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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Although we are not to have the Grau
Company of artists at the Metropolitan
Opera House next season, there will be no
dearth of high-priced "stars." Engage-
ments up-to-date indicate the appearance
of a big roster of celebrities in the instru-
mental and vocal field. The United States
After half a century of neglect Paris is is too productive a mine in the way of dol-
preparing to honor the memory of Chopin, lars to be overlooked for any length of
who spent so much of his life in the French time by our European friends. Meanwhile
capita], and who is buried in the Pere la they are all welcome. Our love for art is
Chaise Cemetery. A tablet is to be placed so sincere that we are willing to turn our
on the house in the Place Vendome where pocketbooks inside out—especially when
the great musician died in 1849, and his the artists bear the European "hallmark."
name is to be given to a square, not in-
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deed in Paris itself, but in the suburb of
Miss Louise ,Byram, of Liberty, Ind.,
Passy. The committee, too, that has been passed through the cily early in the week
formed under the presidency of M. Mas- from Paris, en route to her home. Miss
senet to erect a monument to Chopin has Byram, a pupil of Mme. Foerster of
not been idle. It has chosen a site for the Prague, is a young lady of great promise
monument in the Pare Monceau, and in- in the world of vocal music. Her recitals
trusted its execution to M. Froment-Meu- in European capitals have elicited favora-
rice, who expects to finish his work in a ble comment and it is probable that New
few months.
York critics will have an opportunity of
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passing judgment on her merits early in
Leoncavallo has determined henceforth the fall.
to write entirely on modern subjects.
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This step is due to the fate of his Medici
It is noticeable that the songs of the peo-
at Vienna. "We younger men must keep ple which are the most popular have
clear of the great musical epos, that Rich- always in them a strong primitive senti-
ard Wagner has, once for all, taken from ment. They are apt to tell the story of
our hands," said Leoncavallo in a recent love or duty, or sacrifice or heroism, in
talk. "In this direction we could do no simple words which touch the heart and
more than imitate him more or less. That moisten the eyes. Writers who would
none of us can ever reach him, not to say grow rich and famous must reflect not
surpass him, is m) T thorough conviction. upon what people do, but what they would
To this art form he gave its highest per- like to do, and how they think and feel.
fection, and we should only injure our- If they can achieve this melodiously and
selves by slavishly imitating him, instead understandingly the wide, wide world will
of diligently cultivating our own little in- gladly pay for a rare boon.
dividualities." "Trilby" will be Leoncav-
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allo's first effort on the lines of his recently
It will be interesting to readers of this
expressed ideas.
department to learn that C. G. Conn,of Elk-
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hart, Ind. , whose fame as a manufacturer of
A musician of this town after playing
band instruments is world wide, is now
over some Beethoven music asked his
about to enter into the manufacture of high
mother if he would ever compose anything
grade violins and other members of that
as good as that. She said that he might
family. He has invented, and has had
in time. But he thought differently, and
prepared exclusively for him, special ma-
went off and took poison. And so a ca-
chinery, whereby he is able to reproduce
pable musician is lost to the community.
exact fac-similes of the famous creations
Commenting on this a local paper says: It is
of the old masters. His instruments will
sad to compare an ambition like this, wed-
appeal largely to orchestral and solo play-
ded to such lofty standards, with the vanity
ers and will not by any means be what may
of some of our little composers who are will-
be termed cheap instruments. With such
ing to go on from year to year serving up
a man as Mr. Conn in this field we can feel
bad imitations of the tenth-rate composi-
assured that the United States will at some
tions of tenth-rate composers, and prosper-
future day be the great manufacturing
ing so far as this world's goods are con-
home of the highest grade of violins.
cerned.
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The complete list of artists who are to
The " Feis," or Irish musical festival,
participate
in the Bayreuth Festival this
held in Dublin last month, was remarkably
summer
has
been issued. It includes the
successful. It was distinctly national in
conductors
Hans
Richter, Felix Mottl, An-
every respect, the program being made up
ton
Seidl
and
Siegfried
Wagner, and the
of compositions by Irishmen, and interpre-
following
singers:
Mmes.
Sucher, Brema,
ted by artists of the same race.
Gulbranson,
Mulder,
MM.
Vogl, Grtining,
The festival has unquestionably given a
Van
Dyck,
Burgstaller,
Perron,
Friedrichs,
marked stimulus to Irish music, and it has
Elmblad,
Wachter,
etc.
moreover placed on record the special
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place which Irish musicians occupy in the
Musicians the world over were startled
matter of composition and interpretation.
The first musical festival was such a suc- the middle of the month by reading of the
cess that it is proposed to hold a similar serious illness of the great maestro, Verdi.
Later cable dispatches conveyed the glad-
celebration annually.
some news that the report was unfounded,,
and that the grand old man of Italy was still
enjoying perfect health. So many com-
posers of the old school have left us within
a recent period that we can ill afford to lose
any more, particularly the great Verdi.
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President McKinley has displayed much
wisdom in his selection of foreign repre-
sentatives. It is well for the dignity of
the United States that our representatives
abroad should be able worthily to sustain
the scholarly reputation won for our more
prominent ambassadors by men like Motley
and Lowell with the rest. After all, intel-
lect counts for more than political distinc-
tion in the mainly social duties of our
diplomatists.
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The New York State Music Teachers'
Association will hold their annual meeting
from July 6th to 8th. A nu.mber of emi-
nent soloists will participate, and the affair
promises to be one of the most successful
ever held by the Association.
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