The San Francisco call., 1904-09-11

cism is not a branch OF the advertiB-
ing department. I'm all the other pa
pers, when you want a favorable re-
view OF a book you go to the business
manager and arrange it. You can be
hailed as a grand master on the first
page Of such world renowned papers
as LIE Figaro or lie Journal, in a clever
leading article signed by a well known
man of letters. for a couple Of thou
sand francs Naturally the con-
verse holds good You may be great
master and you may be generally re-
garded as a great master, but editors
will not permit reviewers to say so
until your publisher has interviewed
their cashier. In music the price is
considerably less. Any paper in Paris
Gncluding the three named by 7. P.'S
Weekly will for so francs print q ten
line criticism of concert written by
the concert giver himself or by any OF
his friends. This practice has become
notorious in Paris and hence musical
criticism in the daily newspapers. Is
regarded there as more or less OF
farce-although some persons can see
nothing funny in. such a dlsreputable
state of affairs. A few pessimistic New
conditions for New York If the busi-
ness relations between visiting artists
and the critics OF our daily papers are
allowed to continue as fagrantly as
thew have fiourished heretofore. The
only difference between the Paris and
the New York grating" systems is
that over there the business ONCE gets
the money, while here the critic reaps
the questionable gain. But the New
York critic really needs the money.
The advance sale OF seats for the
grand operatic concerts to be given by
Nine. Fannie Francisco at the Al
hambra Theater September 21 and "a
will commence next Thursday morn
ing at Sherman. Clay & Co.'S music
store. There have already been many
inouiries for seats, but no orders will
be accepted in advance Of the sale.
David BIspham Is among those to
be heard here this season. Mr.. Bisp-
ham has been recently delivering him.
self concerning song recital pro-
erammes. What he has to say, though
not new, Is true and as he is model
programme maker here 1T Is:
Mr.. Bispham only once-some years
ago in England-agreed to sing song
for a fee. and he says he got so sick
Of that blessed ditty'' that, after ne
had repeated 1t the ten or dozen
times required. he never looked at II
again. Since then the singer has res
olntelv declined to have his choice
fettered. He believes in the classics
of song as the foundation Of sing
er.s profession. but considers that all
schools should be illustrated in re-
eitaI programmes. With a Handel and
Havdn programme, for example.
Schubert, and Brahms should be in
.ehlded: with the old Italian masters
Franz. Schumann and Cornelius may
no Introduced America and England
are not the greatest song producing
countries of the world and yet what
can be Iovelier than some of the mel
-odies of the Anglo-Saxon genre
Neither must one forget Grieg and
Dvorak. Jensen. Wolf, Strauss and the
Frenchmen. and while as yet America
has not greatly felt the influence OF
Italian blood in her composers of vO-
cal works, yet the younger generation
of our song writer's. such as Hermann
Wetzler. Max Bendix and others. show
what might be called liberated Tea
tonism Americanised.