| Show t arm t i ruin ruin L I VIENNA l VERSUS BERLIN BERLINA 1 I It A s Salt Lake k Student n Writes on n tho c Claim ol of Doth Grent t Cities aa as Ga Musical Centers t tp p 2 I nl I i i clr l Correspondence Corr Vienna vj rn Jan Jail 18 lit t the ha last ant 1 dozen or orI I 15 IG 15 y ill the tendency among tho tiro groat i musician ni has lias hn been to In III Bor 1101 Hit and make the Prussian capital the tho then theto to mu n llio ilo le center canter of time the worM world It has hils b been cn to I easy cn y task ta k however to accomplish this ihl In the face tact of ot auch rivalry UH as i Paris II Vienna St at Petersburg have evidenced Yet no ono one can clue deny Reny that I r t today t n justly enjoys the j h i tl Jn of being b the th first fir t musical oily city And AlII j while lIn has hns been buon attaining this ox ailed position It hau ha nut boon Idle Ini In Ini i J i other matters nod and bids foil fair noon Hoon If It Itt 1 has hns not 1101 already done dona so au to become t the thet I i t center Hut that IB le not the thu point i u r discussion In the rapid growth i Ii jt IJ musically the thc world tae has been i t f dazzled perhaps and the In Inv 1 Is he h to credit her w with Ith more moro then has hns Or perhaps It would be better to say Sll the limo fault tau It lies II ea In the failure allure to five blue the thc older musical centers I 5 j credit for tor what they thoy have really re rw rei ret i t t tanned In of ot the attraction Her ln un hns bus to most great muel 4 J eland clans of ot the present Many even oven Imag I ij I i that Vienna the home homo of ot Mozart z Haydn Schubert Gluek others whom i and many many runny j I I II It Is unnecessary nry to mention sunk i f J Into oblivion or clue else IH III living musical i i ly I y only In the knowledge l of a 1 glorious r pit past People should be careful how t tj they form torm such an nn opinion for invest button atlon will prove conclusively that the contrary IB Is the till case casei t tt t i IDEAL OPERA t I Vienna otters offers exactly the tM Bime ad ml adI l I y y vantages to hear the thu best beat that Berlini Berlin i l i 11 does docs most must great virtuosos i t make their homey homes In Berlin dues does dOl not notI J I alter the tact fact that they lire rue heard tulle J 1 s q as at touch much In III Vienna I und amt often otten they i I 1 i give more concerts In III tho the latter lager thun than thanIn In the tho former tOlmer city The rho In ev OV d 1 ranch of music can enn certainly hear hearIn hearin In Jn Vienna nil all the heart may mo The Thu opera Is tulle quite as us good as tny Iny in other M fj 11 In Europe with tho the exceptions of ot Milan Milani i and and the lover of Wagner Walner g 11 can cun hear h ar given with tho the same 1 Wagnerian spirit that characterizes Its lIs lIsi h i production In other German cities l Taw Ico o opie 1 vIe pie here go to the opera for tor tho sake of at 1 J j the music and aud not to hear one or two n i great lr lt sInKers singers at nt the thu expense of c chorus and orchestra as 1111 U Is so often otten tho the case cn e With t opera in America More Hero tho the com corn cornI l I seers OCI Ideas Ida s are looked upon as all the most most essential essential thing and every evry require requirement requirement ment Is 18 met In III order to La give expression to those Ideas Idea Tho The consequence Is III naturally this there Is no one ono voice that stands out above all others other In beauty but all aR are about equal The orchestra An find chorus lito aro ro on un n a par r with ss I U everything everything clue ohle aloe add and ono one K ets ti an ev c e Interpolation of ot a masters master 14 work ra to ii b part lIrt being brought out OUI WU u II that tha t can sedum lithIum or at 0 ever b 0 b had V sh l h two or ur three thess is or nM are being Ing r p t or nr n aeh h for tor every l ry j pr r thereby rendering rond It Imp auto 10 11 u kurp the and r bo ho houp boup boup up to the standard that hat should be t ma m I tamed d In ardor to give grand ups ra rans as ns It ll should be lJ JY Ily GOVERNMENT The governments of most nil all Euro Europ European p peon an countries have for ot q i recounted recognized the Important putt t the Hie th slur n tel plays In the tho education of or th masses malIKs Opera comm comen of Or Cours un under dor der h QI so we the 0 aid 11 A 1 in every ewry to toof town toWa of ot any importance thO the theater rt ed eO by the nt And the tin tinis Is 19 hided divided between the ho classic elassie dram draw and classic opera In all nil larger tow low to there are ata two playhouses an nn oper house houle and n 0 theater earn esch IA h six gds en n most mOlt exclusively ly to the tho Interpretation of ot tho the best beet In literature and opra t music Through the government r i operating those these It Is for tor ell r n 0 except perhaps tho v very fl ry Very to take i Irh h great groat cOu cdO e benefits thus offered of ot the groat length of time this hae h hoop been going on the result remit Is la that Hit tb people of ot the present have havo an no love for the best bent thre there la Is In mush musli as all asIn allIn In literature To fo aw ase r that fact demon demonstrated one need only oni IW go o past the opera three hours before the thu doors to the tho galleries open and eee see the crowds waiting for a n chance to stand up Talt Tali for tor the of or of at Va ncr perhaps the roost lengthy of oC any an of his operas It begins at Q t huff half peat past six In th evening und nod lets out after t twelve arid and yet yel peo pea people pie will wilt go po by the hundreds and wait for three or four hours for 01 tho the privilege liege of o standing up up p In some rome corner wherever they thet con cnn find a II place In till the two fourth and fifth top galleries for forthe tho the next six hourI to h ht a v the opera It because It Is li now new M to them thorn for nearly every oVer 3 one OM n knows s almost every ever ver I motive illative In It They Thoy go 10 simply because they tho love lovo the music It IH Is not only anI with Wagnerian operas that this Is the cane ense but with almost every op opera ra And to see this BO go on year rear titter year yen I Is proof positive that hat these people have hae an love lovo for tart art It was wa not always HO al they had to tobe tobe be e educated up to It but to bring them to l o the e point ton where they tho are alc now nol has haM haMot ins of ot course taken tako generations It will take generations generation In America and It surely rely seems that a beginning should soon be bo made GALORE What Is H true Irue of opera Is also true of ot concerts here hemp h r must be bought often otten weeks ahead If IC ono one wishes to sit Bit I down In the tho Wiener t s building are arc two tIVO concert halls In III each of at which a 1 concert takes place every overy night In III the week except Sundays and ond holidays The fhe huh hall otters offers the Ilu public lIc seldom less than live five con concerts on cents a week and every concert In both places Is given by b an nn One won wonders tiers ders when ho sees the lists of ot concerts headed h by such uch names as J Baues s Fumy leie Eugene c Ysaye dAlbert and I all nil of ot whom can be bo heard hean in one ono week When seen een seen In Inthis InthIs Inthis this light It certainly seems that Vien Vlen Vienna na nn has hn lost little of oC Its one time bell bril brilliance liance as n a n t music center PIANO PLAYERS PARADISE Aund If It It had lost all attraction In I other lines of ot music mu s lc ic It would still be bo of ot interest to plums piano players as lIa the home of that greatest of modern piano teach tench teachers ore ers Is real really ly Iy the legitimate successor or of it Czerny whose pupil he ho Is la and Into whose whoso shoes shoos he has stepped as n a piano teacher What man woman or 01 child Is there that has given any nil study stud at all to pi pl piano ano nine playing ti to whom thin the name of at Czerny Czern is not familiar In tact fact they call him here hele tho ho father tAther at of it modern and from his hlo voluminous It noun writ write writings ings It con can an be neon been how precisely I he lie un understood understood understood the tho art of or developing the lin 1111 lingers gers for tor the modern piano forte torte Lesy Los LeI works Vor s on exactly the tho same sarno lines as Os Czerny but ho he has developed and broadened his Ideas hiona and may In short be bo said to have taken the work up u where Czerny left lert It off art Hut But all ull that Is la necessary to prove provo him n II great la is th the work he ho has hall done dOn Among his pupils may he be numbered some of ot otI I the greatest pianists of at the day duy In Including InI I eluding i PA Even en Liszt had no to better success na as nan aOa asa a n leacher I Although Is quite an old ull ullI l I mun coon ho has hns not lost lo t the llio art of ot Impart imparting Inn ing knowledge the art 1111 ho ht possesses In ht rudi ruck n a high degree He Ire has ho test much of ot his hid hl good temper and like Tito ninny many old people 1 is IR given Riven to middon changes of ut mood It If ho he happens h to bo boIn boIn In fn the time right mood one f seldom meets a n pleasanter man but If It not It Is 19 some sometimes times flutes very cry unpleasant for tar the till pupil PENSIVE LIVING To the thi he person In piano playing the Ihl advantages offered by VI Vt should not bo be overlooked overlook ell It Is not a n 1 desirable city in which to live I but hut of f course all alt such SU 1 considerations l Arc aie out of at the question with the stu student dent datt If It he M fInds what he desires In tho time way wn of ot music und and Instruction It has been said laId that lint Paris and 1111 Vienna vie vio 10 with each outer other to lo see FOO hi can make malco living more expensive e and Vienna bids hills I fair full to outdo the line French I capital This I I I of at course Is la disagreeable t tho the av nv erase crane Irn student and e many m ny to re remain t I e emale male main in III Unit that might otherwise go IrO to swell the numbers num of foreign stu students students dents In Vienna While not nol a n very place to toP 11 live P still to the of as Its aswell well as to 10 the one une who loves to dreamt 1 away nn idle hour in some somo mediaeval al alI I gothic pile or III through quaint ill and narrow streets that bring ono one face tate to Woe files with whit the Ihl of a picturesque pant Vienna Is 18 rich richIn In her hor offerings Hut But to the busy hURY man of the tho present who has no thought for 01 the nu past paRt and Its It gloried who Iho TD no elevator I and lUll team lentil ra rn radin din tor to tU nil all the churches of nf Rt it Ste lite Stephrn one Vienna POI pa Ir ses but hut little attraction Hy By that lint Is not nol meant that It licks l In modern pub 1111 public lic it c buildings at for It certainly nl has UH its share and beautiful ones on they hay are air But Hut the people peorl lack Inck the spirit of progress that Is le found among II mon the Amer mel linns ans and also aho the tho Germans Vienna ems truly to hit brt II In most t respects na oa asIt It II Is often otten railed called by tin Germans u a city of at a and tifty vears ago I CLAVION ON JIt JR |
