| Show ww MCLELLAN i IN rnA tUl 1 May 10 It may be to you ou to hoer hear something about the numerous con can ot of mudo In this city There Then are dozens ut of such Institutions but of this number but buLB a hilt halt been art are whIt what they should bt be and 1 there is II some spec pec speculation possible whether some of this number are what whaL they ought to bet bal balTha The Tha Royal noyal conservatory with his Majesty Wilhelm II 11 at its back Is by some JOme to tt be the beet In Germany True It ta II that this school has hall rt a splendid corps ot of professors In eluding such as al Joachim WIrth Hausmann Barth etc which array I le denting and strong enough nough to carry the institution along through anything The entrance is II through examination n and the applicants cants canu are alwa always several limes the number of In the classes But Dut several ugly rumors rumor are arl afloat about this schools the they are Ion very od nod authority r I stele the P Mowing haring heard it from frem on one et ef our boys bol who II ds a flit violinist and musician and anel who sa saw the examination mn men mentioned A young 00 boy of at probably eighteen years bad played a from fromon on one of code Hode B a concertos In an 1111 and artistic BrUllo manner end and had received many muy kind of encourage encouragement ment from the Jud judges Ih the chairman lit be mg Joe Joa Joachim The next I Inn nn an aristocratic lady fly who well Ill I but In schoolgirl fashion but who hid had hada I Ia a putt pull on account of at being the daugh daughter I Iter ter of at some som Graf or other thin In or of worldlY prestige n pOmp fInished hu her playing a and 1111 without much ado alo wile was assured by one tit it t the Ie fathers of at violin she Ille would let get the lIne 1000 Ot Of course when I Ithe the decision was made public several da days later r the cat cal wea out ot of the bl bag with nil all who ho had heard the performance Talent counts for naught against bull even nen In the department of Ihl this lUll music It school Ot Of course cou one Pan privately with Joachim It If h he has out enough nou h but every student cannot Afford that This Thill one feature Is II conservatories and III as a result rull the professors have tremendous patronage after school hours hour which moans money for tor them but a trial to 10 th the there are arf mal many have money enough to nt nay the InIn end and tuition fees of the hut but not nol enough far tor te I which are very vrn expensive tede 1 t The wenka Conservatory Con senator h has 1 a forth such flam namee arc as Dr Ir Proto Prat X PH II Sc It Roe Sucher Grunfeld s tc The Th fM fees are 1 advertised RI as RIh hemp h from 1110 to marks mark JO to for tor the years lAra work ork The Sterns Conservatory hA has n very lar large and hAIl for tor Pro Hollander Dreg Pill hoek Forster Foerster Taubert Dessau Th Nicking T Erben fiend and School of nf Music n II RI hel bergs ory And the Luken School Art are others worth consideration ron lion tion goal faculties but no teachers training care about and less that of private instruction with men like Joachim or HUMn They let get from thirty marks mare 1601 un for tor private hour I lessons and the Instruction II Is Rt at that price for tor the earnest music Say Bay that the kp private In 11 from Prof WIrth the violin nine months at the cost of sao 00 per month he be will ha have n bill sit nt an when his taro tarn are en ened end ended ed In th the conservatory Royal he could get the hI esme me time the some for tor about ot of th ltd e ro roe t r nr If Iee fn e I IC C ere 1111 a grand ever And while I belle some 1100 of our American are the equals fit It not of nf those In In nanny ways yet et T I think an ar ad pu time the do tar far better work studying privately with the muter malter who ran can and will take talce very much more mar interest In one titan than he could or would at time the school when hi hits I is marked out to the second IMOnd and Ind h he must mut stop atop on the dot whether the good goodwill will allow It or not Being engaged ou on some musical I work for tor lh he German mission I visited leip leipzig zig a few lew In the compAny ot of mold Arnold where we tout to perfect arran arrangements for the printing ot of sane lOin music for tor the use ot of this mission I was much surprised lit at lit the scarcity ot of concerts in III this place the Opera house hOUIe alone giving We heard a perform epee nee ot of Don Juan Juen and while I must say it Il wa was very fl well done don It did hi not the standard of hires den or Br Berlin Olf opera The same me two nights that I spent at the mat mott famous amoul music Iulo center of the IIII globe once so 10 reo re piped We had according J to 10 time ps pa wo opens OPI sad six or eight Ight o oon n eert of load good let In Berlin ont one lit be belag lag Iq the orchestral concert given re reg Tuesdays and Wed net days by ly the Philharmonic orchestra I 1 lied hael always expected so 10 much In Leip ate teat tb the Will was keener for that reason But the celebrated concerts conducted by 11 who In are Aro among th the VI vey beet given and I 1 was Wall sorry to 10 come om too late to 10 hear this great body The famous old conservatory over or which that hat grand master arl lAecke presides was al an interesting sight and so 10 because this I Ithe is the institution where my brother mu Prof Anthon It 11 Iund ut of the theU U 11 y Academy who Is II one ot of the beet bett choral chol conductors and musicians Utah ha has graduated The statue of the old Thomas church and ana J Ree Were ere other remind ere ell of glorious put past The boy choir chait In the old church chulich le II one ot of the beet features of herman Among others I met A freak In Leip IX who claims hi be is 18 studying In time the l 1 doubt it 11 very er much lie HI plays like u 11 blacksmith saws aw II violin dolin is III his instrument Squally as wen well as dozens dozen ot of pupils do doP P home hom and ancl lie he hall had actually cut cui the Aral In or fifteen pages of his hla bar har molt many book he hall had more mor to cut cuU and Will was earnestly the cal score e to 10 the Magic Flute Mo arts lie informed In the that he wu was thInkIng ot of coming to America next summer lummer and wished to kilo know till the prospects He would do well to tar stay In Europe for or about fifty years 11 And thin then possibly WI ere would receive him himIn In the States l You know sonic ot of then foreigners think we e have no mu music lc worth mentioning In America w We stet Chase Jeppeson and W A Kerr who are In ibis large city it II w was a pleasure to chat with heal Ulem from Utah Ot Of II interest was the large printing hou house ot of C O G Roeder where men are employed and en engraving Ira graving 1111 music This firm does the en engoring goring tor the Peters edition und and Is oIe atie or of I the hI largest concerns concern I In the world The manaKer Mr Neumann was wal very courteous to 10 Prest anti and my if And we enjoyed the experience ot of witnessing the of this and the nearly perfect C which come ollie rout the presses bookkeepers frs are employed anti P I noticed In the rooms box boxes of music mule for tor Schirmer of New York 1111 Lyon Neely ot of Chicago and firms In London Landon Australia and Mexico 11 ln 11 next letter I will tell you OU ot of Berlin musical events and also aleo I hue have re received ed on rot C F Silt Stay micro composition n several ot of which I 1 wee to receive from him and which I among musicians The Utah Ulah man hll has wrItten some superb piano works and It gives rhes unalloyed pl pleasure lIlure to be able to con say so Congratulations gars gan from ao across l the sea to Prof Thomas Bad nad ct Ike u a master to whom wha m I doff lilY my hat with feelings ot of reverence You and travel el n long time before you will end Prot Prof equal especially as organist The Utah students here wen ete aU all delighted to tend read the reports I of the magnificent testimonial tendered this Long LollI life lite to Senator Cannon Cannan wife and daus t surprised and deU delighted the Utah ans ane by their presence here a couple or weeks ago They were In Rood good bf health Uh And enJoying Germany immensely and noo after a weeks stay left eft for Cor Stockholm We rend read that Prof Stephens Is III In England lie He is hi expected here soon loon loonIn In securing MAnager Geo Gea GeaD D did a thing for our city hurrah Brother Drother J J |
