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Issue: 1903 Vol. 37 N. 5 - Page 8
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THE
VENTURES INTO THE HISTRIONIC DOMAIN.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC.
X H E Frohman and other combinations
Augusta Cottlow, one of the foremost of
and attractions in the theatrical world our young American pianists, will open her
must "have a care." Bandmaster Duss and season with a tour of twenty-five concerts
his manager, R. E. Johnston, have formed along the Pacific coast, beginning the first
a partnership and propose putting from week in October, and will remain there until
two to half a dozen dramatic companies the end of November, after which she will
"on the road" the coming season. As may tour the middle West and Texas, returning
be expected, this move means the inaugu- East early in January, playing her first en-
ration of many novel ideas. It is not true, gagement with the Philadelphia orchestra.
however, that these gentlemen will fill the
Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals, after giv-
shoes of Edwin Booth and other distin-
ing
a few successful concerts in Portugal,
guished histrions.
They have secured
sailed
from Lisbon on June 3 for a joint tour
some budding actors and actresses who
in
Brazil
during July and August. Harold
will, pose as "stars" and who, by the way,
Bauer
will
leave Europe on Sept. 15 for the
have never been heard of in theatrical cir-
United
States,
where he opens at the Worces-
cles. Meanwhile Duss and Johnston very
emphatically state: "We are going to make ter Festival on Sept. 30. Pablo Casals has
actors and actresses, and not let them make made arrangements for a tour in the LInited
us." This is a characteristic statement, States commencing in January.
and an example of Duss philantrophy as
Umberto Giordano, composer of "Andre
well. It is rather significant after hib
Chenier," a work recently introduced to the
Venice experience, that Mr. Johnston
should admit "that there is more money in English public by the Carl Rosa Company,
dramatic than in musical entertainments." has just finished a new opera, "Siberia," to
We note that Nordica, De Reszke and for- the libretto of M. Luigi Illica. This will be
mer Duss employees are to be present to produced shortly at La Scala, Milan.
pass judgment on the play to be presented
Mme. Patti (the Baroness Cedarstrom)
in New England on Sept. 28. Is it possible
will sail from Southampton Oct. 24 and ar-
that a "special express steamer has been rive in New York about Oct. 30. Her first
chartered to bring them over? It is so concert will take place in New York, Monday
wearisome to be burdened with money, you evening, Nov. 2. She will also be heard at
know!
a matinee in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 4.
MUSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES.
H E announcement that Richard Strauss
and his wife would visit us the coming
season brings to mind that he is by no means
the first composer who is lucky enough to
have a wife who can do missionary work for
him. Griegg's wife was for years the best
interpreter of his songs, while it will be re-
membered that Schumann's wife first made
the European public familiar with his works
for the pianoforte at a time, too, when they
were caviare to other pianists and the public.
The singing by Frau Strauss of her hus-
band's songs will lend an interesting feature
to our concert season.
T
GEO. DEANE'S NEW LAURELS.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, July 28, 1903.
George Deane, tenor of the King's
Chapel choir, recently won fresh laurels by
his creditable work in connection with the
performances given here by the Operatic
School of the New England Conservatory
of Music. Mr. Deane sang the leading-
tenor roles in the second act of "Lucia,"
the fourth act of "Faust," and the fourth
act of "Carmen," scoring a distinct success
in each instance. He will spend his vaca-
tion during the months of August and Sep-
tember with friends in Southwestern Mis-
souri.
K
Richard Strauss is said to have finished
the symphonic tone poem "Taillefer," upon
which he was reported to be at work some
time ago, and will have it performed shortly
at Zurich. Will it figure in the programmes
of the "Strauss Festival" that he will conduct
with Mr. Wetzler in New York next winter?
«t
Charles Tree, the eminent English bari-
tone, has been secured by Loudon G.
Charlton for his first American tournee
this season. So constant is the demand for
Mr. Tree in London and the principal cities
in the English provinces, that he can only
come to America for the months of Jan-
uary and February, 1904.
Both concerts are to be given at Carnegie
Hall.
The posthumous opera, "Der Corregidor,"
of the late Hugo Wolf, the song composer,
who died insane near Vienna, is going the
round of the German opera houses. It has been
produced in Mannheim, Gratz and Prague,
is in preparation at Munich, and has now
been accepted by the Vienna Opera House.
Maurice Kaufmann, a young American
violinist, who has been abroad for a number
of years, and during the last two years ap-
pearing at many important concerts in Ger-
many, France and England, is to return here
next winter, making his debut in an orches-
tral concert in Carnegie Hall the middle of
November.
Anton Van Rooy, the great Dutch basso,
who comes for a short concert tour under the
management of Mr. Wolfsohn before the
opening of his opera season, will sing his first
engagement in Minneapolis on the 2d of No-
vember. From then until the opening of the
operatic season on the 23d, he will sing al-
most continually in either orchestral concerts
or recitals.
David Bispham will return from Europe in
time to sing at the Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont musical festivals. It is not ex-
pected that he will sing in any of the operatic
performances this season, the numerous in-
quiries for his services in recitals and orches-
tral concerts prohibiting his making a con-
tract with the opera management for the en-
tire season.
Suzanne Adams, after the close of the
Covent Garden season, will return here late
in September, when she makes a concert tour
in conjunction with her husband, Mr. Leo
Stern, the well-known 'cellist.
The Strauss Festival held in London re-
cently was not a success financially. How-
ever, Richard Strauss has some very rich
and influential friends in London, two of
whom have agreed to pay the deficit, which is
said to be large.
Ellison Van Hoose is now in Switzerland,
where he is preparing for his operatic debut
with Koening. He returns to this country in
September for the Worcester festival.
Shanna Cumming, the most noted of our
American concert singers, will open her
Western tour about the middle of October
and not be heard in the East until December.
Adele Aus Der Ohe, the pianist, who re-
turns after an absence of five years, makes
her reappearance Oct. 30 and 31 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
It is rumored in London that there will
be no more Handel festivals in the Crystal
Palace, because "superior persons now turn
up their noses at the festival." That is what
comes from getting a season of Richard
Strauss.
Eugen D'Albert's new opera, "Tiefland,"
is to have its first performance next October
at Prague.
The first of the artists to be engaged for
the Worcester Festival are Shanna Cum-
mings, Herbert Witherspoon and Ellison
Van Hoose.
Just to demonstrate his remarkable versa-
tility Mascagni is said to have now written
a comedy. Next!
"Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and "The Ring"
are the works chosen for the Baireuth festival
next year.
The Liszt monument at Stuttgart, the
work of the sculptor, A. Freund, will be un-
veiled on Oct. 22.
RUSSIAN MUSIC IN RUSSIA.
D E F O R E 1850 a musician in Russia could
not support himself by his profession
alone, ana even now it is only possible to do
so in the great centers like Moscow and St.
Petersburg. Though Russians are very fond
of opera and theatre, it is very difficult, like
in our own country, for the native composers
to gain a hearing. Thei-r music is original
enough to gain a speedy hearing in every
other country; its note of wildness, almost
hopelessness, and the unusual rhythm, 5-4
and 5-8 time being common, and disregard
for natural accent, a characteristic, makes it
a separate school. Russia is richer perhaps
than any other country in folk songs, but the
country is not yet politically situated so as to
encourage and foster the fine arts.
ETTA EDWARDS, Vocal Instruction, Steinert
M RS. Boston,
Mass.
Hall
All oaf Instruments contain the full iron frame and
patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
of piano making. Any radical changes in tha climate, beat
or dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our ift>
•trnments, and therefor* challenge the world that
8
THE
VENTURES INTO THE HISTRIONIC DOMAIN.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC.
X H E Frohman and other combinations
Augusta Cottlow, one of the foremost of
and attractions in the theatrical world our young American pianists, will open her
must "have a care." Bandmaster Duss and season with a tour of twenty-five concerts
his manager, R. E. Johnston, have formed along the Pacific coast, beginning the first
a partnership and propose putting from week in October, and will remain there until
two to half a dozen dramatic companies the end of November, after which she will
"on the road" the coming season. As may tour the middle West and Texas, returning
be expected, this move means the inaugu- East early in January, playing her first en-
ration of many novel ideas. It is not true, gagement with the Philadelphia orchestra.
however, that these gentlemen will fill the
Harold Bauer and Pablo Casals, after giv-
shoes of Edwin Booth and other distin-
ing
a few successful concerts in Portugal,
guished histrions.
They have secured
sailed
from Lisbon on June 3 for a joint tour
some budding actors and actresses who
in
Brazil
during July and August. Harold
will, pose as "stars" and who, by the way,
Bauer
will
leave Europe on Sept. 15 for the
have never been heard of in theatrical cir-
United
States,
where he opens at the Worces-
cles. Meanwhile Duss and Johnston very
emphatically state: "We are going to make ter Festival on Sept. 30. Pablo Casals has
actors and actresses, and not let them make made arrangements for a tour in the LInited
us." This is a characteristic statement, States commencing in January.
and an example of Duss philantrophy as
Umberto Giordano, composer of "Andre
well. It is rather significant after hib
Chenier," a work recently introduced to the
Venice experience, that Mr. Johnston
should admit "that there is more money in English public by the Carl Rosa Company,
dramatic than in musical entertainments." has just finished a new opera, "Siberia," to
We note that Nordica, De Reszke and for- the libretto of M. Luigi Illica. This will be
mer Duss employees are to be present to produced shortly at La Scala, Milan.
pass judgment on the play to be presented
Mme. Patti (the Baroness Cedarstrom)
in New England on Sept. 28. Is it possible
will sail from Southampton Oct. 24 and ar-
that a "special express steamer has been rive in New York about Oct. 30. Her first
chartered to bring them over? It is so concert will take place in New York, Monday
wearisome to be burdened with money, you evening, Nov. 2. She will also be heard at
know!
a matinee in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 4.
MUSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES.
H E announcement that Richard Strauss
and his wife would visit us the coming
season brings to mind that he is by no means
the first composer who is lucky enough to
have a wife who can do missionary work for
him. Griegg's wife was for years the best
interpreter of his songs, while it will be re-
membered that Schumann's wife first made
the European public familiar with his works
for the pianoforte at a time, too, when they
were caviare to other pianists and the public.
The singing by Frau Strauss of her hus-
band's songs will lend an interesting feature
to our concert season.
T
GEO. DEANE'S NEW LAURELS.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, July 28, 1903.
George Deane, tenor of the King's
Chapel choir, recently won fresh laurels by
his creditable work in connection with the
performances given here by the Operatic
School of the New England Conservatory
of Music. Mr. Deane sang the leading-
tenor roles in the second act of "Lucia,"
the fourth act of "Faust," and the fourth
act of "Carmen," scoring a distinct success
in each instance. He will spend his vaca-
tion during the months of August and Sep-
tember with friends in Southwestern Mis-
souri.
K
Richard Strauss is said to have finished
the symphonic tone poem "Taillefer," upon
which he was reported to be at work some
time ago, and will have it performed shortly
at Zurich. Will it figure in the programmes
of the "Strauss Festival" that he will conduct
with Mr. Wetzler in New York next winter?
«t
Charles Tree, the eminent English bari-
tone, has been secured by Loudon G.
Charlton for his first American tournee
this season. So constant is the demand for
Mr. Tree in London and the principal cities
in the English provinces, that he can only
come to America for the months of Jan-
uary and February, 1904.
Both concerts are to be given at Carnegie
Hall.
The posthumous opera, "Der Corregidor,"
of the late Hugo Wolf, the song composer,
who died insane near Vienna, is going the
round of the German opera houses. It has been
produced in Mannheim, Gratz and Prague,
is in preparation at Munich, and has now
been accepted by the Vienna Opera House.
Maurice Kaufmann, a young American
violinist, who has been abroad for a number
of years, and during the last two years ap-
pearing at many important concerts in Ger-
many, France and England, is to return here
next winter, making his debut in an orches-
tral concert in Carnegie Hall the middle of
November.
Anton Van Rooy, the great Dutch basso,
who comes for a short concert tour under the
management of Mr. Wolfsohn before the
opening of his opera season, will sing his first
engagement in Minneapolis on the 2d of No-
vember. From then until the opening of the
operatic season on the 23d, he will sing al-
most continually in either orchestral concerts
or recitals.
David Bispham will return from Europe in
time to sing at the Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont musical festivals. It is not ex-
pected that he will sing in any of the operatic
performances this season, the numerous in-
quiries for his services in recitals and orches-
tral concerts prohibiting his making a con-
tract with the opera management for the en-
tire season.
Suzanne Adams, after the close of the
Covent Garden season, will return here late
in September, when she makes a concert tour
in conjunction with her husband, Mr. Leo
Stern, the well-known 'cellist.
The Strauss Festival held in London re-
cently was not a success financially. How-
ever, Richard Strauss has some very rich
and influential friends in London, two of
whom have agreed to pay the deficit, which is
said to be large.
Ellison Van Hoose is now in Switzerland,
where he is preparing for his operatic debut
with Koening. He returns to this country in
September for the Worcester festival.
Shanna Cumming, the most noted of our
American concert singers, will open her
Western tour about the middle of October
and not be heard in the East until December.
Adele Aus Der Ohe, the pianist, who re-
turns after an absence of five years, makes
her reappearance Oct. 30 and 31 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
It is rumored in London that there will
be no more Handel festivals in the Crystal
Palace, because "superior persons now turn
up their noses at the festival." That is what
comes from getting a season of Richard
Strauss.
Eugen D'Albert's new opera, "Tiefland,"
is to have its first performance next October
at Prague.
The first of the artists to be engaged for
the Worcester Festival are Shanna Cum-
mings, Herbert Witherspoon and Ellison
Van Hoose.
Just to demonstrate his remarkable versa-
tility Mascagni is said to have now written
a comedy. Next!
"Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and "The Ring"
are the works chosen for the Baireuth festival
next year.
The Liszt monument at Stuttgart, the
work of the sculptor, A. Freund, will be un-
veiled on Oct. 22.
RUSSIAN MUSIC IN RUSSIA.
D E F O R E 1850 a musician in Russia could
not support himself by his profession
alone, ana even now it is only possible to do
so in the great centers like Moscow and St.
Petersburg. Though Russians are very fond
of opera and theatre, it is very difficult, like
in our own country, for the native composers
to gain a hearing. Thei-r music is original
enough to gain a speedy hearing in every
other country; its note of wildness, almost
hopelessness, and the unusual rhythm, 5-4
and 5-8 time being common, and disregard
for natural accent, a characteristic, makes it
a separate school. Russia is richer perhaps
than any other country in folk songs, but the
country is not yet politically situated so as to
encourage and foster the fine arts.
ETTA EDWARDS, Vocal Instruction, Steinert
M RS. Boston,
Mass.
Hall
All oaf Instruments contain the full iron frame and
patent tuning pin. The greatest invention in the history
of piano making. Any radical changes in tha climate, beat
or dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our ift>
•trnments, and therefor* challenge the world that
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