The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17
PROFESSIONALS At MUs1cAIEs.
| Some of the Prices Paid to Artists at Pri-
vate Entertainments.

Some of the Prices Paid to Artists Mt Pri-
waite Entertainments.
Ignace Paderewski received $4,000 for play
ing recently at q musicale in London. and Melba.
who sang at the same function. got $1,000 for
three songs. Plancon was among the other solo,
lists and they received sums proportionatoly as
large. Probably the price paid to Paderewski
Is the largest given to any musician at a pri-
vate entertainment The London musicales
are arranged on quite a different scale from
that which is customary here. They are not
nearly 80 expensive in this city. Melba was
engaged last year to sing at a musicale and
received about the price paid to her
in London. But that was the only en-
gagement of the kind which she had during
the winter. In London she has appeared fire.
Quently at private houses. and sang but three
times at Covent Garden. For a performance Of
an entire opera she received at Covent Garden
$1,000. With the assurance OF q certain num-
Der Of drawing-room engagements 1t can be
well understood that Covent Garden could be
neglected. with its greater demands and its
smaller compensation.
But the situation is exactly reversed in this
city. It is the public performances that pay.
while private engagements are scarce. Melba's
appearance last winter was followed by that Of
Nordica, who is said to have received 5000 for
singing at a fashionable musicale. Sembrlch
sang before q club here and her fee was 81. 250.
After that appearance she announced that in
the future the price Of her services would be
considerably higher. Calve. who rarely APP
peared at private musicales. got $1,000 for
singing one afternoon at the house Of, a we'll
known merchant. After that she decliped to
appear any more in private. on the ground that
it was as much as she could do to attend to her
work at the Metropolitan. Emma Eames has
her s iirst SEASON. here. Reiane played with with
several members OF her company at the house
az acting e T IN 3Wenty-m afn tee comedieetta was $500.
Yvette Guilbert proclaimed on her arrival
3 s Rob her B Ttll tRers Sa TO It'll, flas dem mGsacf for her ier
under circumstance which made It seem that
She had supposed that her, services would be
very much in demand. and her chagrin at the
frequently expressed with great emphasis.
There seemed TO- be u prejudice against her by
s he people %1a,d 1 0d sqRe a gGst ysi6e sse 6V re 20 ot 1niaR bens
OF a drawing room, but certainly sing. some
thing that would shock everybody. Yet she
London and Paris.
The singers who entertain the guests at the
lists. who receive comparatively small Sompen-
sation for their services. They are really more
noyel than the opera singers; The set OF society
would be likely to include tho presence OF the
operate singers at their musicales oil 60 regu-
luIly " Nllc- OptIt uLlA NoLouohbiy, aiVoh.
singers under much more favorable circum-
stances than are ever possible in a residence.
whatever the size may be.
Iii London, on the contrary, the artists appear
only a few times, and 1t is a greater luxury to
hear them. New York would rather listen to
them at the Metropolitan. and for that reason
they are not often engaged for private houses.
The singers who do appear at these musicale9
are OF O class almost unknown to fashionable
society. They are choir and concert singers.
who are rarely heard In this city, and they are
more interesting to society. than the perform
ers they hear regularly ut the Metropolitan
The men OF the opera, companies are rarely
heard In private. jean de .Reszke has always
refused. to appear at musicales.a although Ed
Guard. during his first season here, sang at sew
oral houses. He explained the difference be-
tween his action and his brothers by saying
that he was a married man with O family and
could not afford to lose the money he made In
this way. Signor Campanari has sung more
frequently In private than any other member OF
the mpa although Signor Cremonini used
70 be popular during his first season here.
But the list OF men singers who entertain soci-
ETY. is small.
The instrumentalists are more in demand.
Among these the pianists are foremost, but, as
society here does not pay anything like. the
prices it does In London. the number Of these
eminent ones Is not very large. josef Hof-
mann last year appeared only once at o private
house, and Ysaye was not tn great demand.
There Is enough music at the opera and in
the concert rooms to entertain society.