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VOL. XL. No. 26.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave*, New York, July \, 1905.
PADEREWSKI GETS $7,000.
A CLEVER AMERICAN PIANISTE.
New York Central Railroad Settles for the
Shock Pianist Got When Train Left the
Rails.
Mme. Olga Samaroff, who will visit America in
November, for a concert tour under the manage-
ment of J. E. Francke, of Steinway Hall, is a
pianiste of marked ability, who has won the most
favorable opinions of leading critics in London.
An American by birth, she has studied at the
Paris Conservatoire and under such teachers as
Jcdliczka and Delaborde. A well-known writer
says that her playing combines a clear and fluent
technique, a caressing touch, and a decided power
of emotion and expression.
Mme. Samaroff, who made her debut as pianiste
Seven thousand dollars has just been paid by
the New York Central Railroad to Ignace Pade-
rewski, the pianist, as damages for a jolting he
received in a railroad accident three miles from
Syracuse on April 22 last. After the jolting, the
pianist was prostrated from neuritis and was
forced to cancel his American tour.
The railroad lawyers are congratulating them-
selves at the settlement, and are joyful because
the accident was not more serious. One of them
said to-day:
"It is hard to estimate the damages a jury
might have given Paderewski had the injuries
been permanent. Probably the record would
have been broken and the railroad taxed hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars."
Paderewski made as high as $9,000 in a few
hours at a concert in Melbourne, Australia, and
computing the average revenue received from
each, and assuming that he should live to be
seventy years old, his earnings would amount to
$30,000,000. The lawyers say that his earning
capacity and probable length of life would have
been taken into account in case of trial.
Paderewski accepted the $7,000 offered by the
railroad lawyers and has given in return a care-
fully drawn release of damages. The amount
was fixed after many conferences between Mr.
Allinson, manager for Paderewski, and Charles
A. Pooley, of Buffalo, counsel in Western New
York for the railroad.
Dr. Francis B. Fronczak, the Polish physician
of Buffalo, who attended Paderewski and accom-
panied him to Boston, whence he sailed for Eu-
rope, said to-day:
"Few persons realize how near paralysis Mr.
Paderewski came. Had he neglected his ailment
a few days he would undoubtedly have lost com-
plete control of his muscles, as his nerves were
seriously affected."
Paderewski had completed an engagement at
Syracuse on the night of April 22, and was leav-
ing in his private car for Auburn, when sud-
denly there was a great jar, and the pianist fell
from his seat. The engine of the train had
jumped the track, taking the forward car with
it. It was not until a day later that Paderewski
noticed a numbness in his muscles somewhat
akin to paralysis. He consulted Dr. Fronczak,
with the result that the tour was canceled.
BOOK OF AUSTRIAN FOLK SONGS.
The Austrian Ministry of Public Instruction
is making preparations on the most elaborate
scale for gathering and publishing the folk songs
of the empire. A number of well-known philolo-
gists, musicians, and ethnologists will co-operate
In order to ensure scientific accuracy and results
that will bear critical inspection. The collection
will include genuine folk songs, which origi-
nated among the people and also what the Ger-
mans call the volkstiimliche Lied, that is, art
songs that have been adopted and adapted by the
people.
MME. OLGA SAJIAROFF.
in Carnegie Hall, January 19, 1904, is splendidly
equipped on every side of her art, and wherever
her numbers call for breadth or tenderness, or
power, or delicacy, she is always able to meet
these demands. Her repertoire is very large
GRAND OPERA MOTHERS NOW IN LINE.
Grand opera singers who go into operetta are
becoming common enough. Fritzi Scheff, Schu-
mann-Heink and David Bispham will all be in-
cluded in that list, and there are others likely
to follow. It took an astute manager like C. B.
Dillingham, however, to think of putting a grand
opera mother into the lighter work, says the Sun.
Anna Yaeger, mother of Fritzi Scheff, is coming
over here next winter to be in her daughter's
company. She was for some years a well-known
singer in Germany and has just ended an en-
gagement at Frankfort. All that remains for
some more daring impresario is to put the eight
children of Schumann-Heink into a musical
farce in support of their gifted mother.
SAINT-SAENS NEW OPERA.
Saint Saens is working at a new opera, "L'An-
cetre," which is to be produced at Monte Carlo
in the winter. It is.to be in two acts and three
tableaux. The libretto is by Auge de Lassus.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
TEACHERS FOR LOEB SCHOOL.
Frank Damrosch Engages Instructors for the
Musical Institute.
Frank Damrosch has returned from Europe,
where he has been selecting the faculty for the
JLoeb School of Music, founded by the $500,000
fund given by James Loeb and other members of
his family. Mr. Damrosch has been in Berlin,
Vienna, Bonn, Cologne, Paris, London and Scot-
land.
"I have made many engagements," Mr. Dam-
rosch said, "but they must, be laid before the
trustees of the school before they are made pub-
lic."
Nevertheless we may say that the vocal de-
partment of the school has been practically en-
gaged in full. It is known that George Hens-
chel and Etelka Gerster, the latter a favorite
colorature soprano of twenty-five years ago, have
been secured for the vocal department, and that
a distinguished professor is to come from. Ger-
many to head the piano school. Mrs. Hess-Burr,
of Chicago, and two of the other instructors in
that department will be here at the opening of
the school in October.
The four members of the Kneisel Quartet will
also be instructors and will take up their resi-
dence in this city. Hitherto it has been the cus-
tom of students of music to go to Europe to place
themselves under the instruction of world-fa-
mous teachers and to saturate themselves In that
artistic atmosphere which is believed to exist
only on the Continent.
It seems to be Mr. Damrosch's purpose to im-
port a number of renowned instructors and thus
obviate the necessity for students to go abroad.
Commenting on this view of the matter, a writer
in the Sun said recently: "It has always been,
however, a pet theory with local musicians that
when the foreign celebrity settled in America he
quickly lost the glamor through which he was
viewed from this side of the ocean to the other.
It remains to be seen whether American aspi-
rants for musical learning will hasten to throw
themselves at the feet of the imported teachers to
whose personalities distance will no longer lend
enchantment. If Mr. Damrosch's experiment is
successful, music study will be made much less
expensive and more practicable."
HAMBOTJRG TO SOUTH AFRICA.
On July 8th, Mark Hambourg leaves for a con-
cert tour in South Africa. $20,000 will be paid
him for thirty concerts—a trifle over $665 each.
OPERA RECEIPTS IN NEW YORK.
Heinrich Conried, manager of the Metropolitan
Opera House, stated in a recent interview in
London that his exact receipts during the past
opera season in New York amounted to $1,233,-
600.
The original manuscript of a song entitled,
"The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee," written by Sir
Walter Scott in 1825, and introduced into the
drama of "The Doom of Devorgoil," fetched $425
recently at an auction sale.