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: NEW YORK. April 4.-Eugene Ysaye,
the violin virtuoso, will be the suc-
:. ceSsor of Anton Seidl in this country
as the director of Wagner and Beetho-
A. Ven concerts. Sigmund Bernstein. late
manager for Seidl, has closed a COM
pact with Ysaye. by which the latter
VIII organize an orchestra comprising
many Of Seidl's musicians, with others
or his own selection. and will conduct
1t on the lines followed by the dead
maestro.
This does not mean that Ysaye will
be at the head of the Philharmonic So
ciety, SeidPs permanent orchestra, or
the Seidl Society of BROOKLYN. 1t ia
possible that Ysaye will eventually take
charge of those orga nizations, but
= nothing has been done yet to that end.
. .the deal made yesterday suggests that
Ysaye may fill all these places held by
Seidl. and the question of his even con-
Quoting some of the operate works at .
the metropolitan opera house next sea-
son was discussed among musicians.
Although Maurice Grau has several
men ready for the directors stand at
the Metropolitan, with Mancinelli at
the head, no one can say that Ysaye
will not also wave the baton on some
nights of the season.
The orchestra that Ysaye will form,
: by virtue of his contract with Mr..
a Bernstein. as the representative Of
SeidIs musicians, will be an independ-
ent body and will not take the name
or any of the orchestraS at present eX-
listing. 1t will be called Ysaye's Or
chestra.
= Although Ysaye Is known in this
/ country only as violin soloist he has
fer years been at the head of an or
chestra IN Brussels. He was born at
Liege. Belgium and received his first
fha tNJ;
who was distinguished musician At
A terward he graduated from the con-
observatory of his native town. He was
appointed high professor of the Royal
conservatory at Brussels in 1885, and
still holds that position.
1t was Anton SeidPs dearest wish
that Ysaye should be associated with
him as his concert master, dividing
the work of conducting with himself
lAand being equally prominent. Last
Monday night, on which Mr. Seidl died,
Yfaye was to have dined with him at
his house. 80 East Sixty street.
principally that they might discuss de-
asils Of their intended partnership
1saye said last evening:
A Mr. Seidl has often said that I was
TO be his successor when he died We
were very close friends, and 1 know
that the arrangement I have made to-
ebay would have pleased him. In or
oganizing my orchestra 1 shall be care
full to have plenty of young, vigorous
TFPS s.1. D.,
5, TO have at least one Belgian composer
Z represented on every programme. When
play here there will always be an
American composers work given at ev-
Hery concert. Then 1 shall interpret Wag-
DER and Beethoven as well. I shall play
the violin besides conducting. I cannot
I7give up my instrument because 1 am
Mt hn nf
form quartette of the most famous
men 1 can find, including Gerardy, the
B'cellist. I mean to give the American
people the best music that is in my
power. Musical taste in this country
has reached a high state of cultiva-
Ption, and 1t demands good music. I
wart to be worthy of the shoes of my
dear friend, Anton Seidl."
AS conductor for the London season
The names of Siegfried Wagner and
Felix Weingartner are Immediately
Suggested. Mr.. Grau would probably
give preference to Richard Strauss
we're he at liberty to accept, and the
position is one which Arthur Nikiset
oH6uld be disposed to consider seriously
By all odds the most important mu-
ssical figure of the immediate day in
America is John Philip Sousa What
heir laborious architecture of con-
-emplative mathematics, your writer's
SOf pulling nocturnes your sonateers
Ipelllng of the lamp-what are all these
g3rrulous sentimertalists to a man
y WHOSE marches can stir an army to a
over of energy and exaltation. and
send it toward the horrors of battle
md sudden death with a huge zest, a.
yaiety. even?
These other musicians are all very
well in times of luxury and peace; they
prosper in music rooms and opera
houses. You follow where they lead
Without leaving your many-cushioned
Ivan or your high-priced orchestra
vhair. But today we are facing war.
[ is a time for waving the flag, time
or bringing people to their feet and
citing those feet to marching. The
y present is. in short, A time. Sousa's
Yhree Sunday concerts at the Metro
'olitan opera house are very much
propos.
Musical snobs are inclined to rate the
Viarch-tune very low, and, indeed,
7othfng is so cheap as a cheap march
ure-unless it be some of the SYM
honies and concertos, with the unity
ST gingerbread. sky-scraping Office
uilding.
But. surely, no musical work is
FUNDED on a nobler emotion or inspires
nobler emotion than march music of
She best class. Beethoven, Mendels-
ohm, Schubert and Wagner have not
-esitated to write in this style, or to
lake the NEST frank and direct appeal
, the tendon Achilles
S-Rupert Hughes in The Criterion.
NSenor Manuel Garcia the teacher of Jenny
ind Catherine Hayes, Nine. Marchesi and a
ast of other singers, has entered upon his
Qsty-fourth year, and is still teaching pri--
atty In London. Recording the fact a Lon
On newspaper says: What this wealth of
ears implies may be gathered from the fact
at one of Gsrcia's early "reminiscences was