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Musical Courier 1895-12-25: Vol 31 Iss 825, 1895
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1time his resignation is regretfully realized as final, and President Peter Rudolph Neff, of just fame and popularity, has to be permanently missed from the College of Music.
3An able, skillful, thoughtful director, as also a genial gentlemanly, inspiring personality, identified with the college through all its years of passage into lasting fame, will now detach his influence from the institution. He has not done so, however, before the college has fixed itself on an enduring basis which demands only ordinary zeal and discretion to maintain.
5The Cincinnati College of Music is established on emulative lines. No pupils are there accepted unless they possess talent worthy of cultivation. This is the primary requirement. After this the matter of payment for tuition is regulated according to the capacity of the student. The institution being regulated on a plan which admits of no profit, pupils are assessed barely in proportion to the current expenses of teachers and the support of the building itself. There are numerous gifted pupils who pay nothing, but this is a matter kept generally secret. The college never refuses a pupil too poor to pay, but the teachers are kept in ignorance of the pecuniary standing of any pupil and have no idea whether they have under instruction the student of liberal means or the child of poverty and talent.
7The college, endowed by a few liberal citizens, rejects any pupil who does not exhibit talent. The institution, not being conducted on commercial lines, but on the contrary running financial risk by the addition of each pupil to its over full list, maintains a standard of merit which reflects equally on the college and the pupil accepted. To be a student of the Cincinnati College of Music you have to possess adjudged talent.
9The scheme of education embraces, in addition to all the instrumental departments, classes of language, French, German, Italian and Spanish, which are in flourishing condition. The results of the vocal and instrumental departments are widely known to be specifically artistic, and the advances made in the violin department, with its accessories of ensemble and orchestral classes, have been of late most remarkable. Why will not other cities copy Cincinnati in its enterprise and artistic loyalty? It has constituted itself a centre of musical education and progress, and its influence radiates broadly, not only through the United States of America, but through the musical centres of Europe, where its pupils sing, play and win success in the numerous instances where they appear. It is a noble, faithful representation of a noble artistic cause, and in its conception and growth can find few rivals on its own soil. Pity it is it cannot be met in duplication.
11A pupil too poor to pay is never refused. If they have talent they are received. Cases occur where the gifted pupils without means present themselves in such excess that bills have had to be sent to the trustees, which are always honored.
13The whole plan of the Cincinnati College of Music is noble, progressive, generous and artistically comprehensive in a degree which makes itself felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. The withdrawal from the activity of affairs of its valuable president, Peter Rudolph Neff, is to be deplored, while at the same time a warm vote of cordial congratulation is in order for this man who has so skillfully and successfully engineered the college's affairs during its entire period of birth and lusty growth.
15President Neff has taken in hand a sturdy, steady ship, and leaves it only when its fixture in port is a thing accomplished.
17Vienna.—The first performance of Johann Strauss' new operetta Waldmeister encountered some difficulties before it took place publicly. Girardi, a great Viennese favorite, did not like his part, and was only induced after long delay to go on with it. Then Fräulein Dirken's fell sick and left the town. The foreign managers who came to attend the first production, Pollini, Neumann and Blumenthal, had to wait a whole week. When the performance did take place it was a great success.
19Suppe.—The heirs of Franz Suppé have commissioned Richard Tautenhayn to design a monument to be erected to the composer's memory in the Central Cemetery, Vienna.
21ANTONIA H.
22SAWYER,
23Contralto.
24ORATORIO AND CONCERT.
25ADDRESS
26218 West 44th Street,
27NEW YORK.
29A PIANO PALACE.
30The Place Where the Baldwin Piano Co. Manufacture.
32A MODEL OF ITS KIND.
34The Architecture Is of the Renaissance Period, with Classic Details—Doorway and Driveway Sketches—Full Equipment for All Demands of Modern Piano Making—Some Peculiar Improvements in the Baldwin Make—The Eye as Well as the Ear to Be Pleased—Special Designs.
36The Baldwin Enterprise.
38UP on Gilbert avenue, just opposite the Eden Park entrance, a splendid building approaches completion.
40Its architecture is the Italian transition, with classic details. The natural inference upon beholding it is that it is the best light and air and freedom from soot and dirt, advantages which few manufacturing enterprises in the heart of the city enjoy and which are particularly desirable in a piano factory.
42A railroad switch at the rear runs on their property, which delivers to them merchandise, lumber and coal, the lumber being stored on the grounds set apart exclusively for that purpose, just across the railroad tracks, for use as they need it.
44Two things struck the writer while visiting this plant—one is that the Baldwin Piano Company makes no secret of the art of piano making, and in its catalogue gives the reader the clearest idea of how its piano is made; the other thing is that pianos are not all made alike by any means. A study of the methods reveals that special attention is paid to producing the best results musically. This was emphasized in noting the treatment with reference to the acoustic rim, an entirely new and unique feature of piano manufacture.
46Acoustic Rim.
48The office of the acoustic rim is to form a conducting circle for the reinforcement of tone, and is based upon the fact that wood fibres conduct vibrations with greater facility when uninterrupted. The rim is built up of long layers of veneer glued and bent into shape; being endless.
50Good Opening
52For thoroughly competent piano teacher; $250 a month guaranteed; some capital required. Address, with stamp for reply.
54H. B. WILLIAMS,
55The Musical Courier Office, New York.
57200 Free Organ Recitals
58By GERRIT SMITH.
60Send for classified list of over six hundred compositions performed at these Recitals. Address
62GERRIT SMITH,
63South Church, Madison Avenue, Cor. 38th St., NEW YORK.
65D. H. Baldwin.
67ALIDA VARENA,
68Prima Donna Soprano.
69(Certificated by Mme. MARCHESI.)
70AVAILABLE IN
71CONCERT, ORATORIO, OPERA and RECITALS.
72DIRECTION:
73H. M. HIRSCHBERG
74MUSICAL AGENCY,
75156 Fifth Avenue,
76NEW YORK.
77Circulars and information from any recognized Bureau.
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