Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 27 N. 19 - Page 9
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
for the position—not an easy task, for first
trumpeters don't grow on every bush. Mr.
Lafracain has been bandmaster of the band
of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, and
has been very prominent in musical circles
in Boston. In this case the executive
committee of the Union have placed their
judgment as to Mr. Lefracain against the
judgment of Mr. Pauer, a musician of in-
ternational reputation.
Since the foregoing was written we are
informed that Mr. Lafracain has been re-
examined by the Board of the Musical
Mutual Protective Union, and this time
has satisfied them that he is an artist on
the trumpet and cornet, and he has been
given permission to live—we mean, per-
mission to play the trumpet with Mr. Pauer's
orchestra.
#
unknown balladists national schools of
compositions are built. A few decades
hence, perhaps, thousands of cultivated
amateurs will be listening entranced to the
marvelous treatment which some sym-
phony writer has accorded to '' Our lodger's
sich a nice young man "—which, by the
way, must suggest to many a certain waltz
of Chopin's—and other classics of the
pavement.
C)IANO virtuosi will be well in evidence
this season; the preliminary manage-
rial announcements promise Siloti, Sauer,
D'Albert, Carreno, Rosenthal, Sieveking,
Zeldenrust, and Made-
line Schiller.
What
an imposing array of
mighty names, says the
Etude. What a vista of
MUSICIANS of the "superior" order super-eminent musical
* ' * are too apt to turn up their noses at performances! What a
"popular " music, and to deny it any merit boundless perspective
whatever. It is true that few of the tunes of — empty benches!
that find their way out of the "halls " into One of the first princi-
the streets are worthy of the attention they ples of political econ-
receive. Street ballads are the slang words omy has it that the
of music. Some of them last only a few supply should not ex-
weeks, yet brighten life while they last. ceed the demand. It
Others are gathered into the immortal were advisable that the
treasures of common speech and song. In perspicacious purveyors
music more than in any other art, it is gen- to our musical needs
erally forgotten that a work is not neces- study well that law.
sarily trash because it has obvious flaws Allowing for the pro-
any more than a work is necessarily good verbial optimism and
because it is polished and correct. Other- the heated fantasy of
wise well-cut rhine-stones and beaten brass managers, even though
would be preferred to uncut diamonds and we strike several names
gold nuggets. A writer points out that from the list of our
the composer of the street ballad may be prospective visitors, yet
giving play to a great native ability that our hospitality would
circumstances have prevented him from be mightily overtaxed.
cultivating. The correct writer may be It should not be for-
only displaying bookishness. Art is not gotten that also our
information but inspiration. The great native players have
masters of music have been men of great prepared for the com-
cultivation, it is true, though they have all ing season. Of Amer-
been accused of ignorance. Handel said ican pianists who al-
that Gluck knew no more counterpoint ways have concertos at
than a pig. Handel himself is attacked their fingers' ends, there are Joseffy, Go-
by a camp of criticism hostile to all his dowsky, Sherwood, Baermann, Fanny
claims to greatness. It has been said that Bloomfield-Zeisler, Lockwood, Jessie Shay,
Schubert usually goes on where he should Gallico, Jonas, Florence Terrel, Julie Rive-
have stopped, and stops where he should King, Spanuth, and Josephine Hartman.
have gone on. Brahms has been accused It looks as though the spoils of the new
of writing childishly. Everyone knows season were to be divided into very many
the reception Wagner had, and even Bach, small parcels.
learned men have declared, never wrote a
correct fugue. To compare the writers of
modern popular music with these giants CMMA NEVADA, one of that noble
may seem absurd; but considering these -•—' army of American girls who named
things one should find excuses for the har- herself geographically, has been singing in
monic gaudierics of genius that has not Florence for the first time since the early
been able to attend any school but nature's days of her career.
—and hers only spasmodically. The
writer goes on to say that if a street ballad HP HE first of four chamber musical after-
writer only labels his trash " Im Volks- * noons given by Messrs. Edward and
ton," he is saved. That word is a grant of Carl Herrmann, took place last Sunday,
aristocracy. The greatest composers have Oct. 30th, at Scottish Rite Hall. Messrs.
enjoyed writing in this vein and have been Herrmann at the piano and violin, assisted
happiest in it. And not only do individual by Emil Schenck, 'cellist and Otto K.
composers affect a folk-tone now and then, Schill, viola, delighted everyone by their
but they build great symphonies upon the fine ensemble work in a program made up
melodies of popular composers. Indeed, of Hayden's Trio in G Major (piano, vio*
upon the melodies and the mannerisms of lin and viola); Bach's Chromatic Fantasia
U
and Fugue (piano solo); Bach's Ciconna
from Sonata No. 4 (violin solo), closing
with Mozart's Quartet in G Minor (piano,
violin, viola and 'cello). The audience
was large and thoroughly appreciative of
this organization's clever work. The other
concerts will occur on Nov. 6, 13 and 20 in
the same hail.
A MONG our singers of native birth who
**• have won well-deserved fame Miss
Charlotte^Maconda occupies a leading place.
Her voice is a soprano—brilliant, power-
ful, sympathetic—of great range and of
very telling quality. Her delivery is artis-
CHARLOTTE MACONDA.
tic and her stage presence graceful. There
are so many sopranos who are untruthfully
accredited with having a voice that re-
sembles Patti's, that it is really a pleasure
to be able to record the fact that Miss Ma-
conda resembles the great diva's in two
important respects—-the absolute purity
and musical quality of tone and the ease
in which it moves in all the embellish-
ments of the vocal score. Miss Maconda
will sing in concert and oratorio this sea-
son under the management of Henry Wolf-
sohn.
HP HE distinguished Irish basso, Plunket
*• Greene, will visit America in January
next after an absence of two seasons. Dur-
ing his three months' tour he will be
heard in an augmented repertoire, includ-
ing many rare old English and Irish melo-
dies.
*
TOLSTOI'S denunciation of
Art, and particularly the great social-
ist's attack on Wagner and Beethoven, has
compelled an extraordinary amount of
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
for the position—not an easy task, for first
trumpeters don't grow on every bush. Mr.
Lafracain has been bandmaster of the band
of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, and
has been very prominent in musical circles
in Boston. In this case the executive
committee of the Union have placed their
judgment as to Mr. Lefracain against the
judgment of Mr. Pauer, a musician of in-
ternational reputation.
Since the foregoing was written we are
informed that Mr. Lafracain has been re-
examined by the Board of the Musical
Mutual Protective Union, and this time
has satisfied them that he is an artist on
the trumpet and cornet, and he has been
given permission to live—we mean, per-
mission to play the trumpet with Mr. Pauer's
orchestra.
#
unknown balladists national schools of
compositions are built. A few decades
hence, perhaps, thousands of cultivated
amateurs will be listening entranced to the
marvelous treatment which some sym-
phony writer has accorded to '' Our lodger's
sich a nice young man "—which, by the
way, must suggest to many a certain waltz
of Chopin's—and other classics of the
pavement.
C)IANO virtuosi will be well in evidence
this season; the preliminary manage-
rial announcements promise Siloti, Sauer,
D'Albert, Carreno, Rosenthal, Sieveking,
Zeldenrust, and Made-
line Schiller.
What
an imposing array of
mighty names, says the
Etude. What a vista of
MUSICIANS of the "superior" order super-eminent musical
* ' * are too apt to turn up their noses at performances! What a
"popular " music, and to deny it any merit boundless perspective
whatever. It is true that few of the tunes of — empty benches!
that find their way out of the "halls " into One of the first princi-
the streets are worthy of the attention they ples of political econ-
receive. Street ballads are the slang words omy has it that the
of music. Some of them last only a few supply should not ex-
weeks, yet brighten life while they last. ceed the demand. It
Others are gathered into the immortal were advisable that the
treasures of common speech and song. In perspicacious purveyors
music more than in any other art, it is gen- to our musical needs
erally forgotten that a work is not neces- study well that law.
sarily trash because it has obvious flaws Allowing for the pro-
any more than a work is necessarily good verbial optimism and
because it is polished and correct. Other- the heated fantasy of
wise well-cut rhine-stones and beaten brass managers, even though
would be preferred to uncut diamonds and we strike several names
gold nuggets. A writer points out that from the list of our
the composer of the street ballad may be prospective visitors, yet
giving play to a great native ability that our hospitality would
circumstances have prevented him from be mightily overtaxed.
cultivating. The correct writer may be It should not be for-
only displaying bookishness. Art is not gotten that also our
information but inspiration. The great native players have
masters of music have been men of great prepared for the com-
cultivation, it is true, though they have all ing season. Of Amer-
been accused of ignorance. Handel said ican pianists who al-
that Gluck knew no more counterpoint ways have concertos at
than a pig. Handel himself is attacked their fingers' ends, there are Joseffy, Go-
by a camp of criticism hostile to all his dowsky, Sherwood, Baermann, Fanny
claims to greatness. It has been said that Bloomfield-Zeisler, Lockwood, Jessie Shay,
Schubert usually goes on where he should Gallico, Jonas, Florence Terrel, Julie Rive-
have stopped, and stops where he should King, Spanuth, and Josephine Hartman.
have gone on. Brahms has been accused It looks as though the spoils of the new
of writing childishly. Everyone knows season were to be divided into very many
the reception Wagner had, and even Bach, small parcels.
learned men have declared, never wrote a
correct fugue. To compare the writers of
modern popular music with these giants CMMA NEVADA, one of that noble
may seem absurd; but considering these -•—' army of American girls who named
things one should find excuses for the har- herself geographically, has been singing in
monic gaudierics of genius that has not Florence for the first time since the early
been able to attend any school but nature's days of her career.
—and hers only spasmodically. The
writer goes on to say that if a street ballad HP HE first of four chamber musical after-
writer only labels his trash " Im Volks- * noons given by Messrs. Edward and
ton," he is saved. That word is a grant of Carl Herrmann, took place last Sunday,
aristocracy. The greatest composers have Oct. 30th, at Scottish Rite Hall. Messrs.
enjoyed writing in this vein and have been Herrmann at the piano and violin, assisted
happiest in it. And not only do individual by Emil Schenck, 'cellist and Otto K.
composers affect a folk-tone now and then, Schill, viola, delighted everyone by their
but they build great symphonies upon the fine ensemble work in a program made up
melodies of popular composers. Indeed, of Hayden's Trio in G Major (piano, vio*
upon the melodies and the mannerisms of lin and viola); Bach's Chromatic Fantasia
U
and Fugue (piano solo); Bach's Ciconna
from Sonata No. 4 (violin solo), closing
with Mozart's Quartet in G Minor (piano,
violin, viola and 'cello). The audience
was large and thoroughly appreciative of
this organization's clever work. The other
concerts will occur on Nov. 6, 13 and 20 in
the same hail.
A MONG our singers of native birth who
**• have won well-deserved fame Miss
Charlotte^Maconda occupies a leading place.
Her voice is a soprano—brilliant, power-
ful, sympathetic—of great range and of
very telling quality. Her delivery is artis-
CHARLOTTE MACONDA.
tic and her stage presence graceful. There
are so many sopranos who are untruthfully
accredited with having a voice that re-
sembles Patti's, that it is really a pleasure
to be able to record the fact that Miss Ma-
conda resembles the great diva's in two
important respects—-the absolute purity
and musical quality of tone and the ease
in which it moves in all the embellish-
ments of the vocal score. Miss Maconda
will sing in concert and oratorio this sea-
son under the management of Henry Wolf-
sohn.
HP HE distinguished Irish basso, Plunket
*• Greene, will visit America in January
next after an absence of two seasons. Dur-
ing his three months' tour he will be
heard in an augmented repertoire, includ-
ing many rare old English and Irish melo-
dies.
*
TOLSTOI'S denunciation of
Art, and particularly the great social-
ist's attack on Wagner and Beethoven, has
compelled an extraordinary amount of
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