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result of technique and not of feeling. He period.
Melba, dress improver period.
says: ''Every student of art creates, as did Calve, "Yellow Book" and Aubrey Beards-
Frankenstein, a monster—a being of his ley period. Eames, the reign of the Amer-
own making that is quite separate from ican marriageable woman with a million-
his own soul. This monster is called aire father. Lehmann, Bayreuth senti-
technique. The student of vocal music mental, womanly period.
Gulbranson,
begins the creation of his monster the mo- Bayreuth, '96 period. Ternina, present
ment he is able to put into practice the day. Edith Walker, period as yet unde-
first principle of type production. And in termined* Gadski, perennial type of the
the life of every artist there comes a time industrious, not brilliant, but always trust-
when talent and technique, the two beings worthy artist.
of his own personality, do battle for the
among the artists who will be
supremacy. If, in the contest, technique
^-^
strangers
to New York during the
comes off victorious, the artist is doomed
Italian
opera
season
next year, is Miss
forever to be a mere machine; on the
Margeret
Maclntyre,
a
well-known
English
other hand, if talent conquers, tech-
prima
donna,
who
took
Mme.
Eames'
place
nique will be a local slave, executing the
in
the
casts
of
the
London
season
which
plans that talent desires."
Mr. Thiers' views have given rise to no has just come to an end. Other engage-
ments for next season are, Ernest Van
Dyck who will take Jean De Reszke's place
in the opening performances of the season
on November 12th at Los Angeles; M.
Saleza who has taken the roles of Sig. De
Lucia owing to his release by Mr. Grau
from his contract, while, Sig. de la Tour
who made such a success during the recent
JVAME. SEMBRICH'S operatic tour in
season in Paris and Brussels, is among
* * * this country next winter will, in ac-
the other tenors to be heard the coming
cordance with present arrangements, in-
season. David Bispham who was not with
clude seventy appearances between Decem-
the Grau Company last year has been en-
ber and the end of April. Her first appear-
gaged to take the place of Fritz Friedrichs
ance will be made in New York in song
who was third baritone in the company
recital on December 4, at Carnegie Hall,
last season.
and her last appearance here during that
season will be made at a similar perform-
""THE members of the Kaltenborn Orches-
ance in the same place at the end of April.
* tra are planning a benefit concert for
Contracts for seventy appearances have
Mrs. Louise B. Kaltenborn, the manager
already been signed, and as these include
of the orchestra. The musicians realize
Portland, Me., and New Orleans, where
that the success of the concerts the past
her performances will be given in the old
two seasons is largely due to the efforts of
French Opera House, and San Francisco
the clever wife of their conductor and the
and Boston, it will be seen that a wide area
proposed
testimonial is to be a token of
MISS EFFIE STEWART
of country is to be covered. Mme. Sem-
their regard and appreciation of her hard
brich will follow Ignace Paderewski's ex- little controversy, but he holds, neverthe- work. Friday of the second week in Sep-
ample and make the long tour in a private less, that every point of musical expression tember will probably be selected for the
car, leaving it only for the hotels in the is the following of a simple law of physics concert.
larger cities. Mme. Sembrich is to precede and that the artist is not the one who is
to this country by several weeks the singers full of emotional feeling, but the one who
who are to appear with her, and the first follows absolutely these laws. We under-
operatic performance to be given by the stand Mr. Thiers is preparing an extended
company will be in Portland during the paper on this subject which will be used in
first week of January, when "Don Pas- the form of an address or published in one
quale " will be sung. Signor Bevignani is of the leading magazines.
All oar instruments contain the full iron frame and
to conduct an orchestra of forty musicians.
A N English critic, John Runciman, thus patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
piano making. Any radical changes in the climate, heat
**• classifies present day prime donne: of
or dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our in*
JUANAGER HENRY WOLFSOHN is Patti, back away among the mastodons and •truments, and therefore challenge the world that m i l
*™ *• the first in the field with his an- pterodactyls of opera. Albani, crinoline "rill excel any otb«x;
nouncement of concerts and recitals for the
coming season. The first of the recitals,
Caeb, Eycbange, IRentefc, ai$o
will be given in Carnegie Hall on Thurs-
SoR> on j£a0£ payments
day afternoon, October nth, when Mme.
Grand, Square and Upright
Schumann-Heink and Miss Leonora Jack-
son will be heard in a song and violin
recital. Mme. Schumann-Heink has only
been heard once before in a song recital,
These instruments have been before the pub-
lic for fifty years, and upon their excellence
and that was in conjunction with Mme.
alone have attained an
Nordica last season. Leonora Jackson,
Unpurchased P re-E ml nonce*
was heard only once in New York last
Which establishes them as UNEQUAIiED
season and then with the Boston Symphony
in Tone, Touch, Workmanuhip and
Durability.
Orchestra. This is her first appearance
in this city in a recital program.
Every Piano Fully Warranted for Five Yean
comprehensible why anybody should
take the trouble to prepare for a
career there.
On the other hand,
some of the other countries of Eu-
rope will pay large sums to certain singers.
Since the time of Adelina Patti and Chris-
tine Nilsson no other singer in Europe has
received the fees paid to Mme. Sembrich,
and the German newspapers are just now
calling attention to a contract signed by
Mme. Sembrich for her appearances in
Vienna, which is said to be unique in the
compensation it offers the singer. She is
to give two concerts and one song recital
in Vienna and two concerts in Budapest,
and for these five appearances will receive
$8,000, or $1,600 a concert. Such figures
were never heard of before in Austria, and
the German newspapers are commenting
ominously on the sums that the singers of
the day demand. Of course nobody but
Mme. Sembrich gets such fees, just as she
is the only singer who in this city made at
one song recital in Carnegie Hall a profit
of more than $3,500.
PIANOFORTES
A LBERT GERARD THIERS, the well-
•** known teacher of this city, is of the
opinion that all musical expression is the
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