Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 18 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
tions will be heard In the Temple of Music as
well as on the various stands in the Plaza,
Esplanade and other parts of the grounds.
The organ music to be presented daily at
the Pan-American Exposition promises to
be not only of great attractive interest, but
of particular educational value as well.
Clarence Eddy has expressed his admiration
of the plan proposed and all the organists
who have been consulted feel that one of t\s.
greatest events in this country's history of
organ playing is now in contemplation and
preparation. Organists from all over the
country will participate. Even from San
Francisco, whence a Mr. Stewart has ar-
ranged to come. Among the organists who
have announced their coming are: Clarence
Eddy, Frederic Archer, Mr. Hammond, Mr.
Donohoe, Mr. Dethier, Mr. Stewart, and
nearly seventy others. Frederic Archer will
be the organist for Dedication Day, May
20th. The chairman of the committee on
organ music, Mr. Simon Fleischmann, has
had a Herculean task in securing and ar-
ranging the details of a plan which includes
services every day, and arrangements with
people from all parts of the country. The
Buffalo organists who will give recitals in
the series are: Andrew T. Webster, H. S.
Hendy, W. J. Gomph, W. S. Jarrett, Seth C.
Clark, and Miss Marie F. McConnell.
As can be estimated from the illustrations
herewith the Temple of Music is an impos-
ing and ideally beautiful structure, octagonal'
in shape, and occupying a site 150 feet
square at the northwest junction of the Es-
planade and the Court of Fountains. This
temple will be crowned with a dome whose
top is 136 feet above grade, will seat 1,200
people on the main floor and balconies, and
will be provided with one of the largest and
finest pipe organs in the United States, made
to order, and supplied with many entirely
new and ingenious accessories.
A musical event of extraordinary magni-
tude and attractiveness will be the triennial
Saengerfest of the North American Saenger-
bund, to be held at Buffalo during the Pan-
American Exposition period. On this oc-
casion and for the stupendous singing feast
the grand chorus of male voices will be in-
creased from the largest previous number
—3,000, to 5,000, and liberal drafts will be
made upon the ranks of the world's most
famous singers. It is expected the Saenger-
fest will have for its auditorium the drill
room of the new armory of the Seventy-
fourth Regiment, which will accomodate
from twelve to fifteen thousand persons, and
every foot of whose space will be required.
The principal national holidays will be
observed at the Exposition with musical fes-
tivals, in which school children will partici-
pate. There will be a grand jubilee chorus
of thousands of young voices in the spacious
Stadium.
TO SINQ IN BAYREUTH.
Miss Gertrude May Stein has been en-
gaged for Bayreuth for the coming sum-
mer. She will sing one of the Rhine maid-
ens in both "Rheingold" and "Gotterdaem-
merung," and one of the Norns in the latter
opera.
LILLIAN fcLALVELT IN ArtERlCA AGAIN.
"T* HIS successful American prima donna is
back again to her own land and has al-
ready renewed the triumphs which she won at
her first appearance here early in the season.
She was the star at the Springfield Musical
Festival, April 20th. On the 25th she sang
with the People's Choral Union in Carnegie
Hall, in Schubert's "Song of Triumph" and
MMK. LILLIAN
I5I.AUVEI.T.
Hadley's new cantata, "In Music's Praise."
In addition she also sang the Handel "Sweet
Bird" aria in a superb manner. She will re-
main here over the summer and will return
to London in October. She is to be the star
at both the Louisville and Richmond musical
festivals which are to be given this month.
While Mine. Blauvelt was singing in Romt.
early in April, at the Verdi celebration, she
was made a member of the order of "St.
Cecilia," an honor which has never before
been conferred upon an English-speaking
person.
TO HEASURE VOCAL PITCH.
. CARL E. SEASHORE, assistant Pro-
fessor of Philosophy in the University of
Iowa, is the inventor of an ingenious in*
strument for measuring the pitch of the
human voice. The instrument will be valu-
able in studying the control of the voice in
singing. It will also enable public speakers
to regulate and improve the quality of their
eloquence as regards pitch inflection.
The instrument consists of a drum about
three feet in diameter, run by an electric mo-
tor. The surface of this drum is covered
with white paper on which 7,500 dots are
arranged in mathematical order. A speak-
ing tube, a manometric capsule, a gas flame,
a tuning fork, a telephone receiver and an
X-ray tube complete the parts of the machine.
The principle of the instrument is the law
that difference in pitch of the voice depends
upon the rate of vibration. There are two
persons associated in the trials upon the ma-
chine, the experimenter and the singer or
speaker who is trying his voice. The X-ray
tube is arranged
upon the side of
the machine where
the experimenter
stands, and by giv-
ing the standard
number of flashes
per second, enables
the experimenter
to see the standard
tone. The singer
hears the standard
tone by means of
the t e l e p h o n e
transmitter held to
his ear, this trans-
mitter being at-
tached to a tuning
fork located a t
some d i s t a n c e
from the machine.
The singer can
see what he sings,
because the line on
the surface of the
drum which shows
t h e voice pitch
stands still; those
above it moving
downward.
The
pitch line stands
still because the
vibrations of the
v o i c e upon the
manometric c a p -
sule put out the
gas flame as many
times as there are dots in the line. The
manometric capsule consists of rubber
stretched across the gas chamber, which has
an outlet in the gas jet above it. The vibra-
tions of the voice send this rubber against
the gas outlet that feeds the jet, putting it
out as many times in the course of a second
as there are vibrations in the voice. These
vibrations are so frequent that the flashes of
the flame, as it is put out and lighted again
are imperceptible to the eye.
Dr. Seashore has attained a remarkable
ability to sing true to measure, due to his
experiments with the instrument. He and
Edward Bechley, an advanced student, are
at present working out voice problems by
the use of the instrument. One of the dis-
coveries which they have made is that the
voice cannot utter two successive words in
the same pitch of tone.
JOSEF HOFMANN TO RETURN.
T UST before Josef Hofmann sailed for Eu-
^
rope he signed a contract with Mr. Hen-
ry Wolf sohn to return to this country next sea-
son for an extended concert tour through the
United States, Canada and Mexico. His
first concert will be in New York City, when
he will be heard with an orchestra.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
tions will be heard In the Temple of Music as
well as on the various stands in the Plaza,
Esplanade and other parts of the grounds.
The organ music to be presented daily at
the Pan-American Exposition promises to
be not only of great attractive interest, but
of particular educational value as well.
Clarence Eddy has expressed his admiration
of the plan proposed and all the organists
who have been consulted feel that one of t\s.
greatest events in this country's history of
organ playing is now in contemplation and
preparation. Organists from all over the
country will participate. Even from San
Francisco, whence a Mr. Stewart has ar-
ranged to come. Among the organists who
have announced their coming are: Clarence
Eddy, Frederic Archer, Mr. Hammond, Mr.
Donohoe, Mr. Dethier, Mr. Stewart, and
nearly seventy others. Frederic Archer will
be the organist for Dedication Day, May
20th. The chairman of the committee on
organ music, Mr. Simon Fleischmann, has
had a Herculean task in securing and ar-
ranging the details of a plan which includes
services every day, and arrangements with
people from all parts of the country. The
Buffalo organists who will give recitals in
the series are: Andrew T. Webster, H. S.
Hendy, W. J. Gomph, W. S. Jarrett, Seth C.
Clark, and Miss Marie F. McConnell.
As can be estimated from the illustrations
herewith the Temple of Music is an impos-
ing and ideally beautiful structure, octagonal'
in shape, and occupying a site 150 feet
square at the northwest junction of the Es-
planade and the Court of Fountains. This
temple will be crowned with a dome whose
top is 136 feet above grade, will seat 1,200
people on the main floor and balconies, and
will be provided with one of the largest and
finest pipe organs in the United States, made
to order, and supplied with many entirely
new and ingenious accessories.
A musical event of extraordinary magni-
tude and attractiveness will be the triennial
Saengerfest of the North American Saenger-
bund, to be held at Buffalo during the Pan-
American Exposition period. On this oc-
casion and for the stupendous singing feast
the grand chorus of male voices will be in-
creased from the largest previous number
—3,000, to 5,000, and liberal drafts will be
made upon the ranks of the world's most
famous singers. It is expected the Saenger-
fest will have for its auditorium the drill
room of the new armory of the Seventy-
fourth Regiment, which will accomodate
from twelve to fifteen thousand persons, and
every foot of whose space will be required.
The principal national holidays will be
observed at the Exposition with musical fes-
tivals, in which school children will partici-
pate. There will be a grand jubilee chorus
of thousands of young voices in the spacious
Stadium.
TO SINQ IN BAYREUTH.
Miss Gertrude May Stein has been en-
gaged for Bayreuth for the coming sum-
mer. She will sing one of the Rhine maid-
ens in both "Rheingold" and "Gotterdaem-
merung," and one of the Norns in the latter
opera.
LILLIAN fcLALVELT IN ArtERlCA AGAIN.
"T* HIS successful American prima donna is
back again to her own land and has al-
ready renewed the triumphs which she won at
her first appearance here early in the season.
She was the star at the Springfield Musical
Festival, April 20th. On the 25th she sang
with the People's Choral Union in Carnegie
Hall, in Schubert's "Song of Triumph" and
MMK. LILLIAN
I5I.AUVEI.T.
Hadley's new cantata, "In Music's Praise."
In addition she also sang the Handel "Sweet
Bird" aria in a superb manner. She will re-
main here over the summer and will return
to London in October. She is to be the star
at both the Louisville and Richmond musical
festivals which are to be given this month.
While Mine. Blauvelt was singing in Romt.
early in April, at the Verdi celebration, she
was made a member of the order of "St.
Cecilia," an honor which has never before
been conferred upon an English-speaking
person.
TO HEASURE VOCAL PITCH.
. CARL E. SEASHORE, assistant Pro-
fessor of Philosophy in the University of
Iowa, is the inventor of an ingenious in*
strument for measuring the pitch of the
human voice. The instrument will be valu-
able in studying the control of the voice in
singing. It will also enable public speakers
to regulate and improve the quality of their
eloquence as regards pitch inflection.
The instrument consists of a drum about
three feet in diameter, run by an electric mo-
tor. The surface of this drum is covered
with white paper on which 7,500 dots are
arranged in mathematical order. A speak-
ing tube, a manometric capsule, a gas flame,
a tuning fork, a telephone receiver and an
X-ray tube complete the parts of the machine.
The principle of the instrument is the law
that difference in pitch of the voice depends
upon the rate of vibration. There are two
persons associated in the trials upon the ma-
chine, the experimenter and the singer or
speaker who is trying his voice. The X-ray
tube is arranged
upon the side of
the machine where
the experimenter
stands, and by giv-
ing the standard
number of flashes
per second, enables
the experimenter
to see the standard
tone. The singer
hears the standard
tone by means of
the t e l e p h o n e
transmitter held to
his ear, this trans-
mitter being at-
tached to a tuning
fork located a t
some d i s t a n c e
from the machine.
The singer can
see what he sings,
because the line on
the surface of the
drum which shows
t h e voice pitch
stands still; those
above it moving
downward.
The
pitch line stands
still because the
vibrations of the
v o i c e upon the
manometric c a p -
sule put out the
gas flame as many
times as there are dots in the line. The
manometric capsule consists of rubber
stretched across the gas chamber, which has
an outlet in the gas jet above it. The vibra-
tions of the voice send this rubber against
the gas outlet that feeds the jet, putting it
out as many times in the course of a second
as there are vibrations in the voice. These
vibrations are so frequent that the flashes of
the flame, as it is put out and lighted again
are imperceptible to the eye.
Dr. Seashore has attained a remarkable
ability to sing true to measure, due to his
experiments with the instrument. He and
Edward Bechley, an advanced student, are
at present working out voice problems by
the use of the instrument. One of the dis-
coveries which they have made is that the
voice cannot utter two successive words in
the same pitch of tone.
JOSEF HOFMANN TO RETURN.
T UST before Josef Hofmann sailed for Eu-
^
rope he signed a contract with Mr. Hen-
ry Wolf sohn to return to this country next sea-
son for an extended concert tour through the
United States, Canada and Mexico. His
first concert will be in New York City, when
he will be heard with an orchestra.
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