonation and a moderate or Moreover, the experiments with'' pure fifths," and THE AMERICAN even minimum expenditure of breath. A second other attempts at meddling with our system of important rule is to allow abundant room for the tuning the piano-forte, have hitherto led, and will Normal Musical Institute. vibrations of the air contained within the mouth, probably always lead, to miserable· failures. It The Principal's method of Ear training, Voice training, and and to interfere as little as possible with the free may indeed be broadly stated that the discoveries Eye training is unique, and very interesting to both teacher communication of these vibrations to the sur­ of Helmholtz and other scientific men, valuable ·and pupil, and results in advancing pupils at least rounding atmosphere. This is accomplished by and excellent though they undoubtedly are, have TWICE AS FAST AS THE USUAL METHODS. keeping the lips well separated, the mouth thor­ never been of the slightest use to the practical Theory, Harmony, Composition, Conducting Pian6-Forte, oughly open and ·the tongue flat on the floor of the musician. The story is told of a scientific man etc., will be THOROUGHJ,Y TAUGHT. who wrote a piece of music on strictly mathemati­ Works of the great masters will be studied and performed mouth. The syllable " ah" is used to this end in in public Recitals and Concerts. Haydn's CREATION will be singing. Prefixing "I" or " sc" to "ah" facili­ cal principles. It was a model of symmetry, and given. tates the placing fiat of the tongue. When the everything that could be desired from a scientific FACULTY OF FOUR EMINENT TEACHERS. root of the tongue is allowed to rise up at the back point of view, but extremely dull and uninterest­ ~Teachers from ten States were present last year. of the mouth, the voice acquires a guttural quality. ing. On the other hand, there is no evidence that The Session for 1888 will be held at Dixon, Ill., commencing The same effect is caused by strong contraction of Bach or Mozart knew anything whatever of the July 30th, aud continuing four weeks. Send for circulars. the muscles of the fauces and pharynx. In this physical laws of their art. The two things are Address, S. W. STRAUB, Principal, case, a feeling of constraint about the throat ac­ different, and ought not to be mixed up together. 243 State Street, Chicago. companies the usual action. Persons who find it There is a science of acoustics, and an art of musir. , I

354 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1888. STULTZ & BAUER, MANUFACTURERS OF ALFRED DOLGE, Grand, Square&. Upright piano-Fo~bB ~BbB~iBI$ PIANOS: -AND- FAOTORY AND Tuners' Supplies. WAREROOMS: 338 & 340 East 31st St., CORRESPONDENCE. 122 E. 13th St., NEW YORK. MUNICH. GRRM ANY. MUNICH, July 31, 1888. EDITO:l KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW:-Since my last letter, sent you from Glasgow, I have skipped about in a manner that would make the most enterprising European flea en vi· ous. I have attended riots in Trafalgar Square, London, and have chased wild elephants on the Ludwigstrasse, in BARREIRAS' Munich. But do not be afraid, I am not going to bore you with all my adventures by flood and field. I will confine my­ PIANO WAREROOMS, SCHARR self strictly to the musical part of my stay. It was a musical party which branched oft' from the Tourjee European Excur­ 1~30 01i"V"e Street, 7th :1.nd Olive Sts., S'l'. LOUIS, sion at Glasgow, and wended its way towards Munich. It consisted only of Mr. Geo. E. Whiting of the New England ST. LOUIS, MO. Conservatory of Music, Mr. J. D. Buckingham of the same in­ stitution, and myself. And furthermore we found that music, Fine Stationery heavenly maid, was dead, until we came to Frankfort, where PIANOS and ORGANS (new and second-band) we heard "Masainello" rather badly done, in a magnificent Bought, Sold, or Exchanged, Pianos for Rent-$2.50 IN GREAT VARIETY. opera house. Frankfort is the home of the Rothschilds and to $7.00 per month. of the sausage, but scarcely the reE.idence of the muses. But it was a comfort to find that people could sing out of tune in other countries besides America. But this was but a prelimi· nary to Bayreuth, for soon we went via Nuremberg to that home of the Teutonic muses. The party underwent some change en rottte, and became a quartette, consisting of Miss MATH:fAS' Fanny Payne, Mr. Carl Faelten, Mr. Whiting and myself, and a quartette with better ensemble you would not easily find. EDWARD G. NEWMAN, We were all in tune with the occasion and with each other, and when we found pleasant lodgings in the family of Herr PATENT PIANO FOOTSTOOL, Apotheke Meyer, and had quiet breakfasts and seasons of Ka.nufacturer of FIRS'l'-CLASS calm repose in spite of the crowded and excited condition of WITH PEDAL ATTACHMENT FOR YOUNG PUPILS. • Bayreuth, we felt that our lines might have fallen in worse places. I was obliged to leave the party on the morning after This Footstool should be witt our arrival, to seek, rVilla Wahnfrled, scarcely believing every piano on which childrer however, that Madame Wagner could receive me in the midst are to play. Highly recom ~PIANO ·FORTES~» of her multifarious duties. Great was my surprise and pleas. mended by the most prominen1 ure therefore, when the stately butler, who took in my card teachers-among others ; S. B doubth.gly, came out and said that she would allow me an Mills, Fred. Brandeis, Chas No. 54 East 13th Street, audience. Into a beautiful room, half. boudoir, half-recep. Kunkel, Louis Staab, A. J. Davis tion room, I went, and the tall and stutely lady who arose and A. Paur, Cbas. Heydtmann, H ----(NEW YORK.) ---- greeted me, was Madame Wagner. The daughter of Liszt S. Perkins, W. C. Coffin, etc. resembles her father in the coutour of her face, and in the bright and very expressive eyes. The bereavements of the .Q1Send for Circulars.- last five years have given a sober, grave expression to the face, and a striking gray to the hair, but there was animation, L. MA.THIA.S, 805 Summit St., Toledo, 0. force, and earnestness in all her manner and conversation. Like Clara Schumann, she has taken up the grand task of JESSE FRENCH living for her husband's memory, of making his work!! better understood by the world. She had superintended all the re­ hearsals, and said that she was only sorry that they could not have had more. A little short of four weeks' constant work, was all that the singers' engagements allowed them to give F. CONNOR, PiaAD~ClFgaA BD. to rehearsing. I expressed the hope that all would be as great as usual, since most of the artists had already appeared Ka.nufa.cturor of FIBS'l'-CLASS in "Parsifal," but she replied that "Parsifal" needed entire re-study at each festival, and I most heartily concurred In the General Southwestern Agents for the Unrivalled view that it was the most difficult of operas. She was warmly interested in the progress of Wagnerian music in America, and expressed the hope that it might be more than merely plf\~O-fOf1bE~ fashion, but take firm root. She spoke very highly of the labors of Anton Seidl in New York, and said that she often CHICKERING PIANOS. received encouraging accounts of progress from him. She 237 & 239 E. 41st STREET, wished that the Boston field might be also thus cultivated. She was greatly pleased that so many Americans were com­ Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ing to the festival. Spite of much talk to the contrary, very NEW YORK. few had been 1>resent at the previous festivals. There was to .~ be a great gathering of the nobility in Bayreuth this time, ...... , ~ and she was glad of this as it meant a cultured and apprecia­ tive audience. Many representative people would be at her AND reception the following Tuesday evening. She would be PIANOS ORGANS. glad to see me there too, so I left to prepare to attend "Parsifal," with the surety of a pleasant evening at Villa An Immense Stock always on hand, in which are Wahnfried. Our quartette became a quintette at the perfor­ mance, for I was able to get a seat for my friend Mr. Kneisel, Henry F. Miller represented all the Best Mal{es. at my side. The audience was indeed a representative one : the Prince's Gallery filled, and such men as Von Wolzogen, Lassen, Tappert, Lamoureux, D' Albert, etc., etc, on every side. Of Bostonians I saw (besides our own party) Mr. PIANOS. Gericke, Mr. Suecenski, Mr. Johns, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Foote, Prices and Terms to Suit Purchasers. Mrs. Gardner, and others. Of New Yorkers, Mr. Flcersbeim, Mr. Michaelis but alas not my friends Krehbiel and Finck. Of Philadelphians, Miss Everest, Miss Knox and others. Special attention given to Benting New I am not going to describe the theatre, nor the opera, for I J. A. KIESELHORST, Pianos. Oorrespontlenc~ Solicited. have done both in previous years in your columns, and neither has altered. Naturally the performance is a special General Manager for St. Louis. one, for every singer, down to the least important chorus sin­ St., ger is a soloist or" star" while the orchestra. is as full of ce­ No. 902 Olive ST. LOUIS, MO. lebrities as a field is full of blackberries in August. I send 1111 Olive Street. you bv this mail a full list of the personnel of the festival, which you can translate for the benefit of your readers if you wish. There is the usual solemn hush as the lights are lowered and the strange prelude begins. If I criticize JARDINE & SON, here at all, if must be borne in mind at the first that I con­ sider the performance of "Parsifal" beyond anything possi­ ORGAN BUILDERS, ble in any other theatre in the world; but I may at least com­ pare Bayreuth with Bayreuth, festival with festival; and it 318 & 320 East 39th St., N. Y. seemed to me that conductor Mottl dragged things a little, & and in his endeavor to attain stately majesty, sapped the life Wegman Henning, LIST OF OUR LARGEST GRAND ORGANS. out of some portions of the work. Materna was a splendid Fifth Ave. Cathedral, N.Y•. -4 Manuala. Kundry, and the Belgian tenor-Van Dyck,-who strange to Piano Manufacturers. say is more at home in French than in German song, and ~t ~:~f~~t~uch~ch, :: ! :: looked the part of "ParsifAl" to perfection. All our instruments contain the full iron frame with the ~~h ~v~~~~ts~' Church, ;; : Stage effects were as glorious as ever: the great marches of pa1ent tuning pin. The greatest Invention of the age; any Brooklyn Tabernacle, 4 the Castle of the Grail, the two moving panoramas, the sink­ radical changes in the climate, beat or dampness cannot effeet ing of Klingsor' s castl~, the transformation of tile tropical the standing in tune of our instruments, and therefore we rl~~ft~f,~~~~~}~· : garden into a desert at the sign of the cross; all these things chnllenge the world th,at ours will excel any other. 1st Pres., Philadelphia{ 8 were admirably done. Musically, the second act was the ~f.1~:~1a·~~~~~~~~kk. 8 most attractive, but the finale of the third by all odds the vastest and grandest. At the end of that, I was speechless and .A.U:BURN', N'. 'Y. could only press Franz Kneisel's hand as he looked, also

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deeply moved, for a word of commendation. I have heard Parsifal three times now, and do not feel, that I fully grasp it C. A. ZOEBISCH & SONS, yet; at each hearing new uses of figures, subtler meanings, r.nd deeper thoughts come to light. Yet I confess I rank the Importers of Wholesale Dealers in "Master singers of Nuremberg," as the more perfect opera. That tells a story, not of gods and demigods, but of human passion, longing and love, its satire, keen and earnest as that MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, STRINGS, &c. of Aristophanes, its autobiographical meaning. its historical accuracy of detail. make it to me, the most perfect of music Depot of C. F. MARTIN &CO'S Celebrated GUITARS, art-works. 'l'he musical public at Bayreuth (and an especial­ ly educated one) shares my opinion, for ''Parsifal '' a wakes less enthusiasm than I had expected, while "Die Meister­ "BOEEU4" GENtl'INE "WEYl!lB" A "ALBBECB'l'" l!'Ltl''l'ES and PICCOLOS. singer'' was applauded wildly. Of course applause doesn't count for everything, but the fact remains tha.t "Parsifal" No. 46 Maiden Lane. NEW YORK. is uncomfortably great. "It is the crown of Wagner's works," said a young Philadelphian to me. "but a crown is not the All the newest styles of BRASS and GERMAN most comfortable bit of uearin~ apparel" Richter directed S~L YER Instt·uments constantly on "Die Meistersiflger" the next day. It was a performance be­ hand or made to O'l'de'l'. yond comparison. The only flaws the fiercest hypercritic could discern, were as follows : The finale of Act 1, faulty in intonation, "Pogner's Address" rather tame, (how one longed for for poor Scarla); Walther's "Prize Song" just a trifle shaky in the attack and time of the first measures; the curtain drawn a little late after the last prelude. That was all! in a performance of over six hours, scarcely a flaw I I cannot be­ gin to describe the singing. Gudehus was a fine Walther even though he is no longer young; Frau Sucher the most sweet and loving of Evas; Reichmann, splendid. and thor· oughly German as Sac:hs; Hofmiiller, a jovial David; but Friedrichs the merry beau ideal of the narrow. spiteful, ELECTRDTYPERS 1! TEREDTYPERS ridiculous Beckmesser ; a more perfect triumph of acting & cannot be Imagined. Of course, the orche1tral details were equally exact; the harp of Beckmesser had its hard acidu­ lous twang (caused by wiring it with steel); the horn of the watchman had its coarae tone in a foreign key to give realism COR. FOURTH AND PINE STREETS, rather than musical effect; the guild of the tog-makers had muted trumpets; the heralds natural ones, and every musi­ (Globe-Democrat Building,) cal point was faithfully carried out. The historical details were not less faithful. The scene of the second act was a ST. LOUIS; MO. perfect little street, such as has existed in Nuremberg from Medireval times. and when the riot began this little gasse was filled with a surging mob, beating each other in wildest confusion, while one window after another, all along the street; was opened, and people looked down in various stages of deshabille. Then the final scene of all capped the climax. SOLE The marches of the Guilds (Prince Alexander of Hesse as­ sured me that one of these has been discovered to be a JAMES HOGAN PRINTING CO. veritable melody of the fifteenth century), the dance of the MANUFACTURERS )ARTISTICC , apprentices with its strange medireval effect of seven barred phrasesi and finally the gorgeous harmonies of the triumph­ OF THE ant fina e swelling up proudly to Heaven, while Nuremberg lay smiling in the sunlight, looking down from its height as if blessing the proceedings; it was a scene never to be jrtnting 5fit~ograp~ing forgotten, and when the curta.in fell. a delirium of applause "BIJOU" AND "SEPARABLE" rang through the house: Applause I it was more like frenzy, and for fully ten minuteR people shouted themselves hoarse. Then we went forth into the night to seize the flitting waiter, UPRIGHT PIANOS. MAKE A SPEOIALTY OF FINE WORK. and force him to bring us food and drink. A firm grip at the vanishing coat-tails of one of these gentry, a two mark piece, Full Iron Plate. .Action ''ill stand climatic change(!. and a formal demand that our party be rescued from starva­ Factory, sss & ss5 w. 36th street tion saved our lives, for man cannot live by music alone. Warerooms, S, W. Cor. 34th St., & 7th Ave. Ne W York • 413 & 411J N. Third Street, ST. LOUIS. Next tim~ I will write of the celebrities I have met in Bayreuth. For this time I fear that I have tired your readers of the en- thusiasm of CoMES. You can judge a man by the way he walks, if he goes his natural gait, as well as you can draw a chart of his cranium T. BAHNSEN, by the bumps thereof, and thereby show his mental and moral BEETHOVEN CONSERVATORY, peculiarities and characteristics. Straws have ever shown the direction of the river's current, and a feather is as good an 1603 Ol'ive Street, indicator of the wind's tendency as a mathematical illstru­ ment; in the same way do our little personal peculiarities of Piann Ware.rnnms walk or gesture form to the experienced student of human nature an index to our inner selves. All branches of music taught at this Institution A criminal, for instance, fleeing from justice, disguises him· and every one represented by a first-class Al\TD FACTORY, self so completely that his own mother could not swear to his identity as regards his features and general appearance. TEA GHER AND PERFORMER. Some keen observer of peculiarities sees the man walking This Conservatory keeps open aU Summer for the NO. 1520 OLIVE STREET. through a crowd. "I could swear to that peculiar gait among accommodation o.f pupils and such teachers as wish to a thousand," he says, and thus on thls straw of evidence an perfect themselves during the Summer Term. arrest is made and justice works out her ends. What mother 'l'UITION-$15 and $21 per quarter, either for In· cannot tell the approach of her child long before she sees him strumental or Vocal lessons. Scholars may enter by his step, and who of us but can remember some time in our at any time. The beginning of their quarter com· Pianos Repaired and Tuned at prices lives when the approach of a particularly loved one could be mences with the first lesson they take. heard afar off and detected even among several others. Send for circulars . that defy competition. These little personal and natural tricks of gait and manner are not to be despised, being as they are, types of individual· ity marking each one off from among his kind and making him an independent creation. Once we begin to change radically HENRY KILCEN~ our natural gait we become a creature of imitation and render ourselves ridiculous. By this I refer to the various styles of Don't Let Your Children Drown! gait that have been followed as fashions at different periods -WHEN- of the world's history. There was the mincing walk that came in with farthingales. ruffs and black patches; the drome­ dary style of the Grecian Bend; the dainty noli me tange1·e step PROF. CLARK, CHURCH ORGAN BUILDER, of the modern dude and the woodeny a la militaire stride of the girl who has" gone in" for exercise and is "English you Guarantees to Teach them to Swim in Ten Le.ssons know" and wants to advertise the fact to the general public. No. 813 N. 21st Street, St. Louis. Really, unless there is some awkwardness of step or weak· FOR $3.00. ness of ankle the best way to walk is one's own natural way and the best aid to walking can be always received !rom one's Tuning and Repairing promptly attended to. own shoemaker. Like a tailor that person has much to do with the making of man. And he cannot begin too soon in Ha'IJe on hand a New Organ of 12 Stops-enclosed life. Put baby on his feet in a well braced Hhoe full and plenty in swell attd 2 Combination Pedals. long, with no pressure on the daintily formed mechanism of his little foot and all his life he will walk better for the start you have given him. Many a slight deformity has been ag· gravated into a noticeable defect, and many a boy and girl have grown up to awkward, ungraceful manhood and woman· C. A. Sl.VJ:ITH & CO. hood through the carelessness of the shoemaker or the vanity of the parents. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in The province of the shoemaker is to protect and improve, not to infringe on nature and press out of shape the muscles of motion and change your individuality of walk; therefore, when you have such an artist in leather the bestimprovement you can give your gait is to trust to his fitting and let exercise and nature do the rest, always bearing in mind that self-con· sciousness can do nearly as much toward spoiling a walk as UPRIGHT-PIANOS an ill-fitting clumsy shoe. THE BEST MEDIUM PRICED PIANO IN THE St. Louis is especially fortunate in numbering among her business firms one shoe house, par excellence, where special Thousands have been drowned MARKET FOR THE MONEY. attention Is paid to the improvement of walk by extra pains in fitting shoes to the feet. At Joel Swope'• new house, 3ll North by not knowing how to Swim. SEND FOR CATALOCUE AND PRICE LIST TO Brondway, you will always find a corps of experienced sales­ c. .A... a ::a::n.i'th. d:! Co., men who make it their first duty to spare neither time or trou· ble in fitting their customers. Besides this you will find there N ATATORJ:Ul.VJ: Factory H9 and 151 Superior St., CHICAGO, ILL. the finest new stock of Fall and Winter Footwear in the West. Corner Nineteenth and Pine Streets 336 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1888.

A QUARTETTE OF WHISTLERS,

PEAKING of Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, the J. G. Earhuff Organ &Piano Co. American whistler, The Saturday Review, of London, remarks that many people Manufacturers of the only have been asked out to hear her. regard­ ing the whole thing as a joke, and have ABSOLUTELY MOUSE AND DUST PROOF come away in simple wonder at the on­ looked-for display of her powers. They have found her a sound musician and a snbtle mistress of her particular art. They have found that, through her special medium, she could fill Covent Garden -with estatic trills or sink into ~:Q~t::,:g:~.-8.~ the softest whispered notes the execution of which IN THE UNITEtfSTATES. PAT. JULY 6th, 1886. only years of rehearsal could achieve. It may be difficult to conceive a whistling prima donnah· but 51, 53 an·d 55 Pearson, near Welis Street; .• CHICAGO, ILL. the fact is that whistling as a fine art is wort y of attentive study. Those who have once heard Mrs. Alice Shaw cannot fail to realize that, if whistling were cultivated as a fine art by those who, in addi­ tion to mu~ical endowment, have strength of voc~l CONOVER BROS. . chord, a h1gh-roofed palate, and a flexible buccal ~MANUFACTURERS CF a---. aperture, they might be trained to take part in a concert, as of many clarionets, with an effect more thrilling than the most exquisite instru­ UPRIG·HT PIANOS. mental music has ever conjured up, and which, Among our valuable im?rovements, appreciated by pianists and salesmen are from its novelty alone, would be more surprising our Patent Action, Patent Metal Action Rail and Patent Telescopic Lam"{> Bracket than any concert hitherto heard, whether instru­ Our Pianos are endorsed by such eminent judges as Mme. Rive-Kmg, Robt: mental or vocal. Goldbeck, Chas. Kunkel, Anton Streletzki, E. M. Bowman, Gustave Krebs G w Steele, Hartman, of San Francisco, and many others. ' · ·

Manufactory and Warerooms, 400 & 402 W. l4th Street, Cor. 9th Avenue, THE ST. LOUIS FAIR. ~E~ 'YC>H..::S:. HE St. Louis Fair is the largest mechanical and agricultural show on the American Continent. '!'his is not a boast, but a WOMEN'S BEAUTY. ' "cold.fact." Our friends from the coun- The world has yet allowed no higher mission to woman than to be ( try will be able to take in the Fair and beautiful, and it would seem that the ladies of the present age are carry­ Exposition at the same time. A day at ing this idea of the world to greater extreme than ever, for all women the Fair can be supplemented by an even­ now to whom nature bas denied the talismanic power of beauty, supply ing at the Exposition with the great Gil­ the deficiency by the use of a most delightful toilet article known as Imore band, and all at but little expense. The "Bloom of Youth," which has lately been introduced into this country by street illuminations will be magnificent On the George W. Laird; a delicate beautifier, which smooths out all indentations, night of Tuesday, Qct. 2, the " Veiled ProphE>ts" tan, freckles, furrows, scars~ and imparts alabaster skin, blooming cheeks, will give their eleventh annual pageant, which, "e and clear, smooth, soft, ana beautiful complexion. With the assistance are informed, will be one of unexampled grandeur. of this new American Preparation for a lady's toilet, female beauty is des­ As to the general features of the Fair proper, we tined to play a larger part in the admiration of a man, and the ambition can do no better than to reproduce Secretary Uhl's of women, of all the arts employed since her creation. well written introduction to the Fair circular, which is as follows: F'or Sa.1e by a.11 D:l'""t.12;2:i.sts. "The Twenty-eighth Annual Fair of the St. Louis Depot., 39 Barclay Street, NEW YORK. Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which opens Monday, October 1st, and closes Octol>er 6th, will be one of the ~randest exhibitions ever held on the Continent. Comment upon this grand enter­ prise is unnecessary, as its repeated success has earned for it an international reputation, which at once highly impresses one with the untiring ener­ gy, enterprise and liberality of the management of this important and distinguished feature of St. Louis entertainment. From year to year the management have made many costly improvements, which have greatly Successor to J. MOXTER & CO. added to the appearance and attractiveness of the grounds, until at present the St. Louis Fair No. 912 OLIVE STREET. Grounds are without a rival, with its beautiful One­ Mile Race Course, on which is located a magnificent Grand Stand, constructed of solid masonry and iron, at a cost of $60,000, and adjoining which is that Steinway Pianos. Gabler Pianos, Kurtzman Pianos, Engel & Scharf Bros. Pianos. architectural gem, the Club House, modeled after the style of the Renaissance, and furnished in a princely fashion, at a cost of many thousand _...We mnJr;e a Specialtfl of Renting, Tuning and Repairing P 'iano ..., • ..._ dollars. Owing to the increased number of horses that participate in the events of the Fall Trotting Meet­ u PERFECT IN EVERY PARTICULAR!" ing each year, the management found it necessary to erect additional stabling; thus being able to accommodate over eight hundred horses. The sum of $18,000 is offered in special stakes and purses, which is trotted for over the regular THJI !ILLSTBOII DBGAI~ mile track, and the horses that compete are among the most noted in the country. A Thing of Beauty. A Joy Forever. The liberality of the management is illustrated in the premium list of 1888, the total amount of Pronounced by experts to be un­ EVERY cash premiums offered footing over $70,000. Spe­ HILLSTROM'S supassed by any organ in the world cial attention has been given to revising the list,so for beauty of finish, elegance of con­ ParJor and Chapel struction, solidity, power, purity and ORGAN as to embrace every branch of industry, and in­ sweetne~;s of tone, and general mus­ full warranted for five cl.ude every variet:y of stock that can be imagined. ical effects. years. The transportatiOn facilities have been increased ORGANS. yearly, until at present they are as near perfection C. 0. HILLSTROM & ·CO., CATALOCUE as it is possible to get them, so that no· annoyance OYer 12,000 in use. CHESTERTON, IND. Sent on application. will be experienced by persons desiring to visit the great Fair." Any of our subscribers desiring a copy of the Premium List will receive one free ·by 2 to 28 Main St., CHESTERTON, IND. adaressing Arthur Uhl, Secretary, 718 Chestnut Telephone No. 5 with Chicago. St., St. Louis, Mo. KUNKEL'S MUSIOAL R.EVmW, SEPTEMBER, 1888. 357

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One bottle ~Music Teachers send for Special Discount. 1 0 ::!~y 3:;. si;.ls~ P~~dre us~~til: KEEP him at least three paces distant who hates music and S. R. HUYETT, St. Joseph, Mo. removes superfluous hair with­ child . -Lat~ater. out Injury to the skin. the laugh of a FERD. 'I'. HoPKINS, Manager, 48 Bond St., running througli to SOME men are like musical-glasses; to produce their finest THE DORCAS Main Officeb37 Great Jones St. N .Y tones you must keep them wet.-T. S. Coleridge. MACAZINE. Fancy Goods Dealers throughout the U. S., c:n°:d:a~~d ~u~~P~r~i::::r~ of base imitations. Sl,OOO Reward for arrest and proof of :any one selling Music is both an art and a science. AR a science, it includes An Ylustrat~d monthly of women's house-work; contains the same. 79-12 the theories of musical composition.:-Dr. Crotch. plain directions for making useful and decorative articles· a rec?gnized authority on crochet work, knitting, netting, em­ MusiC demands great perseverance and incessant labor. It broidery, art needlework, &c.; its suggestions, regarding both expoaes one to many chagrlns and toils.- Bishop Bari. old and new industries for women are invaluable. and aid women to become self-supporting; subscription price, 50 cents MusiC stands near to theology; those who are not touched a year; 25 cents for six months. Address, AIRe REMOVED by music, I hold to be like stocks and stones.-Mar tin Luther. Permanently, root and branch, In five minutes, without pain, THE DORCAS MAGAZINE, dlseolorntion orlnjury with "I•tna Solvene." Sellle• MADAME PATTI is reported to have completed her ~·souve­ parUculars, 6c. WUoux Spec:lflo Vo., Phlla~, Pa. nirs." The book will be published simultaneously in London 239 Broadway, New York. H and Paris. H. R. H. PRINCESS BEATRICE has sent some of her own mu­ sical compositions to the Exhibition of Women's Industries which is to be held at Sydney in october next. THE reminiscences of Mr. J. H. Mapleson, which are partly in print, will be published by Messrs. Remington, London, early in' the autumn, and promise to be of exceptional in­ terest. MR. J. J. VoELLMECKE has been elected over seven competi­ Who desires to better his or her condition in life, should write for the Catalogue of tors as director of the Nord St. Louis Bundeschor. Under Mr. Voellmecke's conscientious and able leadership we shall ex­ BRYANT & STRATTON BUSINESS COLLEGE pect the Bundeschor to take front rank among the German NO. 406 THIRD STREET.. LOUISVILLE. KY. singing societies of St. Louis. GEORGE SwEET, the baritone, has received offers from Kel­ logg and Minnie Hauk, J. C. Duff and Emma Abbott, but has refused them all, and will spend the winter in New York teaching, his success having been so great that nearly the PIANOr DACTYLION. whole of his available time during the coming season has al­ ready been taken. A"' ~ew invention of great practical value and real benefit to the Piano Player. GoUNOD is writing an opera entitled "Charlotte Corday." To strengthen the fingers. He has taken refuge in a distant village, and, in order tore­ 'fo improve the touch. main undisturbed, he posted a paper on the door containing To ensure fiexibility and rapidity. these words: "It is my painful duty to apprise you ofmj sr d­ To· give correct position of the hand. den death; accuse nobody. If the Lord so wills it, I Bhall To save tim.e and a vast am.ount of labo1•. resuscitate on the 1st of September next." Used, endorsed, and highly recommended by the best of Pianists and Teachers, among whom- COLERIDGE'S WANT OF EAR.-! have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the in tensest MAD. JULIE RIVE-KING. MR. S. B. MILLS. delight in music, and can detect good from bad. Naldi once MR. CHAS. KUNKEL; MR. H. G. ANDRES. remarked to me at a concert, that I did not seem much inter­ MLt. ARMIN DOERNER, MR. OTTO SINGER, ested with a piece of Rossini's which had just been performed. MR. GEO. SCHNEIDER. I said it sounded to me like nonsense verses. But I could Introduced at, and used by, the different Col­ hardly contain myself when a thing of Beethoven's followed. leges of Music in Cincinnati. -T. s. Coleridge. AGENTS WAN'l'l!lD EVl!lltYW:EEBE. Send for Circula.ra. Music is a spirit. I have seen a mother at her work and a farm boy at his task. and, as I heard them humming snatches L; E. LEVASSOR, Manufacturer, of songs I have said that music lightens labor. I have heard ' 24 W. Fourth St.. Cincinnati. 0. that mar'tial music urges the soldier to battle, and I have af­ firmed that music inspires patriotism. I have heard that beasts have been charmed by its delicious sounds, and I have reasoned that music quella passion. It does more; it snggests ESTABLISHED 1850. ideas· it quickens the imaginationi· it dispels sadness; it adds to joy. Music is the only perfect anguage of all the higher emotions.-J. G. Abbott. Chapel Crga.ns1 Heme Cria.ns1 Church Crfla.ns. LOSING THE KEY.-Mrs. Billington, the queen of all English singers. came one night to Drury Lane TheAtre to perfo.rm Mandane in Artaxerxes, so hoarse as to render it a quest10n as to whether it would be possible for her to appear before Reliable Ca·rpenter Organs. the audience. To add to her perplexity, her maid !lad mislaid the key of her jewel-box, but persisted that berm1stress must FO~ CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS. SEND FOR dATALOCUE. have got it with her. "What can I have done with it?" said the siren· "I suppose I have swallowed it without knowing li'inest Action, Greatest Volume,·: Grandest Effects, Surest Value, it." "And a lucky thing, too," said Wewitzer, "it may per­ Easiest Blowing, Lightest Touch, Sweetest Expression, Fullest Tone, haps serve to open your chest." Strongest Build, Longest Guarantee. Best Materials, Widest Reputation. OuR many readers who will visit the St. Louis Exposition and Fair should bear in mind that not the least of the attrac­ Best Organ for the Dealer. Best Organ for the User. tions of St. Louis is its great base-ball club, the "Browns." They will entertain their friends for twenty-one. more cham: pionship games this fall, as shown by the followmg schedule. 0'ur Organs are sold in all 7.'he Action is the Only Es­ Louisville, Sept. 11, 12 and 13; Cincinnati, Sept. 14, 15 and 16; counf'ries and never fail to Baltimore, Sept. 18, 19 and 20; Cleveland, Sept. 21 22 and 23; sential part of an Athletic, Sept. 25, 26 and 27; Brooklyn, Sept. 28, 29 and 30; give tile greatest saf.ts­ Organ. Kansas City, Oct. 5. 6 and 7. The price of admission is only 25 cents, for the balance of the season. Do not fail to Fee the faction. ' 'Champions of the World," whatever else you may have to When taken out of the case it leave unseen while in the city. There is no valuable improve­ • plays just as well. The Car- A PRIMA DONNA without a voice is like a toddy without liquor ment found in any Organ that llf\lilli~··... · <",,ldili01 penter Action is world re- or a dinner without dishes, and yet there is such a thing. Em­ ma Abbott is the living exemplar of the fact. She has about "The Carpenter" does not N nowned. Let your firRt as much real voice as a comic opera chorus singer, and yet use. Besides this they "ti-ft, .a C'EQST~riCI. o~G0 choice be a good Action. she is a popular prima donna. There are successful pr!me ...... :.::..~.~....,·l · Q"" N" ' 'IIIII I SIIIIITIIIIOI III '' Aj\1 • donne made by good vocal work, and other successful prime have many special fea­ - • r Then have the case donne made by good head work. Emma was made by ~ead tures that no others' work. Of course, there was a tim~ when Emma could smg a , ' ornamental, if you httle when the quality of her vo1ce was fresher, and when have. ' ' wa~t to pay for it. ther~ was a better body to it, but that time is long past. Now, in place of a voice which can sing an opera through, she has Everybod1f shou,ld have our large 32 page Catalogue free' to any address. a squeal which she throws in once and a while, and a lot of vocal tricks with a flne slender thread of voice far up in her head with which the orchestra aiding, she accomplishes E. P. CARPENTER co., BATTLEBORO, VT., tT. s. A. seve~al vocal acrobatic feats which make the ignorant herd MANUFACTORY AND HOME OFFICE. stare in wonder.-Spectator. In writing always mention Kunkel'• Mulical Review. 358 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVmW, SEPTEMBER, 1888.

"THE music at a. marriage procession," says Heine," always ESTABLISHED 1857. reminds me of the music of soldiers entering upon a battle." EDUCATIONAL. AT Salzburg the interesting discovery has just been made of a. volume of Haydn's compositions, entirely unknown, and written between the years 1777 and 1779. MISS NELLIE STRONC Announces her return from A SAN FRANCisco manager has conceived the 'cute idea of producing the" Mikado" in Japanese. An agent is engaged STECK in securing artists, and a member of the Japanese CJnsulate EUROPE, at the Golden Gate is translating the libretto. and will open her GREAT POWER, MISS LAURA MOORE, better known in St. Louis as Mrs. Wat­ son, satled recently on the steamer Bourgogne from Havre. EVENNESS OF SCALE, She will join the McCaull Opera Company, making her first MUSIC ROOMS appearance as F·iametta to Miss Marion Manola's Boccaccto in RICH SINGING QUALITIES, Suppe's opera. FOR PRIVATE PIANO PUPILS WELL·BALA~CED TONE, IN Meran, Tyrol, there recently died Prince Rudolph Lich­ and ABSOLUTE DURABIILTY. tenstein, who, during a part of his career, was reduced to Sept. 27th, at 260f Washington Ave., 2nd Floor. copying music for a living. Belonging to a rich family, he Used by hundreds of Academies, Colleges, Schools, was disowned by his relatives for having married an actress, Applications received daily, 11 A. M. to 1 P. M., and 2 to 4 P. M. Etc., for more than 30 years, in preference to all the heautiful Hedvige Stein. Fortunately, he regained pos­ others, because the STECK PIANOS have proved session of his rights lately, and devoted part of his revenues to be the Most Reliable Instruments after the to the encouragement of musical art. SEE adv't of "OREAD" of MT. CARROLL SEMINARY, Carroll County, Ill., in last month's REVIEW. Sendfor it and mention severest test. No manufacturers of pianos have won more public favors this paper. in the same time than C. A. Smith & Co., of Chicago, Ill., whose What Some of the Leading Artists Say : advertisement appears in this issue. They have recently _" Everywhere acknowledged to moved into a l'll.rge, new and commodious factory, and are now turning out 20 pianos per week, with facilities for 30. The Removed Into New Quarters. WAGNER1 be excellent." material used is first-class, and the piano made by them is a LISZT -"They give the liveliest satisfation" credit to them, and the factory can be pointed to with pride The National Business College, of Kansas City, w)lich has 1 by all residents of the Garden City. Send to them for cata­ been located at the corner of Nh1th and Main the past logue and price list. Address, C. A. Smith & Co., 149 and 151 four years, bas removed to the ground floor of the Rialto ESSIPOFF.-"The very best piano made." i:luperior St.. Chicago, Ill. . Building, of Ninth and Grand Ave., one block east of the old quarters. _"Rank far above all possible Many persons have expressed the opinion that this College WILHELMJ 1 competition." AN amusing incident is said to have occurred during there­ has the best appointments and business location of any like hearsal of'' The Golden Legend" at the recent Chester Musi­ _ .. Are unparalleled for the majestic cal Festival. In a particular passage of the legend the maiden institution in the United States. At any rate the quarters are LUCCA 1 singing quality of tone which they who offers her life for Prince Henry, in response to the quP.s­ simply superb, and require only a visit of inspection to con­ possess." vince any one. tion, ''Have you thought well of this?" replies·· I come not to The College office is located in the corner, fronting on argue but to die.'' Here Sir Arthur Sullivan, who was conduct­ Ninth Street and the Custom House Court, and is finished in ing the rehearsal, turned back the page of his score and said MANUFACTURERS, antique oak, with solid walnut and cherry furniture. "letter D." This sounded like "let her d~e" (Yorkshire dia­ Mr. H. Coon, the President of the College, has exercised a lect for die), and a loud roar of laughter went up from the high degree of taste in arranging the appointments of this chorus. Sir Arthur was puzzled to know the reason of the hi· important enterprise. GEO. STECK & CO. larity, and when it was explained to him he joined heartily Warerooms : • STECK HALL, in the laughter.-Musical World. II Eas't 14th Street, NEW YORK. THERE was a time when an orchestral conductor was, as a matter of course, an irascible person, whose baton was some­ times used to beat other things than time. This is another of the thing!! which we have changed" since then." Witness the Has few equals and no superior in America. case of Signor Giuseppe Galessi, a co~ductor not less cele­ Highest Culture, Musi<', Art, Literature, Elocution. brated for his musical ability than for his courtesy. The prin­ Climate exceptionally healthy. Cost moderate. For circulars, cipal cornet player in his band recently fell ill, and sent a sub­ address, p stitute. who is described as being a mixture of conceit, double 79-6 REV. E. N. ENGLISH, M.A., PRINCIPAL. f's, and muscular activity. The rehearsal commenced, the OS. chief features being the tempestuous blasts from the cornet, which almost swept performers, conductor and all, from the platform. Galessi was in no way disconcerted, nor did the Claverack College Conservatory, natural force of his politeness abate. He leaned over to the cornetist, and said sweetly,' • Bare, you play zee fine cor-r-net; Claverack, N. Y., Chas. W. Landon, Director. zee grand tone; zee magnificent expressione; but, sare, your Instrumental, Vocal, Theoretical and Teacher's Courses. pardone-please don't play! "-Musical World. Diplomas and Degrees conferred. Send for catalogue. REV. A. H. FLACK, A. M., Pres't.

VICTOR EHLING. Cleveland School of Music. A complete course of instruction in Piano, Voice. Organ, R. VICTOR ERLING, the eminent pian­ Violin, all Orchestral Instruments, Harmony, Theory, Musi­ cal form, expression, etc. Terms begin January 31st, April ist, makes the following announcement 9th, summer term June 22d. Send for catalogue. to the St. Louis public: ALFRED ARTHUR, Director, "SAINT Lours, September, 1888. 4.4 Euclid Avenue, . CLEVELAND, 0. An unpleasant frequency of being ADVERTISING AGENT KUNKEL'S compelled to refuse the applications of new pupils for want of time, and the fact that the residence portion of the city is con­ A. L. POPE stantly being further extended, have induced Mr. Musical Review. Ebling to establish his music rooms at No. 104! North Broadway. Being centrally located and KffiTTER'S HOTEL. easily accessible from all parts of the city, those Write for Rates. inconveniences will, in a measure at least, be re­ movedl thereby enabling Mr. Ebling to accept a limitea number of new pupils. ( m~ut~chQ,{) efeotQ,~, l9~{)t~>tl ~(),{){)~) ATeFOLKSe At the urgent solicitation of many patrons, and using "Antl-Vorpulene PHis" Jose 15 lbs. a considering that many a talented student is unable m c>nth. They cause noslckness, contain no poioon and never to defray the charges of private tuition, Mr. Ebling foiL Particulars (sealect) 4c. Wilcox Specific Co., Phila.,Pa. will devote a few hours every week to class instruc­ 4th and Elm Streets, St. Louis, Mo. tion. It is self-evident that emulation and incen­ tive can only exist in classes carefully graded, but ISI:FThls Hotel Is in the very center of the business portion of BROWNJS FRENCH DRESSING must be defeated by a method which places four the clty.--a pupils together, regardless of ability, talent or ad­ The Original! Beware of Imitations! vancement. Rooms, with or without Board. !WARDED A serious study- of piano playing requires ample HIGHEST time for supervision, correction and exemplifica­ tion ; all attempts to instruct four pupils in one TABLE D'HOTE (UNSURPASSED) FROM 12:30 TO PRlZG AND hour's time must result in failure, as a perfunctory ONLY !IEDAL hurry will baffle all efl'orts to individualize and ex­ 2 P.M. PAIUS EXPO­ clude the possibility of a careful guidance. A class SITION, 1878. will therefore be constituted of ONLY Two pupils of 11W" HIGHES1' A\V ARD NEW OULEANS EXIHBITION. ~ equal advancement and at least no great disparity 1,1he Anchor Folding Hammock Support. 7!1-6 of talent. . Send for circular giving full TERMS: information of our Hammock ~XTT :S::U"SS., Support. Canopy of fancy (a.) Class Instruction, two lessons a week, striped awning-cloth, adjus­ Ha.nufacturer of and Dealer in {>er term of ten weeks ...... $25.0~. table to any angle. A fine (b.) Pnvate Tuition, two lessons a week, ornamentforthe lawn, and Dee &Bd Sll•es, per term of ten weeks...... 40.00. very secure. For handsome (c.) Instruction at pupils' residences, two photograph,GIFFORD include MFG. 10CO., cts. ~~i~~~~!!~~~~ 103 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, lessons a week, per term of ten wkB.. 60.00." Watertown, N . Y. ST• .LOUIS, MO. KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEP'1'EMBER, 1888. 359

S:ZNT' JUST ISSUED F.f~~ PBESST ON BECEIP'l' OF oa~Y~~:~~~:!~~fng FIFTEEN HUNDRED <1600> ILLUSTRA­ .TIONS ~~!~tifuttf~ JEWELS, ART and SILVERWARE. It contains Taluable and interesting information about CENTS WEDDINGS, (Invitations and Anniversaries). CENT& PRECIOUS STONES, (Significance and Corresponding Months). 6 SOLID SILVER WARES, (Thetrvatue and Beauty). FOR WHAT SHALL I BUY FOR A PRESENT, (F~~~~~fs~~~)~e POSTAGE SILVER PLATED WARES, (l~~!~~~~~~utFormsandmarvenousty And many other features and particularly COMICAL CHORDS. of great intered to ALL MANKIND to the LADIES • Send S1 X CENTS ~ cover postage and it w111 be promptly aent to you by LIGHTNING nev<>r strikes twice in the s·ame place. Neither DO NOT fAIL does a mule. They don't have to. TO MERMOD & JACCARD JEWELRY CO. A LADY ad verti~es that she has "a fine, airy, well furnished bedroom for a gentleman twelve foot square." OBTAIN ONE. BROADWAY & LOCUST STREET, ST. LOUIS. A BosToN singer stopped warbling and requested the re· moval of a crying youngster. Some singers can't tolerate a rival in the same house. IN what play does Shakespeare mention cowboys? In Ham­ let. where he says "Conscience makes cow-herds of us all." TH.£RE ARE SIX FEATURES OF -Patented by J. A. KieselhCJrst. WOMAN (to tramp)-After you've eaten that pie will you saw a little wood? ~~J ~ ~J~~~~ ·. , Tramp (eyeing the pie)-Yes, ma'am, if I'm alive. '---~-~~~~ ~ ~ THE conical, high-crowned hat is to be worn another season, and a Connecticut inventor is at work on an extension neck for thea.tre-goers.-Burlington Free P-ress. Great St. Louis Dry Goods House, EPIGRAM ON A BAD FIDDLER. Old Orpheus played so well, he mov'd Old Nick, ABOUT WHICH THE PUBLIC SHOULD KEEP FULLY INFORMED. But thou mov'st nothing-but thy fiddlestick I 1st. The fact that every article worn by woman is for sale under their roof. -Musical Society. 2d. That full stocks of House Furnishing, House Decorating and Gents' Furnishing Goods are a specialty. Sd. That but one price, and that the very lowest is put upon all goods. SERVANT-The mistress says, mum, that she is not at home. -ith. That this store is the most Central in St. Louis, and within but one or two blocks of any street railroad Who shall I say called? lith. That customers are satisfactorily waited upon, and goods delivered in half the time taken by any other large house Caller-You may say that a lady called who didn't bring her in St. Louis. . name. 6th. That having 83 Stores (as follows) under one roof, they can and do guarantee the cheapest goods in St. Louis, viz.: IT does not require anything extraordinary in the way of Ribbon Store. Cloth Store. Flannel Store. intellect to shoe a horse, but there is a fortune iii store for the Notion Store. Black Goods ~tore. Lining Store. man who can shoo a fly so that the little pest will stay shod.­ Embroidery Store. Cotton Goods Store. Cloak and Suit ~tore. Harper' s Bazar. Lace Store. Linen Goods Store. Shawl Store. OLD GENTLEliiAN-Strange I I don't see a grave of a person Trimming Store. Silk and Velvet Store. Underwear and Corset Store. as old as I am. Gents' Furnishing Store. Dress Goods Store. Children's Clothing Store. His Daughter-Why, of course not, father. You must remem­ Handkerchief Store. Paper Pattern Store. Quilt and Blanket Store. ber this is a comparatively new graveyard.-Li(e. White Goods Store. Art Embroidery Store. Ur,holstery Store. A LouiSVILLE editor calls Josef Hofmann "the only small Calico Store. House Furnishing Store. Millinery t':ltore. boy who ever made an agreeable noise." It is inferred that Summer Suiting Store. Parasol and Umbrella Store. Shoe Atore. the Louisville editor never heard a em all boy manipulate the Gingham Store. Hosiery Store. · Glove Store. dinner bell at the pror:er hour.-Norristown Htrald. Orders by Mall Receive Prompt Attention by Being Addressed to the A GERliiAN citizen of Hoooken was informed that a lady had called to see him in his absence. "A lady," he mused aloud, "a lady." Upon an accurate description, he suddenly bright­ ened up and added: "Oh, dot vos no lady; dot vos mine WM. BARR DRY GOODS COMPANY, vife." SIXTH, OLIVE TO LOCUST STREETS, ST. LOUIS. ELLA-Are you fond of birds? Jack-! adore them. Ella-Which is your favorite singing bird? Jack-The bird I love the most doesn't sing. Ella-Ah, what is it? q<>~'US LE.A.N.ABSOLUTELV HARMLESS. Jack-Quail on toa.st.-Tld-Bits. 'f}J~t;~;!'~/:fha~f~o~~~J{c}~~~ ~impllJ stopping the FAT-produc- the general health. 6c. in stamps 1 tng effects of food. The supply , - MRs. LOFTY-The organist at our church is the most stupid for circulars covering testimoni I being stopped the natural work- mJ fellow in the world, and is always playing the most inappro· als. S. E. MARSH Co., 2816 ing of the system draws on the priate selections. Why, at Carrie Curfew's wedding he played, Madison Sq., Philadelphia, Pa. fat and at once reduces weight. · . "Trust her not, she's fooling thee." The idea I Mrs. Posted-Stupid I Indeed, he is not. He was once en­ gaged to <.:arrie himself. and she jilted him. He knew what DO NOT BUY UNTIL SEEING THE he was about when he selected that tuue.-Judge. A BLIND fiddler, playing to a company, and playing but scurvily, the company laughed at him; his boy that led him, perceiving it, cried: "Father, let us be gone; they do nothing but laugh at you." NEW BURDETT ORGAN LIST. •· Hold thy peace, boy," said the fiddler; "we shall have their money presently, and then we will laugh at them."­ BURDETT ORGAN CO., Limited, Erie, Pa. Selden' s ''Table-talk." GENTLEMAN~ And so you are a newspaper man, now, Uncle Rastus? Uncle Rastus-Yes, sah; I se de editor ob de job depa't­ ment. Gentleman-Editor of the job department? Uncle Rastus-Ye!l, sah; I carries in coal, an' scrubs de flo', JUST PUBLISHED ! By CHARLES KUNKEL an' washes down de windows, an' all sech edltin' as dat, sah. AS A DUET, ALPINE STORM. Op. 10~. A SMALL boy, who had happened to bruise his leg, said to his mother: "Oh, mamma, how awfully it must hurt to be a colored For the Co:n..cert Ha11 or the Par1or. man." "Hurt, my dear? Why, what do you mean?" . No more int~resting and showy piece for exhibition purposes has ever been published; be- "Why, don't you know, I tumbled down this morning and 1-':1~ not as such pieces generally are, trashy andjeeble efforts, but a well written and grateful compo­ made that black spot on my leg, and it's just as sore as it can sttlon.adapted. to the programme of the most fastidious and exacting concert player, and yet be all the time." affordmg no difficul~y that can not be easily mastered by a fair amateur. HE (at the horticultural l!how)-This is a tobacco plant, my To those who 'Ylsh to have a piece at their fingers' end that will hold the intense and excited dear. interest of the listener from start to finish, there is nothing more acceptable, both from the She-Indeed I how very interesting. But I don't see any nature and scope of the composition. cigars on it. He (pointing to a cabbage near by)-No; here's the ::enuine We have popular compositions in our catalogue that sell by the thousand, but were we asked to cigar plant. sen.d t~e most popular, the one to suit all tastes, we would, in the face of this great task, un­ She-Oh, yes, I see now; a cigar in the middle of each leaf. hesttatmgly send the Storm. Price, $1.50. How wonderful. 360 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1888.

KIEIELHORST says that when he heard the abominable brass bands that played through the streets of St. Louis during the late Srengerjest he felt like joining Anthony Comstock in a crusade against the new din art (nude in art). z A BUTCHER's boy, carrying a tray on his shoulder, accident­ ally struck it against a lady's head. "The deuce take the 0 tray," cried the lady. ''Madam," said the boy, gravely, "the deuce can't take the tray."-Ex. , fn [The above joke has appeared in various papers, always marked "Ex." We don't know whether these papers exchanged .... with Addison and the Spectator in the last century, but can To accommodate a large number of buyers we will (JJ assure them that the above clipping was current at that time. I until further notice, sell new pianos on payments of (JJ As for ourselves, we file away all exchanges over one hundred $10 to $25 par month to suit purchaser. Our stock is years old, and never clip from them.] 0 carefully s'elected and contains latest improved 0 ~ ABOUT RIGHT.-A deaf old gentleman in Maine had a niece pianos of all grades, from medium to the best, in all who recently married one of the best musical critics of the ~ I z West. On their bridal tour, the husband was t'orthe first time presented to his relative, who asked in a stage whisper of an­ - t:1 other niece: 1\ 0 "What does he do?" · (fJ )> ~ "Why, uncle, he is a musical critic," was the shouted reply. "Waal," said the uncle, gazing at the young m11.n, "no ac- (j) CD countin' for tastes: but why did she marry him if he's a mis'­ :J 0 rable critter?" The above incident has the merit of being true. 0 styles of Squares, Uprights, Cabinet Grands, Parlor 0 (/) _J Grands, and Concert Grands, from the factories of \1 DECKER BROS., CHICKERING, HAINES, STORY ~ . & CAMP, MA'fHUSHEK, FISCHER AND OTHERS, AFTER lengthy negotiations Herr Sucher, the orchestra r> leader of the Hamburg opera and husband of the well known J­ singer Rosa Sucher, has been engaged as orchestra leader of r ~ the Berlin Opera. (f) I M Miss NELLIE STRONG is too well and favorably known to the St. Louis public to need an introduction or even a word of commendation at our hands. In June last, she severed her connection with the Beethoven Conservatory and went to Europe. She has now returned and will on Sept. 27th, open en ~iving a variety to select from that can not be found rooms for private instruction in piano playing at 2601 Wash­ 0 m any other house in the country. ington Ave. Persons desiring instruction can apply daily from 11 A. M. to 1 P. M. and from 2 to 4 P. M. As Miss Strong's z Every instrument warranted. Catalogues mailed well known ability will doubtless cause her instruction to be on application. much sought after, it will be wise for those who desire to se­ cure her services to apply early. A STORY is told of Engel, the director of the Krop Theatre, of Berlin, which has a moral illustrating the proverbial pre­ tensions of the" stars" of to-day. Wishing once to give an important performance in his theatre, he proposed to Nach· baur and Reichmann to have them both sing in the same op­ era, and asked their terms. "My terms, you know," answered F..ATE~T D"UFLE:X: Nachbaur, "half of the gross receipts." "And yours, Herr Reichmann?" "As usual, fifty per cent. of the gross receipts." Engel, without a smile, thereupon humbly replied," Well, gen­ It is a known fact that the snarehead of a drum, tlemen, if I engage you, I beg you will favor me with a free in order to respond to the slightest touch of the ticket to the performance." BENJAMIN GoDARD one of the most gifted and original of the stick, should be very thin and have much less ten composers of the actual French school is only thirty·eight. sion than the tough batterhead. To accomplish Besides innumerable short compositions both vocal and in· strumental he has written two operas both brought out at this was a problem, which remained unsolved Brussels: ·• Pedro de Zalamea" (1884) and "Jocelyn'' (1888), the until we invented our Duplex Drum, the heads of second a great success. Artists of talent have always been known to possess idiosyncrasies either of character or of man­ which are tightened separately. ner, and Godard is no exception to the rule. The Paris Temps reveals one of his W•!almesses, which is a vanity which is charming in its ingenuousness * •:• • and which radiates Send for Oircular and Price List. from his entire person, from the hair encircling his head like a halo to the point of his boot. * • ~· Godard is not at all hurt that his friends should agree with him in believing that he resembles Beethoven; in order to suggest this fancied N. LEBRUN MUSIC CO. resemblance to the dullest imaginations he has placed a bust of the German roaster in the antichambre of his apartments and his own in each of the other rooms: the busts represent 606 Market St., ST. LOUIS, MO. him at various ages-as a child, as a youth, and as a man. They bear inscrip,tions such as •· The child disappears, the artist is revealed. '-American Musician.

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