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alas ! they are very numerous, who, mentally MESSRS . 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. We cer­ though good, always imperfect.-RUBINS'l'EIN. Cincinnati, will on September rst open a pi­ tainly have a number of men, who are devoted There wa a time when the world only had ano school of his own in the Methodist B ok to the best and highest in mu:ic, and who small and uncomfortable theatres and concert Concern BuildinO', 222 W. Fourth Street. have for year. given money and time for the halls, but had gr at and refined artists. advancement of the art. This i: all the more VICTOR THRANB, the well-known impres­ Now we have finely decorated and grand meritorious, because they are, in a measure, sario, has r turned to New York from the theatre and concert halls, but insignificant pioneers. There are others, however, and West. artists.-R UBINS'l':RIN. THE l\t1USICAL NEWS

EDITORIAL NOTES. masters studied the oTeat epochs in the history Dyna Beumer, of music which alone enabled them to pro­ Our summer gardens, with their beer and The great Belgian soprano, whose picture we duce great works in their turn.-ROBERT minstrels, have been exceedingly well at­ print on the title page of this number, will be FR NZ. tended. Ho\v about the coming season's with u this season. Few singers have the ~~~ concerts? Will they also be w ll attended, standing that Mlle. Beumer has in the Euro­ or is it really true that t. Louis is ''only good The Perils of Foreign Vocal Teaching. pean artistic world. he is the daughter of for circus and minstrel show · ? '' Henry Beumer, who for many years has been U ncler this heading the following article a master of the violin at the Royal Conserva­ t. Louis, with its 6oo,ooo inhabitants, appeared in Munsey's Magazine for Augu t: tory of Music in Brus els. "It is frequently said that the shortest way to enter ought surely to be able to support a penna­ Mlle. Beumer began her studies under the highest s ci ty in America is by way of Europe. Gevaut, the director of the conservatory, and nent orche tra ; only a fe·w thousand dollars However this may be, it i ', unfortunat ly, a fact that are needed to make it a success. It rest with Europe is almo ·t the only road to op raticsucces: h re. he studied later with Faure, the celebrated you whether St. Louis shall be counted among An eugag m ut at some European opera house, and a French baritone, who had prophesied for her the leading mu ical centres or not. coll ction of glowing press clipping·, are indispens­ a great future when she sang to him as a able ; or at th very least, the candidate for hom young girl. The in ignia of an officer of the honor · must be able to call hims lf the pupil of some academy have been bestowed on her by the THE MuSICAL NEWS will stand up for good forei o-u teacher. French government, and :he is also cantatrice music, the furtherino- of mu ical taste and It i · only fair to say that, in th end, the American audieuce will re · rve the right t indor ·e or conclemn to the Court of Holland. interests; will be a support to the music the candi1late a: it sees fit; but the first aucEence will Everywhere she i recei vecl with the greatest teachers, a help to the strugglino- artist, and, hardly be gain d without the European introduction. enthusiasm. When she was in London a .·hort we hope, a welcom guest in every home. Singers who are thoroughly qualified for the highe ·t time ago, an ovation was tendered h r at the honors by tutelage under good masters in this country, find it expedient to go abroad for the prestio-e which Grosvenqr Club. The audience was clamer­ The trouble with a great many parents who comes of foreign training. 'l'hus it is that the ardu­ ous in its applause, and at the conclusion complain because their children cannot play ous but necessary Europeau pilgrimage for musical numbers of people jumped on the stage, eager well, though they have taken lessons "two students is a n vent of commercial rather than artistic to hake hands with her. years," is generally to be found with them- import. We take pleasure in printing the following Ther are two reasons ford pr eating thi: fact. In elves. They insist upon the teacher making the first place, local teachers are r duced to th criticisms from the Vieuxtemps Memorial ''Emily play pieces, '' mostly too difficult to n cessity of teaching rudiments only. In the second Concert on Augu t 2, at Spa, Belgium : be learned well, the result is that poor "Em­ place, th se foreign teachers, whose reputation is Dyna Beumer, a singer with supberb art, great ily' ' cannot play anything the way it ought to based upon one or two possibly accidental successes facility of execution and delicacy of expression, sang be played, but is able to dash off a lot of notes, with pupils, are patronized and pampered, though the air from La Belle Arsene, au old opera of the last th ir methods may be bsolete or veu pernicious. century. Though the ·election cannot be said to suit without caring for time, rhythme or phrasing. One world-famous Europ an iustructor owes her the voice of the singer, the audience recalled her en­ Why not go at it the right way : select a good renown to two or three pupils, now great singers, thusiastically. At the request of many present, and piano, keep it in tune ; engage a good teacher, who in private discountenance her doctrines. This it is said by special desire of the Queen, Madame the best is the cheapest, and leave everything sam teacher has sent back to America many pupils Beumer gave as an ncore the famous wis. Echo to him or her. He has studied for years with ·whose voi s have been ruined beyond r demption. S ng, by Eckert, which, I am sure, was nev r sung Nor is sh by any means the only on in Europe better. Quite an ovation followed, and Madame a view of imparting his knowledge to others, whose studio is proving a graveyard f high hopes Beumer bowed her thanks and also her adieux to the and knows best what music to select for your and well :rrounde 1 ambitions. public, as she 1 aves for New York ·hortly.- The child. Your duty will be to ·ee that his in­ Am ricau t achers may be watched and held re­ 73elgian Times and [J{ews, Attf.(ust 5, 1897. struction as regard. practicing, etc. are fol­ ·ponsible for their work, and th ir methods may be Mm . Dyna Beumer i one of our musical prides. lowed by the pupil, and if the latter has the judged by the av rage result shown by their pupils. European m ntors are beyond the r ach of any such 'lle sings marvelously, and marvelously en hants ability, you will not fail to ee the good painstakin<:r scrutiny, and thus escape the responsi­ you with her incomparabl marvels. She sang the results. bility f r the voices they mar. air of I.-a Belle Ar ·ene, of Monsigny, with an extrem The solemnity of this warning i emphasized by fineness, and The Echos, of ckert, were given in An artist who alway· moves in the ·ame the recent publication of a pitiful letter from a young such a way tllat cannot b equaled.-jounzat des Es­ trange?·, Jlugust ], 1897. style and groove becomes in the end a pedant woman whose naturally beautifully voice was ruined, even for speaking, by th methods of a promin nt and mannerist ; and nothing does him more foreign instructor.' Dyna Beumer was woncl rfnlly fine in her rend ring of the air from I.-a Belle Arsen of Monsiguy and in harm than to content himself too long with a For a long time the Musical Courier has been o-iven style, simply because it is convenient.- The Echoes, that ·he was compelled to give us an fighting all alone against this European train­ encore.-La Chrom'que, August 5, 1 97· CHUMANN. ing craze and it is highly gratifying to :find that other journals and magazines are taking The Queen conversed for some length of time with Recently a pupil of mine was having some Mm . Dyna Beumer, whos voice eternally remain up the fight also. It i · true, as has often been difficulty in learning a piece of Merkel's. H r beautiful, pure and incomparable.- L'Express, Jlugust said, that if you want style and :finish you father called upon me and wanted to know 4th, I 97· ''why I did not learn her the piece he bought must go to Europe. But here lies the point: $-~~ if you want good training, vocal culture, tc., her last month.'' He had heard Paclerewski Hints for Players. play Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsoclie, you will find it right here in America, and at and then bought it for hi · :fifteen-year-old half the cost. We should be glad to have Richter, Director of Academie de Musique, daughter, who has taken lessons about two someone who has looked into this matter send of Geneva, gives a few desirable hints for years. When parents make such 'impossible'' us their views, whether pro or can. Let us players. requests, it is hard to set them right, but by a throw all the light possible n the subject and If you play chords with both hands at the careful talk I generally succeed in getting then clecid for yourself.-En. same time, strike them together, give the ex­ them to see that my way is be ·t.- AMUBL act value to the notes and lift hands together. LAWRENCE. Artists have a peculiar way of praising their You cannot gain the artistic expression colleao-ues. For instance: '' o you know without the necessary technic. It is very im­ Young artists of the present clay, in teacl of Prof. --? ' "Oh, yes; he i a wonderful portant and original to play the highest note :first digesting Bach and Handel, rather take performer, but on the night he played with of the ascending passage with a special accent. Beethoven, chumann and the more modern me perhaps he wa. excited, or indisposed.'' In going up, to lose a little of the energy. masters as a starting-point. Alas! they forget Thi.; is the usual way of speaking among In going clown, play the first and last notes how assiduously and thoroughly those later singers.-RUBINSTEIN. with a kind of Ritardando. ADAGIO. 3

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11 THE MUSICAL NEWS

GLEANINGS. One can't help feeling sorry frr the G:mlds, who has been used by the royal madame. Next went over to Paris to have a family gathering, after If the brasses are excluded from the street bands, to the bedroom wa a cute child's apartment, two years separation, to be left in 1he lurch with not a what is to become of the tone color in their Wagner d corated in white and gold, and little furni­ single attention shown them by the Castellanes. No numbers? sooner does brother George arrive, than off sails the ture made by an arti t' s hand. little count and countess on their Engli h yacht, with a 'This is the room of my son, '' h . ay . PADEREWSKJ'S WAY . party of titled friends, for a cruise round Norway and ' ' ertainly you know that I am marri d , but Paderewski, the pianist, ii ves like a prince. He Sweden. There's gratitude and sisterly love for you! it is long ago. You remember that I was a ·insists that the dignity of his position and of his art But never mind. As everybody should know by this pianist when yet a child. I gave cone rts and .demands it. He stops at the best hotels and occupies time, an international marriage means absolute posses­ the finest rooms. Something like $ 1oo a day it costs sion of the wife and her chattels, and an absolute al:o lesson . I f ll in love, and married. him for his suite of rooms at his hotel in New York. wiping out of her family. Jay Gould's daughter i Armstrong was my husband's name. My Generous to a fault, his money lightly earned is freely now a C astellane, and don't a nyone forget it. Ask maiden name was Mitchell. I call myself spent. His fee for ervice are the despair of other brother eorge to take pot-luck? Not much. M lba, after the name of my native city, Mel­ guests at the hotels. His gifts to charity are hand­ some, whether in money or in the form of concerts, of bourne. I never knew anything of orrow "I dinna like the sermon for three reasons," said the until I got acquainted with my sweetheart. which he has given several every season when play­ beadle to the new minister. "First, ye read it; second, ing in America, some of them entirely at his own ye dinna read it well; thirdly, it was na worth readin.'' We would have starved to death if I had not expense. been successfnl. I heard my voice praised so It looks as though the Gould family made a poor highly, that I concluded to go on th stage, "How soon we are forgotten.'' I heard a gentle­ speculation when they purchased Count de Castellane man say last evening that he was driving through the but all my people w re opposed to it. I did for Miss Anna. He does not even have admittance to cemetery at Newton past the grave of the late S. F. not de pair however, and I did not giv up the best Parisian society, except in a general way. and Smith last Monday, and not a flower or a ny other mo­ my intentions. now it is said that nobody will trust him without an menta marked the grave of the author of "America" order from his wife. My father was ·ent a an Au tralian dele­ -on the anniver ary of the nation's birth day. I doubt gate to the Pari ian World's Fair, and took us if so marked forgetfulness would occur in any other .country. The instructor of the band of the late Sultan of Zan­ all with him. Now think of it. I was con­ zihar, in describing how Ta-ra-ra·boom-de-ay cought on e ited enough to go to Madame Marchesi. IN THE MUSIC WORLD. in the island, writes: "A Portuguese of the name of he thought my voice wonderful. h taught Souza was over in Mozambique and brought back a Bernhard Stavenhagen has been appointed director me ; she was my fir t teacher, and the b ·t in few copies of Ta-ra-ra-boom-de·ay, and banged it out -at the Munich Opera House. the world. day and night on that awful spinet to his countrymen The Banda Rossa, under the leadership of Eugenio and Greek friends, who accompanied with their voices. After awhile I had a repertoire of ten operas Sorrentino, will begin its American tour at the Metro­ The tune spread like wildfire. The boats from Aden as the great day appeared. The fir t time on politan Opera House at New York on O ctober 15 . brought it too, till it paralyzed the band, and all Zanzi­ th stage, in an opera at Brussels, I did not Siegfried Wagner's new comic opera, based on one of bar became a veritable pandemonium. I could do know 'Tannhauser. In five days, or b tter to Grimm's fairy tales, will probably be produced in Lon­ nothing with the band boys, and in a fit of desperation be said, five day and nights of excee lingly a week ago lodged a complaint of misconduct to the don in the cour e of the coming winter. hard study, I was ma ter of the rol . And Vizier. expecting they would only be ~hipped. But 'Tiz e Musical Cou1·in· (New York) is responsible for 'His Exaltedness' ordered three of the boys to have from that tim on my uccess was made. '' this paragraph: ''A literary Bohemian is at work on a their eyes put out: two more were bastinadoed and can­ The artist smil d weetly . " My folk · did n t _great naturalistic novel, says a French paper. 'The not walk, the solo cornet had his tongue slit, and one of have any mor bjections. " - Marchioness,' he writes, 'became as white as a shirt.' the side drummers' wrists was broken.'' Glancing that very moment at his own wri tbands, he We talked of thi. and that, when sh sud­ is seized by a scruple, and adds-'whiter even than a e}/-e}/-e}/- d nly arose and asked me, " Would y u like -shirt.' " to see my treasures, my jewels, etc. ? ' ' Following is a list of the Victorian Musical Knights: An Interview with Madame Melba. I would be plea. d to do so, I repli d. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop was the first in 1842, but the he opened a new r om and turned n the honor of knighthood has been conferred more freely Who has not heard of Melba, the Austral­ electric light. What a beauty! One hun­ upon musicians towards the end than at the beginning lan i htingale? h is known all over the .of the reign. August Mannis, the late Henry Weist dred and eventy-seven robe for the different w rld as a famou · singer of the greatest Hill, and the late W. T. Best are understood to have rol of opera and among t them, th _m st .declined the honor. The list includes: Henry Rowley ability. co ·tly one, that of Tannhauser, which was Bishop, Julius Benedict, Michael Co ·ta, Sterndale h has her apartm nt · at No. 9 Rue de trimmed with pure gold lace and pearls. ' It Bennett, W. G. Macfarren, George Elvev, Robert Prony, aris. "My most d lightful time I is not extremely high of price,'' she said. ·Stewart, John Goss, Herbert Oakeley, George Grove, sp n l her , '' she used to say. And one can "Only 1200 francs. " Arthur Sullivan, Walter Parratt, Joseph Barnby, Wil­ beli ve it too, because h r residence i · sur­ ·tiam G. Cusins, John Stainer, A. C. Mackenzie, The celebrated arti t then promi d she ·Charles Halle, George Martin and John Bridge. Of rounded by costly palac ·. Her own palace would write to me, and much pleased with the thirteen, three were of foreign birth, and nine is 1 autiful in every particular. he doe n t her kindnes · and c rdiality I left the reat -survive. know ·orrows. singer. FRED HELD (Pari ·). Her rooms are decm·at l in pink and olive, The examination of the personal luggage of people and these colors are se n in the furniture, car­ -returning frum Europe continues to make trouble. A New York custom house inspector has now uncovered pets, urtains, etc. '' on't you think,' ' the Major and Minor. a complete layout of cards and chips in a clergyman's artist said, when I found the ·e colors curiou ·, A celebrated celloist arrived in a little town trunk. Such pernicious inquisitiveness is perfectly ''that every person is more or less fond of cer­ where he knew that a concert would be .awful. tain color ? It is as if the vibrations of color highly appreciat d. harmoniz with tho e of our s ul. It may b Whall' (as he finds Jonah in his midst)- Hullo! The proprietor of the only hall in t wn, imagined however, but it i the truth in my -what are you doing here? a ·tonished, aid : ' 'I do not believe that you case, and ·urely with oth rs too. :fonah- Oh! I've just come in out of the wet. will have any success, because there was a Do you remember Sybil anderson? Her contortionist here last week. ' ' favorite color wa blue, which harmonized At the vaudeville entertainment for the Poor Fund of ,Albany, given in that city last week, many well-known beautifully with her blond hair and also her artists took part and gave their different specialties. rich and melodious voice. '' Art and Artist. ·But the hit of the evening was made by Miss Zelma The utfit of her rooms was in the style of ,Rawlston, well known for her male impersonations. Marie Antoinette and Josephine. The sleep­ The performanc of the opera, Iolanthe by The two numbers that she sang were received with ing apartment was entirely original. It wa T chaikowsky, at Munich, was a great uccess. -tremendous applause, and she was compelled to come before the audience many times before they were the . ame bed where Marie Antoinette had A·'lady, whose name is not known, will have ~satisfied. dreamt her dreams. Every piece of furniture erected a Schumann monument at Leipsic. THE MUSICAL NEVVS

Boston Notes. The New School of Methods in Public ''turned a bit.'' It will get well steadi d and ''Mu ·ic, h avenlv Maid . . . chool Music, under the management of C. s t in the new a-rove by the force of the cri­ Fri ncl of Pleasur , \Visclom's Aiel!" C. Birchard, is in operation at Hingham, tic's hammer. before long. ha left Bo. ton for her. ummer vacation, pre­ Mas·. rso were in attendan e opening day. As a teacher of campo. ition, hi: own pu­ . umably gone ''a-cou ining'' to th mountain· The corp· of instructors include: F. H. Rip­ pil of former y ar , Horati Parker, i. · by or country farms ; or a sailing on th misty, ley and Thomas Tapper, of Boston; W. L. many considered a formidable, if friendly m i ty, briny d ep, but mo t probably to the Tomlin , the gr at director, of Chicao-o; Mrs. rival. ifr. Chadwick doe· not look it at all­ gay and festive beach. Julia E . Crane, of Pottsclam, N.Y.; Mrs. Em­ that is, a great personage. He puts on 'no She will return from her recreation soon, ma Thomas, of Detr it· Mr ·. Louise Pr ece, airs' in dress and walk, and the pass r-by and once more an exponent of physical cultur ; Miss Gilbert, w ulcl ne'er :u ·pect by his appearance who· of New Bedford, in clrawino- and several 1 c­ h wa. "Aris as in old n time \Vann, energ tic, and ublim , tures. Th attendance is drawn from many But h did look real nice one , wh n he Have more of strength, diviner rage, distant 'tates. The daily work con. ists of a came in all th glory of evening dress, and Than all which charms this laggard ag " "carefully systemize 1 series of eli. cussions of pat nt leather slipp r d f et, to conduct a a ang the exquisite but ill-fated bard, Wil­ the fundamental principl s and methods of Hand 1 and Haydn r hearsal in Mr. Lang's. liam Collin·, ov r a hundred years ago. public s hoolmusic, in whi h care is taken to al sence. What a mistak that he didn't At Keith's ideal vaudeville th atre, which explain routin proceeding: and at same time k ep that suit n l But he direct c1 that o-reat seems at first glance to be a lie off the cor­ not to miss the high r ends vvhich :houlcl be chorus magnificently. With his uncomm nly ner of fairy-land, one can alway: hear good subserv cl in school music.' quick ear, h :eemed to kn w exactly which music the e ummer day . A small orche tra 1 cture · ar to be given by W . . B. Math w. , tenor it was (its always a tenor!) that eli ln't con ·isting of members of 'our' Boston ym­ Editor f {};[usic Magazine, Chicago: k ep the pitch, and furthermore, he could get phony o-ive choic selections several times hurch congr gation ·, v nth u. ually up­ th basse · out of the chaos of a chromati run daily. For th past fortnight, Albert L. to-time Bo ·ton ones, are b ginning to show in the shortest order and mo ·t t chnical fa h­ uille, the French tenor, has been charming the evil effects of the clo-nothincr clays of ion of any conductor I had ver :een wield a music lovers. He i hart and stout (alas! for vacati n. baton. an u operatic t nor ! "), a pronounc d arti. t to vVe went to . ervice in a wealthy, hi:toric Perhaps a few 'snap shots' of some of these hi finger-tip with a magnetic p r anality, and handsome church, la:t abl ath, where r nown d· Bast n musicians may not come· and intensity in dramatic action, a voice of s veral other congreo-ations have united f r ami· ·. marvelou ly ympathetic quality that n ver . umm r wor hip. Of Carl Ba nnann, the splencli 1 musician fail to arouse enthusiam. Hi accompani­ Th ·everal differ nt mu ·icc mmittees gav and amiable, I have told you in a pr vious. ments are played by the Symphony. letter. viclen of Yankee thrift, in doino- without, Albert Guille was born in the historic old not only the choir, but a prec ntor also, try­ B. J. Lang, director for a decade of the town of Avia-n n, France, where he made hi Ap llo and Ce ilia ocieties, and of th Han­ ing, inst ad t lead their · veral selves and debut in Lucia, at which his father and blind el 1 and Haydn for the pa:t two years, is a the s veral flocks in singing. They demon­ m ther ''heard hi marvelous voice for the musician and man of ·power here. He has. strat d at the same time, the fact, that the first time" (write. an unwary reporter). Hi b en aptly and 1 rettily styled th ''King Bee regular servic loses one-half of it: beauty, debut in Italian op ra was mad in Lisbon, of music in Am rica' ' by our own St. Louis. int rest and impressiveness, when shorn of in the Court Theatre of Don Louis, King of "Kincr Bee" (Mr. H. M. B.), thouo-h the the musical half. Portugal, wh r he sang It Trov.:ztore, and was ritics di. l say that he always beat one time This cultured audienc came in tardily, recalled 3 r times during th course of the for th chorus, and an th r for the arch stra t omewhere al ng in the lines f the first verse, opera. in th Handel and Haydn concerts! and as languidly tarried behind, evidently He has be n a royal favorite throughout Mr. Lang is a trim, shrewd, intelligent, fine knowing and feeling th re wa · no special Europe and came to America with Mme. Patti appearino- man of sixty, about. He look: not hurry (now that the choir was away!) and the on the la t one of her ''farew ll'' tours, where unlike Thomas C. Platt, politician. H be­ long August unday lay 1 efore them, and your corre ponclent h arcl him, and divided longs to the ' ·mart s t, and is much admired they would as likely as not reach the end of the pleasure with Patti, at Exposition Hall, and resp ct d by many of the younger Ameri­ the fiv stanzas some time before :undown, t. Louis. can professionals her , whom he ''dun bring Apropos of tenors a London musical au­ anyhow! up by han','' I expect. thority ·aid of Jean de Reszki': singing, lately: Carl Faelten, formerly director of the N. E . His studio, opposite the Common, in Chick- "Ah, yes, one may not always admire hi Con ervatory, will give the first concert of the ring building, shows hi exact orderly na­ pr duction , -who is that, that al-way sings " Carl Faelten Piano 'ch 1 " at St in rt ture. n its walL· are ·everal fine water rio·ht? but he i uch a great artist. L t us Hall, pt mber 14th. This will erve to c lors, and many curi s are scattered aboutr enjoy the arti t ! '' introduc , formally, the new chool, and al ·o not the lea t of which is, on his outer recep­ Mme. Marie Tavary, one of the greatest open teinert Hall for the ason. tion door, a bronze head of a griffin, with reat ingers in America, will make her vaudeville I h ar that thi.· has been called in derision pen mouth, ready to levour the mail mattet"' debut at Keith's, the week b a-inning August by Mr. Faelten's oppo. ers, "Th chool for emptied into it ! 30th. the Elit . " Incidentally, too, on the other In striking contrast to the above, i · the· At Castle quare Theatre is always to be hand, hi successor, Mr. Chadwick, d es not tudio f Ern t Perabo, opposit the tate heard something good in light pera for 25 pa unscathed. ome ay that his always­ Hous , n Beac n Hill. Mr. Perabo has been cents only ! Hundreds of stay-at-homes, and open-to-critici m mannerisms have taken on a prominent teacher h r for the past 25 y ars .. pilgrim· within our gate , make up fair audi­ an ad litionallayer of uppishness since his re­ He ushers on with a sincere and courtly hos­ ences for each performance. cent prom tion. pitality, into a studi literally full of int rest,. Thi theatre points a living, active moral to The "Leader" give· him a severe lash and full of everythino- else, too in the way of managerial magnates. with it· editorial '"hip. till, methinks, he magazine·, books, music, pictures, photos,. Given a sup rb play-house, an rcellently ha omething to b conceited about as the papers sketch s, letter ·, tc. The mantels,. equipped company, a finely mounted, well foremo t ·ong writer of thi · big and great cle:k, table, chair:, corner·, the Chick ring pre. entecl popular opera, large and appre ia­ country, a well as an acknowledged leader in ran 1,-all are full ! He unloaded a chair tive audiences, smiling and atisfied at having the realm of harmony, and now the distinc­ f r me the while he apologized forth appear­ gotten so much entertainment for so little, for tion of beino- at the h ad of th renowned N. anc of thi delicious artistic tangled room,. what more can h art of manager sigh? E . Conservatory. No won ler his head is and as he skipped over 'th,ing.s'' tQ get at the THE MUSICAL NEVVS

piano to play, h e rapidly gave the stool an un­ Old Violins. CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MUSIC. -dressing, and I was not wholly unprepar d to There ar old violin -vvith nam s of excel­ They were tated Last Evening in a Lecture by Dr. H. A. Clarke find the yery k y-board required a :h ,·eling lent Yiolin mak r ·, a Amati, tradivariu ·, etc . .off, al. o, before he c uld begin hi. charming stamped on the inside ounding-board. The The members of the Eastern Summer School of the playing. American Institute of Formal Methods, enjoyed last owners f such in. ·truments are prou i of th Mr. Perabo is tall, slender, pale, of are­ evening the lecture given by Dr. Hugh A. Clarke, of age of their violins, and th y take o-reat care tiring, intense natur . He is n t only a mu­ the University of Pennsylvania, on "!'he Classic of th m a nd watch them anxiously, although Period of Music.'' Like the preceding lectures of the sician of high rd r, 1 ut a scholar, and de p they are o.f a poor o-racle. The famous French course, this talk was illustrated by interesting speci­ thinker, keenly alive to the weio·hty questions violin-mak r, J. B. Vuillaume, mad a spec­ mens of the popular music of the time, both instrumen­ .of the day in so ial and political e onomics. tal and vocal. The outbur t of laughter which greeted ialty of imitating the sound of th genuine old He would have made a purpo:eful and cru­ the pl:lying of some of the "show pieces" which were ·dolin, and as b was a ma ·ter in his art, he pulous statesman. in the repertory of every accompli ded young lady of dec ived th buying public -vvith th ·e frauds Vehement in conyersation, with a r ady and the seventeenth century, showed forcibly what tremen­ and obtained a considerable amount of money . dou strides music has taken since that time. .fluent vocabulary, one terse, beautiful simile One of the most interesting numbers was a two-part follows close up n another, making his n­ To estimat a violin with ab ve mentioned madrigal, composed by Mawley, of Quepn Elizabeth's versation almost as interesting as his playing. stamped names is very difficult, because the Court, entitled "Go Ye, My Cazonets, to My Dear One feels on 1 avino-, that the ·world w uld be imitations are almo t p rf ct. The ~windlers Darling." A five-part madrigal by the same author, .all the better £or havino- more of such lofty­ hunt for som old yellow c1 paper, and write entitled "Now is the Month of M:1y," aroused great the masters' name vdth chinese ink ; then they interest, as it was carefully performed according to the mind d men in it. Mr. Perab ': ccasional peculiar method in which old-time madrigals were sung; musi~al and other articles in Bost n's p t pa­ rub the pap r slips a little and it looks old. each verse being first sung as loudly as the ingers' per, tlie ''Ev nino· Transcript, '' hav 1 en Many ellos ramgmo ar on the market powers would permit, and then repeated softly. The much admir d and quoted. with Amati 's name, and many vi lin· of Ber­ sacred music of the time was represented by a three­ In the next "Echoes," I hope to giv snal­ gonzi or uadaguini go under th name of part motet, the author of which is unknown. In this selection, also, the difference between the music of the Stradivari tt s. shots of Arthur Foote, Max Heinrich, H ra­ classical period and modern music was strongly ernpha­ tio Parker, et . , b fore the musical doings are Th nam of poor Stainer, especially, is sized by the curious uccessions and coml51nations in full blast. CrrAH.LES B.\ K. often misus d. He has liv cl a tragic life. which are utterly foreign to modern music. B rn in bsam Tirol, he wa · taught violin­ The lecturer dwelt upon the fact that in ancient vocal $- W'~ $­ music the idea of approximating the music to the words makilw in Italy. At the age of 20 years he was never considered. The words were used imply as German Dramatic Club. return d home and made instrument · for six a peg upon which to hang their elaborate musical co!1 - Sonic time ago a all appear d in all th St. I.,ouis gulden, or tvvo dollars. He '"'as honored by trivances- wi1hout reference to appr0priateness. So Geruian· newspapers, asking that verybotly who the Austrian emperor with a hio-h title, but far was this absurdity carried that one man set the would he int·r st <1 in a German dramatic club, meet this did not keep him from need and distress; whole Acts of the Apostle to music, and as great .at Pascali's Hall, 2736 South Ninth Street, Monday, musician as Palestrina, wrote an elaborate motet on the August 23. At the appointed elate a larg and enihu­ he became poorer every clay until h became msane. words, "Here beginneth the third chapter of the book ·sia. tic numb r of laclics and gentl men organized ih of Jeremiah." "Deutsch-Dramatisch r Club,'' with temporary offi­ There are many genuine old violin: . poiled Mu ic was really then in it infancy. It was not .cersas follows: l\1r. F. Pascalland Mr. \\' m. Marcolin. by experts, vd10 think th top too thick and until the eighteenth century that national character in Thai German ircl s iu this city are highly ini rested music began to exhibit itself. This change was brought goes without saying. At the next m eeting held at take off some wood from th inside ; the in­ strument sounds easier, but had lost its about largely by the influence of the folk song, in th al ove m uti netl hall, Sunday, ugnst 29th, the which the music was made to express as perfectly as following officers wcr el cted : Pr siclcnt, Mr. Chas. power and beauty of tone. possible, the sentiment of the word . Another great Kirchner; Vicc-Prcsid 'nt, Mr. Henry F rster; S c­ Another way to ruin an old violin is to var­ impulse in this direction wa given by the invention of 'l'etary, J.Ylr. \V. Marcolin; Treasurer, Mr. Albert nish or poli. h it over. It lo: s the original the opera. Out of this, however, grew the feeling Hintze; tag Dir ctor, Mr. F. Pascali, a.ml a com­ that it was in the power of music to express anything look, and also the tone. The thicker and mittee of three members, Messr3 Marcolin, Munt r and everything-a false theory that has led to many and Vorschimm r, was chosen to frame and formulate har ler th varnish, the u o·lier the . und. ab urdities. ·such laws and regulations as they should clc m n ces- Up to the year r8oo a ' tainer" violin was In the course of his de cription of the work and ary for the w Hare f the soci ty. t?e most expensive. methods of the noted contrapuntists, the lecturer an­ The MUSICAL Nl~WS congraiulat s its German nounced his belief, which may seem heretical to some friend~ ini r st. l in this society, antl ·wishes them Paganini played a wonderful violin by musicians- that parallel fifths mav be u~ed wherever :gr at success. \Ve ·hall b glad to keep om rcacl rs Guarnerius, which since the death of this vir­ they are not offensive to the ear, and that other similar advis c1 on future mov mcnts of the luh. tuoso is k pt in the mus um of Genoa. Do rules of harmony may be broken, citing in tances you know how Paginini . cured possession where they have been co ntravened by the greatest composers. He announced emphatically that music is OUR MUSIC. of this violin? Once he was ngao-ed for a not properly a science, but an art, and as such, much "\VHE LOVE IS Kr D," th soug publish cl in cone rt by a prominent Fr ncb merchant, higher than a science . •this number, is an old Engli:h folk song, simpl but Livron, who loaned him a fin violin. At The next lectur~ in this interesting series will be ,effective. Il was used as an encore s ng by Mme. the time he intended to return the instrum nt given on Monday eve·1ing in. Sleeper Hall, at the New Nordica

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