Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 33 N. 14 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
terested in this instrument." Thus, like water
dropping for centuries on the granite, it must
eventually make an impression some time;
so will it dawn upon our friends of the Old
Hemisphere that America is worth keeping
at least one eye upon.
*
*
*
*
News that will be welcomed by all who
appreciate the welfare of a musician who
elects to make America his home, is the
enormous success -scored by Richard Bur-
meister at the Worcester festival last week.
It is not often that an instrumental number
achieves the success in the face of vocal
music, which is always more attractive to
those who cannot appreciate music in its
highest form, but upon this occasion the ta-
bles were turned completely, and Burmeister
was the unquestionable attraction of the en-
tire season. He received six recalls, and the
audience was loath to consent to abide by
the law which forbids encores. Burmeister
is certainly one of America's most promising
and most important pianists. We need more
like him.
Emilie Frances Bauer.
MUSIC AS AN AN/ESTHETIC.
PITTSBURG ORCHESTRA PLANS.
T~" HE Pittsburg Orchestra, whose prodi-
* gious and ambitious repertory for the
coming year has been noticed before now,
has announced in Pittsburg a seventh sea-
son that will consist of eighteen evening and
eighteen afternoon concerts, covering a pe-
riod of five months. The expenses of the
orchestra are guaranteed by seventy repre-
sentative men. Last season's expenditures
were about $80,000, of which the guarantors
paid but a small fraction. Victor Herbert
remains as conductor and the manager of
the orchestra is George H. Wilson. A par-
tial list of the soloists includes Harold Bauer,
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Jessie Shay, Schu-
inann-Heink, Suzanne Adams, Lillian Blau-
velt, Louise Homer, Gampanari, Plunkett
Greene, Fritz Kreisler, Luigi von Kunits,
Jean Gerardy and Henri Merck. The or-
chestra will be heard in many outside cities,
including New York, Baltimore, Washing-
ton, Syracuse, Rochester, Toronto, Cleveland,
Columbus, Chicago, Milwaukee and Louis-
ville, and also for a period of three weeks,
beginning Oct. 14th, at the Pan-American
Exposition.
J. F. NUNO IN MEXICO.
T F. NUNO, the composer of the Mexi-
^ • can national hymn, received many dem-
onstrations of affection from the people of
Mexico City during a recent visit as a guest
of that municipality. Numerous concerts as
well as receptions were given in his honor;
in fact, every possible tribute of esteem and
appreciation of his abilities were bestowed.
Sefior Nuno is a resident of Buffalo, where
he is widely esteemed in musical circles.
jt
The winter term of the American School
of Opera opened on Monday, Sept. 16th.
The large enrollment of members indicates
an unusually prosperous season.
MISS LOTTYE HICKS.
\ 1 7 E present herewith the latest photo-
graph, by Lockwood, of Miss Lottye
Hicks, who is to be under the management
of the Charles L. Young Amusement Co.
Miss Hicks is an Alabama girl and has ap-
peared throughout the country with great
success. She has beautiful red hair, an at-
tractive personality, and the artistic tempera-
ment that often accompanies it.
A FEATURE of the New York season of
**• the Castle Square Opera Company at
the Broadway Theatre is the warm interest
manifested by students of music in the per-
formances of the standard grand operas in
English by that organization. At each mat-
inee groups of pupils from prominent schools
follow the score with undivided attention,
marking the phrases of difficult passages,
and according the applause of the critic with
fervor and discrimination. The well-bal-
anced company brings to the rendering of
the lyric masterpieces musical gifts of high
order and an intelligence developed by the
best training, which make their performances
of the highest educational value.
D EPORT has come from Berlin that two
1
^ physicians there have been experiment-
ing to make possible the use of music as an
anaesthetic in surgical operations on the head
and face, and that so far they have been suc-
cessful. While this information seems to
provide opportunity for the scoffer to indulge
in sarcasm, the astonishment that it should
really cause is that such a plan has not before
been evolved and put into practice for the
counteraction of pain generally. The scheme
of utilizing music is merely that of opposing
a weakened condition with a strengthening
influence, a depressive with an exhilarative,
a negative with a positive. Harmony is a
law of nature, and the effect of it is pleasure,
positive emotion. Pain comes from antag-
onism to that law; it is an inharmonious
condition, a negative emotion.
The common property of nature is vibra-
tion. Concerning the human body, a state
of health and strength exists when the vibra-
tions of the various parts are harmonious
throughout. If the harmony be rendered im-
perfect, suffering ensues. If, however, the
vibrations be intensified and their harmony
maintained, ecstasy results. Causes of im-
perfection and intensification being simulta-
neously applied to the body, that which is the
stronger will prevail emotionally, for a mo-
ment perhaps, but the mental confusion in-
duced by the tax on the brain may, logically,
bring about a sound sleep, a state of indiffer-
ence which will restore the nerves to their
positive vigor. The auditory nerves of the
ear act, as do the tactile nerves of the body,
transmitting local effects to the brain, by vi-
bration. Therefore, should suffering be in-
duced through the tactile nerves, a cause of
ecstasy transmitted by the auditory nerves
may nullify it. Mothers have used this meth-
od for centuries, in order to neutralize agony
in their teething children.
js
EMIL FISHER IN NEW YORK.
MIL FISHER, the well-known German
basso of "Hans Sachs" fame, has es-
tablished himself at "La Rochelle," 57 West
Seventy-fifth street, where he will devote sev-
eral hours each day to gifted young artists
who wish to polish up German lieder and
operatic repertoire. Emil Fisher will make
his re-appearance in public in a song recital
in conjunction with Mme. Schumann-Heink
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Oct.
17th. Later he will be heard in the Sunday
night concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
House, which will begin late in November.
A RICH citizen of Moscow named Moro-
**• zof has given to that city one million
roubles for the construction of a great thea-
tre, where the admissions must be so nom-
inal that the poorest classes may attend the
performances.
Sibyl Sanderson will be heard in America
this year with Grau's forces.
HANNAH L KEENE
SOPRANO
Exclusive Management of
CHARLES L. YOUNG
1123 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
terested in this instrument." Thus, like water
dropping for centuries on the granite, it must
eventually make an impression some time;
so will it dawn upon our friends of the Old
Hemisphere that America is worth keeping
at least one eye upon.
*
*
*
*
News that will be welcomed by all who
appreciate the welfare of a musician who
elects to make America his home, is the
enormous success -scored by Richard Bur-
meister at the Worcester festival last week.
It is not often that an instrumental number
achieves the success in the face of vocal
music, which is always more attractive to
those who cannot appreciate music in its
highest form, but upon this occasion the ta-
bles were turned completely, and Burmeister
was the unquestionable attraction of the en-
tire season. He received six recalls, and the
audience was loath to consent to abide by
the law which forbids encores. Burmeister
is certainly one of America's most promising
and most important pianists. We need more
like him.
Emilie Frances Bauer.
MUSIC AS AN AN/ESTHETIC.
PITTSBURG ORCHESTRA PLANS.
T~" HE Pittsburg Orchestra, whose prodi-
* gious and ambitious repertory for the
coming year has been noticed before now,
has announced in Pittsburg a seventh sea-
son that will consist of eighteen evening and
eighteen afternoon concerts, covering a pe-
riod of five months. The expenses of the
orchestra are guaranteed by seventy repre-
sentative men. Last season's expenditures
were about $80,000, of which the guarantors
paid but a small fraction. Victor Herbert
remains as conductor and the manager of
the orchestra is George H. Wilson. A par-
tial list of the soloists includes Harold Bauer,
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Jessie Shay, Schu-
inann-Heink, Suzanne Adams, Lillian Blau-
velt, Louise Homer, Gampanari, Plunkett
Greene, Fritz Kreisler, Luigi von Kunits,
Jean Gerardy and Henri Merck. The or-
chestra will be heard in many outside cities,
including New York, Baltimore, Washing-
ton, Syracuse, Rochester, Toronto, Cleveland,
Columbus, Chicago, Milwaukee and Louis-
ville, and also for a period of three weeks,
beginning Oct. 14th, at the Pan-American
Exposition.
J. F. NUNO IN MEXICO.
T F. NUNO, the composer of the Mexi-
^ • can national hymn, received many dem-
onstrations of affection from the people of
Mexico City during a recent visit as a guest
of that municipality. Numerous concerts as
well as receptions were given in his honor;
in fact, every possible tribute of esteem and
appreciation of his abilities were bestowed.
Sefior Nuno is a resident of Buffalo, where
he is widely esteemed in musical circles.
jt
The winter term of the American School
of Opera opened on Monday, Sept. 16th.
The large enrollment of members indicates
an unusually prosperous season.
MISS LOTTYE HICKS.
\ 1 7 E present herewith the latest photo-
graph, by Lockwood, of Miss Lottye
Hicks, who is to be under the management
of the Charles L. Young Amusement Co.
Miss Hicks is an Alabama girl and has ap-
peared throughout the country with great
success. She has beautiful red hair, an at-
tractive personality, and the artistic tempera-
ment that often accompanies it.
A FEATURE of the New York season of
**• the Castle Square Opera Company at
the Broadway Theatre is the warm interest
manifested by students of music in the per-
formances of the standard grand operas in
English by that organization. At each mat-
inee groups of pupils from prominent schools
follow the score with undivided attention,
marking the phrases of difficult passages,
and according the applause of the critic with
fervor and discrimination. The well-bal-
anced company brings to the rendering of
the lyric masterpieces musical gifts of high
order and an intelligence developed by the
best training, which make their performances
of the highest educational value.
D EPORT has come from Berlin that two
1
^ physicians there have been experiment-
ing to make possible the use of music as an
anaesthetic in surgical operations on the head
and face, and that so far they have been suc-
cessful. While this information seems to
provide opportunity for the scoffer to indulge
in sarcasm, the astonishment that it should
really cause is that such a plan has not before
been evolved and put into practice for the
counteraction of pain generally. The scheme
of utilizing music is merely that of opposing
a weakened condition with a strengthening
influence, a depressive with an exhilarative,
a negative with a positive. Harmony is a
law of nature, and the effect of it is pleasure,
positive emotion. Pain comes from antag-
onism to that law; it is an inharmonious
condition, a negative emotion.
The common property of nature is vibra-
tion. Concerning the human body, a state
of health and strength exists when the vibra-
tions of the various parts are harmonious
throughout. If the harmony be rendered im-
perfect, suffering ensues. If, however, the
vibrations be intensified and their harmony
maintained, ecstasy results. Causes of im-
perfection and intensification being simulta-
neously applied to the body, that which is the
stronger will prevail emotionally, for a mo-
ment perhaps, but the mental confusion in-
duced by the tax on the brain may, logically,
bring about a sound sleep, a state of indiffer-
ence which will restore the nerves to their
positive vigor. The auditory nerves of the
ear act, as do the tactile nerves of the body,
transmitting local effects to the brain, by vi-
bration. Therefore, should suffering be in-
duced through the tactile nerves, a cause of
ecstasy transmitted by the auditory nerves
may nullify it. Mothers have used this meth-
od for centuries, in order to neutralize agony
in their teething children.
js
EMIL FISHER IN NEW YORK.
MIL FISHER, the well-known German
basso of "Hans Sachs" fame, has es-
tablished himself at "La Rochelle," 57 West
Seventy-fifth street, where he will devote sev-
eral hours each day to gifted young artists
who wish to polish up German lieder and
operatic repertoire. Emil Fisher will make
his re-appearance in public in a song recital
in conjunction with Mme. Schumann-Heink
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Oct.
17th. Later he will be heard in the Sunday
night concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
House, which will begin late in November.
A RICH citizen of Moscow named Moro-
**• zof has given to that city one million
roubles for the construction of a great thea-
tre, where the admissions must be so nom-
inal that the poorest classes may attend the
performances.
Sibyl Sanderson will be heard in America
this year with Grau's forces.
HANNAH L KEENE
SOPRANO
Exclusive Management of
CHARLES L. YOUNG
1123 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK
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