Music Trade Review
Issue: 1902 Vol. 34 N. 1 - Page 8
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THE
THE INFLUENCE OF PAINTING ON MUSIC.
HT HE color value of music has been elo-
quently and sympathetically estimated
by Emil Sauer, the distinguished pianist, and
now head of one of the German conservator-
ies, in this wise: "I may truly say that I
have found an inspiration in art that has
greatly aided my music, and that there is not
an art gallery in all Europe that I have not
seen and that 1 do not love. I believe that
I have learned more from painting and the
study of it that is of benefit to me than I
derived even from Nicolai Rubinstein, great
as is my debt to him. Few artists are equal-
Miss CI.ARA KARRINGTON, VIOLINIST.
7VYUSIO TRKDE
REVIEW
GRIEG AND HIS MUSIC.
THE BAYREUTH PROGRAM.
R1EG is always true to the Norwegian ""T HE official announcements of the next
Bayreuth season have reached this city.
coloring, and the freedom of gesture
Seven
performances of "Parsifal" will be
and motion characteristic of peasant life is
given
with
two complete cycles of "Der Ring
in his music. The strong contrast produced
des
Nibelungen"
and five representations of
by marked emphasis and rhythm, combined
"Der
Fliegende
Hollander." The festival
with syncopation, the constant recurring ef-
fects of light and shade through proper atten- will begin on July 22(1 and end on Aug. 20th.
tion to dynamics, are very marked. He is,
MISN HANNAH L KEENE.
however, always within the bounds of good I\AISS HANNAH L. KEENE, prima
taste, and is never excessive or extravagant.
donna soprano, will make her debut
Grieg has been likened to Chopin; indeed, in this city in the Astor Gallery of the Wal-
he has been called the "Chopin of the North" ; dorf-Astoria, on Friday evening, Jan. 31st,
but if this designation is intended to suggest under the auspices of the Cherokee Club.
the idea that he is in any sense an imitator,
the comparison is unjust. Both composers
belong in general to the same type and ge-
nius, and both have written exclusively in
the smaller art forms; but the individuality
and personality of each are as distinct as his
nationality. As writers for the pianoforte,
pure and simple, who thoroughly under-
stand the nature and the possibilities of the
instrument and invariably conform to its
idiomatic requirements, they both, with Schu-
mann, stand at the head ; but, like Schumann,
Grieg is more than a pianist-composer, and
is far ahead of Chopin in the matter of in-
strumentation for the orchestra.
Grieg's revolt against German classicism
MISS HANNAH I . KEENE.
was the healthy instinct of a man who has a Miss Keene also appeared at the New
message to deliver, and seeks for it the most York Press Club on Tuesday afternoon, Dec.
natural means of expression. His esteem for 31st. At the Press Club and at the Astor
the highest and best in German music was Gallery concerts she was assisted by an instru-
none the less, and he would doubtless be mental trio from the Charles L. Young
among the first to acknowledge how much School of Music, 305 Fifth avenue. This
he has profited by its influence; but his imag- trio includes Ada M. Kittridge, pianist; Clara
ination and feeling were imbued with the Farrington, violinist; and Charles Russell,
legends, the traditions, the folk-songs, and violoncellist.
poetry of the peasant, and the scenery of
Notwithstanding the deficit of the last mu-
Norway. He has expressed and translated
sical
festival at Worcester, it has been de-
these into music, and thus has directed the
attention of the outside world to his native cided to repeat the festival next autumn, and
land, and brought its distinguishing charac- the rehearsals of the choruses will commence
teristics more clearly into view. There are in January.
other Scandinavian composers of great talent
THE CHARLES L. YOUNG
and merit who have contributed to this re-
[flusical glut) § qmusemetu directory
sult ; but as Norway is bolder and more rug-
(Copyrighted 1901.)
ged than Sweden and Denmark, so Grieg in
CHARLES
his music discloses corresponding qualities T h e most complete and reliable
L. YOUNG
book of information ever pub-
to a greater degree than do his Scandina- lished in reference to first class
AMUSEMENT
entertainments and allied inter-
vian confreres.
CO.
This is his special mission, and well has he ests.A Necessity to Every
General Information
Bureau and Ad-
Manager, Artist, Conser-
accomplished it, or rather is in the process of
vertising Agency.
vatory, College of Music,
accomplishing it, for he is yet in the prime
Private
Teacher and
No Registration
Musical Club.
of life, and, being still engaged in compos-
EDITION,5,000. 1,000 pages
Fee-
:
ing, there is reasonable expectation that the
world may continue to be enriched by the Cloth covered. I l l u s t r a t e d . Artists booked and
Engagement s
Price, $3.00.
productions of his genius.
ly good as to color and form; and the chief
present lack is color. A musician must like-
wise have experience before he can teach;
and a pianist, to convey musical intelligence
to an audience, must have a thousand uncon-
sidered attributes. An untraveled player will
not, for example, play as will one who has
seen and known the world. Music is the
grand profession that includes love, hate,
pathos, grandeur, sublimity, with here and
there a flash of color, a dash of humor and
the small trifles that go to make up the har-
monious whole. Music should not be ob-
jective, but rather subjective. There seems
to me ever to be a harmony betwen art and
music, and I worship at the shrine of Velas-
quez, who appeals to me as the greatest of
painters, especially in the matter of color;
and the two that come after him in the order
of merit are Titian and Rembrandt. Velas-
quez teaches me much. When I look at one
of his pictures, as I have done in Madrid,
and see there ten thousand shades of black
and gray, he shows me as nothing else can
the possibilities of color significance and
gradation, and it thus becomes possible for
me to apply something of the same color
grades to music, and in the interpretation of
it to give to music a color value that it were ""THE city of Paris has just offered a prize
impossible to obtain otherwise."
of $2,000 for the best symphony or
drama to be submitted by a Frenchman on
/VAISS CLARA FARRINGTON, violin-
or before Dec. 1st, 1903. Expense to the
ist, a pupil of Cesar Thompson, and
amount of $4,000 will be incurred in the pres-
a teacher of the violin in the Charles L.
entation of the work by the city.
Young School of Music, made a big hit
j*
in her playing at the New York Press Club
p S E P H SUK'S new orchestral suite, "A
on Dec. 14th. She appeared in an instru- *-* Fairy Tale," and Richard Burmeister's
mental trio from Mr. Young's School of so-called dramatic tone-poem for contralto,
Music on Dec. 31st, at the New York Press with the text of Tennyson's "The Sisters"
Club, and will also assist Miss Hannah L. and with Mme. Schumann-Heink to sing it,
Keene at her concert in the Astor Gallery will be the novelties of the fourth Philhar-
of the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 31st,
monic program on Jan. ioth and nth,
secured.
Artists are requested to send in their names and permanent
address, or change of address, at once.
Note: THIS COnPANY is NOT controlled by any NEWS-
PAPER, and is under the personal management of
VdlltUt
u23
Broadway, N. Y. City.
All our instruments contain the full iron frame and
patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
oC piano making. Any radical changes in the climate, heat
or dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our in*
•truments, and therefor* challenge the wortf that
-Till e«cel anjr otfetC
s
THE
THE INFLUENCE OF PAINTING ON MUSIC.
HT HE color value of music has been elo-
quently and sympathetically estimated
by Emil Sauer, the distinguished pianist, and
now head of one of the German conservator-
ies, in this wise: "I may truly say that I
have found an inspiration in art that has
greatly aided my music, and that there is not
an art gallery in all Europe that I have not
seen and that 1 do not love. I believe that
I have learned more from painting and the
study of it that is of benefit to me than I
derived even from Nicolai Rubinstein, great
as is my debt to him. Few artists are equal-
Miss CI.ARA KARRINGTON, VIOLINIST.
7VYUSIO TRKDE
REVIEW
GRIEG AND HIS MUSIC.
THE BAYREUTH PROGRAM.
R1EG is always true to the Norwegian ""T HE official announcements of the next
Bayreuth season have reached this city.
coloring, and the freedom of gesture
Seven
performances of "Parsifal" will be
and motion characteristic of peasant life is
given
with
two complete cycles of "Der Ring
in his music. The strong contrast produced
des
Nibelungen"
and five representations of
by marked emphasis and rhythm, combined
"Der
Fliegende
Hollander." The festival
with syncopation, the constant recurring ef-
fects of light and shade through proper atten- will begin on July 22(1 and end on Aug. 20th.
tion to dynamics, are very marked. He is,
MISN HANNAH L KEENE.
however, always within the bounds of good I\AISS HANNAH L. KEENE, prima
taste, and is never excessive or extravagant.
donna soprano, will make her debut
Grieg has been likened to Chopin; indeed, in this city in the Astor Gallery of the Wal-
he has been called the "Chopin of the North" ; dorf-Astoria, on Friday evening, Jan. 31st,
but if this designation is intended to suggest under the auspices of the Cherokee Club.
the idea that he is in any sense an imitator,
the comparison is unjust. Both composers
belong in general to the same type and ge-
nius, and both have written exclusively in
the smaller art forms; but the individuality
and personality of each are as distinct as his
nationality. As writers for the pianoforte,
pure and simple, who thoroughly under-
stand the nature and the possibilities of the
instrument and invariably conform to its
idiomatic requirements, they both, with Schu-
mann, stand at the head ; but, like Schumann,
Grieg is more than a pianist-composer, and
is far ahead of Chopin in the matter of in-
strumentation for the orchestra.
Grieg's revolt against German classicism
MISS HANNAH I . KEENE.
was the healthy instinct of a man who has a Miss Keene also appeared at the New
message to deliver, and seeks for it the most York Press Club on Tuesday afternoon, Dec.
natural means of expression. His esteem for 31st. At the Press Club and at the Astor
the highest and best in German music was Gallery concerts she was assisted by an instru-
none the less, and he would doubtless be mental trio from the Charles L. Young
among the first to acknowledge how much School of Music, 305 Fifth avenue. This
he has profited by its influence; but his imag- trio includes Ada M. Kittridge, pianist; Clara
ination and feeling were imbued with the Farrington, violinist; and Charles Russell,
legends, the traditions, the folk-songs, and violoncellist.
poetry of the peasant, and the scenery of
Notwithstanding the deficit of the last mu-
Norway. He has expressed and translated
sical
festival at Worcester, it has been de-
these into music, and thus has directed the
attention of the outside world to his native cided to repeat the festival next autumn, and
land, and brought its distinguishing charac- the rehearsals of the choruses will commence
teristics more clearly into view. There are in January.
other Scandinavian composers of great talent
THE CHARLES L. YOUNG
and merit who have contributed to this re-
[flusical glut) § qmusemetu directory
sult ; but as Norway is bolder and more rug-
(Copyrighted 1901.)
ged than Sweden and Denmark, so Grieg in
CHARLES
his music discloses corresponding qualities T h e most complete and reliable
L. YOUNG
book of information ever pub-
to a greater degree than do his Scandina- lished in reference to first class
AMUSEMENT
entertainments and allied inter-
vian confreres.
CO.
This is his special mission, and well has he ests.A Necessity to Every
General Information
Bureau and Ad-
Manager, Artist, Conser-
accomplished it, or rather is in the process of
vertising Agency.
vatory, College of Music,
accomplishing it, for he is yet in the prime
Private
Teacher and
No Registration
Musical Club.
of life, and, being still engaged in compos-
EDITION,5,000. 1,000 pages
Fee-
:
ing, there is reasonable expectation that the
world may continue to be enriched by the Cloth covered. I l l u s t r a t e d . Artists booked and
Engagement s
Price, $3.00.
productions of his genius.
ly good as to color and form; and the chief
present lack is color. A musician must like-
wise have experience before he can teach;
and a pianist, to convey musical intelligence
to an audience, must have a thousand uncon-
sidered attributes. An untraveled player will
not, for example, play as will one who has
seen and known the world. Music is the
grand profession that includes love, hate,
pathos, grandeur, sublimity, with here and
there a flash of color, a dash of humor and
the small trifles that go to make up the har-
monious whole. Music should not be ob-
jective, but rather subjective. There seems
to me ever to be a harmony betwen art and
music, and I worship at the shrine of Velas-
quez, who appeals to me as the greatest of
painters, especially in the matter of color;
and the two that come after him in the order
of merit are Titian and Rembrandt. Velas-
quez teaches me much. When I look at one
of his pictures, as I have done in Madrid,
and see there ten thousand shades of black
and gray, he shows me as nothing else can
the possibilities of color significance and
gradation, and it thus becomes possible for
me to apply something of the same color
grades to music, and in the interpretation of
it to give to music a color value that it were ""THE city of Paris has just offered a prize
impossible to obtain otherwise."
of $2,000 for the best symphony or
drama to be submitted by a Frenchman on
/VAISS CLARA FARRINGTON, violin-
or before Dec. 1st, 1903. Expense to the
ist, a pupil of Cesar Thompson, and
amount of $4,000 will be incurred in the pres-
a teacher of the violin in the Charles L.
entation of the work by the city.
Young School of Music, made a big hit
j*
in her playing at the New York Press Club
p S E P H SUK'S new orchestral suite, "A
on Dec. 14th. She appeared in an instru- *-* Fairy Tale," and Richard Burmeister's
mental trio from Mr. Young's School of so-called dramatic tone-poem for contralto,
Music on Dec. 31st, at the New York Press with the text of Tennyson's "The Sisters"
Club, and will also assist Miss Hannah L. and with Mme. Schumann-Heink to sing it,
Keene at her concert in the Astor Gallery will be the novelties of the fourth Philhar-
of the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 31st,
monic program on Jan. ioth and nth,
secured.
Artists are requested to send in their names and permanent
address, or change of address, at once.
Note: THIS COnPANY is NOT controlled by any NEWS-
PAPER, and is under the personal management of
VdlltUt
u23
Broadway, N. Y. City.
All our instruments contain the full iron frame and
patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
oC piano making. Any radical changes in the climate, heat
or dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our in*
•truments, and therefor* challenge the wortf that
-Till e«cel anjr otfetC
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