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Musical Courier 1907-10-02: Vol 55 Iss 14, 1907
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1"STEAMER CHILDREN" IN MUSIC.
3New York public school musical education opens its season with a doubly congested condition which puts ingenuity to test and reduces encouragement to a minimum. Among the music pupils are entire groups without home or address of one. They have been met "at the steamship" by tiny relatives already ensconced in the American school home, and taken there by such, while parents wander in quest of a foothold in the new land. These are called "steamer children," and are usually without language, soap or hope as equipment. One girl read the words of a song with the sounds of her own language, giving an exact example of the way our students abroad read their French. When the other children tittered, the little Latin flung her music book into the clock and screamed aloud. Just as our girls do in foreign studios; only, here the child will be put through a course in phonetics and taught to pronounce properly, while abroad our singers are left in a condition which precludes acquaintance, esteem or engagement in the country of the abused language.
5In half an hour's conversation on this topic, the eyes of the music teacher talking to me were not for one instant free from tears. She seemed impressed by the cowed and depressed condition of the little waifs, to many of whom the parents were but a terror to whom the superstition of birth had chained them. This estrangement from parents, fostered inevitably by the love and affectionate tenderness of school teachers, the sentiment of song, the good times at the school, and their dependence upon it as the sole light in their young lives, seemed greatly to depress the teacher. Especially did she speak of the part played by drink in the wretched young lives; of saloon fathers who take their boys out of school to "tend bar," just as shoots of decency and self respect are commencing to grow; of the late hours, dances, dreadful entertainment food of Saturdays and Sundays, sending back wan faces, weak voices and a general falling together of the little bodies at their desks, and of the pathetic rouse of the spirit by the lovely songs; of the quarrels in the family, the mother often out all night, the father drunk, and of the lack of properly prepared food and regular meals. One little boy had eaten nothing but "chewing gum" since that time yesterday—"things wuz bad at home, mother too cross to git any," he said. One music teacher formed an "alumni musical" in the effort to keep little girls together. For few know the effort required to stem the latent tendencies of the child, the pressure for money by depraved parents, the selfishness of animals called men. She also spoke of the inevitableness of separation between parents remaining behind in the old ways of living and the children rising in rejection out of it, and felt pathetically by some parents unable to comprehend or prevent it. In one hall the music teacher held hidden in her skirts a wee one with frightened eyes, left there by the pleading mother in fear of kidnapping by a dissolute father. Little do most people know of the vast part being played in this dreadful missionary problem by the beneficent influence of music and musical temperaments of teachers. Music is one of the best helps in civilizing these degenerate people, and we ourselves are none too strong for the work.
7FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS.
9KUSSEWITZKY IN LEIPZIG.
11Following are some press notices of Sergei Kussewitzky's playing of the contrabass in Leipzig:
13Sergei Kussewitzky, the great contrabassist, who, as in his first concert, now a'so called forth general astonishment and applause with his absolutely unique art, his pure interpretation and his eminent technic. In the recital of a Handel sonata, transcribed by himself for the contrabass, and in Bruch's phantasy on "Kol Nidrei," Herr Kussewitzky's deep feelings and highly developed musical sense were undoubtedly proved. His perfection in technical art was powerfully evinced in Stein's in itself unimportant concert piece and Glière's dazzling tarantella. Many a violoncellist may envy his contrabass colleague his ableness with the left hand and his accurate and clean flageolette play.—Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Leipsic, February 14, 1907.
15An exceptionally talented artist, whose tone can well be compared to the cello, who handles his mighty instrument in inimitable fashion and does not seem to know the meaning of technical difficulties. To this must be added the remarkably strong and pure musical gifts of the concertizer, his decided ability in fixing fleeting impressions, and his finesse in nuances.—Der Leipziger.
17Sergei Kussewitzky created a general furore with his excellent recitals on the contrabass, which were of full musical value. His tone greatly resembles that of a cello, so that one could frequently give one's self up to a remarkable musical deception.—Allgemeine Musik Zeitung, Charlottenburg, Leipsic, February 15, 1907.
19The contrabassist Kussewitzky excited the liveliest admiration and astonishment by his technically and musically equally magnificent control of his instrument.—Neue Musik Zeitung, Stuttgart, Leipsic, January 31, 1907.
21HOTEL LATHAM
2228th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York
23300 Rooms, each with bath, $2.00 per day and up. Beautiful Dining Rooms. One block from Broadway, one door from Fifth Ave. Most accessible location in the city. In the heart of New York with quiet and attractive surroundings.
24H. F. RITCHEY, Manager
26Hotel Victoria
27NEW YORK
28BROADWAY, 5th AVE., 27th ST.
30In the centre of the shopping district. Absolutely fireproof.
32A modern, first-class hotel; complete in all its appointments, furnishings and decorations, entirely new throughout. Accommodation for 500 guests. 200 rooms. Rates $2.00 up. With bath, $2.50 up. Hot and cold water and telephone in every room, cuisine unexcelled. Send for Calendar 1907.
34GEO. W. SWEENEY, Proprietor
36MARK HAMBOURG
37THE GREAT RUSSIAN PIANIST
38THIRD AMERICAN TOUR, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, 1907
39Under Direction of WILLIAM KNABE & CO.
40For Particulars, Address:
41BERNHARD ULRICH
42LYRIC THEATRE BALTIMORE, MD.
44SENGEI KUSSEWITZKY.
46Season 1907-08
47FRITZ KREISLER
48In America from November 1907 Until May 1908
49The GREAT VIOLINIST
50Tour Now Booking
51Management:
52HENRY WOLFSOHN
53131 East 17th Street
54New York
55STEINWAY PIANO USED
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