Music Trade Review
Issue: 1893 Vol. 18 N. 19 - Page 1
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VOL. XVIII. No. 19.
published Every Saturday.
*
|Yeu7 Yoi% December 2, 1893.
THE WEEK'S
SUMMARY
FOUND IN THIS NUMBER.
JOE JEFFERSON'S HABITS—HE DRINKS MILK
AND IS ASLEEP BY MIDNIGHT—MANAGER
DAVIS' EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO WITH
THE JUCH OPERA CO—THE GER-
MAN MILITARY BAND.
MRS. WAGNER'S LUCK—ROYALTIES PAID TO HER
— ADOLPH BRODSKY AND THE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA—HIS PROGRAM—JOSEF SLI-
VINSKI—A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS
LIFE—GILBERT, THE " P I N A -
FORE " MAN, HAS NO EAR
FOR MUSIC.
THE ENGLISH PAPERS ON PADEREWSKI —YALE
GETS $25,OOO FOR A MUSICAL PROFESSOR-
SHIP—SLIVINSKl'S CONCERT.
JEFFERSON keeps young by main-
taining steady habits. He never allows
himself to be upset, and even the loss of his
summer home with its valuable and beautiful
contents he took philosophically. After the
play he seldom goes in for champagne and
oysters, or even Welsh rarebits and beer, but
drinks a glass of milk and is asleep by mid-
night. He gets up at 9, breakfasts and spends
an hour with the newspapers. Dinner is at
2:30, after a short walk for an appetizer. After
dinner he has a nap, sees his friends, rides,
walks, paints or goes to a matinee. At 6 o'clock
he has a cup of tea, looks over the evening
papers and is in the theatre at 7:30. He is rich
but contented.
Manager J. Charles Davis had an experience
with the Juch Opera Company in Mexico which
could scarcely have happened in civilized United
States. Mexico being divided into numerous
petty States, a duty is levied on going- from one
to another just as in going from here to Canada,
and the company found it difficult to make con-
nections owing to the length of time consumed
by the customs officers in examining their many
trunks. In going: to Jaunajato it was necessary
to travel fifteen miles by street car after leaving
the train, and the baggage was taken via the
same road on a flat car drawn by six or eight
mules.
The performance was to have begun at nine
o'clock, but that hour passed and the company
had not arrived. The local manager went be-
The Prize Winners' Exposition.
Does Copyright Froteot ?
Behr Bros. & Co.
His Ghost Walks (?)
Lyon & Healy and the Exposition.
The Wissner Grand.
Kapp & Company.
MoKinley to Wessell.
Sisson in Town.
Autoharp and Christmas.
Mason & Hamlin.
Dustonsmith in Charge.
Pratt, Bead & Company.
The Sohmer in Providence.
Schubert Word Contest.
A Paderewski Yarn.
The Tariff Bill.
Business with Hazleton Brothers.
The MoCammon Piano.
Gee P. Bent's Souvenir.
The Reviewer and Sllvinski.
Bonelli Fails.
The Webster Piano Company.
fore the curtain and tried to make an announce-
ment, but the noisy people would not hear him
and he was hissed off the stage, while cries of
"Juch, Juch ! " filled the house.
Finally a first class oboe soloist was sent in
front to entertain the audience till the company
should put in an appearance, but he was treated
in the same manner as the manager, and com-
pelled to retire. At last the company arrived,
minus scenery and wardrobe except for "II
Trovatore." "Lohengrin" was billed, and
" Lohengrin " the people would have, so it was
sung in " Trovatore " costumes and with what
modern scenery happened to be in the house.
The next day both the local manager and the
manager of the company were arrested and fined
$500 by the Mexican Government for not keep-
ing faith with the public, but matters being ex-
plained and the next performance giving great
satisfaction the fine was remitted and business
was good for the rest of their stay.
$3 00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
The German Military bands, whose great suc-
cess in the Madison Square Garden on the occa-
sion of their first visit to this country is fresh in
our memories, and who have been playing during
the summer months in the German Village at
Chicago, have enjoyed a most prosperous trip
through the principal cities of the West and
South. These excellent organizations will give
their farewell concerts before leaving for home
on the Trave December 10.
* *
*
Mrs. Wagner is lucky. During the year end-
ing on August 1st, the Paris opera paid in
royalties to her $14,000. And in that time
Verdi got only $23,260 ; and now Baden-Baden
offers her $500,000 if she will produce the
Wagner operas in that town hereafter, instead
of in Bayreuth.
The Emperor of Austria will not allow " Par-
sifal " to be sung in his bailiwick until 1895.
He has extended Mrs. Wagner's copyright until
that year.
*
Adolph Brodsky, concert master of the New
York Symphony Orchestra, has recently returned
from Europe, and will soon commence rehearsals
of the Brodsky String Quartet, which will give
a series of six chamber music concerts in
Recital Hall, on the following Tuesday eve-
nings : January 9th and 23d, February 6th and
20th and March 13th and 27th. Anton Hegner,
the new Danish 'cellist, who is said to possess,
besides a beautiful tone, an extraordinary tech-
nique, will succeed Anton Hekking. The per-
sonnel will be as follows : Adolph Brodsky, first
violin and leader; Jan Koert, second violin ;
Ottokar Novacok, viola, and M. Hegner, 'cellist
*
Much interest is naturally felt in the appear-
ance here of Mr. Josef Slivinski, the young
Polish pianist, who will try to win some of the
laurels which Paderewski left behind. A brief
sketch of his life, therefore, cannot be uninter-
esting. Josef Slivinski was born at Warsaw on
December 15, 1865. Slivinski was placed while
still young at the conservatory of his native
city, where he studied the piano under Strobel,
proceeding afterward to Vienna for lessons from
Leschetizky (under whom he was at this time a
fellow student with Paderewski), and subse-
quently to St. Petersburg for final lessons from
Rubinstein. Slivinski began his career as a
piano virtuoso some three years ago, but it was
not until May last that he won his spurs in Lon-
don. His favorites among the modern compos-
ers are Chopin and Schuman.
*
Gilbert, the "Pinafore " man, has no ear for
music and cannot tell the difference between
harmony and discord, yet he likes it and has an
ear for rhythm. Says he : " The slightest error
in time, which would probably escape a musi-
cian, would jar most gratingly on my ear. My
{Continued on page 7.)
VOL. XVIII. No. 19.
published Every Saturday.
*
|Yeu7 Yoi% December 2, 1893.
THE WEEK'S
SUMMARY
FOUND IN THIS NUMBER.
JOE JEFFERSON'S HABITS—HE DRINKS MILK
AND IS ASLEEP BY MIDNIGHT—MANAGER
DAVIS' EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO WITH
THE JUCH OPERA CO—THE GER-
MAN MILITARY BAND.
MRS. WAGNER'S LUCK—ROYALTIES PAID TO HER
— ADOLPH BRODSKY AND THE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA—HIS PROGRAM—JOSEF SLI-
VINSKI—A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS
LIFE—GILBERT, THE " P I N A -
FORE " MAN, HAS NO EAR
FOR MUSIC.
THE ENGLISH PAPERS ON PADEREWSKI —YALE
GETS $25,OOO FOR A MUSICAL PROFESSOR-
SHIP—SLIVINSKl'S CONCERT.
JEFFERSON keeps young by main-
taining steady habits. He never allows
himself to be upset, and even the loss of his
summer home with its valuable and beautiful
contents he took philosophically. After the
play he seldom goes in for champagne and
oysters, or even Welsh rarebits and beer, but
drinks a glass of milk and is asleep by mid-
night. He gets up at 9, breakfasts and spends
an hour with the newspapers. Dinner is at
2:30, after a short walk for an appetizer. After
dinner he has a nap, sees his friends, rides,
walks, paints or goes to a matinee. At 6 o'clock
he has a cup of tea, looks over the evening
papers and is in the theatre at 7:30. He is rich
but contented.
Manager J. Charles Davis had an experience
with the Juch Opera Company in Mexico which
could scarcely have happened in civilized United
States. Mexico being divided into numerous
petty States, a duty is levied on going- from one
to another just as in going from here to Canada,
and the company found it difficult to make con-
nections owing to the length of time consumed
by the customs officers in examining their many
trunks. In going: to Jaunajato it was necessary
to travel fifteen miles by street car after leaving
the train, and the baggage was taken via the
same road on a flat car drawn by six or eight
mules.
The performance was to have begun at nine
o'clock, but that hour passed and the company
had not arrived. The local manager went be-
The Prize Winners' Exposition.
Does Copyright Froteot ?
Behr Bros. & Co.
His Ghost Walks (?)
Lyon & Healy and the Exposition.
The Wissner Grand.
Kapp & Company.
MoKinley to Wessell.
Sisson in Town.
Autoharp and Christmas.
Mason & Hamlin.
Dustonsmith in Charge.
Pratt, Bead & Company.
The Sohmer in Providence.
Schubert Word Contest.
A Paderewski Yarn.
The Tariff Bill.
Business with Hazleton Brothers.
The MoCammon Piano.
Gee P. Bent's Souvenir.
The Reviewer and Sllvinski.
Bonelli Fails.
The Webster Piano Company.
fore the curtain and tried to make an announce-
ment, but the noisy people would not hear him
and he was hissed off the stage, while cries of
"Juch, Juch ! " filled the house.
Finally a first class oboe soloist was sent in
front to entertain the audience till the company
should put in an appearance, but he was treated
in the same manner as the manager, and com-
pelled to retire. At last the company arrived,
minus scenery and wardrobe except for "II
Trovatore." "Lohengrin" was billed, and
" Lohengrin " the people would have, so it was
sung in " Trovatore " costumes and with what
modern scenery happened to be in the house.
The next day both the local manager and the
manager of the company were arrested and fined
$500 by the Mexican Government for not keep-
ing faith with the public, but matters being ex-
plained and the next performance giving great
satisfaction the fine was remitted and business
was good for the rest of their stay.
$3 00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
The German Military bands, whose great suc-
cess in the Madison Square Garden on the occa-
sion of their first visit to this country is fresh in
our memories, and who have been playing during
the summer months in the German Village at
Chicago, have enjoyed a most prosperous trip
through the principal cities of the West and
South. These excellent organizations will give
their farewell concerts before leaving for home
on the Trave December 10.
* *
*
Mrs. Wagner is lucky. During the year end-
ing on August 1st, the Paris opera paid in
royalties to her $14,000. And in that time
Verdi got only $23,260 ; and now Baden-Baden
offers her $500,000 if she will produce the
Wagner operas in that town hereafter, instead
of in Bayreuth.
The Emperor of Austria will not allow " Par-
sifal " to be sung in his bailiwick until 1895.
He has extended Mrs. Wagner's copyright until
that year.
*
Adolph Brodsky, concert master of the New
York Symphony Orchestra, has recently returned
from Europe, and will soon commence rehearsals
of the Brodsky String Quartet, which will give
a series of six chamber music concerts in
Recital Hall, on the following Tuesday eve-
nings : January 9th and 23d, February 6th and
20th and March 13th and 27th. Anton Hegner,
the new Danish 'cellist, who is said to possess,
besides a beautiful tone, an extraordinary tech-
nique, will succeed Anton Hekking. The per-
sonnel will be as follows : Adolph Brodsky, first
violin and leader; Jan Koert, second violin ;
Ottokar Novacok, viola, and M. Hegner, 'cellist
*
Much interest is naturally felt in the appear-
ance here of Mr. Josef Slivinski, the young
Polish pianist, who will try to win some of the
laurels which Paderewski left behind. A brief
sketch of his life, therefore, cannot be uninter-
esting. Josef Slivinski was born at Warsaw on
December 15, 1865. Slivinski was placed while
still young at the conservatory of his native
city, where he studied the piano under Strobel,
proceeding afterward to Vienna for lessons from
Leschetizky (under whom he was at this time a
fellow student with Paderewski), and subse-
quently to St. Petersburg for final lessons from
Rubinstein. Slivinski began his career as a
piano virtuoso some three years ago, but it was
not until May last that he won his spurs in Lon-
don. His favorites among the modern compos-
ers are Chopin and Schuman.
*
Gilbert, the "Pinafore " man, has no ear for
music and cannot tell the difference between
harmony and discord, yet he likes it and has an
ear for rhythm. Says he : " The slightest error
in time, which would probably escape a musi-
cian, would jar most gratingly on my ear. My
{Continued on page 7.)
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