The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-21

1t is rumored that Mr.. A. c. Meyer
has recently received several offers to
remove from Savannah and locate else
where. Should these rumors be cor
rect. and Mr. Meyer were to decide to
leave this city it would be severe
blow to the musical interests of the
city Since locating here he has done
great deal towards advancing mus
ical interests. and in what he has
done with the Music Club Orchestra
alone he has accomplished what has
on more than one occasion before been
attempted without success. 1t is ad-
mitted on all sides that Mr.. Meyer is
the most accomplished of any violin
list who has ever resided here, and ev
cry effort should be made to induce
him not TO leave. Beside the oppor-
tunity presented here for him to build
up such a class of violin pupils as no
other teacher has ever had here. there
is the great opportunity of, in the
course of time, making of the Music
Club Orchestra, with which he has al
ready accomplished so much, the
greatest orchestra south of Baltimore
making of il in the South an orches-
ira such as Anton Seidl made of the
Metropolitan Orchestra in New York,
and Theodore Thomas has made of his
orchestra in Chicago. But il is quite
impossible for such capable and en-
thusiastic worker and conductor as
Mr.. Meyer is to accomplished this end
alone He must have assistance, and
great deal of it, Let every person here
81 in
chestra come together on these lines
and work for the one end, and it will
not be long before each individual
will 5e able to point with pride to an
organization which he so vastly as
sisted in building up.
A great deal of just comment and
criticism is being made at the present
time about two such great artists as
Nine Nordica and Mons Edward de
Reszke lending themselves to the mu-
steal circus now being conducted at
Madison Square Garden in New York
by Mr. j. s. Duus, and this style of en-
tertainment can be properly called by
no other name than musical circus.
There is no doubt but that it is appeal
ing to the mass of popular fancy, but
it really seems as if such great artists
as Nordica and de Reszke might have
held themselves on a plane above such
a show They have made for them
selves a great name throughout the
world. and that they should have
stopped to such a level is a sore dis
appointment to many of their admirers.
They are being we'll paid for it, no
doubt. but if any of the worlds great
singers could have held themselves
above such fantastic show with
pecuniary consideration entering into
the matter, these two artists could have
done so. With Nine. Mantelli in vau
deville, Nine. SchumannH enik in
comic opera, and Nine. Nordica and
Mons. Edward de Reszke in a musical
circus. what, oh, what, is going to be-
come of the highest tone of vocal music
and dignified musical assemblages!
Nine. Lillian Blauvelt appears to
have created an excellent impression
in London, where she recently made
her first appearance in grand opera in
CoVent Garden. A recent issue Of Har-
pers Weekly contains a full-sized pic-
ture of this great artist as she APP
peared in the role of Juliet. For sew
eral years efforts have been made by
Mr.. Grau to secure Nine. Blauvelt for
the Metropolitan Opera Company, but
without success. This great singer has
preferred the concert work of America,
by which she has travelled from one
end of the country to another, with
tremendous success, being to-day rec
Ognized and proclaimed far and wide
as the greatest concert soprano of the
day. Perhaps however, as Nine. Blau-
Welt has taken this first step into grand
opera roles New York audiences may
yet see her in some of them at the
Metropolitan Certain it is, there could
be no more satisfactory singer or more
beautiful woman in the coterie of grand
opera stars who may appear at the
Metropolitan in the future.
Miss Annie Haines. who during the
past two years has been pursuing her
piano studies at the Peabody Instit lite
in Baltimore, has returned to the city
for the summer, and possibly to re-
main permanently. Miss Haines is one
of the best sight readers in the city,
and has on numerous occasions proved
herself to be an excellent accompan-
list. Should she now remain here per-
manently, she will be a valuable addi-
ton to musical circles.
On next Friday afternoon at $50
O'Clock the last of the complimentary
recitals for this season will be given
by the Phillips & Crewe Company, I'M
der the direction of Mr.. John s. Banks
at their piano parlors, No. 10 Perry
street, west. Mr.. Banks will be assist
ed on this occasion by Miss Rae Lowe
Sponeler, pianist. Mrs. Claudia Hazen
White. elocutionist and Miss Eleanor
Allan, contralto. During the past sea-
son these recitals have proved very
popular, and there are many who will
regret that this one wifi be the last
of the season. Miss Sponcler will make
her first appearance before a Savannah
audience, and the few who have al
ready heard her play in private, be-
heVe that she will create upon her lis
teners big surprise and a splendid i'm
preston. She has just graduated with
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