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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
tion, the question of how to bring up artists
who will be every inch whole and hearty
will easily be solved.
THE CHARLES L YOUNG SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
- T H E Charles L. Young School of Music
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opens on Oct. ist, and most elaborate
preparations are beng made at 305 Fifth
avenue. The school will occupy the entire
floor of that building, and will begin with
quite a number of pupils who have already
signed and completed arrangements. Mr.
Young seems to be able to offer inducements
to pupils that make it worth their while
to consider this school. It is his intention
to promote the interests of deserving pupils,
and assist them to become known, as they
advance in their studies. Usually students
have had to spend a great deal of time and
money to secure their education, and after-
wards have had to spend a great deal more
money and time to become known; conse-
quently, Mr. Young's plan will be of great
assistance to those who study in this school.
Arrangements for the piano department are
to be completed this week, which will make
it possible for Mr. Young to announce one
of the best known piano teachers for this de-
partment, in addition to those already en-
gaged. The vocal department will also be
completed and announcement made of the
principal teachers in another week. The
assistants have all been secured.
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THE PRODIGY AGAIN.
IV/I AJOR POND, who arrived from Eu-
' * rope last week, announces that Flori-
zel Reuter, an American boy violinist of
nine years, who has studied for several years
with Henri Marteau in Geneva, will tour
America the coming season under his direc-
tion. Some time ago Marteau predicted
that the boy would become a great violinist.
Some extravagant statements are made re-
garding his repertoire.
THE SOHMER HARMONY CHART.
O O H M E R & CO., the well-known piano
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manufacturers of this city, are issuing
a harmony chart which should prove of as-
sistance to teachers desiring to utilize a most
effective but simple method of impressing
a knowledge of harmony on the minds of
pupils. The chart is ingeniously constructed,
and by means of perforations beneath which
a colored card, containing the various let-
ters corresponding to the tones of the scales,
in placed, one may, at a glance, learn the
relative minor of a given major key, the
sharps or flats of the respective scales, the
fundamental tones, the tonic, subdominant,
dominant and diminished triads both in ma-
jor keys and their relative minors; the dom-
inant and minor chord of the seventh in
major and dominant chords of the seventh,
the chord of the diminished seventh and the
augmented triad in the minor, together with
the perfect, major, minor, augmented and
diminished intervals. The chart is in every
respect a practical manual of major and
minor scales, intervals and principal chords,
and contains much detailed information
which can be used advantageously by pupil
or instructor.
We have rarely come across anything so
worthy of praise as this Sohmer harmony
chart. It simplifies an abstruse study and
on this account a widespread popularity
should follow its introduction.
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MAY PRODUCE PADEREWSKI'S OPERA.
C O R some time lovers of music here
have been thinking that there was
no chance of their hearing Paderewski's
new opera, "Manru" in New York for at
least two years. It is now said, however,
that the production of the piece will be made
during the coming winter, and that Maurice
Grau is now communicating with Walter
Damrosch about the venture. Mr. Damrosch
when spoken with on the subject said:
"Mr. Grau has not concluded his contract
with the composer's agent, but it will be
signed soon, I understand, and then arrange-
ments will be made to bring out the opera here
early in the coming season. Mr. Damrosch
now has the score. The cast can be easily
filled. Mme. Eames or Mme. Sembrich will
in all probability be the heroine, and there
are parts in the opera that will suit various
others of Mr. Grau's forces. The work will
be sung in German, although there is an
English translation."
Paderewski's opera is in three acts, and the
scenes are laid in the country where he has
his home, the mountains between Bulgaria
and Servia. Peasants, gypsies, a beautiful
girl and a dwarf are the principals in the
action, and the scenery requisite for the pro-
duction will not have to be very ornate.
Maurice Grau is reported to have engaged
a German tenor named Bandrowsky, who was
a member of the company at the opera house
in Frankfort and has broken his contract
to come here. He is said to have been en-
gaged to sing the title role in Paderewski's
"Manru." The incident has attracted atten-
tion because the singer will not be able to
appear again in any of the German theatres.
BLAUVELTS PLANS.
JVA ME. Lillian Blauvelt, the concert singer,
* * sails for Europe early this month.
Her concert tour abroad begins in Dussel-
dorf, Germany, October 16. She will sing
in Germany and Great Britain till December
31. January 1 she will sail for America and
remain here till the following April, when she
will again go to Europe. Speaking of a re-
turn to opera, Mme. Blauvelt says the temp-
tations to do so the past three years have
been many, but she has resisted them all, as
she prefers the freedom of the concert stage.
In opera an artiste is confined to a few cities
each year, while in concert one may travel the
world over. Beside this consideration, the
latter field is less fatiguing to the voice and
more remunerative. Mme. Blauvelt also an-
nounces that in future she will be her own
manager in America as she has been in Eu-
rope. She has nothing to complain of in
reference to American managers, but believes
that with concert engagements an artiste can
do better dealing directly with the singing so-
cieties.
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STUDYING INDIAN MUSIC.
D R O F . FREDERICK STARR, anthro-
pology savant at the University of
Chicago, is making a special study of Indian
music. He will spend several weeks at the
Iroquois Reservation, in New York State,
in October, endeavoring to work out a theory
which will render the Indians' scale of har-
monies comparable with those used by civ-
ilized people. Prof. Starr, who declares
that Indian music has never been correctly
reproduced, will use a phonograph in mak-
ing his investigations.
MISS HANNAH L KEENE.
T"* HE place of honor on the cover page of
this issue is occupied by a fine portrait
of Miss Hannah L. Keene, prima donna
soprano, who is under the exclusive manage-
ment of Charles L. Young. She is at pres-
ent filling very important concert engage-
ments in Newport, Narragansett and the
principal summer resorts in Maine. Miss
Keene has a beautiful soprano voice, easy
stage presence, and is said to be quite at
home with her audience from the moment
she makes her appearance. It is Mr. Young's
intention to give Miss Keene a New York
appearance early in the season, and it is very
possible she will be heard at the Waldorf-
Astoria. She is an accomplished singer and
a genuine artist, and the press is enthusi-
astic in praise of her work.
THE YALE BICENTENNIAL
A T the forthcoming celebration of Yale's
**• Bi-Centennial, music will play no un-
important part. The Gounod Society of
New Haven will sing Prof. Horatio Parker's
"Hora Novissima," and the composer will
return from Europe especially to conduct
this performance. The Boston Symphony
Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony
Orchestra will each give a concert and in the
evening there will be a right royal time,
singing college songs on the campus, as-
sisted by a first-class band. A number of
eminent soloists will be heard in the per-
formance of "Hora Novissima."
KREISLER'S TOUR.
Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, who
made such a remarkable success in this coun-
try last winter, is to return again in Jan-
uary next and will open his tour in Chicago
with the Thomas Orchestra on the- 10th of
the month, after which he will make a tour
of the principal cities of the country.
CORNELIA VAN ETTEN
PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO
AND TEACHER IN THE
CHARLES L. YOUNG
SCHOOL
OF MUSIC
305 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK