Music Trade Review
Issue: 1899 Vol. 29 N. 1 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Miners from Hudson County, N. J.,
will sing a song entitled " T h e Miners'
Lot," describing how the miner goes down
into the mine at the risk of his life, about
explosions and other accidents.
On July i the singers will get together.
July 2 the singers will have a banquet at
7 P. M., at the Grand Central Palace. On
July 3 there will be a grand rehearsal and
a singers' convention, and in the evening
a big torchlight parade. On July 4 there
will be a concert and picnic at Brommer's
Union Park.
O IEGFRIED WAGNER is getting along
^
rapidly on the road to fame. Not
only has the vocal score of his opera ap-
peared, with all modern improvements,
but Walther Wossidlo has prepared and
issued a pamphlet of 31 pages entitled
"Siegfried Wagner's Barenhauter, a Pop-
ular Guide through Poem and Music."
*
""PHE Music Department of the Brooklyn
* Institute has already decided not to
give a series of choral concerts next season.
It appears these concerts do not attract.
With possibly one exception, the choral
concerts have been given at a financial loss,
and artistically they have not come up to
expectations. Last year the Institute gave
a series of Spring organ recitals, and these
have been abandoned this year, for the
same reason that the Department of Music
refuses to undertake the choral concerts for
next season. The five matinees by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra are also likely
to be cut off. This does not speak well for
Brooklyn borough. Is it possible that the
union of the cities has exercised an injuri-
ous influence? In the olden days of civic
independence there used to be abroad in
Brooklyn a creditable ambition to hold no
minor place in musical matters. Why the
retrogression?
*
FT is evident that the energetic impresa-
' rio, Mr. Victor Thrane, intends to make
the season of 1899-1900 a "red letter" one
in his career. He has secured a number of
famous artists whose achievements abroad
entitle them to more than ordinary consid-
eration from the concert-loving public of
this country.
Among the Thrane luminaries in the
musical firmament Mark Hambourg, the
famous Russian pianist, is destined to
shine brilliantly. His success in London,
on the European Continent and Australia,
of which country he has made two tours,
has been phenomenal. The critics pro-
nounce him a pianist of the first rank, pos-
sessing keen musical temperament and
thoroughly schooled in technique. His
metropolitan engagement will be an event
in the musical world. We understand he
has been engaged for the December con-
certs of the New York Philharmonic Soci-
ety.
Perhaps one of the greatest in the Thrane
roster of stars is the Russian violinist,
Alex. Petschnikoff. This artist is said to
be the very realization of perfection in tone
and execution. Petschnikoff is in the
bloom of youth, being only twenty-six
years old. He comes from humble origin
with pronounced natural musical tastes,
which in early life were carefully trained.
His musical development latterly was
guided by the great violinist, Hrimaly.
Petschnikoff will make his American debut
with the New York Philharmonic Society,
in Carnegie Hall, on Dec. 17 and 18.
Leonora Jackson, the young American
violiniste, who won the Mendelssohn State
Prize at Berlin last fall for which artists
of various nationalities, vocalists as well
as instrumentalists, competed, will occupy
a prominent place in New York's musical
season this year. During the past season she
ALEX. PETSCHNIKOFF.
has won remarkable success in the musical
centers of Europe. At the Leipzig Ge-
wandhaus Symphony, the London Philhar-
monic and the Paris Colonne concerts—the
most distinguished musical organizations
in Europe—her superb playing won the most
enthusiastic praise from the critics. At a
recent concert under Nikisch at Leipzig
she was recalled five times amid the great-
est applause. Her American appearance
will occur on Jan. 5 and 6, 1900, with the
New York Philharmonic Society.
Another artist, new to America, who it
is said will rival the success won by young
Gerardy, is Miss Elsa Ruegger, 'cellist.
Miss Ruegger is the daughter of a Swiss
LEONORA JACKSON.
Government official and was educated at
Brussels. She made her debut when but
eleven years old, amazing all by her won-
derful facility and inborn musical feeling.
Under competent teachers she has grown
to be an artist of remarkable attainments.
She has passed through the ordeal of Ber-
lin criticism with flying colors. Her tone
is said to be delightfully captivating and
her playing throughout dominated by an
exceedingly poetic and musical tempera-
ment.
Two other artists, not entirely unfamiliar
to us will be included in Mr. Thrane's
"list" the coming season—Martinus Sie-
veking, the Dutch pianist, and Mine.
Frances Saville, of the Imperial Opera,
Vienna, who will appear in concert work.
Mme. Saville is a Californian whose ex-
quisite voice and charming personality made
her a great favorite during her appearance
at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Mr. Thrane, however, is not confining
his season to European celebrities, for he is
managing the tours of a number of famous
American artists. He intends to arrange
a series of recitals in several Western
cities when he will bring forward the differ-
ent artists which he is managing, rnore
particularly the artists whose pictures ap-
pear in these pages.
*
A WRITER in one of our local papers
'*> "hits the nail on the head" when he
says that "pilgrims to Bayreuth this sum-
mer will have to be satisfied with a good deal
of second-class singing." They will have su-
perb orchestral performances with such ma-
estri as Mottl and Richter, and beautiful
stage settings designed by Kniese, but they
will have to listen to some singers who
have been and some who never will be.
The Wotan of Van Rooy, the Mime of
Breuer, the Erda and Waltraus of Schu-
mann-Heink will be offset by the Sieg-
mund and the Walther Von Stolzing of
Ernst Kraus and the Sieglinde of Rosa
Sucher. All three of the Brunnhildes are
to be sung by Ellen Gulbranson, from
Christiania, of whom it is said that she is
all voice and nothing else.
*
P R E S I D E N T HARPER of the Chicago
*- University is endeavoring to give a
solar-plexus blow to that now famous
classic " A Hot Time in the Old Town"
which has been hailed by our newly ac-
quired fellow citizens of Latin extraction
as the American national anthem. A few
days ago he sent an official note to Prof.
Glenn Hobbs, who has charge of the Uni-
versity band, putting a ban on the playing
of this Ethiopian chef-d'oeuvre.
"The tune is vulgar and immoral,"
wrote President Harper, "and its effect
upon undergraduates is demoralizing."
These words settle the fate of " A Hot
Time" in the Chicago University. The
President further said the band must not
head any procession to the athletic field,
and must play impartial music, nothing
that would tend to irritate opposing ath-
letic teams.
Thus Chicago takes another step for-
ward in the slow march toward a greater
musical culture.
the secrets of the wider diffusion
O NE of of musical
knowledge in Europe and
the prevalence of that "atmosphere" so
much talked about, can be traced undoubt-
edly to the large measure of support given
by the municipalities, sovereigns and the
State to the different opera houses through-
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Miners from Hudson County, N. J.,
will sing a song entitled " T h e Miners'
Lot," describing how the miner goes down
into the mine at the risk of his life, about
explosions and other accidents.
On July i the singers will get together.
July 2 the singers will have a banquet at
7 P. M., at the Grand Central Palace. On
July 3 there will be a grand rehearsal and
a singers' convention, and in the evening
a big torchlight parade. On July 4 there
will be a concert and picnic at Brommer's
Union Park.
O IEGFRIED WAGNER is getting along
^
rapidly on the road to fame. Not
only has the vocal score of his opera ap-
peared, with all modern improvements,
but Walther Wossidlo has prepared and
issued a pamphlet of 31 pages entitled
"Siegfried Wagner's Barenhauter, a Pop-
ular Guide through Poem and Music."
*
""PHE Music Department of the Brooklyn
* Institute has already decided not to
give a series of choral concerts next season.
It appears these concerts do not attract.
With possibly one exception, the choral
concerts have been given at a financial loss,
and artistically they have not come up to
expectations. Last year the Institute gave
a series of Spring organ recitals, and these
have been abandoned this year, for the
same reason that the Department of Music
refuses to undertake the choral concerts for
next season. The five matinees by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra are also likely
to be cut off. This does not speak well for
Brooklyn borough. Is it possible that the
union of the cities has exercised an injuri-
ous influence? In the olden days of civic
independence there used to be abroad in
Brooklyn a creditable ambition to hold no
minor place in musical matters. Why the
retrogression?
*
FT is evident that the energetic impresa-
' rio, Mr. Victor Thrane, intends to make
the season of 1899-1900 a "red letter" one
in his career. He has secured a number of
famous artists whose achievements abroad
entitle them to more than ordinary consid-
eration from the concert-loving public of
this country.
Among the Thrane luminaries in the
musical firmament Mark Hambourg, the
famous Russian pianist, is destined to
shine brilliantly. His success in London,
on the European Continent and Australia,
of which country he has made two tours,
has been phenomenal. The critics pro-
nounce him a pianist of the first rank, pos-
sessing keen musical temperament and
thoroughly schooled in technique. His
metropolitan engagement will be an event
in the musical world. We understand he
has been engaged for the December con-
certs of the New York Philharmonic Soci-
ety.
Perhaps one of the greatest in the Thrane
roster of stars is the Russian violinist,
Alex. Petschnikoff. This artist is said to
be the very realization of perfection in tone
and execution. Petschnikoff is in the
bloom of youth, being only twenty-six
years old. He comes from humble origin
with pronounced natural musical tastes,
which in early life were carefully trained.
His musical development latterly was
guided by the great violinist, Hrimaly.
Petschnikoff will make his American debut
with the New York Philharmonic Society,
in Carnegie Hall, on Dec. 17 and 18.
Leonora Jackson, the young American
violiniste, who won the Mendelssohn State
Prize at Berlin last fall for which artists
of various nationalities, vocalists as well
as instrumentalists, competed, will occupy
a prominent place in New York's musical
season this year. During the past season she
ALEX. PETSCHNIKOFF.
has won remarkable success in the musical
centers of Europe. At the Leipzig Ge-
wandhaus Symphony, the London Philhar-
monic and the Paris Colonne concerts—the
most distinguished musical organizations
in Europe—her superb playing won the most
enthusiastic praise from the critics. At a
recent concert under Nikisch at Leipzig
she was recalled five times amid the great-
est applause. Her American appearance
will occur on Jan. 5 and 6, 1900, with the
New York Philharmonic Society.
Another artist, new to America, who it
is said will rival the success won by young
Gerardy, is Miss Elsa Ruegger, 'cellist.
Miss Ruegger is the daughter of a Swiss
LEONORA JACKSON.
Government official and was educated at
Brussels. She made her debut when but
eleven years old, amazing all by her won-
derful facility and inborn musical feeling.
Under competent teachers she has grown
to be an artist of remarkable attainments.
She has passed through the ordeal of Ber-
lin criticism with flying colors. Her tone
is said to be delightfully captivating and
her playing throughout dominated by an
exceedingly poetic and musical tempera-
ment.
Two other artists, not entirely unfamiliar
to us will be included in Mr. Thrane's
"list" the coming season—Martinus Sie-
veking, the Dutch pianist, and Mine.
Frances Saville, of the Imperial Opera,
Vienna, who will appear in concert work.
Mme. Saville is a Californian whose ex-
quisite voice and charming personality made
her a great favorite during her appearance
at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Mr. Thrane, however, is not confining
his season to European celebrities, for he is
managing the tours of a number of famous
American artists. He intends to arrange
a series of recitals in several Western
cities when he will bring forward the differ-
ent artists which he is managing, rnore
particularly the artists whose pictures ap-
pear in these pages.
*
A WRITER in one of our local papers
'*> "hits the nail on the head" when he
says that "pilgrims to Bayreuth this sum-
mer will have to be satisfied with a good deal
of second-class singing." They will have su-
perb orchestral performances with such ma-
estri as Mottl and Richter, and beautiful
stage settings designed by Kniese, but they
will have to listen to some singers who
have been and some who never will be.
The Wotan of Van Rooy, the Mime of
Breuer, the Erda and Waltraus of Schu-
mann-Heink will be offset by the Sieg-
mund and the Walther Von Stolzing of
Ernst Kraus and the Sieglinde of Rosa
Sucher. All three of the Brunnhildes are
to be sung by Ellen Gulbranson, from
Christiania, of whom it is said that she is
all voice and nothing else.
*
P R E S I D E N T HARPER of the Chicago
*- University is endeavoring to give a
solar-plexus blow to that now famous
classic " A Hot Time in the Old Town"
which has been hailed by our newly ac-
quired fellow citizens of Latin extraction
as the American national anthem. A few
days ago he sent an official note to Prof.
Glenn Hobbs, who has charge of the Uni-
versity band, putting a ban on the playing
of this Ethiopian chef-d'oeuvre.
"The tune is vulgar and immoral,"
wrote President Harper, "and its effect
upon undergraduates is demoralizing."
These words settle the fate of " A Hot
Time" in the Chicago University. The
President further said the band must not
head any procession to the athletic field,
and must play impartial music, nothing
that would tend to irritate opposing ath-
letic teams.
Thus Chicago takes another step for-
ward in the slow march toward a greater
musical culture.
the secrets of the wider diffusion
O NE of of musical
knowledge in Europe and
the prevalence of that "atmosphere" so
much talked about, can be traced undoubt-
edly to the large measure of support given
by the municipalities, sovereigns and the
State to the different opera houses through-
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