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and well-written march from the pen of
John J. Braham, and published by the en-
terprising house of Hamilton S. Gordon of
this city. It is melodious, effectively
scored, not over difficult and has that
"swing" which should help make it a
favorite.
Association scheduled to take place at Des
Moines, la., on June 19 to June 22. A
guarantee fund of $35,000 has been pro-
vided so that it will be possible to have a
large orchestra and chorus which will add
greatly to the musical characteristics of the
meeting.
CDWARD MACDOWELL, whose con-
*—' certo, by the way, Mme. Carreno has
recently made known to our English cous-
ins, has his summer "workshop" near
Peterboro, N. H. In a log cabin, not far
from a farm house commanding a pictur-
esque view of mountain and forest, he
composes his music during the months
when the professors of Columbia Univer-
sity have their vacation. The results of
last summer's activity are now accessible
in print—a sonata, Opus 57, and three
songs, Opus 58. The songs are entitled
"Constancy," "Sunrise," "Merry Maiden."
They are fully up to the MacDowell
standard.
A N "appreciation" of Liza Lehman-
**• Bedford, whose song cycle "In a Per-
sian Garden" is of international popularity,
appears in the latest edition of "Music and
Musicians," published by the John Church
of the leading violinists of Indiana,
is Miss Mate Sack, of Ligonier,
whose portrait appears herewith. A leading
authority acquainted with her abilities
states that "should she associate herself
with a prominent metropolitan or travel-
ling concert company, she would at once ac-
quire national reputation as a great artist."
This accomplished young lady possesses
an heirloom in the shape of a very valuable
and highly-prized instrument, one that had
been used by her great grandfather. Some
time ago it was placed in the hands of an
unskillful workman for repairs and appar-
ently damaged irreparably. Recently she
entrusted the instrument to the chief
violin maker at the Conn Wonder factories
in the faint hope that its beauty of
tone might be restored. In the interim
she used one of the new Wonder vio-
lins, and in this connection wrote Mr.
Conn: "I became so attached to it, that I
no longer waited impatiently for my old
violin to be returned. The beautiful tone,
so clear and sweet seemed to become
smoother and purer every day. The G
string became richer and fuller and the E
more brilliant. Should my old violin,
which has given me much trouble, get out
of repair again, I should not look for a
better violin than the Conn Wonder." Mean-
while the tone of Miss Sack's old violin
was not only fully restored—thus demon-
strating the importance of skillful work in
the repairing of valuable instruments as
practiced at the Conn factories—but an
opportunity was also afforded of empha-
sizing the remarkable musical attributes of
the new Wonder violin which is made by a
new process and now considered without
an equal among modern instruments.
LADIMIR DE PACHMANN will rus-
ticate at his farm in New Jersey until
the mosquitoes become too aggressive, when
he will leave for Europe around the closing
weeks of July.
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A NUMBER of important plans are to
* * come up for consideration at the
meeting of the Music Teachers' National
MISS MATE SACK.
Co. It is a worthy effort. The closing
paragraphs are of interest:
"It was announced some time ago that
Mrs. Bedford was at work on a new song
cycle, and the expectations with which
this work has been awaited, will, we be-
lieve, be more than satisfied by a hearing
of 'In Memoriam,' a setting of Tennyson's
beautiful poem of the same title. Unlike
the 'Persian Garden' this new cycle is for
solo voice, and in its construction Mrs.
Bedford displays the true genius of crea-
tive ability. Its superb adaptation to the
immortal words of the poet laureate is the
very quintessence of artistic perfection.
So thoroughly imbued with the spirit of
the subject, the music seems a translation
into another but cognate language of the
thoughts expressed in the poem.
"Innate love of the beautiful with the
true instincts of the artist lead this gifted
woman to the ideal creations of the poets
in seeking inspiration. Omar Khayyam,
Sir Walter Scott, Lord Tennyson and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are the
master poets whose lines she has set to
music with such happy results. Longfel-
low's 'Endymion' is the subject of the
beautiful art-song which Mrs. Bedford has
just completed, and in which her gift of
invention, her dramatic power and her ten-
derness, and her knowledge of vocal adap-
tability, all are shown. A concert song of
supreme beauty and power will be found
in 'Endymion.'"
JV/I USICIANS, like the great poets, who
' ' * also move us so profoundly, are only
great at intervals. Shakespeare, Milton,
Byron, Keats, Words-
worth, all of them,
even Dante in his
melodious Italian,
have long stretches
of words, words>
words. You are wan-
dering in arid places
and after a time you
descry a lovely oasis,
and soon you have
your reward. There
are passages in all
these poets which
open the gates of
paradise, disclose un-
thought realms of
peace and delicious
enchantment. Then
the gates close we
are thrust out, the
camels are repacked,
and the hot march
across the sands be-
gins once more. And
this is like unto our
human life—so inex-
plicable, at once our
torture and our pleas-
ure, our reward and
our penitential pil-
grimage. The great
poets, like the great
musical composers,
are magicians at
times. They have their lofty moments,
their flights into regions of immortal
beauty. Then they fall to earth, their
wings melted, and resume the pedestrian
way.
D I C H A R D BURMEISTER will play
*^ before the Southern Music Teachers'
Association, at Atlanta, Ga., on June 14,
and will be the soloist v ith the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, at Des Moines, la.,
during the convention of the Music Teach-
ers' National Association. He will leave
for Munich on June 26, where he will spend
the summer. Mr. Burmeister has had a
most successful year and is enthusiastic
over the merits of the Everett concert
which he has used this season.
LJ M. HIRSCHBERG, the celebrated
* *• * impresario, is scheduled to leave to-
day for Europe where he will sojourn for
six weeks, making engagements for the
coming musical season. He has been ne-
gotiating with several eminent artists.