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formance, which may certainly be described as
interesting, if true. Miss Garden admitted that
these figures were going some, but added: "Im-
agine, though, a city with the riches of New
Henry Wolfsohn Returns from Europe With Plans for Next Season—People's Opera for Berlin—
York. It has two million inhabitants and rep-
First Class Artists to be Heard at Low Prices—Vecsey, New Orchestra Leader, to be Heard
resents with the population of its two neighbor-
Next Season—"Cowboy Tenor" to Sing in Vienna—Children Compete in Violin and Piano
ing cities, Philadelphia and Boston, from which
Playing in Paris for Prizes—"Tchaikovsky, His; Life and Works"—Arrangements Nearly
it is customary to come to the opera in New
Completed for Fifty-first Worcester Music Festival—Mary Garden Interviewed in Paris—
York, more than nine million inhabitants. In
Organ Recitals at Chautauqua—"Life of Mozart."
November I shall inaugurate my theater in
Philadelphia." "Your theatre?" repeated the re-
Henry Wolfsohn, the distinguished concert di- genuine depth of musical feeling, and fewer still porter, with pardonable astonishment. "I call
rector of this city, arrives from Europe this showed true genius. Others again seemed to have it my theater," Miss Garden said, "because it
week. Before leaving Berlin Mr. Wolfsohn made already been accustomed to look upon themselves was built on my account." Miss Garden will sing
the final arrangements for an extended tour of as something out of the way and with coquettish here for five months every season, and says that
Mischa Elman, the famous young Russian violin- glances tried to captivate the favor of the audi- she recalls only her pleasant experiences in
ist, who will make his American debut December ence. It was Yvonne Lefebvre, a little girl of
America and looks upon her visit as a great
10 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Joseph Lhevinne nine, whose marvelous execution on the piano opening which she, as a pioneer, had made for
will make his third American tour under Mr. immediately distinguished her from the dry-as- French art. "I made it acknowledged," she said,
Wolfsohn's management, beginning the middle dust performances of the others. She won a gold "and I made it acclaimed."
of February in conjunction with Emma Eames. medal, as did Jeanne Gautier, also nine, for ex-
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Mr. Wolfsohn also completed the preliminaries cellent violin playing. Neither had been brought
Recitals
by
special
organists will be held at
for Mme. Schumann-Heink's European tour, up as a prodigy, but they showed unmistakable
Chautauqua, New York, this season. The first
which begins in Hamburg the latter part of Oc- talent.
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will be by Henry B. Vincent, the resident organ-
tober. The great contralto will not be heard in
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ist, on July 2, and on July 7 and 9 in the first
her own United States until the season of
A volume of exceeding interest to musicians,
full
week, by I. V. Flagler, of Auburn, N. Y., or-
1909-10.
and particularly to those who have followed the
ganist at Chautauqua for many years and a wel-
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growth in popularity of the Russian school, is
Plans have been completed for the establish- that imported by Charles Scribners' Sons, of New come visitor in the use of the great instrument
ment of a great people's opera in Berlin, where York, and entitled "Tchaikovsky, His Life and which is now installed.
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the highest grade productions will be presented Works," with extracts from his writings and
The reasons why Mozart lived and died so
by first-class artists at prices within the reach the diary of his tour abroad in 1881, by Rosa
of the masses. The new Opera House, which Newmarch. The volume is admirably gotten up poor are clearly set forth in the English version
will have a large seating capacity, will be in the and carefully edited by Edwin Evans, Sr., with a of Victor Wilder's "Life of Mozart," just issued
Potsdamerstrasse. The best seats will sell at complete classific account and copious analyses by Charles Scribner's Sons:
At this period the music trade in Germany
87y 2 cents; cheapest place gallery at 12^ cents. of important works, analytical and other indices;
had not the importance and extension which it
The Kaiser, who inaugurated last winter a also supplement dealing with "the relation of
series of 12^-cent dramatic performances for the Tchaikovsky to the art questions of the day." was desthied to acquire after the death of Mozart
working classes, is said to have promised the This volume is one that should be included in by the sale of his works. Very little music was
new opera enterprise his heartiest support, and the library of every musician, to the end that published, and transcribed copies had a larger
has agreed, if his engagements will permit, to at- the achievements of Tchaikovsky may be more circulation than printed music. The price of
the first copies was, in reality, an author's only
tend the dedicatory performance.
fittingly recognized and appreciated. The pub-
profit; when the work was in full circulation
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lished price of the work is $2.50 net.
he derived no further gain, and the greater its
New York next season will hear a new orches-
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Arrangements for the fifty-first Worcester success the less income was made from it. Copies
tra leader who has won renown in Europe. This
is Vecsey, now the leader of the Savoy Band, Music Festival are sufficiently complete to make disseminated themselves with wonderful rapidity,
who has been engaged by J. B. Regan for the an announcement of the general scheme of con- publishers advertised their sale in the news-
certs. It will be held in Mechanics' Hall, Wor- papers, and it never occurred to them to reserve
Knickerbocker Hotel.
cester, the week of September 28-October 2, in- even the smallest fee for the composer. And all
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Vernon Stiles, the young Coloradan, known as clusive, the public rehearsals being on the first this was done openly and without the least
the cowboy tenor, and a former member of two dates, and the five concerts Wednesday even- scruple. The piracy of literature and art was
Henry. W. Savage's operatic forces, has been en- ing, and Thursday and Friday afternoons and considered to be quite a legitimate business. If
gaged for six years at the Royal Opera of Vi- evenings. The works to be given are Saint- a tradesman came across a piece of music to
enna. His contract, which is said to provide an Saens' "Samson and Delilah," September 30; Ed- his liking he took possession of it and published
extraordinarily handsome salary, permits Stiles ward Elgar's cantata, "Caractacus" (first time in it without any regard for its composer. When
to sing three seasons at the Metropolitan Opera Worcester), on Thursday evening, and artists' the "Entfiihrung aus dem Serail" had been per-
in New York. He will receive the stellar roles night, Friday evening a Beethoven program, in- formed with success, a Viennese publisher, Tor-
in all the leading productions at the famous cluding "Fidelio." The artists already engaged cella, had the delicacy to ask Mozart for an ar-
are Madame Jeanne Jomelli and George Hamlin, rangement of the opera for piano and voice. The
Viennese Opera House.
tenor, who will sing in "Caractacus"; Madame prospect of a few extra thalers was not unpleas-
No fewer than forty-one piano playing little Louise Homer, Emilio de Gogorza, baritone, and ing and Mozart set himself to work. Before his
girls and boys and fourteen youthful violinists Daniel Beddoe, tenor, who will sing in "Samson task was completed he discovered that he was
assembled the other day in the Femina Hall in and Delilah." The festival pianiste is Miss Au- only wasting his time. Others had been more
Paris to compete for gold medals and justify gusta Cottlow, and the soloist at the Thursday prompt; two editions of the score appeared sim-
their titles as musical prodigies. None of the afternoon concert will be Miss May Mukle, the ultaneously in Augsburg and Mainz, and Torcella
children was older than 10 and the youngest was London 'cellist. The conductors are Dr. Arthur deemed wise to withdraw his from circulation.
only five. The jury, among whom were such Mees and Franz Kneisel. The Boston Symphony In order to contend with this traffic an author
artists as Edouard Colonne, Raoul Pugno and Orchestra of sixty pieces has been engaged.
had to publish his work by subscription, which
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Jacques Thibaud, had arranged a number of test
means that' when he had found a sufficient num-
pieces, and these were not of the easiest. For
Mary Garden has been relating some of the ber of amateurs willing to advance the expenses
piano Handel's "Blacksmith Variations" and the experiences of her visit to this country to the he published it on his own account, and thus
finale of Mozart's D sharp sonata, while the reporters of the daily papers of Paris, and we reaped the benefit of the first edition. . . If
young violinists had to go through Mozart's E are thus able to glean some extraordinary infor- one sums up the consequences of these extraor-
flat sonata and one of Beethoven's romances. The mation about this country and this city: "The dinary, customs, one sees plainly why composers
best among them, moreover, had to play after- greatest joy of my trip to America," she said, and artists, finding it impossible to place them-
ward a very difficult piece of music from sight. "was to make loved there the operas of the selves under legal protection, availed themselves
It was interesting to note the peculiar little ways French school, a school unknown in the United right willingly of the patronage of princes and
of the budding musicians. Some with childish States in its modern manifestation of art and sovereigns.
naivete altered style and melody to suit them- truth." At a dinner one night her neighbor told
selves. The girls were noticeably more at ease her that the jewels worn by the seven other
The Hamburger department store in Los An-
than the boys. All of them gave evidence of much women present were worth $7,000,000. Her con- geles, Cal., which will soon occupy the immense
industrious study. Most of them possessed suffi- tract with Oscar Hammerstein has still three new building at Broadway, Eighth and Hill
cient musical training to go mechanically through seasons to run, and she is to receive in the suc- streets, that city, have made arrangements to
the pieces placed before them, but few evinced cessive seasons $1,400, $1,600 and $1,800 a per- open a complete piano department.
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