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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Do you realize, young ladies—do you re-
WORKS ON nusic.
alize what moral obligation there is upon HP HE famous hou.se of Chas. Scribner &
you to do the best in your power right
Sons did not err when it went into
now with your own tone production? The musical literature so extensively, for far
time may never come when you can give a and wide are these publications known and
pupil style, finish, diction, and musical ed- appreciated.
ucation, but there is no injury wrought,
11 is not enough that a book should be
for some one else will come along who interesting, per se, but the typographical
can; bit if you ruin the tone production side is one which adds enormously to its
— it is gone, and with it the voice, value, and even to its interest.
and the health, and the hope, and noth-
Musical literature is becoming more of a
ing is left but despair and utter useless- necessity with every day, not alone for
ness, for who has given so much time historical reasons, but even to enable peo-
and thought to one study can not turn ple who desire to converse intelligently to
around and be successful at something read up certain subjects if they wish to.
else, especially if dejected and disappointed It is probable that nothing has given more
at the failure of her plans and hopes.
impetus to literature upon musical matters
You feel, do you not, that we are look-
ing a long time ahead, and yet we are not—
and look to yourselves that you be not un-
wieldy in the hands of a teacher who
knows what is best, and who is only work-
ing for your best interest. I could give
you a long list of "don'ts." I will leave
that to your teacher, however, and ask
you to let your judgment over-ride your
desires and I will only beg that you work
in the right direction with that beautiful
gift fr^m God, and remember that self-
denial is hard, but it is a more agreeable
companion than failure, and you must
choose between them—you must. You
have heard of the inevitable. This is the
inevitable. Choose.
(To be continued.)
GRAFF'S OPERA COMPANY.
/CLARENCE L. GRAFF has been so
^-^ successful in all of his past enter;;
prises that the disclosure of his new ven-
ture will hardly create surprise.
He will take an opera company on tour
through the larger cities of America and
Canada; nor will it be a small organization,
indeed, for with the great Sembrich as
star, and Bevignani as conductor, it cannot
be anything but imposing. The new mem-
bers of the company are said to be in keep-
ing with the rest, and include Bravi, tenor;
Bensaude, baritone; Dado, bass; Rossi,
bass-buffo, Galazzi, baritone, and Marie
Mattfeld, contralto.
The repertory will be that which is so
well known in connection with Sembrich
and includes Don Pasquale and Barber of
Seville. More details of Mr. Graff's plans
will be given later.
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PERSONALIA.
Max Bruch has been made professor of
composition at the conservatory of Berlin.
He is now sixty-two years of age, and if
his pupils can learn all he has to impart,
he can put in fifteen years of work, valu-
able to the music world.
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Harry Rowe Shelley gave a private
hearing of his new opera to a few of his
friends recently. It is written upon the
book of Romeo and Juliette and is said to
be remarkably beautiful.
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Mrs. Charles R. Adams, wife of the late
Charles R. Adams, one of the most noted
of Boston's vocal teachers, has gone to re-
side in Peoria, 111., with her family.
HENRY T. FINCK.
out knowing every detail of the history of
France at that period.
In November, the house of Scribner,
will issue the second volume in the Music
Lover's Library, the first one being the
able and interesting work of W. J. Hen-
derson's entitled, "The Orchestra and Or-
chestral Music."
The second volume is by Henry T.
Finck, one of America's best-known critics
and writers. Mr. Finck has selected an
admirable subject, and a hasty glance at
the proof sheets shows that it is treated in
a most interesting manner. "Song and
Song Writers" is the title of the book and
its chapters set forth Folk song and art
s ong—German song writers before Schu-
bert — Schubert — Ger-
man song writers after
Schubert — Hungarian
and Slavic song writers
—Scandinavian s o n g
writers — Italian and
French song writers—
English and American
song writers—Grieg.
Under these captions
Mr. Finck has written
a work which will be
most valuable to those
interested in music and
song, and it will be in-
teresting to know that
Mr. Finck has been in
p e r s o n a l correspond-
ence with Grieg upon
the subject of his own
works, and owing to the
fact that Grieg respond-
ed so fully and request-
ed permission to see
the proof sheets, the
book will be issued a
few weeks later than
planned for originally.
In midwinter t w o
other w o r k s of the
same series will be completed: The Opera
Past and Present, by Wm. F. Apthorp,
and Choirs and Choral Music, by Arthur
Mees, conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee
Club.
than the enormous number of musical
clubs which spring up in all parts of the
country for the purpose of study and en-
joyment among amateurs. The musical
departments of all the large libraries
give evidence of the frequent use to
Still later will come The Pianoforte
which they are put, and throughout and Its Music, by H. E. Krehbiel, who has
reading matter is becoming a necessity. written several most interesting and valu-
Teachers give too little thought to this able books.
side, for few pupils know anything about
Several of the writers and critics of the
the biography, the spirit of the time, the present have written very breezy, readable
influences that brought certain composi- books, but the list will never be complete
tions or schools, in fact, to the lack of such without contributions from B. E. Woolf
knowledge, is due, the absence of that dash and Oscar Weil, two of the most brilliant
of color, of life, of intellect that makes a pens in America.
breathing entity out of a mass of tone, no
matter how clearly defined the technic and
Coleridge Taylor has been working as-
every part of it may be.
siduously, and after knowing the capabili-
To attempt to present Beethoven with- ties of this talented man, one is justified
out knowing his life and the day that in expecting great things from his pen.
He is just finishing his cantata, The
created him, that made such a mind pos-
sible, and the sequence of events that gave Blind Girl of Castel Cuille, which will
rise to his passions, his hopes, his disap- be performed at the Leeds Festival next
pointments, his afflictions, is as impossible year.
as the attempt to describe or understand,
He is also writing the incidental
for that matter, the famous paintings pre- music for Stephen Phillips' Herod, to
senting the communists, the reign of ter- be produced by Beerbohm Tree at Her
ror, the St. Bartholemew's Eve, etc., with- Majesty's Theatre.