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NEW YORK TEACHERS TO MEET.
A MANUSCRIPT SYMPHONY BY SCHUBERT.
DAMROSCH'S EUROPEAN TRIP.
HP H E New York State Music Teachers'
Association is preparing to hold its an-
nual meeting at Troy on June 23, 24 and
25. The President is Carl G. Schmidt, of
New York, and the Programme Committee
is made up of Louis Arthur Russell, New
York; Thomas Impett, Troy; and Frank
A. Shearer, Lockport. Frank H. Shep-
herd, of New York, is the secretary, and
T. Ellsworth Stille. of Gloversville, the
treasurer. These names will be recog-
nized as among the foremost musical edu-
cators in the State. Reports from nearly
two hundred vice-presidents indicate that
interest in the doing of the association is
rapidly growing at all points. At the com-
ing meeting the morning sessions will be
devoted to 'round table discussions on
voice, piano, organ, theory, public school
music and other educational topics. The
afternoons will be given over to essays and
recitals by specialists and artists of distinc-
tion. Three evening concerts will be held,
in which the Troy Vocal Society, seventy
male voices; the Troy Choral Club, seven-
ty-five mixed voices, and the Philharmonic
Orchestra will be assisted by renowned
soloists in programmes of great value.
T H E story comes from Vienna of the dis-
covery at Gratz of a manuscript sym-
phony by Schubert. The work is said to
be in B-minor and is known as the Unfin-
ished, and of which little more than two
movements have hitherto been available.
The symphony which is now being brought
to light was found in Schubert's handwrit-
ing complete.
What is known as the "Unfinished Sym-
phony" was discovered by Herbeck in
1865 in the possession of Schubert's friend,
Enselmo Huttenbrenner at Gratz, and in
1867 was produced in England for the first
time at the Crystal Palace by Mr. Manns.
It is generally considered odd that Hutten-
brenner should have given out a fragment
of the complete work as it existed. Mean-
while the present manuscript bears the in-
scription in Schubert's writing "Franz to
Enselmo."
It was found among some
worthless papers left by Huttenbrenner's
old cook recently deceased.
If the story can stand the light of care-
ful investigation the find is one of the
greatest importance. The work will be
produced shortly in both Gratz and Vienna,
and we shall await further news of its au-
thenticity.
\ A / A L T E R DAMROSCH, the late con-
ductor of the Philharmonic Orches-
tra, returned from Europe last week, and
during his stay abroad he called upon
Paderewski at the latter's home, overlook-
ing Lake Geneva, near Lausanne, and
heard him play a piano sonata which he has
just written. In Paris he visited Saint-
Saens, and from the composer's window
they saw a part of the reception to King
Edward. Richard Strauss, who Mr. Dam-
rosch says will come to America next sea-
son, was another of his musical friends he
saw. He heard the new Strauss opera,
"Die Feuersnoth," which he declares to be
a beautiful production.
Mr. Damrosch made arrangements to
go abroad next winter for a long tour as
conductor. He will begin at Berlin Feb.
TO before the Philharmonic Orchestra
there. Later he will go to Warsaw, St.
Petersburg, conduct the Colonne Orches-
tra in Paris in March, and then conduct at
various other places, going as far south as
Madrid.
While Mr. Damrosch is said to have in
mind the establishment of a permanent or-
chestra in New York, he refuses to discuss
the subject at present.
ELGAR'S NEW ORATORIO.
C DWARD ELGAR'S new oratorio, "The
Apostles," will be produced at the Bir-
mingham Festival in the middle of Octo-
ber. With the exception of one number,
the words of the oratorio are taken from
the Scriptures. The general plan embraces
the Saviour's choice and appointment of
the Twelve Apostles, the declaration that
the Gospel must be preached and the proof
that there is need of assistance in proclaim-
ing its mission. Between a significent pro-
logue and epilogue, come two parts, the
first dealing with the life of the Saviour,
and ending with the ascension, while the
second treats of the descent of the Holy
Ghost, and the work of the Apostles at An-
tioch. This outline sounds promising.
There is material here of the kind which
Mr. Elgar treats with skill and enthusiasm,
and the only question is whether he had
it in mind long enough to compose it spon-
taneously.
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WILL CONDUCT CASTLE SQUARE CO.
C L L I O T SCHENCK. formerly assist-
ant conductor of the Damrosch Opera
Company, has been engaged by Col. Sav-
age as conductor of the Castle Square
Opera Company the coming season.
MUSIC FOR THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.
T H E general scheme of music for the
Louisana Purchase Exposition to be
held in St. Louis next year is tentatively
this:
An official orchestra of not less than
eighty-five players, to take part in all or-
chestral and choral concerts.
Two military bands of not less than
seventy-five players for the whole Exposi-
tion.
Mammoth concerts by consolidated
bands of from 150 to 300 performers.
Contests of singing societies, military
bands of the first, second and third class.
One great choral concert each month by
some visiting society, like the Handel and
Haydn, of Boston; the Apollo, of Chicago;
Festival Association choruses.
Daily organ concerts by the best organ-
ists of the world.
Without doubt the climax of the con-
vention will be reached when Gades's can-
tata, "The Crusaders," is sung by the Troy
Choral Club of eighty mixed voices, with
full orchestra and Mme. Gertrude M. Stein,
Evan Williams and Julian Walker as solo-
ists, with Allan Lindsav conducting. On
the second evening of the meeting the fa-
mous male choir, the Troy Vocal Society,
directed by C. A. Stein, will give a concert,
assisted by eminent soloists and full or-
chestra, Among other participants are Jes-
sie Shay and Carl Faelten, pianists; Rich-
ard Kay and Johannes Miersch, violinists;
Walter C. Gale, organist; Huntingdon
Woodman, Charles H. Farnsworth, Waldo
S. Pratt, E. M. Bowman, F. W. Woodell
and H. C. Macdougall, essavists.
MACDOWELL IN LONDON.
C D W A R D M A C D O W E L L , professor
^ of music at Columbia College and con-
sidered by some the head of American
composers, played for the first time in
England the other day at the fourth of the
London Philharmonic Society's concerts,
playing his second piano concerto. The
English papers differ considerably in their
estirnate of Mr. MacDowell's ability, but in
the main their comments were along fa-
vorable lines.
KELLEY TO CONDUCT IN BERLIN.
C D G A R S T I L L M A N K E L L E Y , the
American composer, now professor of
music at Yale, has been invited to conduct
his "Aladdin" suite at the international
concert which forms one of the features of
the programme for the Wagner celebra-
tion in Berlin next October.