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Musical Courier 1906-09-05: Vol 53 Iss 1380, 1906
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1of two musicians who did not speak a single word about themselves or the things they do, and did not even offer to show me press notices from Reykjavik, Spion's Kop or 203 Meter Hill.
3All the musical writers are publishing books. A man accused me the other day of being a musical writer, and therefore I too feel the necessity of publishing a book. The title is to be: "The Lost Art of Melodye; or, Why Herr Oldfogus was Driven to Ragtime." There will be a preface in blanked verse, as herewith appended:
5I.
6Where are the tunes
7Which now for moons
8They haven't sung and played?
9Whyfore this change
10To music strange,
11With rule and compass made?
13II.
14Composers now
15Full well know how
16With thunder's noise to vie;
17But I'll be durned
18If they have learned
19To pen a melodye.
21III.
22It's downright tough
23The sort of stuff
24They've played for three years past;
25Of all the kind
26That "fills the mind"
27I've really heard my last.
29IV.
30Experiments,
31Devoid of sense,
32May please some malformed ear;
33I'd rather be
34A Pharisee
35And live in yesteryear.
37V.
38"Thick counterpoint"
39And "double jointed harmonies" for band,
40"Queer atmosphere,"
41"Mixed color smear"—
42The whole "New School" be damned.
44VI.
45When Richard Strauss
46Invades the house,
47I hie me out of doors;
48In Reger's works
49The jim-jam lurks,
50Great snakes, what dreadful bores!
52VII.
53Jean Nicodé,
54Wolf and Fauré,
55They almost drive me mad;
56G. Sgambati
57And V. d'Indy
58Are every bit as bad.
60VIII.
61Debussy, he
62Is crazy. Gee!
63Then there's that Jaques Dalcroze;
64Sir E. Elgar
65Sets me ajar,
66And Dukas makes me doze.
68IX.
69Schubert—ah, me!—
70Is tout finis,
71And Mendelssohn's no more;
72The Abbé Liszt—
73Not even missed—
74By Brahms they set no store.
76X.
77Beethoven, too,
78Without ado,
79Is relegated back;
80The Mozart airs
81Now need repairs—
82Ohé, alas, alack!
84XI.
85On Bach the ban
86Of "also ran"
87Impiously is set;
88Chopin, they find,
89Unless "combined,"
90The dullest music yet.
92XII.
93But why waste ink?
94I really think
95There's naught for me to do;
96Why break a lance
97'Gainst dissonance,
98'Gainst him, and her, and you?
100XIII.
101In these sad days
102Of super craze
103There's no relief, I fear;
104The higher art
105And I must part—
106Pray pardon this salt tear.
108XIV.
109"Ragtime galore
110Forever more!"
111Is now my battlecry;
112Naught else is writ
113To equal it
114In good old melodye.
116LEONARD LIEBLING.
118THE GOLD DUST TWINS OF MUSIC—HAROLD BAUER AND PABLO CASALS.
120VIRGIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
121Formerly Clavier Piano School
122A. K. VIRGIL, Director
123SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER 3
124Broadway Studio Building,
125Corner Broadway and 80th Street
126Prospectus sent on application
127PIANO PLAYING
128Classes in { VIOLIN
129{ VOICE
130PUPILS RECEIVED AT ANY TIME
132CLAUDE MAITLAND GRIFFETH
133PIANOFORTE INSTRUCTION
134One Class Lesson a Week in Harmony Free to Piano Pupils
135PUPIL RECITALS KINDERGARTEN CLASSES
136Season Opens September 24
137133 CARNEGIE HALL
139THE COMBS BROAD ST. CONSERVATORY
140GILBERT RAYMONDS COMBS, Director
1411329-31 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
142Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania
143Women's Dormitories Year Book, Free
145CLEVELAND ADVERTISEMENTS
147CHARLES E. CLEMENS
148ORGAN RECITAL
149188 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, O.
151EDWIN H. DOUGLASS
152Festival Oratorio Concert Recital
153TENOR
154716 Arcade
155CLEVELAND, O.
157Walter S. Pope
158Piano Lecture Recitals
159Conservatory of Music
160122 Euclid Ave., Cleveland
162FRANCIS J. SADLIER, BASSO
163OPERA, ORATORIO, CONCERTS
164728 THE ARCADE
165CLEVELAND, OHIO.
167The Cleveland School of Music,
1683101 PROSPECT AVE. S. E.
169Established 1885. Direction of Mr. Alfred Arthur
170Executive Committee, Alfred Arthur, J. H. Rogers,
171including Mrs. Rose Brimingham, A. F. Arthur one of two readings
172including Mrs. Rose Brimfield, A. F. Arthur one of two readings
173and others. Catalogue sent.
174Address Miss A. A. BURNHAM, Sec.
176ISABELLA BEATON
177PIANIST COMPOSER
178Orchestral Works Performed By
179Emil Paur Symphony Orchestra
180Van der Stucken Orchestra, Cincinnati
181Johann Beck Orchestra, Cleveland
182For Terms and Dates, Address
1833101 Prospect Avenue, S. E., CLEVELAND, OHIO
185PHILADELPHIA ADVERTISEMENTS.
187WM. F. HAPPICH,
188CONCERT VIOLINIST—INSTRUCTOR.
1891714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
191VOICE MASTERY
192For Singers
193Extending compass, cementing "breake," eradicating defects of quality, developing strength, equality and sustaining power, acquiring flexibility, execution, "finish." Voice placing on a scientific basis—NOT routine "singing lessons." Booklet.
195DR. B. FRANK WALTERS
196JR. 18th YEAR.
1971716 Chestnut St.
199THE STERNBERG SCHOOL OF MUSIC
200CONSTANTIN VON STERNBERG, Principal
201Complete musical education in all branches.
202Write for catalogue.
203Fuller Building, 10 S. 18th St., Philadelphia
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