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Musical Courier 1909-06-02: Vol 58 Iss 22, 1909
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1THE MUSICAL COURIER
3ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1880
5MUSICAL COURIER
6A WEEKLY JOURNAL
8PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
9BY THE
10MUSICAL COURIER COMPANY
11(Incorporated under the laws of the State of New York)
12MARC A. BLUMENBERG, President.
13ALVIN L. SCHMIDT, Sec. and Treas.
14S. E. Cor. 39th St. & 5th Ave.
15Cable address: Pegular, New York
16Telephone to all Departments
174292, 493, 4294 Thirty-eight.
19MARC A. BLUMENBERG – EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
21NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1909
22NO. 1523
24OFFICES AND REPRESENTATIVES
25LONDON—
26Mrs. A. T. King, 35 Weymouth St., W.
27PARIS—
28Delma-Heide, 30 Rue Marbeuf (Champs Elysées).
29Cable and telegraphic address: "Delmabehle, Paris."
30BERLIN—
31Arthur M. Abell, Luitpold Strasse 24.
32SOUTH GERMANY AND AUSTRO-HUNGARY (including Vienna, Munich and Budapest)—
33Gutman Bureau, 38 Theatiner Strasse, Munich.
34LEIPZIG—
35Eugene E. Simpson, Nurnberger Strasse 27.
36DRESDEN—
37Mrs. E. Potter Frissell, George Bährstr. 24.
38MILAN—
39Mrs. Romeld-Pattison, via Brera 9.
40NAPLES, ITALY—
41Claude Redish, Pension Terzi, Parco Margherita 23.
42THE HAGUE—
43Dr. de Jong, office of Het Vaderland.
44STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—
45Louise Upling, Vestmanngatan 28.
46ARGENTINA, SOUTH AMERICA—
47Mrs. H. H. Rogers, Buenos Aires.
48MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—
49Ysidoro W. Teschner, Avenida Del Cinco De Mayo No. 20. Des. 22.
50HARANA, CUBA—
51José Girelt y Chiera, Calle De O'Reilly No. 61.
52CANADIAN DEPARTMENT—
53Mrs. A. G. Kaesmann, The Balmoral Hotel, Victoria.
54NORTHWEST DEPARTMENT—
55Oscar H. Hawley, St. Paul and Minneapolis, 3012 James Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn.
56CHICAGO—
57Mrs. A. G. Kaesmann, 525 Orchestra Building.
58BOSTON—
59Mrs. W. Blanche Hudson, Hotel Nottingham.
60ST. LOUIS, MO—
61Ernest Prang Stamm, 3642 Lindell Boulevard.
62SAN FRANCISCO AND THE PACIFIC COAST—
63Albert H. Frazier, 1000 Clay & Co., Sutter and Kearny Streets, San Francisco.
64CINCINNATI—
65Harriet A. Gautroft, 4121 Forest Avenue, Norwood.
66LOUISVILLE, KY—
67Katherine Whipple-Dobbs, care of D. H. Baldwin & Co.
68WASHINGTON, D. C—
69F. E. Rehitz, 1309 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
70BALTIMORE—
71Dr. J. Merril Hopkins, Professional Bldg.
72PHILADELPHIA—
73Wilson H. Pile, 519 So. 420 Street.
74PITTSBURGH—
75J. L. Wakefield Cadman, 1124 Ross Avenue.
76BUFFALO—
77Miss Virginia Keene, Hotel Cheltenham, Franklin Street.
78COLUMBUS—
79Mrs. Ella May Smith, 60 Jefferson Avenue.
80CLEVELAND—
81Wilson H. Smith, 719 The Arcade.
82ATLANTA, GA—
83Miss Bertha Harwood, 99 E. Linden Avenue.
85THE MUSICAL COURIER is for sale on the principal newsstands in the United States and in the leading music houses, hotels and kiosques in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and Egypt.
87NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS—Reprints of press notices from other papers will hereafter be accepted for publication in THE MUSICAL COURIER only at the regular advertising rate per inch or line. All such notices must be accompanied by the originals from which they are quoted. Manager's announcements about artists will be accepted only when they are news and must be sent subject to editorial revision.
89SUBSCRIPTIONS: Including delivery
90Invariably in advance.
91United States, $5.00
92Canada, $6.00
93Great Britain, 4.15s.
94France, 31.25 fr.
95Germany, 25 m.
96Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
97Single Copies, Fifteen Cents, on news stands at hotels, elevated and subway and general stands.
99Rates for Advertising and Directions
100On advertising pages, which have four columns to the page, $150 a single column inch, a year.
101On reading pages, having three columns to a page, $100 an inch, a year.
102Reprints, business notices, etc., at 80 cents a line. Broken lines counted as full lines. Headings counted at two lines per heading.
103Full page and half page advertisements $350 and $250 respectively per issue.
104Preferred position subject to increased prices.
105All remittances for subscriptions or advertising must be made by check, draft or money order, payable to THE MUSICAL COURIER COMPANY.
106Advertisements for the current week must be handed in by 2 P. M. Saturday.
107All changes in advertisements must reach this office by Friday, 5 P. M. preceding the issue in which changes are to take effect.
108American News Company, New York, General Distributing Agents.
109Western News Company, Chicago, Western Distributing Agents.
110New England News Company, Eastern Distributing Agents.
112THE MUSICAL COURIER EXTRA
113Published Every Saturday During the Year
114GREATEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM FOR MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OR PARTS THEREOF. SPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE PIANO AND ORGAN INDUSTRY. For Particulars apply to SATURDAY EXTRA DEPARTMENT.
116THE MUSICAL COURIER this week will be published twenty-four hours later than usual, owing to the Decoration Day holiday.
118The secret of Paderewski's success is his ability to keep it secret, some pianists think.
120The late H. H. Rogers was a very rich man, but Rockefeller is much richer. However, Rogers did not play the cello, and Rockefeller does.
122SUGGESTION to the tariff tinkerers at Washington: Why not put a prohibitive tax on the operatic press agents' cablegrams from Europe?
124EGISTO TANGO, the gifted leader of the Berlin Komische Oper, has been engaged to take Spetrino's place at the Metropolitan Opera House.
126The croaking of the music critic now is silent throughout the land, and for that relief much thanks, oh beneficent Apollo and gentle Orpheus!
128According to cable advices received in New York, the operation on Caruso's tonsils, recently performed at Milan, has turned out most successfully.
130It may please Henry T. Finck to hear that Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" was referred to recently by a German critic as "Also Schrie Zarathustra."
132There is absolutely no truth in the report that Debussy will come to America next season, and THE MUSICAL COURIER'S statement on that point may be taken as final.
134HENRY WOLFSOHN, the well known New York musical manager, died on Monday, May 31, after a very short illness. The business and contracts of the Wolfsohn Bureau will be continued by Mrs. Wolfsohn and the regular business staff.
136A young Turkish composer has written a symphonic poem called "Abdul Hamid." The harem scene is said to outdo in discordancy anything written up to date by the most modern of the Occidental masters. It has scores of voices and each one insists on its own say. The episode in which each of the wives tells Abdul that it never would have happened had he listened to her, is one of the most realistic in all the wide field of symphonic literature.
138The London Westminster Gazette relates that Max Reger "tells a rather amusing story which was narrated to him, he explains, by a lady at whose house he once stayed in the course of his travels. In anticipation of her guest's arrival the lady had occasion to explain to one of her servants that he was coming, and incidentally she remarked that he was a composer. Whereupon the girl responded with the naive inquiry, 'Oh! Are there any living composers?' Max Reger certainly has proved that he is very much alive."
140German daily papers referred to by the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, which also speaks of the matter, say that negotiations are pending between Gustav Mahler and the owners of the projected Richard Wagner Theater of Berlin for the engagement of Mahler as the chief conductor at that house. Furthermore, it is said that these negotiations appear now to reach a successful conclusion. This may or may not be so, but German daily papers are the most reliable daily journals published and always act either upon sources well known or after verification. Very few persons understanding the situation believe that Mahler looks upon America as a steady attraction and when the Richard Wagner Theater of Berlin is finished—some years hence—it is to be hoped that Mahler, having by that time given us a liberal dose of his own symphonies, will be prepared to turn Eastward and make the Berliners as happy as he will have made us happy in the meantime with his symphonies. The newly organized New York Philharmonic Society will be exactly the kind of an orchestra Mahler will be able to use to prove that his successor will never put a Mahler symphony on the program.
142WANDA LANDOWSKA, who resides in Paris, and is a specialist on the clavichord and harpsichord and an authority on old music, has written a work in French published by the Mercure de France, entitled "Musique Ancienne." It covers style, interpretation, instruments and artists and it would probably have quite a sale if published in English for American distribution. As it stands now, probably 100 copies will be sold in forty-nine months. There is no demand for such literature in France. The piano is not important enough in that country.
144What was wrong last week with the telegraph between Grand Rapids, Mich., and the New York daily newspaper offices? The National Federation of Women's Musical Clubs held its biennial meeting in that city, but so far as the eagle eye of THE MUSICAL COURIER exchange editor is concerned, not a line about this convention was published in a metropolitan daily. The convention lasted for one week, and all sections of the country sent representatives. Of course, these women do not vote—yet, and then the topics being merely musical, there was perhaps no reason why the New York papers should concern themselves about the convention. Had it been a prize fight, an assemblage of circus clowns, or a political gathering, no doubt the doings would have been faithfully chronicled, but who, pray, is interested in musical clubs conducted by women? The importance of the convention held last week may be understood from the space devoted to the programs and meetings by the papers of Grand Rapids. These evidently realized that it was more than a "local affair." Some day the editors of the New York papers may realize this, too. THE MUSICAL COURIER, of course, covered the event fully.
146The New York American is responsible for the news that Leoncavallo soon is to publish his "Memoirs," in which he will give the following account of how he came to write "Pagliacci":
148"In Paris the baritone singer, Maurel, had promised me an introduction to Signor Ricordi, the musical publisher. Encouraged by that promise, I pawned the furniture from my room, and set out for Milan. There Maurel kept his word; and in our interview Ricordi commissioned me to write the music for the 'Medici' opera for 2,400 francs (about $500), payable at 200 francs ($40) per month, with the obligation of completing the work within a twelve-month. But when that work was done I had to keep up courage for another three years, during which I resumed in Milan the drudgery of teaching.
150"After the success of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' I lost my patience, and resolved upon one last desperate effort. I buckled to, and in the space of five months wrote the words and music of 'Pagliacci,' which was destined to so gratifying a triumph.
152"When it came to be translated into French, Catulle Mendes discovered some resemblance to his 'Femme de Tabarin,' and in the persuasion that I had filched my plot from him, took the preliminary steps for a lawsuit. He soon, however, loyally withdrew, for I was able to demonstrate to him that my story is in reality the reproduction of a case that actually came before my father when president of the Court of Justice at Cosenza.
154"And, what is still stranger, the hero of my story, freed from prison, is still alive, and in the service of Baroness Sprovieri, in Calabria."
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