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Musical Courier 1902-02-26: Vol 44 Iss 1144, 1902
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1ity. It is easy to overstep the line that divides the two. De Pachmann keeps his balance with wonderful tact and refinement. Busoni is in no danger of lapsing into maudlin emotion. He is in no danger of lapsing into anything. He is intellectual, he is sane, he is well balanced, he is staid, he is calm, he is critical, he is cold—and that is why he is no player of Chopin.
3To hear Busoni at his best was to be at his third recital. Weber, Bach and Franck, that is music of the kind he likes. In it he has few peers on the piano.
5Max Pauer is an academical pianist who whiles far from the field where hysterical maniacs claw the keys and wild eyed pounders rend the strings. Pauer's art is healthy, virile, masculine. And, best of all, he knows his strength and his weaknesses, and he builds his programs accordingly. He gives Chopin a wide berth, an example that Busoni might well follow.
7Edouard Risler's latest concerts have made a better impression than his first. He is an excellent musician, with reliable technic, firm rhythm, and correct phrasing.
9Berlin Gossip.
11Repertory at the Royal Opera for the current week: "Prophet," "Faust," "Carmen," "Heilmar," "Samson and Dalilah," "Marriage of Figaro," "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci." Theatre des Westens: "Marriage of Figaro," "Eugen Onegin," "Vienna Blood," "Fledermaus" and "La Dame Blanche."
13The recent "Siegfried" production in Paris was a good measure with which to gauge the standard of musical criticism in the French metropolis. The clever critic of the London Daily News has studied these reviews and finds that, "by general assent, the Paris dragon marks the highest point yet attained in true Wagnerian art."
15There is a refined vaudeville theatre in town that pays its "second" leader the encouraging sum of 2 marks per day—about 50 cents in American money! For this remuneration the man is required to conduct rehearsals daily, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and to assist at the performance from 7 p. m. to 11 p. m. The balance of his time is taken up with orchestrating, arranging, &c., for which there is no extra pay. No wonder it is the height of every German musician's ambition to save enough money for a steerage ticket, set sail for America and join the union.
17Miss Zudie Harris, the Louisville pianist, will start on an extended concert tour in March. Dates already booked are Magdeburg, Dresden, Leipsic, Lucerne, Munich, Zurich and Geneva. Ludwig Schalk, an American baritone, will assist at these recitals, with a group of songs by Miss Harris.
19Mr. Platt, a young American pianist, well known in Berlin's musical colony, announces two concerts, for February 20 and March 7. At the first of these concerts Mr. Platt will play concertos by Beethoven, C minor, and Rubinstein, D minor, and Liszt's "Hungarian Fantaisie."
21American Student (just returned home from Berlin)—My parents tried hard to keep me from becoming a musician.
23Friend (drily)—I congratulate them on their success.
25Mrs. Groenvelt-Chop, of New Orleans, made a hit at an orchestral concert last week in Rendsburg. The gifted artist played concertos by Tschaikowsky and Max Chop. The latter's work, in C minor, is having encouraging vogue this winter.
27Miss Adelaide Rehmann, who has been studying with Prof. Dr. Jedliczka for two years, will shortly leave for America, where she is to play at the spring meeting of the Society of Music Teachers of Iowa, at Dubuque, Ia.
29Long ere this you will have received news of Dr. Salomon Jadassohn's death, in Leipsic, on February 1, at the age of seventy. He was a pupil of Liszt and Hauptmann. His works on harmony, counterpoint, form, canon and fugue have become standard factors in musical pedagogy. Jadassohn had received some little renown, too, as a composer, but it is chiefly as a theoretician that his name will live in musical history.
31Lilli Lehmann's child-husband, Paul Kalisch, the toy tenor, met with no small degree of success at a recent Lamoureux concert in Paris.
33The German Times contains a description of an elaborate dinner and reception given by Dr. and Mrs. Lawley Yorke. The passage of interest to Americans reads: "The vocal selections rendered by Mr. Kirkham, the gifted tenor, and Miss Ramsey, the talented young vocalist, of Salt Lake City, formed an enjoyable feature of the evening."
35Hans Richter has been engaged as conductor of the Paris "Götterdämmerung" performance in May.
37Here is a list of the composers, most of them unfamiliar to American musicians, whose works were performed at the recent festival in Amsterdam: Emile von Bruckencrook, Bernard Zweers, Karel Smulders, Alphons Diepenbrock, M. H. van't Kruys, Anton Averkamp, Johann Wagenaar, Dirk Schäfer, Peter van Anrooy, Willem Kes, G. H. Witte, Philip Loots, C. H. Coster, Jan W. C. Brandts-Buys, C. F. Hendricks, Jr., Richard Hol, Gottfried Mann, Hugo Nolthenius and Catharina van Remees.
39Miss Mary Halton, of New York, made a hit at Hamburg, where she sang the leading soprano role in Hugo Felix's new opera, "Rhodope."
41Frederick Lamond is winning success in Frankfort with a series of four Beethoven recitals. The Frankforters have taste.
43I have written several times about our big Minstrel Show, which is closely crowding the Royal Opera and the Nikisch concerts for first place in public interest. Last week's Dresden Guide contained this item on the subject: "Fifty American musical students and society people—a chorus of forty, ten soloists and an amateur orchestra of thirty members—intend to give a grand negro minstrel performance in Berlin on February 14 in aid of some charity. They entertain the idea of repeating the show in Dresden, the proceeds to be devoted to charity, some time in March, and Leonard Liebling came over
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