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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Alvin Kranich Scores Success as Composer Abroad—Mile. Schnitzer to Play the Baldwin Next
Season—Mrs. Roosevelt as a Musician—Rudolph Ganz Scores With the Volpe Symphony
Orchestra—Cincinnati Festival Takes Place the First Week of May—De Pachmann's Last
Recital—MacDowell Fund Closed—Mme. Carreno With the Philharmonic Orchestra.
Alvin Kranich, brother of Frederick Kranich,
of Kranich & Bach, is a composer who is steadily
winning recognition abroad. In a despatch to
The New York Herald, Monday, dated Dresden,-
March 20, we read: "Mr. Alvin Kranich, an
American composer residing here, had a sym-
phonic rendering of "My Old Kentucky Home"
played at the Gewerbehaus concert. It was very
successful, and the Princess Mathilde requested
Mr. Kranich to conduct the concert at the Vin-
centius Verein next week. Mr. Kranich's com-
positions are so greatly demanded that a special
concert of his works is shortly to be given."
• • * •
Musicians and music lovers will no doubt be
delighted to hear that Mile. Germaine Schnitzer,
the young Viennese pianiste, whose appearance
in the United States during the season of 1906-
1907 created so much astonishment and genuine
enthusiasm, is to return to America for an ex-
tended tour next November. Since she left the
United States, this young artiste has played not
less than seventy concerts in the principal cities
of Europe with a success which was phenomenal
and sensational. She will play the Baldwin
piano, of which she has long been an admirer.
• • • *
The last concert of the Olive Mead Quartet
will take place in Mendelssohn Hall, Thursday
evening, April 2. The program will comprise
Haydn and Grieg quartets and a string trio by
Dohnanyi.
• * * *
A clever young pianiste who is destined to win
no small degree of favor in Eastern cities, as she
has throughout the West and the Pacific Coast,
is Miss Adela Verne, a gifted young English
woman, who made her debut at Century Club
Hall, San Francisco, November 2. Her appear-
ance was without the usual blowing of trumpets,
and from a modest beginning she has steadily
grown in favor until the critics of San Fran-
cisco have spoken of her in the most enthusiastic
terms. Her technical ability, sympathetic na-
ture and musical understanding have come in
for high praise, and it is predicted that she will
make quite a "hit" when she plays in the East-
ern cities. Last week she played in St. Louis
using the Steinway.
• * • *
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, is not
only a charming hostess, but a musician of de-
cided ability. She does not merely play "bridge"
like so many of our society people, but plays the
piano remarkably well owing to persistent prac-
tice. Mrs. Roosevelt's knowledge of music goes
beyond that of the average "performer" and her
interest in all branches of the art is keen. She
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composition to "build" a program, and musicians
who come to the White House to entertain Mrs.
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Marcella Sembrich, Ignace Padeiewski and
Timothee Adamowski will appear together at
Carnegie Hall on Saturday afternoon, May 2, in
a concert for the benefit of the Legal Aid So-
ciety. Mme. Sembrich will sing five songs by
Paderewski, who will play the accompaniments.
* * * *
Rudolph Ganz was the soloist at the concert of
the Volpe Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
on Thursday evening. This organization has
made a splendid record during this season and
well maintained its reputation on this occasion.
Of Ganz little can be added to what has been
said in these columns before. He is an artist
who is always well worth hearing because of his
all-round musicianship, which stands forth in a
most pleasing manner, notwithstanding the com-
petition of his many distinguished confreres who
have been heard here this season. He played
Liszt's Second Concerto in E major in a mas-
terly style, and deservedly merited the apprecia-
tion of a large and distinguished audience. The
Mason & Hamlin piano used by Ganz was a veri-
table delight; its varied tonal colors and or-
chestral power were splendidly displayed. The
orchestra numbers were: Beethoven's overture
"Fidelio," Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 (Pa-
thetique), and a new Symphonic Suite, "Uebers
Waltenmeer," by Stahlberg, which had its first
production.
* * * *
The eighteenth Cincinnati May Music Festival,
to be held on May 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1908, of which
Frank Van Der Stucken is musical director, and
Frederick Stock associate director, announces
the following programs for the six concerts
planned: At the first concert Haydn's oratorio,
"The Seasons," will be sung. At the second
Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" will be presented.
The third offers a miscellaneous program, with
Brahms' Third Symphony as the feature. At
the fourth concert Pierne's "The Children's Cru-
sade" forms the program, while the fifth and
sixth concerts on Saturday have Beethoven's
Seventh Symphony and Debussy's "The Blessed
Damosel" as the principal numbers. The list of
soloists includes Mme. Gadski, Schumann-Heink,
Rider-Kelsey and Messrs. Beddoe, Witherspoon
and others.
* * * *
The program of Vladimir De
Pachmann's final and lapt New
York recital at Carnegie Hall on
Saturday afternoon, April 4,
comprises compositions by Beeth-
oven, Chopin, Weber, Schubert,
Mendelssohn, . Schumann and
Liszt. The Baldwin piano, which
has come in for such high com-
pliments from De Pachmann,
"will be used.
* * * *
The committee in charge of
the Edward MacDowell fund an-
nounces that it has completed
its work. Total contributions to
date with interest amount to
$39,712.18. The expense of ad-
ministration, together with the
money paid on behalf of Mr.
MacDowell, amounts to $10,780,
leaving a balance of $28,932.18.
This money, less some minor ex-
penditures which have yet to be
made, will be turned over to the
Edward MacDowell Memorial
Association, which has been
formed to administer it in con-
nection with the MacDowell
property in Peterboro, N. H.
When the Mendelssohn Glee Club
first undertook this work, in
May, 1906, it was intended to
carry it on until it had raised a
fund of from $50,000 to $1(JO,000.
The financial depression which
has prevailed for a year past has
interfered with the plans of the
committee, and inasmuch as Mr. MacDowell has
passed away it would seem that the particular
purpose for which the money was originally in-
tended has ceased to exist. The committee is
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