Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-02

It's a badly selected symphony pro-
gram nowadays in which some piece
by one of our own musicians is not
featured-placed there not because
the man is an American, but because
music is now being written by several
of our composers that is already rec
ognized in Europe as worthy of com
parison with anything that Is now be-
ing done anywhere; that Is at once
professionally correct as music is
taught in the schools, and at the same
time filed with a spirit of power and
achievement 1t is music not un-
worthy of the period of strenuous
fearlessness. In the future it will,
not unlikely, be known as the Ameri-
can music of the Rooseveltian age
of an era when men ceased being
afraid to attempt to do really ambiti-
GUS things.
Three Americans who have come es-
pecially to stand out as representa-
lives Of the things American musician
ship can do have been particularly In
honor Of late. One of these ia George
w. Chadwick, who was lately called to
Ottawa to serve as Judge in musi-
cal competition for trophy given by
his Excellelcy Earl Grey for the best
effort by ar amateur organization
Musical societies from every part of
the dominion were represented at this
event. Again, only the other day Mr..
Chadwick was called to Cincinnati
to conduct a performance of his own
works by Franz van der Stucken's
well-trained orchestra. Dinners and
receptions proved that the musician is
greatly in honor, In at least one city
Of his own country. The Bishop
symphony orchestra has also in its
tours of the present season been fea-
turing Mr.. Chadwick's "Sinfonietta'
and other works. So that Mr.. Chad
wick has become distinctly a central
feature in American music.
A second much honored composer is
Frederick s. Converse, whose Mystic
Trumpeter, based upon Walt Whit
mans poem, has been well heard in
several cities; whose Festival oil
| Pan" after abundant recognition
abroad as well as at home, has just
been very successfully rendered by
the New York symphony orchestra un
der Walter Damrosch, and whose re
!, mantle opera. the Pipe of Desire. was
performed for the irst time in Boston
about a year ago. The third is, oi
course. Mr.. Mcdowell just men
! toned, to whom on recent programs 3
great deal of personal attention has
been directed, well merited, without
doubt, by his haunting tone poems
that seem to make an answer to the
poets query:
Who minds now Kettle tales of yore.
Dark Druid rhymes that thrall,
Dierdre's song and wizard lore
or Cream Cuchullin's fall?
These three men represent perhaps
as effectively anu popularity as any the
entire movement among the group o
younger composers. which include.
such names as those of Arthur Foote
Edgar Stillman Kelley Mrs. II. II. A
Beach, Miss Margaret Ruthven Lang
Horatio Parker of Yale university and
many more.
Mr.. Chadwick In particular ranks In
group-a man well in the middle Of
his productive career, for he was
| born in 1854. and, by virtue of his
directorship for many years of the
ioldest and largest of American music
schools, the New England conserva
ltory of music Boston, exerting pro
fessional influence upon whole. gen
Ieration of candidates of the arduous
but fascinating career of professional
Imuslcianship, His congressional works
are already numerous enough Il
prompt wonder how. In the midst OF
the busy activities OF teaching. with
lincessant rehearsals of the conserva
TORY orchestra to which the director
Igives just such time end attention as
the conductor OF a great symphony
Organization gives to his organization
he has been able to be so prolific. But
these are days when the professional
musician is able to crowd much labor
into the working day.
Among Mr.. Chadwick's productions
are thirty or more important works
some of them dating back to days OF
schooling in Germany when he wrote
the popular Rip Van Wrinkle overture
first publicly perfored at a Prufung, or
trying-out concert at Leipsic in 1879.
The teaching which has been a part OF
his professional activities throughout
ihas been matter of conviction rather
| than OF necessity. for Mr.. Chadwick
believes that the competent musician
should all the time be impartipg his
knowledge to others. for the sake OF
the advancement of the profession.
His ideas OF the equipment necessary
for training in orchestra. chorus and
opera have been followed carefully at
the New England conservatory with
the result that no European conserva.
tory Is so well provided for in these
respects, In November. 1904. the
Boston symphony Orchestra for the
first time In It's history gave up am