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Musical Courier 1903-07-08: Vol 47 Iss 1215, 1903
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1BOSTON
3BOSTON, Mass., July 3, 1903.
5THERE is no doubt that there will be a new quartet in Boston next winter connected with the Symphony Orchestra, and that they will give a series of concerts during the season.
7Charles A. Ellis is expected to arrive from Europe some time during the next ten days or fortnight.
9F. R. Comee left for California last Tuesday evening.
11The Kneisel Quartet will give only six concerts next season instead of eight as formerly, and the evening will be changed from Monday to Tuesday.
13The coming week will see a large gathering of teachers from all parts of the country who will be in Boston for the annual meeting of the National Educational Association. Large sums of money have been contributed toward the entertainment of these visitors, and plans have been made for special musical events at Symphony Hall. Chickering & Son have donated Chickering Hall for the use of the teachers for meetings, &c., during the week and have also contributed two lectures by Miss Webster on the evolution of the piano. These lectures take place on Friday, and will doubtless attract much attention.
15The Scranton (Pa.) papers speak in enthusiastic terms of the piano recital by Carl Faelten, of Boston, in their city last Sunday evening. Says the Republican: "Carl Faelten is one of the men of the century. At once a great pianist and teacher, he is also a thinker, and he has already set influences at work which will tend to mold and make a new order of things educationally in the coming years." "It is seldom," says the Tribune, "that in one man is united the great organizing ability necessary to the conception and winning of a school of 500 pupils, the intellectual acumen to originate and amplify a complete system of instruction, and also himself to be an artistic embodiment of the best that all such masters have taught and bequeathed to their artist children."
17From Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, comes word that important action has been taken with reference to the graduates from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Hereafter the trustees will confer the degree of bachelor of music upon those who complete the requirements for graduation from the conservatory.
19Jacob Franklin Alderfer and Bruce Headley Davis, graduates of the Conservatory of Music, will remain for teaching in that department, Alderfer as a teacher of organ, and Davis as a teacher of piano.
21Miss Estelle Reed has been appointed as teacher of the class in public school music in Oberlin Conservatory.
23The Conservatory of Music has appointed Miss Kate Waldo Peck, a graduate of the class of '91, as instructor in singing.
25Killing Mosquitoes by Music.
27The following is an extract from an article in the Boston Transcript of July 2:
28"Mosquito extermination out in Brookline may possibly undergo something of a change in the general method of treatment, inasmuch as a communication has just been received by the board of selectmen of the town calling attention to a new process of lessening the evil by means of musical sounds. The matter has been referred to Albert C. Nyhen, of the bacteriological laboratory, who has general superintendency of the work of petrolizing the catch basins and stagnant spots throughout the town.
29"The new system has been given practical application, and it has been discovered that a certain musical note, raised to a great number of vibrations per second, will cause the mosquito to experience sudden and complete paralysis; and not only does this intensified note arrest the insect in flight or hurl it from ceiling or wall, but also because of a strange construction of the mosquito's auditory system, it causes it to plunge undeviatingly toward the spot whence the music issues.
30"The experiments that have been carried on make very interesting reading. It has been found that the practical application has been effected by raising to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito is most sensitively attuned. This intensified note was produced by sudden electrical impulse upon a musical instrument, whereupon it was noticed that every mosquito in the room had plunged headlong to the instrument, and that when the windows were opened the room was soon filled. Again the amplified note was sounded, and instantly in a cloud the mosquitoes, apparently lifeless, were precipitated against the apparatus."
32Philadelphia Orchestra Gets Mahnken.
34THE executive committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra, of which Fritz Scheel is the conductor, has engaged John Mahnken, of New York, as the general manager and Leigh Mitchell Hodges, of Philadelphia, as assistant manager and press representative. The orchestra is to be congratulated on securing Mr. Mahnken, for he is a man with ability and wide experience. Mr. Mahnken was manager for Theodore Thomas until that conductor removed to Chicago in 1891. He also managed the late Anton Seidl, and since the death of the great Wagnerian conductor has managed the business affairs of other orchestras successfully.
36Mr. Hodges, who is to be the press representative, is a newspaper man of considerably more than ordinary ability. He is originally a Westerner, coming from Kansas City, but more recently has contributed to the literary columns of Philadelphia newspapers and magazines.
38ARTHUR HARTMANN'S SUCCESS.
40IN the annals of violin playing there has been during recent years no more remarkable success than that of Arthur Hartmann. Born in Hungaria, he was brought to America when a baby, and he received his entire musical education in our country. His success as a prodigy was enormous. At the age of seventeen, after finishing his education, he went to Europe and embarked upon an extended concert tour which took him through all the great music centres. Everywhere he appeared he created a furore. In London, Berlin, Leipsic, Vienna, Budapest, Copenhagen and innumerable other cities he was proclaimed a master of his instrument—a genius. Though educated in America, Hartmann is in his personality and entire artistic make up Hungarian. The hot blood of the Magyar flows in his veins and is felt in his playing. one of two readings
41IN the annals of violin playing there has been during recent years no more remarkable success than that of Arthur Hartmann. Born in Hungary, he was brought to America when a baby, and he received his entire musical education in our country. His success as a prodigy was enormous. At the age of seventeen, after finishing his education, he went to Europe and embarked upon an extended concert tour which took him through all the great music centres. Everywhere he appeared he created a furore. In London, Berlin, Leipsic, Vienna, Budapest, Copenhagen and innumerable other cities he was proclaimed a master of his instrument—a genius. Though educated in America, Hartmann is in his personality and entire artistic make up Hungarian. The hot blood of the Magyar flows in his veins and is felt in his playing. one of two readings
43Let us hear what some of the world's greatest musicians say of the young violinist:
44The coming Paganini.—Paderewski.
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47Un artiste de premier ordre.—Ysaye.
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50Kolossale Fertigkeit.—Joachim.
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53A letter from Hans Richter to Hartmann's father:
54WERTER HERR HARTMANN—Ich habe Ihren Sohn Arthur spielen gehört—und finde nicht nur, dass er ein aussergewöhnliches Talent für die Violine besitzt—sondern, dass er ein Meister dieses Instruments ist. Mit besten Grüssen Ihr, HANS RICHTER.
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57[TRANSLATION.]
58DEAR MR. HARTMANN—I have heard your son Arthur play, and I find not only that he possesses an extraordinary talent for the violin, but that he is a master of this instrument.
59With best greetings, HANS RICHTER.
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62He is a master of the violin.—Alex. Guilmant.
63In London Saint-Saëns introduced Arthur Hartmann to the Philharmonic Orchestra as the young violinist who played his Second Concerto in C major in a manner that no one could excel.
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66Extracts from a few of innumerable critiques:
67Each time he is heard his performance is more and more astonishing. Truly, he is a rare genius.—New York World.
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70At the concert at St. James' Hall Arthur Hartmann—the young genius—electrified the audience and made us ask one another if we had at last found another Paganini.—London Times.
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73The boy has the soul of the artist, and while his playing is astonishing in the perfect technique which he shows, it is equally so in its display of poetic temperament. His bowing is at once broad and flexible, and in the rapid passages every note sounds clear and rounded. There are breadth and beauty of tone about his work as well as earnestness and dignity, while he gives to each theme harmonic phrasing and adequate coloring.—Boston Journal.
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76Once again a rising star in the musical firmament of Hungary.—Budapest Hiarip.
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79The above criticisms of Hartmann by the New York World and the Boston Journal were written while he was yet a mere boy—long before his late European triumph.
81A Grieg Fund.
83THE admirers of Edvard Grieg at Christiania and Bergen are collecting a fund for the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, the interest of which is to be at his command. According to latest accounts the sum of 24,000 marks, equal to $6,000, has been received by the committee. Considering Norwegian conditions this represents large donations.
85M. De Nevers Married.
87M. DE NEVERS, who accompanied the De Reszkés to America during the 1899-1900 season, has recently been married.
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