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Musical Landmarks in New York
MUSICAL LANDMARKS IN NEW YORK By CESAR SAERCHINGER HE great war has stopped, or at least interrupted, the annual exodus of American music students and pilgrims to the shrines T of the muse. What years of agitation on the part of America- first boosters—agitation to keep our students at home and to earn recognition for our great cities as real centers of musical culture—have not succeeded in doing, this world catastrophe has brought about at a stroke, giving an extreme illustration of the proverb concerning the ill wind. Thus New York, for in- stance, has become a great musical center—one might even say the musical center of the world—for a majority of the world's greatest artists and teachers. Even a goodly proportion of its most eminent composers are gathered within its confines. Amer- ica as a whole has correspondingly advanced in rank among musical nations. Never before has native art received such serious attention. Our opera houses produce works by Americans as a matter of course; our concert artists find it popular to in- clude American compositions on their programs; our publishing houses publish new works by Americans as well as by foreigners who before the war would not have thought of choosing an Amer- ican publisher. In a word, America has taken the lead in mu- sical activity. What, then, is lacking? That we are going to retain this supremacy now that peace has come is not likely. But may we not look forward at least to taking our place beside the other great nations of the world, instead of relapsing into the status of a colony paying tribute to the mother country? Can not New York and Boston and Chicago become capitals in the empire of art instead of mere outposts? I am afraid that many of our students and musicians, for four years compelled to "make the best of it" in New York, are already looking eastward, preparing to set sail for Europe, in search of knowledge, inspiration and— atmosphere. -
13 Foreword to Richard Taruskin's Essays On
13 FOREWORD TO RICHARD TARUSKIN’S ESSAYS ON MUSORGSKY Th e entry below initially appeared in 1993, as a Foreword to a book of ground-breaking essays on Modest Musorgsky by Richard Taruskin (Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993]). At the time Taruskin was the foremost authority on Russian music in the Western world; by now (2010) he has become foremost in several other areas as well. To his writings and generous mentorship I owe my education in this Russian composer. EXCERPTS FROM THE FOREWORD TO RICHARD TARUSKIN, MUSORGSKY: EIGHT ESSAYS AND AN EPILOGUE 1993 In 1839, the year of Musorgsky’s birth, the Marquis de Custine made a three-month journey through the Russian Empire. Th e travel account he published four years later, La Russie en 1839, became an international bestseller; to this day, fairly or no, it is read as a key to that country’s most grimly persistent cultural traits.1 Astolphe de Custine (1790–1857) was an aristocrat from a family ravaged by the French Revolution. Nevertheless, he came to view the Russian absolute autocracy (and the cunning, imitative, servile subjects it bred and fostered) as far more deceitful and potentially 1 See the reprint edition of the fi rst (anonymously translated) English version of 1843, Th e Marquis de Custine, Empire of the Czar: A Journey through Eternal Russia (New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1989). Quotations in this essay occur on pp. 600, 109, and 206 respectively. George Kennan has called La Russie en 1839 “not a very good book about Russia in 1839” but “an excellent book, probably in fact the best of books, about the Russia of Joseph Stalin” (George F. -
La Soirée Parisienne
1/390 2/390 PRÉFACE La Soirée Parisienne ! Comme ce mot évoque l’idée de bonnes heures passées dans le brouhaha des plaisirs de la grande ville, sous les feux éclatants du gaz ou les radiations de la lumière électrique, au mo- ment où il n’y a plus ni travailleurs, ni camions, ni charrettes, et où chacun, même parmi les plus occu- pés, n’a plus qu’une idée au monde – s’amuser – en disant avec une douce philosophie : «À demain les affaires sérieuses !» Ces queues de spectateurs qui ondulent devant la porte de nos théâtres ne sont-ils pas des fleuves d’oubli. Là, en effet, sur la scène, dans le monde idéal créé par nos littérateurs, nos musiciens et nos poètes, le ciel est toujours bleu, le soleil toujours étincelant, l’amoureux est toujours beau, et si l’ingénue est momentanément persécutée, il y a bien des chances pour qu’à minuit, son mariage s’accomplisse avec le prince charmant dans des lueurs d’apothéose. Nous avons donc pensé qu’il y aurait pour le lecteur un plaisir à retrouver la trace de ces bonnes soirées-là. Entendons-nous. Nous ne sommes pas des encyclopédistes, et il nous est fort indifférent que les chercheurs de l’avenir trouvent dans nos pages des notes historiques sur telle ou telle œuvre; nous ne 3/390 PRÉFACE 4/390 tenons pas à vous raconter à nouveau le sujet de telle comédie, tel opéra, tel ballet que vous connaissez déjà ou que vous avez peut-être oublié. Non, nous voulons simplement faire revivre dans votre cœur l’émotion que vous avez éprouvée, un certain soir, émotion que nous avons notée au passage en club- man impartial, sans préjugé et sans esprit de cote- rie. -
The Inextricable Link Between Literature and Music in 19Th
COMPOSERS AS STORYTELLERS: THE INEXTRICABLE LINK BETWEEN LITERATURE AND MUSIC IN 19TH CENTURY RUSSIA A Thesis Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of Akron In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Music Ashley Shank December 2010 COMPOSERS AS STORYTELLERS: THE INEXTRICABLE LINK BETWEEN LITERATURE AND MUSIC IN 19TH CENTURY RUSSIA Ashley Shank Thesis Approved: Accepted: _______________________________ _______________________________ Advisor Interim Dean of the College Dr. Brooks Toliver Dr. Dudley Turner _______________________________ _______________________________ Faculty Reader Dean of the Graduate School Mr. George Pope Dr. George R. Newkome _______________________________ _______________________________ School Director Date Dr. William Guegold ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER I. OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECULAR ART MUSIC IN RUSSIA……..………………………………………………..……………….1 Introduction……………………..…………………………………………………1 The Introduction of Secular High Art………………………………………..……3 Nicholas I and the Rise of the Noble Dilettantes…………………..………….....10 The Rise of the Russian School and Musical Professionalism……..……………19 Nationalism…………………………..………………………………………..…23 Arts Policies and Censorship………………………..…………………………...25 II. MUSIC AND LITERATURE AS A CULTURAL DUET………………..…32 Cross-Pollination……………………………………………………………...…32 The Russian Soul in Literature and Music………………..……………………...38 Music in Poetry: Sound and Form…………………………..……………...……44 III. STORIES IN MUSIC…………………………………………………… ….51 iii Opera……………………………………………………………………………..57 -
Jaime Nunó After the Mexican National Anthem 105 Was His Notice in Dwight's Journal of Music, Xxiil/21(January9
Jaime Nunó after the Mexican National Anthem ENCYCLOPEDJAS ANO OTHER reference works have up to now shabbily neglected Jaime Nunó-especially after his composing of the Mexican national anthem premiered September 15, 1854. In Música y músicos de Latinoamérica (México: Editorial Atlante, S.A., 1947), II, 690, Otto Mayor-Serra compressed his whole career into a scant 33 words but even so got his place of death wrong. Diccionario de la música Labor despite being edited by Nunó's fellow Catalonians Joaquín Pena and Higinio Anglés (Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1954), did no more than baldly copy Mayer-Serra. Diccionario enciclopédico U. T.E.H.A. (México: Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana), VII, 1121, dismissed Nunó with a curt article, giving no details whatsoever conceming his lengthy and illustrious career in the United States. Grove 's Dictionary of Music and Musicians American Supplement. edited by Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 313, covered Nunó's life at better length (224 words) but again gave the wrong place for Nunó's death. Also, the American Supplement failed to mention his visit to Mexico in 1901 (he left Buffalo September 9, returned November 21, 1901). This one sentence summed up the last tour decades of Nunó's lite: "After 1870 (recte 1869J, he lived at Buffalo, teaching, singing and conducting various societies, serving as organist at dif ferent churches there and in Rochester, and composing about 50 church-works." Frederick H. Martens's article in the Dictionary oj American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), XIII, 594-595, cited 1878 through 1882 as the years during which Nunó was organist and choirmaster of St. -
Vol. 4. Contents. No.2
Price, Its Cents. 53.76 Worth of MUSIC in This Number. Vol. 4. No.2. Contents. GENERAL ..........•......................... , ...• page 55 What Care I? (Poetry).-Comical Chords. EDITORIAL ...................................... page 56 Paragraphs.-The People's l\fusical Taste. l\fUSICAL ................ ........................ page 66 Piano Recitals at the St. Louis Fair. l\1ISCELLANEOUS ......... .. ..................... page 58 The Musician to His Love (Poetry) .-Major and Mmor. -Love and Sorrow (Poetry).-New York.-Pleyel. -Anecdote of Beethoven.-Donizetti's Piano -Forte. -l\fnsic and IUedicine.-Answers to Correspondents. -What the PTess Think of lt.-Smith and Jones. MUSIC IN THIS NUMBER. " Careless Elegance," Geo. Schleiffarth ......... page fi7 "Peep o' Day Waltz," Alfred von Rochow ...... page 70 " The Banjo," Claude Melnotte .........•........ page 72 " Greetings of Love" (Duet), Wm. Siebert ...... page 74 ~· 'l'hou'rt Like Unto a Flower," A. Rubinstein ... page 78 "Because 1 Do," J. L. Molloy .................... page 80 "Goldbeck's Harmony" .........................._ page Si KUNKEL BROS., Publishers, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. COPYRIGHT, KUNKEL BROS., 1S8l. 50 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1881. "USED BY ALL THE GREAT ARTISTS" THE AJR'll'JI§'Jf§. AR'lfli§'Jf§, LIEBLING, HE~RY F. MILLE~ PI) NOS SHERWOOD, PERRY, PRESTON, ARE PRONOUNCED THE BEST HENRIETTA MAURER, BY '£HE MRS. SHERWOOD, HOFFMAN, Leadin Artists of the Present Time, PEASE, AND ARE USED Bl' THEM CHARLES R. ADAMS, P. BIUGNOLI, IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. CLARA LOUlSE KET"LOGG, ANNIE LOUISE CARY, EMMA TIIURSRY, These celebrated instruments arc the favorites, at1d are MARIE ROZE, used in the finest concerts in the principal cities of TOll! KARL, i\mericn. W. II. l<'ESSENDEN, The characteristir.s which have given these Pianos their l\1. -
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season
INFANTRY HALL PROVIDENCE >©§to! Thirty-fifth Season, 1915-1916 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER ii^^i^"""" u Yes, Ifs a Steinway" ISN'T there supreme satisfaction in being able to say that of the piano in your home? Would you have the same feeling about any other piano? " It's a Steinway." Nothing more need be said. Everybody knows you have chosen wisely; you have given to your home the very best that money can buy. You will never even think of changing this piano for any other. As the years go by the words "It's a Steinway" will mean more and more to you, and thousands of times, as you continue to enjoy through life the com- panionship of that noble instrument, absolutely without a peer, you will say to yourself: "How glad I am I paid the few extr? dollars and got a Steinway." STEINWAY HALL 107-109 East 14th Street, New York Subway Express Station at the Door Represented by the Foremost Dealers Everywhere 2>ympif Thirty-fifth Season,Se 1915-1916 Dr. KARL MUC per; \l iCs\l\-A Violins. Witek, A. Roth, 0. Hoffmann, J. Rissland, K. Concert-master. Koessler, M. Schmidt, E. Theodorowicz, J. Noack, S. Mahn, F. Bak, A. Traupe, W. Goldstein, H. Tak, E. Ribarsch, A. Baraniecki, A. Sauvlet, H. Habenicht, W. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Goldstein, S. Fiumara, P. Spoor, S. Stilzen, H. Fiedler, A. -
ITALIAN OPERA. Evjhth Season—Mcvickcr’S Theatre, Slay 9-21,1854
6 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1874. you sec,” be said, and pointed to two or quarrels of tbo company; there are the grum- them this remuneration. If the houses were East; a strong dramatic comnaay. with T. J. Veru-Lorini, Castri, Cordier, Morensi, Slephaai, operas, “Norma,” discouraging, Languor), Beany. Harry Tamaro, Formes, Sig. Muzlo, and “Sonnambala” „„ gray hairs. But lam young enough yet. blings of everybody. There are tho disappoint- email, and the view the amount J. H. Blood. Miss Hen- Morclll. conductor. miniature * ITALIAN OPERA. Evjhth Season—McVickcr’s Theatre, Slay 9-21,1854. stage with foil chorus ami recit.t;- appeared to be. ments of tbo prima donna when she is sick, and paid would not seem extravagant, but anybody rietta Wilkera, Miss Ella Luraley, Hiss Leonora 6, And bo, in truth, be troupe oa The director and a Same above. manager accomDaniea HOW OPERATIC ENGAGEMENTS ARE MADE. tbopopular indignation, which is hurled at the of cither sex would be gladenough to get view Bradlev. and many others. The ballet will be Xinth Theatre, July 7-8,1854. artists on a piano tl audience, Season—McVicker’s harmonium, and the do you make your engage- unfortunate manager, as if be were an accom- of the whole and be for once the ob- unusually largo, led by 3£lle. Geraldine. Franldo Adelaida Phlllippa, Brignoll, Morensi, Suaini, Zapuccl, don with- which Reporter—How each bird aingihis pars, aad Europe ? plice instead of a victim. In such cases wo have served ofall observers at $3 per look. These Christie, Mile. -
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 33,1913-1914, Trip
SANDERS THEATRE . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Thirty-third Season, 1913-1914 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 26 AT 8.00 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C, A. ELLIS, MANAGER M MELBA KUBELTK These world famous artists prefer and use exclusively Everywhere acknowledged to be, musically, the most beautiful piano the world has ever known. Send for a description of the MASON & HAM- LIN TENSION RESONATOR, the greatest discovery in pianoforte construction in the last fifty years. ESTABLISHED 1854 492-494 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON SANDERS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Thirty-third Season, 1913-1914 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor SEVENTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 26 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME Chadwick Symphony No. 3, F major I, Allegro sostenuto. II. Larghetto. III. Vivace non troppo: L'istesso tempo. IV. Finale : Allegro molto energico. Wagner "A Siegfried Idyl Tschaikowsky . Concerto in D major, for Violin, Op. 35 I. Allegro moderato. II. Canzonetta: Andante. III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo. Wagner • • Overture, "Tannhauser" SOLOIST FRITZ KREISLER There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 3 Victrolas $15 to $200 at Steinert's If you have a Victrola you should know how convenient and satis- factory it is to buy records at our stores. You can make selections from very large stocks. You will be pleased with the prompt, cour- teous and intelligent service. Mail orders promptly filled Accounts solicited Records delivered anywhere in New England We invite you to call and hear at either of our Boston stores 35 ARCH STREET STEINERT HALL Largest Exclusive Victor Store 162 BOYLSTON STREET in New England Piano and Victor Departments Branches in Bangor, Portland, Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford, Fitchburg, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Haverhill, Providence, Pawtucket, Manchester, New Haven, Bridgeport, and other principal cities. -
122 a Century of Grand Opera in Philadelphia. Music Is As Old As The
122 A Century of Grand Opera in Philadelphia. A CENTURY OF GRAND OPERA IN PHILADELPHIA. A Historical Summary read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Monday Evening, January 12, 1920. BY JOHN CURTIS. Music is as old as the world itself; the Drama dates from before the Christian era. Combined in the form of Grand Opera as we know it today they delighted the Florentines in the sixteenth century, when Peri gave "Dafne" to the world, although the ancient Greeks listened to great choruses as incidents of their comedies and tragedies. Started by Peri, opera gradually found its way to France, Germany, and through Europe. It was the last form of entertainment to cross the At- lantic to the new world, and while some works of the great old-time composers were heard in New York, Charleston and New Orleans in the eighteenth century, Philadelphia did not experience the pleasure until 1818 was drawing to a close, and so this city rounded out its first century of Grand Opera a little more than a year ago. But it was a century full of interest and incident. In those hundred years Philadelphia heard 276 different Grand Operas. Thirty of these were first heard in America on a Philadelphia stage, and fourteen had their first presentation on any stage in this city. There were times when half a dozen travelling companies bid for our patronage each season; now we have one. One year Mr. Hinrichs gave us seven solid months of opera, with seven performances weekly; now we are permitted to attend sixteen performances a year, unless some wandering organization cares to take a chance with us. -
LA VIE PARISIENNE M Avril 1882
Numéro 16 SAMEDI AVRIL 1882 20 Année c UN NUMÉRO TOUS LES SAMEDIS paris et departements Un an, 30 fr. — Six mois, 16 fr. — Trois mois, 8 fr. 50 Pour l'étranger, le port en «us LES ABONNEMENTS PARTENT DU 1" DE CHAQUB MOIS Paris, Départements et Gares de chemins de ier : GO centimes Les numéros des années 1863 à 1881, VS centimes. Vente au numéro, chez Lacazk, 8, rue du Croissant LOIVDRES, agent spécial: A.. MAURICjB 13, Taristock Row, Covent-Garden. ÂMAZOHËB, COSTUMES aeYQYAGEp^DAMES 1 CHOIX CONSIDÉRABLES Cessation de Commerce d'Étoffes Ang.laises pour Hommes, Dames et Enfants VÊTEMENTS TRÈS BIEN FAITS Maison du PALAIS DE CRISTAL liquidation 25, rue vivienne (place de la. bouksk) HABILLEMENTS DE CEREMONIE."' des Grands en drap noir tin Magasins de la 28 Qualité supérieure m 32r 45f 65f 84' m» t-—r ~"ti sans mercure ni arsenic, ville de paris est le CRSSSCNIWIAITEE gué: it Dartres, Boutons, Eczéma, Ùlcires, Virus, purifie et fortifie 170, Rue Montmartre, 170 le Sang. — Le Flacon : 3 fr 50. 105 rue de Rennes, PARIS 611. (prune cure), franco : 20 fr. D'énormes Quantités de Marchandises (12 millions) GOUÏH El RhLMÏISMES « carnents internes par le soullre du l)r "Werlhoff. Dépôt: Pharmacie georges weber, 8, rue n"-des- Capucines, Paris. Envoi f°. 5 fr. la boîte. Brochure. a Moitié et ô-OuarLs d. Perle TOUS LES JOURS, OUVERTURE DE LA VENTE A HEURES excepté le Dimanche, 9 ANTISEPTIQUE, HYGIÉNIQUE (Rapport favorable de l'Académie de Médecine) Préserve des Maladies contagieuses et épidémiques. Purifie l'air chargé de miasmes. -
El Polifacético Don Carlos Por Luis Gutiérrez Ruvalcaba
ENSAYO El polifacético Don Carlos por Luis Gutiérrez Ruvalcaba Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Foto: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon uy pocas óperas tienen tantas mencionados, existen grabaciones de todas las versiones y, con excepción de las óperas versiones como Don Carlos de que cambiaron de nombre, normalmente se presentan las versiones finales, aunque no M Giuseppe Verdi; es más, esta obra se han olvidado las originales y, como en el caso de Don Giovanni, Macbeth se presenta es la que más versiones tiene en la historia normalmente con una versión mixta. de la forma artística. Algunos antecedentes Esta ópera no fue la primera que tuvo varias El director de la Opéra de Paris trató de convencer a Verdi para que presentara una ópera versiones; por ejemplo, Christoph Willibald en este teatro. Para ello, hizo que Royer y Vaez, libretistas de Jérusalem, sugirieran al Oso Gluck realizó dos de Orfeo. La primera, de Busseto que compusiera una ópera basada en un drama de Schiller, habiendo ya usado estrenada en Viena, fue Orfeo ed Euridice, Die Räuber en I masnadieri y Kabale und Liebe en Luisa Miller. Los libretistas ofrecieron en tanto que unos años después la estrenó en escribir un bosquejo de Fiesco o Don Carlos, obra por la que se decantaban dado su París como Orphée et Eurydice, ópera cuyo componente romántico. Verdi rechazó la propuesta y Don Carlos reposaría unos quince libreto no sólo se tradujo al francés, sino que años hasta convertirse en la ópera más ambiciosa y vasta de Verdi. incluyó cambios motivados por la asignación del principal de castrato alto a haute-contre En 1863, Verdi fue a Madrid al estreno español de La forza del destino.