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THE: MUSIC TRADE
PADEREWSKI JiERE NEXT YEAR.
May Tour South America, Too—Rosenthal Will
Also Return.
Charles A. Ellis, the manager, is to bring
Ignace Paderewski to this country for a concert
tour next season. Mr. Paderewski has not played
in public since his breakdown here a year ago
next month. He has been resting at his Lome
in Switzerland and devoting himsslf to composi-
tion.
Mr. Paderewski has nearly completed a sym-
phony which will be played next season by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is not yet de-
cided when the pianist will come to this country.
He expects to play in the summer months i.i
South America. It is possible that Mr. Pader-
ewski may play in Cuba and Mexico on his way
to this country. In case he decides not to go to
South America the pianist will open his season
in the East in December.
Mme. Melba is also to return to this country
next year under the management of Mr. Ellis.
She has appeared in public comparatively few
times since her engagement at the Metropolitan
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was cut short by illness. She will appear in
concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Ellis came from Boston to zee Mr. Hammer-
stein before that impresario sailed for Europe,
and Mme. Melba is to make a certain number ot
appearances in Hammerstein's opera house.
With Rosenthal, the great rival of Ignace Pad-
erewski, also here next year, the musical season
is destined to be unusually active.
tour under the management of Henry Wolfsohn.
Of late years Petschnikoff has confined his tour
to Germany, Austria and Russia, in which coun-
tries he is known as the "Poet of the Violin."
HAMMERSTEINJiETS MELBA.
The Prima Donna Signs a Contract to Sing in
New York.
Oscar Hammerstein fired another big gun in
the war he has declared on the Metropolitan
Opera House when in a cablegram from Paris
Chairman of Copyright Committee Chats In-
he announced Tuesday that Mme. Nellie Melba
terestingly of the Recent Conference in
had agreed to return to America next season
Washington, D. C , and the Prospective
and to be at his Manhattan Opera House only.
Copyright Bill.
The contract for her engagement was signed
When passing through New York Thursday in Paris Monday, but its terms were not made
week en route to Boston George W. Furniss, known.
When he determined to rival the Metropolitan
chairman of the copyright committee of the
Music Publishers' Association of the United Mr. Hammerstein set his heart on having for
States, and a delegate from that organization to his first season at the Manhattan, de Reszke and
the copyright conference held in Washington, Mme. Melba. M. de Reszke agreed to come two
I). C, March 13, 14 and 15, said to The Review: months ago, but Mine. Melba declined to enter
"I have just returned from a consultation with into negotiation by letter or cable, and Mr. Ham-
the Department of Justice at Washington. A merstein got no satisfaction until he himself saw
letter received from the department this morning her in Paris.
It is said by representatives of Mr. Hammer-
states (as you see) that the lawyers attending
stein in New York that there was lively com-
the' conference would get together next (this)
week and frame up a copyright bill, in which the petition between him and a representative of
recommendations of the music publishers would the director of the Metropolitan. Mme. Melba's
likely be completely covered. This reminds me terms had been such that the Metropolitan man-
of what Bronson Howard, the famous playwright, agement for several seasons had not felt inclined
remarked when the misdemeanor clause was fav- to meet them, but it is said that with the knowl-
orably decided upon. He said: ' ' M r . Furniss, if edge that Mr. Hammerstein was in the field a
the misdemeanor provision is incorporated in the large offer was made to her. Mr. Hammerstein
went it one better.
new law you will have made history.'
Mme. Melba has not sung in New York for
"Regarding the copyright notice on publica-
tions oT any kind," continued Mr. Furniss, "in five years. When she went away after her last
Europe it is omitted because the supposition is operatic engagement she is said to have declared
that the composition—be it musical or dramatic, that she would not be heard in America again.
Since Mr. Hammerstein entered the grand
or what not in a literary way—was owned by
some ore, was the property of somebody. As it opera field he has made several important en-
stands, the printing of the copyright date is gagements. Next to Melba, Bonci, the tenor, is
apt to mislead the public, who always want his greatest capture. He also has secured Lean-
something new; and, therefore, when the date dro Campanari as conductor. He is now nego-
appears—and this might be ten or twenty years tiating with several prominent singers and a
back—they would take the publication—especial- dozen of lesser importance. The chorus and mu-
1\ music—as old and consequently pass it up. sicians will be recruited here. The opera house
The notice, as contemplated, was not to inform is nearing completion and will be finished in
the public, as it were, but to warn pirates in em- time for the opening in November.
byro or in "full practice.
TSCHAIKOVSKY^AS A PROPHET
"There is no doubt the new bill will be intro-
duced in both the Serate and the House this Made a Correct Diagnosis of Disease Now
Prevalent in the Musical World More Than
session, and a speedy passage follow, unless some-
a Quarter of a Century Ago.
thing unforeseen, not now anticipated, should
happen. The music publishers may well feel
More than a quarter of a century ago Tschai-
proud of the important part they played in the
kovsky made a correct diagnosis of the disease
various conferences, even if I, as a delegate,
which has now become epidemic among German
should say so. But it must be remembered there
and French composers. "All the German com-
were others besides myself present who were a
posers of the present day," he remarked in 1879,
credit to the association and the trade, whose
"write laboriously, with pretensions to depth of
interests were intelligently and successfully
thought, and strive to atone for their extraordi-
looked after."
nary poverty of invention by exaggerated color-
ing." Speaking of a work by Lalo, he said:
COPYRIGHT MEASURE TO GO OVER.
"The concerto is full of queer, wild harmonies.
In a modest violin concerto such spicy condi-
(Special to The Ueview.)
ments are out of place; but, apart from that, I
Washington, D. C, April 2, 1906.
must say they have a kind of crude character,
Members of the House Committee on Patents because they are not the outcome of the essen-
arc said to be of the opinion that the proposed tial musical idea, but are forced upon it, like
copyright code, which has been considered at a schoolboy's bravado put on for the teacher's
length by a special conference in which many benefit. * * * Do not imagine, my friend,
interests were represented, will not be hi shape that it is the pedantic harmony master who
for congressional action at the present session speaks thus. I myself am partial to dissonant,
of Congress.
combinations, when they have a motive, and are
rightly used. But there are limits which must
HEGEDUS, THE VIOLINIST, COMING HERE. not be overstepped. Now, to enter into technical
A cable from London, April 2, says that details, let me say that no breach of the laws
Hegedus, the famous Hungarian violinist, has of harmony, no matter whether it is harsh or
been engaged by Rudolph Aronson to give fifty not, really sounds well unless it has been made
under the influence of the melodic origin. In
concerts in America beginning in November.
other words, a dissonance should only be re-
solved harmonically, or melodically. If neither
ALEXANDER PETSCHNIKOFF COMING.
of these courses is adopted, we merely get
abominations
a la Moussourgsky." Were Tschai-
Alexander Petschnikoff, the famous Russian
violinist, the memories of whose last tour here, kovsky living to-day, says Mr. Finck, he would
about eight years ago, we still fondly cherish, have added, ''or a la Richard Strauss, VJncent
is to return again to the XTnited States for a. d'lndy, etc."
0. W. FURNISS ON COPYRIGHT.