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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
Increasing Popularity of Sunday Concerts—Extra Concerts by Philharmonic Society—Katherine
Goodson to Sail for Europe Next Week—De Pachmann Winning Success—Innes Ap-
pointed Director-in-Chief of Music of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition—Arthur
Whiting
Heard at Harpsichord with Flonzaley Quartet—Bach's "Passion According to St. Matthew"
to be Revived by Oratorio Society—Cornell Musical Festival—Mildenberg Appointed Di-
rector of Paris Oratorio and Symphony Societies—Hammerstein's Plans—A New Wagner
Opera—Hofmann and Kreisler in Joint Rtfcital.
and a money prize is to be offered for the best
original orchestral work having for its basic
subject some historical incident bearing on the
acquisition of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific territory.
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Arthur Whiting, the well-known pianist, was
the assisting artist at the third and last concert
this season given by the Flonzaley Quartet at
Mendelssohn Hall last Tuesday evening. The
program consisted of Tschaikowsky's quartet in
E flat major, Opus 30; Bach's sonata in G major,
for two violins and clavecin, and Haydn's quar-
tet in D major, Opus 76, No. 5. In order the
better to render the intention and conception of
the composer, the clavecin part was played on
the harpsichord by Arthur Whiting.
organizations with which she has appeared this
season. Her next American tour will be under
the management of Loudon Charlton, Carnegie
Hall, New York City. Miss Goodson has appeared
as soloist during the present season with an ex-
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traordinarily interesting list of organizations;
Enough signs have been given by the public
for instance, the Worcester Festival, the Boston of a large and growing interest in J. S. Bach's
Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the music to indicate a wide response to the coming
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Hartford Philhar- revival of Bach's "Passion According to St.
monic Orchestra, the Minneapolis Orchestra, the Matthew," by the Oratorio Society, a t Carnegie
St. Paul Orchestra, the New Haven Orchestra, the Hall on Thursday evening, April 16. It was
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York thirteen years ago that the Oratorio Society last
Young People's Symphony Orchestra, the St. presented this great choral work, and since then
Louis Orchestra, the Kneisel Quartet, at the the general appreciation of Bach's genius has
White House, with many musical organizations spread further and gone deeper.
For the
and clubs in recital in New York, Boston and coming Carnegie Hall performance of "The Pas-
other large cities, and in private recital.
sion According to St. Matthew" Dr. Frank Dam-
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rosch and the Oratorio Society are vigorously
Mayor Hibbard of Boston and the trustees of
at work in preparation.
the music department differ regarding the com-
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ing season's work. The mayor in his budget
Cornell will have its fifth annual festival on
cut the appropriation for that department from
April 29, 30, May 1 and 2. The principal choral
$25,000 to $15,000. This naturally means re-
works to be performed are Saint Saen's "Samson
trenching all along the line, and the trustees
and Delilah," Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha's
have practically decided to cut out band concerts
Wedding Feast," and Horatio Parker's "Hora No-
and maintain the so-called chamber concerts. The
vissima." The Boston Festival Orchestra, with
music trustees take the stand that the chamber
fifty players and Emil Mollenhauer conductor,
concerts exert a more refining influence than do
have been re-engaged, and the University Chorus
the open-air concerts, which are generally given
of 200 voices will do the choral part of the pro-
in public parks. On the other hand, the mayor
grams. An innovation in the usual custom at
takes just the opposite view. He says that the
the Ithaca festival will be the announcing of the
majority of the people get more enjoyment from
time of beginning the concerts by a quartet of
the music out of doors.
trombones from the University band and orches-
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Vladimir De Pachmann, who is making a fare- tra stationed in the Library tower. The same
well tour in America, is scoring a tremendous thing is done at the Bach festivals in Montclair.
success with the Baldwin piano, and is sched- It is a delightful custom, borrowed from
mediaeval Germany.
uled to give his last recital in Carnegie Hall.
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Albert
Mildenberg,
the young American com-
Frederick Neil Innes, the well-known hand-
poser,
has
been
selected
as musical director of
master of New York, has been appointed
director-in-chief of music at the Alaska-Yukon- the new Oratorio and Symphony Society in Paris,
Pacific Exposition, to be held at Seattle, Wash., France, and a feature of each of his programs
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will be two compositions by American com-
The very successful pianiste, Katherine Good- June to November, 1909. The musical program
posers,
one group including American songs and
son, after her remarkable American tournee, is promises to be of unusual interest, as Mr. Innes
the other instrumental music. The personnel of
has
announced
his
intention
of
giving
unusual
sailing for England March 25, steamship "Adri-
the society consists of seventy-five players from
atic." In July Miss Goodson leaves for Aus- prominence to the works of native American
the famous Lamouroux and Colonne Orchestras.
composers.
Some
of
the
best
orchestras
and
tralia for a concert tour, and thence to the Pa-
Mr.
Mildenberg has sent out a call to American
cific coast, where she begins her third American bands in the country will be heard in programs composers to furnish him with their works. At
made
up
exclusively
of
American
works.
A
tournee January, 1909. Miss Goodson is already
the first concert, to be given in the early spring,
re-engaged to play next season with many of the MacDowell memorial festival is already planned,
The popularity of the Sunday concerts in New
York grows apace. Last Sunday notwithstand-
ing the thunder, lightning and rain, more than
fifteen thousand New Yorkers attended high-
class concerts, thus demonstrating how appre-
ciative they are of good music. For instance,
more than eight thousand people were present at
the Manhattan and Metropolitan Opera Houses;
the Hippodrome held almost five thousand to
hear Kubelik, and about twenty-five hundred
attended the Beethoven Cvcle at Carnegie Hall.
This is certainly a most satisfying proof of the
tremendous strides made by New York in a
musical way. When we consider that we are
now supporting two opera houses as well as in-
numerable concerts in which noted orchestras
and great soloists are heard nightly, New York
has every reason to claim a prestige, in a musical
way, that equals, if not surpasses, any city in
the old world. And it is not a spurt either, but
a steady, substantial growth of musical apprecia-
tion, most gratifying to all having the musical
interests of the country at heart, for this ap-
preciation of music is certain to expand in time
all over the country, thus winning for the United
States an especial consideration in a musical
sense.
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The Philharmonic Society, which brought its
regular season to a close on Saturday last, has
arranged to give two extra concerts on March
28th and 29th at Carnegie Hall, with Mr. Safo-
noff as conductor. The soloist will be Mme.
Teresa Carreno, who will, of course, be heard
through the medium of the Everett piano, with
which she has scored such a tremendous success
on her tour this season. The concert will be a
Tschaikowsky affair. Madame Carreno will play
the concerto for piano in B flat minor. The
orchestral numbers will be the Fourth Symphony
and the fantasy overture to "Romeo et Juliette."
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