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Issue: 1897 Vol. 25 N. 23 - Page 3
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48 PAGES.
With which is Incorporated THE KEYNOTE.
VOL. XXV.
No. 23.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, December 4,1897,
riAURICE GRAU'S PLANS.
ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING PIANISTS.
The coming visit of Josef Hoffman,
who, it will be remembered, created a
great sensation as a juvenile pianist some
eight or ten years ago,'is exciting much
interest in musical circles. He will be
heard in this city and throughout the coun-
try in the spring with the Chicago Sym-
phony Orchestra under Theodore Thomas.
Josef Hoffman has studied under Rubin-
stein, who took a great interest in his
artistic progress, and is now said to be one
of the world's greatest pianists. A Ber-
lin paper reviewing one of his recent
concerts said, "Josef Hoffman has a won-
derful technic, great strength and fine
rhythm. His interpretation of the Bee-
thoven and Chopin sonatas was splendid
—original. Least well on the program,
Hoffman played his own Etude for the left
hand. The composition is masterly; it is
very difficult. Hoffman has an abundance
of temperament, and a beautiful, sympa-
thetic touch. His endurance is colossal.
After playing that enormous program
he played as encores, ' Etincelles ' of
Moszokowsky, Marche Militaire, Schubeit-
Tausig, and an arrangement of ' Winter
Sturme' from the Walkure. The au-
dience applauded, stamped and cheered.
It was a veritable triumph. * The house
was crowded; everybody had come to hear
whether the boy genius, who had aston-
ished the world eight or nine years ago,
had fulfilled the predictions made then.
THE VERDI HOHE.
Outside the Gate Magenta, at Milan, a And all went away satisfied that he had
magnificent building is in course of fulfilled them, for Josef Hoffman is now
construction. It is Verdi's Home for old one of the greatest living pianists."
Italian artists of all classes. The funds
for its establishment and maintenance are
given by the great master, and the cost of
PEOPLE'S SINGING HOVEHENT.
erection alone of the building, as designed
An interesting account of the People's
by Signor Camille Boito (a brother of Singing Classes organized in this city in
Arigo, the librettist of Othello and Fal- '92 by Frank Damrosch and now carried on
staff), will amount to $80,000. The home by him with a corps of assistants, appears
will provide shelter for one hundred in- in a recent issue of the Independent over
mates— sixty men and forty women. the name of E. Irenaeus Stevenson. After
There will be no common dormitory, for four years of active work with members,
Verdi, with thoughtful tact, wishes to not one of whom, roughly speaking, could
spare the feelings of people who may have read music, the movement represents to-
known a certain comfort in their youth. day the finest choral association in the city,
There will be reading-rooms, a concert- and the humblest derived. Go and look at
room, and bath-rooms, all lighted by elec- it at work, as well as hear it at work.
tricity and heated by hot-air stoves. The See its ranks. Note countenance and
clothes. Hear the members talk during
meals only will be in common.
Before Maurice Grau sailed for Europe,
a couple of weeks since, he announced that
he had concluded three additional engage-
ments, those of Mme. Gadski, Signor
Campanari and Mr. Bispham, for his next
season at Covent Garden in London,
which will open May 9.
"As to the next season of opera in
America," said Mr. Grau, "I have very-
little to add to what has already been told.
I have contracts with Mme. Calve, Eames,
the MM. de Reszke, M. Plancon, Mr. Van
Dyck and M. Albers, the latter a French
baritone, who has sung in New Orleans.
"Of course I hope to have Mme. Melba,
Nordica and all the others with me again,
but nothing about this has yet been abso-
lutely arranged. I am going now to Lon-
don, thence to Paris, and after to Italy,
and, if possible, I shall return here early
in February. Then I hope to be able to
announce all my plans for the season.
"I may say that it is practically settled
that we shall open our season next autumn
in Chicago, coming to New York later,
about the end of November or the begin-
ning of December. As to novelties in the
repertory, it is a little early to speak of
that now, but I think it is probable that we
isiiall present Mme Calve in 'Sapho,' the
opera Massenet has written for her."
$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
a recess. It is not of the rich. Many,
many of its singers, pathetically, are
of the poor. Nobody is any too well
dressed. In winter sometimes many wo-
men and men are not too warmly dressed.
There are rough hands and hard-working
bodies and work-sobered faces. It means
the East Side and the West Side laboring
all the week, and singing of a Sunday after-
noon. It means the practical nurture of art
for the masses of the people, as means not
one of the conservatories and such-like in-
stitutions of all the town—all its ordinary
and luxurious musical machinery between
October and June. None of them, in fact,
could reach out to this broad, vocal,
aesthetic work and do it. It would be like
giving drink to a regiment with a few
tin dippers. In this case the army have
been shown the swelling flood, and guided
to its banks.
©
FIRST MS. SOCIETY CONCERT.
The Manuscript Society, which is doing
so much to advance the interests of Amer-
ican musical compositions, will enter upon
the active work of their ninth season with
a public orchestral concert at Checkering
Hall on the evening of Dec. 15, to be fol-
lowed by two concerts later on, Feb. 10 and
April 14, 1898. Active preparations are in
progress for a series of extremely interest-
ing programs for all the concerts of this
season, and at the first of these events,
Dec. 15, the committee in charge has se-
lected the following compositions which
will be given under the direction of Mr.
Anton Seidl, a fact which will ensure their
most perfect interpretation : A Sym-
phony, by Mr. Henry K. Hadley, of Gar-
den City, L. I.; Overtures, by Messrs. E.
R. Kroeger, of St. Louis, and Platon Bru-
noff, of New York; an Aria for Soprano,
with full orchestra, by Mr. A. M. Foerster,
of Pittsburg, and a Rhapsodie, by Mr.
Ernest Lent, of Washington. The usual
monthly private meetings will also occur
apart from the foregoing.
©
Mr. W. J. Henderson will give his lec-
ture on "The Orchestra and its Instru-
ments" at the Lyceum Theatre on Tues-
day, Dec. 7. The American Symphony
Orchestra will furnish the illustrations.
48 PAGES.
With which is Incorporated THE KEYNOTE.
VOL. XXV.
No. 23.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, December 4,1897,
riAURICE GRAU'S PLANS.
ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING PIANISTS.
The coming visit of Josef Hoffman,
who, it will be remembered, created a
great sensation as a juvenile pianist some
eight or ten years ago,'is exciting much
interest in musical circles. He will be
heard in this city and throughout the coun-
try in the spring with the Chicago Sym-
phony Orchestra under Theodore Thomas.
Josef Hoffman has studied under Rubin-
stein, who took a great interest in his
artistic progress, and is now said to be one
of the world's greatest pianists. A Ber-
lin paper reviewing one of his recent
concerts said, "Josef Hoffman has a won-
derful technic, great strength and fine
rhythm. His interpretation of the Bee-
thoven and Chopin sonatas was splendid
—original. Least well on the program,
Hoffman played his own Etude for the left
hand. The composition is masterly; it is
very difficult. Hoffman has an abundance
of temperament, and a beautiful, sympa-
thetic touch. His endurance is colossal.
After playing that enormous program
he played as encores, ' Etincelles ' of
Moszokowsky, Marche Militaire, Schubeit-
Tausig, and an arrangement of ' Winter
Sturme' from the Walkure. The au-
dience applauded, stamped and cheered.
It was a veritable triumph. * The house
was crowded; everybody had come to hear
whether the boy genius, who had aston-
ished the world eight or nine years ago,
had fulfilled the predictions made then.
THE VERDI HOHE.
Outside the Gate Magenta, at Milan, a And all went away satisfied that he had
magnificent building is in course of fulfilled them, for Josef Hoffman is now
construction. It is Verdi's Home for old one of the greatest living pianists."
Italian artists of all classes. The funds
for its establishment and maintenance are
given by the great master, and the cost of
PEOPLE'S SINGING HOVEHENT.
erection alone of the building, as designed
An interesting account of the People's
by Signor Camille Boito (a brother of Singing Classes organized in this city in
Arigo, the librettist of Othello and Fal- '92 by Frank Damrosch and now carried on
staff), will amount to $80,000. The home by him with a corps of assistants, appears
will provide shelter for one hundred in- in a recent issue of the Independent over
mates— sixty men and forty women. the name of E. Irenaeus Stevenson. After
There will be no common dormitory, for four years of active work with members,
Verdi, with thoughtful tact, wishes to not one of whom, roughly speaking, could
spare the feelings of people who may have read music, the movement represents to-
known a certain comfort in their youth. day the finest choral association in the city,
There will be reading-rooms, a concert- and the humblest derived. Go and look at
room, and bath-rooms, all lighted by elec- it at work, as well as hear it at work.
tricity and heated by hot-air stoves. The See its ranks. Note countenance and
clothes. Hear the members talk during
meals only will be in common.
Before Maurice Grau sailed for Europe,
a couple of weeks since, he announced that
he had concluded three additional engage-
ments, those of Mme. Gadski, Signor
Campanari and Mr. Bispham, for his next
season at Covent Garden in London,
which will open May 9.
"As to the next season of opera in
America," said Mr. Grau, "I have very-
little to add to what has already been told.
I have contracts with Mme. Calve, Eames,
the MM. de Reszke, M. Plancon, Mr. Van
Dyck and M. Albers, the latter a French
baritone, who has sung in New Orleans.
"Of course I hope to have Mme. Melba,
Nordica and all the others with me again,
but nothing about this has yet been abso-
lutely arranged. I am going now to Lon-
don, thence to Paris, and after to Italy,
and, if possible, I shall return here early
in February. Then I hope to be able to
announce all my plans for the season.
"I may say that it is practically settled
that we shall open our season next autumn
in Chicago, coming to New York later,
about the end of November or the begin-
ning of December. As to novelties in the
repertory, it is a little early to speak of
that now, but I think it is probable that we
isiiall present Mme Calve in 'Sapho,' the
opera Massenet has written for her."
$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
a recess. It is not of the rich. Many,
many of its singers, pathetically, are
of the poor. Nobody is any too well
dressed. In winter sometimes many wo-
men and men are not too warmly dressed.
There are rough hands and hard-working
bodies and work-sobered faces. It means
the East Side and the West Side laboring
all the week, and singing of a Sunday after-
noon. It means the practical nurture of art
for the masses of the people, as means not
one of the conservatories and such-like in-
stitutions of all the town—all its ordinary
and luxurious musical machinery between
October and June. None of them, in fact,
could reach out to this broad, vocal,
aesthetic work and do it. It would be like
giving drink to a regiment with a few
tin dippers. In this case the army have
been shown the swelling flood, and guided
to its banks.
©
FIRST MS. SOCIETY CONCERT.
The Manuscript Society, which is doing
so much to advance the interests of Amer-
ican musical compositions, will enter upon
the active work of their ninth season with
a public orchestral concert at Checkering
Hall on the evening of Dec. 15, to be fol-
lowed by two concerts later on, Feb. 10 and
April 14, 1898. Active preparations are in
progress for a series of extremely interest-
ing programs for all the concerts of this
season, and at the first of these events,
Dec. 15, the committee in charge has se-
lected the following compositions which
will be given under the direction of Mr.
Anton Seidl, a fact which will ensure their
most perfect interpretation : A Sym-
phony, by Mr. Henry K. Hadley, of Gar-
den City, L. I.; Overtures, by Messrs. E.
R. Kroeger, of St. Louis, and Platon Bru-
noff, of New York; an Aria for Soprano,
with full orchestra, by Mr. A. M. Foerster,
of Pittsburg, and a Rhapsodie, by Mr.
Ernest Lent, of Washington. The usual
monthly private meetings will also occur
apart from the foregoing.
©
Mr. W. J. Henderson will give his lec-
ture on "The Orchestra and its Instru-
ments" at the Lyceum Theatre on Tues-
day, Dec. 7. The American Symphony
Orchestra will furnish the illustrations.
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