The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-08

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Though tuneless, string1ess, 1T Hes there
In dust,
Like some great thought on q forgotten
page,
The soul OF music cannot fade or rust.
The voice within it stronger grows with
age;
The strings and bow are only trifiiug
things
A master-touct. its great soul wakes and
a1AUR1cE FRANCIS EGAN.
The Fourteenth May Music Festival will
be held ct Music Hall. Cincinnati, com
mencing Tuesday evening, May s, 1900,
ana closing Saturday night, May 18th.
There will be five evening concerts, one
on each evening Of the festival, and two
afternoon concerts, on Thursday and Sat-
urday The choral works will be per-
formed at the. evening concerts. The
afternoon concerts will be devoted to
orchestral work, and to solo numbers by
some OF the artists engaged for tho festf-
val Chief of them are Nine. Sembrich.
Nine Sciumann-Heink, Ben Davies and
David Risphanl. The choral works to
be perfrmed are Mendelssohn's st. Paul."
Stapford's ode. East to West" Brahms
"A German Requiem" and Berlioz's TIE
Deum'' The symphonies to be played
by the festival orchestra under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Thomas are Schuberts
Unfinished" Beethoven's Ninth. Tschal-
kowsky's Manfred" Liszt's Faust"
Cesar F'ranck's in D minor The last
evening will be devoted to Wagner.
excerpts being performed from Die
Me;stersinger," die Wakure' and Par
sffal.''
1t Is not likely that Paderewski VT
ever again play In Chicago. 1t Is trae
that he had bigger audiences there than
anywhere else. one of them bringing in
over 5000 at the box-office: but what Is
| filthy lucre without critical approval?
| local critic. Mr.. w. S. 3. Mathews. has
discovered that not only IS the Polish
pianist deficient in technique, but he
lacks molecular expression in every
| thing ne plays" Schumann was evidently
wrong when ne wrote that the profess
sional critics are always ten years behind
| the general public in their capacity for
| properly estimating a musician. No
audience ever had the saGacity to notice
| a "deplorable poverty In molecular
ruance'' In Paderewski's playing; 1t
remained for a critic to discover that
| flaw. Now that the mask has been torn
| off the Polish charlatan's face, audiences
| will know what to do. Having paid SD
| for technique and "molecuIar expression
|
demand their money back If these COM
| modities not forthcoming
! Although Clarence Eddy will not be
the official organst OF the Paris En2osi-
| ton, ne has been asked by the COMMITTEES
! on Music to act as organlst for the
! american quarters fIe will go sc
| Paris on May Sth
Sofia scalcht is now singing through
| the West ct the head OF her concert
| company. She is to sing next season II
! the vaudeville theatres, giving the garden
scene from Faust and an act from
"Semira mide.
Sir Arthur sulIivans new opera. THE
| Rose of Persia. will bave It's first pro-
duct:on in America at Days Theatre,
I New York. early next season.
The London Music Festival, undo,
| Robert Newmans management viii take
! place this veac between Afcil $Nta '1d
| May 5th Inclusive. The six concerts
| will be with the combined bands CT tho
| Lamoureux and the Queens Hal! orches-
| trus GOO instrumentalists). three will be
| under the direction of Mr.. Henry j. Wood
and three under that of II. CheviiIard
|
seigfried wagner has had a tremendous,
| success at Paris. y Dispatch from that
| city says:
| Every seat was occupied. an! ent'us!-
| asm was almost boundess. The Sot
! composer was called to the front five
| times in succession after the overture,
| and ha received a second ovation nj the
end. Every number on the programme
| was WaSnerian, with the exception o.
| Seigfried WaSner's maternal grand.
| father
The orchestra of the Vienna Philha-.
monic Society. under Herr Mahler viii
| in June visit Paris to give several con-
certs in the Exhibition buildings.
| The committee Tor the erection OF
monument to Johannes Brahms at hia
native city. Hamburg, announces that
| $4,000 has so far been collecteI for mat
| purpose, and that this Sum Is deemed
! sufficient The monument is to be placed
upon the wall of the Ringstrasse. but
no decision has yet been reaehsd as 70
| whether lit is to take the shape of
bust or CT statue OF the composcr
Reginald de Koven is writing new
| opera for Jerome Sykes fhe t-ese VII
be Foxy CUTLER
Mr.. Arthur Lawrence has issued
pleasant book on .:sir lsrth.:r Sullivan
Life Story, Letters and "reminiscences.
| A recently discovered letter from Bee
thoven to his friend and patron the
! Archduke RudoIph, was sold recently IN
| Vienna.
The original sketch Of the Ia move
| r,ent of Eeethovea's Moonlight sen .ta
was sold for Ebl the other Day a;
! Sotheby's. in LONDON.
! For the music festival az Birmingham.
England. next October, Edward E!gas IS
writing a nav sacred choral composition
to the poem OF Cardinal Newman. Tine
Dream of Ge-ont.u;- The festival pro-
.sramme will also include Elijah and
| THE Messiah" the st. Matthew Passion
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