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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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portation of foreign players is said to have ful-
filled its purpose. Mr. Paur was quick to re-
spond with a declaration abandoning his project.
He will return to Europe at once and fill vacan-
cies from America.
Piano Rentals Not So Marked This Summer,—Player Pianos and Talking Machines in Favor—
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Conductors' Salaries—New Steinway House in London—"Texture in Music"—Steinways
Wonders will certainly never cease. It Is now
for New Plaza Hotel—Paderewski's Prices—Chilton's Educational Work—Cosima Wagner
said, with some degree of certainty, that Cosima
and Beyreuth—Paul Lincke's Visit—Emil Paur and the Musicians' Union.
Wagner, the composer's widow, will permanently
Piano rentals this summer have been, to a large 1907-08. It looks like a "boom" time both in retire next season from the active management
of the Wagner Theater in Bayreuth and her son
extent, affected by the late and unseasonable New York and London -for Steinway & Sons.
Siegfried will succeed her, managing the enter-
spring, but during the past five weeks there has
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been a marked improvement in every respect,
The New Plaza Hotel at Fifth avenue and 59th prise in conjunction with Mme. Louise Reuss-
and summer resorts have been securing pianos street, will be equipped throughout with Stein- Belce, of the Dresden Royal Opera.
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in large numbers. A special feature of the trade way & Sons pianos, according to Mr. Pohl, who
In a London journal Mark Hambourg has a
this summer is the call for player-pianos, which has charge of the furnishing of that palatial hos-
are steadily growing in popularity. The talk- telry. The exact number of instruments has not tilt at the tiresome pedants who object to the
ing machine is also proving a tremendously big been decided upon, but it will be a big number performance of Bach's organ pieces on the piano.
He maintains that Bach wrote these pieces for the
trade factor. The fact that it can be used on the for this hotel is one of the largest in the city.
organ chiefly because the organ in his day was a
porch or parlor without any great effort on the
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part of the operator, and that the greatest oper-
In the course of his recent lecture at Oxford better instrument than the piano, or its precursor,
atic singers of the world can be heard through University on "Texture in Music," Sir Hubert the spinet. To-day matters are reversed, and
this medium have made it a great favorite. Peo- Parry referred to the devices of modern" com- there are beauties in these works which can be
ple are coming to recognize that what was once posers. The Professor of Music pointed out that better revealed on the piano than on the organ,
looked upon as a toy is now proving to be an although everybody noticed the tremendous vol- and should therefore be played by pianists. He
educator in the truest sense of the word, and is ume of tone in which composers nowadays take might have added that, inasmuch as there are in
delight, it was, perhaps, not realized that the ef- a community a thousand pianos for every large
being used by teachers in this connection.
fect of almost overpowering sound was mainly organ, these pedants discourage the diffusion of
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New York is not the only city that pays its brought by the ingenuity with which in other the knowledge and enjoyment of some of Bach's
conductors large salaries. Arthur Nikisch has parts of their works the composers reduced the grandest works.
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just been in St. Petersburg, where he received sound to almost nothing. It was a question of
$800 for each of four concerts. He recently de- proportion rather than physical actuality, and it
Trifling differences often part life-long friends.
clined an invitation to come to the Metropoli- was this fact which made performances for which Take the much-discussed Gilbert and Sullivan
tan Opera House. Wilhelm Mengelberg, who con- cannons and big drums and other forms of up- dissolution of amity, which was so sincerely re-
ducted the Philharmonic Society here several roar were enlisted so grotesquely stupid and in- gretted by every one. Up to a recent date the
years ago, has left Amsterdam to conduct the fa- artistic. Sir Hubert went on to say that Beeth- reason why they separated was not known. In a
oven fully understood this feature of art, and recent letter to the Dublin Evening Herald W. S.
mous Museum concerts in Frankfort.
could produce greater effect with a penny whistle Gilbert at last gives the facts. He says: "The
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According to dispatches from London, Eng- and a bassoon than many who now rely upon 'separation' was not between 'Gilbert and Sulli-
land, Steinway & Sons have purchased a site on huge drums and other properties for earthquake van,' but between myself and D'Oyly Carte. It
arose from a question whether a sum of £1,500
Oxford street, one of the leading thoroughfares effects. It was by their delicate adjustment of
of that city, and will erect a magnificent Stein- passages when next to nothing was sounding with for refurnishing the front of the Savoy Theater
way Hall, dedicated to the highest class of music those in which full force was employed that mas- was properly included in the preliminary ex-
and handsomely equipped with that object in ters of the craft were enabled to produce effects penses of the production of 'The Gondoliers.' I
had no quarrel with Sir A. Sullivan, though a
view. Music loving Londoners are very enthu- with very limited resources.
coolness existed between us for a time, in con-
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siastic over both the new hall and the program
It appears that Paderewski, who will play the sequence of his declining to interfere in the
outlined by Steinway & Sons for the season of
Weber piano during his tour of the United difference between Mr. Carte and myself. This
States next season, has raised his prices, all seats coolness lasted a very short time, and was quickly
at his last London recital selling for a guinea done away with by mutual expressions." What
each. This is over $5 a seat. The net profit for an absurd reason this to bring to an end a part-
the two-hour recital was $5,000, being twice as nership that at the time meant so much for real
much as Caruso gets for singing in a four-hour comic opera.
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opera in London. Thus Paderewski still holds
to his reputation as the most expensive of
A pleasant feature of the recent visit to this
pianists.
country of Paul Lincke, the eminent Berlin com-
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poser, was his meeting with many of the leaders
Carroll B. Chilton, the popular head of the in American musical and theatrical circles.
Aeolian Co.'s educational department, is deliver- Among the managers with whom he has estab-
ing a course of fifteen lectures on "The Appro- lished most agreeable personal relations may be
ciation of Pure Music," at the Chautauqua assem- mentioned Joe Weber, B. F. Albee, Martin Beck,
blies this summer. Several of the lectures were Shubert Bros., Klaw & Erlanger, Weber & Rush
LAUTER GRANDS, LAUTER
given before the New York Chautauqua, Mr. and others. With Heinrich Conried, the Metro-
SMALL GRANDS, LAUTER
Chilton attending the meetings of that body for politan impresario, and his musical director, Mr.
several weeks. Well equipped with a thorough Hers, Mr. Lincke found full appreciation of his
PLAYERPIANOS and LAUTER
These
knowledge of - his subject, Mr. Chilton finds superior gifts and engaging personality.
UPRIGHTS are instruments that
many interested and appreciative listeners at his gentlemen, as well as the prominent composer,
Victor Herbert and Gustave Kerker, speak of
lectures.
compel the admiration of all who
Mr. Lincke in the highest terms, and they are
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only a few of the many who are looking forward
examine them. We unhesitat-
Charles H. Taylor, the well-known English
with pleasant anticipation to his return to this
and lyric writer, died in that country
ingly affirm that finer instruments librettist
country in September of this year.
some time ago, although the news only reached
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are not manufactured. We know
this country a week ago. Mr. Taylor wrote all
A
dispatch
from
Milan says: "The score of a
the lyrics for "Tom Jones," now playing success-
that the best experts of the trade
hitherto
unknown
opera
by Verdi has been found
fully at the Apollo Theater, London, and con-
tributed some pleasing lyrics for "The Silver in a cabinet of old papers at the Villa Verdi at
give Lauter Pianos their enthusi-
Slipper" and "The Beauty of Bath." At the time Santa Agatha. Verdi in his will directed that
astic approval.
of his death he was working on a complete the contents of the cabinet be destroyed. These
opera and several songs in collaboration with were being examined when the score was found.
Where quality c o u n t s , t h e John
It seems to be an early work of the composer.
W. Bratton, the well-known composer.
Its fate has not been decided upon."
Lauter will win; and quality
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It is now announced that Conductor Emil
counts oftener than is supposed.
LAUTER BRANCH IN UNION, N. J.
Paur, of the Pittsburg Orchestra, has given up
his plan to import musicians and the players are
We invite inquiries.
A very successful Lauter Co. branch is that
not going out on strike. Negotiations have been
going on for some time between Mr. Paur and opened in Union, N. J., under the management
President Joseph Weber, of the National Musi- of Charles W. Ulrich. The summer business
cians' organization, and the result is said to has been excellent, the call for player-pianos
have been a complete victory for the musicians. being especially gratifying, and the prospects for
President Weber's ultimatum, forbidding the im- a heavy fall trade are of the brightest.
Lautep
Jersey
Lauter Co. Hew Newark^