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My employer on the Bowery wan
acute end penetrating in getting the
last drop of blood from the music highly satisfied with my first day's
beore him. Further still, when he is work. Ile delivered the phonographs
free of hurry and irritation he snit- that same day and collected his half
.R..e
ply radiates, almost exudes, a fine dollars. And the hope that I gave my
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sympathy with his musicians, their wife that night that I would Burn $12
p .14M.
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capabilities and their problems." a week or more, soon became a real-
Mengleherg's ability to make his ity. I became a good agent. In a
composition, short time I was selling ten phono-
men see what he sees in a
assimilate this and recreate it so con- graphs a week on the average. I mov- ,
vincingly that the most blase public ed to a better apartment, consisting
must understand and enthuse, borders of three large light rooms, and since
,in the miraculous. By comparison, then the sun has always been shining!
Arthur Bodanzky, sometime eonduc- analogy, and concrete example, he in nip eyes.
ne.or saw the shop nor my old
D. W. Sinclair, an American musi-
Symphony Orchestr a , drives his meaning home, as witness
cian whose critical acumen is as pen- ter If the
failed to convince Mr. Sinclair of his I his remarks during a rehearsal of work again.
tratin • as his ability to write in
; I ability in this field, first, be- Cesar Franck's delicate "Psyche"
My employer thought a lot for me.
marked, has an interesting and il-
td,„,,,h,, unf!,ei dianty ,uo
Several months later he gave me a
tt : "Psyche is not a great but
cause Of
luminating essay in the current issue •
. was to direct; sec- she is a beautiful, sweet girl. If you salary besides my commission, and
of The American Mercury on Six Or- with the music he
to recognize and have not all known a Psyche, you now I earned alsiot thirty dollras a
d
mut, because ha faile
he
chestral Conductors under whom
has played. They are Stransky, Bo- employ the superior equipment of his cannot possibly play this music!” To week. In a little more than a year
orchestra; third, because his readings , induce the proper atmosphere in the phonograph company opened a
danzky, Hadley, Damroseh, Montea
store for no on Fourteenth street,
constantly fell short of expectations. Brahms' "Academic Festival" over- store
and Nlengelberg—familiar figures in
Yet, concludes the author, he was on lure Mengelherg had only to picture where I managed several agents. I
the musical activities of New York, occasion a pleasant man to work with a crowd of dry old professors, and the no longer walked from house to house.
and known to musical cognoscenti
and "he made his rehearsals short and trick was done. For Berlioz' "Scaf-
I grew and grew. The company
here. To this group of the elect Mr.
fold March" he yelled: "YoYu must sent nil' from Fourteenth street to
not too onerous!"
Sinclair applies one comprehensive
play like devils!"—and they did. Thirty-Fourth street, and later I
A Conductor of Variety.
test by which the truly good (not
It will prove illuminating to glean Small wonder his men respond so that opened my own business on Sixth ave-
great) conductor is known: it is "the
some of the essayist's observations on his readings confound the incompe- nue, branches of which grew up in
ability to inspire his men—to lift
Pierre Monteux, for the last four tent and delight the enlightened. Men- Harlem and the Bronx.
them out of the boredom that follows
years conductor of the Boston Sym- gelberg is a genius. And confidential-
Some thirty-odd years have passed
too much music, and fill them with
plu,ny Orchestra. Ile, Monteux, "is ly; if you want to know the truth
since that Purim night. I UM a rich!
enthusiasm." From out this galaxy
a conductor of elasticity and variety about any conductor, get the opinions man today. My large window display !
of conductors there Is only one man —who has given programs which have of the men he directs. They know.
glitters on Sixth avenue, and I have
who as a musician, meets all the re-
put his colleagues to shame and inci-
I branched out to Harlem and the
quirements of the test. And in doing
dentally has found hearings for more Nin eteent h Co ncer t a
t
Ca
itol
p
Bronx. I sell all kinds of phono-
so, he established himself not only as
composers than any three of them.
Fredericka Sims Alden,
grauhs, talking machines, records, pi-
a great man, but as the greatest con- Ile has a better ear than any conduc-
ones and pianolas. People pay me a
ductor in America today. The other
Soloist.
Mengelberg,
and
while
his
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thousand, fifteen hundred, and two
five are weighed and found wanting; tor
programs lack, us a rule, the crystal -
thousand dollars for a single instru-
woefully inadequate in the face of this
t
The program for the nineteenth
line purity and flawlessness tha
ment. I live on Riverside Drive. My ,
simple but supreme test. Mr. Sinclair
characterized these 11 Nikisch and noon concert at the Capitol Theater children know nothing of ray past on
discusses their abilities and their
Muck, they are far more satisfying on Sunday, promises to provide an-
the Fast Side, nor of how I began. I
faults, and his observations must give
and inherently musical than those of other splendid orchestral treat from
myself have almost forgotten, nor do'
both the dilettante and the devotee
any of the contemporary crew of see- the selections chosen by Conductor
much fond for thought--comforting as
I want to remember. But when Par-i i
nod raters." Ile lacks repose, the re- Edward Werner for the occasion.
comes, longing and desire
well as disturbing.
pose of reverence for the interpreta- Mindful of the public interest in nov-
gather in my heart. I am far from
Stransky—Charming and Clever.
tion of Beethoven, Schumann, elties, whether these spring from the
being
religious,
and I do not keep
Stransky, for 12 years conductor of Brahms; he excels in his ability to classic composers or the newest cre-
the New York Philharmenie Orches- "popularize the futuristic musical ators of jazz, Mr. Werner is bringing Jewish holidays, but that Purim holds
me
prisoner.
I
want
to forget it, but
tra, he of the "delicate hauteur and idiom." His failure to keep himself forward a beautiful but neglected
impassioned nobility," maintained his over the critical line lies in his per- overture by Schubert, from this great it does not let me forget it. I know
—
position principally on the strength sonality. "Ile does not do himself composer's opera "Alfonso and Es- each year on what day Purim falls
of his "social charm end personal justice." II is Gallic temperament trella." I doubt whether it has been I must know it—something in me 1
cleverness." A specialist (through gets the best of him, the music suf- heard here before; but it certainly de- drives me to ask and find out. I ask
Wagner, Liszt
sheer repetition) In
fers; and when serious musicians are serves its place at the beginning of a relative, or some of the Jews who
end Tschaikowsky, he proved defi- forced to he parties to such devastat- next Sunday's program. The other come into my store—I must know.
dent in authority even here; a weak- ing operations, all hope of their being contrasting novelty is a fascinating And when Purim night conies, I am
ness which he sought to hide in an air enthused grits by the hoard. L o ng- jazz setting of the beautiful melody no longer on Sixth avenue or in my
of "supreme superiority." For a while
from Goring Thomas' "Carnival of fume on Riverside Drivel live again
suffering and . slow to anger are these
he did have the gullible public guess- men of the body orchestral; but in the Venice"; a toe-teasing fox-trot called, in that poor house on Eldridge street.
ing; but not so his men. They saw admission of such feelings the death- "So this is Venice." Other orchestral I see the good old Jew with his wide
through the veneer, detected the char- knell of inspiration is sounded.
numbers include Kreisler's character- gray heard and the copper-framed
see and
latan, and when they seized upon the
The lesser lights being duly and ig- istic "Caprice Viennoise," the effective spectacles on his nose. And I
humor of the situation the jig was nominiously disposed of, like so many "Finlandia" overture by Sibelus, Lu- hear those two—the ex-singer and the
up, and Stransky the second-rater bags of ballast from an impatient gini's "Egyptian Ballet" suite, and to machinist—and I see a table heaped
was lost.
aircraft, Mr. Sinclair sails into the commemorate St. Patrick's snake with good food, and I hear my first
Hadley, the American, is summarily empyrean of all sunerlatives in writ- charming feat, Mr. Werner will play phonograph Yossel Slonimer's 'The
disposed of. While he stands superior ing of his idol, \Villein Mengelberg, Victor Herbert's "Irish Rhapsody." Beggar King," and Smulewitz "Faith-
all
, other con- "the greatest net only of all the men The soloist is to be Mrs. Fredericka less Son" and "After the Ball," and
no musician to nearly
ductors in the country, he is hope-
now Sims Aldne, soprano of the First "Two Little Girls in Blue." And niy
here discussed but of ALL men
lessly unstable before an orchestra. conducting orchestras in America."
Presbyterian! Church, an artist well heart grows warm, and I feel a slight
"'resell&
inconstant
and
pro-
spoken of in musical circles. She has burning sensation in nip eyes—and I
Mengelberg
the
Incomparable.
Ile is
voking"; regrettable qualities which
"Mengelberg is the ne plus ultra of had several years stage experience hear the ring of the coins in the plat-
nine his wOrk and his
relationship
keep
him from drillmasters; his knowledge of o - eful is an important member of the ter.
Where are they—these good peo-
and. 'effcts is Detroit Philharmonic Quartet. Mrs.
with his men, 1111,1
reining into a plane where he might chestral
For a n- Alden will sing "Un bel do vedremo" p i e !
ts
microscopically
i n st rume n omplete
The good oh; man must certainly be
f
sors
t
o
'uccini's
develop his latent talent.
all
bines
other thing, he com
"e" nd act ''
Walter Damrosnli, pianist, lecturer,
''' 1' • the Butterfly."
l' "Madame
o
This marks her rotting in the grave already, or per-
in o ne; he has
tem p e rime
nuisical missionary and biographer, is eughly assimilated the romantic, the first orchestral appearance in Detroit, haps, even n o w, On Purim night, he
also deficient in conducting talent;
the tender, the a debut which will be watched with plays my first phonograph in some
r -ise the ..o
and that not by one test only, but by ruthless. Again, he has obviously
strange house.
much interest.
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any number. The tameness of his in- devoted time (!) to study as well as
I cannot hide myself anywhere on
terpretations, however, • are sufficient to' conducting, for he is wonderfully
Purim night. I may he in my store
to stamp him as a second-rater.
among the musical instruments, or in
the heart of my family, or in a theater
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or at the opera—yet I am still there,
T t his (hip she does not know the on Eldridge street, among those good
7.9,
truth about the package of food and people. I hear the singing, the ring of
the dollar and five cents.
the coins afg they fall into the platter..,
It Was an that 1 made my begin-
And if I sit at my table on that
ning.
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I could not tied any rest. Something
drew me, nay, drove Mr, to (10, S(Init•
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force pushed me oat of my store into
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a taxicab, and ordered the driver to
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take me there, to Eldridge street.
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Something drove me to look for the
dated houses between
house, for the_stoop, to mount to the
Stanton streets.
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