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1APPENDIX
3BOSTON. Add: in 1909 an OPERA HOUSE was erected in Boston, which was scheduled to open Nov. 8, 1909. The seating capacity of the auditorium was estimated at 2800, exclusive of the boxes, of which there were two tiers. Sixty performances were promised for the season of 1909–10, and it was announced that seats for the subscription performances, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturday matinees, were practically sold out three months in advance of the opening. A special company of artists was engaged for the season by the impresario, Henry Russell.
5BOTT (JEAN JOSEPH) owned a famous Stradivarius violin which disappeared while in the possession of Victor Flechter, one of the best known of American violin dealers. Mr. Flechter was arrested for theft, tried, found guilty, sentenced; the sentence was confirmed in the upper courts, but after expensive and prolonged trials, and many years delay, the violin was regained by Bott’s widow in such a way as to prove Mr. Flechter’s innocence, and he was exonerated in court. Assistant District-Attorney Train includes an account of this affair in his narratives of celebrated criminal cases. Bott composed two operas, a violin concerto, symphonies, songs; served as chapelmaster in several German cities, settling in New York, 1885; pupil of Spohr. B. 1826, Cassel; d. 1895, New York.
7CHICAGO. Add: the CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE removed in 1909 to a new home, erected at a cost of $1,000,000. Add: that the AUDITORIUM was under lease to Klaw & Erlanger, and that the rival opera houses in New York were promising more performances than ever during 1909–10. Add: HAMMERSTEIN was reported to have bought land on which to erect a new opera house.
9CINCINNATI. Add: plans had been perfected for resumption of concerts by the CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA during the season of 1909–10 under the conductorship of Leopold Stokowski, a young Russian, at one time organist of Grace Church, New York. Add: that Henry Erne succeeded Marien as head of the violin department of the COLLEGE OF MUSIC.
11COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (SAMUEL) composed the cantata "Hiawatha," the popularity of which caused him to produce a second work, "The Death of Minnehaha," 1900; the sacred cantata "The Atonement"; "The Blind Girl of Cattel-Cuille" (Leeds Festival); settings of the poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet; the operetta "Dream Lover," a symphony, incidental music to "Herod," ballade for viola and orchestra, four waltzes for orchestra, an anthem, a nonet, morning and evening services, etc. Son of a negro from Sierra Leone who had married an English woman, his talent for music was manifested at the age of six. In 1890 he entered the Royal Academy of Music, as a student of the violin, and three years later won the scholarship in composition. During the greater part of these years of study he was the pupil of Sir C. V. Stanford. His compositions acquired a wide popularity in both England and America, and he soon won recognition as a teacher, which led to his appointment as professor of violin at Croydon Conservatory, and professor
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