The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26

ing tmidity, which may not have been al
together assumed. enhanced the value of
both parts by contrast. The singers lovely
voice now tells excellently in the theater
for like many debutantes at Covent Garden,
she was evidently not quite certain at what
part of the auditorium to direct her voice
She has now found the right place, and her
notes were deliciously clear and exquisite in
quality"
Maurice Kaufman, the American violin
list, is to return to this country next win
ter for tour beginning in New York about
the middle of November. Kaufman made
his debut ten years ago with Theodore
Thomas and his orchestra, after which he
went abroad. He reappeared three years
ago in Berlin, where he played with the
Philharmonic Orchestra, under Arthur
Nikisch, and the last year he has spent in
London, where he made his debut with the
Queens Hall symphony concerts.
Edward Cigars Light of Life a work
entirely new TO this country, will be pre-
sented during an interesting series of
oratorio music by the Apollo Club of Chi
cago. There are to be five concerts in the
series and many new compositions will be
heard for the first time in America. The
English tenor, Edward Lloyd, has been en-
gagged to sing the leading tenor solos. Carl
Busch's king Olaf" will also be given on
the same evening that Cigars work is sung
The concerts will take place at the Audi
forum.
Wilson G. Smith, of Cleveland. the Amer
lean Moszkowski, is an interchangeable worker
and fertile producer in the field of studies
for the piano. He has just placed new
batch of etudes on the market through his
publishers, the John Church Company, of
Cincinnati and a meritorious collection they
are. His two books of "Five-minute
Studies" should furnish interesting moments
for the student of moderate accomplish
mentS. There are short exercises in scales,
double notes and arpeggios for both hands,
designed with special reference to the de-
velopment of the third, fourth and fifth fin
gers. In excellent style Mr.. Smith brushes
away the cobwebs between these digits.
Talk about America being the land of
big thingsr' exclaims the musical editor
of the New York Evening Post. ''Musically
speaking we are not in IL with the English
At the Union Jack concert given in Lon
don last month the Albert Hall was packed
with a monster audience which listened to
a band that in itself was, as the London
World remarks, an extraordinary sight,
with the Queens Hall Orchestra, the
massed bands of the Foot Guards. the
trumpeters and drummers, and the New
Zealand Band; while the white dresses,
with red, white and blue sashes. of the
ladies of the Leeds Choral Union made an
effective background. Then there was a
huge drum, about nine feet high which
made an effect as of heavy artillery in
Tchaikovsky 1872 overture, which was
played by all the instrumental forces under
Mr.. Henry Wood. who was tremendously
Napoleonic-' Bigger even than this affair
was the triennial Handel Festival, which
attracted 10000 people day. and at which
the conductor. DIR. Cowen, was expected to
preserve harmony among nearly 1900 sing
ers from about fifty towns, not TO speak
of the orchestra of 500. Under his baton,
we are informed, fiorid passages did not
sound like the gambols of herd of ele-
plants, and there were real pianissimos
Previous conductors, it seems, started from
the assumption that a steady meZZoforte,
with occasional explosions, was all that
could be aimed at in the way of expression