New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-01

Thought of as song and he himself sang Ilo l0
uqious lyrics to his own accompaniment on inc
tute. Music was his passion 1t was MS iAe'N'
of escape from bodily pain He once sang
suzeetes. Of sweets, thank you! When displeasure
yd 1a took me thence and IN your house of pleasure
A daintie lodging me assign
.rrs5c to-day can hardly be called an essential
,s tbe education of gentleman FEW gentlemen
IN be sure write poetry now, puI lever y
r,ald sing it TO their own accompaniment
rn1,sic still holds firm place as an eleiii1ne %
rutt11re and its strains are no less poleh'-0
heal main than once they were. Indeed TO Juuse
NV the commercial standard which Is So llle'i'
sslv appted in this day and generation more
,,a,y is srent on musical education, muslcai
lne+r,1T,ents musical performances, than ever
before And. still applying this standard rev,
York might be judged the most nuslch Guy Vi
America, if not of the world
1r,4or+7na+elv this standard is not ultimate.
prbi1e New-York spends almost a Inlilon yea
rnr opera alone, it may very well De que9'loilou
n music means as much TO people mere Ss II ~
10 Herbert and his contemporaries l. II 10 = u'
nc ,717nch appreciated as much a part OF culture
However that we do spend n1lhoh oh oPeA@
nione shows that we are seeking musical III
,--;-o +jo--since not all OF that million repre-
sspnte social aspiratior-and the millions more
t+.+ WE snend yearly on concerts, nsuuclfoA
and instruments show still more clearly In"'
music is an important part of our lives
That If is also an important feature of the
financial expenditure Of NeW-4ork Clty' anu 81
one OF its economic phases, is clearly Drought ou'
by the figures, which are of course, lneVlIADiS
only estimated, but still near enough to accaa-
xacv to prove the point Last season in ff-
teen weeks a gross amount Of over SSO0V0o WAS
taken in at the Metropolitan Opera House This
80 +o last two longer.
tnlings will probably reach almost. If not QUITE
a million of money From November to May
both Carnegie Hall and Mendelssohn Hail are
given over almost daily to concerts or one SORT
or another most of which may with fairness De
classified as music, OF these concerts, at least
f1ftv at Carnegie HaIl-by such organizations as
fhe BOSTON Symphony Orchestra the PhlihaT-
r-or{c MT Danrosch's band. the Musical Art
Society and by such singers as Gadsd and Sem
hrich, and players like Kubelik-W1l average edag
s. 000 in gross receipts. Or total OF SIOOoVV6o
To this may be added at least another @oo'Ooo
for the other concerts in Carnegie Hail. anu
-reri1aDs $4,000 for the innumerable recltals IN
MenGeIssnbn Hall This with the opera re-
criDts means that the NeE-York puDnc are pay
ms out to listen to music in public PERFORMANCES
al least 81 100000 every year. Probably they
pay, out $3.50 600 more, bat the estimate may
be placed on the conservative side This' now,
ever, represents only a small part Oh lne toI04
The New institute of Musical Art founded by
Betty Loeb opened its doors last fall with an en-
roIment of more than four hundred pupils IhGre
are three grades of instruction, for Whish the
tnition is respectively 500, $50 and SZOO, or
an average of $3.50 Thus. the tuition fees or
this one school reach 100000 annually. Add to
there figures as Eauch more, taken in by the
other music schools in this borough and in
Brooklyn and the fees paid to the l,JUO private
teachers, and the total spent on muslcaI IN
structiun is at least 100000 a year. TO this
again must be added the small sums, Whlch IN
the aggregate make large amount spent by the
poorer classes at the Cooper Union concerts ana
for instruction in the peoples singing classes,
the receipts of the private concerts, such as the
Arion and the Bagby MUSICALS. and the sums
spent for orcilestras at dinners, IN cares, inca
tres and hotels, for church choiTs "a Dig IteITD
and the like and the total viii be close on a
million Adding this to tho s1Im spent Tor PUBIC
concerts we may estimate hat for their enter
tainment and instruction-and edif1caton-the
people of New-York expend much more imam
k200n000 every year for music
Bpe:t for instruments. for the mechanical agen-
cies in producing music, is yet to be computed
A member of one of the largest piano manu-
featuring firms in America has given consider
able study to this question, and he says that
fhe people OF New-Yorll buy pianos an
ruaIly to the value OF between S5,000,OO0 and
100000 Heine once scornfully called the
ano 'the chief instrument of modern culture;
and certainly it seems to be, in point OF cost
The amount Of money spent on other lnStTu-
ments is infiniteSmal beside this sum, but the
amount spent for music scores. for songs. sheet
mcsic and "piano pieces is large. Probably,
adding the sums spent for concerts, opera, in
struction and implements (p1anos music scores
etc) the grand total of musical expenditure in
this city annually would foot up to S10,00QOOO
The man who hath music in his snul' may
be fit for ali sorts OF evil things. but at this rate
it would seem he is most likely TO die rich!
It has already beer stated that there are at