Books › Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907 › scan 23
Scan 23
Musical Courier 1907-05-08: Vol 54 Iss 19, 1907
18 lines. Read by computer on 23 September 2026. Printed page 20. See the scan on archive.org.
1"What has the musical season brought forth?" asks a local daily. Principally the Manhattan Opera, and that is a good deal.
3Daniel Frohman has just closed a contract with Kubelik, engaging that violinist for an American tour of 100 concerts, beginning next October in New York.
5Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the Secretary of War, says that the time is not yet ripe for America to subsidize a national conservatory, opera, orchestra or school of art. The United States will please take notice.
7A "HARMONICOPATHIC" school for curing diseases by means of music is the latest scientific manifestation in New York. Personally we have always believed that Handel's "Largo" is an excellent remedy for housemaid's knee and Brahms' first symphony for insomnia. Let the new movement be hailed with a fanfare.
9A Birmingham (Ala.) man hunting work, says the Washington Herald, announces that he is a "comedian, a baritone, an eccentric dancer, a producer, a musical director, arranger, composer, composer and a cornet player." If only he were a landscape gardener he doubtless would not be hunting a job at this season.
11It is practically certain that the next managing director of the Metropolitan will be a European, and the men most discussed there at the present time for the position are Higgins, Jean de Reszke, Tito Ricordi, Dippel and Gunsbourg. Five good men and true, and any one of them would be hailed in musical New York as a deliverer from conditions that have grown well nigh intolerable.
13The Philadelphia Orchestra has not yet selected a conductor for next year. One of the leading candidates for the place is the Swedish leader, Hammer, who was specially engaged by the Jamestown Exposition to direct the symphony concerts there. He founded a famous orchestra in Göteborg, Sweden, and his achievements with that body often have been the subject of laudatory report in The Musical Courier. The Philadelphia powers could not possibly choose a better man than Hammer. The report current last week that Kneisel would wield the baton in the City of Brotherly Love proves to be unfounded. He will remain in New York and carry on the work for which he is best fitted, as a quartet player and teacher of the violin.
15It looks very much as though St. Louis is about to accomplish something noteworthy in the permanent orchestra line. The newspapers of that city are filled with accounts of the scheme, which embraces a working fund of $200,000 and the engagement of Nahan Franko as conductor, for a period of five years, at $10,000 per annum. It is to be hoped, in the interests of American music in general, that St. Louis will succeed in its endeavor, for like begets like, and other cities may be induced to follow the fine example. In Germany and Austria every town of the sixth class boasts of an excellent symphony orchestra. There is no reason why, in this wealthy country, at least every town of the first and second class should not have one. Until the permanent orchestra question is settled satisfactorily in cities like New York, Washington, San Francisco, New Orleans, Kansas City, Denver, etc., America cannot be considered a musical nation in the strict application of that term.
17The famous Vienna Männerchor, 170 strong, traveling on a specially chartered steamer, arrived in New York last Saturday and was given a dinner at the Hotel Savoy and a reception at the Liederkranz on Sunday evening. On Monday forenoon the organization sang for President Roosevelt in Washington. On Tuesday, May 7, the foreigners visited Mayor McClellan in the City Hall and in the evening gave their first concert at Carnegie Hall. The second concert will take place on Thursday evening, May 9, at the same place. The visit of the Vienna singers is a most welcome one, and shows a measure of enterprise which deserves the highest admiration. In New York the essentially German art of the male chorus has flourished vigorously since the Teuton first settled here beside his Dutch and English cousins, and old city records tell of open air concerts given by the pioneer choristers in the fields where Wall Street financial palaces now tower toward the sky. The Vienna Männerchor long has been regarded as the best European exponent of choral music for the male voice, and the concerts at Carnegie Hall are of the greatest possible interest to local German singers, particularly to the active members of New York's best male choruses, the Arion and the Liederkranz.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.