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V O L X X X I V N o . 5 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteentn Street, New York, Feb. 1,1902.
MUSICIANS AND THE PRINCE.
I N the fact that only one musician, Dr. Wil-
liam Mason, has been appointed by Ma-
yor Low to the Committee of Eighty which
is to greet Prince Henry of Prussia, J. Fran-
cis Cooke, member of the Advisory Board,
Department of Music, of the Brooklyn In-
stitute of Arts and Sciences, sees a slight
upon his art.
Mr. Cooke has addressed a letter of pro-
test to Mr. Low, in the course of which he
says that it seems strange that the one art
of all others by which Americans are most
closely connected, both sentimentally and
commercially, with Germany, should be repre-
sented by but one of its followers. Native
born musicians, he says, in great numbers
spend years in studying in Germany, and the
works of some are better known in the
fatherland than in their own country.
"The time is ripe," Mr. Cooke concludes,
"for the public to realize its neglect in fail-
ing to properly appreciate the true value of
American musicianship. If American mu-
sicians desire to advance, the cause of music
in their native land they must couple aggress-
iveness with their industry."
skipped and jumped about the pier like chaps
of his age who are not encumbered with
fame. After his appearance in Carnegie
Hall, Florizel will make a four months' tour
of the country, under the management of
Major Pond, and return to Europe to play
in London, in June. He has engagements
for the next year on the continent.
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WILL HIS POPULARITY BE AFFECTED?
DADEREWSKI occupies a big place in
the public eye these days. Since we
last heard him he has sprung into promin-
FLORIZEL—"THE NEW PAGANIN1."
TF Florizel, the ten-year-old violinist, who
* will make his debut at Carnegie Hall
on the evening of Feb. 4th, comes up to the
expectations of those who have been reading
about his triumphs abroad, he is destined
to cause a sensation. European critics have
termed him a marvel—a veritable wizard—•
the new Paganini, who not only plays that
master's twenty-four caprices by heart, but
also includes Li his repertoire, the music of
Vieuxtemps, Bach, Wieniawski, Mendels-
sohn and Mozart with the utmost ease.
Florizel was born near Chicago, and
studied under Max Bendix. When Florizel
was three years old, Mrs. Gage, wife of the
ex-secretary of the treasury, discovered him
and has looked after his education ever
since. In the summer of 1899 he went to
Europe and entered the conservatory of mu-
sic in Geneva, Switzerland. Henri Mar-
teau, at the head of the violin department,
was his master. After two years' study un-
der Marteau, Florizel gave his first concert
in Geneva, which drew from the local critics
very high praise. Florizel was acclaimed
not merely a prodigy, but a master of the
violin.
Florizel, who arrived from Europe last
week, is a healthy, lusty youngster. He ran,
FLORIZEL.
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art the only relief from a great bereavement
of many years before. Indeed, if he had
gone to the barber and sacrificed his abund-
ant and distinctive head of hair, the act
would hardly have caused more surprise
to managers with an eye to the main chance
or to the general public."
There is a curious difference between the
musical women and musical men, who de-
pend for their success, to a large extent, on
the personal affection of the public. There
is an operatic tradition according to which a
woman singer of first importance is always
called "madame." This may be the result
of a sense of the greater dignity of that than
the other title. Or it may come from the
belief that all prima donnas ought to have
husbands to fight their fights with the man-
agement. So that, however unnecessary such
a person may be in the case of an ordinary
actress, it is quite different in the tuneful
branch of the profession.
One hears very little of the wives of men
musicians. As in the case of popular actors,
their family status is kept in the background,
probably for prudential reasons. The musi-
cal matinee girl is a sentimentalist. It is
only necessary to watch her ridiculous acts
of adoration in the case of a Paderewski or
a Kubelik to see that there is much that is
personal in it. The interesting appearance of
the idol counts for a great deal. Thirty
pounds more in the way of weight would
sensibly diminish the fitness of the candi-
date for hero worship. It is no wonder,
therefore, that the question whether or not
the artist is a bachelor, is important from the
point of view of certain enthusiasts.
ence as an operatic composer, whch, in ad-
dition to his remarkable genius as a pianist,
brings him into a new sphere of critical an-
A STIMULUS TO WORK.
alysis.
The usual large retinue that attends Pad- JV/l USIC and song, have specially been use-
ful stimuli to work, partly to overcome
erewski is different at this time in one par- *
ticular from its usual make-up, in that the natural laziness or inertia, partly to effect
pianist on this occasion is accompanied by his unison in the actions of several workers; for
wife. The Sun that shines for all, writing instance, the regularity of the action of many
in a somewhat humorous vein, says: "It will peoples is explicable as a result of the rhyth-
be interesting to see whether or not the em- mical songs by which their work is accom-
phasizing of domesticity will affect the great panied. This applies with equal force to
man's popularity with his feminine admirers. war; hence it is not surprising to find highly
Of course he has been married for a num- developed choral dances in those peoples in-
ber of years. But care seems to have been whose life war is a customary occurrence.
taken to avoid laying stress on the fact as The need of stimulation is never so great
far as his professional work was concerned. as when a man has to risk his life in an open
When he entered the holy bonds for the sec- battle, and with this end in view the mili-
ond time, it caused considerable disappoint- tary singers of some tribes are able to work
ment in certain circles, for it brought to an themselves and their audience up to a pitch
end the interesting legend that the musician of frenzy which is almost equal to that pro-
was a heart-broken man, who found in his duced bv the dances.