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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 10

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THE 7VHJSIC TRKDE
REVIEW
The contract which Mme. Patti has for- MANY CHANGES AT THE METROPOLITAN.
warded to this country is iron-clad and full HP HE Conried Metropolitan Opera Com-
of conditions. She is to be paid $5,000 for
* pany is now duly incorporated. The
each concert, a concert to consist of one solo, directors for the first years are Henry Con-
one concerted number and appear in a scene ried, James H. Hyde, Wm. H. Mclntyre,
from "La Traviata," "The Barber of Se- Otto H. Kahn, Geo. J. Gould, Henry Mor-
ARTISTS' DEPARTMENT.
ville" or "Linda di Chamounix." If, how- genthau, J. Henry Smith, Eliot Gregory,
ever, Patti is indisposed, she may miss a con- Clarence H. Mackay, Henry Rogers Win-
TELEPHONE NUMBER, 1745—EIGHTEENTH STREET
The Artists' Department of The Review is cert. In addition to the stated sum for each throp, Wilfred B. Bremner, Eugene Bar-
published on the first Saturday of each month. concert, she is to be paid fifty per cent, of rington, Bainbridge Colby, John Quinn and
the excess over $7,500 taken in at each con- Walter H. Merriam. This board may be said
LENTEN MUSIC.
cert.
to represent art, finance, and the old and
\\7 ITH the arrival of Lent music has
new elements in society.
It
is
estimated
that
Mme.
Patti
will
sing
*
taken on a somewhat more subdued
in
sixty
concerts
and
that
she
will
receive
In its articles the company specifies pur-
tone—in other words, it has been transferred
from society to the church. Lenten music has the enormous sum of $375,000 for her work. poses of a very wide character. They are
now come to be as characteristic a feature of Mme. Patti is to travel in a private car on "to sustain, encourage and cultivate a taste
church observance each year as are the noon- her tour, all newly furnished, and she is to for music, literature and the arts," to erect,
day meetings and the preaching to the bad have apartments on the ground floor of the maintain, purchase and occupy one or more
men of Wall street which take place at Old best hotels in the cities where her tour is buildings, to give in all States of the United
States operatic, dramatic and other perform-
Trinity and old St. Paul's. At the Church planned.
We doubt very much whether any such ances, to do anything and everything, in fact,
of the Ascension on Fifth avenue they have
outlined some excellent programs in the way contract has ever before been made by a that relates to serious and substantial work
of special recitals. Sunday vespers at the singer, but then Mme. Patti is unique, for, in the primary purpose of the company.
same church are largely given to music, as although she on Feb. 10 attained the ripe
Heinrich Conried has already taken steps
are those at Grace Church, at St. Barthol- age of sixty, she is still by far the most pop- to impress on the artists that he is to en-
omew's under Mr. Warren, at Incarnation ular prima donna now before the public.
gage at the Metropolitan Opera House the
Mme. Patti has written to friends in Lon- changes that will take effect in the control
Church under Mr. Hedden, at St. Thomas's
under Mr. Macfarlane, and elsewhere. The don that she anticipates thoroughly enjoy- of the theatre next year. He has already
most noteworthy Lenten series is announced ing her visit to "the greater United States." abolished the concert bureau that has existed
in the heart of- the shopping district, at the When she made her first success there the in connection with the Maurice Grau Opera
Church of the Holy Communion, Sixth ave- Civil War was just beginning, and the coun- Company.
nue and Twentieth street, where Dr. Mottet try west of the Mississippi was almost a wil-
Some of the singers were really engaged
and his organist, C. Whitney Coombs, will derness. American millionaires were then as more for these concerts than for the opera
hold organ recitals with singing by the full scarce as multi-millionaires are now. Then performances. Mmes. Schumann-Heink and
robed choir three times daily, at 10, 12:30 Pullman palace cars had not been invented; Scheff and MM. Campanari and Bispham
and 5 o'clock, in addition to the regular Sun- now she will travel like a princess, lacking have usually sung more in concert than in
few of the luxuries of palaces put on wheels. the opera. They were sent all over the coun-
day afternoons.
She will be accompanied by her husband, try and were a great source of profit to the
At the "Old First" Presbyterian Church
Baron
Cedarstrom, her third husband, who management, as much larger sums were
W. C. Carl will have a Lenten series of free
is
the
antithesis of her first—Marquis de paid for these concert appearances than the
organ recitals on Friday evenings, beginning
Caux,
elderly
and self-cultured man of the Maurice Grau Opera Company paid the sing-
on March 13. On April 3, the 100th recital
world.
The
Baron
is young and absolutely ers.
given by Mr. Carl in this church will occur.
devoted.
The Church of the Divine Paternity, with
Mme. Schumann-Heink, for instance, re-
Jt
the Oxford tower overlooking Central Park
ceived as much at $900 frequently for con-
NEW CONCERTO BY MASSENET.
West, is to have organ recitals on five con-
cert appearances, although her compensation
1
T
™
HE
first performance of Massenet's new from the Maurice Grau Opera Company was
secutive Thursdays, beginning this week, by
pianoforte concerto was given the much less. Frequently the profits from the
J. Warren Andrews. S. Archer Gibson has
been giving similar concerts in the Second other day in Paris by Louis Diemer. It is concert agency were as great in a week as
Church of Christ Scientist, on the same the first work of this kind that Massenet has those from the operatic performances.
thoroughfare. Sumner Salter has a distinc- written. It is said to be a sort of fantaisie,
But Mr. Conried has decided that it is
tively "concert" auditorium in Mendelssohn not following in the least the traditional form much more important to have sufficient re-
Hall, where the vested choir of the Broad- of the concerto, but rather the free fancy of hearsals to make the performances move
way Tabernacle is regularly heard now. T. the composer. It has three movements, of smoothly and the concert bureau is to be
E. Morgan's New York Festival Chorus is which the third, an allegro, is upon Slovak abolished, and any of the artists engaged
at Carnegie Hall and the West Side Y. M. themes. In this the orchestra is augmented next year must give up the privilege of sing-
C. A. The Eighteenth Street M. E. Church with drums, cymbals, and a "celesta," and the ing in concert.
has special music by an antiphonal robed color and whirl of the movement are said by
The Philadelphia performances, which
choir lately organized. Grace M. E. Church, Arthur Pongin to be bewildering.
have also been given twice a week during
in 104th street, has special music directed
the season, will be postponed until the spring,
JAN KUBELIK WINS A COUNTESS.
by Kate Stella Burr, and at the People's
when two weeks will be devoted to opera
Church, in East Sixty-first street a perform- \KT ELL, well; so Jan Kubelik, whose violin there, just as the seasons are at present given
playing delighted such a wide con-
ance of Gaul's "Holy City" occurred on Fri-
stituency
in this country last year is en- in Boston and Chicago.
day of last week.
All of the artists engaged for next year
gaged to be married. And heaven save the
will
have to be in this city by the middle of
mark! to a widow. Mrs. Kubelik to be, is
PATTI WILL GET $5,000 A CONCERT.
November.
The season will begin on the
A DELINA PATTI, or, as she is known in the Countess Marianne Csaky and relative
30th
of
that
month
and these two weeks will
** private life, the Baroness Cedarstrom, of Coloman Von Szell, the Hungarian Prime
be
devoted
to
rehearsals.
will begin another tour of America on Nov. Minister. She is said to be only twenty-two
Mr. Conried will shortly sail for Europe
3 of this year. She will first appear at the years of age, and a beautiful and cultured
and
return here early in the summer to super-
Metropolitan Opera House in a matinee and woman. The formal betrothal took place in
intend
the alterations and improvements in
in a concert to be given at Madison Square Vienna last week and the father of the Count-
Garden. Then she will proceed on a tour ess has stipulated that a year must elapse the stage of the opera house. One feature
which will extend to Canada, the Pan"Fir before the wedding. Kubelik, it is said, will of these changes will be. a new electric light-
Coast and possibly to Mexico and Havana, reside in Vienna between his tours, on which ing plant to cost more than $30,000. The
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Com-
his wife will accompany him.
afterward returning to New York.
REVIEW
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THE MUSIC TRHDE
THE "RING" CYCLES IN LONDON.
worship, and, on the other hand, by the
A
CCORDING
to Truth of London the
clergy that organists do not always keep suf-
**•
German
system
is again to be tried
ficiently in mind the religious point of view.
for
the
"Ring"
cycles
at
Covent Garden in
No one man has ever done so much to raise
April,
the
performances
commencing
at 5 in
the organists' profession from every point
the
afternoon
("Gotterdammerung"
at 4),
of view as the late Sir John Stainer.
while
a
break
is
to
be
made
at
about
6 for
HERBERT WITHERSPOON.
Dr. Richardson's address provided a lively
""THERE is to-day no career in America and prolonged discussion. Dr. Keightley, of an early dinner or late luncheon. "We are,
* quite so remarkable as that of Herbert Manchester, said that the semi-professional like good little people," says Truth, "to be
Witherspoon, who is rightfully coming into organist did a great deal of harm to the pro- packed home to bed before 11. Further-
what he deserves in the way of appreciation fession and brought down its fees. Dr. Cum- more, morning dress is to be the rule (for
from his own people. But it must not be mings said that Sir John Stainer had never the man in a swallow tail and a white tie at
forgotten that the work which Mr. Wither- been a choirmaster in St. Paul's Cathedral, 4 P.M. is likely to be mistaken for a waiter),
spoon has done before the audiences of near- where he made his reputation and attained the theatre will be darkened, the music is to
ly every important city in America has justi- his high position. In that Cathedral the be given without 'cuts/ (six and a half hours
fied his position of standing to-day at the voice trainer had been always a singer and of it; including intervals, will be the joy of
very head of his profession.
one of the choir; he never had been a:i or- the Wagnerites at the two Saturday repre-
Mr. Witherspoon sings with great intelli- ganist. The same thing obtained in WYt-l- sentations), the stall and grand tier boxes
will be cleared away and there will be no
gence, the most exquisite refinement, pol- minster until comparatively recently.
admission, after the music has begun, so that
J*
ished and musicianly style, to which he brings
VAN HOOSE IN OPERA.
as 'Das Rheingold' will be played in all
a voice of delicious quality and splendid tone
C
LLISON
VAN HOOSE, the well-known its heavenly lengths without break, the man
production. Mr. Witherspoon is the fore-
most baritone in oratorio, and in song he is •*—' tenor, is about to forsake the concert who comes a couple of minutes late will not
equally at home. It is always an attraction stage for the operatic. For several years he hear any part of the performance at all. This
when his name is upon a program, as he has received offers from the managers of plan, however, was tried some years ago,
never fails to make good what is expected some of the leading opera houses in Ger- and it broke down at the outset; so much so,
of him. He has had a very successful sea- many, all of which he has declined. The indeed, that the Covent Garden management,
son and has been heard with nearly every management of the Stadt Theater in Bre- in order to prevent further disputes, cleared
large organization in America. His book- men has made him an offer, and he has ac- away the stall doors altogether. There will
ings already run into next season, and there cepted. He will leave New York for Europe be no Baireuth this year, so that the faith-
is little doubt that he will be heard every in April, going direct to Paris, where he will ful are expected to turn up at Covent Garden
where that a great artist is appreciated. A study repertoire with Koenig of the Paris in force. As to ordinary folks, they may find
handsome portrait of Mr. Witherspoon ap- Grand Opera, until it is time for him to it convenient to recollect that the second act
make his debut, which will be in September. commences as a rule at about 7.45; and with
pears on our cover nage.
Mr. Higgins of Covent Garden made him three hours of Wagner's melodies ahead the
J*
an
offer last summer to sing there this spring, dose will suffice for most men."
CHURCH ORGANISTS DISCUSSED.
but
he refused; he repeated the offer for the
/ ^ HURCH organists were the subject in
J*
>
season
of 1904, and it is now possible that
^-
discussion at the Dublin conference of
ITALIAN COMPOSERS BUSY.
British and Irish musicians lately: Dr. A. Mr. Van Hoose will accept it.
ITALIAN composers are displaying much
1
Medeley Richardson divided organists as a
ABOUT MASCAGNI.
activity these days. Leoncavallo and
class into the amateur, the semi-professional, TT has been decided by the Boston courts Puccini have new operas practically com-
and the genuine professional. The third was, *• that the suit brought by Mittenthal Bros, pleted. In November Leoncavallo's new
of course, the real article, but the second very against Mascagni must be tried in Italy, opera "Roland," ordered by the Emperor ot
often supplied a real want. An ideal organ- where' the contract was signed. This is a Germanv, will be heard at the Imperial Opera
ist should be a first-rate organ player, an effi- decided victory for Mascagni, who, by the House in Berlin. Puccini's opera, "Mme.
cient voice trainer, a good-all-round musi- way, has been received with great cordiality Butterfly" is now ready and efforts are being
cian, and an educated gentleman. It was by the people of the Pacific Coast. He is made to have Mme. Calve assume the prin-
generally complained that, though good or- still embittered over his treatment in New cipal role, but she has not as yet given her
gan players were plentiful, voice trainers York and other Eastern points.
consent. In the domain of oratorio Father
were very difficult to find. The explanation
We note that Signor Mascagni's appeal Hartmann is working at his "Last Supper,"
of this difficulty was not to be found in the against the royal decree removing him from while Don Perosi made his first appearance
introduction of boy choirs, which had been his post as director of the Pesaro Liceo has with the Sistine Chapel Choir recently. He
introduced with reckless haste, quite regard- been rejected.
has been working day and night to bring this
less of the inevitable penalty.
body
of singers to his idea of perfection, and
FAIRY CANTATA BY LIZA LEHMANN
It was possible to convert naturally bad
their
joint efforts were heard at the Grand
A NEW work by Liza Lehmann which has
voices into good ones by a proper system of
Mass
held in commemoration of the twenty-
just been heard in London is a fairy
training,, and he was of the opinion that the
fifth
anniversary
of the death of Pope Pius
cantata, entitled "Once Upon a Time," and
organist ought to be himself the choirmaster.
IX.
laid out for soli, chorus and orchestra. There
A 'little education was necessary in a pro-
j*
is also an important part for a "narrator,"
fessional organist, and he attached import-
WORKS
BY
MOZART
DISCOVERED.
who sometimes speaks through music, but
ance to the value of a university training
C
O
M
E
newly
discovered
works of Mozart
more often is used to complete the story by
with a degree in arts. The cathedral organ-
^
were
performed
by
the
Dresden Mozart
reciting such parts as do not call for the com-
ist had, unfortunately, no legal rights. The
poser's art. The fairy cantata is designed Verein recently for the first time in Germany.
organist, as chief musician, ought to have
One was the overture unearthed last year
for popularity and is likely to attain it.
control over all purely musical matters, such
in the library of the Paris Conservatoire.
as the selection of music, its preparation, and
VAN DER STUCKEN RESIGNS.
This work appears to be the second of Mo-
the appointment of members and discipline I AST week Mayer Fleischmann, who is zart's symphonies known to have been writ-
of the choir, in so far as it concerned the *~* president of the Board of Directors of ten in Paris, and hitherto supposed to be lost.
rendering of the services.
the Cincinnati College of Music, announced Another practically unknown composition
There was commonly a feeling of mis- that Frank van der Stiicken will sever his given at the same time was a duet in "Die
understanding between the clergy and organ- relation as director of that institution at the Zauberflote," in which Pamino and Papa-
ists. It might, perhaps, be traced to a no- close of the present academic year and will geno express their longing for Pamina and
tion commonly held, on the one hand, by devote his time to composition. Mr. van der Papagena. It was discovered in a manu-
organists that the clergy do not care suffi- Stiicken has been connected with the Cin- script score in the old Theater an der Wien
ciently for the artistic side of the church cinnati school since 1897.
in Vienna.
pany . is, of course, responsible for these
changes. The auditorium of the theatre is
also to be redecorated and changed to a cer-
tain extent. These changes have been in-
trusted to O. Codman.

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