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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, April I, 1905.
NEW SCHOOL OF MUSICAL ART.
Founded by James Loeb in Memory of His
Mother—To be Started in the Fall—Frank
Damrosch Will be Director and Members of
the Kneisel Quartette Will be Associated
With the Work.
Some time ago in The Review it was an-
nounced that James Loeb, a prominent musician
and music lover, and connected with the firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of this city, had decided to
endow a school of music in New York, in memory
of his mother, and that he would give $500,000
for that purpose. The fund is known as the
Betty Loeb Endowment Fund. Details of the pro-
posed school and of its organization are now so
far advanced that the trustees have made known
their principal features.
The title of the institution is to be the School
of Musical Art of the City of New York. It was
incorporated last June, under the university act.
The original incorporators and trustees are
Charles O. Brewster, Frank Damrosch, James
Loeb, Elliot Norton, Rudolph E. Schirmer and
Paul M. Waiburg. The following have consented
to become additional trustees: E. D. Adams, C.
C. Cuyler, Arthur C. James, Louis McCagg, Elkan
Naumberg, John Notman, S. S. Sanford, Edwin
T. Rice and Isaac N. Seligman.
The donor of the endowment fund has guaran-
teed a return of 5 per cent, interest on his gift.
In addition to this $25,000 there has been made
a subscription of $4,000 a year for ten years.
R. E. Schirmer has offered to supply the school
with a complete library of music and the litera-
ture of music. The trustees have also decided to
invite subscriptions to a guarantee fund of $25,-
000 for three years, to be called only in case of a
deficit.
The director of the school will be Frank Dam-
rosch, whose reputation as a teacher and con-
ductor is well known. For seven years he has
been Director of Musical Instruction in the pub-
lic schools of New York. Mr. Damrosch will con-
duct a large part' of the instruction in sight-sing-
ing, ear training, etc., choral singing and peda-
gogy.
One of the features of the new school that will
most directly interest the wide circle of New
York lovers of music is that Franz Kneisel has
been appointed the head of the Department-.of
Stringed Instruments. With him will be asso-
ciated Alwin Schroeder, J. Theodorowicz and
Louis Svecenski, as teachers of their respective
instruments, violincello, violin and viola. This
will mean that the famous Kneisel Quartette
will move from Boston to New York and will
become residents of this city. The organization
will remain intact, however, and the change will
not at all affect the chamber concerts which they
give in different parts of the country, as well as
in New York.
Negotiations are now pending with some dis-
tinguished musicians and teachers for the
branches of harmony and composition, singing
and piano playing. Mr. Damrosch will go to
Europe in the spring to continue these negotia-
tions, though it is not settled that Americans
will not be chosen for the work.
The home of the &choo} wjll be in the old Lenox
mansion, at the northeast corner of Fifth avenue
and Twelfth street, a large, old-fashioned hous*
of ample proportions, containing a good-sized
hall, formerly the ballroom. It is said to be ex
cellently adapted to the needs of the school. The
work of the institution will be begun early in
October. The scale of tuition will be well within
the current rates charged by existing conserva-
tories of music in New York and elsewhere. The
trustees say in their statement, issued last
week:
"The heavy burden now falling upon many peo-
ple of moderate means in sending their children
SINQLB COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YBAK.
GRAND OPERA PAYS IN CHICAGO.
Week's Receipts Over $80,000—One Perform-
ance of "Parsifal," $17,000.
A dispatch from Chicago, dated March 27, says:
"The most successful week in the history of
grand opera, from a financial standpoint, ended
at the Auditorium Theatre last evening. Eight
performances had been given and the receipts
were over $80,000. The season from the stand-
point of attendance has been just as successful.
More than 25,000 persons have attended. The
largest crowd was present Tuesday evening when
'Parsifal' had its first presentation in Chicago.
The receipts were $17,000."
WEINGARTNER TO CONDUCT HERE.
The New York Symphony Orchestra proposes
to enlarge its operations materially next winter.
It is proposed to give a series of eight Sunday
afternoon and six Tuesday evening symphony
concerts at Carnegie Hall. These will be under
the direction of its regular conductor, Walter
Damrosch, with the exception of four concerts
in the series, which will be conducted by Felix
Weingartner, who has been invited by Mr. Dam-
rosch, to come to America next winter for one
month, in order to conduct sixteen concerts with
the orchestra in New York and elsewhere. In
order to enable Mr. Damrosch to carry out this
scheme, and to provide for more rehearsals and
concerts, the subscription fund for the orchestra
has been materially enlarged.
TO REBUILD STEINWAY HALL.
FRANK DAMROSCH.
abroad for the completion of their musical
studies will be avoided. Those who know the
conditions surrounding the life of young artists
in the capitals of Europe will appreciate the dan-
gers to character and morals which only too
often spoil the man while developing the artist.
"The population of this country contains so
many elements of artistic development that it
seems eminently fit that New York, the metropo-
lis of the land, should offer as good facilities for
the study of music as it offers for university
work and the fine arts."
BACH FESTIVAL MUSIC.
The annual music festival of the Bach Cycle
is to be held in the Moravian Church, at Bethle-
hem, Pa., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
April 12, 13 and 14, next. Distinguished soloists
have been engaged, with an orchestra of sixty-
one musicians and a choir of trombones. The
chorals will be sung by members of the Bach
Choir.
MASSENET'S SONG COMEDY.
M. Massenet's song comedy, "Cherubin," was
produced at Monte Carlo recently. The French
critics speak enthusiastically of the mingled
gaiety and tenderness of the music,
It is proposed to rebuild Steinway Hall, Lon-
don, and provide a new room designed to accom-
modate an audience numbering from 800 to 1,000
•people, and containing a platform sufficiently
large for a full orchestra. Messrs. Steinway are
of the opinion that were such a hall available for
musical purposes at a rental between fourteen
and sixteen guineas, inclusive, there could be lit-
tle doubt of its success. It is a pity, says the
musical editor of the Evening Post, that the
Steinway Hall in this city was not rebuilt. The
old hall was not convenient or comfortable, but
in acoustic qualities it was superior to anything
we have now.
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NEW FADS IN MUSIC.
New fads in music are the rage in London just
now. A little while since pianists ran over each
other in their eagerness to play three concertos
at one concert. Now we hear of "concerto con-
certs," while only a few nights ago, at a vocal
and pianoforte recital, the pianist filled the first
part, the vocalist doing the same for the second.
NEW OPERA BY BRUNEAU.
A new opera by M. Alfred Bruneau, entitled,
"L'Enfant Roi," to a prose libretto by the late
Emile Zola, has just been brought out at the
Paris Opera Comique. The story is modern and
bourgeois, but the music is described as full of
color and originality.