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SCHUMANN-HEINK'S AMERICAN TOUR.
MUSIC IN THE COLLEGES.
U M E . SCHUMANN-HEINK will open
* her American tour in Brooklyn on
Jan. 28, when she will give her first song re-
cital. Her tour, until the 1st of March, will
be principally in the East and Middle West.
Beginning March 1 she will begin a second
Western trip, and will return East in time
for the Cincinnati May Festival, in the week
of May 9.
Mme. Schumann-Heink will give only one
song recital in New York during her coming
tour. This will be the last opportunity of
hearing her in a style of work which has won
\ / IGOROUS efforts are now being made
in many of the universities and colleges
to arouse an enthusiasm for music. Freder-
ick Pease, the new instructor at Princeton,
is doing some splendid work in this connec-
tion. He has so far succeeded in stirring up
many of the students to active work in musi-
cal lines for themselves. He is now anxious
to enthuse the young men to study the lives
and works of the masters and to meet for
the purpose of discussing them and criticis
ing the performances which they hear.
He is also rapidly building up the musical
department of the university library. It will
probably be new,s to many Princetonians to
learn that Princeton has a pretty good musi-
cal library already and that in a short time
it is going to be much better. Mr. Pease has
sent to Europe for a number of the most im-
portant of the older French, Italian and Ger-
man works, many of them obsolete and rare,
but essential to the investigation of the de-
velopment of musical art. When these have
been placed in the library it will be equal to
the demands of the most searching musical
study. The instructor further proposes to
put into the library copies of all the works
of the great composers, securing the large or-
chestral compositions as far as possible in
arrangements for four hands on the piano.
From these the students may gain an inti-
mate personal knowledge of the structure of
the compositions.
MME. SCHUMANN-HETNK.
for her thousands of admirers in this city, as
for the next three years she is to confine her-
self entirely to the operatic stage. Mme.
Schumann-Heink is now resting at her villa
near Dresden, and on January 18 she is to
sail for this country.
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PROF. BROWN'S MUSICALE.
A VERY delightful invitation musicale
was given by the pupils of Prof. Charles
Andrew Brown, director of the Noble Street
School of Musical Art, at his studio, 150
Noble street, Brooklyn, on last Tuesday even-
ing. The assisting artists, Mrs. Marie Boyce
Mooney, soprano, and Mr. Chas. J. Schluter,
violinist, contributed some delightful num-
bers which aroused merited enthusiasm.
Among Prof. Brown's pupils who deserve
especial credit may be mentioned Miss Caro-
line E. Kindred and Emma Braun. The other
pupils who contributed to the evening's en-
joyment were the Misses Lillian Munz, Bes-
sie Mooney, Katherine Lower, Edna Braun,
Masters Myron Potter, George Beckwith and
Mr. Robert Lower. The clever work of these
pupils demonstrated the excellence of Prof.
Brown's method of teaching, while the in-
creasing popularity of his school proves that
his labors are meeting with the appreciation
they deserve.
HERR ALFRED REISENAUER.
T H E coming of Alfred Reisenauer is one
of the first events in the new year, and
it is certainly an event of importance in the
field of pianists, as he is a man of pre-eminent
standing in Germany and everywhere in the
old world where art is known.
Herr Reisenauer is a great Liszt player,
having been one of his most noted pupils,
but he is far more than the exponent of one
school, as he is a Beethoven player of note
and of great ability. It is strange that one
of the importance of Reisenauer should have
waited so long before coming to America, but
although one of that great class which in-
cluded RosenthaL Siloti and others of that
category. Reisenauer has devoted himself
to developing along lines which tend to make
the romantic side of his work as important
as the technical, which is saying much, as
that is spoken of whenever technicians are
mentioned.
Herr Reisenauer, an excellent portrait of
whom appears on our cover page, is engaged
with the Philharmonic Orchestra for the con-
certs of January 29 to be conducted by
Victor Herbert, and after that he will play
with other large organizations in this coun-
try. He also will be heard in a number of
recitals in New York and elsewhere.
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BISPHAM'S INTERESTING PROGRAMME.
p v A V I D BISPHAM is to sing twenty
songs at his recital in Mendelssohn
Hall on Wednesday afternoon, January 6.
Ten of these are by Hugo Wolf, taken from
his Italian and Spanish Liederbuch. Mr.
Bispham is also to sing a song by Felix
Weingartner and two songs by H. H. Wetz-
ler in which he is to be accompanied by the
composer. Harold O. Smith will accompany
the other selections.
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GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH.
T H O U S A N D S of New York music lovers
*• who have long enjoyed grand opera by
Henry W. Savage's popular English singing
company are taking advantage of the oppor-
tunity afforded them through the opening on
Dec. 21 of a five weeks' engagement at the
West End Theatre, the popular play house
located on W. 125th street.
The opening
week "Othello" and "Carmen" were given,
while the past week the operas were "Faust"
and "II Trovatore." Large houses greeted
these interpretations, which were in every re-
spect up to the high standard for which Mr.
Savage's company of artists are now distin-
guished. Next week will be devoted to
"Tosca" and "Lohengrin;" the fourth week
to "Tannhauser" and "Aida," and the last
week the "Bohemian Girl" and five others
from the repertoire will be sung.
Since the early days of Mr. Savage's com-
pany he has produced eighty-one grand
operas in English, many of them for the first
time in English. The company, which has
given over 4,000 performances, is now great-
ly enlarged.
The great singing chorus is
composed of all-American voices, and each
opera is given with an orchestra of full grand
opera proportions. As conductors Mr. Sav-
age has secured the Chevalier N. B. Emanuel,
who has a large repertoire of grand operas
acquired during thirty years in Europe, and
Mr. Elliott Schenck, the talented young
Wagnerian, formerly with Walter Dam-
rosch's company. During the five weeks at
the West End a feature will be made of the
students' matinees on Wednesdays, when the
top prices will be held at one dollar.
Mr. Savage's list of principals includes a
number of the old favorites, together with a
host of new singers, many of them now being
heard for the first time in this country.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
T W O biographies of Sir Arthur Sullivan
are now almost rea'dy for publication.
One of them is by Sir Arthur's cousin, Mr.
B. W. Findon, the well-known critic, who
was upon very confidential terms with the
deceased musician, and who has had sources
of information scarcely available to the or-
dinary biographer. In this connection it is
said} we shall at last hear the truth about the
rupture between Sir Arthur Sullivan and the
authorities of the Leeds Musical Festival, a
subject upon which the deceased composer
felt very sore. The book will be published
at a popular price by the Unicorn Press, two
or three weeks hence. Another biography,
by Mr. Blackburn, will be published, with
the authority of Sir Arthur Sullivan's
nephew, who has intrusted the author with
the delicate task of perusing and extracting
from the deceased musician's private diary.
Those essentially confidential volumes, it is
well known, contain a large number of refer-
ences to the royal family, and to other per-
sons, entries intended only for Sullivan's own
eye, and, of course, not suitable for general
perusal. Mr. Blackburn has already received
a $1,000 fee towards his share in the work.
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Moritz Rosenthal, the Roumanian pianist,
has just made a great hit in Riga. That is
more than Richard Wagner did in the same
place, and if Rosenthal's press agent knows
his business he will make good use of this
fact.