Music Trade Review
Issue: 1899 Vol. 28 N. 1 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Sanderson has almost recovered from the
stroke of paralysis from which she suffered
soon after her marriage. She is said to be
quite as beautiful as ever, and there are no
traces of her illness to be observed beyond
a slight difficulty in walking. It is thought
this will soon disappear. Mme. Patti has
recently confessed to fifty-six years, and is
at least that old.
Miss Sanderson is still
quite young.
She has been before the
public for some time, although she is only
now in the early thirties. Probably Miss
Sanderson will be found to be the richer of
the two when her husband's estate is set-
tled. Her retirement from the stage at
the time of her marriage was evidently
permanent. She has sung once or twice
at private concerts, but kept to her inten-
tion . never to appear again professionally.
*
splitting the orchestra up into quartets and
giving free concerts for the people of these
quarters. We are not surprised to learn
that these have even been more successful
in their way than the more formal classical
concerts on Sunday evenings. When we
consider the power for good generated by
the hearing of good music, we may estimate
more fully the splendid labors of the mayor
of Boston and his co-workers who are en-
deavoring to make the lots of their less
fortunate brethren in the world's battle-
field happier—bringing the sunlight of
education and music into their lives. This
broad spirit of consideration is more potent
p E R O S I ' S " Resurrection of Christ" was
*
sung in the Church of the Twelve
Apostles, Rome, on Dec. 13. The corres-
pondent of a London paper says: ' ' Twelve
Cardinals and numerous prelates and mem-
bers of the aristocracy were present, the
audience numbering nearly 3,000. There
was a chorus of 300, and a full orchestra.
Don Perosi was greeted with what seemel
to be interminable applause. I noticed
Mascagni applauding enthusiastically. Don
Perosi received a delirious ovation at the
close of the first part, the unique sight
being witnessed of Cardinals, prelates and
grand ladies cheering the little Napoleon-
like priest. On leaving the church, Don
Perosi received an ovation from the crowd
which filled the Piazza. The critics unan-
imously expressed admiration for his crea-
tion, in which dramatic and ecclesiastic. 1
music are beautifully blended."
*
I I ERR EMIL SAUR, the celebrated pi-
* *• anist arrived in town this week, and
will make his debut at the Metropolitan
Opera House next Tuesday evening, Jan.
10th. We have so frequently spoken of
the remarkable standing of this pianist in
European musical circles that it is only
natural that the people of this city, and
country, for all that, should look forward
with no little anticipation to the great artis-
tic treat in store for them.
It is interesting to note the eulogistic re-
marks of the Vienna papers regarding
some concerts which he gave recently in
that city.. The Neue Freie Press. ranks
him as one of the four greatest pianists
heard in Vienna since Rubinstein.
T H E municipal authorities of Boston are
* demonstrating their progressiveness by
the inauguration of a musical campaign of
education which is as novel as it is com-
mendable. It is now proposed to follow
up the interesting free municipal concerts,
given every Sunday night, by the present-
ation sometime this month of a number of
operas of the popular order probably in
Mechanics' Hall—the largest building of its
kind in use.
Another feature of the
good work of the municipal musical com-
mission is the enjoyment afforded the
people of the poorer sections of Boston by
LELANI) LANGI.EY.
in uplifting and encouraging humanity
than all this patronizing of those individ-
uals and organizations who dole out char-
ity and make the recipients feel it is so.
Bravo for Boston, say we.
*
A BARITONE who is now rapidly mak-
* * ing his way to the front as one of our
best and brilliant vocalists is Mr. Leland
Langley, whose portrait appears on this
page. It was not originally intended that
Mr. Langley should follow music as a pro-
fession. His father, Captain Henry Lang-
ley, was in the British Army (the Eleventh
Hussars), and Mr. Leland Langley was at
one time destined for the same career.
This, however, became impossible; and,
acting upon the strongly expressed advice
of some well-known musicians, Mr. Lang-
ley went to Paris and was encouraged by
Faure—the great operatic baritone—to re-
main and continue to study under his
guidance. At the end of his studies Mr.
Langley returned to London and appeared
with great success in many of the principal
concerts with Madame Albani, Antoinette
9
Sterling, Marie Rose, Foli, Edward Lloyd,
Hollman, and numerous others, and then,
at Sir Joseph Barnby's request, turned his
attention to oratorio work. Mr. Langley
will make his American appearance under
the management of Henry Wolfsohn.
*
HE lack of originality in musical com-
position has been a pretty general ac-
cusation against musicians. It would be
quite strange to peruse a musical paper
and not find a mild insinuation that so and
so is somewhat of a plagiarist. And yet it
can happen that a man may be the most
original of writers and at the same time
the greatest of plagiar-
ists. . This is paradoxi-
cal, of course, but it will
stand analysis, even if
applied to the great
m a s t e r , Shakespeare.
Literature, in a late
issue adduces the fol-
lowing evidence in this
connection:
" We all know that
Shakespeare's borrow-
ing arm was a very
long one indeed. Old
chronicles, North's Plu-
tarch, mediaeval English
poetry, Italian novel-
ists, contemporary play-
wrights—all were laid
under contribution; and
in the same way Milton
probably
conveyed
' L'Allegro ' and
' II
Penscroso ' from Bur-
ton's ' Abstract of Mel-
ancholy,
Dialogikos, '
and certainly made con-
siderable use of the
Dutch poet's ' Lucifer '
in the construction of
'Paradise Lost.' 'Trist-
ram Shandy ' is one of
the
most
' original '
books in English litera-
ture, and yet it is a patchwork of outrageous
thefts,and Melancholy Burton himself, from
whom Sterne stole, contrived to get the
effect of ' originality ' into his 'Anatomy,'
which is a mere cento of quotations.
T
'' In one sense of the word there is no such
thing as originality, in another sense it is
not uncommon. The Italian novelists from
whom Shakespeare plagiarized were them-
selves but copyists from older sources, and
folklorists are aware that the Europeans of
the Middle Ages enjoyed tales that had
amused Asia in far antiquity. The matter
of a literary work of art may come from
nature, from life, or from another book,
while the form is created by the author.
In some of Poe's tales it is easy enough to
detect the influence of Mrs. Radcliffe, and
Mrs. Radcliffe drew her stories from a very
imperfect and distorted notion of mediaeval
romance, and mediaeval romance was
founded to a considerable extent on early
Celtic legends, and Celtic legends must owe
a good deal to prehistoric Turanian influ-
ence—and so the ladder mounts till it van-
ishes as in the Indian juggler's trick; but
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Sanderson has almost recovered from the
stroke of paralysis from which she suffered
soon after her marriage. She is said to be
quite as beautiful as ever, and there are no
traces of her illness to be observed beyond
a slight difficulty in walking. It is thought
this will soon disappear. Mme. Patti has
recently confessed to fifty-six years, and is
at least that old.
Miss Sanderson is still
quite young.
She has been before the
public for some time, although she is only
now in the early thirties. Probably Miss
Sanderson will be found to be the richer of
the two when her husband's estate is set-
tled. Her retirement from the stage at
the time of her marriage was evidently
permanent. She has sung once or twice
at private concerts, but kept to her inten-
tion . never to appear again professionally.
*
splitting the orchestra up into quartets and
giving free concerts for the people of these
quarters. We are not surprised to learn
that these have even been more successful
in their way than the more formal classical
concerts on Sunday evenings. When we
consider the power for good generated by
the hearing of good music, we may estimate
more fully the splendid labors of the mayor
of Boston and his co-workers who are en-
deavoring to make the lots of their less
fortunate brethren in the world's battle-
field happier—bringing the sunlight of
education and music into their lives. This
broad spirit of consideration is more potent
p E R O S I ' S " Resurrection of Christ" was
*
sung in the Church of the Twelve
Apostles, Rome, on Dec. 13. The corres-
pondent of a London paper says: ' ' Twelve
Cardinals and numerous prelates and mem-
bers of the aristocracy were present, the
audience numbering nearly 3,000. There
was a chorus of 300, and a full orchestra.
Don Perosi was greeted with what seemel
to be interminable applause. I noticed
Mascagni applauding enthusiastically. Don
Perosi received a delirious ovation at the
close of the first part, the unique sight
being witnessed of Cardinals, prelates and
grand ladies cheering the little Napoleon-
like priest. On leaving the church, Don
Perosi received an ovation from the crowd
which filled the Piazza. The critics unan-
imously expressed admiration for his crea-
tion, in which dramatic and ecclesiastic. 1
music are beautifully blended."
*
I I ERR EMIL SAUR, the celebrated pi-
* *• anist arrived in town this week, and
will make his debut at the Metropolitan
Opera House next Tuesday evening, Jan.
10th. We have so frequently spoken of
the remarkable standing of this pianist in
European musical circles that it is only
natural that the people of this city, and
country, for all that, should look forward
with no little anticipation to the great artis-
tic treat in store for them.
It is interesting to note the eulogistic re-
marks of the Vienna papers regarding
some concerts which he gave recently in
that city.. The Neue Freie Press. ranks
him as one of the four greatest pianists
heard in Vienna since Rubinstein.
T H E municipal authorities of Boston are
* demonstrating their progressiveness by
the inauguration of a musical campaign of
education which is as novel as it is com-
mendable. It is now proposed to follow
up the interesting free municipal concerts,
given every Sunday night, by the present-
ation sometime this month of a number of
operas of the popular order probably in
Mechanics' Hall—the largest building of its
kind in use.
Another feature of the
good work of the municipal musical com-
mission is the enjoyment afforded the
people of the poorer sections of Boston by
LELANI) LANGI.EY.
in uplifting and encouraging humanity
than all this patronizing of those individ-
uals and organizations who dole out char-
ity and make the recipients feel it is so.
Bravo for Boston, say we.
*
A BARITONE who is now rapidly mak-
* * ing his way to the front as one of our
best and brilliant vocalists is Mr. Leland
Langley, whose portrait appears on this
page. It was not originally intended that
Mr. Langley should follow music as a pro-
fession. His father, Captain Henry Lang-
ley, was in the British Army (the Eleventh
Hussars), and Mr. Leland Langley was at
one time destined for the same career.
This, however, became impossible; and,
acting upon the strongly expressed advice
of some well-known musicians, Mr. Lang-
ley went to Paris and was encouraged by
Faure—the great operatic baritone—to re-
main and continue to study under his
guidance. At the end of his studies Mr.
Langley returned to London and appeared
with great success in many of the principal
concerts with Madame Albani, Antoinette
9
Sterling, Marie Rose, Foli, Edward Lloyd,
Hollman, and numerous others, and then,
at Sir Joseph Barnby's request, turned his
attention to oratorio work. Mr. Langley
will make his American appearance under
the management of Henry Wolfsohn.
*
HE lack of originality in musical com-
position has been a pretty general ac-
cusation against musicians. It would be
quite strange to peruse a musical paper
and not find a mild insinuation that so and
so is somewhat of a plagiarist. And yet it
can happen that a man may be the most
original of writers and at the same time
the greatest of plagiar-
ists. . This is paradoxi-
cal, of course, but it will
stand analysis, even if
applied to the great
m a s t e r , Shakespeare.
Literature, in a late
issue adduces the fol-
lowing evidence in this
connection:
" We all know that
Shakespeare's borrow-
ing arm was a very
long one indeed. Old
chronicles, North's Plu-
tarch, mediaeval English
poetry, Italian novel-
ists, contemporary play-
wrights—all were laid
under contribution; and
in the same way Milton
probably
conveyed
' L'Allegro ' and
' II
Penscroso ' from Bur-
ton's ' Abstract of Mel-
ancholy,
Dialogikos, '
and certainly made con-
siderable use of the
Dutch poet's ' Lucifer '
in the construction of
'Paradise Lost.' 'Trist-
ram Shandy ' is one of
the
most
' original '
books in English litera-
ture, and yet it is a patchwork of outrageous
thefts,and Melancholy Burton himself, from
whom Sterne stole, contrived to get the
effect of ' originality ' into his 'Anatomy,'
which is a mere cento of quotations.
T
'' In one sense of the word there is no such
thing as originality, in another sense it is
not uncommon. The Italian novelists from
whom Shakespeare plagiarized were them-
selves but copyists from older sources, and
folklorists are aware that the Europeans of
the Middle Ages enjoyed tales that had
amused Asia in far antiquity. The matter
of a literary work of art may come from
nature, from life, or from another book,
while the form is created by the author.
In some of Poe's tales it is easy enough to
detect the influence of Mrs. Radcliffe, and
Mrs. Radcliffe drew her stories from a very
imperfect and distorted notion of mediaeval
romance, and mediaeval romance was
founded to a considerable extent on early
Celtic legends, and Celtic legends must owe
a good deal to prehistoric Turanian influ-
ence—and so the ladder mounts till it van-
ishes as in the Indian juggler's trick; but
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