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will, it is said, constitute a permanent
organization for symphony and general
concert work.
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W. SILSBEE, of Massachusetts, who
purchased the interesting memento
for this express purpose, formally presen-
ted to the Bodleian Library at Oxford,
England, the guitar Percy Bysshe Shelley,
the poet, presented to Mrs. Williams, wife
of Lieut. Williams, who was drowned with
him off Viareggio, on the Mediterranean,
on July 8, 1822, and which was the subject
of Shelley's beautiful poem, entitled, " T o
a Lady with a Guitar."
*
C I G H T E E N or nineteen Peoria musi-
cians visited Pekin, 111., Tuesday,
June 21, and initiated the entire member-
ship of Gehrig's band into the American
Federation of Musicians.
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T H E Melba Choral society, of which Miss
* Bessie Bartlett is president, Miss
plans for opera in New York
next winter are said to be matured and Clara Smith, secretary, Mrs. Gordan Duns-
they include a number of German perform- ter, conductor, and Miss Ellen Gilson,
ances. The series is to be 17 weeks long, accompaniste, gave a concert at the
with 68 subscription performances. The Blanchard-Fitzgerald hall, Los Angeles,
singers announced as engaged are Mmes. Cal., for the benefit of the American Boy
Nordica, Melba, Calve, Eames, Engle, battleship fund.
*
Bauermeister, Schumann-Heink, Messlin-
N his address to the delegates to the
ger, and Mantelli; Messrs. Jean de Reszke,
M. T. N. A. Convention at the Wal-
Saleza, Salignac, Van Dyk, Campanari,
Bispham, Albers, Edouard de Reszke, and dorf-Astoria, Herbert Wilber Greene, the
Plancon. Signor Mancinelli was to be as- association's president 1897-98 said:
"One year ago the constitution was re-
sociated with Mr. Seidl as conductor. The
vised,
resulting in a few brief articles, the
opera company was to open in Chicago on
November 7, and remain for three weeks; salient provisions covering the preroga-
and after the New York season go to Bos- tives of the Board of Delegates, who are
ton for two weeks. Various new works here to exercise those prerogatives. We
are under consideration, but their produc- are, however, by no means sanguine as to
tion in New York will depend largely on the result; we have not yet the confidence
the success achieved with them in London. of the profession; the system has not been
tested. There have been many severe and
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TPHE famous old music master, Manuel just criticisms, the meeting of a year ago
* Garcia, has lately completed his 94th coming in for a share. It has been said
year. He keeps his interest in his art, fre- that our program committee of last year
quently attends concerts, and still gives over-reached themselves in providing too
occasional lessons. His memory is sound, many and too conflicting attractions, all of
and he recalls episodes of Napoleon's war which, while it may be true, certainly can
in Spain. After the taking of Badajos by not reflect upon the good intentions of
Wellington, Garcia's father fled with him that committee.
"Never before has musical criticism
to Naples. Manuel Garcia is one of the few
living musicians who personally knew been taken up and discussed with such
eminent fairness and with so much prom-
Beethoven.
Jennie Patrick-Walker, soprano; Fanny
Holt-Reed, contralto; Bruce Hobbs, tenor;
Stephen S. Townsend, baritone; Wulf
Fries, violoncello; George F. W. Reed,
accompanist.
*
IV A ISS Adele Margulies, the best piano
*' * teacher in New York, next to
Joseffy, sailed for Europe last week to
be gone until October.
*
IN accordance with the last wishes of
* his wife, Madame Alboni, M. Charles
Zieger has now paid the sum of 100,000
francs to the Assistance Publique of Paris
for the hospitals of the city. This com-
pletes the sum of 2,000,000 francs which
the famous singer left to the city of Paris
for charitable purposes in her will. The
municipality, as. a mark of gratitude for
these munificent gifts, has called one of
the streets of Paris by the name of Alboni.
I
PAUR, formerly conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, and now
of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
has been secured by Manager Loewen-
stein, as conductor for the subscription
series of concerts at the Waldorf-Astoria
next year. The orchestra of sixty players
ise as to future influence. Even the much
maligned woman's department was the
birthplace of the Federation of Musical
Clubs, behind which a power exists that
we little realize.
" If this body could miraculously confine
its influence to its membership, then, in-
deed, would there be need for the wisest
legislation; but such miracles are not per-
formed, and such is not the scope or intent
of the National body. Its influence must
spread far beyond the confines of its mem-
bership, even of its country's lineal boun-
daries. Time is a factor. The effect of
your rulings will extend on and on through
the centuries. Character, both musical
and moral, will unfold at your dictation;
youthful ambition will respond to your
encouragement; charlatanry and superfi-
ciality will seek your indorsement, which
must be denied. We most earnestly
charge you then, good friends, do not
treat this matter lightly; but go into your
council room strong of purpose and wise
as to your privileges. The eyes of the
entire musical world are upon you; you
occupy a unique position; you are the first
representative, characteristic gathering of
musicians that has ever been assembled in
the history of this country for solely delib-
erative purposes.
" The awakening is at hand; the colleges
and universities have opened their doors
to music, and from out these open doors
have come to this convention their profess-
ors as delegates. Shall not this example
influence those conservative institutions
which are halting as between progress and
prejudice? A number of municipalities,
which are spending large sums for popular
education in music, have sent to this con-
vention their supervisors. What influence
shall go out from this meeting which shall
bring the tardy and unobservant educa-
tional boards of other cities to follow their
example—rightfully expecting as a return
"better results in their own systems? "
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T H E indefatigable Mapleson is working
* hard on his plan to give a season of
Italian opera in London next fall, as a
kind of protest against the Wagner craze
that has taken that city. He is out with a
very formidable list of aristocratic patrons.
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