Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-02
Notes About Music and Musical Matters

themselves beholden to mechanical piano
players for both pleasure and profit.
The camera has done more TO spread a
knowledge and love Of great painting,
great sculpture and great architecture than
all the lectures, books and copies ever
made.
There In yet third instrument that is
doing very Important missionary work for
musical America, 1 was in Texas some
weeks ago and there. In private house,
/ heard Calve. Caruso, Melba, Plancon and
other far-famed vocalists singing in rapid
Only once has the Metropolitan opera
troupe visited Texas, and at this particular
time these singers were thousands of miles
commanded.
Recently received a letter from small
western city. where no frst-class orchestra
or opera troupe ever goes. The letter wns
from man who had won success as a
railroad lawyer and a Judge, and had then
and ten with no knowledge OF music be-
yond the whistiing OF popular tunes. Some
and q few rolls OF music. After short
for him a series rolls that would give
him the best possible acquaintance with
Think OF the new world-the land Of milk
ana AM t aSnsymthst was eRedneSd to this man In
sic In the usual way ten years ago he
would have been dead OF old age before his
ass sTf asys NoT Sa has play
herited all music In one shower Of pros
perity.
A consequence of this enlarged and al
most universal growth Of interest In music,
Is an enormous broadening OF the market
for books about music. The man with the
piano player wants to know something
about the man to whom he is indebted for
entertainment, just as one Is curious about
the personal affairs of his friends. Mr.. Man
in-the-Street is beginning to ask: What is
sonata, anyway" What is a sym
phony?" Has an oratorio any oratory In
TIT" us II true that piano is In tune only
when 1t Is out OF tuner And II so, why7"
who was Beethoven? and what effect did
Haydn have on him? And what effect did
he have on Brahmsf And why were
Brahms and Wagner so pitted against
each otherH And why did their devotees
wage such bitter war; And who is this
new man Strauss? Is he the composer of
the Blue Danube waltzes? And II not,
what is he doing that excites the critics to
such frenzies OF praise or ridicule2" To
satisfy this curiosity the publishers are
turning out a flood Of musical guidebooks,
explanatory works known as "How-to"
books. books Of biography, Of anecdote, of
analysis. 1t points to a tremendous revo-
luton in America. 1t means much for the
intellectual and the moral betterment of
the nation. as well as for its higher enter
tainment
My good friends have certainly come to
the rescue this week. From the Poland
Spring House In Maine General Henderson
sends u bundle OF good programs. The or
chestra at this hotel Is composed Of Boston
symphony men and General and Mrs. Man
derson report that the concerts have been
an infinite delight and have added i'm
mensely to their pleasure and helped in
the task OF recuperation. Much more well
come to me. though. than the program. is
the news that the sender Of the budget has
gained some thirty pounds in weight and
is on the high road to complete recovery.
General Manderson's illness has been a
long and tedious one; q time of grief and
anxiety to his friends. 1t will be good in
deed to see him at home again, his happy,
unchanged self.
Following IL Poland Spring program
showing the class OF music which Is fast
becoming Indispensable. even In the good
old summer time;"
Rakoczy March .................,.,,,.Ber lioz
Motett-Ave Verum Corpus ,..'.''.. 'Moxart
Strings and Flute.
AlSeL no-.o ''''''''''''.''''s.'s..s' ANDERSON
Nocturne ''''''.r'.'....'............. Chopin
Vase Chopin
Mr.. Andre Maquarre, Flute.
Angelus Cfrom Scenes Pittoresques)....
s..s...s....s.... s.s..ss... $1,000. MaSSenet
Hansel and Gretel .....,.......Humperdinc
AAiasuens-Boabdil ;...,....."... .Moskowskl
Mrs. Arthur @ Smith sends five or six
programs from the Profile House in the
beautiful White mountains. These too,
show the trend OF things musical in our
country.
Omaha travellers abroad are also hearing
good music. Mrs. Whitmore sends the fol-
lowing program OF plano recital by
Madame de Romanof at the Grand hotel
In a. Aorttz-D0f and reports very bril-