The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-07
New York Music Letter

been able to Euage the limitations OF
her Juvenile audience. and will her
self prepare the vehicles which are 10
be used as dramatic offerings,
Mo child likes TO I've considered A
child" is her philosophy And few
children really are children, They
may form childish idea. but they
comprehend far more than their par
cnts imagine. Most parents are TX
norant OF the possibilities OF their own
children. To them they are always
babies. The period of babyhood soon
passes, and then the important epoch
! arrives 1t Is this that we geek to
cultivate"
The National Kindergarten asso-
citation has made an effort this year
To furnish Chiidrens entertainments
but at the close OF disastrous sea
son they confess that they have failed
because they did not comprehend this
great fact which Miss Butler presents.
Madame Marguerite sylvia may be
accepted as the nadcap Of the opera
lie and musical field. She recently
cancelled important and highly prof.
table engagements To appear In
Carmen in w shington for the BEN
eat nj the Washington Opera assoc
citation. 4 A nd she did this without cost
TO the Washington society. She did
. - Nv a tss't ~ EItf Siitt " men I1Gy ten
dtrcd her dinner at the conclusion
cf her highly successful engagement.
she was Interested in making operate
music and all other music the prop
crty. possession and pleasure of the
people Because she was In n position
10 speak plainly and Ia point out that
Americans were deridad by many OF
The foreign impresarios and singers.
She wanted opera TO he as popular as
tie drama, and there Ia no reason
why it should not he Il those who he
lieve in opera will do far It. what
those who believe in the drama ac-
complisiled in it4 behalf" And The
ten perame ntai singer added that the
effort must come outside of New
York The great opera companies
viii not encourage ~ she added. 1T
Is related that q hen an offer was
made FOR the metropolitan opera
house ta be used az popular rnov-
ms picture theatcr during the idla
months the subscribers to the "gol-
den horseshoe" declared that they
would not permit the common pco-
ple-whotver they might be---to en-
ter the sacred confines IT their opera
tic possessions"
Another story which mas been
lately circulated concerns the Metro
f'ti'A Ails VA american TENOR, en-"
gagged ia a controversy with one of
the leading dignitaries or the music
temple, demanded: What sort OF an
opera house Is this, anyhow" To
which he was given the prompt an
swer: This IS an Italian opera house"
Which may or may not be true. But
il Ia "A fact that thu English lam
guagc Is heard less frequently than
the chink OF American coin.
But prominent Washingtonians. in
GLIDING cabinet officers. the family Of
the president and others. have bean
arousde by Madame sylvia to some
thing like aeeelerating activity.
Some time ago It was suggested
! that Tdiisic lovers of the United
States were deeply indebted TO the
/ late Theodore Ieschitezky. whose
piano school in Vienna was tor years
/ the mecca for nianlstic genius. This
f, Is due not alone 10 the fact rrnr most
OF the great piano artist" of the pres
ont were the result of his genius, but
10 the fact that many of the most
noted American Iienists We're also
from his temple NJ teaching. This
testimonial, it was further pointed out
should aa2 tho shan Of A lasting.
monument erecte | - hts memory by
! those who have benefited by the mas
terry OF his pupils.
"Hfn the name ct 14eSchftcZkN -
pronounced the mind reverts instinct-
lively 20 Tthei New comb who was
one Of his fayori'e Pupils, and in lat
or years his valued assistant in
Vienna. Miss Newcomb is a brilliant
! ria nst, as thousa nds OF American
concert ECers can attest. as wei as.
the patrons OF the chief muslc halls
of Europe. Miss Newcomb returned
to her native United States during the
war, and before she could resume her
+ duties in Vienna the master had died.
She enjoyed his confidence, en-
touragcnent and warm friendship.
she is q present bringing 10 con-
ciuSiou her book of personal remi-
neScences OF iris great nas.er and
when It is published this literature OF
tHus'c VIII he materially enhanced.
MISS NcwcCfnb fees, as do all the
Les hiicZky pupils IN the United
states that q monument should be
ferected To his memory. She agrees
win he noted writer's who have de-
elsred afat IL we ust have rnenu-
fnents, they should be to the dead
geniuseS who have contributed 10 The
arts ana sciences. Politics are too
uncertain as the late war proved
/ But movements to the great mtsi
cal geniuses Of the world who are now
departed Kill instig = reYolence and
an appreciation fer their work in the
souis of the now EeEerati n Ct mtisiu
lovers whom IL is the dug e all to
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