Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 18 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
of his death came Beethoven composed the
music for that event.
Of what parts, then, of Napoleon's career
do the first and last two movements tell?
These are questions which can never be
answered; and, mere curiosity apart, it so
happens that it matters little whether they
are answered or not answered, so long as
they are not answered altogether wrongly.
For whatever events Beethoven might at
any moment have in his mind he never
tried to depict them, but only to communi-
cate the emotion they aroused. He himself
said as much. It is in the expression of
human emotion he is supreme, and to feel
aright the emotions of the heroic symphony
we need only to have our minds clear of a
story which Beethoven did not and could
not have had in his mind.
OOOOOOOOOOOOCXM
8
THE MUSICAL PROGRAMS AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXX&OOOGOOOOOOGOOCKro^
I F , as Shakespeare sung, "Music hath
charms to sooth the savage breast," the
Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, prom-
ises to furnish enough of it, both in variety
and volume, to have hypnotized the ravaging
hordes of Genghis Khan, Attila and Tamer-
lane. Eighteen bands and seventy organi-
zations are expeGted to contribute to the mu-
8th to August 8th; Scinta's Band (36 men),
July 29th to August 24th; Carlisle Indian
Band (40 men), July 29th to August 24th;
Ithaca Band (35 men), August 5th to Aug-
ust 10th; Forty-eighth Highlanders (40
men), August 26th to August 31st; Robert-
son's Band of Albany (40 men), August
26th to August 31st; Salem Cadet Band (45
sical feast at the Exposition this summer.
The following dates have been assigned to
the various bands: Seventy-fourth Regiment
Band (35 men), May 1st to July29th; Sixty-
fifth Regiment Band (35 men), May 1st to
July 29th; Seventy-first Regiment Band (45
men), May 6th to June 1st; Thirteenth Regi-
ment Band of Hamilton (40 men), June 3d
to June 8th; Sousa's Band (50 men), June
10th to July 6th; Elgin Band (50 men), July
men), September 2nd to September 14th;
Brooke's Band (46 men), September 9th to
October 5th; Boston Ladies Band (30 la-
dies), September 16th to September 28th;
Nineteenth Regiment Band (45 men), Sep-
tember 16th to September 21st; Phinney's
Band (45 men), August 26th to September
15th; Victor Herbert's orchestra (60 men),
October 7th to October 21st; Newsboys'
Band of Grand Rapids. These organiza-
j*
DAMROSCH ON CHURCH HUSlC.
C R A N K DAMROSCH was among the
speakers at the recent annual dinner
of the Methodist Social Union. His re-
marks were on the topic of church music.
According to this popular musician there are
three main uses of music in the church—as
a preparation for spiritual thought, as a
means of expression for the deeper emotions
and as an elevating force for bringing the
soul nearer to the Divine Power. He la-
mented the misuse of the last named by or-
ganists playing operatic fantasias. "I do
not want an Italian operatic melody," said
Dr. Damrosch, "when I enter a church, and
moreover, the organ should never imitate an
orchestra. It is fine enough and grand
enough to stand on its own basis."
Dr. Damrosch also regretted the lack of
appreciation for the great masters of music
shown in the compilation of some of the
more pretentious hymnals and he condemned
the mutilation of the great works of com-
posers to furnish tunes for hymns. "That
is vandalism," he explained, "and should not
be permitted and you should have a com-
mittee of safety appointed to prevent it.
The quartette choir," he added further, "is
an American institution and it is perhaps the
cause of more trouble in the church than any
other thing. I would not advise Americans
to be proud of it. Not that we do not have
excellent quartettes, but the more excellent
they are the less fit they are to be in the
church. The solution of the quartette diffi-
culty is the chorus. Choral music, to my
mind, is the only music that is fit for the
church, in that it sinks the individuality of
the performer in the mass. I would not,
however, exclude the incidental solo from its
proper place in a composition."
Siegfried Wagner will conduct both cy-
cles of the ring at Bayreuth this year. The
"Parsifal" performances will be directed by
Dr. Muck.
INTERIOR TEMPLE OF MUSIC
Bj
PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION CO.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
of his death came Beethoven composed the
music for that event.
Of what parts, then, of Napoleon's career
do the first and last two movements tell?
These are questions which can never be
answered; and, mere curiosity apart, it so
happens that it matters little whether they
are answered or not answered, so long as
they are not answered altogether wrongly.
For whatever events Beethoven might at
any moment have in his mind he never
tried to depict them, but only to communi-
cate the emotion they aroused. He himself
said as much. It is in the expression of
human emotion he is supreme, and to feel
aright the emotions of the heroic symphony
we need only to have our minds clear of a
story which Beethoven did not and could
not have had in his mind.
OOOOOOOOOOOOCXM
8
THE MUSICAL PROGRAMS AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXX&OOOGOOOOOOGOOCKro^
I F , as Shakespeare sung, "Music hath
charms to sooth the savage breast," the
Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, prom-
ises to furnish enough of it, both in variety
and volume, to have hypnotized the ravaging
hordes of Genghis Khan, Attila and Tamer-
lane. Eighteen bands and seventy organi-
zations are expeGted to contribute to the mu-
8th to August 8th; Scinta's Band (36 men),
July 29th to August 24th; Carlisle Indian
Band (40 men), July 29th to August 24th;
Ithaca Band (35 men), August 5th to Aug-
ust 10th; Forty-eighth Highlanders (40
men), August 26th to August 31st; Robert-
son's Band of Albany (40 men), August
26th to August 31st; Salem Cadet Band (45
sical feast at the Exposition this summer.
The following dates have been assigned to
the various bands: Seventy-fourth Regiment
Band (35 men), May 1st to July29th; Sixty-
fifth Regiment Band (35 men), May 1st to
July 29th; Seventy-first Regiment Band (45
men), May 6th to June 1st; Thirteenth Regi-
ment Band of Hamilton (40 men), June 3d
to June 8th; Sousa's Band (50 men), June
10th to July 6th; Elgin Band (50 men), July
men), September 2nd to September 14th;
Brooke's Band (46 men), September 9th to
October 5th; Boston Ladies Band (30 la-
dies), September 16th to September 28th;
Nineteenth Regiment Band (45 men), Sep-
tember 16th to September 21st; Phinney's
Band (45 men), August 26th to September
15th; Victor Herbert's orchestra (60 men),
October 7th to October 21st; Newsboys'
Band of Grand Rapids. These organiza-
j*
DAMROSCH ON CHURCH HUSlC.
C R A N K DAMROSCH was among the
speakers at the recent annual dinner
of the Methodist Social Union. His re-
marks were on the topic of church music.
According to this popular musician there are
three main uses of music in the church—as
a preparation for spiritual thought, as a
means of expression for the deeper emotions
and as an elevating force for bringing the
soul nearer to the Divine Power. He la-
mented the misuse of the last named by or-
ganists playing operatic fantasias. "I do
not want an Italian operatic melody," said
Dr. Damrosch, "when I enter a church, and
moreover, the organ should never imitate an
orchestra. It is fine enough and grand
enough to stand on its own basis."
Dr. Damrosch also regretted the lack of
appreciation for the great masters of music
shown in the compilation of some of the
more pretentious hymnals and he condemned
the mutilation of the great works of com-
posers to furnish tunes for hymns. "That
is vandalism," he explained, "and should not
be permitted and you should have a com-
mittee of safety appointed to prevent it.
The quartette choir," he added further, "is
an American institution and it is perhaps the
cause of more trouble in the church than any
other thing. I would not advise Americans
to be proud of it. Not that we do not have
excellent quartettes, but the more excellent
they are the less fit they are to be in the
church. The solution of the quartette diffi-
culty is the chorus. Choral music, to my
mind, is the only music that is fit for the
church, in that it sinks the individuality of
the performer in the mass. I would not,
however, exclude the incidental solo from its
proper place in a composition."
Siegfried Wagner will conduct both cy-
cles of the ring at Bayreuth this year. The
"Parsifal" performances will be directed by
Dr. Muck.
INTERIOR TEMPLE OF MUSIC
Bj
PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION CO.
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