The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25

Louisans VIII lee inclined To wonder If Mr..
Savage may not try a lone hand" in New
York in the event that such an opportunity
Is presented. as now seems likely. II will
be worth while to watch the developments
OF the not remote future with interest.
There may be some notable changes should
Mr.. Grau withdraw even temporarily from
the field.
II may be that New Workers.. Ike 81.
l-ouiSans. having heard the two Bohemian
boys. kubelik and kocian. and duly raved
OYER their fiddling in successive years. ar
now more than willing to devote serious at
tention to more mature players. Anyway.
! there is a deep interest manifested in the
approaching appearance of the violinist,
Hugo Hermann. who was born at He'll
bronn so far back as 1874. and WHOSE fid-
ding was heard and praised by Rossini.
| Herr Hermann has been concert master
at Frankfort since 1860. and also professor
of the violin at the conservatory and lead
er Of one of the best German string quar-
tets. He is said TO lack passion in his
playing. but to be n thorough musician of
unusual refinement.
Thirty thousand dollars n year in. royal
ties is what the dramatic version OF Ben
liur' brings Lew Wallace. This sum *
earned in less than "A year. for the average
lheater season is but thirty weeks. The
story goes that il took a lot of persuasion
To get the Generals consent to the making
of a play Of his religious romance. Now,
in III. CLOSING years Of his life-the General
is past three score and ten-he is made
duubly famous. and his fortune * growing
like the 'scriptural tree.
on Thursday night OF the week just ended
the I.ichtenstein Quartet gave its first con-
cert at Henneman Hall. the occasion being
memora BILE as marking the revival of cham
Der music in 81 lDuiS. n. programme
comprised Haydn's quartet, Il Nat. No. i.
and Borodin's quartet in II. with Il group of
songs for soprano. Introducing Miss Flor
ence Tanner AZ the soloist of the evening.
While there were some deficiencies in the
work of the new quartet. that of the vio!ins
not being all that could be desired for tone
ard smoothness of technique. the promise of
the performance was fairly satisfactory.
With the advantage of practice, combined
with studiuus individual attention 10 the
demands of compositions selected for the
Interpretation, also the enforcement of L
discipline that shall show results in u more
serene balance of execution. the future con- !
certs Of this organization should steadily
increa Sc in value.
The HAYDN composition. Offering no great
difficulty. was given fairly well. The Bogo-
din quartet proved more pleasing. the Sec
ond 'nocturne) movement being especially
commendable. 'CeIlist Schubert's playins ,
should. perhaps. be named az the feature
of the first concert. Miss Tanner revealed
a voice of considerable richness and was |
adequately accompanied by Nj. Lucien Il.
Becker as pianist.
The members of the quartet. Messrs,
Lichtenstein. Blumherg. Kielsmeier AMI
Schubert, deserve encouragement in their
effort TO reawaken local appreciation of |
chamber music. Thev should spare no mains
to so perfect their performance in this phase
of their art as to merit the full measure of
success. |
During its recent New York engagement |
the Boston symphony Orchestra again de-
lighted the Gothamites by dra wing from its |
own membership a composer of such high |
merit as tC win critical commentator of |
weli-nich unqualified nature. The COM |
poser in question was Charles NJ. Loeffer. |
VINO shares with Franz kneisel the first !