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As "retour de comp.iments" Clementine de
Macchi is engaging an American opera company
which he will take to Italy and after appearing
in that country as long as compatible with good
manners—on the part of the Italians—they will
return to this country to make a tour. Caro
Walker is named as leading soprano.
a certain age, gave an address recently at of three church towers. It is easy to compre-
Christ's Church, Oxford, in which he remarked hend that such a combination appealed to the
that "speaking generally there was no country old veteran. Safonoff, junior, says that occa-
where the voice was better than in England. sionally he feels the traces of military blood in
An Englishman, however, on going abroad, espe- his veins, but it rather helps than hinders him
cially to America, acquired the voice of the for he commands a band of 600 students at
natives in a few years, whereas an Irishman the Moscow Conservatory and six children at
could be recognized anywhere, and a Scotch- home."
The orchestral question still continues to fur- man's voice remained unaltered as long as he
nish the talk of the musical circles—that is lived. It was to be wished that every under-
JOHN K. PAINE AND WAGNER.
to say, the Boston Symphony conductorship. graduate in Oxford should have his voice trained
Every time some one thinks he has a definite systematically so that he could stand, think,
There was a time when the late Prof. John
"scoop" he finds that everybody else has the and talk at the same time. This, however, was
K.
Paine was not an ardent admirer of Richard
same thing and after it is all said and done a difficult accomplishment which required a good
Wagner; but the irresistible maelstrom swept
Mr. Higginson comes forward and denies it. deal of training."
him off his feet, like all the rest of the musi-
This is the case with the present rumor which
cians, and in the interesting account given by
states that Dr. Karl Muck has been engaged.
SAFONOFF AJQREAT FORCE
Mr. Otto Floersheim of the Wagner monument
Before anybody had time to rejoice over the
festival in Berlin, the Harvard professor was
matter Mr. Higginson denies the rumor and
In the European
Musical
World—Takes
reported as referring to "the transcendent genius
again leaves us guessing. There is, however,
Charge of the Philharmonic Orchestra This
of Richard Wagner, the great master whose
one guess we can make with a reasonable belief.
Fall—Character Study of the Man.
world-wide influence grows more and more po-
It is that the Boston Symphony Orchestra will
tent year by year, since he completed his unique
have a conductor—that being the case, what's
Safonoff, the distinguished Russian who comes
and wonderful life work." In course of his
the difference?
to us next year to assume the conductorship
remarks, Professor Paine expressed his belief
of
the
Philharmonic
Orchestra,
with
one
of
the
While the Boston organization is still in the
that "in the future, composers will be dis-
dark on the conductor question the Russian largest salaries ever paid, is a man of great tinguished more by their individuality of style
Symphony Society has elected Modest Altschuler eminence in Europe. Commenting on his ap- than by nationality, or what is called local
again for three years and it has set its dates. pearance in Vienna some time ago the "Zeit" color."
It also announces three soloists to assist. They referred to him as follows:
"Last year Vienna also made the acquaintance
are no less artists than Josef Lhevinne, Pet-
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN MTJSICAL.
schnikoff and Alwin Schroeder, the gifted 'cel- of the energetic Safonoff. He is accustomed to
train his players thoroughly, his glance is pene-
list of the Kneisel Quartet.
E. C. Buley, in his new work, "Australian Life
trating; his command certain, and his impulsive-
The resignation of Joseffy from the National ness irresistible. When he for the first time in Town and Country," says: "Among the most
Conservatory of Music was not by any means took in hand our Concertverein orchestra, it prominent characteristics of the Australian
woman is her talent for music, amounting in
unexpected, since for a long time this great seemed as if transformed. A new spirit had
many
instances to positive genius. Go where
taken
possession
of
it,
and
the
drowsiest
sleep-
master has expressed the desire to accept pupils
in private instead of in class, as he was com- ers among the players opened wide their eyes you will in Australia you will hear good voices,
used with instinctive art, and instruments
pelled to do at the Conservatory. Safonoff will and were compelled to follow breathlessly."
After he had conducted the Philharmonic So- played, even where skilled instruction is lack-
accept the directorship of the Conservatory, for
which he will receive $7,000, less, however, than ciety also, the "Neue Freie Presse" gave this ing, with sympathetic and just perception of
Joseffy received. But Joseffy was not conductor interesting sketch of his appearance and career: the meaning of the music. From the singing
"Safonoff's strong, thick-set figure denotes of the church choir in the little back-blocks
of the Philharmonic orchestra, which post
great energy. His hair is slightly gray. The township to the concert given by pupils of the
Safonoff will occupy for three years anyway.
moustache and goatee suggest the military man, musical conservatorium of the capital there is
EMILIE FBANCKS BAUEK.
but the soulful, imaginative eyes at once betray everywhere abundant evidence that Australians
the artist. Before Safonoff had spoken a hun- have not only a true love for music, but the
THE AMERICAN COMPOSER ABROAD.
dred words I knew that he was a musical en- gift of musical expression. Music is the one
thusiast.
In fact, he told me so himself, and art that has received genuine and notable en-
The American composer is receiving more and
couragement in Australia."
more attention abroad. One . of the leading he told me, too, how it had ever been his wish
since
childhood
to
devote
himself
entirely
to
English critics, Vernon Blackburn, contributes
R0SENTHAL AS COMPOSER.
to the "New Music Review" a long article on the career of music. Safonoff's father was a
Horatio Parker, in which he contrasts him with well-known general of the Russian army, whose
Rosenthal, the famous virtuoso who will visit
such men as Strauss and Elgar, who represent post lay in the Caucasas, where Wasili was
the extreme musical tendencies of the age. He born. The elder Safonoff tried to make a sol- the United States next fall for a concert tour,
expresses the opinion that Parker (whose "Hora dier of his boy, but failing in it, he decided has completed a new concerto and written some
Novissima," by the way, will be sung next to dedicate him to the study of law. The youth Hungarian rhapsodies which are said to rival
month by our Church Choral Society) "has no graduated from the Alexander Lyceum in St. those of Liszt in difficulty. Some of these he
intention to pursue the path which the audacious Petersburg, but he soon found relief from the will play during his American tour next season.
dulness of his profession at the Royal Con- Rosenthal has selected the Weber piano as his
artists whose names have been mentioned wish
servatory,
where he studied piano under Le- medium for interpretation.
at all costs to pursue, but that he is anxious,
to a certain extent, to recall a listening world schetizky and Brassin and theory under Zerem-
from excessive violence, and to bring music ba. It was not until 1895 that Gen. Safonoff
WEINGARTNER'S DISCOVERY.
acquiesced in his son's wish to become a pro-
back to a more temperate frame of mind."
fessional musician. The father was completely
Felix Weingartner, who has lately been de-
conquered by a performance of Glinka's "Life lighting Parisian audiences, has made an inter-
for the Czar" which the younger Safonoff led esting discovery. While browsing in the ar-
OSIER'S LATEST PRONTJNCIAMENTO.
Professor Osier, who has been much in the at the coronation in Moscow. His baton com- chives of the Grand Ope"ra he came across the
public eye while in this country, owing to his manded a chorus of 2,500 voices, seven military cantata written by Berlioz in 1829 for the Roman
views on the inactivity of men after reaching bands, four batteries of artillery, and the bells prize—which it failed to get.
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