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Musical Courier 1898-08-15: Vol 37 Iss 962, 1898
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER.
3BRITISH OFFICES OF THE MUSICAL COURIER,
421 Princes Street, Cavendish Square,
5LONDON, W., August 5, 1888.
7HERR PAUL GRAENER has been appointed musical director at the Haymarket Theatre, and will enter upon his duties on September 3.
9Edwin A. Abbey, R. A., will design the costumes for "Richard II," which is to be produced by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum next January, and the music will be composed by Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
11The Queen, through Sir Arthur Bigge, has sent Maurice Grau a framed and signed photograph of herself as a souvenir of the opera and other musical performances at Windsor Castle this season.
13Mlle. Yvette Guilbert has every reason to congratulate herself on the contract just made for a tour through Russia, Austria, Germany and Roumania, since, if report says true, she is to receive £12,000 for one hundred concerts, and in addition 45 per cent. of the gross takings.
15Wilhelm Bruch has been appointed conductor of the Scottish Orchestra in succession to Willem Kes. He is a native of Mayence, and studied music at the Cologne Conservatorium, after leaving which he conducted concerts at Freiburg and Baden. Subsequently he became conductor of the Strasbourg Opera House, and now comes to Scotland armed with testimonials from Richter and Humperdinck, who both think very highly of him.
17Herr Humperdinck's new orchestral work for the Leeds Musical Festival is entitled "Moorish Rhapsody," and is divided into three movements, the first "Tarifa," the second (a set of Moorish dances) "Tangier," and the third "Tetuan." The composer will make his first appearance as a conductor in England when he comes to Leeds to conduct this work.
19Sir Alexander Mackenzie will probably begin a new opera this autumn on the subject of "The Cricket on the Hearth," thus challenging comparison with Herr Goldmark. For this work, Mr. Sturgess will provide the libretto. During his holidays Sir Alexander proposed to write the incidental music for "Richard II," with which Sir Henry Irving will re-open the Lyceum.
21Louis N. Parker has in preparation a new play, for which Frederick Corder is writing the incidental music.
23Forbes Robertson has commissioned Hamish MacCunn to write the incidental music for the forthcoming revival of "Macbeth" at the Lyceum.
25M. Bizet, the son of the composer of "Carmen," was the involuntary cause of a serious accident at Truville the other day. While driving a motor car along a hilly and winding road, on turning a sharp corner he came suddenly upon a private carriage. Though he managed to turn his machine aside to avoid a collision, the horse shied violently, upsetting the carriage and its occupants, one of whom, a lady, sustained concussion of the brain and died shortly afterward.
27Mrs. Tirzeh Hamlen Rutland, the American contralto, who recently came to London, will make her first appearance at St. James' Hall ballad concerts this winter. She is under the management of the Archer Anglo-American Agency.
29Signor Alberto Visetti is busy translating a very interesting work by Cametti, of Rome, on the life and works of Palestrina. This book brings to light many facts hitherto unknown regarding the life of this great musician. At the same time Signor Visetti is revising and arranging with piano accompaniments a series of solfeggi written at the beginning of the last century by the celebrated Maestro Aprile. These are specially designed for the study of sostenuto and legato. Signor Visetti will at the end of this month visit his old master, Professor Draeseke, in Dresden, whose sacred work, "Christus," is to be performed with much solemnity at Mannheim, at the beginning of the year.
31Mme. Ella Russell and Miss Pauline Joran are engaged for the forthcoming season of opera at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, which is to open for two weeks on the 22d inst., under the direction of Michael Gunn. This is in connection with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.
33Mrs. Norman Kellogg, of Chicago, who has an exceptionally fine dramatic soprano voice, passed through London last week, en route for Paris, where she will study with Sbriglia during the coming winter. I trust we may hear her at Covent Garden next season.
35Experiments have recently been made by some French professors with regard to the influence of music on hypnotic subjects. They have discovered that a certain lady when in a hypnotical state becomes extremely sensitive to sound, receiving different impressions from sacred and profane music to an extent unknown in the natural state. Perhaps we may yet hear of a Trilby in real life!
37The manager of the Alexandra Palace, Mr. Hawkins, has evidently no intention of letting his spirits be dampened by the all-pervading fin-de-saison depression. All through August and September, the Palace is to be the scene of various fêtes, including the open-air performance of "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It," a brass-band contest, a monster fête in aid of the City and Metropolitan Police Orphanage, military tournament, and a grand performance of "The Golden Legend," under the direction of George Riseley. The close of the season at the Alexandra Palace will not take place until November 5. Nor does Mr. Hawkins' enterprise stop with the present season, for he is already negotiating for novelties to be produced next year.
39The new stage of the Guildhall School of Music has been found to be too small for practical purposes, and is therefore to be enlarged during the holidays. As it now stands, it is only 14 feet deep, but 4 or 5 feet can be added by throwing forward the proscenium, and this alteration will be completed before the end of September, when the school term begins.
41Herr Carl Klindworth, of Berlin, is expected to visit London during the next season to conduct some orchestral concerts.
43It is rumored that the Grand Duke of Baden has granted permission to Herr Mottl to bring over the artists and chorus of the Carlsruhe Opera House to appear here next season. Now that permission is granted, negotiations for a theatre will progress, and I trust favorably, as the fine work of this artistic organization has now become well known, and would be appreciated in London.
45Goldmark's "Königin von Saba" will be produced at Covent Garden next year.
47Gounod's "Queen of Sheba," Farnie's version of which was produced at the Crystal Palace in 1865, is about to be given by Henry J. Wood at Nottingham.
49The libretto by Mr. Brookfield for Ivan Caryll's new comic opera, commissioned for the Savoy, is a version of "L'Etoile."
51Miss Rosa Green has been specially engaged for the Maine Festival in October. She has been very successful in England the past season. Besides her provincial work with some of the leading orchestras, she has sung at the Mottl concerts, Queen's Hall, the famous "Popular" Saturday and Monday concerts at St. James' Hall, and the Crystal Palace Saturday afternoon concerts, all of which are among the best in London, and the most difficult to gain an appearance in. Miss Green has now become one of our leading contralto vocalists, and her bookings for the forthcoming season are excellent.
53Denis O'Sullivan sails to-morrow to take the part of the hero in an opera by Harry B. Smith and Louis Englander.
55Francis Stewart, the well-known vocal teacher of San Francisco, left for home Wednesday, after a visit to London and the Continent.
57Perley Dunn Aldrich has been some time in London this season, and there are probabilities that he will give some of his recitals here next year.
59Among the old friends who have visited London this season is Miss Emma Thursby, who has spent part of her holidays here, and is now gone to the lake district for a rest, prior to returning home early in the autumn.
61To-morrow night closes the season of the La Scala Orchestra of Milan, which Signor Leandro Campanari brought here this season to play at the Imperial Institute. During their two months' work here, they have played 185 orchestral selections, which has proved so satisfactory to the management that I understand they have been re-engaged for next season. This is the best compliment that could have been paid Signor Campanari and his orchestra.
63From a letter published lately in the Globe, it would seem that the criminal lunatics who are detained during Her Majesty's pleasure at Broadmoor Asylum do not have a bad time of it. Indeed, with five hours in the gardens daily, billiards, bagatelle, cards, and a liberal allowance of periodicals and newspapers, they may be said to live in exceedingly comfortable circumstances. We hear also of a band playing in the gardens daily, and plenty of music among the patients themselves. The beneficial effect of music on the savage breast—and a murderer is a savage, though not of a high order—was long ago pointed out by Congreve, and we know, too, that he "who has no music in himself is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils," and is in no wise to be trusted. It is possible that the authorities at Broadmoor are turning their attention to music as a therapeutic agent, and if so, it will be interesting to hear the result of their experiments.
65HINTS TO STUDENTS FROM DR. TURPIN.
67At the fiftieth half-yearly meeting, held at Trinity College, July 27, when prizes were distributed to the successful students, Dr. E. H. Turpin, the warden, gave a helpful address, in which he urged students to regard with due respect perfect accuracy in both theory and practice as the orthography and syntax of the tone-language, but not to fail in their deeper respect for ideality and feeling. The speaker reminded his hearers that the studied adjustment of intellectual and emotional power was the real basis of artistic success.
69New difficulties and responsibilities, the speaker thought, were likely to fall to the lot of students, teachers, and examiners in the growing multiplicity of methods. Books of a more or less speculative, not to say dogmatic, character, are making claims upon the attention of students from day to day. Mr. Herbert Spencer had written with force and eloquence upon the possibility of a new political tyranny, which may be formed by men and parties starting upon the basis of earnest thought and liberal views, by means of the assertive character of propounded views and their immediate acceptance, on the strength of the well-earned reputation of such leaders and parties. Similarly we may have a new dogmatism in the realms of art, in the direction of a freedom not altogether built upon the foundation of past learning, as safest line of progress. But the apparent confusion of multiplied methods may be avoided by a careful study of underlying principles. "Of the making of books, there is no end," said the sage; but the same writer also pointed out that however great was the force of learning, the power of wisdom—as in the faithful, courageous use of our own gifts and common sense—was a still more precious and reliable influence for good.
71It was said that the great leader of men, and statesman, President McKinley, once observed that it was well to read text-books, and to select one to work from; the thought underlying these words indicating the acceptance of rules only upon all-round study and ample conviction.
73Observation had been called the learning of genius. Painters, poets and novelists study nature and character by means of the powers of observation; indeed, they seem to practice such inspection from two points of view—the desire to stimulate and inform their powers of imagination, and the hope of gathering definite impressions of proportion and effect. Musical students should still more educate their powers of observation. Much is said of the necessity and vital importance of listening to fine music. There should also be an inspection of music by sight; compositions by great masters should be carefully scanned on paper, in order to better secure a knowledge of the means whereby proportion of parts and resultant effects may be more fully understood by students of the sister arts of musical composition and performance. F. V. ATWATER.
75"For Love or War."
77Imre Kiralfy has procured from Rudolph Aronson the band parts of his popular march "For Love or War," which will be played at the inauguration of the "Naval Show" Thursday evening at Madison Square Garden. It was this march which was played by the band of the armored cruiser New York on the eve of the sinking of the Merrimac.
79New York College of Music.
81Alexander Lambert will reopen the New York College of Music on September 1 with a greatly enlarged faculty. Among the forty teachers now comprising it are Alexander Lambert, Aimé Lachaume, Frank Damrosch and Caroline Montefiore.
83The new catalogue of the college has just been issued and gives a great deal of information on important matters pertaining to the college, besides all the interesting programs of the past season.
85Sherwood at Chautauqua.
87The work done this season at Chautauqua by Wm. H. Sherwood is sure to have a far reaching effect. In conjunction with Sol Marcosson, Jaroslaw de Zielinski and Dr. Henry G. Hanchett, some great programs have been played, Dr. Hanchett giving the lecture-recitals. These are the programs for Friday and Saturday next, Sherwood playing:
89Friday, August 19, 5 P. M.
90Lecture-Recital by Dr. H. G. Hanchett.
91Topic, "Unity."
92Fantaisie in C, op. 15……………………….Schubert one of two readings
93Fantaisie in C, op. 15………………………..Schubert one of two readings
94Fantaisie in Sonata form, op. 5…………………Saran
95Sonata in E flat, op. 31, No. 3…………………Beethoven
97Saturday, August 20, 5 P. M.
98Lecture-Recital by Dr. H. G. Hanchett.
99Topic, "Sonata Form."
100Organ Fantaisie in G minor…………………….Bach-Liszt
101Sonata in E flat (First Movement)………………Mozart
102Sonata in A minor, op. 42……………………Schubert one of two readings
103Sonata in A minor, op. 42……………………..Schubert one of two readings
104(Two movements only—Allegro and Scherzo.)
105Waldstein Sonata in C, op. 53…………………Beethoven
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