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Musical Courier 1890-07-02: Vol 21 Iss 541, 1890
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
2A WEEKLY PAPER.
3DEVOTED TO MUSIC AND THE MUSIC TRADES.
4ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1880.
5No. 541.
6Subscription (including postage) invariably in advance.
7Yearly, $4.00; Foreign, $5.00; Single Copies, Ten Cents.
8RATES FOR ADVERTISING: SEE TRADE DEPARTMENT.
9All remittances for subscriptions or advertising must be made by check, draft or money order.
10NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1890.
11MARC A. BLUMENBERG. OTTO FLOERSHEIM.
12BLUMENBERG & FLOERSHEIM,
13Editors and Proprietors,
14JAMES G. HUNEKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
15Offices: No. 25 East Fourteenth St., New York.
16WESTERN OFFICE: Chicago, John E. Hall, No. 236 State-st., Manager.
17GENERAL AGENCY FOR GERMANY:
18FRITZ SCHUBERTH, JR., 63 BRÜDERSSTRASSE, LEIPZIG.
19NOTICE.
20Electrotyes of the pictures of the following named artists will be sent, prepaid, to any address on receipt of four (4) dollars for each.
21During ten years these pictures have appeared in this paper, and their excellence has been universally commented upon. We have received numerous orders for electrotyes of the same, and publish the subjoined list for the purpose of facilitating a selection.
22Adelina Patti
23Ida Klein
24Semirich
25Christine Nilsson
26Scalchi
27Trebelli
28Marie Rose
29Anna de Bellocca
30Eugene Gerster
31Nordica
32Josephine Yorke
33Emile Ambré
34Emma Thrush
35Teresa Carro one of two readings
36Teresa Carreño one of two readings
37Kellogg, Clara L.—2
38Minnie Hauk
39Materna
40Alban
41Anna Louise Cary
42Emily Winant
43Lena Little
44Muriel-Celi
45Chatterton-Bohrer
46James F. Whelan
47Edward Strauss
48Elenor W. Everest
49Donald
50Marie Louise Dotti
51Gesell
52Forsche-Madi—2 one of two readings
53Forsch-Madi—2 one of two readings
54Catherine Lewis
55Zélie de Lussan
56Blanche Roosevelt
57Sarah H. Arnold
58Tilde d'Ernesti
59Anna Bulkeley-Hills
60Charles M. Schmitz
61Friedrich von Flotow
62Franz Lachner
63Heinrich Marschner
64Frederick Lax
65Nestore Calvano
66William Courtney
67Josef Staudigl
68Ludwig Ing
69Mrs. Minnie Richards
70Florence Clinton-Sutro
71Calixa Lavallée
72Clarence Eddy
73Franz Alva
74Frank Bloomfield
75S. E. Jacobsohn
76C. Mortimer Wiskie one of two readings
77C. Mortimer Wiské one of two readings
78J. O. Von Prochazka
79Edvard Grieg
80Adolf Henselt
81Eugen d'Albert
82Lilli Lehmann
83William Candidus
84Franz Kneisel
85Leopold Companari one of two readings
86Leopoldo Panpanari one of two readings
87Franz Rummel
88Blanche Stone Barton
89Amy Sherwin
90Thomas Ryan
91Achille Ferrari
92Jos. Brambach
93Henry Schradieck
94John F. Luther
95John F. Rhodes
96Wilhelm Gericke
97Franz Trab
98C. M. Von Weber
99Edward Fisher
100Kate Rolla
101Charles Rehm
102Harold Randolph
103Minnie V. Vandever
104Adele Aus der Ohe
105Karl Klindworth
106Edwin Klarke one of two readings
107Edwin Klärke one of two readings
108Melia D. Campbell
109Alfredo Barili
110Wm. R. Chapman
111Otto Roth
112Anna Carpenter
113W. W. Tannenhein
114Leonard Labatt
115Albert Venino
116Josef Rheinberger
117Max Bendix
118Helene von Doenhoff
119Adolf Jensen
120Hans Richter
121Margaret Reid
122Emil Fischer
123Merrill Hopkinson, DD
124E. S. Bonelli
125Teresina Tua
126Luca
127Ivan E. Morawski
128Leopold Winkler
129Costanza Donita
130Carl Reinecke
131Heinrich Vogel
132Johann Sebastian Bach
133Mrs. A. C. Taylor
134Jules Perotti—2
135Adolph M. Foerster
136Max Fiedling
137Thomas Martin
138Louis Gaertner
139Louis Gage Courtney
140Richard Wagner
141Theodore Thomas
142Dr. Parnosch
143Campagni
144Guadagnini
145Constantin Sternberg
146Dengremont
147Galassi
148Hans Balatka
149Arbuckle
150Librati
151Johann Strauss
152Arnold Rubinstein
153Del Puente
154Julia Rivié-King
155Hope Glenn
156Louis Blumenberg
157Friedrich von der Stucken
158Frederic Grant Gleason
159Ferdinand von Hiller
160Robert Volkmann
161Julius Rietz
162Max Lefebre
163Ovide Musin
164Anton Udvardi
165Alcuin Blum
166Johann Josephig
167Ethel Wakefield
168Carlyle Petersiea
169Carl Retter
170George Gmelin
171Emil Liebling
172John A. Hall
173W. Edward Heimendahl
174Mrs. Clemelli
175Albert M. Bagby
176W. Waugh Lauder
177W. Waugh Lauder
178Mendelssohn
179Hans von Bülow
180Clara Schumann
181Joachim
182Seth S. Sanford
183Franz Liszt
184Christine Dessert
185Dora Henninges
186A. A. Stanley
187A. A. Stanley
188Hermann Boetel
189Hermann Boetel
190Charles Fradel one of two readings
191E. Haskel one of two readings
192Carl R. Martin one of two readings
193Emil Sauer
194Jesse Bartlett Davis
195D. Bunsen-Petersen one of two readings
196D. Burschel-Petersen one of two readings
197Walter Novell
198August Hylested
199Gustav Hinrichs
200Zayer Schawenka
201Heinrich Boetel one of two readings
202Heinrich Boetel one of two readings
203E. Haskel one of two readings
204Carl R. Martin one of two readings
205Jennie Dutton one of two readings
206Walter J. Hall one of two readings
207Conrad Ansorge one of two readings
208Carl Baermann one of two readings
209Carl Baermann one of two readings
210Paul Kalisch one of two readings
211Louis Svecenski one of two readings
212Hermann Boetel one of two readings
213Henry Holden Huss
214Neally Stevens
215John H. Vanman one of two readings
216William H. Mann one of two readings
217A. Victor Benham
218Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hild
219Anthony Stankowitch
220Moriz Rosenthal
221Vladimir Albert one of two readings
222Viktor Albert one of two readings
223Martin Roeder
224Joachim Raff
225Felix Mottl
226Augusta Oehreström
227Minnie Kunkel
228Marchesi
229Henry Mason
230P. S. Gilmore
231Neupert
232Hubert de Blanc
233Dr. Louis Maas
234Max Bruch
235L. G. Gottschalk
236Antoine de Kontski
237S. B. Mills
238E. M. Bowman
239Otto Bendix
240W. H. Sherwood
241Stagno
242Victor Nessler
243Johanna Cohen
244Charles F. Tretbar
245Jenna D. Davidson
246E. A. MacDowell
247Theodore Reichmann
248Max Treumann
249C. A. Cappa
250Monelloff
251Mrs. Helen Ames
252Marie Litta
253Emil Scaria
254Hermann Winkelmann
255Donizetti
256William W. Gilchrist
257Ferranti
258Johannes Brahms
259Meyerbeer
260Moritz Moszkowski
261George Tanner
262Filoteo Greco
263Wilhelm Junck
264Fannie Hirsch
265Michael Banner
266Dr. N. Penfield
267F. W. Riesberg
268Emil Mahr one of two readings
269Emil Mahrl one of two readings
270Otto Sutro
271Carl Faetten
272Bellew
273Carl Millock
274G. W. Hunt
275Georges Bizet
276John A. Brockhoven
277Edgar H. Sherwood
278Ponchielli
279Edith Edward
280Carrie Hun-King
281Pauline l'Allemand
282Verdi
283Hummel Monument
284Berlioz Monument
285Haydn Monument
286Johann Svendsen
287Strauss Orchestra
288Antonín Dvorák
289Saint-Saëns
290Pablo de Sarasate
291Jules Jordan
292Albert R. Parsons
293Ther. e Herber-Foerster
294Bertin Pison
295Carlos Sobrino
296George M. Nowell
297William Mason
298Paderewski
299Andrzej Lankow
300Maud Powell
301Max Alvary
302Josef Hofmann
303Händel
304Carlo F. Pinner
305Marianne Brandt
306Gustav A. Kerkner
307Henry Duzensi
308Emma Juch
309Fritz Giese
310Anton Riedl
311Max Leckner
312Max Spicker
313Judith Graves
314Hermann Ebeling
315Anton Breitner
316Mary Howe
317Atalile Claire
318Mr. and Mrs. Lawton
319Fritz Kessler
320Madge W. Haham
321Richard Burmeister
322W. J. Lavin
323Niels W. Gade
324Hermann Levi
325Edward Chadfield
326James H. Howe
327WE again reiterate that we believe that we can put our hand on the man who will be the next president of the Music Teachers' National Association and his name is not McGinty.
328ALTHOUGH suffering from bad health the past year Mr. Calixa Lavallée has done magnificent work as chairman of the program committee, and we congratulate him heartily on the results of his labor.
329THE Sunday "Herald" of June 22 contained a new waltz by Eduard Strauss, bearing the somewhat ambitious title "Life in America." The composition is by no means calculated to augment the Strauss family's reputation for writing good dance music, and if it justly represents the author's ideas of life in this country, why the sooner he gets out of this land the better for him; for anything more commonplace, vapid, stupid, insignificant and insipid than Eduard Strauss' latest waltz, "Life in America," has rarely, if ever, been put on music paper and in print.
330A CABLEGRAM from Copenhagen to the Baltimore "Sun" states that the King of Denmark has knighted Asger Hamerik, director of the Peabody Institute, of Baltimore. No reason is assigned for this chivalrous act, and as, we believe, Mr. Hamerik is not a citizen of this country he can accept the honor conferred by his royal master. The many North suites composed by Sir Asger are the probable cause of this distinction; and as he is a most gifted composer and an instrumentalist of no mean order, he will now write some new work dedicated to his royal highness, the successor of the Hamlet family. Our congratulations to the Sir Knight Hamerik and long may he wave!
331ONE of the most important subjects to be discussed at the Detroit meeting of the Music Teachers' National Association is the question of annual or biennial meetings. It will require considerable persuasion to make some of the members vote in favor of a change, as it is feared that the interest in the national association may lag if more than one year intervenes between the meetings. Those in favor of a change represent a large and enthusiastic element in the association, and we are of the opinion that interesting debates and also preliminary discussions will take place on this all-important question. Those States having strong State associations will demand a change, while the members from States having small organizations will naturally adhere to the annual meetings.
332FROM Weimar we receive the news that on the occasion of the recent meeting there of the Goethe Society Privy Councillor Ruland made most interesting and new announcements, based upon late researches and findings, which throw new lights upon Goethe's musical studies and his relations to music. According to Ruland Goethe had been buying through Schicht in Leipsic quite a quantity of old Italian sacred and operatic music. Moreover, there seems no doubt that the great poet occupied himself extensively with the study of harmony and counterpoint, and lastly it is asserted that he bought up some manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach and himself arranged some of the latter's organ works for string quartet. Goethe's taste for and knowledge of painting and sculpture have often been mentioned, but this is the first time that his technical proficiency in music is asserted and proven.
333DOES not the Detroit meeting of the Music Teachers' National Association offer the proper opportunity to put the association on record against the absurd degree of Doctor of Music, conferred ad libitum by many country schools and colleges upon any or every music teacher who may have a "pull" with the faculty so called? THE MUSICAL COURIER has succeeded in making the degree so ridiculous that many of the "Doctors" refuse to be called by their titles, and as this state of affairs has been brought about by a newspaper would it not redound to the credit of the national association to pass a resolution in meek and yet strong language recognizing the absurdity of the degree, and calling upon all the members to refuse it in the future? The member who gets up and has the following resolution presented and passed stands an excellent show of making himself popular with and respected by the whole profession in the United States and Canada:
334Whereas, It has become the custom with the faculties of many schools and colleges in this blessed land to confer a degree called "Doctor of Music" upon music teachers and musicians; and
335Whereas, These schools and colleges having no musical curriculum and therefore no means of ascertaining the qualifications of those upon whom they confer this degree; and
336Whereas, The degree has been and from all appearances will continue to be conferred upon the music teacher connected with the school or college; and
337Whereas, Nobody under Heaven really knows what a Doctor of Music is; be it
338Resolved, That the Music Teachers' National Association, at its fourteenth annual meeting, held in the beautiful city of Detroit, A. D. 1890, hereby concludes that it is the duty of every music teacher or musician to refuse in the future to accept this anomalous degree; and be it
339Resolved, That the music teacher or musician who shall accept the said degree will unquestionably make a fool of himself.
340THE reason why a certain violinist is swapping complimentary letters with a violin dealer in this city who is publishing them is due to the fact that the violin dealer has given his notes as security for a debt due by the violinist to a printer who did all the printing for the violinist last season, a season which proved to be rather disastrous to the violinist. To the world at large these complimentary exchanges read very neat and even humane, but to those who know all about it the affair has a rather tiresome aspect. Is it not better to keep these things quiet instead of parading them, with the risk of exposing their true inwardness?
341THE advertisement of Manager Hermann Wolff, of Berlin, in the "Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung," of that city, announcing that he is the agent of Mr. Edmund C. Stanton, of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, constitutes a falsehood. Mr. Stanton had only one transaction with said Wolff, and that was the engagement of Hannes von Bülow, all other engagements made by Mr. Stanton having been made entirely independent of said Wolff. When some of our transatlantic brethren speak of humbug, it would not be a bad idea to drop the prefix "American," for there seems to be as much humbug on the other side as on this.
342F. X. ARENS TO THE M. T. N. A.
343VIENNA, June 9, 1890.
344MY DEAR MUSICAL COURIER—I have sent to the secretary of the M. T. N. A. some very important suggestions having for their object a worthy representation of American music at the coming world's fair at Chicago, with the request to place same before the Detroit convention. In consideration of the urgency of the matter, and in view of my inability to be present at the coming meeting, I would beg of you please to publish the whole letter in extenso, in order that the members of the M. T. N. A. may have ample time to consider the practicability and expediency of the proposed measures before the business meeting proper. Thanking you in advance for your obliging kindness, I remain, yours as ever,
345F. X. ARENS.
346MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—As the proposed plan of biennial meetings is very likely to be accepted at the present business session I would beg leave to make a proposition in connection therewith, to wit:
347Let the M. T. N. A. meet at some Eastern city next year (if at all), and then, after a lapse of two or three years, at Chicago, Ill. My reasons for this proposition are as follows:
3481. Three years hence the world's fair will be held in Chicago, everybody will rush thither; as a result a meeting in any other city, whether State or national, will prove a failure for lack of interest and attendance.
3492. Albeit Chicago has had the honor but two years ago, the M. T. N. A. must, nevertheless, meet there again in 1893, in order to adequately and worthily represent the progress of America in the realm of musical art. This is due to the association, and—I wish to emphasize the word—it is also its duty.
350I have good reasons to fear that otherwise Chicago will make extensive preparations for adequate exhibits of American sculpture, paintings, &c., but that American music will be accorded a Cinderella-like treatment. Nor could we afterward make Chicago responsible for this, for the simple reason that American painters, sculptors and architects have come to be recognized, while as yet very few, even in our country, are aware of the wonderful progress of matters musical in the United States, the annual meetings of the State and national associations notwithstanding. In way of illustration of the above allow me to mention that last October the Chicago papers agitated the
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