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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
ENGLAND'S MUSIC PIRATES.
*T" H E piracy of music in London and the
English provinces has now reached a
position which may be termed a national dis-
grace. A legitimate industry employing
thousands of people, and affording an income
to composers and librettists of ability, is en-
dangered through the lack of enactment of
suitable laws by Parliament. Were anything
like this condition of affairs to prevail in the
United States we would at once hear our
English friends say that it is only in a re-
public they could find birth and not in a free,
law-respecting monarchy like England.
The leading publishers of London have
worked and are working energetically to
GKORGE HAML1N, TENOR.
remedy the present evils but without success.
Music pirates flourish on all sides and thous-
ands of contraband copies of copyright music
are seized and destroyed every week, and
they represent only a small proportion of
those actually printed and circulated. Nor is
there any limit to the audacity of those who
are fattening on this thievish business. A
few weeks ago a large consignment of pirat-
ed music was calmly left at the cloakroom of
a London railway station. Fortunately, its
nature was discovered, and the pirate, return-
ing to secure his loot, found that it had been
impounded.
In some of the larger towns
magistrates are doing their best to stamp out
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trill exeat any ataac
the scandal by imposing heavy fines. Still
the disgraceful work goes on.
Truly the
conditions are deplorable, and it is time a
remedy was forthcoming.
VICTOR HERBERT'S PLANS.
[Special to The Review.]
was Miss Susan Metcalfe, and, as might be
expected, she made a most favorable impres-
sion. On Jan. 12 Sam Franko and his Sym-
phony Orchestra will give one of his concerts
of old music, and the remaining concerts will
be given by the Musurgia Club of New York,
assisted by the Dannreuther String Orches-
tra and by Prank Damrosch with his Sym-
phony Orchestra. The soloists for these con-
certs will be announced later. The president
of the Westchester Philharmonic Society is
Mrs. Henry D. Noyes, and the vice-presi-
dents are Mrs. Robert C. Black and Mrs.
John C. Hazen, of Pelham Manor, and Mrs.
John W. Boothby and Mrs. Edmund W. Bo-
dine, of New Rochelle.
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Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 26, 1903.
When Victor Herbert leaves the Pittsburg
Orchestra and goes to New York he does not
intend to give up his work as an orchestra
conductor. He said to The Review to-day
that when he gets settled in his new home
he intends to form an orchestra under his
own name in that city. He said that while
his time will be largely taken up with his
theatrical business, he will devote a great
deal of attention to his orchestra, and ex-
THE INDIANS AND THEIR SONGS.
pects to make it one of the foremost musical
\A
ISS
ALICE FLETCHER, whose work
organizations in the country.
on
Omaha Music is almost a classic,
*
has
been
associated
with the Smithsonian In-
D'ALBERT'S NEW MUSIC DRAMA.
stitution
at
Washington
as well as with the
A RT-LOVING Prague, according to an
Indian
IJureau
for
many
years. Her work
^ * English paper, has seen the production
among
the
Omahas
deserves
wider recogni-
of Eugene D'Albert's new music-drama,
tion,
for
she
has
often
done
what
is usmlly
"Tiefland," the story of which is concerned
considered
man's
work,
and
she
has
done it
with the loves of a shepherd and a miller's
so
tactfully
as
to
minimize
and
sometimes
daughter.
This would seem to suggest a
It was she who
bucolic atmosphere. However, the score is eliminate all difficulties.
surveyed
the
Government
lands
for the Oma-
described as a blend of the styles of Wagner
has
and
had
charge
of
their
division.
As a
and Mascagni—a mixture somewhat difficult
Pacific
coast
writer
says,
we
are
beginning
to imagine—and the composer, although his
work is said to be extremely clever, is criti- to understand that the American Indians
have innumerable song's which conform to a
cised for a want of individuality.
definite melodic system—many of them con-
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nected with tribal legends, myths and cere-
THE GREAT WORLD'S FAIR ORGAN.
I T is gratifying to learn that the organ now monials or religious rituals of the greatest
* building for the Hall of Festivals at the poetic and dramatic beauty.
St. Louis Exposition, is "the largest organ in
PROF. VAN DER STUCKEN HONORED.
the universe, a mastodon of melody, speaking
in thunder tones," and by implication making C RANK VAN DER STUCKEN, couduc-
tor of the Cincinnati Symphony Or-
the organ that piped feebly at the Chicago r
chestra,
has been asked to write the official
World's Fair seem like thirty cents. It is
march for the St. Louis Exposition. Another
intimated from St. Louis that "it is an in- honor came his way last week when he re-
strument capable of producing 17,179,808,- ceived word that "Die Woche," a Berlin
183 distinct tonal effects, a continuous per- magazine, awarded him a prize in the Folk
formance that would last 32,600 years, if a Song competition in which three thousand
different one of these combinations were songs were entered. Prof. Van der Stucken
and fourteen others were selected as prize
drawn every minute in those centuries of winners.
time. This master melodeon of the world is
not measurably greater but superlatively the
THE POPE ON CHURCH MUSIC.
greatest Titan of harmony ever wrought by
FTER long discussion with experts,
the hand of man. It gives voice to whole
principally with the famous composer,
effects and countless tone-coloring never ap- the Abbe Perosi, director of the Sistine
proximated by any other grand organ." This Choir, the Pope has issued of his own accord
would do credit to Tody Hamilton of Bar- a note on the subject of sacred music in
churches. He is strongly in favor of the Gre-
nir.11 fame. But, seriously, the organ, we gorian chant, and he has ordered the Abbe
understand, will be musically of great merit Perosi to compose a Gregorian mass for the
and will afford abundant opportunities for centenary of St. Gregory the Great next
our great musicians to display their especial Easter. This mass will be conducted by the
Abbe in the Chapel of St. Gregory, and will
talents in the realm of organ virtuosity.
be participated in by 500 singers.
A
MUSIC IN NEW ROCHELLE.
HTHREE of the four concerts arranged for
under the auspices of the Westchester
Philharmonic Society will be given in the
New Rochelle Theatre on the evenings of
Jan. 12, Feb. 15, and April 5. For this, its
second season, the managers have outlined a
series of concerts even more ambitious and
interesting than those of last year. The first
one, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, was given by the
Mannes Quartette, assisted by Mrs. Clara
Damrosch Mannes, pianist. They played
compositions by Haydn, Grieg and Dvorak
in a manner to arouse the enthusiasm of a
large and fashionable audience. The soloist
GEO. HAMLIN'S SUCCESS.
EORGE H3AMLIN, the well-known Chi-
cago tenor, sang the "Messiah" at Car-
negie Hall Tuesday afternoon and Wednes-
day evening with the Oratorio Society under
direction of Frank Damrosch. The produc-
tion was a notable one and Mr. Hamlin con-
tributed much to its success. The other solo-
ists were Mine. Lillian Blauvelt, Miss Janet
Spencer and David Bispham. Mr. Hamlin
came into much publicity through his early
presentation of the Richard Strauss songs.
G
Charles Galloway, of St. Louis, has been
commissioned as the official organist of the
World's Fair. He will conduct the dedica-
tory recital when the exposition opens. ,