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VOL. XXV.
N o . 21.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, November 20,1897.
Chickering Evening flusicale.
ONE OF THK MOST ENJOYABLE EVENTS OF THE
SEASON.
A brilliant audience composed of lead-
ing society people and genuine music
lovers, and a program of rare excellence,
delightfully rendered by the Dannreuther
Quartette augmented, were the features
which helped to make notable Chickering
& Sons' first Evening Musicale which took
place at Chickering Hall on Nov.i8th.
The concert opened with Bach's Con-
certo in A minor for strings, flute and
piano, followed by Dvorak's Quintette, op.
97, in E fiat major (American) for two
violins, two violas and 'cello, and closing
with Handel's Concerto Grosso in F major
for strings. In the various numbers Mr.
Dannreuther and his associates not only de-
monstrated t heir ability as musicians of high
rank, but their ensemble work was remark-
ably fine.
The Dvarak Quintette was
rendered with such delicacy and given
such a conscientious and thoroughly artis-
tic reading as to win the repeated applause
of the audience.
In connection with the Bach concerto, a
special word of praise is due Mr. Zwint-
scher, who presided at the piano. His
sympathetic and finished work would lead
one to believe that he should be heard
from at some future time as a soloist. He
is not a mere technical machine, but a
musician to his ringer tips. He displayed a
keen sense of proportion, or that relation
which should prevail in ensemble work of
this kind, and this was most noticeable in
the way the beautiful tone quality of the
Chickering grand merged in with the
strings, making a delightful orchestral
effect which was charming.
Mr. Dannreuther and his clever associ-
ates have long been noted for their thor-
oughly musicianly work, and they have
certainly added to their reputation at this,
the first concert of their twelfth season.
The hall was crowded, and on every
hand could be heard appreciative and
complimentary words for the great house
of Chickering & Sons.
In Receiver's Hands.
COUNCIL
BLUFFS MUSIC CO.
BRIEF LIFE.
F.NJOY
[Special to The Review.]
Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 15th, 1897.
The store and stock of the Council
Bluffs Music Co. in this city was taken
possession of last Saturday by a representa-
tive of the creditors. Later W. H. Cutter
was appointed receiver. As the company
had been in business only a few months it
was thought that the goods would be
shipped back to the factory and the busi-
ness permanently closed up, but it seems
that fifty instruments in stock will be
closed out by special sale.
The dealers in the locality are naturally
up in arms against this method of inter-
fering with their trade and denounce the
unloading of a lot of stock in the territory
at absurdly low prices, justly claiming that
there is nothing to prevent a continuance
of these methods unless the manufacturers
step in and take some action.
The Council Bluffs Music Co were mov-
ing along under apparently favorable cir-
cunistances, and the above developments
have occasioned much surprise. Explana-
tions are not given.
$3.00 Pflfo YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Important Sohmer flove.
SECURK NEW RETAIL QUARTERS FIFTH
ENUK AND TWENTY-SECOND STREET
WILL MOVE AROUND FEB. I, 1898
— A SPLENDID LOCATION.
AV-
The triumph of "progressive conseiva-
tism," the watchword of the Sohmer house
—never for a moment doubtful--has now
been placed on record with marked em-
phasis. As The Review goes to press,
news comes of an important Sohmer move,
likely to be fruitful of good results.
Arrangements have just been completed
for the transfer of the Sohmer offices and
warerooms, for a quarter of a century lo-
cated on Fourteenth street and Third ave-
nue, to a handsome new Sohmer building,
now in course of erection at the southwest
corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-second
street, one of the most desirable locations
in the city.
This move will take place when the
building is ready for occupancy on Febru-
ary i, 1898. The warerooms will occupy
the ground and lower floors. Hugo Sohmer
is to be heartily congratulated. His busi-
ness wisdom is once more made apparent.
In the new quarters all the advantages of
a central location, easy of access for his
many uptown patrons, in a busy section of
Big Steinway Rush.
the city, and increased facilities for show-
" How is business with Steinway & Sons, room purposes, will be enjoyed.
Mr. Stetson ? " asked The Review yester-
Bolze Continues.
day.
" Business ? well, you can best judge
A meeting of the creditors of Gustave
when I say that there are three purchasers
Bolze, music dealer of New Haven, Conn.,
for every piano I can get out from the fac-
was held in that city last Tuesday, and re-
tory."
sulted in arrangements being made with
This is a succinct statement, but it tells
the creditors so that he continues the busi-
the story of the big rush of orders which
are reaching Steinway Hall these days ness.
from all over the country. Retail trade
Mr. Wheelock Returns.
was never better, the demand for grands
especially being brisk.
A late item of news is the return to
town of Mr. Wheelock, of the Weber-
Wheelock Co. ,from his business trip. From
Busier Than for Four Years.
first to last, Mr. Wheelock met with gratify-
Peter D. Strauch was at the Strauch ing success and established a number of
warerooms on Thursday when The Review desirable connections.
called, and greeted his visitor with charac-
teristic cordiality. Asked as to the con-
Not Running to Waste.
dition of business he said : " We are very
"Why waste gin on dull, unresponsive
Among the callers this week at the busy—more so, I believe, than at any time
ivory?"—Musical
Courier Trade Extra,
these
four
years."
Mr.
Strauch
said
he
Dolge warerooms was D. W. Karn, of D.
Nov.
13,
1897.
attributes
the
present
activity
to
an
in-
W. Karn & Co.,piano and organ manufactur-
Well, you haven't wasted any that way,
ers, Woodstock, Canada. Herman Leonard creasing demand among purchasers for
have
you ?
pianos
of
the
higher
grades.
has left for the West.