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VOL. XXXIX.
No. 6.
Published Every Sat, by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave,, New York, August 6,1904.
WAGNER WANTED AMERICAN MONEY.
they never will know how to teach sight singing
any better than they do to-day.
Now, what is best to be done under such con-
Didn't Care What Fate His Works Met With
Here—Asked Stiff Terms—A Hitherto Un- ditions? Clearly the only way in which the regu-
lar teacher, who is unmusical, can approach the
published Letter From Berlin.
subject successfully before a class of pupils is
A cable to the New York Times, from Berlin, from its historical and sestheticat standpoint. The
says that a hitherto unpublished letter written interesting facts about great compositions and
by Richard Wagner has made its appearance their composers can be gathered together from
tiiere. It is addressed from Venice in December, any musical library, and can be compiled into
1858, and shows that a certain New York im- interesting musical stories suitable for children
pressario named Ullmann had made an offer to* of all ages.
The supervisor and assistant supervisors of
Wagner to tour the United States, the proposi-
tion being made through Dr. Von Hartenfels, a music will find no difficulty in stimulating the
interest of both teachers and pupils in music
friend of Wagner.
Wagner's reply to the offer was a remarkable from this vantage ground, for no class teacher
one. Although in the letter the composer ad- can pretend inability to put into simple language
mitted that he was impecunious and without the story of a musical composition described else-
either fortune or settled income he said he would where in print. The "story" should be followed
not entertain any idea of going to America un- by a performance of the music talked about and
less he received a positive assurance of very con- now that piano playing mechanisms are abroad
in the land, the possibility of familiarizing the
siderable financial advantages. He added:
"I am very little concerned over the fate my pupil with good music is a matter already dis-
operas meet with in America, but hope Director posed of.
It is now a question of the classics or rag-time,
Ullmann will secure the scores from me and re-
and if children do not hear the works of the
munerate me in accordance with their worth."
This interesting sidelight on Wagner's thrifty masters at school the street organ grinder will
character appears simultaneously with the begin- continue to be the only artistic champion of juv-
ning of the Baireuth season, I understand that enile New York. The love of art in the coming
the attendance, especially of Americans, is rec- generation of New Yorkers is, after all, a qual-
ord-breaking. All the available tickets were sold ity of mind more to be desired than the ability
to read notes, without that love.
a month ago.
BERENICE THOMPSON.
The production of "Parisfal" in the United
Brooklyn, July 17, 1904.
States seems, indeed, to have been a splendid
advertisement for the Baireuth presentations.
One Way to Encourage a Love of the Classics
—To Treat of its Literary Side—An Ex-
cellent Suggestion.
May the day soon come when the study of mu-
sic in the New York public schools shall be made
the vehicle for awakening in the younger genera-
tion of this city a genuine love for the master
works of the art. It might be possible to secure
effective results in sight singing were the school
music teaching in the hands of trained profes-
sionals, but such is not the case. The direct mu-
sical instruction to our public school children,
coming as it does from the regular teacher, who
has been appointed with a view to general peda-
gogic ability rather than for qualifications of ai*
artistic tendency is predestined to failure. Sight
singing, being the foundation of all scientific mu-
sical study, is indispensable to the prospective
musician, but, like other branches of knowledge,
it requires a thoroughly competent teacher to im-
part a knowledge of it to the pupil.
Now it happens that there are hundreds of pub-
lic school teachers in New York City who are ex-
cellent instructors in language, mathematics, his-
tory, and geography, but who, nevertheless, are
incapable of singing a simple melody without
wandering from the key several times before
reaching the last measure. These teachers are,
many of them, invaluable in their present posi-
tions, and their services must be retained; but
the plain, unvarnished truth about them is that
FRANCE'S OFFICIAL BAND.
The Famous Garde Republicaine Band is Due
Here September 2.
The Garde Republicaine Band of eighty musi-
cians, led by Bandmaster Gabriel Pares, the first
official military band of the French Government
to visit us since the peace jubilees of 1872, is
expected to arrive in this city on September 2, on
its way to St. Louis. The band will be presented
to Mayor McCellan at the City Hall and will give
a concert in Central Park. On Sunday, Septem-
ber 4, the thirty-fourth anniversary of the procla-
mation of the French Republic, there will be a
reception. The reception committee includes E.
Aubert, J. B. Martin, Xavier Dietlin, Louis A.
Risse, Edouard Houllegatte, Elle Davoust, Gaston
M. Dethier and many others. Ambassador Jusse-
rand and Consul-General De Magny will be
among the invited guests.
NEW YORK WELL HAVE 49 THEATRES.
"Une heure de musique" is the latest name for
a recital. It was used for an entertainment given
in London the other day by Mile. Aurelie Revy,
who is to appear next autumn in the Sonzogno
prize opera at Milan. At her London recital she
sang in six different languages, played the vio<
lin, and accompanied herself at the piano in some
of her own Hungarian songs. There is virtuos-
ity enough here to merit some of our New York
managers making Mile. Revy known on this side
of the "big pond."
With five new playhouses opening their doors
within a month or two, Broadway folk, those of
the managerial category particularly, are doing
some tall thinking these days relative to the the-
atrical situation proper for the coming season
and the effect of the Presidential campaign. Gen-
eral opinion—that is the strenuous voice of the
always-confident manager—has it that the incom-
ing season will be a decidedly brisk one, and that
"good shows" will be responsible for the same.
If this be true, there is no need for worry, but
behind the shadows there lingers a doubt. And
there is plenty of room for doubt. Last sea-
son in this city there were forty-four theatres
in operation. Sage managers handed out to the-
atre-goers new plays by the bushel. As the sea-
son advanced things changed a trifle for the bet-
ter, and in all the season proved not to be a dis-
astrous one. In fact the offerings continued to
strengthen, and the season wound up with a num-
ber of "good things," few of which ran way into
the hot weather.
For the coming season five new theatres are
now nearing completion, which will swell the list
to forty-nine theatres in all. This is indeed a
great number of playhouses, and it is a safe bet
that managers will most certainly have to pro-
duce "good plays" to make them go.
The five new theatres that expect to be in readi-
ness about November 1 are:
Hammerstein's Drury Lane, largest in the
world, at Thirty-fourth street and Eighth ave-
nue.
The Liberty, owned by Klaw & Erlanger, situ-
ated on the south side of West Forty-second
street, a few doors west of the New Amsterdam.
The Lew M. Fields' Theatre, situated on the
south side of West Forty-second street, near
Eighth avenue.
The Colonial, at Sixty-sixth street and Broad-
v/ay, owned by Meyer R. Bimberg.
The Yorkville, at Eighty-sixth street and Lex-
ington avenue, owned by Meyer R. Bimberg.
Lillian Carlsmith, the distinguished contralto,
will enter the ranks of vaudeville stars in Oc-
tober next for an extended term.
Anton Hekking, a Dutch 'cellist, is to reappear
here in November next, after an absence of many
years.
SCHEFF ON AMERICAN-MADE OPERA.
MUSIC IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Pritzi Scheff, who arrived here a couple of
weeks ago, says she has come back with her
faith strengthened in American made comio
opera. She took away with her the manuscript
of "The Two Roses," by Stange and Englander.
"I studied it thoroughly going over," she said,
"Then I saw all the comic operas in London and
Paris, and I am back, happy to plunge into the
work of producing my own American opera, even
in this hot weather." The little baroness spent
her time abroad with her mother, making a
round of the German and Austrian watering
places. She begins rehearsals immediately and
opens her season this month in Chicago, coming
to New York a few weeks later.
THE LATEST NAME FOR A RECITAL.
VOL. XXXIX.
No. 6.
Published Every Sat, by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave,, New York, August 6,1904.
WAGNER WANTED AMERICAN MONEY.
they never will know how to teach sight singing
any better than they do to-day.
Now, what is best to be done under such con-
Didn't Care What Fate His Works Met With
Here—Asked Stiff Terms—A Hitherto Un- ditions? Clearly the only way in which the regu-
lar teacher, who is unmusical, can approach the
published Letter From Berlin.
subject successfully before a class of pupils is
A cable to the New York Times, from Berlin, from its historical and sestheticat standpoint. The
says that a hitherto unpublished letter written interesting facts about great compositions and
by Richard Wagner has made its appearance their composers can be gathered together from
tiiere. It is addressed from Venice in December, any musical library, and can be compiled into
1858, and shows that a certain New York im- interesting musical stories suitable for children
pressario named Ullmann had made an offer to* of all ages.
The supervisor and assistant supervisors of
Wagner to tour the United States, the proposi-
tion being made through Dr. Von Hartenfels, a music will find no difficulty in stimulating the
interest of both teachers and pupils in music
friend of Wagner.
Wagner's reply to the offer was a remarkable from this vantage ground, for no class teacher
one. Although in the letter the composer ad- can pretend inability to put into simple language
mitted that he was impecunious and without the story of a musical composition described else-
either fortune or settled income he said he would where in print. The "story" should be followed
not entertain any idea of going to America un- by a performance of the music talked about and
less he received a positive assurance of very con- now that piano playing mechanisms are abroad
in the land, the possibility of familiarizing the
siderable financial advantages. He added:
"I am very little concerned over the fate my pupil with good music is a matter already dis-
operas meet with in America, but hope Director posed of.
It is now a question of the classics or rag-time,
Ullmann will secure the scores from me and re-
and if children do not hear the works of the
munerate me in accordance with their worth."
This interesting sidelight on Wagner's thrifty masters at school the street organ grinder will
character appears simultaneously with the begin- continue to be the only artistic champion of juv-
ning of the Baireuth season, I understand that enile New York. The love of art in the coming
the attendance, especially of Americans, is rec- generation of New Yorkers is, after all, a qual-
ord-breaking. All the available tickets were sold ity of mind more to be desired than the ability
to read notes, without that love.
a month ago.
BERENICE THOMPSON.
The production of "Parisfal" in the United
Brooklyn, July 17, 1904.
States seems, indeed, to have been a splendid
advertisement for the Baireuth presentations.
One Way to Encourage a Love of the Classics
—To Treat of its Literary Side—An Ex-
cellent Suggestion.
May the day soon come when the study of mu-
sic in the New York public schools shall be made
the vehicle for awakening in the younger genera-
tion of this city a genuine love for the master
works of the art. It might be possible to secure
effective results in sight singing were the school
music teaching in the hands of trained profes-
sionals, but such is not the case. The direct mu-
sical instruction to our public school children,
coming as it does from the regular teacher, who
has been appointed with a view to general peda-
gogic ability rather than for qualifications of ai*
artistic tendency is predestined to failure. Sight
singing, being the foundation of all scientific mu-
sical study, is indispensable to the prospective
musician, but, like other branches of knowledge,
it requires a thoroughly competent teacher to im-
part a knowledge of it to the pupil.
Now it happens that there are hundreds of pub-
lic school teachers in New York City who are ex-
cellent instructors in language, mathematics, his-
tory, and geography, but who, nevertheless, are
incapable of singing a simple melody without
wandering from the key several times before
reaching the last measure. These teachers are,
many of them, invaluable in their present posi-
tions, and their services must be retained; but
the plain, unvarnished truth about them is that
FRANCE'S OFFICIAL BAND.
The Famous Garde Republicaine Band is Due
Here September 2.
The Garde Republicaine Band of eighty musi-
cians, led by Bandmaster Gabriel Pares, the first
official military band of the French Government
to visit us since the peace jubilees of 1872, is
expected to arrive in this city on September 2, on
its way to St. Louis. The band will be presented
to Mayor McCellan at the City Hall and will give
a concert in Central Park. On Sunday, Septem-
ber 4, the thirty-fourth anniversary of the procla-
mation of the French Republic, there will be a
reception. The reception committee includes E.
Aubert, J. B. Martin, Xavier Dietlin, Louis A.
Risse, Edouard Houllegatte, Elle Davoust, Gaston
M. Dethier and many others. Ambassador Jusse-
rand and Consul-General De Magny will be
among the invited guests.
NEW YORK WELL HAVE 49 THEATRES.
"Une heure de musique" is the latest name for
a recital. It was used for an entertainment given
in London the other day by Mile. Aurelie Revy,
who is to appear next autumn in the Sonzogno
prize opera at Milan. At her London recital she
sang in six different languages, played the vio<
lin, and accompanied herself at the piano in some
of her own Hungarian songs. There is virtuos-
ity enough here to merit some of our New York
managers making Mile. Revy known on this side
of the "big pond."
With five new playhouses opening their doors
within a month or two, Broadway folk, those of
the managerial category particularly, are doing
some tall thinking these days relative to the the-
atrical situation proper for the coming season
and the effect of the Presidential campaign. Gen-
eral opinion—that is the strenuous voice of the
always-confident manager—has it that the incom-
ing season will be a decidedly brisk one, and that
"good shows" will be responsible for the same.
If this be true, there is no need for worry, but
behind the shadows there lingers a doubt. And
there is plenty of room for doubt. Last sea-
son in this city there were forty-four theatres
in operation. Sage managers handed out to the-
atre-goers new plays by the bushel. As the sea-
son advanced things changed a trifle for the bet-
ter, and in all the season proved not to be a dis-
astrous one. In fact the offerings continued to
strengthen, and the season wound up with a num-
ber of "good things," few of which ran way into
the hot weather.
For the coming season five new theatres are
now nearing completion, which will swell the list
to forty-nine theatres in all. This is indeed a
great number of playhouses, and it is a safe bet
that managers will most certainly have to pro-
duce "good plays" to make them go.
The five new theatres that expect to be in readi-
ness about November 1 are:
Hammerstein's Drury Lane, largest in the
world, at Thirty-fourth street and Eighth ave-
nue.
The Liberty, owned by Klaw & Erlanger, situ-
ated on the south side of West Forty-second
street, a few doors west of the New Amsterdam.
The Lew M. Fields' Theatre, situated on the
south side of West Forty-second street, near
Eighth avenue.
The Colonial, at Sixty-sixth street and Broad-
v/ay, owned by Meyer R. Bimberg.
The Yorkville, at Eighty-sixth street and Lex-
ington avenue, owned by Meyer R. Bimberg.
Lillian Carlsmith, the distinguished contralto,
will enter the ranks of vaudeville stars in Oc-
tober next for an extended term.
Anton Hekking, a Dutch 'cellist, is to reappear
here in November next, after an absence of many
years.
SCHEFF ON AMERICAN-MADE OPERA.
MUSIC IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Pritzi Scheff, who arrived here a couple of
weeks ago, says she has come back with her
faith strengthened in American made comio
opera. She took away with her the manuscript
of "The Two Roses," by Stange and Englander.
"I studied it thoroughly going over," she said,
"Then I saw all the comic operas in London and
Paris, and I am back, happy to plunge into the
work of producing my own American opera, even
in this hot weather." The little baroness spent
her time abroad with her mother, making a
round of the German and Austrian watering
places. She begins rehearsals immediately and
opens her season this month in Chicago, coming
to New York a few weeks later.
THE LATEST NAME FOR A RECITAL.
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