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Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 23

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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
into a genuine comic opera. And nowhere is a a coarse story.
better indication than the number of so-called
"One has a poor opinion of the man and a poor
"serious" composers in this country who could not opinion of the piece. Within several years there
be tempted into writing musical comedies, yet who will be quite as much appreciation of style among
are now preparing light operas, with a real motif
American audiences as among the French or the
and a real music."
Viennese. In fact, they are now beginning to reg-
Coming from Victor Herbert, and uttered in ister their taste, as they usually do, in box office
IDWA1D LYMANB1LL • Editor u d Prtprldtr
his quick, vigorous manner, each point driven home returns.
J. I. SriLLANB, Mmglag Mltar
by emphatic, batonlike gestures of his small, firm
"For after all, as in every other field, public
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
hands, this seemed less a prophecy than a fact. taste determines what is presented to it. A score
Then, aware that he had touched upon a theme or more years ago the better form of burlesque
r«Mfck«4 iTtry Sitnrtey at 1 I M I M B Avomt. Ntw T«rk
that needed considerable elaboration, he drew his was the fashion for the even better class of thea-
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"It's going to be hard to get a whole morning's in. And now we are tiring of those, though the
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"Even in our lighter music we are coming to
NEW
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And if there is any one who can pour forth demand something that conforms to a general idea,
such a cataract of ideas and viewpoints in a brief
We don't like to be lulled one moment, and then
space of time, he is yet to be found. Mr. Her- rushed into a Coney Island dance the next. Still,
All matter of every nature intended
bert enters upon and pursues an interview with whatever may have been its faults, musical comedy
for this department should be addressed
much the same liveliness and spirit that he does has paved the way for this newer and finer ap-
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
preciation on the part of our larger public.
when he composes a march.
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
"Of course," he observed, "I am full of this
"Nor is this true of New York alone. The
subject now, owing to the success of 'The En- same feeling has swept over the entire country.
chantress,' my last comic opera. A dozen years In fact, I have often said that musically the pulse
ago an opera of this type would not have been of the country is the phonograph. It goes every-
nearly as popular. The audiences did not seem where. It indicates the taste of the people in Ari-
to appreciate style. And style in music is merely zona as well as in Manhattan. And in this branch
what tact is in conversation. Theatregoers have you will find this curious situation. The manu-
become sensitive and demand it. They have the facturers have suddenly found a huge supply of
There are few men before the public of the same feeling precisely when a bit of ragtime is ragtime records on their hands. Almost before
United States to-day who are so well qualified to introduced right after a delicious love melody they were aware the demand for them had died
that they have when they hear a man who has out, and in its place had arisen a new demand
enter into an intelligent discussion of the future
for opera and light operas. The phonograph peo-
of music in America as Victor Herbert, the well- been telling of the beauties of life suddenly repeat
known orchestra conductor and composer. Mr.
Herbert, although he is best known for his many
successes in the musical comedy and comic opera
fields, is thoroughly capable of writing, and in
fact has written symphonies and other works of a
high order that compare favorably with the works
of the recognized masters and composers of the
classics. It is thus seen that he has a first hand
view of the situation on both sides of the fence,
as it were, and the following opinion of the future
of American music can be accepted as authorita-
tive.
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"America is coming into a light music of its
own—a music fresh and full of vitality, yet with
a style and refinement that will make it as artistic-
ally alluring as European music. We are passing
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singers. Had any one prophesied this ten years
ago he would have been ridiculed.
"So like these business men, the American mana-
gers have awakened to a sense of the change. And
because they realized what it meant, they have
made possible light operas with a theme and a gen-
erally conceived style. The time has arrived when
our best composers, who have been held back by
their natural distaste for the prevalent light musical
mode, may and should come forward. It is just
the working out of the natural sequence. It is
first the public, then the managers, then the com-
posers who work the change.
"There are many other influences which will
quicken this transition from mere vulgar forms
of light music. If our poetry improves, then our
music will improve. For the most genuine inspira-
tion a composer can receive is from poetry, just as
a poet oftenest gets his impressions and inspira-
tions from music. The two are co-ordinate. They
must be. Give me beautiful words, with a beauti-
ful thought, and I feel like setting it to music.
But give me a poor set of lyrics and I am in
despair. And naturally the music becomes mechan-
ical at the best.
"If some of our poets would turn from the
heavy Elizabethan forms of drama, from tragedies
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particularly, to light, fantastic themes, full of real
lyric poetry, and the charm of quaint, whimsical
humor, we would all rise apace. As a matter of
fact, it is much easier to write a good heavy theme
than a good light one, whether it be music or
poetry. Given a pathetic situation and a little
shiver music, any one can produce tears."
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generally dull ones for the theatrical fraternity.
The volume is in cycles and portions are devoted
The various musical features of the present show, to the children's tea party, the family, boating,
the compositions of Manuel Klein, have played a bird songs, a shepherd's idyl and at the end a
prominent part in making for the success of the group of miscellaneous songs. The house also has
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