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THE: MUSIC TRADE: REIVIEIW
UNIONS VERSUS GOVERNMENT.
which are steadily being taken advantage
The American Federation of Musicians of. Hence it is growing in favor.
Of the comedies of the type of "The
have evidently declared war against Govern-
ment bands, and wherever they are engaged Roger Bros, in London," and the "Whoop-
in future, such as for parades and other func- Dee-Doo," at Weber & Fields, it is un-
tions, union bands will necessary to speak. They fill a place ap-
not participate. The an- parently demanded, but are not to be con-
imus of the Federation sidered in the same class as those above
seems to be particularly mentioned. One thing is obvious, and it
directed against the U. S. is that New Yorkers find much pleasure
Military Bands at Wash- in musical comedies and when the book •
ington and West Point. and music are good and the presentation
During the past week satisfactory, managers are sure of prosper-
tie organizers of the ous runs, and plethoric bank accounts.
K
Centennial festivities in
NOW
A
RUSSIAN
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA.
Chicago were put to
much inconvenience and "INHERE are scores of Russian musicians
in New York and hundreds of other
trouble by the refusal of
the local bands to take transplanted Russians who love the music
part in the Centennial of their native land and who would like to
parade, owing to the U. acquaint the natives of their adopted coun-
S. Marine Band being try with the best works of the Russian
engaged to take part. composers, especially of the Neo-Russian
This action in Chicago, school. Therefore the Russian Symphony
which is just now in the Society has been incorporated and the Rus-
grasp of a labor mon- sion Symphony Orchestra, numbering
opoly by far more exact- more than sixty musicians, has been
ing and more tyrannical formed. The projectors have been in cor-
than any other trust, is respondence with the elite of the Russian
musical world, and so far expressions of
not surprising.
the
heartiest sympathy and warm prom-
It would certainly be
ises
of
co-operation have come in reply. Six
a sad condition of things
concerts
at popular prices have been ar-
in this country were
ranged
for
the season, at which the main-
freedom of action uni-
stays
of
the
Russian concert stage, un-
versally denied, and the
known
here,
will
be performed.
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union become a greater
it
power than the Govern-
NORDICA'S SUCCESS IN MUNICH.
ment itself. It is tending
\ 4 M E . LILLIAN NORDICA can cer-
that way, and the future
tainly claim the title of the greatest
will tell whether this
living Wagnerian soprano judging from
condition of things will
her enormous success as Briinhilde in the
be tolerated.
Nibelung Festival performances at Mu-
SUZANXK ADAMS.
at
nich. The journals of that city bear wit-
MUSICAL COMEDIES, GALORE.
having announced several vacancies to be
ness to her triumph and it is rather a hard
USICAL comedy, farce and operetta
filled among violins and 'cellos.
dose for the German critics to acknowl-
seem to dominate the theatrical sea-
Last, not least, the Kneisel Quartet this
edge the supremacy of an American, but
season, for the first time, will be missed son up to date. Fancy dresses, and fan-
they were evidently compelled to pay un-
from the Boston orchestra and will devote tastic dancing, tuneful songs, satiric jests
equivocal tribute to her talents. As a
the entire season to chamber music. It has constitute the make-up of these creations
mark of favor Mme. Nordica has received
no rivals now, and it will make a tour of which attract thousands nightly.
a Ludwig medal from the Prince Regent
Europe next summer and afterward. Lo-
Of the four or five musical plays now on
of
Bavaria.
cal quartet plans are as nebulous as the Broadway, the two English pieces, namely,
at
newest comet. Timothee Adamowski, the "Three Little Maids," at Daly's, and the
ROBERT GRAU INCORPORATED.
latest musical benedict, is announced to ap- "Princess of Kensington," at the Broad-
Papers were filed in the State of New Jer-
pear with his trio in Brooklyn.
way, are unquestionably
head and sey this week incorporating "Robert
•t
shoulders above their American rivals. Grau, Limited," with a paid-up capital of
THE PEOPLE'S CHORAL UNION.
This applies not only to the music, but to
H E People's Choral Union will begin the book. Not that they are works of any $100,000. The officers of the new company
its twelfth season early this month startling originality, but there is a refine- are: President, Robert Grau; Vice-Presi-
dent, W. E. Woodend; Secretary and
with seventeen classes for the study of
ment and intelligence in both productions Treasurer, Louis J. Bruck. The company
sight singing and choral music. This fall
the union under Frank Damrosch will that pleases. The artistic restraint which will have offices at 17 Ridgewood avenue,
study the "Fire Cross" by Max Bruch and is noticeable in the chorus as well as the Hackensack, and in the Windsor Arcade,
will give a public performance early next deftness, harmony and due sense of pro- Forty-sixth street and Fifth avenue. The
portion which prevails, delight those who purposes of the company are the direction
year.
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have become weary of boisterousness and in America of foreign stars and of Ameri-
Rudolph Krasselt, the new 'cellist of the vulgarity. Some of the songs from the
can stars in Europe.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, will make his
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first appearance in America at the second "Princess of Kensington" and the "Three
concert of that organization. His year of Little Maids," are bound to become exceed-
"PARSIFAL" IN PARIS.
compulsory military service in the German ingly popular.
\A
GAILHARD, Director of the Paris
Army is just expiring, and he will not be
Notwithstanding the unfavorable criti-
Opera, has taken a leaf out of Mr.
free in time to play at the first concert.
cism made of Geo. Ade's "Peggy From Conried's book and is thinking of produc-
The Afro-English Coleridge-Taylor has Paris," at Wallack's, it marks a new de- ing "Parsifal" in Paris. It is not easy to
written "Six American Lyrics for Con- parture along improved lines, and is bound
see how this is possible under the copy-
tralto or Baritone" which are'well spoken of.
to
win
a
larger
popularity
than
people
ex-
right
conventions that prevail between Eu-
Four of the poems are by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, one by Whittier, and one by Whit- pected the opening week. The plot af- ropean countries; and it is still harder to
fords unusual scope for comedy and pathos imagine "Parsifal" in French.
man.
in November and is down for a midwinter
concert with Plangon, Thibaudand Suzanne
Adams for the Hebrew charities of Brook-
lyn. The Women's String Orchestra is
again to play, Conductor Carl V. Lachmund