Music Trade Review
Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 1 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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obstacle in the way of the universal use of the
Boehin among the army of flutists daily increas-
ing and frequently reinforced from the rank and
file of the superabundant fiddler, is the enorm-
ously and unnecessarily high price of the instru-
ment. Badger, the first and best of the Ameri-
can makers, becomes rich in a few years and can
afford to retire with a pigeon-hole full of orders.
The English house of Rudall, Carte & Co. are
making a fortune and cannot fill all the orders
crowding in upon them. Rockstro's ponderous
book on the flute went off with a large edition
at a guinea a copy ! The French and Belgian
houses can sell more than their factories, which
are constantly enlarging facilities, are capable
of turning out, and the life of the Boehm to-
day, everywhere, but in the father (grandfather)
land, is a marvel of activity and increasing use-
fulness, and yet your " London Critic "just be-
gins to see the old asthmatic " wheezer " draw
its last breath, and has not yet heard the news,
forty years old, that the Boehm, the flute, is the
instrument of the day.
THE Stoughton Musical Society of Stoughton,
Very respectfully,
Mass., one of the oldest organizations of the
H. CLAY WYSHAM.
kind in the country, has been invited to sing
San Francisco, July 20, 1892.
at the World's Fair.
PROF. XAVER SCHARWENKA, the pianist com-
A SONATA IN SWIFT MEASURE.
I.—ANDANTE.
ball was at its height. A thousand fair
§ HE women
and a thousand brave men danced
across the waxed floor. Two thousand eyes
looked into the depths of two thousand eyes and
read gladness therein. Four thousand hands
were interlaced in mazy motion. Twenty thou-
sand toes went tripping, tripping, tripping, to
music's alluring strain.
II.—ALLEGRO.
The ball was at its height. Ecstasy caught
its breath. Distance was annihilated. Thought
and feeling and language were at fever heat.
On, on, forever on ! was the unuttered aspira-
tion of the moment. What electric thrill, what
exhilarating bliss, what a passionate sense of
life's beauty and charm !
III.—SCHERZO.
The ball was at its height! The moments
flew, the minutes dashed by, the quarters of the
hour sped on, the halves rushed along, the
hours hurried forward ! Oh, stay, stay delicious
moment ! Time, relax thy hold for once ! Go
backward in thy flight ; let it be midnight
again ! Back, back, thou pendulum ; cease thy
beating ! Hush ! Quiet! Perhaps time for-
gets us !
iv.—FINALE.
The ball was at its height—when suddenly
the thronging thousands became conscious of a
subtle presence—a stranger, uninvited and un-
welcome. With slow yet steady pace he ad-
vanced. He asked no one's bidding, yet they
hung upon his every step. He cared not if his
coming spread like an icy chill over the assem-
blage, and struck to the heart of youth and maid-
en. Slowly, steadily, and soon more rapidly, he
advanced, until his mysterious outlines became
more and more visible. Then, with defiant
hand he brushed aside the stars and parted the
clouds, while in conscious majesty appeared the
Dawn. The dancers in dismay retreated one by
one. The ball was over.
K. N. PEPPER.
composer and pianist and late
musical director for Hallen & Hart, sails for
Europe August 10th to settle the affairs of his
father who recently died.
FRED. GAGEL,
poser, is seriously ill at his residence in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., with an abscess in his throat.
MRS. HERMAN FRISCH, wife of Prof. Frisch,
a well known musical instructor, committed sui-
cide July 28th by jumping from the third story
of her home, No. 166 Spring street, New Haven,
Conn. Mrs. Frisch was a sufferer from nervous
diseases, which was the cause of the act.
CHAS. A. ELLIS, manager of the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, has sailed for Europe in com-
pany with Mr. and Mrs. Henschel, the celebrated
singers. He will remain abroad about two
months, spending the greater portion of the time
in the larger French and German cities.
THE Eastern Normal Music Summer School
began a three weeks term at Nyack, N. Y., July
12th. Many States are represented in the at-
tendance. Some of our best known music in-
structors are among those present and many
good lectures will be given.
THE Eintracht Singing Society, of Lucyville,
Pa., will make application on August 15th, at
Washington County Court of Common Pleas, for
incorporation. The object of the society is to
promote music.
Louis F. GOTTSCHALK, the composer of the
comic opera " Yorktown, " and lately connected
with the opera "The Robber of the Rhine,"
has signed with Marion Manola, as musical di-
rector for next season. At present Louis is
dallying with Old Neptune at Coney Island.
FRANZ VETTER, a well known bass singer,
John Philip Sousa, director of the United
died of consumption at Riverside, Cal., July 15th.
Mr. Vetter was born in Camden, N. J., in 1862, States Marine Band, who receives $1,500 a year
and was a member of the new American Opera from the goverement, has been offered $6,000 a
year and an interest in the profits by a Chicago
Company.
syndicate that intends organizing the greatest
THE music committee of the North American military band in the world. It is believed that
Saengerbund, Prof. Xaver Scharwenka, of New Mr. Sousa will accept the offer.
York ; Arthur Classen, of Brooklyn, and Emil
RICHARD PERCY, organist, has gone to Mar-
Ring, of Cleveland, O., has just awarded the
prize of $1,000 to the " Neue Welt," a festival tha's Vineyard, Mass., to escape the heat and
cantata to be rendered at the Saengerfest next recuperate his exhausted energies.
year. The composer is Heinrich Zollier, of New
MR. PHILIP WERLEIN expects soon to occupy
York, conductor of the Liederkranz of that city. his magnificent store at 135 Canal street, New
A NEW musical club has been organized under Orleans, La., which is at present in course of
the name of Mozart Musical Circle, with head- construction. Mr. Werlein is the oldest music
quarters at No. 358 E. 81st street, New York, dealer in the South and is sole agent for the
under the directorship of Leo Cole. Among the Weber, Mathushek, Wegman, Ltndeman, Ivers
members are J, Nicholas, Frank Kruger, Max & Pond, Kimball, James & Holstrom and other
celebrated pianos, as well as Mason & Hanilin,
Mayer, A. Gluck and others.
Farrand & Votey and Kimball organs.
MR. AUGUST STEINMETZ, of 305 E. 18th street,
New York, died at the age of 62 years, July 23rd.
Mr. Steinmetz has been considered for many
years one of the finest musicians in the city.
MR. MORRIS RENO, President of the Music
Hall Co., of New York, and the executive officer
of the Symphony and Oratorio Societies is, with
his family, making an extensive pleasure tour
of Europe, where he anticipates making engage-
ments with several renowned vocal and instru-
mental soloists to appear here next season, in
connection with the Symphony Orchestra of
New York.
MR. G. B. LEWISTON, a piano manufacturer
of Westboro, Mass., has written the Board of
Trade at Washington, D. C , inquiring for a
suitable location for a piano plant in the sub-
urbs of Washington, where the land owners will
give a helping hand. Mr. Lewiston is doing a
business of $50,000 a year and employs about
25 men.
THE Glee Banjo and Mandolin Club of Cornell
University gave a very enjoyable entertainment
at Churchill Music Hall, Stanford, N. Y.
THE Arion Musical Society of New York gave
a concert in Stuttgart, July 24th, at the close of
which the spokesman of the American colony
presented the American singers with a gold
medal.
THE friendsW William F. Florence, the well
known musician of Nutley, N. J., were much
surprised to learn of his death by drowning,
which occurred July 19th while he was bathing
in Nutley Lake.
the well-known tenor,
has gone to Minneapolis, Minn., to fulfil en-
gagements and give lessons. He will be absent
six weeks.
WILLIAM COURTNEY,
THE KRELL PIANO CO.,
Manufacturers of strictly first-class
^ UPRIGHT PIANOS,
CINCINNATI, O.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
576
obstacle in the way of the universal use of the
Boehin among the army of flutists daily increas-
ing and frequently reinforced from the rank and
file of the superabundant fiddler, is the enorm-
ously and unnecessarily high price of the instru-
ment. Badger, the first and best of the Ameri-
can makers, becomes rich in a few years and can
afford to retire with a pigeon-hole full of orders.
The English house of Rudall, Carte & Co. are
making a fortune and cannot fill all the orders
crowding in upon them. Rockstro's ponderous
book on the flute went off with a large edition
at a guinea a copy ! The French and Belgian
houses can sell more than their factories, which
are constantly enlarging facilities, are capable
of turning out, and the life of the Boehm to-
day, everywhere, but in the father (grandfather)
land, is a marvel of activity and increasing use-
fulness, and yet your " London Critic "just be-
gins to see the old asthmatic " wheezer " draw
its last breath, and has not yet heard the news,
forty years old, that the Boehm, the flute, is the
instrument of the day.
THE Stoughton Musical Society of Stoughton,
Very respectfully,
Mass., one of the oldest organizations of the
H. CLAY WYSHAM.
kind in the country, has been invited to sing
San Francisco, July 20, 1892.
at the World's Fair.
PROF. XAVER SCHARWENKA, the pianist com-
A SONATA IN SWIFT MEASURE.
I.—ANDANTE.
ball was at its height. A thousand fair
§ HE women
and a thousand brave men danced
across the waxed floor. Two thousand eyes
looked into the depths of two thousand eyes and
read gladness therein. Four thousand hands
were interlaced in mazy motion. Twenty thou-
sand toes went tripping, tripping, tripping, to
music's alluring strain.
II.—ALLEGRO.
The ball was at its height. Ecstasy caught
its breath. Distance was annihilated. Thought
and feeling and language were at fever heat.
On, on, forever on ! was the unuttered aspira-
tion of the moment. What electric thrill, what
exhilarating bliss, what a passionate sense of
life's beauty and charm !
III.—SCHERZO.
The ball was at its height! The moments
flew, the minutes dashed by, the quarters of the
hour sped on, the halves rushed along, the
hours hurried forward ! Oh, stay, stay delicious
moment ! Time, relax thy hold for once ! Go
backward in thy flight ; let it be midnight
again ! Back, back, thou pendulum ; cease thy
beating ! Hush ! Quiet! Perhaps time for-
gets us !
iv.—FINALE.
The ball was at its height—when suddenly
the thronging thousands became conscious of a
subtle presence—a stranger, uninvited and un-
welcome. With slow yet steady pace he ad-
vanced. He asked no one's bidding, yet they
hung upon his every step. He cared not if his
coming spread like an icy chill over the assem-
blage, and struck to the heart of youth and maid-
en. Slowly, steadily, and soon more rapidly, he
advanced, until his mysterious outlines became
more and more visible. Then, with defiant
hand he brushed aside the stars and parted the
clouds, while in conscious majesty appeared the
Dawn. The dancers in dismay retreated one by
one. The ball was over.
K. N. PEPPER.
composer and pianist and late
musical director for Hallen & Hart, sails for
Europe August 10th to settle the affairs of his
father who recently died.
FRED. GAGEL,
poser, is seriously ill at his residence in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., with an abscess in his throat.
MRS. HERMAN FRISCH, wife of Prof. Frisch,
a well known musical instructor, committed sui-
cide July 28th by jumping from the third story
of her home, No. 166 Spring street, New Haven,
Conn. Mrs. Frisch was a sufferer from nervous
diseases, which was the cause of the act.
CHAS. A. ELLIS, manager of the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, has sailed for Europe in com-
pany with Mr. and Mrs. Henschel, the celebrated
singers. He will remain abroad about two
months, spending the greater portion of the time
in the larger French and German cities.
THE Eastern Normal Music Summer School
began a three weeks term at Nyack, N. Y., July
12th. Many States are represented in the at-
tendance. Some of our best known music in-
structors are among those present and many
good lectures will be given.
THE Eintracht Singing Society, of Lucyville,
Pa., will make application on August 15th, at
Washington County Court of Common Pleas, for
incorporation. The object of the society is to
promote music.
Louis F. GOTTSCHALK, the composer of the
comic opera " Yorktown, " and lately connected
with the opera "The Robber of the Rhine,"
has signed with Marion Manola, as musical di-
rector for next season. At present Louis is
dallying with Old Neptune at Coney Island.
FRANZ VETTER, a well known bass singer,
John Philip Sousa, director of the United
died of consumption at Riverside, Cal., July 15th.
Mr. Vetter was born in Camden, N. J., in 1862, States Marine Band, who receives $1,500 a year
and was a member of the new American Opera from the goverement, has been offered $6,000 a
year and an interest in the profits by a Chicago
Company.
syndicate that intends organizing the greatest
THE music committee of the North American military band in the world. It is believed that
Saengerbund, Prof. Xaver Scharwenka, of New Mr. Sousa will accept the offer.
York ; Arthur Classen, of Brooklyn, and Emil
RICHARD PERCY, organist, has gone to Mar-
Ring, of Cleveland, O., has just awarded the
prize of $1,000 to the " Neue Welt," a festival tha's Vineyard, Mass., to escape the heat and
cantata to be rendered at the Saengerfest next recuperate his exhausted energies.
year. The composer is Heinrich Zollier, of New
MR. PHILIP WERLEIN expects soon to occupy
York, conductor of the Liederkranz of that city. his magnificent store at 135 Canal street, New
A NEW musical club has been organized under Orleans, La., which is at present in course of
the name of Mozart Musical Circle, with head- construction. Mr. Werlein is the oldest music
quarters at No. 358 E. 81st street, New York, dealer in the South and is sole agent for the
under the directorship of Leo Cole. Among the Weber, Mathushek, Wegman, Ltndeman, Ivers
members are J, Nicholas, Frank Kruger, Max & Pond, Kimball, James & Holstrom and other
celebrated pianos, as well as Mason & Hanilin,
Mayer, A. Gluck and others.
Farrand & Votey and Kimball organs.
MR. AUGUST STEINMETZ, of 305 E. 18th street,
New York, died at the age of 62 years, July 23rd.
Mr. Steinmetz has been considered for many
years one of the finest musicians in the city.
MR. MORRIS RENO, President of the Music
Hall Co., of New York, and the executive officer
of the Symphony and Oratorio Societies is, with
his family, making an extensive pleasure tour
of Europe, where he anticipates making engage-
ments with several renowned vocal and instru-
mental soloists to appear here next season, in
connection with the Symphony Orchestra of
New York.
MR. G. B. LEWISTON, a piano manufacturer
of Westboro, Mass., has written the Board of
Trade at Washington, D. C , inquiring for a
suitable location for a piano plant in the sub-
urbs of Washington, where the land owners will
give a helping hand. Mr. Lewiston is doing a
business of $50,000 a year and employs about
25 men.
THE Glee Banjo and Mandolin Club of Cornell
University gave a very enjoyable entertainment
at Churchill Music Hall, Stanford, N. Y.
THE Arion Musical Society of New York gave
a concert in Stuttgart, July 24th, at the close of
which the spokesman of the American colony
presented the American singers with a gold
medal.
THE friendsW William F. Florence, the well
known musician of Nutley, N. J., were much
surprised to learn of his death by drowning,
which occurred July 19th while he was bathing
in Nutley Lake.
the well-known tenor,
has gone to Minneapolis, Minn., to fulfil en-
gagements and give lessons. He will be absent
six weeks.
WILLIAM COURTNEY,
THE KRELL PIANO CO.,
Manufacturers of strictly first-class
^ UPRIGHT PIANOS,
CINCINNATI, O.
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