Show The Music Student broad Abroad BY PIETRO to Berlin back Berlin-back back to the tho crowded crowd crowd- BACK ed swept cleanly streets to the tho rattling an and crashing of or th tho multitudinous multi tU ears cars to to the story five houses never store more ore never novel less less to to the only place In Germany where people on an the Hie street have even tho the appearance c of or I hurry hurry to to the glories of or the opera house hO to the Joys jos of the many concert halls to tho the charming cafes caros to tn tho the vile smelling che cheese shops to tho the beautiful to the thc prim rows TOWS of ot statues of or German which a adorn orn our park paik walks walks walks-to to the tho opening conservatories of or music mouse m l lc and the tho bus busy busy- hives of or schools school of or all kinds hinds I and Ind degrees degrees to to t tho e slandered beauties I of or Unter den dep linden and above boe all to tom tomy tomy m my own pressured high-pressured lessons In tho the conservatory t Berlin Is beautiful Even Ewen after actor Marl- Marl which Js Is certainly certain next to our Brighton in iii point of or charm and ami mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain allurement But Berlin looks good goodIn In the fair to tho the student who has s fled fr from r m hi his studios for u summers Bummers re rest t and who wIn having r achieved ed that t recuperation recuperation recuperation feels tho the prickling urge urAO for tor a n. renewal l of or le lessons sons and hard work es especially os- os when whon ho begins to count the few remaining dollars In his purse which must must actually actually must pull must pull him through h tho the coming winter So its it's good to bo ho at nt It again and to hammer ham hant- mer boldly at the doors of or fate and success with our puny pun hands dot determined determined deter deter- or- or mined that neither time nor time nor money money- nor bod bodily II weakness enl ne nor weariness weariness- that not even friends friends' thoughtless discouragement discouragement discouragement dis dis- shall prevent us from climbing that hill which leads to the magic gates of ot artistic achl achievement Nowhere except In Boston have I Icer ever er seen so beautiful a custom as the tho Berliners have bavo of tho woods and fields to to them when they the cannot go o to th the tho open country countr after them them For nearly nearly ever every ery householder and most flat- flat dwellers In in the tho belter better districts have dee deep window boxes fastened to their window ledges and here are planted riotous blooms of over every overy flower ver known to German house culture It Is a lovely sight RIght to walk down miles and miles of or street and aDd see sec the trailing clematis the brilliant geranium the tho delicate nasturtiums nasturtiums nas nas- flinging their glory Alory and ond perfume perfume perfume per per- fume from every one of oC the windows piercing the tho five regulation stories which makes maks these houses so symmetrical symmetrical sym sym- metrical and arid orderly And that one re reminder reminder re- re minder of or home nn and Fifth Firth East street Unter den en Linden bordered Linden bordered as the thelong thelong long ong street Is by stately trees tres and the central strip of paik park again again only Boson Boston BORton and m my own beloved belo Salt Lake lc City y can compare with this beautiful world- world old city which city which Is now good to my eyes yes and very desirable as to situa situa- tion one uno settles down clown own into nis ms tin tiny ber eight ber eight by ten ten ten-In In which the tho piano joggles fo the bed out of ot countenance and makes tho one chair and one trunk look humped and unhappy with unhappy with a azeal azeal zeal rell of gratitude unknown to to those who cannot feel tho the Joys jos of oC sacrifice when there Is art shining ahead as the crown o of our lon long pathway The bo beginning of or the grand rand or Royal opera season which occurs In the tho middle middle middle mid mid- dle of or August ls Is tho the signal for the awakening of or most other musical ac ac- ac Studios arc are opened opened teachers teachers and pupils come back from rom sea shore and mountain retreat schools retreat schools be begin ln to throw open their doors an and the concert concert concert con con- cert season begins Probably nowhere In the world does a a. student get such iu full and varied opportunities opportunities op op- of or hearing hearing- the tho very ven best best best- and some of ot the very poorest music ns illS he does docs In this same flame city by the Spree river The seven months be between between between be- be tween the middle of or October and md the middle of May last year ear there were over 1000 musical entertainers here In Berlin To bo be exact there thero were 1096 1006 A An n average of or over five each night Three hundred and el twenty eight ht were wore given iven by bv singers ers 10 2 40 h by pianists six six- four ty-four by 13 by orchestras and choral societies es gave e a Prett Pretty stiff aural requirement of ot to tho a copse conscientious musical student eh eh But right g ghere h t here I want to sa say some things First dont don't Imagine that the number of f mu- mu performances given hero here has any tendency to lessen tho the deep Interest taken by all classes in music On the contrary the old rule that all things s grow row h by what the they fed red on can be bo applied applied ap ap- lp- lp plied to this tremendous musical ac activity activity ac- ac in Berlin The more concerts and operas there are arp the tho more the people people- are arc educated up to enjoy enJo them and antl tho the greater reater Is the chance for tor both pupil and teacher The TIle more teachers there are Te the more pupils there are arc I dont don't know much about the law of ot supply and demand demand but but this I do 00 that the more books there are published the more pictures there are painted the mole male operas and concerts there are arc sung sung- and performed the greater reater Is the call and demand for further developments In art There Thero Is a constant call for higher points to be reached and for a more exceedIng exceeding exceed exceed- ing ng delicate and artistic perfection along any of these lines Wo may reach the hel height ht o of our development some day here day here In Berlin Berlin ln In musical matters and beg begin in to decline 11 as do lIo donations nations and Individuals according to touch such Buch philosophers as Draper but hut certain ertain er- er tain It Is that there seems no diminution diminution tion of musical endeavor here here on on the tho Contrary the wheels of progress gain peed as they whirl and andone one can begin to 10 feel Ceel tho the unusual American spirit of or hurry and nervous excitement creeping Into this staid old German Germ Paris ma may be the center of ot things In the iho world of oC painting and of or women's fashIon fash- fash Ion but lon but Berlin has stolen her musical crown and planted It firmly on her hor own Teutonic brows brown with a a. force and power equal to her victories In the terrible wars of or tho ho last century Art Art for arts art's sake has S boon been be on tho the slogan nn of or all aU artists in all time But so ls Is the Are greed for money so vital Is tho the corruption of or desires for Cor present fame that even evon so great and popular a modern composer as Leon- Leon cavello the author of oC tho the Immortal II ll 11 has Invaded Berlin from the tho stage of oC a n vaudeville Owing to tn the discrimination of ot tho the brothers of Italy few tew of oC his operas have been heard hear in ht this famous c pl CI nl- nl tU tal I am not familiar with all theIn- theIn tho In Intricate Intricate In- In details of or the affair but rend read renda reada a good goad deal doal In tho papers here hero about his lirt s Sf So hn hr I la On his famous opera II II Il a with an n Italian company compan at the Immense Hip His Ills na m manager er Sir Edward Moses H lt piling up the tho marl marks marks or s-or s or dollars dol del lars lars but but there thero are those who aro arc asking asking ask ask- In ing what about the tho artistic en end of oC till this new departure It Is understood here that former Ambassador llor Hill Hm who has han been been beener er very friend friendly to all American students Is to enter tho the political arena on his return to his native land It Is even oven asserted that he ho will make mako a try try for tor the tho governorship of or Now New York state Ho lie has said goodby to his host of Herman perman friends an and now ho goes to Switzerland to give the sad parting hand to his man many friends and admirers there Berlin loses Its most popular light t opera composer in the departure of or Mr Ir Victor Hollander who has fallen aHon down so it Is said at tho the feet teet of oC tho the can golden calf and has put himself under contract with tho the New Now York managers manners Frazee and For a n period of ten years Hollander ha has furnished the theatre with a satirical political review and was always fortunate enough to havo have them run nightly for life tho perform perform- ances He is 18 known in England b by his hisEn En English lI h musical comedy The Boy of or Morocco Putnam Griswold of San Francl Francisco co the eminent American basso who has made ml himself such a favorite fa here having finished a year five contract leaves for tor N New w York the first of or October October October Oc Oc- tober to begin his enga engagement ement at the Metropolitan opera oper house His Ills nationality nationality nationality nation nation- has not hindered his making making friends and admirers amon among all classes of ot people He lie gives Ive a farewell Carewell concert ss with the Philharmonic orchestra before 1 In x Among Among g the advertised ad concerts concerts con con- I note noto one to be bo given in tho the Beethoven Seal Saal b by Alexander Heinemann Helno- Helno mann who nho was In Salt Lake last win win- tor Brigham Cecil Gates who has bas been spending the summer with his sister in Austria and Cassell has re returned returned returned re- re turned to resume hit his studies He brings glowing glo accounts of or his sisters sister's sisters sister's sis- sis ter's tor's success down in her new position The Cassell papers have given most enthusiastic praise for her work In that oil oily city Our own Berlin Berin papers ro- ro o peat those same cheerful encouraging reports |