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THE PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY CONCERTS.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the
**• People's Symphony Concerts, which
were so successfully inaugurated and car-
ried out last year at the Cooper Union with
F. X. Arens as conductor, and which were
recognized as a very important educational
factor in certain directions, are to be contin-
ued this season under still more favorable
conditions and the most vigorous manage-
ment. The following dates have been ar-
ranged for the concerts, which are given with
the co-operation of the People's Institute,
the University Extension Society, and the
University Settlement Society: Dec. 13th,
1901, and Jan. 17th, Feb. 21st, March 21st,
and April 18th, 1902, at the Cooper Union
Hall, with a supplementary concert at Car-
negie Hall. The purpose of these concerts
is to present an opportunity to students,
wage-workers and the people generally, of
hearing music of the highest order at prices
within their means, the rates of admission
being from ten to fifty cents for single con-
certs, and from five to twenty-five cents for
the entire season. As was the case last year,
Mr. Arens will have under his direction an
orchestra of forty-five performers carefully
selected from the best musicians of the city,
while vocal assistance will be given by emi-
nent artists. The programs will be drawn
from the works of the best composers, and
in their general scope will be fully equal to
those of the more pretentious concerts of-
fered in the uptown halls. The program for
the first concert will include Haydn's E flat
symphony, Goldmark's "Sakuntala" over-
ture, Handel's "Largo," and Wagner's "Kai-
sermarsch."
In connection with the announcements of
these People's Concerts, it will be of interest
to the public to know that a society has been
organized for the purpose of placing the en-
terprise on a permanent basis. The Hon.
John G. Carlisle, ex-Secretary of the Treas-
ury, is the treasurer of the organization;
Lucien J. Chaffin the secretary; and Miss
Nora Godwin, Mrs. Gilbert Jones, Albert
Stettheimer and J. Eugene Whitney, the ex-
ecutive committee, with Severo Mallet-Pre-
vost as chairman. The advisory committee
includes some fifty of the most prominent
men and women in the financial and social
circles of the city. A vigorous effort is to be
made to raise a permanent fund of $100,000,
the interest of which is to be employed in
meeting the expenses of series of annual
concerts. The office of the secretary of the
organization is at No. 26 East Twenty-third
Street.
MISS ESTHER PALLISER.
Sunday evening, Dec. 8th, there will
appear for the first time in this city
on the concert platform at the Metropolitan
Opera House, a young American woman
who has appeared with much success in the
leading festivals and concerts in England.
She arrived here without any advanced puf-
fery and her manager, Henry Wolfsohn, has
already arranged for her to make her New
York debut at his first concert on the even-
ing of Dec. 8th. She will sing the soprano
part in the "Elijah," which is to be given
by the New York Oratorio Society on the
evening of the 9th, and on the 15th she
has been engaged for the second concert of
the Arion Society. On the evening of the
18th she will sing the soprano part in the
"Messiah" in Albany and also with the. New
York Orotario Society in Carnegie Hall on
Dec. 27th and 28th. In England Miss Palli-
ser has been heard in the Crystal Palace con-
certs, the Philharmonic, and in the leading
ballad concerts, and at the annual May fes-
tival. She has also sung at the leading fes-
tivals, such as the Leeds, Birmingham, etc.
Miss Palliser will give a number of recitals
in New York, Boston and other cities before
she returns to Europe in April.
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SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN'S STATUE.
T H E proposed statue of Sir Arthur Sulli-
— van in St. Paul's Cathedral, London,
will not be placed in the crypt, as originally
suggested, but in one of the aisles. Sir Ar-
thur will be the first composer thus honored,
for, as the Music Trades Review of London
says: "Although there are tablets or inscrip*
tions in memory of two or three musicians
in the crypt, the monuments in the body of
the metropolitan cathedral are, with a few
notable exceptions, mainly devoted to naval
or military heroes. Among the exceptions
are the heroic statues by Bacon of John
Howard and Dr. Johnson, placed on either
side of the choir rails, to the sore confusion
of American visitors, who, it is said, persist
in mistaking them for Gog and Magog. The
Sullivan statue will, of course, be of smaller
dimensions, and it will be erected by the pub-
lic subscription now in progress. The com-
pliment thus paid to the great musician is
quite fitting, for, although Sullivan's name
had of late years been chiefly identified with
light music, yet in his earlier career he did
a good deal for the church. Moreover, al-
most his last composition, an English 'Te
Deum,' yet unheard in public, was written
for St, Paul's."
THE MEETING OF THE KINGS.
"T" 1 HAT must have been an eventful moment
—the meeting of the great "march
king" and the King of England on Satur-
day. John Philip Sousa must now be satis-
fied, for he and his organization have been
signally honored in being "commanded" to
give a concert at Sandringham, the auditors
embracing the King, Queen and the Royal
family. Judging from the way Americans
are now capturing Great Britain, it would
seem as if that country would soon take its
place as an annex to the "land of the free
and the home of the brave."
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ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS.
TPHE eccentricities of musical genius have
long been a favorite theme for space
writers in the daily press. The length of
hair never fails to be dilated on, while now
the relation between genius and physical
growth has come up for consideration. It
is claimed that, with few exceptions, all the
masters of music have been small men. In
support of this contention a list of composers
and instrumentalists^ short in structure and
slender in physique, is given, comprising
Wagner, Liszt, Schubert, Chopin, Mozart,
Weber, Haydn, Rubinstein, Beethoven, Jo-
seffy, Rosenthal, Hofmann, D'Albert, Gab-
rilowitsch, Hambourg, Bauer, Von Buelow
and Paderewski. What next!
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A NORDICA STORY WITH A MORAL
IVA ME. NORDICA has little patience with
* ^ * persons who are too easily discour-
aged. Hence, there is a moral in the follow-
ing story in which the distinguished artist
plays a prominent role. During her visit
last season to this country she kindly offered
to give an hour each day to a young kins-
woman who had a promising voice. Eleven
o'clock was the hour set for the lesson. One
day the young singer failed to appear.
Mme. Nordica met her later, and asked her
why she had not come to take her lesson.
The kinswoman replied that it was too hot
to work.
"Hot!" exclaimed the singer, "my dear,
if you expect ever to rise to the top, you'll
find it hot all the way up."
LJAROLD BAUER is scheduled to play
in the French provincial cities and in
Paris with Eugene Ysaye before returning to
this country in January. He recently played in
the Richter concerts in Manchester and was
highly successful on his first tour in Spain,
which has recently come to an end,