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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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KNABE CONCERT GRAND AMPICO IN INVITATION CONCERT
Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, With Artur Bodanzky Conducting, to Accompany Knabe
Ampico at Concert at Carnegie Hall on June 4—Leo Ornstein Will Also Appear
The American Piano Co., New York, has
mailed invitations to piano merchants through-
out the country, well-known musicians and the
most prominent members of society, inviting
them to be present at an orchestral concert to be
Artur Bodanzky
given at Carnegie Hall, New York, on Tuesday
afternoon, June 4, by the Metropolitan Opera
House Orchestra with Artur Bodanzky con-
ducting. At this concert there will be per-
formed Rubinstein's "Concerto in D Minor";
the first movement by the Ampico from a record
made by Leo Ornstein, famous pianist, and the
succeeding movements played by Mr. Ornstein
himself, the orchestra accompanying all three
movements. The Knabe concert grand Ampico
will be the instrument presented at this concert.
This concert will he one of the most important
tan Opera House Orchestra, which will appear
at this concert by special permission of the Met-
ropolitan Opera Co. This orchestra is one of
the most famous musical organizations in the
world, and this will mark its first appearance
on any concert stage in connection with a re-
producing piano.
Subsequent to the rendition of Mr. Ornstein's
Ampico record of the first movement, the sec-
ond and third movements of this concerto will
be played by Mr. Ornstein, accompanied by the
orchestra. The audience will therefore have an
opportunity of making an actual comparison of
the Ampico record with Mr. Ornstein's playing.
The outcome of this comparison, however, is
already assured, for several well-known artists
have visited the Ampico record ng laboratories
during the past few weeks in order to hear this
wonderful Ampico record of the first move-
ment in Rubinstein's "Concerto in D Minor."
They have all proclaimed it a remarkable repro-
duction of this famous concerto and a perfect
reproduction of Mr. Ornstein's distinct.ve and
brilliant playing.
As this orchestral concert will be held during
convention week piano dealers in all parts of
the country are evincing the keenest interest .n
this very important event. Acceptances to the
invitations have already been received from
many dealers, and a large number of famous mu-
sicians, together with well-known members of
the social world, have requested the American
Piano Co. to reserve seats for them at this con-
cert.
Leo Ornstein, who has achieved international
renown, is one of the most popular pianists now
appearing on the concert stage. He has not
only won fame as a concert pianist, but his com-
positions have also attained world-wide recog-
nition for their originality and brilliant con-
ception. Mr. Ornstein has made frequent con-
cert tours throughout the country, and his mas-
terly interpretations of the classics and his own
compositions have won the enthusiastic com-
ments of the leading critics everywhere. • He
has made a number of Ampico records which
have perfectly reproduced his playing, but his
record of the first movement of the Rubinstein
"Concerto in D Minor" is considered by musical
PROVIDING MUSIC FOR SOLDIERS
Committee Recently Organized Will Collect
Funds to Provide Musical Instruments, Rolls
and Records for the Army Cantonments
Anton Rubinstein
musical events given in New York within the
past few years, as it will furnish an absolute
test of the reproductive qualities of the Ampico
reproducing piano. The Ampico record made
by Leo Ornstein of the first movement of this
concerto will be accompanied by the Metropoli-
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Music is one of the chief diversions of the
boys in khaki. In the training camps, when
they are not drilling, or on the transports, when
they are "on their way," they seize every oppor-
tunity to listen to a good tune, fresh or
"canned, 1 chiefly canned, for the percentage of
incipient Carusos or Heifetzes among them is
comparatively small. Consequently the player-
pianos and the phonographs are worked to the
limit of resistance, and the rolls and records are
• used so hard that they have to be scrapped
faster than they can be procured. To those in
touch with that side of. camp life, such as the
Y. M. C. A. entertainment committee, appeals
for new tunes, or renewals of the old ones, are
literally pouring in by the thousand.
Until now there has been no regular means
of supplying this demand. But a committee has
just been formed from among leading musicians
and music patrons of this city which will take
in hand the matter of collecting an adequate
fund for the purpose. This committee has se-
cured the co-operation of the managers of the
National Music Show, to be held in Grand Cen-
tral Palace June 1-8, who have pledged the en-
PIANOS
JUNE 1,
experts to be the finest Ampico record he has
ever made.
Artur Bodanzky, conductor of the Metropoli-
tan Opera House Orchestra, completed last
month his second season as a conductor of this
famous orchestra. Under Mr. Bodanzky's di-.
rection this orchestra added to its laurels the
past two years, and many of its performances
were the subjects of extended laudatory criti-
cisms in the New York papers. Mr. Bodanzky
is recognized as one of the foremost orchestra
conductors in the country, and before joining the
Leo Ornstein
Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra was fa-
mous abroad as a conductor of several of the
leading orchestras in Europe.
Anton Rubinstein, the famous Russian pianist
and composer, was generally recognized as
Liszt's only rival as a pianist. His playing was
remarkable for its perfect technique, and his
name is entered in history's pages as one of the
greatest pianists that the world has ever known.
His compositions embrace music of almost every
form, and his piano concertos are remarkably
effective. He has written a number of songs,
some of which have achieved considerable popu-
larity, but his piano pieces are less well known
with the exception of his celebrated "Melody in
F."
Rubinstein made a tour of the United
States from 1872-3, and received a tremendous
ovation wherever he appeared.
tire proceeds of the sale of tickets to the cause.
Not a penny is to be subtracted for expenses
of any kind, so that every half dollar turned in
for admission to this interesting show will ac-
tually buy one or more tunes for the soldiers
at the lowest price obtainable.
An appeal is being sent to all the music lovers
in the city, and at the first meeting of the com-
mittee arrangements were perfected to enlist
the aid of all the leading musical organizations
in the distribution of the tickets. Walter May-
nard was appointed treasmrer and the Guaranty
Trust Co. has been made the depository of the
fund. A most enthusiastic response is antici-
pated from all patriot'e Americans who appre-
ciate the power of music as a moral factor in
the fight for democracy.
The personnel of the committee includes Mrs.
J. F. D. Lanier, Franz X. Arens, George Bar-
rere, Adolf Betti, Harold Bauer, Mrs. Linzee
Blagden, Dr. Frank Damrosch, Henry Harkness
Flagler, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Victor Harris,
Charles D. Isaacson, Louis Koemmenich, Wal-
ter Maynard, Carlps Salzedo, Kurt Schindler.
Cesar Saerchinger, Mrs. Leopold Stokowski and
Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer.
The actual purchase of the records will be
undertaken by the National War Work Council
of the Y. M. C. A., which is fully informed as
to the needs of the men who are stationed in
the various camps.
ORGANS
E5TEY PIAND COMPANY • N3EW YORK CITY
1918
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