Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-05

edy Tor this evil lies solely and singly
In the hands OF the press. Ny advice
is as follows; DO not print 20 many
concert criticisms, Simply ignore
everything that IS not absolutely first
class Mcdlocrity would then cr- lual-
ly disappear and we should again have
healthy, artistic conditions. But as
long as the newspapers continue 90
print long reports about y. Y and 4
there viii De no hope for an abatement
of the evil.'
Tho triumph Of List and his school
j set forth eloquently by Gustav
Ernest On am article entitled QUO
Nadis' in the Allgemeine Musik-Zeit-
ung for Jan. 2S-all the more eloquent
ly because De dcplores 81. no one is. he
says. more convinced than he OF the
necessity OF studying the works Of
Liszt and his followers What he OBJ
lccts tu i5 the present tendency ln the
musical world to regard List as the
alpha and the omega Of a pianistic
education. As instances he mentions
the case Of "a young man. who aston
ishcd the examiners az "a leading Ger
man conservatory by q brilliant per-
Torrance OF q List piece Being ask
ed tu play another piece, be suggested
e List concerto. He admitted, on be-
ing questioned. that ne had studied
NAAts 'Al| Nl AlAf aA'fAllNN tll nNlAAAtra
For the first three years Of It's ex-
isteuce the Minneapolis symphony
orchestra had guaranty fund Of Sl0.
600 year This was subscribed By
public spirited individuals. firms and
corporations. For the next three years
the guaranty fund was $4,000 a year
Upon the expiration Of the subscrip-
tons To- this fund last spring, "a $50 900
annual fund was subscribed for five
years. making the magnificent total Of
quarter Of % million dollars for the
cause of orchestral music. This fund Is
composed OF I. annual subscriptions OF
$1,000 each, % OF $500. is OF $500. u Of
$3.50. 90 Of 5000 and about the same
number Of 500. The subscribers to the
guaranty fund constitute the member
ship Of the Orchestral Association Of
Minneapolis. which is incorporated
under what is commonly known as
the educational law Of Minnesota,
and through which the business Of the
orchestra is conducted.
According 20 present indications
there viii be such an exodus OF Euro
pean artists for America next season
that we shall have here no less than
eight great violinists; four solo cellists,
maybe seven: fourteen high sopranos.
eight dramatic sopranos. and eleven
lilfeeNN ana dlANef UtNlNtN NIOHt al
ready engaged. There Will be sixty
eight pianists and three great or
ganists next season over here and then
come the conductors and the specia-
lists besides. The opera companie.
viii bring over for the personnel con-
sisting Of singers players. dancers,
business heads chorus and chorus
masters. hangers on. etc. from italy.
l99S; from Germany. 1.674, and from
fraH faaHa
and Russia and Poland will. with
Boumauia ana Scandinavia. furnish no
less than 1.1Ol. other countries lying
around loose In Europe will send
another 1913 After while. n this
continues. there will be no opera or
concerts I'm Europe unless we continue
10 send Americans over. as has been
done for several years past Recipro-
city is not as bad as expatriatlon. as
the American opera composer said TO
the manager Of opera in America -
Courier.