The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03
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When young Ossip dabrilo ~ritsch made a
speech In English At bis plano recital on
Wednesday afternoon many persona seemed
TO bs quite lost In astonislnnent. He spoke
tho Ian kuAxs without any noticeable accent
and with idiomatic pfopriety. The fact
is that the young man oonversss freely
and asrssAbly In English. Most OF the
, foreign musicians Who como hero now
speak English toler1biy we'll, even those
who have never before bssn In this country
or In England.
! The language ID taught In the German
schools, and oases have been known OF ser
wants just arrived on this side OF the sea
speaking English quite we'll 50 " Ia no
wonder that intelligent musicians do so.
For example. Albert Hertz. tho German
conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House.
is an entire stranger In this country and Ia
unknown In England, yet he speaks English
very we'll indeed. On the other hand. when
Arthur Nikisch came to. America he could
not speak word OF the language. And he
never learned to speak 1t well The late
Anton Seidl In all the years OF his residence
in this city never accomplished more than
laborious advance toward English.
The women seem to pick the language
Up better than the men. Nine. Sembrich
speaks English fairly, while her husband.
Prof. Stenxel. staggers painfully through
the shortest and simplest sentence. But
It is no wonder that the artists find 1t diff
fcult to learn English II they have not
studied at school. They meet 30 many
people In this country who can speak Ger
man that they do not get sufficient practice
In the language OF the land
1t ia expected that the little town Of
Bethlehem, Pa, will be at It's wits ends
a week from tomorrow to know what to
do with the visitors to the music festival.
The town lie a modest place and it's hotels
are Of the most primitive sort. They are
small, too, and hardly fitted for the accom-
mediation OF the sort of people who 60 to
music festivals. There will be more Wis
itors this year than ever before. The fame
OF the festival OF two years ago was suffi-
Gent to arouse a very wide interest in that
of this spring 1t is known that maty
persons are going from this city, Phila-
delphia and Washington, not 70 speak
Of places further distant.
A most extraordinary thing has hap
pened in England. A London newspaper
has quoted a passage from a music criti-
cism printed In New York morning journal.
Such thing has not occurred In the mem
ory OF man. II would not have occurred
this time but for the fact that the work
with which the criticism dealt was an Eng
lish work. 1t was Edward Cigars Dream
of Gerontius- and 1t was heartily praised
Therefore the people that walked in dark
ness have seen q great light.
1850
The memoryof Hector Berlioz, the eccen-
trio and gifted Fr ench composer and critic,
is to be honored next winter at the place OF
his BIRTH namely, Grenoble. There is to
be n grand festival Of music, lasting four
DAYS, Dec. u to II. two OF the days being
devoted to the compositions OF Berlioz.
A statue Of the master will be unveiled and
the committee having charge OF the festivi-
ties will issue an illustrated album oon-
tanning special articles by illustrious mu-
sicians. There ought to be one by Richard
Strauss entitled -The Difference Between
Berlioz and Me-"
John Philip Sousa and his Coney Island
band arc In London, where they are again
exciting the admiration OF that artless
and unsophisticated town. But they do
know aorne things over there, and there
ia one E. A. Baushan, who points the moral
Of things musical In the Daily Mere and
who says things very neatly. For ex-
ample. Eatelie Lieblink In travelling with
Sousa's organization and singing solos.
or her Mr.. Baughan said the other day:
-Estele Liebling. the soprano OF the troupe
endeavored to triumph over the flute OBJ
bligato in Handles Sweet Bird excel
lently played by Mr.. Marshall Lufsky'
A little further on In the same article
the writer Gays: How these clever in
strumentaliste can play Sousa twice day
and yet live passes my comprehension.
How the great Mr.. Sousa himself onn hear
his own compositions day after day and
week after week without q nervous break
down ia even more inoomprehensible. But
he does and on Saturday he handed out
his encores with the old smiling imper-
durability"
F. B. Money Coutts hAs written the IL
bretto Of trilogy founded on the Ar
tburian legend. and Sehor Abeniz is COM
posing the music. The hrst music drama
of the series ia called Merlin and that
has been completed. The second drama
is "Lancelot," and OF that the first act Is
composed The third opera is called
.Guinevere. All these are 10 be finished
before any one is performed. Sehor
Albeniz wrote "a light opera called 'The
Magic Opal" which was produced In Lon
don.
Sir Hubert Parry's latest composition il
symphonic ode. entitled war and Peace"
1t was written especially for the Royal
Choral Society and was announced for per-
Torrance by that body at the Royal Albert
Hall. London. last night. The soloists
werr to he Agnes Nioholls. Nine. Kirkby-
Lunn William Green and Andrew Black.
The words of the ode were nearly all written
by the composer. The exceptions were
some few verses by Arthur c. Benson.
The Mr.. Baughan already quoted in this
column has the following interesting bit
on the music OF Strauss:
To the last number of the Speaker" Mr..
Ernest Newman contrinntea an nteresmnG
article in the Monthly Review" on The
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