Music Trade Review
Issue: 1903 Vol. 37 N. 14 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SYMPHONY CONCERTS AT METROPOLITAN.
RELATIONS OF PULSE AND RHYTHM.
I J E I N R I C H CONRIED'S plan of giving I S there a pulse temperament to com-
symphony concerts of a serious mu-
posers? In the September Popular Sci-
sical character every Sunday night at the ence Monthly, Mary Hallock, pianiste and
Metropolitan Opera House is, in the opin- writer on musical themes, advances a the-
ion of many persons, the only means of re- ory which has existed nebulously in the
viving interest in the Sunday night con- minds of musical people for centuries. As
certs. The public interest in these affairs long ago as the fourth century before
has declined steadily during the past few Christ, men sought to explain the rhythmic
years, and last season they were scantily at- repetition of sound both in insect and ani-
tended except when one or two of the mal life; and rhythm with the beat of the
great singers were announced. The ex- pulse.
pense of having the stars sing was always
Miss Hallock has found by endless study
so large that the management made little and research that all rhythmic repetitions
profit. The programmes were rather popu-
lar in character as a rule, and the manage-
ment made no attempt at a very high musi-
cal standard.
But the fifteen Sunday concerts to be
given this year will be of quite a different
nature. Felix Mottl has already made
programmes for half the season and sent
them to Mr. Conried. Some idea of the
general plan of the concerts may be gath-
ered from the programme for the opening
night.
That will include the overture to "Die
Meistersinger," Berlioz's "Roman Carni-
val," a soloist, and Beethoven's "Eroica"
symphony. That sounds more like the Phil-
harmonic or the Boston Symphony pro-
gramme than the kind played formerly
at the Metropolitan for a Sunday
crowd. It will be interesting to see the re-
sult of the experiment.
Other programmes will be devoted to
the works of certain composers. For the
Schubert evening, the soloists who will
sing the Lieder are Mme. Sembrich and
Anton van Rooy, and the Schumann pro-
gramme is to contain some choruses that
are rarely heard here. There will also be
a Berlioz programme in honor of the com-
poser's centenary.
Felix Mottl is to conduct all these Sun-
day concerts, in accordance with the pres-
ent plan.
The orchestra will consist of more than
one hundred men, and if possible will be
made a permanent body. If Mr. Conried
succeeds in arranging with the musical
CLEMENTINE Dli VERE.
union to engage his orchestra players for
five years, they will give concerts in other of sound do follow closely the best of the
cities when not occupied in the opera house. arterial life which produces them; and
high up in the scale of sounds, she has dis-
It
covered that metronomic markings of mu-
CLEMENTINE DE VERE COMING.
HP HIS well known soprano who has not sical compositions are set almost without
* been heard here in three years, may variations within the scope of the human
visit this country during the coming sea- heart beat.
"The average clock time rate in the num-
son. She is heavily booked to sing in Eng-
land until the early part of January, includ- bers of Handel's Messiah," says Miss Hal-
ing the "Messiah" performance which is to lock, "is y^y^ beats per minute, exactly the
be given in the Crystal Palace at Xmas rate of the average, normal, healthy pulse."
And further, "from the beginning of the
time.
first volume of the Beethoven Sonatas,
at
Fifty-two members of the German chorus nineteen are set to a rhythm of 72 to 76
and ballet sailed for New York on the Pa- beats to the minute, and all the rhythmic
tricia from Hamburg a week ago and fifty- markings lie between 60 and 80 beats to
six members of the Italian chorus and bal- the minute, exactly the normal pulse var-
let will soon leave Milan for America by ied by the time of day and meals."
It would seem from Miss Hallock's re-
way of Boulogne-sur-Mer on the Ryndam
searches
that a composer in an excited or
to join Mr. Conried's company.
nervous
condition
could not possibly write
At the Baireuth festival performances
anything
but
a
rapid,
brilliant work, and
next year the works to be produced will be
that
when
the
blood
is
sluggish and the
"Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and "The Ring
pulse
slow
his
work
must
necessarily
be of
of the Nibelung."
the sombre type, however he might desire
it to be otherwise. It is pointed out that
the lively jingles so popular in some musi-
cal comedies are the productions of men of
a nervous temperament. Indeed, the mu-
sic reflects the whole nature of the com-
poser. Sousa's fame as composer rests
upon his marches solely; his other compo-
sitions never having proved popular. To
observe the easy graceful movements of
the popular band leader is to note that his
every movement is unconsciously a repeti-
tion of the rhythm of his marches. As a
man's movements depend wholly upon
the condition of his
nervous
system,
which the heart con-
trols, it is easy to in-
fer that, unknown to
himself, the beat of
His pulse controls the
rhythm of his musical
works.
It is a fact that
when a composer
"forces" a composi-
tion, i.e., attempts to
write a dirge wlien in
a nervous state, or a
two-step when feeling
depressed, the result
is failure. And the
same laws apply to
writers as well. Such
are the facts proved
by the researches of
Miss Mary Hallock.
She is not yet done,
but out of an almost
limitless mass of data
she has gathered she
hopes to bring to
light much greater
developments in this
line and show that
sounds in all phases
of life have the same
rhythmic
affiliation,
and, indeed, frequent-
ly have their origin
in the heart move-
ment.
it
FRANCHISE WITHOUT COST.
T I ERE is a musical franchise for some-
body. The Civil Service Commission
announced that a government position
awaits the lucky individual who has a first-
class musical education and the ability to
conduct a band of Indian musicians. The
Indian school at Chamberlain, S. D., wants
him, and the salary is $45 per month. It
has been stated that the musician who suc-
ceeds in getting the place must also be a
good shoemaker and cobbler.
•t
MINNEAPOLIS IN LINE.
Minneapolis, not dismayed by the annual
crop of orchestral deficits all over the coun-
try, has made the orchestra projected last
Spring, as mentioned in this column, an ac-
tual fact. The conductor is Emil Ober-
hoffer, and rehearsals are to begin about
the middle of next month.
it
The Equitable Music Co., of Chicago,
has been incorporated with a capital of
$10,000 for the purpose of dealing in mu-
sic and musical instruments.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SYMPHONY CONCERTS AT METROPOLITAN.
RELATIONS OF PULSE AND RHYTHM.
I J E I N R I C H CONRIED'S plan of giving I S there a pulse temperament to com-
symphony concerts of a serious mu-
posers? In the September Popular Sci-
sical character every Sunday night at the ence Monthly, Mary Hallock, pianiste and
Metropolitan Opera House is, in the opin- writer on musical themes, advances a the-
ion of many persons, the only means of re- ory which has existed nebulously in the
viving interest in the Sunday night con- minds of musical people for centuries. As
certs. The public interest in these affairs long ago as the fourth century before
has declined steadily during the past few Christ, men sought to explain the rhythmic
years, and last season they were scantily at- repetition of sound both in insect and ani-
tended except when one or two of the mal life; and rhythm with the beat of the
great singers were announced. The ex- pulse.
pense of having the stars sing was always
Miss Hallock has found by endless study
so large that the management made little and research that all rhythmic repetitions
profit. The programmes were rather popu-
lar in character as a rule, and the manage-
ment made no attempt at a very high musi-
cal standard.
But the fifteen Sunday concerts to be
given this year will be of quite a different
nature. Felix Mottl has already made
programmes for half the season and sent
them to Mr. Conried. Some idea of the
general plan of the concerts may be gath-
ered from the programme for the opening
night.
That will include the overture to "Die
Meistersinger," Berlioz's "Roman Carni-
val," a soloist, and Beethoven's "Eroica"
symphony. That sounds more like the Phil-
harmonic or the Boston Symphony pro-
gramme than the kind played formerly
at the Metropolitan for a Sunday
crowd. It will be interesting to see the re-
sult of the experiment.
Other programmes will be devoted to
the works of certain composers. For the
Schubert evening, the soloists who will
sing the Lieder are Mme. Sembrich and
Anton van Rooy, and the Schumann pro-
gramme is to contain some choruses that
are rarely heard here. There will also be
a Berlioz programme in honor of the com-
poser's centenary.
Felix Mottl is to conduct all these Sun-
day concerts, in accordance with the pres-
ent plan.
The orchestra will consist of more than
one hundred men, and if possible will be
made a permanent body. If Mr. Conried
succeeds in arranging with the musical
CLEMENTINE Dli VERE.
union to engage his orchestra players for
five years, they will give concerts in other of sound do follow closely the best of the
cities when not occupied in the opera house. arterial life which produces them; and
high up in the scale of sounds, she has dis-
It
covered that metronomic markings of mu-
CLEMENTINE DE VERE COMING.
HP HIS well known soprano who has not sical compositions are set almost without
* been heard here in three years, may variations within the scope of the human
visit this country during the coming sea- heart beat.
"The average clock time rate in the num-
son. She is heavily booked to sing in Eng-
land until the early part of January, includ- bers of Handel's Messiah," says Miss Hal-
ing the "Messiah" performance which is to lock, "is y^y^ beats per minute, exactly the
be given in the Crystal Palace at Xmas rate of the average, normal, healthy pulse."
And further, "from the beginning of the
time.
first volume of the Beethoven Sonatas,
at
Fifty-two members of the German chorus nineteen are set to a rhythm of 72 to 76
and ballet sailed for New York on the Pa- beats to the minute, and all the rhythmic
tricia from Hamburg a week ago and fifty- markings lie between 60 and 80 beats to
six members of the Italian chorus and bal- the minute, exactly the normal pulse var-
let will soon leave Milan for America by ied by the time of day and meals."
It would seem from Miss Hallock's re-
way of Boulogne-sur-Mer on the Ryndam
searches
that a composer in an excited or
to join Mr. Conried's company.
nervous
condition
could not possibly write
At the Baireuth festival performances
anything
but
a
rapid,
brilliant work, and
next year the works to be produced will be
that
when
the
blood
is
sluggish and the
"Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and "The Ring
pulse
slow
his
work
must
necessarily
be of
of the Nibelung."
the sombre type, however he might desire
it to be otherwise. It is pointed out that
the lively jingles so popular in some musi-
cal comedies are the productions of men of
a nervous temperament. Indeed, the mu-
sic reflects the whole nature of the com-
poser. Sousa's fame as composer rests
upon his marches solely; his other compo-
sitions never having proved popular. To
observe the easy graceful movements of
the popular band leader is to note that his
every movement is unconsciously a repeti-
tion of the rhythm of his marches. As a
man's movements depend wholly upon
the condition of his
nervous
system,
which the heart con-
trols, it is easy to in-
fer that, unknown to
himself, the beat of
His pulse controls the
rhythm of his musical
works.
It is a fact that
when a composer
"forces" a composi-
tion, i.e., attempts to
write a dirge wlien in
a nervous state, or a
two-step when feeling
depressed, the result
is failure. And the
same laws apply to
writers as well. Such
are the facts proved
by the researches of
Miss Mary Hallock.
She is not yet done,
but out of an almost
limitless mass of data
she has gathered she
hopes to bring to
light much greater
developments in this
line and show that
sounds in all phases
of life have the same
rhythmic
affiliation,
and, indeed, frequent-
ly have their origin
in the heart move-
ment.
it
FRANCHISE WITHOUT COST.
T I ERE is a musical franchise for some-
body. The Civil Service Commission
announced that a government position
awaits the lucky individual who has a first-
class musical education and the ability to
conduct a band of Indian musicians. The
Indian school at Chamberlain, S. D., wants
him, and the salary is $45 per month. It
has been stated that the musician who suc-
ceeds in getting the place must also be a
good shoemaker and cobbler.
•t
MINNEAPOLIS IN LINE.
Minneapolis, not dismayed by the annual
crop of orchestral deficits all over the coun-
try, has made the orchestra projected last
Spring, as mentioned in this column, an ac-
tual fact. The conductor is Emil Ober-
hoffer, and rehearsals are to begin about
the middle of next month.
it
The Equitable Music Co., of Chicago,
has been incorporated with a capital of
$10,000 for the purpose of dealing in mu-
sic and musical instruments.
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