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languish. The theatres are also suffering,
and the outlook for a successful season at
Covent Garden is far from propitious. A
number of continental artists who had
planned to visit London this season have
postponed their trips indefinitely. Even
Dr. Joachim who has journeyed to Eng-
land every winter for the past thirty-five
years has relinquished his intention of
going to England this winter.
/~"\NE of the best known sopranos on the
^-^ concert stage is Miss Caroline Gard-
ner Clarke, who has been heard this season
in many prominent musical affairs. Miss
Clarke made her first great success with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, taking
the place of Marie Brema in an emergency.
She simply captivated the critical audience
and soon silenced all regrets at Miss
Brema's non-appearance.
During the past few years, Miss Clarke
has sung with the New York Philharmonic
Club, the Brooklyn Apollo Club, and in
fact in all the larger cities. Her scrap
book shows how appreciative the critics
have been of her beautiful voice, her phras-
ing, her style, sentiment, culture, and her
fine musical intelligence. Miss Clarke's
repertoire includes the compositions of all
the great masters, notably Handel, Men-
delssohn, Rossini, Gounod, Lehmann, Sul-
livan, Gaul, Bruch, Whiting, Mohr, Jordan,
Macfarren, Cowen, Schubert and Verdi.
Miss Clarke is under the capable manage-
ment of Chas. L. Young.
'TWO concerts will be given by the pupils
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of the National Institute of Music, of
which ffm M. Semnacher is director, at
Carnegie Hall on February 8th and March
14th. The programs are unusually inter-
esting, and^the pupils will be assisted by a
number of eminent artists. Tickets can
be secured from Mr. Semnacher at the of-
fice of the Institute, 179 East Sixty-fourth
street. These talented pupils of Mr.
Semnacher, Bessie and Mamie Silberfeld,
are making great progress in their studies
in Germany. The most eminent teachers
there speak very flatteringly of Mr. Sem-
nacher's training as being absolutely cor-
rect.
OPEAKING recently of musical progress
^
in this country, particularly since her
last visit, Mme Calve said: "There is this
big difference that separates America from
all other countries on the face of the earth.
The American mind is so adaptable that it
finds time to do many things. Music is
one of those things. Time was, and not
so very long ago, when this country did
not even have time for music. But with
a greater understanding and in common
with that cry that is in all of us—the cry
for better things—music came to fill the
gap.
"The American is not content to be a
builder of bridges, a projector of railroads,
an inventor of this, that, or the other
thing. The artistic side of his nature
must be developed, and now at the end of
the century he has started in to develop.
Of music he is knowing more each succeed-
ing year; he has the knowledge and the
appreciation now, and soon will come the
way to do—the writing of grand opera and
the producing of grand singers. It's all
a case of development, gradual, of course,
as all artistic development is, but none the
less sure."
TT has well been said that the recitals
' which Paderewski is giving this season
are of historic interest. Thousands of
music-lovers have envied the contempora-
ries of Chopin, Liszt and Rubinstein for
being able to hear those pianists. Even so
future generations will envy us for having
had the privilege of attending the concerts
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of orchestras, of whom 8,000 belong to
municipal theatres or orchestras; 1,300
capellmeisters, 8,000 military musicians,
with 410 bandmasters; 2,350 directors of
singing societies, 3,700 teachers of instru-
mental music, 1,350 teachers of singing,
and 435 conservatories. Among musical
societies are 420 church choirs, 840 ama-
teur orchestras, 6,580 singing societies,
2,700 clubs with a special department for
music, and 200 amateur theatrical socie-
ties. To these must be added 270 teach-
ers, 380 variety theatres, 1,630 concert
halls, 1,500 cafe concerts, and 5,800 estab-
lishments that give open-air performances.
In 1897 277,100 music-
al performances took
place, at which 2,701,-
900 different p i e c e s
were produced, namely,
191,800 classical pieces,
946,000 genre pieces,
1,504,000 light music
(dance, etc.) Add 234
agents for concerts, 273
publishers, 1,800 deal-
ers in music, ^^ work-
shops for engraving,
3,000 factories to make
instruments of all kinds
and 2,500 dealers in
musical
instruments.
Music supports in Ger-
many 1,500,000 persons.
T H E first of Victor
Thrane's series of
high-noon recitals will
be given at Sherry's,
Tuesday, February 6th.
Alexandre Petschnikoff
E 1 s a Ruegger, and
Aime Lachaume will
contribute to the pro-
gram.
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CAROLINE GARDNER CLARKE.
of Paderewski. His success this season in-
dicates that his tour will be greater finan-
cially than his last visit to this country,
when the receipts were $248,000. In New
York alone over $30,000 have been taken
in for five performances this season, while
in the majority of other cities he has played
to $3,000 houses each time. Even from
far away San Francisco comes the report
that the seats for six recitals to be given in
March are already nearly all disposed of.
/WI ME. MELBA has received from the
' ^ * Austrian Emperor the Order of Art
and Science as a reward for singing at the
benefit performance for the employees of
the Imperial Opera House in Vienna.
Monday last Albert Gerard Thiers,
the voice specialist, delivered an in-
teresting lecture on "The Technique of
Musical Expression" at the studio of Miss
Gibson, 105 West Seventy-seventh street.
JDUBINSTEIN was one of the most
spontaneous composers, yet he believ-
ed that reflection is essential to genius.
"A great number of persons," he wrote,
"believe that meiody comes all at once,
and as if by surprise, into the head of the
composer, however he may feel and what-
ever may be his occupation for the moment.
What a mistake! You must rub the match
to make it flame. Just so it is that only
when the composer applies musical reflec-
tion to his desire to produce a melody
the harmonious thought is born which,
after being for a long time studied, modified,
completed in all its parts, takes little by
little a definite form."
T H E introductory and incidental music,
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orchestral and choral, for the specta-
cular production of "Ben Hur" now play-
ing at the Broadway theatre, was written by
Edgar Stiliman Kelly.
JV/I R. PETSCHNIKOFF will give his firs L
HP HE Society of German Composers has * v ' violin recital in this city at Mendels-
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published the following curious sta- sohn Hall on February 8th.
tistics, showing the growth of music in
that country: Among virtuosi it places 580 D U P E R T HUGHES, a writer on music,
singers, 240 pianists, 130 violinists, n o
is preparing a reference book on
various; 650 organists, 13,000 musicians American composers.