Music Trade Review
Issue: 1902 Vol. 34 N. 23 - Page 3
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V O L . x x x i v . No. 2 3
PnWlshefl Every Sat. ty Eiwari Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New Yort> Jnne 7 1902.
PADEREWSKI TELLS HOW.
I F I were asked what ability is most neces-
* sary for the artist who wishes to accom-
plish anything 1 would not hesitate to say
that of all qualities unselfishness is the most
indispensable, said Ignace J. Paderewski to a
newspaper man during his visit to this coun-
try. He added:
It is unselfishness which enables the artist
to plod on up all the dreary preliminary steps
that lead to the temple of art.
The true artist has no other aim and object
in life than his art.
Art is to him everything that parents,
country and sweethearts are to others.
His own personal wishes and wants dis-
appear and vanish, and he feels not cold,
nor heat, nor hunger, nor poverty, and gladly
endures all kinds of hardships without com-
plaining.
What matters it that his room is cold or
bare, that his stomach is empty, when he feels
within himself the power that forces him
ahead and ahead, reducing all and everything
else to nothingness?
The old Greeks used to speak of the holy
fire of art in the breast of man, and no com-
parison could be more true or better explain
the condition of the artist.
There is in the heart of every true artist
an everlasting glow that inspires him and
warms him, and like the strong flame throws
light on his path in life.
He knows nothing of the desires or long-
ings that others feel.
He cares not for squalid money, nor for
position, nor for unfriendly criticism, nor for
a high position in life.
If critics condemn him, it matters not when
his own heart and conscience tell him that
he has been true to his ideals.
If he ever falls through the temptation
of caring more for money than for his art, to
think more of his individual wants, to lower
himself or give up his independence to cater
to bad public tastes, his punishment will
swiftly follow, for the goddess of art is very
exacting and wants all or nothing, and dis-
satisfaction, self-despise and regret will tor-
ture him.
I do not pretend to say that he does not
feel gratified if he is appreciated and under-
stood. He would not be human if he did not;
but he must first of all satisfy the high stand-
ard of his own criticism, more severe than all
others.
Herr Humperdinck has finished another
fairy opera, which will have its first perform-
ance next season. He is keeping the libretto
secret.
MUSIC AT THE CORONATION.
A CCORDING to the present plans of Sir
* * Frederick Bridge, organist of West-
minster Abbey and director of the music at
the coronation of King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandra, there are to be nearly four
hundred singers in the choir at the coronation
ceremonies and between seventy and eighty
instrumentalists. The nucleus of the choir
will naturally be the Westminster Abbey sing-
ers, who will be reinforced by the choirs of
St. Paul's Cathedral, the Chapel Royal, St.
George's Chapel (Windsor), and drafts from
the choirs of the Temple Church, Rochester
Cathedral and other sources. It is likely that
15en Davies and Andrew Black, who are just
returned home from their American engage-
ments, will lend their services as members
of the choir, which will be accommodated in
galleries flanking the organ. The orchestra
will be made up of musicians from the King's
Private Band, the orchestra of the Royal
Choral Society and the Kneller Hall School
of Military Music. There will be a larger
choir and a smaller band than at Queen Vic-
toria's coronation, when the instrumentalists
numbered 117 and the singers 288.
RECEPTION TO PUPILS OF H. HOLDEN HUSS.
A T the Carnegie Hall Studio of Henrv
* * Holden Huss an informal reception was
given Saturday evening to the pupils who had
a couple of evenings before presented an ad-
mirable program in a manner which was dis-
tinctive of the highest type of instruction
which those fortunate enough to be of the
class of Mr. Huss receive. The evening was
delightfully spent in an informal program,
much of which was given by Mr. Huss, as-
sisted by Miss Helen May, George Martin
Huss and some of the students, who gave
the program of the recital. Those who ap-
peared in the students' recital were Misses
Grace Lawrence, Alberta McCollough, Mary
May, Ida Decker, Madeline Kingman, Zady
Weston, Hannah Brittingham, Elsa Hoxsey,
Helen Rapello, Helen Carpenter, Edith Cor-
nell, E. Ethelwyn Warren and Mark Cohn.
These pianists were assisted by Miss Helen
May, soprano, and Franklin Wing Riker,
tenor, in delightful songs, prominent among
which was a highly dramatic tenor song by
Mr. Huss entitled "Song of the Sirens." The
entire program was admirably given.
,**
Rafael Joseffy, Eugene Dufriche and Leo
Lichtenberger have been engaged for the next
term at the National Conservatory of Music.
M. Dufriche is to arrive here in September
in advance of the opera company in order to
begin his work with the opera class.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
"EVERYTHING IS NEW."
f ' H I C A G O is the birthplace of many orig-
^ * inal ideas. The latest is the discovery of
a method of teaching singing in which "every-
thing is new." Nor is that the most remark-
able thing about it. "Through this founda-
tion work," the advertisement reads, "every
pupil reaches the same degree of perfect tone-
compass and volume." Moreover "this newly
discovered science develops every voice (ages
three to sixty) into the same tones with which
Patti, De Reszke and all great artists were
born." This epoch-making teacher is a
woman, and she charges only $200 for twenty
fifteen-minute lessons. Her fourth assistant,
indeed, does it for only $20. Next!
GOVERNMENT AID FOR MUSIC.
C ENATOR MASON is the author of a
**-^ bill recently introduced in the Na-
tional Chamber appropriating one million dol-
lars to establish a National Conservatory of
Music and Art. It is proposed to establish
one conservatory in'Washington to contain
forty studios sufficiently large for fifty stu-
dents of music, and twenty studios for paint-
ing. Others are to be established at New
York, Chicago and San Francisco.
It is needless to say that this bill will not
go much further than being introduced.
There is no "pull" behind it, and therefore it
will be pigeon-holed.
WILL DEFICITS NEVER CEASE?
H E Chicago Orchestra last year had a
deficit of more than $30,000. There
have been five years in which the losses were
larger. It was thought that the point had
been reached at which the receipts would not
diminish but increase, especially as the loss
three seasons ago was only $15,600. That
was the minimum loss.
Chicago is rich enough to support an or-
chestra, and the character of the programs
which Theodore Thomas makes are thought
to be responsible for the diminished attend-
ance during the past year.
VIOLINISTS THE VOGUE.
W I O L I N I S T S are quite the vogue in Lon-
"
don just now, the triumvirate, Kubelik,
Kocian and Kreisler holding forth to admir-
ing audiences. These are to be supplemented
by a public appearance of the famous Wil-
helmj, who will use a splendid Guanicrius
violin which he has just secured.
The thirteenth annual convention and fes-
tival of the New York Music Teachers' Asso-
ciation will be held at NewLurgh, on June 24,
25 and 26. An excellent program has been
prepared.
THE
ffiWIW
fflJJIC TIRADE
V O L . x x x i v . No. 2 3
PnWlshefl Every Sat. ty Eiwari Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New Yort> Jnne 7 1902.
PADEREWSKI TELLS HOW.
I F I were asked what ability is most neces-
* sary for the artist who wishes to accom-
plish anything 1 would not hesitate to say
that of all qualities unselfishness is the most
indispensable, said Ignace J. Paderewski to a
newspaper man during his visit to this coun-
try. He added:
It is unselfishness which enables the artist
to plod on up all the dreary preliminary steps
that lead to the temple of art.
The true artist has no other aim and object
in life than his art.
Art is to him everything that parents,
country and sweethearts are to others.
His own personal wishes and wants dis-
appear and vanish, and he feels not cold,
nor heat, nor hunger, nor poverty, and gladly
endures all kinds of hardships without com-
plaining.
What matters it that his room is cold or
bare, that his stomach is empty, when he feels
within himself the power that forces him
ahead and ahead, reducing all and everything
else to nothingness?
The old Greeks used to speak of the holy
fire of art in the breast of man, and no com-
parison could be more true or better explain
the condition of the artist.
There is in the heart of every true artist
an everlasting glow that inspires him and
warms him, and like the strong flame throws
light on his path in life.
He knows nothing of the desires or long-
ings that others feel.
He cares not for squalid money, nor for
position, nor for unfriendly criticism, nor for
a high position in life.
If critics condemn him, it matters not when
his own heart and conscience tell him that
he has been true to his ideals.
If he ever falls through the temptation
of caring more for money than for his art, to
think more of his individual wants, to lower
himself or give up his independence to cater
to bad public tastes, his punishment will
swiftly follow, for the goddess of art is very
exacting and wants all or nothing, and dis-
satisfaction, self-despise and regret will tor-
ture him.
I do not pretend to say that he does not
feel gratified if he is appreciated and under-
stood. He would not be human if he did not;
but he must first of all satisfy the high stand-
ard of his own criticism, more severe than all
others.
Herr Humperdinck has finished another
fairy opera, which will have its first perform-
ance next season. He is keeping the libretto
secret.
MUSIC AT THE CORONATION.
A CCORDING to the present plans of Sir
* * Frederick Bridge, organist of West-
minster Abbey and director of the music at
the coronation of King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandra, there are to be nearly four
hundred singers in the choir at the coronation
ceremonies and between seventy and eighty
instrumentalists. The nucleus of the choir
will naturally be the Westminster Abbey sing-
ers, who will be reinforced by the choirs of
St. Paul's Cathedral, the Chapel Royal, St.
George's Chapel (Windsor), and drafts from
the choirs of the Temple Church, Rochester
Cathedral and other sources. It is likely that
15en Davies and Andrew Black, who are just
returned home from their American engage-
ments, will lend their services as members
of the choir, which will be accommodated in
galleries flanking the organ. The orchestra
will be made up of musicians from the King's
Private Band, the orchestra of the Royal
Choral Society and the Kneller Hall School
of Military Music. There will be a larger
choir and a smaller band than at Queen Vic-
toria's coronation, when the instrumentalists
numbered 117 and the singers 288.
RECEPTION TO PUPILS OF H. HOLDEN HUSS.
A T the Carnegie Hall Studio of Henrv
* * Holden Huss an informal reception was
given Saturday evening to the pupils who had
a couple of evenings before presented an ad-
mirable program in a manner which was dis-
tinctive of the highest type of instruction
which those fortunate enough to be of the
class of Mr. Huss receive. The evening was
delightfully spent in an informal program,
much of which was given by Mr. Huss, as-
sisted by Miss Helen May, George Martin
Huss and some of the students, who gave
the program of the recital. Those who ap-
peared in the students' recital were Misses
Grace Lawrence, Alberta McCollough, Mary
May, Ida Decker, Madeline Kingman, Zady
Weston, Hannah Brittingham, Elsa Hoxsey,
Helen Rapello, Helen Carpenter, Edith Cor-
nell, E. Ethelwyn Warren and Mark Cohn.
These pianists were assisted by Miss Helen
May, soprano, and Franklin Wing Riker,
tenor, in delightful songs, prominent among
which was a highly dramatic tenor song by
Mr. Huss entitled "Song of the Sirens." The
entire program was admirably given.
,**
Rafael Joseffy, Eugene Dufriche and Leo
Lichtenberger have been engaged for the next
term at the National Conservatory of Music.
M. Dufriche is to arrive here in September
in advance of the opera company in order to
begin his work with the opera class.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
"EVERYTHING IS NEW."
f ' H I C A G O is the birthplace of many orig-
^ * inal ideas. The latest is the discovery of
a method of teaching singing in which "every-
thing is new." Nor is that the most remark-
able thing about it. "Through this founda-
tion work," the advertisement reads, "every
pupil reaches the same degree of perfect tone-
compass and volume." Moreover "this newly
discovered science develops every voice (ages
three to sixty) into the same tones with which
Patti, De Reszke and all great artists were
born." This epoch-making teacher is a
woman, and she charges only $200 for twenty
fifteen-minute lessons. Her fourth assistant,
indeed, does it for only $20. Next!
GOVERNMENT AID FOR MUSIC.
C ENATOR MASON is the author of a
**-^ bill recently introduced in the Na-
tional Chamber appropriating one million dol-
lars to establish a National Conservatory of
Music and Art. It is proposed to establish
one conservatory in'Washington to contain
forty studios sufficiently large for fifty stu-
dents of music, and twenty studios for paint-
ing. Others are to be established at New
York, Chicago and San Francisco.
It is needless to say that this bill will not
go much further than being introduced.
There is no "pull" behind it, and therefore it
will be pigeon-holed.
WILL DEFICITS NEVER CEASE?
H E Chicago Orchestra last year had a
deficit of more than $30,000. There
have been five years in which the losses were
larger. It was thought that the point had
been reached at which the receipts would not
diminish but increase, especially as the loss
three seasons ago was only $15,600. That
was the minimum loss.
Chicago is rich enough to support an or-
chestra, and the character of the programs
which Theodore Thomas makes are thought
to be responsible for the diminished attend-
ance during the past year.
VIOLINISTS THE VOGUE.
W I O L I N I S T S are quite the vogue in Lon-
"
don just now, the triumvirate, Kubelik,
Kocian and Kreisler holding forth to admir-
ing audiences. These are to be supplemented
by a public appearance of the famous Wil-
helmj, who will use a splendid Guanicrius
violin which he has just secured.
The thirteenth annual convention and fes-
tival of the New York Music Teachers' Asso-
ciation will be held at NewLurgh, on June 24,
25 and 26. An excellent program has been
prepared.
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