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Musical Courier 1895-10-16: Vol 31 Iss 815, 1895
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1been referred to in these columns. The mother of the girls has gone home.
3Another exceedingly bright girl from Indianapolis, Ind., is Miss Ruby Smith, who is in Paris, and is happily located at the Lafayette Home. Nothing is decided yet about vocal instruction, but she has commenced the phonic course in French pronunciation with the Yersins. More later, and also about a brilliant song bird from Amsterdam, Miss Jacobson.
5The well-known musical instrument manufacturer Mr. Edwin J. Cubley and daughter are making a stay of a few weeks in Paris, after an extended European trip and a four months' stay in London. Mr. Cubley is quite a traveler, having crossed the ocean three times, and been all over Europe. He is disgusted with the absence of home comfort and the miserable traveling accommodations of Paris. He could not have believed any country of such prestige so far behind the times in modern civilization. His home is in Chicago. His daughter sings and plays nicely.
7Mr. Meux, a pupil of M. Bouhy, was the soloist at St. Joseph's Church, Avenue Hoche, on Sunday. It will be remembered that Mr. Legrand Howland, of New York, is organist of this church. Mr. Meux has a very fine natural voice of great sweetness, and he is very dramatic. He sang Faure's O Salutaris and a Tantum Ergo by Renaud. On the 23d, at a grand reopening service of the church, for which rehearsals are already in progress, he will also sing. All about it when it takes place.
9Mme. Renée Richard has returned to Paris. Her classes commence on October 1.
11Great rejoicing in the Marchesi household, due to the advent of twins, girls, in the home of "Mme. Blanche," Mme. Marchesi's daughter. The girls declare that these two new comers are already booked for the school—one soprano, the other contralto.
13FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS.
15Paderewski's American Tour.
17THE following tables of Paderewski's route for the season 1895-6, with the names of the various halls in which he is to play, have been compiled specially for THE MUSICAL COURIER.
19Paderewski will give four performances with orchestra of his new Polish Fantaisie, the first on his opening night, November 4, at Carnegie Hall, with the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conductor; the second on November 6, with the same orchestra and conductor, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music; the third on November 11, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with the Seidl Society, Anton Seidl conductor, and the fourth on November 19, at the Boston Music Hall, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Emil Paur conductor. On March 13 and 14 he will play with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra in Chicago in a program not yet arranged. The remainder of his appearances will all be unaccompanied piano recitals.
21Nov. 4—Opening with Damrosch Orchestra, Polish Fantaisie………..Carnegie Music Hall, New York
226—Philadelphia, Pa………..Academy of Music, with New York Symphony Orchestra
239—New York, first recital…..Carnegie Music Hall
2411—Brooklyn, Seidl Society…..Academy of Music, with Seidl Orchestra
2513—Philadelphia, first recital…..Academy of Music
2616—New York, second recital…Carnegie Music Hall
2719—Boston, with Symphony Orchestra….Music Hall
2821—Portland, Me………………..City Hall
2922—"(afternoon)…………."
3023—Boston, first recital………….Music Hall
3125—Worcester, Mass………….Mechanics' Hall
3227—Springfield, Mass………….Court Square Theatre
3328—Troy, N. Y. (Thanksgiving)……..Music Hall
3430—Boston, second recital…………."
36Dec. 2—Hartford, Conn………….Foot Guard Armory Hall
373—New Haven, Conn………….Hyperion Theatre
385—Providence, R. I………….Infantry Hall
397—Boston, third recital………….Music Hall
409—Philadelphia, second recital…..Academy of Music
4110—Washington, D. C………….Lafayette Opera House
4211—Baltimore, Md………………..Music Hall
4313—Washington, D. C………….Lafayette Opera House
4416—Pittsburg, Pa………………..Carnegie Hall
4518—"(afternoon)…………."
4619—Cleveland, Ohio………….Music Hall
4721—Buffalo, N. Y……………….."
4828—Brooklyn, first recital…..Academy of Music
50Jan. 4—New York………….Carnegie Music Hall
516—Syracuse, N. Y………….Alhambra Theatre
527—"(afternoon)…………."
538—Cincinnati, Ohio………….Pike's Opera House
549—Louisville, Ky………….Macaulay's Theatre
5510—"(afternoon)…………."
5611—Indianapolis, (matinée)…..English Opera House
5718—Chicago, Ill………………..Auditorium
5814—"(afternoon)…………."
5915—"(afternoon)…………."
6016—"(afternoon)…………."
6117—St. Louis, Mo.(evening)…..Exposition Hall
6218—"(afternoon)…………."
64Here follows the extraordinary special arrangement for Paderewski's Southern tournée, made by Mr. J. C. Fryer. The farthest point reached by Paderewski on his other American tours was St. Louis. From this point on his forthcoming tour he will set out, taking the Southern route to San Francisco. This, as Mr. Fryer has calculated, will take the artist at a trying period of the season away from the rigorous climate of the West, while affording a long wished for satisfaction to an enormous Southern and Californian contingent. The outlook for Paderewski through the South and California is one of brilliant prosperity, and Mr. Fryer estimates that by the time he has reached New Orleans the pianist will be so fascinated with Southern personality, climate, hospitality and general mode of life that he will not be loath to linger among these new and delightful people rather than pursue the circuit which shall return him to the North.
66From St. Louis the tour continues as follows:
68Jan. 20—Nashville, Tenn………….New Masonic Temple
6921—"(afternoon)…………."
7022—Atlanta, Ga………….De Give's Opera House
7123—"(afternoon)…………."
7224—Memphis, Tenn. (evening)…..Grand Opera House
7325—"(afternoon)…………."
7427—New Orleans, La………….Academy of Music
7528—"(afternoon)…………."
7629—"(afternoon)…………."
7730—Mobile, Ala.(possibly)………….Principal theatre
7831—"(afternoon)…………."
80Feb. 1—New Orleans, La.(afternoon)…..Academy of Music
813—"(possibly)…………."
824—Travel.
835—"
846—San Diego, Cal………………..Opera House
857—"(afternoon)…………."
868—Los Angeles, Cal……………….."
8710—"
8811—"
8912—"
9013—"
9114—"
9215—"
9317—"
9418—"
9519—"
9620—"
9721—"
9822—"
9924—"
10025—"
10126—"
10227—"
10328—"
105San Francisco, Cal….New California Theatre, seven or eight recitals.
107Rest in California.
109With considerable difficulty this new California theatre was obtained by Mr. Fryer for Paderewski's opening night, February 10. The theatre had been already engaged by Mr. Tom Kean, the eminent tragedian, who was induced to postpone the opening of his own season in order to allow the great pianist to make his San Franciscan début on a Monday evening. It is the rule in California and New Orleans, Mr. Fryer states, to have an artistic tournée open on a Sunday evening, but as this would not have been agreeable to Paderewski, the present arrangement is fortuitous. His opening night, February 10, will be followed by matinées on Wednesday and Friday, 12th and 14th, and in the following week there will be three matinée performances, taking place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, February 17, 19 and 21. The tournée here will close with a grand farewell performance, to take place at Baldwin's Theatre on Sunday evening, February 23, and then Paderewski from the 24th to the 29th will enjoy a rest in the brilliant Californian city before starting for the following points:
111March 4—Salt Lake City, Utah………….principal hall
1125—"(afternoon)…………."
1136—"(afternoon)…………."
1147—Denver, Col………….Tabor's Opera House
1159—"(afternoon)…………."
11610 or 11—Kansas City…………."
11713—Chicago………….Chicago Auditorium
11814—"(afternoon)…………."
11916—Duluth………….principal opera house
12018—St. Paul………….Metropolitan Opera House
12119—Minneapolis………….Lyceum Theatre
12221—Milwaukee………….Pabst Theatre
124After this begin the series of farewell concerts, which will begin possibly at Kansas City, thence to Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, whence to Canada, where Paderewski will open at Toronto, giving two recitals at Massey Music Hall. These will be followed by two recitals at the Montreal Academy of Music, which is the final point mapped out for the tour.
126The present idea with Paderewski is to give eighty recitals, closing his season the latter part of May, but if precedent goes for anything request performances will be the vogue, and the pianist's estimate for himself will likely be increased.
128In arranging for this tournée Mr. Fryer has taken into consideration the fashionable clientèle always attracted by Paderewski, and has used particular pains to arrange everywhere possible—and it has in most places been made possible—for the most fashionable theatre of the place. In cities where Paderewski played before in the largest hall then existent he will now find himself transplanted to newly finished theatres in the most aristocratic quarters. Several of these new theatres Mr. Fryer describes as truly magnificent, rivaling houses of the best type in New York.
130The Hyperion Theatre in New Haven, holding 2,000 persons, and which made bankrupt the man who built it, will be new quarters, and are described by Mr. Fryer as magnificent. In Washington, where Paderewski expects to play at Metzerott Hall, he will play instead at the new Lafayette Opera House, built on the site of the old Blaine mansion in the most fashionable quarter of the city, and which is one of the handsomest theatres in the United States. Again, in Pittsburg the new Carnegie Hall, a luxurious house handsomely furnished throughout with chairs almost capacious enough for two, will be the leading place of amusement. And other cities have been chosen from in like fashion with particular regard to fashionable environments.
132Enormous success is naturally attended in Chicago. Here in April, 1893, in the Auditorium, where he will play again this season, Paderewski drew a house of $7,417. Indications for the coming season are no smaller. From the business point of view the panorama is everywhere illumined for the great pianist with a prosperous light.
134The above information has courteously been provided especially for THE MUSICAL COURIER by Mr. J. C. Fryer. Paderewski leaves Liverpool to-day with his secretary, Mr. Hugo Görlitz.
136Memories of the Rhine.
138DRESDEN, September 23, 1895.
140"Wenn jemand eine Reise thut
141So kann er was erzählen."
143HAVING just made the excursion from Bonn-Rhein to Mainz—which influenced Beethoven to use these words in his first letter home—after making this journey I can realize the power of this enchanted region over the imagination and work of the "King of Musicians."
145There is a song in the flow of the river, and in each sunbeam a suggestion of the Rhinedaughters. One unconsciously sings to the murmur of the water, and the song in some mysterious manner brings a picture of the Lorelei, as "she combs her golden hair."
147But the river flows on, and we awaken from the dream to find the satisfaction of a beautiful reality. Poetry and music fill the air, and one drinks in with every breath an inspiration to better work and higher art.
149Mainz was reached, and with the influence of the Rhine legends still controlling me I thought of the Opera at Frankfort; but, alas! the season was over. However, it is with pride and pleasure that I heard of the success of Mrs. Alma Powell, the pupil of Mme. Anna Lankow, whose work at home and abroad deserves acknowledgment.
151Failing to hear opera in Frankfort, I returned to lighter musical entertainment, which I found in a concert by one of the finest military bands I ever heard. My surprise may be imagined when the introduction to the Washington Post greeted me. It was like meeting an old friend in a distant land, and, as it was given in a manner that would have made Philip Sousa's heart swell with pride, I was glad to hear the hearty applause it received. I thought whom any times I had heard it tortured, and resented the
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