The record-union., 1899-09-10

old piano singing together. repeating
verse. after verse, once thrice fen
times, until the great songstress was
letter perfect. Then she sang it once
more, as only she could sing it, quite
unconscious of the fact that in the
meantime her audience had increased
by venerable old man. whom the stu
dents regarded with the greatest re-
spect.
Now the soft notes of the postillion' s
norm sounded from afar, and a little
later the chaise drew up at the front
gate. Jenny Lind rose hastily. II
must be away" she said. land may
never see you again, for in a few weeks
| will cross the Atlantic to sing in
America. | shall not forget this even
ing, though, and as l have introduced
myself beg to know your names, gen
tlemen, especially that of the student
who taught me the German hymn
Then the old man spoke up. II thank
you in the name of my pupils for your
kind Words he said, This madam. is
his royal highness, Grown Prince Fred
erick, and l am Ernest Moritz Arndt,
author of the song you learned from
him.
1t is said that the late Johann
Strauss at one time gave lessons on
| the violin to the present German En-
peror. Wilhelm H., at the suggestion
of his father, the Emperor Frederick,
| studied dance music for a time under
Strauss, who declared him an apt pupil
The Viennese are at present consid-
ering a plan for erecting a. monument
to their three great waltz kings
Johann Strauss, father and son, and
Lanner.
in Music" (Chicago) on the deplor-
able condition of musical terminology
and the need of reforms. Does an
dant1no mean faster or slower than
andante? he asks, and answers that ii
depends on the composer who uses the
word, for there is no common consent
as to the meaning of ths word Sc
with various other terms SONATA
! FORM" to take another case, is not
sufficiently distinct from sonata, y
While first movement as a SYNONYM
for sonata form is very awkward
| particularly in the case of a work like
Beethoven's sonata, opus 81, No. 3
which presents three first move
ments,' technically SO called Following
the example of chemists and botanistS
DR.. Hanchett thinks the names of emf
nent men might be used in such cases
The form which is characteristic of the
principal movement of a sonata OF
| symphony might be called Mozarta
then one might say that the Beethoven
sonata contains three Mozartas and a
minuet, the latter being the third
movement.
New York Post: Sousa recently de-
clared to a Chicago reporter that his
band can play a common street melody
like "A Hot Time in the Old Town
in such way as to make it respect
able. He is mistaken. Paderewski
himself could not make that hideous
tune respectable
Ernest Newman, in his Study OF
! Wagner" expresses the opinion that
Wagner stood alone in the peculiar
manner of listening to Beethoven
symphony; that is. of considering
these symphonies as poems with def
mite subjects. AS a matter of fact. we
know on the authority of SCHNEIDER that
Beethoven himself some years before
his death Conceived the intention of
indicating the poetic idea underlying
his various works" 1t is a pity he did
not do so. One would think that the
old masters had no Imagination at all
from the stupid way of writing sonata
opus, No. 4, in F sharp minor" or
Symphony, opus III, No. 6, in E fiat
major" A novelist might as we'll write
| novel, number II, in 81 chapters" In
this respect, as in so many others, the
romantic school advanced immeasur-
ably beyond the classical" so-called.
The one weak spot in Chopin is that
he did not follow Schumanns example
IN regard to poetic titles.
DR.. Antonin Dvorak is still compos-
ing. He has just produced at Prague
his new symphonic poem, "Holoubek, -
in English THE Little Dove"
This is the latest runor in musical
circles: 1T is possible that Mime. Lillian
Biauvelt will sing in opera at the Met
ropolitan next winter According to
her agent, Henry Wolfsohn. Mr.. Grau
has made an offer of a place in the
company"