Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 14 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE BUFFALO
T^HE soloists to appear at the Saengerfest
of the North American Saengerbund
are to be Sara Anderson, Schumann-Heink,
Evan Williams and D. Ffrangcon Davies.
The festival will be held at New Armory of
the 74th. Regiment.
SAENOERFEST.
whether it has ever occurred to vou that I am
one of the principal criminals of the age. I
did not know it myself until I read the pro-
ceedings at a certain conference of clergy-
men the other day. These divines were dis-
cussing the stage and its manifold iniquities,
MME, SCHUMANN-HKINK.
IFRANGCON DAVIES.
The United Singers of St. Louis including
nearly twenty societies will give Herbst
Traum by J. Packe. The Chicago contin-
gent, about seven hundred in number, will
sing Wohin by Edwin Schultz, and another
Chicago organization will be the Senefelder
Liederkranz composed of eighty men. The
United Male Singers of Buffalo will give
a reception concert June 24 at which an
orchestra of over 100 pieces will be heard.
Among the numbers to be presented are
Viele Musicanten by Baselt, Hymn of Greet-
ing by John Lund, and Vergerset Nicht by
Henry Jacobson.
June 25 a matinee concert will occur, at
which 3000 children will sing under direction
of Joesph Mischka and Charles Hager. It
is planned to have a concert at which 4000
voices will be heard. John Lund will con-
duct. The Saengerfest is not held under
the auspices of the Pan-American Exposition
but it will surely be one of the greatest mu-
sical attractions.
SIR HENRY IRVING ON "THE STAGE."
At a supper given recently to Sir Henry
Irving by the Manchester Arts Club, the fa-
mous actor said in the course of some post-
prandial remarks: "Some of you are pretty
old playgoers, who have known me and my
doings for many years, and yet I doubt rj
and one of them declared that 'no Christian
could play the part of a murderer without
suffering moral deterioration.' Well, I have
imbrued my hands in so much blood on the
stage that I am reduced to this painful di-
iemma—either my moral state is bad as that
of a real murderer, or I am no Christian.
"And this divine on the same occasion de-
clared that no morally unobjectionable play
EVAN WILLIAMS,
had a chance nowadays
unless it were super-
latively well acted. I ac-
knowledge this gratefully
as a very high compliment
to English acting, for it
would be easy to name a
considerable list of success-
ful plays to which no sane
objection on the score of
morals could be made.
Still another divine scoffed
at what he called the cant
of describing the drama
as a moral teacher. I
should not make that claim
on behalf of the drama for
its humble function is that
how are you to satisfy
everybody that any given
representation of life is
conducive to morality?
Shakespeare saw life on a
bigger scale than any other
dramatist and with an ef-
fect so perplexing to some
moralists that one of
them, a great writer,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE BUFFALO
T^HE soloists to appear at the Saengerfest
of the North American Saengerbund
are to be Sara Anderson, Schumann-Heink,
Evan Williams and D. Ffrangcon Davies.
The festival will be held at New Armory of
the 74th. Regiment.
SAENOERFEST.
whether it has ever occurred to vou that I am
one of the principal criminals of the age. I
did not know it myself until I read the pro-
ceedings at a certain conference of clergy-
men the other day. These divines were dis-
cussing the stage and its manifold iniquities,
MME, SCHUMANN-HKINK.
IFRANGCON DAVIES.
The United Singers of St. Louis including
nearly twenty societies will give Herbst
Traum by J. Packe. The Chicago contin-
gent, about seven hundred in number, will
sing Wohin by Edwin Schultz, and another
Chicago organization will be the Senefelder
Liederkranz composed of eighty men. The
United Male Singers of Buffalo will give
a reception concert June 24 at which an
orchestra of over 100 pieces will be heard.
Among the numbers to be presented are
Viele Musicanten by Baselt, Hymn of Greet-
ing by John Lund, and Vergerset Nicht by
Henry Jacobson.
June 25 a matinee concert will occur, at
which 3000 children will sing under direction
of Joesph Mischka and Charles Hager. It
is planned to have a concert at which 4000
voices will be heard. John Lund will con-
duct. The Saengerfest is not held under
the auspices of the Pan-American Exposition
but it will surely be one of the greatest mu-
sical attractions.
SIR HENRY IRVING ON "THE STAGE."
At a supper given recently to Sir Henry
Irving by the Manchester Arts Club, the fa-
mous actor said in the course of some post-
prandial remarks: "Some of you are pretty
old playgoers, who have known me and my
doings for many years, and yet I doubt rj
and one of them declared that 'no Christian
could play the part of a murderer without
suffering moral deterioration.' Well, I have
imbrued my hands in so much blood on the
stage that I am reduced to this painful di-
iemma—either my moral state is bad as that
of a real murderer, or I am no Christian.
"And this divine on the same occasion de-
clared that no morally unobjectionable play
EVAN WILLIAMS,
had a chance nowadays
unless it were super-
latively well acted. I ac-
knowledge this gratefully
as a very high compliment
to English acting, for it
would be easy to name a
considerable list of success-
ful plays to which no sane
objection on the score of
morals could be made.
Still another divine scoffed
at what he called the cant
of describing the drama
as a moral teacher. I
should not make that claim
on behalf of the drama for
its humble function is that
how are you to satisfy
everybody that any given
representation of life is
conducive to morality?
Shakespeare saw life on a
bigger scale than any other
dramatist and with an ef-
fect so perplexing to some
moralists that one of
them, a great writer,
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