The herald., 1897-12-26

Louis Lisser, president, and julius
Weber, secretary of 1.-The Musicians
Club" of San Francisco, have issued a
prospectus inviting original compost
tions from musicians on this coast with
view to encouraging resident compos-
ers to more active work, by Offering med
ais to successful contestants, and ex-
erting a more healthy interest in things
musical all over the coast at the same
time. An adequate public perform
ance is promised of such compositions
as are selected by the competent jury.
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The New York Post says: "The mark
ed success of the Boston symphony Or
chestra has somewhat taken the wind
out of the sails of Anton Seidl. That
great man might reasonably have been
leXpected to bestride the musical world
of New York like a huge colossus after
his success in conducting grand opera at
Covent Garden last summer and MS
still greater success in capturing the
taste of the musical pilgrims who went
to worship at the Wagnerian temple at
Bayreuth. But with tho laurels of half
musical Europe still fresh upon his
brow Seidl has not created the stir in
New York that his friends expected The
critics have praised the work of his or
chestra. but they have reserved their
superlatives for the Boston symphony
Orchestra"
If the erudite writer who penned the
foregoing had but exercised his rea-
soning powers trife further he could
have explained to a waiting world that
the orchestra with which Mr. Seidl made
his conspicuous success abroad this past
summer was composed of seasoned mu-
sicians in a high state of cultivation.
Mr.. Seidls New York orchestra, on the
Iother hand, while made up of good ma
terial, lacks time or money, or both, to
develop by sufficient rehearsal the de-
gree of perfection already attained and
maintained by such organizations
abroad or by the Boston symphony Or
chestra in this country. The aged but
true saw about silk purse and a sow's
ear is entirely applicable in the case in
point, and until Herr Seidl's aggregation
of musicians has worked great deal
harder and a great deal oftener than
they have in the past he cannot hope
to be able to accomplish with them
what he did with the European orches-
tras, and until such time the Boston
symphony men will continue to hold,a
hold justly, the pre-eminepce on this
side of the water, that they have hon
estly earned.
John Philip Sousa, at the head of his
famous band, and to the strains of his
martial music, is about to invade Eu-
rope. The reason for this move is the
Sreat success that attended the Ameri-
can leader when he conducted the brass
| section of the Philharmonic orchestra of
! Berlin. Mr.. SouSa goes abroad under
| the management of an English COM
pany, organized expressly for this pur-
pose. The company's American repre-
sentative is E. r. Reynolds. Mr.. Henry
| Wolfsohn, the well-known musical man.
ager, will direct the tour in Germany
and Austria. The band will consist of
sixty musicians and two soloists, both
ladies. George Frederick Rnton will act
as business manager On the return of
the band to America it will enter on it's
grand tour, playing at all the principal
cities of every state in the union.
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| The current number of the New York
Musical Courier says: "A young musi-
clan, who is rapidly making a reputa-
ton for himself as 'cellist of distinc-
ton, is Alexander Heindl of the Pitts
burg orchestra" Those who heard young
Heindl when he played here last summer
wills be interested in the above, as cor
rorborative of the impression he made
here.
Albert A. Farland, the expert banjo
player. who entertained his audience so
admirably last Thursday evening at the
Y. NJ. C. A. auditorium, will give banjo
recital Tuesday evening at Blanchard
Fitzgerald music hall.
The students of Stanford University
are supplementing the Thanksgiving
football victory by sending their Glee
and Mandolin clubs on a trumphal tour
of the coast, going as far south as San
Diego. Numerically, the aggregation Is
one of the largest on the road The
Cilee club includes sixteen men and the
Mandolin club twelve men, besides solo
lists and specialists. No collegiate club
west of Philadelphia presents program
of equal variety.
The reputation of the Stanford Uni
versity clubs extends from the cities of
Puget sound to the Mexican borders.
This reputation has been acquired by
! frequent appearances before critical
audiences. They sing and play with the
same dash and vim that has carried the
Stanford varsity football team on to it's
unbroken record of victories. Charles
|. Dillon and Frank Branch Riley, both
especially clever speciality comedians,
will accompany the clubs, and the latter
| have on former tours established them
selves so favorably in musical and social
circles, that their appearance will be
heralded with pleasure. A large house
and warm reception will greet them
Their engagement here will be the event
Of the holiday season. They play one
night at the Los Angeles theater, the