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Show Wews o Music: and Musicians at 'Home and Abroad.- - 11 W-i -uc of the rblladcl-W: rblladcl-W: j i r? r Conslanln von tA v di9cuI at some length If1 2L" "WluU i American I extracts frqm the article. 1 : American Music. M ; i,',trvn? When the braa I ff Larches of L Soua type. I student feels la them a 4 F .Nires-'on of at least one f ff.B I lift- of tl!e be9t ,f Abut tnc best he can llnd J It is the 'yellow' $ sU" tomorrow. Amus-Mui Amus-Mui Jhon first -hMird. sensa-J sensa-J Hr,s,h' fore wearying when, f i mv lime's in succession. lietter, finer, nobler lf African life. There are m America afI,IranJn. t''her eto. thePttWoCour, if in the worlds -the vast- i, , ttVne-s of our continent, -5 oour enterprises., and a 1 ' i; Ir tvolcally American tesc A vS he would" like to ? fl'LilSlnWrptettd-. All these "I ' Sor American life, however. ; gfejit)und t.Kpre3lbn by. our, a kSnnr Surely not for want 7 ! 'iSs"rorn which such musical It' id e evolved ao. would -1 f iforaW traits Jn enduring. "5 nS beauty. For Ave do ( thi "Clous, a very 'substantial " - itJecd In our American folk ' fnni u' college student feels lfrlcrrectly--that the. -Suwanee Ift' ihe 'Old Folks at Horn-,' in one F'ttt coonsons-' strikes hlu! more totlcall 'than tht- brst song-of -Wjor nobtrl Frarz. I give- him ? i ; A.H, PEAEODY, Stctdjr of the Orpheus Club. (leiftof (he doubt that he does not i)i:t their respective artistic i a;ltever gels that far; but the f2iH3 rong sounds American to ., ulCe the others do not And In ?' iiifundfupon a thoroughly legiti- s jiine of thought and feeling, ll ipUcepf the average man. He II b Q)Ih(r.g American In the works Iwrative. composers, nothing that 53Un to crow n one of their works-iitricht works-iitricht kind of popularity. ml The National Note.. 'Wbg 13 undoubtedly sterling merit flfcfTcorks of our native- composers-, iBpIte them very highly. - indeed; IWunnol help admitting that the JKait Is missing In them which tcnitt a home-Uke feeling to the p American listener. They are ! ijfcltsn. Perhaps this Is a .virtue. : U4t prepared to say more on this : that it does not seem so to Stether Virtue or fault, It may be asr panted that, as a nation, we Mtt appreciate the' ultimate ', c$-lhat Is, the quintessence in ; p of other nations until we. its art music of our own. ! yit la this nmtfc of our own to i Ufrara? Undoubtedly from the song' wtuot be understood to say thaf ta of our future symphonies : Plantation songs. Far from it. '"Wan that the plantation song "jW earnestly studied bv our Wain order that it may Intluence lu6 1 the same manner and 1t?h c,! "orsc' German and Kn jrg has influenced Grieg, f TsuliQlknwsky. The Prve, the rhythmic quality, the 5r i01 snQk(?n language ns ,, .lhl3 wnB. the sentiment In Ijj, traits of the plantation ia, dlsJmctli" American. Hence "re fftence the truly American W7 must come. the plantation gong has been will the negro Is a mistake, -option for this mistake was 1 toi nlJv Uut mistake it is for the Ethiopian .has no : lli H.fm,canln3 of the word. Af-JlL Af-JlL J,5now 0ur oMatonlo ecale. m J d not bring the plantation K?! he was Imported Kir"' Spaniards He learned it fflki e" m Spanish original HEr inr?uBh the negro mind by HRfinv ttansmls3lon through IRikl,seneralIons. ard in this IEha "Ircd Its -weird nnd ItK ,uPUt by "lis-very pro-IltloFw. pro-IltloFw. rro 10 fiPcak-trnns-JRSlB!,8h Jt rhythms were IKlCW'cd ao fts t0 conform i&'lof m53, t0 flhd that thev mr r7 b,opUn tr"Ua- Neither m A'rir, u lonP'e for the : cttb-."" h,0n?. nor do they ! PJ-flv ulm ln Particular. They KHfttiniiii AmPr'an religions. xni MonF, American nature to'ih,r.' Lfn st't'uent. This fo he ,nnnX;,!c-,ry wl- thf' while l4 do a SnlatI( ng fylly uk If orn tffV00 hltnaelf. and M nV homely discourses of iBK1- th f'fe4t proj Poet. iBMer ,u,vas thfr Preserver Wt but ll l,1 "jeloaiea is not iHf nea. La Jf 8Uould be-. Song lU- D,P,DlJf -nulckly Bung. Kr JlbS ,U, was "ot the t Dm tWS. who created the Wtte'rf ?n,Ta8ant- In 'uaa5a lK! urn'5, now the Peasant. IXtMllLrV C8S unfree who Is llE,tlnii It ra,b ,ore Rnd who. in Ktas thefc? auch additions Mph mtuftff1 0 hla aia- BaatttB ,me-' ' V H case of musical atavism among us Is the recent fad for -what Is knoun as 'rag time.' That our Government Govern-ment forbade it to our military bands (the St. Louis Fair Commission did the same) appears to mr rot wholly wise. The musical vulgarity in "rag timd' Ig, of course undeniable. btt un musical setting or 'Home, Sweet Home' is at leust equally vulgar, and could never bo tolerated bj-'. any sutie mind JpUl for tllo legltlmateixiss of the text while- even this much cannot be said for 'Yankee -Doodle.' sot$ bilt9 very, trying vulgarliv 'rug time' is a national rhythm, and In part, a home product, as I shall presently pres-ently show. Such things should not be suppressed by power, but merely controlled by the growing Improvement of taste, They should be accorded some playground "vhei:e they may develop and cast off their vulgar traits In the refining process of tlmoi Our Cantus Firnius. "Speech lt the father of song. The mother ma.y come from some- othi r country or race, as'sl'fii often does. The lironouncedly fferiilnine psyche of the .negro,, with fts trend of rtccommodath e-ness, e-ness, its, adoption-of the. white masters interests, its long. history of sufiVrh, its, preelilectlon for melody, may be called the mbthcr; br. rather foster-mother, foster-mother, of many of our folk songs.. But the father Is, white. "Aiid thisTfather was quite worthv of being made a posthumous' American oltlzen. PTe was heroic, "bold, enterprising, enterpris-ing, venturesome, chlvalrlc, -jomar.tir. loving seldom wisely, but mostly too well. Ha M-asf devout; "hiasterfur, and humane, liccordlng to tlje lights of his time. His song of old is ours of todav, as JiJa.Jp.hllipphiea are,-only mojc- securely se-curely so. "Instead of Gregorian chant and German Ger-man 'chorales forming the cantus flrmufi In the contrapuntal studies of our music students, it should be the folk sontr of America- Pilrtly, at least. It should also be taught In our public and private sx-hools. It should, be cultivated by choral societies. , In short, It should be spread widely among the people, where it would surely counteract the vulgarity of the 'poinilttr fcong,' and where It would be soTostered as to Influence the melody constructions of our young corn-prvsers. corn-prvsers. This, and, I think, this alone, will develop the national note In o'ur' high-class music." t i Orpheus' "Olub. Concert. What promises to be one of the musical mu-sical events of the-season Is the con-curt con-curt to be given at the Salt Lake theater the-ater next Thursday evening by the Orpheus Or-pheus club: - For a number of years this club has been-one of. the strong musical organizations of the city, its member- 3iuii t-umjiuHeu oi musicians anu pro-finsional pro-finsional men, the club being maintained, main-tained, as In other cities of the country, iurgely for recreation and pleasure and for the advancement af musical Interests Inter-ests in this cjty. A. H. Peabody is director, di-rector, of the "club, which is said to Tie ln better condition now than for some time past and a trea't is promised those who hear them on Thursday, ln addition addi-tion to .tht? Orpheus club, the Chaml-nade Chaml-nade trio, one of Denver's well known musical organizations. Is" to take- part in the programme, -which Is as follows: "Minnehaha" (Indian serenade).... Lorlng Orpheus Club. i Trio Op. 43 Molto Allegro cd Agitato.." Mendelssohn Andante con moto...,, . Allegro' Vivace '. Oliamlnado Trio. (a) In Plcardio , ..Brueschweller (b) The Phantom Band Thayer Orpheus Club. Aral from Samson and JDelllah "Oh, , Love and Show 3Uo"...C. Saint Snons .- ' Airs. Spauldlng. Rondo Elegant Honri WcinlawskI Mrs. Baker. "Good. Night, Lltllo Girl, Good Night" - J. C. Macy J. AV. Curtis and Orpheus Club. IJebegruss ::: Edward Elgar Bolero .' ,.B. Fernandez Arbos . , Chamlnadu Trio. (a) Kyprls Augusta Holmes (b) Cuban Hummock Spng...E. Paladllhe (c) The 'QUest. r Eleanor Smith (d) Cradle Sons Johannes Brahms Mrs, Sp'aldjng. KomKncc Gcorgo Lehman Canzonetla. .- D'AmbrosIa Mrs. Baker. Presto Logglero, Op. 11... Cecil Chamlnado Chaminado Trio. Tho Sword of Fwrrara Bullard Orpheus Club. Lectures, by Hubin Goldmark. During the past week Salt Lakers have had the pleasure of hearing a series of lecture recitals by the well' known New York Interpreter of Wagner's Wag-ner's music dramas! Rubin Goldmark, a pleasure which will not be forgotten in a long time. Mr. Goldmark Is a musician mu-sician of great ability, a speaker of free and easy unlivery and Interprets In a masterful way the compositions of the great Wagner. There were" four lectures in the series, Including three of the Nibelungen tetralogy, and the comedy, "Die Melsterslnger von Nu-reuberg," Nu-reuberg," and the, way in which these great music dramas were preseuteel by Mr. Goldmark made the deepest Impression Im-pression upon the largo audlonces present pres-ent at each, and aroused ln those who heard the same deep interest ln the Wagnerian dramas that has pervaded the East during the past season. Should Mr. Goldmark decide to return to Salt Lake at some future time, he will be sure of a most cordial welcome by the music-loving public of the city. Concert by State Band,' Tomorrow evening at the Salt Lake theater the Utah State band will give a concert, the second public apparance of the band since Its brganlation several months ago. Under the direction of Prof. Anton Pedersep the band has mnele great strides and received an ovation at the concert fclven In the Tabernacle- last month. Miss Slgrld Pe-dersen, Pe-dersen, who also took part In the first concert, will be the vocal soloist tomorrow tomor-row evening. The programme follows: Overture "Fast" Lflutnor "The -Gondolier" , Fjowcll Grand Selection, "Faim" Gounod "When Cecelia Slugs" Molr Miss Slgrld Pederson. Allegro Moderalo, "Unilnlshed Symphonic" Sym-phonic" Sqhubert Arranged by Anton 1'edernen. Grand National Fantasia on Scotch, IrlSih and1 English Aira. Buolns "The" Day Is Ended" Eartlott Miss Igi-ld Paderseu, (Violin dbligato. Arthur Peilcrseii.) Caprice Horolquc, "La P.evoll du Lion" , ..Konskl March Rcllsloso Chambers Held's Band at Grand. Assisting Held's band at their regular regu-lar weekly concert at the Grand theater this evening will be the Orpheus cjub of New York. This club appeared under the auspices of Hold's band last Sunday Sun-day evening and proved toMe a popular attraction. Miss Jean St. ' Reriiy pp's-esses, pp's-esses, a fine soprano voice, well .trained, anil" respon doll' tb"r'e'pKited oncords last . Sunday night. Bernhard Waltber, the Miss Jean St. Eemy, Soprano W ith Held's Military Band. Belgian violinist,, is a finished artist and his playing was a revelation to the au--'dlence. The other members of the club are Miss Dorothy Walsworth. a character char-acter delineator, and Miss Katherine De Vere, pianist. The following numbers num-bers wlll.be given: ... -Grand Selection, "King Dodo"..G. Luders Held's Band. I .Violin Solo- "Chanson d' Amour" .........Sainton ' MoKurka Wienla vsk,l Bernard Walther. i'.. Song, "Italian Waltz" , Wilson . Jean St. Romy. Pianoforte Solo, 'Wallzer"...Wallonhaunt; I Katharine DoVerc By Request (a) Soxtotto from "Lucla't.ponl36Jll (b) "Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Hold's Band. Violin Solo -'"Zltegeunewelscn" (Gipsy Dances) Sarasatc Bernard Whither. Monologue. "Sis 'Slsrikln" (Original).. Dorothy "Vyalsjworth". . , xrla,- "O Luce 01 QestHnlma" (Irbm "Linda di .CUanumnlx") DonlaetU Jean St. Romy. Grand Overture "Fcst" Lcutncr Held's Band. : lime. SembricVs Triumph. Itevlfewing the Reason of gratid opera in New York, which has but recently closed, V?.m J. Henderson has this to say in the New York Sun: "The production of 'Parsifal',, was the triumph of Mr. Conried's Initial Reason. Rea-son. The comment made after the first representation might now be repealed, but It Is not needed. That the per-. formances drew to the opera-house a strange horde 'of mere curiosity seekers, sensation mongers and searchers after the new tiling, did not in any way detract de-tract from tho dignity of the representations. represen-tations. It might almost literally he aaid that thosfe who went to sniff remained re-mained to pray. No truthful report to Europe- can assert that Mr. Conrlc-d and his assistants failed to treat 'Parylfal' with such respect ao It l'cCcives in Bal-rcuth. Bal-rcuth. "Another notable feature of the season sea-son was the stimulus given to Italian opera of the older school by -the presence pres-ence in tho -company of two accomplished accom-plished exponents of bel canto. Wheiv-ever Wheiv-ever Mme. Sembrlch and Mr. Caruso sang together In the delightful old works which pay continual tribute to the voice, the house was crowded unl enthusiasm ran high. ' The revival of Interest In no vay militated against tho success of the more serious repertoire. reper-toire. There were just as large houses for 'Tristan und Isolde,' 'Fldelio" and 'Tosca' as there would have been had 'Lucia' and 'L'Elislr fl' Amorc' been given to a corporal's guard. "The revival of delight in the' old works was mo I for themselves, but for tho .exquisite manner In which the two great singers delivered the musli . There never was a time whew so many people in New York required a striking strik-ing object lesson ln the true way of singing. With such manglers of vocal prt as Mme. Ackte, ftlme Calve and Mr. Kraus attracting attention, with somoiof our qld frienl grieving us by falling into habits of shouting and sputtering, which they used not to have, It is for our benefit that Mine Sembrlch flhd Mr. .Cameo have given us some sound- lessons lri how to listen to 'real singing. "The season has exploded a pretty thGoiy. A belief had grown up that this public desires to hear French operas in French, but the utter collapse col-lapse of the French repertoire, In spite of the Carmen of Mme Calve, indicated that such a demand did not eglst. What tills public demands Is good opera well sung. If 'Faust,' 'Les Huguenots' Hugue-nots' and even 'Romeo et Juliette' in Italian, he will neeb with success, if he, provides 'slngerH of the first rank. Boy Violinist Is a Wonder. - "Franz Von Veesey, tho -ten-year-old violin wonder, was the sensation of the iweek." writes Arthur E. Abell in the .Musical Courier. "He played at a big charity concert given under the patronage pat-ronage of the German Empress at the Philharmonic Friday evening. Hpro we liael tho extraordinary spectacle of a mere child' drawing, an audlc-me that completely filled Berlin's large-st hall at four times the ordinary prices. Accompanied Ac-companied by the Philharmonic orchestra, orches-tra, Vecsey played the , Wlenlawskl concerto, the same composer's 'Fausi' fantnsy and the Bach 'Air.' Other nupibcrs op . Hie programme were tho Bach E major prelude (unaccompanied) and WIenlakskl's 'Souvenir de Moscou.' with piano. "At lost, thenv I have heard' this much talked of phenomenon, this wonder of elite Europe, this baby, who has put all living artists ln the shade with his enormous receipts, nnd who has set the preae and public nllke agog. "Well, the child Is a marvel. -flLIe played the Wlunlawskl concerto ln ab-solutelv ab-solutelv perfect time. Not a note was oft" pitch. Tlil's In itself Js almost beyond be-yond belief nil one of h,l ;tera$r age. iis tebhnic'wVs sure and clean, allowing allow-ing every, nolo (even-: in' .complicated i - j bowing ahd double stop passages) to stand out clearly and distinctly. Vic-sey Vic-sey has .the left hand of a great violinist violin-ist of mature years. "Has bowing Is -equally remarkable He dravsJ a good tone in caatllenn; not the-. large, singing tone of a ripe artist, it is. true, but f tone in Its volume and )C-netratlng .power wonderful, considering consider-ing his age.. Much more remarkable than In cantilena is his manipulation of tluj bow in Intricate lechulcal work. No vlollnjst living could play the spic-cato spic-cato passages in 'the Wleniawskl .finale better and clearer than Vecsey 'did. It was astonishing. His staccato, tco, la extraordinary. Although ho took the llnale of the concerto at a rapid tempo, he dashed off tho theme at. its set-ond. and third repetition staccato stac-cato as if written, and as Wleniawskl himself used to play It. And Vecsey e.td it with 'up bow,' too, not with the f niwouj down bow staccato at the . i-omL The thousands of violinists who 1 w ill read this know that It taken a I ir,:ist-;r of 'staccato- to do that. " In all marmer of Jumps Vecwjy 13 absolutely sure. For Instance, h hit ! every time the I)Igh harmqnie B on the i G string ' (In the Wleniawskl finale) without a single miss. and. with rinsing rins-ing clearness. Many a Campus violinist violin-ist misuses It twice' out of three times. Remarkably clear and penetrating, too, were his harmonics in the 'Faust' fiuitasy. "The- little chap Is thoroughly artistic in all that he do'ea His musical Intelligence Intel-ligence and his sense df rhythm and nuance are wonderful. Taken from ary side. Vecsey's playing 1 the moat remarkable exhibition of precocity that I ever witnessed. Hubermann Was a wondvsr as a child, too, but he did not have the absolute teclinical certainty nor the refinement of Interpretation that Vecsey has. The little Franz jj the musical marvel of our. times." 3usic Notes. Mrs. Agnes Osborne gives a pupils' iccltal at her home tomorrow evening. r A ladlCB' quartette, to be known as the Melvin quartette, has Just been organized or-ganized by Mrs. A. P. Melvin, and includes in-cludes Mrs., A. D. Melvin, Mrs. A, G. Andrews, Mrs. Frank C. Kelsey and Mrs. P. N. Cook. A pupils' recital will be given at the First Congregational church, on the evening of May 17 by Mrs. Melvin and Mr. Skelton. Miss Helen Hartley, a pupil of George E. Skelton, will play a violin solo at the penitentiary this morning. A H if Study Bach! Bury' yourself ln Bach! Wheh you are sated with dramatic music, mu-sic, romantic music, lyric music turn to Bach. He will refresh you; just as when on a sultry summer day, overcome over-come with the heat, you entera Gothic tcmale where rest and peace surround yqu. All the heat of passion dies away, and a calm, mighty, mysterious power enfolds and uplifts you. Rubinstein. There will be a contest for male voice choruses at the St. Louis exposition July 2. The. choruses will be divided Into two grades organizations of sixty to ono hundred members', and thqse of twenty-five to sixty members. There are two cash prizes for each grade: First grade, first prize, $2000; second prize, $1000. Second grade, first prize, $1000; second prize, 5500. o m Insurance contracts for musical artists ar-tists show some Interesting provisions, says the Etude. Mine. PattI irisurea every one of her concerts for $5000; Pad-erewskl Pad-erewskl has insured his hands for S50r-000, S50r-000, taking out a temporary policy of $7500 for each of hla concerts; Josel Hofmann carries heavy Insurance on his hands and each finger. Kubellk has Insured hl3 right hand for $10,000, with a policy for 150,000 against total disablement. dis-ablement. Harold Bauer sails for South America Ameri-ca May 5 on a concert tour, Ki expects ex-pects to bo ln tlje United States again next season. The receipts of the charity concert given under the patronage of the Gcr- man Empress in Berlm by Franz von 1 i i Vecsey, the youthful violin virtuoso. I j Were nearly 55000 the' highest' amount 1 l l!HS ever reached in. Berlin form,' single con- f l : iV cert. I hi BS The Berlin correspondent of the Mu- 1 j 'j !'' sical Courier says that tho high-priced. j j teachers ot German, particularly thoso j ln Berlin, denehd very largely upon j American pupils. Few Europeans aro J i , -B I willing to pay these high prices. J j Kmj |
