New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22
MUSICAL NOTES.
The Death of Overwhelmingly
Plans GeneraL Nezcs.

Some details touching the death CT Dr. Dvorak
have been received in New-YOrk- Though sud
den. it not altogether without warning as
he had been Ill for a considerable space before
the end came with disease OF the bladder.
Toward the end Of April his condition i'm
proved. and he was permitted by his ply stefan
to leave his bed on Sunday. May l. While at
dinner he was stricken with apopIexy. becoming
unconscious while his wife was serving him.
and never regaining consciousness. He died az
12;4o p m His last appearance in public was
on the occasion Of the first performance of his
opera "Arnida-" Nearly all of his creative work
since his return 10 Prague was devoted TO oper-
attic composition. To Mr.. Thomas Taper who
visited him in the early part of last summer TO
commission him to write some works in the
smaller forms for the Oliver Dittson Company
DR.. Dvorak said that ne was through with all
the forms. even symphony and chamber music
and would thenceforth write only operas The
cperatic goal was ever before him The in
huences which surrounded him in New-York
and which bore such lovely fruit in the SYM
phOny From the New World" and the Arieri-
can quartet and quintet. turned his thoughts
again TO an old project of a "Hiawatha" opera
He showed portions OF the score. which he was
rewriting, 70 the writer OF this paragraph.
What became OF the score has not been dis
closed.
DR.. Dvorak left I'VE children. two sons and
three daughters. One of the sons is a tech
nologist. the other a postoff-ce official; one
daughter is a singer at the Czech National
Theatre, in Prague, another the wife of Josef
Suk, composer and member of the Bohemian
Quartet.
Mr. Paderewski will sail from Marseilles on.
his visit TO the antipodes May 81 and early
in July viii give the first of thirty-six Austria
| Ian concerts in Melbourne After the tour
through Australia and New-Zealand he will go
TO India, stopping the way at Ceylon for
one or two recitals. Thereafter there viii fol-
low recitals in Calcutta, Bombay. Madras and
other East Indian cities. Cairo and Constantine
pie being taken in on the way back 10 Europe.
Arrangements made before the Russo-Japanese
War for six concerts in Hong Kong. Shanghai.
Yokohama and Toxic and three in Singapore
have been cancelled. According TO Mr.. Pade-
rewsky's present plans America will hear him
again in the season 19O5-'O6. Next week he will
play twice at the Lower Rhenish Festival. in
Cologne
The Boston Festival Orchestra, OF which
George W Stewart IS manager and Emil Mol
Ienhauer conductor. completed its sixteenth an
nuaI tour last Friday. having been "on the road
continuously since April II. About forty con-
certs We're given within this period. some OF
which artists like Louise Homer Campanart.
Van Hoose. Miles and Frederic Martin took part
The orchestra took part IN choral festivals IN
Syracuse. y. Y. Richmond, Va; Spartanburg.
S. C; Champaign. III, Ann Arbor, Mich; Al
bany y Y. and Springfield. Mass At the ma
jority OF these meetings the choral part OF the
programme consisted OF an opera given in con-
cert form the works chosen being Faust"
Aida" and Carmen" but in Ann ArbOr FL
gar's Dream OF Gerontius'' was performed, IN
der the direction Of Professor \. A Stanley. OF
the University Of Michigan. and at Albany
Bruch's "Odyssegs." Haydn's Creation" and
the Dies ira" from BerIiozs Requiem Operas
in concert dress are a pitifUl sop 70 Cerberus
from an artistic point Of view, but are tUsti-
fed IN the eyes OF some cultured communities
on the ground that it is only thus that they
can hear the music OF works whose fame fills
the world II must be confessed however. that
such a combination Carmen" and The
Dream OF Geroutius" in a town bOasting uni
versity with a chair OF music and a university
school OF music seems anomalous.
Mr. Arthur Mees has resigned the dictatorship
OF the MendeIssohn Club OF this city.
a call has gone forth Tor funds to be expended
IN erecting a monument TO Johann Strauss. the
younger in Vienna. The representative OF the
committee in New-York is Felix MottL whose
official residence at the present tins chances to
be Munich. But admirers of the Waltz King
who wish TO make contributions 10 the fund
may send them direct to the Johann Strauss
Denknal konitte. I Ciise lstrasse l., Vienna
The Princess Rosa CrOy-Sternberg IS president
Of the committee. among whose members are TO
be noted Igraz BRILL Anton Door. Karl Gold
mark. Hermann Gardener. ECuard kremser.
Karl Nawratu Noriz ROsenthal. Karl Muck.
Wilhelm Gericke Gustav KOgel Wilhelm kienzl,
Hermann Kretschmar. Arthur Nikisch and ".
H Hadow.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Quite a stir has been created in musical
circles here rs result OF the efforts OF the