New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-10

,a++ar or course trip to Niagara Falls. The
principal topics to be discussed at the oeaiei7
meeting are the question of commissions Oh SaS,
automatic attachments to pianofortes dhe so-caiieo
selfnIaversl the value of artists as advertising
mediums department stores Gan extremely iais0
factor in the pianoforte proposition to-o@S}, mo
engagement OF statesmen. methods or aoVer'lsA,e'
uniform prices for hauling, tunihs' e'o'' anu ~
oue-prce system in sales
German newspapers are discussing family Oh
musical prodigies living In Stuttgart. Ihere Is
conductor there named Steindel, who has a son OF
twelve years named Bruno, who plays the piano
forte: another aged nine years, named Max, VINO
plays the viooncello and still another aged elghL
years named Albin, who is volinist- Iogethef'
with their father, who plays the viola on such oc-
casions these children said to play large
number of chamber compositions concerted ana
SOLO in a most finished manner, and entirely by
heart The little have had no teacher save
their father who has thus far refused TO exploit
them in public though he now proposes to give
them a hearing in Berlin. In 1896 there was a
string quartet in London the combined ages of
whose members did not reach forty years, but who
amazed the diettante by their marvellous skill.
Two of them became famous in musical history.
The first violin Clement (''little Clement as
HAYDN called him in his London notebook a few
wears later, and the second Bridgetower. Clement
became principal violin and director at vienna,
where in 1906, Beethoven composed the violin con-
certo in D for him. Bridgetower was mulatto-
or Pole-who entered the service OF the Prince of
Wales, and, while visiting in Vienna in 1SO3 per-
shaded Beethoven to write the "kreutZer Sonata
1t is this musician who is still spoken of in some
of the books as an American from New-O Orleans.
When they played together in London Clement was
eight and a half years old, Bridgetower ten.
There are to be Sunday evening concerts at Ter
race Garden this season in the open air, well
performances of operetta in the Lexington Opera
House. The repertory of the company, under the
direction Signor A. Montegriffo, will, beginning
with Ofenbachs 1.-The Brigands,' Saturday
evening. May 80, embrace the following works: III
Trovatore." "Boccaccio' Merry War" Amor
ita,' Martha Grand Duchess" "Erminie."
Pearl of Picking" Dorothy Chimes OF Nor
mandy" Paul Jones'" Mariana" THE Gypsy
Baron" THE Beggar Student THE Queens Lace
Handkerchief" Bohemian Girl Faust" "A
Trip to Africa "A Voyage to China" and a few
of the up to date Broadway successes.
Mrs. Shanna Cumming, soprano, will give a song
recital in Association Hall. Brooklyn. tomorrow
evening. with the help of Francis Rogers, barry
tone and Isidore Luczstone. accompanist The
programme a wide range-from classic airs
TO modern English songs.
Nine. Selma Kronold, soprano Miss Ida Sim
mons, panoforte: Carl Ventf violin; Cesare Ales-
sandroni, barytone. and Arthur Rosenstein, ac-
companist, will unite in concert in Knabe Hall
next Thursday evening.
Hugo Kann's quintet In f minor. which received
its first performance the hands of August
Spanuth and the Kaltenborn Quartet in Mendels-
sohn Hall March 10, has recently been played in
Berlin, the performers being George Schumann
Hair and others. In the opinion of the critic OF
the "Berliner Tageblatt' it is serious work. which