Music Trade Review
Issue: 1902 Vol. 34 N. 5 - Page 7
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THE
did work that these organizations are doing
is simply inestimable. They are not only ed-
ucating the people of the city to the love for
gpod music in its various forms but giving
them a practical knowledge of the divine art
itself.
7V^\JSIC TRADE
SPECIALISM AND YOUTH DISCUSSED.
TT HE pianist who is a specialist gets less
out of music than the one who is in-
terested in all good composers, according to
Josef Hofmann. He says: "In certain pro-
fessions it is well to be a specialist, but not
in music, for music is not so vast a science
as some others. The man whose mind is
JULIE RIVE-KING.
big
enough to understand one composer can
A MONG the notable pianists ot the world.
understand
others."
* * America claims with pride Mme. Julie
On the subject of the prodigy, Mr. Hof-
Rive-King, who came upon the musical hor-
izon when she was very young. Contrary mann's views are also refreshing and of
to the manner in which things are done to- some weight, because in his younger days,
day at the age of seventeen, Mme. Rive-King he loomed up somewhat "bigger than a man's
was known through the entire country from hand" as "a marvel." He says: "The reason
the very extended trips she made. She was why many young pianists are heard of only
identified with all of the great orchestras, to disappear when the time of their full de-
having made several tours with Theodore velopment should have arrived, is that they
Thomas and orchestra, as also later with are told that they are great when they are
Anton Seidl. She has played with every re- not. I have experienced development, and
nowned conductor in America and many in I know what I am talking about. In those
Europe. She has played every great con- cases where pianists appear only to disappear,
certo written, and many of them were first precocity has been mistaken for talent.
presented in America by this talented artist. Precocity has its value, but it does not make
In the Paderewski concerto which was first an artist. The question deciding the matter
played by Mme. Rive-King, she won much in such cases is the quality that characterizes
distinction as also in the Arensky concerto. the gift. Whether real talent exists along-
In recitals she was pioneer, and made the side of precocity is a matter which a mu-
most extended tours that have ever been sician, and not the parents, must settle."
made. She has been before the public a
great many years, this because of her extreme
A VERDI YEAR.
youth and her widespread fame. For two C INCE the death of Verdi a little over a
years Mme. Rive-King has been in retire-
year ago, his operas have dominated the
ment, but it is a pleasure to note that she stage in Italy more than they ever did and
again contemplates activity. She has lo- the contemporaneous Italian composers are
cated in New York where she will receive said to have disappeared almost entirely this
pupils who desire finish in its highest form, year in favor of Verdi. But one new work
and she will also coach pianists in recital is to be sung in Turin. That is "Suprema
programs, special numbers, or for orchestral Vis" by Radeglia, and in Milan there is al-
appearances. Mme. Rive-King is one of the most the same dearth of novelties. "Ger-
most authentic, authoritative artists living, mania," of Baron Fanchetti, is practically all
and her interpretations are of utmost value, that will represent the younger school of
especially in the classics which are so mis- Italian composers this season. San Carlo in
treated nowadays through the ultra-modern. Naples was opened with "Lohengrin," while
She was one of the greatest talents that the season at the Costanzi in Rome began
ever went into the charge of Liszt, and her with "Die Meiste-rsinger," which had never
achievements were pleasures to him until his been heard in Rome before. La Scala's sea-
death, as her correspondence with him will son was begun with "Die Walkure."
attest.
She also studied with Godard,
Charpentier's "Louise" has been accepted
and enjoyed close musical relations with in Berlin, Hamburg, Elberfeld and Leipsic.
Rubinstein and Von Bulow. Mme. Rive- It was proposed to adapt the text to scenes
King has allied herself with the Knabe pi- of life in Berlin, but that project was aban-
ano, upon which she will hereafter be heard. doned.
MISS OLIVE MEAD.
A YOUNG violiinst whose achievements
**• do honor to her teacher as well as to
those interested in music in its most finished
form is Miss Olive Mead, who played with
the Boston Symphony as soloist this month.
Miss Mead played with certitude and au-
thority, with ease and with intelligence that
placed her among the violinists of note.
Devoid of glaring heraldry, she appeared
modestly and achieved a success that viol-
inists ten years before the public might have
envied. Miss Mead is one of the most for-
cible arguments against a trip to Europe for
violin study when a man like Franz Kneisel
is available in this country, for he has left
nothing undone that was within the teacher's
power. Miss Mead played in Brooklyn in
assistance to David Bispham last week when
she made the same success of her solo num-
bers that she did of the Goldmark A Minor
concerto which she played with the orchestra.
ECITALS devoted entirely to the Lie-
R
der of Richard Strauss are now the
vogue in Germany as in this and other coun-
tries. The composer himself played the
piano parts at a concert recently given in
Berlin by Wiillner, who sang twenty of the
Lieder. The Berliner Tageblatt declares
that "Strauss's pianoforte playing is unique-
ly interesting. The interpretation of his
lyrics practically calls for his personal co-
operation, because there is so much that is
novel and that needs elucidation in his ac-
companiments."
•
THE MUSICAL RECORD AND REVIEW
Edited by THOMAS TAPPER
The Most Unique, Inexpensive, Instructive and Entertaining Music Magazine in
ixlstence
Note the Features for the Year 1902.
Note the Contributors
Note Its Indispensability to
LesBons in Music for Home Study
Contemporary Musicians (Biographies, Portraits
and Illustrations)
Recent Operas—Their Stories
Music in School
Musical Education of Children
The Music Possibilities of the Small Town
Music News of the World
* •»/-/''•
Kecent Music Reviewed and Illustrated
Special Timely Articles
And an unusual series of Portraits and Illustrations
WILLIAM WILSON
H. E. KREHBIEL
H. J. STORER
HENRY T. FINCK
FRANK E. MORSE
\V. J. HENDERSON
FREDERIC H. RIPLEY
LOUIS C. ELSON
JULIA E. CRANE
W. S. II. MATHEWS
F. A. PORTER
JOHN S. VAN CLEVE
PERCY GOETSCHlUS FRED. FIELD BULLARD
FRANK H. MARLING
JOHN ORTH
ANNIE C, MUIRHEAD ' GEORGE BURDETT
JEAN P. BROWN
W. J. BALTZELL
THOMAS TAPPER
CHARLES H. MORSE
and many others.
Teacher: In its Pedagogic thought from the most
noted educators.
Student: In its general instructive matter from
eminent writers; Biographies, Portraits,
Lesson Suggestions, ]}ook reviews and the
News of the Music World,
Specialist: In its presentation of all t h a t is new in
music.
Music Amateur: In its mnsic, its unusual illustra-
tions, its record of the music events, its
review of music and music literature.
All Lovers of Music: Because it is the most artistic,
unique and inexpensive music magazine in
existence.
FEW WORDS—MANY IDEAS—SHORT AND COMPACT ARTICLES OF ALL IMPORTANT PHASES OF MUSIC LIFE AND MUSIC STUDY.
Send for the little book "About the Musical Record and Review." It tells entertainingly about this magazine and about the Song, Piano and Choir and Choral
Music Editions. It also tells about our club rates.
S CENTS A COPY, better s t i l l , SO CENTS A YEAR
MUSICAL RECORD AND REVIEW, Dltson Building, Boston, Mass.
THE
did work that these organizations are doing
is simply inestimable. They are not only ed-
ucating the people of the city to the love for
gpod music in its various forms but giving
them a practical knowledge of the divine art
itself.
7V^\JSIC TRADE
SPECIALISM AND YOUTH DISCUSSED.
TT HE pianist who is a specialist gets less
out of music than the one who is in-
terested in all good composers, according to
Josef Hofmann. He says: "In certain pro-
fessions it is well to be a specialist, but not
in music, for music is not so vast a science
as some others. The man whose mind is
JULIE RIVE-KING.
big
enough to understand one composer can
A MONG the notable pianists ot the world.
understand
others."
* * America claims with pride Mme. Julie
On the subject of the prodigy, Mr. Hof-
Rive-King, who came upon the musical hor-
izon when she was very young. Contrary mann's views are also refreshing and of
to the manner in which things are done to- some weight, because in his younger days,
day at the age of seventeen, Mme. Rive-King he loomed up somewhat "bigger than a man's
was known through the entire country from hand" as "a marvel." He says: "The reason
the very extended trips she made. She was why many young pianists are heard of only
identified with all of the great orchestras, to disappear when the time of their full de-
having made several tours with Theodore velopment should have arrived, is that they
Thomas and orchestra, as also later with are told that they are great when they are
Anton Seidl. She has played with every re- not. I have experienced development, and
nowned conductor in America and many in I know what I am talking about. In those
Europe. She has played every great con- cases where pianists appear only to disappear,
certo written, and many of them were first precocity has been mistaken for talent.
presented in America by this talented artist. Precocity has its value, but it does not make
In the Paderewski concerto which was first an artist. The question deciding the matter
played by Mme. Rive-King, she won much in such cases is the quality that characterizes
distinction as also in the Arensky concerto. the gift. Whether real talent exists along-
In recitals she was pioneer, and made the side of precocity is a matter which a mu-
most extended tours that have ever been sician, and not the parents, must settle."
made. She has been before the public a
great many years, this because of her extreme
A VERDI YEAR.
youth and her widespread fame. For two C INCE the death of Verdi a little over a
years Mme. Rive-King has been in retire-
year ago, his operas have dominated the
ment, but it is a pleasure to note that she stage in Italy more than they ever did and
again contemplates activity. She has lo- the contemporaneous Italian composers are
cated in New York where she will receive said to have disappeared almost entirely this
pupils who desire finish in its highest form, year in favor of Verdi. But one new work
and she will also coach pianists in recital is to be sung in Turin. That is "Suprema
programs, special numbers, or for orchestral Vis" by Radeglia, and in Milan there is al-
appearances. Mme. Rive-King is one of the most the same dearth of novelties. "Ger-
most authentic, authoritative artists living, mania," of Baron Fanchetti, is practically all
and her interpretations are of utmost value, that will represent the younger school of
especially in the classics which are so mis- Italian composers this season. San Carlo in
treated nowadays through the ultra-modern. Naples was opened with "Lohengrin," while
She was one of the greatest talents that the season at the Costanzi in Rome began
ever went into the charge of Liszt, and her with "Die Meiste-rsinger," which had never
achievements were pleasures to him until his been heard in Rome before. La Scala's sea-
death, as her correspondence with him will son was begun with "Die Walkure."
attest.
She also studied with Godard,
Charpentier's "Louise" has been accepted
and enjoyed close musical relations with in Berlin, Hamburg, Elberfeld and Leipsic.
Rubinstein and Von Bulow. Mme. Rive- It was proposed to adapt the text to scenes
King has allied herself with the Knabe pi- of life in Berlin, but that project was aban-
ano, upon which she will hereafter be heard. doned.
MISS OLIVE MEAD.
A YOUNG violiinst whose achievements
**• do honor to her teacher as well as to
those interested in music in its most finished
form is Miss Olive Mead, who played with
the Boston Symphony as soloist this month.
Miss Mead played with certitude and au-
thority, with ease and with intelligence that
placed her among the violinists of note.
Devoid of glaring heraldry, she appeared
modestly and achieved a success that viol-
inists ten years before the public might have
envied. Miss Mead is one of the most for-
cible arguments against a trip to Europe for
violin study when a man like Franz Kneisel
is available in this country, for he has left
nothing undone that was within the teacher's
power. Miss Mead played in Brooklyn in
assistance to David Bispham last week when
she made the same success of her solo num-
bers that she did of the Goldmark A Minor
concerto which she played with the orchestra.
ECITALS devoted entirely to the Lie-
R
der of Richard Strauss are now the
vogue in Germany as in this and other coun-
tries. The composer himself played the
piano parts at a concert recently given in
Berlin by Wiillner, who sang twenty of the
Lieder. The Berliner Tageblatt declares
that "Strauss's pianoforte playing is unique-
ly interesting. The interpretation of his
lyrics practically calls for his personal co-
operation, because there is so much that is
novel and that needs elucidation in his ac-
companiments."
•
THE MUSICAL RECORD AND REVIEW
Edited by THOMAS TAPPER
The Most Unique, Inexpensive, Instructive and Entertaining Music Magazine in
ixlstence
Note the Features for the Year 1902.
Note the Contributors
Note Its Indispensability to
LesBons in Music for Home Study
Contemporary Musicians (Biographies, Portraits
and Illustrations)
Recent Operas—Their Stories
Music in School
Musical Education of Children
The Music Possibilities of the Small Town
Music News of the World
* •»/-/''•
Kecent Music Reviewed and Illustrated
Special Timely Articles
And an unusual series of Portraits and Illustrations
WILLIAM WILSON
H. E. KREHBIEL
H. J. STORER
HENRY T. FINCK
FRANK E. MORSE
\V. J. HENDERSON
FREDERIC H. RIPLEY
LOUIS C. ELSON
JULIA E. CRANE
W. S. II. MATHEWS
F. A. PORTER
JOHN S. VAN CLEVE
PERCY GOETSCHlUS FRED. FIELD BULLARD
FRANK H. MARLING
JOHN ORTH
ANNIE C, MUIRHEAD ' GEORGE BURDETT
JEAN P. BROWN
W. J. BALTZELL
THOMAS TAPPER
CHARLES H. MORSE
and many others.
Teacher: In its Pedagogic thought from the most
noted educators.
Student: In its general instructive matter from
eminent writers; Biographies, Portraits,
Lesson Suggestions, ]}ook reviews and the
News of the Music World,
Specialist: In its presentation of all t h a t is new in
music.
Music Amateur: In its mnsic, its unusual illustra-
tions, its record of the music events, its
review of music and music literature.
All Lovers of Music: Because it is the most artistic,
unique and inexpensive music magazine in
existence.
FEW WORDS—MANY IDEAS—SHORT AND COMPACT ARTICLES OF ALL IMPORTANT PHASES OF MUSIC LIFE AND MUSIC STUDY.
Send for the little book "About the Musical Record and Review." It tells entertainingly about this magazine and about the Song, Piano and Choir and Choral
Music Editions. It also tells about our club rates.
S CENTS A COPY, better s t i l l , SO CENTS A YEAR
MUSICAL RECORD AND REVIEW, Dltson Building, Boston, Mass.
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