Music Trade Review
Issue: 1900 Vol. 30 N. 1 - Page 3
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PflfcUC LIBRARY
56 PAGES
LENOX
With which is incorporated THE KEYNOTE.
VOL. XXX. No.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, January 6,1900.
MUSIC AND THE EXPOSITION.
THHERE has been much discussion re-
* garding the representation of Ameri-
can music at the Paris Exposition, but so
far little has been accomplished. A digni-
fied plan, and one which would prove fruit-
ful of good results has been put forth by
The Tribune of this city which said re-
cently: Europe is now willing to believe
that the United States can do something
else than raise hogs and bread stuffs.
The time is ripe to let it learn that this
country maintains several concert organ-
izations as generously as those in the Eu-
ropean capitals are maintained, and that
the maintenance comes from the people,
and is therefore a pure expression of mu-
sical love. At the head of these organiza-
tions stands the Boston orchestra, which is
the peer of any orchestra in the world.
This is not wild hyperbole, but the expres-
sion of a belief based on observation.
Now, why might not some of our rich men
with patriotism, seconded by love for
music, offer to make a series of concerts by
the Boston orchestra a part of the United
States government exhibit? Congress has
appropriated no money to be expended in
this manner, but the commissioner-general
and the department of state would surely
be glad to place the government aegis over
the enterprise—if some of its leading citi-
zens should offer to pay for it. Thus dis-
tinguished, there could be no ordinary pay
concerts, of course. They should be artis-
tic functions of the most stately and digni-
fied character, and before all others the
representatives in art, letters and state-
craft from nations of the world gathered
in Paris should occupy the auditors'
chairs. Three or four concerts would suf-
fice to inform the world not only of the kind
of music encouraged by the people of
America, but also of the kind of music
composed in America, for to r-
vn com-
posers would naturally be
a hear-
ing, as well as those f
~" % .and,
France, Germany, Russia anc.
th-
in fifteen years Russia has .
the
attention of the world to her co ^..^eis,
and she has t done so largely by sending
Tschaikowsky out as a sort of special com-
missioner to give concerts of Russian
music in the art centers of Europe. This
was done privily, however; nothing has
ever been done approaching the plan here
suggested in beauty, dignity and scope.
\ 17HEN Paderewski heard that there was
' ^ a project of transferring the remains
of Chopin from the Pere-la-Chaise in Paris
to the Cathedral at Warsaw he at once sub-
scribed $io,ooo for the funds. In London
it is rumored that another eminent Polish
artist, Jean de Reszke, will specially cross
the Channel and sing at a concert in behalf
of the same fund, which would be an event
of musical interest, as the great tenor has
not consented to sing at a concert for some
years. The London Daily News hears that
Miss Janotha is organizing the concert,
probably on the anniversary of Chopin's
birth, which, by the way, is wrongly given
in Grove's, and in practically every other
musical dictionary, and also on the monu-
ment at Warsaw erected by George Sand's
son-in-law. The date usually accepted is
March 1 or 2, 1809, but according to the
official certificate from the Rev. Father
Bielawski, priest of the Brochow parish
church of Zelazowa Wola, the date should
be Feb.
22,
1810.
j*
A T the coming session of the Massachu-
**• setts Legislature a bill and petition
will be introduced for the establishment of
a new office under the general supervision
of the State Board of Education. It will
create a State director of music similar in
functions and practice to the present office
of State director of drawing.
T H E musical directors of Germany re-
* cently met in Leipsic to found a union
intended to do away with some of the
abuses of their profession.
Included
among these are undignified competition
among conductors, the engagement of mu-
sicians under false pretences, lack of uni-
formity in contracts and other relations in
different German cities, and the expense of
obtaining employment on account of the
fees demanded. More than two hundred
and thirty directors belong to the new asso-
ciation. This is interesting in view of the
fact that the musical magazines in Berlin
have been advertising that a vacancy has oc-
curred in the post of second kapellmeister at
the Court Theatre in Wiesbaden. The ad-
vertisement further states that no salary is
offered to the person applying for the post,
who, however, will have the opportunity
of becoming acquainted with an excellent
system of conducting. Applicants are re-
quired to send in certificates of their capa-
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS.
bilities and past experience. The famous
conductors of Germany receive nearly as
much, however, as the prima donna, if
they must still content themselves with
less than the first tenors receive. In Ber-
lin $6,000 a year is paid to the first con-
ductor, while a conductor in another Ger-
man city refused to come to the Metro-
politan Opera House on the ground that
the salary offered to him was very little
more than he was accustomed to receive at
home.
T OVERS of good operetta will rejoice
•*-"' to hear of the success of Sir Arthur
Sullivan's latest score, "The Rose of
Persia," which was recently produced at
the Savoy Theatre. The London pa-
pers have praised the work highly.
The Telegraph, for example, says: " I t
may be said that the musician is once again
absolutely himself. This is of course
good hearing, for it is as much as to say
that the composer's rare feeling for the
sweet and the beautiful, the humorous and
the characteristic in music is still with
him."
DROF. LUDOVIC BREITNER, an em-
*• inent pianist and teacher, long en-
rolled among the celebrated musicians of
Paris, has been sojourning in this city for
some time. He has been well received in
musical circles as his talents entitle him
to. He is highly thought of by all the
famous musicians of France and critics
have spoken enthusiastically of his abili-
ties as a pianist. His tastes are eclectic
and embrace all schools. It is to be hoped
that Prof. Breitner will be heard in the
concert field during his stay in this
country.
/V A ANY will agree with John F. Runci-
* * * man in a recently expressed opinion
that "concerts have been made too deadly
dull by perpetual repetition of ' popular
pieces.' " His answer to the growing com-
plaint of managers and others that people
won't go to concerts these days, is: "The
only chance of regaining the old orchestra-
concert-going public is to show greater
boldness, and to leave off doing the stale
old things, and to do the new (whether the
new were composed two months or two
hundred years ago)." This fills the bill
exactly.
PflfcUC LIBRARY
56 PAGES
LENOX
With which is incorporated THE KEYNOTE.
VOL. XXX. No.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, January 6,1900.
MUSIC AND THE EXPOSITION.
THHERE has been much discussion re-
* garding the representation of Ameri-
can music at the Paris Exposition, but so
far little has been accomplished. A digni-
fied plan, and one which would prove fruit-
ful of good results has been put forth by
The Tribune of this city which said re-
cently: Europe is now willing to believe
that the United States can do something
else than raise hogs and bread stuffs.
The time is ripe to let it learn that this
country maintains several concert organ-
izations as generously as those in the Eu-
ropean capitals are maintained, and that
the maintenance comes from the people,
and is therefore a pure expression of mu-
sical love. At the head of these organiza-
tions stands the Boston orchestra, which is
the peer of any orchestra in the world.
This is not wild hyperbole, but the expres-
sion of a belief based on observation.
Now, why might not some of our rich men
with patriotism, seconded by love for
music, offer to make a series of concerts by
the Boston orchestra a part of the United
States government exhibit? Congress has
appropriated no money to be expended in
this manner, but the commissioner-general
and the department of state would surely
be glad to place the government aegis over
the enterprise—if some of its leading citi-
zens should offer to pay for it. Thus dis-
tinguished, there could be no ordinary pay
concerts, of course. They should be artis-
tic functions of the most stately and digni-
fied character, and before all others the
representatives in art, letters and state-
craft from nations of the world gathered
in Paris should occupy the auditors'
chairs. Three or four concerts would suf-
fice to inform the world not only of the kind
of music encouraged by the people of
America, but also of the kind of music
composed in America, for to r-
vn com-
posers would naturally be
a hear-
ing, as well as those f
~" % .and,
France, Germany, Russia anc.
th-
in fifteen years Russia has .
the
attention of the world to her co ^..^eis,
and she has t done so largely by sending
Tschaikowsky out as a sort of special com-
missioner to give concerts of Russian
music in the art centers of Europe. This
was done privily, however; nothing has
ever been done approaching the plan here
suggested in beauty, dignity and scope.
\ 17HEN Paderewski heard that there was
' ^ a project of transferring the remains
of Chopin from the Pere-la-Chaise in Paris
to the Cathedral at Warsaw he at once sub-
scribed $io,ooo for the funds. In London
it is rumored that another eminent Polish
artist, Jean de Reszke, will specially cross
the Channel and sing at a concert in behalf
of the same fund, which would be an event
of musical interest, as the great tenor has
not consented to sing at a concert for some
years. The London Daily News hears that
Miss Janotha is organizing the concert,
probably on the anniversary of Chopin's
birth, which, by the way, is wrongly given
in Grove's, and in practically every other
musical dictionary, and also on the monu-
ment at Warsaw erected by George Sand's
son-in-law. The date usually accepted is
March 1 or 2, 1809, but according to the
official certificate from the Rev. Father
Bielawski, priest of the Brochow parish
church of Zelazowa Wola, the date should
be Feb.
22,
1810.
j*
A T the coming session of the Massachu-
**• setts Legislature a bill and petition
will be introduced for the establishment of
a new office under the general supervision
of the State Board of Education. It will
create a State director of music similar in
functions and practice to the present office
of State director of drawing.
T H E musical directors of Germany re-
* cently met in Leipsic to found a union
intended to do away with some of the
abuses of their profession.
Included
among these are undignified competition
among conductors, the engagement of mu-
sicians under false pretences, lack of uni-
formity in contracts and other relations in
different German cities, and the expense of
obtaining employment on account of the
fees demanded. More than two hundred
and thirty directors belong to the new asso-
ciation. This is interesting in view of the
fact that the musical magazines in Berlin
have been advertising that a vacancy has oc-
curred in the post of second kapellmeister at
the Court Theatre in Wiesbaden. The ad-
vertisement further states that no salary is
offered to the person applying for the post,
who, however, will have the opportunity
of becoming acquainted with an excellent
system of conducting. Applicants are re-
quired to send in certificates of their capa-
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS.
bilities and past experience. The famous
conductors of Germany receive nearly as
much, however, as the prima donna, if
they must still content themselves with
less than the first tenors receive. In Ber-
lin $6,000 a year is paid to the first con-
ductor, while a conductor in another Ger-
man city refused to come to the Metro-
politan Opera House on the ground that
the salary offered to him was very little
more than he was accustomed to receive at
home.
T OVERS of good operetta will rejoice
•*-"' to hear of the success of Sir Arthur
Sullivan's latest score, "The Rose of
Persia," which was recently produced at
the Savoy Theatre. The London pa-
pers have praised the work highly.
The Telegraph, for example, says: " I t
may be said that the musician is once again
absolutely himself. This is of course
good hearing, for it is as much as to say
that the composer's rare feeling for the
sweet and the beautiful, the humorous and
the characteristic in music is still with
him."
DROF. LUDOVIC BREITNER, an em-
*• inent pianist and teacher, long en-
rolled among the celebrated musicians of
Paris, has been sojourning in this city for
some time. He has been well received in
musical circles as his talents entitle him
to. He is highly thought of by all the
famous musicians of France and critics
have spoken enthusiastically of his abili-
ties as a pianist. His tastes are eclectic
and embrace all schools. It is to be hoped
that Prof. Breitner will be heard in the
concert field during his stay in this
country.
/V A ANY will agree with John F. Runci-
* * * man in a recently expressed opinion
that "concerts have been made too deadly
dull by perpetual repetition of ' popular
pieces.' " His answer to the growing com-
plaint of managers and others that people
won't go to concerts these days, is: "The
only chance of regaining the old orchestra-
concert-going public is to show greater
boldness, and to leave off doing the stale
old things, and to do the new (whether the
new were composed two months or two
hundred years ago)." This fills the bill
exactly.
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