Classic Mode

Music Trade Review

Issue: 1903 Vol. 37 N. 5

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public singer, failed in the end, or at least
was obliged to content himself with a medio-
cre position in the artistic world, far below
his youthful hopes. Nor, in many instances,
was this failure due to an over-estimation of
his powers, but rather to deterioration of the
voice under false training. In our first article
we mentioned a few who, if not failures, cer-
tainly cannot be said to have achieved any
such measure of success as their natural gifts
warranted. Do you think, student, that their
money was well invested ? Do you not rather
consider that they have paid a heavy price for
their training ?
MUSIC TRADE
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REVIEW
MRS. PARKER MAY VISIT NEW YORK.
MUSIC AS A THERAPEUTIC.
HT EACHERS and all interested in the de-
velopment of a child-mind, will be glad
to learn that Mrs. Ankie Green Parker,
whose methods of teaching are well and fav-
orably known throughout the United States,
contemplates visiting New York the coming
musical season, and will give instructions to
a limited number of pupils. She will proba-
bly be accompanied by several of her clever
pupils, notably the Misses Mary Clayton and
Rosalie Connor and Lila Ford, whose por-
traits appear herewith. Of the ability of
these children we have had much to sav in
USIC not only has charms to soothe the
savage breast, but, according to exper-
iments now being conducted on Ward's is-
land, it has the power to take the kinks out
of disordered minds. W'ard's island is New
York's asylum for the insane and thousands
are treated there annually. Every plausible
theory for the treatment of mental disorders
has been given a trial there, and out of a
large practical experience a comprehensive
system of treatment has grown.
The music cure has had a noticeable effect
on a certain class of patients. It seems to di-
GLAZOUNOFF'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY.
Russians are slowly but surely win-
ning the recognition they deserve in the
realm of music. One of the most talented of
the Russian composers, Alexander Glazou-
noff, was the hero of a recent Philharmonic
concert in London. He conducted two new
works of his own, his seventh symphony and
a suite called "Aus dem Mittelalter," which
is a piece of programme music in four move-
ments, illustrating as many pictures of typical
mediaeval life, such as love in a lonely castle
by the sea, a "dance of death," a troubadour's
song, and an incident of the crusades. The
first movement is described as a strikingly
poetical conception, though the love-theme is
not remarkable for much distinction; in the
second, the resources by which the modern
orchestra attains a grotesque effect, such as
xylophones, etc., are used, and the movement
is a counterpart (perhaps rather too close a
counterpart) to Saint-Saens's "Danse Maca-
bre ;" the "serenade" is decidedly quaint, and
the finale spirited and picturesque. The work
was received with great enthusiasm.
NOT A NEW DEPARTURE.
D E O P L E who are easily imposed on fancy
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that the extraordinary technical com-
plexities of Richard Strauss's "tone-poems"
and his fearless indulgence in cacophony con-
stitute an important new departure in music.
They are mistaken, says Henry T. Finck.
Wagner and Liszt were even greater masters
of orchestral technique, and equally fearless
in the use of dissonances when there was oc-
casion for them. They had, moreover, what
Strauss seldom has, genuine melodic ideas.
In cultivating ingenious complexity for its
own sake, Strauss does not represent prog-
ress, but a relapse into the empty artificialities
of the mediaeval Netherlands school.
Mediaeval music has something much bet-
ter than its intricate technique to offer us. It
had several modes differing from the modern
major and minor as these differ from each
other. Some of the really creative composers
of our time—Liszt, Franz, Grieg, and Tchai-
kovsky in particular—saw the emotional pos-
sibilities of these quaint old modes and made
occasional use of them in a most effective
way. They will play a more and more im-
portant role in the music of the future. Theo-
retically, too, these modes are of great inter-
est. Composers and students may be glad to
know that the researches of the late A. J.
Hipkins into two of the ancient modes were
embodied in a pamphlet, at first printed for
private circulation and afterwards in the
"Sammelbande" of the Internationale Musik-
Gesellschaft, Jahrgang IV., Heft 3, under the
title of "Dorian and Phrygian."
LILA TAMAR FORD.
MARY CLAYTON CONNOR.
previous issues. Mary Connor, especially,
displays the erudition of a graduate of our
most noted conservatories. She is an expert
pianist and violinist, and with her sister can
do marvelous things in the musical line. Lit-
tle Lila Ford is also surprisingly clever—in
fact, they all illustrate the wonderful results
of Mrs. Green's system of teaching.
The simplicity and effectiveness of Mrs.
Parker's method of teaching has occasioned
universal comment, and she has been re-
cently in receipt of much correspondence as
well as visits from prominent teachers all
over the country. She is the author of a num-
ber of books covering the system which have
been highly praised. Thoroughness is the
keynote of Mrs. Parker's method of teaching.
In every branch of musical study her pupils
are carefully versed. The appearance re-
cently of a number of her pupils, including
those mentioned above, at the State Music
Festival given in Tampa, Fla., resulted in
many flattering notices appearing in the local
papers in which Mrs. Parker and her pupils
came in for no small measure of praise.
All interested in Mrs. Ankie Green Park-
er's, method of teaching and desirous of tak-
ing the course would do well to address her
up to Sept. 1, 1903, at Gainesville, Fla.
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Maud Powell, the celebrated violinist, will
not return to this country until January. Im-
portant concert dates abroad prevents her
coming over in November as expected.
ROSALIE FRANCES CONNOR.
vert their minds from special manias and
makes them more tractable for other treat-
ment. The music cure consists simply of
daily concerts during the dinner hour and in
the evening.
HANS RICHTER SARCASTIC.
r \ R . HANS RICHTER has recently been
*~^ paying his compliments to his native
land in a letter to a private correspondent as
follows: "To see Wagner thoroughly hon-
ored, one really has to leave Germany nowa-
days and go abroad. For in Berlin the
students of the Conservatoire are still warned
against his music, although even at the time
of the greatest misunderstanding of Berlioz's
works in Paris, no professor or director ever
advised the students not to study Berlioz's
music when performed. But twenty years
after the master's death it is in Germany pos-
sible to hear Richard Wagner pooh-poohed.
"I am glad that I have left these unpleas-
ant surroundings, and during these last per-
formances in London I have certainly felt
how right I was to have sought and found
my home in England."
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DUSS AT LAST FAMOUS.
USS, the bandmaster, has at last arrived
at true distinction. Hereafter he will
be classed with Lillian Russell and Peter F.
Dailey, and, like them, his name will be in
many persons' mouths. A cigar manufacturer
decided this week to name a cigar after him.
It will be a good cigar, too, unless it be a
bad one.
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VENTURES INTO THE HISTRIONIC DOMAIN.
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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC.
X H E Frohman and other combinations
Augusta Cottlow, one of the foremost of
and attractions in the theatrical world our young American pianists, will open her
must "have a care." Bandmaster Duss and season with a tour of twenty-five concerts
his manager, R. E. Johnston, have formed along the Pacific coast, beginning the first
a partnership and propose putting from week in October, and will remain there until
two to half a dozen dramatic companies the end of November, after which she will
"on the road" the coming season. As may tour the middle West and Texas, returning
be expected, this move means the inaugu- East early in January, playing her first en-
ration of many novel ideas. It is not true, gagement with the Philadelphia orchestra.
however, that these gentlemen will fill the
Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals, after giv-
shoes of Edwin Booth and other distin-
ing
a few successful concerts in Portugal,
guished histrions.
They have secured
sailed
from Lisbon on June 3 for a joint tour
some budding actors and actresses who
in
Brazil
during July and August. Harold
will, pose as "stars" and who, by the way,
Bauer
will
leave Europe on Sept. 15 for the
have never been heard of in theatrical cir-
United
States,
where he opens at the Worces-
cles. Meanwhile Duss and Johnston very
emphatically state: "We are going to make ter Festival on Sept. 30. Pablo Casals has
actors and actresses, and not let them make made arrangements for a tour in the LInited
us." This is a characteristic statement, States commencing in January.
and an example of Duss philantrophy as
Umberto Giordano, composer of "Andre
well. It is rather significant after hib
Chenier," a work recently introduced to the
Venice experience, that Mr. Johnston
should admit "that there is more money in English public by the Carl Rosa Company,
dramatic than in musical entertainments." has just finished a new opera, "Siberia," to
We note that Nordica, De Reszke and for- the libretto of M. Luigi Illica. This will be
mer Duss employees are to be present to produced shortly at La Scala, Milan.
pass judgment on the play to be presented
Mme. Patti (the Baroness Cedarstrom)
in New England on Sept. 28. Is it possible
will sail from Southampton Oct. 24 and ar-
that a "special express steamer has been rive in New York about Oct. 30. Her first
chartered to bring them over? It is so concert will take place in New York, Monday
wearisome to be burdened with money, you evening, Nov. 2. She will also be heard at
know!
a matinee in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 4.
MUSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES.
H E announcement that Richard Strauss
and his wife would visit us the coming
season brings to mind that he is by no means
the first composer who is lucky enough to
have a wife who can do missionary work for
him. Griegg's wife was for years the best
interpreter of his songs, while it will be re-
membered that Schumann's wife first made
the European public familiar with his works
for the pianoforte at a time, too, when they
were caviare to other pianists and the public.
The singing by Frau Strauss of her hus-
band's songs will lend an interesting feature
to our concert season.
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GEO. DEANE'S NEW LAURELS.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, July 28, 1903.
George Deane, tenor of the King's
Chapel choir, recently won fresh laurels by
his creditable work in connection with the
performances given here by the Operatic
School of the New England Conservatory
of Music. Mr. Deane sang the leading-
tenor roles in the second act of "Lucia,"
the fourth act of "Faust," and the fourth
act of "Carmen," scoring a distinct success
in each instance. He will spend his vaca-
tion during the months of August and Sep-
tember with friends in Southwestern Mis-
souri.
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Richard Strauss is said to have finished
the symphonic tone poem "Taillefer," upon
which he was reported to be at work some
time ago, and will have it performed shortly
at Zurich. Will it figure in the programmes
of the "Strauss Festival" that he will conduct
with Mr. Wetzler in New York next winter?
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Charles Tree, the eminent English bari-
tone, has been secured by Loudon G.
Charlton for his first American tournee
this season. So constant is the demand for
Mr. Tree in London and the principal cities
in the English provinces, that he can only
come to America for the months of Jan-
uary and February, 1904.
Both concerts are to be given at Carnegie
Hall.
The posthumous opera, "Der Corregidor,"
of the late Hugo Wolf, the song composer,
who died insane near Vienna, is going the
round of the German opera houses. It has been
produced in Mannheim, Gratz and Prague,
is in preparation at Munich, and has now
been accepted by the Vienna Opera House.
Maurice Kaufmann, a young American
violinist, who has been abroad for a number
of years, and during the last two years ap-
pearing at many important concerts in Ger-
many, France and England, is to return here
next winter, making his debut in an orches-
tral concert in Carnegie Hall the middle of
November.
Anton Van Rooy, the great Dutch basso,
who comes for a short concert tour under the
management of Mr. Wolfsohn before the
opening of his opera season, will sing his first
engagement in Minneapolis on the 2d of No-
vember. From then until the opening of the
operatic season on the 23d, he will sing al-
most continually in either orchestral concerts
or recitals.
David Bispham will return from Europe in
time to sing at the Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont musical festivals. It is not ex-
pected that he will sing in any of the operatic
performances this season, the numerous in-
quiries for his services in recitals and orches-
tral concerts prohibiting his making a con-
tract with the opera management for the en-
tire season.
Suzanne Adams, after the close of the
Covent Garden season, will return here late
in September, when she makes a concert tour
in conjunction with her husband, Mr. Leo
Stern, the well-known 'cellist.
The Strauss Festival held in London re-
cently was not a success financially. How-
ever, Richard Strauss has some very rich
and influential friends in London, two of
whom have agreed to pay the deficit, which is
said to be large.
Ellison Van Hoose is now in Switzerland,
where he is preparing for his operatic debut
with Koening. He returns to this country in
September for the Worcester festival.
Shanna Cumming, the most noted of our
American concert singers, will open her
Western tour about the middle of October
and not be heard in the East until December.
Adele Aus Der Ohe, the pianist, who re-
turns after an absence of five years, makes
her reappearance Oct. 30 and 31 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
It is rumored in London that there will
be no more Handel festivals in the Crystal
Palace, because "superior persons now turn
up their noses at the festival." That is what
comes from getting a season of Richard
Strauss.
Eugen D'Albert's new opera, "Tiefland,"
is to have its first performance next October
at Prague.
The first of the artists to be engaged for
the Worcester Festival are Shanna Cum-
mings, Herbert Witherspoon and Ellison
Van Hoose.
Just to demonstrate his remarkable versa-
tility Mascagni is said to have now written
a comedy. Next!
"Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and "The Ring"
are the works chosen for the Baireuth festival
next year.
The Liszt monument at Stuttgart, the
work of the sculptor, A. Freund, will be un-
veiled on Oct. 22.
RUSSIAN MUSIC IN RUSSIA.
D E F O R E 1850 a musician in Russia could
not support himself by his profession
alone, ana even now it is only possible to do
so in the great centers like Moscow and St.
Petersburg. Though Russians are very fond
of opera and theatre, it is very difficult, like
in our own country, for the native composers
to gain a hearing. Thei-r music is original
enough to gain a speedy hearing in every
other country; its note of wildness, almost
hopelessness, and the unusual rhythm, 5-4
and 5-8 time being common, and disregard
for natural accent, a characteristic, makes it
a separate school. Russia is richer perhaps
than any other country in folk songs, but the
country is not yet politically situated so as to
encourage and foster the fine arts.
ETTA EDWARDS, Vocal Instruction, Steinert
M RS. Boston,
Mass.
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