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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
was a fight made for Omaha, but friends
of this city were too strong.
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
There was a good attendance at the
women's meeting, which was held prelimi-
nary to the formation of a Federation of
"Women's Musical Clubs. Mrs. Theodore
Sutro opened the meeting with an address.
The other speakers were Mrs. Charles Vir-
gil, " The Woman's Club as a Factor in
General Music Culture;" Mrs. M. C. Mer-
rick, "Women in Musical Literature;"
Mrs. Bertha von Schroeder Fletcher, of
Minneapolis, "Philanthropic Side of Mu-
sic Club Work;" Miss Mary Burd, "Wo-
man's Relation to Egyptian Music; " Mrs.
Arthur Smith, "Music in India;" Mrs.
Chandler Starr, of Rockford, 111., and Miss
Amy Fay.
Mrs. Russell Dorr presided at the form-
ing of a federation of women's musical
clubs. Fifty clubs were represented from
all over the United States, and circulars
will be sent at once to all other clubs of a
similar nature, asking co-operation in form-
ing the organization and electing perma-
nent officers.
ORATORIO OF
SOUSA "THE MARCH KING."
John Philip Sousa, who has gained for
himself the sobriquet of the "March King"
by the virile military quality which he
puts into his music, has composed a new
march which awakens a spirit of rampant
American enthusiasm wherever it is
heard.
The new march is called "The Stars and
Stripes Forever." Nightly at Manhattan
Beach it brings the audience to their feet
at its close, men cheering and women wav-
ing their handkerchiefs in a delirium of
enthusiastic patriotism.
At the grand climax of the march thir-
teen members of the band with their instru-
ments march to the front of the stage and
play a repetition of the last part, and an
onlooker observing the faces of the audi-
ence instead of watching the men who are
supposed to represent the thirteen original
States, will be struck with the manner in
"ELIJAH."
An immense audience gathered at the
Auditorium in the evening to listen to a
very creditable singing of the oratorio of
" Elijah," under the direction of Walter
Henry Hall. The Oratorio Club of Brook-
lyn, augmented by members of various
New York choruses and by the Allentown
Choral Society, participated, with a full
orchestra and organ. The soloists were
Miss Eleanore Meredith, soprano; Miss
Fielding Roselle, contralto; Theodore Van
York, tenor; Ericsson Bushnell, bass, and
Robert A. Gayler, organist.
During the performance R. Huntington
Woodman, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, made an appeal to the audience
to help the association make up a deficit of
$r,6oo, which represented the excess of ex-
penses over the amount received from
admissions. About $100 was collected
among the audience, and Mr. Woodman,
Louis A. Russell of Newark, and F. H.
Tubbs each subscribed $100. H. S. Perkins
of Chicago, the former Secretary, gave $500
of the amount due him as salary and ex-
penses toward making up the deficit.
So ended the greatest and most success-
ful convention in the history of the
organization.
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Albert Gerard Thiers, the well-known
teacher, will spend the months of July and
August at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he
will conduct a school for voice culture.
The Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra
is giving a series of really excellent and ad-
mirable concerts at the Madison Square
Roof Garden this summer. The music in-
terpreted is neither too classical nor too
popular—a happy medium being displayed ;
hence this resort has become one of the
most popular in town. Adolph Neuendorff
has evidently a thorough comprehension of
the kind of musical diet the public can di-
gest when old Sol gets excited.
"The best national anthem is undoubt-
edly the French, the Austrian is second in
merit, and the Russian Hymn is a good
third. England comes fourth with its 'God
Save the Queen,'and the rest come trailing
along in the rear. 'God Save the Queen,'
by the way, is the national anthem of
several nations, the melody being used
with special words composed for it.
"A composition in march tempo, which
I .have largely leaned to, must have the
military quality if it is to make a mark; it
must have the absolute military instinct.
That is one reason why so few of the
great composers have written successful
marches. They lived in an atmosphere
of peace, away from the barbaric
splendor of war and the clash of swords.
The roll of the musketry had no meaning
for them, and so that quality is entirely
absent from their work.
"Patriotism is not in the music but
in the feeling it conveys. The military
spirit is necessary. I have lived all my
life in the atmosphere of the army. I
might say that even while a baby I was
near camp, and I understand just the
effect of all the pomp and splendor of war
when it is introduced in a musical com-
position. 'The Stars and Stripes For-
ever' has this quality perhaps in a more
marked degree than my former com-
positions."
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Dr. Stocks Hammond, organist of St.
James Cathedral in Toronto, who was well
and favorably known to musicians in this
country and Canada, died at his home in
Toronto on June 18th.
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.
which the feeling of patriotism irradiates
the faces of both the young and the old.
' 'The march was written, "said Mr. Sousa,
"when I was in Europe last summer, and
finished on board ship coming home. One
never feels so patriotic as when under a
foreign flag, you know. I have often
heard people say that when in a foreign
country the sight of the Stars and Stripes
seems the most glorious in the world.
"My idea was to climax the march with
three themes—one representing the North,
a broad, sweeping theme; the South, with
its languorous beauty and romance, and
the West, a strong, pushing melody carry-
ing all before it. These themes were to
blend harmoniously, but were to be used
independently if necessary.
"I am of the opinion that military
music, that which has the drum and the
military swagger in it, is the kind that
wakes patriotism in the soul. You see
that if there were patriotism in music the
'Star-Spangled Banner,' which serves us
for a national song, would possess it. But
that melody was originally a drinking song,
and was written by Samuel Arnold in
1750, to an ode to 'Anacreon in Heaven.'
William H. Sherwood has severed his
connection with the Chicago Conservatory
and has arranged for the opening of a new
institution to be named the Sherwood Piano
School, which will be located at Steinway
Hall, Chicago. Mr. Sherwood has sur-
rounded himself with an able faculty, and
it is the aim of all concerned to make this
school one of the foremost institutions of
its kind in the great West.
French musicians are becoming alarmed
at the increasing number of foreigners
(chiefly Belgians and Italians) who find
places in the Parisian orchestras, and have
organized a protective society to counter-
act this dreadful evil.
Anton Seidl's appearance in London as
conductor of German opera has been 'a
great triumph. The critics without ex-
ception have been most enthusiastic in
praise of his excellent work.
Evan Williams, whose portrait appeared
in this department last month, has been en-
gaged to sing the tenor roles in the "Re-
demption," "Hora Novissima," and the
"Swan and the Skylark" at the Worcester
Festival.
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