, 1876-07-23
MUSIC.


CRESW0LD.
Tho musical interest Of the week that has
Just closed sums itself up in the garden con-
certs given by Mr.. Creswoll in the Exposition
Building, twelve In number, being @the first
week of the season, and closes Aug. 90 In
pointbf attendance the week closes upon fair
success. Musically no concerts every given in
the city have offered so many and SO excellent
attractions, considering the PRICES cents for
the evening and 10 cents for the matiuces- Mr.
Creswold himself has played q large and we'll
selected repertoire for the organ, composed OF
the classical and the modern, ranging from
Alendelssohn sonata and I" The Harmonious
Blacksmith " down to the Zanctta overture
and Martha. Vocllly he has had the assistance
Of Nine. Jennie Va1ly and Mrs. Hattie Bell
Clark, sopranos; Miss Minnie E. Curtis, alto:
Mr., Thomas Goodwillie, basso and the Oriental
Quartette; and Mr.. DeClerque has appeared in
violin solos. Perhaps the chief fault Is that the
music is of too high an order and too well per-
formed for garden concert. This evening,
Mr.. Alexander Bischoif commences week. ell
gagement, and other attractions will also hc
added. As Mr.: Bischoff las host Of friends in
this city, he will undoubtedly receive cordial
welcome back to his old home.
MIR. PRATT IN wEIMAR.
J
news this week, the following extract from q
letter to the Boston ddpertier, written by its
Wcimar correspondent, will be OF interest, more
particularly as 1t concerns Chicago's "Composcr
of the Future" Mr.. S. G. Pratt. The CORE
spondent writes:
Mr. S. G. Pratt, to whose piano ana salon and
cordial invitations VIC owed all onr pleasant even
ings IL q Young Wcsternct who has made musical
composition the aspiration Of his life Ills history
when little lad Of IL, he supported himself in
Chicago ind studied music without teacher until,
in ten or twelve years; he had saved enough to
music under Kullak, and gave. every. promise Of
coming out brilliant artist; but before the end
OF the first year he strained hs hand 80 that it was
stcad Of being 10 crushed by 30 dreadful blow,
his courage rose to higher level, and he decided
that, since he was unable to be IN interpreter
OF the ideas OF Others, he would elaborate his
own; III other words, be composer. He set him
SELF therefore, to this new ambition, and has been
buffetius the world ,nanfrlly and chcertuy for it
Now again he has gone to Germany to try and gain
such recognition us will assist him in his own
country, and at this time he was in WcmaF in the
Finding himself 90 favorbi} situated at the Rus
sichcr Gof. lie conceived the idea Of giving IN en-
tire n.tinee Of his own compositions, to which the
mar should be invited: AZ he mentioned LISTS i:
name, ''You will not think OF inviting liim' in
terrupted I, appalled, at presumption which
:oud ennsea or George Ee
literary successes at the top OF the ladder to listen
to the Efforts Of my humble self, at the bottom.
.'Of course shall ask him. should consider
insulted him Il left him out answered this typi-
cal American.
The afternoon was rainy, and the ladies of the
Others dropped in, and I began to fear that our
friend would not have an audience. But little
after the door suddenly opened, and in it's frame
np1sr more young ;1 men bchRd him. was completely
astonished. or, rather,-not to put too fine point
nPon TT taken down But there is never any;
or II the morning, and to work until II or 12,
after which it does not make much difference to
him how he spends the rest of the day. Probably
At any rate, there he was and in such an angelic
mood, too that he looked like saint, all ready to
be translated. (lt; must be confessed that he
exactly the oppositc.) lie took Mr: rratt,s
notes in his hand, and Immediately made himself
comfortable, with the sympathetic Pinner on one
side OF him and another cOnsenlal spirit on the
other. He was always looking around for Pinner,
by the why ''Where is Pinnery' he would say !;
and in fact, il people wonder why List has been
dependent upon human nature as he. As my friend
says, 'tHc is putting ont his tendrils all the
time, and have observed that this infantine need
Of response which some natures have calls it un-
Nj. Pratt had askcd me to sit near him, so that
he could have the support of feeling as II he were
playing to some special person. t and @ @aGeordngy
OF the piano, all the rest OF the company being on
the other side. At the end Of every piece List
would come and pace the notes on M the instrument +
or suggest here and there an alteration.
1t Waa pretty:to see them together, and made me
think OF nothing SO much as of great grave,
shaggy lion, and audacious but appEchensyc lit
tie lnre. The young composer went I&rsistently
through his whole programme, but after every
piece would receive LisZts criticisms with the
most genial acquieacence in his own mistakes or
failures. This made Liszt very gentle. and it WAS
truly exquisite to hear him put his hands on some
tions transform the whole phrase. lie teaches just
as some master Of literature might discourse on
poetry, and illustrates any point in hand by
snutches from this composer and that throughout
the whole range OF MuHlc-
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
4 letter from 31r. H. S. Perkins, dated the
7tb, announces that he would sail on the 18th
for New York. He will arrive in Chicago carly
in September.
MIR. Frank II. King, whose retirement as gen.
cral agent Of the Dcckers We noticed d week or
two since, has now been appointed general bust
ness manager and superintendent Of agencies
for Weber.
MIR. C. A. Uarcns, our wel1-known orgaaist,
gave an organ recital, July Il, at the First Bap-
list Church, Fredonia, n Y, before the Normal
Musical Institute, now in session there. The
programme was made up of numbers from class
ical and modern composers, and was greeted
by large audience.
4 complimentary concert Was given at afadi-
son. Wis, on Tuesday evening last to Miss LIZ
zic Foresman, our wcll-lznown aud excellent
contralto, who formerly lived in that city. Mrs.
Thurston and q 1nnle quartette from Chicago
assisted in the concert, which WAS in all respect
a most graceful and successful tribute to o
most deserving lady and musician.