The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY. JANUARY Il 1904

crest pianist vas stopping at TIE eslie-
Ftte- apartments.
Mansfield found him ST his piano. ..HeTr
Yen Bulov.H be said ~ n detailed 70
rrstlcise your concert tonight. feel en-
ureiy unworthy fo write anything n
criticism Of yep. sftd. ~ for that fses1ai-
koHsE eoncerto. I've never heard il. never
have seen a note pf the score and know
simply nothing about II. Won't you help
Won Buiow grasped the voting mans
hand and declared here was. d critic he
VAS glad 20 welcome Have sou pa
PERI a pencil9 Yes Then write For
nearly an hour the great pianist talked
about the concerto, about 5'schaikov7sky.
about his own Interpretation and per-
Torrance Of the xork. while Mansfield S
fingers flew ScroSs the paper. AT the
end he had the criticism of one master
cn another Next dar MansfielGs review
was the talk Of musical Boston.
When Mansfield had finished ttlis part
Of his business. he fell &c discussing music
with Won Bulow and dtr~1tiy went 10 the
piano 60 Illustrate a point. Where did
you learn al this about our 2rtF eS-
claimed the pianist. FROM my mother,
Madame HudersdCrf. replied Mansfield.
Your mother. Madame RuGersdorf
Gere9 Come. ] would visit her as !
would visit a shrine, and Bulov was Al
Mansfield. afterward. in telling the
story acknowledged the pride re tclt IN
walking out into the street with the man
every one at the moment ackEoW iedSeu
as the king Of pIanists. Mansfield and
bis mother lived in AT apartment house
WIien stood on the site Of the present
fouraine. and il was only a step across
the corner Of the Common. but Mans
. field, with human weakness, took Nou
/ Buloy the long way They went doWu
Beacon street. across Arlington, ai3u
when they turned down BOylstol, ths
bluff old artist turned on Mansfield ~ OF
wish to be seen IN the street with me
You are taking me around the long way.
How well the two got on after this Is
not known. but each had the high met
I tie of the artist Probably their fitntS
tempers struck fire. Anyway. II W3s
Mansfield who afterward said O4t
want but little Herr Bulow, nor wants
that hctie long
The Musical Instrument Trades Protec-
tive association in England IS ciamorlns
for the placing OF import duties az foreign
pianos, organs. and other musical inStfu-
ments. 1t was pointed out az q fecen'
meeting that in 1889 British piahofoftt
manufacturers numbered 13l. whereas oS
last year they had dropped to 11J-a -
crease Of about = per cent. Also. IN ise'
the foreign manufacturers represented ~
that country numbered thirty eight, white
last wear they reached a total of Isl
From 1Ss5 TO 1889 the value OF musleai
instruments imported into England
amounted to EIS5.s69; year ago -the
figure was 3f,SSe5I5-
While Felix WeiugaTteT is best known
as an Interpreter of Beethoven, tsiszt ano
BeFliOz. he is also fond of the older mas
ters. At a recent Berlin concert he re-
yived Three German Dances by mozart
which greatly pleased the audience. one
of these dances is a piece OF programme
music picturing q sleigh ride. The noise
Of the bells Is gradually lost in the dis
lance. and the tone OF . post horn is
heard at the close. The audience rede-
manded this number. \ piece OF dance
mn sn7u s~nI an q = q
phOny concert Of the Royal orchestra
of Berlin. Listen, sc 0rchestral peddhts
Of New York.
Let no one say hereafter that England
is not a musical country The London
Daily Chronicle reports that gust no"
no special song is being Whistleu IN thS
streets or played on the street organs,
and that not for many years has there
been such a deartn Of popular songs, ar
rangers of music for pantomimes having
pieces which are even tolera ply wei
known. The world do move. When the
supply Of trash becomes exhausted there
may be chance for better things.
There are multiplying signs Of more
intelligent appreciation of List unique
musical achievements. A writer in the
Boston Musical World says IN regard
to one phase Of his activity;
Tt is as impossible to deny that List S
mastery reproduction of Schubelt songs
ia an edition Tor piano alone EdS stINe0
a double purpose by revealing 10 tneil
full extent the wonderful beauty ano
fresh simplicity Of SchubeEts melodies, as
we'll as a previously unheard-0f technical
medium Of expression for the piano. IN
this direction of extending the limits OF
technique. List did gigantic work in MS
prescriptions of orchestral pieces, scenes
from operas OvertuTes and symphonies.
1t is only after a thorough study OF
Lists version for the piano OF BeetnoN-
ems nine symphonies that one can appre-
ciate the completeness of his understand
ing of the resources of the piano. We
can then realize how List could play
his arrangement OF heetnoVen seventh
symphony on one of his tours in a Town
where shortly before It had been played
by the orchestra, and not only escape
scatching comparison with the orchestra
but actually rise superior TO It