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recently told a London interviewer that she
expected to teach for many years. Mr. R.
E. Johnson, Mme. Marchesi's representa-
tive, says of her coming:
" T h e visit to this country of Mme.
Marchesi is, in my opinion, the most im-
portant educational and artistic event in
the history of music and song so far as our
country is concerned. Mme. Marchesi is
recognized as the greatest living teacher of
singing and of the vocal art, and much of
the success which has been attained by
American singers in both Europe and
America can be traced directly to her per-
sonal efforts and tuition. Mme. Marchesi's
visit to the United States will be for quite
a prolonged stay, probably more than six
months, and during this time she will give
instruction to talented pupils and to those
who are studying the art of teaching sing-
ing, and also to such pupils as incline to-
ward the Marchesi system. Various plans
are in progress of development by means of
which she will be able to elevate the whole
vocal art to the highest standard attainable
at present. There is no doubt that she will
give a tremendous stimulus to the desire of
the people and their teachers to cultivate
vocal art, and enormous benefits must
necessarily flow from her visit."
. E. flEREDITH.
Mme. Eleanore Mere-
dith is a native of the
State of Ohio. Her voice
is a pure soprano, rich and
sympathetic in quality,
combined with her artis-
tic, intelligent singing,
and her excellence as a
musician, adapt her par-
ticularly well for the inter-
pretation of Oratorios and
the most difficult works.
She has studied with
teachers of great reputa-
tion, and is very success-
ful wherever she appears.
She has been personally
associated with artists of
the highest musical re-
pute, and has sung under
the personal direction of
Anton Seidl, Theodore
Thomas, Arthur Meesand
other prominent directors,
and with the leading ora-
torio and musical socie-
ties in this country. Her
repertoire includes all the
standard oratorios and
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cantatas, dramatic arias
We understand the Symphony Society from the leading operas,
of this city will change the established rule and classical songs.
next winter and hold all its concerts in the
afternoon. It has always been the custom oughly characteristic of the great Ruben-
to give rehearsal concerts on the afternoon stein: "I am a Christian in the eyes of the
previous to the regular Saturday evening Jews, a Jew in the eyes of Christians; Rus-
concert. This policy will not be pursued sians regard me as a German, the Germans
this year. The change is due to Walter say that I am a Russian. Those who be-
Damrosch's inability to attend all the con- lieve in classic music claim that I compose
certs, owing to his being occupied in the music of the future; the Wagnerites call
conduct of his opera company. It is not me a renegade. Consequently I am neither
improbable that some similar change may fish nor fowl—a nondescript individual."
be made in the policy of the Oratorio
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Society.
Edward Brandes, Denmark's most dis-
With all due respect we venture to think
tinguished
playwright and litterateur, re-
that the move is not one which will tend
cently
visited
London, and the position of
to the welfare of the organizations re-
opera
in
England
seems to have astonished
ferred to, or one that the people of this
him,
judging
from
the following remarks
city will look upon with favor. If Mr.
which
appeared
in
a
Copenhagen paper:
Damrosch is unable to be present to give
"The
best
proof
of
the
of artistic feeling in
the concerts of the societies the attention the English nation is to be want
found in the fact that
which they merit, some competent person in mighty London there is no opera, except in the
season. . . . The fact that an enor-
should be engaged to do so. It is hardly fashionable
mously rich city like London does not possess a
fair that the people should be inconveni- public which desires to hear good music at all
betokens in any case that other interests
enced just because he is constantly enlarging times
supersede the sesthetic, while the latter is often
his sphere of activity. Outside organizations the only interest of a small nation,which of neces-
sity must keep within its own domain, because no
visiting the city cannot fail to benefit by the one
in the world troubles to ask its opinion or
move. They will receive a larger measure wishes."
of support than heretofore extended,
We quote the foregoing because it ap-
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plies just as aptly to New York as to the
Many epigrammatic sayings, which are British metropolis.
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destined to become known near and far,are
to be found in the Memoirs of Rubenstein,
On October i, the National Conser-
just issued in Russia and Germany. The vatory of Music of America, founded by
following, for example, is really good: Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber, will open an
"An artist giving a concert should not de- uptown branch of the preparatory piano
mand an entrance fee, but should ask the department at 239 Lenox avenue. This
public to pay, just before leaving, as much branch is established in answer to repeated
as they like. From the sum taken he demands from parents whose children are
would be able to judge what the public too young to be sent downtown to the
think of him, and we would have less con- main institution, and it will be conducted
certs anyhow."
by the same professors who have charge of
Here is another sample which is thor- the piano preparatory department of the
MME. E. MEREDITH.
Conservatory, under the personal supervi-
sion of Rafael Joseffy and Adele Margulies.
The full course of instruction will be so
arranged that school children can attend on
two afternoons of the week.
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On the front page of this issue will be
found the latest portrait of that distin-
guished French violinist, Henri Marteau,
who will revisit this country the coming
season. Although a mere boy when here
a few years ago, he achieved a phenomenal
success. Now that he is in the maturity of
his art it is safe to predict that his forth-
coming tour will be a triumphal one.
Competent authorities who have heard this
artist recently are enthusiastic about his
playing, and such a lively interest has been
manifested by the American musical world
in his coming that Henry Wolfsohn, his
manager in this country, has been busy the
past few weeks making "dates" away ahead.
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Jean de Reszke is one of the lucky men
in this mundane sphere. As a singer he
secures a salary that is munificent, and
while on vacation this summer—which, by
the way, he spent wheeling through the
European continent—his race horses, of
which he has a large stable in Russia, have
been coining money for him.
Speaking of this great artist brings to
mind a fact recently brought to light, that
he was willing to make his first London
appearance as a tenor at the Royal Italian
Opera for the moderate fee of ,£20 a night,
but Seiior Lago refused th*e offer, for he
then had Gayarre and other artists, and
did not wish to add to his company; so M.
de Reszke passed to Drury Lane.