The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20
b. w. J. HENDERSON.

ten weeks to run. 1t should
interest observers OF the in
dustry of entertaining human
beings with creations Of tonal art to
know that In spite OF the apparent
plethora Of performers and singers
who have sought the favor of New
York audiences in the course Of the
( winter there have not tee more re-
citsls than there were last season.
The following list will show the
reader what and how many pianists.
v~iolinists and song recital givers have
been heard. 1t does not, OF course.
make note Of the number of enter
tainments given by each. Some have
been heard more than once and some
are to be heard again later In the
season:
Pianists.--Leopold G~oiowsky. Marta
Milinowsky. Harry Culnpson. Ethel Le-
ginska. Marguerite Mclviile-Liszn'ew-
ska. Lester Donahue. Harold Bauer.
Percy Granger, Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
1osider Vecsei, Guiomar NoNaes. Charles
MacMichael. Mrs. Observation-Disclosures.
Ernest Schelling. Winifred Christie.
John Powell. George Copeland. Max
.Landow, Louis Cornell, Marie Grun-
waldt. Victor Wittgenstein. Arthur
Shattuck. Katherine Goodson. Charles
Cooper. Ernest Hutcheson, Leo Ornste!n.
Ignace Paderewski, Xavier D.marias.
sffxhna Wolfer .Aline Won Baerentzon.
iHegmain Schnitzer. Hunter Welsh.
.19nude Tucker Doo.it,e. Josef Hof-
smann, Dorothy Berliner. Ethel New
comb. Herbert Fryer. Sara Soko!sky-
s1%tid. Carlos Friedherg. Marguerite
.t6Savy. Louise MACPHERSON. Wynne
sPyle.-4o.
violinists.-Albert spalding. Misha
5ciman. Francs Macmillan. Maud
Powell. Roderick White. .Arkady Bour-
Atin, Henr!ette Bach. Terence Hegedus.
David Hochstein, Vera Barstow. Sascha
Jacobsen, Nicola Rivera. Emily Gres-
Ser, Fritz kreisler. Marie Caslova, Ca
.briel del Orbe. Ilja Schkolnik. Iilli
s~PetschnikoY, Eddy Brown. Max Pilzer.
Theodore Spiering.--2l.
Song Recitalists--John Barnes Wells.
Tom Dobson. Caroline Ortmann. Louis
Graveure. Vernon d'Arnelle. May Peter
xon, Marcia Van Dresser. Arthur
aIerschmann. Clara G~abrilowitsch. John
Mccormack. Emilio de Gogorza. Percy
Hemus, Frances Aida, Povla Frisch,
albert Janpolski. Evan Williams. Caro-
line NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Elizabeth Gut.
imam. May Jordan Herbert; W',her'
spoon. Christine Miller. Lois Ewel.
Craig Campbell. Seymour Bulky. Helm.
rich Meyn, WHY ne StuleT, aITlt
Bridewell, Francis Rogers. Katherine
Dayton. Julia Culp, Ruth Townsend
Adele Kruger. Cecil Tanning, Anne
Arkadij. Sophie Braslau. AMIGA Fabry
Olive Fremstad, George Harris. Jenny
Dufau. Maurice Beck Adelaide Fischer
Vivian Gosnell. Madeleine d'f'sp'noy
Marian Clark. Julia Hill. Gertrude Hale
-46.
There should be food for thought II
this record. In the first place 1t ma,
be noted with pleasure that the gen
eral average of excellence Is remark
ably high. The pianists. for example
include an exceptionally large mum
Der OF Interpreters of the highes
quality. 1t is indeed gratifying tina
music lovers have opportunities t.
hear so many really great artists II
the course of one winter. But tn
commonly given explanation that !
IL because OF the war was n aG'
shown to he fallacious.
All the best artists in these list
have been heard here when there wa
no war. Perhaps not so many q
them are here at n time: but the,
do come. We nave to thank tn
war chiefly for the presence OF tn
SnleIlOT pclloI tIlSiS oiu S''sSSsS wa
cannot find anything to do elsewher
and who fondly hope that the storie
so ind~ustriously circulated in Europ
that the Americans are a set OF none
grubbing pigs without culture or ar
tistic discrimination may be true an
that they can delude IL into suppos
ing that they too are Hofmann'
Kreislers and Culps.
There Is also another reflection
Where are all the rest? How man
hopeful young persons are srudyin
piano in this country and looking fol
ward to the day when they shall fac
audiences crowding Carnegie Hal!
How many are studying voice an
Interpretation In the fond eXpectatio
Of rivalling Schumann-Heink an
Alma Chuck In their continent-wid
SUCCESS?
This 10 something that a numb'
OF worry good women and some re
good men in this city should pond'
very deeply. Almost all OF the Ell
bryonic geniuses are 70 pitiably poi
that they cannot get enough to ga
let alone pay for instruction. .Othel
have to support families who wou
-etssve II they stopped to study.
In all these cases the good wome
step In and become fairy godmother
Suddenly dragged from the blacke
depths Of poverty. some OF these prom
Using children. together witt moth
and sisters, are sen from their l!tt
country towns to New York. or ev'
to Europe. Many Of these good wom'
labor under the delusion that the ru'
ments Of music cannot be taught
this country. so they hurry childr'
of 10 study with some n like q
late Leschetitzky only TO find that q
master will not take the pupil so II
ready, but puts him under an asslsta
for q year or two.
This Ia only one phase. Here's a
other. The young singer, for examp
goes abroad to study and perhaps ge
an engagement In a small ltalii
theatre. She achieves an Instant a
even brilliant success. The newspaE
comments are such that her frien
expect to near another Melba or lie
mann. Then comes the reaction. Not
ing happens. All sorts Of wires a
pulled and influence In brought to be
I o secure another appearance. ~
haps It Is obtained. History promp'
repeats itself. And then comes the
action again.
Tie next step is to get an engap