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EDWARD EBERT-BUCHHBIN, and incapable of grasping or appreciating the sig PAUL HA SE, two excellent artist. and teachers A MUSICAL JOURNAL, PURLISHED MONTHLY. nificance and O'randeur of an oratorio, a can for the respective branches of piano and voice, tata or a symphony, reject all these forms, have been enO'aged for the Cincinnati College Subscription Price, $J.50 Per Year, payable in advance. a: ume an air of superi rity towards those of M u:ic by Mr. Frank Van der Stuck en while Two Subscriptions, or two years in advance, $1.35 each. who are 'i1mple enough to hold that Beethoven on his recent trip to Europe. Three Subscriptions, or three years in advance, 1.30 each. and Handel were greater minds, and conse Single copy, . 15 cents. MARIE LouiSE ToDD , the pianist, is spend quently created greater things, than Franz Foreign postage, 4tl cents. ing a few weeks as the guest of her friend, Abt and Ethelbert Nevin. Th se people, SPANG & LUHN, PulJlishers, Miss Carrie White, of Menando, near Albany. Room 14 Fraternal B'lc1g, ut.h and Franklin Ave., who sneer at Haydn, B ethoven and Wagner, '1'. Lours, Mo. will stand ·up before a fashionably dressed MR. W . S. B. MATHEWS, of Chicago, the audience and sing nursery rhym s with all well-known \vriter, critic and lectur ron musi At Home. seriousness. The worst offenders in this re cal matters, will be in St. Louis about the gard are generally tenors. middle of October, for the purpose of holding The MuSICAL NEWS will be th friend and a Teachers' Class in Technic (the Mason With the gradual growth of musical intelli counselor of the teacher. Method) and Interpretation. gence this genus is bound soon to disappear We ne d and mu-81 have a concert hall, seat from our musical arena, and the 11 usically ser ~~~ ing about 2,200 people, with O'Ood accoustics, ious and intelligent amateur will take the The Piano Teacher's Mission. and c-Ontaining an organ. place of the devotee of ·the musical nursery. The Mu ICAL NEWS would like to see every A concert hall where our orchestra can be This does not mean that nursery rhymes are department of musical life in St. Louis active properly heard will give a new impetus to not legitimate. On the contrary, th y serve a and flourishing. It would like to :ee-and things musical. very excellent purpose : that of instilling ideas hear-· a serie.· of great choral works per With the proper kind of a hall- not too into the infants' young minds more effectually formed by a ma.· sive, vigorous and ,·o n oro us large and still large nough to contain a pay and ple.asantly by giving them tune and rhythm. chorus, supported by a good and thoroughly ing audienc -a larO'er number of foreign ar The infant': diminutive mental capacity needs drilled orchestra. tists would visit us, and conse 1uently our to have ideas presented to it in this striking It w ulcl also like to listen to a course of opportuniti : for hearing great performances and attractive form to aid it in absorbing symphony concerts, say six or eight during would b increased. them. But all things in their proper place. the season, with a well constructed program, With returning prosperity, musical matters The Musrc r. NEw thinks that St. Louis a first-rate solo artist to lend variety, performed will take on ne\i\7 activity. All classes will be is on the eve of a genuine revival in the divine by our home orchestra aft r at least four or more prone t spend mon~y for instruction or art, and we shall certainly do our share to five thorough, lwn e-st rehearsals. concert tick ts, and, no doubt, things will wards helping it along. It may not seem so at a first glan , but it look more cheerful in a few months from now. is none the les: true that the possibility of hav ~~~ Why do we hear so little oi the Liederkranz inO' these cone rts, repres nting the highest now-a-clays? It certainly is not because it MUSICAL NEWS. forms and denoting real musical culture in a community, depends largely on our teachers ha. lost prestige.. Vl e think it is entirely too MASCAGNI, the composer of Cavaleria R.u8- of piano playing. It is they who form the exclusive by admitting only its own members intends to 1nake a tournee next winter ticana , taste of our youths, and the youths of today to its concerts. Why not give a couple of through Germany, beginning with tuttgart. concerts in Music Hall, so that the public may are the concert goers of tomorrow. The piano hear some sturdy composition for male chorus, ALBERT LBSTER KING, the well-known teacher, by giving the right direction to the with orchestra? tenor and teacher of vocal music, died Aug. taste of the child, by leading it from the lower 2oth, at his residence, 2r6 West rsth Street, to the higher, from the simpler to the more The president of the Liederkranz, Mr. H. J. New York. Mr. King's ·pecialty was ora complex, but always within the range of the A. Meyer, is one of thos rare combinations torio and church music, and in this he had healthful and the noble, creates a constantly a successful merchant and an intelligent and achieved a high reputation. He wa. a suc growing appetite for higher musical creations enthusiastic amateur of music. He is a capa ce. sful teacher, and the careers of many of his and an. ever increasing aversion to the inferior ble as the h ad of a large business house as pupils have given evidence of the value of his and th common. he is in playing his part in the interpretation instruction. The right kind of influence of five hundred of a Beethoven or Brahms symphony arranged thoroughly conscientious piano teachers will J \COB KE TER has composed a v ry beau for eight hand . make a community musical in the proper sense tiful quartette for first and second violins, Mr. Rudolph chmitz, of the wholesale firm of the word. The·y are a greater power for good flute and violoncello called ''The Angel's of chmitz & Schroeder, is another merchant than they are generally credited with being. Song. ' musician belonging to the same class. Would that we had more lik th se gentlemen. MR. ARMIN W. DOERNER, who for a long Nev r criticise a mast r's work after the time has been connected with the faculty and This class of male amateur does not seem to performance of a scholar, because it is al piano department of the College of M u ic, of grow very frequently in the West.