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Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 22 - Page 3
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THE
flUJIC TRADE
V O L . XXXII. N o . 2 2 .
Published Eyery Saturday by Edward L; man Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, June 1,1901.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS.
••CYRANO" IN (l^AND OPERA.
ZELDENRUST AND HAST COMING.
THE GREAT SAENGERFEST.
Walter Damrosch left this city a few days
ago for Delaware Water Gap where he is to
put the finishing touches to the score of a new
grand opera that promises to be not only the
most ambitious work of the young conductor
and composer, but the most notable compo-
sition in this school of any American com-
poser. Mr. Damrosch has collaborated with
W. J. Henderson, a well-known writer on
musical subjects, in preparing a musical set-
ting of Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Mr. Damrosch has been at work on the score
of the new opera for nearly two years. It
is intended to follow the general progress
of Rostand's famous play, although Mr.
Henderson has made some important changes
in the last two acts. They are to be com-
pressed into one. David Bispham is anxious
to create the title role of the opera, which may
be produced next winter at the Metropolitan.
It will be awaited with interest.
T W O important announcements have been
made by Loudon B. Charlton, the well-
known impresario, to the effect that Eduard
Zeldenrust, the famous Dutch piano vir-
tuoso, and Gregory Hast, the distinguished
English tenor, have been engaged for the
coming musical season. Herr Zeldenrust,
although a native of Amsterdam, Holland,
has lived for many years in Paris, where
he is regarded as "one of the three or four
great pianists of the world." He is cred-
ited with wonderful temperament and daz-
zling technic. Mr. Hast is said to have a
voice of singular beauty and purity. He is
famous for his French, German, Italian and
English ballad concerts, and his great suc-
cess in oratorio and cantata. Mrs. Kath-
arine Fisk, another of Mr. Charlton's art-
tists, is making a brilliant record in a con-
cert tournee with which she is now engaged
through the Middle West. The press is en-
thusiastic over her beautiful contralto voice,
her rare art and her attractive personality.
C VERYTHING about the Buffalo Expo-
• L/
sition is to be on a big scale. This ap-
plies to the thirtieth festival of the North
American Saengerbund, as well as to things
more closely connected with the Pan-Ameri-
can show.
The festival is to be held in the armory
of the Seventy-fourth Regiment on June 24,
25, 26 and 27. The chorus will consist of
3,500 singers and the orchestra will number
eighty-five players. The solo quartet will be
composed of Sara Anderson, Ernestine
Schumann-Heink, Evan Williams and D.
Ffrangcon-Davies. John Lund will be the
conductor.
At the concert on Tuesday afternoon, June
25, a children's chorus of 3,000 will add
their treble voices in conjunction with their
elders. The festival is to close on Thurs-
day, June 2"j, with a "volksfest," to be held
at the Stadium on the Exposition grounds-
EXTRAVAGANZA AT METROPOLITAN.
A LFRED E. AARONS has leased the
Metropolitan Opera House for a period
extending from Sept. 2d until the grand
opera season opens, Dec. 23d. Mr. Aarons
intends to present large productions of ex-
travaganzas and ballets. He promises in
the contract with the directors of the Mau-
rice Grau Opera Company to give no en-
tertainment that is not first-class in every
respect and up to the high standard set by
Mr. Grau's organization.
- Mr. Grau's opera company will remain at
the Metropolitan for eleven weeks, during
which time Mr. Aarons will take the attrac-
tion to Philadelphia and Boston. If the
project proves successful, he will return to
the Metropolitan at the conclusion of the
opera season. Mr. Aarons says that he ex-
pects to present his entertainment at rea-
sonable prices. Mr. Aarons has left for
Europe to complete contracts for European
artists with whom he has been negotiating
for the past month.
A CHICAGO ORGANIZATION.
A BAND which bids fair to occupy a lead-
**
ing place among American organiza-
tions of this class has recently been estab-
lished in Chicago under the title of Chris.
Rodenkirchen's Elite Reed and Brass Choir.
It is composed mainly of members of the
Chicago Orchestra and numbers some fifty
players.
The California College of Music has just
been established in Oakland by R. W. Vin-
cent, formerly of Holyoke, Mass.
THE fl. T. N. A. CONVENTION.
T" HE coming meeting of the Music Teach-
ers' National Association, announced
for July 3-5 at Put-in-Bay Island, O., will
see a large attendance of teachers from many
parts of the country. Among those who will
lecture or conduct classes in various musi-
cal specialties are Miss Kate Chittenden, of
New York, piano technic; Mrs. Emma
Thomas, Detroit, normal methods; Dr. H.
A. Clarke, Philadelphia, harmony; Hamilton
MacDougall, Wellesley College; Perley
Dunn Aldrich, Rochester, N. Y.; Fred-
eric Root, Chicago; Thomas Tapper, Bos-
ton; Louis Arthur Russell, Newark, N. J.,
and many others. It is expected that these
names will attract many professional work-
ers from smaller places who wish to make
the occasion one for study and self-improve-
ment. There will be six concerts, in which
a number of noted American artists will
be heard, such as William Sherwood, Ar-
thur Foote, Alberto Jonas, pianists; George
Hamlin, Sidney Biden, vocalists; the Yunck
String Quartet of Detroit, etc.
.j*
AN OLE BULL MONUMENT.
O T E P H E N SINDING, the leading scnlp-
^
tor in Denmark, is the author of the
monument to Ole Bull, recently unveiled
at Bergen, in Norway. He shows the vio-
linist playing on the violin, catching the key
from the harp of the Nokken, or Nix, the
spirit of waters. A cascade falls over the
strings of the water sprite's harp
AN UNIQUE MUSICAL EVENT.
T" HE annual Bach festivals which took
*
place in Bethlehem, Pa., on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of last week, were
among the most interesting and unique
events of the year. The performances were
held, as usual, in the Moravian Church,
under the direction of J. Fred. Walle, the
organist and choirmaster, a descendant of
one of the original Moravians, and the
founder of these festivals. The works per-
formed embraced the Christmas Oratorio,
entire; the Passion according to St. Mat-
thew, and the Mass in B Minor. There
was a chorus of n o voices and a boys'
choir of a hundred. The organ was sup-
ported with a full orchestra with all the
instruments called for by the score, such
as are obsolete being represented by modern
substitutes.
The Moravian community settled in Beth-
lehem in 1741, and from its traditions—the
love of music in the service of the Church—
there has been developed a spirit which may
be said to find its fullest expression in these
festivals. One of the customs of these re-
ligious people is the blowing of trombones
for holy convocations and proclamations.
The four trombone players who have offi-
ciated for nearly twenty years announced
the beginning of the concerts of the festival
from the belfry of the old Moravian church.
At the opening concerts of the Philhar-
monic Society, Nov. 15th and 16th, Josef
Hofmann will be heard. This will probably
be his first appearance this season.
THE
flUJIC TRADE
V O L . XXXII. N o . 2 2 .
Published Eyery Saturday by Edward L; man Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, June 1,1901.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS.
••CYRANO" IN (l^AND OPERA.
ZELDENRUST AND HAST COMING.
THE GREAT SAENGERFEST.
Walter Damrosch left this city a few days
ago for Delaware Water Gap where he is to
put the finishing touches to the score of a new
grand opera that promises to be not only the
most ambitious work of the young conductor
and composer, but the most notable compo-
sition in this school of any American com-
poser. Mr. Damrosch has collaborated with
W. J. Henderson, a well-known writer on
musical subjects, in preparing a musical set-
ting of Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Mr. Damrosch has been at work on the score
of the new opera for nearly two years. It
is intended to follow the general progress
of Rostand's famous play, although Mr.
Henderson has made some important changes
in the last two acts. They are to be com-
pressed into one. David Bispham is anxious
to create the title role of the opera, which may
be produced next winter at the Metropolitan.
It will be awaited with interest.
T W O important announcements have been
made by Loudon B. Charlton, the well-
known impresario, to the effect that Eduard
Zeldenrust, the famous Dutch piano vir-
tuoso, and Gregory Hast, the distinguished
English tenor, have been engaged for the
coming musical season. Herr Zeldenrust,
although a native of Amsterdam, Holland,
has lived for many years in Paris, where
he is regarded as "one of the three or four
great pianists of the world." He is cred-
ited with wonderful temperament and daz-
zling technic. Mr. Hast is said to have a
voice of singular beauty and purity. He is
famous for his French, German, Italian and
English ballad concerts, and his great suc-
cess in oratorio and cantata. Mrs. Kath-
arine Fisk, another of Mr. Charlton's art-
tists, is making a brilliant record in a con-
cert tournee with which she is now engaged
through the Middle West. The press is en-
thusiastic over her beautiful contralto voice,
her rare art and her attractive personality.
C VERYTHING about the Buffalo Expo-
• L/
sition is to be on a big scale. This ap-
plies to the thirtieth festival of the North
American Saengerbund, as well as to things
more closely connected with the Pan-Ameri-
can show.
The festival is to be held in the armory
of the Seventy-fourth Regiment on June 24,
25, 26 and 27. The chorus will consist of
3,500 singers and the orchestra will number
eighty-five players. The solo quartet will be
composed of Sara Anderson, Ernestine
Schumann-Heink, Evan Williams and D.
Ffrangcon-Davies. John Lund will be the
conductor.
At the concert on Tuesday afternoon, June
25, a children's chorus of 3,000 will add
their treble voices in conjunction with their
elders. The festival is to close on Thurs-
day, June 2"j, with a "volksfest," to be held
at the Stadium on the Exposition grounds-
EXTRAVAGANZA AT METROPOLITAN.
A LFRED E. AARONS has leased the
Metropolitan Opera House for a period
extending from Sept. 2d until the grand
opera season opens, Dec. 23d. Mr. Aarons
intends to present large productions of ex-
travaganzas and ballets. He promises in
the contract with the directors of the Mau-
rice Grau Opera Company to give no en-
tertainment that is not first-class in every
respect and up to the high standard set by
Mr. Grau's organization.
- Mr. Grau's opera company will remain at
the Metropolitan for eleven weeks, during
which time Mr. Aarons will take the attrac-
tion to Philadelphia and Boston. If the
project proves successful, he will return to
the Metropolitan at the conclusion of the
opera season. Mr. Aarons says that he ex-
pects to present his entertainment at rea-
sonable prices. Mr. Aarons has left for
Europe to complete contracts for European
artists with whom he has been negotiating
for the past month.
A CHICAGO ORGANIZATION.
A BAND which bids fair to occupy a lead-
**
ing place among American organiza-
tions of this class has recently been estab-
lished in Chicago under the title of Chris.
Rodenkirchen's Elite Reed and Brass Choir.
It is composed mainly of members of the
Chicago Orchestra and numbers some fifty
players.
The California College of Music has just
been established in Oakland by R. W. Vin-
cent, formerly of Holyoke, Mass.
THE fl. T. N. A. CONVENTION.
T" HE coming meeting of the Music Teach-
ers' National Association, announced
for July 3-5 at Put-in-Bay Island, O., will
see a large attendance of teachers from many
parts of the country. Among those who will
lecture or conduct classes in various musi-
cal specialties are Miss Kate Chittenden, of
New York, piano technic; Mrs. Emma
Thomas, Detroit, normal methods; Dr. H.
A. Clarke, Philadelphia, harmony; Hamilton
MacDougall, Wellesley College; Perley
Dunn Aldrich, Rochester, N. Y.; Fred-
eric Root, Chicago; Thomas Tapper, Bos-
ton; Louis Arthur Russell, Newark, N. J.,
and many others. It is expected that these
names will attract many professional work-
ers from smaller places who wish to make
the occasion one for study and self-improve-
ment. There will be six concerts, in which
a number of noted American artists will
be heard, such as William Sherwood, Ar-
thur Foote, Alberto Jonas, pianists; George
Hamlin, Sidney Biden, vocalists; the Yunck
String Quartet of Detroit, etc.
.j*
AN OLE BULL MONUMENT.
O T E P H E N SINDING, the leading scnlp-
^
tor in Denmark, is the author of the
monument to Ole Bull, recently unveiled
at Bergen, in Norway. He shows the vio-
linist playing on the violin, catching the key
from the harp of the Nokken, or Nix, the
spirit of waters. A cascade falls over the
strings of the water sprite's harp
AN UNIQUE MUSICAL EVENT.
T" HE annual Bach festivals which took
*
place in Bethlehem, Pa., on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of last week, were
among the most interesting and unique
events of the year. The performances were
held, as usual, in the Moravian Church,
under the direction of J. Fred. Walle, the
organist and choirmaster, a descendant of
one of the original Moravians, and the
founder of these festivals. The works per-
formed embraced the Christmas Oratorio,
entire; the Passion according to St. Mat-
thew, and the Mass in B Minor. There
was a chorus of n o voices and a boys'
choir of a hundred. The organ was sup-
ported with a full orchestra with all the
instruments called for by the score, such
as are obsolete being represented by modern
substitutes.
The Moravian community settled in Beth-
lehem in 1741, and from its traditions—the
love of music in the service of the Church—
there has been developed a spirit which may
be said to find its fullest expression in these
festivals. One of the customs of these re-
ligious people is the blowing of trombones
for holy convocations and proclamations.
The four trombone players who have offi-
ciated for nearly twenty years announced
the beginning of the concerts of the festival
from the belfry of the old Moravian church.
At the opening concerts of the Philhar-
monic Society, Nov. 15th and 16th, Josef
Hofmann will be heard. This will probably
be his first appearance this season.
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