Leader of Cleveland Forces Describes Reactions of Players to Various Audiences—The Stimulus of a New York Performance—How Familiarity Leads Fine Work Home with Its Auditors Orchestra to Lose Sense of Art—Best Done Away from Home

Brings Few Novelties for New York Symphony from Europe—Accepts French and Italian Works—Not Impressed by Teuton Scores—Vincent d’Indy’s New Symphony to Be Conducted Here by Composer— “Gets Nowhere,” He Says of Recent Music—Stravinsky Beyond His Ideals—Declares English School Is Groveling in Ugliness—American Conservatory at Fontainebleau Successful—A· Debt to Francis Casadesus

George Bridgetower, Son of African Father and European Mother, Prominent in Music of His Day—Noted as a Violinist, He Rehearsed Famous Work with Master—Dedication Said to Have Been Changed After Quarrel Over Young Woman—Musician Played Under Patronage of Royalty, but Died in Obscurity in London

Throat Was Not an Unusual One and Was Frequently Congested, Declares Dr. Mario P. Marafioti, Close Friend and Medical Adviser—Vocal Cords Soft and Too Large for Tenor; Arch of Palate Not Exceptional—Bones and Cavities Vibrated Like Fine Wood of Stradivarius Violin

Tenor Came to America a Great Voice, Departed a Superb Artist—Three Distinct Periods to Be Considered in Appraising His Powers, Attributes, Virtues and Faults—Began as Lyric and Enlarged His Tone in So-Called Raw Beef” Phase—Penalty of Prodigality Exacted in the Peroration of His Long Career, When His High Tones Showed Wear—Development of Exquisite Mezza-Voce a Delight of Final Years—New Powers of Characterization Opened Fresh Vistas in Interpretation—Might Have Been the Greatest Baritone as Well as Greatest Tenor

Peoples Unite in Grief at Death of Man of Peace—Little Italy Laments Its Friend and King of Song—Hailed by Popular Vote as Greatest Living Italian—Yearned for Beloved Villa He Never Saw Again—“The Phonograph Records Shall Be My Biography,” Tenor Declared—Charm of Novelty in His Art—Self-Sacrificing in Friendship—Great Love of Gloria Illumined His Work—A Memory of “Bellosguardo”

AMONG the mourners who watched in silent grief the passing of Naples’ greatest son, attended with observances rare even when the potentate has lain upon the catafalque, have been those who, not always with dry eyes, recalled some incident, some scene, in Caruso’s life. There are brief tales which have their movement in colorful environment; short stories, consisting of a quip, a flash, an evidence of the naïve wisdom which illumines the way of the great.

Sovereigns and Celebrities Join Humblest Neapolitans in Tributes to Departed Tenor and in Condolences to Widow—Royal Basilica Used for Services by Direction of King—Chorus of 400 Voices and Orchestra of San Carlo Combine in Solemn High Mass—Notables of Musical World Pay Last Respects—American Government Sends Expression of Sorrow—Municipality Bears Expense of Funeral—Impressive Procession Through City After Rites in Church—Body Now in Vault in Canessa—King of Tenors Sang a Little Almost to the Last

LEGIONS of his admirers mourned over the death of Caruso and expressions of grief were universal. To close friends of the tenor the news was especially shocking because many of them had received letters from him only the evening before his death. In all of these messages he emphasized the improvement in his health and expressed the confident hope that he would be singing in New York next season.

CONTRARY to the custom of opera singers, Enrico Caruso steadily refused to appear in concert until May 1917, when he was persuaded to make his first tour by F. C. Coppicus, head of the Metropolitan Musical Bureau, who as general secretary of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was an intimate friend of the tenor, and personally managed his concert appearances in this country.

ENRICO CARUSO, the greatest tenor of his day and one of the greatest singers of all time, was born in Naples, Feb. 25, 1873. His father, Marcellino Caruso, was a well-to-do mechanic who knew nothing about music. He was persuaded by the parish priest, however, to let Enrico sing in the choir, which he did until his alto voice began to change into a tenor. It was when about eighteen years of age that the celebrity to be really discovered his voice.

Acute Peritonitis Proves Fatal to King of Tenors—End Comes at 5 A.M. on Tuesday—Hurried from Sorrento for New Operation—Stricken by Relapse on Saturday Last—Four Specialists in Consultation, but All Efforts Fail—Stimulants Administered to Sustain Heart as Opera’s Brightest Star Sinks into Alarming State of Weakness—News of End Shocks Legion of Admirers After Reassuring Messages of Progress from Italy—Brave Fight Against Odds Through Long Illness and Recurring Attacks Proved Heroic Caliber of Man—The World Mourns as Regal Career in Song Is Terminated

More Beneficial Than Private Teaching,” He Declares—Pupils Gain Confidence and Independence Through Friendly Competition—Advantages in Acquiring Repertoire Afforded by Attending Classes—Difference Between Mechanics and Technique—How Fingering Method Affects Phrasing—Broad General Culture Necessary to the Artist

Veteran New York Critic Describes Turbulent Incidents in Opera Houses of Italy—Differences in Behavior of Anglo-Saxon and Latin Music Lovers—How Parma Put a Tenor to Flight—An Impresario Becomes an Advocate of War and Leads an Attack on a Violent Audience—Signal Victory for Chorus, Armed with Wooden Swords, Follows Siege of Coffee House—The Effective Curse of a Robust “Moses” and the Rock That Fell on “One Night Only”

“International Composers” Adopted as Title of New Organization Directed by Edgar Varèse—Will Present Programs of Modern Works Featuring Creative and Not Interpretative Artists—Four Concerts Are Planned for New York Next Season—Salzedo to Aid Director to Select Compositions for Performance—Manifesto Explaining Aims of Society to Be Issued—Many Composers Join, and Energetic Membership Campaign Will Be Pressed—Men Who Represent the Spirit of the .Present Day Wanted, Says Varèse

ON July 4, 1826, America celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the spheres where the stars array themselves to play fate, the day was marked for destiny. For on that day there passed out two who had been of America’s great. Thomas Jefferson died at noon, and at sunset, Adams. And at noon, as Jefferson breathed his last, Stephen Collins Foster was born.

Recent Experiments Point to Possibility of Realizing Dreams of Imaginative Prophets—What Two Louisville Men Did With a Radio Outfit—Dance to Music from Miles Away—Tests Conjure Up Vast Possibilities

Pianist Contemplates Return to Concert Platform Next Season After Four Years in Europe—Serves as Military Attaché at Berne and Flies Over “No Man's Land”—Airplanes Make Fatalists, He Declares—Describes Strange Case of Musical Mania in Sanitarium—The Man Who Was Berlioz, Debussy, Gluck and Saint-Saëns—Amazed at Wealth of Music in America—Commends Work of Federated Clubs

People Are Ready for Good Music if One Will Give It to Them, Says Dorothy Jardon—Finds Listeners Sensitive to Textures, Colors and Lighting—Holding the Attention While Avoiding the Bizarre—Makes Opera Arias Intelligible Through Translation and Explanation

Walter Hampden, Noted Exponent of Shakespearian Rôles, Tells of His Debt to Music—Favors ‘Cello, but Finds It a Difficult Instrument—A “Hamlet” Who Has Studied Counterpoint—Appreciation of Elizabethan Verse Aided by Early Training in Art of Song—Singer’s Legato a Basis for Good Dramatic Delivery—Music in the Poet’s Lines—The “Incidental” Score

Young Violin Virtuoso Discusses Artistic Ideals on Eve of European Trip—To Pursue Studies in Composition at the Hochschule in Berlin Besides Concertizing—An Artist of the Heart More Than the Head

Tenor’s Return to “Villa Bellosguardo” Recalls to Maurice Halperson Vivid Memories of His Sojourn There—Mansion Commands Magnificent Scenic Picture—Famous Home of the Counts Pucci Explored from Inside—Caruso in the Rôle of Squire and Head-Farmer

Crowds Gather Early at Pier to Cheer Idol as He Puts to Sea—Will Be Away “Till He Feels Strong Again”—Sings a Powerful Top Note in Reply to Query—Return to Italy Marks Consummation of Constant Wish During Days of Illness—”Viva Caruso” Follows Tenor as Liner Slips Its Moorings—Addresses Message of Appreciation to American Public

Between 400 and 500 Vocal Recitals Could Be Eliminated from New York Season, Declares Distinguished Musician—Unprepared Debutantes Lured to Stage by Prospect of Name in Print—Advertisement as the Weapon Which No Cabals or Critical Indifference Can Withstand

WHAT do orchestra men think about? Admittedly that is a peculiar question. But there is a reason for it. It is not my intention to be precisely humorous, although it may seem that way. I feel that it is about time that consideration was given to the mental operations of these orchestra men who make things so pleasant for us.

“Certainly Syncopated Music Can Embody a Serious Emotion,” Declares America’s Prince of Ragtime—Importance of Properly Devised Text in Writing of the Popular Song—His Ideal of Comic Opera—May Write an American “Beggar’s Opera”—Syncopation a Complex Medium—Says Future Master Must Have Thorough Technique

Fund Raised Totals $1,175,000—City Supervisors Vote a Subscription of $100,000, but Official Auditor Refuses Approval—Mary Garden Announces Intention to Produce an Opera by Two San Franciscans Next Season—Hadley and Stransky Royally Welcomed as Leaders of N. Y. Philharmonic

Christine Langenhan Tells of the Oscar Wilde Vein Which Strauss’s Opera Introduced Into Beer-Garden Chatter—Soprano Has Also Sung in “Elektra”—Suggests That America’s Growth in Art Is a Turning from Morals to Manners

Germany’s Foremost Living Composer Will Make Three-Month Visit Beginning October— New York to Hear Him in Three Orchestral Concerts and in “Strauss Evenings”—Claire Dux May Assist Him in Latter Series—Rumor That Strauss Will Be “Guest” Leader at Metropolitan and Chicago Opera for Own Works—Would Mark His Debut Here as Operatic Conductor

Salvatore Fucito, for Five Years the Tenor’s Accompanist, Describes Caruso’s Methods of Learning

LOS ANGELES, CAL., April 16—For the time being the former Premier of Poland is a California rancher. A rancher de luxe, it is true; possibly one had better say a “gentleman rancher.” Only, the Eastern “gentleman farmer” does not expect to make money—while Rancher Ignace Paderewski is preparing to garner wealth from the California soil and sunshine.

World’s Master of Physics, Here to Aid Zionist Movement, May Appear Single Time as Violinist for Charitable Cause—Mrs. Einstein Discloses Musical Phases of Her Husband’s Personality—Music His Recreation and Greatest Joy—His Gifts as Improvisor

So Avers Georges Barrère, Chastising Businesslike Conservatories—What a National Conservatory Might Mean for America—Change of Soul an Essential Need

Music of the Ultra-Modernists Employed to Accompany Remarkable Motion Picture at the Capitol Theater—Distortion as Principle in Adapting Motives to Nightmare Mood of Screen Play—Latter an Original Treatment of Psychopathic Theme—Impressionism in Two Arts Synchronized—A Genuine Musical Departure Effected

Karel Szmanowski Discusses the Liberation of His Country’s—Slavonic and Teutonic Influences—Polish Music Different from Russian—A Personal Revolution—Warsaw Opera Thrives Under Mlynarski—Productions No Longer Restricted and Personnel Wholly Polish—Dramatic Theaters Active—Evolve Individual Type of Stage Setting

Celebrated Composer-Pianist Bemourns His Lost Home at Ivanovka—How He Came to Leave Russia—An Ardent Champion of His Dead Compatriot Rimsky-Korsakoff—Latter Known by Too Few Works in “America—Surprised by Growth in Musical Appreciation Here in Last Dozen Years—Spirit of Laughter Not Alien to Russian Music

SO much has been written of Mary Garden that one might wonder what else there could possibly be to say. Yet, though much light has been shed on the triumphant part of Miss Garden’s career, little has been written of her earlier days, the student days in Paris when she was working obscurely but undauntedly toward the career which she had chosen. Already she had sounded the key-note of her life which she later expressed thus: “Decide what you want to do, set your goal, and never stop until you reach it!”

Mengelberg Will Lead from February Till Season’s End—Stransky at Helm During First Half—Bodanzky and Hadley Complete Quartet of Leaders—Hollander, in Farewell Message, Insists on Longer Rehearsa1 Periods Next Year—”Labor Question Must Be Settled” by Time of His Return—Expect to Make Philharmonic World’s Largest Orchestra

Crisis Passed, but Physicians Guard Against Another Relapse—Patient’s Appetite Improves and He Rests Well—Passes Forty-Eighth Birthday Without Celebration—Voice Declared Uninjured by Illness

Here on Brief Visit Says His Place Is with His People and He Will Return—Financial Conditions Attract Young Musicians to North and South America—European Countries Need Their Best Blood

Crucially Ill After Unexpected Relapse, Great Tenor Fights Way Toward Recovery After Science Has Done Its Last—His Indomitable Will to Live Is Powerful Factor in Successful Outcome of Battle—News of Grave Illness Set Nerves of World on Edge—Cheered by Personal Messages from Rulers of Nations—Reported Making Satisfactory Progress

Described as “Bach of To-day” by English Writer—Plays New Works for Group of Intimates—Musical Opinion Rallies to “Sacre du Printemps,” Revived in Paris—Score Will Be Recognized as Greatest Achievement of Decade, Is Prediction—Contrapuntal Evolution More Pronounced—Use of Instrumental Timbres—Color Polyphony in Painting

Growing Debt and Abundance of Concerts are Causes Given for Merger of Two New York Forces—Philharmonic Personnel—to be Maintained with Few Additions from National Forces—Stransky and Mengelberg to Conduct—Bodanzky to Lead Some Concerts—Philharmonic May Combine with Metropolitan Opera in Spring Festival—Kahn and Krech Added to New Board of Directors—Rumor of Merger Between New York Symphony and Boston Symphony Denied by Engles

Inventor Finds a Great Fault with Artists Is That They Do Not Study Make-up of Their Instrument—Consonances Impossible on a Stringed Instrument—Psychological Reactions to Music-Composing as He Sees It—How to Insure Our Musical Future

Composer and Conductor, Just Arrived in America, Discusses the Artistic Conditions of His Country—Decentralization of Music—Dispersion of· the Artists—Awakening of New Utterances—Miascowski and Gniessen, the Ascendant Musical Figures of Present-Day Russia, He Says—Hebrew Music as He Found It

DR. FRANCESCO SAUCHELLI, the chiropractor, has expressed his belief that Caruso’s illness is not the result of any specific cause, but that it has been brought on by a series of events dating back some six years in the tenor’s life.

AFTER two operations for empyema, or suppurative pleurisy, Enrico Caruso continues seriously ill in his apartment at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Six physicians are in attendance upon him, the original five having been increased by the addition of Dr. John F. Erdmann, who performed the operations. Bulletins have been issued daily with respect to his condition. These, while emphasizing that there is no cause for alarm, have not attempted to disguise the fact that Mr. Caruso is a very sick man.

How the Magic of a Young Pianist’s Art Brought Quaker City Forces Into Being—A Second-Story Room, the Scene of the Symphony’s Birth—The “Unique” Club, Germ of the Band—Merging of Rival Force—Its Growth to the Present Day

Ill Luck Continues to Follow King of Tenors—Uncertain as to When He Will Be Able to Sing Again—Illness Is Latest of Series of Misfortunes—Patient Progressing Satisfactorily

Peruvian Contralto Requested by Dean of the Abbey to Aid Restoration Fund—Recital Netted 500 Pounds, Sterling—Singer Decries Jealousy Among Artists—Declares There Is Room at the Top for Many—Discovers Fine Voice in Young London Actress

More Exacting Standard of To-day Promises to Do Away with Superficiality in music—Tremendous Desire for “Immediate Achievement” the Greatest Drawback to the Country’s Art—Plethora of Beautiful Voices but a Rarity of Real Artistry in this Country—Mediocrity No Longer Tolerated—The True Measure of an Artist’s Greatness

King of Tenors Triumphs in “La Juive”—Shares Stellar Glory with Rosa Ponselle and Leon Rothier—Cast, with One Exception, Same as Last Year’s—Gorgeous Pageantry on Stage Matched by· Brilliance of Audience—Capacity Throng Recalls Principals Many Times

Eminent Baritone Sponsors Volume of Well-known Music Designed to Familiarize Numbers Everyone Should Know—Elliott Schenck Assists Largely in Making Four-part Arrangements—Work Also Contains Interesting Biographical Data Concerning Composers Represented

Artists Are Divided in Their Opinions as to the Advisability of Again Using Original Text of German Lieder—Quote European Precedent in Defense of Alien Language

Quaker City Amazed On Learning Identity of Man Who Kept Orchestra On Its Feet During War Years—Story Made Public in Advance Sheets of Editor’s Biography to be Published This Month—Other Philanthropies of Similar Nature Disclosed

IT was in the second half of the nineties that the fame of Jan Kubelik began to be heralded through the musical world. I remember his debut in London in the old St. James’ Hall, the slender youth of nineteen or twenty with the finely chiseled head and the dark luminous eyes in an otherwise somewhat impassive face. His success was colossal.

Exponent of Modern Songs Finds Depression Besetting All Sides of Life Abroad—Distrust of Foreigners—Excess and Eccentricity Rampant in New Works—Ravel Still Leader of France’s Composers—Low Standards of Present Life Reflected in Art

OF all the musical histories of the nations, that of the Irish is the most full of charm. From the earliest times musical expression has been so a part of the people that one cannot think of an Irishman without his harp or his song. Music and poetry were the means by which the ancient inhabitants of Ireland reached out to higher things, and together they form a tradition which links the old harpers who played on the hill of Tara, and the bards and minstrels of that day, with the advent of St. Patrick and the Christian era.

Their Name Is Legion, But Ugo Ara Cites a Few of the Outstanding Figures—How Mr. Eastman Was Converted to the Cause of Music—Three Names Which Command Special Reverence: Higginson, de Coppet, Mrs. Coolidge—Their Noble and Significant Works for Culture and Musical Lore in America

Every Promise Made at Orchestra’s Inception Brilliantly Fulfilled—Educational Value of New Institution—Walter Henry Rothwell a Leader of the First Order—Ambitious Plans Announced for Second Season—Spring Tour to Bring Good Music to Western Communities

Four Years’ Test Brings Triumph of Individualistic Principles—Helping Adults to Share Children’s Musical Thought-Life

“I am in Favor of Placing the Government Squarely Behind the Nation-Wide Effort to Bring Music Into Its Own,” Declares Republican Presidential Nominee—Favors National Conservatory with Branches Throughout Country and Wants Scope of Musical Instruction Widely Expanded in Public Schools—How the Senator Began His Career As a Musician in Marion, Ohio

Raucous Form of “Music” Has Lost Its Hold on the Popular Mind—Listening to Some “Masters” of This Type of “Entertainment”

Wing of Proposed Building to Be Given Over to Symphony and Chamber Music—Home for Opera Assured Also—City Working as Unit to Make Building a Reality

American Pianist Describes the Tint Represented by Note, Chord and Combination—The Scale in Varied Hues—Some Ideas as to Interpretation—Mastering of the Emotions, a Necessity to the Performer

LEOPOLD GODOWSKY, the pianist, finding recently that he would be unable to keep a recital engagement if he traveled by boat, conscripted an aeroplane to fly across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver, B. C., in order to make connection with his train for Eastern points. The somewhat limited space of the plane prevented him from taking along a piano, otherwise it is probable that the pianist would have whiled away his time playing Chopin in mid-air.

American Composer Whose Art Was Blossoming Into Glorious Fruition Died as the Result of Overwork—The Enigma, “Bread or Creation?” Faced by Contemporary Creative Musicians—A Tribute by a Friend and Colleague

Ernest Newman, Great English Music Critic, Describes His Reaction to the Excitement of an Historical Occasion in Aeolian Hall

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 1. —Nashville now has the distinction of being the only Southern city east of the Mississippi to have its own symphony orchestra. It was due to the vision of one man, George Pullen Jackson of the faculty of Vanderbilt University, and came into being almost overnight.

Metropolitan, Built by Oscar Hammerstein, Is Sold for a Small Sum, Thus Eliminating Theater as Home for Gatti’s Opera and Orchestra Forces—Metropolitan Season May Be Held in Academy if This Building Is Not Also Sold to Movie or Theatrical Interests—Stokowki Declares Situation “A Calamity” and Calls for 1,500,000 Fund—Propose a Temple of Music on Parkway

In his “Musical Memories,”* just issued by Small, Maynard & Co., in an English version of which Edwin Gile Rich is the translator, Camille Saint-Saëns takes us back over eighty-two years of music-life and music-love.

Brilliant Russian Pianist Shares with Busoni View That New Scale Will Come as Ears Grow More and More Sophisticated—Piano Technique Now Near Its Zenith Unless New Resources Are Added to Instrument

“Program Overture” of Young Chicago Composer, Just Published, Work of Deep Significance—Superb Instrumentation Attest To Writer’s Command of Medium—Truly Spirited, and of Forceful Conviction

Even Scandinavian Phlegmatism Has Been Melted by World Events, Declares Mezzo-Soprano, Pointing to the Musical Awakening of Her Own Sweden

E. F. Albee, the King of America’s Favorite Entertainment, Tells “Musical America” of New Musical Era in Vaudeville—An Ultra-Exclusive and Highly Specialized Field—Why Many Artists Fail on the “Two-Performance-a-Day” Stage—European Names No Longer Awe Booking Managers—Singing and Playing Before “A Cross-Section of American Life”—The Listeners Unafraid—Bridging the Gulf Between the Concert Halls and the Modern “Variety Show”—Arthur Lawrason Offers Some Practical Suggestions

French Composer, in His Villa in St. Cloud, Propounds His Musical Doctrine—As a Devotee of Debussy—Would Have His “L’Heure Espagnole” Taken “Nonchalantly, Like a Bon Bon”

New Plan Projected by Florence McMillan, New York Pianist, for Housing Music Students—The Strides Made by the Club After a Year’s Work—Two Apartment Houses Transformed into Dwellings

Like the poor, the Claque Has Always Been with Us—Originated by Nero, Developed by France, Adopted by Italy and Transported to America—Scientifically Conducted in Paris to Provide Appropriate Reactions for All Sorts of Operatic Situations—Experiences of American Debutantes

Being Some Observations On the Professional Lobbyist at Work When the Chicago Opera Company Arrives in Town—Some Types That Haunt the Lobby When Opening Night Arrives—Kindly Gods That Rule in the World of Opera—Concerning the Lady From the Movies—The Chronic First Nighter Gives His Views—The Glamor That Memory Gives

“We Live in a Perpetual Hurry,” Observes the Metropolitan Conductor—Urges a Federal Conservatory Where All Will Have Opportunity to Gain Careful Training—Appreciation of Best Drama and Literature a Crying Need—America Rich in Vocal Talent

Good Fellowship of the Slav Artists Might Well Be Emulated, Declares the Famous Piano Master—His Friendship with Hofmann, de Pachmann and Other Eminent Musicians

The Exciting Experiences of Mary Cavan and Otakar Marak in the Czech Capital—Utilizing a Score to Carry Message to Allies—Meeting a German “Colleague” —A Stove as Singer’s Fee

Founder of Crane Normal Institute of Music Has Always Held to Belief that Music Study in Public Schools be on Par with Other Studies—Prospective Teacher Has Opportunity to Observe Every Phase of Public School Music Work—A Genuine Progressive

What a Church Organist Needs to Learn to Play for Film-Plays, Told By Edith Lang of Boston—Opera as a Model but Music Must Not be Too Conspicuous—“Highbrow” Music Does Appeal—The Player’s Equipment

Greatest of Women Violinists Is Victim of Acute Indigestion in Uniontown, Pa. —Every Civilized Country Paid Homage to Her Genius—Toured Europe as Representative of American Musicians and Represented Native Musicians at World’s Fair in Chicago—Introduced Bruch, Tchaikovsky and Other Important Works in the United States

Appearances of Nine-Year-Old Maria Antonia and Eight-Year-Old Jerome Rappaport Suggest an Examination of the Careers of Other Wonder-Children—Some Notable Child-Geniuses Who Made Good and Have a Recognized Standing in the Musical World

French Composer Finds that “Music is a Negligible Matter in Modern-Day Works”—The Gullibility of the Public—Bringing Back Wagner Without Exaggeration

Famous Impresario, Champion of Progress in Opera-Giving, Passes Away in Chicago After Long Battle with Death—Fortune Gallo Heads the List of Possible Successors—Campanini’s Eventful Career as a Conductor in this Country and Abroad—Horatio W. Parker, the American Composer, and Luigi Illica, the leading Italian Opera Librettist, Die Within the Week

Statement Issued by Adjutant-General Harris Cites Indispensable Part Played in Conflict by Music—Plan to Make it Part of All Army Work—Department to Encourage and Promote All Study of Music

The Musical Art Society to Present Two Negro Christmas Songs at its First Program Since War—The Story of the Spirituals—What Natalie Curtis Burlin Perceives in the New Attitude Towards Negro Music

Famous Leader of Russian Ballet, for First Russian Time in America, Tells of Difficulties Under Which Art Was Created—Convincing the Relatives of Dead Composers

Famous Coloratura, Returned to U. S. After a Long Absence, Tells of War Work in Italy and France—Decorated by Two Governments—Established Hospital for Consumptive Soldiers

The Great Composer of “L’Amore dei Tre Re” Pays His First Visit to America—A Study of the Man and His Ideals—Ambition and a Twenty-Dollar Piano—Orchestration Mastered without Texts or Teachers—“La Nave” a “Larger Work than ‘Tre Re’”

His Spectacular Success Not Mere Luck, Explains Manager of Galli-Curci, McCormack and Other First Magnitude Artists in An Epigrammic Interview—Stabilizing the Concert-Directing Business

Watching the Motley Crowd at the Auction Sale of the Impresario’s Music and Art Trophies—Like a Parody of the Company’s Other Days

Representative La Guardia states his Views regarding the Musical Situation in New York

Polish Virtuoso Finds Beethoven “Mediaeval” and Worships at Shrine of Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel and Other Latter Day Apostles—Blasts the “Chopin Tradition”—Declines to Join the One-Composer Cult—“Thirty Years Old and Perfectly Happy

Composer’s Operntheatre and Conductor’s Volksoper Will Clash in Rivalry this Season—Impossible To Fill Demand for Seats—His Food Supply Confiscated, Strauss is Reported to be in Want—Conservatory Re-Organized Under Löwe

Singer Was Held Prisoner on her Estate by Austrian Government—Describes Life During Period of Imprisonment Declares She Will Sing No More German Songs Till She “Learns to Love the German” —Plans for her Coming Concert Tour

He Corrects Some Misapprehension with Regard to His Personal Affairs as Well as with Regard to Present Conditions in Italy

Details of Famous Italian’s First Triumph Told by Distinguished Music Master—Latter Comes to New York After Twenty Years in Cincinnati—Tirindelli’s Boyhood Composition Developed, by Liszt—“The Bohemians” at Play

Stand Upon Your Feet and Play the Game” Is the Advice of This Successful Manager—Dependability Is the Biggest Asset a Manager Can Have, She Believes—Keep “Feminine Traits” Out of the Business Field—How She Has Utilized Her Early Training—Qualifications She Demands In an Artist—“Stage Husband or Stage Mother Greatest Handicap to the Young Artist” —Manager should A void Acquiring the Artistic State of Mind—Successful Artist Must Be an Egotist, but Manager Should Learn Self Effacement

In the accompanying picture is shown the first singer in this country to make the journey to a concert by aeroplane. Mrs. Stella Jelica, California singer, made the trip from Alameda to Eureka by the air route, to sing at the Northern California Music Festival on Sept. 9. The distance is 300 miles.

Pierre Monteux, Back from France, Begins Rehearsals—“Let Us Forget the War; It Has No Part in the Selection of Programs,” Says Parisian

California Master of Musical Theory [Howard Hanson] Perfects Apparatus Which Gives Optical Explanation of Their Formation—Music as an “Art-Science”

Prohibition Doctrines Not Confined Merely to Drink—What Next in an Age of Unwished-for Paternalism?—The Calvinist in Music Who Would Prohibit Bach, Beethoven and Wagner

Further Details of Camera Magnate's Gift Are Announced—Donor Wants to Demonstrate Affinity of Motion Pictures and Music—Sees Development of New Form of Composition as Result of Union of Films and Art

How Moussorgsky Sounds as Interpreted by Russian Tenor—Restraint, a Keynote of His Art—Helping to Change the American Idea of Russia

Managing Director of House of Ricordi Finds a Confused Situation in London—Delights of Messager’s “Monsieur Beaucaire” Fourdrain Writing Set of Six Songs for America—Opera and Chamber Music in Italy—The American Public’s Musical Knowledge and Its Attitude to New Works

Arthur Judson Publishes a Defense of the Noted Conductor

Clearest Means of Revelation, Says Expert, Who Tells “Musical America” Readers What May Be Learned from Study of Signatures of Famous Artists—Are These Characteristics Yours?—Look Over the List and See Whose Writing Most Nearly Resembles Your Own—Everything Revealed in a Signature, the Expert Declares—A Study of the Handwriting of Music’s Most Illustrious Exponents

Lydia Lipkovska Has Thrilling Escape from Petrograd, Moscow and Odessa—Loses Part of Her Fortune During Enforced Sojourn of Three Years in the Russian Domain

Loudon Charlton’s Career of Twenty Years as a Music Purveyor Attests Practicability of a Policy Strictly Ethical and Altruistic—Meeting Musical Clubs and Local Managers Half Way—A Manager Whose Relations with His Artists Are Bound Not by Contracts But by “Understandings” —Fostering the Spirit of Co-operation in Working for the Country’s Musical Cultivation and Advancement

American Public Helps Native Composer More Than the Critic, Says Eminent Pianist—Deplores Mere Mechanical Exercise—Recommends Chopin Etudes as Technical Material—The Evils of Speed—Necessity of a General Education for Musicians—Not an Advocate of Self-Study—Greatly Interested in Municipal Music

Conductor Informs the Violinist that Inability to Get Along With the “Powers That Be” Alone Prevents His Resuming His Career in America—Asserts He Did Not Decline Boston Symphony Leadership—Effects of War Upon Italy’s Musical Life as Spalding Has Observed Them—The Former Lieutenant Home Again to Return to His Violin So Long Neglected in Favor of His Military Duties

Greatest Legacy in History of Music Provides Free Concerts for Education of Public, Assists “All Worthy Students,” Encourages Composition and Aids Metropolitan Opera—Late Financier, Head of the Metropolitan Realty Company; Left Details of Operation to Nephew, Frederic A. Juilliard, Charles H. Sabin and James Wallace of New York—Will Begin to Administer Fund Within One Year—Distinguished Authorities Declare Gift Is Remarkable Recognition of Music

Conspiracy Against Directorship of the Famous Composer Conductor Arouses Bitter Controversy—Amicable Adjustment Finally Reached—American Tenor in Premiere of d’Albert’s “Dead Eyes” —Operatic and Concert Festivals in the Austrian Capital

Why So Many Artists Conquer the Pianist’s Cerberus, Technic, Without Ever Discovering the Divine Spark—The Revelatory Playing of Rubinstein, Liszt and Paderewski—Artistic Balance as the Means of Achieving the “Appealing” Tone

Veteran Impresario Who Made “Dollar Opera in English” Famous Recalls pioneer Days for “Musical America” in Commemoration of His Thirty-fifth Anniversary inthe Operatic Field—Stage-Struck Drummer Who Wanted to Become Singer Established Chain of Opera Companies—Championed High Artistic Standards and Fought for the Use of English—”Discovered” Eminent Artists—How Opera Created Native Vaudeville—To Erect Great “Musical Building” in New York

Death of Nicholas Nearly Led to Recognition of Anton by Academic Authorities—Writer in the “Etude” Tells of the Russian Pianist’s Bad Conducting

Noted Authority Defines Qualifications of a Concert and Operatic Coach—Few Singers Know Rôles at Rehearsal

Pianist Must Learn Secret of Effortlessness—How the Muscles Interact—Securing a Fine Tone

Albert Coates, English Conductor Formerly at Imperial Court Opera in Petrograd, Declares He Found Sharply-marked Preference for Modern and Complicated Music—Scriabin’s “Poème d’Extase” Riotously Welcomed

However, Many Native Musicians, She Adds, “Have Not Learned Their Trade”—Famous Diva Tells of Her Quest For Good Program Material—A Chat With the Prima Donna and Her Pianist

Music of No Nation Will Be Exploited at the Expense of Another’s, Declares Director in Announcing His Artistic Credo—French School Needs No Propaganda, He Avers—Admires Russians’ Art and Pays His Respects to Wagner’s Genius—Finds Puccini “Second-Rate”—Wants Europe to Give Hearing to American Works Barefoot, Unclad Soldiers Beating Back Foes—Ernest Schelling Working Side by Side with His Colleague

So Writes Mme. Paderewska, in a Letter to Her Son, W. 0. Gorski—Poland Afire with Patriotism—Barefoot, Unclad Soldiers Beating Back Foes—Ernest Schelling Working Side by Side with His Colleague

Italian Modernist Says War Has Conferred a Greatly Exaggerated Importance on Musical Nationalism—“Beauty Knows No Country,” He Asserts—A Sketch of the Life of a Significant Musician of To-day and His Achievements as a Composer, Pianist, Conductor and Critic

As master pianist, Josef Hofmann is, of course, known to everybody everywhere, but that he is also trained in mechanics is probably known to very few persons, especially in America....

Gala Performance Marks Twenty-fifth Year of Great Tenor on the Operatic Stage—James M. Beck Withdraws as Speaker When Mayor Hylan Threatens to Stop Flag Presentation—Many Handsome Gifts from Associates and Admirers—Singer’s Superb Art Revealed in Scenes from Three Popular Operas

Existence in the Latin Quarter Not So Rosy as Many Believe—The Dangers of Translating American Customs to Living Abroad—The Wild Goose Chase and Where It Leads

Exponent of Musical Futurism Describes the Methods of Muscovite Critics—Impressions of the Concert Stage—His Music, He Says, Is Subjective, Embodying Real People, Real Scenes

Polish Pianist, Returning Here After Twelve Years’ Absence, Brings with Him New Manuscripts from That Country—The Great Hope in Paderewski—Musicians as Diplomats—Concert Managers in the Land of the Don

How Hofmann, Bauer, Novaes, Paderewski and Other Noted Artists Discover Hidden Beauties in Even Hackneyed Compositions—Infinite Variety of Tone Color and Endless Pains with Phrasing the Secret of Great Interpretation

Distinguished Artist Sees a Change in Lay Attitude Toward the Musician as an Individual of More Universal Interests—Paderewski Ever a Diplomat in the Eyes of His Colleague—How the “Master Classes” Worked Out on the Pacific Coast

How the Unforgettable Interpreter of Debussy’s Masterpiece Prepares to Re-enact Her Greatest Rôle

Jaques-Dalcroze, Vocal Teacher, Found Solfeggio Pupils Could Not Keep Time with His Playing as They Walked About Room—System of Rhythmic Gymnastics, or Eurhythmics, Elaborated to Overcome Defective Rhythmic Sense—All-Around Musical Training Offered by Dalcroze Method—Possibilities of New Art Opened Up—Method Has Significance for All

Andrew Carnegie, of New York City and Skibo, Set Aside Large Fund, Part of Which Is Employed to Publish and Bring to Wider Public the Works of Contemporary British Composers—The Scope of the Plan—A Pertinent and Pointed Question

Interviewers Have Many Questions to Ask as Prima Donna Arrives in Chicago—France Adores America, She Declares

A Chapter from Her Own Life Tells of the Infinite Struggle, the Self-Restraint Which Alone Can Lead to Success—Noted Diva in Heart-to-Heart Talk Reveals Her Philosophy as to Life and Art— What the Coming of Peace Has Brought Her

How the Young Exponents of Miss Duncan’s Art Impressed the Casual Observer—Trained to Love All Beauty—Their View of Russian Ballet—How They Helped Select Pupils—The Art of Expressing One’s Self—Rehearsing While Expressmen Waited

Young American Soprano Tells of Her Experiences on Tour for the Overseas Theater League—“Concert Halls” Were “Any Place One Found Men to Sing To—How She Sang for the Crowds in Paris When the Armistice News Came

Story of One of the Most Popular Songs of the Day—Miss Foster “Didn’t Intend to Write a War Song” —Its Faith and Pride in Our Men Is the Note That Touched the Public Heart, She Believes

Greatest of Living Russian Composers, on Eve of American Concert Tour, Discusses the Tenets of His Musical Creed—Says It Is Too Soon to Tell About War’s Effects on Art—Sure Culture Will Remain National in Character—German Classics Too Great to Be Shelved—Russia the Source of the Best in Modern Music—Asks Why American Public Knows So Little of Russia’s Music—Ten of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Fourteen Operas Were Masterpieces, but America Has Heard Only One—Thinks Music of Future Will Follow Lines of Accepted Forms—“Le Coeur” and Folk-Song Must Eventually Lead to Production of Great Art-Music in Any People

Brilliant Young Violinist Tells of the Eventful Days When Russia Threw Off the Romanoff Yoke—How Trotzky Rode About in the Czar’s Gold Chariot—Student Days with Leopold Auer at the Petrograd Conservatory—In Red Cross Garb Miss Given Lived Through First Week of Revolution—Russia Ideal Place for Study, She Says—Children Begin Musical Work When Five Years Old

...From the beginning of the war his sympathies have been pro-Ally. “From the first,” he said, “I felt that Spain should plunge in as America did, altruistically, although the sinking of her ships was quite sufficient to have made her participation a defensive measure....

Your Operatic Star Doesn’t Believe in the Magic of Signs; But Then, It’s Always Better to Be on the Safe Side! Step Ladders. Shoes on the Shelf. The Whistler in the Dressing Room, the Charmed Ring and Other Bêtes Noires of Stagedom

Serge Prokofieff, Much-Discussed Ultra-Modern Russian Composer, Now in New York, Tells of Conditions Under Bolsheviki—Latter Paying Big Salaries to Noted Artists, Bringing Out New Musical and Dramatic Works in Sumptuous Style, and Regard Artists with Favor—Contemporary German Music Still Barred—Rachmaninoff’s Estate Burned and Plundered by Those in Power—Music Paper as Valuable as Paper Currency—Mr. Prokofieff’s Standing, Works and Plans

Meteoric Rise to Fame in Our Country of This Signally Gifted Composer—Writer Notes Characteristically American Qualities in Mr. Bloch—A Man of Action, Broad Interest and Sympathies, and Flaming Imagination—His “Jewish Side”—Early Career and Studies—New World Opened Its Arms to Him—Found More Real Critical Acumen Here Than in Europe—His Great Quartet Finished Within Stone’s Throw of the “L”—Has Cast in His Lot with Us—Potential Influence on Our Music

THE marriage of Enrico Caruso to an American girl, Dorothy Park Benjamin of New York, adds two more names to the long list of notable international marriages—although the illustrious tenor asserts that he is already “seven-twelfths American.”

And Douglas Fairbanks’s Newest Rival Sings in Half-Voice as a Gaily Bedecked “Audience” Aristocratically Fans Itself in the Manhattan Opera House—What Happened as “My Cousin Caruso” Was Being Translated Into the Celluloid Films

A Sensitive and Broadly Cultured Lover of All That Is Beautiful Is This Financier and Public Benefactor—Views Music as Summertime Essential—Finds Concerts Are Attended by Deeply Appreciative Audiences—His Career

Intricacies of Its Rhythms, Says ‘Cellist, Have Made Spanish Music Inaccessible to Outside World—Not Even Chabrier and Debussy Have Caught Its Real Essence, He Declares—Kinship with American Ragtime—Victoria as Preceptor to Palestrina

Celebrated Flautist Tells of the Organization of the Barrère Ensemble—How America Has Gone Forward in Her Appreciation of Chamber Music—The Coming French and American School Après La Guerre—Blending of Little Symphony and Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet Forces Will Put the Picture in Its Proper Frame

Ocean Grove Audience of 10,000 Goes Wild with Enthusiasm When Tenor Gives an Italian Version of George M. Cohan’s “Over There”—Camp-Meeting Town the Mecca for Jersey Coast Residents—Carolina White and Winston Wilkinson the Assisting Artists

Signal Contribution Which Is Being Made to the Great Cause by Mr. and Mrs. Paderewski, McCormack, Muratore, Harry Lauder, Schumann-Heink, Percy Hemus, Sousa and Others—Inspiring Role Played by These Notables, Who Serve with Their Art

Leopold Godowsky Discusses the Instruction of Children—Importance of a Fine Piano—How a Good Teacher Works—Co-operation from Parents

Former Violinist of Flonzaley Quartet, Who Is serving in Italy’s Army, Pictures Conditions in War-Riven Europe—Several New Names to Be Found Among Italian Composers—Hear Works by Leading Americans—the Food Situation—Indomitable Paris—Fine Work of Our Y.M.C.A.

Ante-Bellum Music Reminicences—Twenty Violinists Compete for Prize in the Old Dominion—A Typical Lesson at One of the Picturesque Schools of Song

Has Determined to Devote Himself to Teaching Singing—An Ardent Disciple of His Master, Cotogni—Paramount Importance of Simplicity and Poise—First Heard Amelita Galli Sing in 1909—Her Triumphant Audition at the Teatro Costanzi—Has Himself Sung at Latter Temple of Opera with Celebrities

Distinguished American Accompanist and Song Composer Recalls Sembrich’s Ideas on Program-making—Matzenauer’s Solution of Lieder Problem—Opposed to Women Singing Numbers Intended for Men—“lnterpret Old Masters According to Their Human Quality”

Hand-Clapping Brigades Are Indispensable in the Opera House, Declares Signor Margoles When Coaxed Into an Interview—Artists Crave Applause After Their Heavy Arias, He Explains—How the Professional Noise~Makers Come to the Rescue During the “Glorious High Note”—Claques a Nuisance? Why Even Czar Nicholas Didn’t Complain!

Y. M. C. A. Secretary, Stationed at Great Rest Camp for Pershing’s Men at Aix-les-Bains, Records Activities—Music’s Rôle in Enlivening the Daily Round—Tussle with a Refractory French Harmonium

Greatest Creative Men of Spain Gather at Celebrated ‘Cellist’s Villa—Latter Has Enchanting Setting—Bach’s (Piano) Works Come First on Artist’s Daily Schedule—Perfect Days That End Perfectly

Viola Player of Flonzaley Quartet Was Member of Opéra Comique Orchestra When Debussy’s Opera Was Given Première—”Dress Rehearsal Was Great Success from Humorous Standpoint”—The French Master’s Characteristics

Louis Schneider in Lecture on Effect of War Upon Music Tells of Attitude of French Soldiers Toward Composers of Enemy Race—Officer Successfully Opposes Civilian’s Protest Against Beethoven Performance—Paris Believes War Is Purging Arts of Impurities

Paris Journal Balks at Meyerbeer—English Critic’s Fall from Aesthetic Grace After Two Years’ Musical Starvation in Salonica—German Court Denies Pianos Are Necessities—Musical Delinquency of Marseilles—Nikisch as a Scoreless Conductor—Bachelet Writes Recitatives for Rameau’s “Castor et Pollux”

Here Are Seven Prominent Conductors Whose Names Have Been Conspicuously Mentioned as Candidate for the Directorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—Not One of Them Is an American-born—But There May Be a “Dark Horse”!—If You Were in Major Higginson’s Place Whom Would You Select for the Position?

Military Bands of Italy, France, Great Britain and the United States Unite in a Thrilling Event—Milan Showers Flowers on the Musicians—Our Singers Continue to Win Success in Italian Opera House—Alvina Dianette Triumphs with Serafin—Devotion of Toscanini to War-Stricken Colleges Makes Deep Impression

English Soprano Describes Late Composer as “Primitive, Self-Centered and Relentless,” Whose Creative Genius for Music Was a Thing Apart from His Personal Life—Anecdotes That Were Typical of the Frenchman’s Philosophy—Hated to Hear His Own Music Performed

Famous Baritone of the Metropolitan Opera House Sees Work of Musical Alliance as Great Aid in Securing Small Opera Houses Throughout Country—Need for Houses Where Young Singers May Be Heard—Co-ordination of Musical Interests Great Objective of Present Time—Entertainment and Education Must Go Hand in Hand if Nation Is to Attain Highest Development

He Has Observed Stars of Both Sides of the Footlights for a Quarter of a Century—When Prince Heinrich of Prussia Was Entertained—Opera No Longer a Social Function—Recalls Days When Ushers “Used to Chase Farrar Back to Her Place as a Standee”

Max Strakosch Introduces “Aida” at Academy of Music in the Eventful Season of ‘73-74—Adventures on the Road with Carreño, Sauret and Other Artists—The “Hungarian Nightingale’s” Strange Retinue—Precarious Days for the Traveling Company—Reminiscences of a Distinguished Musician

Venerable Celebrated Russian Violinist and Pedagogue Comes to Our Shores When War Prevents His Friends and Pupils from Visiting Him Abroad—Treating Every Pupil Individually, According to Latter’s Natural Aptitude, This Master’s Only Pedagogical Secret—Deplores Prejudice Shown to Prodigies—Believes Russia’s Modern Composer’s Guarantee Country’s Musical Future—To Remain for Present in New York Teaching Special Pupils

Claudia Muzio’s Paper Dolls Were “Neddas” and “Toscas,” and To-day She Lives in the Air Castles She Built While Playing with Them Behind the Scenes—She Provides Her Interviewer with a Substantial Demonstration of Her Culinary Skill

Max Bruch on Eve of His Eightieth Birthday Makes Violent Denunciation of England and Stirs Up English Musicians—Anglo-Russian Pianist a Dominating Figure in London's Concert World—Siegfried Wagner's New Opera Described as a Pendant to “Haensel and Gretel”—Carl Rosa Company's Record One to Excite Envy of Other Opera-in-the-Vernacular Organizations—Camille Saint-Saëns Still Insists that the Voice Alone, and Not the Orchestra, Should Tell the Hearer What the Composer of an Opera Means—Herbert Fryer Heard Again in London After a Four Years' Interval

Dr. Muck Leads Orchestra and Chorus in Unfamiliar Score—Latter Possesses Movingly Beautiful Finale—May Peterson and Merle Alcock the Soloists—Enjoy Program Made Up of Three Symphonies by Master Composers—Flonzaleys’ Visit Followed by First Local Appearance of Kneisels with Kreisler as First Violinist

Carrie Jacobs Bond Toiled Early and Late for Means of Subsistence-”—I Am Simply a Writer of Melodies,” Says This Composer Whose Best-Known Song Is Heard at All Hours in the Tommies’—Trenches- Never Expected to Be Known Outside of Janesville (Her Birthplace) —Has Generous Words for Her American Contemporaries

Distinguished Tenor of Campanini Forces Says That Even a Stage Duel Should Be Historically Accurate—Began His Career as an Actor in Paris

Lad Who Began His Career in the New York Slums Returns From Europe to Make American Début—A. Refined and Cultivated Young Artist—Carries Message of the Coming of His Master, Leopold Auer, Next Month

Famous Violinist Nearly Wrecks His “Strad” in Mounting Stage—Carlotta Patti Makes Her First and Only Appearance in Opera in “Magic Flute”—Christine Nilsson Pays Her First Visit—Annie Louise Cary, Vieuxtemps, Brignoli Among Other Visiting Stars—Parepa Rosa and Clara Louise Kellogg in English Opera

Orchestra of Forty-five Skilled Musicians Accompanies Silent Drama at the Old Academy of Music—House Also Possesses Excellent Organ—Scores of Masters Employed—Worthy Musical Organization at the Eighty-first Street Theater—Orchestra at Loew’s New York Commands Formidable Répertoire—Theater Also Has Large Organ and Uses Excellent Music

Gift of Extensive Program Collection to the New England Conservatory Recalls Early Musical History in This Country—Mendelssohn Quintet Made First Tours in the Late Forties

Photoplay Theaters Which Began with a Piano and a Drum Now Serve Patrons with Excellent Orchestral Organ Programs—First Innovation Was the Pipe Organ—New Type of Accompaniments Calls for Excellent Musicianship and Special Form of Composition—Give Carl Edouardo of New York Credit for Establishing First Orchestra in a Motion Picture House

“Jeanne” Conducted by the Composer, Raymond Roze—Work Gains Signal Success—Marthe Chenal Again Triumphs in Title Rôle—Graceful Arias Predominate in Music of “Beatrice”—Opera Given Beautiful Setting—George Houpt Describes Conditions in Italy—American Soldiers to Sing Christmas Carols in Paris This Yuletide

American Soldiers in France Hungry for Music and Huddle in Crude, Dimly Lighted Huts to Hear Entertainers—Y. M. C. A. Calls for Easily Played Instruments

Programs Made up Mainly of Italian Music Were Then in Vogue—Concert and Operatic T ours That Came to Unhappy Endings—Mme. Gazzaniga’s “Grand Operatic Concert Company,” Which Boasted a Sixteen-Year-Old Conductor—Concerts at Watering Places Poorly Attended Through Lack of Advertising

Department of Justice Regulations Expected to Halt Temporarily Career of Distinguished Orchestra—Under New Ruling Organization May Not Travel Outside State with German Conductor—Eight Enemy Alien Musicians Ousted in Philadelphia —Musical Union Sends Quiz to All Members

The Distinguished French Conductor States His Point of View and Displays a Charming and Generous Personality

Austrian Violinist Requests Release from Contracts—Decision Means Sacrifice of $85,000—Will Fulfill Concerts Promised for Charity—Issues Explanatory Statement in Which He Affirms His Deep Gratitude to America—Kreisler as Man, Musician and Soldier

Clara Clemens Tells How the Humorist Appropriated a Huge Bouquet from Another Admirer’s Arms and Rushed with It to the Stage of Old Mendelssohn Hall She Related the Story of Her Own Musical Ambitions and Tells How They Are Being Realized—What It Means to “Find a New Voice”—Tribute to Her Teacher

BY the recent War Revenue Act passed by Congress, and approved by the President on Oct. 3, 1917, a tax is levied of one cent for each ten cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid for admission to any place, including admission by season ticket or subscription, to be paid by the person paying for such admission. The tax is to be collected by each person or corporation receiving the admission price, and at the same time. All such taxes are to be accounted for under oath and paid over to the Internal Revenue Collector monthly....

Russian Violinist’s Trip Through Siberia from Petrograd Beset with Difficulties

MUSICAL AMERICA has received from the Bureau of Trade and Technical Press Publicity for the Food Administration Campaign, at Washington, an appeal for co-operation in the matter of setting before the reading public reached by this periodical the necessity of intelligent and effective economy in the use of food-stuffs.

“Madama Butterfly” of Tokio Was Pioneer Singer Among Japanese Women—Determined on Musical Career in Spite of Parental Opposition—Exquisite Little Prima Donna of the Orient Believes “Woman’s Place Is in the House,” but She Means Opera House—Some of Her Early Experiences in India

Future of Orchestras and Choruses Will Be Determined By Efforts of Conscription—Passage of Alien Bill May Mean Total Disruption of Many Musical Organizations—Operatic Society of Philadelphia Crippled By Nation’s Call for Soldiers

American Symphony of Chicago to Lose Twenty of Its Players—Berkshire Quartet Member Is Drawn—Peabody Conservatory of Baltimore Loses Faculty Artists—St. Louis Orchestra Gives a Dozen Men—Leading Magazines Indorse Movement to Conserve Art and Provide for Best Utility of Artists

The Remarkable Story of Young Bryceson Treharne, Welsh Musician, Whose Distinctive, Creative Gifts Have Already Made a Deep Impression Here—Feeding the Muse on Acorn Coffee and Bread Made of Sand, Chopped Straw and Potato Flour—How a Censor Saved His Scores

Leslie Hodgson, One of Her Favorite Pupils, Recalls Her Method of Instruction—Observations on the Effect of the Audience Upon a Concert Pianist

Movie Comedian Thinks Modern-Day Composer Has Lost a Trick by Neglecting the Comic Element—He Explains Why He Prefers the Russian School of Composition—How He Studied the “Carmen” of Gay and Zenatello Before He Dared Burlesque It for the Screen

Vladimir Dubinsky Predicts a Tremendous Awakening Among the Composers Who Are Now Freed from Autocratic Suppression—A Study of the Conditions That Have Impeded a Natural Development of Artistic Expression in a Country Fettered by Restriction and Prejudice

Shall He Be Drafted into the Fighting Ranks as a Soldier or Shall His Talents Be Employed as an Auxiliary Force to Help Win the Conflict? Prominent Men Give Their Views—Majority Urge Keen Discrimination in Assigning Artists to Tasks That Will Not Endanger the Future of Our Musical Resources

Wallingford Riegger, Here from Berlin, Describes Conditions in German Capital—Was to Have Given Edgar Stillman-Kelley’s “New England” Symphony When War Spoiled His Plans

“Valkyr of the Piano” Succumbs at Sixty-three After a Half Century of Fame as One of the World’s Greatest Pianists—Noted Artists Pay Tribute to Her Memory at Her Funeral—Made Concert Debut at the Age of Nine—Married Four Times and Has Five Children Living—Magnanimous, Self-Sacrificing Personality

... But a factor which is generally overlooked, until men are brought face to face with the situation, is that the conditions which make heavy taxation a necessity provide the means of meeting the unusual charges—that is to say, an extraordinary demand for materials and supplies, yielding, unless controlled, unprecedented profits, is created by war. This can best be illustrated by considering the experience of this country during the Civil War period. The expenditures for the army and navy in 1860 were $16,472,203 and $11,514,650 respectively....

Florence Macbeth, Noted Soprano, Expresses Hope That Americans Will Not Put the German “Lieder” Classics Under the Ban—Singer Is Opposed to Plea That “Star-Spangled Banner” Be Dropped as a National Anthem—Elimination of the Idle Woman a Blessing the War Will Bring to Us

THE poet deals in words, while the painter deals in color and form, but the musician deals in emotions and therefore his appeal to women is always more swift, as it is always more subtle, than the appeal of any other artist.

Slender-Necked Persons Incapable of Producing Rich Tones—Famous Singers Have Necks of Large Proportions—Beware of the Tight Collar

Irish Tenor “Sings More, Earns, Spends and Saves More” than Any Other Artist—A Story to Every Song He Sings—His New York Home and His Art Collection

An Intimate Picture of the Famous Tenor’s Life on the Road During His Recent Concert Tournée—His Good Nature Is Omnipresent, but Not to Be Imposed Upon—The Infinite Precautions Taken by His Retinue to Insure His Comfort—One Person Who Did Not Enjoy His Caricatures—A Wedding Party Moved Nine Flights Away to Allow the Noted Singer to Sleep—Twelve-lnch List of Request Numbers Handed to Him by Art Admirer in Cincinnati Street—His Rebuke to a Collector of Press Clippings—The Ultra-Inquisitive Reporter Snubbed

Amato, Botta, de Luca and Others Help in Sale of Subscriptions—Singers Prove Convincing as Salesmen and Incidentally Purchase Bonds for Themselves—Metropolitan Musical Bureau Scene of Lively Marketing

“Star-Spangled Banner” Falls Short of the Mark, Is Consensus of Opinion Among Prominent Musicians—Messrs. Parker, Farrow, Sousa and Erskine Selected as Adjudicators in Competition

American Born, the Dancer Has Studied Russian Art, Taken Russian Name and Makes Concert Tour with Russian Symphony Orchestra—Tells of Visit to Tsarskoe-Sélo, Where the Former Czar Is Now Imprisoned

Mrs. H. H. A. Beach Foresees Period of Development and Achievement in New Era That Will Come Out of the War—America’s Foremost Woman Composer Analyzes Causes of Man’s Superiority in Field of Creative Music—Woman’s Standing in the Art as Reflection of Her Social Status

Ex-Ambassador Gerard Calls for “Three Cheers for President Wilson” After Artur Bodanzky Has Conducted the Metropolitan’s Orchestra in “The Star-Spangled Banner” Margarete Ober Faints on the Stage During Performance of “Canterbury Pilgrims” After News of Decisive Step is Received—Robert Leonhardt Also Succumbs to Fainting Attack Behind the Scenes

Distinguished Accompanist Recounts Several of the Noted Polish Pedagogue’s Principles in Teaching—”Slow Practice,” the Master Cautioned—Leschetizky as an Ardent Billiard Player

Performance of Puccini’s Opera by Scala Company at the Opéra Comique Interrupted for Five Minutes While Audience, on Its Feet and in a Veritable Frenzy, Cheers America’s National Anthem—The First Paris Production in the Franco-Italian Musical “Entente”—Bruneau’s “Messidor” Sung at the Opéra and Admired for Its Score and the Accompanying Ballet—Concerts for War Charities—The Opéra Comique’s Tragic Roll of Honor

... She entered, bowed gracefully and waited for the applause to subside. Exquisitely gowned, stately and refined in carriage, she struck a sympathetic chord in the hearts of the audience before she sang her first note. The opening measures of “Caro mio ben” revealed a warm, liquid tone of remarkable purity that grew in smoothness and steadiness as the singer gained her composure....

Famous Metropolitan Baritone Gives the Interviewer a Tabloid Demonstration of the Process by Which He Has Worked Out the Details of Operatic Acting in His Memorable Interpretation of “Scarpia” in “Tosca”—Correlation of the Musical and Dramatic Elements in the Opera’s Tense Second Act

Noted Organist Attributes His Success to Systematic and Dignified Advertising—A Pioneer Organ Recitalist in This Country, Dr. Carl Relates Interesting Experiences That Attended His First Announcements in the Papers—”Keep Your Name Before the Public,” Is His Advice to the Professional Musician

Conductor Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra has a way of disarming criticism that statesmen and politicians well might envy. He proves his point in the end. The thing has happened so often that the director must surely sometimes smile to himself while donning that strong armor of eventual justification which easily withstands arrows of preliminary attack....

Some of the Finest Fruits of MacDowell’s Genius Still Undiscovered by Most Music-Lovers—But the Light Seems at Last to Be Breaking, as a Result Largely of the Country-wide Propaganda Carried Through by His Widow—MacDowell’s Artistic Ideals and Achievements as Viewed by the One Who Knew Them Best

Some of the Ways in Which the Artist’s Publicity Representative May Serve the Musical World, as Analyzed by One of the Craft, Edward L. Hernays—Psychology as a Working Basis—How the Singer’s Personality May Be Correlated with the Affairs of the Day

Festival Week of Concerts as Feature of Jubilee Celebration of New York Philharmonic Society, Which Has Completed Three-Quarters of a Century of Solid Achievement—Only Concert Postponed Was Upon the Occasion of Lincoln’s Assassination—Ultra-Formal Accoutrement of Early Ushers Abandoned Because of Ridicule from Younger Members of Audience—Statistics of “Then and Now”

Prominent Musicians Speak on Topics of Import Before the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Music Teachers’ National Association in New York—Community Singing, Public School Methods, Standardization and High School Credits Among Subjects Presented

Metropolitan’s General Manager Relates the Circumstances of the Revival of “L’Elisir d’Amore” at the Scala in Milan During His Régime There in 1901—Caruso’s Impassioned Singing Melted the Icy Opposition of a First-Night Audience Prejudiced Against the Work in Advance—A Much-Despised Buffo Who Vindicated Himself

Recollections of Fifty Years of Concert Work as Related to an Interviewer During the Present American Tour of the Famous Venezuelan Artist—How She Simulated the Effect of Octaves as an Eight-Year-Old Soloist—Why Gottschalk Took Her as a Pupil—Rubinstein Continually Walked the Floor and Smoked While Teaching—Her Pupil, MacDowell, Submitted His Compositions to Her at Seventeen, and Requested Her to Destroy Them If of No Value—The “Teresita” Waltz Written as a Dance for Her Little Daughter

Famous French Modernists Surpassed in Audacity, Says Arnolde Stephenson, by a New Company of Young Composers in Paris—Musical Creativity in Wartime—Soprano a Propagandist for American Songs in France and French Songs in America—Spirit of the France of To-day

“Pogrom” in Her Native Village Impelled Her to Escape to Naples, Where an Opera-Loving Family Befriended Her and Discovered Her Gifts as Singer—Artist Brought Out by Campanini as “World’s Youngest Dramatic Soprano”

Swiss Composer’s New Work Largely Hebraic in Spirit—Much Expected of It in View of Its Author’s Previous Achievements in Writing for Orchestra and the Lyric Drama—A Composer Whom Romain Rolland Predicts Will Become “One of the Master Musicians of Our Time”

Los Angeles Symphony Director Using Instrument Contrived by Chicago Inventor—”Tonometer Sets 438 as Vibration Standard and Indicates Precise Intonation

Opposed to the Boycotting in Germany of the Works of composers of Hostile Countries—Activities in Germany of an American Composer and an American Conductor—Light Opera in Ascendancy in Berlin

First Demonstration of Concert on New Radio Telephone Shows Possibilities of Device by Which Programs Are to Be Supplied to Audiences Within Radius of 1,000 Miles—A Wireless Music Central for Each Large City the Vision of the Inventor

Red Recalls “C,” Violet “B” and Every Other Note Has Corresponding Hue in Revolutionary “Marcotone” System—Awakening of Our Slumbering—Tone Memory Will Make Us a Race of Natural Sight-Readers, Says Edward Maryon, Inventor of Scientific Instruction Method Based on Relation of Tonal and Light Waves—Results Prove Practicability

What Shall Be Done to Take Care of Them—Practically Alone Among the Trades and Professions, Musicians of This Country Make No Provisions for Their Aged Colleagues—A Problem and Its Most Practicable Solution

CONSTANTIN VON STERNBERG, the Philadelphia pianist, composer and pedagogue, was brought into relation with many of Russia’s most eminent composers during his early career in his native land.

Celebrated French Violinist Returns from Grasp of Cataclysm with a Message of Sympathy—His Experiences at the Front—”No Reasonable Frenchman Wishes to Belittle the Greatness of Germany,” He Declares. “Who Could Object to Beethoven or Brahms or Liszt or Schumann?”

Diaghileff Troupe, Sans Nijinsky, Presents Fantasie on Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Submarine Tone Poem Which Proves Pictorially Effective—Debut of Pierre Monteux, the French Conductor

How the Advent of the Films Has Increased the Opportunities of the Performer and Added to the Resources of the Instrument—Adapting Music to the Picture—Cultivation of Improvisation—Possibilities of Elevating the Popular Taste in Music

Schedules of Various Cities Show Remarkable Advance in Both Quantity and Quality of Operatic Fare—Business Now on Substantial Basis—Rabinoff and Gallo Companies Strong Factors—Paving the Way for Creation of Municipal Opera Houses

De Koven’s “Canterbury Pilgrims” Will Be One of the Principal Novelties of the New York Season—Great Significance Attached to the Premiere of Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini”—Newcomers in the Company Few and Most of Them Are American Singers—Prospects of Atonement for Last Season’s Mistakes and Misfortunes

Evolution of Symphonic Leaders in This Country Must Wait Upon the General Establishment of American Opera Houses, Says Josef Stransky—For the New York Philharmonic Conductor Considers Operatic Experience a Prime Essential in the Training of the Symphony Interpreter—The Present Necessity of Seeking Practical Experience Abroad—Qualities of Mind and Personality That Enter Into the Making of a Successful Conductor—The Part That Study Plays

WHO says that musical artists do not make money? It is generally admitted that the purchase of a car, together with its upkeep, makes a heavy drain upon the finances of the ordinary mortal. (Many do not accomplish it without mortgaging some of their other property.) Now, the seven photographs combined above give occular evidence that the various artists have advanced thus far on the road to plutocracy—while each picture is accompanied by an affidavit that the car really belongs to its presumptive owner and is not borrowed for photographic purposes....

Illustrious Pianist, Just Arrived in This Country, Played Unwilling Role in Her Concert Travels Through Germany and Austria—International Fame Discounted by Military Examiners—America Now the World’s Home of Culture, Declares the Pianist—Reminiscences of Rubinstein and Liszt—Relaxation as Cardinal Principle of Piano-Playing

Thrilling Scenes at Castle Garden When She Made Her Début Here in 1850—Amusing Impressions of a Lay Critic from New Hampshire Found in a Letter Written at the Time

An Affliction Often Deep-Rooted and Persistent and Sometimes Costly in Its Destruction of the Fruits of Genuine Talent—The Case of Celebrated Musicians Forced to Battle with It at Every Public Appearance—Conquering the Evil by Acquiring the Habit of Mental Domination—A Species of Self-Hypnosis

The first organ ever built in America was constructed in Boston, in 1742, by Edward Bromfield.

The first noteworthy opera performed in America was “The Beggars’ Opera,” an English ballad opera, by John Gay. It was produced in London, 1727, and offered to the New York public in 1750. Other early operatic attempts in New York, cited by The Musician, include Bickerstaff’s comic opera “Love in a Village,” 1768, and the same composer’s “Maid of the Mill,” 1773....

. . .Charles H. Steinway, president of Steinway & Sons, recalled the opening of the hall in 1866, Rubinstein’s debut six years later, and a multitude of anecdotes narrated in his comprehensive diary. Nahum Stetson, who joined the firm of Steinway & Sons exactly forty years ago, told a MUSICAL AMERICA representative of his lessons with William Mason, who had a studio “upstairs,” as he described it, and mentioned with pride his purchase of a Steinway piano in 1868. . . .

The Dutch Pianist Discusses His Artistic Theories at His Summer Home on Long Island—Emphasis Upon the “Dead-Weight” Principle—Importance of Environment to the Musician

Distinguished Firm of Piano Manufacturers Will Erect New Building in Carnegie Hall District—Fourteenth Street Structure Was for Many Years the Rendezvous of Celebrated Musicians and Its Auditorium Housed the Principal Concerts of the Day—Many Notables Made Their American Debuts There

A Leader in Placing Stress on the Value of Music in General Education—Conservatory Long Affiliated with the College Proper—How the Problem of Giving Credits for Practical Work in Music Has Been Solved—The General Plan of Study

Pianist Making Set of Records Which He Thinks Will Have Distinct Educational Value—Demand for Bach—Editing Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin—Attitude Toward American Compositions

Harp, National Instrument of Saxons and Norsemen, Believed to be Endowed with Supernatural Powers—Hardanger Fiddles Described—Other Curious Violins in Norway Crudely Fashioned by Peasants

How the Master Defined His Attitude Between the Musical and the Purely Technical Side of the Pianist’s Art—An Interview with Mme. Melville-Liszniewska

Fighting the Perils of Commercialism in an Industrial Era—The Indifferent Attitude of a Democracy Toward the Arts Contrasted with Conditions in a Feudal Empire—First Steps in a Movement Toward Better Things

Violinist to Establish Institution on Principles That He Laid Down in His Settlement Work—”A Place Where People Will Come to Acquire Musical Knowledge for the Sheer Joy of It”—Clara Mannes Associated with Her Husband and Distinguished Faculty Is Assured

IN playing Edward MacDowell’s music, nothing could be farther from his wishes than to pretend to give these works the one and only possible interpretation, writes Mrs. MacDowell in The Music Student of Los Angeles, but I believe that I can pass on to my audiences Mr. MacDowell’s own feeling concerning his compositions, for I was saturated with them through many years of intimate musical life, and I may add that what I have to say is of no value save as a reflection of Edward MacDowell himself.

A Time for the European Artist in America to Stand Behind His Less Fortunate Brother in the Home Country—The Value of a Happy Home Life to the Artist

ADMIRERS of Kitty Cheatham have learned with the heartiest satisfaction that she can now be heard in the talking machine. To be sure, this does not signify that her art can be as effectually concentrated within the circumference of a phonograph disc as that of the average singer. It is far too subtle, too dependent on fine spiritual factors for that, and to exert its full power requires that contact between her and her hearers such as can be afforded only through her actual presence. Nevertheless, the value of the records she has made will be great....

Boston Interviewer Finds Tenor in Serious Mood—Conveying the Significance of the Words the Singer’s First Duty, He Declares—A Defense of His Interpretations Against Unfavorable Boston Criticisms

Dr. Kunwald and His Men Win Distinction Over Philadelphia Orchestra by the Measure of Three Days, Ending a Spirited Contest for the Privilege—Strauss’s Monumental Work Called a Splendid Revelation of Spiritual Beauty as Well as a Wonderful Piece of Program Music

Remarkable Career of This Singer Who Is a Musician, and Musician Who Is a Seeker After Cosmic Truth—As a Boy He Stood in the Snow for Hours to Hear Joseffy Play in the House of the People to Whom the Lad’s Family Were in Service

“Caruso of the Ballet” Attracts Large Audiences to the Metropolitan and Awakens Considerable Enthusiasm—An Amazing Display of Agility—“Thamar,” in Its Initial New York Performance, Proves Chiefly Remarkable for Its Colorful Bakst Pictures

Famous Russian Dancer Has Compiled System of Terpsichorean Instruction Designed as Text-book and Basis for Further Evolution of the Ballet—Invention of Means of Recording the Dance as Clearly as Music Is Recorded Regarded by Nijinsky as His Real Life Work—Establishment of Conservatories for the Dance in All Countries Another Project That Nijinsky Hopes to Further—Modern Dancer, Says He, Must Be a Thorough Musician and Actor and Have a Knowledge of Painting and the Principles of Pictorial Art as Well

Philadelphians Carry Away Richly Merited Honors in New York Production of “Symphony of a Thousand”—Metropolitan Opera House Scene of Inspiring Demonstration for Conductor Stokowski, His Orchestra and Choruses—But the Symphony Itself, with All Its Elaborate Trappings, Is Revealed as “Kapellmeistermusik,” Lacking in Inspiration

Composer Was Returning to Spain Following Production of His Opera, “Goyescas,” at Metropolitan Opera House—Last Seen with His Wife Clinging to Raft—Most Eminent of Spanish Composers Had Won Admiration of American Music-Lovers by His Work Both as Creative and Executive Musician

Trio in A Minor Makes Deep Impression in Kneisel Program—Flonzaley Quartet Also Introduces a Novelty—Casals-Deyo, Gabrilowitsch and Marcia Van Dresser Recitals—Schönberg Music Excites Merriment

Celebrated Pianist Criticizes Boston Symphony Conductor’s Method of Directing and Declares He Will Not Again Play with That Orchestra—Recollections of Rubinstein

“Symphony of a Thousand” Thrillingly Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra and Huge Assisting Choruses—Audience Demonstrative in Its Approval—The Music Melodious and Impressive, with Truly Majestic Climaxes

Personal Recollections of the Roumanian Violinist and Composer whose Work is One of the Glories of Present-day—Musical Paris—His Remarkable Memory as a Pianist

“Prayer for Poland” by Noted Polish Musician to Be Given Its Premiere Next Month by the Schola Cantorum under Kurt Schindler—The Composer’s Prologue, Scherzo and Variations to Be Introduced During the Same Week by His Compatriot, Paderewski—Contribution of Sigismond Stojowski to the Musical Advancement of America During the Ten Years of His Residence Here—Successive Steps of a Career Which Received Its Initial Impetus from Gatherings of Musicians in His Mother’s Salon at Cracow

Launching of Organization Maintained Exclusively by the City Termed a Civic Art Triumph of Rare Significance—Conductor Strube Leads a Finely Spirited Performance—Mabel Garrison Soloist in Introductory Concert

Such Is the Dictum of Martinus Sieveking, Who Further Declares That Building a Technique Is Merely a Matter of Physical Culture—Dutch Pianist Has Special Keyboard Constructed to Fit His Broad Fingers—At His Recitals His Chair Is Placed at Spot Measured Off by Him—Same Shoes for Concerts as for Practicing

Prof. Isador Troostwyk, of the Yale School of Music Spent Three Years of Study with the Master in Berlin—Dramatic Episode in Which Joachim and Wieniawski Both Figured—Joachim’s Kindness, Strictness and Sense of Humor—”Bowing the Soul of Violin Playing”

“The Most Artistic and Original Presentation So Far Made by Our Visitors from Russia”--Stravinsky’s Music Exceedingly Complicated, Wholly Original and Effective--Schumann and Chopin Music Adapted to the Purpose of the Dance

...EVEN a grand seigneur may issue mandates that cannot be obeyed. Serge de Diaghileff, director of the famous Ballet Russe that opened its first American season at the Century Opera House on Jan. 17, has discovered this truth—met it last week when he delivered a ukase—that’s Russian, I believe, for a “hurry up” order—to have eighty additional dancing girls recruited for “supers....”

Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Reminiscences of His Intimate Friend and Associate in Art—How Social Matters and His Absorption in Chemistry Took Away Borodine’s Time from Music—Standing of “Prince Igor” in the Répertoire of Russian Opera Houses

...As you know, the Dutchman makes his entrance on the deck of a ship which is so maneuvered that he can step off on the shore and begin his song. The ship is on wheels, and usually the stage hands only have to push it about. But on this occasion one of the wheels got stuck in a crack on the stage before the ship reached the proper position and I was left standing on the deck unable to reach the shore and begin my song....

Composer Anxious to Spread a Knowledge of Spanish Music in America as Well as to Superintend the Preparation of His Opera at the Metropolitan—Real Spanish National Music Unknown Here, He Declares—The Genesis and History of “Goyescas”—Operatic Convention Ignored in Fitting Libretto to the Music

What Americans May Expect When the Diaghilew Company Presents the Iconoclastic Russian’s “Petrouchka” This Season—Psychological Significance and Profound Symbolism in Tale of a Puppet-Show—The Music Much More Than Merely Grotesque and Humorous—As Original as Anything Its Composer Has Published But More Readily Comprehensible Than Many Others of His Works—Piano Used in Orchestra with Remarkable Effect

Charles T. Griffes a Composer of Individuality Whose Writings Are Strong, Vital and Modern—A Discussion of His Three Tone-Pictures” and “Fantasy Pieces”

Music the One Thing More Than All Others that Wounded Soldiers Seem to Crave, and Herbert Fryer, the English Pianist, Recounts His Experiences in Supplying it Last Summer—Work that Benefits Needy Musicians as Well as the Soldiers

Philharmonic Gives His “Pelléas” Initial Performance in This Country

...Local concertgoers have now heard six works by this strange personage, so extensively and acrimoniously debated, yet so little understood. But except for the “Kammersymphonie,” done semi-privately a fortnight ago before the so-called Friends of Music, nothing representative of the later or fully emancipated (some would have it “completely lunatic”) Schönberg, who before the war threatened a veritable musical holocaust in Europe, has been made known here—nothing, that is, unless we except a little set of acrid piano pieces played by Leo Ornstein last spring....

American Pianist Returns from Prolonged Residence Abroad, First in Vienna and Later in Florence—Piano Recitals Not a Flourishing Institution in Italy

Death of Theodor Leschetizky at the Age of Eighty-five Removes One of the Most Notable and Picturesque Figures in Music of the Last Half Century—Early Studies with Czerny—Career as a Virtuoso—His Many Love Affairs—Long Activity as Pedagogue in Vienna Preceded by Many Years of Work in Russia—The Leschetizky Method—Paderewski His Most Celebrated Pupil—Americans Who Have Studied with Him

The Story of the Attainment of a Noble Artistic Ideal—The Members Now in the Eleventh Year of Their Association

Modern Operatic Composers Discouraging Beautiful Singing on Part of Baritones by Un-vocal Roles Which They So Frequently Write for Them, Points Out New Metropolitan Artist—Puccini Operas as an Example—His Views on Baritone Controversy—Value of Old-School Training in That It Fits Singers to Portray All Manner of Parts—Career of This Baritone Who Has Sung Almost Continuously in Many Countries Since His Debut Sixteen Years Ago at the Age of Twenty—Thrice “Decorated” by Royalty

Intimate Glimpses of the Famous Pianist in the Rôle of Preceptor and Friend—How He Illuminates the Cardinal Principles of His Art

IN these days, when America has become a Mecca for famous European artists, there is illuminating interest in the consideration of a visit of one of the early prima donnas who came to America in the pioneer days of music, before the Civil War. A friend of MUSICAL AMERICA has lately put at its disposal a copy of the program of a concert given by Jenny Lind in 1860, at Tremont Temple, Boston. Of this booklet the front cover and the page containing the evening’s program are reproduced herewith....

Lists of Compositions by Resident Composers Which Noted Concert Artists Prefer to Sing Horsman, Damrosch, MacDowell, Huhn and Spross Lead, According to the Investigation

Harmonic Deceptions Practised on Patrons of Picture Theaters Making Them Musical Perverts— Need of a Personal Campaign by Musically Cultured People to Lead House Managers Toward a Higher Standard in Accompaniment to Films

Loeffler’s “Death of Tintagiles” and MacDowell’s Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Included in Sir Henry Wood’s Programs—The Concerts Not So Well Attended as in Former Years

Carlos Salzedo Describes the New France That Has Arisen Under the Lash of Stress and Struggle—The Harpist, Newly Arrived in America After a Year in Trench and Hospital, Reflects the Generous Attitude of the Man at the Front Towards His Enemy—Effect of a Tremendous Life Experience Upon the Soldier-Artist

...“Well, I’ve got ‘em all now.”

Geraldine Farrar, grand opera soprano extraordinaire and “movie” actress de luxe, said it just after stepping from a private car which bore her from the Lasky film studios at Hollywood, Cal., back to New York.

She meant that a vaster audience than she has been able to reach through her operatic work would now be hers through the medium of the films....

PROBABLY not one in fifty of present-day photo-playgoers comprehends the significance of Anna Pavlowa’s forthcoming advent in the realm of the silent drama....

Speaking of modern errors in the performance of compositions from the olden-time writers, and particularly mentioning Bach, Handel, Haydn and Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, finds the evolution of the musical instruments partly to blame....

“Frau Wagner showed not only in her imparting of knowledge of the opera her splendid limitless mentality, but also in the simpler things of life. Often she would take groups of her friends out into the country at twilight, in a vehicle which much resembled a ‘bus, and there entertain them in the open with a little supper. I have the most beautiful memories of this great woman, standing in the dim light between day and night speaking in her soft voice, making the exquisite comparisons which she could so deftly make....

Camille Saint-Saëns, close upon eighty years of age, is an active and enthusiastic visitor at the Exposition almost every day. He has declined many public offerings of homage, but occasionally accepts dinner invitations and has publicly lectured in the French colony. Three programs of his works have been arranged, the dates being June 19, 24 and 27. In these concerts he is to direct the Exposition Orchestra. Sousa’s Band will assist, and the soloists will be Katherine Ruth Heyman, pianist; Ada Sassoli, harpist; Horace Britt, ‘cellist, and Wallace A. Sabin, organist....

A FEW weeks ago a Parisian newspaper brought the startling intelligence that Dr. Richard Strauss had smuggled a big bag of flour from Holland into Germany. The French journalist’s story was in the main true, but it was left to the Berlin Kladderadatsch to furnish an expectant world with the details....

Having read in the New York Times that the invitations had been recalled, owing to Mr. Bryan’s inability to leave Washington during the Mexican crisis, I was more than surprised to see the great orator and statesman enter in Washington the Pullman in which I was seated, bound for New York.

SCHÖNBERG is the talk of the hour in this city. With some trepidation the writer went to hear the first performance of the “Five Orchestral Pieces” at the week’s concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Muck produced them, it is said, without an excess of personal good will. This means, that although he does not like the music he prepared the performance with, if anything, more than his customary scrupulousness.

“Twenty-five years ago violin instructors were to be found in only a few of the larger cities of the country. Today good violin instruction may be had in almost every part of the country. And every year witnesses a large increase in the number of violin students. There seem to be from 10,000 to 20,000 studying the violin.

WE were fellow-travelers, Mrs. Beach and I, on the “Creeping Cretic,” as her passengers tenderly named the Atlantic liner that was taking a boatload of impatient Americans back to home and safety. Our acquaintance dated from a wonderful sunset and our friendship from the minute we discovered that we felt alike about the war. It was a privilege anyone would appreciate, to meet and enjoy the conversation of one whose talent and hard work have raised her to a high level among musicians; but it was also a delight to know her as a charming woman, whose keen and well-balanced intellect never chilled her splendid sympathy for all things good and beautiful.

“Francesca da Rimini” at Covent Garden Premiere Proves a Gripping Music-Drama and Strong Addition to Repertoire—Abounds in Poetic Charm—Mme. Edvina and Martinelli Win New Laurels in the Two Leading Roles

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