Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 27 N. 1 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
""THE officers of the Music Teaehers'^Na-
*
tional Association for 1898-9 elected
at the recent Convention at the Waldorf -
Astoria are: President, A. J. Gantvoort,
Cinncinnati, O. ; Vice-president, Carl G.
Schmidt, Morristown, N. J. ; Secretary,
Geo. C. Gow, Vassar College; Treasurer,
Frederick A. Fowler, New Haven, Conn.
The honorary president is Horatio W.
Parker, of Yale. The program commit-
tee:
William Edward Mulligan, New
York; Frank Van der Stucken, and Mrs.
M. Fay-Peirce.
Executive Committee:
Walter Henry Hall, New York. E. W.
Glover and Bertha Bauer.
*
T H E Twenty-First Annual Convention
*
will occur in Cincinnati next year at
a date to be determined upon by a later
meeting of the executive committee.
*
T H E influence and power of the M. T.
*
N. A. as an educational body is now
recognized in many of our largest colleges
and institutions of learning.
*
C LSA VON GRAVE is a luminous fig-
*-* ure on the artistic horizon. She adds
to face and form an artistic temperament
which captivates audiences wherever she
appears.
This charming pianist has an
impressive personality, and the part
which she filled on the program of the M.
T. N. A. drew forth spontaneous ap-
plause.
Miss Von Grave has indeed a
brilliant future.
U
NDER the direction of Wilhelm
Gericke, to whom an enthusiastic
reception may be confidently promised,
the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give
two series of concerts in Carnegie Hall
next season—on Wednesday afternoons
and Thursday evenings. The dates will
be as follows: November 9 and 10, De-
cember 14 and 15, January 18 and 19,
February 22 and 23, and March 22 and 23.
*
of the cultured friends of
A COTERIE
Mrs.
Richard Blackmore, Jr., as-
sembled in the Mason & Hamlin ware-
rooms Tuesday afternoon and enjoyed her
informal talk on "Vocal Science." Mrs.
Blackmore's thorough knowledge of her
art, and her familiarity with the physiology
of the vocal organs make her well fitted to
cope with the most advanced ideas regard-
ing the art of singing, and her simple
charming manner, her command of voice
and thought added their charm to this
delightful talk. Mrs. Blackmore's theory
is that artistic singing is a scientific devel-
opment, not a life function, and voice
building should therefore be treated by
science. There are two distinct phases to
the work: muscle control and breath con-
trol. The value of muscle control and the
physiological facts, which make it possible,
were treated at considerable length by
Mrs. Blackmore and illustrated by charts.
" The vocal muscles are those which not
only cause tone btit which support it and
re-enforce it," says Mrs. Blackmore, "and
a mental physiological picture of the
throat is an absolute necessity in obtaining
the best results in singing, for a conscious
control of the muscles means knowledge.
Control of the muscles is attained by
exercises entirely independent of those of
voice, and are entirely without vocal
sound." The extrinsic and intrinsic mus-
cles of the throat were then explained
and their various functions illustrated and
the value of the fixation of tone in singing
was taken up, for "sound does not all come
from the mouth but from every part of the
body which can vibrate." Mrs. Blackmore
has but just returned from New York city,
where she has passed a very successful
winter, her services as singer and teacher
ELSA VON GRAVE.
having been in much demand. She will
re-open her season here in Boston in
October at 200 Dartmouth street, says
The Boston Times.
*
A NATIONAL congress of musicians
**
will be held as an adjunct of the
Omaha exposition beginning on June 30,
and lasting until the Tuesday following
the Fourth.
*
A RECENT litigation over the Amer-
* * ican rights to the author's royalties
of "Charley's Aunt " reveals the fact that
Brandon Thomas made $140,000 out of the
farce without getting all that he was en-
titled to from the American rights. Now
an English court has compelled W. S.
Penley to pay Mr. Thomas $40,000 more.
Most of these profits came from the United
States, in spite of the fact that the play
has been translated into every European
language.
*
T H I S is from the Wasp, a paper whose
1
sting is first felt in San Francisco,
Cal. :
" It has been decided by the Musical
Courier, of New York, to produce a ' na-
tional issue,' and our professors and ama-
teurs can have their pictures published in
that edition, and also write down their
own—taffy on the stick—at the rate of $50
or more, according to the size of the pic-
ture, and the amount of siigar to pull the
'taffy.'
The scheme is a superb one,
from a commercial standpoint, but I dare
say that the true artist will not be there in
the midst of that market of ambiguous
fame; and this means that San Francisco
will be pretty well represented there."
With an explosive report that patriotic
edition will greet us on the morning of
the Fourth, when those of us who can
will hie away to Manhattan, where we can
be swept by ocean breezes.
*
T H E tenth annual meeting of the New
* York State Music Teachers' Association
was held at Binghampton on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, June 28th, 29th
and 30th. There were many distinguished
vocalists, pianists, organists and talen-
ted artists in attendance, and the program
of the three days' session was, filled
with splendid attractions of thorough in-
terest to all lovers of music and of especial
benefit to musicians and teachers.
*
TJARVEY WICKHAM, organist and
* * choirmaster of Grace Church, Mid-
dletown, N. Y., read an original paper.
Mr. Wickham is not only a talented organ-
ist, but is a writer of exceeding ability.
Some of his essays are entertaining in
the highest degree. Mr. Wickham is an
advanced and philosophic thinker.
*
A FTER finishing a course of lectures in
* * Paris, Victor Maurel will repeat the
series in London.
*
O O dear old puritan Boston is to have a
^
genuine "Sans Souci!"
Whether
classic Boston will patronize the beer gar-
den remains to be seen, but the innovation
will be made, and in a few days there will
be installed in the old public library, the
first music hall after the European in
Boston.
*
JV A R. Mapleson has prepared a long "Pre-
* ' * liminary List of Patrons" of the new
scheme he has projected at the Olympic,
London, Eng., mainly for Italian and the
older melodic, as distinct from the "ad-
vanced " German operas.
Among his
patrons are the following: Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, the Dukes of Marlbor-
ough and Portland, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Earls Shaftesbury, Westmoreland,
vSandwich, Clarendon, Mar, Kilmorey,
Aylesford,
Mayo, Hopetoun, Suffield,
Harewood, Amherst, Wharncliffe, Dun-
more, Lords Exmouth, Somerton, Arthur
Hill, Hardinge, Raincliffe, Henry Ben-
tinck, Edward Spencer Churchill, George
Neville, Lawrence, etc.
He promises
Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" (which he
has tried in the United States) and Leon-
cavallo's " L a Boheme," besides Gluck's
<'Armida," Weber's "Oberon," Spontini's
" La Vestale," Donizetti's " Belisario " and
numerous more familiar operas. Nor are
the finances overlooked. Mr. Mapleson
estimates the expenses for six months at
^42,700 and the receipts at ^68,000, or a
neat little profit on the half year of over
,£25,000.
RS. JESSIE L. GAYNOR is the only
Chicago woman who has been ad-
mitted to membership in the New York
Manuscript Society.
Mrs. Gaynor is a
M
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
""THE officers of the Music Teaehers'^Na-
*
tional Association for 1898-9 elected
at the recent Convention at the Waldorf -
Astoria are: President, A. J. Gantvoort,
Cinncinnati, O. ; Vice-president, Carl G.
Schmidt, Morristown, N. J. ; Secretary,
Geo. C. Gow, Vassar College; Treasurer,
Frederick A. Fowler, New Haven, Conn.
The honorary president is Horatio W.
Parker, of Yale. The program commit-
tee:
William Edward Mulligan, New
York; Frank Van der Stucken, and Mrs.
M. Fay-Peirce.
Executive Committee:
Walter Henry Hall, New York. E. W.
Glover and Bertha Bauer.
*
T H E Twenty-First Annual Convention
*
will occur in Cincinnati next year at
a date to be determined upon by a later
meeting of the executive committee.
*
T H E influence and power of the M. T.
*
N. A. as an educational body is now
recognized in many of our largest colleges
and institutions of learning.
*
C LSA VON GRAVE is a luminous fig-
*-* ure on the artistic horizon. She adds
to face and form an artistic temperament
which captivates audiences wherever she
appears.
This charming pianist has an
impressive personality, and the part
which she filled on the program of the M.
T. N. A. drew forth spontaneous ap-
plause.
Miss Von Grave has indeed a
brilliant future.
U
NDER the direction of Wilhelm
Gericke, to whom an enthusiastic
reception may be confidently promised,
the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give
two series of concerts in Carnegie Hall
next season—on Wednesday afternoons
and Thursday evenings. The dates will
be as follows: November 9 and 10, De-
cember 14 and 15, January 18 and 19,
February 22 and 23, and March 22 and 23.
*
of the cultured friends of
A COTERIE
Mrs.
Richard Blackmore, Jr., as-
sembled in the Mason & Hamlin ware-
rooms Tuesday afternoon and enjoyed her
informal talk on "Vocal Science." Mrs.
Blackmore's thorough knowledge of her
art, and her familiarity with the physiology
of the vocal organs make her well fitted to
cope with the most advanced ideas regard-
ing the art of singing, and her simple
charming manner, her command of voice
and thought added their charm to this
delightful talk. Mrs. Blackmore's theory
is that artistic singing is a scientific devel-
opment, not a life function, and voice
building should therefore be treated by
science. There are two distinct phases to
the work: muscle control and breath con-
trol. The value of muscle control and the
physiological facts, which make it possible,
were treated at considerable length by
Mrs. Blackmore and illustrated by charts.
" The vocal muscles are those which not
only cause tone btit which support it and
re-enforce it," says Mrs. Blackmore, "and
a mental physiological picture of the
throat is an absolute necessity in obtaining
the best results in singing, for a conscious
control of the muscles means knowledge.
Control of the muscles is attained by
exercises entirely independent of those of
voice, and are entirely without vocal
sound." The extrinsic and intrinsic mus-
cles of the throat were then explained
and their various functions illustrated and
the value of the fixation of tone in singing
was taken up, for "sound does not all come
from the mouth but from every part of the
body which can vibrate." Mrs. Blackmore
has but just returned from New York city,
where she has passed a very successful
winter, her services as singer and teacher
ELSA VON GRAVE.
having been in much demand. She will
re-open her season here in Boston in
October at 200 Dartmouth street, says
The Boston Times.
*
A NATIONAL congress of musicians
**
will be held as an adjunct of the
Omaha exposition beginning on June 30,
and lasting until the Tuesday following
the Fourth.
*
A RECENT litigation over the Amer-
* * ican rights to the author's royalties
of "Charley's Aunt " reveals the fact that
Brandon Thomas made $140,000 out of the
farce without getting all that he was en-
titled to from the American rights. Now
an English court has compelled W. S.
Penley to pay Mr. Thomas $40,000 more.
Most of these profits came from the United
States, in spite of the fact that the play
has been translated into every European
language.
*
T H I S is from the Wasp, a paper whose
1
sting is first felt in San Francisco,
Cal. :
" It has been decided by the Musical
Courier, of New York, to produce a ' na-
tional issue,' and our professors and ama-
teurs can have their pictures published in
that edition, and also write down their
own—taffy on the stick—at the rate of $50
or more, according to the size of the pic-
ture, and the amount of siigar to pull the
'taffy.'
The scheme is a superb one,
from a commercial standpoint, but I dare
say that the true artist will not be there in
the midst of that market of ambiguous
fame; and this means that San Francisco
will be pretty well represented there."
With an explosive report that patriotic
edition will greet us on the morning of
the Fourth, when those of us who can
will hie away to Manhattan, where we can
be swept by ocean breezes.
*
T H E tenth annual meeting of the New
* York State Music Teachers' Association
was held at Binghampton on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, June 28th, 29th
and 30th. There were many distinguished
vocalists, pianists, organists and talen-
ted artists in attendance, and the program
of the three days' session was, filled
with splendid attractions of thorough in-
terest to all lovers of music and of especial
benefit to musicians and teachers.
*
TJARVEY WICKHAM, organist and
* * choirmaster of Grace Church, Mid-
dletown, N. Y., read an original paper.
Mr. Wickham is not only a talented organ-
ist, but is a writer of exceeding ability.
Some of his essays are entertaining in
the highest degree. Mr. Wickham is an
advanced and philosophic thinker.
*
A FTER finishing a course of lectures in
* * Paris, Victor Maurel will repeat the
series in London.
*
O O dear old puritan Boston is to have a
^
genuine "Sans Souci!"
Whether
classic Boston will patronize the beer gar-
den remains to be seen, but the innovation
will be made, and in a few days there will
be installed in the old public library, the
first music hall after the European in
Boston.
*
JV A R. Mapleson has prepared a long "Pre-
* ' * liminary List of Patrons" of the new
scheme he has projected at the Olympic,
London, Eng., mainly for Italian and the
older melodic, as distinct from the "ad-
vanced " German operas.
Among his
patrons are the following: Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, the Dukes of Marlbor-
ough and Portland, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Earls Shaftesbury, Westmoreland,
vSandwich, Clarendon, Mar, Kilmorey,
Aylesford,
Mayo, Hopetoun, Suffield,
Harewood, Amherst, Wharncliffe, Dun-
more, Lords Exmouth, Somerton, Arthur
Hill, Hardinge, Raincliffe, Henry Ben-
tinck, Edward Spencer Churchill, George
Neville, Lawrence, etc.
He promises
Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" (which he
has tried in the United States) and Leon-
cavallo's " L a Boheme," besides Gluck's
<'Armida," Weber's "Oberon," Spontini's
" La Vestale," Donizetti's " Belisario " and
numerous more familiar operas. Nor are
the finances overlooked. Mr. Mapleson
estimates the expenses for six months at
^42,700 and the receipts at ^68,000, or a
neat little profit on the half year of over
,£25,000.
RS. JESSIE L. GAYNOR is the only
Chicago woman who has been ad-
mitted to membership in the New York
Manuscript Society.
Mrs. Gaynor is a
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