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1900 Volume 18, Number 12 (December 1900) Winton J. Baltzell

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ci * - ■ children The authoress has taught a musical kindergarten..VC«I for many years,9, YOU ARE REMINDED that this Method .nay be acquired advan- during which she has composed songs, invented games, and constructed ... . - — f »1ia rouf .... anuaratus too numerous aud varied to mention or describe; and of the* onlv the most valuable have been returned. Everything that was dull, ZssSSS&Sjz 5 cumbersome, ineffective, or unchildlike lias been abandoned, and what remains has been tested through and through, and its value proved beyond ’'“you1'can ^‘ttriVtaSStad iS to SmSm with a class the Shadow of a doubt. There is nothing in it that is not agreeable and and YosImAiet^uiry that ^i^wwotisbi^,Ct>He**Xeacliersv**'hJDmualre entertaining IT IS NOT BUILT ON MERE THEORIES. It is not hdvLmt^rv'tn^mdel^s^'tlitU ^fteT a'd’ayorlGv^ff^ttidvMh^Ppcimr the inspiration of a day. It is, on the contrary, the CREAM OF FIVE YEARS OF SPECIAL EFFORT, and the fruit of many other years of toil and study. The results speak for themselves. ■aaiBS'SSMia^:^ THE MANUAL will enable any teacher of music to carry a kinder¬ garten class through 120 lessons. MUSIC TEACHERS OF ALL GRADES should investigate this work ADVANCED TEACHERS will prolit largely by establishing ao kindergartens in charge of an assistant or partner, thus creating a prepara- torv deuartment which will act as a feeder to the advanced classes. The VOL. XVIII. advantages of the Method to YOUNG TEACHERS is obvioua. PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1900. ■aSSaSSHSssBisrsaissctual'Vtudyof the needs, preferences, character, and even tue wmm o, . r,. ■ pjccu Avp Now Vorlr NO. 12. lt athfdimf riirrOWES, B i?02 Presbyterian Bldg., Fifth Ave., New \ork. 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I et, think of it, one pianist is a master of giant Correspondence Lessons in Success is what we are all seeking in one way or THIS SYSTEM IS COVERED BY COPYRIGHT. mechanism, yet has almost no heart, so that his music L another. Success cannot come except as a result of KINDERGARTEN } W DISCONTINUANCE.—If you wish the Journal stopped, aj is cold, and he builds before us only dazzling icebergs axpllcit notice must be sent us by letter, otherwise it will action. But the man who acta without thought, with¬ of tone at which we may gaze astonished, but where MUSIC for teachers be continued. All arrearages must be paid out careful thought, cannot expect to win. The man Musical Kindergarten we would never think of building our home and habi¬ For information and circulars please address, «* RENEWAL.—No receipt Is sent for renewals On the of routine is one who thinks bat little, and rarely for \ FOR THE PIANOFORTE. tation. Then there is another, who lias but a moder¬ wrapper of the next issue sent you will be printed the data the future. The man who thinka and seldom acta is to which your subscription Is paid up, which serves as a ate technic, yet he touches us to tears, and thrills u» Miss J. A. JONES, By FANNIE CHURCH PARSONS. the theorizer, the idle dreamer, one of those recognized receipt for your subscription with the sunny warmth of a blissful emotion. One STEINERT HALL, BOSTON, MASS. This system is most simple in out¬ “failures” to be found in every community. line and material. THEODORE PRESSER, succeeds in fugues; another in the classic sonata; It is most comprehensive aud Therefore we should set before ourselves the problem ■708 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Fa complete. another in the fireworks 01 the Liszt and Thalberg of securing harmony of thought and action as our Mrs. Annie Lyman Palme. It is essentially a tone system school; another in the declamatory and passionate teaching the’children how to Entered at Philadelphia P. O. as Second-class Matter. scheme for winning success. Our thought is stiniu Teacher of Piano and Author of the Music Fain write music “by ear.” style of the extreme modems. The materials used are, while very COPTSISHTKD 1900, THBODOSZ PaBSSKX, lated in many ways; hence we must be in touch with land, a Kindergarten Piano Method of acknowledge! durable, most suggestive of the If you enjoy J. S. Each supremely it is a good sign, the world of progresa And having our thought, our beauty of the art of music. but do not be, therefore, e musical prig; there are merit. Normal work a specialty. Lessons given b. The lessons are equally instruc¬ plan of action, we must be ready to set, and firm to tive to either child or adult other composers besides Bach. If Schumann is anti¬ mail. Music sometimes seems to be life itself, for it is a labor. The music-teacher has every justification to beginner. pathetic to you, try to learn to enjoy him, but if you FINE ARTS The students do much real piano means of superb mental discipline, and in its higher view himself as a necessary and a valuable factor in IRtnfcergarten fiMtsic ButlMng. work, thus no intermediate regions presents a material for intellectual stimulus cannot, do not despise yourself. If Chopin is too sad BUILDING course is necessary. . . »pn.i the life of his community, and he should be content Zbc Science of iBusfc for Cbilbren. The stories and songs do not savor of the grotesque, but second to nothing. It is a means of healthfully exer¬ and subtile for you, then take to Mendelssohn and be with nothing Iras. In many cases the public is apt to The Original System of Kindergarten Music in the . to refinement and culture. # t Chicago ------HI The price for normal work, including materials, is witnin cising and strengthening th body; it is a refined and, happy, and we will not despise you. Few, indeed, are look upon ths musician as one to be used, to follow, Also Music Building at the Pianoforte. the reach of all. „ . . ,nlr.,r+nr m those whose talent is so complete a circle that they Normal Classes. Correspondence Classes. You can take the work by mail, or of a normal instructor, or taken for all in all, a remunerative means of earning never to point the way. Now let him resolve to be Coppespotid^DOd Iiesson* NINA K. DARLINGTON, of Mrs. Parsons personally. a livelihood; it is a means of lifting the soul to its can deliver music at all points of the compass, and do among the leaders, those who make. IN Author and Originator New England Conservatory of Music. C01-rrespon ondence Musical Kindergarten Company, Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms. should be addressed to „ _ , ... h highest religious ecstasies; it is a source of the most • • • Studio: 1069 Boylston Street, Boston. Office, 6 W. Chicago St., Quincy, Mich. Weber, and Tsehaikowskv with equal authority. and humanizing and ameliorating influences in society; Now that the presidential election is over and the HARMONY COUNTERPOINT. Studio, 510 Handed Hall, Chicago, III. • • • and it is also a genuine and most effective means of issue decided, the great leaders in affairs all seem to By NEWELL L. WILBUR, In this, the closing month of the year, we can well securing recreation. expect a season of prosperity beyond any that our Fellow American College of Musicians. afford to take time to look back on the work of the Music has a right to be 0 recreation, a fact which country has hitherto experienced. In such case the Butler Exchange, Room 513. Providence, R. I. FLETCHER MUSIC METHOD year, as regards ourselves, and upon the progress made "e earnest art-workers, in our strenuous efforts to interests of members of our profession art sure to be by our own communities and the country in general. and make the inertia of the general world give way to our advanced greatly; for with increased public wealth SIMPLEX KINDERGARTEN If the year now so near its end has been properly used, white-hot zeal, are sometimes prone to overlook. and general prosperity comes the desire for more -Iugh A. Clarke ^223% 7T-rHE aim of the method is to eliminate the drudgery of the study of m“?jc ^0d so far as refers to the opportunities it has offered, we L\j. a fundamental,fundamental systematicsvstematie an.’and logical musical cuuuiuuueducation in a thorougn, r ^, oovrer Take, for instance, that wonderful and unique litera¬ liberal cultivation of the arts, and the music props MUS. DOC. pleasurable way; and so make it possible for music to exercise her tare - should be able to note progress, in ourselves, in vari South 38th Street of development. The system was originated by Evelyn Ashton Fletcher, and t svsteni ture, the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. While there ganda that has been so persistent of late years has ous wavs, in all around us. The world must go for¬ LESSONS Philadelphia are a few of the many endorsers and partial list of the conservatories in wmen j are many varied kinds of value in them, the innocent accomplished something. The public has learned that has been adopted: . — ward; its march is onward. We must go with it or University of the State of New York. laughter and the genial sentiment which they arouse music plays sn important part in the general welfare, BY MAIL IN HARMONY, COUNTERPOINT, AN Dr. Wm. Mason, New York. Institute of Applied Music, New Y- Met- fall hopelessly behind. Departmeuts : Metropolitan College o *rican’insti' are most excellent medicines to the jaded mind, and and the various musical organizations in different . COMPOSITION Wm. Tomlins, Chicago. Therefore as we 9tand on the threshold of a new Mrs. John Vance Cheney. ropolitan Conservatory of Music, A School, cannot be surpassed as a restorative. Then, again, a sections of the country, that are administered in a Dr. Hugo Riemann, Leipsic. tute of Normal Methods, Synthetic Pia century let us consider earefully how we can make Singars prepared for church Madame Hopekirk, Boston. Fletcher Music Method School. comic song, if it be not joined to a text either coarse, business-like manner, are being better supported than position* or concert engage¬ Thomas Tapper. American Conservatory, Chicago. our aims higher: our work more practical; hence silly, or mawkish, is a good thing in moderation and before. Therefore it seems to us that we can, with rhe Crane ments. A thorough course in Philip Sousa. Gottschalk Lyric School. Chicago. more useful; our outlook more general, and our cult¬ Harmonr, Acoustics, Analysis, Dr. Wm. Cummings, , Eng. Mrs. John Vance Cheney School, Chicag • in its place. What a sign of advancement in civiliza¬ good reason, look forward to a prosperous season, and formal Institute History,pedagogy, Sight Sing¬ Franklin Taylor, Detroit Conservatory. and ethers. ure more liberal. It is by means of our own elevation ing, Ear Training, Choral Con¬ Kate S. Chittenden, New York. Broad St. Conservatory, Philadelphia, j tion it would be if our business men thronged the such we hope will be the experience of every reader ducting, and Physical Culture. Dr. Gerrit Smith, New York, and others. Also in the eleven leadleading conservatories o that we shall make the world better for our haring >f% fllusic-—“• of The Etude. leges of music in Canada. ^ concert-room and the wholesome to relax the • 'special COURSE fop supervisors or music. been in it, and there is no higher aim that we can • • • There are already over 250 teachers of the system, but the demand is greatly increasing. Miss fierce strain of the day and unbend the overstrained keep before ourselves. The man or woman who stead ,r circa Iats wpply to MISS JUUA E. CRANE, Potsdam, N. Y years in Europe and has already successfully introduced her system in the European centres, Leipsic, Berlin ctetcher are “ ... _ ---J .1 -T-1 i-.CT_. _ _ e _1... :„,.onfpd hv JUS3 L*1-1 Va will! festlv works at self-discipline and self-elevation in U easily the greatest fact in the * • # heart, mind, and daily work is a force in a community, history of music Of modern timet, and no one can •ffaarmons, Counterpoint, Canon, _ _ . ------3 only obtainable with the apparatus, of instruction. For information and circulars with letters of endorsement, please address A singer lately said to the writer of her sister who and a force that is bound to win success. form an accurate conception of what music is and fugue, etc., Correspondence had just been married: “She has absolutely no music may be who does not give careful study to this com New We cannot make our pupils earnest, thoughtful, and For terms and particulars write to MISS EVELYN ASHTON FLETCHER, - - - i 125 Madison Ave., York in her; even at the wedding ceremony she could not attentive unless we give them, day after day. the poser. We have brought together in tbis iseue a num¬ S. H. PETERS, Mas. Doc. (by examination), Or Mrs. E. A. Sturgeon, 5155 Cornell Ave., Chicago, or to the Corresponding Secretary of the Fletcher Music^ keep time with the ‘Wedding March.’ ” ber of articles on various idea* connected witb We* Cwwn Collage Conservator, of Hotic. SPARTANBURG, t. C. example. _ Association, Miss LaB. Brown, the Nightingale, Dudley St., Roxbury, Boston. This aroused the question how to know whether one * • • ner’s life and works at a mean* to help our readers in their study of this great factor in our present day is musical or not. There are many ways in which to be There is a beautiful Italian proverb, “When God DR. music. A careful reading of these studies in the life r HANCHFTT Studio: Fifth Ave,-New York oston Musical Bureffl musical, and there are also many degrees in each kind shuts a door, he openB a w indow.” It tells its message HENRY G. X LI U I ■ «* X 1 MONDAYS and THURSDAYS of Richard Wagner will afford s sound basis for the °f talent Thus, generally speaking, to be accounted to the one who reads, a message of hope even when B MANAGED BY HENRY C. LAHEE correct appreciation which every true mash-tan should musical in one’s nature one must first be able to per Pianist: Teacher : Lecturer : Director of... 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gaining a greater and more complete knowledge of the diced to open the windows of their souls, or are so prejudice. Wagner does not need the one, and the cramped in opportunity that they cannot study Wac i’hiiipp Spitta, historian and biugtapher of J, H. Bach, details connected with his profession. But as the latter has been lived down, let us hope. nerism, must remain forever excluded from one of the 1841; Cari Maria voa Weber, German oprrs eouipuser * • • capitalist who wants returns does not lock up his of first rank, one of the great names of music, 1780, money in a vault, so the musician, in his pursuit of most potent, ravishing, and heart-searching 0f de¬ A constant demand in financial circles is for good noston Symphony Orchestra, and arranging for their the knowledge he deems necessary, must not allow lights which ever came dow n to coinfort and elevate sale to music students at a low price. investments. Young men and women about to com¬ himself to be transformed into a mere book-worm who mankind. mence au independent career also seek one that will A number of changes are announced in the Bay As to a prescription of a cure, that is a topic so SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN, yield satisfactory returns. And when they have thus experiences his greatest delight in the mere gaining oi reuth season next year. “The Hying Dutchman” will large that the only way to treat it here is to pack invested, as it were, by choosing a career and then knowledge. The aim of the musician should be, not A San Francisco paper announces the organization be given, two very realistic ships being new adjunct, possession, but use; the end not theoretic, but prac¬ it into a sentence, viz.: If Wagner’s music is fatiguing bending their energies toward winning success, they of a “Rag time Choral Society.” to the stage setting. The “row-garden scene" i„ his A arms Siiaivam, lha distinguished English tical. Every new fact learned should be valued for its to you, and breeds weariness more than pleasure, then composer, died of heart-failure, November 22d, in are always on the lookout for something that will Heinze, the Nestor of Netherlands composers, re¬ “” will also receive a much more elaborate power of contributing toward an increase in returns, study it. Another matter is worth a moment's setting. London. He was born May 13, IMS, in 1-undue, of enable them to make more rapid and certain gain. cently celebrated his eightieth birthday. if not primarily, at least indirectly. The various sub¬ thought; that is the question whether the fatigue lriah parentage, hit father being bandmaster at the Franklin says: “An investment in knowledge always When Gottsclialk’s “Last Hope” was being revised The Imperial Library of Vienna will receive the jects taken up for study should be chosen with refer¬ arises from the taking of the tones, exclusively, or Hoyal Military College. He allowed musical fairest la pays the best interest,” and he was a man of experience for a new edition, the engraver made it “The Latest musical collection of the two Imperial theaters and from the joint effect of tli tones and the visible im¬ childhood, and at right played w-ith some skill a mini and observation whose maxims of conduct have gen¬ ence to present needs, each in turn and not indis¬ the Imperial court chapel, which will now give it pressions. It is asserted that blind people grow weary Hops.” her ol hand instruments, and began to compose. erally proven sound. criminately. Each new fact and morsel of knowledge the largest single collection in Europe. The opera of Wagner sooner than others, and there may be a Two magazine votes taken during late years show When he was twelve years old he hrramr a choir The musician who wishes to improve his prospects carries with it the power of inducing others in a never- contributed 1300 scores, including numerous manu modicum of truth in this, for Wagner’s appeal is to “Rock of Ages” to be the favorite hymn of the Protest¬ boy in the Royal Chapel. He studied under Sir John then must, along with other means, devote himself to ending chain. scripts of Gluck. the eye undoubtedly quite as much as to the ear. ant world. Goat and Ktcrndale Bennett, and in 185* went to 1 s-ip Rubinstein claimed that Mozart's orchestration of However, there is an error here, for any blind person Ossip Gabbilowitsch, the Russian pianist, now in rig. In 1861 he returned to Ismdon. which he made his concertos indicated that he played on an iastru with a good imagination can place before the inner tliis country, was a pupil of Rubinstein, and later of his permanent residence, 11 in first public ap|>earauc« ment similar to our modern piano, and not a harpsi vision suitable scenery with a very little prompting, Leschetitsky. as a composer was with his music to Shakespeare's chord. A Viennese antiquary who has had access to and, though this is by no means a full equivalent for “Tempest," which was produced in 1864 Then fol IS WAGNER WEARISOME? The old organ of St. John’s Church, , on old papers says that in the list of things left by Mo lowed a number of work* of various character: piano the superb picture of the stage, it does something. which Bach used to play, has been added to the col¬ zart at his death there is a “fortepiano." forte and vocal pieces, , and large orchestral By J. S. VAN CLEVE. lection of Paul de Witt. The date when Wagner began to work on “Lohen works—“In Mrnxniam,” "Overture di Hallo," and No, the real reasons why the art of Wagner is at The Smithsonian Institution has a complete set of grin” and “Die Meistersinger,” which was first put "Symphony in E.“ He also edited a hymnal: “Church Tills question is rot so fatuous as it might appear cult, afterward discarded it, and became either luke¬ first heavy are: bamboo musical instruments used by the Filipinos at 1845, and corrected to 1844, has again been changed Hymns with Tunes,” furnishing for It a number of at first suggestion. There are many even among the warm or positively hostile. Indeed, there is no phe¬ First, it is new, and consequently caviare to an un¬ in the interior of the islands. to 1845. It has been suggested that in the course of nomenon, in any sphere of art-life, so amazing as is years some historian of music may prove that no such admirers of the great German poet-musician who arc trained taste. Saint-Saens has put the “Marseillaise” in counter¬ the career and influence of Richard Wagner. So long composer as Richard Wagner ever existed. but half-saturated with his spirit, and to them there Second, it is intricate, and cannot be even followed point against the Spanish national anthem. Here is is some degree of weariness in his creations. And yet, a struggle, so vast an opposition, so glorious a tri¬ without many hours of preparation. a problem for students of counterpoint. The series of concerts to be given by the new in view of the enormous vogue which his music- umph, so rich a reward, so luminous a figure, so Third, it makes enormous demands upon our emo¬ Frederic H. Cowen and Edward Elgar have re¬ Philadelphia Orchestra, under the directorship of Frits dramas have attained all over the civilized world in strange a mixture of great beauties and great defects tional nature, and emotion is far more exhausting than ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Scheel was begun November 16th, with Ossip Gabrilo the last quarter of a century, one might answer the both of character and art, the world has never seen. thought. the University of Cambridge, England. witsch, the Russian pianist, ss soloist. The manage Why do we all feel wearied at times when we first question, Is Wagner wearisome? with a loud and Fourth, most of its subject-matter, both literary and ment have Suown a praiseworthy liberality in issuing strive to comprehend the music of Wagner? The first Portland, Ore., lias a series of symphony concerts emphatic “No!” musical, is quite remote from anything which we a special student’s ticket which will admit to the sis Dismissing the bitter and often virulent attacks answer to this query when dealing with Americans by a local orchestra under the directorship of Mr. Americans Lave studied and made familiar; so that it concerts for $1.00. made upon him by his avowed enemies as not in evi¬ must be this: It is a national trait to be quick, keen, Brown. The list of guarantors is quite large. is not very- different from what it would be if we en¬ The Guildhall School of Music is the largest school dence, we may find, by a very little research, admis¬ lightning-like in thought and in action. A certain deavored—as was done some years ago at Harvard During the second week of November the exports of music in the world, we are told. The number of sions even among his ardent champions, and para¬ superficiality is, of course, inseparable from quickness. University—to resuscitate the ancient Greek drama. of musical instruments from the port of New York pupils last year, according to the addreas of Mr. W graphs in the critiques of the foremost writers, which However, superficiality is i t always a defect. There Fifth, Wagner penetrates our whole being; we must were more than double the corresponding week of last H. Cummings, principal, was over 3000; there are 142 well justify us in asking this strange question. aie many functions of life in which a little knowledge think, see, hear, feel, thousands of things, all of them year. teachers, representing every branch of music. It i. Without going into all its details we will point out is not only not dangerous as the poet. Pope, sang, but novel, strong, intense, fascinating. Is it then a won¬ The Women’s String Or hestra Society, under the supported by the Corporation of the City of London a few of the causes for this impression that he is is harmless; and, even more, is beneficial, enabling the der that the first hearing of a great Wagner musie- conductorship of Carl V. Lachmund, will play several and is nearly self-sustaining. tiresome at times, and also suggest a remedy. desired results to be attained the sooner and better. drama leaves, even upon th ■ mind of the most musical of Bach’s unknown works for strings at their concerts A Boston paper, commenting on things musical, The fact that Richter, the first and greatest of Wag¬ The ancient Greeks had their heavy-armed hoplites person, a sense of fatigue and utter bewilderment! this season. says that several years ago Professor Psine gave some original tunes that have since become very popular nerian conductors, suggested and insisted upon many anC their light-armed peltastes, and each was valuable, One bit of parting advice and we have done: always lectures on music at Chickering Hall, and the attend Hr also wrote that proved successful: “The excisions in the original score gives one point to the each was better than the other. So, then, the multi¬ Professor Max Muller, the great philologist, withhold judgment upon things which you have not ance averaged 25; the Brown music room at the 1‘rodigsl Son" and “The Golden legend." objectors who would answer this question in the fariousness and superficiality of the American’s knowl¬ who died a short time ago, was bent on taking up examined thoroughly; and again, if you cannot stud' Public Library always has a deserted look, and that But hit greatest reputation was made by hie works affirmative. There is no doubt that in his most char¬ edge is often a merit. It is not a merit, however, in music as a career, but was advised against it by the music itself directly, then, in the name of sanity, many musical people seem unaware of its existence for the stage, the first one, “Co* and Box." winning acteristic work, the tetralogy of the Nibelung, there the vast realms of art. There, we are still rather in a Mendelssohn. read about a Wagner work before you listen to it. And yet Boston is considered musical. instant success. It will suffice here to name the most is a vast amount of repetition, against which we clu.dish state of development, and, like children, we Edmund Singer, Professor of Violin at the Stutt¬ The street-pianos, so called, have a simple median important: “," “Binsfore." “Firsts* of might plead the example of the Old Testament, and aie nob merely impatient of prolonged labor, but are gart Conservatory, who has had many Americans ism. Three strings for each note, hammers padded Penzance,” "Patience," "Mikado," and “Ruddigwe" of most primitive poetry, but which is unquestion¬ 3ei sitive to any criticism which reminds us of the lack under his instruction, celebrated his seventieth birth¬ w ith chamois skin, and a huge cylinder covered w ith A late work in the form of grand opera was "Ivanboe." ably tedious to our minds, fed so fat with a thousand of finality in our mushroom opinions. day last month. OUR SUPPLEMENT. projecting pins, which cause the hammers to strike Of hi* songs the most popular have been “Will He new and fascinating ideas and facts of science, philoso¬ The present writer was once assured with much Guilmant, the organist, characterized the different the strings. The cylinder has as many sets of pins as Come?" and "The Lost Chord," the tatter having bad phy, art, history, invention every day. Thus, the way heat by a distinguished jurist of , just after degrees of polyphony: Diatonic, as in Palestrina: tunes are to be played. One turn of the cylinder a sale of over 250,000 copies in which the characters occasionally tell each other at The two central figures are Wagner, with the boo" the Strauss waltz concert, that all this rage about Chromatic, as in Bach and Beethoven; Omnitonic, as completes a tune, and it is then shifted sidewise to During the early part of hi* career be was organist length what they are not supposed to know, but what Bach, and Beethoven, and Wagner, and Brahms was on his knees and Liszt at the piano. Back of him in Richard Wagner. cause a different set of pins to strike the hammer*. in a London church, and at various time* held promt the listener has been fully pprised of, is something so to the left of the picture is Franz Fischer, eminent mere affectation, every bit of it, and that even the The Conservatoire receives an annual allow¬ nrnt poet* a* conductor. From 1(76 to l**l be was naive, even childish, that one wonders how so great ’cellist, conductor, and chorus director at , is Reeves, the famous English tenor, who died musicians themselves did rot really like such music. ance from the State of $50,000 and educates 650 stu¬ Principal of th* National Training School of Music a man as Richard Wagner could have fallen into such beside him is Emil Scaria, a famous basso (WW**> *r 25th. was born September 20. 1818 (not Ort» Of course, so violent an expression of opinion did not dents; the Conservatoire, with fewer stu¬ He received th* degree of Doctor of Music from Cam a snare. That shows how the greatest men may be Bans Sachs, etc.); the last figure to the left is Franz l 1822, ss often given). He received a sound provoke any reply. A reply to such J petulant and dents, has a subsidy of $35,000. bridge and Oxford Universities. He was knighted by von Lenbacfi, painter of a well-known portrait 0 training in theory, and it is said that in hi. hag-ridden by a theory. But, leaving this feature of childish vanity of opinion would have been worse than the queen to 1883. Wagner’s works have made another conquest. y.first vear there was scarcely an instrument Hr the subject, in the second place, let us ask is Wag¬ wasted. However, this extreme case of American snap- Wagner. In front is , Wagner’s son, Madame While he will not rank with the great composer* ol Three performances of the “Nibelung” cycle are to be not plav. He made his first public appearance ner tiresome at his best, and, if so, to whom, and why? judgwentism affords us the master-key to the mvstery , and Madame Materna, the famous the world, Sullivan brought goes! cheer and pure music given in Madrid during this month. After that the baritone.’ A few yean later hi. voice proved to • • • of our finding Wagner somewhat wearisome at first. ’ soprano, not forgetting Marke, one of Wagner s dogs to the heart* of many. He never wrote cheap mosh, cycle will be given in several other cities. pure tenor of the finest quality. He firet sang We attend a concert filled with Wagner excerpts, In the middle is Brandt, superintendent of the ma and yet he could win and hold th# popular rwr His At this stage of the present discussion it must be era. afterward taking up oratorio and concert or perhaps even go to on 2 of his earlier operas, or still chinery at the Bayreuth Opera House, and next Dohnanyi, the Hungarian ianist now in this coun¬ writing