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Musical Courier 1903-07-15: Vol 47 Iss 1216, 1903
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER
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9ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1880
10No. 1216.
11MARC A. BLUMENBERG EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
12NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903.
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103For particulars apply to SATURDAY EXTRA DEPARTMENT.
105VAN DYCK has had a cable offer for a series of concert appearances in the United States, but has not yet accepted.
107THE recent Beethoven Festival at Bonn, Germany, yielded a net profit of 20,000 marks ($5,000). The Richard Strauss Festival in London was a financial failure. Here is food for the ponderer on such things.
109DANIEL FROHMAN arrived from Europe on Sunday and announced that he would bring Kubelik to this country for the season of 1904-5. On the subject of his reported matrimonial engagement Mr. Frohman was non-committal.
111IT is strange that the concertmaster of the London Covent Garden Orchestra is drafted annually from the United States. The post is filled by P. A. Tirindelli, of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, who goes to London every spring for this engagement.
113CALVE is considering a proposition for an engagement to sing "Carmen" in a company to be organized for a tour of the United States, Mexico and South America. Some fabulous sum has been offered her. There seems to be no reason why the good Emma should hesitate.
115THE engagement of Ternina for the Metropolitan Opera House was closed on the basis of $1,250 per night. Ternina is a prima donna who does not mind telling the truth about her salary. Her performances are always convincing. The connection between these two circumstances is not too difficult to find.
117THERE is talk of buying a large plot of ground on an uptown site in New York for a new Metropolitan Opera House. We suggest as the ideal spot for such a building the present site of the Plaza Hotel at the entrance of Central Park. This is the finest spot in the world for an opera house, not even excepting the imposing surroundings of the Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Stockholm operas.
119PADEREWSKI is arranging an Australian tour for the coming season, limited to about nine weeks in Oceanica—Australia and adjoining lands. He will give thirty-five concerts, leaving Europe on a steamer via Suez and returning by same route. There are not many large cities in that section of the globe; hence the limited range of performances. He will use an American piano on the tour—a Steinway.
121HENRY T. FINCK, New York's best music critic, says in the Evening Post of last Saturday: "With reference to Kaiser Wilhelm's announcement that he had ordered the compilation of a collection of folksongs for the use of the Männergesangvereine, a correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung points out that several such collections already exist, the most popular of them being that made by Ignaz Heim; it is known everywhere as the 'Heim Collection.' This is published in Zürich and the patriotic texts appeal particularly to Swiss singers; nevertheless 135 editions of it have been sold, besides sixty-four editions of a version for mixed chorus. Five years ago it was issued with texts especially modified for German use. Of this new version forty-five editions of 15,000 copies each have already been sold, thirty of them being for male chorus. There are also versions for boys and girls. Altogether the sale of the Heim books exceeds 1,000,000 copies."
123There seems to be no remote branch in the department of music wherein Mr. Finck's information is not extensive and interesting.
125WE always had thought that the hackneyed vocal waltz in Gounod's "Mireille" was really written by Gounod. Recently Rossini's "Barbiere" was given in London, with Senora Barrientos as Rosina, and the Daily Telegraph commented as follows on one of the numbers—the vocal waltz from "Mireille"—interpolated in the lesson scene: "But the artist's audience had more delighted ears for a vocal valse—one of Arditi's, we fancy—which followed the classical piece." Apropos, "the classical piece" was Mozart's well known aria, "Gli angui d'inferno." This is excusable on some of the New York dailies, but should not happen in London.
127THE musical people of the good city of Carlsruhe in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, or the good people of that city, as an aged New York Programatist would call them, are in dire distress because the new management of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York has engaged and taken from them, under the guise of a furlough lasting from October 15 to May 15, their eminent conductor, Felix Mottl. The contract is for five years, at the rate of $30,000 a year, which means that besides conducting at the Metropolitan Mottl will also conduct concerts under the Management or that he will be disposed of by the Management for concerts.
129This is part of the natural process of denuding Europe of its conductors. It may be possible that Mottl's wife, Henrietta Mottl, who has been singing Elizabeth, Elsa, Eva and other Wagnerian roles, chiefly Sieglinde, will also be engaged, but the condition of her voice makes it doubtful, the stress upon it for years having been severe. She was, before her marriage, a Fräulein Standhartner. No successor to Mottl will be brought to Carlsruhe, as his great admirer, the Grand Duke, will keep the desk free for Mottl's return. The assistants of Mottl will conduct in the interim. They are Alfred Lorentz and Albert Gorter, both disciples of the great Felix.
131ALTHOUGH the change in the management of the Philadelphia Orchestra has been in force only two weeks much work in the way of mapping out plans for the coming season has been accomplished. John Mahnken, of New York, the new general manager, has spent a week in New York, Baltimore and Washington, making preliminary arrangements for events of much importance which will be announced later. It is safe to say that the list of soloists for the coming season will be a brilliant one. Conductor Scheel is busily occupied mapping out the programs for the Philadelphia concerts and public rehearsals, so that when the orchestra assembles in October no delay will be necessary. Subscriptions to the new guarantee fund are coming in satisfactorily and all signs seem to point to a most successful and prosperous season. It is time that the musical inhabitants of the Quaker City awoke to a full realization of their great advantage. New York knows what it is to be without a permanent orchestra. Even the coming here of Strauss, Colonne, Kogel, Wood and Weingartner for the Wetzler and Philharmonic concerts will not suffice to cover up the crying musical need of the metropolis. Our local millionaires seem to have millions for the improvement of the thoroughbred running horse, but not one cent for a permanent orchestra fund. It is a sad reflection, and one very complimentary to the running horse.
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