Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
6
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
people will give them one and all that sup- one point made by the article, however,
port that their artistic .skill so well merits. that "woman has always exerted a vast
influence upon the music made by man."
., " *
PEAKING about pianists a writer in a The interesting fact remains, too, that
contemporary says that it requires " some years ago only about one-tenth of
"fourteen, sixteen, and even twenty the manuscripts submitted to musical pub-
years" to make a piano virtuoso. Will lishers were by women, now their manu-
TELEPHONE NUMBER. 1745—EIGHTEENTH STREET.
this statement bear investigation? To scripts outnumber those of the men two to
merit the title of "virtuoso," a player one."
The musical supplement to The Review is
published on the first Saturday of each month. must be able to execute with power, ease,
the front page of this issue will be
and brilliancy the most difficult composi-
found a very handsome portrait of the
tions written for the piano. Of all the celebrated prima donna soprano, Mme.
TTOW the business of music has devel- great players now before the public, is there Johanna Gadski. It is hardly necessary
* * oped during the last century may one who required twenty years to arrive at to expatiate on this artist's vocal gifts.
best be learned by the fact that every the degree of executive excellence indi- During her last appearance with the Dam-
European country now has from four to cated? asks a clever writer. I can not rosch Opera Co., in this city, she made
twelve companies giving grand and light think of one, nor of any of the great de- such a phenomenal success as to command
opera, while the average number of travel- parted either. Even the fourteen years the right to be considered one of the
ing companies in the United States each seems excessive, when considered by the world's greatest prima donnas.
season is sixteen. The equipment of these light of facts. Thalberg postponed his
Mme. Gadski arrived from Europe last
organizations represents an investment of professional career to a later period than,
week and made her first appearance this
over half a million of dollars, while the I fancy, any pianist of his rank. He was
season at the Worcester Festival which
money invested in the theatres they play either twenty or twenty-one, which may
closed yesterday. She will sing in Bangor,
in throughout the country has been have given him the fourteen years; but of
and Portland (Maine) Musical Festival,
estimated at from $150,000,000 to $200,000,- how many can the same be said? Ten to
which takes place from October 6th to 12th.
000. Scarcely a season passes without twelve years is probably nearer right.
She will also sing under Victor Herbert's
some noted singer marrying a title and the
*
baton in Pittsburg, November 3d, later
announcement of an opera season attracts
in Milwaukee, and other western cities,
the attention of the culture, fashion and QOMEBODY has again been considering
^
the relation of women to music, and after which she will join the Grau Opera
wealth of the land.
forces in Chicago. Mme. Gadski will be
The announcement of the organizing of this time he takes up the cudgels in her heard at one of the Philharmonic Society
a new opera company or the advent of a favor. He denies her nothing. Because concerts in this city the closing month of
new singer is heralded as events of the she is more emotional than man, he declares the year.
„.
greatest importance and the movements of that she is capable of the greatest ac-
complishment
in
work
only
emotional
in
noted persons in the operatic world are
'"THE people's singing classes of this city
given as much space in the telegraphic its results. He does, however, say that
*• will resume their sessions to-morrow
news of the day as are the doings of the this accomplishment has only become pos- afternoon under the directorship of Frank
highest dignitaries either of church or sible to-day. A few years ago any true Damrosch. The advanced classes meet at
state. The work of organizing a new success in it was beyond the reach of Cooper Union, and at 213 East 124th
opera company is as arduous as the mo- women, while still farther back it was a street. The elementary classes this sea-
bilizing of a small army, and all the mem- closed door to them. Her present capa- son will be eight in number, and will meet
bers of a new operatic organization are bility he attributes entirely to the progress in Central locations taking in all parts of
required to pass as rigid an examination as made in the development of the sex. Ac- the city. In each grade the course con-
are the government servants of the highest cording to this author, the things needed sists of thirty lessons, the Elementary
to produce good music are: "First, a
rank.
,
special aptitude for invention, which has course being devoted to the rudiments of
•
been rare among women ; second, a sort of music reading, and to practice in part-
songs for soprano, alto, tenor and bass,
'"PHE coming season promises to be a histrionic ability to study one's feelings while the Advanced grade will take up
* notable one in the pianistic world. objectively, which is not so rare a feminine more difficult exercises in reading and
The very flower of virtuosi will be with trait; third, the architect's aptitude for will study well-known musical works.
us, Emil Sauer and Zeldenrust will be high elaboration of details within close
The lessons are given on every Sunday
the novelties of the season, and if press bounds of consistency; fourth, the skill of
afternoon
from October to May. These
notices amount to anything they will be a chess player or a strategist for a definite
classes
were
founded in 1892 for the pur-
apt to make a sensation. Rosenthal, whose and direct, yet veiled plan of movement,
pose
of
opening
the study of music to the
successful tour was abruptly ended two and, finally, a long, hard training- in the
people
of
the
city.
They are self-support-
years ago, will be with us in October, while manipulation of the materials at hand."
ing,
and
about
3,000
people enter them
Siloti, that clever manipulator of. the ivor- All these attributes, it is now declared, are
annually.
ies is coming to this country again in gradually becoming part and parcel of
We have at various times expressed the
January. Teresa Carreno, the gracious and woman's character, as well as man's, and
warmest
admiration for the good work
popular—this "lioness of the piano," as as she acquires them, •, just so will she be-
which
Mr.
Damrosch and his confreres are
some one aptly called her—returns at the come a more likely .composer of music.
doing
in
inoculating
the masses with a
close of '98, after two years absence. An- But if it be true that to the enslavement
love
for
music—particularly
good music.
other pianist, George Liebling, whose of women is due the; fact that they have
It
is
by
such
good
work
that
we
can hope
playing has aroused great ^enthusiasm in composed no music worth mentioning, how
to
make
progress
as
a
musical
city,
and it
London, may visit this country during the is it that, as regards the race in general,
is
by
a
general
dissemination
of
these
tyranny
has
always
been
supposed
to
in-
season. And there are others still unan-
ideas
in
other
parts
of
the
country
that
the
sure
great
musical
results
?
No
free
people
nounced.
These distinguished artists
Nation
will
take
its
place
at
some
future
ever
produced
great
music.
That
it
takes
promise nothing new in the way of reper-
toire, but this will not occasion surprise, deepest suffering and poignant misery to day as the musical center of the world.
v
for in opera and other fields of musical bring it forth has long been the accepted
theory
and
one
which
we
of
the
United
effort we have to be content with the re-
NOTWITHSTANDING the current be-
vival of the old so long that we are now States have not yet refuted. But the l ^ lief that musicians are the most nar-
theory doesn't work where women in parti- row-minded and jealously disposed indi-
able to endure it with equanimity.
It looks as if there is some danger of cular are concerned; and everybody must viduals of the world, it is worthy of re-
congestion of pianists this season; but it acknowledge that it looks as though the mark that our leading band masters fre-
may happen, and we trust it will, that the cause must lie deeper. No one can deny quently play each other's compositions,
S