The Indianapolis journal., 1903-11-15

Hall. Walter Damrosch will give his ''Par-
sifal' lecture-rectal, which so interested
Indianapolis music-lovers, in Kansas City,
Topeka, Minneapolis and st. Paul before he
returns to New York for the grand opera
season.
According to the Berliner Tageblatt Miss
Isadore Duncan, the young California girl,
who makes a speciality of what she calls
classic dances, has been to Beyreuth and
has so impressed Frau Wagner with her
terpsichorean skill that she was invited to
spend fortnight at Wahnfriend and TO
take part In next years performances at
the festival theater, appearing in the Ven
udberg scene of '"rannhauser"
Jackues Thibaud, the young French vio-
linist, who made his American debut the
week before last in New York, and who
may possibly play in Indianapolis during
the winter, is thus described in an enter
tanning article in the New York Telegraph:
when a new master of the violin knocks
al the door of our concert salons we have
every reason TO expect to greet long
haired person with pasty complexion.
lettering gait, heavy. soulful eyes and
murkily tinged with indigestion. None of
these hallmarks of the violinist are
stamped upon the frank-eyed newcomer.
Young Thbaud is appallingly normal in
that he looks like the well-groomed young
fellow one expects to see in clubs and res
taurants rather than the dreamy creature
who draws bow across a Strad. This new
est idol of musical Vienna and Paris and
and BARRIERS. He wears well-cut clothes
and no one knows instinctively that he
takes deep personal interest in his linen
and the tie of his cravat. Nevertheless he
is no fop, young Thibaud. Fresh from his
first concert at Carnegie Hail. he is tim
idly happy and frankly timid regarding the
welcome America extends to his work.
Oddly enough, however, he forgets to ask
you if you like his playing. Evidently he
is original, and finds something joy
ously novel In the air Of modest inquiry
with which he awaits the verdict of the
press upon his first American appearance.
Indeed he is youth of various surprises,
for he quietly ignores the pretty compli-
ments you pay his art, his bewildering bow
and his full-voiced Strad."
Felix Mottl he latest portrait OF whom
appears in to-day's Journal, is conductor
of great experience and profound musical
knowledge. In twenty-five years he has
conducted at Carlsruhe 313 Wagner per-
formances, including fifty-five of 'Lohen-
grim forty-six of "Tannhauser," forty-five
of die Meistersinger," forty-three of the
Flying Dutchman," thirty-nine of Die
Walkure," twenty-four of "Gotterdammer-
ung" twenty three of 'Siegfried," eighteen
of "Rheingold," fifteen of Tristan" five of
"Rienzi" Three other composers for whom
he has done special missionary work are
Beethoven, Berlioz and Liszt. He made the
Parisians go to Carsruhe to hear the op-
eras of their Berlioz. Like all great musi-
clans of our times, he adores the works of
Liszt, whose superb Thirteenth Psalm he
placed on his farewell programme at Carls-
ruhe. 1t is to be hoped that he will conduct
this work and others of Liszts in New
York, too.
Since Karl Schneider's return from
Europe he has been approached SO many
times by lovers of good music that he has
concluded to make a new effort with the
symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will
enter it's seventh season. Four concerts
will be given, three regular symphony con-
certs and one Wagner evening. Mr.. Schnei-
der will give a lecture on the Wagner pro-
gramme preceding the concert one week. He
attended the Wagner festival plays. twice
in Bayreuth and twice in Munich besides
hearing the music dramas frequently at
Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna.