The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-06
MUSICAL ECHOES.

Trills from the World of Harmony
National C~onservatory's Offers. 50.
"The Fortnightly Musicales," as al
ready announced. are now studying
~present-day composers. While this is I'M
deniably interesting, it is hard for the
writers of biographical essa US, since the
lives Of these notabilitles, not yet COM
pieted. are not yet in the encyclopedias,
The authorities have decided that in
future the biograpb ical sketch will be
read from the program mes of the New
York Philharmonic. which need no ex-
PLANTATION. The next meeting will be
January 10, at No. "a Brinkerhof street,
the HON Of Mrs. Frank Cavalli.
A large class for beginners in the study
OF vocal music has been organized by.
Prof. William Till and meets in the First
Presbyterian Church, Bergen Point.
The most important event in the mu-
steal season will probably be the lecture
to be given January 10 by Mr.. Frederic
Dean, or Bach, Beethoven and Brahms"
This alliterative trio ought to attract,
and will, especially the third named, of
whom most people learnedly dis
note Of his or not. Nine-tenths
of them haven't. and half the rest have
never heard his compositions played
only murdered. Mr.. Deans reputation
is too well established to need any words
Of any one. The illustrations will be
vocal and instrumental, and given by MI.
Harry Lincoln Case. Mr.. Victor Baier,
Mr.. Gustv Becke r, Miss Florence Turner
and a uuartette. The admission being
by invitation only, the MANAGEMENT will
avoid o~vercrowuing the assembly room of
the Institute. where the lecture will be
given.
The descriptive fantasia. as played by
Dr1F INoona c3- Oroboctro ic q UrQut and
mighty piece of work. These musical
men have been playing two every night
this week at the Academy of Music, one
a "Baby's Quarrel" where the instru-
ments initiate an infants wailings and
maternal punishment; the other "A
Nights Frolic," in which a New Years
party keep up a chorus of drinking
songs, from twelve p. NJ. to half past
five the next morning. with an accom-
pauiment OF horns, whistles. pistol shots
and toy trumpets. 1t may not be high
art, but the audience gives it Il double
encore every night, and the overworked
man In the corner, who bangles the
triangle, beats the drum, blows horns,
and provides all the realism, must feel
glad when the curtain falls.
To the joy of everyone, Philip Schar-
Wenka will be the next Schubert pianist.
'Jhe brother of Xavier Scharwenka' is
the way people generally speak OF him.
In spite of the overshado wing relation
ship, there ere those who dare to believe
that of the two, as composers at least,
Philip shows the more artistic conception,
greater breath. less hammered expression
The date announced is st. Valentines
Day.
Those who are interested IN teaching
children to read music would do well to
visit Public School No. Z on Central av-
enue. The plan there employed is differ
ont from, IN of i'm many f fine nfhPr schools
in that there is little or no rote singing.
The children read four-part music at
sight, show extraordinary facility in TAX
ing intervals without an accompanying
instrument, and have a refreshing way
of singing true" Principal A. B.
Guilford is in charge Of the classes. The
Tonic Sol Fa method, introduced in this
city by w. I. Snediey, obtains at No. s.
At No. IA singing is a regular study. as
it should be wherever 1t is attempted at
all.
Mr.. Charles Forster. whose voice has
been missed from the Schubert and the
concert stage since his remova from the
city, sang at the New Years reception
at the Home for Aged Women this week.
no less to the delight of the audience
from outside than of those whose lives
are spent within its walls.
The Semi-Anuual Entrance Examin-
alton of the National Conservatory of
Music. Nos. 1876 and 1913 East Seventee nth
street, New York, will be held as follows:
Composition-January 8. 1888, from 9
A. NJ. to IL noon. Piano and organ
January 10. 9 A. NJ. to II noon, and Q TO
5 T. N. Harp, cello, aud all other or
chestral MISUNDERSTANDING II, from
8 A. M. to IL noon. Violin-January IL.
2 to 5 P. NJ. Orchestra-January IL, from
4to q P. M. Voice-January 10 and Ii.
from 8 A. NJ. to IL noon; 2 to 5 2. NJ, and
January 10. from s to 10 p. Nj. Chorus
January IS. from 8 to 10 P. NJ. The
object of the National Conserv-
atory, of which Mrs. Jeanette Thuber
is President. Is to advance music
throughout the United States by the de-
velopment of American talent, and in
struction is practically free.