Music Trade Review

Issue: 1901 Vol. 33 N. 18

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THE
7VIUSIC TRSDE
Prague, the Bohemian National Theatre ar-
ranged a cycle of Dvorak's operas, concluding
with his oratorio of "St. Ludmilla." This is
a great deal more sensible than the usual way
T N reference to the coming coronation of the of waiting till a composer is dead and then
King of England, for which some special erecting a statue to him. As a writer in the
music will, according to precedent, be ex- Evening Post aptly says: "Dvorak's operas
pressly composed, the question has been have been unjustly neglected, as were those
mooted whether at the new reign a "Com- of the Bohemian Smetana; but Smetana's
poser to the Court" should not be appointed, day came at last, and Dvorak's will come,
to do for music what the Poet Laureate is too."
supposed to do for verse, says our London
namesake. The fact does not seem to be CDOUARD RISLER will play Dec. 15th-
22d in Paris with Colonne two Bee-
generally known that the Northern kingdom
thoven
concertos and a first presentation of
actually boasts such an official, Sir Herbert
a
Symphonic
Poem for
Oakeley holding the post of "Composer to
piano
and
orchestra
by
the King in Scotland." In England the two
G.
Pierne.
With
Henri
Court musicians are Sir Walter Parratt, the
Master of the Music, who, although an im- Marteau he will give
portant personage, is officially little more than twenty concerts in Nor-
the conductor of the King's private and State way and Sweden. Later
bands; and Dr. Creser, who is "Organist in the season he will
give six concerts in
and Composer to the Chapel Royal."
Paris, two with piano
A ND so that old-time hero of opera-goers, alone, one with Henri
Victor Maurel, has retired from the op- Marteau, with the Bo-
eratic stage and will devote himself to teach- hemian Quartet, with
ing in Paris, where Jean Lasalle has also Schumann-Heink, a n d
opened a studio. Maurel postponed as long one to be announced.
as possible his retirement from the stage,
TOSEF HOFMANN
and has in reality had little capacity for opera
during the past few seasons. His attempt to ^ says that Rubin-
appear in drama was not successful and he stein was fond of a good
has now decided to teach. As has been well story, even if it was
said, if he could impart the secret of his in- at his own expense. At
comparable operatic acting to others he would one time he had a
new opera produced,
be a public benefactor.
and he promised the
DATRONS of the concerts by the Boston
musicians that if the
*
Symphony Orchestra in this city during
opera were a success he
the coming season will be very much inter-
would give them all
ested in the following list of novelties selected
a good supper. On the
by Mr. Gericke during the past summer for
night of the first per-
performance in the Boston concerts. There
Rubinstein
will not, of course, be the opportunity to per- formance,
was
disgusted
at what
form all of these new works in this city, but
he
thought
was
its
as many will have a place on the programs
failure,
10
he
went
as is consistent with the number of concerts
given: Symphony No. 5, in B flat major, home alone and went to
Anton Bruckner; Symphony for orchestra bed. About one o'clock
and piano, Vincent D'Indy; symphony in D t h e door bell was
minor, Walter Rabel; symphony No. 1, in rung violently. Aroused from his slumbers,
Rubinstein went to the door, and there were
C. S. Taneiew; suite in F, No. 6, Sebastian one
of the oboists and other players. He in-
Bach ; suite, "Raymonde," Glazounow ; sym- dignantly asked what the trouble was that
phonic variations, Georg Schumann; sym- he should be disturbed at that hour, and the
phonic poem, "Festklange," Liszt; "Ein man replied: "You invited us to supper if
Heldenleben," Richard Strauss; symphonic the opera was a success; we liked it very
poem, "CEdipus," Max Schillings; "Viviane," much."
ERDINAND CARRI announces four
Ernst Chausson; concert overture, "Cock-
concerts to be given during the season
aigne," Edward Elgar; overture, "La Fian-
at
Knabe
Hall. Three of them—on the even-
cee du Tzar," Rimski-Korsakow; overture
ings of Nov. 12th, Jan. 14th and Feb. 18th—
Solennelle, Glazounow, and overture, "Der will be violin recitals at which Mr. Carri will
Kuss," Smetana.
play compositions seldom heard, by Paginini,
Locutelli, Veracini and others. On Dec. 10th
occasion of the celebration recently of a chamber music concert will be given, at
the sixtieth birthday of Dr. Antonin which the program will be devoted to works
Dvorak, now director of the Conservatory at bv Hermann Carri.
Calks on Dimly Copies.
F
NEW
"Long Ago a /Midnight Strain"
CHRISTMAS
FLOKI/KI., T i l l .
VIOLINIST.
public appearance in Geneva last spring was
highly successful. As this is specifically to
be the year of the violinist of the Paganini
ciass, it is claimed for Florizel that he per-
forms astonishing technical feats. But he
has a repertoire of thirteen concertos to
prove his musicianship and industry, in ad-
dition to a large number of separate pieces.
He is to be heard first at Carnegie Hall in
February.
Ellison Van Hoose, whose recent success
at the Worcester Festival has established him
as one of America's greatest tenors, has been
engaged by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
to sing in six concerts, in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Brooklyn.
MUSIC.
"While Shepherds watched their Flocks by
"Perfect W a y " two keys, by Ed. Maroz.
" T h e N a t i v i t y " byH. J. Stewart. A Church Oratorio for
Chorus Choir.
THE
HIS is to be a year of youthful violinists
and Major Pond has found one in
Europe that will be brought to the attention
of his countrymen for the first time in Feb-
ruary. Young Florizel, as he is called, pro-
fessionally, when his family name of Reuter
is suppressed, is a native of Chicago, and
his mother, who is an amateur violinist, early
discovered his talents and took the lad to
Geneva, where he has been studying for three
>ears under Henri Marteau. The youth is
said to have taken all of the prizes available
to him in the conservatory there, and his one
'*Listen tO t h e W o n d roUS StO ry"Chorus by C.B. Hawley
Song, two keys, by Seymour Hawthorne.
CINCINNATI
FLORIZEL A MARVEL
N i g h t " Chorus, Ed Marzo.
"In t h e B e g i n ning"Hotette for full choir by W.W.Qilchrist.
A Book Of O r g a n MUSIC, by James H. Rogers.
CHURCH
CO,
JOHN
N E W YORK
CHICAGO
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THE WUSIC TRKDE
MRS.
SHARPS AND FLATS.
"~T HE magistrates of the French city of
Lille have voted 150,000 francs for the
arrangement of an international prize-con-
test for choral societies, brass bands, trum-
peters, and mandolinists, on Aug. 15th and
16th, 1902.
Kubelik, the young violinist who is soon
to arrive, is creating a sensation in the cities
of Germany and Austria. His first concert
in this city will be on Dec. 2d.
Sandrone, an individual Italian composer,
has written what he calls "symphonic im-
pressions," with Sienkiewicz's "Quo Vadis"
as the subject. It is said to be "program"
music of an extreme type.
H. Whitney Tew, the basso, arrived last
week from Europe and will open his Ameri-
can tournee in Boston on Wednesday even-
ing, Nov. 6th. On the afternoon of the nth,
Mr. Tew will make his debut in this city,
in a song recital at Mendelssohn Hall. On
the evening of the 13th, he will give a recital
before the Brooklyn Institute.
ADA M. K1TTRIDGE.
JWl RS. ADA M. KITTRIDGE, pianist
* * * (accompanist), whose portrait appears
herewith, is one of the teachers in the Charles
L. Young School of Music, 305 Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Kittridge has had great success abroad,
and has studied with some of the best mas-
ters. She has also taught in the Detroit Con-
servatory of Music, as well as other promi-
nent institutions of the kind in the West.
Jean Gerardy, the 'cellist, was the soloist
last week with the Boston Symphony Or-
chestra at their opening concert in Boston.
He is to play again with this organization
in Cambridge next week, after which he will
be heard with them in New York, Philadel-
phia, Brooklyn and Providence. Gerardy
played in Lenox, Mass., last Thursday even-
ing.
Walter Damrosch is devoting all his spare
time, during the present tour of the Metro-
politan Grand Opera Co., to the completion
of his orchestration of "Cyrano de Berge-
rac," which may be produced during the
opera season in this city.
MRS. AHA M. KITTRIDGE.
Henry Wolfsohn announces a series of
Sunday night concerts at the Metropolitan
Opera House, commencing Sunday evening,
Nov. 24th. They will be looked forward to
with much interest.
Personally, Mrs. Kittridge is a charming lady,
and is sure to make many friends for both
herself and the school of music she is now
connected with. When Mr. Young incor-
porated the school of music, it was decided
Evan Williams and Miss Isabel Bouton by the directors to place Mrs. Kittridge as
have been engaged by the Oratorio Society secretary of the institution, and it would be
for their forthcoming performance of the a hard matter to find another person who
"Elijah," which is to be given in Carnegie could really fill this position so acceptably.
Hair in the middle of November.
ONSIDERABLE interest was manifest-
E. Colonne has purchased the home that
ed last April in the performance in
formerly belonged to Guy de Maupassant.
Dresden by the Mozart Society of Mozart's
great mass in C minor which was left un-
finished by the master, but was completed
hv Hofcapellmeister Schmitt in accordance
with Mozart's sketches. This mass is now
to be made generally accessible, as the score
and also a version with pianoforte are being
All oar Instruments contain the full iron frame and
printed.
patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
•*
of piano making. Any radical changes in the climate, heat
Eduard Zeldenrust, the Dutch pianist, who
or dampness, cannot affect the standing ia tone of our to-
is to make a tour of the United States, ar-
•truments, and therefore challenge th» world that OttM
rived in the city on Monday.
vlU excel any other.
Professional Cards in this
department, including
subscription, $5.00.
CONSERVATORIES
M
BS. HENRY SMOOK BOICE, Hardman Bldg.
138 Fifth AT*., N. Y. Monday and Thursday.
IEE8ICA DE WOLF, 210 W. 86th street, New York.
"The limitations, however,
of the organ to the produc-
tion of large masses of sound
with the view merely of relig-
ious solemnity is a misuse of the organ equal-
ly scouted by Sir Walter Parratt."
C IG. FANCIULLFS romantic opera, "Pri-
*^ scilla, the Maid of Plymouth," is slat-
ed to receive its initial production in Nor-
folk, Va., on Nov. n t h by the Rose Cecilia
Shay Opera Co. On a later date it will
be sung in Washington, D. C, where Fanci-
ulli was for a long time stationed as band-
master of the United States Marine Band.
If the opera proves worthy of a metropolitan
production it will probably be sung at the
Knickerbocker Theatre, this city, the closing
week in December.
Edward O'Mahoney, basso, has returned to
town from his annual visit to the Emerald
Isle, where he sang at a number of music fes-
tivals and concerts.
Lemare, the English organist, will give a
recital Nov. 10th at the Church of the Heav-
enly Rest.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
LJERBERT H. JOY, 116 Carnegie Hall, New York. PIANO INSTRUCTION AND PIANISTS
l/LINGENFELD COLLEGE OF MUSIC, 108 Han- MME. HELENE MAIGILLE, 1211-1215 Carnegie
PV cook St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hall, New York.
VOCAL INSTRUCTION
PROVINCE OF THE ORGAN.
C I R WALTER PARRATT, England's
^
organ authority, according to John E.
Barkworth, an English organist, who has
just reached America, believes the rendering
of orchestral music on the organ may be
"justly compared to the reproduction of ari
oil painting by chromo-lithography, with its
comparatively crude tints and hard outlines."
Mr. Barkworth, who comes to take an im-
portant position in a leading
c o n s e r v a tory, believes in
avoiding the extreme, on the
one hand, of devoting the or-
gan solely to the reproduction
of orchestral music, and, on
the other, of devoting it ex-
clusively to the production of
religious selections. In course
of conversation, he said :
"Sir Walter Parratt is cel-
ebrated especially for his ex-
traordinary clearness of head
—a faculty he possesses to so
remarkable a degree that he
can carry on two games of
blindfold chess while playing
one of Bach's fugues. This
same clearness characterizes
his playing. But though he
can reproduce orchestral mu-
sic on the organ as well as
any living player, he always
discourages the attempt to
make the organ serve a pur-
pose for which it is not nat-
urally fitted.
HENBY G. HANCHETT, Pianist. Teacher,
13« Fifth Ave., N. Y.
D R. Lecturer,
This Professional Directory will
be extended to all branches
of art at the same rate.
LJEINRICH GEBHARD, 8 Mill st., Boston, Mass.
TEOPOLD WINKLER, Steinway Hall, N. Y.
A LEXANDER RIHM, 100 Kodaey
St., Brooklyn.
N. Y.
E. H. MARVIN, Hardman Bldg,
ENBY HOLDEN HUSS, 318 East 150th St. and
M ISS 138 FLOBENCE
Fifth Aye., N. Y. Tuesday, Thursday a«d H Carnegie Hall, N. Y.
A. BERNSTEIN, 160 East
Saturday.
E UGENE
N. Y.
ME.
LIZA
DELHAZE
WICKES.
2
West
95th
St..
ALBERT GERARD-THIERS, Vocal Studio, 649 M
JULIE RIVE-KING, 62 East 21st street
New York.
™ Lexington Are.. N. Y.
M RS.
ETTA EDWARDS, Steinert Hall, Bostoa, jyi ABIE L. POT YIN, 117 West 45th St., New York.
70th St.,
R. SAMUEL BOWDEN MOYLE—English Dic-
tiou a Specialty—136 Fifth A Ye., N. Y.

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