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THE
REVIEW
flUJIC TRADE
V O L . X X X I I I . No.
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SINGLE COPIES M CENTS
P f l i M Every Sat ly Edw art Lyman BUI at 3 East Ponrteentn Street. New Yort. Sept. 7.1901.
PRIZE OFFERED FOR CORONATION MARCH.
"THE Musicians Company, one of the old-
'
est and most distinguished guilds of
London, England, has offered a prize of 50
guineas, combined with the freedom and
livery of the company, for an orchestral
march suitable for use at festivities which
may be held in celebration of the coronation
of Edward VII.
Sir Frederick Bridge, Gresham professor;
Sir Walter Parratt, master of the music to
the late Queen, and Sir Hubert Parry, di-
rector of the Royal College of Music, have
agreed to act as adjudicators on all the
scores that may be submitted. The com-
pany will secure the copyright of the suc-
cessful composition and will use it as it may
see fit.
The Musicians Company, although it has
long since relinquished most of its duties
and privileges, is one of the oldest guilds
in the city of London, and dates back to
1472, when it was chartered by Edward IV.
as a perpetual guild, or fraternity and sis-
terhood of minstrels. The present charter
was granted by James I. in 1604. The guild
was for some years associated with the
Chapel of the Virgin, under St. Paul's
Cathedral. One of its duties was to con-
trol all "pretenders to minstrelsy," and to
fine and silence the unqualified until they
had studied so as to fit themselves to take
part in public performances.
TO MAKE HER AMERICAN DEBUT.
JWl ISS AILEEN BROWER, a beautiful
* * American girl of eighteen, will make
her American debut at the Waldorf-Astoria
Grand Ballroom, Nov. 5th, under the man-
agement of the Charles L. Young Amuse-
ment Co.
Miss Brower is the daughter of a prom-
inent Iowa banker and has spent consider-
able time in Paris completing her musical
education. She made her real debut at the
Exposition, at a concert given in the Amer-
ican pavilion, when she scored such a bril-
liant and unquestionable triumph that she
was obliged to sing there three times the
following week.
Miss Brower's future is rich in promise
and her appearance in this city will be antic-
ipated with keenest interest.
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GREGOROWITSCH.
Charles Gregorowitsch, the Russian vio-
linist, will sail from Hamburg on the "Au-
gusta Victoria" on Oct. 24th. His first ap-
pearance in this city will be with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Dec, J2th,
TO HAVE UNUSUAL FEATURES.
"THE long tour of the Maurice Grau
Opera Company through the country
this fall is to have one unusual feature, says
the Sun. In every one of the cities in which
it is to give a performance there will be some
building suited to ambitious musical under-
takings. In those towns in which such
structures did not already exist they have
been built, and in only one is the muse of
grand opera to be housed in unworthy fash-
ion. In one Texas town, the large hall put
up especially to receive her was burned down
most inconveniently just after it had been
completed. As the company is to appear
there late in the autumn and the climate is
mild, the enterprising manager is going to
put up a tent under which the performance
will be given. This might seem undigni-
fied and unsuited to such an organization of
famous singers were it not that the guar-
antee in this city is very large, and the pub-
lic eager to hear the opera; so the detail
of the tent and its suggestion of pink lem-
onade will be overlooked. By the time that
town has another visitation of opera, there
will be a more appropriate temple in which
to house it.
THE WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL
'"T HE Worcester County Musical Festival
is to be devoted this year to Verdi's
"Manzoni Requiem," Cesar Franck's "Les
Beatitudes," George W. Chadwick's lyric
drama, "Judith," and Mozart's motet, "Glory,
Honor, Praise and Power," and a miscella-
neous or "artists' " concert, as it is called.
The requiem will be sung by Mmes. Emma
Eames and Clara Poole King and MM.
Ellison Van Hoose and Carl Dufft. The
Franck cantata will be sung by Mmes.
Shannah Cummings, Poole King and A. J.
Griggs, and MM. Evan Williams, E. C.
Towne, Stephen Townsend and David Bisp-
ham. The principal part in "Judith" will
be sung by Gertrude Stein, and the other
soloists will be MM. Bispham, Dufft and
Towne. The Boston Symphony Orchestra
will contribute sixty-five of its men, and the
conductors will be MM. Chadwick, Kneisel
and Goodrich. In accordance with the pol-
icy of presenting each year some recognized
piano virtuoso, Richard Burmeister will ap-
pear as a soloist, and a violin solo may be
played by a member of the orchestra. The
festival will last from Sept. 23d to Sept. 27th.
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MUSIC ON THE OCEAN.
INNES AND HIS BAND.
TOURING the month of October Innes
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and his band will be heard in concerts
at the Pan-American Exposition. There
will be no change in the instrumentation
of the organization from that which has
hitherto given Innes' players a distinctive
standing. The string basses, harp, zither,
preponderance of clarionets, saxophones,
oboes and bassoons will be retained. Many
novel features have been added to the rep-
ertoire, notably the overture "Mignon," Innes'
new two-step, "Prince Charming," which is
already being played by all the New York
bands and summer resort hotel orchestras,
and Rubinstein's "Kammenoi Ostrow." Mr.
Innes has had three magnificent cars built
especially for his use by the Pullman Co.
for the tour which is to follow the Buffalo
engagement. One of these cars will sleep
forty men—each in his individual berth. A
second car contains the private rooms and
tour offices of Mr. Innes, together with state
rooms for the accommodation of the six vo-
calists, the business staff, and the principal
instrumental soloists of the band. A third
car has been fitted up as a combination bag-
gage and dining car. Two cooks, two por-
ters and three waiters will operate these
cars, in which the entire organization will
live throughout the twenty-six weeks cov-
ered by the tour.
ERMANS are credited with the idea
of relieving the tedium of ocean voy-
ages by giving theatrical and operatic per-
formances on shipboard, and on one of the
German lines the experiment is to be tried
with French, English and German perform-
ers. The price of seats has been fixed at six
francs, which Americans will consider cheap.
It is said engagements have been made with
several clever players. The bill will have to
be changed nightly, as there will be prac-
tically the same audience; but the steam-
ship will make the "runs," and the shortest
season will be considered the most success-
ful.
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KUBELIK'S DEBUT.
'"THE first American appearance of Kube-
lik, the young Bohemian violinist,
whose London success during the past season
was phenomenal, will occur at Carnegie Hall,
this city, on Monday evening, Dec. 2d. He
will be assisted by Emil Paur and his Sym-
phony Orchestra. This will be an event
of importance to music lovers. Hugo
Gorlitz, the manager for so many years of
Paderewski's American tours, will be asso-
ciated with Daniel Frohman in the manage-
ment of KubdiKt