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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 20

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THE MUSIC TRADE 'REVIEW.
Banquet to Yoiii}§ Dolge.
{Continued.)
ter) and broke the hearts of all our girls, nothing
but the thought that he would come like a breath
of sweet mountain air to re-invigorate your tired
souls, consoled Us. [Laughter.]
Simple mountaineers as we are, we are grateful
to you for the occasional glimpses you give us of
New York, in the shape of the fleeting appari-
tions of Mr. Dolge and the others of your com-
pany which we are graciously permitted to see.
[Laughter.] Every now and then a whisper runs
through Dolgeville: "The Boss is coming!"
—and when we all rush to our various tasks and
look for him, Lo! "He has gone back on the
night train !"
Then, too, at rare intervals there comes upon
us that dream of beauty represented by Cavalli
und Liebe.Liebe being the immaculate Carl Fink.
[Laughter and applause.]
Fink appears before us in all the glory of
patent leather shoes and a diamond pin, and
when our muddy boots contrast ill with his
glistening extremities, we derive comfort from
the reflection that he has corns while we have
none. [Laughter.] As for our dear Cavalli,
they say he comes on "wool-business." The
only wool I ever saw him cultivate was the wool
in the pillow on the boss's sofa, where he snored
the snore of the godly and just till the family's
pet poodle sang a duo with him, and aroused
him in time also "to go back on the night
train." [Lau ghter. ]
Then there is our dear friend Widenmann, who
having settled the politics of the country at
least to his own satisfaction, came to Dolgeville
recently with his friend, La Grassa, " t o hunt
rabbits." And now there isn't a rabbit to be
found within fifty miles of Dolgeville. Not that
they shot one, not even one. [Laughter.] But,
you see, Widenmann is a Democrat and La
Grassa a Republican, and they got into such a
heated political discussion and so scared the
rabbits that they all made a bee line for Canada.
[Laughter.] La Grassa damned the dog, Widen-
mann damned the loss of his overcoat, and both
damned the Dolgeville Hotel because they
couldn 't get a quart of whiskey for a quarter !
[Laughter.]
As I told you, you must not expect a set
speech from me, it isn 't in my humor to-night.
Let me see, it is just seventeen years ago,
about this time of the year, that having in the
pursuit of happiness determined on starting a
music trade paper—and I may say with pride
that I was the first to deem the Music Trades
worthy of journalistic representation. [Ap-
plause.] I called on Mr. Alfred Dolge, at the
very store he still occupies. He was one of the
very first to give me encouragement and recog-
nition, and from that day there started a mutual
regard and a personal friendship on his part
that has outlasted all the vicissitudes through
which I have passed, and left me where I was
glad to pack up my belongings and go up into
the mountains to aid him with all my strength
in his great life work, a work which is far be-
yond mere money-getting, or any of the selfish
aims of the ordinary business man; a work
which includes the building up of great indus-
tries, the uplifting of an entire community, and
the possible solution of that greatest of all prob-
lems, the problem between capital and labor.
[Great applause.]
As our acquaintance grew, I can remember
meeting, now and then, his son Rudolf. I was
engrossed in my own affairs and paid not much
attention to the lad, but there was one thing I
did remember, and that was the grasp of his
hand. It was the warm Dolge grasp that meant
something! [Applause.]
Years passed on, and I think—yes it was in
Chicago, some few years ago, that a cheery
voice hailed me, and I found our Rudolf grown
to a fine fellow, full of earnestness and ambi-
tion. [Applause.]
Since then I have known him better, and often
up in Dolgeville have we together discussed the
future, and let me say this for him, that now is
the beginning of the realization of the one dream
of his dawning manhood; to be sufficiently
worthy and able to sustain however small a
part of that great load of care, anxiety and re-
sponsibility that rests upon his father's shoul-
ders. [Great applause.]
It is a noble heritage, this to which he now,
in part, succeeds. Not some young prince's or
noble's heritage of acres and gold, gotten God
knows how or whence, but a heritage of human
industry, of human self-denial where every dol-
lar of result has been won in the open light of
day by integrity, by methods that cannot be
questioned for an instant. [Loud cheers.]
As I stand here, it seems like a romance!
The story of the founding of this great house,
the story of Dolgeville, up there in the moun-
tains.
What an illustration of what can be done
when, under a great leader, men are inspired by
a common spirit, a common cause ! [Applause.]
And to inspire them, what rare qualities are
needed!
How self-denial must go hand in hand with
self-control, how brains must unite with brawn,
how example must be ever constant, unflinching
in its self-imposed duty to the very end !
That Rudolf Dolge will be true, that he will
nobly aid his father, that he will be wise enough
to gather round him such tried souls as his
father did, and be generous enough to hold
them, we all believe. [Applause.]
And we all believe that he will emulate his
father in honor, and in honesty ; in fair dealing
and in breadth of mind, in noble impulse and in
good judgment, in integrity of purpose and in
strength of will. [Applause.]
Here is to Rudolf's health—and as I—as we
all drink it,—let me express the hope—express
it from the heart—that when the hour of trial,
of human weakness, the hour of backsliding
shall come, as come they will, that in those
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hours he may feel around him the influence, the
love, the trust of that noble, good, self-sacri-
ficing mother who bore him, and feeling them,
keep steadfast, his face ever to the light.
[Great applause.]
Gentlemen, with Rudolf's health let us also
drink the health of Mrs. Alfred Dolge ! [Loud
cheers.]
Interesting speeches were made by Mr. Karl
Fink and others, and the occasion proved
itself a memorable one in the annals of the house
of Dolge.
Farrand & Votey Organ Co., Detroit,
Mich., has filed a certificate of increase of capital
stock to $300,000.
A MAN and boy drove up to 385 North street,
Chicago, and stole a $200 piano which was
standing on the sidewalk in front of Charles
Reynold's music store. The boy was caught and
gave his name as John Cunningham. The man
escaped.
W. M. ROBINSON, secretary and manager of
the Goulon Piano Co., has been in Ottawa, 111.,
consulting with the members o.i the Business
Men's Association with a view to bringing the
company's factory, now located at 183 W. Harri-
son street, Chicago, to Ottawa.
AT a recent board of trade meeting, at Fari-
bault, Minn., the committee on piano factory
reported that four gentlemen had raised the re-
quired $20,000 capital and would at once incor-
porate. They asked a bonus of $2,000 with
which to purchase a site and temporary building,
that work might begin at once. The company
intend to erect a large three-story building as
soon as it can be done.
Presbyterian Church of Middletown, N.
Y., will purchase a new pipe organ. They held
a fair recently by which they realized $310
which will go toward the fund for the organ.
ACCORDING to Kuhlow's Review, the value of
exports of musical instruments to the United
States from the district of the United States
Consulate General at Frankfort-on-the-Main and
the Consulates subordinate thereto, for the quar-
ter ending September 30, was ,£14,200. This
looks as if the Germans do business in America,
non obstante M "Kinley.
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^S* EVERAL, correspondents object to the state-
«^ ment, certainly lightly enough made, that
musicians either die young or become unlivable.
The statement was made from medical statistics,
to which attention has been generally called,
and for the purpose, in view of city architecture
with its thin party walls, of discouraging music
as a common pursuit. For Berlioz should have
read Mozart, and to these was hastily added
Wagner, whose death when it occurred was so
unexpected, and the misery of his life, as more
recently revealed by his letters, still more fresh
in the memory. But to Chopin and Mendels-
sohn may be added Mozart and Bellini, who all
died under 40, and Schumann, who died at 46.
Of these Chopin was melancholy to the point of
insanity, seeing visions and dreaming dreams,
and Schumann, after endeavoring to commit
suicide, was placed in an insane asylum, where
after two years he died.
One correspondent goes further to state that
music which ennobles the soul cannot deterior-
ate the body. Along with highly developed
mental faculties, along with talent and genius
of the highest order, go sound constitutions and
healthy body. The history of musicians does
not seem to bear the theory out. Handel, al-
though he lived to old age, was epileptic.
Epilepsy has proved a common disease among
musicians. Hoffman, Pergolese, Paganini, were
epileptics. Malebran relates that when she
heard a symphony of Beethoven's she fell
into convulsions and had to be carried from the
place. Mozart was subject to such nervous
tremors that in carving meat he used to cut his
fingers. Berlioz said that music threw him into
nervous states accompanied by violent palpita-
tions of the heart that sometimes ended in com-
plete unconsciousness. Rossini had unaccount-
able terrors about traveling by rail, and at the
sight of cars fell down in a faint. When ques-
tioned about it he said : " If I were not that
sort of a man I could not have written the
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Barber of Seville.' " Donizetti was subject to
the most violent rages, and once, after having
terribly beaten his wife, sat down and wrote one
of his most beautiful melodies. Beethoven was
subject to such mental aberrations that he would
leave his coat and hat in the woods and wander
about without them. Thus he was once arrested
as a tramp and put in jail. Gluck's loss of bal-
ance was accompanied by intoxication. Hoff-
man lived in exhaustive ecstasies. Von Bulow's
eccentricities are to-day well known. Sir
Arthur Sullivan, even according to his neigh-
bors, is occasionally seized with the whim of
lighting his house from garret to cellar, and, as
if in the midst of a fete, seating himself at the
piano. And what musician was it who used to
put on his best clothes when he went to com*
pose?
The irascibility, extreme nervousness and ex-
cessive vanity of these men of genius which un-
fitted them for domestic life, Prof. I,ombroso,
the latest writer on these subjects, regards as
among those tendencies toward insanity which
alienists have noted. These are twenty-seven
in number, some of which relate to physical
characteristics. The possession of seven of
these sends a man to the madhouse. Five and
six of these in combination are not unusual
among musicians. This, Prof. I^ombroso ex-
plains, is because music is allied primarily with
the emotions. Of all the arts it is the most sub-
jective. The painter, the poet, draws upon the ex-
Used Exclusiyely in Seidl,
Thomas and Gilmore Concerts
at Madison Square Garden,
New York.
ternal world. The musician feeds upon himself.
Beethoven used to take his piano into the wood
to try to catch the sound of the fluttering of the
leaves. But every one will agree that the best
attempts to render the outer world are but barely
suggestive. The musician has but scanty
draughts from that beautiful fount of nature in
which the other arts may drink so deep.
However, there is nothing in the above that
need prevent lesser composers from continuing
their work in perfect safety. Extreme sensitive-
ness to music, whether in the composer, per-
former or the hearer, produces effects not unlike
those of liquor. These may take the form of
exultation, species of ecstacy, or of depression,
accompanied by suffering and tears. Both of
these conditions are followed by nervous ex-
haustion. The thoughts of music, the desire
for music sometimes produces the keenest suffer-
ing. A man actively engaged on the Board of
THE WONDERFUL
A. B. CHASE
Trade once confessed that his love of music was
a torture of which he would gladly get rid. His
days were days of torment, and that frequently
he could scarcely control himself during business
hours, so impatient he was to get home to his
piano. Herbert Spencer has called attention to
the relation of music to the emotions. Musical
excitement causes muscular action such as is
caused by the emotions. The act of singing
exaggerates all the signs of the natural emotions,
the expanding breast, the uplifted eyes, the
tremor of the voice.
Women, it has been observed, have not proved
great musicians. It might be inferentially con-
cluded from Prof. Lombroso's statements that it
is because they have too healthy, well balanced
natures. One need not take, however, what
might seem an unfair advantage of the situation.
The emotional natures with which women are
credited certainly do not take this form. Every
one must have seen, moreover, how much leiS
attention is paid to the study of music by women
than formerly. Attention has been called to
the fact that whereas the piano was once a part
of every girl's education, now unless a girl
shows exceptional taste for music, if begun it
is soon abandoned for some more congenial pur-
suit. This relinquishment seems to date from
the advent of woman into affairs and her ad-
mission into what is known as the higher educa-
tion. It can be readily foreseen that the giving
up of music, which appeals so exclusively to
the emotions, and in supplying its place with
studies that appeal exclusively to the intellect,
will, in time, react on the physiological struc-
ture of the brain cells, if all that the scientific
men say be true. In that case the woman of
the future may be expected to differ essentially
from the woman of the past.—New York Evening
Sun.
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Herrmann's Theatre. '' The Army Surgeon."
" If I Were You." Marion Manola. John
Mason. The first-named piece, " T h e Army
Surgeon," is a cleverly written and excellent
curtain raiser, in which the principal characters
are well sustained by Adeline Stanhope and the
author, Stanislaus Stange. " I f I Were You "
is a musical comedy that was presented for the
first time in New York this week. It contains
well devised situations, is very attractive and
gives promise of becoming a favorite. Miss
Manola acted and sang in her usual delightful
manner, Mr. Mason's impersonation of a crafty
lover was masterly and finished, and the entire
caste was of a high order of excellence.
"The Mulligan Guards' Ball " is being con-
tinued at Harrigan 's Theatre, '' A Trip To
Chinatown " at the Madison Square, " A So-
ciety Fad " at the Bijou, "The Black Crook"
at the Academy, " A Gilded Fool " at the Fifth
Avenue, '' The Masked Ball'' at the Standard
and "Aristocracy " at Palmers. " The County
Fair " is nearing the end of its stay at Proctor's,
the last repetitions of " The Ensign " are being
given at the Fourteenth Street Theatre and
those of " Therese " at the Union Square.
130 Fifth Avenue, earner 18th Street, New York.
BOSTON,
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