Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
THE MUSIC WORLD.
Probable Effects Of the Metropolitan
Opera House Fire.
THE ACQUISITION OF DVORAK.
Dificultie7 Encountered by the Critic in
His Xacting Work.
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BY the burning of the Metropolitan Opera
House, once Wagner's Walhalla, the future
OF Americas most important opera institu-
tion has been enveloped in a veritable
Twilight of the Gods"
While it appears from private advices
that the loss is only $780, 900, instead of
$500, 900, and that most of the directors
favor rebuilding at once so as to be ready
to open by January /, there is no telling
what may be decided at next Fridays meet
ing of the stockholders. These worthy
purse-holders and fashion-plates have al
ways regarded the Opera House as pretty
plaything; and, after paying its expenses
for nine years, it is not unlikely that most
of them may now be tired and quite ready
to turn the costly toy into q paying bust
ness property.
This element has ever been o source of
weakness In the history of that magnificent
house. 1nestimable as have been the
musical results Of the nine seasons past,
they would have been much greater and
less expensive to boot, if permanent,
comprehensive policy, based wholly on
artistic considerations, could have been in
augurated at the beginning and consistently
carried out But that is too much to e1-
pect from any fashionable clique in control
Of an institution built primarily as social
meeting and exhibition place. Govern
mental support seems, in the worlds ex-
perience, to be necessary to true artistic
stability and independence.
When Wotan and his iellow-deities-the
hac fhara for hoir
to the end OF their reign and the twilight
settled down on Walhalla's smouldering
embers, a new and better era was ushered
in. Possibly the destruction of our old
opera temple may hasten the day when
that great composite art-work, the modern
music drama, will be seriously cultivated
for its own sake In this as In other lands.
Antonln p,o.t k in Am.rics.
The institution that is now putting forth
the most valuable efforts toward the nation
al development of all branches of music and
striving for ultimate musical subventions
from the Government, is the National
Conservatory of Music of America,
Just now brought into special prom
inence by the coming of the emil
nent Bohemian Comp oser, Antonin
Dvorak, to be its director for the next
LuTee NedIa. Tue CuITtut CcJNuTU
will gain most interesting view OF the
personality of this latest and greatest ad-
dition to our list of resident musicians,
from Mr.. H. E. Krehbieps full and reliable
article on Dvorak's life and works.
Every American music-lover may take
pride in this great, progressive institution,
established and maintained not for profit
but for the country's musical advancement
Ambitious and deserving students, both
with and without means to pay tuition, will
be focking from all quarters to the entrance
examinations, which will be held at the
Conservatory, 126 and 128 East Seventeenth
street, New York, beginning September u.
And they may well flock to study at a
school boasting such brilliant list of Off
GERS and instructors rs this:
dent; Hon. william G. Choste, Vice Presi.
dent: Hon. Henry W.. Cannon, Treasurer;
Mr. Edmund G. Stanton, Secretary; Mr.. An
tonin Dvorak, Director.
FACULTY.
Director, DR.. Antonin Dvorak.
Singing, Mr.. Romualdo Sapio, Mr.. Victor
Capoul, Mr.. Christian Fritsch, Mrs. Beebe
Lawton, Mr.. Oscar Saenger, Miss Katharine
W. Evans. MIR: Wilford Watters. Singing,
Opera class. MIR. Victor Capoul; conductor
of opera, Anton seidl; repertoire, Mr..
Ernesto Belli; operatio chorus, to be
SclcCGcO; OraUOflO CLASS, mfS. bceDos sLaWtOn.
Piano, Mr.. Rafael Joseffy, Mrs. Jessie Pin
ney Baldwin, Miss Adele Margulies, Mr.. Leo
pold Winkler, Miss Elinor Comstock. Mr.. j.
G. Huneker. Preparatory, piano, Miss Mabel
Phipps Miss Carrie Konigsberg, Miss Ade-
laide Okell, Miss Grace Povey, Mrs. NJ
Beardsley, Mr.. Albert Mildenberg. Organ,
Mr.. Samuel P. Warren Mr. Horatio W. Park
er. Harp, Mr.. John Cheshire.
Violin, Mrs. Camilla Urso, Mr.. Leopold
Lichtenberg. Mr.. Jan Koert, Mr., Juan Butt
rago; viola, Mr.. Jan Koert; violoncello, Mr..
Victor Herbert Mr.. Emile Knoll; con ira bass,
Mr.. Ludwig Manoly; flute, Mr. Otto Oesterle;
oboe, Mr.. Arthur Trepte; clarinet, Mr..
Richard Kohl, Dassoon, Mr.. Adolf Sohs (;
Carl Sohst: trombone, Mr.. Frederick Letscth
Composition. DR., Dvorak; harmony and
counterpoint, Mr.. Bruno Oscar Klein, Mr.. F.
@. Quicken; solfeggio, Mr.. Johannes Wer-
schtnger, Mr.. Alberto Frencelli, Miss Leila
La Fetra; chamber music, Mr.. Leo
pold Lichtenberg; orchestra, Mr..
Frank Won der Stucken; chorus, DR..
Dvorak: assistant Mr.. Rubin Goldmark;
history of music, Mr.. Henry T. Finok: die
tion, MIR. W. v. Holt; Italian, Mr.. Pietro
Cianelli; stage department Mr.. Mamert BIZ
beyran; fencing. Mr.. Regis Senac; accom-
panist Mr.. Ernesto Belli.
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