Show 0 I VIENNA VERSUS BERLIN rA I II J A s Salt n Writes on n Uio Claim C of Doth Grunt d I 2 Cities ao no Musical Cantors 5 i 5 r I r Correspondence 1 Jim Jan 1 In the lost hl t dozen or 15 It rI the among Uio great n Imi b beun un to In III n nr r make the capital the then n center of ot the world It hits up easy U taek however to accomplish this In the thu face of at ouch rivalry as Vienna and St have hae i l Tut Yut no n one con call deny that 11 rUn today Ju Justly enjoys the r puta tl n of or b the first city ell And white MIa hUll him been attaining this ox 1 position u It not been I een In Othar mutters matters and 1 fair noon If It It Ith has h ll not already done Ilona o to the ry center Hut that Is III not tho thu point r In tho rapid growth t musically the tho world linn haB in dazzled d perhaps and amI the In Inclination Uon Is to 10 credit cr her with more then thon ph Ima Or perhaps s It IJ would be better to say any the tho fault tault lies In tho tha i to give gle the tho older musical centers credit Wr fill What thoy l av really re retained In spite of o th attraction Ber Berlin lin has proved to most grout musi musicians d ns of or the present Many even InO that Vienna tho home of ot Haydn n Schubert muck and many many J any others other whom it Is unnecessary ry to mention hUB hau sunk or else elso In 18 living musical musically ly Iy only lit III the th Knowledge of ot n 1 past p st People l should bo careful how 1101 they th such an un opinion for or Imo U will prove prou conclusively that the tho thor r central y U II the case cuse IDEAL J i Vienna otters offers exactly the same ad advantages vantages to hear the bout best that dO I most make their homes home In does not noti i niter lIter the fact that they th III heard heul unite i us much In Vienna und often they give dive more concerts In the latter than thanIn In former city The In ov ev of at music rouBle can certainly hear henr hearIn In Vienna all the heart mry Int desire The opera In Is a III good nn any other J in InI Europe with tho exceptions of ot Milan 1 und Inti Paris Varle and tho tha lover of oC Wanner I can un hear lon given with the same spirit that characterize Its Il production In other othel German cities Plo pie Ille horo go to the opera for or the sake saIto of oC oCt the t e music mush and nut not to hour heur ono one or two i great at nt the expense of ot chorus orchestra as In III BO HO often the tho cano with opera in America Horo the tho corn coin Ideal ro looked upon M all the most mOlt essential thing und and every require ment la met In III order to ilvo gho expression Ideas deno The Tho consequence Is III naturally thin there Is no one voice that stands out above nil others In III beauty hut but all 1111 are ure about equal Tho I orchestra chorus art It on a par l l everything ela ellie ami nm K an t 1 1 of at a master InU worl orl i purr purt bring brought rut e v ii I that can Clin or 01 ever IT I hail III l two or three o an being r Ii thin of fr T Iry I r thereby It tint Wi u III keep keel th the nod and I h up liP to the b in In III erder to Irl v VI rand nd op r ns It should be AID D BY The governments nl of or mo mot t all Euro Buro peon countries I for n n recognized lh th important M l t the th th filer In the n f Ih h Ol ra tom lOnH K of or ur der thal head IH a so we wp H eo O l I very tow toP of ot any Importance tho he th r un rt lid d by 8 ml A tin till la III l tw en tho WO drall und and opera 11 ti nil all tou 1011 two nn un o i house anil amI n th e fh given nt II exclusively to tho of or the tho best In apO music th operating these thelle It Is I 1 H for or u perhaps the very nry very 1 to take of ot th great thug of ot the great length of C this h been heen gOing an on tho Ihl result rl Is that th Ih people of nf th havo hao nn love for or the tho best belt th Ie In III In musk as liS asIn liSIn In literature To n o that fact demon tieman one o 0 pa t the opera house hours before tho doors to 10 the Ih open und see lee the tho crowds walling for tor u II chant chance to 10 stand up ral for or Instance the of jf of Wagner WORner perhaps the most mORt lengthy len thy of ot any nn of or his hlo operas It begins at half past six Mix In th thA evening and lets out after twelve am nul yet peo people p o IIII will go by the Ih hundreds for or three pr four our hours for or tho of o standing up In Homo corner wherever they con can a n place In the thet two t va fourth and II nd fifth top galleries for thu tho next six lt hours to hear tho th opera It because It Is I new to them for tor nearly every eer one knows almost almot every motive In III It They go simply because they lovo tho mu lc It Is III not only with Wagnerian operas that this Ihl Is the case hut with almost every other Ol ru And to set AN this go on year after year Is h proof positive po these people have an Junto love for or art It was not Mt always so they had to tobe be lie educated up to 10 It Jut but to bring them to 10 tho point whore thoy tho are now no has haa of ot course cour taken generations It will take tuko generations In lu America and It surely aurely seems seum that a n beginning should soon bo be made What Is III of ot opera U Is also ulso true trun of ot concerts concertI here must be bought often otton weeks ahead if It ono OliO wishes to sit down In the tho Wiener building are two concert halls In each of ot which u II concert takes place every cery night In the tho week except and holidays The hall holl offers the tho public seldom less than live con concerts concerts a n week und and every concert In both places Is III given by Ly an rUst artist One won Wall wonders ders lers when wh n ho hI sees nets the lists of ot concerts headed by such name ns nil Emil Salles Hubermann J Pamy Farny ler dAlbert and all of ot whom can cun be b in ono one week When seen In Inthis Inthis this light It certainly seems that Vien Vlen Vienna na nn has hils lost little of ot Its one time bril brilliance liance ns n n music center PIANO PARADISE If It It had bod lost all 1111 attraction In other lines Illes of ot It would still bo IJo of ot to piano an nil the homo of at greatest of oC piano teach teachers t ers Is real really ly I tho legitimate successor of ot Czerny whose pupil ho hi and Into whose shoes he has hils stepped as a n piano teacher What man woman or 01 child chillI Is there that has hus given chen any an study nt all to pi pl piano plIno ano Ino playing to 10 whom the name of ot zeroy Is not familiar In fact they call him here the father of modern antI and from rom his voluminous writ writIngs Ins Ings It 11 can cun bo be seen how precisely he un underwood under derwood der tood the tho art of ot developing the lin In lingers InKers gers Kers for tor the modern piano forte orte Les works wor s on exactly tho sumo same lines as Czerny hut but ho has developed and broadened his Ideas and may In short bo be said to have taken tho work up UI whore where Czerny left IoU U It oft But nil all that Is to prove him a CI great teacher U IS th Ute work ho has done donI Among his pupil be numbered some of ot 1 the greatest pianists of ot tho day ln In Int i t eluding had better Jetter as nt asa ntA i Fiven no a I Y IH la quite an nn old I man lit hI hn not lost the Iho art of or impart imparting ing knowledge the art he hI possesses In such n high d He III lias lIaa lost lo t much of ot hU good temper lemper and Hue many old people is given to changes of ot mood If he hc to bo be boin in III tho right mood one si n II III I man but If It not It l Is Home times very ery unpleasant ant for tin pupil EXPENSIVE LIVING I To ro the portion specializing in piano playing advantage Ild by Vi Vienna enna not lie Ile overlooked It hI not u II city in whit h to live but nt f nil Hueh na name me out of or the question with till the stu student dent tI nt if he what h hI desires In tho thoI I way wa of ot music It has hns been heen that Paris Parly and vo 10 with each ench other othor to wo which tan llIn make living more expensive I fair to outdo th This of ot course Is disagreeable t tho av 11 ern and causes to re rp remain main In III that go to 10 swoll the numbers of ot foreign rt stu students I dents In Vienna not a 1 very plenum place to Ih still to the leader lUdel of hl or n II well us to tn the ono one who loves to dream un Uti hour In some mediaeval I pile pilI or wander through quaint 1 narrow stroet that iring ono one face to lo face NL with the 1 of ot a past Vienna is III rich richIn In But Dut to the busy 1118 dial m n of ot the present who lion no though i for rOl Ihl pait palt and Its 1111 glories who prefers nn 1111 and ra radio dIll dio tor to nil 1111 the of ot St Ste Stephen phen one on I could Vienna poi but little III II Attraction lJ that la Is not not i that It I ck In modem pub public lie lic for tor It hUB has Its 1111 share shurl and beautiful one oneil they are Hut Dut the people lack IlIck the spirit of oC progress that U II found foun among the mer trans rail and nn al alo o the Iho Germans Vienna truly to be In most respects ns nil nilI It I la Is often failed by the lh Germans a city of at a u Dud and years SPI CIA SON In |