Music Trade Review

Issue: 1881 Vol. 5 N. 6

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October 20th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEVv.
at Matinee. " Olivette," Tuesday evening, 11th, successful, that they intend to give Italian opera Brahms, one each. Brahms's " Requiem " is to be
and Wednesday evening, 12th. Both favorite on there next season, relinquishing all operatic ven- performed on November 20th, before the orches-
tral concerts begin. Billow will give three con-
account of sparkling music, both operas by Ed- tures in America.
mond Audran. The principal members of the The Philharmonic Society, Theodore Thomas, certs of chamber music, composed solely of Bee-
Acme Company are good interpreters of Audran, director, have arranged the following dates for thoven's works.
and the whole organization under the musical
this season, the concerts taking place on In spite of M. Pasdeloup's faithful efforts, Wag-
directorship and orchestral leadership of Sig. De concerts
Saturday evenings, and the public rehearsals on ner's music has evidently made but little headway
Novellis is eminently qualified to produce light the
Friday afternoons preceding : Nov. 12, Dec. with some of the Parisian critics, as the following
operas with good effect.
10, Jan. 14, Feb. 11, March 11, and April 15th. extract from UAH Musicale shows. Speaking
The new Skating Kink under the management Among the novelties the following works are of the recent Wagner cycle at Munich, the corre-
of Prof, Duckworth is quite an attraction. As we announced : Rubinstein's new symphony (No. 5), spondent
" The entire audience had evident-
have had so long a rest, amusements of any kind G minor, op. 107; Overture, Tragique, by Brahms, ly agreed says:
not to appear bored; and this was prob-
are largely attended.
op. 81; Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 44, by Tschai-
most remarkable part of the performan-
Messrs. Johnson & Miller's "Two Medallions" kowsky, dedicated to Nicholas Rubinstein, now ably the
There is, however, no need to enlarge in our
are billed for to-night (Friday), and Saturday deceased. Mr. J. M. Drexel is President of the ces.
upon a subject of so little interest to
matinee and evening. They have a good company Philharmonic; F. Rietzel, Vice-President; S. John- columns
Fiench readers who love music."
and deserve good houses.
LEX RASCOE.
son, Secretary ; A. Sohst, Treasurer. Directors :
Hans Richter's provincial tour through England
Messrs. Richard Arnold, Geo. Matzka, H. Brandt,
LESLIE MAIN.
P. Faerber, F. Bergner, and A. Bernstein ; E. with his orchestra has been given up, but he will
give two concerts in London on October 24 and 29.
R. LESLIE MAIN, the celebrated English Uhlig, Librarian.
vocalist and elocutionist, who has been A son was born, Oct. 14, at Indianapolis, Ind., Beethoven's " Eroica " and Choral Symphonies,
and selections from Wagner's works make up his
engaged by Mr. August Brentano, jr., of this city,
Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace, the latter formerly programmes.
as a personal speculation, to give a series of enter- to
Mrs.
Seguin.
tainments at Chickering Hall, is advertised to ap-
Hector Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust" will,
pear at two musical and literary performances, on Among the vocalists who have recently arrived in all probability, be given for the first time in St.
in
New
York,
Miss
Hattie
Schell,
a
young
Ameri-
Thursday and Friday evenings, October 27 and 28,
Petersburg this season, the chorus of the Italian
on which occasions very choice selections of Eng- can lady, deserves especial mention. Musical opera being utilized as the nucleus of a very large
people
who
heard
of
her
successes
in
Europe,
lish literature and music will be offered.
chorus. Boito's " Mefistofele " is also announced
Mr. Main has a well earned reputation in Eng- eagerly awaited her arrival. She sang a few days at the Italian opera in that city.
land and her colonies. The London Times says in ago at Steinway Hall to an audience composed of
regard to one of his London performance: " The critics and managers who were evidently delighted
VALLERIA AGAIN.—We have* seen a letter written
recitals were marked throughout with a careful with the performance. Miss Schell is a pupil of
study, a masterly delivery, and a peculiar grace of Marchesi, and a graduate of the Vienna Conserva- by Mr. Hutchinson, the husband of Valleria, in
style." Comments on his performance from our tory. Among those present were the following which he expresses his indignation at Col. Maple-
gentlemen : Mr. Max Strakosch, Mr. John Lavine, son's course in advertising Valleria as one of the
own press have been equally flattering.
Now that he has fallen into good hands he will Signor Fabrini, Mr. C. A. Welles, Prof. Ritter, members of his company in America, especially
no doubt prove one of the best attractions of the Mr. M. A Blumenberg, Mr. Copleston, of The when the Colonel knows that she is not coming.
World; Mr. Chas. Werner, Mr. C. F. Tretbar, and Hutchinson threatens legal proceedings to prevent
season.
Prof. Grecco.
a continuance of the Colonel's method.
Mme. Gerster left Queenstown on Friday last ADELINA PATTI. —It is announced that Mme. Patti
on the " City of Rome; " the passage from Liver- will leave Liverpool for this country on Saturday,
Leslino, the prima donna with the Strakosch pool to Queenstown was very stormy and de- Oct. 22.
Italian Opera Company the coming season, has layed the departure from the latter port a half a MLLE. ISIDOKA MARTINEZ.—Messrs. Pond &
been very successful in Italy and France. The day.
tenor of the company, Sig. Gianini, is highly Peschka-Leutner, who sang at the Spring Fes- Bachert announce that they are the managers of
Mlle. Isidora Martinez, and are prepared to make
mentioned by Berlin and other German papers.
tival in Chicago and immediately returned to Eu- engagements for her appearance in Opera, Concert,
Mr. Albert D. Hubbard's first Piano Recital rope at its close, is reported to be engaged for a and Oratorio. Mile. Martinez is a Chillian by
was to have taken place at Chickering Hall, tour next year in this country.
birth, and in personal appearance a true Spanish
Oct. 18th. An interesting programme was an- The popular concerts, in Paris, under the direc- girl. She is a pupil of Prof. P. A. Ritter, and
nounced beginning with Bach and including the tion
of M. Pasdeloup, recommenced on the 16th, her debut in Italian Opera was made in Chicago,
great piano composers down to Mozkowski.
several of Haydn's Symphonies unknown in France, in the character of Marguerite in Gounod's
" Faust." She was afterwards with the Hess Eng-
Lady lodger—"Your dog, sir, is unbearable. are to be given.
He howls all night." Male lodger—" Indeed ! The Gawandhaus Concerts, Leipzig, were to re- lish Opera Company in San Francisco, as Prima
Well, he might do worse than that; he might play commence on October 6th, when Scharwenka was Donna Soprano, and was for one season with Col.
Mapleson's Company at Her Majesty's Theatre,
the piano all day."
to be the pianist.
in London.
M'lle. Vachot one of the operatic celebrities M. Colon ne announced the resumption of his con-
brought out by Mapleson this season, received certs
at the Chatelet, Paris, on October 16th.
special instruction from the composer in Gounod's
DIEECTOEY
"Romeo and Juliet," and is expected to make her Mr. Sullivan's "Martyr of An tioch "is to be given
debut here as Juliet.
next month by the Oxford Choral Society.
The 900fch consecutive performance took place Von Suppe's " Boccaccio " has just been given in
Sunday Evening, October 16th, at Koster & Bial's St. Petersburg in a Russian version, and proved a
MUSIC ^TRADES.
Concert Kail, on Twenty-third street. The pro- success.
gramme comprised no less than twenty-six pieces,
" The Gascon," the latest operette by Von
most of which were of a popular character. The
B03T0N, MASS.
Rainer Family appeared in every part and render- Suppe brought out in Berlin and directed by Von
MANUFACTURERS.
Suppe
personally,
came
very
near
being
a
total
ed some of their beautiful jodlers.
fiasco. The music is considered exceedingly com- A UTOMATIC MUSICAL PAPER CO. Music Paper for Mechan-
Blind Tom—the thorough-bred, as his manager monplace, and the little that is good consists x i ical Musical Instruments.
227 to 233 Cambridge Street.
advertises him-—gives a concert at Steinway Hall, of palpable plagiarisms. It is about time for Suppe
October 20th.
MERSON PIANO 00., manufacturers of Grand, equare and
to hold up for a while.
Upright Pianos,
595 Washington Street.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt, the American Vocalist,
Teresina Singer, the dramatic soprano who made
has returned to this country. She will sing at a tour-nee a few seasons ago, as prima donna of the
WORCESTER, MASS.
Chickering Hall, Nov. 5th.
Strakosch Italian Opera Co., in America, and
MANUFACTURERS.
whose
remarkable
voice
and
histrionic
talents
Mme. Jancke, a mezzo-soprano from Russia,
such a sensation in New York and other
W. INGALLS & CO., Organ Keed Boards, Parker Tremolos
has made New York her residence. Her singing caused
cities, has been singing to the largest audiences of
• and
ad Octave Couplers,
gives evidence of legitimate vocal culture.
25 Hermon Street.
the season at Palermo, Naples, Livorno and Milan,
P. S. Gilmore's Band gave a sacred concert at She was obliged to leave this country very sud-
G. KETTELL,
Piano Punchings,
the Metropolitan Caaino on Sunday night, Oct. 16. denly on account of a bronchial affection.
6 Lincoln Square.
The New York Chorus Society, under the direc- Carl Hayman, the pianist, renowned for the in-
AGENTS AND DEALERS.
tion of Theodore Thomas, will give two concerts, fallible technique he has attained, is at present
on Jan. 28 and March 25. Public rehearsals on sojourning near Bingen on the Rhine. He has
R. LELAND & CO., Chickoring. Knabe, Hallett, Davis &
• Co., and Fischer Pianos ; Peloubet & Co. and 8mith
the Fridays preceding.
refused all offers to travel in America or make any S
American Organs, Shoet Music and Band Instruments.
Prof. F. X. Hale, formerly director of the extensive tours in Europe.
Cathedral choir of Baltimore, Md., is at Yorktown Dr. Ferdinand Von Hiller, one of the oldest and
NEW YORK CITY.
with a chorus under his charge to assist in the most eminent of living German masters, will have
VOCALISTS.
musical exercises at the celebration.
attained the age of seventy on the 24th of October.
ISS LETITIA LOUISE FRITCH, Soprano.
He
consented
to
play
on
the
6th
of
September
Mrs. Page-Thrower, a well known Montreal con- Mozart's concerto in C minor, at a concert in M
Address, MUSICAL CBITIO AND THADE REVIEW,
853 Broadway, New York.
tralto, has recently returned from London, where Frankfort,
in
commemoration
of
his
first
public
she has been studying oratorio and concert singing. appearance, when, at the age of ten years, he play-
INSTRUMENTALISTS.
Her voice and method are highly spoken of by the ed this same concerto in the same city—just sixty
English and Irish press.
OTJIS BLUMENBERG, Solo Violoncello.
years ago.
J
Address, MUSICAL CEITIC AND TRADE REVIEW,
853 Broadway, New York.
A State musical festival is in course of organiza- Between October 30th and December 11th, Von
tion in Nebraska under the direction of Professor
Biilow is to give six orchestral concerts in Meinin-
MANAGERS.
R. W. Seager, of this city.
gen, each programme being devoted to the works )OND & BACHERT, Concert and Lecture managers.
It is intimated that the brothers Strakosch are of a single composer. Mozart claims two con-
Everett House.
n treaty for one of the theatres in Paris, and, if certs, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Haydn and
New York.
M
TALK OF THE DAY.
MUSICAL PROFESSION
E
a
D.
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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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DOMESTIC
YOL. Y.
.AJSTO FOIREIGKN" T R A D E .
No. 6.
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20TH, 1881.
because, now-a-days, only piano makers who are copies of French & Son's edition was sold in the
struggling to lift themselves from obscurity go Academy Monday night.
The redoubtable Angelo, Mapleson's Behemoth,
regularly into the concert business, and with
who purchases the " authorized " librettos from
malice aforethought.
Weber having rescued his concert grand piano French & Son and reaps the profit from their sale
from the hands of Newell, gave it over to Stern- in the house, was bitterly bemoaning his losses
; not, as some of his idiotic touters claim, for during the performance of "Lohengrin."
THE LATEST LIBRETTO WAR. berg
$10,000 for 100 concerts, but still for a sufficiently
large sum, namely, $1,000 for the season of six
A BATTLE OF WITS BETWEEN HAINES
months. This with the other expenses of the con-
AND WEB£R.
cert organization brought the total up to a sum
that would hardly balance with the benefits deriv-
THE EMERSON PIANO CO.'S ANSWER.
WEBER BUYS U P ALL THE ADVERTISING PAGES IN ed from it as an advertising scheme.
The man who does not advertise has it
done tor him finally under the head ot
'* failures in business."
STEINWAY vs. EMERSON.
FRENCH'S LIBRETTO, AND HAINES PUBLISHES
HIS
OWN BOOK OF THE OPERA, IN ITALIAN
AND ENGLISH.—WEBER PAYING DEARLY FOR
HIS WHISTLE.—HAINES VERY JUBILANT.
WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN A LIBRETTO.
Circuit Court oj the United States, District of Massa-
chusetts.
This Fall, irritated beyond endurance by Haines
Bros, rivalry, Mr. Weber struck out what he evi-
IN EQUITY.
dently thought was a new line, and to this end ar-
C. F. T. STEINWAY et al.
ranged with Messrs. French & Son, the play pub-
vs.
lishers, and also publishers of the "authorized"
HOW THE WAR BEGAN.
GEORGE W. CARTER et al.
libretto
of
the
Mapleson
opera
season,
to
buy
up
N Italian opera season in this city has little all the advertising pages of their book for his own
HE answer of George W. Carter, Patrick H.
interest for the present public if unattended
Powers, Orrin A. Kimball and Joseph Gramer,
by what the advertising agents, ticket speculators, use, at $5,01)0 for the season.
defendants, to the bill of complaint of Christian F.
and Academy of Music runners call a "Libretto It may be remarked here that an " authorized " Theodore Steinway and William Steinway, com-
War." As for a Mapleson operatic season, hardly version of an opera libretto differs from other ver- plainants.
any interest would be manifested in it if rival pub- sions only in this respect, that the publisher pays The defendants, reserving unto themselves all
lishers of librettos did not make the welkin ring the manager a royalty of about $30 a night for the right of exception as to all matter contained in said
with their fulminations against each other. Where privilege of selling it within the walls of the Aca- bill of complaint, for answer thereto, or to so much
as they are advised is material to be answered unto,
other operatic managers have endeavored to draw demy at twenty-five cents a copy.
Unauthorized versions must stay outside of the answering say :
attention to their schemes by the engagement of
1. That they knew nothing of the patent No. 81,-
great lyric artists, Mr. Mapleson has put such an walls of the opera house.
idea aside as unworthy the abilities of a managerial Now Judas reports it that when Mr. Weber 306, and patent reissue No. 9,012, in said bill
and are not informed in regard thereto,
Richelieu, and has substituted a war among lib- clamored for all the advertising pages in the lib- mentioned,
by said bill of complaint, and therefore leave
retto publishers which he has always been success- retto, he said that he would not allow any surrep- save
titious advertising by Haines Bros, in the Academy the complainants to make such proof thereof as they
ful in arousing.
of Music this Winter. There are five pages de- may be advised.
This season Mr. Mapleson came with a lighter voted
2. Further answering, on information and belief,
to advertising in the French libretto at $15.00 these
defendants say that the patentee in said letters
list of attractions than ever, and with a repertoire per page,
which,
with
the
sale
of
500
copies
each
patent
No. 81,306, or reissue No. 9,012, was not the
consisting mainly of such works of antiquity as night at 10 cents a copy, to the publisher's agent,
"Lucia," "Trovatore," " Sonambula,"etc. It was leaves the publisher a profit of only from $125.00 uriginal and first inventor or discoverer of any mate-
rial and substantial part of the thing patented, and
at once predicted thai; his season would be a fail-
$130.00 each night, and Mr. Weber took the that said alleged invention is described in the
ure because the " Libretto War " of past seasons to
whole five pages. Now Mr. Haines claims that following letters patent granted in the United States :
would take on no new life and vigor, and there Academy
of Music advertising had lost all charm Letters patent No. 00,6(53, granted to Geo. Trayser,
seemed no way of stirring up afresh "ruction," as for him ; but
when he heard what Mr. Weber had dated July 9, 1807.
our Hibernian friends would say.
said about "surreptitious advertising," he became Letters patent No. 52,725, granted to A. Ludolff,
But Her Majesty's Colonel is one of those pecu- eager for the fray. So he buckled on his armor, Feb. 20, 1866.
liarly fortunate people, who, the less they do for engaged a printer, and last Monday night, the first Letters patent granted to J. Dwight, July 29,1824.
themselves, the more Providence seems to do for night of the opera season, he distributed 1,000 free Letters patent No. 13,942, granted to S. B. Driggs
them.
librettos containing no advertising matter but that Nov. 1, 1855.
Letters patent No. 29,081, granted to G. H. Hul-
And it has all come about through two piano of Haines Bros., at the doors of the Academy of
July 10, 1860.
manufacturers.
Music. Mr. Haines says he will continue to do this skamp,
Letters
patent No. 30,279, granted to F. Mathushek,
It is a good story and one that the readers of through the season as the entire expense of a Oct. 2, 1860.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW are sure libretto per night costs but a trifle more than it
Letters patent No. 4,832, granted to J. Schiber,
to enjoy.
would to have occupied a couple of advertising Oct. 29, 1846.
A HAINES-WEBER CONTEST.
pages of French's libretto.
3. Further answering, these defendants say, on
For some time Haines Bros, and the house of
And it looks as though Mr. Weber was paying information and belief, that said patentee was not the
owner
and first inventor or discoverer of any materi-
Albert Weber have been keenly striving to see French & Son a neat little profit per night for ad-
which could reach and maintain the highest seat vertising in a libretto which meets with compara- al and substantial parts of the thing patented, and
in the ranks of piano makers. Now a contest for tively little sale on account of the distribution of that the following-named persons, residing at the
places set opposite their names, had the prior knowl-
supremacy among piano makers is not like a con- the free editions outside.
edge of the thing patented, and used the same at the
test in any other form of business It is a battle
said places, viz. :
of giants, and the man who wins is the man whose
S. B. Driggs, of and at Detroit, Mich.;
LIBRETTO DISTRIBUTEE ARRESTED.
wits are keen, whose pluck is assured, whose capi-
J. Dwight, of and at Boston, Mass. :
tal is abundant, whose wares are good, and, in fact,
HAT appears to have been a gross outrage G. H. Hulskamp, of and at Troy, N. Y.;
who unites in one person all those wonderful qual-
was perpetrated at the Academy of Music, F. Mathushek, of and at New York. ;
ities wnich the Colonel in the new opera of in this city, on the night of October 17th.
One of J. Schiber, of New York, in 1846,
" Patience" tells us in song distinguishes a " Heavy the distributors of Haines Bros.' free librettos, and that the same was known to and used at divers
Dragoon."
who was peaceably and quietly pursuing his occu- other places by persons whose names are not now
Haines and Weber have been struggling shoulder pation, was (probably at the instigation of a rival known to these defendants, but which they ask leave
in this answer as soon a i they shall ascer-
to shoulder ever since the elder Albert Weber libretto publisher) arrested by order of Captain to insert
the same.
died. It has been a contest between the two Clinchy, in whose precinct the Academy of Music tain
4. Further answering on information and belief,
young heads of each establishment, and has had is situated, and was locked up for the night. these
defendants deny that, by virtue of any such as-
When the case came up before a Justice the fol- signment
both its admirable and amusing episodes.
as mentioned in said bill of complaint, the
lowing
morning,
Captain
Clinchy
was
repremanded
Mr. N. J. Haines, Jr., has the advantage of be-
said invention and letters patent became vested in
by
the
Justice
for
the
arrest
of
an
unoffending
ing slower and correspondingly surer in acting, and
the complainants as the legal owners thereof, and
displays less impulse and whim than Mr. Weber. man, and the Justice advised the distributor to go deny that they are the legal owners thereof, and
on
with
his
business.
leave the complainants to prove the same.
Mr. Weber has plenty of bull-dog (we had almost
said bull-headed) pluck, but he leaps over an ob- It is all very well for piano makers to carry on a 5. On information and belief, these defendants
stacle rather than undermine it or climb carefully rivalry in the matter of advertising themselves deny that said original letters patent were inoper-
over it, and sometimes is rewarded for his impet- through librettos; but, when rivalry is pushed so ative or invalid by reason of a defective or insuffi-
cient specification, or by reason of the patentee
uosity by lodging himself in a bog up to his neck. far that it leads to the arrest of an unoffending claiming
as his own invention or discovery more
A year ago, at the beginning of the last season, man, and his incarceration for the night in a sta- than he had
a right to claim as new; and also that
feeling the necessity of making a great advertis- tion house cell, it passes the bounds of decency, said original letters patent were operative and
and
the
perpetrator
should
be
denounced
as
he
ing effort, he organized a concert company, and
valid, and not capable of being lawfully surrendered
hired Sternberg, a quite nice, but totally unknown deserves.
and reissued ; and they also aver that said original
pianist, to play his piano exclusively about the It is said that on account of the free distribution letters patent were surrendered and reissued not for
country. The scheme in general was a mistake, of Haines Bros.' Librettos not more than fifty the purpose of concealing any defect or insufficiency
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