The Indianapolis journal., 1902-01-19

and Elzabeth's prayer. "Lohengrin" will
be presented by Elsas dream and the bri-
dal procession of music. Isolde's love-
death will exhibit the climax of Tristan
and Isolde" The programme in detail for
the exposition of 1.-The Ring on the sec
ond evening will be announced later.
The sale of seats for the lecture-recitals
will begin on Thursday morning at the
Starr piano store, in the Newton Claypool
building. Season seats will be sold for 81
and $3.50 and for a single event $1.5O and
81. General admission tickets will be sold
for 20 cents. but students, whether of the
public schools or colleges, may have seats
for so cents if they present certificates,
the distribution Of which has been ar
ranged.
Next week at English's Opera House two
musicians of exceptional interest will be
heard. Harold Bauer, pianist, will play
with the indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
on Monday, the 9th, and Jan Kubelik, vio-
linst, will give a recital on Thursday, the
SOth. Bauer is we'll known and liked here.
He played the Saint-Saens concerto with
the Symphony Orchestra last season. This
time he will be heard in the Beethoven
flat concerto. Kubelik had not played at
all in the United States until this season.
The public treatment of him in New York
was similar to Paderewskrs early tri-
umphs. He is still called a boy violinist-
he is twenty-one years old-but marve-
lous one. His piano accompanist will be
Rudolph Friml, and a solo pianist will take
some of the numbers Of the programme.
XXX
The Munich Algemeine Zeitung warns
musicians against going to London in the
hope of earning a living. The only ones
who succeed there are, it says, the great
artists whom everybody is bound to hear
once. Others. even If they have already at
tracted some attention on the continent,
are absolutely ignored. They may go to an
agent and hire hall. but il will be at their
expense. No one will buy a ticket. and the
press pays them no attention, as there are
about twenty of these concerts every day.
Native musicians are no better off, and
most of them find it advantageous to seek
fame on the continent before appearing
before English audiences. In America the
orchestras are made up chiefly by Germans.
but in London there is almost a boycott on
German orchestral players.
Concerning the two most popular piano.
forte teachers of the last century DR. Will
liam Mason writes in the Philadelphia
Musician:
List the man. is on the whole. more
therefore incline from knowledge of the
one to form an idea of what the other must
have been. His genius cannot be said TO
have lain chiefly in the direction of impart-
ing what he kenw: he probably succeeded
more in inspiring his pupils with the de-
sire to play than in giving them practical
information on the subject of how to do so.
The knowledge he received from Czerny
he used in his own way-his respect for
him as a teacher was unbOunded-but
without in any way seeking to depreciate
m 10 hor hVna 1lxr
speaking, in his relations with those around
him he himself was more the genial artist
than the pedagogue. LeschetiZky. if less
cOnSpiCuously musical figure in the world.
is in one respect unique-he possesses in a
supreme degree, the unusual gift of teach
ing-when he encounters a pupil with an
equally powerful gift for being taught he
obtains results that attract attention. Even
those who study what they are pleased to
call his method" in vain do not leave his
sphere of influence entirely without Dro6t.
they have better fingers than they started
with. though they have not learned how to
use them. If an absolute ignorance of the
subject entities one to speak. it may be
suggested that this is more a characteristic
of his influence than of that of any other
living master
Oliver Willard Pierce gave a recital last
Friday afternoon for the Lafayette Matinee
Musicale, and on the evening Of that dav
he gave another recital at Fowler Next
Friday evening he will play at New Albany.
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The Rose Cecilia Shay Opera Company
disbanded the other day at Marion, O. Al
most fifty members of it went to New
York, and there, in convention assembled
determined TO file suit against 7. F. Shay.
of Cincinnati. for 81. 500, that amount being
due them for their services during the final
week Of the company. Mr.. Shay is a prom
inent Cincinnati lawyer. 1t would seem
that he was the financial hacker of the
company. Col" W. a. Thompson was the
manager, and now he is talking of reorgan-
izing the company the Boston Lyric
Opera Company" by which name his
musical enterprises have been known for
many years. The Shay company sang i'm
this city recently. Its performances were
crude, but several of its members showed