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THE MUSIC TRADE
FLORIDA'S SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL.
REVIEW
festival chorus and in addition to giving
HTHE first May Music Festival held at concerts during the year, they will rehearse
Tampa, Fla., on May 5th, 6th and 7th, some great musical work for the annual
was a brilliant success. It, marks, let us festival of next year.
hope, only the first of what should prove to
When one reads up the history of Miss
be important musical events in the history Dodge's success so far, it is safe to prog-
of Florida. The programmes were inter- nosticate that next year's event will be one
estingly diversified, and embraced vocal, of rare excellence, worthy of the State,
instrumental and operatic numbers which worthy of the city, and one that will make
were excellently rendered. There were the patrons proud of the part which they
large audiences at both afternoon and even- will take in it.
ing concerts—in fact people came from all
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C. T. DOLAN RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN.
parts of the State.
Considering the lack of preparation, us- p H A R L E S T. DOLAN has just been re-
ual in such affairs, the festival committee ^ elected chairman of the music commis-
worked wonders, thanks to the energetic sion of Boston.
Mr. Dolan was born in Roxbury, and
labors of Miss Louise Frances Dodge, the
general manager, who triumphed over educated in the schools of that district. Af-
every obstacle and perfected an organiza- ter singing as a boy soprano in the first
tion that represented the intelligence of sanctuary choir in Boston, connected with
the city of Tampa. She attended to every the chapel of the House of the Angel Guar-
detail and met every contingency as it dian, he studied vocal and instrumental
arose and aroused such interest in the fes- music under Falkenstein, Chelius and
tival as to make the people of Florida real- Vannini. When a young man he was lead-
ize what can be done for musical ad- ing baritone in the Balfe opera company,
vancement if they only put their shoulder which rendered the works of Balfe, Offen-
bach and other standard composers. Sub-
to the wheel.
• Among those who participated in the sequently he became organist of St.
festival were some pupils of Mrs. Ankie Thomas' Church, Jamaica Plain, and for
Green Parker, the distinguished teacher of the past 26 years has filled the same posi-
Gainesville, Fla., and of whose methods tion in St. Francis de Sales' Church, Ver-
The Review has taken pleasure in com- 11011 street, Roxbury. He is chairman of
mending on various occasions. It may be the music trustees of the city of Boston,
interesting in this connection to quote what musical director of the Charitable Irish So-
the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Times- ciety and a fourth degree member of the
Knights of Columbus.
L-nion said in this connection :
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"Two of the little pupils of Mrs. Ankie
Green Parker, of Gainesville, Misses Ros-
WOMEN AS DOCTORS OF MUSIC.
alie Connor and Lila Ford, performed dif-
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Albert Hall, London, on June 24th,
ficult compositions on the piano. They are
the
Princess of Wales will be invested
mere children, but they revealed a wonder-
ful talent.
Little Miss Lila, scarcely with the degree of Dr. of Music. This
large enough to reach the keyboard of the will be the first honorary Mus. Doc. ever
instrument, rendered a solo with the finish made by the London University. Our
and touch of a mature musician.
"Miss Mary Connor, who is famed all London namesake says: "Queen Alexan-
over the country in musical circles, as the dria is a Mus. Doc. of the Royal Univer-
phenomenon of child musicians, did not ap- sity of Ireland, and also of the University
pear in the afternoon, but was reserved for of Wales, and there is a statute of Her
last night.
Majesty in cap and robes at the Royal Col-
"Dr. Arthur Turner's violin and Miss
Mary Clayton Connor, as violinist and lege of Music. Miss Annie Patterson is a
pianist, were other important factors in Mus. Doc. of the Royal University of Ire-
land (by examination) and these are the
making a live programme.
"A feature of the day was that portion only ladies who possess the degree of Doc-
of the programme in which the young tor of Music."
pupils of Mrs. Ankie Green Parker, of
Gainesville, participaied. At the afternoon
DEMAND FOR PATTI CONCERTS.
concert the piano duet, Concert Polka, was
rendered not only with dash and brilliancy, n O B E R T GRAU quite recently cabled
but with wonderful expression, by the lit- *^ Madame Patti to Craig y nos, asking
tle Misses Rosalie Connor and Lila Ford. that her tournee of sixty concerts be ex-
They received a well-merited applause,
and responded with an encore. At night tended to seventy, in order that many
Miss Mary rendered Godard's 'Valse cities which could not be accommodated
Chromatique,' and gave as an encore,. in the first engagement can be visited.
Bachmann's Jigue Bretonne, both of which There has been no less than three thousand
difficult piano compositions were rendered eight hundred orders for seats and boxes
in a highly artistic manner. She also gave
a violin solo, arrangement of the 'Palms,' for Patti's New York appearances in No-
the piano accompaniment being by her vember already booked at the Patti offices
younger sister, Miss Rosalie Connor."
at Steinway & Sons, Windsor Arcade, and
Miss Dodge, who suggested the plan ot telegraphic orders are received daily from
the festival, has ambitious plans in mind as far as San Francisco asking that allot-
for the festival of next year. In addition ments be made. Mr. Grau has also cabled
to a series of concerts in which singers and to the diva earnestly requesting that he
instrumentalists of national fame will parti- may be permitted to give three concerts a
cipate, there will be a floral parade, a chil- week instead of ten a month. Madame
dren's day with open air fete, a State ball, Patti has written to the manager from
and a number of other features which will Venice that the Queen of Italy had pre-
sented her with a souvenir after the charity
add a social side to the musical menu.
It is also proposed to organize at once a concert in Rome, proclaiming her as fol-
lows : "Al illustra Artista Adelina Patti
Elena, 1903."
AMERICAN OPERATIC COMPOSERS.
pvISCUSSING
the development of
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American opera in the Forum,
Joseph Sohn says: 'In advocating the en-
couragement of American operatic com-
posers, I do not by any means wish to im-
ply that subjects taken from American life
are to be chosen, or that a new style, es-
sentially American, is to be evolved. As
before stated, the development of art does
not lie in the direction of nationalism. Even
in Russia, where it is the logical policy of
the government to promote a distinctively
national art which shall draw its material
from Muscovite history, and where, for
several other seasons also, such encourage-
ment finds a certain justification, the com-
posers are by no means confining them-
selves to these subjects—as demonstrated,
for example, by Napravnik in his success-
ful opera, 'Francesca da Rimini.' The chief
fact to be borne in mind is that native com-
posers have an opportunity to obtain a
hearing- for their works; and, with the es-
tablishment of a permanent, well-organ-
ized operatic company in New York, Amer-
ican musicians also may become more
hopeful.
"It may well be then that Wagner's
prophecy to the effect that his successor
would come from America will be fulfilled,
and that we shall some day have a product,
not merely cosmopolitan, but universal,
and fundamentally human in the Wagerian
sense. Those who are either forever
'looking backward,' or merely contemplat-
ing art in the light of present political and
social conditions, confidently declare that
the Anglo-Saxon race is incapable of pro-
ducing a musical genius of the first order—
a statement frequently accepted as self-evi-
dent, although it is but a mischievous half-
truth. The fact is that the signification ot
the term 'musical' has undergone consider-
able modification.
ZELLMAN PUPILS IN CONCERT.
HE pupils of the Zellman Conservatory of
Music, of which Jos. B. Zellman is direc-
tor, gave a very delightful concert last Fri-
day evening which was attended by a large
and fashionable audience who expressed the
greatest appreciation of the very delightful
programme interpreted. The pupils individ-
ually, as well as the Cantata Singing Society
directed by Mr. Zellman, displayed the very
excellent training received at this Conserva-
tory.
*
Francesco Guardabassi, the Italian bari-
tone, who has been a prominent figure at
local private musicals for several seasons,
has been engaged by Mr. Heinrich Con-
ned for the Metropolitan Opera House.
T
ETTA EDWARDS, Vocal Instruction, Steinert Hall,
M RS. Boston,
Mass.
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