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MME. ROGER-MICLOS.
TO REVOLUTIONIZE ORGANIZATION.
"~P HE cover page of this issue of The Re-
view is illumined with a portrait of
Mme. Roger-Miclos, the French pianist
will be heard with the Damrosch Orchestra
February 3, and who will give her first re-
cital at Mendelssohn Hall on Feb. 11. Soon
after that she will make a tour of the prin-
cipal cities extending as far as the Pacific
coast.
Mme.. Miclos was born in Toulouse, and
as soon as her years made it possible she
was sent to the Conservatoire in that city,
where she became the prize pupil. At ten
years of age her playing was so laudable
that Rubinstein, who heard it, predicted that
Mme. Miclos would be included "among the
great artists of her time," because "already
she has individuality." Instead of exploit-
ing Mme. Miclos' unusual talents and sub-
jecting her to an American tour which was
then suggested, her mother sent her to the
Paris Conservatoire, where she became the
pupil of Mme. Massart. Here she took vari-
ous prizes, notably all first honors.
Since that time Mme. Miclos has flourished
artistically. At the concerts Colonne, • the
concerts Lamoureux and the concerts du
Conservatoire, this artist has been heard
and applauded—indeed, she is much beloved
and appreciated in Paris, as in all the French
cities. She later crossed the channel and be-
fore huge London audiences she played at
the Covent Garden promenade concerts,
achieving a tremendous success. Her Lon-
don successes were duplicated in Berlin,
Dresden, Leipsic, Vienna, Brussels, Prague,
Antwerp, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rotter-
dam, Amsterdam, The Hague—to mention
only the imposing ones,
Mme: Roger-Miclos is credited with hav-
ing done a great deal of pioneer work in mak-
ing known to the public the compositions
of all the modern writers, but notwithstand-
ing this she has always kept the classics well
in mind. Her interpretations of Beethoven,
Mozart, Chopin, Schumann and others are
full of poetic charm and have been branded
with the highest approval.
Mme. Roger-Miclos will make her tour-
nee under the management of L. M. Reuben,
108 Fifth avenue, this city, and the bookings
indicate that much interest is being displayed
by the musical people of this country in her
appearance.
IT is the opinion of men eminent in the
musical world that Walter Damrosch,
who is now at the head of the Philharmonic
Society, intends to revolutionize that con-
servative organization when the new guar-
antee fund is placed at his disposal. He will
take the orchestra on a tour that is to ex-
tend as far as San Francisco, and he expects
in the future to make these out-of-town en-
gagements a regular feature of the society's
yearly work. The New York Sun brought
to light a few days ago the fact that Mr.
Damrosch has this year been paying some
of the musicians out of his own pocket. He
felt that these musicians were needed for
the improvement of the orchestra, and, as
they were to be had in no other way, he
engaged them himself.
Andrew Carnegie is to be one of the trus-
tees who will look after the distribution of
the guarantee fund, and with him will be
associated Elkan Laumbourg, who has al-
ready done much for the Philharmonic.
There will be a third trustee, who has not
yet been selected..
It is interesting to note, by the way, that
Mr. Damrosch found it impossible to ac-
cept Mr. Carnegie's gift of $500,000 on con-
dition that a similar amount be raised by
other subscribers.
"This seemed too long a process," said
Walter Damrosch, "and time was passing
in the effort to raise so large an amount.
It has always been said that a permanent
orchestra could not be formed with a guar-
antee fund of less than $1,000,000. To make
the Philharmonic a permanent orchestra and
extend its operations has been for a year
the ambition of many of its supporters. But
to raise the amount to make Mr. Carnegie's
offer practical seemed impossible. He had
given much to his libraries just after the
request was made to him to subscribe for
the orchestra and he said he was somewhat
weary of being called on first at all times to
subscribe, but this time he would give half
if the rest could be gotten from the other
subscribers.
Jan Kubelik, from Warsaw, Poland, has
written to Daniel Frohman that he will re-
turn here in October for a whole year.
"This winter it was decided to raise a
guarantee fund of about $25,000 a year for
a number of years to support the Philhar-
monic, independent of public patronage, and
enable it to increase the field of its oper-
ations; I want to take the orchestra on the
road and improve its personnel in some im-
portant particulars. To have waited for the
$500,000 needed to enable us to accept the
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$2.00 PER YEAR.
Carnegie gift might have meant several
years longer. So a number of subscribers
have decided to raise a fund of $25,000 a
year for several seasons to come—long
enough, in fact, to make this the permanent
orchestra that New York wants so badly."
MACKENZIE'S FORTHCOMING TOUR.
A FEW weeks ago we made reference to
*^ the concerts of English music which
one of England's foremost composers and
conductors, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, is to
give, in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa,
next April, with the aid, it is said, of the
Cincinnati orchestra. At that time we also
regretted that an opportunity was not given
the people "on this side of the border" to
hear so distinguished a representative of
music in England. This view, we note, has
been re-echoed by the musical critic of the
Evening Post..
It is interesting to read the list of compo-
sitions to be performed at these concerts,
a list intended to represent the present con-
dition ' of orchestral music in England. It
includes F. Cliffe's "Ballade" from his sym-
phony in C minor; Dr. F. H. Cowen's
"Scandinavian" symphony; Dr. E. Elgar's
prelude and "Angel's Farewell" from "The
Dream of Gerontius"; Edward German's
"Gipsy" suite; Hamish MacCunn's over-
tures, "Ship o' the Fiend" and "Land of the
Mountain and Flood"; Sir Charles Stan-
ford's "Irish" symphony and "Irish" rhap-
sody ; Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Di Ballo" over-
ture; and Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Cor-
onation March, "Cricket on the Hearth," and
"Britannia" overtures, the "ballade" "La
Belle Dame sans Merci," and the new suite,
"London Day by Day."
NEW YORK STARTS AFFAIRS AFRESH.
A FTER the respite of the holidays we are
** now in for a revival of minor concerts.
The big events will not be lacking either.
At the Opera House all of Mr. Grau's cy-
cles of Verdi and Mozart, not to speak of
Wagner and his possible Ponchielli and Miss
Smyth operas, have yet to be heard from.
The Wetzler Orchestra will be heard at Car-
negie Hall to-day> the fourth Philharmonic
pair fall on Jan. 9 and 10, the next Boston
Symphony visits on Jan. 15 and 17. Men-
delssohn Hall will have the Kneisel Quartet
again on Jan. 6, and other January bookings
are Miss Snelling, Mrs. Marius, Maud Mac-
Carthy, the Kaltenborn Quartet, Minnie
Titus, Ethel Inman, the Canadian Society,
the Mannes Quartet, the Scottish Society,
Dr. Jackson and Mrs. Alexander.