The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-25
OUT or TOWN MUSICIANS


The musical managers have their
pockets crammed with interesting an
nouncements. Henry Wolfsohn will
have in his train number Of concert
artists, some Of whom will make their
first American appearances. josef
HOFFMAN,, the pianist. who has not been
heard here for several years, is one OF
Mr.. Wolfsohn's charges. Holman will
begin his tour in San Francisco on
Oct. and make his bow in New York
with the Philharmonic society on
Nov. H.
Daniel Frohman, whose importation
of Kubelik proved such winning ven
ture two years ago, is to bring over an
other violinist, and, foreign report says,
| a remarkable one-the Hungarian boy,
Franz Vecsey-a name which is not
pronounced as it looks, but as though
I spelled Vay-chi-ee. Vecsey has at
| tracted the attention and aroused the
wonder of Europe, and his appearance
bids fair to be one of the seasons SEN
| sations. His gifts will be the better
appraised by the company he will have
/ to keep.
Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist
is to reappear on January at Carnegie
hall, and will be heard later with the
Boston orchestra. Rurnor credits him
with big gains in style and power as an
artist.
Robert E. johnson announces an
American tour Of Ysaye, that Titan Of
| the violin, who will appear first in Phil
adelphia Nov. Is and in Carnegie hall
| on Dec. 8. Ysaye's tour will take him
| to the Pacific coast. 1t is almost pity
that, with Vecsey, Kreisler and Ysaye
all here, Mr.. Johnson should not have
| secured Henri Marteau for the present
season instead of that of 1906. But
| loo Sc ~,
bow. Miss Maud Powell is one of
number Of other visiting violinists.
Hallmann, the 'cellist of the long
hair, is coming. So, also, is Anton
Hekking, the Dutch 'cellist once with
the Boston orchestra, who returns after
a twelve years absence. Among the
pianists Nine. Bloomfield Zeisler and
Miss Aus der Ohe will figure promi-
| nently.
Mime. Kirkby Lunn, the English con-
tralto, who has been engaged by Henry
w. Savage to sing the role of Kundry
In his production of 'sParsifal," has ar
| rived in New York. Mime. Lunn began
to study the role of Kundry two years
ago when she was a member of Mr..
Maurice Graus company, Metropolitan
opera house, in New York, and sang it
that year in concert form in Boston
under the direction of B. j. Lang. Since
then Nine. Lunn has rehearsed Kundry
with Hans Richter, who conducted sew
eral performances of "ParsifaP' at the
last festival given at Bayreuth. During
the past summer she appeared in all
the performances of the Ring of the
Nibelung at Covent Garden, and also
in Aida" 'Lohengrin" and Tristan
and Isolde" and in the first perform
ance In England of Massenet'S sHerodi-
ade." Ottley Cranston, who will sing
the role Of Gurnemanz alternately with
Putnam Griswold. has also arrived
from England. Mr.. Cranston was for
several years the principal basso Of the
Turner Opera company, and is well
known as singer in concert and ora
torio.
Eduard Hanslick, the Viennese writ
er, who for many years was the best
known and best feared music critic in
Europe, died last month. Writing Of
his abilities and his qualities as a
critic, Philip Hale, the brilliant Boston
reviewer, concludes with the following
apt and clever words:
1.-THE late critic served his news
papers well. He was seldom dull; he
was inclined deliberately or uncon-
sciously to mirror the popular and gre
garious opinion Of easy going Viennese.s
Joidui STRAUSS Was All luol d. WHOSE
shrine he was always offering incense,
and Johann Strauss was to him a far
greater composer than Richard Of the
symphonic poems. No doubt in his
heart Hanslick preferred Johann.
Strauss to Johannes Brahms but he.
needed some one to set up in oppose
ton to Wagner. and SO he took Brahms,
the composer of absolute music, and.
pitted him against the maker of music.
| dramas. Brahms himself sent wreath
to Bayreuth for Wagner's coffin. Per-
haps Brahms smiled at Hanslick's hys-.
terical praise of each new symphony
or chamber work. Who knows? Hans
| lick has joined the two men whom he