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THE
JfUSIC TIRADE
VOL. XLIII. No. 5 . Published Every Saturday by Edward LymanBiU at 1 Madison Ave., New York, August 4, 1906.
MUSICAL NOTES FROM SPOKANE.
To Erect Festival Hall—Bernstein Director of
Harmonic Singing Society—Artists to be
Heard Next Fall.
(Special to The Review.)
pianiste, and Miss Lisle Dunning, violiniste;
Mrs. Grace T. Hubler, soprano, and F. Wallace
King, basso, gave a delightful musicale in Pil-
grim Congregational Church, July 14.
LHEVINNE IN GREAT DEMAND.
Will Fill Many of the Dates Made Vacant by
Spokane, Wash., July 28, 1906.
Richard Strauss' Inability to Keep Ameri-
The Spokane Aschenbroedel Society, recently
organized by Prof. Adolph Kirchner, widely known
can Engagements.
in Boston, Chicago and New York musical cir-
cles, will, it is officially announced, include be-
The importance of the coming tour of Lhevinne,
tween 500 and 600 of the prominent professional the great Russian pianist, has been emphasized
and amateur musicians in the Inland Empire, by invitations extended to him from eastern
and a movement is now on foot to erect a festival orchestras to fill the dates made vacant by
hall in Spokane for the May competition, at Richard Strauss' inability to keep his American
which organizations from all over the country engagements next season. Richard Strauss in-
will be invited to participate.
Prizes and tended visiting this country for the premier of
trophies will be awarded to visiting musicians his opera "Salome," at the Metropolitan, and a
and organizations, the festival continuing a week,
beginning about the middle of next May.
Eugene Bernstein, a prominent Russian pian-
ist, has just accepted the directorship of the
Harmonie Singing Society, of Spokane, and an-
nounces a public concert for the middle of next
September. The society meets every Thursday
evening in Turner Hall. The Harmonie is plan-
ning a saengerfest for next June, when it is ex-
pected singers will be in attendance from Chi-
cago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and points in the
Inland Empire. Mr. Bernstein will direct a
chorus of 250 voices.
Miss Lois Steers and Miss Wynn Coman have
just concluded arrangements for a series of re-
citals to be given in Spokane next fall and win-
ter by Campanari, tenor; Rosenthal, pianist, and
Schumann-Heink, contralto. Campanari will be
in Spokane some time in October, Schumann-
Heink following in January and Rosenthal com-
ing in March. The series will close in April with
a concert by a string quartette to take the place
of the Kneisel, which is not available.
M. I . I I K V I N N l - : .
Critical but enthusiastic was the audience
which greeted Eugene Bernstein, Russian pianist, tour of "guest appearances" had been arranged
a. L . his first public recital in Vincent Church, Spo- for him with the leading orchestras, but when
kane, July 6, when he scored nicely with a pro- Dr. Muck was secured by the Boston Symphony
gramme, including numbers by Bach-Tausig, Orchestra, it was out of the question for his great
Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabine, Rubinstein, confrere Strauss to secure a leave of absence
Weber, Liszt, Weber and Tschaikowsky. He was from the Berlin Royal Opera. With the an-
nouncement of this fact came the recognition of
assisted by Mrs. Grace Clark Kahler.
The Spokane College of Music, of which Dr. Lhevinne as a colossal figure in the musical
R. A. Heritage is president, held its commence- world, by immediate requests for his appearance
ment exercises recently, when eight pupils grad- in place of Strauss. In consequence, Lhevinne
uated, five of them receiving certificates and will play several times with the larger orches-
three diplomas. The gold medalist was Mabel tras.
Lenore Metz, soprano, who did four years' work
in three. Others receiving diplomas were Minnie
MME. EDWARDS IN NEW YORK.
Mae Wall and Mabel Arline Paulson. Certificates
were granted to Clara Emma Heritage, Hattie
Mme. Etta Edwards, one of the most noted
Louise Gilson, Helen Isabel Goodenough, Herine vocal teachers in this country, arrived in New
Alberta Hug and Agnes Ulrikka Libak.
York on Sunday night. Mme. Edwards will lo-
The Mendelssohn Club of Spokane, made its cate in New York permanently, where she will
first appearance in concert at Vincent Church devote herself to teaching. This noted woman
this month, under the direction of Francis Wal- left Boston about two years ago on account of the
ker. The cantata, "The Wreck of the Hes- severe illness of her husband, Dr. Thomas A. Ed-
perus," was presented, the soloists being Mrs. wards, which necessitated her to locate in Los
N. A. Krantz, W. L. Smith and George Ander- Angeles. She was hardly settled before she had
son, others assisting being Mrs. Wilbur Walker, a very large class, attracting pupils not only
from that section of the country, but from the
Miss M. Beaton and Mrs. Harry Baer.
Pilgrim quartette of Spokane and the Spokane East as well. Many of these pupils, and others
Ladies' Quartette, assigned by Mrs. M. E- Davis, frrun Los Angeles and other cities, are already
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
arriving in New York to continue their work
with Mme. Edwards, who has a number of pro-
fessional pupils in this city. Among these are
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Martin, both well-known
as teachers and oratorio singers, and Miss Louise
Le Baron, known in light opera.
CONDUCTOR MUCK^NOT TO STAY
As Head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
for More Than a Year—Re-engaged by the
Berlin Opera House for Six Years—Will
Arthur Nikisch Succeed Him?
Karl Muck, who is coming to the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra for only one year, has been re-
engaged for the Berlin Opera House for six years
from the close of his term with the Boston play-
ers. Thii has reconciled his admirers to ihe loss
of him for one season. He is very popular in
Berlin, and at the performances of the Wagner
operas, which are his specialty, he is invariably
compelled to take his share of the applause with
the singers. Muck was a discovery of Angelo
Neumann, who called him to direct his opera in
Prague and then put him in charge of the com-
pany of German singers which went to Russia
in the '90s to introduce the Nibelungen Ring to
the rather unappreciative Russians.
Muck's
genius is by no means limited to operatic con-
ducting, and every year he conducts a series of
symphony concerts in Vienna. He has also trav-
eled as a "guest conductor" in Russia, Spain and
France, and he will have a large concert reper-
toire in which he has met with success to draw
on when he comes to Boston.
He never meant to be a conductor, although
from childhood he was deeply interested in mu-
sic. He played as a pianist at the age of eleven
in his native city of Wurzburg, but after that his
interest in the art was rather theoretical than
practical, and he selected his studies at the Uni-
versity of Leipsic with a breadth uncommon to
a professional pianist. He played at a Gewand-
haus concert soon after he was graduated, how-
ever, and his success then decided his career. In
spite of his theoretical training he commenced a+
the bottom of the ladder to learn the practical
side of his profession. He became chorus master
in the opera house at Zurich and gradually rosa
to his present post.
It is believed that Arthur Nikisch, in spite of
his extravagant demands in the way of salary,
will come here after the conclusion of Muck's
brief term. Nikisch, who must have heard how
the Philharmonic pays its conductors nowadays,
demands from Colonel Higginson $40,000 a year
for five years. Of this amount $15,000 is to be
paid to him, while the remaining $25,000 is to
be deposited in a bank to the conductor's credit
At the end of his term here he will in this way
have $125,000 to his credit to take back to Ger-
many. This complicated arrangement, says the
New York Sun, is a result of the extravagance of
Nikisch, who is said to spend as much as he
earns, and sometimes more. It is his custom in
Germany to have only a part of his salary paid
to him, while the remainder goes to his family's
credit in a bank. If the Boston Symphony Or-
chestra is willing to pay this sum Arthur Nikisch
will be its next conductor.