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THE MUSIC TRADE RE1VIEW
CONCERT ART1STSJOR AMERICA.
Some Distinguished Artists Secured by Henry
Wolfsohn Who Will be Heard Here Next
Season—An Eminent Roster.
A most lively concert season may be expected
this coming winter. Henry Wolfsohn returned
to New York this past week, and had some im-
portant announcements to make.
Emma Eames, whose concert tour last winter
proved such a marvelous success, will devote the
months of December and March to concertizing,
enal success last year when assisting Madame
Emma Eames on her tour. He will return the
beginning of December, and it is now arranged
that he will make several appearances in the
Sunday concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
Sig. Ca*mpanari is to continue his tour, which
will this season extend to the Pacitic Coast, after
which he will go to Texas. Negotiations are also
pending for Sig. Campanari's appearance in the
Metropolitan Opera House with Director Con-
ried's company in a limited number of perfor-
mances.
Hugo Heermann, the famous violinist, who will
return as Professor of the Violin Department of
the Chicago College of Music, will also make
several tours arranged by Mr. Wolfsohn.
Aloys Burgstaller, who is this year the lead-
ing Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, will also make a short concert tour
before his regular contract with the opera be-
gins.
Air. Wolfsohn's list of American artists has
not been surpassed at any time. It includes such
singers and instrumentalists of distinction as
Bessie Abott, of the Metropolitan Opera House;
Lillian Blauvelt, Mrs. Corinne Rider-Kelsey,
Laura Combs, Susan Metcalfe, sopranos; Janet
Spencer and Gertrude-Stein, contraltos; Edward
Johnson and Daniel Beddoe, tenors; Herbert
MME. Si'HUMANN-HEINK.
spending the intervening time in this city sing-
ing with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Mme. Schumann-Heink, who is now singing in
Bayreuth, will return in September and will be-
gin a tour of eighty concerts, commencing with
the Maine State Festivals, and extending to the
Pacific Coast. Commencing February 15, Madame
Schumarin-Heink will begin a special engagement
at the Metropolitan Opera House. Her song re-
cital in Carnegie Hall in October next will be
the first important event of the musical season
here.
Moriz Rosenthal, the "Giant of the Keyboard,"
will play one hundred concerts on his coming
tournee, beginning in Carnegie Hall, New York,
in the first part of November. This will be
followed by a series of concerts with the Boston
Symphony and New York Symphony Orchestras.
Madame Louise Homer, another opera favorite,
is to make a concert tour before the beginning of
the opera, singing with the Chicago, Boston
Symphony, Minneapolis, and St. Paul Symphony
Orchestras, in addition to a series of recitals
given in other Western cities.
Alexander Petschnikoff, the Russian violinist,
surnamed the "Poet of the Violin/' will arrive
about the middle of November, and will be heard
Defined by Ffrangcon Davies—Looks to
America and England for Great Results.
The London Musical Herald reports a recent
lecture in which Ffrangcon Davies, author of
that suggestive book, "The Singing of the Fu-
ture," declared that if the best and greatest
singing were not, later on, to be found in Ens-
land and America, he knew not where to look
for it. A singer, he said, should take what was
good, but avoid the manifest faults of Continen-
tal singing, e.g., sensuousness, undue passionate-
ness or morbidity, flippancy, superficiality of
tone, unmusical roughness, trickiness, contortions
of buccal and nasal cavities, etc. The mental ac-
tivity, all through the state of pupilage and artis-
tic career, must be concentrated upon thought,
word, tone. Modern teaching and singing, how-
ever, proceeded on the contrary principle: Tone,
word, thought. Many so-called critics taught that
mad gospel. Those who made a merchandise of
the vocal a r t and profession must be guarded
against. England, however, owed a great deal
to its finest critics. The chief fault of the mod-
ern singer was that he had but one kind of tone.
Would we have a whole picture painted entirely
in one color, however beautiful the color might
be? If not in painting, why in singing? Again,
why did we admire loud tone? Would we have
Shakespeare bawled at us?
Sembrich, Gadski and Bispham Among the
Artists Whose Tours He'll Manage.
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PADEREWSKI TO COME FOR A WHOLE
SEASON.
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THE SINGINGJ)FJHE FUTURE
CHARLTON'S CONCERT SEASON.
Witherspoon, Emilie de Gogorza and Gwylim
Miles, baritones; Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and
Efna Richoldson, pianistes, and Rosa Zamels,
violiniste.
with the leading orchestral associations in addi-
tion to a large number of recitals. In many of
the latter he will have the assistance of Madame
Petschnikoff, herself a violinist of high attain-
ments, they being heard in duets.
A warm welcome will await Joseph Hollman,
•the famous 'cellist who made such a phenom-
Kempner to become the musical director of the
new Astor Theatre. Mr. Barrett wrote all the
incidental music for Beerbohm Tree's production
of "Twelfth Night" and other Shakespearean
plays. He will immediately begin work on an
elaborate musical setting for "A Midsummer
Night's Dream," which, with Miss Annie Russell
as Puck, will dedicate the Astor Theatre.
Charles Ellis has just settled by cable a new
contract with Ignace Paderewski to return to
this country and play under his management for
the entire season of 1907-08. The pianist will
come here in October and remain until May, giv-
ing in that period no less than one hundred cin-
certs. M. Paderewski was to have come here in
January for seven concerts only with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. On this tour M. Pade-
rewski's new symphony will be played by the
orchestra under Carl Much, and the pianist will
be the soloist at the concerts, but he will make
no appearance in recital. In spite of the many
requests made to Mr. Ellis that the pianist give
at least a few recitals, it was found impossible.
Mr. Ellis finally compromised the matter by sign-
ing a contract with M. Paderewski for the whole
of the season afterward.
ASTOR THEATRE MUSICAL DIRECTOR.
Augustus Barrett, an English musician and
composer, has been engaged by Wagenhals &
London Charlton, who returned last week from
Europe, has announced the list of his artists for
the coming season. Mme. Sembrich will make a
concert tour under his management at the close
of the Metropolitan season, and Mme. Gadski will
appear in concert from October to December,
David Bispham will also make a long tour.
Among the violinists Mr. Charlton will bring
to this country are Francis McMillen and Cesar
Thomson, the noted Belgian, who will arrive
here in January and remain for two months,
Francis McMillen is a young American player
who has made his career abroad. Elise Roegger,
the Belgian "cellist, is also to make a tour here
for the first time in several years.
Among the American singers to appear under
the management of Mr. Charlton are Ellison Van
Hoose, Francis Rogers, Kelley Cole, Katherine
Fiske, Mrs. Shotwell-Piper and Alice Sovereign.
WILL SAINT-SAENS' OPERA BE HEARD?
The suggestion has been made in connection
with the coming of Saint-Saens to this country
that Mr. Conried or Mr. Hammerstein should in-
vite him to produce one of his operas, under his
personal supervision and direction? That would
be certainly a thing to look forward to with
joyous anticipation—one of the events that would
find a place in the annals of music in America.
Three musical events of the week of August
6-11, at Chautauqua, N. Y., will be the evening
concert of Monday, August 6, at which Mr. Will-
iam H. Sherwood and Mr. Sol Marcosson will
appear as soloists; the opera "Pinafore" presented
by the children of the Chautauqua Junior Choir
on the evening of Friday, August 10, and Julian
Edward's opera, "Brian Born," which will be
given on the evening of Saturday, August 11.
The last London concert given by Mark Ham-
burg was announced as his one thousandth ap-
pearance before the public as a pianist since
he finished his studies with Leschetizky eleven
years ago.