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New York. St. Louis. Chicago. October, 1897 NEW YORK. ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO. Volume l. OCTOBER, 1897. Number 2. Victor Herbert. Instruction in Violin, \'iola, Piano, Pipe Organ, ILumony, Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumentation. D. S. DE LISLE, METRONOMES, ·EsTEY QRAND .. Musical Darector .. With or Without Bell. Musical Library: Orchestral Parts of Operas, &c. RESIDENCE: for sale or rent. You Cannot Afford to Be Without One. Orchestral or Band Parts for No. l8l9 Biddle Street, any musical composition on TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. PIANOS short notice. T OUIS Cue Music Prepared. S • L • Without Bell, $2. so MusicComposers' "Taken Mss Down.". revised and prepared for publication . With Bell, 3.25 Proofs Read. ~ Regular price, $4 and $5. ~ Especial attention is asked to these If you are not already a subscriber, send superb Grand Pianos, which have re- CARL THOLL, $1. so for a year's subscription, in addition to 1 cently been used with great success .JI. .JI. SOLOIST ... the above prices. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, in the Missouri State Music Teachers' Spang & Luhn, St. Louis, Mo. 1 Studio: 1002 N. HIGH STREET. Association, and the National Music Teachers' Association. CLARA STUBBLEFIELD, TEACHER OF PIANO, Tone, Touch and Mason .. iJEJ/6/YJ fOR (1/ICHY #II.J/f JiTLfJ. ystem of Techni c. 3932 PAGE AVENUE. Mechanism ..... QTHMAR A. MOLL, are perfect, and we invite comparison TEACHER OF PIANO, 1 I of the Estey Grand Pianos with the Concert Pianist. Studio: 4205a EVANS AVE. 1 Grands of any other make. ELMORE CONDON.----=~ The Estey Co. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, 3958 WESTMINSTER PLACE, ST. LOUIS. EDW. M. REED, Manager. 906 Olive Street. PAUL MORJ~ rganist, St. John's Episcopal Church. TEACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN AND HARMONY. Fifty Cts. a Year. Residence: 1428 Second Carondelet Ave. ., F. W. MEISTRR, !'resident. jOHN WAnt-, Vice-President. '-EnjraYes all)' oltl/l!tilg-.... ORIGINAL AND CHOICE RICHARD lloSPI!.s, Cashier. H. HuNICKE, Ass't Cashier. MARCOLIN, Sacred Songs 6erman Savings Institution. WM. FOR MALE CHORUS, ORGANIZED 1858. With German and English Words. Capital: $250,000. Surplus: $5!3,598.08. Violin Maker Very. Effective. Prospectus and Samples Free on Application. s1.·. LOUIS. RESTORATION OF MASTER INSTRUMENTS A SPECIALTY The Maennerchor Publishing Co • .ga Jf)nds of $tring Jnsfrumenfs [flepaired . Agents ... 225 Cherry St., BUFFALO, N.Y. 712 S. Fourth Street, St. Louis. Or the Publishers of the Musical News. wanted in every city in the United States to take subscriptions 4 .. for the .. -- - - - ---· llHl1lta~~ ~ ~ . J. · PLAcHT & soNs, - Musical News. ~ I PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND DEALERS IN BEST OF TERMS. WRITE NOW. ~ ~ 4 .. rlusic .. • LARGEST A SORTMENT OF l ~ ~ 'V. • • :/tine :!~epa iring. The n usical News, Silusiea/ 5ns/rU11lenfS. r A PECIALTY. FRATERNAL BUILDING. St. Louis. uth & Franklin Ave., St. Louis. THE MUSICAL NEWS. A Monthly Musical Journal. Vor..tMH r. ST. LOUIS, OCTOBER, r897. NUMBER 2, MUSICAL UNION 0RCHESTRA.-An orches­ the leading prima donna of the Musical Festi­ tra has been organized at Muscatine, Ia., un­ val. She has been prevailed upon to remain A :\IUSICAL JOURNAL, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. der the above title, consisting of professionals in America this entire season in response to and a large number of amateurs, under the the numerous offers from all parts of the coun­ Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year, direction of Charles Grade. The concert­ payable in advance. try. master is Ernest Schmidt, who belongs to Two Subscriptions, or two years in advance, $1.35 each. ANNA MILLER WooD.-Anna MillerWood., Three Subscriptions , or three years in !tdvance, 1.30 each. Theodore Thomas' Chicago Orchestra, being who is spending the summer in San Francisco, Single copy, . 15 cents. another member of that orchestra who has been Forei~:"n postage, 48 cents. ha made an instantaneous success wherever loaned out as it were. Advertising Hates Furnished on Application. heard in concert. They started out breaking the record of the Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as Second Class Matter, in Augus t, 1897. season by giving tht:; first concert on Tuesday, There ·will not be any performances af Bay­ SPANG & LUHN, Publishers, August 24th. Mrs. S. E. Jacobsohn, formerly reuth in I8g8, all rumors to the contrary not­ Room 14 Fraternal B'ldg, uth and Franklin Ave., Miss Kate Funck, of Muscatine, Ia., is ex­ withstanding. • ST. Lours, Mo. pected to play a solo at one of the concerts. THE STERN CONSERVATORY in Berlin will Miss }ESSIE SHAY, the American pianist, introduce the Virgil Practice Clavier and its MUSICAL NEWS. has returned after an absence of thirteen study for the next winter cheme. Mr. Virgil MADAME NORDICA is gradually recovering months. Her future plans have not been ma­ himself will begin a three months' course of £rom ~er serious illness, and hopes to be able tured yet. instruction for teachers and pupils on Octo­ to leave London during the next two weeks. ber I. C. L. STAATS MARRIED.-The marriage is The following Wagner operas will be given MADAME MORIANI, the famous voice tea­ announced of Mr. C. L. Staats, the noted by the Carl Rosa Company in English at Co­ cher of Brussels, is taking her summer holiday clarinet virtuoso, to Miss Margaret E. Betts, vent Garden during their autumn season: Die at Ardenne, near Spa. of Millerton, N. B. The happy event took Walkure, Siegfried, Tristan, Tannhauser, Lo­ place in Boston, on Saturday, Aug. I4, Mr. THE CARL RosA OPERA Co., which has hengrin and Die Meistersinger. again this year four American sopranos, and and Mrs. Staats leaving at once on a wedding It is reported that Melba will not appear in Barron Berth all as leading tenor, began its trip to Newport and Block Island. concerts this season, but will limit her engage­ provincial tour Monday, Sept. 6th at Liver­ WM. J. SHEEHAN AT BuFFALO.-Mr. Shee­ ment to the opera, laying special stress upon pool. han, the well-known New York basso, has such advanced operatic works as Lucia, Bo­ been much in demand in the churches of MRS. ETTA EDWARDS, the well-known hemian Girl, Traviata, Lucia, Lucia and Bo­ Buffalo. He also sang at the Grand Army soprano and voice teacher of Boston, left for hemian Girl, and at the matinee once again reunion there last week. home yesterday. Lucia. Part Gf the scheme is to sing the mad HERBERT's famou 22d Regiment Band con­ MADAME D' ARONA has arrived in London scene in Lucia twice every time, so that those tinues to be a big feature at the Exposition at for a stay of two or three weeks ptior to a who have never forgotten it will remember it St. Louis. Much of the music is light and short continental trip. again and those who do not care to remembet sparkling for the occasion. it will surely not fail to forget to remember. RunrNs'rEIN.-A memorial tablet to Anton RosEN'fHAL's return to America is awaited If Melba is to sing Brunnhilde in Siegfried this Rubinstein has been placed on the house, No. with the utmost interest. His entire tour is paper will announce it in due time, but in the I Auguster strasse, Stuttgart, in which Anton almost completely booked. He will play in meantime it can be accepted as a fact that she Rubinstein lived for several years as a young the larger cities only, being o~liged to return will sing Lucia, including the mad scene.­ pianist and composer. to London early in April, where he will play Ovfusical Courier (New York). FRANZ KEsSEL, of Kaiserslautern, gave an a series of historical recitals. excellent performance of his new symphonic MR. & MRs. GEo. HENSCHEL arrived last CHORAL-SYMPHONY SOCIETY. poem, The Corsair, based on Byron's poem, week and at once left for Newport, where they (St. Louis, Mo.) at Cologne, August 2d, in which he displayed will remain for a few weeks. They will begin On eptem ber 2 7 the first rehearsal of the extraordinary talents as a composer. their tour on October 13, in Brooklyn, under Choral Symphony Society will take place, MR. Lours CoNRATH, the prominent pian­ the auspices o£ the Brooklyn Institute, and thus inaugurating the season of 1897-98. Di­ ist and teacher, of St. Louis, has been spend­ then depart for the West, going as far as Cal­ rector Alfred Ernst will arrive in St. Louis ing a week in New York with friends. Mr. ifornia, giving their vocal recitals in most of from his European trip before that date and Conrath has also written a piano concerto the important cities. The expect to sing in will at once make arrangements for the sea­ which has received very kind attention from New York and Boston about the latter part of son's programme under the direction of the musicians. December and January. various governing committees of the society. During the summer very definite progress has HENRI MAR'l'EAU, the young French vio­ FELIX DRAESEKE lS working on an orato­ be n made in the matter of raising the guar­ rio, ''Christus," which is hoped by his friends linist; will revisit this country in January. antee fund of $I2,ooo, which is thought to be He will make his debut in the third concert will give him a permanent reputation, which necessary to insure the society's success. of the New York Philharmonic Society Janu­ unfortunately he has not won as yet. Many of the subscription blanks sent out by ary 8. After that he will make a tour through the ladies in charge of the matter have been NAHAN FRANKO has just returned from a the West, where he is booked with most of returned with the promise of liberal subscrip­ European trip full of interest, and is ready to the leading musical societies.· put into rehearsal by next Monday the im­ tions.
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