The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Records of Great
Musicians Placed
in Partisan V,ault
TO Be Played 100 Years Hence
Other Musical Gossip
and News.

1T, HE National Opera of France
has built vault in Paris. into
l. which are to be deposited the
recorded works of present day musi-
clans. This "caveau" will remain un-
opened during a whole century, at the
end of which period the records will
be taken forth and played 20 the peo-
pie of that time. This month the cere-
Inony of interning some Saint-Saens
and Caruso records is to be observed,
and the directors are also honoring
Renee Chemet by including few OF
her records in the same hermetically
sealed urn. Nine. Chemet viii be re-
membered here as one of the New
York Philharmonic Socie.y's violin So
loists last season.
Jacques Thibaud, violinist. will reap
pear here, after a two years absence,
next Sunday afternoon at Town Hall
In a program which includes Fan
taisie." in c major. by Georges Hue.
Serge Rachmaninov. making his first
appearance of the present season, will
give a piano recital next Sunday after
noon at Carnegie Hall Two sonatas
are In his list. Beethoven's ~"Appas-
sionata" and Chopin's in e flat minor.
Walter Damrosch in his memoirs. now
appearing in The Ladies Home Journal,
writes that the profits of the first thir-
teen weeks of the Damrosch opera Com
pany, his first venture as owner and
director, amounted to $4,000 But
- "A NOT
retain this quickly gained fortune a.
long time.
'All my friends except one urged me
10 go on with the work. The one ex-
ccption was Andrew Carnegie, who said
with that canny business acumen which
made him one OF the worlds richest
men:
Walter. you have made a great
success artistically as well as firan-
cially your profits have been enormous.
But such a success rarely repeats itself
Immediately. You rightly OWNED the
desire of the public for a return of
Wagner opera, but this current has
drawn into IL many people who have
come from curiosity only and to whom
Wagner is still a closed book. Many
of these will not come back another
time. BE content to rest on your
1aurels'
when we finally arrived in New
York ! had already lost great part of
the large profits of the year before, and
this loss was further increased by my
season at the Academy of Music.
Though the balance sheet of the five
months season showed loss of $4,000
the larger part of my gains the year
before, ] cannot say that my wife and
J were very much cast down. Youth Is
& a Ia af ;c In,
itself not such a dreadful calamity II
one. still has enough to pay ones debts !;
and all this time l was adding to my
experience and artistic stature"
Ignace Paderewski will be heard in
his second piano recital at Carnegie
Hall on Saturday afternoon. Decem-
Der f6.
Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist. will
give recital in Aeolian Hall on Sun
day afternoon. January 81.
Joseph Bonnet. organist of the
Church OF st. Eustache, In Paris, has
written to deny the report that he is
about TO take orders and become n
priest or Benedictine monk. There is
no truth in the statement to that effect
previously made. Mr. Bonnet will re-
turn TO America for a concert tour
early IN January.
Nine. Anna Heitschik. Russian prima
donna, who recently arrived in New
York. will give recital on December .
st Carnegie Hall. Nine Heitschik was
IN this country twelve years ago when
she sang contralto roles at the Metro
politan Opera House. She also sang
a -
Carlo Theater OF Lisbon
Ernest Schilling sailed for America
on the Olympic on November 22. His
American tour will start in New York
on December 2. when he will appear as
soioist with the New York Symphony
Orchestra.
The second concert in the series OF
six educational programs planned BY the
american Orchestra Society for the high
schools of Greater New York. will be
given Mt Stuyvesant High School, First
avenue and Fifteenth street. tomorrow
At +. NJ The list for this concert is !:
Franck. symphony. D minor; Berlioz.
Hungarian march. from the "Damnation
Or Farst,' and Blair Fairchild. legend.
opus 81.
Anna Case. soprano. will give her
ennual New York recital at Town Hall
on Tuesday evening. December s.
Feodor Chaispin IS announced for his
second song recital at Carnegie Hall on
Tuesday evening. December 5.
Tho Letz Quartet at its only Aeolian
Hall recital this season. on Tuesday
evening. December 10. will introduce for
the first time in New York the Grego-
ran ovartet in one movement by David
Stanley Smith.
Elena Gerhardt at her first song re-
cital Of the present season. in Town Hall
on Saturday evening. December 2. will
devote her entire program TO Schubert's
"Die Winterreise.'
AZ the First Presbyterian Church a
special musical service will be given this
evening at o'clock. Maunder's Song
OF Thanksgiving" will be sung under the
direction OF DR.. William c.. Carl with
soloists and the Motet Choir of the
church.
Tho committee for the French-Amer-
lean String Quartet composed OF Gus
tavc Tinlot. Rcber Johnson, Saul Shar-
row and Paul Kefer. announces its an
nuai series Of four concerts to be given
in private houses: Friday. December r.
$3.50 r. NJ. the York Club. Mrs
Henrv r. Loomis. 50 East Fifty-sixth
street. Friday. January IL, $3.50 r. NJ.
mond. . East Nincty-first street: Tues-
~ Lfah ~ - N a..